Is Joe Biden, on the eve of the NATO Summit in Vilnius, trying out for a part in the musical, GREASE?
Shanga, shanga, waddle di doodle wop?
Ukraine’s attempt at a Hail Mary (the football play not the Catholic prayer) victory by seizing swaths of territory from the Russians is a failure. The Russians have intercepted every move and Ukraine’s negligible advances are counted in single digit kilometers along with piles of Ukrainian corpses and burned out hulks of Western supplied tanks and armored personnel carriers.
Yet the West is struggling to come to grips with the reality and persist in peddling the delusion of a stalemate. Samuel Charap, a senior Political Scientist at Rand Corporation, wrote a piece published in Foreign Affairs on June 5 that grudgingly conceded the war in Ukraine is “Unwinnable.” But he only got it half-right. He wrote:
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was a moment of clarity for the United States and its allies. An urgent mission was before them: to assist Ukraine as it countered Russian aggression and to punish Moscow for its transgressions. While the Western response was clear from the start, the objective — the endgame of this war — has been nebulous.
But it is now time that the United States develop a vision for how the war ends. Fifteen months of fighting has made clear that neither side has the capacity — even with external help — to achieve a decisive military victory over the other. Regardless of how much territory Ukrainian forces can liberate, Russia will maintain the capability to pose a permanent threat to Ukraine. The Ukrainian military will also have the capacity to hold at risk any areas of the country occupied by Russian forces-and to impose costs on military and civilian targets within Russia itself.
Charap is a prime example of the failings of political science as a “science.” He ignores the evidence that Russia, unlike Ukraine, has enormous capacity to achieve a decisive military victory over not only Ukraine, but NATO. Ukraine and NATO are running out of artillery shells, cruise missiles, tanks and combat air craft. More importantly, Ukraine is drained of competent, trained soldiers that can operate those weapon systems.
The situation for Russia is the exact opposite. With each passing day Russia’s trained manpower increases along with soaring production of tanks, hypersonic missiles, artillery shells, mortars and drones. Russia is degrading Ukraine’s combat capability and has not yet launched its own offensive using the full weight of the Russian ground and air forces.
NATO has not stomach to let Ukraine join its club. Germany, along with denouncing Biden’s decision to supply cluster munitions to Kiev, declared that any decision about Ukraine joining should be postponed. Hungary and Bulgaria also have signaled their opposition to letting Ukraine get membership status. France is on fire and Macron does not appear to have the political heft to advocate for Ukraine and the pro-Kiev government in the Netherlands is kaput:
The Dutch government has collapsed after failing to reach an agreement on curbing immigration. Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Friday that his government would tender its resignation to the Dutch king, triggering new elections to be held in the fall.
Russia has little incentive to entertain a negotiated end to the war that does not include Ukraine surrendering Odessa. The biggest obstacle is that no country in NATO has the political clout and credibility that Putin can trust to deliver a viable agreement. Turkey did itself no favors with Russia by violating the agreement to hold AZOV leaders until the end of hostilities and calling for Ukraine to be admitted to NATO. Erdogan released the captives back to Kiev, where they received a heroes welcome from Zelensky. I think this further poisons the well for any serious negotiations. Russia’s experience with the Minsk I and II agreement has convinced Putin and his national security team that the West is an untrustworthy partner.
Could someone straighten me out re the Netherlands? Isn’t that the same nation that is assaulting it’s family farms? If that’s the case, then it’s not only immigration (there are No Go zones for the cops in many European countries since the Syrian invasion back in ’15.
Try this article, it is in Czech language. Use the Google web translator. Ivo
https://protiproud.info/politika/7298-pad-nizozemske-vlady-falesna-hra-loutky-bilderbergu-a-bruselu-novy-tym-vazalu-vymena-naroda-a-vyvlastnovani-bude-pokracovat-hodi-volici-vidlemi-vice-imigrace-vice-green-dealu-a-eu-kamos-fialy-a-zelenskeho-lze-jako-oni.htm
There where nogo zones years before 2015
Abd it’s getting worse every year
I live many years on Poland and here these problems didn’t arrive yet
But we have other problems here that are probably even more dangerous
Extreme Russophobia
I had a company in Poland. Landed there in 2012. Was a nice place. I closed down the company. The country is fucked, caught between mass extra European legal immigration that started in 2022 and path of war that the country is literally unable to sustain
Winston Churchill say: “Poland is a greedy hyena of Europe”
The Poles need to be careful. People will start asking what right they have to Stettin, Danzig, Breslau, Pomerania, Silesia.
Poland is yet another “opportunist” country in this Ukraine battle, just anxiously but politely waiting to grab its share of the “leftovers.”
I wouldn’t say Poland
waits “politely.” I read a comment by Medvedev on Twitter re.: Duda’s outrageous statement and the Poles replies to Medvedev, it’s it a stream of verbal diarrhea. I think Poland and Japan got the worse case of Stockholm Syndrome imaginable with Poland licking Ukraine’s after Bandera’s massacres in WWII and Japan bowing to USA after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Nothing polite about Poland here, nor Stockholm Syndromish. They are Russia hating, opportunistic, and Ukraine hating, in that order. They also hate Germans but can’t do much about it, because The Boss would not allow it.
What was japan supposed to do
The US unleashed the sun on them
And after that subjugated their living God and took his divinity.
MacArthur’s subjugation of the Japanese culture was a master class in identity destruction
AGREED
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Louche as always, Nederland is going to be under ‘caretaker government’ until elections in….November!!
Not that it will make much difference – his previous government collapsed in 2021 over a truly egregious scandal seeking to claw back child allowance payments from the native born who rarely have more than one designer child late in life but not ..ahem…the Others who have yoooog families.
The resultant election delivered exactly the same result, almost inevitable in a multi party system with strict D’Hondt PR and a tripartite tribal religious divide.
After a leisurely 10 months of horse trading he formed the current ramshackle coalition which lasted a whole 18months and he is the longest serving PM since WWII – a whole ten years!
The only chance Nederlands has for an outbreak of sanity is the new(ish 2019) Farmer-Citizen Movement (BoerBurgerBeweging BBB) which swept up 16 seats in the Senate so is now the largest party in the Upper House, which traditionally represents the counties/shires.
They’re going to bring out the Fake Farm Party again to sideline any serious vote for change. The Netherlands will see no meaningful change until the Red Army rolls into Den Haag to put Western leaders on trial for crimes against humanity, and unfortunately Mr. Putin has not made that one of his stated goals.
Netherlands keeps electing through its weird voting system a gay former HR Manager from Unilever.
I think his brother was/is openly gay but Rutte keeps putting coalitions together to push weird agendas like euthanasia for babies. How it went from straitlaced 18th Century Protestantism to Decadence is something the Americans might clarify since they went down the same path
Netherlands is a sewer and unappealing to do many Dutch that you wonder how the elections are fixed – when you consider Pim Fortuyn and Van Gogh and how the Deep State set them up for execution and how Netherlands is now a Narco-State with major drug cartels torturing and abducting and executing you have to wonder
The West is ruled by an international Fascist network, which was built in Central Europe and has spread throughout the entire western hemisphere.
Since 9/11 the West has been hijacked by Fascists with the only vision of making war on every sovereign Nation on earth including America itself.
A proxy war has been planned in Ukraine since before 2014 by this network, in order to (once again) provoke Russia into war for not accepting the Fascist Globalist One World Order.
While the Western Endgame was clear for some of us, the real Agenda of this long streak of wars around the globe has been obfuscated by a colluding western propaganda machine. The endgame was always the enslavement of humanity.
For any military analyst worth its salt it was clear from the start that Ukraine never had a chance – even with the help of NATO – to achieve anything but feeding the male population of Ukraine into a meat grinder.
NATO will keep on threatening areas held by Russia and to terrorize civilians within Russia itself, regardless of how much territory Russia can liberate.
NATO has become a permanent threat to every sovereign Nation on earth.
The Minsk agreements have already convinced 70% of the global population that Western leaders can’t be trusted. The US-UK-EU Empire has ruined its credibility to negotiate any viable peace agreement.
We need a total change of leadership in America and European Nations. This current Generational network of Fascists has so far been responsible for 3 World wars, and must be eliminated before any lasting peace can be established
And it’s beginning to happening as NAZI-Zionist warmongers have started to fall from grace in America, Canada, France, Germany, Ukraine, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden, and Finland.
Russia will not tolerate any NATO BS in the soon to be former Ukraine once Russia has cleansed Ukrainian territory of western military equipment, presence and influence.
The borderland with Russophobic Poland will become a DMZ no man’s land.
Likely Hungary, Bulgaria & Romania will reach peace, security and trade deals with Russia once Russia has finished the cleansing of Ukraine.
Right. Do not forget the first 9/11
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/09/11/other-911-progressives-remember-allendes-chile
It really is liberal-capitalism that rules the west, and it sure as hell didn’t come from central europe. But you can call it fascism if you think you’ll be allowed into the cool kids club. Fascism has never been associated with liberalism and the gross social inequalities of capitalism.
Peloton says
It really is liberal-capitalism that rules the west, and it sure as hell didn’t come from central europe.
My comment:
Already in this one line you are making 2 mistakes.
The first is to call what we have today in the west for Liberal-Capitalism.
What we have today is a merger of private and public power.
And this is the definition of Fascism, according to Mr. Mussolini himself.
Mousseline were not the inventor of Fascism, he lend the idea from the Roman Empire which were built on Fascist rule.
Peloton says
But you can call it fascism if you think you’ll be allowed into the cool kids club.
My comment:
Im calling it Fascism because in order to correct a problem you first have to identify the problem.
And stating the obvious is seldom popular among the elite or group thinkers.
Peloton says
Fascism has never been associated with liberalism and the gross social inequalities of capitalism.
My comment:
Here you make the third mistake.
Hitler was a great admirer of Benito Mousseline and adopted Fascist ideas into Nazism.
Both Fascism and Nazism are built upon uniting all units of a society who has power and influence into a regime able to dictate the rest of society.
Hitler selected Nationalists, Arbitere (Workers), Zionists, and Industrialists into his Regime.
The word NAZI stems from collecting the first letter of each group being part of the regime.
Mussolini even selected Communists into his regime, because Communism had gripped Italy at the time.
Fascism is not purely a right wing conspiracy as Socialists have claimed since WWII, because the Socialistic workers union was part of the 3rd Reich.
Peloton makes four mistakes – “the gross social inequalities of capitalism”??!! It is capitalism that ensures equal distribution of wealth based upon each person being sovereign of his/her own work and the proceeds therefrom. What you say is typical Socialism, which has destroyed more wealth and enslaved more persons than any other system.
Not one person today understands what capitalism is. Hence they make false statements like yours. Capitalism is Human Nature. It is nothing more and nothing less than this: a man is entitled to the wealth he produces through his work and savings.
What you, and 99 others believe is capitalism is Socialism mated to Big Business and run by an evil cabal of sociopaths.
“It is capitalism that ensures equal distribution of wealth based upon each person being sovereign of his/her own work and the proceeds therefrom.”
This is dumber that flat-earth theory, or any religion that I’ve ever heard of. Suicide bombers are more reasonable people than those worshiping the god of Capitalism. If nothing else, they have killed much less people.
Hi, Dane.
You just wrote:
“For any military analyst worth its salt it was clear from the start that Ukraine never had a chance – even with the help of NATO – to achieve anything but feeding the male population of Ukraine into a meat grinder.“
Absolutely true. A Western politician would have to be a mindless idiot to think that financing the further development of their totalitarian style, pink “democracy” on Russia’s borders would result in anything other than building a human slaughterhouse. And there must have been other motives, too: money and power. It truly amazes me that American politicians would be willing to sacrifice tens of thousands of Ukrainians in brutal combat in exchange for money and power. Such are the depths of the depravity of the human heart.
Scripture speaks to the general wickedness of political “leaders” In Matthew 28: 11- 14. Even after having being informed by the Roman guards that Jesus Christ was indeed who He said He was — Israel’s Messiah — that He had indeed risen from the dead; what did those ecclesiastical politicians do? Well, what they did was pay those guards “hush money” so that they could continue to hold onto their money and power. This was a big lie and deadly deception perpetrated by them and foisted upon the Jewish people. And yes, they did hold onto their money and power for about four decades (after which Jerusalem was brutally sieged and destroyed by the Roman legions, just as Christ said would happen.) But holding onto their money and power was a big price to pay for ending up in Hell. “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.” (Jeremiah 17:9)
I hope that the European members of NATO will vote to disband it, while also resolving to do everything they possibly can to pull the plug on the Ukrainian Slaughterhouse. They should also resolve to banish the pernicious influence of American foreign policy from their shores and countries.
The world has changed. In case anyone hasn’t noticed (certainly the lying traitors at CNN haven’t), the Russian people and their leaders are now no longer Communists. Can anyone tell me why there any reason for NATO to continue to exist?
P.S. I salute Larry Johnson for being the stalwart Truth Teller he is. He and Colonel Douglas MacGregor both deserve the Presidential Medal of Freedom for their factual reporting and reality-based analysis and exposing the truth about what has really been happening in Ukraine. (They deserve it, but they’ll never see it. Not from this administration. On the hand, don’t think either one of these gentlemen would want one anyway. Digging out the facts… and then reporting the truth… must be satisfying enough to both of them.)
The meddling really took off in 2004-5 with the ‘Orange Revolution and Washington installing Yushchenko as president, who resurrected the bandera cult and promised to terminate Russia’s lease in Sevastopol when it expired in 2017.
Hell, even Encyclopedia Britannica calls Yushchenko ‘installed’.
https://www.britannica.com › topic ›
Orange-Revolution
Orange Revolution | Ukrainian history
After Yushchenko was installed as president, he named her Tymoshenko as prime minister in January 2005.
Probably a Freudian Slip by the author.
its another monarchy with a locally elected parliament.
(authoritarian state disguised as democracy)
“Democracy,” as it is used today by the United States is a fiction. Something that “dies in darkness.” An illusion. As the word “democracy” is used by the United States, it is something the United States is “saving the world for.” A delusion.
The United States, however, is an Authoritarian state. Has been all along.
Latest on property grab by Dutch government. Second article is from last year, but still germane. There is a full-on lid on news coming out of the Netherlands. Latest is the thing will be dealt with in the next elections, which means George Soros will be rigging European elections, in addition to U.S. elections and U.S. courts.
As of 2023, there are still plenty of “No Go Zones.” Instead of calling them that people just know to stay away. It’s like knowing not to go into South Philly, or part of New York City, and even some American cities. Nothing has changed, unless you consider things getting worse “change.”
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The coalition government fell over prospective asylum/immigration policies.
There were other tensions within the coalition, but these were not fatal.
There are no (none) no-go areas in the Netherlands: that is Sweden & France.
Many of the other comments are a little over the top and exaggerated.
Rutte does belong to the WEF young leaders globalist managers clique.
The farms (ammonia) are a separate issue, and have been caused by the judicial activism in concert with EU directives and self-imposed reactive nitrogen limits in connection with biotope restoration target areas. Unconnected to CO².
There is a connection to the asylum problem: Many of these problems have been caused by outsourcing national sovereignty to treaties and supra-national agencies.
So everything’s going to hell but it’s nothing to do with the leaders of Governments.
I like satire, you should play again soon
I welcome the collapse of the hedonistic, godless West. Perhaps Russia is God’s instrument for correction.
I view it as a head fake, the current guy won’t leave until they hold elections in Nov and he will run again when those elections are held
Here is a great short video on the effort to destroy Dutch Farmers. The govt. says they produce too much nitrogen, even though our atmosphere is 70% nitrogen. And if they are destroyed, other nations will produce a bit more food for the Dutch to import. It seems the WEF billionaires just want to close out small farms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ8wlOYZZl8
same country. but the problems are interrelated. rutte’s policy which led to the farmers’ protests was to take over farmlands to build WEF cities to house…. immigrants. netherlands has no other place to build except to take over farms and turn them into cities…. the farm party has made extraordinary gains in public opinion, suggesting they side heavily with the farmers, so my guess is rutte gave the reason for the resignation that avoids any acknowledgement to the rival party. i’m just saying this as someone following events, i know nothing about the reality of political power in netherlands. for example how such a WEF goon could get elected in the first place, but then you can ask the same question about US, NZ, Moldavia, Finland, and… it’s a long list
Erdogan’s playing games, as always. He sends back Azov soldiers, and Putin stops the grain deal, maybe even takes a shot at conquering Odessa. Putin isn’t going to care about a few soldiers returning to be shot on the front line. Erdogan’s doing him a favour. And Erdogan’s gets to look like a member of NATO.
I fear that hawks like Nuland could be seated in a corner yet see it as an opportunity to plant explosives towards a better view.
That’s what I thought, it’s a game BTW erdogan n Putin.
I agree. I think Putin asked Erdogan to do it to have a reason to dissolve the grain deal. I think Russia got nothing but headache out of it, and now, Russia will take Odessa. These 5 Azov Nazis will be taken out. No not POWs for Azov, they’ll be just eliminated.
“THESE NEOCONS HAVE ALREADY DIVIDED THE WORLD ECONOMY IN TWO. They think they will conquer the world. THE ENEMY IS WITHIN.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/markets-by-sector/precious-metals/gold/gold-back-currency-reality/
Sending those Azovs to the frontline sounds good to me. Russians would surely welcome them.
Dima from Military Summary implies that Putin called Erdogan specifically to release the Azov POWs as it is the only legal way fuor Russia to cancel the grain deal as apparently their detention until the end of the SMO was a condition for the agreement https://rumble.com/v2yvnk6-summer-operations-the-russians-escalate-crisis-in-the-black-sea.-military-s.html
The next coup against Erdogan will noe be successful.
??? “noe”? “NOT” or “NOW”
Huld or huls or … ?
Other than that … excellent articles, as usual … !
Greetings,
Robert
I bet is “now”… the “w” is closer to the “e” in a QWERTY keyboard.
Putin saved his ass from a coup. He backstabs Putin, ergo: no more warnings.
A coup will NOW be successful.
E is beside W on a query key oard, thus “now”?
“Noe” could be schroedingers cat of predictions. To be later confirmed when the box is opened
Russia and Iran saved Erdogan from the latest CIA coup. Erdogan isn’t alone.
Putin is getting pretty good at nipping in the bud, Western regime change operations. Of the last seven attempts at regime change in countries bordering Russia, six were successful thwarts except for Armenia and the installed puppet is a pushover. Russia allowes the Western coup to proceed until teaitors to their countries expose themselves only to be eliminated. With the Ukraine as a painful example, preceded by Afghanistan, no one will overthrow anyone on behalf of the West any longer, even the glutinous Pakistani Generals are having second thoughts.
When the US calls for regime change followed by mayhem, the world stands up and says no. Look at Pakistan and why Saudi Arabia, which yields great control over the Pakistani Generals, was approached by China.
Pakistan borders China’s Xinjiang Province in the north, which provides China with a potential corridor through the Karakoram Highway to the seaport at Gwadar in Baluchistan on the Indian Ocean. The Pakistan part of the larger project is referred to as the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.
The World is busy building connectivity and the West is busy acting like a sore looser instead of joining the rest of the World.
Here is a short video about the failed 2016 coup. It includes 2019 video of Joe Biden saying he would interfere in future elections to get rid of Erdogan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo0dblx9JfE
I am concerned as to when someone will try a regime change in the West.
The obvious outcome of this is that NATO is going to continue to deny the reality of the situation and escalate. There will be a lot more infighting in this NATO summit, and they’ll try to deny how divided they are, pretending to have unprecedented unity. What they will do is to escalate by sending what they have left, like the cluster munitions. Maybe at some point in the future we will see fighter aircraft too.
The Russians have a clear path forward. Let the Ukrainians throw their lives against the fortified Russian lines and their NATO equipment. Eventually when they deplete their manpower, the Russians can launch their own offensive, all the while using long range weapons to gradually wear down the Ukrainians. All the while, the Russians have been building up their industrial might.
Eventually this is going to be it for NATO and the US. This could be the American Suez Canal moment.
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/americas-suez-moment
At some point, the Ukrainians will either run out of manpower and/or face a collapse not unlike Germany did in WW1, or the NATO nations will simply be unable to find additional weapons to send over, at which point the Russians will have the advantage.
From there, Russia will be able to decide on the terms. It will likely involve a lot of territorial concessions and leave Ukraine as a rump state.
After the war, I think that the future of the nation will be decided. If the Ukrainians reject Banderist ideology and turn away from the West, I could see the nation recovering. Russia and China will help rebuild and in time, they will have a relationship with Russia not unlike that of Belarus.
If the Ukrainians stay with the West, then they are looking at a failed state. Wall Street is going to loot the nation. Zelensky already sold out a lot to Blackstone. The West and the Kiev puppet regime will try to use the Russians as a scapegoat for a war they themselves provoked.
Russia will likely see a boom not unlike the boom the US saw after WW2. The situation in the Western world is going to be grim. Europe especially could be reduced to the state of a set of developing nations, now that they are bereft of the cheap Russian resources and energy that played a significant role in their prosperity. I can only hope that we in the West have the strength in us to take on our governments that clearly no longer represent us and demand genuinely democratic reforms.
Perhaps the irony of this situation is that the US did all of this in a desperate bid to hold on to its hegemony. All it has done is accelerated its decline.
“I can only hope that we in the West have the strength in us to take on our governments that clearly no longer represent us and demand genuinely democratic reforms.”
Your governments have never represented you. ‘Democracy’ is a scam perpetrated by the elite in order to more easily manipulate governments. The merchant elite replaced strong monarchies with democracies to do just that – buy the government. It was a brilliant move – infuse people with the almost religious belief that they are in control all the while buying off all their politicians.
Too cynical? Perhaps.
Totally agree. “Freedom “ and “choice” given to the sheeple allowed the Elite to amass wealth and power beyond their wildest dreams. What they give they can take away.
Reforms? That says all that needs to be said about the fate of USA.
Can the criminal reform himself because you appealed to him?
No! You got to take him kicking and screaming to a court and eventually jail where he languishes no longer a danger.
You don’t need reform. You need to completely overhaul and rethink your social, cultural, economic, educational and Political system. Revolution perhaps?
None of that is going to happen. All you a very very miniscule minority who are going ” ok rubbing with Russia is too hot let’s instead focus on China, by the way Putin is a thug and murderer and Xi is a dictator.
No that’s not going to cut it for USA. So this will be a long haul to the gutter till most of USA starts looking like that famous street littered with Zombies in Philadelphia.
“Too cynical? Perhaps.”
Still less cynical than a slaveowner preaching democracy & equality & freedom.
Government, as executive and regulatory function, is like the nervous system, while money and banking are like blood and the circulation system. You can’t have public government, without public banking as well. The banks are now having their “Let them eat cake.” moment.
That’s fair. Democracy was always propaganda meant to keep the chattering classes in line and voting for the 2 main parties of the ruling class (or the top few in the case of the Europeans that have proportional representation).
Notably when an out of mainstream candidate comes in, they get demonized. Examples include Donald Trump from the populist right and Bernie Sanders from the left. Even if you don’t agree with everything that these candidates stood for, at least they represented a shift from the Establishment’s Overton Window.
When I wrote what I wrote, I was advocating for real democracy, not the fake democracy that we currently have that’s really a plutocracy and kleptocracy.
Arguably, China and Russia are more “democratic” in a sense that they follow the idea of government “For the people”. As flawed as they may be, Russia and China have seen real living standards increases for ordinary people at a time when living standards in the West have fallen.
Interesting projection. This probably needs some research, but how many European states have historically developed organically from resources in their own geography in the modern era?
If you ignore the plundered resources from Africa, Asia and the americas, and E Europe, there are probably few examples.
Based on your projections, as SCO, BRICS etc strengthen the ability of those states to resist plunder, where will the ‘European garden’ steal from? Without plunder what does it’s future look like unless it starts to behave better in the world instead of arrogant entitlement?
The arguments about bounty all presume that it depends on money.
The idea of Jesus in saying ‘consider the lilies of the field arrayed in glory
without toil” is so far from consciousness. Money is considered by many
as a more important resource and value than divinity.
Germany faced a British naval blockade until 1919 and starvation with rebellion on the Home Front especially with emulation of Soviets in Russia among mutinying sailors which is why the Dolchstosslegende gained traction in Weimar Germany
I still believe the #1 target for Germany’s 3rd Reich ought to have been Britain (City of London specifically) along with the cabal’s entrenched power in Switzerland. Wall St as well, but eventually could have been paried or dealt with after those two power bases had been neutralized. That was never going to happen, however.
Seems to me Hitler was in some ways working with the British (esp powerful Jewish/Zionist interests), seeing as he accomplished many of their goals, ie nearly conquering the USSR/Russia, having millions of Germans, Slavs of all nationalities, other Europeans killed.
Zionists finally got their own State. Not very many high profile, powerful Jews were touched by the 3rd Reich, were they? I just don’t believe the NDSAP were who they claimed to be. They certainly weren’t saviors of the white race, that’s for sure!
What did the common Russian or Jew in the USSR have to so with communism/bolshevism, their PTB anyway? What was the use of the wanton slaughter?
Some say the Germans lost, but the Nazis won. It looks more likely with each passing day.
It’s important to understand that today, in 2023, Germany faces an effective energy embargo. It’s not that no energy can be acquired, nor natural resources, it’s that the sources other than Russian cost a lot more (or in practice, they are buying Russian resources – such as the “Indian” oil that is really refined Russian oil at a markup).
Right now Germany is subsidizing its energy costs to the tune of hundreds of billions of Euros.
https://www.politico.eu/article/margrethe-vestager-eu-germany-energy-subsidy-race/
In the long run, that’s not sustainable. That means loss of jobs and living standards. It will look somewhat like the Midwest (which at one point was the manufacturing heartland of the US) after NAFTA was signed, and China was brought into the WTO.
Also, keep in mind that food is also impacted. So worse than the “Free trade” that damaged the US so deeply. In the case of free trade, it didn’t lead to a rise in energy. The chemical industry in Germany is facing issues.
There’s articles now about whether or not the Germany chemical industry can even survive.
https://cen.acs.org/business/Germanys-chemical-industry-survive-gas/101/i19
This in turn has led to a fertilizer shortage.
https://www.politico.eu/article/fertilizer-soil-ukraine-war-the-next-global-food-crisis/
If this isn’t obvious, food prices are going to keep rising. Some of that is due to “greedflation” (ex: corporations charging well in excess of their costs), but a lot of that is going to be due to real price increases of input materials.
For all intents and purposes, Germany has committed economic self-destruction by inflicting a self-inflicted blockade.
I agree, but this will not end before the settling of the issue of missile sites in Romania and Poland. They will not go through all of this and leave those MK41 sites intact. I suspect the Russians will get to the Polish and Romanian borders with their substantial army intact and then take out the missile sites in Romania and Poland with standoff weapons. The Russians might even give NATO a 30 minute warning to get all their troops away from the sites. They will then ask the question with a very thick Russian accent, “OK NATO your move”?
There is no way Russia allows Ukraine to continue as an independent country or for any western presence or influence to remain.
None. Zero. Zip.
I believe Russia and China will pour money into Ukraine to rebuild and modernize Ukraine given its massive resources of key commodities.
This will further solidify the Russia/China led BRICS alliance as a better option than the corrupt and collapsing colonizer west.
And will turn Ukrainians decisively away from the evil & toxic west.
The real question is who is up next after UA goes down and out.
The Poles are agitating hard for their time in the sun, and with their luck it might be an
artificial sun. Ours or theirs — who could say ?
Next time around with so many Russians assassins after those asov battalion commanders. Those Nazis will return to their rightful place in hell. Take that to the bank.
Russia does not have to fight a post-victory continuing war with Ukrainian insurgents. Once Ukraine is crushed and the Ukrainians see for themselves the extent to which they have been exploited and betrayed by the West they will become one of Russia’s staunchest allies against the West- like the Chechens.
This is a frightening prospect no one in the West is talking about, because even to mention it reinforces its reality.
I absolutely agree that Ukrainians will despise America in the not distant future.
America is a few short years from isolated pariah state status as even their European vassals turn away after what America has done to them with this proxy war against Russia.
“… and the Ukrainians see for themselves the extent to which they have been exploited and betrayed by the West …”
Recall the POW camp in Donbass filled with those captured in large part from fighting in Mariupol. The Ukies fired ballistic missiles at it, killing their own men. Of course, the Ukies put out the ridiculous lie that the Russians fired missiles at their own facility, on their own territory.
I’ve long hypothesized that the reason why was that the Russians were making progress with some of the POW’s towards breaking through the lies for which these fools were sent to die. Why else would they? If the signal is real, then it cannot be hidden from everyone forever. If the Russians play their cards right, any post-war insurgency in rump Ukraine may be against Blackrock/Vanguard operatives and their domestic Ukrainian collaborators.
You are correct, I believe. “Victory” will be what Russia says it is, and when Russia says. I do not think there will be anything like a “negotiated” settlement as Russia knows the other side can’t be trusted. The big picture view looks like Russia taking what they want, killing as many Nazis as they can, drive the rest out into Europe causing more instability there, and maybe leaving such a disaster of a rump state that even Blackrock and Goldman Sachs see no point in pumping money there as there would be no return at all.
Russia will keep any part of Ukraine worth having, and give the rest away, that is, if anybody wants it. Poland would likely want a piece or two, so parting out what they don’t want is one scenario. They’ll leave a failed state behind that is bankrupt and a liability for the debt-ridden west.
The Polish, Hungarian, and Romanian areas of Ukraine should be returned to their former nations.
If Ukraine is de-militarized and de-Nazi-fied there won’t be enough of a Ukraine left to ally itself with anybody. It will be “Yes sir, Boss!” “Yes, Master!” spoken in Russian. Ukraine will have wished it could have become a failed state (which is what they were before 2014), again. After this thing is over, for Ukraine to be considered a “rump state” will be a dream.
Clarifying that a lot of relevant information is missing here, I think that if Turkey (Erdogan) wants to dispute Russia’s influence over the Turkmen or Turk-Mongolian world, it does itself a disservice by not respecting its pledged word, since eventual allies will see it as someone who doesn’t It is legit.
An old joke.
A Brit, a French and a Russian (you can change the other two but the Russian) were captured by some cannibals. The Russian has a Kalashnikov on his shoulder. The cannibal chief grants the three one wish.
The Brits asked for the latest Times paper, the French for a perfectly baked croissant, and they were satisfied. The Russian asked for the biggest man in the tribe to punch him in the face. Two minutes after the Russian came back to life, he took his Kalashnikov and killed every cannibal.
When asked by the Brit and the French why he did not do it in the first place, the Russian answered that he can’t kill anybody unless he’s provoked.
Maybe we should send this joke to the NATO meeting.
😊
I am afraid the joke would fall flat at the assembly of cretins and halfwits in Villainous next week
On the one hand, Russia can only get a suitable ending by completely controlling Ukraine, and parting out what it doesn’t want. On the other hand we have Ukraine being effectively sold off to the likes of Blackrock and other corporations who envision taking control of all its asset after they “win” and require rebuilding. The US and NATO, along with the WEF seek this outcome and seem prepared to go all-in to get it.
The trouble is their globalist cabal is coming apart because the disparate interests only stay allied when things are going well and their way. Good article here on that aspect:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/luongo-macron-nato-fate-empire-part-1
It remains to be seen what these morons are prepared to try in their losing effort. Russia, on the other hand, has a clear vision, purpose and focus as to what needs to be done. The US/NATO side still believes they can say boo! and scare Russia into giving up. As Larry says, Russia can whip all of NATO, and looks to have that contingency in place. NATO, on the other hand, has no contingency at all for a full-blown war, even though they keep pushing that way. It’s a game of chicken where one side is bluffing and the other is dead set on staying the course. One side is pretend, the other is real.
This article linked in the goats , Guns and Roses piece is also worth a read:
https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/france-under-attack
Goats , Guns and Roses.. lol I needed a good laugh today.
You must have meant Luongo’s blog, Gold, Goats and Guns?
Spain rejected supplying cluster munitions as did U.K.
U.K. is winding its neck i
July 20 two by-elections including Boris Johnson‘s seat will be humiliating defeat for Sunak
For Sunak, probably.
However, when your choice is between a Blue tory oligarch, a Red one (Sir Keith of the Trilateral Commission), a Yellow one, and (in Scotland at least) a Green one the house wins every time.
The opposition, whatever nominal colour rosette pinned to them, is not referred to as “Loyal” for nothing.
who is this Sunak? Anyone I dhould know?☺️
Rishi Sunak is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
I would not expect you to have heard of him – you are clearly not cognisant of the world around you
Maybe, if you are homeless in the UK. He is soup kitchen lunch lady turned politician, or something like that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goHHpWTpIzM
I think it’s a Chinese knockoff of a Gucci bag.
Erdogan is a poisonous snake and Syrian war criminal. Trusting him is at one’s own peril.
It’s evident that Erdogan is being pressured by the bankers, to do as they say.
I agree. Ergogan walks both sides of the slippery slope.
By now the Russians must have found out that the west is much more than just an untrustworthy partner. If Russia again goes back to the negotiating table appeasing the west, frankly, it’s going to be her last mistake before the final breakdown and disintegration of the Russian nation herself. In fact at this moment Russia’s chances of winning even a nuclear war against the combined west is 10-1 or perhaps even more. With its advanced, %100 accurate hypersonic missiles it would have the ability destroying highly concentrated targets across the west while it’s vastly superior air/missile defense systems could blow up most of the incoming US-NATO missiles. In other words the US and Europe will be long gone before the last NATO missiles try to hit Russian target.
If Russia is serious about imposing costs on the NATOnazi alliance, let’s see Putin cancelling the grain deal.
By the way, the nazis have even begun withdrawing from the few villages they did manage to capture. Pyatikhatki is now in the “grey zone” (no man’s land).
Hell no, he still sells them oil for Ukrainian tanks and gas. They don’t fear Putin because, despite saying he a lunatic in public, they know he’s a reasonable softy and won’t punch them in the mouth. About anything. Grain, resources, ISR etc.
Also while Putin thinks he’s playing some slick 4D attrition game, its really the West playing it better to make him quit. After Ukrainians are expired, then the other Eastern Europeans full of Russo hate will be used up, then finally US will go in. Will Russian troops/morale/public last that long? I doubt it. Russia is big and powerful but not as big and powerful as West and it’s vassals. Russia’s gonna run out of young men one of these days before the West and it’s vassals.
Whatever you say. You are an oracle.
American exceptionalist much?
You are living in fantasy land if you think the Americans are outplaying Putin & the Russians.
Apparently you are not aware of the reality of the fast approaching cliff America is headed over.
Enjoy the little remaining time of the American empire.
West ruled the world for 500 years. Crushed it. Usurpers like Imperial Germany, Imperial Japan. USSR and Nazi Germany all gone. I wouldn’t underestimate how we did that.
Russia would nuke.
West already ran out of young men, they are all gender neutral. All the real men are migrants, and they will take the West in less than a decade. On the brighter side, they will put an end to sodomy on the streets, and make peace with Russia and China. Aloha Snackbar.
He is not serious. He will extend the deal, just to piss everyone off.
In last days, more important than the perception of the defeat of the Ukrainian counter-offensive was the fall of the Zelensky myth. To whom several European rulers have made it known that they have lost all confidence due to the ignominy of “playing” with a nuclear disaster after the environmental disaster that was the explosion of the dam! Which also broke NATO of course! Even if some nuts like McFaul are still looking for the cracks of Prigozhin in Moscow.
When it’s already impossible not to notice when Biden’s brain decides to shut down. The brain, not the teleprompt. From the President of the US and the “free world”. And disgusting how the Rand Corporation, one of the most “prestigious” US think tanks – which also says a lot about the US today – which planned the conflict in the UA to destabilize Russia, does not assume its responsibility at the moment of defeat! Preferring of course to continue building castles in the sand. From mega economic disaster for Ukraine and allies, US and EU. And above all the responsibility of hundreds of thousands of human lives, especially Ukrainian ones!
Larry, I heard from the guy on Military Summary that Putin gave Erdogan a wink and a nod to release Azov scum to Zelensky, in order to have a “legal” grounds to break the grain deal, militarize and thus block the Black Sea and airspace from US Global Hawk flying and collecting intelligence and start the next phase of the Special Military Operation (perhaps towards Odessa)
The Guy on Military Summary is a ex Gamer with a YouTube channel. His capabilities in analysis is equivalent to water divining.
You see my boy, this is the thing that really concerns me about the ability of people to assess information’s veracity or not in today’s prevailing wokeness, coupled with copious amounts of laziness. When MSM says there was “no” election fraud, nobody bothers to try and find out the truth, despite terabytes of info otherwise, they just believe it.
I, for one, will listen to someone, no matter what that person does or has done in the past on the side . Dimon, from Military Summary, for starters, speaks fluent Russian, something very, very important and, therefore gives him a “quantum” leap in his ability to sort out the bull we hear daily from mouths and pens hemorhaging shit.
Secondly, he is a very deep and strategic thinker, going way out on a limb, when it comes to speculation. That’s all, intelligent speculation.
What he said about Erdogan and Putin makes PERFECT SENSE. Putin has, for months, been trying to get out from under the grain deal, for which he has made $$$$ “0” selling grain and fertilizer.
A wink and a nod to Erdogan, not only allows him to legally get out of the deal, but it also allows him to further tighten the screws on the West and Zelensky, who have used the grain deal to bring in weapons by ship via the grain corridor.
What is so unbelievable about this speculation??? Because it came from a guy who does this or that on the side??
So, go on and discard his “opinion”… I think it is pretty believable and reasonable.
Military Summary, aka Baba Vanga. He can see all the winks and nods.
Again, we see the British planning for nasty events in Ukraine:
https://abeldanger.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-british-always-up-to-their-same-old.html
Zelensky and Erdogan signed a business deal for supply of Bayraktar drones from Turkiye and Ukraine.
Who owns Bayraktar drone company? Erdogan’s son-in-laws.
5 nazi scum were traded for a sweet sweet drone deal.
Erdogan to Putin: Business is business, bro.
When was the last time you saw Bayraktar doing anything? Do you know how many of them are left? What do you think will happen to the new batch?
Putin should spend a little time studying LBJ. “I never trust a man unless I have his peter in my pocket.” Minsk Agreement I and II, Prigozhin, Erdoğan. I’m seeing a pattern here.
Did you hear about prigozhin revolt from vanessa she has a different story to tell. (11:35)
https://www.youtube.com/live/yFyBy6bJ4D8?feature=share
German was tapping prigozhin’s phones (RT article states: The German media group also reported that the BND hacked into Wagner’s internal communications last year and were “quite well-informed” about its inner workings. That wiretapping was reportedly revealed to Moscow by an employee identified as Carsten L., who is currently facing treason charges in Germany.)
German spies tapped calls between Lukashenko and Wagner boss – media https://www.rt.com/news/579362-german-intelligence-tapped-lukashenko-prigozhin/
Conspiracy theory
Remember Russian missile striking Ukraine command center few days later Russian woman and Israeli intelligence officer drowns in Italian lake
Second missile attack a Russian woman with duel Israeli citizenship vanishes from iraq.
This lead me to believe Russian are defecting to Israel and working for America indirectly.
With BND no one knows. They came up with wiretap story after being criticised for letting Scholz find out from TV what was going on.
It was Belarus that monitored calls before now BND wants to justify its budget. Frankly I regard it all as BS with very mediocre people pretending to be in the know
Running joke used to be , call BND at Pullach Munich (after the Wall moved to Berlin) and the line clicks – “Howdy” is the answer. Switched to Langley.
Once waiting at checkout in Munich airport , an English announcement “Would Mr. Anderson please call Pullach” and the entire queue burst out laughing.
Gehlen the Nazi ran BND for Dulles, and nearby the KGB gunned down Ukraine’s Bandera in the street.
Dulles was heavily involved in Germany pre-war and not just with Fritz Thyssen but he attended a meeting with Adolf and some bankers………he was also a legal adviser to US delegation at Versailles Treaty negotiations – his uncle was Robert Lansing
Dulles (1 of 2 brothers) made a deal in Schaffhausen with SS Schellenberg on post war SS re-branding just before WWII was over. The rat-lines were set up.
Hence today’s problem.
Dulles whom JFK fired, ran the cover-up of his likely crime. RFK Jr talks about that. Trump should have released all the JFK files when he had a chance!
How about a wager ? Trump is being harassed about classified files at his home, that every POTUS always did in corvettes , garages…
Trump was asked why did he not release the JFK files as he promised and is required by law. He replied that if you had seen them you would not either.
Now most presume horrible gory details there, of which we all have seen enough. What if those files were assumed by FBI to be at home?
How about with classified FORINT – foreign intelligence?
In other words if released, immediate case for war? I do not mean Soviet nor China, but an erstwhile ally, a special ally?
It would explain the incredible NATO shenanigans.
Security for Russia? The current problem remains. Treaties with the West? Promises and oaths of the West to Russia? I’m not even talking about the European governments. Pathetic vassals, high traitors to their peoples. Puppets of Davos and the Anglo-Saxon oligarchy. Crooks and swindlers with the intelligence of snails. Contracts with whom in the USA? With whom? Who is not a swindler there?
I don’t know what plans the Russian leadership has. But the only one I can think of is a ceasefire and Russian demands from December 2021. nothing less. Then Russia wants to see action during the ceasefire. The US will never accept these demands. That would be the beginning of the end of their domination over Europe.
Besides, the tendency to dedollarization is unstoppable. Perhaps the USA will still succeed in a color revolution. But these would be temporary successes. The SOC also had the defense against “color revolutions” and terrorism as a theme. Afghanistan and its integration is an issue. The expanding BRICS and SOC and EAWU are creating their own banking and payment system and their own “development bank.” The unification of BRICS, SOC and EAWU into one organization is discussed. With the involvement of the (corrupted) UN. A growing number of countries from all continents aspire to membership in BRICS and SOC. The IMF is dying. Game over for the USA.
Warlike, the US oligarchy can no longer achieve its goals. But how rational do the US oligarchs still think?
There can only be security for Russia if the USA disappears from Eurasia. Including its military bases.
Theoretically, there is the optimal solution. The USA withdraws its military from all worldwide military bases to the USA. Together with Russia and China, military disarmament will take place. The money freed up will be invested in the USA in rebuilding the infrastructure, in the education system, in the health system, in reindustrialization, in increasing domestic purchasing power, in restoring its cities, in social housing. The state-sponsored drug trade is stopped. The U.S. has 5% of the world’s population and 80% of the world’s drug addicts. The U.S. engages in fair trade with all international partners. (Competition, compliance with treaties). No more wars, no more promotion of terrorism, no more NGOs interfering in other countries. Participation in the huge economic projects of Eurasia and the world. For example, One-Belt, the Northern Sea Route, the development of the Arctic, the urbanization of Siberia. Exchange and cooperation in culture, sports, sciences, education. Joint projects in space (cosmos).
Oh, I woke up. It was a beautiful dream.
There isn’t even a tiny minority in US which sees anything much is wrong with USA.
They are happy and proud their country is the bestest is the world.
There is nothing much to change there except some minor tweaks to satisfy either the democrats or Republicans.
That is sad. But not surprising. Lifelong propaganda washes the brains. Russia and China and partners do not see it as their task to rescue Western civilization from its fate.
I see only two options. 1. the U.S. and the West go along with Russia’s demands. (From December 2021) … Two blocs emerge side by side. 2. war worldwide, with all conceivable consequences.
The end of an era. 531 years ago Christopher Columbus discovered America. His discovery ushered in the era of colonization on planet Earth by the European powers, which resulted in the world domination of the US oligarchs in the 20th century. What we are witnessing now, in the first half of the 21st century, is nothing less than the end of the centuries-long era of colonialism. What will follow can only be vaguely guessed. At least if one thinks in a comparable historical dimension. But before that, the crucial question is, will the human species survive this change?
“There isn’t even a tiny minority in US which sees anything much is wrong with USA.”
This is completely untrue. While most of my people are still completely clueless about exactly what is going on (the majority still form their worldview from our soft-totalitarian corporate media), there are few who think that nothing is wrong. Moreover, this has been true for a long time. Trump 2016 wasn’t some anomalous fluke: it was a demand for change. The intensity behind that demand is MUCH more intense now, because it is crystal clear that the situation is far, far worse than we thought.
The ugly reality is that the USA has been a rigged fake democracy for a very long time. We as a people are just now figuring out that we live in an oligarchy and that the oligarchs are happy to let us vote (to maintain the pretense of popular consent) on who will be county dogcatcher or how much local police get paid, but that questions of civilizational architecture like trade, war, and immigration are off-limits to even our indirect input.
Russia reacted rather restrained to the release of the leader of Azov. Peskov said that the Kremlin knows that “Turkey is under great pressure from other NATO members, but that does not change the fact that Erdogan violated the agreement.” I don’t know if this is a game between Putin and Erdogan, but I know that the Russians made a much bigger mistake earlier, when they allowed captured Nazis to go to Turkey in exchange for a civilian, a pro-Russian politician who was arrested in Kiev without any charges.
At first I thought how could Erodogan do this, then in listening to the Military Summary channels assessment on the situation, it seems that allowing a few low life’s back into the fray was just another move by Putin to give fuel to canceling the grain deal…which Russia has been talking about for some time as being a way for Ukraine and the west to rob the poor countries of grain and pass it on to Europeans…let’s see what comes of it, but it appears that once the grain deal is canceled it gives Russia an opportunity to run a blockade…this seems very plausible here is the link it’s worth checking out…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsrdKO-DMBY
Doubtful that he is ignoring the evidence.
This strategy entirely predictable and predicted as the only way to run this narrative is that Russia wins against a backdrop of towering losses – a pyrrhic victory as they would paint it.
They cannot face admitting that they were part of a conspiracy that was well beyond everyone’s grasp to carry off their Ukraine Proxy War to destroy Russia.
A towering loss, after their Afghanistan Campaign and now seeking to line up China.
In Washington they are functionally insane.
The defeated also write the history – for their own populations.
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As for the trajectory of The United States . . .
https://les7eb.substack.com/p/washingtons-ukraina-grandioznaya
Washington’s Ukraina Grandioznaya Skhema.
The Graveyard of This Empire.
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With the Lvov military installation strike, the question of a heavy Kinzhal or the Hypersonic Glide Avangard lingers. If an Avangard that travels at such a speed that the surface heats to perhaps 2,000 C, this imputes a degree of Material Sciences that imputes the possibility of other very secret and invincible weapons that may be unmatched by The West.
US War Laboratories have yet to produce a working hypersonic missile and if they had, one could expect their use in The Ukraine. It is a sign of desperation that The White House has authorized the use of illegal cluster munitions, but then all wars conducted by Washington are war crimes. They seem to have nothing better. It does not follow that such munitions will ever be deployed and could be destroyed as soon as they cross into The Ukraine.
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Re “NATO has not stomach to let Ukraine join its club” – doubtful that it was ever their intention for their intention was to bleed Russia in a Proxy War that NATO stayed out of in a direct kinetic sense and the extent to which that is true is the degree to which President Zelenskyy has been played. He is in up to his neck and there is no way out for this expendable stooge.
NATO is not a club but a cartel. Like most cartels it has core players who keep marginal players in the game. The weedy members trade real estate for purported protection in a sort of protection racket
You let the gangsters into your house and buy them food so they can protect you from the other gang that is only interested in you because you feed and house the rival gang
” If an Avangard that travels at such a speed that the surface heats to perhaps 2,000 C, this imputes a degree of Material Sciences that imputes the possibility of other very secret and invincible weapons that may be unmatched by The West.”
I have a vague memory of a Russian commenting on this tech back in the 90’s, iirc the secret is something like a lightning strike being projected/broadcast forward that evacuates the air ahead of the device. So in some sense the vehicle is impelled into the vacuum and the vacuum can be directed, then the vacuum closes behind it.
Good comment. The nose cone is protected by the formation of a plasma shield around it. What doesn’t get a lot of commentary is that the plasma shield absorbs radar waves (and other types of EM spectra), rendering it practically invisible.
The whole hypersonic debate suffers from lack of precision. Ballistic missiles are also hypersonic in terms of speed. The key attributes of hypersonic missiles that make them invulnerable:
maneuverability (unpredictable trajectory), acceleration at low altitudes, invisibility.
As for hypersonics – let them do that speed at 20km altitude – thinner air.
Then descend vertically on target – who cares if the heatshield (well known from Shuttle tech) totally ablates by then. Kinetic energy is enough, payload is extras.
Not possible to believe the US cannot do that. It looks like the drive is giving trouble.
Has to work like a scramjet, and/or rocket, and be light.
Anyone ever tried to light a cigarette in a tornado?
The US will continue to fall further behind as long as our schools continue to “teach” about 64+ “genders” instead of serious focus on STEM. We are doomed to all kinds of failures until that changes.
Is it the case that a nation currently at war isn’t eligible to join NATO? Or have I misremembered or been misinformed?
I had never seen the movie “Grease” so I clicked on the link you provided. I have now relinquished all hope I had ever fostered in the survival of Western Civilization.
About Erdogan’s move…
I don’t think it is a surprise, unfortunately leaders of Muslim nations seem to have as a practice to manipulate/deliberately lie in order to get some benefit… no long ago Erdogan also said that Jerusalem belongs to them, and a couple of months later was praising agreements with Israel. So, I don’t get why someone should trust a sneaky leader.
Dutch FDF said “go after the CDA, they don’t know whether to poop or to pee. Think about it, but not too long.”
And the Gov’t fell days later. The rotten Gov’t who tried to close 30% of the worlds very best farm producers!
The new Dutch BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB) or Farmers-Citizens Movement, gained what could potentially be make-it-or-break-it power in the next government, is not taking swill from idiots.
Looks like NATO at villainous Vilnius will not know whether to poop or pee!
Imagine farmers, the guy who love to feed us , getting annoyed!
Rutte is one of the most committed WEF´s young leaders to whom the destiny of the Dutch and European peoples give him a damn.
His only goal is to benefit the financial mafia…
Netherlands is the original Rentier state
Netherlands’ swamp met Venice’s ambition – they migrated and set up the first Central Bank in Amsterdam, after narrowly escaping annihilation.
The next swamp on Venice’s list, London on the Thames – where today’s City of London outside any jurisdiction (BIS in Basel a clone) runs the worlds finance.
Shakespeare and later all mention the Venetian Party, even Edward VII. The Privvy Council is the Venetian system, the King a Doge, Primus inter Pares. von der Leyen knows this.
Surely easier to ‘deal’ with the problem…now they are back in the fight so to speak…ISR n all.
They should get a voucher for free pizza in Kramatorsk.
We all know that in Ukraine the only thing that interests the West is that the numbers of Ukrainian deaths and the destruction of their cities increase to justify the international isolation of Russia and stop their independent development plans that, although they do not affect the West, are a bad example for other countries of the world.
With the cluster bombs they plan to kill more Russian civilians so that the Russians increase the bombardments in retaliation and get what they want.
How convenient it is to give the present ‘stalemate’ as a reason for the need of peace . It is not a stalemate it is the eve of further military confrontation where Ukraine is bound to lose even more soldiers and equipment. Donors of their high tech tanks and other military gadgets are worried that billions of dollars would go in smoke. The UK has become so protective of their tanks that they tell Ukraine to use sparsely and in secure circumstances! So the author decides that Ukraine and Russia are desperately eager to find a way out. Ukraine wants a way out but claims the contrary while Russia is not eager to negotiate (it wants full surrender) but claim that it is ready to negotiate… The author does not believe in his own claim
I wonder about the timing.
Just when it looked Ukraine was losing last year, Merkel and Hollande turned up and announced that the Minsk Agreements they had brokered were nothing but a sham.
Now that NATO is running out of weapons to donate to Ukraine, and rumors say that the US is looking for a way out, Erdogan ( who hosted the ill-fated negotiations in March 2023, and brokered the grain deal ) suddenly compromises his credentials as a mediator.
Ukraine’s top leadership (and its western backers) never dealt directly with the opposition in Eastern Ukraine. The same goes for the conflict with Russia. They sent former politicians instead (former president Leonid Kuchma for the Minsk Accords, if I remember correctly), refused to talk to Donbass representatives, insisting that the Russians had to speak for the Donbass – and then decided that they were not bound by the deals reached. The same goes for the negotiations in March 2023 – Ukraine dropped out, as soon as its negotiators agreed to a deal.
It was even more obvious during the Grain Deal. The Grain Deal was only half of the deal – the part that detailed advantages for Ukraine.
The second hald was the deal concerning Russian fertilizer exports. Ukraine would open the ammonia pipeline for Russian ammonia. EU would not hamper fertilizer outputs.
Ukraine refused to deal with its Russian counterparts (doesn’t that sound familiar), so the deal was split in two halves, one concerning Grain exports from Ukraine one concerning Russian fertilizer exports. The former signed by the UN and Ukraine, the latter by UN and Russia. And just like with the Minsk Accords, EU / NATO / Ukraine decided to ignore that part where their obligations were defined while insisting that Russia fulfill its obligations to a T.
As a third party, would you want to be associated with such double-dealing negotiations? AGAIN ???
Merkel and Hollande took Germany and France off the table. Their trustworthiness got burned to the ground already. If the Scholz and Macron governments understand that is a different matter. Now Erdogan did the same for Turkey. I think Erdogan understands this.
Let US sign future treaties. They won’t keep their part of the bargain, they never do. But at least make them bear the reputational loss for it themselves.
John Mearsheimer has written an extremely detailed, extremely pessimistic article about the Ukraine situation
(there is also a 90-minute video):
The Darkness Ahead: Where The Ukraine War Is Headed
Article (2023-06-23):
https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/the-darkness-ahead-where-the-ukraine
Video (2023-05-23):
https://youtube.com/watch?v=v-rHBRwdql8?t=6m20s
Here is part of the article’s conclusion:
Mearsheimer published the article himself at Substack.
Did the MSM refuse to publish it?
The only reference to it that I can find in the MSM is an attack on it:
America’s leading ‘realist’ keeps getting Russia wrong
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4079666-americas-leading-realist-keeps-getting-russia-wrong/
Why is it so hard for people to conceive of Permanent War ?
For much of human history that has been the case and Americans live in a nation that has very rarely been at peace in its entire history……….
Europe had 100 Years War; an 80 Years war; a Thirty Years War; a Seven Years War – the latter was global from Silesia to North America to India……..it shaped the British Empire
The ONLY reason Europe had peace from 1945-1990 was Soviet troops in Germany……..once Germany was reunited and Soviet troops withdrew you got the Yugoslavia Dismemberment orchestrated by CSU in Bavaria for Catholic Croatia – and the German dabbling once again in Ukraine as in 1918 and 1941
Margaret Thatcher and Francois Mitterand opposed German Unification believing it would destabilise Europe………..they were right
Their words via Riddley were “Germany would be a Fourth Reich”.
Utter bullshit.
What destabilized Europe was NATO expansion, by U.K. and USA. Russia says this clearly over and over again.
NordSteam was what stability means. Bombed by Biden.
Now Biden had to can Brit Wallace to avoid WWIII.
So even Biden “God save the Queen, man” has figured it out.
If such a dope can do it what is wrong with you?
“Why is it so hard for people to conceive of Permanent War?”
They’ve tried permanent war. It doesn’t work. The choice is simple: Either guns or butter. You can’t have both. In a world set up on exponential growth there’s always the hockey puck moment. Permanent war is not sustainable on a finite planet.
More importantly, you cannot keep a people on an endless war footing, with endless warmongering. The people go insane.
Look at what is happening here in the United States. People have started eating each other.
It is the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible, as a wag noticed.
We live in a country, maybe even a world (there plenty of pictures of obese Ukrainian soldiers out there); where the Armalite-15 (AR-15) is short for “Assault Rifle.” Where butter is “butter food.”
“The unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible.”
“Either guns or butter.”
Immediately After Moving To Texas, Elon Musk Announces Tesla AR-15
https://babylonbee.com/news/to-celebrate-move-to-texas-tesla-introduces-battery-powered-ar-15
“This new firearm will be the go-to rifle for our SpaceX volunteers when they encounter hostile aliens. It’s also a celebration of the Second Amendment. If any federal authorities try to confiscate it, the rifle will automatically connect to the internet and file a lawsuit for you!”
The Federal Government has requested that Tesla at least remove the AI-powered “self-driving” feature on the firearm before selling it.
Permanent War was Trotsky, and Helphand.
In other words, British.
Speaking of Erdogan, spike the punch and explain the possibility of Graham Fuller not screwing up this time. Also, the Gulen Sufi nexus should the Chechens break BAD:) The academics amongst you should review a 2011 book Weapons of Mass Migration (Greenhill), this is the template, straight out of the Harvard/Tufts brainiacs.
There’s a fellow independent blogger by the handle of Aurelien who proposes one (of several) reasons for why Western figures and managers seem to be so dead sure that the proxy war will somehow end with a negotiation where Russia will make concessions and let the West retain the left half of the Ukraine to do with as it will.
Simply put, it’s procedural blindness and inability to think outside of their current framework. In their worldview, that’s just the specific way conflicts end. They can’t imagine, say, there not BEING a Ukraine – it’s in their maps so it’s an inalienable feature! Neither can they imagine that Russia will just get what it wants – in their rulebook, each party must give up something it wants at the very least, and the idea that the Russian war aims list is not a “maximalist negotiating proposal” but the set of basic required objectives without which the war cannot end doesn’t even cross their minds.
Their fixation on this “everything must end at the negotiations and Russia will be forced to accept our terms because an agreement must include goals of both parties!” procedural fetishism also rests, of course, on the delusion of omnipotence and the indignation of a colonial overlord with an “indigen” who dares to act like the master of one’s own fate, whereas the overlord considers him to have no right to such.
They have NO OTHER way out…….what other conclusion leaves them with some fig leaf ? Minsk II saved the Ukrainians from destruction in 2015……….time to re-arm and regroup – 8 years later that is a dead-end………
Western politicians are Office Managers not Directors. Without Chirac or Kohl or even Berlusconi they are incapable of taking action but are simply “drinks waiters” seeking to take orders
“…there not BEING a Ukraine…”
Russia really should refer to Ukraine as Galicia, it would soften the blow and give the rest of the world a heads-up to the reality of the situation.
Putin have alredy started using term Novorossiya. Once the term Malorussia is brought back, Galicia would be Ukraine.
Li’l Dickie Haass seems to be upset that the orchestra he’s had influence on since the State/CFR days could doom the world, Larry maybe some input. ’cause this Dalmatian seems to now hate firetrucks:)
Eastern Europeans are next. Poland Baltics etc. The Western Elites won’t give up 500 years of Global domination even if it means nuclear war (which the elites will survive in luxury).
If you want details why they seem “crazy” Au contraire… more like crazy like a fox. This is probably the most succinct thread I’ve seen what’s at stake.
https://twitter.com/NiMingda_GG/status/1574863287824654336
China is very clear what the villainous Vilnius NATO circus will be about – Taiwan.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202307/1293954.shtml
A country of 3 million whose Lithuanian foreign minister claimed that “with the Strategy having been approved, Lithuania now finds itself among global leaders.”
Well, Lithuanian Elves, their Stratcom troll farm like NAFO , are world leaders in propaganda,
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/08/24/intelligence-british-govt-grayzone/
tell me more, tell me more, was it love at first sniff???
tell me more, tell me more, they found coke in the SCIF…
These are amazing times to be alive!
#POTATUS
Attali, French presidential adviser, US retainer, and ex-head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, thinks he is talking to ex-Ukrainian president Poroshenko
https://odysee.com/@Kairospresse:0/ATTALI-1:d
Pranksters Vovan and Lexus strike again – hilarious. English with French subtitles.
Attali let’s the cat out of the bag!
h/t https://johnhelmer.net/
Erdogan is a fucken snake. He’s on the throne only due to Russia saving his arse.
A double crossing, self serving, corrupt, piece of shit.
Hopefully this is a wake up call for Russia; no one can be trusted and all deals are off the table..
It is time to immediately remove the parquet generals with a big purge, and that is most necessary above all.
https://youtu.be/J5126CibNsk
Much like Johnny Cash, Erdogan Walk’s the line..
https://youtu.be/J5126CibNsk
Erdogan’s favorite song.
Below a more exact transcript of Biden’s remarks:
“Including ground breaking Asian Americans like Vera Wang and and … and Joan Shin Gang
… Sh Shin gran (pronounce right) Shing … ga … cool … … koalwa”
Basically, he means Chinks & koala bears
He became temporarily unfocused while pondering the juxtaposition of Vera and Wang.
“Ukraine’s Failed Counter Offensive Paints NATO into a Corner.”
First rule of United States foreign policy: “There are no corners.” Second rule of United States foreign policy: “There is no talking about corners.” Rhymes with “borders.”
“NATO has not [the] stomach to let Ukraine join its club.” Nonsense. NATO is a vassal to the United States. Reports that the Ukraine has been a Defacto member of NATO since 2014 are completely accurate.
All sides have been keeping “the good stuff” — their vast stores of state-of-the-art munitions and war material in deep storage — reserved for the day when either the United States or Russia finally decide to “start something.”
“When you are weak appear strong. When you are strong appear weak.”
The question is: Which is it?
The Leopard 2s and Bradley M-2s sent to Ukraine were stripped down, “where’s the beef?” versions. The West did not want their technology to fall into Russian hands. The West knew these tanks and vehicles would be lost in the Ukraine/Russo “conflict.”
Where does this thing go? We will never know. Not with a fully owned, fully controlled, and fully manipulated Western mainstream media. The nukes could have already started falling.
Militarily? Maybe an attack on Russia actually does some damage and Russia says, “Nuts to this” and (finally) nukes Washington, DC. Maybe a Western decision-making center is struck. I can think of a good one — in Vilnius, Lithuania — this week. Maybe the West (Poland) goes a mercenary too far. Meanwhile, there is a lot of critical civilian infrastructure that can be destroyed.
And maybe Russia (and China) just wait for the ultimate collapse of the West (financially, economically, culturally, socially, the works . . . which is a lot closer than anybody is willing to admit.
A 3 week US bank shutdown would make Paris look like a cosy coffee shop.
ZH, financial news, picked up this :
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/i-dont-think-well-ever-get-2024-election-col-douglas-macgregor-ret-warns
USMC Col. Macgreggor let the cat out of the bag.
Russia knows this well – Dr. Sergei Glazyev of the EAEU, EurasianEconomicUnion, on his (Russian) channel : https://t.me/s/glazieview
“A 3 week US bank shutdown would make Paris look like a cosy coffee shop.”
I don’t know. We had a dress rehearsal for all this beginning in March of 2020.
Essentially, we had a 1-year bank shutdown with the Pandemic. Everybody just stayed indoors, kept their gas tanks full, and their pantries well-stocked. The streets were empty. Only “essential businesses” were open — grocery stores, pharmacies, gas stations. My gym was closed so I took walks. Things were pretty much exactly as they were depicted in the 1959 movie “On the Beach” without the masks. The masks were a nice touch of stupid.
I think the Pandemic was pretty much a dress rehearsal for something even worse coming down the road. “Never let a crisis go to waste.”
In the 1959 movie “On the Beach,” people basically just went home and died. No fuss no bother. The government even handed out pills. Everything had already shut down.
If the U.S. government were to ever go “full retard” then there will be no “essential services.” This time people will be dying. They will be too sick to burn the place down.
A year later, and the world will look like a beautiful corpse.
Good points.
I went to this Russian site, glazieview, but the automatic translator didn’t kick in.
Question. How do you go to a Russian site and get the translator to work? Microsoft automatically updated Windows 10 to 11 and nothing works like it used to. Thanks.
Yandex browser have a automatic translation option in the menu, i would think most browsers have now.
Or just paste the url into :
https://translate.yandex.com/
Per
Norway
https://t.me/s/glazieview
with win 10, Edge the auto translator kicks in
Windows Edge setting, languages, edge://settings/languages
offer to translate set to on.
I hope this works in win 11 .
Good comment. The nose cone is protected by the formation of a plasma shield around it. What doesn’t get a lot of commentary is that the plasma shield absorbs radar waves (and other types of EM spectra), rendering it practically invisible.
The whole hypersonic debate suffers from lack of precision. Ballistic missiles are also hypersonic in terms of speed. The key attributes of hypersonic missiles that make them invulnerable:
maneuverability (unpredictable trajectory), acceleration at low altitudes, invisibility.
3 things are vital :
engine, drive, motor,
not necessarily in that order nor of the same type.
Terrific piece. After investing so much physical, financial and human capital, the US/NATO have no intention of changing course in Ukraine, as doing so is an admission of failure and by extension, military weakness. No doubt, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is under tremendous pressure to toe the US/NATO line. One would assume that Washington presented Erdogan with ‘an offer he could not refuse’, which is why he released the AZOV leaders to Ukraine, violating his prior agreement with the Russians. The US retains a significant presence in Turkey- circa 1500 American troops are stationed at the Incirlik air base (https://www.incirlik.af.mil/). In July, 2016, a faction within the Turkish Armed Forces attempted a coup d’état against Erdogan, who had been tipped off by Russia and Iran, prior to the coup. An assassination attempt targeting Erdogan was ‘foiled’ in Dec, 2021. These events suggest the CIA has plenty of assets in Turkey who can be called upon to keep Erdogan in line and if necessary, instigate ‘regime’ change. One would assume the Russians, along with China and Iran, are well of aware the West is an ‘untrustworthy’ partner and of Erdogan’s treachery.
The release of Azov leaders is an obvious Putin/Erdogan ploy the west naively falls into. All three: Turkey, Ukraine and Russia gain, and R. gains double – corn deal is off the table, and the Azov people are back in the hunting range. Were they not way safer in Turkey?
Also the alleged pressure on Erdogan is a noise, IMO. The time to use pressure was year ago when Erdogan was vital in circumventing sanctions on Russia. Now, after his electorial win, it’s too late. Even praising of NATO by Erdogan is being naively misinterpreted as “pressure”. In fact, it costs neither Erdogan nor Putin anything while the right question to ask is: what has Erdogan obtained in exchange for meeting w/Zelenski and praising NATO?
The most offensive thing about Western “experts” is their refusal to recognize the West’s complicity in the Ukraine mess.
They poked the Russian bear repeatedly. They wanted Putin to intervene in Ukraine.
Now they act like what he did was shocking and unexpected.
They have no integrity.
On the Netherlands: Two weeks ago, Glenn Beck had some Dutch politician on, one of the “conservatives,” telling of very bad things. The confiscation of farms was increasing, as were private houses for the new “refugees.” He and Beck commiserated on this, and the Dutchman called for new elections and the need for the conservatives to get into power. It sounded a lot like the old “vote moar harder” argument. The Dutchman belonged to a party that was recently formed, he was not a professional politician. He explained Holland has 25 political parties. I thought, no wonder they never win, because the system simply backs one party against another, like so much political amoeba. I also dislike Beck. He talks revolt, but always goes back to God, following the rules and getting the other side to play fair. I feel it’s the argument of the controlled opposition.
I think the real argument might be to remind this hand-wringing, “conservative” Dutchman that in the 1500-1600’s, the Dutch fought Spain to be free, then the French. They were remarkably consistent and courageous, and perhaps some of that needs to be recovered. I doubt “elections” will do much good. As other posts on this remarked, Holland is too effectively controlled, and the system is too easily manipulated. Not to mention the N. European thing about being fair and not expelling foreigners.
The Dutch keep thinking about Anne Frank and not William of Orange.
I’m not trying to sound like a keyboard warrior, but the democracy thing isn’t working…except that, as Lampedusa argued in his novel The Leopard, democracy is a tool of the powerful to keep power. “If things are going to stay the same, they have to change,” was his aristocrat’s argument on backing “revolutionaries.”
If anyone on this site is Dutch, please enlighten me if I’m wrong.
https://sonar21.com/ukraines-failed-counter-offensive-paints-nato-into-a-corner/#comment-140782
The Dutch keep thinking about Anne Frank and not William of Orange.
Anne Frank was German
William The Silent was appointed Stadtholder by Philip II of Spain
The Duran had a solid summary of current events on Friday.
They explore the Richard Haas angle extensively. It is very telling about the split between American Neocons like Haas vs ideological tribal neocons like Nuland & Blinken and those they’ve bullied, blackmailed or bribed along for the ride.
You must know about the neocon infestation and rot at Foggy Bottom more than most Larry.
Would really enjoy you following up with Alex and Alexander on this important topic going forward.
Here’s a link to the Duran’s terrific analysis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsYxz4OxsR0&t=1374s
NATO is facing a nightmare situation on the order of Nightmare on Elm Street.
The Guardian’s resident warmonger is at it again:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2023/jul/08/ukraine-nato-must-step-in-to-stop-russia
There are many interesting things happening on the USD front that are going unnoticed
On July 1 FED moved to SOFR from LIBOR which is a big FU to the City of London
It’s a declaration of independence. US offshore dollar markets (aka Eurodollars) were being created from thin air beyond Powells control.
The move to SOFR was not a surprise. It was in the works since DJT was in the Oval Office.
Powell was also appointed by TRUMP. Biden tried to remove him in favor of Lael Brainard who is (like Yellen) Davos choice
Tom Luongo has been banging the table about this for over a year and has been proven correct time and time again.
Apparently (like you Larry) Powell is a Patriot and traces his roots to the Virginia aristocracy that told the UK to fuck off in 1776.
Fascinating…
Then there’s Ripple… Ripple have the blockchain solution to the USD Triffin dillema.
Ripple has been accepted as the “level playing field” in blockchain cross border payments across the globe save one jurisdiction… THE US SEC
The case seems to have been a way to stall adoption but as events evolve the position becomes clearer.
It now appears Ripple are in a position to prevail over the captured SEC and have set themselves up as the globes trust-less, decentralized code writer of choice. That fact, along with the use of XRP (eXchange Rate Peg) as the gold backed bridge asset of choice in the emerging digital economy (now being pushed by BRICS with a basket of commodities backing their new reserve alternative)
Some fun facts about the case:
JP Morgan have been implicated as SEC influencers. ETH got a free pass from SEC regulators while Ripple got sued. Both are similar tech, but ETH got a free pass. Why? Because anonymous JPM whales are trying to create a monopoly and corner the digital cross border payments space much like they control SWIFT.
Then there’s Michael Barr… Ex Ripple Board, current #2 at the FED
FEDNow is going to be settling digitally 24/7 365 in the coming weeks.
SOFR is a big part of that.
Interesting times indeed.
Luongo’s conclusion “But nothing less than the fate of a 300 year project for world government hangs in the balance. Everyone of these horrific factions wants to rule the world but none of them have the means by themselves to pull it off. So, watching them maneuver each other into the line of fire would be hilarious if the stakes weren’t so freaking high for the rest of us.”
Attali also is smelling the end. Putin has put a 300 year thing on notice!
It is interesting. Hadn’t heard of Luongo. Thanks!
I do like Tom Luongo, but many of the things he writes don’t smell right to me.
His characterisation of Jerome being the savior of the US financial system sounded just plain wrong.
I don’t understand Erdogan’s reasoning for the release.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1/who-are-the-azov-regiment
“On Monday, Ukraine’s national guard tweeted a video showing Azov fighters coating their bullets in pig fat to be used allegedly against Muslim Chechens – allies of Russia – deployed in their country.”
“The unit was led by Andriy Biletsky, who served as the the leader of both the Patriot of Ukraine (founded in 2005) and the SNA (founded in 2008). The SNA is known to have carried out attacks on minority groups in Ukraine.
In 2010, Biletsky said Ukraine’s national purpose was to “lead the white races of the world in a final crusade … against Semite-led Untermenschen [inferior races]”.”
Erdogan is playing both sides of the fence. He has the largest NATO forces outside the US. It looks like he wants to reconstitute the Ottoman Empire in some way. H doesn’t like Syria or Kurds, and Russia is helping Syria. Maybe he thinks he can get away with all ths, but he’s playing the most dangerous game out there right now.
He started down this path when the CIA tried to get him out in a coup. Does that strategy sound familiar?
“It looks like he wants to reconstitute the Ottoman Empire in some way.”
You should leave out “looks like” part. It’s not even a secret. He even wants Northern Africa and the Balkans.
Biden will be announcing that the US will be delivering , in addition to cluster munitions, mustard gas to Ukraine as it is running out of ammo and because the US believes in a “rules based world order”.
Is Putin naive, and is being deceived by everyone in turn, or has he agreed to a big reset. Putin is holding back the Heroic Struggle of the Russian People.
Yes.
On another subject: I read in RT that Erdogan is supporting Ukraine’s Nato bid.
This is somewhat surprising.
Any ideas about what lies behind that?
Thanks
I read there were Turkish weapons contracts and reconstruction contracts promised. I wonder how much of those contracts are financed by US and European taxpayers.
He got something to say that. It’s inconsequential, so why not say it and take whatever was offered.
You can’t make deals with the people as France , during the revolution of 1789, they recognized no limits, they would save the world. Beginning with its immediate neighbors and rivals, at bayonetpoint if need be, as USA after reaching to unipolar hegemony, 1990.
The Serbs, the Iraqis,the Afghans, the Libyans, eventually the Iranians and the North Koreans, all would be saved, but the quest to liberate culminate in millions of death, destroying entire countries. The neoliberal interventions. But even the Bolsheviks, 1917, the German Nazis, 1933 had of course a revolutionary fervor, but now the 2014, Ukraine nationalism, but together with U.S, Nato, EU, what ended in a war.
I read “Keith,H.” , here, informing about Mearsheims substack article, and then M. Kyeyune, (Compactmag.com) simultaneous, to reach this understan-ding.
Malcom Kyeyune/In Compactmag.com. :The Tragedy of Foreign-Policy Realism: about Eldbridge A. Colby, US., dep. assisting secretary of defense. and some about of John Mearsheimer.
But Europe can’t take more wars, the third in an about century, and be a proxy, for US, and Kiev as proxy for Nato/EU. Russia was before a most conser-vative power, for the main European order, stopped Carolus Rex, 1709, Poltava, and Napoleon/Paris 1814/15 , Berlin 1945, Berlin, Hitler, and then the showdown of Cold War, 1945-1990, but a long period of peace, 50 good years, of good life. It became possible.
Then Ukraine, the unknown, “Problem from Hell”, no one understands, with much hatred, entered the room, and here we go again. There will be a long war, but Russia will be the winner, due to Mearsheim, but what a suffering for Ukraine. There was a chance to avoid this war, but the US/UK/Nato and the West wasn’t interested, instead they prepared for war, 2014-2022, they are by that not trustworthy, and capable of striking deals, so the worst situation is here to stay.
There’s another possible take on the release of the Azov prisoners. That is, Turkey is being pressured to endorse Sweden’s move into NATO, but currently can’t go there due to the Koran-burning and support of people the Turks define as terrorists. I also don’t get the impression that Turkey is willing to support NATO membership or guarantees for Ukraine. Maybe the release of the Azov prisoners is a bone to the NATO crowd given they aren’t getting anything else from Turkey. Frankly, the Russians might well be fine with this trade-off privately. The AZOV guys may end up on the front lines, with the corresponding short life expectancy, and Sweden is not in NATO.
Just thinking out loud.
I think Erdogan is playing both sides.
If you were a Ukrainian Azov officer, which fate would you prefer? Being held under house arrest in Turkey for the duration; or going “home” to face certain death.
Wouldn’t surprise me that passive array chips were sown into these Azov officer’s unforms, or tracker chips were injected into them. Russia will have them targeted upon arrival back in Kiev. If not sooner.
“If you were a Ukrainian Azov officer, which fate would you prefer? Being held under house arrest in Turkey for the duration; or going “home” to face certain death.”
They are the fanatics, the zealots and as such I’d reckon their attitudes are death or glory. They will happily go to the front line.
It’s all just for the show. They need to take attention from the carnage happening on the frontlines. They are getting so desperate for good news, that Zelensky went to Snake Island to do a propaganda video. He went there on a boat, because they are fresh out of ships, and talked about “their” Black Sea. Russians didn’t even bother firing a missile at him.
Political “science” has always been considered a soft and fuzzy discipline by natural scientists.
Grease? At least that was entertaining and had a happy ending. Our current situation? Pure hell and it won’t end pretty.
Im sure Hollywood will do LGBT remake, and name it Lube.
Hard to imagine RAND is not dissembling:
While the Western response was clear from the start, the objective — the endgame of this war — has been nebulous
They clearly had the objective of the overthrow of Putin and dismemberment of Russia allowing a clearer path to China. Was not a secret. Its rich to note that now that the objective is infeasible, it is now “nebulous.” Its also delusional to argue that the US has a say in imagining how the war ends – how does that work? a thinking person would ask.
To inner cynic: “Grease” wouldn’t be a good name for a movie about our present. “Slime” would be a much better title.
I view the PR release and subsequent cringe-worthy celebration of the AZOV Nazi leaders as a “poison frog” for Ukraine and mostly for NATO members.
Who in the EU really wants a Nazi infested, corrupt and failed state to join their select NATO club?
I mean just imagine a NATO integrated AZOV Regiment of goose-stepping, nazi saluting, swastika totting thugs parading down the Champs Elysées on a 14th of July in France (Fête Nationale).
No way, not going to happen….
Whitewashing and rebranding Nazi is what The West have been doing since WWII. I’m sure even you fell for some of it.
The admission of Ukraine into Nato seems to be the desired off-ramp for the west to declare victory over Russia and end the conflict with a peace negotiation. The west knows very well they have hugely underestimated Russia’s economic and military capabilities. Russia has already defeated Ukraine and is now fighting mainly (disguised) Nato troops and of course Nato military equipment (mostly old outdated junk).
So, to save face, Nato will try to admit Ukraine into it’s circle and declare victory, because they will never be able to defeat Russian troops face to face. Going forward leaves them only three options. (1) Force Zelensky to negotiate for peace. (2) Throw Ukraine under the bus, using any pretense they get, like breaking promises not to attack Russia with their weapons or (3) go forward and escalate everything into full blown WW3.