So now we are 50 days into this Special Military Operation (SMO) and right in between the end of the first phase and the beginning of the second one. So I want to begin by list a few things which were unclear/ambiguous/misunderstood and which now are becoming clear(er):
- There is this saying “no plan survives the first contact with the enemy” which I would even expand to “no plan survives the first contact with reality”. Why? The first one is obvious, the enemy will try to foil your plans, but the second one is less known: in war there is always a large element of chaos simply because your entire country and your military are in one mode up until the initiation of combat operations and because they have to very quickly switch over a completely new reality. The point is therefore not to stick to plan A at any cost, but neither is it to ditch it all and reinvent the wheel. What is needed is a quick response time to identify the problems and fix them. I would say that with this in mind, the Russian military did a very good job by quickly transforming an integrated Ukrainian military capable of strategic operations into a broken-up entity with its various parts isolated and unable to support each other. What is my evidence for that? There has not been a single Ukrainian counter-attack higher than on a subunit (battalion, company) level. Considering that the Ukrainians have the double advantage of being on the defense and having a larger force, this is truly a remarkable achievement. Add to this the money, weapons and intelligence support from the US/NATO and it is nothing short of a triumph.
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The clueless RT still has this on its webpage even though the Moskva sank 24 hours ago!
At the same time, Russia as a whole, and especially the military, did an absolutely awful job talking to the public, both in Russia and in the West. See a typical example of the image on the right. The only mistake the US PYSOPs made was that they really “overdid it”, which profoundly angered and alienated the Russian public which went from “what is going on?” to “we are in a fight for our very survival” very quickly and most Russians are now in what I would refer to a “WWII” mode: total warfare until total victory. In the West, however, the US PSYOPs truly triumphed and totally defeated the Russian counter-propaganda efforts which, the truth be told, were primitive, clumsy, slow and even self-defeating at times. Does that matter? Yes, very. Why?
- Because most people in Zone A sincerely and truly believe that “Russia is losing the war”. Now these are the same folks who until February of 2022 were all virologists/epidemiologists/microbiologists/etc. and who in a remarkable feat, became overnight military experts and now are sincerely advising the Russians on how to wage a war. The fact that no “real” war has even begun does not elicit any second thoughts or doubts in these “experts in everything” folks who simply don’t believe that some matters require years of training to achieve the expertise needed to understand even the basics. And no, as Andrei Martyanov always points out, a BA in communications or a law degree do not make you into a military expert overnight (by the way, I notice a very large “overlap” between the COVID death cult members and the armchair generals).
- Objectively, there is also a double language and culture barrier at work here. Very few folks in Zone A are fluent, or even conversant, in Russian and even fewer understand the Russian mindset. So if all the English speaking media (including putatively pro-Russian ones – more about those later) says something it makes no sense to expect most English speakers to find the correct Russian language Telegram channels to get the other side of the information. As for RT and Sputnik, in their naive and clumsy efforts to appear “objective” they just reinforce the Western propaganda narratives.
- Then there is an interesting phenomenon that became very apparent over the past 50 days: there are quite a few websites and blogs that PRETEND to be pro-Russian but, in reality, that support is conditional on Russia supporting their agenda and if Russians do things differently those putatively pro-Russian outlets quickly take up the exact same talking points as the US PSYOPs. There are also a number of PRETEND “liberal” or “Leftist” or “Anti-Imperialist” websites which were ALWAYS CIA-operated but which, over the years, acquired some (totally undeserved) credibility and which have now suddenly “flipped”. Pro-Nazi “liberals”, got to love that…
The result of all this? FUD: fear, uncertainty and doubts of course.
Even worse are the implications of this FUD on many levels:
- It gives the folks in the West a sense of impunity and it almost totally conceals the magnitude of the dangers the Empire of Hate and Lies is facing today: from real food shortages to an economic collapse, and even to a continental war in Europe. After all, if the Russians are losing, then “we” must be winning, so all is well. Not very bright, but oh so human…
- It angers and frustrates the Russian soldiers actually doing the fighting who are living in fear not about a heroic Ukrainian counter-offensive, but what the Russian government (at all levels and in all branches) will screw up next. Want an example? Sure! How about this: until senior LDNR officials began to openly complain about the Russian customs, the latter did not allow non-governmental humanitarian convoys to cross into the Ukraine. This was solved, now the next one is this: how to organize pensions for the families of Russian volunteers who fight in the Ukraine?
- It greatly encourages the Ukrainians to fight this war down to the last Ukrainian and to total destruction of the Ukrainian civil infrastructure. Yes, the united West wants to genocide Russians by means of genociding Ukrainians. It cannot get any more openly satanic than that!
Having said all of the above, we now need to step back and only make some very basic predictions:
- What began as the “special military operation” is now turning into a total war of the united West against Russia and that means that the goal for the West is not peace, its victory, and a Russian defeat. My personal conclusion is that the West will only stop doubling down if the US homeland itself is threatened by Russian conventional and nuclear strategic deterrence capabilities.
- The Russians are slowly but surely coming to the realization that in spite of all the concessions and retreats made by Russia since 2013 the Empire of Hate and Lies will not stop by itself, it will have to be stopped, by Russia. Again. As the VDV motto says “nobody but us”.
- The Ukrainians have no agency, and neither do the Eurolemmings. In fact, the USA is using both the Ukronazis and their EU serfs as cannon fodder because their calculation is that if Russia wins, then the Eurolemmings will become not only terrified and even more subservient, but also that the EU will burn itself down removing a competitor. I remind you that the USA’s wealth is based on how much the USA profited from both WWI and WWII. So why not with WWIII as long as it remains within the confines of the European theater of operations? And that will be doubly true if Russia loses.
My first conclusion here is that a direct military conflict involving NATO and Russia is now likely.
That, by itself, is simply horrible, but here is a simple truth: if the Anglos, yet again, want to burn down the European continent there might not be anything Russia could do to prevent that. And forget about the suicidal Eurolemmings. Russia can win that war, and she will, but yet again at a huge cost.
And that is exactly what the Anglos want.
So is there a silver lining here or is it all doom and gloom?
In fact, there is: the reactions of the Russian public to the rather ambiguous and sometimes outright weird stuff members of the Russian government, at different levels, have been doing and saying. Like that terrible Medinski presser which totally freaked out most Russians. Or the rumor that Abramovich (!) is negotiating between Moscow and Kiev. Oh I know, that is just another rumor, but considering the DISMAL job of Russian information operations that rumor, and hundreds more, are making the public weary and angry.
And the general public itself, rather than any government officials, started to react to this kind of dangerous FUD by something we could think of as a grassroots counter-propaganda campaign. For example, while the letters Z and V have been banned in the Ukraine (and in Latvia, Moldova, Greece and even in some German states) they are literally all over the Runet and you could say that Z and V have now become part of the Russian alphabet and that they are now often used to replace the traditional Cyrillic Z (З) and V (В).
And now Slovakia is declaring that the Nazis in Kiev are “fighting for the future of Europe“.
Basically, the EU politicians have now de facto rehabilitated the Third Reich. At least now it is official.
Heck, since that war began, even Uber-Atlantic-Integrationist Medvedev has turned into a patriotic hardliner!
So maybe it will be the “Russian street” that will teach the so-called “specialists” how informational warfare is done? I sure hope so!
The other major power from Zone B, China, immediately understood what this was all about: “West’s ban of ‘Z’ symbol a manifestation of its Russophobia“.
Yup, the letter Z is now serving a somewhat similar function to the Star of David in Nazi Germany.
Then there are the many iterations of the following slogans “our cause is just“, “the enemy will be defeated” and “we will go to the end!” which are also all over the Runet. Note that all of these slogans are strongly associated with WWII in the Russian mind.
And then there is this: the, shall we call them “poor communication skills”, of the Kremlin have resulted in a real shitstorm of angry protests and freakouts so the Kremlin had to tone it down by a lot. Yes, Putin PERSONALLY is very popular and trusted (over 80%), but not the government or, even less so, mid-level or local government officials. It would not take much (another major SNAFU for example) to trigger angry protests.
But if anybody is to be truly credited with reassuring the Russian public that no “negotiators” will backstab the Russian military, that honor should go to the “Biden” Administration which “convinced” Zelenski to stop any and all negotiations and to restate the Ukronazis most extreme demands (including the LDNR and Crimea). Now that truly made negotiations not only pointless but pretty much impossible.
Thank you “Biden”!
I also want to use this opportunity publicly express my deepest gratitude to Josip Borrell, the Eurolemming’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, for declaring “this war must be won on the battlefield“! When EU *diplomats* use that kind of language, it has a quasi-miraculous effect on the wannabe “peace camp” in Russia. Even RT (!) seems to have smelled the coffee and now we can find an article entitled “It appears that the West doesn’t want peace in Ukraine“. No kidding, geniuses!
As I have mentioned it in the past, I am personally very much in favor of negotiations and even talking to the enemy during a war, but that should be done very discreetly, very carefully and with the clear “message” to the general public if these negotiations, or leaks about them, are made public. If you cannot negotiate without freaking out your own people, then don’t try, you will do more for peace by shutting up and staying at home. If instead of using the insect-like Medinski (he reminds me of Blinken, same “I am a loser” look) Putin had sent Ramzan Kadyrov the perception about “negotiations” in Russia would probably be very different today.
So what is up next?
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A major battle around the Donbass cauldron - NATO convoys moving into the Ukraine
- The collapse of the “the Russians are losing” narrative replaced by
- A Russian “atrocity” of some type
- The Western media will begin to “discover sins” amongst those they lionized until now (see image)
- The full dimension of the economic crisis resulting from the collapse of the international economic system will become much more apparent, especially in the EU.
What about the Black Sea Fleet – can it operate without its flagship?
As I mentioned yesterday, I am not a navy person and neither do I know what plans the Russian General Staff had for the BSF. But I can say this: Slava-class guided missile cruisers were designed in the 70s as aircraft carrier destroyers. For this purpose, they were equipped with very powerful missiles, superb (by 1970s standards!) S-300F, OSA-MA SAMs, 6 AK-630 point air defenses, and a lot of (old) electronics. Since there are no aircraft carriers in the Black Sea, I suppose that the Moskva main role was as a command ship (its main cannons don’t provide the range needed to support amphibious assault operations) and also as a relatively powerful mobile, floating, radar. The Moskva was hit by something about 50km south of Snake Island which means that she was also probably watching the movement of ships near/from Romania. Frankly, that is not a task for a guided-missile cruiser.
[Sidebar: as to what actually caused the explosion, my personal best guess is a Ukrainian mine detached by the recent storm and drifting southwards which the Russians failed to detect. That would explain the hull breach which later resulted in the Moskva taking in water and sinking while in tow. I still don’t buy the “Ukrainian 2 “Neptunes” version at all, if only because the Moskva had very solid air defenses while bad weather makes minesweeping very hard. But we will probably never find out for sure, unless the members of the crew reveal what really happened]
Considering that the Ukraine has NO navy at all, I don’t see how the loss of the Moskva would hamper or significantly complicate any BSF operations (navy folks, please correct me here if I missed something!).
The Moskva also had an important role in the eastern Mediterranean (Syria) and yes, there is probably where she will be missed the most. I hope that this loss will provide the impetus to massively accelerate the modernization of old Russian (well, Soviet, really) ships and the construction of new ones.
I would even be inclined to think that the deployment of hypersonic ASM has not only made aircraft carriers obsolete (at least against Russia) but, by the same logic, has made old Russian/Soviet “carrier hunter killers” obsolete by implication. Nowadays, even SMALL missile boats can fire Russian hypersonic missiles thousands of kilometers away, so why bother with really big ships in anti-carrier operations? Range? Okay. Firepower? Okay. Bigger and better sensors? Okay. But not in the Black Sea. And not with a minimally modernized 1970 era ship.
Conclusion:
There is no doubt that Russia fought superbly during the SMO and there is no doubt either that the Russians probably calculated that “just” a SMO would be sufficient to achieve the Russian goals (immediate: protect the LDNR, intermediate: denazify and disarm the Ukraine and long term: change the European and world collective security arrangements) was wrong. It is now becoming almost certain that a real, much larger, war to crush the Ukrainian military will be needed, and it will have to be fought with much larger forces and means.
The Empire of Hate and Lies has decided to “go max” and is acting exactly as it would be in preparations for a much larger war in Europe. For example, with the steady stream of mass expulsions of Russian diplomats, there is a very real possibility that Russia and the US/NATO/EU will sever their diplomatic relationships, something traditionally considered as the last step before a declaration of war.
One of the best things the Kremlin could do now is to carefully study how the Iranians since 1979 (!) managed to successfully:
- Never be drawn into a war they did not want (except the one launched by the West and the USSR following the Islamic Revolution which Iran won, by the way)
- Deter the Anglo-Zionists from direct attacks on Iran
- Survive both sanctions and even a blockade
- Defeat US PSYOPs (remember Neda Agha-Soltan?)
- Actively assist in the liberation of other countries around the world and, especially, the Middle-East
- Superbly combine political pragmatism with deep religious piety and idealism
- Preserve their economy (albeit with major difficulties, but not collapse!)
- Preserve their Islamic societal and civilizational model
- Remain truly sovereign
- Maintain a rock-solid morale throughout it all
If Iran could do that, why can’t we? I have an answer to this question, but I won’t offer it until the end of combat operations.
As I have also mentioned many times, Russia is a project, a ‘moving target’, a society that is recovering from at least 300 years of foreign domination (especially spiritual and political) and a society that is STILL changing, very fast in many aspects.
Yes, Russia has a superb military and immense resources. But that is not enough.
Some say that the next “New Russia” was “born in the LDNR”, and I hope that they are right, not in the sense that Russia needs to copy all the decisions (often bad ones too!) of the LDNR, but Russia does need to purge herself from those in positions of power who are just stuck in the past or unable to adapt to new realities.
Can Russia denazify the planet? By herself, no. At most she can militarily destroy all of Zone A, but only in a mutual suicide act of desperation (the US nuclear triad is still mostly functional, in spite of its problems). But can Russia and the rest of Zone B denazify the planet? Absolutely. Even “just” Russia and China together are more powerful than the rest of the planet combined, add India to this and you have a truly unstoppable force.
The Empire is already dead, but like a stinking unburied corpse, it still has enough “toxicity momentum” to continue to threaten the planet until the USA is both denazified and disarmed. That will take a lot of time, even with the recent massive acceleration of the pace of events.
So no quick fix, no quick solution, no quick victory (or defeat for that matter). This is not want Russia wanted, but that is what she got.
May she make the most of it to transform herself into the civilizational realm she was for centuries. That could be the biggest homage to those fighting for the future of Russia today.
Andrei
PS: I want to remind you all one more time that if the USA and Russia openly and directly clash militarily, I will immediately “freeze” the blog until the situation is resolved in one way or another. I am a guest, a legal alien (“Green Card”), in the USA and it is not my role to speak if my country of current residence and my country of ethnic origin are at war with each other.
UPDATE 1: I should have mentioned that there have been large demonstrations in Serbia in support of Russia. So far, Serbia is the only country with a strong pro-Russian part of the population. No, not all, of course but MUCH more than in any other country, at least that I am aware of. I want to thank all our Serbian brothers and sisters for standing by us!
UPDATE 2: Russian sources are reporting that the nonsense at the border has resumed again, and folks are waiting for hours and even days to get across the border. If true, this sounds like outright sabotage to me.
Dear Andrei. I realize that what the west is doing is evil and has been for a long long time. Many many years. Don’t loose hope. The true God is on the throne and is sovereign over all! Keep up the faith. Also thanks for letting us know some of what is really happening.
When you savage Russia’s PR effort, especially in the West, you need to bear in mind two things:
1. Russia is forced to argue in a foreign languge which is the native language of its principal adversaries.
2. The West has complete dominance over the megaphone. There is literally not one mainstream media outlet in the West trying to present an even remotely balanced narrative. And whoever controls the megaphone controls the message.
I agree with all in principle , but you can always find some fluent – English speakers who have born / raised in the Diaspora or even some native English -speaking sympathisers.
Why isn’t Snowden crafting or vetting the psychological plans of the Russians? He is American, and knows how the secret services and elites operate there. They don’t even have to publicise he is involved at all.
“Why isn’t Snowden crafting or vetting the psychological plans of the Russians?”
Mr. Snowden is a guest and his hosts would not compromise him by asking him to undertake tasks outwith his competence and training, since they are others who can and do undertake these tasks, which apparently you evaluate as being both inadequate and unprofessional.
Thank you for your projection based on “The American Way” within which all are expected to sing for their supper.
“When you savage Russia’s PR effort,”
” And whoever controls the megaphone controls the message.”
Like almost all here you have a simplistic notion of communication management and how it is facilitated.
Implementation of anything – killing someone’s grandmother, destroying someone’s place to live, – is a form of communication.
Communcation requires at least two participants who interact, part of their interaction being interpretation which is a function of most of their life experience including socialisation.
Concious modes of communication are functions of perceived purpose and unperceived facility based on beliefs, whilst megaphones come in many forms to facilitate amplification.
Comparative measurement is only achievable by adopting a mutual standard of measure, which is not possible if the phenomena being measured are qualitatively different, including but not limited to the participants life experiences including socialisation.
Questions to explore.
Did the Russian Federation have the same purpose as “The United States of America”?
Did the Russian Federation adopt the same practices of communication as “The United States of America”?
Did the Russian Federation try to communicate with the same “target audience” as “The United States of America”?
Is control of a participant in communication’s past life experiences including socialisation possible?
Why?
«The West has complete dominance over the megaphone. There is literally not one mainstream media outlet in the West trying to present an even remotely balanced narrative. And whoever controls the megaphone controls the message.»
Not anything new, two classic quotes from over 70 years ago:
George Orwell, 1943: “Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. […] I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that had never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various ‘party lines’.”
George Orwell, 1945: “The Daily Worker disapproves of dictatorship in Athens, the Catholic Herald disapproves of dictatorship in Belgrade. There is no one who is able to say – at least, no one who has the chance to say in a newspaper of big circulation – that this whole dirty game of spheres of influence, quislings, purges, deportation, one-party elections and hundred per cent plebiscites is morally the same whether it is done by ourselves, the Russians or the Nazis.”
The difference from his time is that the “Daily Worker” and similar news papers have been closed or bought by Murdoch and all the main media are loyally neoliberal instead, with occasional articles by “deviants” in the back pages to pretend there is some diversity of opinion.
I just want to make a brief comment on WW3 type speculation. I firmly believe that the USA’s ruling oligarchs are not brave enough to initiate it. Even though their overseas empire is in terminal decline, they still have far too much to lose in an actual nuclear war. All of their mansions, yachts, corporations, stocks, bonds, bought-off politicians, mass media influencers, mistresses, and Epstein-style sex slaves would be gone in the blink of an eye after a bright flash of light, in the middle of the night. And even the oligarchs themselves would slowly starve to death in their Cheyenne Mountain bunker, with the world above totally irradiated. So no, I do not believe they will actually go quite that far. In fact, I think it is far more likely that Biden in particular will “cut and run” like he just did from Afghanistan last August.
Now a few videos for today.
RT visits Mariupol apartments turned into firing positions by neo-Nazis (MUST SEE video — please share widely):
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/mariupol-firing-positions:d
Russian UAV in action:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/russian-uav-ukraine:e
I fully support RUSSIA.
Andrei , Greece has also been protesting for over a month, and proactively stopping -via train-worker unions – arms going to the Ukraine .It just does not get the publicity that Serbia has received.
Also the crew may not know much either , even if they are willing to talk. How will they know the difference between a detached mine or a mine purposefully attached to the ship’s outer hull by commandoes?
Russia has said that the explosions were outward ,not inward but it seems that you , like me , are discounting their assertions in favour of your own deductions.
Russia is going easy with the devil… it’s funny when I hear or read some western countries want to reopen their embassies in Kiev… They might as well open gay and transvestite bars to add some humor to it.
Russia would have to hit Kiev or Lyov so hard to send a binary message, surrender or more hitting.
Stop gas supply to Europe until war is over… it makes it seem like this war is a business transaction and Russia desperately needs gas money from westetn Europe aka the devil.
You don’t play straight with a dirty player.
Ukraine and NATO playing dirty, Russia needs to hit them in the balls or eyes.
What West Point cadets are being taught. Summary: Russia did everything and they are incompetent. Very enlightening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CMby_WPjk4
So, was FOAB dropped from Tu-22M3 on Azovstal?
Andrei Martyanov and Larchmonter say they have. This is really big news.
IFE NEWS says 100% confirmed: Russia dropped a 3,000 pound bomb on Azovstal.
Actually 3000 kg, containing about 1400 kg of explosive, from what I have read.
I don’t undrestand why choose bombing and not other methods? Now whatever evidence there might have been is no more…
Unless in retaliation for the deaths of 486 russian sailors. But hot revenge doesnt fit their strategy so far?
“Most people in Zone A sincerely and truly believe that Russia is losing the war. Now these are the same folks who until February of 2021 were all virologists/epidemiologists/microbiologists/etc. and who in a remarkable feat, became overnight military experts and now are sincerely advising the Russians on how to wage a war.”
These are the same people who answer questions in polls that only God could answer (maybe).
In the US MSM and Congress consistently score lowest in credibility in polls, single-digit and lower than lawyers and used-car salesmen, which is saying something.
Initially a massive PR blitz will set the zeitgeist. But it never lasts. Eventually cracks appear especially when there is no victory. Initially there was huge public support for war in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc. and then look happened
There are plenty of alt media outlets in the west that put out the truth – Lew Rockwell, Jimmy Dore, etc. They are fringe no doubt. Eventually though the lies wear off. It did not take long for the war in Iraq to become deeply unpopular in spite of massive MSM support.
It is a major blind spot in Russian strategy not to have understood this.
Even though Russia does not have control of western MSM and has a totally incompetent English language media, it does have one major asset – Vladimir Putin himself. For those in the west that matter, he is impossible to ignore. I will never understand why he did not forcefully and publicly state Russia’s case to the world at every possible venue. He should have been banging the table about the plight of the Donbass for years. This would lay the groundwork for the weakening of western public opinion especially in the face of a long grinding conflict.
Do you think that the head of the Russian Central Bank must be removed and replaced?
Yes, the head of the Russian Central Bank should be removed. But she won’t be. Here’s why. To be involved in the U.S./Western banking system one needs to know what the unmentionable perks are for those who occupy those positions.
The perks are: you see the futures and options volume flows of all exchange traded currencies/commodities/stocks/bonds. In a heart beat you can place your bets and win a lifetimes income in a heart beat, all the while being payed a handsome salary with benefits.
Imagine the power of obtaining enormous wealth at your fingertips/keyboard? Further, you can do this on the backside of trades going the wrong way. What I mean by that is how one “offshores” their winnings so it can’t be traced. Here’s how these crooks work: If I make a million dollars on a winning trade, I ask my broker to take my winnings and use it to cover a losing trade. This makes it look like a loss, but by doing this the broker is able to send it to my offshore account, and the bookkeeping looks solid. Remember, currencies trade in the trillions each day, as do commodities. My offshore account is a numbered account with no name. The owner is simply issued a bear bond with his/her name on it, along with a visa card. As long as no one finds that bearer bond, you’re good to go.
This one of a thousand different ways to hide illicit money made in the gambling casino of western finance. Next is the International Money Fund who issues the loans. They are based on terms of austerity to freeze a nations ownership of it’s resources and industries so that nation can be bought for pennies on the dollar. The loans are skimmed several times over thru the chain of command via research and terms of endearment so that the operators can purchase the nations wealth. Again, wealth is hidden by the oversight of said funds.
Imagine a banking institution with that kind of system employed across a nation/world. Imagine who is beholden to those with that kind of power. It infiltrates all positions of importance. And you want to shake that up? It doesn’t happen until there is a revolution, and a lot of blood spilt.
It’s all in the Bible.
The Bible calls America the “hammer of the whole earth” and “Babylon the great” and things do not end well for her, “the lady of kingdoms.”
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! (Jer 50:23)
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. (Rev 18:2)
Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms. (Isa 47:5)
Christians, be sure you are saved and not just think you are: https://bit.ly/32pnt83
The defeat of the corrupt empire which currently rules the world will not happen even if Russia attains complete victory in Ukraine but does it alone.
I guess this is beyond the scope of this particular blog post but I’m just stating a fact.
Winning a war in Ukraine, as big as that would seem, is just a small battle in relation to a war against the US empire’s dominion over the rest of the world.
It will come down to China making a choice to end the massive amount of USD and Euros feeding their country. Will they make that choice or will they betray Russia and be content with playing second fiddle to Western powers until the day comes when the west sets their sights on them?
If China brings their economic power to bear in full support of Russia, others will follow and a true coalition of nations will finally stand up and demand an end to the exploitation and abuse of power that has been going on for far too long in this so-called “civilized” world.
There are suspicions this could be happening with current “covid” lockdowns in China. That they might, instead, be ruse to further disrupt an already frazzled supply chain. It’s a theory that is gaining ground and it seems very plausible to me.
As an American, I have loyalty to the “idea” of the USA and my homeland, but I fully acknowledge that not only our government but our society has lost its way and is in need of a humbling moment.
I would prefer that humbling moment is in the form of losing an economic war and having to focus more on real issues at home which affect our daily lives instead of trying to control the world as opposed to getting nuked because we were too damn arrogant to see what world-class ***holes we have become.
Thanks for the explanations on CIA-operated websites that have now flipped, it confirms a suspicion I like to have confirmed. One that flipped about the time Trump showed up in 2016 is tarpley.net, whose operator is also the author of the best book I know of on 9/11. Is that book really so good, is it the CIA explaining how they pulled off THAT stunt or is it something else?
Yes, very clear. Biden is a puppet, his masters are behind the Ukraine war, and making tons of money.
https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1514691339639791629?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1514715793174540292%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chinatimes.com%2Frealtimenews%2F20220416001296-260408
After Biden finished his speech, he turned around and tried to shake hands with thin air and then wandered around looking confused
I’ve watched about half of this so far and wanted to share it. Good discussion among three English-speaking people about the war and where things stand for Russia and the changing world order:
https://rumble.com/v112m7p-crosstalk-heading-toward-war.html
At around 13 minutes in, the host (who I think is American) talks about how you are not allowed to talk openly and honestly about Russia or the war (in Zone A) or you will be “cancelled” and so forth. He’s right. This is why you don’t see more open support for the Russian side here in the USA, even though many here know NATO is garbage and that the Zone A elites are using Ukraine as a puppet for themselves.
There’s nothing in the video most here don’t already know. Still, a solid discussion on things and I’m happy to see that Russia Today is on Rumble (after being removed from Youtube).
I looked up all 4 of the people in this clip. All are Americans, with the host now living in Moscow. So this is an “enlightened American” view on the subject of Russia and this war. Many other people feel as these three do, even if they are afraid to say it out loud.
In the middle of the video the term “McCarthyism” is used. This refers to former US Senator Joe McCarthy, who started a movement (McCarthyism) that accused opponents of being communists during the 1940’s and 1950’s. The point of the movement, in the eyes of critics, was to terrorize opponents and make people feel afraid to speak against the USA, patriotism, etc. So that period of fear of speaking out is being compared with the current “cancel culture” that prevails in Zone A today.
If only they had better objective social skills, the zone a critters.
Well, apparently the fog of war is getting clearer, that we are heading into the Nuclear War, the Armageddon, as it has been prophesied for a long long time ago by three different religions, Islam, Christian and Jew.
We truly live in borrowed time, and we owed a lot to Russia, and as much as I want to believe that our words matter now, I would rather put my hope on prayers. We pray that Russia Win again this time, God help them.
I’ve only read a couple of your articles, so I don’t know if you’ve touched on this, but it’s become clear from the order of events that the American deep state has been planning this war for a long time. Of course, mainstreaming Ruthenian fascism in Ukraine and worldwide using Harvard and other CIA-infiltrated universities and publication companies took a very long time and only really materialized into a Gladio-style NATO/CIA army after the color revolutions in 2004, 2008, and 2014.
However, in the current conflict, the United States escalated the war in the political dimension first by releasing propaganda saying Putin was on the verge of invading Ukraine for the purpose of resurrecting the USSR – a ridiculous notion when one considers Putin’s view of the Bolsheviks, but CIA propaganda was never meant to be intellectually stimulating. Then, a few months later, the US escalated the conflict in the military dimension by using its control of the Azov battalion (even French reporters are now saying the Ukrainian military is run by Americans) and launching an assault on the Donbas, forcing Russia to either counter-attack or watch the citizens of Donetsk be butchered. Lastly, even before Russia’s SMO America escalated on the economic front by launching unprovoked sanctions against Nord Stream 2 and pulled from peace talks.
It’s important to note that the positions of the Ukrainian troops in Donetsk territory demonstrate a mandate to raze Donetsk, which forced Russia to military conflict at the current time; Russia did not really have a choice.Putin has said as much, and Russia will release documents and evidence proving so after the Ukrainian army in the east is dealt with. Secondly, forcing Russia into a conflict only makes sense from the globalist perspective if they really thought that the sanctions were going to work, thereby making the military fight moot as long as Ukraine holds out for a couple weeks (it is NATO-trained, NATO-armed, NATO-led, and NATO- supported [such as by spy satellites]).
Now that it is becoming evident the globalists’ understanding of economics was insufficient to understand basic things like how commodities work, thereby undermining their entire war strategy with Russia, they are left with 2 choices:
1. Allow Zelensky to surrender, retreat into being a world power, but not a ruling empire. Retreat from over-extended positions worldwide and give up on world domination (this is what actual Americans want; if they knew what the CIA has been doing all around the world with Nazis for the last 80 years, they would have a total meltdown)
2. Convince the American people that going to war with Russia is “necessary to stop the next Hitler.”
They’re going to try to do number 2. I hope they fail, but there’s not much Russia can do about it. Putin has done an amazing job preparing his country for the economic war, and it is clear from the success on the ground of the Russian forces of causing a war of attrition in the east which is bleeding Ukrainian forces of ammo, gas, and food that the Kremlin has likewise proven itself admirable in preparing the strategy. However, given that America clearly fired first by striking at Donetsk, and given that the purpose was to provide political cover for an attempt to completely destroy Russia using economic warfare, Russia is not in a position to de-escalate. Russia has converted all 3 dimensions of the war into battles of attrition and is winning all 3, but if the CIA can convince the American population to be ok with war Russia may have to defend itself against the beast with seven heads and ten horns, and I’m not sure if she will be able to.
Also as a last comment I think you should still continue your reports even if America does go to war with Russia. Your perspective is important. When Babylon was in war with Judah, Daniel continued to tell Israel to surrender to the Babylonians. He got thrown into a well for it (and I’m not calling you a prophet; just someone with a decent measure of understanding) and knowing our FBI you might get thrown in a well too, but you may regret not speaking at the time when opposing voices are needed the most.
«the success on the ground of the Russian forces of causing a war of attrition in the east which is bleeding Ukrainian forces of ammo, gas, and food t […] Russia has converted all 3 dimensions of the war into battles of attrition»
I would not call that “attrition”, that happens when both sides take huge losses and the winning side is the last one standing because they were bigger, and it is often a “pyrrhic victory”.
The Russian Federation “special military operation” forces are trying very hard to avoid a war of attrition because they are smaller; they are rather trying to avoid a war of attrition by reducing to the minimum their losses *and those of the ukrainian military* (except the self-styled nazis), but cutting off supplies to the ukrainian military, containing them, and waiting for their collapse.
A war of attrition would be very bad for the Russian Federation because huge RF losses would be bad for RF morale, and huge ukrainian losses would generate even more resentment among even the RF-leaning parts of ukrainian public opinion.
It is indeed the USA, UK, Poland and other governments that want a long nasty war of attrition in Ukraine, as Olodymir Elensky said:
https://www.economist.com/europe/volodymyr-zelensky-on-why-ukraine-must-defeat-putin/21808448
«Mr Zelensky divides NATO into five camps. First are those who “don‘t mind a long war because it would mean exhausting Russia, even if this means the demise of Ukraine and comes at the cost of Ukrainian lives”.»
I am limiting my comments to the current geopolitical developments from a historical perspective and perceived stance of the opposing sides in this conflict. Since the very beginning of open hostilities triggered by the planned mass attack on the Donbass it had become patently obvious that a greater war was on the offing and that it was orchestrated by the Hegemon. VV Putin’s ultimatum was very clear: we cannot tolerate the status quo; therefore the Hegemon took the initiative of military conflict believing, I suppose, that the Kremlin was only repeating the same meme once again and was incapable of responding to the provocation. Gradually, Russia would submit and the yet-to-come hypersonic weapons placed in the surrounding countries and in the Ukraine would ensure that submission for years to come. Meanwhile the oil/gas exports to the EU would be replaced with LPG and Russia sent back to the Yets’s years. Caput. Then the “pivot to Asia” (China) again and the New World Order back on the rails. Simple.
It is also clear that the Kremlin was aware of the coming danger as Lavrov’s admission that lessons [“mistakes”] had been learned and Russia was going to take the gloves off. I’m only guessing of course, but Russia’s response to the planned provocation on the Donbass took the Hegemon by surprise and adjusted the conflict locally while taking advantage of the PR (public relations) opportunity to expand the conflict to the rest of Europe by mobilizing the the puppets and enrolling the populations into the Hegemon’s fan club.
For the first time in its 70-year history NATO was called into action to fulfill its mission in reverse (other interventions were outside its remit or for the purpose of cheering the Hegemon and the “Reds/Russians are not coming” did not happen), that is, to defend the Hegemon off-shore. This policy has the same merit and is a repeat of the early interventions to weaken the Hegemon’s traditional competitor, Europe, since the days of the Monroe doctrine down to WWI and WWII. Notice that the Hegemon funded all belligerents (including Hitler) in those conflitcs and only sent its armies at the very end of those wars when the warring sides were exhausted in order to tip the balance in its favour and dictate the peace terms.
And that is where we are now. The dogs of war have been inflamed and now set to do their business of attacking each other while the Hegemon watches and waits for the right time to deliver the coup de grace and enjoy the fruits of victory.
Everything is going according to plan. Yet, Russia may spring a surprise again and thwart the Hegemon’s script: make enough noises to wake the puppets up from their slumber with a noisy delivery of pin-point fireworks as a warning of things to come if they keep bad company with the Hegemon.
This is not advice to the Kremlin: they know what to do and I’m sure they will do what’s the best for Russia and follow Lavrov’s dictum that lessons have been learned.
Somehow, the Kremlin’s thinking had changed and reached the inescapable conclusion that Russia’s existence was at stake, therefore open conflict was unavoidable
“there is a very real possibility that Russia and the US/NATO/EU will sever their diplomatic relationships…”
It probably should have happened already. Breaking relations earlier might have helped to reconsider the sending of weapons, i.e., “I already don’t have relations, should I send weapons?…”maybe if I send weapons the next bad thing is war”…”if they broke relations over sanctions, what will they do over weapons that kill Russians?”
Russia is moving like the bear, hard to know what it wants. The other day Putin said “partners” again, “so-called partners” I think he said. We know from Madeleine Albright that in 2000 he was all for the West. He told her that Russia was part of the West without any doubt. Then in 2007, in Munich, he was about half way to where he is today. In the last seven months, he changed entirely. The “adversary” that had been hyped so much as the richest man in the world, great aggressor who wanted to rebuild the Soviet Empire, saw Trump bragging about being tougher with him than anybody else, then Biden called him a “killer” instead of “president of Russia.” Besides things like national security concerns, the “national honor” factor is there too. To present oneself as an overlord who sanctions ignores the national honor of a country. Secretary of State Kerry wanted in his day to meet with Lavrov with sanctions on the agenda. Russia always said “no.” Their answer was always that sanctions are your affair, do with them what you want. They didn’t say “honor” but that’s exactly what it was.
Vladimir Posner described how Russians are in a speech he gave in the U.S.; he said Russians are very friendly, even like naïve, when they think you are good to them. But that when they feel pressured, they get very stubborn and they will not yield. The “sanctioners” and insulters don’t pay attention to such things. They don’t even ask if the sanctions worked. They don’t even listen when the other side says that they didn’t work.
If they say that the sanctions actually made them stronger, like both Russia and Iran say, they also don’t listen. A formal letter arrived warning of “unpredictable consequences” and it’s not signed by Putin or anyone important (maybe it’s just stamped). Let’s see what the reaction to it will be (no idea). I’m just going to check the NYT and take a guess – practically nothing there. I guess they won’t pay attention.
Just a comment about Europe and NATO getting involved in a war with Russia.This all depends on how long it takes Russia to finish off its operations in the Ukraine. Europe does not move without Germany and NATO is in no shape for a war with Russia. However the rearming of Germany and other countries are beginning. The arming of Germany should be sending alarm bells in Europe and across the world. The comment of using Eastern Europe as cannon fodder is absurd. Poland probably has one of the stronger militaries in Europe but still dated and awaiting shipments and training of US Abram tanks. Russia needs to end this war quickly and then start using political and media levers to pacify Europe peacefully. Easier said than done because any Nuclear conflict is a no win scenario tactical or not.
American Empire crumbling. Going to do it kicking & screaming, taking large parts of the planet with it. As an American, it is tragic to me. There was an opportunity to make a peaceful, cooperative world. Our military industrial complex has over-ridden anything the people want here. Same bastards, Neocons, driving this that drove Iraq, an unmitigated disaster, morally & strategically. This will be a disaster as well. Worst part being that ordinary humans that would rather not be involved will suffer the most. No matter the race, religion, or nationality, we are all one beating heart. Our leadership has failed us in the west. I look forward to the day that my tax $ is actually spent improving the lives of regular Americans & not wasted promoting death & destruction around the planet. I reject the idea that anyone, anywhere is less than human. Monsters want us to think otherwise. I don’t like what’s happening, but totally get why Russia/Putin feels the need. Hug your friends & family & let those you love know it.
Living in a swamp of propaganda, I appreciate your perspective & insights. Take heart, you make a difference.
At best, I’m a layman about war and I’m optimistic about my competencies.
My take on it is the idea that Zone A fight a virtual war, a war of words, a war by creating a reality. Remember the words “We are the Empire now. We create reality.” Zone B fight a war on the ground. Zone B is reality based. The declaration continues with “You members of the reality based community will only be able to study our reality, even judiciously. But we will have created another reality at that moment. You’ll be forced to study this new reality. We can go on forever that way and you’ll only be able to follow us on our path.”
I do not promise quoting it word for word. I strongly believe I wrote correctly the idea. Find the correct quote, read it. You’ll see a description of what is going on now in the Anglo world, in zone A. Anybody facing these people is forced to deal with that idea “We create reality”.
On the psyops level, zone A has the upper hand in the West. Here, it is totally accepted that reality can be created. Any opponent is at loss. It takes a hell of a time to understand that new reality. Debunking it is close to useless because creating another reality (I can’t differentiate it with a new lie) is much faster and easier than staying in reality, the zone B thing.
One application of this “We create reality” is the tactic of victimhood. The future victim annoys, threatens, hits his opponent. If he doesn’t react, the victim wins and double down because the victim considers that his opponent admitted his guilt. If he reacts, the victim cry and shout foul, denounces his opponent with accusations like racism and the rest of the woke book. Any mean to cancel or destroy his opponent is now legit. Zelensky perfectly illustrates my point.
I wish I had an idea about that tactic. I’ll need it and I do not feel lonely on that one.
I also wish I had an idea about the “We create reality” thing. It is pure poison to me and my folks. It has to be countered and I do not know how.
In short, the “We create reality” thing is describing the “Empire of lies”. It used to be a description of craziness. Now, they are proudly proclaiming it and they are our lords.
Lapsus of Macronin an interview :
” Jai fait tout ce que j’ai pu pour éviter la paix” ( I did all what I could TO AVOID PEACE)
Intels on french election
3 numbers :
LREM the patry of Macron on the regional election : 7%
Macron presidential election : 28% (alledgely…)
for the first time they used elctronic voting machines in the biggest cites and voting centers
Macron : 43% (average)….
like in 2017, Macron has stolen his place for the second round, but this time it took 3 days to discover it.
other fact;
during the lockdown, the governement made a (very) silenced reform to take control of the voting lists, which where under the control of the cities.
22 000 Yellow jackets were deprived of they right of vote for 5 years WHITHOUT KNOWING IT. They are deprived of all they civic rights, even if they just got a fine for partipating in the movement.They discovered it the day of the vote !!!! The price you pay not to knee before the psychopath king of france. Not a word in MSM of course
They also cleansed the lists, especially in in the place where people are voting the “wrong way”. People have to go to tribunal to be relisted, with just a “sorry we made a mistake”. First you have to know that you are erased, secondly you have to discover the right procedure, not that easy, last it takes a LOT of time to go to tribunal.
That’s the nazi 2.0 Macron and his pals supporting vintage nazis in Ukraine.
That’s for the first round with 12 candidates;
If Macron steals again the election, it will be obvious immediatly.
The french people will then understand that denaZification wil become mandatory in France.
Best regards
Pascal Brzezniak
That’s the nazi 2.0 Macron and his pals supporting vintage nazis in Ukraine.
If Macron steals again the election
Intels on french election
3 numbers :
LREM the patry of Macron on the regional election : 7%
Macron presidential election : 28% (alledgely…)
for the first time they used elctronic voting machines in the biggest cites and voting centers
Macron : 43% (average)….
like in 2017, Macron has stolen his place for the second round, but this time it took 3 days to discover it.
other fact;
during the lockdown, the government made a (very) silenced reform to take control of the voting lists, which where under the control of the cities.
22 000 Yellow jackets were deprived of they right of vote for 5 years WITHOUT KNOWING IT. They are deprived of all they civic rights, even if they just got a fine for partipating in the movement.They discovered it the day of the vote !!!! The price you pay not to knee before the psychopath king of france. Not a word in MSM of course
They also cleansed the lists, especially in in the place where people are voting the “wrong way”. People have to go to tribunal to be relisted, with just a “sorry we made a mistake”. First you have to know that you are erased, secondly you have to discover the right procedure, not that easy, last it takes a LOT of time to go to tribunal.
Pascal Brzezniak on April 16, 2022 · at 12:42 am EST/EDT
You just described American “democracy”!
Congratulations!
My apologies if this is too far off topic, but I have been struggling to find information on this.
In 2014, I remember reading about a convoy of pro-government protesters going to Kiev from the Crimea to counter-protest the anti-Yanukovych protests at Maidan. Their convoy of coaches was stopped at a roadblock and some shooting occurred, although I don’t remember if anyone died.
I cannot figure out a search string to turn up any reports on this, and I’m wondering if anyone here can link me to coverage of this even.
Thanks.
Yes I remember. It was a massacre.
https://freeukrainenow.org/2015/02/21/the-korsun-massacre-january-20-2014-what-really-pushed-crimea-away-from-ukraine-videos/
Thank you, I appreciate it.
US’ nerve has been wrecked: USD / SWIFT is severely threatened and, seeing how the alternative system is developing into the 2nd stage, US is heading for nervous break down. (1st stage is currency swap)
It is US’ own doing, the excessive use of sanctions. Russia, with its commodity-rich economy, especially gas, oil and food, is necessary for world economy to maintain. Now that the world is grouped into ‘friendly’ and ‘unfriendly’ nations, the latter group has to pay more for all Russia’s exports. Russia does not want nor can accept their currencies, especially Euro and USD, as Russia can’t use them. China and India and BRICS countries are into 2nd stage of their payment system – an alternative to SWIFT. Is it going to be the straw that breaks the camel’s back?
Such a move has exposed the disguised ‘neutral’ states especially Switzerland and Singapore. Ironically both benefit from their neutral and non-aligned stand before the UN vote shows up the chameleon in them. Thus, the world now is clearly divided between US’ group of thieves and robbers versus BRICS + Eurasia + Africa + S America group of countries, the majority of which are former colonies.
If USA does not go to war, it will collapse as USD will make its way back home. China has yet to release its 1 trillion US treasuries. It has not shown its amount of gold bullions. It is ready to take on US over Taiwan.
For me, it is obvious that this war is going to last much more than anticipated at least by the majority. By not getting in a hurry, Russia may significantly reduces its lost.
Yet on the gas to be paid in rubles, Russia by dithering is loosing credibility. Putin set a date in April for mandatory payment in rubles with a given procedure which seems to have been rejected by most EU countries. These countries seems to maintain payment in Euro and then freeze these Euros according to sanctions meaning that Russia is selling gas for free but still keeps paying Zelensky for the gas going through the ‘Brotherhood’ pipeline.
Between the war communications and the gas payment, Russia is getting many confused.
Update: which border posts. I used to use the Latvian Terekhova/Buratchki crossing 10-15 years ago and it could take 4-18 hours to enter Russia as the Russian side used to process only 8 cars per hour. Sometimes a coach of 40 people would turn up… In recent years it was supposed to have improved with a timeslot booking system.
Given how the enemy PsyOp essentially solidified the russian citizenship behind Vladimir Valdimirovitch, I’d say it failed completely – remember, that the main goal of any psychological operation is to break enemy’s will to fight and on this one the americans failed completely. I agree that it was superb PR victory in the West (what you designate as Zone A), but, as I said in another comment, at this point the russians doesn’t care at all what the western populace think of them.
However, if the goal of the western PsyOp was to distract the western populace from the very big probpems at home, i.e. the target of that op is their own people – well, in this case I’ll have to agree that it was unprecedented success.
As for the role of Moskva cruiser in BSF operation – if they managed to evacuate the personel, it won’t be much of a hit neither on the operations, nor on the morale. Moskva was a 40 year old vessel, probably the oldest surface combatant in the entire russian navy still in comission at the time. And, unlike her sister ships – Varyag and Marshal Ustinov – she never undergone any significant modernization. And given the specs on 3M54 and P-500 missiles, I think that in terms of range and firepower, the three Admiral Grigorovich class frigates in BSF are more than enough to compensate (they can cary P-800 and Zircon as well), even if they have to tangle with US destroyers.
As for the assessment that the Serbia being the only country with a strong pro-Russian part of the population – I tend to disagree with this one. At least 2/3 of the ordinary citizens in Bulgaria are pro-Russia, even our president (although he must spell his preferences far more careful than the ordinary citizens). But, unlike the serbians, we are fully aware that public demonstrations won’t do a bit to change the traitorous position of our government, so we don’t bother – it’s a waste of time.
Hey George , I will agree with you that many citizens in Bulgaria are pro Russian as many were pro Yugoslav during the dismantling of that country. I disagree however that demonstrations don’t have an impact. You think Vucic is pro Russian? He is forced to appease to Putin and Russia due to populist support of Putin but also economic reasons, namely cheap oil and gas. Where are the strong leaders to oust these criminals? Vucic won the elections virtually unopposed because of weak opposition leaders. The same goes for Macedonia and Montenegro. Most of these nations are Pro Serb and Russia but their leaders join NATO and EU lapdogs. You can now add Greece to the list but the New Democratic Party of Mitsotakis is facing opposition pressure from Syriza and Communist parties, albeit Tsipras turned out to be another traitor to the Greek people.
To the Saker,
I know your position in regards to anything other than the “spoken word”,(having to shut down) and I do see a war against NATO coming. From the constant ramping up of weapons and sanctions; it is obvious that the West is fully into destroying anything that stands in their way.
Why would they arm and train Ukraine for so many years? Why is China a threat, when all they have done is go around the world Trading with nations?
They want to retain control over the world. How can you defend against this?
Tomorrow: if Russia tells them no oil, gas wheat, fertilizers and other needed minerals then what would they do? Apparently, they don’t care because they are owned by a handful of Zionists who have never cared for the masses.
The Moskva is a disturbing situation, but not yet clarified. The feeble attacks by Ukraine unto Russian land need a response. Maybe it is time to hit Kviv.
All we know about “Moskva” is that she was on fire and later sank. There are numerous possible causes:
1. Simple accident. Many warships have blown up in harbour, including USS “Maine” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Maine_(1889), HMS “Vanguard” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Vanguard_(1909) and the Japanese battleship “Mutsu” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Mutsu. In the cases of “Maine” and “Mutsu” the authorities blamed sabotage, but perhaps only to cover up accident or incompetence.
2. Sabotage. Someone with the necessary knowledge and skill could quite easily have set fire to a magazine. But could such a person have managed to become a crew member on a Russian flagship?
3. Ukrainian action. Neptune missiles are most unlikely, as “Moskva” was a specialised air-defence ship. Her radars would easily have detected the slow missiles, and her defensive missiles could easily have shot them down. Besides, other ships would also have seen them. A Ukrainian saboteur might conceivably be responsible. As could the mines which Kiev admitted having allowed to break free and float away to sea some time ago.
4. NATO action. Unlikely because NATO would presumably be reluctant to perform such a blatant act of war. However, NATO has means for such an attack. Depending on “Moskva”‘s speed and manoeuvring, frogmen (nowadays using min-subs, etc.) might have attached magnetic charges or the like to the hull. “Moskva” was very close to the Romanian coast (only about 20 miles) which seems rather risky with hindsight. A possibility that has not been discussed to my knowledge is a torpedo attack by a silent diesel submarine. It has often been suggested that a submarine might get through the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, and the Bosphorus submerged and undetected; it may even have been done. That, however, seems more the stuff of a Tom Clancy novel than reality.
On the whole, simple accident looks like the best explanation.
Abramovich’s role as the top negotiator is because he wants his personal wealth back from the UK, and why not in the meantime also perform some discussions about other issues such as the war in Donbass etc. He certainly has many friends at the RCB.
How do you “denazify” the US? The neocons are zionists, Blinken, Nuland, Soros are all jewish..
Zionist = NAZI.
They’re all Nazis or Nazi collaborators, whichever term you prefer. As for Jews collaborating with Nazis, all you need to do is learn the history of Judenrate collaboration with the SS during WWII and this paradox clears up completely, as the analogy is direct.
The only difference is that in WWII the Nazis were the senior partner, the collaborating Jews were junior. Today it’s (so far) the other way around.
As for the denazification goal, this needs to become the simple goal, creed and action of resurgent humanity across the entire West and wherever institutions have been corrupted and turned traitorous by the empire:
Out With the Nazis! Nazis Out!
By now this subsumes all other worthwhile broad-level domestic and foreign policy goals, all goals which truly are in the interests of the people. The West is one big Ukraine in need of purification and cleansing of the Nazis.
Where did the money for Hitlers war come from? US Wall St Banks. Who really wore the trousers in that relationship?
Quite a discussion going on at https://news.antiwar.com/2022/04/14/russia-formally-warns-us-to-stop-arming-ukraine/
I don’t have the knowledge to engage – maybe a couple could head over and start challenging the assertions?
Or are they right??
At this point I am not in favor of negotiations. I’m in favor of an atom bomb over Lviv.
As a Swede: if Sweden joins NATO I will emigrate, but this is basically confirming what everyone already knew, which is we are not neutral and never have been. Russia could probably live with that.
If Finland joins and the Satanists place missile systems with nukes in immediate striking range of Leningrad, Russia must invade.
I can second that. My personal experience from living deep within the belly of Zone A is that almost ordinary folk keep a consicious silence about the war and everything that goes along with it. This is not because of a pro-Russian attitude and fear of speaking out about it. Such a fear would be justified but people are actually generally anti-Russian yet their foremost concern is sgetting on with their daily lives. They feel that the war has the potential of interfering with that decisively rather soon, if only because of the economic ramifications. If they harbored any strong anti-Russian feelings, or if they simply wanted to act out any other negative feelings in a disguised anti-Russian form, they would be free to act out on that at present, yet they aren’t doing that, at least not to any great extent. False flags like Bucha and Kramatorsk and psychological successes like raids on Russian territory get noticed but have a short half life. A deeper and longer-lasting impression is made by the fact that Russia is not retreating in the Donbass like it retreated from Kiev, and that Mariupol has almost been taken now. Disregarding any military considerations for the moment, the right way of capitalizing on how this is going would consist of continuing with high-profile visible strikes on the Ukrainian hinterland.
IT s not sabotaje. Customs must make sure that the people getting in are legit, with thousands of people pouring in you could have 10 nazis who could cause havoc once they are in Russia.
I agree with your assessment. Stricter border control to stop nazis from escaping/infiltrating or looser? No good answer. But one needed to be answered. One wich could only be answered by Russia via Russian military and her security agencies. Which they did.
If you look at that problem from the perspective of white/black it is not good they are taking this stance, therefore automatically it must be bad. However if you look this situation carefully then you understand that your choice actually consist of bad and even worse choice(s).
Did that choice made a negative impact? Sure. Did it made some positive then? Imagine you are one of the refugees. You certainly do not want the nazis coming with you. They are frustrated but as time passes they will understand.
Regarding humanitarian aid. It is done for several reasons. Everything going on in the area of operations is responsibility of the Russian army and LDNR, but mainly Russia. Humanitarian convoys are prime opportunity for looting,infiltrating,exfiltrating,staging incidents,sabotage,… Therefore it is their responsibility to react.
Why did they not prepare better if they knew what was happening in order to lessen the problems? Operational security for one. Population living in hope that the storm will pass and they will not have to go into total war mode yet again, is second. Second one was changing fast now. Problem with such dynamic change is, it is too slow for some and too fast for others. It is a process which will stabilize itself with time and birth procedures and maybe creation of some institution or redistributing responsibility within them and staffing them with more people.
Remember Saker, their choice was not suffering/not suffering. Their choice was more people killed or less. Such choice weighs heavily on ones soul.
One thing I have not been able to understand is issue with bridges over Dnieper (and also other main nodes of traffic infrastructure West – East). If it was another case of “velvet glove” it should have been removed by now and this infrastructure destroyed. If not by Russians, Ukrainians will destroy it anyway when they retreat from Donbass. Too much weaponry is coming to Ukrainian forces in Donbass (apparently in many civilian vans, minibuses and such). Russian channels report on first uses of Switchblade loitering munition and Starstreak MANPADS. More can be done in this regard.
Hi, I’m been reading you all for a while but don’t feel comfortable to comment. Nonetheless, couldn’t pass this one by (sorry if it’s a repeat, I didnt look through all comments).
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/uk-prime-minister-boris-johnson-facing-calls-to-resign/
Payment for the botched Moskva?
In what way do you see it as botched? Ship’s gone.
Thierry Meyssan at volltairenet.org is for some reason certain that Britain did it: https://www.voltairenet.org/article216519.html ‘London succeeds in sinking Russian cruiser’.
Though his only reason seems to be the fact that UK was able to sink Argentine’s ‘Admiral Belgrano’ in 1982.
He also mentions US/UK upgrades of Ukr Neptune missiles – Andrei Martianov’s opinion of that is however that these are not yet functional.
Oh sh1t. I have massive respect for Thierry Meyssan, and live within the nuke zone.
https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
If it kicks off, then there ain’t a lot of point in moving.
I knew I should have bought that geiger counter, I played with in the physics lab 50 years ago.
I don’t trust the modern ones.
Full of sh1t like the politicians.
personally, I think nowt much will happen, and we are still going to have these psychopaths in control
(don’t mention the jabs)
Though I understand, I wish The Saker, would stop referring to these evil bastards as Anglos
All the neocons including our buffoon’s ethnic origins are far East of England.
Putin did the sensible thing, (from his Russian point of view) and dumped the last of them on us.
Thanks very much. NOT
Do you want our illegal immigrants?
Why do us English get blamed for everything?
Why does half of Africa want to move here?
Have a nice Easter
Tony
Could the Neptune missile fly closer the sea, mayby just 7 feet sea-skimming?
The wawes in western Black Sea were only 3 – 4 ft high at thrsday night, if this sites information are correct: https://www.ventusky.com/?p=43.7;32.9;5&l=wave&t=20220413/2100
When I look at the kind of weapons that the Empire is sending to Ukraine, then I don’t think that they intend to make this conflict into a direct hot war between the Empire and Russia. My feeling is that the Empire is pursuing the following goals:
i) Do as much economic damage to Russia as possible and use the economic fallout of the corresponding actions as justification for the unavoidable economic downturn in the Empire itself.
They know that at this moment the Russians are sufficiently well prepared to resist an attack on their territory. But they will try to undermine the Russian leadership over the coming years. Maybe infiltrate the Orthodox Church. Try to identify russian pedos and then help them advance through the hierarchy of the russian society etc etc.
ii) Show all Europeans (and other “allies”) that the Empire is willing to destroy every country which dares to resist the orders of the empire. The part of the leadership of the Empire which has its family roots in Russia probably has the objective to destroy continental Europe just as they have the objective to cut up Russia. That is why they have been willing to order Europe to commit economic suicide.
iii) Use the war in order to create a new version of the all-purpose propaganda weapon “Russia is responsible”. This new fight against Russia will serve to justify any tyrannical measures that will be introduced over the next years in Europe and the North America. Every opposition will be labeled as traitors. Every cleptocratic attack of the elites on the population will be justified as necessary in the fight against “evil Russia”. Etc etc
iv) In short: The Empire tries to shore up its own asset before they start considering to switch sides or to assert some kind of independence. At the same time they try to steal as many ressources as they can. The loss of reputation and the costs associated with it will be addressed by an economic reset in the Empire itself once the the current economic system collapses.
v) The idea that Russia could have won the propaganda war in the West is fantastic. Propaganda works on the morally blind. That is why the same people who yesterday agreed to give their kids the poison shot are now arguing in favor of war against Russia. These people constitute the majority in every society. They outsource every moral decision to the group. They don’t have any absolut moral standards of their own. They are moral free riders. And these people will be against Russia if the mainstream media are against Russia because they know that the MSM say what the elite (i.e. the group leaders) think. There is no logical conclusion or factual information which would ever persuade these people. But the smaller share of people who are able to make moral judgements on their own, are not in favor of conflict with Russia. Neither is the enthusiams of the morally blind anti-russian crowd really strong. It is just a kind of superficial virtue signalling. Their attitudes will crumble ones the consequences of the current policies continue to hit home. It will take a while. The Covid scam went on for 2 years even though everyone who was willing to look at the facts could already see in April, May 2020 that the whole thing was an absolute scam. But eventually the facts on the ground started to have their effects. Lockdowns created economic hardship. Jabs caused many deaths and severe injuries. And so the share of idiots who were willing to take the poison shot dropped with each round of jabs. The same thing will happen with the Ukraine war. With every month of economic hardship the size of the virtue signalling idiots will decrease. And eventually the hard core idiots will be mocked and ridiculed.
The biggest threat to Russia, is the snake she holds to her bosom.
Sorry for the second comment. Just keep thinking about UK PM being in trouble now and asked to resign…. is it because of Moskva or maybe this observation by the Times reported by Intel Slava? Or both? 3 fines, so, 3 infracrions? Sorry, again, i dont know anything about polotics or war.
Intel Slava Z
🇬🇧🇺🇦⚡British special forces returned to Ukraine to resume training of the Ukrainian military in Kyiv and its environs – The Times
The publication, citing one of the Ukrainian officers, writes that British instructors are called upon to teach the use of NLAW anti-tank missiles. The British Ministry of Defense refused to confirm this information to the publication.
Congestion at the border could provide human shields for incoming supply convoys.
“Can Russia denazify the planet? By herself, no. At most she can militarily destroy all of Zone A, but only in a mutual suicide act of desperation (the US nuclear triad is still mostly functional, in spite of its problems). But can Russia and the rest of Zone B denazify the planet? Absolutely. Even “just” Russia and China together are more powerful than the rest of the planet combined, add India to this and you have a truly unstoppable force.”
https://www.databaseitalia.it/le-vere-ragioni-del-lockdown-di-shanghai/
If this article’s reading of events in China is true (sorry, it’s in Italian), it means that WWIII is already underway, that another front has been created for quite some time (see also Bolsonaro), and that we are already beyond the war in Europe.
https://iz.ru/1321566/2022-04-16/predstavitel-dnr-nazval-zatrudniaiushchie-shturm-azovstali-faktory.
PLEASE USE YANDEX for surfing and translation on Izvestia!!!
If Mac-user & Russian learner, use Milena voice on slow for phrases and those delightfully longggg.. Russian verbs etc.,
Latest news from Mariupol and that huge Azovstali factory (above and underground which is full of Banderistas, Nazi, NATO**trainers**, PMCs, forced *human shields* and hey comrades!!..
perhaps a Yankee General (super-duppa coach..) who got lost on the way from his usual Africa stomping ground or *Lilypads /Lily pads*!!!…
BLAME those Russkies again, for messing up the Yankee Trimble/GPS system..
(Hint:: find the scape goat/найти козла отпущения – translation dubious!!) must start with V, P, R or Z!!
Apparently there is a huge underground complex built during the Stalin era with sections able to withstand nuclear attack – now includes positioning of armoured vehicles with an extensive tunnel network connecting to another underground complex.
Check out Google.earth to appreciate the real size of these two industrial areas. Coordinates are green area between two large industrial complexes on both sides of the river, 393784.95 m E 5219392.13 m N. Could be 12km by 5km with extensive hardened underground network….
No wonder 20,000 plus Russian forces with full air-superiority/artillery are NOT going to rush into this death trap.
As mentioned previously, Mariupol is ideally suited for mega-Chinese/Russian investment in rebuilding and modernization of partly excellent steel and shipbuilding facilities – you know Silk Road etcetera.
Try to avoid blaming, yet again Mr. Joseph Stalin, admittedly full of imperfections, as the fat US General Groves (in charge of Manhattan project) a few days after the Hiroshima/Nagasaki *Nipponese guinea-pig experiments* ordered another 130 plus nuke bombs with 3 to 4 destined per large Soviet/Russian cities or industrial zones. August-Sept 1945. Maps, letters now freely available (avoid Google, Duckduckgo & Youtube,,,).
Merci beaucoup – belated thanks again to those underpaid/slave Congolese miners who were forced to work with uranium/cobalt at plus 60% purity at a shitty mine in Katanga province (southern Congo on border to Zambian *copper belt*). No protection, not even gloves or medical follow up – still carries on today on individual artisanal basis.
Oui/yes, some of my relatives and close family friends were exploiting/relaxing by the swimming pool on both sides of that infamous Congo/Zambia border.
But for that divided Belgian pedo-kingdom, Union Miniere/Societe generale, NATO-Gladio (Brabant assasinations 1980s..), EU Commission, former Kazari etc., diamond dealers in Antwerp..
VA TE FAIRE FOUTRE!!!…(jump in a lake..euphemism!!)
Maybe it’s “good” that the war lasts longer then foreseen, it gives Russia a chance to rethink where she stands and hopefully to put people in place whose hearts are not leaning to the West. Let those fall out of the window!
The US has good people who believe in the truth. The 2020 election was a soft coup. Everything since is the deliberate attempted destruction of the US economy and society by the criminal cabal in charge in a destructive race to obliterate any chance of the mid-terms inhibiting the current administrations power. The aim is to cause economic and social chaos then (hard coup) declare a state of emergency, martial law and completely shut down alternative media (the net) silencing all dissent and its ability organise any resistance.
I would say `they` cannot succeed but depending on what `they` define as `success` I suspect I could be wrong.
I remember reading somewhere,
`When the tyrants percieve their plans to be failimg they will turn to purely destructive persuits.`
Are we there yet?
Since the ignominious and shameful withdrawal and acknowledgment of failure, Russia has only made grand announcements.
but it was like this from the start: “whoever supports ukraine with weapons will be attacked directly in their home country” – what actually happens??
“Whoever sanctions us will have to expect massive countermeasures” – what actually happens??
Russia continues to supply gas to the EU and Ukraine.
Russia does not attack the power supply in Ukraine..
russia continues to have weapons delivered to ukraine unhindered – does not attack the weapons and does not attack the supplying countries..
what a shame – big words, nothing behind them.
One should always be careful to start a war. You never know how it will work out.
The Russian invasion 24 Februari was a mistake. Instead Russia should have sent a lot of soldiers into the LPR/DPR. And it should have reacted to provocations (shellings) with occasional tit-for-tat counterattacks that didn’t escalate. That would have left it to the Ukrainians to start a war. That would not only have been better for the pr in the West. It would also have made a major difference inside Ukraine.
Until now Russia doesn’t attack weapon transports into Ukraine. The weapons are only attacked after they have been transported much further into the country. This is one of the areas where Russia could escalate without triggering a wider war. Another would be the Western advisors among the Ukrainian forces. I get the impression that Russia now tries to avoid harming them.
That was what NATO expected.
And Russia masterfully surprises everybody with an unexpected move.
The unexpected move has been very successful (much more than your suggestion of only protecting the portions of LNR and DNR still out of Ukrainian control).
An, as some have already hinted, the unexpected move may have focused everybody on it and occulted anotheru unexpected move to come…
For sure Russian military planners are not armchair generals.
• This is a USA war against Russia, fought on Ukrainian territory.
• The ultimate USA intention is to destroy the Russian state and the fragment the country.
• Even with Russia coming to fully take control of Ukraine, the USA will continue to use NATO to attack Russia.
• To win the war, Russia must defeat the USA.
In recent statements, both Lavrov and Putin have made clear the Russian objective with the military operation in Ukraine:
– putting an end to the total domination of the USA, with the demolition of the unipolar world that followed the collapse of the USSR.
Therefore, Russia is fighting not only for itself but for all the other countries attacked, in whatever form, by the USA.
The USA sees Ukraine as another Afghanistan for Russia. However, the war may well become a new Vietnam for the USA.
Russia must win. Or there will be no world worth living in.
You are correct that this is a war between the U.S and Russia…without U.S backing Ukraine would of been defeated weeks ago, but Russia must understand that Washington has been planning for this scenario for years.
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/americas-generals-learned-nothing-petraeus-iraq-war/
So Russia will have to up the ante and hit munitions dumps in Poland to see if Poland wants their country to be a battle ground or will Poland tell the U.S they are out of the conflict…no more arms corridor?
Belarus is a legitimate target and Russia must understand that it will be attacked if Poland is hit.
What Russia has to decide is how much effort will the U.S put into Ukraine before it leaves itself vulnerable to China deciding its time to take Taiwan?
The ball is in Russia’s court.
“The clueless RT still has this on its webpage even though the Moskva sank 24 hours ago!”
Well, perhaps RT, unlike other sites, understands that at least attempting to report on the facts, instead of one sided fanboy ‘we are the best’ and the West is always 100% wrong and terrible type of one-sided infantile narratives, is a strategy aimed at promoting faith in its journalism. Lose a battle to win the war, so to speak.
So whether the Saker et al. like to admit it or not, the sinking of Russia’s biggest ship in the Black Sea is a MAJOR STORY that deserves more than just 24 hours in any news cycle. And I’m sorry, there is no hiding behind the facts, even just sinking due to a mysterious fire on board is a terrible blow to Russia’s image, perhaps even worse than admitting it was attacked.
“Information War” is best conducted by shaping the perception of facts, not hiding or inventing them. So if Southfront doesn’t kiss Russia’s a$$ with every article for example, maybe it is because they take a more pro military perspective. There is more than one narrative besides ‘Russia Good’ and ‘West Bad’, and if people actually truly cared about Russia, then all of its shortcomings should not be concealed, lest they continue to happen and even more Russians soldiers die due to negligence or incompetence.
saker,
As a Swiss Citizen, you can live easily visa free most anywhere in the world. Reflect very VERY deeply about leaving. Realize with the kids, etc you have serious ties but …..
Better a few years too early, than 1 day too late.
“impartial” OSCE caught correcting EuroUkr artillery fire.
https://russian.rt.com/ussr/article/988456-korrektirovka-udar-obse-vsu-dannye
https://www.vesti.ru/article/2704766
The military side of the conflict has no too much importance, that the Russian are “winning” militarily in every aspect is well known by the US MIC, as also everybody knew that Napoleon was “winning” in Spain against the guerrilla, or Westmorelanf was “winning” all the battles in Vietnam or the russian were “winning” in every fight in Afghanistan in the 80’s, it means nothing at the end.
Napoleon lost 300.000 soldiers in Spain from 1808 to 1813 2/3 in the hands of “civilians” (guerrillas attacking every logistic column, postman, small detachment, night ambushes, killing wounded soldiers in hospitals, poisoning the wells where the column pass, etc…), so people use the word “guerrilla” because it was invented by the Spanish against french troops. France could not win the Spanish Independence War in one thousand years, with or without the english intervention…
So the question is : what is the exit estrategy of Russia?, what are their goals?, how to avoid to be bogged-down some decades in the midst of a full of hate guerrilla war close to its territory with the social, economic, political damage?
You can win a war against a Nation , but you cannot defeat the People of a country that say NO, be in Spain in 1808, Vietnam, Afghanistan, or any other place, if the Ukrainian people say NO, better to go home now than later.
The problem that Russia has is that all the narrative are on place to convert this war in a real nightmare for the Russians, and I think Putin has miscalculated the capacity of the West to manage the narrative and induce an outrageous response in the mind and heart of the Ukrainian people.
For this reason, with the control of narratives, The Empire can manage the whole World and will continue, the only way out of Russia is to open a new front in the ME (with the PMU and Iran) and above all promote a “Colour Revolution” in US soil, otherwise Russia will be toast
“In Kosachev’s view, when speaking earlier about the possibility of severing relations with the European Union, he commented on the EU steps against Russia, “which have very closely approached the red line.””
https://tass.com/politics/1438373
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Personally, it is as clear as CLEAR, gets. OMMV. Not as rotten as back in 1974.
I am behind enemy lines, his position is self-evident.
Just to show the extent of the nazi barbarism that the Western media don’t mention. The nazis are not fighting for Ukraine, they are fighting against it when, by their actions they make life very difficult. No Western country will help with Ukraine reconstruction. Here’s an article to give just one example of the nazi barbarism.
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The purpose of the attempt to destroy the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station by the Ukrainian military was to flood the territories and fetter the actions of the RF Armed Forces (some pictures and videos inside the article in the original link)
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The Kyiv regime tried to destroy the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station on the Dnieper River, which has been under the control of the Russian Armed Forces and the National Guard since late February. On the evening of April 15, the Russian Ministry of Defense informed the public about this. The message of the military department says that at 7:00 a.m., the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired two missiles at the dam from the Tochka-U operational-tactical complex. This barbaric action was attempted by the 19th separate missile brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, the Russian air defense systems repulsed the missile attack, intercepting the flying ammunition. At the same time, unfortunately, fragments of one of the downed rockets fell on the city of Novaya Kakhovka in the Kherson region.
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As a result, a woman and a child were injured, who received medical assistance (they are now in the hospital), as well as houses and a kindergarten were damaged. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the purpose of the attempt to destroy the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station by the Ukrainian military was to flood the territories and fetter the actions of the RF Armed Forces.
The destruction of the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station by a blow was supposed to lead to an uncontrolled discharge of the Dnieper water and cause the flooding of many settlements in the Kherson region, along with people, in order to fetter the actions of the Russian Armed Forces
– emphasized in the message of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
The consequences and opinions of local residents were published on the web.
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As a result, a woman and a child were injured, who received medical assistance (they are now in the hospital), as well as houses and a kindergarten were damaged. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the purpose of the attempt to destroy the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station by the Ukrainian military was to flood the territories and fetter the actions of the RF Armed Forces.
The destruction of the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station by a blow was supposed to lead to an uncontrolled discharge of the Dnieper water and cause the flooding of many settlements in the Kherson region, along with people, in order to fetter the actions of the Russian Armed Forces
– emphasized in the message of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
The consequences and opinions of local residents were published on the web.
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https://topcor.ru/25115-celju-popytki-razrushenija-plotiny-kahovskoj-gjes-ukrainskimi-voennymi-bylo-zatoplenie-territorij-i-skovyvanie-dejstvij-vs-rf.html
I do not understand why would Serbs support Russia if Russia didn’t support them but it supported their enemies? Can anybody explain to me the dynamics here? Aren’t the Serbs sticking out their neck too far again?
Yes, they do! I’m not sure they know what they are doing.
https://stanjestvari-com.translate.goog/2022/04/16/dodik-britanski-plan-je-da-me-pokupe/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
I have read at least 3 times the past fortnight that 52% of the French public ‘support Putin’, based on opinion polls carried out in the context of the ongoing French Presidential Election cycle.
I don’t think anyone should assume that Western politicians represent Western people any longer, if indeed they ever did.
The ludicrous things German politicans are currently saying to the German people is not going to end well. The UK Government is on the brink of at least six independent ‘crises’, any one of which would lead to an entire Cabinet resigning. They include:
1. £400bn of ‘spending’ so corrupt and so targeted toward party friends that it cannot be called anything but the most corrupt Government since WWII, if not ever.
2. Complete suppression of Free Speech concerning Covid19, despite which indefatigable dissidents continue to hammer home evidence-based messages of absolute government incompetence on self-supported websites similar to this one.
3. Widespread breaking of ‘lockdown rules’ by Ministers and officials at times when the whole population was ordered ‘locked down’ at disastrous cost to the UK economy.
4. Emerging evidence of MI6 wrongdoings of a scale sufficient to suggest that the organisation needs its throat slitting. Not just involving Ukraine, going back to at least the 1970s and beyond.
5. Handing over of Government decisions to US oligarchs, proving the lie that the UK is a freedom-loving democratic country.
6. Continuing to fantasise that Britain is still a ‘great power’ capable of projecting military power off the coast of China.
The UK now has a situation where both the major parties are so politically toxic that the thinking Brit is actively looking for new, hopefully independent representatives in the institutions of political power.
Brits now realise that Government ministers take decisions to ensue a big salary after office with some US TNC. They take decisions absolutely at odds to the interests of those they are supposed to represent and not one of them has been criminally charged as a result. Our Chancellor may not be our Chancellor for too much longer as he wants a telephone-number salary again…..
The reason “they” will not allow Elon Musk or anynone that want to promote free speech, to control Twitter or Facebook or the rest of the social platforms (or the rest of MSM), is because they are tools of the American Empire to promote the desired narrative on the internal and external populations.
Those companies were in fact start-ups of the NSA and the real value of them is incalculable, probably many times the world GDP and more valuable than the nuclear triad or all the weapons of the Pentagon, because with this tools you can defeat and change governents, change the end results of the elections, and, at the end, Manage the World, or at least for some time, you know, everything has “diminishing returns”, but for the moment they are very useful to maintain the power around the world, specially with in the satrapies and vassal states in many places.
In the Ukrainian war those tools have an incalculable value to shape the narrative inside the minds of the Ukranian people, in all the western countries and in many other countries where a good part of the urban population live in the western way of life with the same social platforms and seeing the same (fake) news promoting by the american MSM’s.
USA is socially fragile now, with many spiraling crisis (health, social, economical, psicological, political, etc….), so it seems the elite “need” a war to distract the populace, but if they are not very careful they could end with a civil war…
Agree with most what is written. The major Russian issue still seems to be internal stupidity, or outright “wrecking”. Lubyanka – basement. No other solution. There needs to be more energy in this whole affair.
Concerning the Moskva: A mine seems reasonable. The loss of a major surface unit is always problematic for the narrative but operationally speaking it does not matter. Frees up some sailors for other vessels. There are two units which do not really fit in anywhere else, and which the VMF could move to the Black Sea Fleet w/o hurting the capabilities of the other fleets: “Nastoychivy” (if it ever comes out of SLEP) and “Admiral Ushakov”, both old Sovremennys. Just to replace the symbolic flag ship.
Thought I’d add my thanks and gratitude marking 50 days. I appreciate the chance for a different perspective, although I mostly lurk on the sitreps as my military/technical insight is only a smidge above the armchair class.
I remain fundamentally optimistic about avoiding the whole major conflict/WW3 scenario because it seems like mostly the RF and US are just doing their own things rather than directly in conflict.
Russia has the undisputed conventional military edge in Europe. The US, meanwhile, is great at making lots of noise. Neither power has done anything in the official/formal realm to contradict the other or do anything that necessitates direct conflict, and the paramilitary/intel/unofficial wing in Zone A hasn’t seemed successful in pulling the official western governments along.
RF will continue with the apparently rather successful methodical degrading of Ukrainian military capability. US will continue telling everybody to look over there and pay no attention to all the war profiteering and massive concentration of wealth and power within Zone A. The Eurolemmings (and Japan/Korea?) are finally having to openly grapple with the reality that their entire standard of living has been built on playing both sides – supporting the empire at every major decision point even while pretending to be more enlightened and civilized than those awful Americans/Brits.
Remember, the psyop isn’t about telling Zone A people what to think; you can’t sustain that. Rather, it’s about telling people what to think about so that no other discourse is possible in respectable circles. (With the corollary that who cares about the unwashed masses outside the respectable circles; they have no more power than Russian-sympathetic Ukrainian nationals over the past 8 years)
When Russia and China actually change the global economic system, then we’ll have an opportunity to analyze whether it’s truly incompatible with the western oligarchs remaining in power over Zone A or simply divvies up the global pieces in a slightly different configuration.
Don’t worry for a moment, though, that the fascists are broadly popular within the US. On the contrary, the media/banksters/spooks/etc. are widely loathed by the majority of the populace. Most Americans know they’re getting screwed by the current system. Their voices just aren’t carried anywhere.
Most honest commentary I’ve heard yet. I’m an American and I dearly love my country. How my government has gone so badly off the rails is nothing less than shocking. I’m in my 50’s and have never experienced anything other than moral decline in America. It’s spoon fed to us via our media as dictated by our government. What’s happened the last few years is really nothing more than the mask slipping. It was my mother’s contention that America completely lost its moral compass in the 1960’s. I tend to agree. I wish the good people of Russia nothing but the best. I pray for you. Please pray for us.
America completely lost its moral compass in the 1960s.
Badgerman on April 16, 2022 · at 9:53 am EST/EDT
The mid-50s at the latest, with our involvement in Vietnam at the behest of the Vatican, sparkplugged by that pervert Cardinal Spellman.
The lying of course was continuous from the start, culminating in the Gulf of Tonkin fraud, and when those lies collapsed in the ’60s the moral authority of the government, the media and the churches that preached that war collapsed with the lies.
But even before that, we saw thugs like Chiang and Marcos portrayed by government, media and churches as “born-again democrats”.
Diem in South Vietnam likewise, whose regime was never anything more than a Catholic dictatorship over a Buddhist population, supported by America in the names of liberty and democracy.
“Diem in South Vietnam likewise, whose regime was never anything more than a Catholic dictatorship over a Buddhist population, supported by America in the names of liberty and democracy.”
whom when he became a disadvantage were complicit in his assassination.
Although always denied, and long suspected by the LDPR and Russia, it now appears proven that the EU through the OSCE has long been collaborating with Ukraine and the Azov by providing to them live intel on LDPR activities, including, civilian and troop locations, and movements. Now that the LDPR has been reclaiming territory, they’ve uncovered the extent of this complicity. This was done by way of providing to the Azov, system access to their live camera, computer and phone communications systems. The fact is that the OSCE, under the guise of performing so called humanitarian, peace keeping and monitoring operations, were able to have free access inside the LDPR territory to install their monitoring systems for the real purpose of providing military support to the Azov. This has allowed Azov to track in real time, since inception, all civilian and troop movements.
I recall the OSCE pulling out their “human” monitors at the outbreak of the SMO, which of course doesn’t make sense as its raison d’etre is to monitor the conflict. Now its perfectly clear, the role of the OSCE was never to provide any unbiased monitoring to provide stability, peace and democracy, through political dialogue and practical work, but to set up a military grade spy / monitoring operation /system integrated with Ukraine’s military inside Donbass to assist in the genocide.
https://rumble.com/v115vyn-how-the-osce-helped-nazi-battalions.html
Empire?
The empire as one puts it has been responsible for the last 500 years of civilisation
Most of the world has embraced the positive aspects of the western empire
The issue now is the development of a Nero complex in the empire
The empire needs a purge of its ruling class
Not a purge of the empire itself
This crisis may provide the impetus for the overthrow of “Nero”
This must occur from within the empire ultimately
Empire has to be crushed. NATO has to be removed from the world. The long arm of the empire law must be chopped off. The sanctions regime must be shattered. The empire must be de-empired, take its normal place in the world and refrain from killing and raping and looting the rest of the world.
The concept of ‘shining city upon the hill’ must be removed. The concept of empire being leader of the world must be changed and in a hurry. Manifest Destiny must be buried. The same people who lied to you about Iraq, about WMD, about Libya and the Viagra-fuelled army there, about Syria, are lying to you again about Ukraine. And a disturbing number of you believe the lying liars all over again. They are lying to you about China, they are lying to you about Russia. They are an empire of lies.
Oh yeah, and Julian Assange must be released.
@ Amarynth
Ameen!
…and Palestine should be free, Saudis must get out of Yemen, Morocco must get out of Saharawi, Taiwan must return to China, US/Turkey must get out of Syria, sanctions on Cuba/Nicaragua/Venezuela must be lifted…etc., etc., etc….
Russia has started a global revolution, that will inspire millions to defy the empire and its cronies, on a planetary level.
Lone Wolf
What a long list we can pull together just off the top of the head.
Oh boy, we have a lot of work!
The anglo west and Russia are natural allies
They have been allies in the past, the communist system of the USSR was an unfortunate exception but even then during ww2 their was common ground
China is beholding to the elite fascism that has emerged in the last 30 years in the western empire
This fascism enabled the rise of China at the expense of Russia
The fascist elite fear Russia, as it has stifled their plans in the past
Most everyday people in the west despise this fascist elite, an elite that uses complex methods of control to suppress dissent while maintaining the illusion of freedom
Somehow this elite fascism must be pushed back into the shadows where it belongs before it destroys everything
The civilization you speak of is a thin veneer. Right underneath the surface is barbarism.
Comrade Lenin once said “Capitalism can not be reformed; it must be replaced”. Likewise empires.
Bless you Andrei
Some news to lighten the mood….arms shipments? What arms shipment.
https://avia.pro/news/zhiteli-kievskoy-oblasti-soobshchayut-o-moshchneyshih-za-vsyo-vremya-vzryvah
Cheers M
@ sean the leprechaun
Careful with avia.pro, you can use it as a point of reference, then verify the news with other sources. It is heavily distrusted here at the Vineyard, moderators are always warning people about it (surprised they let this go without a warning), and A. Martyanov has said avia.pro works for Ukraine.
I have compared information found at avia.pro, they are sensationalist, and openly lie. Use it only as a first source of info, double check it somewhere else.
Cheers.
Lone Wolf
Thanks Lone Wolf, missed it, mod
I went back and read the whole thing, translated, maybe I missed something, sounds like something big went boom near Kiev…..maybe it did, maybe it didn’t…..guess we’ll find out soon enough.
Cheers M
I am in Serbia – and everyone I speak with supports Russia – and not even one Serb I know supports UKisand NATO psychopaths.
Most people think that if it was not for Russia – we would not even exist as a country.
Ukis remind us of Croats, and what is happening to Russia is similar to what happened to us in Serbia not so long ago. The Pedo empire of Lies will lose this war.
America has freedom of speech? Had freedom of speech? Something like that. You should express your opinion unless you feel irreparable harm and damage will come to you and your family by the current climate in the United States.
Putin is like Vladimir Pozner described Russians during a filmed meeting with Americans. Pozner said they were kind, even naive, if they thought you were good to them, but would get stubborn and would not yield if they thought you were imposing yourself. We see this very thing in the change that transpired in Putin between 2000 and 2022. Putin eventually lost all respect for the West as he plainly made clear in the “Empire of Lies” speech, describing the influence of the Empire on the Europeans as a sign of its power – this from a man who always referred to the West as “our partners” and “colleagues.” Now, as described by The New York Times, a letter without the signature was sent to the White House, warning about “unpredictable consequences” (means “war” exactly). Why did Russia send that important letter to the White House without anyone important signing it? Obviously, it’s a message Russia is sending to wash its hands off any responsibility – in its own eyes – about whatever happens later. It’s without a signature because it does not expect a positive answer. Back when they sent the two proposals, they needed to be surprised by the answer; now they need to be surprised too, or they will ratify to themselves (again) that the “adversary” is “easy.” Spokeswoman Psaki said “we are not sending the president to Ukraine” yesterday, making her own perception known. Also, it’s one thing for Gasparov to say on MSNBC that Russia has “lost the war strategically.” It’s another thing for the ex-director of the CIA John Brennan to say it on the same channel and in the same words as he did yesterday.
John Brennan is a liar. What he says is utterly irrelevant.
Like that, a person’s incompetence would never count because he was always lying. If a TV program asks for your assessment, whatever you respond will be it. You can’t say afterwards that it wasn’t. Even the system of law which deals with liars says that every word will be counted. If courts adopted your view, they would be paralyzed.
Dear Andrei,
I guess there is a lot Russia could do before even thinking of going nuclear.
They could shut off the gas valves to Europe, which could lead Europeans to revolt against their politicians; or they could stop supplying fertilizers to the US, which could also create a huge crisis. After all, what is the point of supplying energy and food to someone who is actively trying to kill you?
As a last resource, Russia could even take down GPS satellites, which would make it very difficult for the US to continue providing Ukraine with real-time intelligence.
As far as I saw, as I live in a colonised country without de facto sovereignty (Romania):
The people that bought the MSM propaganda are now feasting on the ”Slava Ukraina” propaganda.
The ”conspirationists” believe Russia is fighting with the Empire of Hate and Lies.
The neutral ones don’t actually care, they only care about the prices and inflation.
All nationalists (pro or anti vax) are nervous that our state is doing so much for Ukrainian refugees while they fail Romanians and give more to the ukrainians. this is true: Romanians pay tests, other things in the medical system, Ukrainians don’t and some are filthy rich, but as long as they have it for free.. also they are nervous Ukraina had a law against Romanians in Ukraine and the fact they have some of our lands.
The pro vax that also hate Romania and everything Romanian (they do so many of them) attack anyone that dares to say something like: ohh but what about Donbas situation since 2014? Or.. what about Azov, they are really natzi, or… why can we be neutral? When of course they are the first to flee if war happens in our territory as they are also cowards and not real men’s, weak and hateful, but very noisy.
Now they are crying and emotional as last report show 53% of Romanians are worried about inflation and prices, only 18% of the Ukraine war (my guess is the procent is lower) and others by the health of the population (6%), political crisis (5%), forrests 2%), agriculture (2%), pandemic (3%). So there you have it.
Corruption in my country scared even US. We are ”strategic partners” but don’t have the visa waiver and the politicians are their minions, but still they are scared of our corruption as they are afraid of a population uprisal, that will push for a nationalist turn, even they seem to see clearer that we simply cannot accept anymore so much oppresion and thiefes (politicians and all structures of the state):
https://www.stiripesurse.ro/us-state-departments-human-rights-report-impunity-of-human-rights-offenders-a-persistent-issue-in-romania_2341365.html
It is very likely other countries follow the same pattern even if percentages vary, also the vaccination rate was lower in Romania and many did it because they were forced yet many bribed to fake it and many took J&J. We totally distrust our politicians and them being the main promoters of the plandemic and the vax made us very reluctant.
Also in the US this report shows the population lost trust in MSM:
”Late last year, a Gallup poll showed that Americans’ trust in the mainstream media has fallen to its second lowest level on record. Only seven percent of Americans responded that they have a “great deal” of trust in the media. They watch the MSM to ”read between the lines”.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/04/ron-paul/cia-admits-feeding-americans-false-info-about-ukraine/
People don’t buy it anymore, their propaganda, except Brits and Poland maybe.
If in Romania people will show support for Russia, they will be ”visited” by police, also if they have a company ”controlled” and find a reason to fine them or some other bad things.
There have also been pro Russian demonstrations in Germany. The situation is similar to Covid-19. A majority follows the government. A strong minority is against the government’s policy, but does not see the point demonstrating, and a few actually go to pro Russian demonstrations
“a direct military conflict involving NATO and Russia is now likely.”
“So why not with WWIII as long as it remains within the confines of the European theater of operations?”
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If a direct military conflict involving NATO and Russia is indeed to start, it will NOT be fought in Europe only! It will be handed over to the Americans right at their doorsteps.
With Chinese in the Pacific and the Russians in the Atlantic, the Americans should not be very delighted with the prospect of a world war III. Perhaps the first two worked for them, this one won’t for sure.
As to: “What began as the “special military operation” is now turning into a total war of the united West against Russia and that means that the goal for the West is not peace, its victory, and a Russian defeat. My personal conclusion is that the West will only stop doubling down if the US homeland itself is threatened by Russian conventional and nuclear strategic deterrence capabilities.” – the longer term effects of the war on the US homeland economy have yet to kick in as we’re still eating food grown in 2021.
While the media is lying or ignoring reality, reality itself has a way of imposing its effects quite effectively when it becomes real – only a question of exactly when.
In the ultimate sense, there is a God – and the clearly exposed Empire of LIES is serving its master the father of LIES who is destined for the trash heap of history. The road will be rocky but despair is not our motto – especially on this weekend.
Tomorrow – He is Risen!
And we with Him!