Ukraine’s vain attempts to launch an offensive ostensibly to oust Russia from “conquered” lands in the Donbass reminds me of the Japanese Kamikaze bombers trying to impede the inevitable U.S. victory in the Pacific. It is needless deaths sacrificed in the name of national honor but, when it is over, is totally meaningless.
Before delving into the futility of Ukrainian efforts, I need to introduce you to a crazy person in the U.K. masquerading as a former military officer. This man is bonkers. Thank God that Lt. Col. Stuart Crawford is a “former” U.K. Army officer. His opinion piece is titled, How Ukraine blitzkrieg will tear Putin’s forces to ribbons. This manifestation of insanity normally would require that the person espousing such nonsense be wrapped up in a straight jacket and placed in a padded cell and fed jello. Preferably lime green.
Long range strikes into Russian forces rear areas, some with the UK-supplied Storm Shadow air-launched cruise missile, may indicate that some “shaping of the battlefield” is underway.
These strikes are targeting Russian arms and fuel dumps plus lines of communications and are probably designed to both isolate enemy forces on the front line and prevent reinforcements and supplies being brought forward.
Recent maritime drone attacks on Russian naval vessels in the Black Sea may be intended to force the enemy navy into its protected ports and prevent them launching their missiles at Ukrainian targets. In other words, they will keep the Russian navy quiet and out of the equation as much as possible. . . .
Which brings me to the wildcard option. Readers will, I suspect, have noted the recent incursion into Russian territory near Belgorod, where pro-Ukrainian disaffected Russian nationals mounted a raid which temporarily captured some Russian settlements and embarrassed the Kremlin until they withdrew.
This took place outside the 900 km fortified frontline between Ukraine and the occupied areas, and on a part of the Russo-Ukraine border where there has been little military activity to date. It showed, however, how lightly guarded this part of the Russian frontier is and how poorly prepared the Russians are to defend it.What if the Ukrainians exploited this weakness and delivered a wide left hook which struck into Russian territory in the Belgorod region and then turned south? It would outflank the Russian “Maginot Line” along the contested demarcation zone and catch them in the flank – as the Germans did with the Allies through the Ardennes in 1940 during the Second World War.
I suspect that retired Lt. Col. Crawford is snacking on some magic mushrooms instead of sipping tea and munching crumpets. Ukraine does not have the logistics support in place capable of sustaining such an operation, not to mention the lack of troops and tanks. Not my opinion. An objective fact.
Here is just one report from the frontline in the Donbass detailing the “success” of this kind of Ukrainian left hook:
On the morning of June 4, the enemy launched a large-scale offensive in five sectors of the front in the South Donetsk direction by introducing into battle 23rd and 31st mechanized brigades from the strategic reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the support of other military units and subunits.
- In total, six mechanized and two tank battalions of the enemy were involved.
- The goal of the enemy was to break through our defenses on the, in their opinion, most vulnerable sector of the front.
- The enemy did not achieve their tasks, they had no success.
- As a result of the skillful and competent actions of the Eastern Group of Forces, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to more than 250 personnel, 16 tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles, 21 armored fighting vehicles.
Apart from losing 250 soldiers, Ukraine is now short 16 tanks and 21 armored fighting vehicles. Ukraine does not have an intact defense industry manufacturing new tanks and armored vehicles. Zelensky is running around Europe like a homeless guy begging for spare change. But instead of getting shekels in his rusty cup he is pleading for tanks and vehicles, which are no longer widely available. Ukraine grabbing a few kilometers inside Russian territory is only a temporary achievement that cannot be consolidated into a sustained offensive. Ukraine is not following a von Clausewitz plan, it is doing George Armstrong Custer at the Little Bighorn.
No army in the history of war can sustain losses like this and prevail. Ukraine is not following military doctrine. It is being coerced by the West in launching desperate suicide missions that are not going to change the strategic picture on the ground. Instead, it is just more meat grinding, which the Russians are happy to do. Too bad that Lt. Col. Crawford does not have the stones to go forward with the Ukrainians and put his own neck on the line. This is needless slaughter.
From Zerohedge:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/united-states-losing-its-control-ukraine
If anything in these American statements is to be taken seriously, then why doesn’t the Imperialist States stop its financing of the Ukranazi economy and its military aid? The nazis would collapse, as even Borrell has admitted, in days.
What the nazis are doing is clear, and I have been predicting they would for months: they’re trying to seize Belgorod as a bargaining chip which they’ll offer to return for a Russian withdrawal in the east and south.
This is exactly the same strategy Pakistan used against India in 1971. India invaded what was then East Pakistan on 22 November. The Pakistani government, realising that the east was isolated and indefensible, attacked from the west on 3 December in an effort to capture substantial Indian territory to trade back for East Pakistan.
This strategy failed because though the Pakistanis made some minor gains in the west they couldn’t capture a single Indian town, let alone a major city, or even divert Indian forces from the eastern front. East Pakistan collapsed in less than two weeks and is now Bangladesh.
Let us not forget that the 1971 conflict would never have happened in the first place without American arming and encouragement of Pakistan (Nixon even sent a US Navy task force to try and intimidate India into backing down).
Of course the current Vlasovite and nazi invasion of Belgorod is with full American knowledge and encouragement. Any other interpretation is farcical. It will also fail because just like India didn’t collapse in the west in 1971, Russia won’t collapse in Belgorod. The strategy of trying to capture territory to trade back fails if the enemy refuses to cooperate with your plans.
I think you’ll find the majority of the Brutish army suffers from the same delusions Lt Colonel Crawford does. And not just the Brutish either.
Please let us not forget which country supported India vis a vis Pakistan/USA in this war…….
Soviet Union/Russia….
Which is why India refuses to toe the NATO line now….
INDY
Oh, I thought it has as much to do with Churchill’s Bengal genocide and other accoutrements of the benevolent British Empire.
It goes all the way back to Nehru taking the Mein Kampf seriously, that Russians will be genocided by a victorious Germany, thus deciding to support the allies, even though many wanted to support the Axis against the Brits.
(e.g Mr. Bose didn’t agree and joined the Japanese.)
Incidentally, this also means the general spiritual outlook of India is anti American since they committed and still willing to commit genocide, like wanting to reduce Russia to 50mn people.
Have you read Mein Kampf? I am no Hitler fan to be sure, but nowhere in that book(I have read it) does Hitler say a thing about engaging in genocide of Russians(or even Jews for that matter)
The “US” has not lost control of Zelensky. The US has lost control of its NeoCons (eg. Nuland, Sullivan, Blinken, Graham), who are controlling Zelensky’s NeoNazis. While the Rothschild Class put the NeoCons in place, it seems Nuland’s Gang has decided to go their own way. That’s the problem of enlisting thugs to do your dirty work, at some point the thugs decide they know better and stop following orders. OOPS.
The House of Rothschild began this bankster domination project with Colonialist Europe in the late 1700’s and have been busy little beavers inciting wars since. I again ask, WHY NOW for the Great Reset? What changed that the Bilderberg/Davos crowd would accelerate a highly successful, long-term incremental vampire-squid process to be completed in a few decades, rather than the former centuries? Among other likely triggers, the Putin/Xi cooperation and Bitcoin.
The Rothschild Class were losing control and knight-errant Klaus jumped the shark thinking having the likes of Trudeau/Freeland/Singh, Ahern, Rutte, Johnson, Trump/Biden et.al. playing petite dictators during the Covid Scamdemic would provide sufficient cover for the Great Reset. So crank up ANOTHER war, this time in Ukraine and when that goes badly, reignite conflicts in places like Sudan.
It isn’t working.
Here’s a doozy. The French wanted to export French-produced Rafales to Egypt but since some of the coatings on the planes were of US origin, the US prohibited their export. Talk about putting your nuts in a Sherwin Williams painted vise.
I appreciate your 4 century interesting overview of the (greedy, reckless, childish, egocentric) folly of the WEST. Thank you!
And thanks to Larry Johnson for this piece and to the other commenters….
The only hope I have for stability is that the BRICS, SCO, etc associations succeed in weaning themselves and the rest of the world off of the sanctions/PETRO$ onto a sustainable, responsible path.
They seem like the adults in the room at the moment and appear to be trying to serve their own people not the delusional Davos crowd….maybe I’m naive…but I don’t see my govt maturing from sandbox bullies that they are at the moment to take the responsibility to serve their own country and world peace….
I wonder whether the larger BRICS countries can use their “unwanted” $$$ to make $$$ loans to financially weakened countries in order for those countries to immediately pay off their $$$ debt and then set terms on those $$$loans that allow those indebted countries to pay back those loans over time in their OWN currency or, say in YEN…
All the aspiring POTUS nutjobs are just starting to come out of the woodwork now, screaming their agendas to the masses in heartfelt lunacy.
Nikki Haley, Ramaswamy, Pence
One can’t let Ukraine lose because it will lead to WWIII.
The other wants to give away Ukraine in a Faustian bargain to bribe Russia into turning against China with lip service promises.
The last insists Russian conservatism is the mortal enemy of American conservatism, or some such mindless claptrap.
Fasten your seat belts, America. The circus is coming to town.
Former French Minister of Economy, Industrial Renewal & Digital Affairs, Arnaud Montebourg calls the US a ‘predatory hegemon’.
https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1665370246126125060
USA the biggest yerror organizatin in the world.
Watch this European historian at 8:20, while discussing Roman methods of acquiring vassal states let slip ‘like America’ with a twinkle in his eye.
Burst out with a good laugh.
The Roman Massacre Of Teutoburg Forest
https://youtu.be/xM_jX22Iaas
Is there a plan in there somewhere other than suicide by cop? Not everyone can be insane. Is it just about the short term sugar hit of arms sales?.
The grab a few kilometers in Belgorod was a British SAS expedition.
That is why the British Lt. Col. Crawford is sent to town with the message:
LOOK! Ukraine is attacking Russia on its own territory.
The incursion into Russia was a SAS diversion before the long awaited Ukrainian SPRING offensive.
Ukraine just launched the offensive in Donetsk and lost 250 soldiers, 16 tanks and 21 armored vehicles.
Now the local Russian National Guard is mopping up the last SAS operatives to send them home in body bags.
Too bad Crawford stayed home, writing bullshit in the press, instead of joining the SAS fighters in Belgorod.
highly doubt SAS units themselves involved directly in the incursion , they are not supermen as proven by their failures in past theatres even against IRA and iraqi civilians.
they might be involved in planning and training the ukrop and mercs
Crawford wants a repeat of that highly successful British plan, Operation Market Garden, where American and British Paratroopers were sent into Germany to be summarily slaughtered.
It was at Arnhem in Netherlands……..get your facts straight
The Archangel Campaign, 1918-19: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Russia_intervention
Yep that was yet another DC double cross. The Bolsheviks were supported by DC all along. Trotsky festered in NYC until he got sent back to Russia to help turn the place upside down. Lenin was festering in Switzerland waiting for the green light. Meantime Americans were fooled by every alibi that DC spit out. Antony Sutton wrote it all in his book, Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution.
The Russians should demand reparations.
There were two bungled paratroop operations. The first failed to take the Dutch bridges the second was a drop into Germany on the east bank of the Rhine.
Operation Market Garden 2.0
The Brits are good at poorly executing this sort of pin prick.
Got to Linkedin and look at Stuart Crawford’s profile………he has done some weird stuff even in the army – courses and then race awareness BS in the Army………
This is someone desperately seeking an income
Also, his eyebrows look like a couple of geriatric minks. I know he’s Scottish, but c’mon – get the hedge trimmer out.
This is someone desperately seeking an income
This is someone desperately seeking his comeuppance.
Think Mexico is about to join NATO insuring that the American weapons shipped to Ukraine stay readily for sale to their cartels.
No need to make up fake news. Mexico has more sympathies with the BRICS strategy than with the militaristic policy of NATO
My thoughts exactly. Myself and a visiting friend spent the weekend trying to sort out the globalist’s strategy. Although we regurgitated the same litany of things others have speculated, we simply could not come up with any satisfying explanation of why the US and Europe ever started on, or continue to go down, this self destructive path. Can the massive arrogance, insatiable greed and pure delusion of the collective elite have created a suicidal “hive mind” that is now auto-piloting the west into the abyss?
Hubris & lack of intelligence in all its forms.
The collapse of the USSR caught them by surprise and no doubt so will their own.
In my opinion that’s AI – and now beyond our control.
The Rothschild Class project is multi-layered.
1) Install banksters, first done when the Rothschilds set up shop in European capitals in the late 1700s.
2) Get the monarchy/gov’t into unserviceable debt, including loans for building up armies and weapons, get gov’ts to sign conflicting mutual “defence” treaties
3) Get one Rothschild-indebted country to start a war with another
4) Take the “defence” industry profits and the perpetual loan interest, increase control over the gov’ts
5) Rinse/repeat with other countries, across generations so it seems “normal” to constantly be at or almost at war due to BS religious, ethnic “causes”.
Proof this is going on in Ukraine? Zelensky just signed with Blackrock to “rebuild” Ukraine after the Kiev junta “wins”… obviously Blackrock is not a charitable organization, so this was as much about pushing the former owners of Ukraine out as assaulting Russia.
“disaffected Russian nationals”
So, that’s what the Brits are calling Russia’s neo-nazis now. How quaint.
Gave me a chuckle.
Like Vlasov…….?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Vlasov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Liberation_Army
the Armed Forces of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (Вооружённые силы Комитета освобождения народов России, Vooruzhonnyye sily Komiteta osvobozhdeniya narodov Rossii, abbreviated as ВС КОНР, VS KONR).[1]
Like them or not, Vlasov’s forces were fighting a bolshevik Russia, Stalin in particular and unlike Ukraine, Vlasov’s short-lived alliance with Germany was essentially dead on arrival.
To equate that with the banderite Ukraine nationalists cum fascists’ long-lasting love affair with Nazi Germany and their issues with Russia pre, during and post USSR and the few current Russian neo-nazis allied with them is a fool’s exercise in historical revisionism.
Not in Russian eyes
Not in some Russian’s eyes, Mr. Expert on all things Russian.
The fact that this conflict is still going is a testament to the cynical, willful obstinacy of western elites who either cannot or will not recognise that the Ukrainians are beaten.
They evidently believe their own propaganda.
I expect the Brits with their mindless cheerleading, who have a multigenerational fear and hatred of Russians since at least the Crimean War, still wallow in memories of the stubborn resistance Churchill led against the Third Reich. They forget that at that time they still had the support of the Commonwealth nations (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, South Africa etc etc), they also still had a significant military and the capacity to make weapons on their island which in turn was protected by the Channel and a substantial navy.
Ukraine has none of that and its support from the west is conditional at best while the west itself has discovered that it is hopelessly ill-equipped to engage in industrial warfare. In addition it is now clear that Russia has already won the economic war – Germany is in recession, the UK is in big trouble and the world is on track to de-dollarize. Bravo sleepy Joe…
I live in Australia where all mainstream media still report the Ukraine conflict as Putin/Russia bad, Ukraine/Zelensky good and that Ukrainian victory is inevitable. This is all predicated on the invincibility of the west of course.
Fantasyland.
Agreed Michael, yet the vast majority of our countrymen have no idea of where things stand because they believe the evening news or rather no news because our MSM refuses to report on Russia’s progress. “What do you mean Russia blew up most of Ukes munitions, its the other way around” I all too often hear.
This war would end tomorrow if all the pollies and bureaucrats had to put their children on the front line!
Stalin sent both his biological sons and his adopted son to fight in WWII. Mao sent his sons to fight in the Chinese Civil War and Korea.
Let’s also recall UK generals sending ANZACs to charge Turkish machine guns, some sociopaths just see it all as a
board game.
Currently outside Oz but see YT video suggesting Australia is itching for a war with China, even bizarrely suggests they think they will win. Has everyone gone insane back there?
There is a concerted push by neocon pro-US media to create a narrative that is pro war with China. There are plenty of idiots on the bandwagon. Peter Hartcher is the prime mover, complete idiot that he is. Nonetheless I feel that there is a deal of common sense still in the Australian public. Some people in mainstream media seem to be questioning the narrative. We can only hope that we can rise above the propaganda.
I also really think the Epoch Times has been instrumental in whipping up anti-China sentiment in the American right-wing voter base. Granted, outsourcing is the ultimate basis for that, although Trump himself has pointed out it was the corporations and U.S. government setting up that arrangement and China was simply taking advantage.
I’m a Brit and I don’t have “a multi-generational fear and hatred of Russia”. And neither does anyone I know.
This is confected nonsense. In fact, looking at the comment sections in the most pro war papers the level of cynicism by the general public to this neocon misadventure is rising every day.
Glad to hear it, but you must admit that the anti-Russian propaganda spewed out be the Times and other British media is off the dial. There is nothing ‘confected’ by me about that.
Clearly I meant confected by our media, which as you correctly point out is “off the dial”.
However, If you read the comments following the articles in these papers, you will notice that the percentage of doubters has multiplied with every passing month of the SMO. Indeed, large swathes of the population have come to realise they are being bombarded with an endless stream of propaganda, and look for their “news” elsewhere.
Times = Rupert Murdoch
Murdoch is Anti-Russian
This beef your country has with Russia goes back 300 years, part of the European Balance of Power Great Game that frankly no one gives a shit about anymore. You’re going to have to address that.
You or your friends might not but your government certainly does. In case you haven’t figured it out yet your government has zero interest in what any citizen thinks.
Well, you better get your asses in gear then because the Brits in charge are on a runaway train and calling for all steam ahead.
“I live in Australia where all mainstream media still report the Ukraine conflict as Putin/Russia bad”
In December 2019, I was in Kharkov. I took a taxi. The driver asked me where I was from. I said Australia. The driver looked thoughtful. Then he told me that there were many Australians in Kharkov. I asked him if they were soldiers. He merely smirked.
Look guys. I believe the Australian SAS was in Kharkov helping the Nazis kill Russian-speakers. If the Australian SAS were there, you can be sure that the British were there first.
One day, all of this will come out and the Australian population will come out of their slumber.
I took a taxi in Kiev in 2011 and the first frustrated words out of the driver’s mouth were about Crimea and how they could ….blah, blah, blah.
They lost Crimea years before Maidan and they knew it. In fact, I doubt they ever thought they really ever had it.
I don’t think they ever regarded Crimea as anything other than a colonial possession
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the Brits, Aussies & Yanks were working with the SBU to ‘purge’ dissidents the same way that the Brits & Yanks were aiding SAVAK to ‘purge’ dissidents in Iran after the Shah was installed.
Look up SAVAK sometime. It’ll make your hair curl.
What Lt. Col. Stuart Crawford could not fathom was that the Russians deliberately left that part of the border unguarded and let the ukozionazis would fall into the trap – and they did, just like lab rats.
Lt . Col. Stuart Crawford fantasy Blitzkrieg is but a rehash of the infamous “The Charge of the Light Brigade”, led by one Lord Cardigan. The brutish were wiped out then (1854). In the 2023 edition of the”Charge of … “, it is the ukrozionazis egged on by the likes of Lt. Col. Stuart Crawford that are being sent to the meat grinder. But this time around there ain’t no Tennyson to pen a poem to the ukrozioanzis that hit the dust in the plains of Donbas. Would it perhaps go like this?
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Drove ukrozionazis by the thousand.
“Forward, all ye Rag Tag Brigades!
Into the valley of Death
Rode ukrozionazi by the thousand
Egged by one Lt. Col. Stuart Crawford
Brilliant. And well deserved by creepy Crawford.
One can tell from Zelensky’s actions that he is losing. People who are winning a war don’t go around the world begging for a new set of weapons and money.
Winners usually display a level of confidence and calmness that is completely absent. You do however see the Russians displaying this behavior.
The reality of the situation is that the Ukrainian government should negotiate and this time in legitimate good faith. The longer this SMO goes on, the harder it is going to be for peace and the harsher the terms will be for Ukraine.
As for Crawford and the like, people like him are careerists who have given up whatever integrity they may have once had. Truth be told, Western politicians are like that as well to a larger extent. Rather than face the reality, they are pressuring Ukraine to launch an attack that they cannot sustain and will doom thousands of Ukrainians to their deaths. It’s a level of moral cowardice and corruption that is accelerating the decline in the West.
And pray how will Russia test Ukraine for ” Good Faith”. Will it be enough Zellensky crosses his heart?
There is the other option called Unconditional Surrender. Which is not yet possible because Zellensky is not independent.
So some political change and military purging of American influence will make it possible.
However I don’t see any of that happening. So Russia will carry on till it eliminates enough of the Ukrainian military till it is completely ineffective in protecting its major cities.
Before the end of this week, hundreds if not thousands of Ukrainian troops will die needlessly. The Russians are prepared – the destruction of the Ukrainian army will continue as Zelensky feeds his men into the Russian carnage machine. Uklranians are playing a despaerate zero sum game.
Zelensky is a perverted buffoon. No wonder the DC crowd loves him. He is a joker by trade and has no business in politics let alone leading his nation into widespread carnage and destruction. It should be interesting where he ends up and how he fares after this bloodfest.
As an expat who was living in Ukraine when this proxy war kicked off in Feb 2022- I say no to negotiations.
Both Russia and the Ukrainians who remain in Ukraine will be better off with Ukraine completely taken over by Russia.
If for some unfathomable reason Russia does not take over all or most of Ukraine- the part that is not under Russian control will face the worst life imaginable.
And the Russians will likely have to contend with ongoing AmeriNATO terrorism.
I believe you can count on the Russians not stopping until they have achieved all their goals, including the more recent goals such as keeping the regions where former Ukrainians voted to join Russia. There are 3 reasons for this.
1. As you wrote, if any part of the “404” land is left under Western (Nazi) control), in the short run all the Russian speaking people would have a bad fate and in the long run, the Nazis would get ready for yet another war, which would be the 5th such war. Yes, the fifth. Let’s count:
1st 1941-1945 Banderas and German Nazis vs. the USSR,
2nd 1945-1956 Banderas (OUN,OPA) vs. USSR, Huge death toll but the MSM is silent,
3rd 2014-2022 Nazi genocide in Novorossiya, mostly shelling of civillians, and
4th the SMO 2022-date.
Russia is very tired of this and is ready to finally do whatever it takes to make sure there is no fifth time. It’s important to understand why Russia has only committed about 20% (my estimate; yours may vary) of the Russian military. That 80% is to maintain escalatory dominance in case NATO decides to escalate. SO any NATO escalation right up to nuclear war means the West loses, and of course any nuclear war would have a guaranteed MAD ending.
2. It’s simply not possible for the West to make an agreement that any sane Russian could trust. The West lied massively about not ripping Russia to pieces in the 1990’s, then lied about not expanding NATO eastward, and then lied about the Minsk Agreement, with Merkel baldly admitting this to the press. I can’t even think of anything of value that the West could offer to Russia as a gage of honesty or even as simply an assortment of “hostages”, be it high-ranking people or economic assets. Even in the unlikely event of EU citizens rising up and overthrowing their governments, I don’t think the Kremlin would take the bait. Germany was all nice-nice for a long time and then it took a hard right turn to white-shirt Nazism.
3. I think it’s going to be a longer and tougher slog than anyone in the West has considered. When and if the Russian army advances all the way to the borders of Poland, Slovakia, and Moldova or Romania, at that point Russia will still face the threat of millions of Nazis hunkering down in the US, the USA and Canada. Just like in 1945, when the West prepared the 1945-1958 war. So Russia will need to “motivate” Poland, Germany ,etc. to completely nullify the Nazi threat. Russia will want war crimes tribunals that are accepted by all the European nations, it will want the Nazis to be imprisoned for many years, and Russia will want these countries to make it impossible for war-mongering SOB’s such as Scholz to once again come to power. So how can Russia make the German, Polish and French governments and their people want to agree to all that ? My best guess, maybe no better than yours, is that it will take 20 years of being cut off from all Russian resources before the Eurotrash will stop being garbage people, and are ready, perhaps, to come forward and agree in such a way that the Russians could believe. That’s a verrrry tall order. But Russia will not, I think, accept anything less, because it is holding all the high cards.
This is going to unfold slowly. The last Wehrmacht soldiers didn’t get back from the USSR until 1955. West Germany has a very solid 20 years of what looked like genuine friendship with Russia before Gerhardt Schroeder left office and the Germans slowly dropped their masks to reveal their nasty souls.
We are living through a globalist war, and what happens outside Europe is obviously more important that what’s inside. World economics and the decline of the Empire is a longer and more complicated discussion, and this decline will take much longer and will be more irregular. I guess at least 5 years for the US bubble to let the air out, and for North America to start resembling the ROW. I’m pretty sure the decline will go slowly and will be partly managed, because Russia, China and their trading partners don’t want disruptions that harm economic growth.
Since 87% German voters poll as hostile to policies of Berlin regime it is hard to see how US put this crap in place
Graham crackers come in all sizes, shapes and accents.
The ruling class in the collective West can’t get enough time to shift their fiat assets into tangible stuff. Too long they believed that in the end they would be able to feast on Russia’s ressources. I have been scratching my head over their complete denial of the facts on the ground and in the world at large. Now I think to have found some explanation.
Makes sense to me
Of course, there ain’t too many real physical/hard assets anymore
And the Indians aren’t going to give up theirs. Neither SA, Brazil, or anyone else. Tough Noogies for Ol’ Gates & Bezos. 😂
I have lived in Japan for many years. The Japanese had lost the war by 1943. But they continued to insist they were winning until 1945.
Similarly, Ukraine and NATO lost this “war” a long time ago. But they persist just as the Japanese did, claiming they are winning. The Japanese mounted all kinds of desperate attacks or attempted attacks, including the attempt by the Yamamoto, the world’s most advanced battleship, to attack the Allied fleet. It was sunk by American aircraft.
The Emperor knew the war was lost but he kept it going, hoping to make a deal with the Americans to keep the dynasty. In the end, he got that anyway: with surrender, the Americans found him a useful puppet.
One wonders it Zelensky and his crew in NATO really know the war is lost but hope to make a deal, too.
Right now, the Russians are doing well in Marinka, Adeevaka, and Kupyansk with massive aerial attacks all over Ukraine.
Like the Americans in WWII, I doubt that the Russians will settle for total capitulation . They MIGHT hand off Polish Ukraine (Galicia) to the Poles, Romanian Ukraine to the Romanians, Hungarian Ukraine to the Hungarians — not that the Poles, in particular, want Galicia.
That kind of “deal” would, however, not be favored by the Americans and possibly split NATO.
In any case, I think Ukraine will cease to exist. The Russians will absorb most of the Ukraine except the oblasts mentioned. If the Poles, Hungarians and Romanians don’t want them — they will just create a demilitarized, ne-nazified rump state. The Nazis will move to Canada.
The Nazis are already in Canada…..
There used to be this female Ukrainian poster from Alberta that was heavily involved in that diaspora congress, what’sis.
This was just after Breivik did his mass murder thing and was jailed.
She’d post love letters to the guy on that forum. Swooned over his good looks and how she dreamed of fathering his children. (I’m 100% serious).
Yep, there are pure-bred Ukrainian nazis in Canada. They are beyond nuts. Canada will one day pay dearly for giving them refuge, as hosts to malignant parasites always do in the end.
Russia will not hand off anything to anyone in my opinion. They will respect international laws, like they always do. Only the people can decide what they want to do. Is not up to the Russian leadership, unless it’s a western government of course. Yes, they just do what they want disregarding laws.
Actually, the Nazis will move firstly move into Europe with their NATO-supplied weapons and battle knowledge and link up with like-minded and start destabilizing European governments. Later, they will do the same in the five eyes who accept immigrants. One or two javelins downing civilian aircraft, and global air travel will screech to a halt – even for the uber-rich with their lear jets. Then, the west will close the barn door (after the donkeys are out).
Javelins are a SAM mate.
Javelins are an AT weapon mate.
https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/javelins-stingers-what-are-missile-systems-ukraine-is-getting-us/EE76Q4OL7VCLRMTHLV3VO7JETA/
airplanes near airports are low flying, big, lumbering targets.
I would think that NATO for the most part, will cease to exist as a serious or significant organization once Russia achieves its objectives in this conflict, as they should since the Soviet Union collapsed in the formal sense, over 30 years ago.
It is Yamato, not Yamamoto, arguably the most beautiful and “formidable” battleship, actually the flagship of the ex commander of Japanese Navy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who had been ambushed and killed by US aircraft earlier. The Japanese Navy, desperate enough to do something, anything at that stage in a losing war, sent that beautiful ship with I believe 5,000 sailors on a one-way suicide mission, with fuel enough for only a one-way trip and without any air cover, since all its carriers had been sunk by then. The result was predictable: A horrible death of the ship by dozens of bombs and torpedos, along with all its crew, before it even got to its target zone! What a waste! In the end, none of this mattered. Japan suffered immensely (fire bombing of its cities with houses made from highly combustible material caused more civilian deaths than Hiroshima and Nagasaki) and lost in the end.
Some argue that the US demand for unconditional surrender was what caused both Germany and Japan to fight till the bitter end. If the US had agreed to accept surrender, which retained the Emperor with 1200+ year history of governing Japan, the war could have been ended much earlier. Perhaps, it was US intention all along for Japan to be utterly destroyed as its peer competitor in the Indo-Pacific arena. Reminds me of what it is trying to do to Russia and China at present. USA cannot accept peer nations, only vassals.
Ukraine has already been defeated in 2014 by the US govt. It surrendered to US and the political and military figures of Ukraine are all US puppets.
There are no leaders of Ukraine who can surrender to Russia.
The ones who will surrender will be the NATO assets who might withdraw when the heat from Russian bombing becomes too high while the fighting capability of Ukraine military gets drastically reduced.
Yes, Ukraine, as we know so far, will cease to exist. The “deal” will not even listen to what the West wants, but it will be the first deal in a multi-polar world. US/Canada/ UK /EU made big mistakes in the Russian-Ukranian project. 1- Russia is not only a “power”, but it is a “superpower”, 2- economical sanctions have not touched it at all, 3- Russia does not run out of ammo or missiles because produces 3.5 times the production of the West, 4- its army is very well trained, 5- the stupidity of the West has ‘accelerated” the increase of BRICS+ states which now are 19, 6- the cutting of Russia from Swift has prompted the rest of the world to reconsider its dependance on the petro-dollar, 7- no one wants to deal with the West where the dominant part will want you dead if you do not agree with it…..
The pro Ukrainian propaganda is becoming bizarre. Bakhmut was touted as critical and a key crossroad 10months ago. Now that Russia has taken complete control and the Ukrainian losses there are said to be approx. 60,000+, the media is describing Bakhmut as a ‘nothing burger’. My God what’s it going to take for the West and Zelensky to admit the truth and see the light? The carnage of the Ukrainian military has been horrific.
Ukraine had a population of 34.5 million people in January of 2022. Today it is down to less than 20 million. What the hell is NATO, aka: the US, trying to accomplish here? Ukraine is no longer a viable nation state.
Population of Ukraine in January 2022 was actually 44 million. It has shrunk to half. The game is over for Ukraine. No one left to run the country and its economy except women & old men. Lights out. It’s dead.
I think the 44 million figure is from 2014. Many folk left after the coup.
I was in Ukraine in 2011 and 2012 and a large percentage of the people I met who could, wanted out, and that was before the coup. I was constantly asked about emigrating to the US. I seriously doubt the population figures provided by the Ukrainians are anywhere near the correct amount.
>>What the hell is NATO, aka: the US, trying to accomplish here?
Hypothesis: Genocide of the native people, so as to take control of the rich farmland, mines, and oilfields. Fields w/o inhabitants can be scooped up for pennies on the dollar. That seemed to be one of the original plans of Burisma and the ethnic cleansing of the Donbas.
Yeah, I’m coming around to thinking the “victory” will be for Monsanto and the other corps that are buying up what’s left of Ukraine. At this point, seems US/NATO is suiciding Ukraine, and if they can only prevent Russia voiding the sales, then it is a win.
Ummm you just answered your own question. No longer a viable nation state. A landmass that will now continually for years wreak terrorism onto Russia. They are trying to turn eastern Europe into another middle eastern quagmire of IED’s, bombs, terrorist acts etc. Unfortunately, it could work. Can Russia really endure middle eastern style terrorism throughout and across their country for the next 20 years? Maybe. Maybe not. The coward Chinese need to step up.
In 1989, Ukraine’s popoulation was 51.7 million – it’s 1989 GDP was twice what it was in 2019. Ukraine has been a failing nation for decades. This war will end Ukraine as a nation.
They started the day with 60 tanks and 600 Ukinazies and ended it with a loss of 16 of their precious few tanks left and 250 soldiers… in one day! That’s a clear shellacking they got.
No doubt, today the RMD will update us on the precise totals and would not surprise me one bit if the grand totals would amount to nearly half what they started out with.
The UK aristocracy is responsible for most of this mess (and most others)
Medvedev is over the target – so is Richard Poe
Richard has been researching this for 40 years
https://rumble.com/v2jowpc-noor-bin-ladin-calls…-richard-poe.html?mref=6zof&mrefc=3
Wow! That was an incredibly educational two hours, Jack. Thanks very much indeed for the link. Much appreciated H.
Larry, I wouldn’t get worked up over what some has-been from the tiny, woke and laughably ineffective British Army writes. The UK is stuffed full of these cretins and a number of them are serving in Government.
They all seem to be living in some strange fantasyland where the British Army is some kind of invincible force which, being Western, has right on its side. Some of them have even publicly declared that it should be mobilised and sent to tackle (and beat, obviously) the Russians.
These people are dangerous buffoons. To a man, they all harbour the same irrational hatred of Russia and Putin, they all spin the same lies and they all support the UK’s devious and sinister activities in and around Ukraine and elsewhere.
The English seem to punch way above their weight limit. Has any one told them, the battle of Britain is over and they don’t have enough Spitfires to defend against a Russian invasion.
What Russian invasion ????????
Russia has NEVER threatened UK in any way………..
Russia was a close trading partner of England for centuries – Muscovy Company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscovy_Company
This a first for everything.
If Germany would have persisted with the Battle of Britain rather than preparing to attack Russia, Britain would have collapsed in a few more months. The biggest military strategic mistake of WWII was Germany declaring war on Russia. If Russia was out, Germany would have handily won. The Russian front in WWII was bigger than all the rest of WWII, including the Pacific.
Without Russia in, Britain falls, Europe is done, and Japan maybe has a chance. Germany turning on Russia also lined Russia up against Japan, and despite the nukes, Japan didn’t surrender until Russia declared war on them.
Germany obviously paid no attention to WWI or the Napoleonic wars. If they had, they would have known that attacking Russia is suicide. NATO is now learning that lesson.
@ K. Talaat,
The battle of Britain was won mainly by the heroism of Polish pilots. But that fact brings an altogether different face to the narrative so is carefully pushed under the rug.
https://www.amazon.com/Polish-Few-Airmen-Battle-Britain/dp/152671485X
I remember a snippet from the book that is pretty amusing. In the beginning of the blitzkrieg, a few Polish Pilots did manage to take off. One gentleman managed to shoot down a German plane which had to make an emergency landing in some field. The Polish aviator landed right behind him and went up to the German to shake his hand. Such feelings vanished after the blitzkrieg rolled over Poland leaving destruction behind. Good read.
Timor, Whatever public narrative comes out in our country, and I agree it is often dreadful, those heading the military know the British forces cannot go toe to toe with Russian arms. The past decade or so has seen the near destruction of what was once a decent force, today their capacities are largely confined to the ceremonial, along with a very limited number of very capable specialist units such as the SAS and Marine commandos.
The SAS are raiding empty Russian territory, killing civilians as there are no military to fight with, then running back to Ukraine when the Russian forces arrive to confront them. That’s not a capability worth mentioning, ISIS do that all the time around the globe, you just need to be drugged up and a bit of an evil b’stard to go and attack soft targets like civilians. The SAS are assassins, people who don’t think twice about shooting a man sitting at home with his kids, who plan how to attack unarmed people with the clear intent of terrorising the civilian population with gruesome and vicious attacks. Militarily, they have been impotent for decades, how many Scud units did they find and destroy in GW1?
I totally agree.
The SAS have shamed themselves and proved to follow any orders which makes them murderers for hire.
Absolutely disgusting.
There is not ONE senior officer in any western country that has stood up to the NWO mass murder on targeted countries and said “No sir.”
Now, don’t get me wrong, as a Brit I utterly despise the pathetic cabal of globalist scum currently infesting our once proud Parliament. I also despair at how much our armed forces, along with most of those in the western world, have declined in both numbers and effectiveness over recent years. Finally, the levels of Russophobia in our media and unfortunately society in general (mainly through propaganda) really saddens me.
But to equate SAS members with ISIS, to accuse them of purposely seeking-out innocent civilians to murder them…well, I can’t accept that.
Do you actually have any evidence to back-up your scurrilous claims?
They are the ones leading these attacks in Western Russia, they have been heavily involved with targeted assassinations of Afghan citizens in night raids, reported widely within Western MSM, along with their Australian counterparts. They also did this in Iraq, and they have form in Ireland with widespread terror killings in rural communities. The SAS are agent provocateurs, they do whatever is asked of them by the cabal of globalist scum who control them.
Have you any evidence that ISIS and the SAS don’t work for the same people?
SAS operated in Yugoslav area too (and maybe still do). You can guess who they “worked” with, and what was their business.
Ukraine’s Zelensky has a direct hot line to Lockheed Martin. Enough said.
Kamikaze: I have always described Ukraine post 2015 as playing not so much Suicide by Cop with Russia but Suicide by Super Power. Current events highlight the willingness of the US/UK and Kiev to totally destroy the Ukraine nation.
This is suicide by cop with the wife and children in the back seat.
I read Larry’s title – Ukraine going kamikaze? – and thought he meant sans underwear. I guess that’s “going commando” – which is extremely dangerous. You can get your junk all squeezed if you try to jump up a couple of stairs.
The Japanese Kamikaze bomber attacks were very successful, but not enough to win the war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HptaPOwkrA
The Japanese were trying to surrender since late 1944, but the USA didn’t accept their offer until two atomic bombs could be demonstrated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8y97M_1b-0
Thank you for posting these references – very informative.
Certainly, “history is written by the victors.”
Had the Kamikazes come a year or so earlier, they would have likely succeeded in their purpose, making it too expensive for the American Navy to get near the Japanese home islands. This invention was one of the most significant war winners, up there with the Enigma and JN-20/25 code decrypts, that few know about:
PROXIMITY FUSE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity_fuze#Deployment
Another development that made the A-Bomb superfluous. IMHO
Zelensky is like you well-stated a pathetic beggar clown schlepping around Europe asking for and threatening this and that. There is no way in a savory hell that Ukraine and NATO will be able to dislodge the ever-growing military juggernaut in the Urals. Ukraine-NATO is becoming more pitiful with every passing day. Unknown to many casual observers, the Russian military industrial complex completely dwarfs anything left in existence in the combined West. From how I view it, Western military technology today is based mostly on aesthetics and hyped up performances whereas Russian military engineering concentrates on developing more simplified but durable platforms which can be continuously updated and modified over the course of time saving untold billions on wasteful R&D. The fact is that Russia is churning out new weapons systems on a neck-breaking pace. The Europeans, on the other hand, can’t even decide on what type of next generation tank to build after 2030. If they only knew that abomination that is Bruxelles won’t last much longer than 2025, they could save themselves a lot of angst.
“Europeans, on the other hand, can’t even decide on what type of next generation tank to build after 2030.”
Forget tanks; the Europeans can’t even decide what a woman is.
Good one.
I like that!!! Anything and everything to satisfy their Washington DC overlords’ lust for all perversions!
You’re confusing Europeans with US supreme court judges.
Are you an American?
US supreme court justice nominee senate hearing:
Senator: “Can you tell me what a woman is?”
Judge Ketanji Jackson Brown: “It’s not for me to say .”
Senator: “You may well have to preside over cases like this.
Can you tell me what is a woman?”
Judge Jackson Brown: “I can’t answer that, I’m not a biologist.”
Jackson Brown was confirmed and now sits on the US supreme court for the rest of her life .
LMAO.
Exclusive video of Zelensky begging for more weapons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shwCmkluxQU
They are setting up a blame game. Ukraine didn’t lose because Russia is five times more powerful and the war was stupid. Ukraine was lost because we failed to provide the arms they needed. The same was done for South Vietnam.
Regarding Zelenskys begging/threats, Simplicius made an interesting point the other day.
Former propaganda chief Arestovitch apparently warned the West early on, that if they didn’t support Ukraine against Russia, Ukraine would eventually join forces with Russia.
This is not as unlikely as it seems. In my view the east of Ukraine will thrive in the RF as a BRICS member and much of whats left of Ukraine will be keen to join later.
When the dust settles, many Ukrainians will wake up to the fact that the West never did support them, but were simply using them as expendable cannon fodder, and considers them 3rd class Europeans. When the penny finally drops, there are going to be a lot of angry people, prioritising their Slavic roots over their European identity.
Lest we forget, it was not so long ago that the Chechens were the mortal enemy of Russia.
Can’t help but find this scenario somewhat optimistic.
Britain, US are masterful plauers of “Divide And Rule”.
However, the Chinese might provide a window enabling UKR-RU talks, by joining efforts with Turkey.
Let’s hope for it.
Not so far fetched – Europe is in the process of de-industrializing due to the crazy sanctions. There is going to be no future in the WEF version of Europe, no short range air travel, 15 minute cities (aka prisons), no freedoms at all, crime, woke culture, and no opportunity. The BRICS/Global South/Asian axis will be looking pretty good by comparison.
Whether or not it’s “ideal” is immaterial as it will obviously be the “better” of the two choices. I suspect as NATO dissolves you’ll see more Eastern European countries make the pivot too.
Agreed.
My only difference of opinion is that Russia is likely to takeover all the territory of genuine interest to it, turning the remainder into a DMZ, free fire no man’s land.
I am an expat who was living in Central Ukraine when this proxy war kicked off.
I agree in the aftermath of this proxy war most Ukrainians will recognize they were used by America and Europe- and will come to despise both.
I further agree Ukrainian citizens have a much better future with the BRICS.
I believe Russia and China will pour money into Novorossiya to rebuild and upgrade it.
I believe Russia will take over most of Ukraine- excepting a few oblasts in the northwest that border Poland.
They likely want to connect to the Hungarian border so they have a trade corridor into Hungary and Serbia.
I see a very bright future for Novorossiya- post dewesternization.
⚡️🇷🇺 Overnight, losses of the enemy in the Zaporozhye Direction and Southern Donetsk Region amounted to nearly 17APCS, 11IFVS, 9 Tanks, and beyond 900+ personnel. The advance of the enemy was only 700 metres near Velkya Novoselika; the enemy attempted to go on the offensive in Avdeevka however suffered significant losses and retreated.
In the Ugledarisky and Pobjeda (Marinskoye Tactical Region); the AFU attempted to probe the villages around Pobjeda; suffered losses amounting to nearly 250 personnel and 8 vehicles and retreated. On the Ugledarisky Tactical Region, the AFU attempted to probe the villages of Myliske and Pavlovka, however, suffered losses amounting to 13 vehicles (5 SMVs and 8 IFVs and APCs) and around 5 tanks.
In total, losses are nearing 2,000 personnel and almost 45 destroyed vehicles from one night of attack. Battles continue today, as the AFU is attempting another large-scale probing attack. Western vehicles are involved.
Video of the attack:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/WqHiBtCfbPog/
…we are now seeing the long-awaited Ukronazi so-called counter offensive. The main one is suppose to be coming on the day of NATO’s large European military exercise next week. Dollar-paid Ukronazi troops post a video showing very confident and cool looking combatants convey the message of everything being under control, very organized, under NATO standards. The current offensive consists of a series of harmonious left-right-up and down strategic moves that should force Russia to lose balance. Nice strategy, as in Bruce Lee film, Enters The Dragon. But like the esteemed author of today’s article explains, Ukraine lacks troops and ammunitions to support a long protracted offensive on well defended Russian positions. They will end up losing more and more soldiers and equipment. Here in Iran, we have excellent news coverage from Russia and it seems the latest Ukronazi-NATO offensive is already caput. By the way it seems a lot of US-based excellent websites – MOA for example – are being blocked by some democratic free speech lovers entity from Washington DC. One can’t access them from this location.
Change your DNS
The “Mall of America” website? What is MOA website?
MOA=Moon of Alabama
MoA is based out of Germany …
Also the Drone attempts in Russia reminds the desperate attempts of Hitler over England with the V-1 and V-2 bombs.
All the best to you and your work.
Ryan Messano “We are brainwashed from birth” The Brit population certainly are.
Before the Norman conquest, Anglo-Saxon Britain was Orthodox Christian, yet the English “Aristocracy” sided with the Ottoman Islamists during the Crimean War.
English antipathy towards Russia is rooted in hegemonic rivalry and old-fashioned jealousy of both the Brit establishment & royalty.
We chose the wrong side in Crimea and again in present-day Ukraine.
“Those whom the Gods wish to destroy will first make mad”.
With lunatic retired Lt Colonels, bum Jo P.M.s, and two Clown Houses brimming with absolute Twats, the U.K. is both a laughing stock and a huge disgrace to our pre-conquest ancestors.
Here is Rat Face conning fellow Sodomites.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/newsalerts/video-2633197/Standing-ovation-applause-Zelensky-address-Com
Diamass- ‘Merica has its own well fed duo – Tweedle Black and Tweedle White, both mirroring (or is the other way around?) the British fellow. One, some sort of politishon, and the other a has-been general. The Brit – who he?
Larry described T-B and T-W accurately as delusional. I can only agree.
I, like other posters wonder, ‘what to do now’ when they realise they have painted themselves into the corner.
Before the Norman Conquest, Anglo-Saxon Britain was Roman Catholic. In fact, the Celts had been converted to Catholicism during the Roman conquest. Anglo-Saxons were converted to Catholicism during the 6th and later Centuries.
Orthodox Christianity has never been a significant presence in the British Isles.
Regarding the British Isles, what is known about the state of the Church there at the time of the Great Schism is that subsequent to the Norman Invasion in 1066, church life was radically altered. Native clergy were replaced, liturgical reform enacted, and a strong emphasis on papal church control was propagated. As such, it is probably safe to say that, prior to 1066, the church of the British Isles was Orthodox, and the Normans brought the effects of the Great Schism to British soil. As such, it is probably proper to regard King Harold II as an Orthodox Christian.
It also meant that after King Harold II, the English church continued under the authority of the “Pope” and not with Orthodoxy and this article does not consider the historical development of the “Church of England” after this date.
https://orthodoxwiki.org/Timeline_of_Orthodoxy_in_the_British_Isles
I wrote a poem that I think you’ll enjoy:
The Ballad of Lesser Shitstain
Once the idol of the world
Jack of union’s flight unfurled
Crowns anointed and set-pearled
Circling the bowl you swirled
Empire finds the drain
Eton snobs without a brain
Stupid slobs bring but pain
Welcome to lesser shitstain
add. Just one more flush and she’ll be gone!
Looks like Russia is pulling up her pants, uh-oh!!
just on a detail, I find the expression “which the russians are happy to do” a bit inaccurate. I get of course what you mean, but I believe most russians are not “happy” at all to kill ukrainians (if we expect psychotics people who engage in war because they are happy to kill, whoever it is).
They have concluded after much time of observing the situation that the finally had to do it, but they would have much preferd not to go there, and they would have much preferred to stop in March/april 2022 if Zelensky had been allowed to finalise the peace talks underway at this time.
And I remeber putin, early in the war, so long before it went really awful for ukrainians, saying he was horrified by the devastation and attrition rate ukrainians were dying, all that for nothing.
I am not native english speaker so I don’t know what expression would be more truthful to what’s happening, but I tend to believe words we use shape the toughts we have (even unconsciously) , and that it is very important to choose them carefully.
Good post.
Correct. The Russians do not want to kill regular Ukrainians, and resent the position they have been put into.
Likewise, The West does not support Ukraine, but are using that country to try to engineer regime change in Moscow. They consider Ukrainians 3rd class Europeans, and would never dream of “fighting to the last” German/Spaniard/Frenchman, etc.
Nuland and Blinken need more Ukranian blood for their kabbalistic ritual.
There is no kabbalist ritual that uses blood. The basic premise is that magic, as it were, is “increasing self consciousness through acts of the will.” The whole of the law shall be do as thou will but that thou harm none.
They are both jews of Ukrainian decent
Maybe their way of revenge on the Ukronazies that killed tons of jews 🤭
The Russians have long memories & they will not forget what the UK has done in Ukraine or forgive the British role & their disgusting contribution to this ongoing & devastating War that has caused the unnecessary deaths of thousands of Ukrainians & Russians! Biden & his War criminal, Neocon Administration hold the ultimate responsibility for this conflict & the shocking loss of life but the unhinged & out of control bulldog British have led the way in all the Terrorist attacks on Russian infrastructure & the Terrorist attacks inside Russia! For their folly & arrogance at poking the bear, the lapdog British are going to pay the ultimate price for their complicity in this Ukraine conflict & Russia will make them pay for their crimes? It’s become obvious in recent days that Russia has stepped up its attacks, they are kicking ass & taking names & the Brits have to be on top of that list, but the Russians are patient & don’t shoot their mouths off & bloviate like this idiotic pommy blowhard Lt Colonel. Payback is coming, whether that comes in a kinetic form or a economic one, it ain’t going to be pretty for the Brits when the Russians eventually retaliate?
Agreed. And as a Brit I feel quite nervous.
Oh, well. At least we don’t live on an Island with critical undersea pipelines.
Oh Wait……🤨
If I were in the sad and dilapidated state of the UK, I would think twice about instigating and defacto participating in a war against Russia. I guess they’ve been watching too many Bond films in an attempt to forget about how far the British Empire has fallen. Instead they should be watch Boy George videos to get a glimpse at that future.
A62- the Brits are doing ok themselves in the self-destruction stakes. High points:
– No army or navy to speak of, and what little they had has been given away.
– dishing out money to third world countries, tramps, and thieves.
– building a horrendously expensive EU railway line to ensure europeean troops can at any time, move quickly to subjugate those that are not yet part of the white-flight.
– sucking in all the military age dregs of the world, free health care, free dentistry, pocket money and free hotel accommodation, yes really.
– green wind taxes, a creaking electric grid, with several millions of electric cars needing to be regularly charged in two or three years.
– schools stacked out with children who don’t speak English, parents who dress for the desert, no housing for the indigenous population. Londonistan, go see and be a white spot on a domino, or Birminghamstan, Manchesterstan . . .
– the outgoings list goes on and on. And only 11 pct inflation in the country.
– to help all this, enforced muzzling of any dissent and the like. But that’s a longer list.
Spend, spend, spend, ‘loads-o-money’ forever. The Brits taxed till the pips squeak, and govmt still spending it like a drunken sailor. Self-destruction are us.
You would be surprised how many parts of Pakistan, India, Afghanistan etc are covered in snow for few months a year. Those clothes that you call dessert clothes function well enough in places covered in snow without heating .
@ Masr,
those areas that Palamedes is referring to are pretty much No-Go areas for the native Britishers. That is indeed a mystery…People risk life and limb, or huge amount of money to escape from their primitive and backwards culture countries. And after they manage to reach a developed country they try to propagate the same backwardness. Why not just stay where you are and let the world get on in peace?
In India there is a new movement of young people leaving Islam and it’s growing very fast. Lots of Ex Muslims doing debates etc challenging the mullahs. And one can see the Imams and Muftis get clobbered in debates. Their familiar response, get hyper and start screaming.
Everything you wrote apart from the Eurotunnel applies to the USA LOL.
Spending like a drunken sailor?
US debt ceiling? What’s the US “budget” this year?
$30+ trillion debt!
El Paso? Sucking in military age dregs of the world? 5 million last year alone LOL
Minnesotastan (Little Somalia)?
Self destruction???
The Brits by their own choice are now in a fight for their own existential survival because they survive in tandem with the US by financial hegemony backed by military hegemony and if that’s not even extinguished but merely damaged, the US will fare better but I doubt the UK will survive as but an emaciated shadow of itself.
“Zelensky is running around Europe like a homeless guy begging for spare change.”
He is getting aggressive too.
https://ok.ru/video/5259563895424
The problem is that he elicits sympathy for just being a runt. They become protective just based on that and not on the larger issues at hand, especially with the females.
Congratulations go out to Ron Unz for his 10 year anniversary of the American Pravada series. He covers a many issues ranging from Hanoi John Maccain, to JFK Assassination, to all the lies about WW2. All are very well researched with lots of great references. Furthermore, they are now all available in audio format.
https://www.unz.com/runz/ten-years-of-american-pravda-and-the-unz-review/
There are a lot of neocons who will likely have international arrest warrants out for them, that will be served in the world outside the West and possibly some inside the West, as various those least committed to this nonsense, come to their senses.
The future is a continuation of the past, until it becomes a reaction to it.
Each newsrag in Blighty has some harumphing retired major or colonel to raise the flag for king and empire. This twit is one of them, Stuart Crawford, but there are a good half-dozen others. Up at the crack of dawn for PT and to shake off yesterday’s woolly alcohol-sodden brain, a big brekkie. An hour or two penning nonsense for Fleet Street, then it’s off to the club for endless G & T’s and good conversation with like-minded walruses, before staggering home to repeat the performance the next day.
In this case, the comments after the article are even more warlike and Russophobic than the article itself, plus plagued with simple spelling errors indicative of the current state of British education and infrastructure repair, not to mention food shortage / prices, stupid high energy prices, unaffordable rent and potholes. Paradise.
But let’s not let the American opinionsphere get away without giving it a similar fish slap to the face a la Monty Python! I read an op-ed article on The Hill by someone even more deluded than Stuart the Bagpiper the other day.
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4027714-in-ukraine-russia-is-nearly-down-to-its-nukes/.
Nearly down to its nukes. The US version of stupid nonsense. And what do the US elites care about rental evictions, grossly underpaid jobs including in the military, and the state of food prices and homelessness? Not a fig. Just like the British aristo-rentier finance crowd.
Intersectionality. That is a woke term judging people and blaming-basically who is more of a victim and deserves more. I was just in a liberal city with thousands of homeless(mostly black).
Protestors are out for abortion, open borders, transexuals. The local government is in line with protestors.
The homeless are served by a massive non profit sector funded by the government.
Being homeless is a high worth activity because it feeds the bureaucracy.
The homeless person himself is not valued.
So, in their own twisted minds, they’re taunting the Russians to use their nukes. Why am I not surprised? Luckily, their conventional weapons assessment is pure bunk.
Par for the course.
The west is all in and doubling down. What’s Rishi Sunak going to show his constituents? Rising energy and food costs and rampaging inflation? Huge public and private debt that is rising? What about Scholz? What about Biden? How far can you go into debt before EVERYONE in the world and your own country realizes that you are just an inflated has-been full of sh*t and no substance? Ever seen those movies with the aristocrats who put on a facade of wealth but everyone knows they are in debt left and right and laughs at them behind their backs? That’s us…
Take any of these presidents/prime ministers and put then next to Putin, who in 30 years literally repaired a GIGANTIC country, made it the strongest army in the world with the most advanced tech, they run budget surpluses every year, their gold reserves are growing, inflation is low, unemployment is at a historic low, they are 20% of world’s wheat/grain productions, fertilizer, metals, oil, gas, you name it. They produce their own airliners, cars, are a cohesive society (Muslim, Buddhist, Christian… all in on concept of “one Russia”), look at Grozny – 20 years ago it was totally leveled like Bakhmut and now it is literally covered in gold and Chechens are the most fervent Russians where Kadyrov is literally the most fervent supporter of Putin’s.
Compare Putin to Biden or Obama or any of the US presidents or UK prime ministers in the last 20 years and he wipes the floor with them. He cleaned out the oligarchs that were sucking the country dry, put order back into everything, allowed people to just do their thing WHILE keeping all the traditional societal values alive.
This realization, my friends, is the biggest fear of the American and western establishment – that American and western men and women are going to sit down and compare their own countries with Russia and realize they are being ripped off, raped informationally, demographically etc. etc., being re-programmed to think things that are not normal etc. etc. This is why the whole western machine is all in – media, government, corporations – all gone too far in the all out grab that is enslaving and reprogramming the populations. Imagine the robots at CNN and the myriad of other “news houses”, the myriad of so called “analysts” or all these institutions sucking billions of dollars annually like the State department and a bunch of agencies, think tanks etc. etc. – they have all staked their names and carriers on this narrative. Corporations are happy to submit because virtue signaling makes money so they are all in and the consequences of going against the narrative, well, look at Target….
This is why I fear there is no off ramp and it is just going to escalate. Russia triggered a total PUBLIC and INTERNATIONALLY VISIBLE all-in for the western world by showing the whole of humanity that you can stand up to the combined west successfully – and the whole world has had enough of the western values, morals, lectures, sanctions, meddling, reprogramming, being told things that are obviously unnatural or not true and having to pretend they are…. We are right now in an existential fight and it is only going to get worse. Who do you see in America standing up to stop this? Who do you see in UK standing up to stop this? In France? In Germany? In Italy? Japan?
I don’t know about you but for 50 years we have been told that the West holds the key to exploiting nature, to all the chemicals, all the science, all the knowledge – don’t worry the experts know what they are doing. Meanwhile nations get raped for resources, forests get cut down, oceans are polluted, nothing is sacred, now they have openly turned to engineering people and their thoughts. I am going back to pen and paper, the farm and the soil and what I can see and touch. We have been fleeced and I don’t trust literally ANYTHING that comes out of western science, media, universities, corporations – it is all rotten and corrupt.
Doubling down on what? Ukraine has bled about as much as it can. The weapons stock of the West are nearly emptied. What possibly can be gained?
Any rational leader of would scream Uncle and beg forgiveness for their stupid behavior. But given the scope of the calamity they can’t. Zelensky is a marked man. He can’t admit the stupidity of his actions otherwise he’s toast. European leaders have cost their countries huge economic losses with negative results to show. Biden is set to witness a major defeat on the eve of an election. At this point all they have is hope. The entire fiasco is being driven by wishful thinking, that somehow this shit show will turn into a beautiful butterfly.
But, otherwise, you’re spot on.
If Russia gets its information act together. It makes an automatic AI Translator with a human voice and takes the effort to showcase Russia and life in Russia , then ensure that Western audience has access to it by a means which can’t be countered by local governments then you can expect a revolution in a short period of time
There’s lots of vloggers on Youtube. You have to get past the Western-paid vloggers, but it’s easier now because many of them left Russia when the SMO started.
You can start with “Eli from Russia” on youtube. She has tons of videos from her travels in various places like Kamchatka, Dagestan, Chechnya etc.
Sunak is what we call across ‘the pond’, an oreo cookie. Dark-skinned on the outside and white on the inside. He’s more British than a native Brit. Typical behavior for those non-natives who seek to prove themselves to the status quo.
He is a coconut. Brown on the outside, and white on the inside.
I get the feeling that even Kiev isn’t in control of many units. These cross border raids and front line incursions seem to have no central command at all. Have the rank and file just decided to act on their own initiative while they still breath, given the incompetence and corruption at the top?
Units do not go on a sucide mission on their own. This stuff came from the top, starting from USA/NATO satellite info on weak areas.
The mention of a Col. Crawford brought to my mind the insane war unleashed by W Bush 20 years ago now. Back then, I tagged him with the moniker “the Cretin From Crawford,” the name of the Texas town his family currently disgraces.
The British colonel’s insanity and that of other Western “leaders”, beyond being laughable, have tragic consequences. Last night I happened to see (on Donbass Devushka? Can’t remember now) a short video recorded by Ukrainian soldiers in combat recently. For several minutes, one of them, perhaps a medic, tried with tourniquets to stop the bleeding of comrades all around him, morphine or other pain-killers seemingly unavailable. One fellow had lost most of his left arm and leg and was begging the others to kill him to stop the pain. Another appeared to have lost his lower jaw, that entire area of his face gushing blood. Just thinking about it brings tears to my eyes. What an unnecessary waste! I went to bed thinking that I’d love to have the chance to rub the noses of Vickie Nuland, Tony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Lindsey Graham, Dementia Biden, and other blowhards like them in the blood of those poor blokes I saw in the video. The bastards!
That was on bitchute. Real tragedy, repeated over and over in this war – and I agree with you, western bloodlust has been at the core of it all.
For Russia it was a choice of last resort. For the west, it was a choice of first resort. To argue otherwise is an exercise in self-delusion.
Yes I have been going through the same reaction in witness to this mans sufferings. Honestly the fellow is past 45 and wide of girth. A conscript two weeks trai8ning then dumped in trench with small arms. The poor man is frozen in the space between life and death. Look to his right arm you will perceive his mute attempt to gesture surrender. And when you realize he can only breath through his nose. understand any movement will result in suffocation. I pray he might receive attention form a Russian medic, but I feel the Russian soldier perceived an immediate bullet to the head was the humane option.
“No army in the history of war can sustain losses like this and prevail.”
This may be a true statement, even a truism, however, maybe the inverse is just as true. “No army in the history of war can [inflict] losses like this and prevail.” Meaning the Russians. And the United States.
Ukraine and the Ukrainian military may go up in the biggest fireball the world has ever seen, but the Russians will have expended vast and huge amounts of natural resources in creating and then setting off the fireball and then setting it off; resources that once used can never be used again and are gone forever.
Does a country exhaust their finite natural resources of natural gas, oil, coal, minerals and rare earths on guns or butter?
The United States doesn’t spend their resources on anything. They United States uses other people’s and other countries’ resources, much like the Ukraine. Both are beggars, moochers, grifters, homeless panhandlers, and parasites. The United States supports their hegemony by using other people’s and other countries’ resources. The Ukraine does the same thing. When this cooperation isn’t immediately forthcoming, then the United States resorts to sanctions to extract those resources, either through forced vassalage, or debt servitude. Ukraine just puts you on their ever-growing kill list.
Look at Europe. Look at Germany. Look at Japan. Former fireballs. Now burned-out hulks.
Kamakazi me this. Is Russia fighting the Ukraine, or the hegemony of the United States and the nightmare of total world domination by the West?
What perfect nonsense you post. Read recent report of how astonishingly SMALL is Russia’s expenditure on this war.
Those utterly deluded so called experts show to the world how much butt-hurt the west really is. They have spread so much BS over the time, they even stated openly that Ukraine was winning. Winning what? Ukraine lost in May/April 2022.
That big western ego must really hurt, when they spread obvious lies like that and openly deny the facts happening on the ground. Putting lipstick on that ukrainian pig will never ever change anything. It’s a good indicator how badly the west and especially Nato copes with reality thou. The more they lie, the worse their agony is.
The so much hyped Ukrainian counter-offensive is a total nothingburger. They have no capacity to achieve anything significant without enormous losses. No amount of Nato weapons and money will change that. Russia is already out-producing the entire west with ease. The west is isolated. No one is supporting their cause but the usual suspects. They will not accept their foreseeable defeat, that is why this conflict is so dangerous in my opinion.
It’s not KamiKaze, the guys really think they can win and survive.
At least, none can say the Russians didn’t warn them ; they did all they can to impede the light brigade charge. They sent a lots of big booms all can hear and chop-chop some heads but it didn’t worked… some western “intelligence” said the colonized troops that they will win big and here we are. Just looks at the “brit expert” in his bubble of comfortable winning looking at Slavs dying ; the typical kind of cunt that’ll never learn.
Now it’s Balaclava once over again, and as a french observer I feel like entitled to express the same feelings as back then : “It’s magnificent but it’s not war : it’s madness”.
There is indeed no doubt that Lt. Col. Stuart Crawford is second to none in the fine art of drawing arrows on the map. In addition to mandatory straight line over the most fortified enemy positions (1), and recreation of Debaltsevo pocket (2), he threw in a curveball that was less expected than the Spanish Inquisition (3). The number 3 on his map is the dumbest arrow I have seen in this whole conflict.
The “wide left hook” Ardennes redux is not present on the map, for some reason. They do have German tanks, and Balkenkreuz on them, but it might not be enough to make is as successful.
Different Colonel, same shit:
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/67197
https://twitter.com/JeffFisch/status/1665383809510981638
“This manifestation of insanity normally would require that the person espousing such nonsense be wrapped up in a straight jacket and placed in a padded cell and fed jello. Preferably lime green.” – LJ
The FIB-CIA now knows LJ’s jello-flavor preference for an upcoming dossier.
Larry,
In support of your contention, why five regions rather than one? Clearly it functioned as a reconnaissance in force; however, why probe with all the hardware (and ammunition), which Ukraine clearly values more than soldiers’ lives?
If the goal was the Zaporizhzhia N. power plant (see C. Cassad link below), why commit such a small force? It has long been evident that Russia considers Zaporizhzhia strategic and would have set up a multi-layered defense (which NATO orbital intel would have confirmed) such that a small expeditionary force would have no chance, particularly if split in five.
https://windowstorussia.com/oops-offensive-in-the-ukraine-zaporozhye-direction.html
Perhaps NATO is sharing false intel?
Speaking of kamikaze I read that only 14% pilots ever made it to target. I know they were only effective against US ships because they had wooden decks unlike Royal Navy
So I take your point to be that Regime knows it is finished but needs to occupy its despondent forces and throw away lives
I read that the final 6 months of WW2 cost more lives than the previous 5 1/2 years and that Germany knew by 1943 it had lost
Ukraine is going to collapse but the question is whether Poland does too
Why would Poland be in danger of collapsing Paul? US cash is flooding into the place.
They do have a huge refugee problem, but they will shake down the EU to pay for that.
Because Poland is fractured
Poles do not want to go on this suicide trip with Kaczynski………
Why do you think Poles are solidly behind their regime ? Is that because Americans stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Biden The Great – the President elected by the most votes in US history ?
Why do people assume everyone is as devoted to their Great Leader as Americans are to Biden ?
Larry, Ukraine unfortunately does not have planes for kamikaze pilots to attack in. The ground suicide banzai attack will have to do in the counteroffensive.
Everything coming out of the UK and Washington since 24th Feb 2022 is hysterical rubbish with no grip on reality. The propaganda with which the UK and US thought to destabilize Russian society! The AFU is finite and as I predicted here after the fall of Bakhmut, incapable of any large-scale offensive. At best, local offensives that invariably fall into a bag of Russian artillery fire! And how do I know that the AFU is finite? Precisely for the levels of PR, psyops and insane propaganda like we’ve never seen. Because the AFU has nothing left!
Russia has completely worn down the AFU in recent months, including the hierarchy. To make matters worse, it was clear to me a long time ago that the AFU, which never managed to take Donbass from its militias in 8 years or any well-implemented Russian defense line during the SMO, never even trained offensive maneuvers. There is always less talk of the Kherson disaster than of the quick maneuver in Kharkov – with the Russian forces already retreating – which also ended up in a bag of fire and where not by chance many NATO languages were always heard.
The objective set for the AFU was not to leave the trenches, bunkers and fortresses that NATO built and kill as many ruskis as possible. But it didn’t work because Russia destroys the defense lines with artillery. And most likely Bakhmut will go down in history as the great battle of this conflict but it was the Russian punch in Pospana, which showed how Russia would destroy any line of defense in depth, that definitely defeated the morale of the AFU! And desperate Zelensky isn’t begging for spare change, he demands 50 Patriot batteries! Which I, to be honest with you, don’t know if they even exist in the US. Because I guess the US never thought of implementing SAMs throughout its territory. Probably the Patriots are deployed where they expect air strikes. As in the bases they install in the theaters of overseas operations.
Finally, I don’t understand two topics that have also been talked about a lot lately. How will NATO scale without men, hardware or ammunition?! And above all, how does Russia allow the humiliation of successive Ukrainian incursions into Russian territory and that Prigozhin continues to challenge everyone in Russia? And I would like to make it clear that disagreements between commanders and even with the hierarchy happen in all conflicts. What’s not normal is someone like Prigozhin making them public and challenging the MOD every day! Why does no one shut up or bury Prigozhin definitively? Which is today the enemy’s main psyop. And about Belgorod I’ve heard the most preposterous excuses like the flowering of the forest and some with real foundations like the huge Russian border line. Until Belgorod is currently the most bombed location by the AFU? What just localizes more the PR campaign, which has nothing strategic, as also I’ve heard to
arrest Russian troops. It’s a pure PR campaign full of lies on the part of those who have nothing left to give in this conflict. And I ask, doesn’t Russia have thousands of troops in the rear? Can’t deploy a Brigade in Belgorod? And also cannot destroy the artillery that bombards Belgorod like Donetsk? Honestly… If those hostages are really Russian soldiers trapped in Russian territory, I don’t know what else to say.
The Belgorod situation seems extremely grave, if it stays in the news for a couple more weeks, Russia will have no choice but to “justifiably” annex Sumy (75 mi) and Kharkov (50 mi) to put a stop to the attacks and permanently end the threat to their border. Probably only a wide river, like the Dnieper, will make a suitable border between Russia and Ukraine in the future. Do you agree?
With the border on the Dnieper I completely agree. That’s what I’ve always thought since NATO entered Ukraine. But the Dnieper runs from Kherson in the south to Chernihiv in the north. More Dnipro and Poltava in the east. And the problem is that I never saw Russia interested in taking any more oblasts beyond the four it already annexed. What Putin has been confirming. Despite the fact that many people continue to talk from Kharkov to Odessa!? Russia never confirmed this!
Because people don’t understand that beyond the four annexed oblasts for the majority of the international community, including allies like China and India, the war changes its nature to a war of aggression for territory. China clearly says in its peace plan that Russia’s withdrawal from Kahrkov was already part of Russia’s plan to de-escalate the conflict as the UN called for in March. Donbass was because of the civil war, Kherson because of Crimean security and the land bridge to Russia and Zaporizhia because of the nuclear power plant. But at the end of the day, it will always be the dynamics of the war that will determine the territory that Russia will still need to take in order to feel safe.
Odessa, for example, is far beyond the Dnieper, which only makes it difficult for Russia to maintain it. But it is also associated with the problem of Transnistria, where Russia has kept troops since the end of the USSR. And the safety of the Black Sea Naval Fleet. Which can also be resolved through the inevitable peace agreements. The war will not last forever. And finally, the end of Ukraine’s economic viability as a landlocked state. It is a very complicated problem to solve. Russia is not interested in a very strong state on the border, but neither is it interested in a failed state suitable for terrorism. We have to wait and see. But we can also think that with a government in Kiev more friendly to Russia and NATO out of Ukraine, Russia doesn’t need anything else to feel safe again.
But I also agree with Rokossovsky on the importance of how long these media PR campaigns last. And I think they won’t take much longer because Ukraine doesn’t have the resources to continue with this kind of shitty campaigns where at the end of the day it doesn’t gain anything strategically. In addition to motivating the western fanatics and their own troops who shouldn’t be too motivated with so many deaths. These maneuvers are mostly fun maneuvers still to divert attention from the fall of Bakhmut. More than any link to the counter-offensive. Which I don’t even believe is possible on a large scale. Ukraine is already defeated.
And quite frankly I also think that Russia could have done a lot more to avoid this mess in Belgorod. Ukraine has no military bases on the border. These troops had to be stopped from a distance and only the Air Force could do that. Just like Russia controls its airspace. Even though radars work better in airspace. I, despite feeling the AFU on its last legs, think that the conflict is not about to end.
Scott Ritter today interviewed a very influential politician in Russia – Alexander Mikhailov – furious with these invasions of Russian territory and always saying that Russian military doctrine already allows the use of nuclear weapons because of this type of invasions. Honestly, scary. Worth listening to. Even though I don’t understand why Russia looks so scared. Because I keep thinking that Russia could have totally destroyed the AFU by now. We, as observers, have never been able to perceive many variables of a war. It seems to me that Russia is very disappointed that no one in the West is talking about peace talks. IMO, Russia has always wanted to trade since day 1. Which also tells us that Russia is not interested in more territory in Ukraine.
Dnieper goes right trough Kiev. USA would probably love another Berlin-wall-like scenario, Russians not so much.
The Dnieper does not protect Russia but Donbass. But you’re right, even if a large river remains a natural boundary in the 21st century. But Russia does not fear hordes of Ukrainians but nuclear warheads. Which can only be resolved with another Govt in Kiev and NATO out of Ukraine. Russia’s ultimate goal.
Since the plans to break up Russia into small bite-sized micro-states that the West can consume originated in 1997 (possibly earlier if you count operation “aerodynamic” i.e., the nurturing of Banderite Nazis dating from WW2), I’m wondering how much of this Ukraine project is simple institutional inertia. He’s smells dirty to me (accepted bribes – evidence not yet fully exposed to sunshine) but in other respects maybe Biden is just along for the ride? (Clever choice of Harris for VP – makes Biden unimpeachable.)
Anyway, I’m going to toast “Ukraine Total Collapse Day”, November 1, 2023. That’s my prediction and I’m sticking to it.
“No army in the history of war can sustain losses like this and prevail.”
This means one of two things:
1.) Ukraine/NATO admit defeat; war ends on Russia’s terms
2.) Ukraine/NATO go all-in against Russia
In the case of 1.), there is no indication whatsoever that Ukraine/NATO will accept anything other than a complete Russian withdrawal, along with reparations and criminal trials for Putin & Co.
In the case of 2.), NATO has shown no interest in it’s own forces facing Russia in a conventional war; indeed, to do so might expose it as ineffectual with all that that implies
What this means is that since Ukraine cannot win, and NATO will not fight Russia in a conventional war, yet is unwilling to hand Russia a victory, while Russia will never withdraw from the territories it has captured (and will perhaps capture more), or stop until Ukraine surrenders and the goals of the SMO have been met, this will inevitably devolve into a nuclear war.
There is no other outcome possible unde the current neocon-infested “leadership” in the U.S. Both political parties are in lockstep on this. RFK has said he would pretty much dismantle the MIC and all of our foreign military bases, and Trump has said (without specifics) he would end the war, but given that the DNC will support Biden comatose on a gurney and Trump’s (trumped up) legal woes may derail his bid, it is a long shot that we’ll get someone in the WH who will stop the madness in time.
Of course, the west will blame Russia, but who will be left to care?
OSINT on this mornings UKR offensive:
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/wild-day-in-the-wildlands-of-ukraine
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/2000-dead-ukrainian-soldiers-in-overnight-war-fighting
https://sputnikglobe.com/20230605/kiev-did-not-achieve-its-goals-during-offensive-attempt-lost-up-to-300-military—russian-mod-1110915427.html
One More OSINT this AM on UKR offensive – Zero Hedge
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-says-it-put-down-major-ukrainian-offensive-hours-after-it-began
Why hasn’t Russia destroyed diesel supplies in Ukraine ?
What are Russia’s stated goals for the SMO? Think it through and it should be obvious why they want the nazis to have fuel.
They don’t feed Jello to such people. They feed them brain-damaging pharmaceuticals.
The totality of the American-Anglo policies is beyond comprehension. How to win a war:
De-industrialize oneself and allies, de-arm, oneself and allies, by arming a proxy army in a war of attrition, incur massive debt to support the latter, expand NATO into the Indian Ocean ( perhaps India will supply soldiers as it did for the British Raj & Empire) and into the South China Sea. Ukraine’s objective seems to be to overwhem Russian field hospitals with their casualties. Right now, the ‘game’ has shifted. China seems to be ‘baiting’ (like the US baited Russia) the USN into ramming a Chinese naval vessel. Hubris is preventing the American-Anglo leadership from even comprehending that the tables can be turned to their disadvantage.
Because if it had been 300,000 american troops that had died this past year you can guarantee the US government would’ve been toppled by now
But since it’s “someone else” no american actually cares how many casualties they take.
100 years later and British strategy apparently still amounts to
“Throw enough men at them and eventually the enemy will run out of ammunition”
The question which should be asked is in my view this : why power, which doesn’t allow any of the “sentimentalities” of heroism and moral valor to stand in the way of it’s actions, and which only regards it’s own overpowering as a necessity; why power, which consider values to be only supplements of it’s own cold functioning, is now apparently falling prey to those illusions it itself produces, and disregarding it’s own reality ? Why is it insisting on the utopian, moral mission, as if there was no other way back? We must presume that something here has changed in relation to the period between the 40`s and 70`s, for example, where there was a “healthy” nonchalance, even carelessness, about points of “honor” and “morality”. The prevalent view, which I consider wrong, is that there is some sort of calculation behind, in other words, some fat rich men, smoking cigars and laughing behind the scenes, are rubbing their hands looking the plan unfold as they envisaged. But it is precisely this people (because they exist) which are looking in dismay things unfolding in an “irrational” , “counterproductive” way. Sure, they can compel the newspaper to not publish news that expose the failure of some expensive pieces of equipment, hoping to minimize the impact on finances. But as to the driving force of power to commit everything to it’s illusions, they are powerless, and we can see that unfolding, almost in disbelief. Where is the American, British pragmatism? I don’t believe it is the failure of individuals that is here in play. Because there are always more pragmatical individuals than the moral fanatics, all-or-nothing, driveling, Utopia-driven ones. Only power, which is absolute subjectivity, chooses which individuals are capable of fulfilling its actions. Once power chose types like Lenin, Hitler , Churchill, Pinochet, Roosevelt etc. , to fulfill its planetary empowering, which completed itself in the late 70`s.They were only different in rhetoric and outward pose for the masses , but essentially the same, cold calculating cynical types. They had to affirm themselves in a milieu where indecisive idealism (Wilson) was hindering power’s imperial hegemonism. Things now have changed, perhaps since the mid 80`s, albeit we are only now seeing where it is going. It is not a return to indecisive idealism, since it is very decisive, in it’s way. Some say this is the “western decadence”`s fault, which is absurd, because the sane pragmatists are the majority. The bloggers are the proof! Yet the bloggers are just a little bit more inefficient than the industrialists and capitalists, when compared to the higher rank of functionaries. The efficient ones are the driveling, insane, cabalistic utopians. Are the sane people going to “do something”, as the Americans willfully say, not noticing that this is already an expression of powerlessness…?
TASS June 5, 23:45,
updated June 5, 23:49
The dam of the Kakhovskaya HPP in the Kherson region collapsed due to damage
GENICHESK — The dam of the Kakhovskaya HPP in the Kherson region collapsed due to damage, flooding of territories is underway. This was reported to TASS by a source in the authorities.
“It was quiet at night. There were no arrivals. The dam could not stand, one support collapsed, and flooding began,” he said.
TASS does not yet have official confirmation of information from the authorities and law enforcement agencies.
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https://tass.ru/proisshestviya/17936109?ysclid=lijrn4ynga985874860
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RT.COM update on Kakhovskaya HPP — Mayor says Hydroelectric dam in Kherson partially destroyed
[[The upper part of the key infrastructure was “destroyed as a result of a strike,” the mayor of Novaya Kakhovka, Vladimir Leontyev, confirmed to RIA Novosti. While several of the dam’s floodgates were damaged and unleashed an uncontrolled stream of water, the underwater structure itself withstood the attack, the official claimed.
As a result of the incident, the water level downstream has risen by up to 2.5 meters, according to Leontyev, who added there was no need for evacuations thus far.
The dam was reportedly struck around 2am local time.]]
https://www.rt.com/russia/577548-kakhovskaya-hydroelectric-dam-breach/
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RIA NOVOSTI reports: Mayor says evacuation of the population from the city is not required, but it may be needed in settlements downstream
06:51 06.06.2023
(updated: 07:49 06.06.2023)
SIMFEROPOL –– The upper part of the Kakhovskaya HPP was destroyed as a result of shelling, the dam of the reservoir itself survived, Vladimir Leontiev, head of the administration of the Novokakhovsky city district, told RIA Novosti.
A number of Telegram channels on Tuesday night spread information that the Kakhovskaya HPP was allegedly completely destroyed. Some posted footage of the collapsed dam.
“There were several hits at two o’clock in the morning in the upper part of the hydroelectric power station, where there are sandors (beams designed to block the culvert – ed.), where the valves are located directly, and it was demolished. The dam has not been destroyed, and this is a great happiness,” Leontiev told RIA Novosti.
The water level after the destruction of the hydroelectric power plant downstream rose by 2.5 meters, services are on site, the mayor added.
Evacuation of the population from the city is not required, but it may be needed in settlements downstream — Korsunki and Dneprany, Leontiev said. In total, about 300 houses can get into the flooding zone. “Now we will understand, we have removed buses from the routes, we will be ready, if necessary, to take people out, to evacuate. But there will be no catastrophe,” he assured.
Kakhovskaya HPP is the sixth (lower and last) stage of the cascade of Dnieper hydroelectric power plants, located five kilometers from the city of Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson region. Its destruction can lead to the death of thousands of people.
Russia earlier circulated a letter to the UN Security Council calling for an end to provocations with the shelling of the hydroelectric power station by Ukrainian troops.
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https://ria.ru/20230606/ges-1876352405.html
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The BBC news has video footage of a dam (unidentified so far) which it has spliced in to a news article of serious damage inflicted on a dam in Nova Kakhovka.
Who caused the damage is a he says, she says, from the warring factions.
N.B., the BBC has recently set up a new department…. “BBC Verify” to ensure truth in its broadcasting…_
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-65816109
Having looked at more footage and stills of the dam attack it seems I have got 2+2 to equal 5.
It seems likely it is the same dam in the news reports, just photographed and filmed at different moments. My mistake, sorry.
But who gains from this destruction. Somebody thought it was a good idea…_
The same guys thinking that shelling nearby nuclear power plant was a good idea too.