Putin held a video conference on Thursday with members of Russia’s Security Council. I hope folks in the West pay attention to what he said, which is why I’m presenting the entirety of his remarks following a presentation by the Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service. Based on public source information and Russia collected intelligence, Russia believes that Poland is planning to seize Ukrainian territory west of the Dnieper River as Ukraine’s much ballyhooed counter offensive collapses.
Let me give you Putin’s bottomline up front:
Regarding the policy of the Ukrainian regime, it is none of our business. If they want to relinquish or sell off something in order to pay their bosses, as traitors usually do, that’s their business. We will not interfere.
But Belarus is part of the Union State, and launching an aggression against Belarus would mean launching an aggression against the Russian Federation. We will respond to that with all the resources available to us.
Vladimir Putin is not a weak, spineless creature like Barack Obama or Joe Biden. He does not make idle threats and does not succumb to emotion.
So let us start with the briefing by Sergei Naryshkin, Russia’s Intelligence Chief:
Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin: Mr President, colleagues.
According to information provided to the service by several sources, officials in Warsaw are gradually coming to an understanding that no kind of Western assistance to Kiev can support Ukraine in reaching the goals of this assistance. Moreover, they are beginning to understand that Ukraine will be defeated in only the matter of time.
In this regard, the Polish authorities are getting more intent on taking the western parts of Ukraine under control by deploying their troops there. There are plans to present this measure as the fulfillment of allied obligations within the Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian security initiative, the so-called Lublin Triangle.
We see that plans also call for significantly increasing the number of personnel of the combined Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian brigade, which operates under the auspices of this so-called Lublin Triangle.
If Russia sees Poland starting to mass troops on Ukraine’s border (and do not forget that the United States has deployed at least two armored brigades in Poland), this certainly will capture the attention of the Kremlin leadership. Putin responded at length to Naryshkin’s briefing. This does not read like prepared remarks. He appears to be speaking extemporaneously and draw some very bright red lines for NATO.
Vladimir Putin: Yes. We should elaborate on what Mr Naryshkin has just said. This information has already appeared in the European media, in particular, the French.
I believe it would be suitable in this context to also remind everyone about several history lessons from the 20th century.
It is clear today that the Western curators of the Kiev regime are certainly disappointed with the results of the counteroffensive that the current Ukrainian authorities announced in previous months. There are no results, at least for now. The colossal resources that were pumped into the Kiev regime, the supply of Western weapons, such as tanks, artillery, armoured vehicles and missiles, and the deployment of thousands of foreign mercenaries and advisers, who were most actively used in attempts to break through the front of our army, are not helping.
Meanwhile, the commanders of the special military operation are acting professionally. Our soldiers, officers and units are fulfilling their duty to the Motherland courageously, steadfastly and heroically. At the same time, the whole world sees that the vaunted Western, supposedly invulnerable, military equipment is on fire, and is often even inferior to some of the Soviet-made weapons in terms of its tactical and technical characteristics.
Yes, of course, more Western weapons can be supplied and thrown into battle. This, of course, causes us some damage and prolongs the conflict. But, firstly, NATO arsenals and stockpiles of old Soviet weapons in some countries are already largely depleted. And secondly, the West does not have the production capacities to quickly replenish the consumption of reserves of equipment and ammunition. Additional, large resources and time are needed.
The main thing is that formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered huge losses as a result of self-destructive attacks: tens of thousands of people.
And, despite the constant raids and the incessant waves of total mobilisation in Ukrainian cities and villages, it is increasingly difficult for the current regime to send new soldiers to the front. The country’s mobilisation resource is being depleted.
People in Ukraine are asking a legitimate question more often: for what, for the sake of whose selfish interests, are their relatives and friends dying. Gradually, slowly, but clarity comes.
We can see the public opinion changing in Europe, too. Both the Europeans and European elites see that support for Ukraine is, in fact, a dead end, an empty, endless waste of money and effort, and in fact, serving someone else’s interests, which are far from European: the interests of the overseas global hegemon, which benefits from the weakening of Europe. The endless prolongation of the Ukrainian conflict is also beneficial to it.
Judging by the actual state of affairs, this is exactly what today’s US ruling elites are doing. Anyways, this is the logic they follow. It is largely questionable whether such a policy is in line with the American people’s true, vital interests; this is a rhetorical question, and it is up to them to decide.
However, massive efforts are being taken to stoke the fire of war – including by exploiting the ambitions of certain East European leaders, who have long turned their hatred for Russia and Russophobia into their key export commodity and a tool of their domestic policy. And now they want to capitalise on the Ukrainian tragedy.
In this regard, I cannot refrain from commenting on what has just been said and on media reports that have come out about plans to establish some sort of the so-called Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian unit. This is not about a group of mercenaries – there are plenty of them there and they are being destroyed – but about a well-organised, equipped regular military unit to be used for operations in Ukraine, including to allegedly ensure the security of today’s Western Ukraine – actually, to call things by their true name, for the subsequent occupation of these territories. The outlook is clear: in the event Polish forces enter, say, Lvov or other Ukrainian territories, they will stay there, and they will stay there for good.
And we will actually see nothing new. Just to remind you, following WWI, after the defeat of Germany and its allies, Polish units occupied Lvov and adjacent territories that had been part of Austria-Hungary.
With its actions incited by the West, Poland took advantage of the tragedy of the Civil War in Russia and annexed certain historical Russian provinces. In dire straits, our country had to sign the Treaty of Riga in 1921 and recognise the annexation of its territories.
Even earlier, back in 1920, Poland captured part of Lithuania – the Vilnius region, a territory surrounding the present-day Vilnius. So they claimed that they fought together with the Lithuanians against so-called Russian imperialism, but then immediately snatched a piece of land from their neighbour as soon as the opportunity presented itself.
As is well known, Poland also took part in the partition of Czechoslovakia following the Munich Agreement with Adolf Hitler in 1938, by fully occupying Cieszyn Silesia.
In the 1920-1930s, Poland’s Eastern Borderlands (Kresy) – a territory that comprises present-day Western Ukraine, Western Belarus and part of Lithuania – witnessed a tough policy of Polonisation and assimilation of local residents, with efforts to suppress local culture and Orthodoxy.
I would also like to remind you what Poland’s aggressive policy led to. It led to the national tragedy of 1939, when Poland’s Western allies threw it to the German wolf, the German miliary machine. Poland actually lost its independence and statehood, which were only restored thanks in a large measure to the Soviet Union. It was also thanks to the Soviet Union and thanks to Stalin’s position that Poland acquired substantial territory in the west, German territory. It is a fact that Poland’s western lands are a gift from Stalin.
Have our Warsaw friends forgotten this? We will remind them.
Today we see that the regime in Kiev is ready to go to any length to save its treacherous hide and to prolong its existence. They do not care for the people of Ukraine or Ukrainian sovereignty or national interests.
They are ready to sell anything, including people and land, just like their ideological forefathers led by Petlyura, who signed the so-called secret conventions with Poland in 1920 under which they ceded Galicia and Western Volhynia to Poland in return for military support. Traitors like them are ready now to open the gate to their foreign handlers and to sell Ukraine again.
As for the Polish leaders, they probably hope to form a coalition under the NATO umbrella in order to directly intervene in the conflict in Ukraine and to bite off as much as possible, to “regain,” as they see it, their historical territories, that is, modern-day Western Ukraine. It is also common knowledge that they dream about Belarusian land.
Regarding the policy of the Ukrainian regime, it is none of our business. If they want to relinquish or sell off something in order to pay their bosses, as traitors usually do, that’s their business. We will not interfere.
But Belarus is part of the Union State, and launching an aggression against Belarus would mean launching an aggression against the Russian Federation. We will respond to that with all the resources available to us.
The Polish authorities, who are nurturing their revanchist ambitions, hide the truth from their people. The truth is that the Ukrainian cannon fodder is no longer enough for the West. That is why it is planning to use other expendables – Poles, Lithuanians and everyone else they do not care about.
I can tell you that this is an extremely dangerous game, and the authors of such plans should think about the consequences.
NATO may be playing a dangerous game, but Russia ain’t playing. Putin is not engaged in rhetorical hyperbole when he states, “We will respond to that with all the resources available to us.” The potential for the war in Ukraine to escalate dramatically remains high. It does not appear that there is any leader of the NATO members who can talk some sense to Poland’s President Duda. Are the people of Poland ready for World War III?
I’m unsure whether I should post the whole speech or 100% plagiarise your page.
I just commented elsewhere that Putin is ensuring that the Polish Public, regular people like us, are aware of what their leaders are up to. It’s regular people like us that can make a difference, especially when fearing for themselves. Until they do, the elites, the warmongers, do what they like. Epiphany is important.
Larry, have you seen the movie ‘ Wolyn’ a.k.a. ‘ Hatred’? I need to advertise it everywhere, maybe write about it tomorrow because it’s essential viewing. As follow-up, so is the same Polish directors 2021 movie, ‘Wesele’.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/wojciech_smarzowski
https://mikehampton.substack.com/p/putin-warns-poland-about-dangerous-game
Done my bit. Hopefully every blogger/writer/journalist writes a piece, and every person who uses social media shares them. We, meaning the world, never listened before the Ukraine war. We can listen now.
If we don’t care about the lives of Russians and Ukrainians, we can at least care about the price of our porridge and our retirement annuities.
This article shared at The Duran.
Charlene, that was nice of The Duran. Thanks for telling me.
Good ideas Mike. I have just written my piece, using Larry’s observations and referring my readers to his site. I don’t always agree with Larry – but then I don’t always agree with myself…LOL. But I think he is a MUST-READ.
My article covers a lot of ground. https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/bidens-war-wwiii
I have always published on Putin’s character….
https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/the-real-putin-in-his-own-words
Thanks for the url for the movie
https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/bidens-war-wwiii
And:
https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/who-is-vladimir-putin
“Both the Europeans and European elites see that support for Ukraine is . . . an empty, endless waste of money and effort, and in fact, serving someone else’s interests, which are far from European . . . “.
And “The endless prolongation of the Ukrainian conflict is also beneficial to it”.
Ah yes – But . . .
Armaments smuggling and profiteering and resource pillaging attends all wars and from whence doth spring the definition of The Good War – Something for Everyone.
https://les7eb.substack.com/p/long-proxy-war-vii-crisis-of-failure
Long Proxy War VII – Crisis Of Failure.
That Wider War Draws Near. The Benefits of War.
Sorry mate, but most people these days have the attention span of a mayfly. They will carry on with their simple hedonistic pursuits until the end comes for them also. It’s not nice to say it, but most will deserve what is coming to them.
You are assuming the people matter. When was the last time the people voted for a war, much less another world war?
The answer of course is never.
“Are the people of Poland ready for World War III?”
Does it matter?
To quote Putin: “At the same time, the whole world sees that the vaunted Western, supposedly invulnerable, military equipment is on fire, and is often even inferior to some of the Soviet-made weapons in terms of its tactical and technical characteristics.”
Well, not really.
This is just Russia doing a little bearbaiting of its own, in reverse. The Leopard 2 tanks and the Bradley M-2s were stripped down “where’s the beef” versions of Western frontline, state-of-the-art weapons. I believe the West sacrificed these for a purpose. Both sides are keeping “the best” in reserve for the day when somebody finally “starts something.”
It took 20-years before World War 2 officially started.
> Both sides are keeping “the best” in reserve for the day when somebody
> finally “starts something.”
Speaking of conventional weapons, it is safe to assume there is no such thing as a Wunderwaffe that could change the actual state of military ressources.
Railguns, Lasercannons, anti-gravity vehicles and AI guided theatre planning seems to me not to be a real thing. But what do i know.
‘the best’ as you have called it, remains the nuclear triad as a last ressort.
I’m not quite sure if this quote from Dmitry Orlov still applies:
“The probability of a nuclear exchange is determined not by anyone’s policy but by the likelihood of it happening by accident.”
Some of these are real Russia has them
Their laser cannons work I have seen them
their frequency weapons are extremely deadly
and have not been released.
America and Germany do not have.
Railgun is a real thing, and it turned out to be expensive junk. Coilguns are mostly used as (dangerous) toys.
@ Blame-e
“I believe the West sacrificed these for a purpose. Both sides are keeping “the best” in reserve for the day when somebody finally “starts something.”
What, according to you, is the goal that they want to achieve by debilitating their own populations? I mean the Westerners.
IMHO whatever betterment the common citizens in the West got was indirectly due to the Soviet Union, to keep up the facade of West being better. After the USSR broke up that wasn’t necessary any more. The whole thing is a scam and every politician in the West a rotten scoundrel, if they could harm Russia they wouldn’t hold back.
I think you give them too much credit.
“What, according to you, is the goal that they want to achieve by debilitating their own populations? I mean the Westerners.”
To be able to say: “Because we could.”
Putin asked then President Bill Clinton is Russia could join NATO. Bill said “No.” Why? Because the United States must have their demon.
Whatever happened to “keep your friends close; keep you enemies closer.”
Is it possible that “the west” removed the Cloaking Devices before delivery?
The probability that the west possesses extraordinary weapons that Russia could not defeat or overcome on the battlefield approaches zero. If such weapons are, in fact, being withheld, it is likely because the west would rather not risk having them exposed as inferior to what Russia already has deployed.
Ania K. spoke of it on her youtube channel & it happened to pop up in my youtube feed earlier this week. I decided to watch it…good Lord. The youtube version supposedly is edited to omit the most gruesome bits. It is a brilliant film, and definitely worth watching, but its a tough watch. I hadn’t heard of “Wesele”, I’ll have to look for it.
There is even much older excellent Polish movie about that. It is called “Artilleryman Kalen” (“Ogniomistrz Kaleń”).
Ironically, this film was made in 1961. Under Socialism.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055248/
The Ukraine is the 21th century tragedy.
Created by foreign exploitation of a false nationalism birth due by the fatal triad: envy – hate – inferiority complex.
Ukraine is death. And trying now to drag the whole world whit….
Thank you for mentioning the movie «Wolyn» – I was unaware of its existence.
In turn, I recommend Elem Klimov’s incredible film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjIiApN6cfg&t=4s. If you have not watch it…
Putin attacked Ukraine 24.2.2022 and the war is going on.Thats a fackt, which he tries to hide by saying that Ukraine attacked Russia! Now he is saying the same about Poland, to get the reason to attack Poland. He wants USSR back! Thats his plan, and he makes everything to make war! This “sly guy” makes those countries to fight with each other! Putin is kgb-terrorist, he is making war sitting in his bunker! Russians – stop the war and go away from Ukraine! Putin is lier, and he wants WW3 to make his oligarcs and mafiosos happy!
Rita,
You’re delusional.
Internet says Väisänen is Finnish last name, which explains a lot. You Finns have just screwed up big time. I mean really big. Getting-on-the-Titanic level big.
Getting flooded with immigrants was not bad enough. You just had to join canon fodder force, in order to poke the big bear with a short stick. That’s dumb. I mean really dumb. It’s Ukraine level dumb. It takes a special kind of idiot in order to go to war against Russia, or a Nazi (which is essentially the same).
Russians gave you statehood and independence, but you just had to fuck it up. You had to jump into a septic tank, because Washington told you so. Have fun going trough the stages of grief (you are currently doing number 2).
On a more positive note, there is a workable way out of shithole for you, and it is to:
Make Finland Russian Agin
Dammit Larry, what about the squirrels lol?
Seriously….we are getting closer and closer sir!
You should know better than anyone….will they stop themselves? If not we must consider doing that.
I finally watched the three squirrel videos yesterday afternoon. That was a wonderful break from blood and bones.
Considering Putin threatened with retaliation only if Poland attacked Belorussia, but pretty much said the Uki khazars can go ahead and sell off the uki land, I am guessing he just gave his agreement to poles to occupy western ukistan. Now it’s just a matter of when, not if.
“I am guessing he just gave his agreement to poles to occupy western ukistan.”
I’m thinking it’s a bit more nuanced; as in if the Ukies sign over/sell off/cede territory then Russia won’t do anything as it’s not their business legally (they won’t like it though), however if Polish (and other militaries) troops enter what is still legally Ukraine territory they will be destroyed.
That part of the world has been a warring mess for centuries and used by the Great Powers. Hopefully this will be the end of that.
The Kremlin rarely makes mistakes, but starting in 2014, there are 2 clear mistakes, and it’s the same sort of error. In May, 2014 phony elections were held in Ukraine wherein major parties were banned and politicians got Mafioso-like threats and withdrew from the election because they were fond of staying alive. The Kremlin made a statement which recognized those elections as “legitimate” when everyone knew they were the worst, the most-rigged Ukraine ever had. I fully understand that Russia could not afford head-on confrontation in 2014. But Moscow could have laid down a sort o marker, by saying the Kiev government was illegitimate (based not on just thos elections, but on the Maidan itself being an external overthrow of a democratically-elected government) but that this problem is for the people of Ukraine to fix – not Russia’s problem. In the 9 years since, Moscow has never questioned Kiev’s right to govern. And in 2023, that hs grown into a real mistake. Letting the hyenas like Poland and Monsanto steal a piece of Ukraine will only make these hyenas more greedy and more aggressive. At some point, I think there will be serious opposition among Ukraine’s citizens. Since the people are up against murderous Nazis, that opposition will have to be armed from day one. There will come a time when armed opposition is seen as legitimate within Ukraine, but we are probably not there yet, and it would be worse if Russia gave them a seal of approval before most of the people of Ukraine wake up. But the time will come and Russia will have to “do something” about it- but not just yet. The Kremlin has to finesse it. IMO, this is the only thing where 20/20 hindsight says the Kremlin goofed up. Not surprisingly, it’s also the only lie the Kremlin has told. The Kremlin knows the thugs in Kiev have zero legitimacy, but they say otherwise. I can’t think of an honorable reason for that. Cowardice seems extremely unlikely. Perhaps it’s part of the careful management of escalation. Perhaps the Chabad’s “Heavenly Jerusalem” project has some adherents in the Kremlin. Some Jews want an empty Ukraine for a new Jewish homeland. While that’s a horrific idea, it fits all the known facts, I’m very sorry to say. Please, anyone, prove me wrong if you can. Selling off farmland and transferring the most Nazi-infested parts of Ukraine would only increase the desirability of Ukraine in the eyes of those people who lust for this land.
JESS
These were NOT mistakes, that was strategic planning. In 2014 Russia was NOT yet ready to get itself fully involved in Ukraine, it got back Crimea, which was imperative, and then provided much needed support to Donbass fighters. Recognising Kiev “regime” at the time, was another strategic move – they needed someone in Kiev with whom they could at least, communicate, if they did not “recognize” it as some sort of “government”, they would have had no-one to talk to in this Ukraine. Kremlin did not make any wrong moves – the goal has ALWAYS been destruction of NATO and it’s masters. In that respect, for Russia, it is all going according to plan. Try to see a bigger picture.
As for the “hyena of Europe”, it’s doing what it usually does – trying to grab a piece of flesh from another dying or dead animal. It’s in Poland’s DNA, and also being born with shit for brains; in Russia they are the butts of russian jokes and a much derogatary despising. Russia, over the centuries, has expierenced these f*ckwits for much longer than the so-called West. Now, that this God-forsaken POS Poland had became part of this West, their new western allies can expierence for themselves their “close and mutual associations/dealings, whatever.. with those Polish.. retards? There is no other word to describe them. Well, at least not a printable one!
“fully involved in Ukraine”
The Russian Federation was never fully involved in Ukraine by strategic design, since “war” is not restricted to things that go bang.
The notices of intent delivered to “The United States of America/NATO” by The People’s Republic of China and The Russian Federation in December 2021 were never restricted to Ukraine.
As expected the opponents chose to interpret these notices of intent to be ultimata in regard solely to Ukraine in hope of obfuscating the world-wide opposition to the coercive social relations self-misrepresented as “The United States of America”, and the resolve of this opposition to co-operate throughout the world in facilitating the transcendence of “The United States of America”.
Bathos tends to be increased by delay interpreted as hesitancy, and facilitated by experience of growing divergence between narrative and reality, whilst dumbing down their food sources and human shields limits their facilities/utilities, whilst simultaneously increasing their probabilities of complicity in their own transcendence.
If Poland occupies bits of Ukie it will split the west. Some will be furious, others may endorse. But Russia will sit back and let them fight it out.
Agree. If Poland takes part of Ukraine, it makes a mockery of NATO’s effort. Here is a historical map of what Poland lost during World War II. Note the Russian option of creating more turmoil by offering Romania and Hungary some of Ukraine too. Then these three nations can drop out of the EU and its crazy sanctions and sign up for cheap Russian oil and natgas.
https://www.g2mil.com/Ukraine-expansion.png
There is that. But how do think Germans, Hungarians, Romanians would take it? Nato would be split. Which is actually is a very good thing. But i do not think that is what the president is encouraging.
Then there is President’s warning that if Poles do something stupid, ‘Stalin gift’ may as well be taken back. As he said “We will remind them.”
While we are it, let us appreciate that the chief author of encouraging Poland is none than the USA and UK. Last time a major war broke out in Europe because UK and France encouraged Poles to be ‘tough with Germans’ and that they would have Poles’ back. The result was WW2. Now USA is egging Poland on and Poles leaders have visceral hate for Russia and huge dose of delusions of grandeur. I think they truly believe they are tougher and Russia will not do anything because (in their head) it will fear, avoid war with Nato. They are truly mistaken. Dangerous times.
Larry, appreciate this article and its timeliness; so glad you posted the transcripts of both Putin and Naryshkin. Clearly the players all see the game as moving to a new phase and they are putting down their markers. It is amazing that World Wars 1 and 2, and now maybe 3, all flash out of events in Eastern Europe (well okay and Japanese adventures all over Asia before WW2). Guess having bad neighbors is just normal fare over there.
Victoria Nuland has not only “fuck[ed] the EU”, but the US as well:
https://jamesburrillangell.substack.com/p/strange-diplomacy-victoria-fck-the
Thanks for the link.
Nuland does not care what happens to the US as long as she can abuse high office for her own purposes. If things get bad she and her porcine mate and their spawn have several destination options on the planet where they can settle down and fester again.
The honorable V.V. Putin is a master of composure and understatement, and his knowledge of history is impressive and exact. The Polish state should heed his warning with the gravity it deserves. I do feel sympathy for the Polish people, who will be led down the same path as the Ukrainian people, with the utter annihilation of the function of the state and a descent into a destitution so pervasive, thorough, and enduring that suicide becomes the national destiny.
… not.
President Putin lays the groundwork for war i.e. his comments are at last misleading.
In the macro scale Poland and Russia should be friends.
But it has never lasted longer than a generation.
Do you wish to repeat the tragedy of 1939?
Learn from history…. Enjoy Polish statehood and sovereignty.
Corral your government and convince them to stay home.
Is it enough for you to be Polish in Poland?
Of course they wish to repeat the tragedy. Poland is a guy that repeatedly gets into bar fights, and never wins. Now he got some MMA lessons, and is cruisin’ for another bruising. Everyone knows how it’s gonna end, except him.
His knowledge of history is extensive but “exact” is an inappropriate word.
Druga Rzeczpospolita Polska only came about in 1918 because of Woodrow Wilson and the influence of Paderewski…………..it was a US-sponsored entity
It was FDR who was playing games in 1930s using his Ambassador in Paris to bolster Colonel Beck and the Sanacja regime (dictatorship) in being “difficult” with Berlin over the status of Danzig (a German city)……..and it was Joseph Kennedy in London that fell out with FDR over this policy.
It was FDR that pressured Chamberlain to defend Warsaw even though the guarantee was worthless as Lord Halifax observed……..but FDR threatened to leave Britain in lurch if it did not step forward in 1939………….
Poland was a bankrupt regime in 1938……its only hope was an alliance with Czechoslovakia which had a Mutual Defence Treaty with France (as did Poland) and a cross-treaty with USSR which required France to mobilise to initiate Soviet defence clauses………
France did not want to fight – and Italy as a Locarno Treaty Power arranged a meeting in Munich so France could rope in Britain to help it welch on French Treaty obligations……..yet everyone thinks Britain was responsible not France……….
Fact is Britain went to war with German Reich BEFORE France and 22 Months BEFORE USSR and and 27 Months BEFORE USA
Poland had no chance after a hot summer with dry river beds and an invasion from west and south (Austria and Czechoslovakia)……….Britain had to set up rescue routes through Romania and retrieve the Spitfires delivered into Romanian ports – that is how Polish forces escaped to France in 1939
Poland is run by stupid people. Putin is simply highlighting that if Poland makes a precipitate move the Suwalki Gap will close and the Baltics will be squeezed………and Polish forces will be cut off from Belarus and locked into Ukraine as their logistics tail is liquidated
Polish men will be heading for the German border – to Goerlitz and Bautzen – and then Saxony will be destabilised and the CDU disintegrate………..
Poland is speaking to Polish Citizens not the bizarre regime that is supposed to face election in the next few weeks
FDR is overrated to this day. He was the spawn of The Russell Company, an import export company that brought opium to China and set the groundwork for the Opium War. That war went a lot further into DC than any of our wretched leaders would ever admit. He helped prolong WW1, he midwifed the Fed, he jailed Americans who would not turn over their gold coins, he plotted the attack on Pearl Harbor, and those are just starters.
FDR should be dug up and sprinkled over the town dump.
Like many of histories favorites his legacy is largely a fabrication. In reality he was the United State’s first communist president and his administration was largely responsible for the creation of the unconstitutional government agencies and programs that have driven our nation to bankruptcy and tyranny. Only Lincoln did more damage to our republic by usurping power delegated to the states by the constitution and paving the way for monsters like FDR.
In the 60’s I was in the post office in line the lady at the counter was complaining about first class stamps that had FDR”s face a stamp that was as common as a silver dime. The lady wanted something else she hated Roosevelt i was stunned i asked my father he said some actually hate Roosevelt. It took reading “New Deal or Raw Deal ” and 30 more years experience to realize how evil the uniparty is .
Glad you brought up those treaties, they have been abused for a long time, in fact it was intentional treaty abuse that dragged so many nations into WW1 at once as was intended during the plans being drawn up at the end of the 19th century.
Princip assassinated the AH Archduke, since AH was tied by treaty to Germany, they declared war on Serbia, which was tied by treaty to Russia, which was then obliged to declare on AH/G, who declared back, then France was tied to Russia so had to do the same so AH/G declared right back, etc., and so on. Most European nation were tied into the war by treaty and had to oblige either way whether they wanted to or not. Very clever. The object of the game was the simultaneous collapse of 4 empires and seizure of the money supply. What else is new.
NATO is using the same format. They advertise their perverted club as prestigious and wave the cash but it is a death trap. Any nation that really wants to survive needs a NATO flea bath. The whole thing is a satanic hoax. NATO should have been dissolved in 1989, they had already raked in huge fortunes on this ponzi, but no, like all addictions they craved more at any expense.
Any treaties going forward should be made very carefully with mandatory review after set years, 2, 5, whatever.
And power should never again be handed to DC, they had their day in the sun, every opportunity, every advantage, just everything, and they dragged it all down a toilet and destroyed the whole country to keep a few malefactors content.
Let some other system try to do better.
The Polish state is going to do dumb things again. It’s what they do.
“…annihilation of the function of the state and a descent into a destitution so pervasive, thorough, and enduring that suicide becomes the national destiny.”
Are not these the inevitable outcomes of being an EU Member State? Tatters! I tell you, tatters!
As for the warnings of Vladimir the Great, what passes for leadership in the West won’t listen, and won’t get it. He’s too subtle and these people aren’t that bright.
What scares me is that some in the corridors of power are so obsessed with ideology they’re under the delusion that the West will win and their every action is pushing to bring it on.
We are seeing ideology taking the place of reality at every level. It’s the delusion, sir.
Ideology has no substance. There’s a lot of glitter.
That applies to the ideology that you like, equally.
“Ideology has no substance. There’s a lot of glitter.”
Whilst ideology becomes a material force when it grips the masses.
Why?
As we see very very clearly, the redeployment of the Wagner group into Belarus has a substantial military logic. The dots of the so called the Progozhin coup (that was not a coup) had a real purpose. By now you have heard of the detention of Strelkov former FSB officer. What is not commonly known is Strelkov is Progozhin bete noire.
No secret that Progozhin wants to boil Strelkov in hot oil. His public statements saying just that is well known. Seems to me someone in the Kremlin has agreed to Yevgenys wish to dispose of Strelkov…now on with the show.
At the moment Prigozhin is so connected to Wagner as the Chinese Minister that nobody knows where he is.
Strelkov’s anti-Putin rants for years were way over the top. Prigozhin never did that.
It was a Wagner doctor who brought charges, apparently involving a lot of misplaced money.
There is an interview where shown by Texas Bentley Strelkov openly defends fascism, pulled since by YoYotub.
Vilyuchinsk
Вилючинск
Attua Station. Drive the tunnels baby…
Bering Island
Nikoleskyole
Were are the nukes bitches? Were are the subs?
Barrow submarine trench..that’s where it’s at
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/JC081i024p04445
3 main power grid leads into LA… plus Diablo Canyon Nuke Plant.
City at night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMiAQPABgHA
LA woman.
I’m sure we’re back to fu$k around and find out moment. Homey don’t play.
I highly doubt Duda would have the political capital or authority to move troops into Ukraine on his own initiative, I suspect that the US is pushing the Polish political elite to do so. Probably offering more of the same empty guarantees that they offered Ukraine. My grandfather fought in the Polish Army in the lead up to World War 2. He never forgave the Polish political elite for blundering into the war, he said that they “were a bunch of dogs that be could led around by throwing meat for them to following”. Most of the Pre-WW 2 Polish political elite [that survived] fled into exile in the US/UK/Canada and their heirs were shipped back into Poland after the fall of the Soviet Union and I dont think they have learned a thing.
Duda is 50% khazar 50% banderite.
He is as Polish as Zielensky is Ukrainian.
0%.
And they say that history never repeats itself…
I believe the saying is that “history repeats itself twice, the first time as a tragedy and the second time as a farce.” I don’t buy it. History repeats itself as a tragedy every time!
Yup, Canadians are suffering under Banderist Chrystia Freeland as our Deputy PM and Finance Minister. Like Dick Cheney and George W. Stupid, she is driving the Soros/Rothschild agenda from the back seat while Drama-teacher, selfie-sock Trudumb is the public puppet. Singh is just a stupid political opportunist from an acknowledged terrorist family (Air India)
Unfortunately the apple doesn’t fall from the tree, Nazi propagandist Grandfather Chomiak would be proud of his granddaughter’s rise to be the scum floating on Canadian society. Americans would be well advised to keep Liz Cheney out of any power positions.
Conservative party imploded in Canada and let Power Corporation in Quebec put their puppets in place – the Maurice Strong tendency…….
Amazing how poorly organised the backlash against Trudeau is when even Germany can create an AfD option
Trudeau has his mother’s brains and his father’s arrogance. They have the goods on him, don’t kid yourself. Do a wee bit of digging. He will do as he is told, not that he cares either way, he is sitting on a massive family fortune so this is just a pastime for him until he is instructed to step aside for the next bought off moron. That insolent punk was marked for big things early on.
And they didn’t even need to make a fake birth certificate for him.
The story goes both ways. Poland and Moscov war over Russian cities since Moscov got money from the City of London in the XVI century. Earlier, today’s “Russki mir” was a loose confederation of Polish, Lithuanians, Russian and Ukrainians. Than Moscov came with rented German musketeers and smallhat tax collectors.
As for today Putin knows the Warsaw regime is as legitimate and as Polish as Kiev’s. Both are just the servitors of banks.
Why Putin goes hard on Poland? Easy answered. He knows Poles, not the Warsaw junta, but street Poles know and remember Russians. And there is no way in hell Poland will not fight any kind of Russian “friendship”.
Sorry Vlad, your people burned Poland too many times to forget.
‘Sorry Vlad your people burned Poland too many times to forget’. Ok but did not Poland burn Moscow first? But all that is irrelevant today. Poland is relying on US support. Washington is thousands of miles away and running out of money and weapons. They have huge problems at home. Soon, like the British and other empires before them, they will go home. Before then Poland and the Baltics would be wise to cooperate with Moscow instead of the present constant hysterical yapping at Russian heels, whilst the economic and military centre of gravity of the world evolves eastwards.
Note that it was not so much, if at all, money that the City of London supplied to Russia in the 16th Century, but quality weapons, especially cannons, that enabled the break through to the Baltic. They also broke the centuries old blockade of the Hanseatic League on the Russian trade. The story of how the English merchants accidentally found their way to the White Sea thinking they were on their way to China is pure gold in historical and human terms – see ‘Merchant Adventurers: the voyage of discovery of that transformed Tudor England’ by James Evans.
co ty wygadujesz za głupoty? Pisz za siebie, a nie w imieniu Polaków. Co najmniej połowa naszego narodu chce żyć z Rosjanami nie tylko w zgodzie, ale w przyjaźni. Nienawiść to choroba, która zabija nienawidzącego. Nienawidzonemu jest to obojętne. Zmień sobie algorytmy, bo świat widzisz koślawo.
co ty wygadujesz za głupoty? Pisz za siebie, a nie w imieniu Polaków. Co najmniej połowa naszego narodu chce żyć z Rosjanami nie tylko w zgodzie, ale w przyjaźni. Nienawiść to choroba, która zabija nienawidzącego. Nienawidzonemu jest to obojętne. Zmień sobie algorytmy, bo świat widzisz koślawo.
what nonsense are you talking about? Write for yourself, not on behalf of Poles. At least half of our nation wants to live with the Russians not only in harmony, but also in friendship. Hate is a disease that kills the hater. The hated is indifferent. Change your algorithms, because you see the world crookedly.
“Half of polish nation wants to live with Russians in harmony and friendship?” Then tell me WHY do you, polish people, keep voting for the demented, unhinged and sold out Russophobes to represent you?! And now they are planing to drag you once again into a direct confrontation with Russia! History lessons all forgotten? Where are the protest demonstrations on the streets of Warsaw? Where is the voice of all these people that want to live in “harmony and friendship” with Russia? This is their chance!
Bravo Nana!
Masz racje/you are right!!!
“Why Putin goes hard on Poland? Easy answered. He knows Poles, not the Warsaw junta, but street Poles know and remember Russians. And there is no way in hell Poland will not fight any kind of Russian “friendship”.
Sorry Vlad, your people burned Poland too many times to forget.”
What is this even supposed to mean? Warsaw junta hate Russians, but street Poles are different because they also hate Russians? They are both equally eager to provoke Vlad people into burning Poland yet again, because they have not forgot previous burnings. They have conviniently forgot many other things.
Poland has a mentality of a crazy ex-girlfriend. Guys, don’t stick your d in crazy. Vlad won’t. Slava Cocaine!
@ The Pole
Seriously, you have seen the situation Ukraine is in currently. They had a chance to prosper but they chose to follow the genocidal westerners. And here you are, begging for more of the same.
I get it, you aren’t the sharpest knife in the kitchen drawer but what you propose is batshit loonie.
In World War 2 your so called govt hightailed to UK and it was the Soviets that liberated you, or was it the Britishers/Americans? The Battle of Britain (Air war) was won mostly by Polish pilots flying RAF Spitfires. Do think of them before you post retarded nonsense.
Maybe we need to relook at early Poland, and its alliance with the UK, was the UK policy to pumping up Poland to counter Germany and Russia the current plan they are using in Ukraine today?
The similarities in circumstances are quite surprising..
was the UK policy to pumping up Poland to counter Germany
You really must learn some history…….
Britain had ZERO intention of going to war over Poland just as it had ZERO intention of going to war over Belgium in 1914……….
On the same day that Britain pledged its support of Poland, Lord Halifax stated, “We do not think this guarantee will be binding”
“On 31 March 1939 the British government guaranteed the independence (though not the territorial integrity) of Poland, in which they were joined by France”.
Poland was insane………what could Britain do when Poland was landlocked ?
US declared NEUTRALITY
@Paul Greenwood,
Back in the day I read quite a bit about WW2, Eastern front and Poland. I had to leave my books behind and relocate to India. I’d appreciate it very much if you would recommend some reading material about that period. Thank you in advance Paul.
I normally have at least a sense what’s in the murky waters. I might see something but don’t like it at all.
Russia needs at least 6 more months to have a large army ready for a counteroffensive. They contracted and trained hundreds of thousands of new troops. Their military industry is getting now the output 10-20x more than at the beginning of the war.
In the main time, they’ll do what they do the best meat grinding in 3-4 directions. That gives about 700 KIA per day and probably double WIA, so about 2,000 UKR incapacitated per day.
We’ve seen the first use of cluster bombs on both sides. They are not pretty. If Russia decides to start using cluster bombs on a large scale, the war will come to an end, quickly. Somehow, I don’t believe that.
Nobody is talking about peace, and the reptilians in charge want more blood. Odessa looks like a done deal, and what’s left of Ukrainian coasts, mostly destroyed.
Sorry about my rambling, but I don’t like at all the point we are right now.
Russia needs at least 6 more months to have a large army ready for a counteroffensive.
A counteroffensive to accomplish what? The required size and time depend on the objectives
That gives about 700 KIA per day and probably double WIA, so about 2,000 UKR incapacitated per day.
I’ve seen numbers like this floated around, but I don’t think they are possible as an average–only maybe a peak day or week.
2,000 incapacitated/day x 180 days (corresponding to the six months you note above) = ~350,000 incapacitated on top of the insane losses that UKR has had to deal with over the first year of war. I don’t think a country with at best 20M people can function with such losses of a male population, so I think either those numbers are way overblown, or else there are *far* more mercenaries in the country than even the biggest critics claim
Your last sentence could be correct. No body bags required and no flag folding etc or compo payments more likey.
I consider everything around me is a lie until it aint.
Just want to live long enough to study the truth about the SMO. As humans are the galactic bogans it’s will not be the last war on this planet until we destroy it.
“I consider everything around me is a lie until it aint”
I’d buy that for a dollar…
Numbers are either overblown, or they include lightly wounded. Over a longer period of time, a single soldier can recieve multiple light wounds, and still be in action.
Number of mercenaries can not be too big, because they have to come on their own free will, at least for now.
BTW, when people estimate Ukrainian KIA and WIA, do you assume that the MIA fall into one of those two categories, or are they in addition to the numbers quoted?
Because in Ukraine’s case, the MIA are massive, if I remember
You can add the MIAs, deserters, and prisoners to that ~2,000 / day figure, however, lets have them included into the 2,000 number, otherwise will get in an argument, as above, that the number is too high.
In my opinion 2,000 / day figure is too low because doesn’t take in consideration the wear and tear of the UKR soldiers including the major mental pressure. We have now in the trenches regular men, with families, kids, and other things in their mind than the original NAZIes and trained military. They think to survive, not to be sacrificed on some coke addict altar.
The large number of MIAs may be traceable to corruption. So long as these men are not pronounced dead, which is highly likely, their salaries are still being paid, and thus ripe for theft by those in a position to keep them in the MIA status.
No grift too vile for the Ukrainian weasels.
Sorry but “counter-offensive” ????
Does this word have any meaning nowadays ?
Russia is dug in to defensive positions – very deep and defined and has reversed the strategy NATO had planned for Russian troops – namely the deep defensive positions Ukraine had been building since 2014 which were designed to destroy the Russian Army
This is akin to WW1 with both sides using a flat landscape to entrench themselves and employing whatever forest cover can mask artillery…………
There is NO “offensive” so there can be no “counter-offensive”
It is a Line Of Contact with probing operations
“Sorry but “counter-offensive” ????
Does this word have any meaning nowadays ?”
Nope. You can add it to the list.
Parallels with WWI go deep. In both cases, technological advances killed mobile warfare of the past (and initiated a change of the way wars are fought). In first case the cause was the machine gun, and now the culprits are drones/satellites/etc. In the first case solution to stalemate were tanks and assault infantry. In the second case solution will be …
Re: counter-offensive
Russia has to take at least Odessa, and the rest of Black sea shore, to close the URK/NATO sea access. Otherwise the bombing and droning of Crimea won’t stop, and the SMO would be for nothing. Some would argue that NATO could send naval drones from Romania, or even Bulgaria. However, these being NATO countries, would mean involving NATO directly against Russia, and they don’t want that, yet.
On the East, the river Dnieper cuts Ukraine in a half, makes a natural barrier, and is impossible to miss as military border. However, the Russians are not even 1/3 on the way to the Dnieper. Some would argue that Russia may need to have advanced positions on the Right (West) shore of the Dnieper, to prevent the long range missiles coming into Nova-Russia.
So, there is still some counter-offensive to be done, after the UKR military is minced few more months. Which will bring us into 2024, at least.
“Russia has to take at least Odessa, and the rest of Black sea shore, to close the URK/NATO sea access. Otherwise the bombing and droning of Crimea won’t stop…”
As far as Ukraine goes, why not give everything west of the Black Sea shore to Poland? Russia doesn’t want it. Let the nazis wreak havoc in Poland’s name. Poland can’t be any worse than letting some rump Ukraine continue terrorist operations. Poland couldn’t really continue shelling Donbas and so forth from it’s own/new territory.
The issue is what does it take to destroy NATO. Without NATO the US and UK won’t have plausible deniability, so they too will be shut down, if not exactly defeated. That’s the only way Russia can demilitarize Ukraine. The US has to be defeated. Was it Feynman said science progresses one death at a time? Perhaps a corollary would cover “foreign relations”: here is Burns blathering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IinWHBs3cNE Does his whole generation have to die before the world escapes their clutches? And then again, how much of the problem is our own arrogance thinking we might somehow improve the world?
“If Russia decides to start using cluster bombs on a large scale, the war will come to an end, quickly.”
Nope. You fell into wunderwaffe-thinking trap.
I suspect the people of Poland don’t even want part of Ukraine, let alone war. They are currently fed up with Ukrainian refugees, something that would explode if they annexed western Ukraine. The demographic and economic damage would destroy Poland. While some politicians may be that stupid, the general population is not, at least in my opinion. Whether they can control their politicians is another matter, however.
As Putin said, if Ukraine wants to give part of itself away to Poland, that’s their business, but I imagine he has some pretty set views as to which part would be “acceptable.” It would be largely worthless, or worse, as it would be a basket case that Poland couldn’t afford. It would be suicide, nationally, for Poland to even attempt this as it would just be a money pit with no useful economic output, and loaded with corruption.
I suspect Putin would welcome Poles trying to take on that mess, as it would be their end.
“Are the people of Poland ready for World War III?”
OTAN and the west don’t care about their native populations, hence the ‘reset, replacement’ going on by davos nazis and their controllers.
The ‘people’ of OTAN and the west live west live in their own self-generated, self-directed disinformation campaign. Divide and manipulate to lobotomize and control.
The complete control of the blob over major media, entertainment, hollyweird, (un)social media ensures all spew the same message. Distruction of the education system and replacement with more and more blatant indoctrination supports the non-stop agitprop. Increasing censorship and ‘cancelling’ of those who speak out against and expose the process.
The illusion of meaningless choice from 17362 different deodorants and brands of everything! The elections matter because there are competing parties! Really, then why are the same policies always advanced despite which one wins? Democracy! – actually Demonacracy. Alistair Crooke had a interesting take on this a couple of days back, worth a look:
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2023/07/17/a-bonfire-of-the-vanities/
VVP has a clear way of expressing what the position of RF is, what RF considers important and how RF will respond if pressed.
Refresh your memory of his 2007 Munich speech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ58Yv6kP44
Notice anything substantive that has changed since what was stated in that speech, any deviations from the message and actions stated and implied in the speech? Has the RF acted to build a strong self sustained economy and a protective defense, and then employ it after the last offer of negotiations were summilary dismissed by OTAN and the west in January 2021?
OTAN and the west lives in fantasy world of lies and narratives, not reality. Expect that will continue until, unless a new leadership can emerge in time to stop OTAN’s suicidal march toward nuclear war with RF and China.
Interesting timez…
Fascinating how Putin uses his incredible historical knowledge to sow doubt and division. Personally I think if Poles and Lithuanians go into Western Ukraine Russia will smash them. Only Hungary will possibly be allowed to reclaim its historical lands with Russian agreement. and maybe Germany as well …..but not with the current clowns in the German govt.
Fortunately, Russia is first on record for supporting Belarus’s admission to The Shanghai Cooperation Organization-SCO as a full member in March of 2023 and made a formal submission on Belarus’ behalf on 5 July 2023. Though there is no equivalent of a NATO Article V for SCO, I think Russia, India, China, and the permanent members would provide military aid and support should another member state be attacked. I would expect China, Russia, and most likely India would want SCO’s first test of its integrity to be successful and that includes direct military intervention. Polish-Lithuanian revanchism would qualify as separatism and trigger a meeting. I think the members of SCO would pose enough of a challenge to NATO’s backing of a Polish adventure for America, England, and the principals of NATO to shut down Poland and Lithuania’s plan. Ukraine, however, as Putin said can do what it wants with Poland.
No India will do nothing for SCO. Only thing it will do is keep on ranting “Pakistan”, “Terrorists” till the cows come home.
Every multilateral setting is turned into this rant by India. In fact India decimated the international forum
SARC started by it because of its unhealthy obsession with Pakistan.
By now most countries have got used to expect the least from India in any multilateral forum.
unhealthy obsession with the smelly Pakis? they deserve something better, a permanent rest.
Your rant doesn’t sound much better.
SCO was never meant to be like NATO. Applying NATO logic to SCO makes no sense.
From military standpoint Belarus and Russia should be treated as one entity. Russia does not need military intervention from anyone in order to defend Belarus territory.
It’s not like Polandistan is an independent country or is permitted to think for itself.
If it invades Ukranazistan you can be sure it will be with Uncle Sam’s instigation and blessing.
Churchill named it Europe’s hyena. He has been proven right time and again. The time has come to put the hyena to rest
Along with the speech two years ago in Valdai, the speech in which Putin clarifies more between the lines after the opening speech of the war in Ukraine. As finally why Russia did not stop the coup d’état in 2014, after having denounced it to the world when the Nuland audio leaked. And as expected from the most legalistic nation on Earth, as a matter of legality. If Ukraine belonged to the EEU or was still a full member of the CIS like Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia, Victoria Nuland had been hastily evacuated to the US! In this way, I still don’t understand why Yanukovich didn’t ask Moscow for help as President of a sovereign state!
And even if Poland continues to dream of Józef Piłsudski’s Intermarium Federation, from the Baltic to the Black Sea as the great barrier between Russia and Europe, contrary to what many predicted, Russia will not give up an inch of Ukraine! Regardless of whether you continue to think that militarily Russia has no plans to cross the Dnieper, politically NATO’s adventures in Ukraine are over! At a time when it is also very clear that the US has already given up on the war in Ukraine. Jake Sullivan, one of the great instigators of the war, couldn’t be clearer!
It remains to be seen whether, and Putin has not clarified it either, whether this war in Ukraine was not, after all, just the opening battle of the great war for the Arctic. Northern route or natural resources! Like all wars in the last 30 years, with the West increasingly weakened by the lack of resources. Namely oil and gas, despite the clamor for green energy.
Because if so, it starts to make a lot of sense for Wagner to be in Belarus and not just to protect Lukashenko but to eventually take over the Suwalki Corridor. The idea of Sweden and Finland joining NATO was never related to fear or the war in Ukraine but to the new NATO lake. After they have given up the lake in the Black Sea. Today I am certain that this intervention by the US in Europe will be the last intervention by the US in Europe. And the war in Ukraine alone entails much higher costs for the US than Vietnam. What it skimps on men it loses on prestige and power of influence throughout the world! The greatest disaster of a great nation after WWII!
Now even talks with Iran have developed a hypersonic missile. US should alert the Iron Dome!😂
I think many overlook the fact that the US had already shown its cards regarding Ukraine by supporting the somewhat peaceful Orange Revolution in 2004/05 that overthrew V. Yanukovych and brought the rise of the Bandera ideology so it wasn’t that Russia was caught unawares with Maidan in 2014. V. Putin brought this up in his meeting with the bloggers on 13 June 2023.
I agree with Andrei Martyanov’s assessment that in 2014 Russia wasn’t prepared economically and militarily to intervene to save Yanukovych who we must also remember flirted with the EU much like Lukashenko was doing until he realised his errant ways in 2011. Putin used the time to strengthen whilst the West wasted resources fighting the self-created War on Terrorism that stretched its resources.
The US had a decade to invest billions on changing the hearts and minds of the people as was evident in 2014/15 when so-called pro-Russian areas such as Odessa, Mariupol, Kharkov were easily suppressed despite voting against the Bandera types and even much of Donbass was content with remaining within Ukraine with local autonomy and the right to speak Russian which was supported by the Kremlin and formed the basis for the Minsk accords.
The US has shown its self weak and ready to sacrifice its vassals to ensure its Pax Americana continues and relying on ancient hatreds between the Baltic states, Poland against Russia is permitted if it ensures no direct US troop involvement and any intervention rom the Western side will only add the the already catastrophic death toll and prologue the inevitable defeat of NATO and the EU, with the US (lesser extent the UK) stepping aside to focus on China…
If many ignore the Orange Revolution I don’t know. I do not ignore and the corrupt Yushchenko and Timoshenko failed miserably and ended up asking Moscow for economic help. It was corruption and the 2008 crash that once again created the economic conditions for protests in Ukraine. And to stop the Euromaidan It was not needed the greatest economic power in the world. It would enought a battalion of spetsnaz to help the Ukrainian authorities suppress the coup in 2014. The external intervention and the violent extreme right. As Lukashenko did in Belarus. Yanukovych in Ukraine also never lost the police and the army. It was Yanukovych who decided not to repress the coup like Lukashenko repressed in Belarus.
Euromaidan did not happen in 24 hours but between the end of 2013 and 2014. When it started to fail because of the Ukrainian population began to move away from the violence of the extreme right and the corruption of external intervention. At the height of Euromaidan the coup had already failed with the majority of the population against the coup. As the polls of the time said. That’s why they called in the snipers to create the final turmoil and the false perception that Yanukovych started to repress the protests with violence. The typical MO of US coups and Color Revolutions. Yanukovich didn’t clean the house before the snipers arrived because he didn’t want to. Because just like in 2004, in 2014 he also continued to hold meetings with Western leaders who wanted to turn Ukraine upside down! Perhaps because he desperately needed external financial help, which he could also ask Russia for. Or maybe because he was also always corrupt. I don’t know. No one can explain why Lukashenko was able to quell the coup in Belarus and Yanukovitch failed in Ukraine. And on the decisive day he left Kiev….
Everything the world needs to know about Euromaidan is in this NATO document. Point 32:
https://www.nato-pa.int/document/2011-172-cdsdg-11-e-rev1-ukraine-malan-report
Which says that 80% of the Ukrainian population never supported joining NATO! Which proves who hijacked the legitimate protests against corruption in the UA and not against Russia, which take place in all countries, including the US and that NATO is the real invader of Ukraine! Even today, nobody knows how much support the Ukrainian population has for the war!
And the MO of US coups is always the same. They kidnap or artificially create protests with a few thousand people in a square, half are extras from Western NGOs, which Russia and Belarus expelled, to create the false perception of an entire country in protests. In the Maidan square, the US talks about 1 million people in a square that doesn’t fit 100,000! And for that NED opened three televisions in one week in Kiev! Robert Parish explains the Color Revolutions process very well in Oliver Stone’s documentary, “Ukraine on Fire.”
The US problem is that propaganda can make revolutions but not win wars. And Russia tolerated the “western revolution” in Ukraine as long as it concerned only Ukraine but when it turned into an anti-Russian battering ram, Moscow intervened. Which also proves that Russia never tried to stop Ukraine from joining the EU! Which is also just propaganda. Ukraine won’t join the EU in 30 years! Like in NATO!
And the same happened in the Arab Springs and is happening now in Georgia and Kosovo and in several countries around Russia, like Kyrgyzstan, to try to open more fronts to demobilize Russia from Ukraine. In short, almost everything you hear about Euromaidan in the West is a lie. Polls at the time in Ukraine also said that the majority of the population never supported the Euromaidan. And when it became violent, with most nationalists, they turned their backs on Euromaidan. And they started to leave the country. Emigrating to Russia and the EU!
You makes some excellent points and thanks for sharing the NATO document as I hadn’t seen it referenced earlier.
Re the “Great War for the Arctic” President Putin has made a statement about this, which seems to say that Russia will prevent military ships from using the sea route.
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2023/01/13/us-jackals-smelling-blood-iprohibitively-huge-potential-for-profit-in-russian-arctic/
Why would Putin think it’s OK for NATO to expand into Ukraine if it is done by Poles and Lithuanians but not if it’s done by Ukrainians? Something’s missing.
My thinking exactly.
If the Poles move in to West Ukraine the US will move in with them, lock stock and nuclear missiles.
Russia won’t keep NATO out of Ukraine if those ridiculous Poles move in.
“Have our Warsaw friends forgotten this? We will remind them.”
wrt Stalin’s gift
could be interpreted as Poland will lose territory (gift rescinded) if they move into Ukraine.
It is an ambiguous red line, but strongly worded.
Reminiscent of language “You will listen to us now” that Russian response to abrogating the INF (after all other nuclear) treaties would be a military response that tips the nuclear balance far into Russia’s court.
https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-russia-nuclear-weapons-20180301-story.html
Those wasted Star Wars trillions could have dramatically supported US economic competitiveness (instead of distorting the economy towards inefficiency – What engineer would work for Ford when Raytheon pays triple?).
After Putin in Strong Words, Russia unleashed the war within itself, and launched the Russian Heroic Spirit.
Vodka Spirit.
Feb 2022 SUN US edition……
“VLADIMIR Putin is set to drop a 44-ton “Father Of All Bombs” in Ukraine, it has been claimed.” By the usual unnamed suspects.
Very interesting projection propaganda. From America no less. A couple of them on the boarders of Poland and social attitude adjustments, both in EU and US will ensue.
The nutters in the State DEPT will have America on fire, tearing itself apart as they announce a new GAME CHANGER IS ON THE TABLE. Putin is a bad actor… UNPACKING MANY TOOLS AND DEEP DIVING.
PS
All the above as an American Admiral steps up in drag, adjusts his bra, telling the world, “Putin is a sick’o who must be stopped.”
LOL! They are even running out of weapons in propaganda war.
@ Aaron
https://fredoneverything.org/au-phuc-dup/
Au Phuc Dup and Nowhere to Go: The Only Really True Book about Viet Nam
“Will do fine friend, will do.”
One thing seems certain; the collective west’s leadership class follows the maxim, it’s all downhill from here. If they can make the wrong decision and F it up, they will.
Larry, I watched Alex from the Duran he is in Moscow the streets look Cinda barren is that normal? also his partner is living London, coincidence?
Kinda
Alex Christoforou makes his videos very early in the morning. It’s summer in Russia and Cyprus. The sun rises early. Things have been getting really hot (temperature wise). In Limassol, Cyrus and Greece where Alex usually makes his videos, the temperatures often begin the day at over 100-degrees Fahrenheit during the summer. This is why all the buildings are painted white.
The real but officially unstated objective of this entire SMO is one and one thing only: the complete and utter destruction of NATO, the US financial establishment and complete regime change in the European lap-dog demonocracies. Anyone who believes, in something less, is kidding themselves playing mental hopscotch. Russia has formidable allies on its side, but only Russia has Russian testicular fortitude.
100%
Abso-fuckin-lutely! 1000%!!!
“Complete and utter destruction” is probably a bridge further than either Russia or China want to go. Amongst various bad corollaries to that would be many small, often poor nations in the Global South would find themselves destitute as their reserves of USDs & EURs vanished. Along with humanitarian catastrophes, destitution brings on civil and political turmoil, and I doubt Russia (or China) wants to be seen as the immediate cause of it.
I suggest that “neutered”, or “neutralized” is both more achievable and probably more desirable, and no faster than alternative systems mature to the point of taking in new participants en masse. Allowing smaller nations time to transition from the current security and financial arrangements to whatever will emerge from the demise of the old has to be a priority. A sudden implosion of the old means a decade or more of chaos across the Global South.
L. J. : “Putin responded at length to Naryshkin’s briefing. This does not read like prepared remarks. He appears to be speaking extemporaneously and draw some very bright red lines for NATO.”
I don’t think Putin’s response was spontaneous. It is pretty elaborated and structured to be improvised. In addition, the things he spoke of are too important, too strategic to be left for a ‘chatš between Putin and Naryshkin. Look just on historical background of Putin’s claims. It seens that all Polish territorial ganis in 20th century are questionable. And subject for deep revisions.
Putin’s seemingly indifference in regard to Kiev actions (land selling, taking limitless loans, agreements with Poland, etc) does not mean it approves such moves but quite the contrary: being irresponsible they are worthless and not obligatory for Kremlin. Otherwise, red lines set up in his speech would contradict acceptance of Kiev’s desperate moves.
Watch the video. Not glancing at notes or teleprompter.
watch any of Putins 3-4 hour Q&A with the public.
The west has become unused to intelligent and learned (in the original meaning of the word) leaders. A slate of highly corruptible leaders are offered up each cycle and the system descends with force on any who have integrity much less intelligence (as they might betray the oligarch class).
So Putin agrees that the west Ukraine can become a part of Poland, and so part of the NATO, and so deploy nuclear missile at the Russian border.
Sorry, but I wish I were wrong.
The problem is not the borders of the future Ukraine, but the nuclear weapons in Europe. Solve that please Mr Putin.
The real problem is in Washington. Who should solve that?
“… Putin agrees that the west (can)… deploy nuclear missile at the Russian border.”
I think everything Putin et al say is to be taken in the context of the December 2021 (non)Ultimatums. These say that NATO is to roll its military infrastructure back to 1997. That is, membership in NATO is not the issue. Extra-national military formations and infrastructure on former Warsaw Pact territory is definitely an issue.
Larry I have to ask you a question:
If Poland invades Ukrainian territory and hypothetically its troops clash with the Russian military, what happens next?
Will Poland reclaim NATO Article 5?
And therefore will he ask for a direct intervention by the NATO military in Ukrainian territory?
thanks for your opinion.
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Larry devo farti una domanda:
se la polonia invade il territorio ucraino e per ipotesi le sue truppe si scontrano con i militari russi, cosa succede dopo?
La polonia reclamerà l’articolo 5 della nato?
E quindi chiederà un intervento diretto dei militari della nato in territorio ucraino?
grazie per il tuo parere.
I always expected that. After the frontline or Ukrainian army collaps Poland will occupy West Ukrain to save the rest of Ukrain. But Putin could assaulting them with long range attacks. Just keep pounding them with cruise missile, drones,…
Going up against them might be possible. After all, they can’t replace armoured vehicles and tanks. NATO is down in weapons to the level for self protection.
Poland does not enter Ukraine. It will try to close the land corridor to Kalinegrad with Lithuania. Nothing annoys Moscow more.
Polish Pork is what Russia wants.
Missile saturation on the stroke of midnight. EVERY MILITARY BASE AND DOCKS.
Anyone want Article 5 “have a go yamugs.”
America begged for the Russians to invade Ukraine all part of the Colour take down rotine… remember.
Well uki nazis nil Polish Pork next.
London Bridge is also going down…….. there you go…. payback for Boris and the poison dwarf ie tough chick Eliz.
Then American turns its back on the entire fuck up. Stranger things have happened in Afganistan.
Putin has instructed Wagner to begin op’s from Belarus………..
https://warnews247-gr.translate.goog/ektakto-i-vagkner-xekina-epicheiriseis-dilosi-sok-v-poutin-i-dytiki-polonia-itan-doro-tou-stalin-tha-tous-to-thymisoume/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB
And now we learn that Wagner is outside Brest training Belorussian SF’s in Wagner’s op’s and tactics……..
https://warnews247-gr.translate.goog/sta-synora-me-polonia-i-vagkner-symfona-me-to-schedio-sourovikin-prosopo-me-prosopo-rosoi-kai-polonoi-stratiotes-i-varsovia-metakinei-enoplous-schimatismous/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB
There is no indication yet anywhere as to Wagner and Belorussian troop numbers in this training group, though division strength does come to mind as I suspect we are watching the build for a large scale op.
An educated guess would be we are watching the next step in the destruction of NATO
https://www.globalfirepower.com/country-military-strength-detail.php?country_id=belarus
https://www.globalfirepower.com/country-military-strength-detail.php?country_id=belarus
Belarus hopes to raise a Volunteer Force…….but its manpower is not huge with a population of only 9 million. Question is how many Russian soldiers are in Belarus.
It was thanks to the USSR, thanks to Stalin, that Poland received significant lands in the west. The lands of Germany. This is exactly the case. The western territories of present—day Poland are Stalin’s gift to the Poles. Our friends in Warsaw have forgotten about it. We will remind you.” (Vladimir Putin)
Immediately, for some reason, I remembered other words of Stalin, which we will definitely recall – “Lviv was not part of the Russian Empire, but Warsaw was!”…The last addition seems…prescient.
But doesn’t that sound like Putin is saying if Poland wants Western Ukraine, and if Ukraine agrees, then there is an end to the Russia Ukraine war if land are traded.
Hey, works for me, and didn’t Gonzalo Lira predict that outcome.
Ben Fullford said exactly that recently. In fact he claims his sources in Mossad/Mi6 told him the war is over because of the land rearranging. I guess we’ll see.
Have a look at this bombshell from May 26, 2022 :(Italian)
Boris Johnson’s secret plan to divide Ukraine from Russia and the EU: the European Commonwealth
https://www.corriere.it/economia/finanza/22_maggio_26/piano-segreto-boris-johnson-dividere-l-ucraina-russia-ue-commonwealth-europeo-02d3b232-dc6b-11ec-b480-f783b433fe60.shtml
That British Crown plan, not BoJo’s property, a Commonwealth of Europe, most emphatically includes the 3 Baltics and Poland, Ukraine.
It is a remake of the old Austro-Hungarian Intermarium, under a British Crown – Primes inter Pares an’ all that. From a time of horses, heraldry and no SUV’s.
Putin mentions French Press, this is major Italian Press leaking British policy.
The fly in the ointment – Intermarium means Baltic to Black Sea. Now that the Grain Deal is sunk, Russia has rendered Black Sea access for Ukraine problematic.
Now just for a moment imagine Scholz, Macron’s reaction. This hit the news 1 year ago.
Somewhat confused.
How is a “Commonwealth” of sovereign states legally “under the British Crown” ??????
It is incomprehensible. It is possible for a federation of Poland and other states to form under British guidance but it does not make them British Sovereign Territory………..
After all – Poland and Ukraine are supposedly in some form of confederation already
Next you’ll be making wild claims about Visnegrad Group
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visegrád_Group
or Weimar Triangle group
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Triangle
or the Normandy Format
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_Format
All Commonwealth countries are subject to Royal Prerogative Powers – Ask Australia what the Queen did to Whitlam.
Corriere dela Sera did a very usefull job exposing Perfidious Albion’s deception.
Poland’s insane aristocrats (just look at Brzezinsky the nutter of D.C.) would have no problem rallying around the King, Lithuania neither.
Another insane aristocrat van den Leichen (full bio available) would be right royally delighted to sign up – EU and Brexit be-damned , sorry, deceived.
Driving a wedge between France+Germany and Russia using a dusted off Intermarium, even with only Galicia, just might have been deep-sixed by Russia.
There are several Commonwealths in the world. Commonwealth just means Community! Why the hell is British in the Baltics?
Royal Prerogative Powers – Ask Australia what the Queen did to Whitlam.
She did nothing !
Those powers are vested in Governor-General……..
Even in United Kingdom “Royal Prerogative powers” are exercised by the Cabinet and have been for a very long time……….the Monarch does not even “sign Acts of Parliament” – a seal is administered by Lords Commissioners in Parliament
Deception.
Those powers were discussed at length elsewhere.
Commonwealth is such an outdated aristocratic construct.
Sire, Methinks, thou dost protest too much.
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/11/14/the-queens-coup/
Truth laid bare. The documents that make up the Palace Letters are now available for public perusal online at the National Archive of Australia.
https://www.naa.gov.au/explore-collection/kerr-palace-letters
Interestingly made public only recently.
Deception, Perfidy, thy name is Albion!
Gotta disagree Paul. The communications (letters) between the Queen’s hive in London and the Australian GG and opposition clearly show the Queen acted against Whitlam. Whether she was under CIA instruction or vice versa isn’t clear.
What Whitlam had planned, “the buying back the farm” clearly was a threat to US/UK capital.
If Whitlam had of been successful Australia would now not be the shithole that it is with a thoroughly treasonous political class enabling the high unemployment, high cost of living, lack of affordable housing (private and public), private ownership of utilities and natural resources, a complete lack of independence of foreign policy, and on and on.
What is actually going on between the UK & Poland is more likely this:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-poland-2030-strategic-partnership-joint-declaration-on-foreign-policy-security-and-defence/uk-poland-2030-strategic-partnership-joint-declaration-on-foreign-policy-security-and-defence
I relieve myself of responsibility for any lost IQ points when reading. This scheme has been in the works since around 2017; part of the push for “global Britain” (whatever that actually means). Its why there are British “advisors” with Polish troops on the border of Belarus, not Americans. Everybody involved in this conflict has their own agenda. The US now has permanently stationed troops in Poland with all of the accompanying facilities and equipment. If these two jackals decide to go ahead kick it off in the Suwaki gap/Belarus/West Ukraine…guess the US has to shit or get off the pot. Will US troops just stand around and watch? Convenient for this little partnership, huh? Its why the UK loves for the US to be perpetually at war and always cheerleads for it…sponsored by US tax dollars and lives. The UK spends its money on SAS/SBS/MI6 to do covert ops and media/propaganda. Who needs a big military when you have the US…and now Poland?
This whole conflict is like an season of Dallas with fewer cowboy hats and more grenades.
What’s secret about Intermarium? Poles have been openly salivating about it all the time. Brits ruling it sounds funny, though.
Excellent post Larry. Have shared on my social media. Thank you.
The bigger the nuclear threat to Russia the bigger the final DMZ.
When Odessa and Transnistria become part of Russia, Ukraine (or what’s left of it) will be landlocked. The best outcome would include Moldova.
They also need a bigger corridor to Kallingrad. The result would be a direct corridor from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. This could be achieved if Poland and Lithuania enter Ukraine and “spill” into Belarus.
Russia needs everything up to Dniper River and corridor to Hungary.
DMZ will be land west of Dniper River with a border from Moldova up to Belarus/Poland border.
What’s left goes to Poland, it’s their problem.
The bigger the nuclear threat to Russia the bigger the final DMZ.
Really ???
Then that means Russia will be on the German and Hungarian and Serb borders……….
In the early 2010s, the air base near Deveselu was selected for the NATO missile defence system employing Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System
the early warning radar station in Kürecik, Malatya, Turkey, went operational in 2012
The Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System (AAMDS) site in Poland is nearing the final phases of construction at Naval Support Facility (NSF) Redzikowo,
Now you know why people call this WWIII.
Good points. Everything you say makes sense. However, it all leads to one thing — World War 3. And World War 3 started in 2014. This leaves only one question left to answer: How does World War 3 end?
The question these World Wars in Europe always raised was how much territory is enough to guarantee security? The United States has violated every treaty with Russia it ever made and is now sitting directly on Russia’s borders like it was the plan all along. Russia’s only option is to either push back or surrender. It has become pretty obvious Russia cannot negotiate with the United States. My guess is that the United States expects Russia to rollover and surrender. If this happens Russia and the Russian people will cease to exist, just like here at “home.”
If Russia surrenders, then “the jigs up” for China.
Relatively peaceful end to this would be dissolution of NATO/EU, or at least retreat from Eastern Europe. It would result in border changes for multiple countries (possibly with some local wars), and switch of some territories to the “Russian side”. Washington/London/Vatican/others will do everything to prevent that.
Putler flew away. Poles will not die for Ukrainians. That’s why it’s just barking. However, if he attacks Poland he will face defeat. Partisan fighting is in the blood of Poles. There is no chance. For Poland, let the bleeding of Russkies and Ukrainians continue as long as possible. They wanted conflict then let them have it. In the fall, Joe Dementia will order the truce to be signed and Putin and Zheleznski will do it quickly😎
Partisan fighting is in the blood of the Ukrainians and Banderistas.
Partisan fighting is in the blood of Syrians and Georgians (and French – but had no effect on the outcome of WW2)…
In your scenario, the goal would be a neutral Poland, rather than a neutral Ukraine.
Recall the proposed new Russian security agreements required NATO withdrawal from Eastern Europe. That is Russia’s goal to force on the woke, bankrupt, de-industrialized, woke, horribly corrupt, anti-democratic, de-militarized, woke West.
Meanwhile in the real world, the world’s economic center shifted far east (where it was for most of the last 2000 years). Where will Poles migrate? Germany is collapsing and will likely repeat history, the US “presents” as a country at civil war, whereas Russia is united with vast frontier lands and resources and culturally not that different (unlike SE Asia).
The stupidity of this comment proves you are from Poland.
Much of my family are from Poland, and I can confirm that when pople make jokes about how stupid Poles are, those are not really jokes, but simple statements of fact.
What else can you say about a country, that having watched and helped it’s neiighbor be totally destroyed, in an utterly pointless was instigated by NATO outsiders like the UK and the USA for the last 18 months, who would then conclude “Yes! We need to that to our country now!”
With “allies” like NATO, Poland has no need of enemies.
This shit is dumber than the stuff Ukros write.
Putin is not a weak and soft creature? I’m not so sure. It must not be forgotten that, by his incredible passivity in the face of the incessant and ever more serious provocations of NATO, provocations which he endured from 2014 to 2022 without so much as a gasp of protest as all the red lines he himself had drawn were crossed amid howls of derision and obscene gestures he gave himself the image of a coward to NATO and the American government. And it’s entirely his fault. And he is inexcusable because as a former head of the KGB he has no right not to know that most people do not react according to reality but according to the image they have or are given of it. That’s the basis of any propaganda! And I know (there is a small Russian colony in Saint-Malo, where I live) that many Russians do not understand Putin, believing that this war could and should have been over long ago.
Finally, I claim that if the initial responsibility for this war lies entirely with NATO and the American government, the responsibility for its transformation into a nuclear war (which is only too likely) will lie entirely with Putin who will have done nothing about it, merely sitting on his butt and weakly muttering atrocious threats that no one believes.
P.S: Believe it or not, like many French people I am a Russophile…
Just a Macronista – every wednesday a russophile.
Watch yourself, Sir ! As a Frenchman, I consider being called a Macronista as a personal, mortal and deadly insult 🙂
Sounds rather dramatic.
Macron, 3-faced, can wax from russophile to russophobe and Putin fully understands the drama.
Ever heard of Minsk I, and II, but I will say Hollande, the “lying dutchman” makes Macron look junior!
Putin as weak and soft as it gets. Everyone I’ve met in a pub is sure to be able to do much better job.
Thanx Larry, great summary. Btw, not sure why Canada’s role in the maidan coup has been overlooked by many. I recall while Nuland was walking around egging the demonstrators, the then Canada’s foreign minister John Baird was also there doing the same thing. I always wondered what role did Canada play in the coup in 2014.
Check Christia Frieeland, various ministerial titles.
Chrystia Freeland Continues her Grandfather’s Legacy: Zakharova’s Bombshell
https://canadianpatriot.org/2022/04/29/chrystia-freeland-continues-her-grandfathers-legacy-zakharovas-bombshell/
Various articles there document in detail the Ukrainian diaspora running Canada Foreign Policy.
I have wondered whether Poland wasn’t just a forward operating base for the United States for a while now. Forget NATO, the US is NATO. Forget the vassal states — the EU, the UK, Germany, France, etc. The United States is the West. Now with Putin’s warning to Poland some kind of “direct conflict” seems inevitable.
Direct conflict (AKA World War 3), between Russia and the United States was always inevitable. Now that nuclear war is both survivable and winnable, putting the world in a grave means nothing to the United States anymore. The West is insane. The West is still playing the “crazy like a fox” gambit, but for the past 30-years, with delusions of grandeur.
Considering what has been going on since 2014, World War 3 is inevitable. Always was. The United States picked-up where NAZI Germany left off after 1945, treating Russia and the Russian people as sub-humans, certainly not deserving of the vast reserves of natural resources Russia has — in natural gas, real coal, real crude oil, minerals, and rare earths — in “shameful abundance.” Energy reserves the US, the West, and its vassal states, are running out of.
Back in 1939, it was not common knowledge that we lived on a finite planet with finite resources. The governments probably knew, just not the people. In 2023 we are using the resources of a planet and a half. We are running out of these resources. All of them. And everybody knows it.
The result will be the same world wars with the same objective — just with a greater scope. With World War 2 it was Germany’s push for Russian oil fields. World War 3 will be the same. Repeated attacks upon Moscow and repeated attacks upon critical civilian infrastructure, like the Kerch Bridge and the Nord Stream pipelines, are just feints for the true objective of capturing natural resources — the territory these resources are in, or on, being secondary.
Look at the US capture of Syrian oil and Syrian oil fields. The bottom line is that Syria exists while a foreign country occupies parts of it. Why not Russia? In the old narrative, Assad would have had casus belli for declaring war on the United States. Syria isn’t big enough to take on the United States and the West. We don’t talk about such things as casus belli anymore anyway. Today, in the new narrative, casus belli is just another example of looking the other way.
We are seeing the same with the United States and Russia. Direct conflict is inevitable. Perhaps things play out this way: Coming through Poland and what is left of Ukraine, with naval landings in Crimea, Sebastopol, and Baku, the United States will attempt a second capture of the Baku and the Caucasus oil fields.
If Russia cannot drive the United States out of its oil fields, then we will see another situation like the one in Syria. It may get this messy, until nukes fall on Washington, DC. Putin has repeatedly said “this time is different.” He just said it again.
Germany had Hitler to deal with, with his syphilis and Parkinsons. The United States has “Sleepy Old” Joe Biden, a demented old coot, a pedophile prone to falling down and episodes of geriatric rage. The irony is positively stunning. There’s a lot of rhyming going on.
The United States has entered into another European war. This time the United States cannot rely upon the security two oceans provide. The United States cannot simply escape back to the safety of its own country.
“Coming through Poland and what is left of Ukraine, with naval landings in Crimea, Sebastopol, and Baku, the United States will attempt a second capture of the Baku and the Caucasus oil fields.”
I doubt if even the half-wits in Washington are that stupid.
They’re signing up lesbos and trannies left and right to storm the beaches. Their blue hair makes them harder to spot against the waters of the Black Sea.
British population reduction eugenicist Malthus made that point, carried out by Hitler with his Lebensraum. – too many people.
Today the rabid warmongering Greens with their sustainability, netzero, maggot muelsi, should surprise no-one – their true color is Brown.
China sees this differently – 800 million lifted out of poverty in 20 years, BRICS+ with a real development bank to lift billions out of poverty, using – guess what – the original American System of Hamilton- their way of course.
In other words the founding principle of the USA has burst forth globally – each pole taking up the batton.
In other words, London has failed, failed utterly, to subjugate the world. Best punishment for such perfidy is to witness Peace breaking out all over.
“China sees this differently – 800 million lifted out of poverty in 20 years . . . .”
Starting with the current population of China, as of 2021, of 1.41 billion, that still leaves 600 million Chinese living in poverty. That is approximately twice the population of the United States — living in poverty.
I wonder how they feel about that.
“. . . the founding principle of the USA has burst forth globally – each pole taking up the batton [sic].”
By batons, I assume you are talking about the track version and not the self-defense version?
The way I see things, there are only two choices and two batons. The first being saving the world for something that does not exist (the baton of democracy), or the baton of the hegemon and a one world / one government — which at this point the world has had more than enough of.
More the conductors baton . As in music?
There are billions still in poverty – 6000 nuclear plants are needed for electricity.
China shows it can be done and there is a vast amount of work to do.
Instead, the distraction of unipolar mummery, attempts to hold this up – it cannot.
“… that still leaves 600 million Chinese living in poverty.”
Only if that 600M were living in poverty at the start. They weren’t.
Pockets of poverty indeed continue to exist just as they do everywhere else, but widespread poverty is in China’s rearview mirror and receding fast.
Your maths are wrong. To state that 800 million lifted out of poverty
equates to 600 million Chinese living in poverty is not a correct assumption. Not all were living in poverty.
Also the definition of what poverty means differs in many societies.
Topols and Sarmats from what i read, take about 15-20 minutes to reach ny and dc. so, you’re right, oceans don’t mean much.
How will the Ukrainian Military view a Polish invasion of Ukraine?
How will the Ukrainian Military who have surrendered to Russia view a Polish invasion of Ukraine; will they form their own Army to defend Ukraine from Polish invasion; fighting with the Russians against the Poles?
When the Ukrainian military collapses, along with the Ukrainian government, and Russian forces are moving west towards Poland, it won’t matter what Ukraine thinks.
“To the victor goes the spoils.”
Ukraine govt is already letting Polish police operate in western cities, it saves on manpower and salaries. Which Ukraine military? Azov, the draftees, or the N mercenaries? Wont be an issue.
Larry, are you actually implying that anyone in NATO has common sense?
Stalin was a very shrewd negotiator, able to get Churchill and FDR to go along with anything. Or perhaps these two traitors were just fools. The USSR was in urgent need of Western weapons and resources and yet FDR caved in on every demand, including giving the Baltic States to the USSR. And after half Europe has been seized by Stalin, the drunk Churchill quips, “Looks like we stuck the wrong pig”. Ya think!
Now that Mother Russia has been restored to a noble and honorable path, the West has been infested by the same malevolent Bolsheviks, only now the lie they sell is racism and transgenderism instead of class struggle.
On the subject of dogs – Wagner used attack dogs :
https://southfront.org/in-video-ukrainian-commander-describes-combat-tricks-of-wagner-fighters/
And what are all these videos of US soldiers being reunited with their war dogs about? What was the Kate Mara movie “Megan Leavey” about?
As the designated representative for the owners and charterers of a foreign flag tanker that had arrived in the United States, I accompanied a US Customs and Border Protection SWAT Team onboard the vessel.
The SWAT Team had a dog with them. A fully grown Pit Bull. Some fool idiot said: “Oh, what a nice doggie!” and reached out to pet the dog. The next thing he knew the dog was holding his hand in his mouth. Gently. Waiting until his master gave him the release command. No skin was broken. No blood spilled. No bones broken. If the command had gone in the other way . . . .
People just don’t get it. People just assume these things could never happen in the United States.
Was the dog hired for the sense of smell? Are pit-bulls the best for that?
Were ye looking for contraband.
Amazing video. For those who began to doubt Wagner’s expertise because of Prigozhin’s stinginess, greed and ambition. Never confuse the operational assault art of Wagner commanders and soldiers with Prigozhin’s business! And they’re not supermen, it’s a lot of training and above all a lot of battles! I had already written here that taking a fortress city like Bakhmut or Soledar with fewer casualties than the Ukrainians is out of this world. Because just as the Russians built the current defense lines for 6 months, Ukraine prepared to receive Russian forces for 8 years! This is how the Red Army also sent many Nazi officers from the Eastern Front to the madhouse during WWII! Those who dominate communications and logistics in a battle cause a lot of damage to the enemy. Especially in the minds of enemy Commanders. Like the one in the video that is still banging in the head.
Dig up the reptilian entity known as Tadeusz Brzezinski(last diplomatic assignments were Germany and Soviet Union, before scrammin to Canada) and explain US use Of Prometheism.
“The potential for the war in Ukraine to escalate dramatically remains high.”
You are limited in your perception, as you were interpreting notices of intent as ultimata.
In this context your misinterpretation lies within:
“Belarus is part of the Union State, and launching an aggression against Belarus would mean launching an aggression against the Russian Federation. We will respond to that with all the resources available to us.
plus history facilitated by The Treaty of Versailles and the expansion of “The American Empire” into Eurasia, without direct reference to the conditional surrender signed between Mr. Karl Wolff acting for and on behalf of the SS and Mr. Allen Dulles apparently acting for and on behalf of no-one in particular, signed in the Bolzano region of Italy on or about the 4th May 1945.
Likely your interpretation was a function to some degree of : In the vicinity of striptease, spectators tend to concentrate on the attributes of the strippers whilst pondering Cui bono ? (Voyeurism), whilst practitioners analyse the audience.
“Vladimir Putin is not a weak, spineless creature like Barack Obama or Joe Biden.”
Nor are other representatives of The Russian Federation due in part to rigorous regular evaluation including recruitment/training processes.
“He does not make idle threats and does not succumb to emotion.”
The Russian Federation and its representatives don’t make threats unlike “The Soviet Union” whose citizens did.
The Russian Federation communicates primarily by publishing notices of intent as Mr. Lavrov recently once more explained.
This is a widely practiced aspect of “Russian Culture” of which the opponents know little if anything, and hence in wars persons socialised within “Russian Culture” tend not to “succumb to emotion” and hence tend to undertake necessary actions with levels of high, but prudent, resolve.
In the United States fear mongering is part of “American Culture.” Actually, our fully owned, fully controlled, fully manipulated, fully propagandized mainstream / Legacy Media, mongers in everything.
The purpose of fear mongering is to emotionalize everything. However, for the most part, all we see in response is apathy.
I wonder if this isn’t the average American’s way of not succumbing to emotion. Apathy is defined as the absence of feeling, the suppression of passion, emotion, or excitement.
“The purpose of fear mongering is to emotionalize everything. However, for the most part, all we see in response is apathy.”
“The United States of America” has a long history of complicity in precluding its own purposes not restricted to your assertions on methodologies outlined above.
Consequently I will not outline a component of the how and why’s, since the ignorance, a derivative of the English verb to ignore, of others has, utility for those with facility.
I note that you already have and use a mirror.
“However, for the most part, all we see in response is apathy.”
Were you not paying attention during the scamdemic? In late 2019 people were voicing their concerns when it was reported the lettered agencies were going into Ancestry.com and 23 and Me checking the DNA records. A few short months later everyone (not me) couldn’t get to the test centers fast enough, “test me test me, I might have covid.” 99.999% survival rate and these people are panicking. Sounds pretty emotional to me. MSM should have received an academy award for their performance. You think they tossed those millions of DNA records? Nope, I don’t think so. After all, they spent a lot of money to make sure those swabs were sterile. https://gab.com/BeachMilk/posts/108668754076394861
Wondering whether this was one of the first steps of this war against Ukraine ( so that to deindustrialize and depopulate it for the hegemon and European hyenas to take over…) and against Europe, and if it was determinant to demonize nuclear energy as a moderately cheap energy source and to rise Soros´agents, “The Greens”, to power in Germany for the goals in view right now….on general deindsutrialization of Germany and Europe so that to wipe out middle class as the only capable of inducing reform/revolt/ change….
Watching how modern, developed and comfortable Prypiat was, contrasting with the images coming out of Ukraine now, from the territories liberated by Russia, as if nobody would had invested anything since then and everything was left to rot….except for Kiev…. which is a sample of Davos´globalists´plans on empoverishing everything and concentrate an already reduce to size popualtion in mega-cities heavily controlled at every level by technocratic methods of vigilance to exert presure, coercion and economic extraction on the people so that they can not even think of revolting, which makes it easy for them to exert their wished fascist rule than if the population would remain widespread over the whole territory of nation states….since, that way, there is always somewhere to run to avoid tyranny and organize a resistance….
https://youtu.be/ttuJFlagEgk
https://youtu.be/eIDuHzi2LL0?t=404
https://youtu.be/eIDuHzi2LL0?t=458
During World War II millions of people escaped to the United States. Books were written about it. Movies were made about it. Most of it was propaganda. Some of it you wished was just propaganda. It wasn’t that the United States was a paradise. It was just that the United States was the least dirty shirt in the laundry basket.
Today the dirty laundry has only gotten dirtier, smellier, and riper. The laundry basket over-flowing.
Today, Americans have a hard time emigrating even within their own country without being kicked out of wherever place they have attempted to start over in.
The place they left, and are forced to retreat back to, is in even worse shape than it was when they left — and even less welcoming.
After a while you run out of places to retreat to. This is when, when people are cornered, that they resist “by all means possible.”
“This is when, when people are cornered, that they resist “by all means possible.”
No.
Their resistance tends to facilitate their deaths “by all means possible.” as most “soldiers” understand, a component of the reasons why “Ukrainians” kill captured prisoners.
“first steps of this war against Ukraine”
No.
A purpose since at least 1866 where-in as today, lateral change was a constant within which variables included but were not restricted to trajectories and velocities.
“War against Ukraine ?”
That was the stripper whose attributes spectators sought to evaluate and ponder Cui-bono ? in illustration of a popular practice of “The United States of America” (Voyeurism).
That was/is not what it is all about Alfie, and why it is not just for the moment we live.
“A purpose since 1866…”
Do you mean that the Germans are trying to reenact Prusia?
Could this be why the Pols are beeing pushed as the next canonn fodder, plus the Lithuanians?
“Do you mean that the Germans are trying to reenact Prusia?”
No.
“The United States of America” ‘s “restructuring” the former Confederacy after “The America Civil War” to facilitate the expansion internally and externally to create “The American Empire” which has been their purpose since 1866.
“Could this be why the Pols are beeing pushed as the next canonn fodder, plus the Lithuanians?”
The hope of settler colonialists “elites” from at least 1620 has been to have others do the “heavy lifting” and the work.
The sequencing of those assigned to this “heavy lifting” and the work being largely a function of opportunity and levels of immersion of those who believe “America is our friend” and consequently enjoy a “special relationship” with “The United States of America”, including but not limited to “The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland” since March 1943, The Second Polish Republic de facto since 1919 but de jure since 1922 , Lithuania de facto since 1919, and Germany since 1922 including from 1939 to 1945, and 1945 to date.
Lateral change is a constant whose variables include but are not limited to trajectories and velocities, the facilitation and opportunities derived from the “America is our friend” illusions formed significant reasons for “The United States of America” to participate in “The First World War” in 1917 when the other participants had been significantly undermined.
The entry of “The United States of America” into “The Second World War” was lubricated through negotiation and coercion : The Greater Reich declared war on “The United States of America” on the 6th of December 1941, and The Japanese Empire declared war on “The United States of America ” on the 7th of December 1941 being encouraged to do so by “The United States of America” imposing sanctions including of oil and fuels against The Japanese Empire beforehand, obfuscated by “The attack on Pearl Harbour” and the resort to it-was-not-me-it-was-my-sisterness, plus the emphasis on The Pacific War until it became apparent that The Axis Forces were in the process of defeat from February 1943 by the efforts of “The Soviet Union”.
“The United States of America” declared war on “The Soviet Union” on or about about 4th of May 1945 as a consequence of the conditional surrender agreement signed between Mr. Karl Wollf and Mr. Allen Dulles in the Bolzano region of Italy which was obfuscated by the signing of the unconditional surrender of “The Axis Powers” and “The allied forces” on 8th of May 1945.
To “The United States of America”, which in large part does not include “We the people hold these truths to be self-evident” hence why dumbing down may be useful in limiting blowback, all others are food sources and human shields, whilst they deem themselves to be the queens of hives deserving constant attention and servicing.
“Most importantly like Mr. Gogol, Mr. Bulgakov, and Mr. Dean Freidman remember:
“We should thank our lucky stars
That we’re not as smart as we like to think we are”
Enjoy the comedy; learn to laugh but not too often, since The Great Dictator led to lethal underestimations through resort to “emotionalism”.
It is “freely” available even in this blog, the one about Mr. Nikita Sergeivich Krushchev and his part-time job as a builder of appartment buildings with thin walls throughout “The Soviet Union”, which may be an interpretation of a production of Mr. William Taubman performed in flashing lights due to deficits of brown coal at the “power station”.
Mr. Stephen F. Cohen is dead now and may not add additional punchlines to routines, and Mr. John Mearsheimer’s contributions may be descending, other nonsense includes but is not limited to:
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/07/21/from-stalinism-to-the-most-avoidable-war-in-history/
Remember the line that Mr. Shakespeare may have written if he had thought of it :
“All the world is a stage”…upon which most of the performances are comedies.
As you may have recognised the population of MirrorGazers is increasing creating a more stable market for mirrors which facilitates opportunities of re-directing foci.
Enjoy your journey.
1968 – the USA in Vietnam – “We had to destroy the village to save the village!”
2003 – the USA in Iraq – “We had to destroy the Baath Party and Saddam’s regime to save Iraq!”
2011 – the USA in LIbya – “We had to destroy the Qaddafi regime and Libya to save LIbya!”
2021 – the USA in Ukraine – “We had to destroy Ukraine to save Ukraine!”
2022 – the USA in Europe – “We had to destroy the European economy to save Europe!”
2023 – the USA – “We had to destroy ourselves and our allies economically to save ourselves!”
2024 – the USA in Poland – “We had to destroy Pland to save Poland!”
2025 – the USA in Taiwan – “We had to destroy Taiwan to save Taiwan!”
2026 – the USA – “We had to destroy the world to save the world!”
2100 – the USA – “We had to destroy the Solar System to save the Solar System!:
2300 – the USA -“We had to destroy the Milky Way to save tthe Milky Way!”
2500 – the USA – “We had to destroy the Known Universe to save the Known Universe!”
Everything is going according to Plan.
Myself and many others have opined that Russia will work to liberate all the way to the Dnieper River, from the East, and Odessa to the Romanian border. The question is, is it going to be through SMO or an escalated military conflict. Ukraine is going to be landlocked.
I don’t know… maybe Putin has a different “meaning” for the words:
“We will use all means available to defend….”
Prior to SMO, or re-assertion of the Lugansk & Donetsk regions, the same words were declared about “Crimea”… and here we are.
All military purges, re-ordering, raising of draft age, raising of interest rates & all other “clean ups” Wagner Aug 1st heading to Africa, Syria shore up with Iran… all signs pointing to full mobilization & full war economy transition.
They won’t “re-act” to provocation. The decisions are made. The timetable is set. It matters little what Poland does.
Putin says “If they (Ukraine) want to relinquish or sell off (to Poland) something (Western Ukraine – LVOV) in order to pay their bosses, that’s their business. We will not interfere.”
That seems to be a very significant revelation which indicates two things.
1. Russia does not care if Western Ukraine (Lvov) becomes part of Poland. How much of Western Ukraine would be an interesting question.
If that happened, would Hungary, Romania and Moldova jump into the “fire sale”. There are several people who have already predicted that Ukraine will be decomposed leaving a rump state.
2. If Russia does not care if Poland acquires Western Ukraine then, it indicates Russia is not interested in invading Poland (or NATO). Many have insisted that Putin wants to invade all of Europe – this statement (We will not interfere) seems to contradict that.
perhaps I am over parsing, but perhaps he means, we will not interfere in the transaction or sale. Kind of like the Narcs allowing the dupe to buy they stash before descending on the dupe who is arrested. So we will let all Ukraine see how corrupt its leaders are.
Also, legally, its important for the transaction to occur before responding.
With Belorussia, though, the response will be anticipatory, if needed, as in the SMO not waiting for the massed Ukrainian forces to try and over-run Donbass lines.
However, Putin has been clear that the land between Poland and Russia will be neutral (and that NATO will pull back to its 1997 borders).
“and that NATO will pull back to its 1997 borders”
Think that through and what’s left of Ukraine isn’t so important. Most of the posts here forget about that 1997 item.
“Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.” “Putin is a dictator.”
Don’t look now WARshington District of Corruption but the truth is starting to put its pants on and your emperor still has no ̶c̶l̶o̶t̶h̶e̶s̶ clue.
“The authors of such plans should think about the consequences” (Putin). The authors of such plans should be the ones suffering the consequences in full.
Stop bullshit talk of FDR and Churchill, they were not fooled of
Stalin, they invaded Europe too
late, to have a say postwar. The Red army fought alone 3 years in Europe, then they turned up.
They wanted to mimimize their losses on the battlefield, and FDR
needed the Red army against Japan, US losses 80.000 in the Pacific. The Baltic States, was
annexed, because malign nationa-lism was WW2 a reason for war,
and for the creation of UN.
Russia, the only nation with a firm
sane character in Europe, all the others silly bridgeheads, of no worth, thats why people trust Russia. This is what Putin says.
FDR told son Elliott – do not imagine fascism would not turn up and rename Pennsylvania Avenue. He sent the son to North Africa away from conflict, saying if Hitler moves it would be to from there to Mexico – reports daily please!
Decades later – fascism has reached Pennsylvania Ave.
Side note : Einstein applying for citizenship on the way to Princeton, asked whether USA could ever become fascist, replied affirmative. Lawyer hastily rescinded, to save Einsteins application.
Prophetic?
1.- The four most eastern oblasts, and the four oblasts immediately to the west of those four, are inducted into the Russian Federation.
2.- An election is held in what remains of Ukraine for the governing of Ukraine. Candidiates for office must publicly swear that they will never allow foreign troops or weapons on Ukraine soil, on pain of death.
3.- Reparations are paid by the United States and the EU to Donetsk and Lugansk for the destruction caused to them by Ukraine, the proxy of the United States and Ukraine.
4.- All funds and property of the Russian Federation are returned to the Russian Federation, with suitable interest for the loss.
5.- The United Nations hears the evidence of the bioweapons labs. The United Nations, in open session, votes on what the consequences should be for the perpetrators of the bioweapons labs.
5.- War crimes trials are held, in Donetsk, for the perpetrators of the bioweapons labs in Ukraine.
6.- War crimes trial are held, in Lugansk, for the Nazi leaders of Ukraine, including but not limited to Zelenskyy, Zhalushny, Budanov, the perpetrators of the Odessa Trade Council massacre, and leaders of the Azov Battalion, Right Sector and other neo-nazi groups.
7.- The statue to Stepan Bandera in the center of Lviv is torn down in a public ceremony attended by Zelenskyy and other neo-nazi Ukrainian officials.
8.- Zelenskyy signs the surrender agreement in Kiev. He reads it aloud, and states the unconditional surrender of Ukraine. The text of the surrender agreement must appear in the leading newspapers in Brussels, Berlin, Paris, London, New York and Washington, D.C.
On a side note, this horrific NEOCON provocation of Russia, sadistically using the Ukrainians who were caught up in Victoria Nuland/Joe Biden/Obama/NEOCON remaking of the country into a vassal right wing Russophobic state – using them as canon fodder, has, via computerized flow of uncensored (for now) information , educated me about how dumb, reckless, selfish, criminal our “leadership” in DC and surprisingly (to me) how dedicated, intelligent, methodical, thoughtful, patient, competent, well educated, well meaning and intentioned, well informed and mature the leader of Russia, Vladimir Putin, who comes across (start no later than his remarkable 2007 Munich speech where John McCain and Joe Lieberman are shocked, shocked I tell you as they listen to the “uppity” “slav” ‘s audacity to lecture THEM on how to respect borders, prevent nuclear wars, conduct foreign policy) as he works to protect his own country from the rapacious greed of our oligarchs and the stupidity of our compromised NEOCON State Dept & bought and paid for politicians.
If we all survive this provocation, it may well be because the adults in the room, have created the BRICS, the SCO and other institutions that will hopefully help to peacefully shift us to a multipolar world. They are determined to defend themselves from our childish white supremacist Sinophobic Russophobic disrespectful sanctions, bullying and greed, and hopefully, if we’re lucky, defang the power of the hegemon, and help us achieve a soft landing as the EMPIRE inevitably, subsides.
The people in our country have been short changed by an economic system that has stripped away our industrial base, arbitraging cheap labor overseas against wage earners in our own industries.
I finally understood what’s going on when I read that Goldman Sachs had bought an interest in the San Francisco Docks, skimming maybe 30% off the wages of the stevedores.
Read Reg Theriault’s wonderful short stories in “How to Tell When You’re tired”
https://www.ebay.com/itm/314198544447
https://www.abebooks.com/9780393315578/Tell-When-Tired-Brief-Examination-0393315576/plp
about his life as a laborer. The one about the middle managers who fuck up the trains on the docks and finally admit defeat and call for the dockworkers to straighten out the mess – they succeed in a couple of hours.
The NEOCONS, the $32Trillion debt, the for profit UNPRODUCTIVE focus on the machinery of war finding criminal excuses to blow it up to give out more and more contracts.
Traveling through New Mexico, Colorado and Utah on the way from Texas to the annual Utah Opera music festival in Logan, Utah, it was shocking to see the neglect of the highways – huge difference in Colorado well maintained road – but even I-15 interstate in Utah was a mess with neglected roadwork. Some construction, now underway….
Thanks to people like Scott Ritter, Alex Christophorou, Ania and other video bloggers we see how beautiful Moscow is and how well maintained and their dedication to the arts, the Bolshoi, the St Petersburg performance centers.
I was horrified when the great Russian conductor Valery Gergiev was cut off from performing in the west. How stupid is this?
The city of Wales stopped a performance of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 overture.
I called Carnegie Hall to call them out for jumping onboard this idiocy and they said they had lots of calls like mine.
The leaders of this country are digging their own grave. They don’t really care about Ukraine. They don’t care about world peace. They don’t care about this country and it’s values (or what’s left of them), it’s infrastructure or the lives of their people. They’re not people of good will. They’re foolish, corrupt and power hungry.
They remind me of the huge cats in the original Star Trek that threaten the crew of the Enterprise, but in the end, they are reduced to squabbling insects.
When all logic fails, when incomprehensible evil seems to prevail, it takes a Poet to name the unseen Power :
City in the Sea” by Edgar Allan Poe (read by Phil Chenevert)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCqpRUf6bZQ
USA’s Edgar Poe at his best!
sorry, not the city of Wales…it was the Country of Wales’ capital city, CARDIFF, that banned Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture which had been scheduled to be performed there.
Arthur Miller, if he were still around, might have written a sequel of sorts to his play “The Crucible” regarding our current madness in the WEST; mass hysteria over Russia and China; Putin and Xi.
I agree that this Polish Govt is as bad and as traitorous to Poland as the Govt of the WWII time! When things go wrong, they all run away again! But who brought the idea of the Intermarium Federation to the 21st century was the US! Since the days of Clinton and Bush. To cut Russia out of the EU and feed the stupid propaganda that Russia today aspires to move towards the West.
And the Intermarium already exists in NATO today. Maybe it doesn’t work out so well in real life with Orban in Hungary opposing many NATO and EU plans today! And I am convinced that Russia today does not give a shit for the Intermarium line in NATO! What Russia will not tolerate is any assault on the territory of Belarus and Ukraine. And above all to Kalinegrad. What does NATO most aspire to after the humiliation at the UA! And what Russia will also demand at the end of the war is that the US withdraw the missiles from the RO and PL! Because it is not NATO membership that Russia fears but NATO missiles on its border. Like the US also feared Russian missiles on its border today!
And Poland and especially the UK if they had not been stupid and cowardly in 1938/39 and sold Czechoslovakia to Hitler and prevented the Red Army from crossing Poland to defend Prague, perhaps WWII would never have passed from Czechoslovakia! After the UK never acceded to Moscow’s request for both of them to destroy Hitler in the 1930’s before the full arming of Nazi Germany! And in 1938, the UK and FR even went to Munich to beg Hitler to only attack Russia and the UK and FR turned a blind eye! They were unlucky because Moscow also had intelligence, learned of the betrayal and signed the Molotov pact with Hitler. And Germany after eating Poland instead of moving on to Moscow turned to Western Europe. And Moscow won two years to prepare for war. That was the main objective of the Molotov pact of non-aggression! Just like the pact that Poland had also signed with Hitler! A freack who only understood strength and never found Poland very strong. Like today.
And I’d just like to finish by saying that if there’s a country that never paid for half of the shit it’s done in Europe, it’s the UK! Two world wars and now this war in Ukraine again with thousands dead. I hope it’s not too late for the UK to pay the whole bill one day! And perhaps sinking the island starts to be little. My apologies to all Brits who are not responsible for the shitty Govts. And the same happens in all nations. But Russophobia in England is unparalleled in the world.
I look forward to seeing the deceptive spin put on this in the Western commercial media.
China cannot assume world leadership if it continues to be as passive and ambivalent about the Ukara conflict as it is now.
Russia is doing the dirty work globally.
China participates from cheap raw material purchase prices.
If Russia wins this conflict, China is a junior partner.
Militarily, intelligence-orbitally, commodity-logistically, and in some areas technologically.
Africa, for example, needs military protection if it is to become sovereign.
Is China advised to fight????????
If Russia loses it, China is also lost.
The BRICS are gone.
Everything is up to Russia.
Andrei Martyanovs has also analyzed this brilliantly in articles.
@Larry, Edgar Poe was CIA before it was a glimmer in grandma’s eye. Headed to Poland, stopped off in Paris, wrote about who Robespierre, Danton, Marat really were, chatting with Dumas, (fellow operative).
That was a time when “CIA” were poets as well as intelligence. British version of H.G. Wells , MI6 chief, wrote “poetry”, and stories, thoroughly dystopian.
Time for some serious poetry? AI, chatGPT is not and cannot be”poetry” , what?
What are the Gigantic Shadows of Futurity, that British Poet, Percy Byssche Shelley identifies?
Addition:
I don’t believe that China at present could withstand such a global economic, military, political and sporting-cultural conflict as Russia is conducting with the West.
China is overestimated in this respect.
“Vladimir Putin is not a weak, spineless creature like Barack Obama or Joe Biden. ” Or Donald Trump, boys and girls. Dmitry Medvedev described him recently as “a nice guy, but a bit of a coward.”. Lotta that going around in the former good ol’ USA. Seems to be the default setting.
Right now, and at least for right now, Donald Trump is an extremely potent and virile symbol of opposition. Americans don’t vore for someone, they vote against the other person. It’s been that way forfuckingever. The dictatorial overclass and Donald Trump himself think that he is the issue but are all equally blind. Please take him out, overlords, so that we can find someone more extreme who really represents the people’s wishes.
Where is Russia militarily active with the West:
Ukraine
Syria
Shale Africa
Mediterranean
Where is China?
This is what many stakeholders in the Silk Road will closely perceive.
Is China a geopolitical-military coward?
The covid 19 international IQ test was very revealing. Like Canada, Poland and the EU did not do well. Bahhh! Bahhh! Bahhh!
Thanks, Larry, a great overview, as always.
It was clear for a long time what Poland is up – to installing the Polish representatives in Ukraine’s Parlament (but no Ukrainians in the Polish government), the railroad changes – normally the Western trains needed “rebooting” to fit former USSR rails (they’re broader), and it was always bought time for the Russian/Soviet army on the invaders being stalled at the border needing to re-boot the trains. Also, my friend in Kyiv told me that the goods in Western Ukraine showed Police price tags (WTH?).
So there was no question about Poland’s intentions. The only question remains: what will Russia do if Poland will barge into Ukraine in an “official manner?” Putin answered -Russia will do nothing about Western Ukraine, but Russia will beat into pulp Poland/West if barging into Belarus.
My question is about these Western lands in Poland that Poland got as “the gift from Stalin” – in the post-WWII European lands re-distribution. I think these lands served as Stalin’s mandatory retribution/compensation of Poland by Germany for its occupation of Poland in WWII. Putin’s words, “We’d remind Poland if Poland forgot” – does it mean that Russia plans to nullify this treaty by which Poland got these lands, and let Germany claim their original lands from Poland now, putting a wedge into this unholy alliance? Any thoughts?
Correction – Polish price tags – not Police. The price tags in the stores are in the Polish language on Ukrainian territory in Western Ukraine.
Why did South Africa join the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the first place?
Why don’t they denounce it in the spirit of the BRICS?
What is stopping them from doing so?
I do not believe people are properly understanding Putin’s comments about Poland and his ensuring orders to Wagner.
Putin carries a very negative view of Poland, just rewatch the video, not only Poland’s history but also Poland is a real problem in Russia’s conduct of the SMO and therefore Putin has decided to draw a close to Poland’s participation in the Ukraine.
As such Putin has ordered Wagner, in concert with Belorussian forces, to Brest to train up together with the intention of sealing the Ukraine-Poland border shut from the Ukrainian side. This will stem a significant volume of men, weapons and material entering from Poland for the West’s proxy war effort against Russia.
Good luck to NATO and Poland if they try to stop Wagner and the Belorussian forces sealing off the border.
Larry, I see Biden has granted Putin strategic gift………
https://www.rt.com/news/580098-cia-chief-biden-cabinet/
It’s hilarious to me that Poland is willing to be used as a meat shield by Western Europe *again*
If Poland steps into West Ukraine then Kiev will have to immediately stop it’s war against Russia.
Why?
– Poland has no overt NATO support or umbrella for military operations on Ukrainian land.
– Poland basically wants a land grab of historical Polish land (Galicia), and does want not a disarterous one on one war with Russia.
– If the West and Kiev think the Poles will help the Ukrainians get their territories back, they are wrong.
– Most likely in the future, a denazified West Ukraine will become part of Poland and in that case part of NATO + EU also … and then a new “Balance Of Terror” (with Nukes) will be implemented.
Central Ukraine becomes a DMZ like between N&S Korea.
War Game Over…. between NATO and Russia.
Living in Poland and looking at “average” state of things here – the level of russophobia is off the charts. I’ve never seen anything like that – even in my kid/teen ages in 80s, and this is flat out dangerous. The visceral hate towards Russia nearly _all_ our political class has is also absolutely insane. And the media is constantly pouring oil over this fire. And people are believing every shit they are hearing in tv/radio/google.
Any reason, any common sense, any realizations of what and why is happening to our east, any realizations of how the SMO is really going – is out of the window. Russia bad, Putin tyrant, Russia gas station, Russia is losing, and so on.
I have bad feelings about it.
“The visceral hate towards Russia nearly _all_ our political class has is also absolutely insane.”
Wait until the archives of how The Russian Federation lubricated the independence of the near abroad including but not limited to “Poland”, remembering Mr. Stalin’s observation that occupying Poland is like putting a saddle on a bison and expecting a comfortable ride.” given ONI came primarily from the remnants of The Polish Communist Party which Mr. Stalin and associates winnowed in 1937 and subsequent.
Most of “your political class” want Mr. Dombrowski to march for “your freedom and ours” predicated upon belief in Mr. Pilsudski’s remark that “Without Ukraine Russia is a land of forests and rivers” in recognition that a significant part of industrial development in the Russian Empire until 1914 had taken place in the Polish and Ukrainian provinces.
Given they are referring to their antecedents, “your political class” still believe that Operation Bagration was primarily for their benefit, but these Russians fucked up in Praga just to screw up the efforts of Mr. Bor-Komorowski, in hope that others do not visit the Praga end of The Poniatowski Bridge to note the different elevations of the right and left banks of the Vistula, and heaven forefend have experience of the Dneiper at Kiev by the Lavra to note the different elevations of the left and right banks of the Dneiper.
” Most of “your political class” continue to believe that undoubtedly being under the grace of the “Holy mother” Mr. Bor-Komorowski would have been sucessful as the Armii Krajowi always were, forgetting that much of the rising forces failed to rise at
17-00hrs CET on the 1st of August 1944, whilst some rose in the wrong places behind the Palace – perhaps some were in Wedel’s cafe taking erzatz coffee ?- to increase the tragedies facilitated by dilettantes.
Polish romanticism has almost always been toxic – perhaps they should have listened to Mr. Roman Dmowski without his OZONness instead, and never had any associations with that Mr. Wilson before, during and after the conference in Versailles in 1919 ?
Just looking on a wonderful video from the Woodstock festival with
that marvellous “boomers” gene-ration, they arranged their own musical events,must be 1970,and here against the Vietnam war.
Wonderful artists; Grace Slick, Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, Ritchie Haven, Canned Heath, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Arlo Guthrie, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin Santana, John Sebastian,. Sly & Family Stone, Ten Years After, (Alvin Lee,” Going home..” ) The Who…. But most rebellious; Country Joe & The Fish, a mighty counterculture.
Instead today’s generation gave us
the burning Maidan, 2014, the Kiev “Problem from He(i)ll” coup, d’ etat, hatred, pogromes, sniping and burning people alive, war, WW3, the anti-Woodstock, how can people accept that…crazy regres-sion, diagnos; braindeath.
Thesis – antithesis- synthesis, hope we can stand this cycle and survive, The war is eating out the guts of us, ordinary people, there’s no refuge, it won’t disappear, its a 24/7 pain.
So Country Joe, give me a.. P…
give me an U…. give me a T… give me an I…. give me a N… what’s that
spell…..
Maybe Larry is the “rebirth” of the Country Joe tradition, the best of the American soul, who can comm-unicate with the rest of the world; not the Blinken’s schoolmasterly, neoliberal toxic evil lessons from above: ”
* Today I’ m fixing the die rag” to avoid being drafted to the 1965 meatgrinders of: Pleiku, Da Nang Hu’e, Khe Sahn.(* A wonderful text, as written for today’s situation, in Ukraine.)
“Come on, young men,… Uncle Sam, needs your help again… One, two, three, open up the pearly gates, what are we fighting for… next stop i Vietnam, don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn….”
Oh, no not again….
So, did Mr. Putin basically confirm that he will not touch Polish troops if they invade West Ukraine?
Sounds like WWll when The English & Americans pushed Hitler into the position of having to invade Poland… Here we have the scene where The Biden front men for the Globalist are going to be let off the hook for their misaligned money affairs and a war they created to keep this Brandin smuck in office… and re elected in 2024??? The war machine of Victoria Nuland and here subjects of interests in Israel and the American Congressional electorate via AIPAC & ADL. Why do I say this… Once again these are communist subversive put in place by AIPAC via Money from the same sources that started WWII… Different faces but the some ethnic origins… As Hitler described in Mein Kampf… As well Mike King’s book…”The Bad War” where the money worshipers can print money for nothing backed by nothing and bring about a ramped up military spending to create monition’s for war materials, putting the nation on a employment war footing! Jobs! the frontier of war!
Oh, we got a Nazi lover on the site. Why aren’t you on the frontline driving a Leopard?