Funny thing emotions. One minute you can be in the depths of despair and then, in an instant, you are propelled to Olympian heights. We will ignore the psychiatric diagnosis of manic-depressive. The gnawing fear expressed in social media a couple of days back among those favoring Russia was vanquished with the news that Russian missiles shellacked dozens of targets throughout Ukraine. And, the weird euphoria that had whipped the pro-Ukrainian west into frenzied joy quickly died out as the list of targets hit by Russia grew, along with the body count.
My favorite piece of commentary came courtesy of Bernhard at Moon of Alabama. He cleverly took a look backwards and recited the litany of dire predictions that Russia was on the cusp of an irreplaceable missile and ammunition deficit. Hilarious! (Be sure to read his entire piece.)
- 320 missiles in a day: Russia targets short-range ballistic missiles at Ukraine; what is the result? – WION – Mar 2, 2022
- Russia running short on guided missiles, firing indiscriminately – Ukraine – Jerusalem Post – March 17, 2022
- Russia Running Out of Precision Munitions in Ukraine War Pentagon Official – US News – Mar 24, 2022
- Russia running short of precision missiles, say western officials – Financial Times – Apr 29, 2022
- SCORCHED EARTH Now humiliated Putin is running out of MISSILES in desperate bid to defeat Ukraine, UK armed forces chief tells TalkTV – Sun – May 5, 2022
- Putin ‘running out of missiles’ amid claims quarter of Russian Army now lost – City A.M. – May 6, 2022
- Is Russia running out of missiles? US, Russia send mixed messages – Jerusalem Post – May 16, 2022
- Explainer: Is Russia Running Low on Missiles? – Moscow Times – May 17, 2022
- Has Russia Run Out of Precision-Guided Missiles? – SOFREP – May 23, 2022
- Russia ‘running out’ of precision weapons – UK Defense Journal – Jun 11, 2022
- Russia fires five-and-a-half ton Cold War-era missiles designed to destroy aircraft carriers at Ukrainian forces in the Donbas after running out of precision rockets, MoD says – Daily Mail – Jun 12, 2022
- Vladimir Putin running short of missiles as Russian forces turn to old weaponry stock – Mirror – Jul 8, 2022
- Putin left scratching head as Russia RUNS OUT of missiles to make ground attacks – Express – Jul 23, 2022
- Will Russia Run Out of Precision-Guided Munitions? – National Interest – Aug 11, 2022
- Russia Has Run Out of Long-Range Missiles to Terrorize Ukraine – !945 – Aug 20, 2022
- No more than 45% missiles that Russia had before the war remain Chief Directorate of Intelligence – Ukrainska Pravda – Aug 27, 2022
- Russia ‘running out of Iskander and Kalibr missiles’ – The New Voice of Ukraine / Yahoo – Aug 27, 2022
- Ukraine Situation Report: Kyiv Claims Russia Is Running Low On Missiles – The Drive – Aug 27, 2022
- Russian Federation will run out of shells, artillery and armoured vehicles by year end – Ukrainska Pravda – Aug 31, 2022
- Russia Might Run Out of Weapons, Ammunition By End of Year: Report – Newsweek – Aug 31, 2022
- Russia Is Running Out of Missiles. That’s Bad News for Ukraine – Defense Post – Sep 1, 2022
- Alexander Kovalenko: when Russia will critically run out of missiles – Odessa Journal – Sep 2, 2022
- Russia Resorting to Out of Date Missiles as Weapon Stocks Run Low: Ukraine – Newsweek – Sep 4, 2022
- Ukraine believes Russia has less than 50 hypersonic missiles left because it can’t get the chips needed to make more: report – Business Insider – Sep 6, 2022
- Out Of Missiles! Russia Is Left With ‘Limited Stock’ Of Hypersonic Weapons Due To Microchip Shortage – Ukraine – Eurasian Times – Sep 7, 2022
Russia made a point today of taking out intelligence, military and power stations throughout Ukraine. I will withhold judgement on whether the strikes turn out to be a temporary inconvenience or caused lasting destruction that will be difficult to repair. I am sure that one target–the Ukrainian intelligence facility (SBU) in Kiev–is toast. It appears that Russian avoided hitting it when all of its workers were present. But the work spaces and files of the Ukie spooks went up in smoke.
So why did Russia wait six months to unleash “hell” ? Maybe Moscow really was running short of missiles and waited until it was flush again to go after key targets in Ukraine. Maybe Putin still held out hope that reason would take control in Kiev and that a negotiated end to the conflict could be brokered. Maybe Russia held back from hitting these targets until now in order to avoid killing its own intelligence operatives that had infiltrated the Ukrainian military and intelligence organizations.
Regardless of the reason for the delay, today’s action left an indelible mark that disrupted the Western propaganda meme that Russia was on the ropes and headed for defeat. This was some serious muscle flexing and provided a stark contrast to the anemic Ukrainian offense that has counted the capture of acres of pasture and fields as a great military victory.
There is a ton of great video commentary on today’s events. I have taken the liberty of assembling them here for your easy viewing. First up, our friend Andrei Martyanov.
If you are not a regular viewer of Alexander Mercouris, you are missing out on sophisticated, incisive analysis.
Last, and certainly not least, the voluble Alex Christoforou
Ramzan Kadyrov weighed in with a visual reminder that Russia has not yet begun to fight. The Chechen Republic, once a terrorist battleground bedeviling Russia, is now firmly in Russia’s camp and sent a visual post card to Ukraine and the West that the storm is coming for the Nazi sympathizers (if you look carefully at the 28 second mark you will see that the Chechens are carrying the U.S. Javelin Anti Tank Guided Missile captured from the Ukrainians, thanks to the generosity of the United States taxpayers):
It appears that the Russian missile offensive is not finished. Air raid sirens continue to blare in Ukrainian cities west of the Dnieper River. We will know in a day or two whether Russia intends to keep the lights off in Ukraine.
Amazing turn in DC in the last 48 hours. Pompeo, DoD spokesman, former Joint Chiefs commander, Trump, and others are looking for an off ramp. Jeffrey Sacks and Joe Rogan podcast are getting attention as well.
Man, I get so frustrated that even people I know are intelligent have been swept into this upside down world that Russia is on the ropes and because they have lost some land are losing the fight, running out of ammo, using washing machine chips in their planes because they, have no chips. Propaganda is much more powerful than even I thought. What I have noticed is the people who grew up in the 70s seem to still think Russia is communist and China is a backwater nothing. It is crazy to me…
covid didn’t convince you of the power of propaganda…. ukraine was simple to understand after witnessing the covid debacle
Hear, hear. The Covid psy-op was a sort of dress rehearsal for this one.
Oh… you mean the Covid Pandemic which provably killed well over a Million Americans. Worst body-count in the world. Worst failure by not following pandemic protocols because it didn’t exist…? More deaths than ALL the military deaths COMBINED in every military adventurism America has engaged in since 1900, 120 years of incessant wars…? Imaginary Covid… still killing 4-500 Americans a day..
LOL, troll. Yeah. I work in healthcare insurance and I’m neither a salesman, nor the janitor. Your statistics are total BS. There is nothing like that kind of extraordinary die-off of Americans. People are dying at pretty much the same rate they always do (age/sex adjusted). Sometimes someone has a heart attack that they would have had anyhow and the highly flawed covid test says they also had covid. Whatever. They died of a heart attack they were expected to have because of their demographic and clinical status. There is no meaningful decline in expected years of life, other than the young adults, who are dying increasingly due to drug overdoses and murder. Yes, I look right at that industry standard insurance data as well as our own internal.
A lot of people did die during the covid lockdowns due to lack of access to medical services and care. Lots. It wasn’t covid that killed them. It was the panic reaction and stupid policies.
Hey Karen, the 40 ct PCR tests were designed to yield false positives. What happened was, we ‘locked down’ and stopped taking care of anything but Covid.
Including the year-after-year REAL killers, cancer and CVD.
There were articles all over even MSM thru 2020 about ER providers (I’m one) wondering why suddenly, nobody was showing up with strokes or MIs any more. It was because they were dying at home, stupid.
Then they get ‘tested’ positive at autopsy with a faulty test that picks up generic pre Covid coronavirus RNA. From the common cold.
So although they had a stroke or MI, because the lockdown would let their doc adjust their BP meds, they ‘died of Covid.’
The actual death toll is between 10 and 25 percent of the official figure. Everyone else died from diseases they always had, but that groveling sniveling cowards like YOU wouldn’t let us treat.
You can kiss my ass you worthless know-nothing troll. You’re so 2020, you didn’t even realize that Putin single handedly ended the pandemic last Feb 24.
Well Mr Eric Newhill of “A lot of people did die during the covid lockdowns due to lack of access to medical services and care.” That’s bogus. In Florida ‘lockdown’ was barely 3 weeks that the bars and restaurants weren’t open. Most Everything else was. I went to the supermarket. I put gas in my car. But Covid kept on killing around 90000 a day. Because people weren’t locked down and the idiot said you don’t wear masks, because it doesn’t exist and it’s going away in Summertime. There is only one way to deal with airborne pandemics. America had by far the worst numbers of any western country. Just because you are in insurance does not make you an infectious disease specialist… Duh…! Read the science… ! !
BINGO Ray!
Good post. The Wall Street Journal described the attacks as futile, 50% of missiles were shot down, and small number that hit did so to civilian targets. Their also was a repeated
meme that the attacks pleased the blood thirsty masses at home in Russia.
My observation is that Russia is portrayed as backward, the missiles and bombs come out of old buildings with leaks and rats staffed by uneducated lumpy headed morons with greasy hair and bottles of vodka on the rusty machines producing their poor quality, primitive output.
A prediction. Ursula van der Lugen will soon tell us that because the Russians are using chips from domestic appliances in their missiles, in an illustration of the Law of Attraction, they home in on the nearest domestic appliance.
Ha ha ha !
bwahaha. We laugh now, but she might just. The past couple of years a lot of what we would’ve once assumed was satire – eg Rachel Levine – has turned into real life.
PS – miss your RF sitreps. Any chance Castro’s little bastard will call off his Stasi and let you resume?
I used to say that the west watched too much Rambo and Rocky films. All of them pure propaganda against Russia.
Well, ALL of them – actually just 2(1/2):
Rocky IV and Rambo III
Those WERE anti-russian, but Rocky at least had a “let our people unite” sort of message at the end. Rambo was pure propaganda, agreed.
The rest of them however have next to none of the propaganda.
Great American movie heroes, a restaurateur pugilist and a homeless unemployed soldier.
Two retired vets I know, smart guys with technical jobs, seemed to have missed the fall of Soviet Communism and 31 years of NATO expansion right up to Russia’s border in several places.
Knowing basic facts makes someone a radical in 2022.
One of them told me “all Putin has is the nuke card to play” like that’s a win condition. Obviously that’s not true. But the look of “ha ha, we got ’em, he’ll be forced to use nukes” was surprising to me. Don’t think he thought that through very far.
Old paradigms die hard.
I looked at this Russian slap-back as an attitude adjustment opportunity.
I see glimmers of eyes slowly opening, but sadly there will be thousands more wasted Ukrainian lives before reality finally sets in.
me too.i refrain from having an opinion lately.my freinds know nothing but,Russia is weak,russia is evil,ukraine is giving Russia big butt hurt.
Brent…absolutely. I have very educated friends who absolutely believe the sanctioned versions they read in their daily news. No clue about the Ukraine Coup in 2014. No concept of the breaking of treaties with Russia and ignoring their dialogue for years. I think they are beginning to realize that Russia IS consequential, but they absolutely believe ‘Putin Bad’. No matter what info or articles I send them. Blinded by US Propaganda. I’m amazed how gullible most of them are, but when you are fed BS, indoctrinated by a Goebbels delivery, it’s like people who only watch one news source, like Fox..and think that they now know all the news they need, because they are reminded it’s fair and balanced. Now what type of outlet needs to keep on reminding you of that…?
I was one of those folks who believed a few years ago when it came to Russia, China, India and even Iran that they were some backwards countries. Then I ran across some statistics regarding engineers and scientists. I also read that the only reason the US is leading in some areas is that we have the most foreign born engineers and scientists here in the US and that boost our average. Not surprising when you look around our college campus and see all the purple hair and nose rings. When you have the best and brightest folks guess what that does for their military R&D? Why does Russia have all the most advanced SAM’s? And the world’s best coastal defence systems? And we have a Trillion dollar Jet that can’t even fly in Afghanistan until we take out the WW2 era manpads? But our entrance requirements for the military has standards that none of the above have! Our military recruits have to undergo diversity training that is bar-none. But our officer corps can’t even pass a simple entrance exam! Well… at least we have enough nukes to kill everybody, in doing so commit suicide! Cheers…
https://www.embibe.com/exams/top-10-countries-that-produce-the-most-engineers/
https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-science-no-longer-leads-world-here-s-how-top-advisers-say-nation-should-respond
The propaganda is the worse I’ve seen since Vietnam. And I humbly say, that’s saying something.
They can honestly claim it by admitting that they no longer have anything to send to Ukraine, in terms of arms and munitions.
Now that the West has had 24 hours to think things over, I offer this.
If there is a real journalist with access, that wants to go down in history, here is your chance!
Q, RADM Kirby/Karine Jean-Pierre.
Last week America blew up a Russian pipeline.
What do you think they are going to do about it?
There is no Russian pipeline. It’s Polish, undergoing routine maintenance with US assistance. Next question?
Sie ist russisch und europäisch, aber Polen war immer gegen die Pipeline
Leider versteht Polen immer noch nicht, warum es bisher dreimal von der Landkarte getilgt wurde, leider zerstörte der Eintritt der USA in den Krieg im 1. Weltkrieg Europas Chance auf Frieden…..Zionisten brachten die USA in den Krieg, um zu kommen it UK Palästina … hier kommen alle Probleme Europas her … Deutschland hätte diesen Krieg nicht verlieren sollen, die Gebiete, die Deutschland, Ungarn, Österreich, Italien, Russland nach dem ersten Weltkrieg verloren haben, und die verlorenen sind Serbien, Rumänien, Deutschland, Japan, China nach dem 2. Weltkrieg sind die Hauptursache für alles, was heute passiert….
51%
Time for the Ukraine to get Iron Dome.
I wonder what would happen if the Ukrainians were successful in pulling of a Doolittle Raiders mission on Moscow? I pray they do, be nice to see those minarets come tumbling down.
Why?
Russia has done nothing to the USA.
THIS is the enemy..Not Russia or Putin.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/msnbcs-nicolle-wallace-create-obama-led-democracy-commission-save-america-republicans-video/
You are not only a moron, you sound like a typical gender confused liberal twat.
GFY
#FJB
Way to take out that loser!
“ you sound like a typical gender confused liberal twat.”
What gave it up, you think, the thing about the minarets? 😆
Oh dear…how sad. You didn’t know there are minarets in Russia..and you ridicule at someone who does know… Pitiful. The unusual shape associated is also called a Byzantine Dome, used universally by the Romans, the Ottoman and also Russian Empires. Also on the US capitol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_architecture
Used throughout Christian history and by the Turks and also by Muslims. The Alaskan islands also have numerous Christian churches built with Byzantine architecture, from when the islands belonged to Russia. Part of Russian Christian Orthodoxy. Looks like the Hindu God you use as an avatar. Graven Images Huh…? Thought they weren’t allowed….
Well said Gunny!
Iron Dome? Oh I remember , the romans used it to defend Hadrians Wall
I doubt that at the moment the Ukrainians could pull off their trousers without falling over, never mind a “Doolittle raid”. Allowing for the fact that it’s more than 800km in a straight line from Kiev to Moscow, and the inconvenient fact that the Ukrainian air force no longer has any aircraft that could fly that far, if they did try it they’d face ferocious anti-aircraft defences all the way. Not to mention that Moscow is very likely the most heavily defended capital city in the world right now.
Still, if you can find a plane and a pilot willing to take a shot at certain suicide, go for it. I’ll send a drone and a GoPro to capture the (very brief) action.
It should be easy to talk Mad Dog Kinzinger to fly it. Just tell him Trump’s going to be there and he’ll break all “Twelve O’clock High” on it.
Alexander Vindman, LTC USA ret., might volunteer as waist gunner, but he has to hang close to the phone. It’s been over a month since he was in Kiev to interview for Minister of Defense and still no call-back. Come to think about it they didn’t call him in to start with, he just showed up. A shrewd operator like Zelensky shouldn’t let a strategic genius of Vindman’s caliber slip through his fingers. Is a puzzlement.
incredible trolling lol , might work in other blog but here sonar21 the residents are knowledgable enough to know irondome didnt work and no chance the overrated IDF will lend their non working weapons to ukrops
another troll called henry to complement the henry reich previous troll
the good thing , everytime ukrop start blabbing nonsense propaganda they flush out trolls here
Indeed Iron Dome is a abject failure
Of course the Iron Dome works. IDF uses it successfully every time there’s incoming missiles. A couple get through, but not many. But as Israel just told UkroZellie, it’s only for basic trajectory interception. It’s nowhere near sophisticated enough for the type of missiles and drones Russia is floating over there. What a sad bunch y’all are. So hung up on supposed Trolls. You see trolls everywhere…. Get a hobby or go do something useful. From what I hear, the Patriot System is mostly smoke and noise, not much results either.
Henry,
What will the UkieNazis fly to Moscow in?? Every time they fly they are quickly SHOT DOWN. Even if a UkieNazi pilot made it out of Ukrainian airspace the Russian AD (especially over mother Russia with their newer S500 stuff) would quickly light his ass up. Either way, the fact that you are rooting for the Nazi bastards tells us all we need to know about you. Fuck Joe Biden.
Hahahaha! A formation of Ukrainian Doolittles miraculously fooling Russian air defense. That’s a desperation fantasy. I think those furry Tweeters would go for that in memes.
I think he must of been referring to Dr Doolittle the gentlemen who can talk to animals. Perhaps he might lead a squadron or two of pigeons, they can crap on Vlads windscreen. Turning on the windscreen wipers should deal with it!
Minarets in Moscow? Moscow, Russia? I hope you are high.
I believe he thinks cupolas are minarets.
Actually, there are several mosques in Moscow, lots of muslims live in the city and their religeos freedoms are quaranteed by the Russian laws as well as other peoples’ ones.
I’m sure there are minarets all over Russia, just like there are in most cities of the world. They are hardly a dominant part of the skyline though like they are in the Chechen video, which our idiot troll “friend” thought was Moscow.
Well, there are indeed Minarets in Moscow.
There is a rather new Mosque in the city center.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-mosque-idUSKCN0RN1UD20150923
That also adds to the explanation of why Putin is on good terms with the Chechens.
Tannenbaum a nazi supporting jew. Makes sense they have a lot in common.
Hank, you no longer surprise me …
Dear Henry there’s a hole in your bucket.
OK, lay it on thick with the Hasbara, right??? You should be more occupied if you are living anywhere near Tel Aviv…just saying.
Ce serait une très bonne chose. Le nec ultra de technologie occidentale face à Sovieto-russe.
Je vous rappelle que les chars allemands Panthère et Tigre étaient les plus avancés de leur temps. Dans certains domaines même avec des copies, L’Occident n’a rattrapé les allemands que vers 20 ans plus tard…..c’était sur le front de l’Est. Dans le psychey occidental, ce front ne faisait pas partie de la deuxième guerre mondiale….allez, lisez quelques ouvrages de David Glantz, vous vous serez assagi….
Frankly, I’m surprised that anyone would find it ‘nice’ to blow up a place of worship, be it Muslim (minarets), Christian, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, or any other faith’s.
Dunno: perhaps I’m just not a bloodthirsty sort, but I hate–viscerally–war and its consequences. War may be and often is necessary, especially when one is oneself under attack, but the death and destruction is never ‘nice’, and the decision to inflict them must be made gravely, thoughtfully, and as dispassionately as possible–as I believe President Putin has done and is doing.
A soldier’s duty is to stand between war’s desolation and his loved ones; I have never known any combat veteran who found war to be ‘nice’–mostly they are very reticent to even discuss their experience. Conversely, I see an awful lot of armchair warriors who daily lust for war as if the current conflict were some sort of video game put on for their entertainment. In this case, Russia perceives her very existence to be under threat, a fact whose deadly implications seem to escape the idiots who burble gleefully, mindlessly every time a Russian civilian target is attacked by the Ukrainians.
Russia to her great credit tried mightily to limit the impact of her SMO on civilians. Now the gloves are truly off, and ‘bombing minarets in Moscow’ would merely make Russia’s response even harsher than it is already likely to be.
Very True EJ. Well said. 80 missiles hitting Kyiv and only 14 civilian deaths. Probably caused by Ukie missile defense systems. GPS guided missiles don’t accidentally miss their target. 14 is tragic, but then the US caused the deaths of 1/2 million children deaths in Iraq and Madeline Albright said that was a fair price to pay for freedom and democracy….because the US dehumanizes by the term Collateral Damage. See..no worries… just Collateral Damage. Nothing to see here. Move Along. And people here can’t understand why most the world hates americans.
The Iron Dome system is good if no one is jamming the radar system on which it depends. It is also expensive and vulnerable to any force able to identify it location and destroy it.
Why would you bomb St. Basil’s Cathedral?
Domes, not “minarets.”
There’s a lot of confusion going around which assumes toppling Russia would be relatively cost-free like Libya or the Taliban. Maybe that’s why you want to bomb minarets?
Great strategy there Henry, spoken like a true gung-ho he-man.
While you are being such a cheerleader, how about hopping on a plane and helping out the Ukies in their hour of need. I am sure there are plenty of spare rifles laying around as well as uniforms, but you might have to wash the bloodstains off them first but that shouldn’t bother a macho guy such as yourself. Be sure to update your YouTube channel with your successes in showing those evil Ruskies who is boss.
spoken like a true ZIONIST.ROT IN HELL.
You are one thick un-informed individual. Please read more before posting. What exactly do you not understand about the Russian-US-EU-NATO relations and events since 1999? Do you know the goal of Zbigniew Brzezinski and his ilk? Good god, man, (or whatever you identify as), think critically. The AFU cannot even pull off CAS.
Henry, you are showing your ignorance in a big way. Iron Dome would be no more successful in the Ukraine than it was in Israel – 40% success rate.
‘Doolittle Raiders on Moscow? – you’ve been watching too many cheap war comics – if the 404’s were to attempt to ‘raid’ Moscow they wouldn’t get any further from their non-existent airbases with their non-existent bombers than I could throw a cow.
And ‘minarets’ – they aren’t ‘minarets’ and in any case, what have you got against minarets – are you some kind of anti-muslim jihadist? Minarets are quite beautiful architectural devices. The domes of Moscow’s cathedrals are also beautiful innovations – colourful and interesting. Maybe you’re a ‘brutalist’? Or just an idiot?
Are you a Jew, Henry?
lol
The real question here isn’t wether or not John Bolton’s mustache is real or a prosthetic made from the pubic hairs of Iraqis in Abu Ghraib OR wether or not failed ambassador and perennial Israeli-Firster Michael Mcfaul will leave politics for a career as a marriage counselor where he and his “Of course we were lying” defense will feel right at home OR wether the next Project for a New American Century (PNAC) will be funded entirely from Victoria Nuland’s upcoming bake sale.
IT IS, where the hell did Putin find all those washing machines?!
The Washington Post and NYT told me the Russians didn’t have enough micro chips for their missiles and were cannibalizing old washing machines to get them. How many washing machines did this missile strike take?
Mr. President…! We cannot allow a washing-machine gap!
We’ll meet again,
don’t know where,
don’t know when,
but I know we’ll meet again some sunny day…
Looks as if yet another Putin goal is to demilitarize NATO…
Brilliant. I wonder how many people will get the reference you mentioned. I, personally believe your comment won the internet for today. 😀 😀
Yes, the washing machine gap! Call in the Joint Cheifs of Home Appliance, stat!
My dishwasher is on a downward trend. Looking for DIY videos on assembling a hypersonic missile to gift to an old flame out of state. Any suggestions?
Family Handyman is my goto on home projects but no luck here.
It will be wise if you test it outdoors…..
Please share DIY videos. I want to have some missiles. I have two washing machine
LOL!
The bleating on the Western media has started all over again. They’re targeting civilians, says Zelensky, as a mere 14 people perish from a hundred or more missile explosions. Pissed-off Kiev citizens rail at Russia and express hate of Putin to a Canadian reporter. No mention of course is made of the Ukie blowing up of bridges and Nordstream, the continuing attack on ZPP nuclear station or shelling of Donbass citizens. No sir, the Ukies are angels. We get fed complete pap and nonsense by our masters. It’s now positioned as the bloodthirsty uncivilized savage Russian hordes with no other military hope left attacking peace-lovin’ Ukie citizens going to work and school. The dying gasps of a spent Putin’s Russia, rocked back on its heels by the UAF in Jeeps and Bradley soda can “fightin’ vehicles”.
And no doubt that’s the way most dull incurious Westerners think. Not for them an hour or two searching for other views on the internet. Much like Dems don’t look for Repub web forums and vice versa — they prefer to hurl invective at each other based on nothing but taking a side. Dead-brained people walking, just the way the Western leaders like ’em. Well, that and their income taxes deducted at payroll to keep the whole sorry show moving right along.
If there wasn’t nuclear annihilation waiting like Satan in the wings, Russia would no doubt really paste Ukraine. But you never know what the US nutbar and granola leadership might do based on a mere wacked-out hunch, so even now, Putin holds back. One more totally stupid move by the US, and we’re all for the high jump, because Russia won’t take this BS any more. And Old Slow Shufflin’ Joe might well push the big red button to start the end of times.
As far as I can tell from the reports, Russia is still concentrating on banging Uke infrastructure and military targets while avoiding civilian casualties as much as feasible. That’s admirable self-discipline in my book. A far cry from the U.S. policy in Afghanistan and Iraq, let alone the terror bombing of German cities in Big War II.
Can Putin’s forces continue their blend of devastation and restraint? It probably depends on how U.S. fire-breathing politicians stay shy of brinksmanship. How many cooler heads are there in D.C.? Enough to matter?
“That’s admirable self-discipline in my book.”
And not only at the level of remote fighting units but on the field too, by non-professional blokes who’ve had to leave their families 8 years ago to be in trenches in the Donbas.
It’s a marvel to me that by now they aren’t killing the prisoners as default, notwithstanding the expected ratio of non desirable behaviours in a war like this one.
Even so, these “massacres” that hit the news seem to have all been manufactured, everyone.
I have great respect for the Russian side. Patrick Lancaster has met a few interesting characters, they all come across as human and relatively unscathed In their spirit. Maybe I’m projecting…
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, an organisation I grew up with and trusted implicitly, is now too nothing but a mouthpiece of the twisted West and I find that outrageous. For example, they have a bloke, Maj. Gen. Mike Ryan who was the commandant of the Duntroon military college in Canberra writing today that all these missiles prove is that the Russian military can’t out fight the Ukranian military so hence the bombardment. All I can say to this bloke is ‘matey, just wait for the fields to freeze over and 1st Guards Tank Army or its equivalent to be let loose along with those extra 70K Chechens and 300K reservists with all that massive amount of hardware we see being transported to the front and then watch out’.
I ask you, just what sort of delusion is he, a so-called military expert, indulging in? It’s nothing but propaganda here, even the so-called ‘independent’ news sites here like Crikey will block you if you criticise the hypocrisy of our western standpoint. It’s just non stop fucking propaganda and it’s so bloody blatant it’s puerile.
If he would say the truth, he would not be allowed to speak again and get that money they offer him for his so called “expertise”. Would we do it differently?
He is basically talking s**h for money. Good for him I guess.
The mass media at one time gave some time to Colonel David Hackworth, who really pissed off the leadership discussing Vietnam. Hackworth was a true warrior, never backed off fightng for his country(USA).
He was opinionated to the 9th degree and also one of the most decorated soldiers in US history. There are differing thoughts on him but not his soldiering.
Ironically, Hackworth was the type of citizen Putin admires.
Biden and Obama despise.
Bravo for bringing up Col. Hackworth. I had the pleasure of listening to one of his lectures and meeting him in person. He is a great American in my opinion. Reading his book “About Face” really made me question everything at that time in the military and what we were doing.
From what I have heard of Colonel David Hackworth I would place him in the same class as Major General Smedley Butler as a true patriot of his country. Both deserve the highest praise.
I get BBC and English Guardian posts on my Facebook but I’ve noticed there are hardly any British readers commenting. That puzzles me.
Maj. Gen. Mike Ryan should know that the point of ‘fighting’ is not to ‘fight’ – the point is to WIN.
Larry: Reminds me of Nigel Farage’s warning in 2014: “If you keep poking the Russian bear with a stick, don’t be surprised if it reacts”.
From Andrei Martyanov:
“The current street joke in Russia today is: thank God, we ran out of missiles in March, so nobody will blame us for attacking Ukraine(c)”
Only following the Western press…
The Western press is now saying the Russians used Iranian missiles … that’s combo move , discredit Russian capabilities , implies Iran in the mess.
What next ? North Korean soldiers ? Hezbollah terrorism ? Venezuelan Oil ? Cuban medics ? Indian flying cows with Missiles ? (because : why not ?)
The only things that’s for sure is as long as our lügenpresse parrots the Kiev comedians, the things they’ll be reporting will reeks ammonia like Colombian sugar …
Yes. Good to see Russia doing something. Like I was saying, if they didn’t, they were done for. Now we see that Russia still has what it takes and is indeed playing by its own rules, plan and time frames. As for the west, most of what I’m reading in the mainstream sources is, per usual, downplaying what the Russians did. The message is that they blew up a playground and targeted civilians and generally accomplished nothing of military significance. Plenty of sheep believe that stuff. It doesn’t matter. Reality just keeps on going whereas the fantasies have to come to end.
Thanks for all of your reporting and analysis, Larry. Please keep it coming.
but you dont know whats been done behind the public informatiin and insane propaganda news. There is not enough data to judge russia on their performance. We can observe the indirect result if russia’s success everywhere in the world stage. Anyone lazer focused on ukraine battleground is a fool who only saw a small chess piece being played while ignoring the bigger chess board that is the world.
That is true, Buntalan.
I would say that the other “fronts” are steadily shaping up in Russia’s favor as well. There are still plenty of opportunities for screw-ups, effective counter measures by the west and random chance to intervene, but with each passing week it looks more like it’s going to be checkmate, Russia.
Yes, it was high time. Russia had been extremely patient, though it all worked out for them in the end as all the pieces are falling into place.
. . . . .
Yesterday I read the following post, which I thought very interesting:
“the approximate damage from today’s massive missile strikes by the Russian Armed Forces on Ukrainian strategic infrastructure is estimated at more than 2 billion hryvnias (this is not the final figure). There is still the risk of an increase in this amount from the fact that Ukraine will not be able to sell electricity to the EU and all economic processes within the country may stop. All this will hit the country’s budget. The loss of income from the export of electricity to the EU is estimated at 8-11 million euros per day. This will now tally on the “red” ledger as lost income. Every 10 days of downtime means 100 million euros in lost revenue.”
Ukraine is done for, not just militarily but also importantly economically. Even as the current US administration do appear intent to feed the meat grinder to the last Ukrainian, eventually it will come to a sudden stop. It’s just absolutely unsustainable: either not enough men to send for slaughter, or bullets, or electrical power, or fuel, or money to pay government salaries. This fellow Z. and his accomplices should be sent to The Hague for crimes against humanity.
So what is Biden’s off-ramp?
Lucky for us Westerners, we have have a very short attention span. Ukraine? Never mind, forgotten along with Panama, Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, Haiti, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, Uganda, Syria…
No MSM is reporting what West is doing in Uganda and large protests against EU sanctions against Uganda oil pipeline. Obviously US is in this too.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/uganda-minister-slams-european-union-criticism-of-mega-oil-project-3973690%3fview=htmlamp
Essential for Africa that Russia manages it’s aim to create a multipolar world.
Good point. The off-ramp for the US may be for the NYT and WaPo to simply drop Ukraine from the front page to the last page, and after that to drop coverage entirely. To be revived only when it is temporarily needed as a distraction from some other policy blunder.
The MSM are to the American as Tass was to the Soviet people, except that Americans still don’t realize that they are getting propagandized from head to toe.
Yup UK press reporting that Russia could not aim, fired in desperation as it knows game is up and hit kindergardens and apartments in savage attack….at least the US has Tucker Carlson asking serious questions. In the UK everyone is toeing the line. EU has compared this to standing up to Hitler ‘ukranians pay in blood for Europe’s freedom, we pay only in euros’. EU building also hit.
Very happy with Russias response to attacks. Very happy with General Armageddon.
Thanks boys
President Putin,
Finally, Larry Johnson commented: https://sonar21.com/what-a-difference-a-day-makes/
He is very humble. He is a very good writer.
What do you think ZOG is going to do?
“He’s a legitimate military target… he needs to know that he’s on our target list at this point,” he concluded.
https://southfront.org/bolton-says-putin-on-us-target-list-wants-coup-in-russia/
I doubt anyone in history has ever been at greater risk of being assassinated than you.
Jim Giles
Radio Free Mississippi
now I heard this
Urgent
According to sources among US patriots,
NATO is preparing a nuclear strike against Ukraine
(false flag operation) to blame Russia,
then provoke media hysteria followed by a first-strike attempt.
Russia appears to be 100% aware of all this
and is ready for immediate firing down everything it has,
including multiple Posiedon underwater nuclear drones.
The Satanists will stop at nothing to bring the world
to the brink of global nuclear war..
I don’t believe that will happen. The consequences will be too great.
That said the reckless targeting of the nuclear plant in Donbass is still happening.
If anything did happen my guess is it would be an attempt to hit the storage at the nuclear sites that are now part of Russia and blame Ukraine to provoke a response and cause a radiation leak.
So this is a clumsy and very dangerous ongoing attack of nuclear site and nothing new. UN is there.
What a comment. Did you even read it yourself? You heard “… according to sources among …” … what sources? This is just some poor rumor no one can ever verify.
You can’t fake a nuclear attack. This would be the end of EU/USA anyway. They have noting to protect themselves from Russia’s nuclear arsenal. They start shooting, they get obliterated within minutes. Russia on the other hand has a tight layered air defense. The best one you can buy, if you could. BTW, US would be the first to go up in smoke. Russia may spare their vassals, if they play dead, like I think they would. They are not that stupid. They are just vassals.
People spreading rumors like that are considered trolls. Keep that in mind.
“Russia on the other hand has a tight layered air defense.”
The USAF is still using planes from the 70’s and 80’s. Meanwhile, the planes and air defense systems that they were designed to defeat, are in museums, in Russia.
US has never bothered to develop a working AD after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia improved their S-300 to S-400 and now S-500, also BUK and new short-range Pantsir systems.
US sailed the oceans with their aircraft carriers “projecting” power, believing that no one would ever attack them with missises anyway. Things have changed after they started pocking nations around and creating messes all over the planet. Now it is a little bit too late to redo 20 years of development in short time. Their own tests intercepting ICBMs, with whatever they had, ended in failure. This was stated publicly a few years ago. They knew already, they had nothing then, but now with China and Russia possessing hyper-sonic delivery systems, has left them totally vulnerable.
Everyone still remembers how Trump went down on North Korea for their missile tests on Twatter. Since when do they care about that? Since NK has missiles that can reach the US and they are not shy to throw some threats around using them. They of course also know that US has nothing to protect themselves and all they need is something going the distance and going down fast. NK never meant to attack the US anyway, but would certainly use their arsenal at them, when being attacked themselves.
The whole world saw that having nukes and capable delivery systems is the best insurance against the US.
I suppose NATO might have gotten its hands on old Soviet nukes or fissile material; otherwise, a NATO nuke detonated in Ukraine would easily be traceable back to NATO.
Yes, same as that investigation of the sabotage of Nordstream pipelines. Let the saboteur investigate the sabotage.
Besides, I don’t think someone would trace something when ICBMs are flying all around us 😉
“So why did Russia wait six months to unleash “hell” ? Maybe Moscow really was running short of missiles and waited until it was flush again to go after key targets in Ukraine. Maybe Putin still held out hope that reason would take control in Kiev and that a negotiated end to the conflict could be brokered. Maybe Russia held back from hitting these targets until now in order to avoid killing its own intelligence operatives that had infiltrated the Ukrainian military and intelligence organizations.”
Great analysis, great post.
Perhaps one of Russia’s most important weapons is General Sergey Surovikin, Putin’s’ Oct. 8 appointee to command all Ukraine forces. A relative unknown, General Surovikin is affectionately known by some of his troops as “General Armageddon” or “Cannibal.” Recent vocal critics of the Russian military for lackluster conduct of the SMO, Ramzan Kadyrov and Yevgeny Prigozhun of Wagner Group, have endorsed Surovikin’s appointment.
Is it a coincidence that Russia rained missiles on Ukraine a mere two days after Surovikin’s appointment? I think not.
In searching for information on Surovikin, I did not find one photo in which he displayed even a mild grin. For a peek at one scary dude, search: photo sergey surovikin.
He looks like he means business, a man to be taken seriously. Reminds me of a full face painting of Beethoven who had that same look of focus and determination.
https://t.me/zoka200/3208
https://twitter.com/200_zoka/status/1579443558393995264
BTW surovi means cruel in Serbian.
What has been going on in the oblasts? Are there any fries to go with that missile shake? I am assuming there are, because the Western media isn’t crowing at all about the vaunted Ukraine offensive, and lord knows they’d welcome the distraction right about now.
Putin not running out of smiles.
General Armageddon licks his lips.
Moar missiles please! Shouts the General.
How many do you want? Answers the Quarter Master.
Enough to turn out the lights, shut off the sewage pumps, bugger up the trains, roads and goat tracks.
Plus a large serve for mercenary cheese burgers.
Pay back is a bitch from hell.
WAR IS RACKET General Smedley Butler.
God bless you General for telling the truth.
And that would be the last thing you would ever know.
Your twisted thinking has led you actually believe that an act of that nature wouldn’t cause the immediate destruction of everything we love and cherish.
Go crawl back under whatever compost heap you dragged yourself out of.
Act of nature – do you mean global warming? Just asking.
Strongly decisive, with every promise of becoming ever more stout.
But how much of a thumping must El Stupid-O ones take before they get the message to cry “Uncle”?
The West–Especially the U.S.–is genocidal for continuing to force the Ukraine to use its men as cannon fodder . . . demonstrably, for naught.
My last comment was directed at Mr Tannenbaum. Incredible idiocy to wish for the destruction of Moscow, or any city for that matter.
Amen to your comment, Mark.
The reason the Russians waited is because they had to read all the video and social media comments to see how they should continue on with the operation.
Took a long, long time to collate all those demands and advice and determine which was the most popular strategy.
LOL
Q: How did Stalin win the war?
A: He executed all tactical bloggers.
I think the missile targets were carefully chosen to not be too destructive. Putin (being Putin?) is treading a thin line between provoking a 3rd world war with NATO and flexing muscle (showing Ukraine/NATO not to get carried away with any more terrorist acts). Unfortunately judging by the American media reaction – they conveniently do not mention the fact that the Crimean bridge was an act of terrorism and only label the Russian missile response as war crimes. So, the west is still deaf and likely to remain so. If anything, the parasitic class screeching, sorry, “journalist”/pundit/”analysts” opinion(s), are getting louder and more aggressive.
I think the real battle on the ground is slowly starting up. Russia took back 3+ villages tonight on the way back to Krasnyi Liman and it looks like Bakhmut is now within sights for real. Imagine if Russians win back Liman quickly after all the brouhaha in the western “press”….
In this context, the missiles were more of a message/demonstration than part of the war effort on the ground, IMHO.
I read an article today somewhere discussing how the Scud missiles were the “original Russian hypersonics” (in terms of variable trajectory). Apparently when they were used in the middle-east/Iraq – American air-defenses weren’t very capable against them (the problem with the Scuds is lack of accuracy, according to that article).
In that light, the promise of president Biden to Ukraine of “advanced western air defense systems” is most likely NOT to materialize, because, well, who wants to be embarrassed publicly when Russian missiles still fly through?
P.S. Larry, you missed a link to Ursula Von der Layen’s speech where all the people are standing and clapping to her remark that the Russian soldiers are raiding washing machines and fridges for chips for the missiles?
Ursula doesn’t belong in here. You don’t pick up trash and put it on display in here 😉
The West has told Zelensky “go ahead that big ole teddy bear wont do anything we will support you”. So when hell rains down on Ukraine will the West and America stay the ground? Or tell Zelensky “tough luck kid you bit off to much?”
It’s like watching a father slap down his mouthy son showing the boy who is the big dog in the house.
Funny thing: My father went to slap me down when I was a mouthy child, but he didn’t count on the family pit bull having bonded more with me. Sometimes the big dog isn’t whom it might seem.
It is a pleasure posting on this site that takes no prisoners when it comes to Uke trolls by firing off the facts like a machine gun as the trolls lies disintegrate! Great stuff! And thanks much for this site, Larry!
Larry
I have been reading your Blog regularly for nearly a year. And many of my friends are as well.
Your work is the most reliable source of insight on the Russian campaign to put down Ukie Nazi strongholds. Yes it is thorough work, and it is especially needed when we survey the Western news media landscape littered with propaganda disguised as “unbiased” news reports. The US News media is focused on a unified corrupt narrative of “evil” Russia/Putin, and the West’s moral imperative of saving Ukraine and its corrupt moral basement of swindlers.
May I note here, and ask your readers also, does anyone else experience the extreme emotional intolerance of a contrarian view that Putin/Russia is not as bad as the western leadership? I also note that the Western leadership’s response is the most efficient at driving up the price of “available” energy, ie natural gas (if you can get it delivered to your home, Germany) and therefore keeping hot global inflation burning hot while the German duchess will turn Blue from cold this winter.
Misinformed you are. Iron Dome works effectively against Palestinian / Iranian missiles. It certainly wouldn’t work effectively to counter low flying faster Russian missiles. Or US missiles for that matter. Have you ever wondered why there has been no rush to acquire Iron Dome in Europe?
From the WH site:
“President Biden pledged to continue providing Ukraine with the support needed to defend itself, including advanced air defense systems.”
Let’s hope he means, and that UA insists on Patriots. Time to put that boondoggle to a real world test against advanced missile systems.
Israel publicly stated today that iron dome wouldn’t be helpful for Ukraine for the reasons you mention.
Russia’s shift from Rope-a-Dope to Shock ‘n Awe took a couple of months or more. A change in strategy of this size always has many fathers. It has to resolve a spectrum of issues across different fronts and realms, including the accumulation of justifications in the PR realm.
One of the things yesterday’s missile barrage accomplished is that it took the wind out of the sails of the tactical nuke narrative. With the Nordstream & Crimea bridge sabotages, NATO proved it was quite prepared to play dirty, and the nuke theme was going viral across not only the West, but much of the world. Driven by the “Russia is weak/disorganized/out of missiles/unable to mobilize/etc/etc” theme, it had gained enough traction that NATO could conceivably have attempted to pull it off and brought the world to the brink.
24hrs later, it’s gone. It’s as if the world let out a collective sigh, saying “Oh, never mind”. A couple of my correspondents said “So much for the tactical nuke”. Indeed, that’s settled.
I’ve no idea how the RU General Staff came to unleash Gen. Armageddon yesterday instead of some other day, but I’m willing to bet that a false flag nuke worried the Russians much more than a couple hundred meters of road spans falling into the sea.
The corollary message sent by the barrage is “You’re not going out-escalate us in UA, and BTW, we still haven’t begun anything in earnest.” That’s what’s set the West back on its heels, and why those who’d been calling for diplomacy have suddenly found themselves being heard. Another barrage or two like the first, or one coupled to a massed armoured offensive operation rolling over UA in Donbas/Kherson/Kharkov/Nikolayev and all but the most rabid warmongers will morph into forelock tugging, wannabee diplomats.
“… but I’m willing to bet that a false flag nuke worried the Russians much more than a couple hundred meters of road spans falling into the sea.”
Agree. The “oh my god, Putin is about to use nukes because his back is up against it!” narrative lost a lot of steam yesterday.
That’s a great point and it’s another reason that Russia sitting on its ass while the Ukros made their lame “offense” and committed acts of terrorism was something that needed to be changed, fast. The pay-ops aspect really does matter; sometimes in a big way.
It remains to be seen whether or not the west will finally come to its senses. Some of the neocons are so far gone that they don’t fear a world destroying holocaust. They might prefer it to a straight out loss.
Rob, the West has no senses to come back to.
Still I think the military is just the stick to keep the USNATO at bay. The war is won on the battlefields of economics and currencies. Every possible scenario ends militarily in nuclear war because of desperation or arrogance in the West. Here, time works for Russia. I had also done judo for many years. Use the energy of the opponent against him.
So why did Russia wait six months to unleash “hell” ?
Why not several reasons? I highly doubt there was a missile shortage – such poor planning would also have been represented in artillery.
One reason I propose is waiting for General winter when the economic and military conditions favor Russia, plus lulling NATO/EU/Ukraine into a lack of preparation for the winter all summer while slowly (frog in a pot) degrading NATO until the West has severe military shortages. It is the sucker strategy casino’s use to win big.
Fer Chrissake, these media. I watched CNN, MSNBC (because that’s where most of the lies are told), they were playing videos of the strikes yesterday morning. The Russians were dropping dimes on various government buildings, blew those building UP, from Kiev to Laviv. So, the videos show the buildings blowing up, but in the air, off into the distance is CLEARLY fixed-wing aircraft moving on from the target. I don’t believe for a minute Russia is using smart MISSILES, they’re using JDAM-style iron bombs dropped from 20K up. Marty, or maybe YOU, Larry, months ago did a piece on bombs cheap- hypersonic missiles expensive and the Russians do that. The hits they did in KIEV were 2000lb JDAM. They learned their lessons from what WE did in Iraq for twenty years. HARMs to suppress air defense (look em up), followed up by laser/GPS-guided dumb bombs with guidance packages attached. They were dropping these puppies in pairs using whatever MIGs they were using to carry them. Doesn’t matter, they have air dominance.
But CNN and MSNBC were interviewing these 75 year old mummies (retired generals) to explain how Russia can’t do anymore, Russia shot it’s wad yesterday. One of them is in Flagler Beach, doing the talking mummy routine from his home. They were showing the videos and off in the distance in the sky, fixed-wing. If these mummies were in command, it’s no wonder we lost all our wars. You don’t need Kanzhal and Isklander or even Kalibre hypersonic weapons to do simple destruction on a level city when you have air-dominance. I think Russia is cocked and locked to do whatever the hell they want to do. And I don’t believe they’re spending anything but iron bombs and jet fuel.
These mummy-faced, senile old generals? It works for the American Stockholm Syndrome Americans that never served in the military (part of the problem), but my relatively limited knowledge IS tactical air. I’d not be surprised to see that no hypersonic weapons were fired the other morning, only “smart” iron bombs. Again, why waste Mr. Kinzhal when you can drop iron fatties for 5% of the price of hypersonics? We have NO idea who we’re fighting. Couple of more attacks like this and even Democrats, as they did in 1968 after Tet, will turn on Joe Biden just as they did against LBJ. The difference is we have little blood, only money involved, unlike Vietnam.
However, it will become obvious, the lies we were told. This shit gets deep, but if I’m wrong, I’m all ears, I’d like to know where.
On Telegram people have been sharing some videos of missiles flying by or hitting targets (where you can see the missile approaching and hitting a building). Did not see any bombs there and no planes. But a few quite impressive hits from Kalibr.
In my opinion, this was all done by missiles. Russia is not shy of sharing details like that. They don’t seem to “invent” something here.
Concur, Gum. VZ.RU, a source I trust, said it was all precision goodies, missiles. Myaybe they aren’t risking tactical air quite yet. VZ sez they’ve killed just enough power to force them to go diesel instead of electric on the trains, yet the water systems still work. And, they have to keep the electricity they DO have, in-country, no more selling it to Poland and such. Shrewd. Quite unlike the Americans, who crush the air defenses, then destroy everything with 2000 pounders. Very selective what the Russians are doing. Still, hitting 300 targets exclusively with missiles, very expensive.
See ya!
“So why did Russia wait six months to unleash “hell” ? Maybe Moscow really was running short of missiles and waited until it was flush again to go after key targets in Ukraine. Maybe Putin still held out hope that reason would take control in Kiev and that a negotiated end to the conflict could be brokered. Maybe Russia held back from hitting these targets until now in order to avoid killing its own intelligence operatives that had infiltrated the Ukrainian military and intelligence organizations.”
Maybe they were responding to NS2 and Crimea terrorist attacks as Putin stated in his speech to Russian Security Counsel.
What are the best sites (ukraine war) to follow on rumble/rokfin/telegram? The Chechen video blew my mind- those warriors are ready for the fight…
The hypocrisy of the West is incredible. On Saturday, they euphorically celebrated the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge. Civilians were killed in this attack, including a married couple from St. Petersburg who had the misfortune of walking next to the death-truck. Killed civilians from Donbas are not registered at all. And on Monday, they shed tears for the “civilian victims” at the headquarters of the SBU (Intelligence Service of Ukraine). This war has many aspects, and one of the most important is the victory over this empire of lies.
Brits told to prepare for fact of NATO war with Russia by ex Army head, who would not obviously speak without clearance.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11301277/Britain-face-fact-NATO-war-Russia-warns-former-general.html
Brits are all in! Can America be that stupid?
Empty bluster, I’d say. You seem to have a knack for finding such things. Is it worth it? You come in all sincere and concerned but it all stinks to high heaven. You are like a dog’s tail, always crooked.
Well yes, yes they can.
We are talking about the Pentagon, Congress, and the Interagency after all. The only segment of society more “reasoning capacity” challenged is Academia.
Funny how here in France even people who usually do not buy into the mainstream media have been completely overwhelmed with confusion since the russian army left Kharkiv region.
They really think that all valuable people have left Russia since partial mobilization was announced, that Putin is in the ropes and that the Ukrainian Army have captured
and killed hundreds of thousands of russian soldiers.
Those people will have a nice awakening when they see, that all along the narrative, they were (with the poor people of Ukraine) the real target and right on the crosshair of the Biden administration, with their money being stolen from them through inflation (rising energy and food prices) and the european industries being dismantled.
Humans are not as rational and smart as we like to think we are. Anyone can be brainwashed, that includes you and me. You must check yourself out. When you find yourself holding, as true, alleged facts that are diametrically opposed and you are generally intelligent and competent proven by educational attainment, career path, etc., you have probably been manipulated.
Also look for times when you have come to feel your society or subculture, has been demoralized, disoriented, is in a state of crisis and that a normalization of a new paradigm is being offered as a solution to the demoralization, disorientation and crisis. Where did that feeling come from? Is the source that made you feel that way the same one offering a resolution to your psychological distress? If so, you are likely the victim of psy-op.
Another sign is you feel compelled to defend your world view to the point of desperate anger when someone questions it, like a an addict fighting for his dope and needle when a family member tries to intervene by taking them away.
There are teams of people – hired guns – who fully understand the science of propaganda and psychological-ops; and it IS a science and it IS being applied to you everywhere, all the time. Unfortunately, the people who pay the scientists are just as susceptible to what the scientists are peddling even though they know that is a narrative of their own creation. Funny how the human mind works (or doesn’t work). People do not like psychological stress and they will go to self-destructive lengths to relieve it quickly.
Humans are not as rational and smart as we like to think we are. — Eric Newhill
Which is why almost all of our civilizations follow trajectories similar to Ozymandias…
It’s blackly humorous that technology speeds the cycle up and makes it far more violent and unpredictable. Indeed, with the advent of weapons of mass destruction, nuclear and biological, humans “gained” the ability to commit specicide.
Smart enough to kill ourselves, but are we wise enough not to…?
Remember me boys, as you march by
As you now are, I once was
As I now am, you soon will be
Written on a Civil War tombstone near a southern battlefield.
Always be skeptical of you opponents PR. Never, ever, believe your own PR.
A dealer should never get high on his own supply.
“ He cleverly took a look backwards and recited the litany of dire predictions that Russia was on the cusp of an irreplaceable missile and ammunition deficit.”
More cowbell (11th Oct):
BBC News: War in Ukraine: Russia’s forces are exhausted, says GCHQ head.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63207771
‘More Cowbell.’ Well done! Always a funny addition. I am sure you will be able to use it next week and the following week.
I think those in the UK still wonder where their empire went and why as they continue the downward spiral.
Please explain!
Is there no end to Americas wars on all fronts? Can anyone explain,”what is going on.” The F35 is full of Chineses Rare Earth minerals, all now banded. But Brandon just gave the F35 a pass. So do you not think the Chinese might just cut off America. Will America bomb Australia or whoever to get freedom minerals.
WW3 in Ukraine, War with China, war with Iran and anyone else who wants ago. Maybe North Korea, Serbia or the difficult Hungarians. Saudi is really coming from behind to get first passed the post.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/no-possibility-reconciliation-any-longer-us-and-china-are-now-officially-economic-war
I used to say; “Are the Chinese gonna sell us the bullets that we kill them with?”
Another “Russia running out…” headline from the F.T. –
https://archive.ph/17RML
Ukraine has taken more territory in the last month than Russia has in the last 5 months, and that is a fact. The missiles unleased by Putin did not hit military and intelligence targets, they hit a few power stations, a glass-bottomed footbridge in Kyiv that is a popular tourist attraction, tore into intersections at rush hour and crashed down near a children’s playground. In short, they killed civilians. Putin sought to sow terror among Ukraine’s civilians to compensate for his impotence on the battlefield. And this blitz of missiles will fail, just like the Nazi blitz on London failed. It just unites Ukrainians even further and makes them even more determined to drive the Russians out of their country. And it also serves to unite the West and will spur us to give even more lethal and long range weaponry to Ukraine.
@Ron S, You ridiculous troll. Just these days, data is coming out that the total strength of the regular Russian army was neither 150,000 nor 100,000, but only 40,000 soldiers plus Wagner, Chechens and LNR and DNR militias. With this miniscule force, the allies chased the NATO proxy army for 4 and a half months, then established order in the liberated areas.
They finally had to stop at the beginning of July after the liberation of Lisičansk. Russian commanders complained that in some places they had one soldier per kilometer of the front line.
It was only in September that NATO informed its Ukrainian proxy army that they were fighting against an opponent 10 times weaker in numbers and encouraged them to launch an attack where the Russians are weakest, where the population is the thinnest.
Don’t worry about the future, 300,000 soldiers will soon arrive in what is now Russia. Only in the first round.
Really, only 40,000 Russian soldiers? Why would Putin do that? Wouldn’t it have been better to invade with 200,000 Russian soldiers, quickly seize Kyiv, install a pro-Russian puppet government and purge Ukraine of all Nazis? Why would Putin prefer fighting this 8 month war over a quick overthrow of Ukraine’s government? Is he that bad of a strategist?
You clearly read the daily mail.
Or you read this popular British paper-
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/20061926/putin-disaster-100-years-nato-commander/
The one that wrote knowledgeably about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
I thought it interesting that the Russian press release I read went to pains to make plain that that glass-bottomed footbridge in Kyiv, apparently a renowned architectural landmark, was specifically targeted. It would seem that the point being made is that they can hit what they want to when they want to.
Most of Ukrainian rail motive power runs off the local power grid. Turn off the lights you also stop virtually all west-to-east logistics. Most hits appear to be pretty closely tied to targets of some military value. As to random videos of smoking holes in streets and building facades collapsed who knows what that is. Certainly not proof that the Russkies are just lobbing 1/4 million $ missiles around randomly.
But what exactly do we expect the US defeat is going to look like? How do we imagine it? What need for an off ramp?
It’s not going to be like McArthur in the Bay of Tokyo signing a paper with his Japanese counterpart. At the end of the day no war has been declared here.
What will happen when the West realises that Russia cannot be fought any longer due to the disparity in resources is…nothing. Or at least nothing that we’ll be translatable to the media, there won’t be a definite date to mark end of the war in Ukraine.
I think what might happen is that all help to Ukraine will be slowly ceased, the US elites will take stock and find out their share of the pie greatly reduced. This will lead to an internal culling, a cannibalistic financial civil war between western capitalists, that’ll last a couple of decades, while the newly formed Eurasian bloc will go about aligning themselves with the new status quo and hopefully turning some energy towards the many other problems humankind has.
This process in itself will affect the progress of our own economic civil war until a point when the rest of the world will step in and end it on their terms. By then, the Ukrainian war will have been forgotten at popular level, though it’ll be very meaty material for historians and military scientists.
Western countries will be very different. I have great hope that there’ll be more humanity in our culture. The era of consumption is over for sure, I mean, already.
Frankly, I don´t know what President Putin is waiting for. His “lethargic” behavior on this crisis is deeply disturbing.
If he had accepted the request of the Donbas Republics to join Russia back in 2014 and swiftly taken down the illegitimate government, we would not be in this sorry and most dangerous situation, with people dying left and right.
Instead, he “bought” (Did he actually?) the Minsk Agreements lie (It is very clear now it was a dilatory tactic), giving the Anglo Zionist time to build strong defenses , portray Russia as the aggressor, and now instead of fighting a war for real, he sends a small force and refuses to use Russia´s air power destroy the ability of “the enemy” to wage war.
Some analysts like Paul Craig Roberts say he is being naïve. I think being naïve and having accomplished so much as Putin has (specially in Russia), are mutually exclusive conditions.
This dichotomy is most troubling, as this “soft” approach only emboldens the West to cross more “red lines”. Since there are so few left to cross as it is, we mindlessly drift very close to nuclear annihilation.
I’m 2014 similar sanctions would have destroyed Russia and it’s no guarantee that the Russian military was up to the long challenge it is now in. The time since then has been used to modernize and prepare. Putin even wrote an essay that he considers the failure to protect Donbas in 2014 a personal failure that he intends to correct.
You need to understand his personality. He is a lawyer by nature, calculating and cautious. He’s spoken on “the case” as he’s developed it for defending Russia’s actions under international law, citing UN articles and legal precedents.
He’s also not the bloodthirsty tyrant he’s made out to be. It’s clear that he desperately wants Ukrainians to be as little harmed as possible and that he hopes for Slavic reconciliation. He may be foolish in that and his legalistic prosecution of the conflict, but it’s who he is.
“Regardless of the reason for the delay, today’s action left an indelible mark that disrupted the Western propaganda meme that Russia was on the ropes and headed for defeat.”
They’ll just call it an act of desperation, and an atrocity, on the part of Russia. Then they’ll keep right on insisting that Russia is losing, right up until Russia wins. Then they’ll go silent, and trusting in the American public’s notoriously short attention span and poor long term memory, pretend that they never lied about Ukraine, and that it never even happened at all.
On a personal note, here in the Red River Valley of Texas and Oklahoma, or “Texomaland,” as we call it, I know of only two other individuals, besides myself, that are keeping up with Ukraine. Nobody else cares about it at all. Or even knows where it’s at. They’re only concerned with their everyday lives, and with the havoc that Joe Biden is playing on the country, and on their economic well being.
“Maybe Moscow really was running short of missiles and waited until it was flush again to go after key targets in Ukraine”.
Sorry my friend but I don’t believe in this. Putin certainly knew about the escalation of this SMO and that the west would come to provide Ukraine with support. This man plays the chess 10 moves in advance to their adversaries.
Is it true that the German embassy was hit? Liz, Ursula and Pelosi don’t you girls trot to Kiev, it’s too scary. I bet Victoria Nulander will not be celebrating Khanukkah in Kiev this year.
Ef the WEF.
The Javelins shown at the 28 second mark. One wonders if the batteries have been recharged and maybe reprogrammed for increased kill rate?
Slightly off topic ;
German Press the past few days has had daily articles on the possibilities of a power Blackout this winter plus articles on how to prep for a Blackout.
Typical Article ( use machine translation )
https://www.merkur.de/verbraucher/blackout-stromausfall-deutschland-tipps-heizung-kueche-strom-rat-91843749.html
Make your own conclusions regarding the whys and wherefores
This is not the first rodeo , since SMO begining we saw the same pattern of nonsense from ukrop / western media sources.
1. Ukrop made up fake victories , Western media become bullhorn for the propaganda , media talking heads discuss this ‘victories’ and constantly bleat ‘russia’s economy dead , russia’s military incompetent , russia’s military lost so many men and equipment’ , Social media abuzz with insane number of ukrop trolls spreading propaganda and attacking normal ppl who seek the truth.
2. Russia made a move on the battlefield , on the political front , on the world stage . to counter the ukrop propaganda and suddenly the screaming ukrop propaganda stopped.
3. repeat step 1
it is as if the ukrop and their western masters think making up propaganda victories meant REAL VICTORIES. but even with the limited view of publicly available data and noise from propaganda one can see how russia is winning in all front , economic front , ground war front , support from non anglo nations , energy front ..
while the west LOST on all front , economically , military disasters in ukrop and the resulting expose of lack of military industry to replace the losses , non western nations seek to ally with russia to secure food and energy , china and india and iran strengthen their bond / alliance with russia.
how can a war be won by lying / propaganda ?
Correct : it does not win anything.
Propaganda is for you not them. Larry explained more than once battle field casualties cannot be hidden. The door to door Chechen combat for months produced victory. Not crowds of screaming women burying their dead sons and husbands.
Meanwhile the nonstop free money floods into the most corrupt country in Europe, go figure. Different breed of women. New shoes will do it.
Again you are spot on.
Putin woke up. After he read the internal poll numbers. But better late than never. As long as he let Ukraine have the initiative and didn’t have adequate troops this was a mess. Now? Options all over. Keep hitting the electrical and communication and transportation infrastructure. They move troops by electric rail. End that. What would be classic would be another move toward Kiev. Russia has a ton of troops massed in Belarus. Develop a front there. Not to take Kiev, but to “threaten” it. The Nazi oligarchs hiding in Kiev would demand that troops be pulled back to defend. With the infrastructure screwed, this would lead to chaos. Then sweep West to Odessa. And by the way? WTF is gas still moving thru Ukrainian pipelines? Shut that tap NOW. With will and manpower, Russia has options. Suck it Vicki Nuland.
Listening to the liberal radio talk show hosts this Tuesday morning, interviewing someone from ukraine.
They are in agreement that Russia should be charged with WAR CRIMES because they bombed CIVILIAN targets, murdering thousands. WTH??
I am amazed at the pundits here who fail to see why Russia waited the entire time from onset in February until yesterday, to unleash massive destruction throughout Ukraine.
The reasons are several fold:
1. Russia hoped to settle matters diplomatically.
2. Russia needed to convince the SCO of the threat to itself engendered in the UkroNazis
3. Russia needed to convince the global south of the threat to itself engendered in the UkroNazi/NATO consortium
4. Russia needed to convince the ROW of the danger presented to life on earth by the NATO/EU/UkroNazi cabal.
5. Putin and the STAVKA needed to convince the people of Russia of the need to destroy the NATO/EU/UkroNazi cabal.
The attack on the Kerch Bridge was the icing on the cake. If this doesn’t make sense to you….
1. It was high profile, critical infrastructure
2. The attack was via a truck bomb.. a terrorist method
3. British MOD planned the attack.
4. The bomb was assembled in Bulgaria
5. The Bomb was delivered via several EU channels
6. The SBU claimed responsibility
All the above lay responsibility directly at NATO/EU/UkroNazis without question.
Yes, the Russians made the decision to reorganize the SMO into a CTO/WAR back in August, but their plans were for implementation after the ground froze in November.
The Kerch Strait Bridge attack moved up the time table, of that there is no doubt.
INDY
INDY
Sure, but you’re overlooking the downside of Russia doing nothing in the meanwhile. One prominent example being that people voted to join Russia. After the vote, they were still under attack by shelling and Ukro ground forces were pressing in and, probably, murdering their civic leaders. If that continued, it would show potential allies that Russia is weak or callous, or both – and immoral. Once those people voted and became Russians, they needed to be protected immediately. That they were not is why I began to question Russia. Now Russia is beginning to do the right thing.
Please. Even Putin has stated himself that there were ‘stupidities’ that became apparent after time particularly in relation to call up. The change in command of SMO was a great choice.
Unlike the West Russia military doctrine is more flexible and not about rigid plan sticking. It’s about finding what works and adapting to the battlefield to attain an overall objective.
Given the seniority of people in Russia who said there were mistakes and have admitted that things could have been done better it’s funny to hear people obsessed with this idea that Russia had a detailed plan and are executing it perfectly.
No they have a clear objective, they are working on getting there and like all good armies they are able to find and correct mistakes.
Like all competent leaders Putin has to find the right balance on many areas, it looks like he has at the moment.
Battle is not over yet but it looks very tilted towards Russia today. Let’s see what NATO does.
It’ll be interesting to see how much electricity Ukraine can generate after being kneecapped with these ongoing strikes. Maybe just enough to give each oblast a few hours of power a day, maybe less? Ukraine’s days as an energy exporter are over, the wave of Ukrainians leaving the country when winter shows up the pressure will ratchet up on Europe. I’m buying a popcorn machine.
It’s hard to believe the west is this stupid, cognitive-dissonance anyone? Fak we need a greater reset, greater than the great reset, one that involves a plank and a walk.
Will Russia firm up its lines and start its attack as a slow wave or wait and send a tsunami in a few weeks?
Enquiring minds want to know.
The “resetters” need to be reset – preferably turned into organic fertilizer.
Favorite NYT comment: The missile attacks won’t affect Ukraine’s military operations…. Really? So, the inability to operate trains has no affect on the ability to resupply and send troops to the front.
“the storm is coming for the Nazi sympathizers …”
These are some confused “Nazis” fighting for their Jew Master, Zelenski against the good Christian Russians who are RIGHT NOW in the exact same position as Nazi Germany.
This morning on Fox, Brian Kilmeade interviewed an expert who said that Russia had in fact run out of missiles and was using Iranian and North Korean missiles. He further stated that Russia could not make new missiles, because the sanctions had cut off its supply of computer chips.
I suppose the talking-head didnt ask the obvious follow up questions, where the f**k did the embargoed Iranians & North Koreans get their computer chips?
Why wouldn’t Russian source them from the same place? Or simply buy chips from Iran & NK if they produce their own and are willing to sell bloody missiles?
Kadyrov has the full support of the Russian people. The West thinks that if Putin leaves office that magically Russians will just retire to their dachas and drink vodka. There are leaders more hardline and determined waiting in the wings to press the West. I think the people sitting at the intel desks know this, but you won’t see that in the press. This Putin must go rhetoric is a fantasy.
Old paradigms die hard.
I looked at this Russian slap-back as an attitude adjustment opportunity.
I see glimmers of eyes slowly opening, but sadly there will be thousands more wasted Ukrainian lives before reality finally sets in.
Henry Tenenbaum having wet dreams about minarets, maybe he can sit on some and magically make them disappear.
Yeah, the minaret comment was odd. I suspect ol’ Henry meant ‘onion domes’, but hey-ho. Even the trolls are culturally and religiously illiterate these days, it seems.
Note to Henry: ‘trolling’ isn’t effective when 1) the troller babbles idiocy and 2) the target audience is too savvy to be taken in by your remarks. You just confirm your essential stupidity to everyone else.
The comment about minarets was just Henry‘s obsessive racisim showing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNb54rwDQJM
President Putin,
I was never a Soviet fan but I am a Russian fan and I am a fan of yours. I believe the song above, Song of the Volga Boatmen, captures Russia’s strength and advantage over America. I can hear it and see it in the video above. I can feel it.
That is to say, Russia is stronger and smarter than America because Russia is overwhelmingly White, i.e., “In the 2010 census, roughly 81% of the population were ethnic Russians” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia#Demographics
Whereas, America is a multicultural shithole controlled by perverts and oligarchs.
Larry Johnson’s site continues to be the very best for genuine news as to reality and facts: https://sonar21.com/what-a-difference-a-day-makes/
One small sample:
Two retired vets I know, smart guys with technical jobs, seemed to have missed the fall of Soviet Communism and 31 years of NATO expansion right up to Russia’s border in several places.
Knowing basic facts makes someone a radical in 2022.
One of them told me “all Putin has is the nuke card to play” like that’s a win condition. Obviously that’s not true. But the look of “ha ha, we got ’em, he’ll be forced to use nukes” was surprising to me. Don’t think he thought that through very far.
I recognize it is a very long shot but please consider offering Russian citizenship to Americans wanting to flee their ‘woke’ former nation especially because of Russia’s size and low fertility.
What do you think ZOG is going to do next?
Jim Giles
Radio Free Mississippi
I like this version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tw3g88JtWA
Look at the faces!
Excellent!
Dear Mr. Johnson
So nice to read what one of the leftovers of reasonable America writes and publishes for us all. As a Serbian, I’m so glad that you’ve been involved in Central/South America department :). For your buddies South Europe at that section, no offense. At least they were smart guys.
I’d like to suggest you, and your public, to come over the whole damn Ukraine war thing once again and take a closer look at developments from September 1st on. It is, kind of, football game clock control.
1-15 Sept. Ukrainians got their victory on the frontline.
15-16 Sept. Shanghai Cooperation summit in Samarkand
20-30 Sept. Russia called reserves mobilization, organized referenda + Pres. Putin speech / declaration of total hybrid world war
(Just before the speech, E. Snowden granted citizenship, NS 1 and NS 2 destroyed)
(OPEC+ cuts another 2ml bbd, USA/”Biden” pissed off)
Oct 8. United command over SMO given to general Surovikin, (Kerch bridge attack)
Oct 10. Russia starts shock and awe, but avoiding destruction of civilians
All that, to my humble opinion, means that Russia offered another formal context for a peace talks, by means of Ukraine face saving win and reconquering of something. That’s what they’ve brought to Samarkand, to Xi and Modi, and to Erdogan as middleman. But that was, as previously had been, just ignored by, or simply vetoed on, Kiev.
So, next point on timeline to be watched is G20 in Indonesia, November. By that day all the vectors in geopolitics clash will be focused: Ukraine defeated but not humiliated, EU clear on energy/industry/social disaster axe falling down, China clear on dollar and hi tech sanctions policy, Taiwan looming.
Everything will be ready to decide what to do on Africa energy/development question, under assumption that -stan busyness is under R/C/In/Ir more firm than less control, as it already is. Is it going to be a fair trade, goods for goods in sound money or it will be all the same. Knives for Africa are sharpened, Russians are coming into French colonial states, one by one. This question, or THE question, largely pushed under the rug or unnoticed, makes of this Ukraine dirty job a world war worth question: what about the greenback (forget that EURO joke)?
Finally: excuse my English. I’m just a poor Balkans boy.
” … what about the greenback … ”
Indeed. What does my country (the US) have that others don’t? Nukes, proxies, and the petro-dollar/ global reserve currency arrangement.
Our proxies seem to be diminishing rapidly rigtht before our very eyes, and not just in Ukraine, but all over the globe. The petro-dollar seems to already be, a thing of the past, and our vaunted, reserve currency status, is teetering on the brink, and in my in estimation, will topple long before this decade is out.
So that leaves us with nukes, or possibly the alternative, we could publicly acknowledge that we took our shot at global domination and failed, and gracefully accept our place in the world as an important and treasured co-member of “the community” of nation-states, assuming of course, that “the community” will forgive us our trespasses.
Which by all indications, at least up until this point, are that they will.
However, as an American of 62 years, who believes in that time he’s come to know his country pretty well, sadly, I don’t think we will give in to the better angels of our nature, because most if not all of them seem to have flown away, and so we will resort to nuking “the community,” rather than joining it.
Note: Your English is crystal clear and to the point, as was your timeline. Thanks for it.
Excellent comments, Sir. Concur all, except they will not go nuclear. That’s what MAD is ALL about. TPTB have stacked money to the sky up above. They aren’t about to blow up their perfect lives in DC over Ukrainian depravity. They milked it for all it’s worth. Now, they enjoy the bounty and blame the Poles and Germans for the failure. They’re all over the place. Like Larry said in his EPIC podcast with Martyanov a few weeks back, in the early 80s, we had Ford dealers. By the end of Bill Clinton in 2000, we had every exotic car dealer there is, all over D.C.. They have a lifetime of wealthy living ahead. Corruption all over the world is why. But they stepped on their dicks trying to save the bounty of Ukraine. In their way at the border of Ukraine is Vlad. It’s Matt Dillon vs. the criminal. The criminal now understands, he’s caught. But it won’t go nukes.
Larry? Waddya think? You know them a little better than I do. Vlad is calling them out, our elites. I believe our effete elites fold. And resume robbing us.
“I believe our effete elites fold” … and it “will not go nuclear.”
Let’s hope so, because a crushing defeat is coming, and though we can explain it away by claiming it was our worthless proxies that let us down in the end, there is no getting around the fact that we have sold our soul to win this one.
To me, it’s all coming down to, can Putin can somehow provide us with a face saving “off-ramp,” which is too funny, and too ironic. Up until yesterday it was the West that was boasting that it needed to provide poor little Putin and his failed SMO an off-ramp, because surely if he wasn’t given one, the mighty – and multiple! – Ukrainian offensives would push the Russians back to the Urals and beyond!
What a difference a day makes indeed.
So that will be Putin’s biggest challenge going forward I guess, designing a tailor made and multifaceted “off-ramp” for the petulant Americans, so they don’t go nuclear out of sheer red-faced embarrassment.
This is an insightful comment.
I would only say that long-term nobody will forget the illegal seizures of wealth in EU/USA of Russian “oligarchs” (is Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos an American “oligarch” and what’s the difference?) or Russian state’s foreign currency reserves. If you are a rich guy in Kenya or middle east or Latin America, you are much less likely to put your money into a western bank or invest in a deal in the western world, just like your country is much less likely to keep its foreign currency in the western world. Heck, even if you live in the western world – you must be wondering what would happen to you or your bank account, your employment etc. if the state decided they don’t like what you write online or what you think…
What all these guys lack right now to make that happen is an alternative to the dollar/western banks and I think this is one of the “prongs” of the multi-prong Ruso-Chinese “attack” on the western world. Siphoning capital into China (cheap manufacturing) or Russia (cheap energy right on the spot) or friendly countries where your assets will not be seized “’cause we don’t like your country”, combined with an alternative non-western currency is virtually guaranteed to basically make the western world irrelevant and put western economies into a situation where they are on the outside looking in (west IS used to high standards of living but depends on someone else for everything but now they have worthless currencies).
The western sanctions exacerbated this process and helped Putin put everything out in the open. As much as he wants to do business with everyone (which I do not doubt), I think he (now) wants to do business from a position of a dominant world power (as part of a “multi-polar” world where most powers that matter are aligned with Russia, not the west).
In such a scenario, time is really the only ingredient he needs and it is highly unlikely that he is going to negotiate over matters he sees more as trivial at this point (Ukraine). This is why, IMHO, he has not smashed Ukraine into bits already – that would achieve nothing in the grand scheme of things. In fact, one could argue that prolonging the war is/was actually more suitable for Russia. It allowed Putin to organize the whole global south + BRICS + OPEC+ + …. against the West. Well, the West’s sanctions helped that even more, I guess. Also, do not forget that the western world, starting with the industrial revolution and throughout colonial and now neo-colonial times has sucked out all of the world’s natural resources with its environmental footprint. Yet, that same western world is now asking the global south to pay the price or at least, is not helping the global south survive the hit. That itself must produce huge animosity in the global south.
Finally, today we heard that Russia is open to a G-20 meeting between Putin and Biden. We all know why Biden would be interested – another photo op to look tough in front of domestic audiences, string Putin down. But, I think Putin wants to meet with Biden to explain to him in person what will happen next in terms of what I outlined above.
Your English is fine
Being in South Africa I would be interested to hear more of your information about the intentions of outsiders on Africa.
We are not supposed to go out of the general framework of this blog. First, it is an abuse of our hosts’ kindness, second, it is trolling by definition.
To answer you, shortly as possible: just follow energy flows, present and wished.
Good luck. My prayers for you all.
Kilmeade has lost all credibility in being a shill for the Biden Regime on FAUX News!
I really more people go to the polls and vote out the people in power.
This is driving us to the precipice.
Come on you people!
“withhold judgment”
I’ve been thinking about this. Circumspection is a dying art on the internet, and stoicism–in this case becoming agitated neither by defeat nor by victory–is long out of fashion. Well, some people are quick to denounce what may be genuine circumspection for trolling, anyway.
I’ve been trying to withhold judgment more. For example, I would vote for DJT again, but I have questions on the subject of vaccinations, and on a couple other topics. With regards to the current conflict, Tom Luongo wrote a couple weeks ago that the CIA is trying to put a brake on things. I would have rejected this almost out of hand, except Pepe Escobar–no fan of the Agency–comes along and writes something similar. My understanding of Western power structures may be poorer than I thought.
I look at Kadyrov’s video and then the stupidity that the US military puts out, with pink haired girls dreaming of going into the army. And you wonder who will prevail.
A must see for anyone in the West that believes the Miracle of the Missiles really has come true and the Russians, have done run out. Even if it were true, you clueless dunderheads, it wouldn’t matter in slightest, because the Russians can win this war and whenever they please, the old fashioned way.
The Archangels of General Armaggedon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s51I0UG-7no
Why is YouTube allowing me to see this? I believe with this video I’m up to 6,000 plus plus Russian military vehicles, of all types and hardwares, that in the last 7 days have already arrived at the front, or will be there shortly.
It is the strangest thing to me in this very strange war. Either the Russians have figured out how to post shit on YouTube, or the Americans are allowing them to.
Or is a little of both? It’s like each side wants the all the world to know that once the Russians consolidate and decide to push off, they can put an end to this war in a matter of weeks (at most), missles be damned.
I’ll have to wait for the histories of this war to be written, I suppose, before I might begin to understand just a few of its elemental truths. Hopefully, the first of these histories will be published in the wake of its aftermath, as I am no longer a young man.
That’s assuming there will be an aftermath, of course.
That link is to a very good pro-Russia channel. Lots of vids of Russian military allegedly en route to UKR. If it’s all accurate, and it appears to be, I almost feel sorry for the Kiev loyalists. They are toast. They must negotiate peace now before it’s too late.
https://www.youtube.com/c/OdoPuiuEvents/videos
Here’s the other two. OP Info
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKADOMEU3NMIKT_sgjw1dTw
and Combat Witness
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIJbAdYaMSphof1D-3ooswg/videos
Spent the whole the war looking for video, finding little to none, especially coming from the Russian side, and 7 or 8 days ago these two and the one above, OdoPuiuEvents, started swamping my YouTube feed.
Weirdest thing ever. There’s been several others too that popped up two or three times and then disapeared. One of them was called I think, French Foreign Legion of Russia. Didn’t know there was such a thing.
Have I seen 6,000 plus plus military vehicles of all types? Most of it is there, at those three sites. People can count it for themselves.
Thanks for the video link. It can be nothing less than stunning the amount of military equipment and weapons that is being moved forward to the front.
Hard to conclude specific unit types other than noting large number of tanks, SP arty, BTRs and probably very importantly, some bridging pontoon vehicles. The bridging equipment certainly indicates the plan to do river crossing, if necessary opposed and under fire.
Back in the day, I was assigned as a member of the Potsdam Mission to observe the 22 divisions (Group of Soviet Forces Germany, GSFG) garrisoned in what was then the DDR (East Germany).
The Soviet Army practiced and practiced and practiced military movement by road and by rail. They were masters. I doubt very much if anything has changed, maybe even more focused now in their hour of intensity.
Practice makes perfect! They say for every manuever Alexander performed in battle with his Companion Cavalry, he had practiced it 1,000 times aforehand.
Interesting stuff about the gone but not forgotten Red Army. Thanks for it.
For me, perhaps the most impressive – or daunting? – train of them all, had 17 mobile field kitchens on it, what looked like 20 to 25 refrigeration trucks, and then a whole bunch of other supply trucks of one sort or another, all of it appearing as if it had just left the factory floor.
And the thing of it is, everything looked so aerodynamic, as if each piece was designed to do at least 100 on a straightaway.
“It is the strangest thing to me in this very strange war.”
I hear ya. Nothing in the information space adds up for me either.
EG: GCHQ Director Sir Jeremy Fleming addressed RUSI on 10/10.
What did the UK’s top spy, at the top of the 5-Eyes intelligence cabal tell the analysts and strategists at the UK’s top security think tank? If the link below is correct, he told them that “Russia (is) running out of weapons as it faces ‘staggering’ numbers of casualties”. That “Russian forces are ‘exhausted'” and in “a desperate situation”.
If he and the rest actually believe the nonsense they’re saying, we’re in a very dangerous place. NATO SecGen Stoltenberg stated:
“Russia’s victory in the conflict in Ukraine will be a defeat for NATO, this cannot be allowed”.
Surely he knows that the only way NATO can stop Russia’s victory is to pull the temple down.
How they came to believe it might be best left up to historians of ergot poisoning episodes, but how Western elites climb down from their hallucinatory state when Gen. Armageddon rolls across UA will either determine the rest of this century, or as you say cut it short.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/china-seeking-exploit-opponents-satellites-220300239.html
Nothing profound or remotely consequential here. Just wanted to thank Larry for yet another exceptionally good analysis.
I gotta wonder what EU military leadership must think that the Ukraine could not stop basically one missile or air force’s attack? What must German generals think about Stolenberg hinting at possible direct attacks on Russia with only two days of ammo? Polish generals must be thinking of the losses just to air power if one soldier crosses into Ukrainian territory.
Also, have to wonder what the Muslim world thinks of the Chechens fighting so fiercely for Christian Russia while yelling out Allahu Akbar.
This might answer your last question:
https://odysee.com/@Velyaminov:a/He-is-from-the-loyal-axis:1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4FyLFs06ZU
TBILISI, Georgia — The United Kingdom’s top spy chief said Russia is in a “desperate situation,” as its military forces are “exhausted” by an attempted invasion of Ukraine that has now dragged into its eighth month.
“The costs to Russia, in people and equipment, are staggering,” said Jeremy Fleming, the top British intelligence official, who spoke Tuesday at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a London think tank. “We know, and Russian commanders on the ground know, that their supplies and munitions are running out.”
https://news.yahoo.com/british-spy-chief-says-russian-military-exhausted-in-ukraine-152101359.html
Sir Fleming,
Would you be willing to debate Larry Johnson, A Son of the New American Revolution, https://sonar21.com/, on Radio Free Mississippi?
While my editorial position is clear and unconcealed I would be fair having grown up watching Firing Line with William F. Buckley.
Best regards,
Jim Giles
Radio Free Mississippi
P.S. President Putin, Someone at Mr. Johnson’s website brought to my attention another rendition of Song of the Volga Boatmen, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tw3g88JtWA, saying, “Look at the faces!”
I think this shows that people just needs to take a break from the news. The constant 24 hour news cycle waiting to see what’s going can’t be good for people, even for those who were supposed to be on our side.
I think once this whole thing is over, someone should open a museum in Moscow, and display all these articles in large prints, complete with the names of the news outlets and journalists. It should be named Propaganda Museum or something like that.
NATO and the Globalist owned MSM have gone all “Baghdad Bob” its all tough talk and no trousers you need industry to fight wars the West sold theirs to China, Western Politicians took bribes to do this, and fear the army of unwashed Hippies who shout at them if they dare deviate from the way of the Green Blob.
Russia has none of this, they have a more pragmatic view of Geopolitics.
After all.
“Diplomacy without armies is like music without instruments”.
It appears from the limited information available is they seem to be hitting the distribution system rather than the generators and dams themselves. Which suggests they are trying to disable them but not leave them beyond repair. A few months to repair rather than years. I wonder what stock of appropriate equipment there is in Russia and if they are already building replacements. Getting that going again after it’s all over will help win over what people they can and help towards winning the peace.