Meet Ryan O’Leary. He currently is in the Bakhmut area of operations fighting under the command of Ukrainian officers. Mr. O’Leary is not happy. He is a 34 year old alumni of Carroll High School in Iowa and a National Guard veteran who served in Afghanistan and Iraq,
He reports that his unit is undermanned and lacking in heavy weapons because “they’ve gone missing.” In other words, the weapons are being sold on the black market. O’Leary blames the logistics problems on the corrupt, criminal behavior of his Ukrainian chain of command — from the Major General to his Captain. He specifically calls out a Captain Baroda, noting that Baroda traffics in a host of illegal narcotics. Read the following series of tweets. They are self-explanatory:
I fear that young Mr. O’Leary has signed his death warrant. Men like Captain Baroda will retaliate in a very brutal way against anyone who interferes with their “entrepreneurial” activity. At some point the U.S. legislators, media and public need to wake up from their delusional dream that Ukraine is a budding democracy fighting for truth and justice and realize it is a kleptocracy celebrating a neo-Nazi ideology. President Zelensky and his general, Zalushny, have sent the cream of Ukraine’s youth into a slaughterhouse while depriving them of the supplies, ammunition and weapons required to fight the Russians.
It is a tragedy that Ryan O’Leary has traveled so far from the bucolic farms of western Iowa to learn a very hard truth. I hope he survives.
Why is Ryan there fighting? Does he still think the Russians are somehow worse than the Ukros? For the money? Just likes to fight? Death wish? Feels like he owes his to the troops under his command (I get that to some extent, but he could help them more by coming back to the US and shouting his story)? I don’t get this guy. Yes, tragic.
He’s just another bleeping idiot that needs a dirt nap.
Yep, agreed. Easily brainwashed Rambo wannabes are a potential danger to all of us. They blindly follow orders to kill without any thought to illegality or immorality.
Good news is they dig their own graves in the former eastern Ukraine.
Some of these guys desperately need money for mortgage, etc. Few do this for fun or faith. It’s a job. He probably has little choice. Things are tight in the West, mercanaries are well paid. They can send that money home. No one knows his situation.
Are you describing a mercenary or a prostitute? There are still some things you don’t do.
Maybe Bill Gates can hire him to oversee the family farm that Gates bought at auction when O’Leary’s cow fled the barn and the banks forced the family into bankruptcy.
Couldn’t have said better
“it’s a job”. LOL, the Nuremberg defence. Ash you really have sunk to new lows of depravity calling what these filthy scum do “a job”.
You’ve got to recoqnize good faith beliefs of others. He’s blowing a whistle here. Brave to the Max
Yeah, I’m going to ditto what the rest of you are saying. I’m not too impressed with this guy’s judgment and ability to connect the dots. Why would you want to throw your life away on another neocon foreign adventure? And who’s going to take care of you after you get maimed on the battlefield? You’re certainly not going to qualify for VA benefits, are you?
But really what bugs me is this guy and his sickening mentality where he just runs off to the first war available. I think it’s illustrative of the mentality of the people in charge of the foreign policy and War Machine in our government. The kind of act like addicts. They are addicted to war.
What is this guy’s problem? White Knight syndrome?
That’s not nice.
He’s got guts. probably much more than you do. What he doesn’t have – and needs – is good moral leadership channeling his guts in the right way.
He probably went there to have another “adventure” murdering defenseless people like in Iraq or Afghanistan and now he gets what he deserves. Real soldiers in a real war where he chose to fight for the wrong side.
Everyone believing the Ukies are defending their country has been brainwashed with western propaganda and will get his/her real wakeup call once this thing goes sideways. Ukies are sheep used to poke Russia by the west, which BTW makes billions in military contracts and doesn’t even care where their crappy weapons end up. This will be not forgotten. Pawns like foreign mercenaries are dropping like flies, because they kill for money, while the other side kills to protect people who cannot properly defend themselves.
This mercenary is clearly in desperation. He knows he will not survive this, because the reality is not what he thought or believed it to be. Now he speaks out to make the best of his situation. He says it by himself, he doesn’t care what will happen to him. He already gave up. Maybe others will not make the same mistake.
Ukraine has zero chances to win this conflict. They are being used and should stand up for themselves and throw out their evil western backers and declare all that “help” and “support” null and void. They should negotiate peace and accept their role as a neutral state. Nato is out of the question, but they can enter EU if it fits their interests. BTW, Janunkowich didn’t because the EU is a selfish controlling dictatorship and bullies their members into submission of whatever BS they make up as regulation/law. The deal was a bad one, so he pulled out of it.
Well said Top Gum.
Killing for cash, kicks and hard on’s. People that are serial killers all seem to have some sexual, issues. Or Satanic lust to kill.
Professional military folks sign up to protect home and country. Anyone remember the Canadian super sniper. Back home.
The big mouth yank “Welcome to America.” With a blown up Russian tank in the background . One post proved it was a Ukrainian tank. I cannot verify anything, was not there. He was last seen getting beaten up by a half pint gentleman on the New York subway.LOL
I did serve with Vietnam veterans NONE OF THEM TALKED ABOUT IT. One with a leg missing below the knee. Another with no legs. Others with horrific exit wound scares. Others with nothing to show for it but their silence: that said it all.
Real men v’s wannabe hero’s hero’s.
My grandad came back insane from France in 1918. The other grandad, gassed in 1915 died from it in 1954. Uncle torpedoed three times 1939-45 ( merchant navy food convoys) My old dad half mad with his memories, drank himself to death.
Chubby chops should just fight until he is the last merc. Nobody cares ……but the Uki nazis will!
Something wrong with human beings, alway war, your dad your son and yourself. The rich and frivolous get a free pass, just sayin.
Agreed from the first to the last word, Top Gum, full marks for it, thanks.
You are right on point, Gum, except that the people of Ukraine don’t really have the ability to throw our their corrupt, oppressive regime, even if they wanted to. Tyrannical regimes, as we have seen in China since 1989 and more recently in Western Europe, Canada, Brazil this week, and the U.S., will not hesitate to use force to kill or lock up the people who resist their corrupt rule, and have the means to do so — the guns, secret police, controlled media, and unjust court systems.
So will the Ukrainian “army” march towards Kiev and “throw out their evil western backers”?
You nailed it! I couldn’t have said it better.
What he needs is a brain.In his own words he is telling us he knows his world is make believe and still he persists on a holy mission to save a world that will not save it’s self.I have no pity for this self deluding fool.As my father told me,THE DUMB MUST PAY.
Guts without brains is not a good combination. Maybe do a little research on the most corrupt country in Europe before volunteering.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/04/welcome-to-the-most-corrupt-nation-in-europe-ukraine
Anyone who drank the Kool-Aid that this a fight between good guys and bad guys deserves what they are about to get.
The amount of hate and venom on this thread is disturbing. Ryan probably isn’t too bright and he probably believed the propaganda 100%. Yes, he has personal reasons too; some perhaps more honorable than others, but that is irrelevant if he initially believed he would be fighting with valiant Ukrainian soldiers, for freedom, against Russia Ork barbarians. I was only wondering why he is still there; not why he first went.
I’m sure the people here drooling over the prospect of Ryan’s impending death also believe all kinds of stupid and destructive notions (like socialism is good, It’s the Jews behind it all! Take the vaccine or Covid will wipe us all out! etc, etc). Too much holier than thou, self-righteous, angry BS. Also hypocrisy. Wanting someone like Ryan to be killed is no different than Ryan wanting to kill Russians. It’s all killing for politics.
I’m going to assume that Ryan is basically a good soldier and acts from that mentality, sense of duty and honor. Soldiers follow orders. It’s the people issuing the orders who should be held in contempt – I’m talking about the media and politicians who spread the propaganda that shapes Ryan’s perceptions and understanding of the situation. Those people have violated their sacred duty to The People. Worse, they use the peoples’ lives as cheap disposal pawns.
It’s funny, because in one sense he’s smart enough to realize that he and/or his vet buddies can’t do one thing to defend their own country’s borders from invasion because if they even thought about it he/they would have FBI agents kicking in their doors and their own government would mercilessly destroy their lives.
But they are guided by the narrative fed to them that they are heroes for serving and they need to direct that in a kosher-approved direction against an historic Christian land which bans gay marriage and doesn’t allow drag queen story hours for children.
He made his choice. Now he is facing the consequences. Not knowing better os not a good excuse anyway. People have a sense of right and wrong. I know some people wish him well, some not. I myself only said he gets what he deserves. A real war with real soldiers where the best man survives. That is what soldiers do. Iraq and Afghanistan were wrong wars. Way too many people died from the hands of their invaders and occupiers. A shame for every soldier “serving” there.
I was only wondering why he is still there; not why he first went.
A constant stream of ukrop “Look what the b@stard orcs have done, there were civilians in that building”, after the ukrops shelled it for PR no doubt gave him the incentive to fight on.
I think your attempts to validate this stupid merc is what is really disturbing! (“more honorable than others”, you mean like defending territory for murderous, thieving nazis? – that isn’t honorable, eric!)
You really are desperate to keep on this thread. The guy is a fool, and his “bravery” is a disguise to hide his insufficiencies. And your attempt to read into anyone criticizing his complete idiotic ignorance is as foolish as his attempt to support a corrupt ukraine. Of course, according to you, everyone that criticizes this stupid merc must support socialism and fake vaxes, right? What your stupid response does show is that you are here to win debates even when you lose the argument, and you don’t care what others think if it isn’t what you think, you are going to be right. You can even build up straw men to tear down to prove it, right, eric? Even going so far as declaring all critics of mercenary morons to be pro-vax and socialists. WTF?? Those of us who think morons like this merc deserve their fate are the enemy, now, yes?
eric, you really are the fool, and your idiotic defense of this joker is the proof. I actually hope the idiot pro-vaxers who tried to force their stupidity on my life all die soon from their stupid poison as well, just as I hope the stupid merc parade all eat lead and come home in a box, if that. Is that political, too, eric? I call it Darwinism, but that’s just me. The pro-vaxers ARE the stupid mercs, or haven’t you kept up with the ‘latest thing’? I’ll bet ol’ Ryan is boosted, and his ‘latest thing’ card is full. See, I can assume also.
Stupid merc wants to vent rather than leave, because of the soldiers under his command, wtf? Save the 60 you moron and leave, and tell them to go AWOL, what is it that you don’t get, you stupid merc?
Don’t ever expect an intelligent person here to support this idiot merc. He left Iowa for that? Good riddance! Please keep up the bravado, Ryan, and stay, and maybe the rest of the merc-wannabe-trash will join you in your death wish, more great Iowa left for the rest of us!
“I’m going to assume that Ryan is basically a good soldier and acts from that mentality, sense of duty and honor. Soldiers follow orders. ”
The Nuremberg Defense, in a nutshell.
Here’s a lesson for the “dumb military man” Newhill. Soldiers have the right to disobey illegal orders. They are personally responsible for acting on any illegal orders.
So stop hiding behind the “blame the officer” trope.
You don’t get a free pass for being an ignorant twat.
He’s killing fellow white people, getting a dopamine hit of righteousness every time, because he’s too bloody brainwashed to fight to preserve and defend his own folk. Russians may not be nice but outsiders to this conflict between Ukrainians and Russians ought to be finding ways to defuse the fighting rather than participating in it. O’Leary would shoot you down too, if you lifted a finger to close down the Southern US Border. He’s well meaning on some level but he’s a willing pawn in the “Invade the World Invite the World” Neoconservative destruction of traditional Europe and US. Most Ukraine infantrymen are in the same predicament as the front line of Globohomo but at least they didn’t chose it.
He has gutts? Are you drunk ? Either money or just boredom and not being useful at home. He can come back and help our border control brave fighters? Why so many Americans are fighting against Russia? Because fighting m divan cartel is not cool. Stupid idiots!!!!
You don’t know me sonny. I’d be very careful whom I insult were I you. This dumbass wouldn’t recognize good moral leadership if he saw it.
Would you tell him he’s a bleeping idiot to his face and wish him death? No you’d be too scared he’d FU up.
I would without a second of hesitation !!!
Well since he’s not in front of you, then don’t say anything and despell all doubt. Life is a series of choices and some turn out to be less than optimal, I know, I wish, I could make some changes. It is enough that he has to live with the consequences.
Peppe,you would be wasteing your breathe.this kid already has all the evidence he needs to know whatever you would tell him.You cannot fix stupid by feeling sorry for it.
If I were that brave I’d go join Wagner. And the odds of my winning would be a lot better.
The reason we are here reading Larry is that we are smarter than that.
I’d be doing the same. I firmly believe PDT was going to help putin clean out Ukraine, imprisoning those bastards that built it in the process. The includes bill Clinton, bush the younger, Obeyme, and stinkin Biden. It’s why putin was holding off. Obviously.
Ah, you know so little about the adrenaline anger can invoke.
Would you tell him he’s a bleeping idiot to his face and wish him death? No you’d be too scared he’d FU up.
Ah, you know so little about the adrenaline anger can invoke.
With no hesitation. Some of us old guys are a hell of a lot more dangerous than these brainless wannabe’s are. We actually read and practice “The Art of War”.
I’d happily tell him he’s a pawn in a Neoconservative game to destroy traditional European and American society. He’s a foot soldier of Globohomo who runs the risk of dying to merely ensure Kiev has a viable gay pride parade and remains a money laundering operation for well connected western bankers and politicians.
Yes, %100 agree…this guy is an idiot. Just what the hell did he think he was going to accomplish? He has gotten a heavy dose of reality and now stands very little chance of returning home, other than in a body bag. I have zero sympathy for him, sad to say that but frankly, I can no longer tolerate the stupidity of Americans that believe what is written in the press or is seen on television.
Just one word: Fool.
He have to go to fight corruption in Ukraine like there was no corruption in Iowa…
I wouldnt go that far. Where was he supposed to go for the information that counters the narrative. Unless you do have this or independent knowledge of this part of the world, you’ll fall for it. I was as sympathetic To Russia as they come 12 months ago, and yet I initially bought into it
I just happened on this tiny patch of internet by chance. You wont find Larry or The Saker thru Google
Whats happened to this guy is tragic.
Where was he supposed to go for the information that counters the narrative.
You should have been doing your homework beginning in 2013.
No excuses. Do you have any idea how many images of fascist svoboda, right sector, etc thugs on Maidan storming govt buildings and civilian dead in Donbass, in Mariupol, in Odessa from Ukrainian shelling or outright murder, with eyewitness accounts and countless forensic analyses of the events there were on the internet for all to see?
I once brought up a gallery of hundreds of images on my laptop around 2014-15 just by punching in ‘donbass images’ or ‘maidan images’ to show an acquaintance and his jaw dropped. “Those are the people we’re supporting?” He was aghast.
Of course, they’ve all been thoroughly redacted from the internet by now.
Here’s one example. Years ago, you could easily bring up the YT video ‘Mariupol Massacre’. Long ago deleted by YT.
It can’t be faked. An azov sniper point blank shoots a young guy in the head in an unarmed crowd just mulling around in the square, wondering what the hell’s going on. This is what Poroshenko meant when he labelled everyone in the Donbass as ‘terrorists’. It should churn your stomach that we’re supporting such people. That’s why the MSM goes into overdrive to hide so much of it.
https://shadowproof.com/2014/06/08/the-mariupol-massacre-a-look-back-one-month-later-video-compilation/
Yes, I have a very good idea about what all that means. Do you have any idea what this means? …… “Адолф Гитлер?” I saw that tatooed on the body of an Azov Bn POW, along with a quotation from our mystery guest. No doubt you have figured out that word is Adolph Hitler. And there were innumerable tats of notorious Waffen SS units on his fellow Nazis. They all sported them
So basically I probably know everything you do. In fact, Im becoming a well known troll on certain Quora hate sites under my actual name simply by trying to set them straight.
It is commendable for you to be informing yourself about these matters as early as 2013. Your would have been probably one in about ten thousand Americans doing this. But lets not come down on some high school graduate kid who failed to do exactly that. I’m old enough to be this kids father. I have some sympathy for him
Exactly. I know normally intelligent, professional, grown men that believe Russia is an evil kingdom run by a madman (Putin) that invaded innocent Ukraine, without provocation, as a first step on a mission to conquering the world – and that we need to do everything possible, no matter the cost, to stop this unmitigated evil.
No surprise that someone as unsophisticated as Ryan from the Corn Belt would also be duped by the same mighty propaganda machine. Someone here noted that Ryan may not be making the connection between the corruption impacting him directly and the entire UKR govt. I think that does explain why is remains in the meet grinder to meet his fate.
You seem really upset. You should do one of those things that make you relaxed, like burning a cross, or screwin’ a cousin.
To the ‘american exceptionalist’:
You seem really upset. You should do one of those things that make you relaxed, like invading Grenada again, overthrowing another Honduran government or covering up another village massacre in some Central American foothill and citing the Monroe Doctrine in case anyone complains.
To me anyone that fights for Wall Street, Davos and the Iron Bank is an idiot. But I read War is a Racket in HS and didnt succumb to worshiping .mil in HS, let alone .nazi mil of the most corrupt country in the northern hemi..
If you read what Ryan says, he claims to have witnessed Russian atrocities against civilians. He doesn’t give details. Maybe he saw dead civilians and someone just told him the Russians did it. Maybe the Russians have killed civilians. Happens in war. I’d be very surprised if civilians weren’t killed by Russians. I’m totally willing to accept that the Donbas militias – as opposed to actual Russian troops – have extracted revenge on pro-Kiev communities. If you can’t accept that very real possibility, then you are as deluded as Ryan about the nature of this beast.
The point being that as much as you want to portray Ryan as a depraved psychopath, it appears that he truly believes he is doing the right thing for the right and noble reasons. His frustration with his Ukro command must be that much greater because he is dedicated to the cause and they are not. Poor Ryan just doesn’t have the big picture. He is a simple and enthusiastic soldier.
The US killed 1M civilians in the middle east.
We will never really understand how guys like Ryan join fights like this one. Tragic it is and I agree with Larry’s prognosis of his possible mortality in this situation. Bad people, bad outcomes.
Boredom. Not joking.
Indeed, must be a death wish. Wtf is he doing there? It doesn’t make any sense. Maybe somebody could tell him to try smelling roses in Iowa. Or run 5 miles every day to shake off his existential demons. Or something, anything, other than fighting in Ukraine.
A character that joined in the illegal invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan is a nazi military member now? So astonished I am.
He was lied to, like the rest of us, from the day he was born.
He thought he was being a hero.
He is slowly waking up to the truth. Remains to be seen if he’ll live long enough to find out the fish rots from the head.
He served in Iraq and Afghanistan….. not in defence of his homeland, but as a mercenary for the American oligarchs and the MIC…… and now he’s in Ukraine to kill some more innocents….he hasn’t got guts, he’s a fecking psychopath. Although I value and respect all life, I think the world would be a lot better off minus his sort.
But not before he testifies to Congress. He still has use.
And that testimony, even if it was allowed, would change exactly what, again? US Congress is part and parcel of the Great Scam.
Testify to Congress. How far has that gotten us?
I don’t care. I want it on the record.
Afghanistan harbored Bin Laden and his merry gang of mass murderers – aka “the enemy”. Fuck Afghanistan. I didn’t believe in the nation building thing, but going in and attempting killing all those Islamic terrorist bastards? Absolutely. Good on Ryan for serving our country there.
Are you one of those America haters that thinks the world would be a Garden of Eden if not for the Great Satan USA? Such people are orders of magnitude nuttier and stupider than Ryan. I like all the convoluted, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories such people concoct to “prove” everyone else in the world is innocent, peaceful and loving and the USA is pulling strings to victimize them and make them appear otherwise – and the complete ignorance of even basic history. Like before there was a USA somehow, inexplicably, there were still wars and general and rampant inhumanity across the globe. Doesn’t fit the narrative. Guess that explains the ignorance.
Eric,
The US created Al Qaeda in Afghanistan with the leftovers of the Arab terrorists armed by the CIA during the Mujahideen years. 9/11 was an inside job. It wasn’t Bin Laden operating from his cave, he was just the fall guy. The US was too busy controlling the opium trade and bombing wedding parties with drones to worry about terrorists. Even Obama estimated over 2,000 civilians were killed by drones. And most of those who ended up in gitmo were just randomers picked up by warlords on behalf of the US because they were getting buckets of cash for finding “bad” guys.
Like I said, as delusional and duped as Ryan.
Don’t you realize that Bin Laden was already a Jihadist. That’s why we left his wealthy lifestyle and went to fight in Afghanistan. Duh. The CIA merely saw him as a useful tool. They did not comprehend that he would eventually turn on the US too because to a jihadist an infidel is an infidel is an infidel.
Sure, yeah, right, the CIA attacked us on 9/11 and attacked the USS Cole and embassies in Africa, etc. ‘cuz er um I can’t understand how a building can fall straight down (they usually fly up into the air don’t they?) and it’s so easy to replace an airplane with holograph and missiles, or whatever my imagination comes up with.
Idiot
Bin Laden was USA supported freedom figter kiling evil Russians, just like Banderits are. Even Rambo joined the fight. Those “Islamic terrorist bastards” were your best buddies. I guess nothing can explain your ignorance.
You are plumbing the depths of absurdity now newhill. You are a seld admitted war criminal and from that psychotic perspective just can’t see the truth of what you participated in.
Twenty years later you are just as thick as you were back then “Islamic terrorist bastards”. Yep, too thick to know who exactly was remote controlling the people you loved to murder. Too thick to know you were misled and still are.
I hope the PTSD is strong in your life. You are a despicable pile of human waste.
Why don’t you move to Afghanistan or Pakistan or ISIS territory and see how well you are treated by you noble heroes there. You have no idea what you are talking. None. These are people that attach bombs to children, that murder women for the slightest offenses to Islamic law who….eh…screw it…..why do I bother? You’re divorced from reality and always will be.
These are people that attach bombs to children, that murder women for the slightest offenses
And deplorable they are but what about when they become ‘our guys’ in Syria doing the same, or when we attach bombs to banderites that bomb men, women and children in the Donbass for EIGHT FCKING YEARS and nary a peep out of you!
So now it’s time to STFU! I’ll follow MSM rules now – You lost your right to an opinion long ago! You’re just too fcking dumb to hold one.
Eric’s a fence sitter when the fence rotted away from underneath him long ago, yet he persists.
Pick your side, bud – time’s awastin’ and patience runnin’ thin.
‘Mulatto man’s burden’, is that your spiel now, Eric?
eric, you’re a fool! Refusing to acknowledge the offensive behavior of the USA in the last century (yes, century) really proves what you are. You are either a duped fool or a player from the inside hoping to protect your wealth. There is no other possibility. Regardless, those of us with brains will watch your idiocy dissolve, whatever side you come from. Your day is done. Good bye!
Totally agree, the same thoughts were going through my head as I was reading Private Ryans tweets.
On the one hand I don’t mind that the corrupt Baroda and his ilk are flogging off the NAZITO heavy weapons. At least they’re not being used against Russian forces. I don’t have any respect for O’Leary, IMHO he’s just in it for the aggro and the killing. But the best thing he can do now, to avoid a bullet in the back from one of Baroda’s nazi mates and save his Ukie conscripts from certain death, would be to surrender to the Russian armed forces and give their artillery the coordinates of Barodas weed plantation
He’s been propagandized and brainwashed by the US government controlled media 24/7 for his whole life. Like most American citizens today, unfortunately. Think of him as a Jonestown cult member or something, someone who has been fed so much lies and misinformation that what he thinks of the world is very, very far from reality.
All of these negative idiots on here condemning the author of the article have no common sense or patriotism to USA, period. Just whiners and complainers. This man has a contract with USA National Guard Unit, period. If he up and leaves he is considering a traitor and deserter. Just like Army, Navy, or AF. How stupid are you people. I WAS IN ARMY NATIONAL GUARD, AND USNR. So obviously, none of you have served anywhere, since you have NO IDEA how being under US Gov conrol works! Stupid is as stupid does! SAD Day in America, when scared condemn the brave!
The pay. For God’s sake he is a mercenary. Lol
Good soldiers don’t obey illegal orders or follow murderers. Good soldiers were the ones fragging their NCOs and Officers ending that senseless war in Vietnam. I use to follow a Texas man reporting from the Donbas since 2015 on Southfront. He was fighting for LPR/DPR cause. Haven’t heard from him for a very long time, praying he is well. Anyway, he is who I respect as a good soldier.
Russell “Texas” Bentley is, who I presume, you are referring to.
He is active there still but not with military, he does charity work. Check him out on tg.
He’s there for the money, nothing else.
It’s clear most people commenting have never been in war or the military.
If you have you know that the way it works is you switch off your decision making ability and follow orders. Ofcourse you know the Geneva convention rules don’t torture, don’t rape etc…
But you follow orders short of that because that is your job as a soldier. You are not there to judge whether the politicians are right or wrong. You just do your job, if you don’t people on your side die. You think about it later. They tell you to wear a badge with pronouns (yes happening) you just do it. You have to take some unknown pills or vaxx you just do it. You have to get up at 4am and run up and icy hill, you just do it. No one gives a damn what you think unless you are a senior officer and even then…. Your only option is to quit if you don’t agree with the political class.
This guy is your bog standard military guy probably from a military family and he may be thick as two planks but he’s been given a job and all his training will be about avoiding too much thinking about right or wrong and protecting his men and achieving his goals. He likely has little understanding of the political and economic history and this war is no different from all the others ethically or morally.
Why is he still there? A good question, in war when you leave people you fight with it’s not easy. He thinks he can speak out and change things. In business juniors thinking they can get middle Management or seniors out get fired or disciplined themselves. It will be no different for him. He won’t change the system or get anyone replaced. Though sounds like he is ready to bail but wants to speak out before he does.
Ash,
There are bunch of little puke coward a-holes that would never serve because they might get hurt or have to train hard and that might by too much of a bother. They try to cover up for that by claiming they are too smart and ethical and by calling soldiers “murderers”.
Ryan is my son. We have not always supported his decisions but have always supported him. He is extremely passionate and has always gone all in. It is hard for me to understand how one minute I can be talking to him in my living room telling him it is not a good idea to go there, and two days later he is hitchhiking through Romania to get to the border. It is not like we left a four year old in the kitchen with the knife drawer open. We pray for his safety and hope something good will come out of all this mess. In the meantime, we will continue to pray for him and support him. And hope he comes home soon and safe.
I hope he survives too. Unfortunately, spilling the beans as he has put a big target on his back., and sadly death by friendly fire is an old remedy for grudges in war.
It’s hard to imagine that anyone who had served in Afghanistan and Iraq would have any idealism left in their soul, but we Americans are a peculiar lot.
I mean, seriously, who does he think is going to read this and do something about it?
This war is somewhat distinct from Afghanistan and Iraq from an American perspective, other than overt boots on the ground.
For the Americans driving this war, the same emotions that drive casinos and the stock, crypto and whatever win/lose market, are at play: Fear, Greed and Ego.
Fear – because they’ve convinced themselves that Russia is coming for their hide, which curiously enough may just be what finally pulls them out of this war.
Greed – because the MIC gang are getting rich and because NATO dreamed long and hard about the Black Sea as a NATO lake.
Ego – because, well – the ‘exceptionalism thing’ is hard not to swallow for some.
Everything else is just bullshit parading as flowery rhetoric, the sort that reeled this O’Leary guy in.
I agree with your points. I would refine two: 1. Ego is just a form of Fear: fear of worthlessness. We are social animals. The “worthier” ones in the pack are more likely to survive – worthier to the rest of the pack. Therefore, that human trait has survived. It is mostly harmful to the individual since his or her heroic death will do them harm, not good.
2. Greed is just a form of fear, a twist on number 1 above. They are so afraid of being worthless, nothing is ever enough – they must have more and more. But greed has another facet: every time someone gets something they think they want, the pleasure of thinking they “earned” something, conditions them to want it again – Not only is “love” a drug, all pleasures are drugs – it becomes a drug addiction. Moreover, their similar thinking friends will praise them, more pleasure, more conditioning for dysfunctional behavior.
The question has been raised that it does not seem rational that Zelensky is buddy buddy with the Ukronazis. Maybe, Zelensky as a good Ashkenazi who perhaps had some of his family end up in the oven has sought the perfect vengeance. He assists Putin wipe out this plague in the meat grinder. Does this make sense?
No, not to me.
1) He’s likely scared to death of going against the nazi clans and suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.
2) The west is massaging his ego, and his bank accounts. Another form of Stockholm Syndrome and he’s on a high, convinced with their help, he can pull it off. It’s a long way down off that high. He’ll probably avoid it to his last breath.
Zelensky either believes his buddies in the west will help him when things get really bad or he is soulless and has sold his country and people for money and a cushy retirement and is now playing the role of a war president. Either way, he can’t be doing this out of conviction, because if he would, he would have negotiated peace long time ago or even avoided this whole conflict by shelling the breakaway regions.
It is WWII all over again. Back then Poland was used to brutally murder German minorities living in former German territories that became polish after WWI. It was set up by UK and France to back Poland while they poked the Germans. Adolf H. warned Poles several times to stop that genocide or he will stop it for them. The stupid Polish government was sure UK and France would defend their ass when things would go sideways. But all they did is watch from a distance and sanction Germany.
I think we are all missing a key detail to this story that AMERICAN BOOTS ARE ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE !!!
Albeit, in limited quantity.
Interesting comparison Top Gum’s making. Sounds like something coming out of the Kagan ISW ink tank.
Essentially, the argument that since Hitler was provoked into attacking Poland and we know in hindsight that he was in fact an unbalanced hegemonist and hell bent on his wars anyway, that Russia, being provoked in a similar manner, is also an unbalanced hegemonist and hell bent on its wars anyway. Nice job of comparative hegemony you’ve done there, while leaving out the essential one.
Good work. Your MI6 paycheck is in the mail.
Obviously, you don’t know history or facts. Personally accusing someone to be a propagandist shows only your true colors. What a shame. You seem to have missed the entire point of my post.
Germany as a industrial powerhouse and Russia as the supplier of resources was already back then a problem for some “players”. To force their hand by using others as provocation has been done before.
Obviously, you don’t know history or facts.
Obviously, you don’t know how propaganda works. In its more sophisticated form it uses synergy to amplify the message, whether its partner is willing or not.
Need I explain further?
You are going in circles. Somehow you lost your point and now you are trying to push some utter useless topic to get out.
Go ahead. Explain more. Maybe you get “it” then.
Another factor leading to WWII was the Poles thought that Germany was an exhausted power due to Versailles and it was their chance to move into the central European power vacuum establish something akin to the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth. Britain and France were happy to encourage the junta that had taken over Poland in their delusions!
Zelensky has not sold out his country, it is not his country to his mind. He just bought his parents a house in Israel.
NO. No sense at all.
He is not “buddy buddy” them at all. They threatened to kill him a few years back when he tried to speak up about the aggressive attacks on Donbass civilians. They slapped him down and said we will kill you if you try and stop us.
They use each other.
And BTW what ovens are you referring to? Surely not the discredited fairy tales from WWII along with the lampshades made out of human skin?
Yes, there were ovens and yes, Babi Yar and Pol Pot and the Jasenovac killing camp in Croatia did exist, as did massacres of Poles in Katyn by Soviets and by Banderites in Volhynia. Now, what other fairytales would you have us not believe in?
Actually Zionism is actually pretty similar to a certain German/Ukrainian ideology. The key differences are the; The chosen race, the undesirable race and the slave/collaborator races. Given this, it’s not that difficult to imagine collabortion- also Iv seen the UPA flag with a star of David on it during Russian mop up videos, so cooperation between Unkie Zounists and Ukie Nazis is indeed real.
We don’t have to imagine it. During WWII there was close collaboration between the SS and the Judenrate (Jewish Councils). That’s always been my answer to those confused about how Nazis and Zionists can be cooperating in the Borderland.
Then there was also the Haavara Agreement in August of 1933 which facilitated the emigration of 60,000 German Jews to Palestine from 1933 to 1939.
What if the simple answer is, was, and always has been just greed. Riches, lots and lots of riches were given and promised him.
I guess the end result will be the same no matter what Zelensky’s intent is. I’ve read that Zelensky presented himself as someone who would bring the civil war to an end. Some thought that would be peaceful, others thought the end would only be through a fight, resulting in driving Russia out. I wonder what has happened to the volunteer militias? One described himself as an anarchist. I think an American fighter was put on the Ukr hit list because he supported them, and not the Ukr government. I don’t think being subsumed into the Western Neoliberal order is going to fly with this group if I don’t like it anymore, myself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMMXuKB0BoY
Anarchists have always been used by Liberals as their street enforcers. What do you think ANTIFA and BLM are? Or dare I say the NAZIs? They may not think they’re supporting the Neoliberal Order, but as their primary motivation is hurting people, why would they care?
No, it doesn’t. Once you realize that Israel is how Europe solves ‘The Jewish Question,’ there is no incongruity whatsoever in Jews working with NAZIs.
🤔 I think I’m gonna re-read Arthur Koeslter’s The Thirteenth Tribe again. 😉
Zelensky is a khazarian.
My dentist is a Khazarian, so what? I judge people by their actions and words, not by their labels.
Produced by Larry David. Guy thinks he’s fighting for democracy not unhinged east European national short man syndrome
The American media holds the largest responsibility in whitewashing the image of the Ukrainian authorities, and lied about the conflict as being one of democracy versus authoritarianism, thus indirectly leading to the deaths of many American young men who believed their own media and joined the war in the belief that they are fighting for the forces of good. Many American parents will lose their sons due to lies. The question is, what will Americans do with this debt of blood? The way I see it, nothing much will change. After this conflict is over, it will be the next theatre where the names are changed but the story remains the same. Drug cartels are democratic and fighting against oppression perhaps?
Its amazing talking to the people of the US about this they have lost the ability to reason, I wonder how this has happened, it is very worrisome to say the least, my prayers will go out for this brave young man,
Ryan O’Leary is a delusional idiot. I have no sympathy for him or his fellow mercenaries.
Agreed! These ignorant ‘tough guys’ need a permanent humbling!
Agree, a despicable specimen, he gets what he deserves
I feel sorry for soldier O’Leary, who had to find out the awful truth about this war in such a horrible way, risking his own life for less than nothing. I spoke today with my Ukrainian friends; one is still in Ukraine and is against the war, and another is a refugee near Prague and is pro-war, but when I told them that the US government plans to erect the bust of Zelensky, their reaction was uniform – WTH?? Are they totally crazy, or what?
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3810567-house-conservatives-rip-resolution-calling-for-bust-to-honor-zelensky-in-capitol/
mi piace il tuo amico “a favore della guerra” che la “combatte” da Praga
ci sono altri giovani ucraini che “combattono “dai ristoranti dalle stazioni invernali alpine…
Fulvio – my friend, who is a refugee in Prague, is a woman with an invalid husband and she has no sons under the threat of being conscripted, so she can “afford” to feel pro-war. She might feel differently if she had a son. For a war, one must vote only by their own flesh and blood, or forever keep their peace. I don’t penalize friends for having different opinions from my own. Isn’t it the whole point of democracy?
Do they celebrate Malanka? Or is that a big deal over there?
I feel no pity for these morons who are sold a bill of goods to go fight for Ukraine. I feel that Dr. Darwin is doing his job and cleansing the ranks of idiots. How bad is your life in the USA that you feel the need to go die under a foreign flag? How brainwashed are you by the Media and the NFL Circus?
Fair point. A large number of candidates for the Darwin Award.
Not all of them are going to fight for Zelensky’s government per an interview I saw, (probably posted here). They are supporting the militias. I don’t know if that is smart, but it is certainly understandable.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
When you think about it, in one sense they are no different from the 50% of Americans and 70% of Brits who took an untrialled and untested medical intervention due to ignorance. An ignorance to reality and the truth induced by sycophantic MSM and social media giants, without whose insidious collusion neither “project” would have got past first base…
Julius Streicher and Joseph Goebbels would be green with envy.
He very likely went there to help Ukrainians, not because he had a bad life in the USA.
I saw an article on a handful of people going to Ukraine to help either as a soldier or a combat medic, and some of them mentioned Bucha. Bucha deaths were mostly from artillery shells and the gun murders could have been primarily Ukrainians “rooting out Russian collaborators”. But that one story had a huge impact on westerners.
Right.
So many cowardly, hateful, bloodthirsty, cynical, know-it-all, internet geniuses here that can’t even imagine how someone might have a sense of selflessness and duty when confronted with they have been led to believe is a great evil on the loose.
A sense of selflessness and duty to go overseas and kill strangers in the name of corrupt politicians and billionaires. Those people without proper shoes are indeed great evil, and they are on the loose (at least their flip-flops are).
The flechettes and the arm-bands tell the story, if any of our fine western journalists ever bothered to look.
Oh, but they did look, and saw what they wanted to see. See how they attribute flechettes to the Russians when we know perfectly well that Ukraine was shelling Bucha while Russian-occupied with what, you say? Anti-personnel munitions? Oh, you mean flechettes?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/what-are-fléchettes-and-are-they-evidence-of-russian-war-crimes/ar-AAWBycs
Oh, but the Ukrainians swore they never used flechettes when you asked them? Is that your story? Good work then, you deserve a Pulitzer.
To hell with the Brits. They have no honor. They are propagandist scum.
Lindsey Graham demands hearings to get to the bottom of this
This War Pig is living proof that the Ukrainian war is a war crime from start to finish. Indeed, before the beginning with NATO training men in a country that was never part of NATO to kill part of the population!! Only the UN so concerned about war crimes fails to see the obvious. A black hole in the center of Europe that I still want to see who will rebuild it one day! The other proof was the great friend of freedom John McCain who is no longer with us! How is it possible for two grown men to meet in Ukraine with a bunch of savages with swastikas on their arms and Nazi patches on their uniforms? Does Russophobia justify everything? MaCain ran for US President!!!
You are spot on. Great overview. But we have to consider that most people live in a very, very tiny bubble they call their own world. They are simply uninformed, misinformed or don’t care, because of lack of time or interest to deal with the “real” world out there. True journalism doesn’t exist and probably never had. Everyone is biased in some certain way. But when two boys fight in the school yard, we usually don’t hand them weapons or give them tips how to beat up the opponent. Why people can’t abstract simple situations is remarkable to me. Having a brain and not using it, is such a waste.
Please don’t bring up Lindsey, a clinical psychopath.
Good point! This is the point! The true point! Clinical psychopaths are committed to an asylum or a prison! But in the US they always have redemption! Lindsey, Ollie, Condoleezza, etc, etc. The US has never fried a serial killer responsible for 1/1000 of the dead!!! We already knew that the children of great fortunes, of the warmongers who make wars never go to war but now they can also say in prime time television what they hid from the people in the past! How we give weapons and they give blood! In total contempt for human life and for other peoples! Xenophobic as Borrell’s asshole jungle! Like most of the CIA’s external interventions over the last 100 years China has condensed it nicely into a flyer! WTF with America???
And I’m not talking about Washington but about the real people? Don’t you know that the US, through monsters like Nuland and Lindsey Graham, funded manifestly neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine? Don’t you see the videos we all saw?? Even the US Congress has already recognized the Azov battalion as a neo-Nazi group!!! Even if he later invited its members to honor a session of the US Congress! Disgusting!!! With some founding fathers at their graves. And the same for all the leaders of the extreme right parties like Svoboda, Right Sector, etc. already integrated in the interpol lists as dangerous nazis banned from entering the US! Don’t Americans know this reality?
And to be frank this time I’m even more disgusted with EU! For having legitimized a coup d’état, the Euromaidan, against all its treaties. How it legitimized the first interim president to emerge from the coup, Oleksandr Turchynov, who the European Parliament had already condemned for being openly neo-Nazi! How the new Kiev putsch regime never allowed the EU to investigate the Odessa massacres!!! Which in any part of the world immediately cut off all relations with the EU according to the Treaties themselves. Which, to explain, reflect the various stages of European integration and function like the EU Constitution, which does not have a true Constitution. And with this war, I believe there won’t be any more. Same with NATO. Two convicts on the scaffold already with the black bag over their heads at this moment!!! You can invite guests! How he allowed this war in Europe as a vassal of the US. How it never pressured – like the UN, also a signatory – the new regime in Ukraine to comply with the Minsk agreements they signed?!
But I will end with an example to prove that there are still differences between the EU and the US. For us in Europe – which in general very much condemned the war – the starting point for the war in Iraq was signed at the Summit of Lajes in the Azores. Even though we all know that all the diplomatic work, pressure and threats have already been done and nothing is ever decided in a merely protocol event like a Summit where you go to take pictures, have a few drinks and with luck and depending on the place, eat some whores or some kids. With the presence of Bush, Blair and Aznar. And the 3 sharks of European politicians also sealed the end of their political careers in Lajes. Never again! How will it happen with all the politicians who today are part of the various European governments and much more the leaders of the EU, like the imbecile Borrel and the corrupt Ursula! Indeed, several have already fallen in Europe because of the war! Germany, which matters most, no longer has a Govt but a political uproar. I don’t even understand if the Minister of Defense has already fallen or not but she will end up falling because she is as incompetent as the previous one, Ursula.
However in America the biggest war criminals instead of being at home or in prison under the weight of the condemnatory sentence, the indignity and above all the shame continue themselves to shit sentences on the televisions blatantly lying again in times of propaganda as if nothing ever happened had happened!!! And in Iraq, not only Iraqis died. Many children of America also died! Like in Vietnam! And what I ask is where has the ability of the people to protest for just causes gone? Also hello the pressure of the Americans on the street that stopped Vietnam war! And it literally changed the world and in my opinion at the time for the better. Unfortunately, after a short time, neoliberalism arrived! When if anything this almost 1 year of war in Ukraine has proved that world domination by a superpower in a unipolar world is over. The US tried to isolate Russia and the US was completely isolated. Until you see the EU. Dominion with which the average American citizen unemployed or with worse jobs and worse wages does not earn anything! The American people need to regain power of the people, for the people, by the people! For the US to get back the great economy it once was without useless war toys like the latest multi-billion dollar super bomber that will only make them rich as ever! And quite honestly, I don’t understand how other figures than Trump don’t appear for such a demanding and fundamental task for the future of America and Americans! Including breaking bipartisanship completely corrupted by real financial power in America.
Seems comments may be a bit slack out of concern for not offending Larry.
I’ll give it a go at getting the party going:
Mr. O’Leary himself needs to wake up from his delusional dream that Ukraine is a budding democracy fighting for truth and justice and finally come to terms with it being a kleptocracy celebrating a neo-Nazi ideology and get the hell out of there. These guys are brainwashed from day one back in the states to think they’re on ‘a noble cause’and then brainwashed and bamboozled again by their Ukie handlers. Used and abused and left dead in a trench. It’s a painful sight to watch.
Thanks. I don’t mind being offended but I agree with you. O’Leary bought into the bullshit and did no critical thinking.
Party got going fine without my help. The room was empty when I first started writing. You’re a popular guy, what can I say? 😉
You can say the same thing about several billion people who bought into the bullshit of the kill shot. No critical thinking. Just lapped up what the media told them.
As you say, candidates for the Darwin awards.
Larry,
In all fairness, I know people in Ukraine who thought Maidan was about something different from what it actually was, and they came to Maidan. They did wake up eventually, but it was too late.
I work in academic medicine and can assure you that local luminaries who pride themselves on their “critical thinking” bought Zelensky’s crap. A very smart person, a military nurse, was going to buy a t-shirt, “I don’t need a ride…,” my son’s Canadian girlfriend wanted “Biden to grow a pair and put American boots on the ground to Ukraine.” It took me a hard effort to convince them to see what was really going on. People always root for an underdog, and the idea of Ukraine being an underdog was carefully curated and planted in the minds of Americans. MSM kept silent about Ukraine’s 600,000-700,000 NATO-trained and weaponized army. Remember Kamala’s “there is this little country, Ukraine…” I wanted to scream, “Kamala, Ukraine is larger than France!” Americans’ best emotions were cynically exploited in this war. So I see how O’Leary got mixed up, but it’s time for him to come home.
But he seems to be awake now to Ukro-corruption. I can get why he may have gone in the first place. His eyes are open now. And that said, I think that anyone with half a brain can see that the real fight is right here at home. I think this young man is physically brave, but is challenged to put pieces of the bigger puzzle together because he is afraid of the paradigm shattering.
Sadly, he is going to lose his life before he gets it together. I think he prefers death to facing betrayal. I think he’s saying that. He’s a good soldier. That’s the true tragedy.
On the other hand at least he got out the hell out of the corrupt Kleptocracy called the United States. Well sort of.
Maybe they need some of those Bradley’s…any idea how 50 BFVs and the like from France are going to change the course of the conflict? Seems a drop in the bucket to me.
This stuff is unlikely to be publicized by US media, obviously.
Russia can take Odessa and control Ukraine for all intent and purposes. US will say Ukrainians defeated Russia. Over 55% of electorate will believe Ukraine beat up the. Russians.
OK, more football and basketball.
That’s OK. As long as they think they got a few good licks in, maybe they’ll be finally happy to get their noses the hell out, go home and learn something about the hippocratic oath and not the hypocritical oath that got Ukraine into this mess in the first place.
All these lives are a sacrifice to Mammon, did you know there is going to be a big satanic gathering at Salem, the other one is at Davos.. https://www.rt.com/news/569613-satanist-temple-boston-convention/
“Let me repeat that the dictatorship of the Western elites targets all societies, including the citizens of Western countries themselves. This is a challenge to all. This complete renunciation of what it means to be human, the overthrow of faith and traditional values, and the suppression of freedom are coming to resemble a “religion in reverse” – pure Satanism. Exposing false messiahs, Jesus Christ said in the Sermon on the Mount: “By their fruits ye shall know them.” These poisonous fruits are already obvious to people, and not only in our country but also in all countries, including many people in the West itself.” President Putin
There’s no surer way to chase the delusions from Western minds than to have them read President Putin’s speeches, his own words, not summaries written by clowns with a degree in journalism. Having done so, my strong impression is that he’s the sole statesman on the planet. In fact, Russia currently enjoys a large crop of competent, intelligent, and skilled men and women who represent her on the international stage. Any American has to be depressed when comparing them to the sorry gang now running our country.
When you wonder why the Zionist Neocon have such a hard-on for Russia? It’s because Russia never submitted to the Mammon Zionists.
A little bit of symbolism. When you look at the image of St. George. the martyr of the Russian Orthodox Church. you see St. George. stomping a dragon atop his white steed, piercing the dragon with a spear. The symbolism indicates St. George in command of his drives, the white steed, stomping the lower drives in the form of the dragon, while killing him the dragon with his the spear or the piercing needle of man’s pure intellect.
The West represents the lower drives, the dragon, (Google images of the City of London, dragons everywhere), Putin using the power of his intellect to stomp the City of London. Eukraine, in the end, is where Putin’s intellect met NATOs lower drives, the destruction of Russia. The West has no idea how popular Putin is around the World.
You could draw the symbolism even wider, identifying the dragon with “Babylon”, which stands for power, oppression, corruption, decadence, and perversion throughout history and in the gospels and the Revelation of St John.
Babylon indeed. Many reggae songs use that term, and is a part of Rastafari worldview.
Not sure why he would volunteer for the UAF. Maybe for financial reasons. I respect him for putting his men first.
The 2 oldest jobs in the world
1- prostitute
2-mercenary
Both rent their bodies for abusr
It is said there are four types of soldiers who voluntarily join the Services:
Those who do it for patriotism
Those who do it for legacy
Those who do it for money
Those who do it because they like killing.
The 2 oldest jobs in the world
1- prostitute
2-mercenary
Both rent their bodies for abuse
Isn’t the Wagner Group mercs as well? How come no one here jumps their shit?
And that question shows your abject ignorance. Newhill you are an embarrassment to yourself.
Yeah? How so? Care to elaborate?
You know that Wagner is in Africa and the MENA and all over the world? Gee wiz, it’s almost as if they are just like the imperialist baby killer mercs that you so deeply hate. But you knew that of course because you know everything. Mommie’s basement is one of the greatest educational centers in the world, especially when it’s full of cannabis smoke.
Yep, and there are Americans amongst them. Some are capable of making a proper choice, others cry on Twitter (or in the comment here).
Prostitutes rent their bodies to give pleasure; mercenaries (soldiers in general) rent their bodies to give death, pain, destruction.
@ Bill Osborne Jr
” I respect him for putting his men first.” I think if he really put his men first, at this point he would facilitate/encourage their surrender or desertion, since he thinks their leadership is corrupt and is going to get them killed.
I understand a man’s desire for adventure especially when he’s still in prime physical condition but I question why they’re willing to die for another nation’s flag when there own country is being invaded and overrun by foreign enemies who are trying to destroy our homeland. In my opinion there’s plenty of opportunities on our own borders for former soldiers who have something to prove, whether it’s being worthy of a political office or just how courageous they are.
These kinds of assholes are exactly the kind of brain dead zombies that would turn their guns on us red state citizens for disobeying our tyrannical government. He can eat shit and die.
Yep, agreed. These wannabe Rambos don’t think of illegality or immorality. They shoot where they are told to. And when the time comes to shoot their fellow citizens they will.
This truth has been sadly shown to be in many countries over centuries.
Two examples in the “west”; USA and Australia, soldiers gunning down striking miners. Oh, one more; Kent University in the 60ies. US soldiers killing uni students.
Brain dead killers. Fuck them all.
As far as the legislators, media and the public waking up, most legislators are a perpetual combination of corrupt and incompetent, the media is globalist propaganda mill in virtually every western country and the vast majority of the public have been conditioned to get their news from a television set. How many still buy into the bullshit of covid shots and climate change as well as Ukraine? Personally I have been fascinated by how easy it is to manipulate the public. If anyone is interested there is a really good book called The Psychology of Totalitarianism by Mattias Desmet that explains a lot.
Perhaps when Russia finally destroys what is left of the Ukrainian army some will wake up. As to Ryan O’Leary, sadly it would be a miracle if he survives.
Maybe it is time to use the system against its self?
https://a.co/d/0KwBpbr
Only a Nazi sympathizer or a fucking ignorant would go to fight for a corrupt and murderous regime like the Ukrainian one.
Don’t underestimate the amount of propaganda that convinced many in the US to back a lie.
The reality is that it doesn’t take much. It just has to be the first narrative to hit the ground running, be comic book simple, and hit a critical number of emotional response buttons.
It doesn’t even have to make sense, but its propagators do have to ensure that competing narratives are held to a dull background noise. The latter is easy because competing narratives are normally more complex, and in any case usually fail to hit the necessary emotional buttons.
PS: Please delete if this proves a duplicate post. Had “network error” issues posting the first time.
If your goal is to enslave people then you appeal to their fear of death and associated fears of pain, disease, impoverishment. If your goal is freedom and sovereignty of persons then you encourage rational thinking, arguments backed by evidence, and an abiding skepticism of authority, especially state authority, to name a few. In this latter view you encourage people get hold of their fears and not fall in with the demagogues.
Agreed, and the willingness of many to believe the lie to justify their making money out of it (media, mercenaries, Film star photos…. SBF)
Yes Larry,it never ceases to amaze me how people continue to believe things that on the face of it just don’t make sense.Acceptance is the path of least resistance and like electricity it is shocking.
I believe that we have seen the largest psyop in the history of the West since the beginning of this conflict. So many people lap up every word of what the MSM says and are incredulous when you try and explain what’s actually happening.
I actually feel sorry for O’Leary and others like him. I hope that eventually they can all pull their heads out of their rears and exit stage left quickly.
“I hope he survives.”
I don’t. These American scum are helping the real Evil Empire and deserve what’s coming to them.
Understood. A valid opinion.
Play the ball not the man.
Your comment shows zero understanding of the system and just attacks one tiny cog in it. You want this guy to die because he believes military leaders and politicians and media in his country? Because he is not as educated and enlightened as you think you are?
“If the system is good bad men can do little harm, if the system is bad even good men can do evil.” – HK lawyer
“You want this guy to die because he believes military leaders and politicians and media in his country? Because he is not as educated and enlightened as you think you are?”
One does need education and enlightment in order not to trust politicians and media. One does need to be Darwin Award level dumb in order to trust them, and this guy is close to getting his.
When I was in Vietnam in 69/70 I discovered war was a game played by politicians whose own children were never fired upon let alone saw any foreign service. If this gets all out of hand then I feel really pissed off for the young, innocent grunts forced to fight in war for which they have no interest other than “you’ll be fighting for democracy” just like 69/70, ha!
My solution to wars is simple. Rather than have young people involved lets get 100 politicians and 100 of their adult children to fight a battle, winner take all. Of course it will never happen when we have so many craven politicians and their self obsessed, useless offspring.
Rich man’s war, poor boy’s fight.
Forum’s messing up. It’s dropping half the posts in and out.
Check the next day. I think my posts go into a moderation bucket. They are always there the next day. Never been censored.
Mine are always “censored.” I never know why. Nothing out of line.
I wonder about the rest of his tattoos …those covered by his shirt…it may just answer the question of why he’s in Ukraine.
Maybe he has a sword of Muhammad tattoo under his shirt – you know, a chance to kill some infidels and apostates; maybe a random homosexual thrown off a building, stone to death an adulterer here or there while he’s in a combat zone and can get any with it.
Fuck him. Fat dipshit has no business getting his sick jollies trying to kill Russians for a gaggle ofjewish scum. He went there to get paid for killing people who did nothing to him. Let the miserable shit bag send his last check home for the job of getting killed himself, instead. Good riddance.
I understand that Western soldiers from combat arms trades are making 400,000 dollars U.S for a 6 month contract…that was the rate few months ago. So some Reddit types fight for social network influencer rewards…others fight for stoic idealisms which is a type reward of the ego and others fight to pay the mortgage on the family farm or buy hookers and blow for an undetermined amount of time and pray to Bjesus they don’t get cooked by a TOS or flying lawnmower
He went to find War and having found it tastes the bitterness of a cruel needless death.. I don’t know what foolish things filled this young mans head but he best repent now as we all should because this entire world is treading on the precipice of the abyss…
He is, like many others have said, probably a brainwashed idiot. It seems he’s leading 60 lesser, similarly brainwashed idiots. If he at least understood that he was in fact fighting for the American Empire, I’d sorta excuse him.
The Brits of a century ago were more honest. They unabashedly (and enthusiastically) fought for “King and Empire”, with at least the officer corps having a vague understanding that Empire brought great wealth to the UK and allowed it to flourish culturally and economically far beyond what it could have on its own.
O’Leary seems to have no more inkling of all that than a house plant. He thinks he’s fighting for muh democracy ‘n freedumb in a place that has never known either and won’t know them until the Russians finish hosing the place out and deliver them with extreme prejudice.
How easily the cabal that’s hi-jacked the West subverts lofty ideals and retargets them against its enemies. All it would take is a background/foreground shift, and O’Leary would be fighting for the democracy & freedom they’re draining his home country of right under his nose.
If the day ever comes that clear-eyed American men have to fight on American soil for what O’Leary imagines he’s fighting for in UA, it’s not unlikely that they’ll find the occasional Russian beside them in the trench. One can hope he’ll turn out to be an itinerant “musician”.
https://t.me/intelslava/43310
Is this him, “How’s it goin’?” midway through the video?
(10-second clip)
I am a little aghast at the tone of the comments column today.
I will not defend these guys, and I am convinced that for most, any professed idealism about democracy or justice is a thin rationalization for other motives.
But I still feel sorry for their sorry misguided asses and the trouble they’ve got themselves into. Even criminals are human beings who have obviously failed in finding balance between the good and the bad impulses that everybody is subject to.
I admit, sometime I’ve wanted to strangle clerks just for things as trivial as not serving me, and b/c they richly deserved it. But I kept my impulses to myself, mostly for selfish reasons (self-preservation).
I’m more sorry for the civilians he and others like him are killing every day in the Dombass. F*ck him.
Me too. But we still give medical attention even to accused child killers.
We may not love them or even execute them, but they remain one of us.
I understand you. Stopping hate in the world just with love is also my ideal. But does it work?
We will have to live with compromise.
You are right, and you need other responses than love.
I will be glad with a Russian victory, but my heart is heavy when I think of all the boys & families wasted by this death cult that has taken Kiev. And freely abetted by the cynical, manipulative, maniacal, mindless demons at State.
Seeing the evil in others generally functions to excuse ourselves.
Even a low class mercenary resembles us in most ways.
(Responding to k. talaat as well)
SONAR21 has drawn quite the collection of folks for whom vengeance is a top priority. On reflection, I prefer they wear it on their sleeves. I appreciate the honesty.
The noosphere is supercharged with stress and anger. Unfortunately, children seem to be receiving it full blast, and they aren’t equipped at all to handle it.
Jim… I agree with. Our culture has lost control over the hounds of Hell, Lust and Anger. Think what do “children” spend most of their time on, Call of Duty and Porn Hub.
I am just using a garden hose on a raging fire nothing will extinguish this behavior save a significant event. God help us all.
They are also vehement America haters. Socialist Euro-Scum, idiot Canucks and neutered Brits and the like that migrated here from Moon of Alabama, no doubt. They want a forum on which to spew their bile.
They hate America even though their own people/countries have behaved like murderous child barbarians for a thousand years. America only came to control them because they couldn’t control themselves and blew themselves up, twice, in the last century and only failed to accomplish that in the prior centuries b/c their weapons weren’t powerful enough.
Wow Newhill, you spew some bile but this diatribe of yours shows you to be what you are; a brain dead Murikan that can’t look objectively at the shit state of the country you live in.
So, by your response, I can tell I am right in the ten ring with my assessment of 80% of the commenters here, including you.
The USA is the greatest nation that has ever existed. Like Larry, my ancestors helped create it and led it in its early days. Yes, it has gone off track recently and we will fix that.
Next time you screwed up Euros go at each others throats, we should just let you destroy each other once and for all. All of the bad ideas infecting the USA had their start in Europe, inbred cesspool of degeneracy and weakness that is.
It seems like everyone different from you must be subhuman. No wonder you support Nazis crying on Twitter. After them you could be next in line for denazification.
Let me tell you something about ‘the Canucks’, Mr. Newhill.
In the 1960-70’s they had a problem with Quebec separatists whose militant wing took to setting off a few bombs here and there.
How did Canada resolve that issue? Why, they did something unheard of in our modern era. They granted Quebec enhanced autonomy in government and full autonomy in language and cultural affairs. To this day, French is the dominant language in Quebec and every Canadian studies it as a second official language in school and now every government paper is printed in two languages. Canada acted rationally to a legitimate cultural gripe and even went above and beyond. That was a Canada of another era.
Had Ukraine done the same with the Donbass, it would have SETTLED the issue permanently.
But Canada saw fit, along with the US the UK and the EU to urge Ukraine to DENY that right to the citizens of Donbass. Not only that, but those very same entities chose to fabricate an agreement called Minsk II and then incorporate it into a UN SEC resolution to accomplish exactly that which Canada had done with Quebec, then admitted it was all a sham.
And now we have a war because of it.
What is it now that your thick head is having trouble absorbing? Maybe I can offer a remedy.
Exactly so… People are not the same, and peaceful life together within the same polity REQUIRES federalism, with its institutionalized respect for local autonomy on local issues. The people who run New York City, Washington DC, and City of London (who own the people running Ukraine) despise any kind of federalism. They classify people as either them or not them. The latter, regardless of any variation among them, are seen as fungible blank slates who should be obedient slave drones, the unwilling to be forced into submission by the the willing.
I prefer they wear it on their sleeves.
I’ve worn it on mine since 2014.
May you and I both reap the fruits of what we sow.
Do you feel sorry for the rock climber that scaled 1000 feet up and fell to his death?Where is God in that>The climber made his own choice.There is no tragedy init.Sadness,maybe if you knew him.Was he misguided?The dumb must pay otherwise dumbness will become the dominant trait.
Whistleblowers as a rule are insiders and more often than not, political dissenters formerly have been induced or misled and believed in the cause they later turn against.
I am not saying that Ryan O’Leary is (Pastor Karl Friedrich) Stellbrink or Ed Snowden but his exposing the facts is mightily helping the world open eyes on the true nature of the Ukrainian regime.
In my opinion, the guy is worth respect at the very least. Hope he goes home soon.
“Hope he goes home soon.”
Me too. In a body bag.
I hate mercs.
There is a song for Irishmen like Ryan – it’s called Green Fields of France, but known as Willie McBride.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ntt3wy-L8Ok
How about Arthur McBride?;
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VBdywzKD2Jw
Or what about Arthur McBride? ;
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VBdywzKD2Jw
The original title is No Man’s Land, written by Eric Bogle.
The fellow certainly has a midwest patriotic je ne se quoi (air) about him which is definitely out of tune with what’s happening on the other side of the world in the Ukraine. In short what’s his business being there? Looks like he is/was an avid video game player turned fighter so to make some money. Unfortunately in the games he played there wasn’t the option of playing with a corrupt drug dealer captain that he could have practiced before embarking upon his new adventure. He is learning the hard way..
Larry, maybe this is a sign of hope. (Tickles me that the nasty trick that killed 2 in Poland is coming back to bite the Zelensky regime.)
https://www.newsnationnow.com/world/russia-at-war/oklahoma-ukrainian-troops-training/
K. Querry-Thompson
Posted: Jan 12, 2023 / 05:56 PM CST | Updated: Jan 12, 2023 / 06:10 PM CST
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — One day after it was announced that Ukrainian troops would begin training at an Army base in Oklahoma, a state senator is trying to put a stop to that plan.
Officials say Ukrainian troops will train on the Patriot missile system at Fort Sill, which is where the United States conducts its own training on the air defense system. The training is expected to take several months.
…
“These America Last policies of the current regime should not be tolerated in Oklahoma,” Dahm said. “We saw how recently the Ukrainian military fired a rocket into Poland killing two innocent civilians. We certainly don’t need them practicing here in Oklahoma where our citizens could be under the constant threat of a similar failure.”
Senate Concurrent Resolution 2 would direct the Pentagon to change its plans of sending 100 Ukrainian troops to Oklahoma for training.
“This resolution rejects this attempt by the feds to put foreign troops in Oklahoma,” Dahm said. “It even encourages the governor, county officials, and law enforcement to use their powers to prohibit these foreign troops from being on Oklahoma soil.”
Dahm says if passed, the resolution would remain in effect until it is superseded by a new resolution.
That way, he says, the government cannot send other foreign troops here.
“We must put the people of Oklahoma first,” Dahm said. “We shouldn’t be allowing the unaccountable spending, corruption, and potential money laundering to now flow through Oklahoma with the presence of foreign troops on our land.”…
Good to know that there are still some patriotic politicians left!
No worries, Oklahoma. Soon enough, they’ll be resurrecting the School of the Americas, renamed ‘School of Eurasia’.
This is not a unique situation. Propaganda always works. How could the third Reich found an army that was willing to die for the Fuehrer, a black haired man who was never married, had no kids?
The universal soldier….
And just to add: When it is Darwin’s selection, that dumb young men die for a nonsense cause, why can evolution again and again produce dumb young men like the one mentioned here? Should we not have more intelligent people?
I always asked myself why should I die for the Restauration of the Ukraine borders, when borders should be open like to Mexico?
When the first American was killed in Ukraine at the beginning of the war, I read an excellent comment under the article.
“Unlike the Ukrainians, he (the American) died defending the interests of his country.”
According to the Ministry of Defense, mercenaries from 50 countries are fighting on the side of Ukraine.
50 countries!
What is happening – mercenaries are defending the interests of fifty countries against the interests of one country – Russia? Or is everyone protecting the interests of the United States only?
I don’t believe in moral motivation, in the ideals of foreign mercenaries. They are born killers, hired killers for the money of the customer.
The Russians treat them like scum,
despise terrorists and kill them without the slightest regret.
Looks and reeks of white trash and let’s leave it at that!!!
Let’s not leave it at racism.
Thanks for this news, Larry.
I have the impression that this is not an isolated case.
Since the military operation began, some Ukrainian soldiers have realized that their government cannot be trusted. It remains to be seen what is happening clandestinely against Zelensky’s government. Rumor has it that many Ukrainians are organizing and preparing for when the Kiev regime falls.
For example, I know in advance that the Ukrainian Communist Party is doing what the Communists did in Vietnam: organizing and preparing.
Having guts, being moral while partaking in immoral proxy war… that somehow doesn’t compute.
no mercy for mercs.
You should be happy there are mercenaries, so you can avoid war fighting.
i am too old; but if for some reason got drafted and forced to go into a foreign war would only go as a medic.
I bet this guy joined up so he can be like those SEALs with book deals and make money on his Ukrainian war experiences; that’s if he makes it back after opening his mouth. Ryan is no knight in shining armor. More like a sucker who has an inflated sense of self-importance. The elites know how to use these fools and, in the west at least, there is no shortage of them!
I will not comment on his courage or intelligence as both are obvious. Others have repeatedly said Americans know nothing of war against a peer nation or when we don’t have air superiority. In this case, we also don’t have supply, support, or leadership in Ukraine. What he represents is a symptom of the disconnect between flag-waving jingoism coupled with fervent propaganda, and reality. Ukraine has zero to do with National Security. It also represents a vehemently anti-democratic and corrupt regime evidenced by right wing Nazis.
But, this represents the problems with this entire generation who have grown up during never-ending wars (of no known reason or end goals) and fed constant propaganda from every direction. If you want a quick shock read the comments on Reddit/Credible Defense and the bizarre comments about Ukraine and Russia. They are all disconnected from reality.
“I don’t. These American scum are helping the real Evil Empire and deserve what’s coming to them”
A guy like him is a tiny drop in an ocean of Western interventionism. What I mean by that the real culprits are the Neocons like the Nuland/Kagan who brainwashed the average Ukrainian that Russia is their enemy, that they’re a separate nation/people, that Bandera was a national hero, that the Holodomor was real, etc etc.
In short : blame the intellectuals, not Joe Blow from Iowa who’s been misled badly. Intellectuals mingling in political affairs are the real plague, everywhere, anywhere.
You must blame both: The leaders and the sheep.
It takes two to Tango.
Larry’s portrayal of an American National Guard Veteran from the Iowa outback will gain a more telling contrast when put against the portrayal of Timofey Matveev, a Russian tank driver from the outback of the Jewish Autonomous Region (Siberia, close to the Chinese border) who received the ‘Hero of Russia’ star from the president on New Year’s Eve: https://www.hab.kp.ru/daily/27452.5/4706005/
From this article:
“In battle, Timofey masterfully dodged an anti-tank missile, and then his team smashed two tanks and one infantry fighting vehicle of the nationalists. The fighters had to deal with especially terrible situations – once Timofey’s tank hit a mine, and he had to urgently repair the caterpillar at the moment when bullets whistled overhead, the enemy struck. Fortunately, then everything ended well, the fighter coped.”
“The reaction and ingenuity helped Timofey Matveev to dump the enemy’s car into a ditch. The corporal saw an infantry fighting vehicle on the way, it blocked the way to escape through the mined area. Matveev decided to go to the end – he went to ram, demolished the BMP into a ditch, and then took his tank out of the shelling.
The Hero of Russia showed his skill without fear. As Timofey himself says , there is no such feeling in battle, it comes later, after the battle, when everyone begins to realize what happened.”
“Timofey Matveev is from the village of Stolbovoye, Oktyabrsky district of the Jewish Autonomous Region. He grew up in a simple, large family. His mother, Tatyana Vladimirovna, works at an ambulance station. And dad – Alexander Alexandrovich, works as an electrician. In a large family, parents brought up modesty, respect for elders and love for the country in their children. These qualities, professionalism, faith in victory, responsibility and, of course, adrenaline, played in favor of the whole team of Timofey Matveev. After the award was presented, the fighter arrived in his native region, met with his family, talked with fellow countrymen. After a short vacation, Timofey will again go on a special operation and continue to serve his country.”
A modern day Vasily Zaitsev, you say?
He upgraded from his computer games and the real bitter truth bit him in the arse and mommy isn’t there to help him.
Ukrainian officers have the same contempt for the men under them as they do for Russians. Part of the reason for that is differential conscription weighted towards those oblasts in Ukraine which do not support Nazi ideology.
Ukrainian family told me of the times when conscription into the Army was a death sentence because the Officers were stealing the money for feeding the recruits and they starved as a result. Stealing weapons and leaving the lower ranks to die on the battlefield is no different.
The officers know the war is lost, that is why they leave the frontlines, and leave the men under them to die without leadership.
It is the officers who need shooting.
Here is a small historical coincidence:
According to one very famous war correspondent (Chris Hedges) the “most notorious” prostitution/drug ring in Sarajevo during the Yugoslav Civil War (which “hosted” UN peacekeepers, NATO folk, civilian authorities, etc) was controlled and administered by Ukrainians.
I suppose the skill set was not lost in 30 odd years.
I did a quick google search just to see what would come up under the search “Ukrainian run black market in Sarajevo” and the first article I found was from 1993 so I think we have a pattern here?
Here is the article: https://apnews.com/article/637aaf192124839cbae028406aa94d96
Apologies, perhaps a little off-topic, but I felt the need to share, as George Galloway really cracks me up.
Here he is lambasting Nato for getting their collective asses kicked in the largest and nastiest battle of the war so far, as Solodar, “that ancient city of salt, has fallen, not to the Russian armed forces, they’re not even fighting there, but to a Russian mercenary group, of private … military … contractors …” (1:31)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMW1EH-EEVI
Is the Wagner Group going to win this war all by themselves? I don’t think so. I think at some point along the way they’re going to need some help. But I could be wrong.
Very, very wrong. Lmao …
Note: Does anyone know where the Russian Army is? Gonna keep asking, because to the best of my knowledge, no one has seen any signs of it since April, excepting for that one glorious moment, when for strategic purposes, a small part of it made a highly disciplined and lightning quick withdrawl from the Kherson bridgehead.
I’ll say again, if the Russian army wants to march in the victory parade, it needs to get into this fight at some point soon, otherwise it will find itself on the outs, just added numbers to the crowd on the sides of a broad avenue, the ones waving the pom poms and tossing the flower petals.
Who are you asking a question to?
Read the daily reports of the Ministry of Defense, http://rutube.ru/channel/24675435/
@mod_russia_en
and see where the Russian army is.
CHUCK Wagner is a unit of the Russian army, one of several.
Not only does the Russian army have to fight on the battlefield, it is also necessary to resist the information war, in which the enemy (the United States, in particular) is trying in every possible way to discredit the Russian army.
” … the United States, in particular is trying in every possible way to discredit the Russian army.”
As far as I’m concerned, the greatest discredit being done to the Russian army is coming pro-Russian bloggers, who keep telling their loyal followers that the Russian army is going to sit far behind the contact line and blast away at Nato with their artillery for the rest of eternity, as to do otherwise, is too risky.
Meanwhile, the Donbas militias and the Wagner Group continue to probe far out into the dangerzone to clear trenches and win battles and liberate territory, territory I will remind everyone, is by lawful act, now part of the Russian Federation.
Anyway, here’s George again. There is something about a Dundee accent dripping with sarcasm that really tickles my funny bone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2RmN8cqoQQ
The Russian army is coming. It disappeared for awhile because it wasn’t needed for Phase Two, Russia’s proxie armies could handle that static phase all by themselves.
But Phase Three, the final one, in which you proceed to de-militarize and de-Nazify an entire nation-state, will require the presence of the Russian army, in the form of massed, mobile formations.
Max424
“As far as I understand, the greatest discredit of the Russian army comes from pro-Russian bloggers who continue to tell their loyal subscribers that the Russian army is going to sit far behind the contact line and shell Nato with its artillery until the end of eternity, how to do otherwise is too risky.”
You’re right about that, I have nothing to object to. I would only put “pro-Russian” in quotation marks. These “pro-Russian” (approximately 60-70%) are a real disaster. Most of them are engaged in the monetization of hype – HYPE makes a profit on negativity, on criticism, on negative emotions.
I understand that you can’t sort out a few hundred bloggers to figure out who works for what. Especially when a blogger declares that he is wholeheartedly for Putin, for Russia, for all the good against all the bad.
Not all that glitters is gold.
It is almost impossible to hide anything on the Internet and you cannot endlessly deceive in your intentions. In recent months, it has become increasingly obvious that “pro-Russian” bloggers are repeating the theses of Ukrainian manuals on rocking Russian society.
I share your suspicions about those bloggers, Gera. It’s US neocons/neoliberal who want more Russian troops in vulnerable positions. They don’t care if Ukraine ‘wins’ or not. They just want to weaken Russia.
I’d be pretty sure that all those shells hitting Soledar and co-ordinated closely with Wagner attacks, are being fired by the normal Russian army with joint command by the Russian army.
Nevertheless Wagner have achieved a great deal – like the Chechens they have been given the glory but high risks of entering towns. They more than deserve the praise.
It has been a low risk war throughout – with the high risk distraction around Kiev at the start being a great ploy to set up artillery positions in front of the Line of contact outside Donbass. Setting up enough artillery there to take on the brunt of the Ukraine army which spent 7 years digging in there was the real achievement of the war. Without the distraction the artillery war could never have been won so cheaply.
l’esercito russo? sta aspettando gli “stivali sul terreno ” della NATO per rimandarli a casa scalzi…
“I fear that young Mr. O’Leary has signed his death warrant. Men like Captain Baroda will retaliate in a very brutal way against anyone who interferes with their “entrepreneurial” activity. ‘
Unfortunately so true. But it seems like he believes the Russians and poor command will kill him in Bakhmut anyway.
The USgov will know he is there, I wonder which side he is working for,my guess US deployed mercenary trying to get money together to pay off bills at home.
Let’s hope his voice is heard in the time he has. Though Ukrainie corruption should not be news.
This young man will not make it back, for one reason or the other.
This kid is as sharp as an anvil, making people believe he’s is doing good in Bandaraland. He’s there for the money and his desire to kill.
Hope he catches a dirt nap soon.
In addition to the previous message from the summary of the Ministry of Defense:
“The capture of Soledar became possible due to the constant fire defeat of the enemy by assault and army aircraft, rocket troops and artillery of the grouping of Russian troops (forces). They continuously inflicted concentrated strikes on the AFU positions in the city, prohibiting the transfer of reserves, the supply of ammunition, as well as attempts to withdraw the enemy to other lines of defense.”
Looks like all his tweets have been deleted. Maybe somebody told him he’d marked himself for retribution.
I guess ratting out season is on, because yesterday I’ve watched a video where one of those involved tried to sell his story and documents and stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO3YygDbUhQ
As far as Ryan O’Leary goes, I hope Russians do to him what he wanted to do to them.
John Mark Dougan has a YouTube interview with someone who claimed to know what scams were going on around Zelensky – including SBU manufacturing synthetic cocaine and selling to front-line soldiers – or running a drug business generating at least $700,000/day
So I suppose that is how they keep the show running
There are many good questions raised by this post. The complete lack of insight that individuals such as Mr. O’Leary have is amazing. He complains about officers stealing and selling drugs but he does not realize he is doing something worse. Killing for money or self-glorification is a greater offense than selling drugs of weapons, or lying, etc. Yet, he sees himself as honorable and the others not.
And the Wagner group? Do you have as much disdain for them? Or do you feel a satisfying rush when they kill a bunch of poor slob Ukro-conscripts and capture a town?
So much blatant hypocritical moral posturing here. It’s puke worthy.
There is some truth in what you say, except that the Wagner group is a Russian group fighting for their country.
Exactly Claudio. Newhill does not get the distinction. Wagner aren’t whoring themselves out to the highest bidder.
They are under the jurisdiction of RF.
Well, arguably, US is part of NATO and Ryan is fighting for US/NATO (the US and NATO clearly have the overt goal of stopping Russia from possessing parts of UKR and even Crimea). So I think you’re splitting some pretty fine hairs in your effort to demonize people like Ryan and glorify Wagner.
BTW, I really couldn’t give a rat’s ass as to which, Russia or UKR, prevails. My interest is in what different scenarios mean for the US. I am 100% opposed to US tax $s going to UKR and I am 200% opposed to direct armed conflict between the US and Russia (i.e. WW3). I am further concerned about impacts to the US economy.
I’m an American. If you want to worship Putin/Russia, that’s your business. Don’t expect me to join in. I am neither for, nor opposed, to Russia. I can understand why they attacked UKR, but let’s be honest. Russia was fomenting trouble in the Donbas for years and UKR had to do something in response. Both sides played a role in that aspect of the situation. I really, truly don’t care. I think my fellow Americans, especially the leadership, that fawn over Kiev and Zelensky are morons and are being disloyal to the USA. I have always been opposed to NATO expansion. I thought NATO should have been dissolved after 1992, maybe 1995.
If you think Russia is going to be the savior of the world then Ryan is probably more intelligent and less delusional than you are.
Oh another btw – Wagner is also in Africa and the MENA. Fighting for Russia? Your heroes are also imperialist mercenaries? It would seem so.
Not that Wagner aren’t excellent fighters. They are. It’s more that you’re a hypocrite – a moral posturing, blowhard, hypocrite.
It is obvious that you’re just another America hater looking for every little nit pick to justify your hate while overlooking the same issues in the people that oppose America, who you like because they do. I hear your rap from the usual suspects all the time; anarchists, socialists, Coffee house slackers and jerk-off college professors. The kind of assorted psuedo-intellectual scum that can’t even manage good personal hygiene and grooming, yet believe they have the solutions to all of the world’s problems.
The cause of the conflict wasn’t Russia that was “fomenting trouble in the Donbas for years and UKR had to do something in response.”
It was the coup d’etat, organised by the US/EU, that put an undemocratic regime illegally in power. The Porochenko government wasted no time demonstrating it’s hostile stance towards the Russian part of the Ukrainian population.
People in some regions of the country declared the coup government in Kiev as illegitimate and therefore rejected it’s authority.
Instead of trying to sort something out with the rebelling regions they sent the military in. But they weren’t motivated to fight against the rebels. Part of the soldiers defected to the rebels, and large parts of their equipment also ended up in the hands of the LDNR militias that were starting to emerge.
Russia was fomenting trouble in the Donbas for years and UKR had to do something in response
How so? Is that why they opted to not support their secession when it was handed to them on a plate?
And frankly, you can take your one-sided hypocrisy and stuff it.
Who was fomenting trouble with the Albanians in Kosovo and N. Macedonia? In Bosnia with Zimmerman? Who was fomenting trouble in Syria? In Chechnya (remember Haig?) In a dozen other places in just the last three decades worth of American foment?
Take a hike. You’re a shill.
Eric, I think you’re missing the distinction. This guy is fighting for the American (Deep) State AGAINST the interests of the American People. Indeed, ALL PEOPLE. Wagner is fighting for the Russian State IN the interests of the Russian people.
The Empire is the enemy here.
That being said I don’t wish harm on him and would rather he make it back alive. Americans need to know the truth.
Thanks for your respect for fighting men.
Of course, bro.
We don’t pay these smart mouthed jack asses any mind.
Who’s ‘we’? Do you Ukraine shills have an organization?
So much blatant hypocritical moral posturing here. It’s puke worthy.
Like they say; takes one to know one.
Yeah, this guy is a dumbass. Let us not forget that he is working as a mercenary, taking money to kill people. He is no hero, though he does try to project himself as the hero willing to die to protect the 60 men under him. I would expect he will die along with those 60 men for a total of 61 additional lives wasted in Ukraine.
It seems to me his posting on social media indicates his dismay and that maybe he has become less of a dumbass or at least realises what a effin mistake he made in his choice to become a mercenary. I have no sympathy for mercenaries and none for him.
Question – how many of those 60 troops under his command are also Americans ?
The original title is No Man’s Land, written by Eric Bogle.
>>At some point the U.S. legislators, media and public need to wake up from their delusional dream that Ukraine is a budding democracy fighting for truth and justice and realize it is a kleptocracy celebrating a neo-Nazi ideology.
The legislators and media already know who they’re dealing with and don’t care as long as they can be used to cause trouble for Russia. As for the public, most of them just believe whatever garbage they are served up by the media.
A combination a motives is more likely
In the mix I throw historical anti-Soviet aka anti-Russian sentiment. Remember the movie Red Dawn?
I think that the loss of close camaraderie, unable to adjust to real [civilian] life and those “evil ruskies” are main contributors to the choice.
From the linked article: “He also thinks the ATF should be merged into the FBI to eliminate what he thinks is duplication in government services.”
Quite the thinker.
Thirty four, no wife and kids. Also from the link: “O’Leary is a dispatcher with RFG Logistics in Carroll, a freight brokerage company. He’s also developed two small businesses, KO Pressure Washing, and Sicarii Industries, a weapons company O’Leary said is working on a new hand grenade.”
Hand grenades and assassins. Everybody’s gotta have a hobby.
Thrity four is a bit old to finally be growing out of naïveté. Did he truly expect a foreign army to treat him like the US army did? Or that it would function to the same standards?
He just wanted to shoot some more brown people in sandals, and call airstrikes on them. It turned out Russians aren’t brown, and have boots, and tanks, lots of tanks, and they are the ones calling in airstrikes, and artillery strikes, never ending artillery strikes.
We can speculate about this guy’s motivations and intelligence, but I think at the heart of it he is just an attention whore. He is slap in the middle of that generation brought up seeking “likes” on social media and posting pics of what he had for lunch. Notice he also calls himself a “former congressional candidate”.
So he went over there because it was the “cool” thing to do. He won’t admit it but he did it for the ten thousand heart and thumbs up emojis he received when he announced his decision to go. And now just like some Karen who got less than perfect service at a restaurant from a disinterested high school aged server, he is letting the world know that his French tries were cold and they didn’t give him enough ice in his tea.
It’s really not much more complex than that. It’s too bad he is too stupid to realize it’s going to get him killed. By the oh well, at least no one will ever have to look at another pic on social media of that fabulous burger he got at the new place down on the south side of town.
It’s easy to dump on this kid for being so stupid. But how many fell for the Covid “vaccine” scam? I know many otherwise reasonable people who turned glassy-eyed when it came to Fauci. Many are still slobbering over him – a guy who is probably one of the biggest mass murderers in history.
We are constantly being subjected to military-grade propaganda and psychological operations. Clearly, not everyone is susceptible. But many, if not most, are.
As Noam Chomsky said: “Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”
Imagine if we lived in a country with a functioning news media that held politicians feet to the fire and never accepted anything the government said.
Imagine if we lived in a country with a vigilant, well-read population that could think critically.
You may say I’m a dreamer…and you’d be right.
This is America, which Gore Vidal referred to as “The United States of Amnesia”.
We have no sense of history. We love simple, good guy vs. bad guy stories that make us feel good and virtuous. We know nothing about the rest of the world. I would wager that most Americans couldn’t even find the U.S. on a map.
The psychopaths who rule us understand this perfectly. And they want to keep us that way. They’re now trying to inculcate an entire generation into the idea that there is no such thing as men or women.
Erase history.
Erase the most basic biological reality there is.
Leave people without any sense of identity or connection to others and make the idea of a country with borders into a bad thing.
Pump them full of Rx drugs.
Overwhelm them with gee whiz technology and keep them voluntarily glued to personal tracking devices.
Monitor their movements, thoughts, spending habits and social interactions.
Destroy anyone who resists.
As Aldous Huxley wrote:
“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.”
Welcome to the gulag, comrades.
“It’s easy to dump on this kid for being so stupid. But how many fell for the Covid “vaccine” scam? ”
You must be really [CENSORED] to make that comparison.
Why do you consider your opinion about the covid vaccines so high?
Which is your degree, your area of knowledge?
Why your opinion about those vaccines are better than mine, and better than all members of my family, and friends?
It you have to use that comparison, no doubt for me who is the stupid here.
Tráeme un café, anda.
Whenever someone pulls the “what is your degree” card from their sleeve.. I immediately smell some arrogant ratbag who feels the need to put someone in a box.
Myocarditis is safe and effective, Fulano.
The “Brave new world” was the best book I had to read during school.
“Monitor their movements, thoughts, spending habits and social interactions.”
You are wandering in the sole/prime agency delusion/interpretation.
Practitioners often add the suffix “….interactions ….. in the hope that the “monitored” believe that the monitors are hegemonic and can interpret with ease the datastreams to a sufficient level to design and implement “control strategies” in response without blowback, since de facto in part the monitors in interaction act as an “advertising agency” that “artificial intelligence” is not a form of “human intelligence” and hence “omniscience” is an option.
Only problem here is that he is not a kid. He is not some wide-eyed 15 year old that thinks actual combat comes with a reset button. But…there seems to be a problem in America where we continue to treat adults in their mid twentys and thirties as children or “kids”.
My dad broke my dinner plate when I turned 18.
Didn’t the Mozart guy recently say something to the same effect?
And he was smart enough to get out of there.
mercs are terrorists.
Ryan’s mistake is believing that the problem is with his immediate command. Unfortunately, the rot in Ukraine goes all the way to the top. I wonder how much Zelensky’s skim amounts to?
“U.S. legislators, media and public need to wake up from their delusional dream..”
Sir, respectfully and with regrets the delusion is yours, and all who keep saying Wake Up America. All the Americans you name above are entirely awake, including the precious public, all of them would be Captain Baroda given the same chance, the only Americans dreaming and delusional are we the sworn who tragically keep waiting for the selfish to change their natures. We, the Sworn, me, yourself, Mr. Ryan and all of us need to look at them for what they are and then decide what to do, or not.
We the Sworn must awake and face we serve a selfish people, and decide if and then how to save who and what can be saved in America.
Or not and we stop wasting people like Ryan until we do.
” At some point the U.S. legislators, media and public need to wake up from their delusional dream that Ukraine is a budding democracy fighting for truth and justice and realize it is a kleptocracy celebrating a neo-Nazi ideology.”
No dream.
An association of perceived temporary mutual convenience not celebrated by any associates, but temporarily deemed useful in varying diminishing degrees when what is for afters is not considered – an option increasingly disappearing -, derived from the delusion of each that they are in “control” to some degree, even by some of the public who seek to annoint themselves “strategists”, affording myriad opportunities of frustration by various interacting vectors, some of which have been “maturing” since before 1917 when “elected fools” believed they were “strategists” due to them being “elected” by the public, and from then onwards attempted to adjust history to “prove it”.
Merely another comedy with a derivative script addressing a larger audience and cast than previous comedies. Not tragedies but also not exceptional consequences.
A nitwit with a conscience. This is our ‘Murica. They never were forced to understood consequences in the public schools. There were no rules as they murdered women and children in the sandbox. You were in the US Army, and you could tell your officers and NCO’s to fuck off. In the USA, you “work” at home, and watch porn and walk your dog all day. And now this particular specimen is going to get to experience the real world, and he dies. I will not weep for this war tourist. He thinks they will “dock” his pay. Deep sigh. I will at least wish him a quick bullet. That will be preferable to being an “example”.
“That will be preferable to being an “example”.”
The subject of MirrorGazers says
14 January 2023 at 13:12
is that the “co-operators” neither understand themselves, nor “the Ukrainan nationalists”, nor the “reality” of the co-operation of convenience that temporarily exists between them which was the case before the Jewish lady further insulted the congregation in Independence Square by welcoming them into their own home, and adding derision to insult – forgetting the salt – which will likely be remembered for many years.
This is a contributory factor why The Russian Federation doesn’t make propaganda but is silent or tells the truth since not many will believe it, rendering useful fools of other “agents” engaged in such practices known misguidedly as “The United States of America” due to their socialised abhorance of silence.
This mistake was also made in 1944 and in 1947 with no lessons learned and hence the same party remains immersed in the illusion that they are “in control”.
The “Ukrainian nationalists” are not making an example of anyone, since their “co-conspiritors” were always perceived by them as tools in furtherance of the purposes of “Ukrainianist nationalists”, since their “co-conspiritors” are/were not deemed to have other significances.
One of the failsafe “insurances” of some “Ukrainian nationalists” are to found in the alchemy of “washing currency” for the next time, whilst some of their “co-conspiritors” wash currency for their own benefit whilst believing that the “Ukranian nationalists” are doing the same.
So “Western tourists” have never been examples, but as in 1944 and 1947 “Ukrainian nationalists” partly became complicit in “war crimes” to ensure their continued motivation following the practices of Stepan Bandera not restricted to “Western tourists” including but not limited to Jewish ladies and men to gain some release and pleasure from killing their enemies on the basis of there is no more motivated “co-operator” than he/she who is fully compromised.
If the “Ukrainian nationalists” deem that the gentleman in question is not a “Quiet American” which has already been discounted, but a useless loudmouth bastard like most of them telling others what to do and telling tales on others, then it is highly likely that the gentleman will be subjected to extended torture for the pleasure of others before being killed since his former colleagues will deem the insult to be personal.
This fellow reminds me of the ex-marine who recently gave an interview and for the life of me I couldn’t wrap my head around how someone would jump into a fight like this, even after Putin warned to not get involved, and continue to be willingly used and abused. It’s beyond psychotic!
A volunteer army tends to attract people that like to go on murder safari.
You don’t know me sonny. I’d be very careful whom I insult were I you. This dumbass wouldn’t recognize good moral leadership if he saw it.
“It is a tragedy that Ryan O’Leary has travelled so far from the bucolic farms of western Iowa to learn a very hard truth. I hope he survives…”
He travelled to fight on the side of a nazi-infested nation, on the side of murderous criminals, that have been and are slaughtering civilians and military POWs for nine years and counting, on the side of a genocidal regime – hell-bent on destroying Russians, the Russian language, culture and religion, Russian Ukraine. He is fighting the liberators of Russian Ukraine; he is fighting on the side of hellish wickedness.
It is clear to anyone who loves truth and justice.
Who exonerates this utterly foolish, if not utterly wicked young man, Johnson? What would you say of a Ryan O’Leary fighting with the nazis, against the US, some 80 years ago? This is exactly the same theatre of operations… and the same actors (with different names)
(That this fellow deplores the corruption of Ukrainian military does not give him any moral high ground, while he is fighting with nazis against the liberators of their own people)
The guy is a brave warfighter willing to take risks to call out corruption and incompetence by some of his superiors. Ryan isn’t trying to undermine the Ukrainian military: he’s trying to improve it. His reason for fighting is unchanged: help defeat the Russian invasion and tyranny and protect Ukrainian lands and people. I know he’s not alone in trying to combat corruption and incompetence in the Ukrainian military. Progress is being made and it’s brave soldiers and civilians like Ryan who are making it happen. Slava Ukraini, Ryan!
Oh kalin, you tragic ignoramus.
Imagine a world where everyone is a critical thinker and not a low IQ TV watcher.
I’ve read this in Zelensky voice. It looks like one of his speaches, but it needs more keywords like terrorism and freedom and democracy. Also, you should leave out corruption and incompetence.
Why don’t you go to Serbia and motivate them to get back into the fight over Kosovar tyranny, Jimmy boy?
Or are you of the Scholz variety that figures 4000 casualties of undetermined ethnic origin or combat status in Kosovo is genocide but thousands more civilian casualties from helter skelter terrorist Ukrainian shelling over 8 years in Donbass is just a pack of lies?
Well, speak up boy!
“Ryan isn’t trying to undermine the Ukrainian military: he’s trying to improve it.”
Like “The United States of America” he is trying to tell others what to do in their own countries, which forms part of the bases that an increasing number in the world are presently co-operating to transcend “The United States of America”.
It appears that you are endeavouring to do the same by attempting to “correct” the name of the country by your transliteration of yah in Ukrainian into i in English.
I was checking this merc’s twitter account to see if he was tweeting from the trenches while fighting in Soledar. But he has only 9 tweets and all are on Jan 14. With 12.6k followers his previous tweets must have been deleted prior to launching his mini-tirade. Now he is backpedalling and saying the main issue is just 1% of the UKR military, the rest are all professional. So he must have had a momentary flash of insight and now is back to thinking that the problem rests with just a few bad apples at the top.
By the way someone posted a link to the sonar21.com and said they think this use of the merc’s tweets is very bad.
He’s there for the money, nothing else.
Then he should join in the business instead of complaining. Maybe he just wants his cut.
Fulvio – my friend, who is a refugee in Prague, is a woman with an invalid husband and she has no sons under the threat of being conscripted, so she can “afford” to feel pro-war. She might feel differently if she had a son. For a war, one must vote only by their own flesh and blood, or forever keep their peace. I don’t penalize friends for having different opinions from my own. Isn’t it the whole point of democracy?
Larry & friends,
I find Ryan O’Leary to be tragic. I don’t know what motivations drove him to Ukraine, but he probably had a bad interpretation of war from his service in the middle east. The ‘kool aid’ is very strong; the 2 people I butt heads with, in my social circle, over Ukraine, are lawyers!
He is in charge of 60 men! That’s platoon commander nco! He is probably feeling an intoxicating responsibility that he can’t let go of. He’s a dead man walking; as well as his corrupt captain, the spooks want him shut up.
If Ryan had done his original service under a crotchety old sergeant, who are a feature of english speaking armies, he probably would have made a good soldier. Now he’s in over his head; maybe he’ll get ‘a cross of birch’ over his grave.
Thank you. My sentiments exactly. He’s in over his head and he is dedicated to his men.
Screw the people here who think all American military are baby killers and that Ryan deserves death. A bunch of vicious cowardly punk critics running their mouths about things of which they know nothing, and feeling oh so sanctimonious while doing so.
newhill, you, your war criminal scum son and others of the same ilk will all get what you deserve. You all deserve death. You are all mindless killers for Zionism.
Thank you for your service now fuck off and die homeless.
O’Leary is either not very bright or he’s a Western idealist…making incriminating comments about his UKR chain of command is flirting with something bad….like summary execution.
Anyway I learned a thing or two in Afghanistan about applying US/Western “corruption” standards to other countries and particularly their military(s). In 2007-08 I was an embedded trainer (ETT) tasked with training Afghan National Civil Order Police forces (ANCOP)which was in fact a paramilitary organization–nothing like police forces in the US. One of our main tasks was to ensure that the ANCOP conducted their OPS in a non-corrupt fashion–needless to say we failed by western standards and here’s why:
1. Corruption is a cultural thing…what is corrupt in the US may not be seen as corrupt by lets say the Afghan or in O’Leary’s case the Ukraine. For example I once observed the ANCOP Brigade Logistics Officer openly trading equipment, weapons and ammo to civilians and the Afghan Army (ANF). I reported my observations to no avail…apparently trading equipment, weapons and ammo with civilians and the ANF was a necessity kind of like a barter system–we’ll give you our pistols if you give us food or gas…so on and so on.
2. Non Western countries often have no tax system to fund government operations such as military and police forces. I once shut down an ANCOP checkpoint because they were forcing local vehicle traffic to pay a “toll” to pass through…I later learned that the reason for the “toll” was because the ANCOP at the checkpoint were not getting paid.
3. US politicians are among the most corrupt in the world…hell Nancy Pelosi became a multi-millionaire while serving in Congress accumulating wealth far beyond her combined salary.
4. Lastly, “corruption” by any cultural definition is worse at the top…you can bet Zelensky and his cronies will emerge from the SMO wealthy just like Afghanistan’s Karzai. UKR Army Generals are at the top of the food chain so they’re profiting as well but I doubt any Ukrainian citizen or soldier is offended by that–it’s just business as usual in their culture. You can bet UKR soldiers are engaging in behavior that we (the West) would term corrupt–I don’t think they care quite frankly.
My advice to O’Leary…quit applying Western standards to a culture you do not belong to and get the hell out of the UKR as fast as you can if you value your life.
Excellent comment and important point. My son was deployed to Afghanistan twice. The second time he was part of a train and assist mission (as a 1Lt) working with ANA. He told me the same thing you just stated. He was initially completely frustrated and pissed-off over it, but then came to understand it as you do. What we see as corruption is a normal and even necessary part of life over there.
IMO, Ryan is not too bright AND he is an idealist. Yes, I hope he comes around to thinking straight and gets himself out of there ASAP
In Afghanistan, you would meet a local chief or military war lord, to keep peace and work to defeat the Taliban.
It was not uncommon to walk into a meeting and a young boy in make up would serve tea. One time the young boy with mascara and lipstick sat on the knee of the Afghan leader. These boys are widely used for sex in Afghanistan and even Pakistan.
Everyone sat there. Talks continued. You feel sick. You think of your own kids. You do nothing about the child being repeatedly raped and now molested in front of you.
So those who think this Ukraine war is worse than what happened in Afghanistan understand nothing.
You should send your son to save private Ryan.
“IMO, Ryan is not too bright”
Hmmm, sounds exactly like your war criminal son. Maybe you could adopt him? Then you would have twin Rambo wannabes. That would make you so proud eh?
You are an ass. Thick, unrefined and only good for defecating.
We have a Ukrainian son-in-law who met our daughter in Kiev. He worked in the customs bureau for the Ukie gov. After he married into our family, I’ve had numerous chats with him about corruption in Ukraine. It’s systemic, cultural and accepted. He told me once that the 30% rule applies to almost everything that goes down in Ukraine. You want some, I need 30%. You want a better job, pay me 30% of your new salary for 1-2 years and I’ll see what I can do. It’s how they do business. Can’t imagine how wealthy the higher ups are getting from our billions – gold plated in my guess.
The strategy of reducing host nation corruption was a non-starter given that State was the biggest source of graft (not that DoD didn’t give it the college try). Same as in RVN by all accounts.
There’s stupid and then they’re guys like Ryan here.
Ryan’s message will be funneled to the SBU and will result in Ryan being KIA (very soon) after a bit of roughing up to show his others what happens to traitors to the regime. The Ukies are not going to let this guy keep talking. His body may never be found. Sad. RIP Ryan.
If he knows they and the regime are so corrupt then why on Earth is he fighting for them and risking his life for nothing?
Money. Book deal. Fame. Infamy. Likes.
Are you talking about Iraq or Afghanistan?
brave idiot
This sounds like the commercial activity in the Catch-22 satire. The person in charge of supplies builds up a commercial empire by the end of the novel. Corruption also seems to be a leitmotif of the U.S.-installed governments is Vietnam, Iraq, Ukraine, and elsewhere.
This war is going to be THE historical war. Who wouldn’t want to be part of history. WWI, WWII, all built on lies, money, death and greed, but those who fought for the winners are revered. Their families proud.
This is THE historical war. Bigger than the WW’s before. Those shifted power from Europe to the US but that would have happened anyway.
Now. This war is different.
This war could break 500 years of Western supremacy for better or worse because no one knows how things might look or turn after.
If Russia and China win their battles with the West, IF they succeed in a new financial system, IF there is enough support, the West will be in a multipolar world where it is a loser of a great war.
This war, unlike other wars, could end this world, destroy life, make it uninhabitable and destroy all our families and futures economically and physically.
This war is like no other. How amazing therefore, in a twisted way, to be standing there on the field as it plays out before you. If the world survives you will be one of those there at the moment of history, for better or worse, there is an appeal in that.
The point of concern for me is not this one man living in history, but what happens if Putin is not there to manage the aftermath of whatever outcome there is.
So, so many things up in the air, how will the cards fall, nobody knows.
Ryan will meet Bandera soon, just like the rest of his buddies. Happy trails!
“Larry Johnson says 13 January 2023 at 23:21”
[Q] Don’t underestimate the amount of propaganda that convinced many in the US to back a lie. [/Q]
This is key. The nazis did it to germany and many others.
Many.
ukies to name one. And they are still nazis.
And now the leftoxenomorphs are doing it to us.
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“Sandy K says 13 January 2023 at 22:34”
[Q] My solution to wars is simple. Rather than have young people involved lets get 100 politicians and 100 of their adult children to fight a battle, winner take all. [/Q]
“Winner take all”? Really?
Bunch of fagot corruptocrats fighting another bunch of fagot corruptocrats will decide the fate of a country or a civilization or our whole species?
I wouldn’t want that “solution” to decide what I’ll have for dinner.
Why don’t we put two squads of naked models to mud wrestle? More entertaining . . . . . .
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“Webej says 14 January 2023 at 15:05”
[Q] Me too. But we still give medical attention even to accused child killers.
We may not love them or even execute them, but they remain one of us. [/Q]
No. They don’t. A pedophile gets no love from me. And neither many others. Give him (o her) the Vlad the Impaler treatment.
(a) it is just and (b) pour discourager les autres.
Same goes for all leftoxenomorphs.
Rights are for humans only.
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Training ukie nazis in Venezuerican territory is an insult to all decent folks. Are we training nazis, now?
Just imagine if Venezuerica didn’t even get involved on this. At all. It would have been over by now with no loss to us.
This war is a total fabrication of Venezuerican leftoxenomorphs for their own purposes and interests that are contrary to the Venezuerican people.
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“Juan Valdez says 14 January 2023 at 11:52”
You got that right!
(And I don’t like Noam Chomsky. But he’s not a fool.)
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“Fulano de Tal says 14 January 2023 at 13:31”
Tranquilo, chamaco!
“Juan Valdez says 14 January 2023 at 11:52” is right.
People are falling like dominoes pieces due to the murderous poison vaxx NottaVaccine genetic slow-kill bioweapons.
The had the poison vaxx NottaVaccine genetic slow-kill bioweapons BEFORE they released the covidiocy scamdemic that was just a propaganda PSYOPS weaponizing the common flu and people’s gullibility and tendency to panic like headless chickens.
Opinions are like dicks. Every dude has one. Let those able to understand, understand. Degrees don’t matter. World’s full of evil maggots with degrees and power. The leftoxenomorph Fauci is one. Use your own brain. F’ degrees.
Look at the curves of mortality. The covidiocy did nothing. The poison vaxx NottaVaccine genetic slow-kill bioweapons are murderous.
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“MirrorGazers says 14 January 2023 at 13:38”
You need a laxative.
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NATO is an aggressive commitment against Russia.
Doesn’t seem that Russia is the same Soviet Russia that NATO was created against.
And it does seem that Russia is fighting an action of self defense against a NATO aggressive commitment that they don’t want any more creeping and creeping towards them.
I’ve lived my life thinking of Russians as the bad guys.
Maybe they are not those same bad guys of old, any longer. Maybe they still are.
I find I’m not bright enough and / or educated enough and / or informed enough to have all the answers I would like to have.
And time is limited.
In order to try and understand Russia a little more I went looking for Alexander Dugin and found this video
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu0SbJxgKEE]
and what it exposes is really worrisome.
I don’t know how important Alexander Dugin is for Russia.
But no matter how much, it is too much. Too much evil.
The distance between national-socialism and national-bolshevism seems to me to be non-existent.
Something to ponder about.
And another thing to ponder about is how close our own leftoxenomorphs in charge are in their thinking to Alexander Dugin’s.
They are pretty much the same animal. They think so much alike it is astonishing.
I call Dugin a queen leftoxenomorph. Or maybe an aspiring one?
Alexander Dugin ought to be part of the Davoser World Economic Forum and its accomplices, enablers, thugs, goons and orcs.
All leftoxenomorphs think alike. It is part and parcel of the species operative system.
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This was an enjoyable thread. Kudos Mr. Johnson.
Pity my time is limited.
“Juan Valdez says 14 January 2023 at 11:52” is right.
No, you “think” he is right.
“Tranquilo, chamaco! ”
Go f… yourself. I’m Spanish, not Mexican.
“People are falling like dominoes pieces due to the murderous poison vaxx NottaVaccine genetic slow-kill bioweapons.”
That is your dick. Or opinion. Whatever.
It is not a fact.
Not in Spain.
But, why this guy, hardened in several wars, would go to Twitter with this thread while being at the front in the Ukraine?
Is it that he hopes to be extracted from Bakhmut proper ?
I doubt it.
Does Mr. O´Leary even exists?
I recall one guy there at The Saker under such surname…
Could not this be an information operation to throw the current Ukrainian leadership under the bus after the defeat in Soledar?
Could be, and it fits with Arestovich stating on air TV that the explosions in Dnepropetrovsk were caused by Ukrainian AA misiles launched from the very neighborhood…
What unleashed a great turmoil on Twitter between local elites and with the mayor of Dnepropetrovsk calling for the SBU asking for his head…
It seems that there was a high level party at Courchevel past Christmas by some Ukrainian elite related to Zelensky, Klitchsko and Ukrainian mafia who left the country at the very first moments of the Russian SMO, who looked very happy and well off, while their country bleds…
Wondering whether the motive of such celebration is that they have been promised something….Is this the next Ukrainian government in exile?
That could explain that in the current regime it is time for “every man for himself”….
Just passed through my mind….
“Does Mr. O´Leary even exists? ”
Very good question.
But I think he can very probably exist. With or without the twits.
I read through the first six or seven comments and couldn’t believe the hard-hearted way your commentors responded…makes me sick. The guy – O’Leary – not sure of his age – is a fine American soldier. I’m sorry he’s fighting on the wrong side – like so many of the dead Ukrainians…but he’s cut from a finer cloth than the armchair warriors at the top of this thread.
Yes. As only fine American soldiers fight in a foreign country for a nazi infused government for the almighty greenback.
His cloth is mercenary. His creed is murder for money.
A pox on him and his ilk.
“…The guy – O’Leary – not sure of his age – is a fine American soldier..”
LOL he is not that. What he is, is a pudgy faced hillbilly that thought a killing Russian safari would be a hoot. But now he has realised he’s not killing peasants armed with only with AK 47s.
He is a killer for hire. Russia is doing a good deed blowing these mercenary types to bits as they will turn their guns on us if ordered to do so.
You ann watson need to get Rambo’s cock out of your mouth and then you may see clearly.
A good but stupid man. Joining up with the Nazis and the rest is already way down the hill. Lack of team organization is not the problem. It’s him.
Does anyone actually know that O’Leary is in Ukraine or ever been there? Has he been there and quietly gone home again, topping up his twitter as evidence, so he can still claim his pay?
The latest outburst from the resident fool Eric Newhill:
“The USA is the greatest nation that has ever existed”.
This says a lot about the psyche of white trash trailer park inhabitants that no nothing about the world outside of the USA.
The greatest nation LOL, this Newhill really is deluded. I almost feel pity for him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WxdaU9AsnU
I always thought this the most honest statement of fact on the subject aside from Georg Carlin
Great work by Daniels. Newhill, sitting in his ‘single wide’ hovel would choke on his donuts watching that.
Yep, so a quick search of the Moon of Alabama site shows that I was correct. “grr” is just a vicious maggot from the Eurotrash rabble that inhabit sour Kraut Bernard’s cesspool and spew their America hating bile there 24/7.
So little self-awareness. Painting all US troops as murderers and war criminals, hating on “white trash” and “hillbillies” and relishing death and destruction while simultaneously claiming to be for peace. Obviously I am also correct that such people are pimple faced anarchists and socialists who feel frustrated that their juvenile dreams of revolution have been frustrated by the USA for decades. Maybe these people are Islamic extremists or some other enemy trolls. They are definitely low grade radicals with no understanding of the world (typical of MoA’s minions). Anyhow, they certainly are not peaceniks.
Enjoy it while it lasts, soon they won’t have enough electricity to annoy us on the internet
🙂
“I hope he survives.”
My wife is from the Donbas, I hope he doesn’t.
This is entirely the attempt by the Neo-Cons to use the Ukraine (and Poles, ever the Jews’ (of whatever strain, be they Zionist or atheist) willing European Trojan Horse) as their proxy. The ‘nazi’ narrative is a smokescreen, it is no coincidence these myriad groups of ‘nazis’ have been created by Jewish oligarchs, and
they can in no way likened to National Socialists. Just like the Croat Ustashe, Banderites existed long before National Socialism allowed them to latch on to that ideology. Ustashe was created by a Jew, as for Bandera, he was considered a psycho nutjob by not only Adolf Hitler but every German who made his acquaintance, it was on Hitler’s direct orders that Bandera be interred in a Concentration Camp which he duly was, TWICE, and TWICE Stalin released him. After the war, Bandera abandoned his ‘beloved Ukrainian compatriots’ and fled West to become a CIA goon. To return to the Neo-Cons, they are heirs of Trotsky who, also not so coincidentally also was a Ukrainian. History is an ever repeating blueprint for current events and it also has throughout history been the avowed intention of the Jews, via their Anglo shills, to keep Germany and Russia part no matter the cost (even at the expense of the rest of the European continent)
Blaming it on “The Jews” has been very popular through the years and its incidence is increasing not decreasing, although in “The United States of America” the fashion is more democratic, everyone else is to blame except “I”.
“”This is entirely the attempt by the Neo-Cons to use the Ukraine (and Poles, ever the Jews’ (of whatever strain, be they Zionist or atheist) willing European Trojan Horse) as their proxy”
Not entirely, but also undermining “The United States of America” and “The State of Israel” with the complicity of others, as understood by very few standing in the intermittent damp/drizzle to receive benefits not restricted to plain bulka and forgotten salt, on “Independence Square” off Kreshatik in Kiev, Ukraine during February 2014, thereby gaining their acceptance that forgetting the salt was not a bad thing but part of “the service” most of which should not be criticised since they probably meant well at least for somebody.