Count me amused by the Westerners voicing shock and outrage over the fact that Russia is using a group of former convicts to help fight the new Nazis in Ukraine. This was not Putin’s unique idea. He obviously is a Lee Marvin fan:
See the principle? If it is American convicts fighting Nazis, that is a good thing. But if it is Russian convicts doing the same thing in the 21st Century, it is baaad!!
But wait, there is more. Do you remember this scene from the HBO series, The Pacific?
Blood thirsty Marines who escaped from insane asylums and prisons? Sounds like potential recruits for Wagner.
Newsweek has its panties in a knot and is looking for a fainting couch as it decries Russia’s Wagner Group — a contract military unit (e.g., like Blackwater?) because it includes former Russian convicts:
The grinding assault on the city and its surrounding area is a rallying point for Russia’s military bloggers and propagandists, and a showcase of the capabilities of the Wagner Group and leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, one oligarch ally of President Vladimir Putin whose profile has increased dramatically since February 24.
Prigozhin and his Wagner fighters—their ranks swollen by the mass recruitment of Russian convicts—seemingly have another target in their sights: the Mozart Group NGO which is helping train Ukrainian troops and evacuating civilians from the front lines, including around Bakhmut.
https://www.newsweek.com/wagner-group-targeting-volunteers-ukraine-mozart-group-russia-andy-milburn-1765321
The Mozart Group is under the command of a retired U.S. Marine Colonel, Andrew Milburn. It is trying to train Ukrainian troops to fight the Russians. Shades of The Pacific! A friend of mine, a retired Marine General, knows Andy but only worked with him after both left active duty. My friend says Milburn is a solid guy. Retired Colonel Milburn insists that his Mozart Group has nothing in common with the Wagner Group:
Milburn dismissed Prigozhin’s description of Mozart as a private military company. “People call us a PMC because that’s all they have as a frame of reference,” he said. “We don’t carry weapons, our tasks are humanitarian—and I mean, seriously, legally humanitarian.”. . .
The Mozart Group’s name was intended as a counterpoint to Wagner, whose fighters adopt neo-Nazi imagery and have developed a reputation for extreme brutality in operations in Syria, Libya, and the Central African Republic. Previously used as a deniable, shadow arm of Russian foreign policy, the group has emerged as one of Moscow’s more effective and feared formations in Ukraine.
https://www.newsweek.com/wagner-group-targeting-volunteers-ukraine-mozart-group-russia-andy-milburn-1765321
Milburn, to his credit, speaks candidly about the dire plight of the Ukrainian forces fighting in the meat grinder of Bakhmut:
“Bakhmut is like Dresden, and the countryside looks like Passchendaele,” he said, referring to the German city destroyed by allied bombing in World War II and the infamously muddy and bloody World War I battlefield. “It’s just a horrible and miserable place.”
Ukraine closely guards its casualty figures, but its forces are believed to be suffering badly around Bakhmut.
“They’ve been taking extraordinarily high casualties,” Milburn said of the units training with Mozart. “The numbers you are reading in the media about 70 percent and above casualties being routine are not exaggerated.”
Despite their “tremendous morale,” Milburn said the defenders “have an acute ‘regeneration problem,’ which means getting new recruits into the line as quickly as possible.” This means those being thrown into the fight have little beyond basic training.
“Typically about 80 percent of our intake who are coming off of the line have never even fired a weapon before,” Milburn said. “We’ve got our work cut out for us.”
The Mozart Group’s training mission is akin to the crew of the Titanic trying to bail water from the sinking ship with a thimble. None of their training will make a bit of difference on the battlefield in terms of the tactical situation with one exception — their training may help some of the poorly trained and equipped Ukrainians survive.
Milburn minces no words in confirming the catastrophic casualties the Ukrianian forces are suffering — 7 out of every ten soldiers are killed or wounded. It underscores the reality that the Russians are firing six artillery rounds for every one round fired by Ukraine.
Here is a Ukrainian unit confirming Col. Milburn’s assessment. They are not cowards. They are fed up with crappy leadership and indequate supplies:
“This is a message we are conveying to the command of the Airborne Troops and the command of the AFU from the 3rd Airmobile Company of the Separate Airmobile Battalion of the 25th Secheslav Airmobile Brigade.
We were sent on a combat mission to hold separate combat positions. We did not receive proper armament and artillery support. As a result, 70% of the company was killed or wounded. We did not have and do not have combat equipment and proper armament. We did not even have the equipment to evacuate the injured, due to which several wounded did not survive.
We spent more than a month in the trenches transmitting coordinates never fired upon by artillery. Platoon sergeants fled their positions in the first days and were transferred by Chief of Staff Kipinach, now acting battalion commander.
https://t.me/sonar_21/81
We are demanding the transfer of the entire unit.”
Here is the video:
So the United States is sending billions of dollars of military gear and weapons to Ukraine and the guys on the front lines are not getting any of it? Marjorie Taylor Greene is right. We need an audit. What the hell is Zelensky and his gang of thieves doing with all of the U.S. aid?
While on the topic of comparisons – Abramovich, Prigozhin etc. are “oligarchs” but Gates, Bezos, Musk and a myriad of others are …. legit businessmen?
As we used to say in Yugoslavia – in America, Americans sh*t golden eggs.
Patrick Lawrence makes this very point most eloquently
https://scheerpost.com/2022/12/14/patrick-lawrence-in-ukraine-the-autumn-of-oligarchs/
Do any of these Russian Oligarchs have independent decision making power? Of course they don’t. The comparison is nonsense.
You are correct. Webster’s just defines an oligarchy as “… a form of government in which the ruling power belongs to a few persons” and an oligarch as “…any of the rulers of an oligarchy”. Being rather ambiguous, the terms can be broad or narrow in scope. Because few people read the dictionary and the terms “sound” somewhat nefarious, there is the implication that oligarchs are evil. The same thing happens with the term conscript. Conscript and draftee have the exact same definition. The US has interchangeably used the term conscript and draftee dating back to Colonial times. However, the term draft has become the predominant usage in the US since WWII and probably most Americans never heard of a conscript until now with the implication it is an evil sounding practice done only by Russia. Propaganda is usually a long ways from reality.
I can’t find the video right now, but I distinctly remember Putin receiving a report from the business community early on in the SMO. This ‘oligarch’ basically shit his pants.
If only our President commanded the same level of fear from these venial little men.
As I stated, Propaganda is usually a long ways from reality.
Americans do shit golden eggs. But it’s fake gold. And inside the egg– just shit.
Larry’s article is sooooooo good. I am going to reprint it on my site (with comment) because it gets into American hypocrisy in such a big way. And also because I have been writing about the Wagner Group.
I would add: Russia’s pluralistic multiparty constitutional democracy is a dictatorship. America’s duopoly is a democracy, although not constitutionally such (rather, a republic). Government of the Rich, by the Rich, for the Rich.
https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/ukraine-endgame
“Government of the Rich, by the Rich, for the Rich” = Plutocracy.
Too bad none of these hand wringers bothered to mention how many convicts Zelensky let of of prison and handed a weapon to fight on the front lines as far back as March.
Yeah, except they didn’t turn their guns on Russian forces, they used them for armed robbery, rape, and other crimes.
Allow me a slight correction… first they robbed and raped their people. as usual, then they tortured Russians.
The entire nazi Tornado Battalion, so vile it was jailed by even the Porkyshenko nazi regime.
And then released by Zelensky.
Zelensky pardoned the Tornado Batallion after they raped kids, tortured and murdered civilians and were convicted by the Ukie court system. Z is a real hero!
What the hell is Zelensky and his gang of thieves doing with all of the U.S. aid?
Feathering their nests, of course. Next obvious question.
Most goes to US weapons manufacturers and the corrupt US regime.
Ukrainie has definitely not received all that money or equivalent in weapons.
And after all, it is mainly America and secondly UK and Europes war so why shouldn’t they pay for the war the created? They should pay. They should compensate. They should take on all Ukranian debt since 2014.
As Colin Powell the actor and war criminal said, ‘if you break it, you own it,’ so stop whining and pay up bitches.
Am with you Zekensky you green goblin dwarf on this. Fkin get what you are owed man and add interest. Slap some Biden and Pelosi ass and tell him to pay up you war whores or I tell the world what you did, and you’re a friggin hero now man, sit on Congress and whip those Biden bitches and ride them rodeo style .
Also Ze buddy invoice them for your cokapowder, put it under essential expenses for plant based herbal remedies or petty cash disbursements to suppliers. Make them pay everything.
Biden = grifter no. 1
Zelensky = grifter no. 2
One, two – show them my shoe
Three, four – shut the door
Story went out on telegram can’t confirm if true that Mozart people are being refused accommodation in Ukrainian hotels near the front as they become artillery magnets.
It is stated by Milburn in the Newsweek article.
About 2 days later, the British Daily Mail printed the story saying it was Wagner who could not get a hotel. The last few weeks have seen many Russian victories displayed on British media, as Ukrainian. Word for word descriptions, just pretend it’s their side doing it, pathetic.
Who’d have thought Hollywood would run out of scripts?
Confession by projection again.
British MOD is likely the source, they have a daily bullshit bulletin that does exactly that…like bringing the ‘information’ that Wagner recruits are poorly trained and suffer high casualties or today that because of a lack of Russian instructors Russian soldiers are trained in Belorussia.
In defense of editors everywhere, they have space to fill & deadlines to meet. Much faster to cut & paste a Russian story, global search & replace Wagner with Mozart, & go to press. Meeting your master’s instructions, on the fly & on the cheap.
Not like anyone checks or cares, lol. Or anyone that matters, anyway!
And the readers of the MSM propaganda don’t know or care. This is confirmed by reading the comments to the various MSM articles. The sheep don’t know they are being lied to, nor do they care, because it is what they want to believe.
“What the hell is Zelensky and his gang of thieves doing with all of the U.S. aid?”
Swiss bankers, South American drug cartels, and ISIS might be able to answer your question.
Without hyprocrisy could there even be a Western Narrative?I I don’t think so!
What a great post. Chesty Puller, the most decorated Marine in the Corps’ history I believe. What was his famous quote, something like, “We are surrounded. That simplifies things.”
As for Lee Marvin, as a Marine in World War II, he was involved in more than 20 landings on Japanese occupied islands. My Dad used tell me that since the Marines never made that many landings, Marvin must’ve been acting on his own initiative.
Shout out Wagner as well. All by their little lonesome, those dastardly fellows are demilitarizing everything to the west of them, including the mighty American military industrial complex itself.
Hey, sometimes you do get what you pay for!
Maj. Gen. Oliver P. Smith was the hero of the battle at Chosin Reservoir in Dec 1950.
His his famous quote: “Retreat, hell! We’re not retreating, we’re just advancing in a different direction.”
Chesty Puller was Smith’s boss, but it was Smith’s near insubordination that saved the 1st Marine Divison.
Passchendaele was not leveled by bombing in WW2. Passchendaele was leveled by Artillery in WW1. Close to five hundred thousand dead in 4 months in1917.
Post references the WWII Allied firebombings of Dresden, Germany near the end of war. Estimated -primarily civilian deaths, 25,000 in a few days.
Read David Irvings book on Dresden. Some 75,000 burnt alive. Human fat filled cellars. Children dressed in carnival costum. And the war was finished.Churchill blackmailed homo mass murderer.
“Marjorie Taylor Greene is right.”
I have to admit, for a woman I thought was little more than a Q-Anon fruitcake previously, she made a lot of sense there.
Similarly, Donald Trump Jr just rightly dubbed Zelensky an “ungrateful welfare queen”. Certainly can’t disagree with that in any way!
Am I perhaps coming down with “Biden Derangement Syndrome”?? ;^)
Don’t worry, BDS will be cured when the rest of Biden is safely out of office with his brain. TDS, on the other hand, is a chronic, incurable condition.
> little more than a Q-Anon fruitcake
Maybe they’re on to something.
For all the hyperventilating about Wagner in the Westernaziganda, the Ukranazi coup regime pays bounties for killed Russian soldiers as follows, in decreasing order of payoffs:
1. Buryats
2. Chechens
3. LDNR People’s Republic militia
Wagner features nowhere.
The British Regular Army in its heyday frequently included released convicts. Serving in the Caribbean in the eighteenth century was so risky owing to disease that men who were sentenced to hang were sometimes given the option of enlisting in a regiment stationed there.
Even in recent times, the British Army has had explicit programs to enlist ex convicts. Its recruitment site even says too that a criminal record does not disqualify someone from joining.
Wellington even described his army as the “scum of the earth” although the full quote actually goes on to describe what fine fellows the army made of the convicts and others who had joined up.
All this projection and hypocrisy in the west. The Russians are just doing what all effective armies through history have done. Of course, our own multi sexual identity, trans LBGT+, climate change friendly armies are a definite break from the past and it does remain to be seen if that model would work on a real battlefield against a real enemy.
The French Foreign Legion was originally mostly staffed by people with criminal records, fugitives from the law, and other evildoers on the run. It still quite likely might be.
Or the most noble of men.
Running from love .
Vive la France.
After World War II, in Algeria, the French Foreign Legion was full of former SS officers, and German was the most common language. From my father, who was there.
I understand now even better what they did in Algeria during Algerian fight to become independent …
Antiwar7
You are right.
The two most common languages, to this day, in the French Foreign Legion are German and Spanish. Italian, Slavonic and a smattering of other ethnic tongues comprise the rear. English, contrary to the myth of Beau Geste is not very common.
There’s a culture of violence in the army – gotta stamp that out!
Enlisting criminals in the army is nothing. British built a whole country out of them.
As they did in the US before the revolution
And then in Australia.
Where are you from o exalted one ?
A criminal in those days meant a loaf of bread to feed your family.
i.e not criminals but hero’s.
Sounds like something a crim would say
Private Ian Thain was convicted of murder committed on duty while serving in Northern Ireland in the 70’s. Convicted, sentenced, and served time in prison.
On release, he was re-instated in his regiment.
A convicted murderer.
Ngo Dinh Diem addressed the US Congress in May 1957 to thunderous aclaim.
Zelensky the Kapo might take heed what happened to Diem later on.
Congress’ thunderous acclaims for visiting foreigners become more and more like death knells with each passing year.
This sir, wins the internet today! Keen insight.
Pity it did not happen to Netanyahu.
“To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.”
— Henry Kissinger
Now what is with this Biden administration? Is the real goal just to have as many Ukrainian men dead and as many Ukrainian women and children prostitutes in Europe as possible? He could give Ukraine victory, but he just wants as many dead Ukrainians and as many prostitutes as possible. It’s just about money. Nobody cares about Ukraine.
The continuation is also clear for the USA. Putin appeared because Russia could no longer continue like this. That’s why they elected the KGB. Who will the US elect to clean up after Biden? CIA Pompeo or JAG de Santis?
Biden = CIA/FBI so “electing” CIA Pompeo would be no change. Also, at this point USA “elections” are just charades for the pigeons. How much in-your-face election fraud can people ignore? A lot. The next “election” will change nothing.
It will change as much as the last one did.
TINVOWOOT
There Is No Voting Our Way Our Of This
” He could give Ukraine victory …”
May I ask how?
The double standards the western official media present is the worst it could do to damage the trust in the superiority of our western system. During the cold war times, the west was not in need of propaganda: People had a better living standard, and could trust the media. Look at Vietnam.
Now, the living standard declines to second world standards. And whatever information comes from the front, it is doubtful now.
I just wonder what happened if Kiev will fall. Will the West go on like before?
Who cares what would make Lee Marvin proud?
The Dirty Dozen and the Pacific are just entertainment. Hollywood.
Training murderers to murder isn’t that hard.
Believe the Mozart Group (whatever that is) is being disbandended.
American delusion. Layer on layer until we get to what?
U krain’t guess ?
“Training murderers to murder isn’t that hard”
It’s not about that though is it?
It is about training convicted and imprisoned felons to be disciplined soldiers.
No, it’s not
Are you a troll or just thick?
Thanks grr
Good night
He’s a fake Australian.
Red blooded Americans care. In some sense it’s just our version of the Iliad.
That’s so pathetic. You American ? Much less red blooded?
Go find a safe space and a teddy bear.
And what culture or civilization do your people have? For that matter what have your people contributed, other than looting and barbarism? Nothing, that’s what.
another steve… you do have a thing for Americans don’t you? Don’t judge a people by their government and don’t generalize. Most of all, don’t forget to take your meds.
It is a bit of a stretch for Milburn to claim that Mozart is completely humanitarian while admitting that he is “training Ukrainian troops “to fight Russians
Exactly my thought when I read that.
Typical childish US sphere stuff – “we” can slaughter civilians and claim they are “legitimate targets”, but if “they” so much as sniff at anything questionable but actually effective it’s a monstrous war crime….
My best guess is that the missing weapons are headed in three directions: west, to Albania (and thence to Kosovo), east, to Iran, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan, and south, to the states of the Sahel, all with the discreet complicity of the United States government. It’s all about fomenting future conflicts in flashpoint areas (e.g., the Balkans) and in places where the Russians and the Chinese have legitimate security interests (e.g., the Central Asian republics and Africa).
It would be equally interesting to trace the paths of the internal organs of harvested Ukrainians.
That’s cheered me up no end.
“Which way did the Benjamin’s go, which way did how much go?”
I would love to fill a buss with chubs Vicky Nulander, fat ass Kagan, Bolton, Van Der Lieing, Schultz, Micron, Borris the walrus and Stoltenberg to name a few. Then drive the bus to the contact line in Bakhmut and form the lot into a corpse recovery unit and ask them if they see what they have done?
They’d blame Putin. They’re infected with Human Conscience Deficiency Virus(HCDV).
I would love to fill a bus with Lenin , Mao , Stalin, Trotsky, Pol Pot and a few.
What’s several hundred million.
It means nothing to you.
Well, if you throw Trotsky in there, then you must throw in his neocon disciples after him, which brings us right back to k. talaat’s original post.
So, what’s your deal? You don’t make any sense.
And it does to you? Tell us, is that why you subscribe to the notions swimming around in the head of fat ass warmongers like Vickie Nuland? You make no sense.
Any news reporting originating from US sources is not credible re TIME. They have no credibility. In fact, it is not news: US media scripts the narrative according to how the Pentagon and private intelligence agencies want the narrative to run. In this case on Ukraine.
Anyone notice Ukraine’s new flag? It has the original blue on top with the bottom half being yellow. Yellow for cowards under a blue sky. The new flag has Raytheon and Lockheed Martin stenciled on it.
Absolutely no one can even imagine what it must be like for Wagner PMCs to be slugging it out with Ukrainian cannon fodder and foreign mercs in eastern Ukraine. We probably see only 10 percent of the actual killing. It must be brutal. And now for a little treat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-p8XZw_StQ
How will the additional $44 billion Zelensky came calling for on the US congress get dropped in Ukraine? Fraud is spelled f-r-a-u-d.
All eyes off the US Biden regime and politicians. These people are in charge of nothing. They are the amplified entertainment show. The real action is the flow of money. “Fairy dust” magic money flowing from an open spigot out of the central banks. Biden, Harris, Pelosi, US congress and senate are inconsequential.
Suggestion: Americans concerned about what is going on in Ukraine who are increasingly rejecting the corporate criminal syndicate in Washington that has privatized government might find it easier to migrate to Russia to set up enclaves of subcultures. The Russians are moving to make migration easier for Americans.
If you were overseas in the 60s & 70s and listened to Soviet propoganda media, you would thing listening to Western propaganda Media today, that the Soviets are back. Our leaders have become what they once despised.
You are obviously the expert, comrade.
You have become what you once despised..
Hi from the free world : Australia.
The anglosphere understands the meaning of freedom. I don’t think Europe does though I can only assume where you’re from given your lack of honesty.
Hi from Australia , Steve.
You can rest assured that other than a few weak-chinned cucks, no one in America gives a shit about the Anglosphere. In fact, one day soon, we are going to free ourselves from Britannia. Forever. Canada’s liberation will be next.
If I were you I’d start learning Mandarin
The Aboriginals are finally free of those Limey criminal bastards? Great news. Maybe I will visit after all.
YOU …… just voted for a war with China and nuke B52 bombers based in Australia. Plus massive bases for Americans to fight over there but not in California.
Shanghai has a population of 27 million – Australia 26 million total, got it.
After the war Tasmanian population will be 26 million and starving. Just to the north the all new China. With fast rail and the biggest steel industry on the planet.
Enjoy Steve.
YOU …… just voted for a war with China and nuke B52 bombers based in Australia.
Nope.
We might have recently had a Federal election.
But this piece of foreign/ defence policy was NEVER so much as whispered.
It’s one of those Uniparty policies that are concealed from the voting unwashed.
another steve… guys notice what this kangaroo does, if you say Someone is “bad”, he’ll say you are bad. Ignore him. He’s degrading the space, which is otherwise quiet interesting and with informative posts. Ignore the kangaroo.
really hope this is a troll post as no one should be this ignorant especially those who live in australia which is a slave vassal nation of the current reigning empire (used to be the slave for British empire and today the slave of US empire)
alas australian are too hapy even today to celebrate their day of slaughter when the young and brave australian were fed into UK meatgrinder and in the future conflict with china australian people will be led to another slaughter
just like ukraine
I can confirm that the east German TV closely resembles our western media meanwhile.
Zelensky Inadvertently Admitted That The Vast Majority Of Humanity Doesn’t Support Ukraine
December 22, 2022 NEWS
Taken together, Zelensky’s keynote speech: revealed his side’s supremacist views vis a vis the Global South; prematurely declared a propaganda victory where there veritably isn’t one; tacitly admitted their failure to manipulate the vast majority of humanity; implied a redoubling of lies to reverse the aforesaid; and exposed the unprofessionalness of his information warfare campaign.
http://zububrothers.com/2022/12/22/zelensky-inadvertently-admitted-that-the-vast-majority-of-humanity-doesnt-support-ukraine/
Many Hollywood scripts feature Americans who were walking around in Nazi Germany (before the US declared war against Germany). Without those (imagined) actors from the ‘free world’ the greyness of Nazi Germany would kill any Hollywood plot that thrives on absolute white (American) vs. black (Nazi) contrasts. Hollywood needs the projection of its ‘the good, the bad & the ugly’ narratives against the bleak & desolate background of a war to attract the attention of the (uninformed) public. Nowadays the greyness of Nazi Ukraine at war is posing the pro-active MSM for a repeat of the ‘White Helmets’ fake story in war torn Syria. That’s why the ‘Mozart group’ was invented. But the deliberate slowdown of the war of attrition by general Surovikin causes all these invented Hollywood mock-ups to fall apart or to be exposed to reality.
” Nowadays the greyness of Nazi Ukraine at war is posing the pro-active MSM for a repeat of the ‘White Helmets’ fake story in war torn Syria”
Well the – I believe I can fly in Istanbul performance – didn’t turn out well – apart possibly of the – I believe I can touch the sky – part however fleeting.
There were reports that a well-known lady surgeon was seen with the Mozart group. She’s able to cut out two kidneys from a dying person in just 7 minutes.
If you believe in the fantasy that an American company led by an American colonel would go to the world’s currently worst hellhole to do “mostly humanitarian work” as the claim, well, then I have a fridge full of kidneys to sell you.
Gog (formerly Gig)
Jeez. If that’s true this gets more and more disturbing. How deep can the rabbit hole go…
Hot off the presses; and it’s a blockbuster!:
“Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol – Executive Summary”
https://january6th.house.gov/report-executive-summary#_ednref192
If that’s a blockbuster then a truthful summary of Maidan would be a 1000 megaton nuke.
Katchanovski’s came as close as we’ll ever see in my lifetime.
What was Katchanovski’s? Do you have a link, by any chance? Thanks.
Nevertheless, that Jan6 Committee overview *is* quite an eye-opener. Have you read it?
” What the hell is Zelensky and his gang of thieves doing with all of the U.S. aid?”
Probably following precedent from 1991 onwards:
Available at your local stall beside Kreshatik metro station and all the way to Rava Ruska.
During the period Kalingradsky oblast’s “economy” was evaluated as “who knows”, whilst Ukraine was evaluated as “thank fuck it’s their problem”
Not all the audience on Independence Square in February 2014 resented the Jewish lady dispensing beneficences even after forgetting the salt; some observed an increase in the “Ukrainian economy bez platna”, whilst some others observed that some waddle so much they don’t feel the need to ponder what is for afters, home or away.
“What the hell is Zelensky and his gang of thieves doing with all of the U.S. aid?”
A lot of them are moving to Monaco – seriously. A Canadian there is documenting it. (It’s such a small place that the influx is impossible not to notice.)
They’re also buying luxury real estate in Switzerland.
Slava Ukraine.
Interesting article as per usual – many thanks Larry ! – a few weeks ago, on the Military Summary youtube channel, Dima said that there were 400,000 convicts in Russia that formed a potential recruitment source for Wagner, I wonder if this was just male convicts, or did it include female convicts as well ?, I know women are 1/3 less physically strong than men, so maybe not suited to ‘stormtrooper” type work – but having street savvy tough women policing the rear/counter-terrorism etc would free up men for the front lines.
Les milliards de dollars permettent à Zelensky d’arrondir son magot dans les paradis fiscaux … et à sa GARCE de femme … d’aller faire son “Shopping” à Paris, dans les RICHISSIMES boutiques des Champs Elysées !!!
Intellectual de la gauche?
La France a depuis près de 200 ans sa Légion Étrangère.
Since the creation of the Foreign Legion in 1831, recruits could be hired under a “declared identity”, an assumed identity that guaranteed their anonymity. This measure, which “made it possible to recruit people quickly without having to verify their identity and thus gave some a second chance”
The Legion allowed the escape of many worries for those left behind by a war or a regime in difficulty. This is why we see on this picture a very strong majority of Germans (large recruitment after the two world wars)
Yes, not only former convicts but Nazis.
And at the end of 5 year contracts, they all received a new french ID.
Kiev can’t expect to be treated better than NATO allies since that would irredeemably break the bloc’s trust in its American leader, nor can it expect that anti-Russian alliance’s European members to run through the rest of their already dwindling stockpiles at the expense of their minimum security needs. Biden probably didn’t intend to, but he inadvertently exposed Zelensky as a delusional beggar who still doesn’t recognize the military-industrial limitations at play in this proxy war that his country is fighting.
https://korybko.substack.com/p/biden-spilled-the-beans-about-why
America is Numero Uno in the world when it comes to the wielding of raw power, the so-called “Do as I say not as I do” syndrome. And here is the framework invented for the world to follow: “The International Rules Based Order”. Updated at Washington morning coffee-break time every day to outlaw anything the USA hasn’t found to be to its advantage in the previous 24 hours.
Then there’s Zelensky and his cohorts to whom lying for money is second nature. The list of things in Ukraine outlawed by these criminals, people offed or “re-assigned”, the burning of 100 million Russian-language books, the banning of all opposition etc, supreme racism, is handily detailed as a sort of summary by Thierry Meyssan of Voltairenet. A very good English translation of his original post in French is available here:
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/12/volodymyr-zelensky-and-ethnopolitics/#more-136235
Sickening. And this dictator Zelensky is now strutting around Washington as a hero, vacuuming up cash. Next thing we know, the man will be awarded the non-official Nobel Peace prize. Dystopia reigns supreme. On purpose. And most North Americans both left and right give not a single sh!t as they pay their taxes to support this humanitarian crime in progress.
Zelensky reminds me of the homeless mangy dog that Biden decided to take in and ended up infesting the country with a flea-borne typhus last seen in 1488.
Sir,
How dare you.
As a Floridian and
a doctor,
I will never be scrolled down to again.
My horses will never get beat on any track
In any hurricane.
Signed
a Proud Floridian
You damn Yankees.
Dr Hugo Hackenbush. Esq.
As the average C student at the back of the class reading about this Milburn fella being a stand up guy so says your friend. This Milburn seems to have all the academic criteria to wow us dummies. Sounds like a real bona fide Florence Nightingale to boot. Being a C student does have its advantages though. Takes us a while but we soon see through utter bullshit. Can’t wait for the Rock to portray this wonder soldier in the upcoming movie. USA USA
I was a C student on a good day. The truth. i.e. me
Bona fide. Academic Criteria. Blah blah.
Does have its advantages though….blah blah Florence Nightingale…blah blah
Wow us dummies…the Rock. US soldier USA !…USA! Blah blah
F off liar..
you say “What the hell is Zelensky and his gang of thieves doing with all of the U.S. aid?”
– it was all recycled by FTX and use to donor the corrupt Demoncrats.
War is mass murder for the gain of the oligarchs and ruling class. So it seems criminals would be the perfect personnel for the job. But to truly viscous, nasty and unconscionable criminals are those the oligarchs and ruling class who start the war.
“Why, of course, the people don’t want war,” Goering shrugged. “Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.”
It seems to me that in the distant days of my youth it was common practice of judges to give young criminals the option of joining the Army or Marines instead of serving time in prison. I have no idea how common this was, but it was a semi-official thing.
American version of White Helmets?
Expecting that false flag CW attack any day now.
If now it turns out that Twitter tells lies and that even government bodies bribe that business, nothing can be believed.
A lot of them are moving to Monaco – seriously. A Canadian there is documenting it. (It’s such a small place that the influx is impossible not to notice.)
They’re also buying luxury real estate in Switzerland.
Slava Ukraine.
Milburn dismissed Prigozhin’s description of Mozart as a private military company. “People call us a PMC because that’s all they have as a frame of reference,” he said. “We don’t carry weapons, our tasks are humanitarian—and I mean, seriously, legally humanitarian.”. .
Sorry training people to fight isn’t humanitarian. he added ‘legally’ wonder if that’s Clintonesque ‘sexual relations’
“Legally humanitarian” probably means that it’s a registered charity, like the ones that Clintons, Gates and all the others have in order to evade taxes.
“their training may help some of the poorly trained and equipped Ukrainians survive.”
If it is first aid, sure. If it is how to bravely run into an artillery barrage firing their rifle at (???), it (as you say) only lengthens the war and delays its inevitable end putting more meat in the grinder.
Mozart should teach Ukrainians how to surrender and get out of the fight without their Nazi overminders shooting them in the back.
Instead, Mozart is extending a battle to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian, that actually is strengthening Russia.
And Mitch McConnell says Ukraine is America’s highest “priority”. No clean water to drink in Flint, Michigan. J6 political prisoners thrown into a gladiator academy and raped daily over a two-year span. A systematic asset theft of the middle class thru inflation. A collusion of the FBI/CIA/NSA that makes a mockery of the Constitution. Our children indoctrinated in Democratic party dogma and sexual perversity. Major layoffs coming and a possible economic collapse. But you know what? Mitch is right. There is money to be stolen in Ukraine. And the oblivious voters of the USA do not care. So, fuck em. Because the voters of Kentucky will vote Mitch back in as long as he brings pork barrel projects back to Kentucky. We Are The Enemy.
Well said, Curt. Very well said.
Funny,
Americunts laud teevee shows about convicts fighting forest fires (Cant remember the name of the show as I dont watch network teevee), but get their panties in a wad if Russia does it with soldiers.
Newsweek and Time are nothing but CIA Mockingbird press.
How old are these guys, they chose Mozart because Russians chose Wagner. Kid level behaviour but good PR gimmick, raise your profile by association to that you claim to resent. Though imitation is, the sincerest form of flattery.
The confirmation of casualty rates is enlightening.
I’m not sure what to make of the Ukranian forces, are they on drugs, forced to fight or just ridiculously brave? Anyone who has been in combat knows that to lose 70% or more of your unit and still be standing ready to fight is almost beyond belief.
You are going back to the Spartans or Sikh Armies to get anywhere near sustained courage and willingness to literally fight to the last man.
The Soviets took massive casualties in wars, in particular WW2, and of course the Ukranians were Soviets, there are very very few people on earth who can take those casualties and keep going. Other than Spartans, Sikhs and Slavs I can’t think of any.
Note these are casualties in an offensive/ defensive war against a part of the country that does not want to be part of Ukraine. It’s easier to understand this level of courage if the land was that of people who wanted to be in Ukraine, but maybe that’s the way they see it, or that Ukraine is gone if they can’t stop the Russians. I wonder what they are told? I wonder if the soldiers are fed stories of Russian war crimes and rapes and torture to drive them on.
What a horrific waste of human life. May those responsible for causing this war rot in hell.
China looks to have a COVID outbreak right now, I wonder how that will affect things especially as the EcoHealth official who worked at Wuhan lab wrote a book showing how COVID is an American bio weapon.
In which case the US is simultaneously waging war against both it’s competitors, physical and economic war against Russia and Bioweapon and milder economic war against China.
Both countries are under horrific attack.
Iran up next.
Zaluzhny might have answers to some of your questions:
https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1605127313758326785
Thanks, very interesting!
How old are these guys because one chose Wagner and the other. Mozart.?
Guess they’re like so totally like so old.
As I’ve mentioned to you before, when you get out of grade school, let us know.
Only insecure people say “us” when writing for themselves. You are not an “us”, you are a “i” in lower case. Have the courage to man up and speak without hiding behind others and being so desperate to look big for attention. Usually you have zero value contributions.
The yellow bus just went by your house and someone is in your seat. Did your mom let you sleep in again?
One of the Duran shows a while back featured a Canadian named Alex – who was running a news site out of China. Alex lived in Monte Carlo for 20 years and has a lot of connections with people living there still.
He said that there was an extensive “Monte Carlo” battalion in Monte Carlo – that one of every 5 Lamborghinis had Ukrainian license plates.
Or in other words, that MC is being used to launder stolen aid.
I wish I could find this unbelievable.
“Other than Spartans, Sikhs and Slavs I can’t think of any.”
The Japanese in WW II immediately come to mind as potential candidate.
Then again, in August of 1945, Japan’s 900,000 strong Kwangtun Army, located in Manchuria, basically surrendered en masse the moment a Red Army arrived.
Regardless of culture or tradition, it often depends on the circumstances I think, whether armies, or their individual units within, are willing to fight to death, or only, fight to the pain.
Hopefully Russia lowers the boom soon and puts these ukraianians out of their misery. These guys are obviously heavily propagandized moreso than even we are in the West WRT to this conflict and I admire their grit but it’s such a waste of men. This war can only end one way as Russia has too much power and it’s an existential threat to Russians/Russia unlike say Afghanistan was for them and they can’t lose. They’ll “Grozny” the whole damn country if need be.
“former Russian convicts”
By calling them this, it implicitly legitimizes the Russian justice system.
But but but Russia is a corrupt dictatorship! How could they have a legitimate justice system? Anyone imprisoned must be presumed to be innocent!
I’m confused…
We are witnessing the total failure of the liberal so-called “democratic” form of government. That system is spinning out of control as a we witness a mega conspiracy gather and openly conspire within the alleys of government to defraud the American people of its tax money in broad daylight and nobody can do sh*t about it. On the contrary, the MMS conditioned masses applaud their robbers with content and gusto and many are happy to see their money go, allegedly, to Ukraine. In reality, that money will be laundered back through the meanders of the financial system by oligarchic financial wizards and funneled to the appropriate invested parties, mainly members of the US establishment and other elements of the plutocracy that controls the deep state structures.
The American “democracy” has morphed into a monster worse than G. Orwell’s Big Brother. It’s a nightmare and I’m beginning to despair to see it let go someday of its grip on Western societies short of a bloody revolution that will uproot the whole American system from its roots to build a new one. Something akin to a new democratic “Bolshevik” revolution because the ills are way beyond reform.
“After World War II, in Algeria, the French Foreign Legion was full of former SS officers, and German was the most common language. From my father, who was there.”
I THINK it was during the Indochina war (1945-1954) : in some units orders were given in German only.
If you read “We few”, Nick Brokhausen’s absolutely riveting tale of his tours of Vietnam around 1970 you’lllearn that he fought with Montagnard tribemen who were fluent in German… cos they fought with them in the 50’s against the VC.
I was so incensed at the abomination that happened last night in D.C. that I wrote my “conservative” Republican congressman. Was I too lenient? Here is the message:
“I have never had a problem in the past with the job you have done as a US Representative.
How did you feel after viewing the congressional gathering last night? Is aid to Ukraine really the most important issue facing our leaders? What about the people?
Are you politicians drugged, brainwashed, hypnotized or just plain weak and complicit? Do the Democrats and rinos going ga ga over a Ukrainian beggar, grifter,con man, hater of Orthodox christianity and murderer cause you to re-think our foreign policy and veracity as a nation? There are numerous problems and issues being mishandled by our politicians and entrenched bureaucracy that are just as dangerous to us as a nation as our failure to pursue peace in Ukraine.
Don’t rely on media, FBI, CIA,, or associates for your “facts.” They are all unreliable.
Listen, but verify carefully. Truth is the antidote for all of the evil and fiction emanating from D.C.”
I did not mention Sonar21.com or any other. Should I have done so? This is not the last message I intend to send him. I will continue to evaluate my approach to him. He has only begun to feel the heat.
It is good that you write to your rep. More need to. Regardless of how worded the opposition to priorities and calling out factors influencing decisions is important and that’s the message their team gets.
Milburn and Malcolm Nance ( MSNBC contributor/Stubbs and Wooten wearer- details) have both lost close family members in the last few years and perhaps can’t accept what the GREAT AMERICAN WAR MACHINE has become. If one scrolls thur the ANDY MILBURN Twitter you’ll find their MERCH- case your looking 4 stocking stuffers.
The movie, free on Utoob –
first watch for me … great rec. Larry, you rock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO5ZxdG1ExQ
Is the Wagner group recruitment of convicts saying something about values between Russia and West. I believe if convicts serve with honor, they can earn freedom. In the West the Vice President of America was famous for refusing to allow convicts from leaving prison because the state of California would not have enough slave labor.
We will never know where the money is going because the FTX affair will never go to trial. So Marjorie Taylor Green and all the other politicians of all flavors can just f off into the sunset. Really, do you believe that these pieces of garbage are truly interested in serving their constituents? Did you know that back in 2019 both side of the aisle passed Statement 56 of the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) which said they could keep secret books? Ha ha ha ha ha, Marjorie Taylor Greene is right. We need an audit. What the hell is Zelensky and his gang of thieves doing with all of the U.S. aid? LMFAO!
Ukraine opened prisons early on in the conflict, including for bloodthirsty criminals fighting at the front. And they are no more criminal than the neo-Nazis! As also usually read here and comments and very well, western propaganda and in particular the complaints from Ukraine are nothing more than projections! As we have already seen in robberies, in war crimes with the ex-libris Bucha, in the lack of ammunition and ill-prepared troops, in the number of cannon fodder casualties, in the mistreatment of prisoners of war and their assistance, often even filmed, etc. The mirror has always been a great advertising tool.
And still on the subject of yesterday’s post, does anyone remember the name of someone in the US who came to be called the new Sun Tzu of the 21st century?
Exactly what’s wrong with using convicts to fight in the battlefield? Those convicts are given a chance to redeem themselves by being useful to their country. Keeping them in prison costs money, they are not economically productive in it. It sucks up public money, so better give them a chance to do some work and contribute to society, yes? Being a non-western person who never fully bought into the whole skewed western concept of “human rights”, I’m always of the opinion that it’s better to force convicts to do some work, not quite gulag-level of course, but whatever’s next to it. I always think it’s psychologically better for them and readies them to re-enter society once their prison term is over.
Ballad of Jesse James
https://youtu.be/UFxgeuf3QL4
Jesse went to his death with a hand on his breast;
The devil will be on his knees,
He was born one day in the County of Clay
He came from a solitary race
This song was made by William R Ganshade,
As soon as the news did arrive,
He had sworn there was no man, with the law in his hand
Who could take Jesse James while alive
Jesse James was a man who killed many a man,
He robbed the Glendale train,
And the people they did say, for many a mile away,
It was robbed by Frank and Jesse James.
meat grinder gravy train rolls on, with extra AU JUS…
Where is all that money going? Doubt if this is a revelation to most reading or commenting. People here clearly have knowledge & experience with conflicts of this nature.
I’ve seen figures that Ukraine supposedly has 200,000 combat-ready troops and somewhere around 600,000 more. Some are raw conscripts but many are involved in various types of support. Takes several soldiers to support one combat warrior or trench dweller, whichever may be the case. Also, if it’s anything like Afghanistan, there are thousands of ‘ghost soldiers’ collecting salaries. They may have been on the books and later killed or injured (or just made up). The Ukraine military understandably gives very little info on casualties, but this does also allow ‘someone’ to continue to collect salaries.. especially if no audit (and, like the Big Guy, the commanders usually keep a healthy percentage), so it’s in their interests to inflate those troop numbers if they’re not paying the bill.
Obviously the MIC is getting their share and I’m sure some funds are just rerouted back to where it came from, some are kept by the Oligarchs, etc. and some weapons are sold before they can be destroyed by the Russians, but that figure may not be a large percentage. Zelensky says he needs somewhere between $7B and $10B a month for all that (not including more weapons), AND to operate an entire country with severely reduced income while it’s infrastructure is being continually damaged.
Not hard to understand why they want to keep this going as long as American taxpayers are willing to pay up. Zelensky says he has a ‘peace plan’ (probably provided to him upon arrival), but he isn’t, and won’t be, negotiating with Russians. A plane was sent to summon him for another theatrical appearance in Congress to keep the money flowing. Now that they have a commitment for more funding they may back out of places like Bakhmut or Marinka, but will continue using mercs to probe Russian lines where they see weakness.
Sirovikan doesn’t seem interested in unnecessarily risking troops and materiel they’ve invested in and doesn’t seem like either side has an interest in expanding this beyond the former Ukrainian borders. Soooo….. there may not be a big arrow offensive. Putin may decide to just grind on while waiting for the European and American economies to deteriorate.
Western attitudes have undergone severe changes as well. There is a typical account from the 1930s Puget Sound of a moonshiner sentenced to two years of jail being released during the day to do odd jobs, meet locals and eventually settled in the community. Society used to have sufficient trust and moral basis to accomplish what we now entrust to an untrustworthy government because people themselves have become less human. Aforementioned perp also went to live and work on the sheriff’s farm with two other prisoners. All were pleased with the situation. Nobody in the community had a hissy fit. We’ve lost so much and gained trinkets. Other cultures have not been so foolish and our immediate ancestors would understand. Don’t expect the west not to copycat soon, but it won’t be the same because it can’t be in a degraded society.
«mr. johnson; in american history i believe there have been allot of men who were given the choice of joining the army or marines ; or go to jail . the article below is from 2006 so for the us army to chastize russia for doing this is total Hypocrisy.
https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/join_the_army_or_go_to_jail/
here are some new articles
https://republicbroadcasting.org/news/washington-is-prolonging-ukraines-suffering/
tucker vid in the article below
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-media-dutifully-parrots-zelensky-winston-churchill-talking-point
since it looks like we are heading into some very extraordinary difficult times; this video on survival and perserverance is a good one to watch ; especially with the winter ahead which looks like it could be very cold and long.
DARE TO SURVIVE: Shackleton’s Voyage of Endurance 2002
Remember this story when times seem unbearable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwWsX7MZKro
this link was sent to me. it is 4 gb long and contains survival type info you will never find anywhere else
https://icedrive.net/s/DbvTRuW4iuTwjxD2CbN358Tg3hFj
merry xmas;
ralph
On a similar theme:
https://korybko.substack.com/p/whys-british-media-glorifying-anti
Mozart group:
“We don’t carry weapons, our tasks are humanitarian—and I mean, seriously, legally humanitarian.”. . .
Yet he sez:
“Typically about 80 percent of our intake who are coming off of the line have never even fired a weapon before,” Milburn said. “We’ve got our work cut out for us.”
Then what is Mozart training new recruits for? Kitchen cleaning, peeling potatoes and other household chores?