Dear friends,
This is going to be the last, tenth, open thread on the topic of the escalation in the eastern Ukraine (unless, of course, the attack actually happens, at which point I will probably reopen an open thread again).
The latest news from Russia: Defense Minister Shoigu has indicated that every single military district is currently running readiness exercises which include a total of 4’000 (that is four thousand!) separate exercises on a total of 101 different military training grounds. Oh, and while the exercises conducted in April by Russia were scheduled before the Ukronazi mobilization, these latest ones are “unannounced readiness exercises”. Finally, there is some evidence that the troops which were deployed in April have not returned back to their barracks. The Russian strategic deterrence forces also recently executed large scale readiness exercises.
In the meantime, NATO is engaged in its own war rehearsal, “Defender Europe 2021” or a total of 40’000 soldiers, including 20’000 US personnel (it is unclear how many transgenders that includes). To evaluate this move, please keep in mind that the arrival of Russian hypersonic standoff weapons (land, sea and air based) means that in case of real war the US would not have the means to resupply US/NATO forces in Europe. Conversely, if the US/NATO wanted to prepare for an attack on Russia, or to “defend” Banderastan, they would need months to redeploy the necessary forces and means to Europe.
At this point, everybody has heard about the rumor that the US is sending five ships into the Black Sea to show support for the Ukronazis and deter Russia. Since I debunked this nonsense many times, I asked my friend Andrei Martyanov to write his own commentary about this absolutely idiotic move. He did some, quite convincingly, here in this column (please comment about his article in the comments section below it, not here). I am deeply grateful to Andrei for his time and expertise.
Finally, on the political level, everybody is talking to everybody else, too many official phone calls to list them all, nevermind the behind the scenes unofficial ones. Let’s hope that this continues, because as long as they are talking there is still a chance to avoid a catastrophe.
In 1985, the singer Sting released his famous song “The Russians“. In this, truly quite beautiful, song Sting expresses the following hope “Believe me when I say to you, I hope the Russians love their children too“. In 1985 I was only 22, but I remember thinking “folks in the West wonder whether we love our children too – how weird, as if we were some kind of different species and not quite human”. Of course, by “The Russians” Sting primarily meant the gerontocrats in the Kremlin but, still, his choice of words really felt weird to me, especially against the background of all the stupid myths and clichés which most Westerners believe about the Russians and Russia in the first place.
Now, over three decades later, I don’t wonder if the “Westerners love their children too”, but I do wonder if they realize that they are quite literally putting their children, and the entire planet, at risk and for absolutely no valid reason except a passionate, yet dull, hatred of everything Russian. Considering the deafening silence in the western legacy Ziomedia, I have to say that no, very few Westerners do realize how dangerous the current situation is, that is, far, far more dangerous than the Cuban Missile crisis: then the media was full of reports and discussions; today – all we hear is a neverending stream moronic “Woke” bullshit about “White privilege”, “systemic racism” and how great anything and everything black (no matter how vulgar and fake) is.
The simple truth is that the USA cannot commit cultural suicide and turn into a country of “wiggers” while, at the same time, expecting to be taken seriously, especially in Zone B. And yet, with “Biden” in power, this is exactly what is taking place, and knowing the hate-filled psychotype of the folks running “Biden” invariably display, I am afraid that they are much more interested in “woking” the USA than to preserve world peace.
It is a sweet karmic justice that the Ukraine wanted to become like the West but that, in the end (maybe even literally!), it is the West which became very much like the Ukronazi-run Ukraine: ideology über alles!
God help us all!
Kind regards
The Saker
I do hope Russia go after the western leaders when/if it goes hot.
Why should they be safe in their fancy houses, while sending other people to die for them..
I live in a western country, and I hope we lose big time. We need to reset everything. And I mean everything.
Unfortunately, I concur. If the Russians launched a “decapitation” strike at every Western country, and wiped our worthless elite whores off the face of the Earth, I would consider it a favor.
Indeed. I agree
Yes, and please a massive decapitation strike on targets like the Bilderberg Conference, WEF, etc., etc. No survivors if possible, thank you!
Yes and please make a favor to Switzerland, the first Iskanker for the BIS in Basel and the second for UBS.
I’m happy to report the best mobile radar systen ever produced before 1998 was the Swiss “Fledermaus” (‘bat’) system. Fortunately they sold off most of those installations to competent users in other lands, preferring ‘installments’ to ‘mobile installations’.
what about the caves where the Rothschilds found refuge after “Trump” tried to take down David. Hence, the Covid, the Kasher recipe to the growing antisemitism.
Too bad Saker doesn’t have up-voting available.
It would have the approval of millions.
The second best thing to dropping bunker busters all around the world to finish the elites, would be to leak their exact coordinates. That way we plebes could at least have some fun trying to eject them from their hideouts.
No: Not bunker bustars but “Banker Busters.
LOL. Banker Busters.
Great expression. Great Humor.
Ritzau/AFP Headline: The Nations of G7 want Russia to stop its provocations against Ukraine.
G7 think that Russia is provoking Ukraine by conducting military exercise in Russia.
The statement didn’t mention the US-UK-NATO exercise Defender Europe 2021, with + 40.000 NATO Troops conducting exercise in Ukraine and Poland this summer.
The statement is signed by: Antony Blinken, Dominic Raab, Jean-Yves Le Drian, Heiko Mass, Marc Garneau, Luigi Di Maio, and Toshimitsu Motegi.
I’m certain those 7 individuals do not represent the view of the 700 million people within the G7 Nations.
Reuters Headline: Putin snubs Russian troop build-up talks with Ukraine.
Ukrainian foreign minister claim that Putin do not answer his phone calls.
The Ukrainian foreign Minister apparently wants to talk with Putin about Russian military exercise in Russia.
The entire British royal family plus Boris will be attending a funeral at a known location and time next week? Would not be surprised if it is held earlier than expected.
Boris is not going and only 30 people will be in attendance.
Before decapitation strikes Putin could warn that the West will replace its dead elites with deep fake AI. From then on many westerners will no longer trust anything they see these elites purport to say from their bunkers.
If you also cut all the undersea cables to NZ, the bunker dwellers won’t be able to say much.
Cut off NZ, take out the power stations, ensure that everything goes dark for a long time. Diesel only lasts so long.
Roger_that
By forcing Ukraine to move troops and equipment against the Donbass, both NATO and Washington were testing Russia’s resolve, not to mention the efficiency of their forces. I believe that these latest Russian military exercises have answered NATO’s and Washington’s questions. This means Russia is not bluffing, and in case that the Donbass is attacked, then NATO can look forward to a wider war if circumstances demand it.
The most dangerous aspect in this current situation is not Sleepy Joe Biden, but the neocons who control him. Last November we had a soft coup d’etat against Trump, when Biden was installed in the White House after the greatest election steal in US history. By now it’s perfectly clear that Biden is also the worst puppet the neocons ever placed in the White House, a senile old man who will sign anything that is placed before him. The question therefore is not what Biden is going to do, but rather what the neocons are going to do.
We are talking about the same people who for more than ten years have been preparing hideaways outside the US, buying up real estate, the top two favorites being New Zealand and Tasmania. To these people the US is just a place where they reside and make money, and not a place to which they have any real loyalty. Will the neocons sacrifice the US in a confrontation with Russia ? I hope they don’t, and that the Pentagon will have more common sense. Then again, we shall see.
Sounds like you’re trying to say… that the Russians would be “welcomed as liberators”
Be patient, you will get your great reset – Instead a fourth industrial revolution, there will be one literally out of ashes ! Everybody will loose big time – Well if it’s that what it takes for humanity to get back to senses- so be it! Oh and to be clear, when the war starts, don’t forget that you are the enemy and if you think, that you can talk your way out of it, that you are actually not the enemy and so, you better think twice – they will put a gun in your hand and tell you to proof it
You are right in a way. I hope Pres Putin hit Rothschild palaces first. Justice will be served, God Willing, even in this world.
I forgot Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci, George Soros Jamie Dimon, Lloyd Blankfield and his Banking CEO,and Klaus Schwab.
I live in Sweden and agree wholeheartedly!
They’d have to go after the oligarchs in order to do that. What most westerners call leaders are just sock puppets for people with more billions of dollars than I have brain cells and that lot will keep themselves well hidden away when the balloon goes up.
God knows, after raising the Russian flag and drinking coffee in Paris in 1814, raising the Soviet flag and drinking schnaps in Berlin in 1945, they may do the same in Washington with bourbon, in London with whisky and coffee (again) in Paris…
Our drink here in the US is Kool Aid. Doesn’t seem Putin has a taste for it.
This is exactly how I feel too! Every day I think and hope that Russia can do this, but also realizing it is unfair to put this burden on Russia. And I think, “how could we have let it get this far?????” and I try to figger out ways that I, in my little 71 year old body can DO something to defang and take power away from the current westeners in power.
I suspect that the original plan was for Ukraine to overwhelm the overmatched LDPR forces then cry foul when Russian Armed Forces directly intervened. Russia would be painted as the aggressor and this would cancel the NS2, preventing German/Russian integration.
It seems the Ukrainian bluff has been called with the massive and unprecedented mobilization by Russia. Now they are walking back their rhetoric
The rhetoric goes on. Here is a ZH story with US Blinken playing the drums — “The Russians Are Coming!” — for 98% of the article with the last paragraph (literally) reading the alt view:
“And of course Putin himself has weighed in, charging that it’s Ukraine that’s engaged in “dangerous provocative actions” against Russian-speaking separatists in the eastern Donbass region. He made the accusation in a phone call Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday, emphasizing that Russian troops are merely responding to initial Ukrainian provocations.” (www.zerohedge.com/political/blinken-warns-consequences-if-russia-acts-aggressively-ukraine)
Most will not have read through to the end of the post (for the ‘balanced’ counter view — after all critical thinking is not an educational system aim or outcome) without their minds being programmed to the Blinking ‘truth’ meme.
The only question is: is this propaganda war the sad end of a sorry bunch of loosers desperately trying to engineer issues that might help them at the newly audited mid-term elections in 2022; or is it a serious calculated escalation to ‘take us to war’ as the coronavirus pandemic fades into a ‘new normal’ without mass galvanising effect pass the normal routine flu/influenza seasons?
I hope it is the former. I fear it is the latter.
Your thinking is correct. It is the former. There are good possibilities for either moving up the elections to summer 2021 or suspending the Verkhovna Rada. We will revisit this in a couple of months.
If they wait for 2022-2023, the Constitutional challenges which will have been launched will be decided & not in favour of Ze. The recent sanctioning of various individuals is illegal under the Constitution, but Ze can run with it for now.
It’s a fluid situation so the latter is not completely off the table.
Given the 2020 US election, I fail to understand how anyone anywhere puts any “faith” in elections.
I think the pot just heated too quickly. Gotta be in sync with the US. We lead in this dance. When we get our Summer of Hate, the Ukraine gets theirs.
Russian coat of arms says everything we need to know on how this will end for westerners. I have no doubt.
Sim!
O Brasão de Armas da Rússia diz Tudo!
Glória Eterna à Eterna Rússia!
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Google-translate from mod:-
“Yea!
The coat of arms of Russia says it all!
Eternal Glory to Eternal Russia!”
‘“Believe me when I say to you, I hope the Russians love their children too“. In 1985 I was only 22, but I remember thinking “folks in the West wonder whether we love our children too – how weird, as if we were some kind of different species and not quite human”.
You must understand that in 1970s Britain, even the act of learning the Russian language at school would render you ‘unsound’ for certain jobs in adulthood. None of us had ever met a Russian, spoken to a Russian, danced with a Russian, drank beer with a Russian before the age of 16….
I didn’t take any notice of any of that nonsense because I didn’t want to work for ‘Her Majesty’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office’, which is where you go if you want to be a career diplomat. I didn’t not choose Russian to be obedient, I chose German because it seemed more relevant and useful at the time. If I had a child in school now, I would be telling them to learn Russian, Farsi and Mandarin, Portuguese, Hindi and Arabic.
I felt just the same as you described when people at my school suddenly started ‘hating Argies’ when the Falklands War erupted. I simply couldn’t credit that you could hate people you had never met. You might think that General Galtieri was the worst sort of nutcase, but to think that the whole of the Argentine populace had overnight turned into clones of Himmler, Goebbels or the like seemed like the most ridiculous madness. But that is what BBC propaganda did to a few impressionable 16 year old boys whose parents were actually quite wealthy….
I have to say that I’ve not yet come across a country where I can’t find lovely people very easy to like. I’ve not visited every country on earth, but there are beautiful women in every country I’ve ever visited and in the case of those I’ve not visited I’ve met plenty of beautiful women from those countries visiting my shores. And that includes Argentine women….
I’ve yet to come across a nation where marriage and breeding isn’t a common occurrence. Some people are more fussy about who they have sex with, but in general, men are men everywhere and so are women.
I’m sure that Russians can educate us all about the imperfections of their own society, just as I could educate Russians about imperfections in UK society.
But at least until the Covidiots, who are trying to make having sex a ‘threat to human health’, came along, the imperfections in every nation state’s societies had not until recently included a lack of desire to bond, mate and raise children with love, care and attention….
You are right. It is the propaganda tools, owned by the elite, that turn people against each other in order to rob the masses.
Have you been in Germany? There are beautiful women, but all of them are not from there
These woman are not the problem in Germany
It’s Merkel that destroyed the country and she continues till the end
Faithful Sting. Reminding us to hate the Russians. His drummer, Stewart Copeland, is the son of Miles Copeland, jr., CIA station chief in Beirut, who played a pivotal role in the overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddegh. Brother Miles Copeland III founded IRS Records, which played a pivotal role in redirecting the energies behind punk rock into the less threatening and more profitable New Wave. I believe the convergence of all these totally unrelated events is called “Synchronicity”.
Frank Zappa’s parents were with the CIA, and Jim Morrison’s father was the admiral in charge of the fleet entangled in the Gulf of Tonkin,non-incident that kicked off the Vietnam invasion in earnest.
I don’t know how Zappa got on with his spook parents, but Morrison seemed not to care for his father at all and he told his road crews not to take calls from either his mother or father as he never wanted contact with them. Still, what is it with all of these musicians coming up with intimate ties to the intelligence industries?
The entertainment industry is largely an occult psy-op tool in the culture war against humanity.
” If I had a child in school now, I would be telling them to learn Russian, Farsi and Mandarin, Portuguese, Hindi and Arabic.”
Wise words indeed.
I’d add indonesian / Malay to the mix.
Thank you, The Saker. I think you have assessed the current dangerous provocation/situation correctly. The AngloZionist Banking psycho Cabal are drunk on material success, but they don’t realize that final outcome of wars is up to God Almighty. I believe Russia returning to it’s Orthodox Christian roots is a sign from God Almighty, and so is Honourable (a title he deserves for his patience, if not his commendable conduct from a high moral ground) President Putin’s coming to power.
Dr Paul Craig Roberts has been wondering/writing why Russia is taking so much abuse from the West. I believe it is because Pres Putin knows how advanced Russian military technology is, and I believe God Almighty will give Russia a sweeping humiliating victory before NATO (primarily, US) has a chance to respond by nuclear means.
God Almighty says in The Noble Qur’an that HE checks one power with another power to maintain balance. We are rapidly descending into conditions of utter chaos and despair that will empower forces of Antichrist for a short few years. But true believers won’t be fooled by Antichrist’s tricks and deceptions, but persevere with Justice and await the return of Prophet Jesus (blessings and peace from God Almighty be upon him, and blessed mother, Maryam, Amen). A major sign, according to Islamic Eschatology, for return of Prophet Jesus (pbuh) is Lake Tiberius (Sea of Galilee) drying up.
May God Almighty save the true believers (Just and upright ones from all religions) in the coming tribulations, Amen.
The Russian defensive military advantage has increased while US Empire’s financial position has steadily decayed since the Ukrainian coup in 2014 and now has reached an inflection point: the US has to either face an hyper-inflationary internal crisis or start an external war. An overseas war is obviously preferable because an internal fight would spark a crisis of confidence for the Empire and they’d probably face a two-front war at home and abroad. While an external conflict allows for the Deep State to consolidate it’s power domestically at the very least.
I believe that only at a minimum is a new Ukrainian war about stopping NS2 — it’s probably part of a much bigger, desperate, and sinister plan. Therefor, if the Russians are able to sufficiently intimidate the Ukrainians into non-aggression, then the US will pick a fight elsewhere, most likely Syria.
Paul Craig Roberts has always underestimated the virtue of Putin’s patience.
Nate D.
Starting a wider war to settle financial difficulties is an old bankers trick. However, analysts have for years been stating that this old trick cannot work any more. The US has gigantic foreign and domestic debts, while the US dollar is printed backed by nothing. On top of that a heap of US industry has been moved overseas. Even the Military Industrial Complex is importing Chinese electrical components.
I don’t think they think that starting a big war would return the US to post-WWII prosperity, rather, it’s an opportunity to redirect the blame and remain on top. (much like a disease that shall not be mentioned.) Also, some of them still hope to grab some of Russia’s ample natural resources.
Is that a reason to risk a nuclear war? It is if you’re a desperate psychopath. (devastating the middle class, destroying the Middle East, instigating race riots, and stealing elections ultimately isn’t enough to satiate the malice in their hearts.) What is happening now is exactly what I’d figure would happen immediately under a President Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump, a mere narcissist, gave us a four year reprieve.
War will be an opportunity to smash the piggy bank (the USA) not to save it.
Time is on Putin’s side – something Mr Roberts can’t see – Putin took all this humiliations cause he stands for peace and he hoped till the end that Europes wish for more Souveränität and Leadership would be a bigger draw – I guess everybody can clearly see Europe’s moronically Leadership but also it’s populations are a bunch of clueless cowards
Saeed, you are right! I attribute the rebound of Russia from the ashes of the Soviet Union to the people rediscovering God, turning back to their faith, and it is the Almighty only who, in the end can direct the threads of human history. It is a dangerous period, and we should pray for peace, peace…..nothing else is more important!
Trannies, Ukies, Bidets, Wokies, Phobies, all aligned in perfect ideology, mental patients and impatient for the clash of civilizations.
Theirs is dying and Russia’s is well-defended, armed and ready.
Like the Ukies, the Wokies, et all will find defeat and suffering.
Ignorance is not a shield. Hate and intolerance is not ammunition.
To go to war against cold steel, sulphur and hypersonic missiles is to leave the comfort zone of their malicious InfoWar and enter the cauldron of thermobaric wipeout.
They want the Beat? They will get the Grizzly.
Shoigu and the men in green have come out of the cave. Mother’s sons are ready.
the US Army need recruitment bonuses to find soldiers to fill combat specialties. Long time Army families stopped telling their kids to join the military after Iraq War 2 and the occupation. The US national security advisor is a lawyer and probably has held or fired a gun in his life.
At the pace that the White House is moving Jimmy Carter is going to look like a presidential genius.
“To go to war against cold steel, sulphur and hypersonic missiles is to leave the comfort zone of their malicious InfoWar and enter the cauldron of thermobaric wipeout.”
No, old timer, you don’t get it.
These mental health outpatients (in the main) will have their government sponsored non-hierarchical gender-bender neutral latte-sipping padded-wall ‘safe places’ to cower within and play their “we always win” gameboy consoles plugged 24/7 into the pentagon-miasma matrix world they inhabit. Mr&Mrs “AI” will deliver the frontline victories via drones and superior swarming F35’s and hordes of ‘Allah shouting’ idiot ‘green card’ lusting mercenary proxies from the poor brown regions of the untouchable world these ‘exceptionals’ only visit on the Discovery Channel on a bored Sunday afternoon after church. (/sarc)
WoW! what a succinct paraghraph!!!
Dear friends, I am from Brazil, and I am completely horrified by the things that are happening in my country and in the world. I sincerely hope that a little bit of sanity and common sense will flood the demented heads of our leaders. I hope that we can all live in peace, sharing our cultures honestly, that color revolutions are a thing of the past, and that epidemics like this never happen again. I can’t take it anymore to be locked in my house without any social contact. I miss simple things like hugging and touching someone. I trust you and thank you for the information that you all share here. It was one of the few good things that happened to me to accompany you all here. I am a musician and I admire more and more all the cultural differences now that, through you, the veil of lies and misinformation that has been pushing us for many years over our countries and cultures has been removed. Who knows, maybe one day we might accidentally bump into each other and have a beer and listen to some good music together. Good luck friends (especially those from Ukraine and Russia) and peace for everyone.
Dear Nobody and fellow musician!
I know that the situation in Brazil is terrible, I have friends there who write to me about it. But I want to tell you that in cultural terms, Brazil is everything the US failed to become and that you are massively better off than US Americans. Also, I do believe that in Brazil you have access to Sputnik-V, a vaccine which I would fully trust (yes, as the host and creator of this blog *I* get to mention that if/when I see a need for; others don’t). Also, use music to keep your sanity! Look at what Roger Waters did while in home isolation:
https://youtu.be/4vu24954p4k
Is that not stunningly beautiful?!
Reach out to other musicians too, our community is one of the most beautiful on the planet, and it crosses all imaginable borders! When I feel like crap, I often grab one of my guitars and play, even for just 10-15 mins and, God, does that help!
Finally, there is nature, which Brazil has been blessed with by God. Use it! When I feel the 3D (disgust, discouragement and depression), I hit the trail and go hiking, even for just a few hours. Each time I come back home “drunk with nature” as I like to call it.
Lastly, turn to God and ask for His help. He never fails us, even if His help comes in forms we sometimes don’t expect and even if it comes not as soon as we wish it would!
Good luck my friend, and please remember – this too shall pass!
Kind regards
Andrei (The Saker)
Also, check this one out, it is Waters’ latest:
https://youtu.be/aC9rY4HeN6A
Every time I listen to his latest recordings, I tear up… I can’t help it.
(and I have been listening to him since I was 10 years old!!!)
God, I love this man with all my heart :-)
Nature, music of Roger Waters and Reading the Saker Blog for sanity without fleeing into ignorance. “Nobody” from BR, you are not alone: stand fast and united with all that is beautiful and true. Thank you all.
Is Roger Waters still part owner of Bonds Cay? He and Shakira bought it as a resort to cater to “millionaire holiday makers”.
In my opinion Roger Waters is the most talented, most perceptive, musical artist of my time. I’d put Pink Floyd up there with Van Gogh.
Do I really want to ask the real Roger Waters to please stand up?
Oh hell ya. When I was in the Corps we listened to Us and Them incessantly. When I got out I listened to Amused To Death until I wore it out and had to buy another. He’s a genuinely decent guy.
Dear Saker,
Unfortunately, the Sputnik V vaccine from Russia has NOT been authorized for use in our country yet (I’m from Brazil too).
On an official report in January, the US acknowledged that they exerted diplomatic pressure on the Brazilian government for not purchasing the Sputnik V:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-16/russia-criticizes-u-s-for-pressing-brazil-to-reject-its-vaccine
https://brazilian.report/liveblog/coronavirus/2021/03/15/us-pressured-brazil-ditch-russias-sputnik-v-vaccine/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine-idUSKBN2B8197
Since then, the sanitary situation in Brazil has evolved from a catastrophe to an hecatomb (Brazil is number one on daily deaths; our figures equals to number two to number ten SUMMED). Under huge pressure from the facts, the genocidal, oops, the president, Bolsonaro has phoned Putin to beg for vaccines, though its (Sputink) approval is being delayed by a bureaucratic track which has steadily approved all other (western) vaccines.
In the long-term, Brazil will survive, and will be reborn. But, for the short-term, Brazil is doomed.
Unfortunately, the Sputnik V vaccine from Russia has NOT been authorized for use in our country yet (I’m from Brazil too).
Oh crap! My bad, sorry for the mistake. I must have decided that since Argentina had it, Brazil would have it too.
Things will only get better once Bolsanaro and his comprador gang of US stooges is removed from power.
Hang in there!
At this point, EVEN many people from the comprador elites would like to get rid of Bolsonaro. However, this cannot be accomplished without some bloodshed. Like in the Ukarine, there is a meanigful part of the population (in Brazil, 20-30%) nazified, ready to kill-or-die, and who has been brainswashed beyond repair. So, it will be a painful task.
Yes, but remember also this: modern Nazis are not Waffen SS, not by a looooooooooooong shot. They will died fighting with the words “Heil Hitler!” on their lips. Modern Nazis are freaking cowards, with very little real military expertise. They will run like hell as soon as they feel that things are getting tough.
Like the “Ukie interahamwe” known as volunteer battalions. They do have Gestapo-like torturing skills, that is true. But as soon as they meet the Russian soldiers they run like cats with their tails on fire.
Then there is Bolivia, a beautiful example of how true patriots can defeat the comprador elites.
And for all his (real) mistakes, Maduro is still here. Obama and Trump are long gone :-)
Courage and determination still define the outcomes, so never lose them!!
Kind regards
Ruben, não se esqueça que as nossas forças armadas são tropa de ocupação do império.
Aliás, desde sempre e de qualquer império.
E, sua vocação facista está acima de qualquer suspeita.
Google translation,MOD:
Ruben, do not forget that our armed forces are occupation troops of the empire.
In fact, since always and from any empire.
And, his facist vocation is beyond suspicion.
Hello Dear Friend,
It is quite sad indeed, but government has been done everything possible to increase the fatalities in Brazil. I am from Bahia, as you know, our “governador” did a good job to coordinate with Gamaleya Institute to produce Sputnik-V over there, in place. My parents were very looking forward to get it. Sure Bolsonaro will pass. The situation in the parte of Brazil supporting Bolsonaro is quite similar to Ukronazi part of Ukraine in many ways. Me and my family are following the news from DPR as close as we can, for years. We are for peace, but we have no sympathy for nazis, any sympathy from any kind indeed.
I wish be best for you, your family and Russia for giving a great example and inspiring us for resistance against against the imperial aggression.
Thank you so much fr your kind words!!
Greetings Saker!
You also need to make sure that the source of the Sputnik-V vaccine is legit & that you are, in fact, getting an authentic Sputnik-V jab.
I say this because rumours are floating around in Kenya where the EXPERIMENTAL Astra Zeneca & Pfizer vaccines were given free to some groups of users such as expat residents in certain age groups etc & front line workers.
Anyhow, my friend’s driver who knows the streets well down here personally told me there are some cases whereby sensible users who actually are willing to pay KSh 8,000 for the Sputnik-V vaccine are actually getting jabbed with something else – maybe Astra Zeneca or Pfizer. This is because those 2 BigPharma brands somehow can be obtained for free by certain medical groups which can be offloaded onto unsuspecting consumers. So buyer beware! Know your supplier.
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“The WHO warning comes after bogus liquid being sold as Sputnik V and Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines was intercepted in South America and South Africa.
In Kenya, only the government has imported the AstraZeneca vaccine, which is being given for free in select public and private facilities.”
source: Nairobi Star – https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2021-04-01-beware-of-fake-covid-vaccine-distribution–who/
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Some corrupt professionals in these “facilities” are telling unsuspecting consumers “it’s Sputnik-V”.
This is a very dangerous scenario — especially for someone expecting to be jabbed with the safer Sputnik-V, but instead, is getting swindled with a toxic experimental Western vaccine.
So do your homework folks.
Note: your comment comes very close to discussing the medical aspects of the pandemic, a moderator even flagged it, but I will allow it as it is centered on political issues. The Saker
“Unfortunately, the Sputnik V vaccine from Russia has NOT been authorized for use in our country yet (I’m from Brazil too). On an official report in January, the US acknowledged that they exerted diplomatic pressure on the Brazilian government for not purchasing the Sputnik V: …”
Same here in Australia — every twist in the government reponse about public health care policy — EXCEPT getting Russian or Chinese solutions into the (not so) free market choice they espouse in the spin but not in the play. We do have the advantage of isolation and small population.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-11/scott-morrison-abandons-covid-19-vaccination-target/100061998
It just demonstrates that actual public health policy is about 3rd on the priority list of government hubris and big drug company market monopoly. And of course the average Oz pleb can’t leave the country (except in small approved travel bubbles (like a Chinese/Japanese controlled tourist expedition) to get the Russian “V” (e.g. Hong Kong, Vladivostok, etc). Why would anyone want to go to New Zealand? Most of them are over here in any case. The wealthy (and politicians) do as they please on special ‘business permits’ as usual.
Yes, hang in there and stop looking at these incompetent paid-for criminals as “our leaders” — they are not leaders, nor do you need leaders. They are little more than plantation foremen paid off to turn you and I back into feudal serfs on a “Bill Gates” (et al) prison farm. It is all mostly a contrived “double bind” (in the Gregory Bateson sense) inducing stress and pushing the resulting hysteria down the spectrum topwards schizophrenia. In this condition the key to the trap is the sense that there is no escape from it.
Well, that )escape) is something one can deal with through imagination and art. Make beauty in sound and image and add to the qualitative dimensions of life while these dark forces work their way through the system into the sewer where they belong. Leaders they are not. Carers they are not. Responsible and accountable they are not. Reliable and agreement capable they are not. Obey? … do not (but shrewdly)!
Dear Anonymous Australian(s),
Go to http://www.commonlaw.earth and join a local common law assembly. Take back your power and sovereignty, re-assert your rights, and do not recognize the criminal government structure that has been foisted upon us by fraud.The people there are extremely knowledgeable on aspects of law, both statutory and common law, and are all working together to educate everyone to stand up to this insidious, evil system. Learn what to say and what not to say when the system including police poke themselves into your life. They will still try to thuggerize you, but do not consent, do not comply, and do not say anything because they always use that against you. The major trickery of this system is that they use contract law and coerce and trick you into consent. The rabbit hole goes very deep – it will turn your whole world upside down when you start to see it. Together we can bring this evil system down.
Another Australian.
The fraud that Australians perpetrate upon themselves is that they believe they are a sovereign country.
Hi Anonymous,
That is one of the many. I gotta hear our swine PM harp on about values one more time…
The fraud that Australians perpetrate upon themselves is that they believe they are a sovereign country.
Same thing for Canada too. My beloved nation has been gutted & quartered by toxic external influences primarily the “exceptionals” South of the border and our subservience or slavish mentality to remain British “Commonwealth” subjects even though un-Great Britain is going down the toilet with so many internal problems.
To bad, so sad. But Canada is finished as a nation. We have far more in common with our hockey luvin Russian neighbours to the “North” but our sheeple drank too much Amerikan koolaid.
Saker boa noite. Obrigado por existir e destinar parte de sua vida e pontos de vistas com essa comunidade pensante. Sou brasileiro e tento na medida do possível tirar amigos e pessoas próximas da escura caverna de Platão. A luta é descomunal, quase perdida para as mentes brasileiras corrompidas pela mídia convencional. Você tem acompanhado nosso presidente, assessores e serviço de desinteligenCIA acéfalos com suas ações guiadas sem o menor grau de percepcao acerca de geopolitica. Saiba que meus dias se tornam melhores quando leio as suas matérias, as materias de seus amigos Pepe Escobar, Martianov, Paul Craig, Dmitri Orlov que tanto aprecio. Me identifico com a maneira desse elenco pensar e ver o mundo e suas relações, por essa razão gosto tanto de vocês. Lamentavelmente não falo russo para ajudar essa comunidade, mas saiba que apoio a Rússia e todos os seus países amigos.
Um forte abraço
Google translation,MOD:
Saker good night. Thank you for existing and allocating part of your life and points of view with this thinking community. I am Brazilian and I try as far as possible to get friends and people close to Plato’s dark cave. The fight is huge, almost lost to Brazilian minds corrupted by conventional media. You have accompanied our president, advisors and mindless disinteligenCIA service with your guided actions without the least degree of perception about geopolitics. Know that my days become better when I read your articles, the materials of your friends Pepe Escobar, Martianov, Paul Craig, Dmitri Orlov that I appreciate so much. I identify with the way this cast thinks and sees the world and its relationships, for that reason I like you so much. Unfortunately, I do not speak Russian to help this community, but know that I support Russia and all its friendly countries.
A big hug
Dear friends, thank you very much for the encouraging words. I’m really touched. I promise I will resist. We’re all in this together! It fills my heart with hope to see so many people, from so many different places and cultures with the same spirit. This gives us hope.
Andrei, this past year I really became your fan. Thank you very much for the work you do here! I learned so much about so many places that I never imagined! And to the people who comment here, I also express my gratitude. Your comments (and links) are full of knowledge, good intentions and very interesting to follow. You kind of became my family. I wish I could hug you all.
obs: I also love Roger Waters. This week I was listening to his record that a friend recommended to me: “The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking” and I loved it!
If I may, I would like to leave a recommendation for good music here as well. Do you like jazz? This Brazilian trio of musicians are masters of their instruments. mainly the drummer and the bass player: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVQBumhjITs
Thank you all!
The only Brazilian group I ‘ve listened to is Sepultura – very powerful in their genre. …
Here is an interesting update for you – Russia has just cancelled all flights to Turkey, siting a high level of Covid-19 infections there. This is right after the visit to Turkey by Zelenski. Turkey’s economy benefits a great deal from Russian tourism, estimated in billions. What this conveys to Erdogan is not so subtle message, which is as follows:
First – you sell any more of your drones and whatever other military crap to Ukraine, i.e. Kiev “administration” and that ban could be extended indefinately.
Secondly – If you were shown to the door in Nagorny-Karabach, here you will not be allowed to even put a foot in the door!
And finally – you are dealing with Russia here, any wrong move on your part and price to pay will be prohibitive for you. So, think again!
I believe these messages will be heeded and fast.
Another brilliant and unexpected chess move by our Grossmaister.
Dear countryman,
Current life in Brazil has become so harsh, so terrible, that it is difficult for the rest of the world to assess it.
Nevertheless, it is good to find words of hope in so a “distant” place, like The Saker blog. What will redeem us (our people, our country) are precisely the ties among people that don’t lose hope, the worse that things become.
Guenta as pontas, parceiro. Tamo junto.
Yes, we are indeed united in a most profound way, I feel that very strongly, my friend
God bless you, my friend.
God bless Russia and Novorossiya. Let’s defeat the US winning this war, for a nuclear one never happen. God bless us all.
Ruben Bauer Naveira:
Estou em Goiás, assino embaixo o que você postou!
Só acrescentaria que, a maioria dos “bolsonaristas” que conheço são evangélicos, alguns militares estaduais e, muitos comerciantes atacadistas.
Google translation,MOD:
I’m in Goiás, sign below what you posted!
I would only add that the majority of “bolsonaristas” that I know are evangelicals, some state military personnel, and many wholesale merchants.
Another good article. Biden and US tram are simply unbelievable. MSM is idiotic, focusing on trivialities, and US pushing woke agenda destroying the culture. US commitiing actual suicide.
Destroying a culture is like stealing the Presidency. In order to steal or destroy something that something has to exist in the first place. There apparently was an attempt to cobble something together that could be passed off as a culture in the 1950s but fell apart while being implemented. The Presidency undoubtedly ended 22 November 1963.
From Update #9, we were asked to provide a casus belli for the start of hostilities in Ukraine. I have pondered this all day.
I have, and so has everyone else, been the victims of predictive programming. For instance, many news outlets have touted “Nuclear, Nuclear, Nuclear” war in Ukraine.
My money for a false flag goes thus: There has already been nuclear devastation in Ukraine and its name is Chernobyl. Perhaps, and I say this loosely, perhaps the false-flag operation will have something to do with Russia, Russia, Russia attacking Chernobyl and releasing the potential for countless Ukrainian deaths, which, of course, must be condemned in the west, and become a pretext for all-out war on Russia.
I’m probably wrong…but I can speculate right?
Cheers Scotty
“In 1985, the singer Sting released his famous song “The Russians“. In this, truly quite beautiful, song Sting expresses the following hope “Believe me when I say to you, I hope the Russians love their children too“. In 1985 I was only 22, but I remember thinking “folks in the West wonder whether we love our children too – how weird, as if we were some kind of different species and not quite human”. Of course, by “The Russians” Sting primarily meant the gerontocrats in the Kremlin but, still, his choice of words really felt weird to me, especially against the background of all the stupid myths and clichés which most westerners believe about the Russians and Russia in the first place.”
This line from that Sting song inadvertently expresses how the Anglo Americans feel about everyone else: they are the Untermenschen.
Indeed, even the British remarked about how the American military treated Iraqis in this manner:
Iraqi Untermenschen
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2004/04/11/iraqi-untermenschen/
Ultimately, this is the fundamental problem with the Anglo Americans: like the Zionists, they believe they are God’s Chosen People.
As such, anybody who opposes them must be EVIL and probably subhuman. (See Biden’s comment about how “Putin doesn’t have a soul.”)
And don’t be fooled by all the “Woke” propaganda that America is currently peddling.
This Woke campaign is ultimately about *geopolitics* rather than merely just domestic US policies.
Wokeism is a Machiavellian “Soft Power” propaganda campaign to assert America’s moral superiority over its rivals like Russia, China, and Iran and to justify American “humanitarian” wars, regime change, balkanization, or economic siege warfare.
That is why even the American war machine is promoting Woke concepts like Intersectionalism.
Intersectional Imperialism: A Wholesome Menace
https://realalexrubi.substack.com/p/intersectional-imperialism-a-wholesome
Caleb Maupin, who has been featured on RT in the past, explains the geopolitics of what he calls America’s “Woke Makeover” at 50:30 in this video below. It’s very interesting.
Late Friday night chat!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBs4wsLUN6w&t=982s
Ultimately, this is the fundamental problem with the Anglo Americans: like the Zionists, they believe they are God’s Chosen People.
Yes, this is why what we see is a mix of two messianic ideologies. Hence my use of “AngloZionist” as a descriptor of this empire.
Thank you!
the modern Masons are an Anglo invention – they do feel they are superior for sure. Making plans for the entire globe – Its been apparent for over a century – the very first Masons were cool – but not the modern ones. They now are Satan’s tool
Mason’s are a rehash of old Jewish and Egyptian Mystery school rituals, themselves descendants of the Babylonian era mysteries. Hence the Anglo – Zionist osmosis..
Edward Gibbons got to mostly the same conclusion in his The Christians and the Fall of the Roman Empire, when describing the jews in ancient Rome. The book was written in 16 century… does american exceptionalism come from jews/zio chosen people ideology?
Gibbons also hated the Orthodox Church and the East Romans.
Gibbon’s fake history is a ‘hymn’ of hate for Orthodoxy.
The meaning of words can change over time, sometimes in undesirable ways. In the past our “gay” children were happy children and it was a trait we treasured in them. Or, to have a “partner” meant we shared in the management of a business, or some other activity. Now, caution must be used because it is a word whose meaning has become that of “two who have sex with one another.”
In the same way, there are some people who claim a religious loyalty to God and call themselves “Christians or Zionists.” However, their actual beliefs and practices are out of harmony with what God has revealed in the Bible. So, they may call themselves what they wish, but it doesn’t make it so.
In truth, up until 2,000 years ago, the Jewish people were, in fact, the chosen people of God. They were chosen descendants of Abraham, a man of faith, through whose seed the nations of the earth would be blessed. That “seed” was/is Jesus Christ. After the death of Jesus, so that the sacrifice for our sins was accomplished, the Jews should have been the first to become Christians. In fact, many of them did!
However, many rejected the sacrifice of Christ and in 70 AD the backbone of the Jewish religion was broken with the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple. The Jewish sacrifices came to an end. History continued and many people since have become Christians. But, they did it in the way instructed by God in the Bible.
Christians are now, in fact, the chosen people of God. If a person wants to be “chosen” they have only to obey the gospel in the very same way as they did in the 1st century.
It is indeed sad that there are many claiming to be “Christians” and yet they are not. They do evil and Christians get the blame for it. So it is to this day.
The ‘AngloZionist’ spread across the oceans from the US to Israel and back again has made me consider the history of the Jews and the current situation with the Palestinians. This particularly so considering the ‘quality of mercy’ speech in Shakespear’s merchant of venice and how it plays out in that production and today how the situation is reversed in Palestine. That Shylock ignored mercy until he needed it himself is the conundrum that faces the US and Israel today. I see such ‘morality’ by the US in Europe and the Ukraine.
So I made a short video attempting to show the reversals of morality in this regard. It is listed although I don’t know for how long youtube will allow such. It is alsowhy I use very little text due to their algorithims and none of my videos are monetrised.
It is called The Merchant of Venice/Palestine: https://youtu.be/zSqceReJyns
For years I used to tthink the same way about the anglo zio Ubermench complex.
After about a decade of living in JUSSA and ay long inthe Uk and Kakanada it became obvious that Americans. Brits. Jewy etc actually suffef from low confidence.
Their postufing a d Pedowood zio MSM….are just a psyop to cover ghis defect they are painfully aware of.
Even very prominent, wealthy, very famous people I ve met there are paincully insecure, although often manic ( maia is a charicature of happiness).
You cannot buy confidence. It comes from a well lived life/ childhood. From having had a chance to grow jp feeling safe and accepted.
My Serbian great grandmothdr had more confidence than some very wealthy and famous American jews I know.
By hoping that relationships with the West would eventually approve Putin cornered Russia into this position.
US wins now by any move of Russia only with the power of MSM.
The western population is like the main character from “Tommy” (hears nothing, see nothing, feels nothing)
Excellent article! Both. I read the other article you highlighted. I love the sense if humor in that article too especially the reference to our trans….er, uh Woke US military.
It is a complete joke and Im surrounded by ignorant and nincompoops..
Anyhow, I have a friend who just moved to Russia and Loves it there. She has shared pictures and wonderful stories of the people there and it makes me want to seek asylum in Russia!
Im not at all surprised that the newly installed fake President Biden is up to no good in Ukraine. The American people are too stupid and ignorant to understand or even bother to know about foreign policy. What team Obama/Biden/Nuland did to Ukraine is truly sickening.
But I would be lying if I didn’t say that I hope Ziolensky and his Zionazi friends are arrogant enough to think they can take back Crime let alone the Donbass, but the rhetoric sure seems to indicate that Ziolensky feels confident enough that he would have US backing for such stupidity. I say DO IT. Then the American people can see how truly worthless the Biden regime and its woke military really are.
Clearly, the US does not want to see N2 completed. Nor friendly relations with the EU especially Germany to happen.
The world would be far better off without this dying empire that needs to be put out of its misery.
Problem is that empires expire, regimes change but bad blood remains for many generations. I know.
I’m half Russian, half Ukrainian. I’m sick of the stupid ukies, especially the ones in the USA that promote hatred against all things Russian.
Ukis sounds like Croats and how they feel towards us Serbs?
It is called inferiority complex Tomo– Similar to our French Canadians who suffer from a conquered nation complex.
It will be interesting to see how Russia deals with the imminent deployment of the 5 US aegis missile ships to the Black Sea…it’s basically the naval equivalent of the US setting up multiple THAAD batteries at Boryspil Airport…I wonder if they’ll dock at Odessa…
Read Martyanov’s explanation.
The Russian will have a GREAT time practicing the real thing on the real thing :-)
and if things get ugly, all these ships will be gone in about 10-30 mins
The Saker
We are all paying attention to the current situation in the Donbass and wider. However, I presume readers are interested about the mood inside Ukraine, and by this I mean the mood among ordinary people, who no doubt do not want to see another war, certainly not now that Ukraine has been impoverished.
If The Saker has any info on the internal situation, then we are looking forward to reading it.
Reading Martyanov, it is all about what the Russians can do to the US, and nothing about the reverse. I would have liked to see a more balanced analysis, unless it is actually the case that the US can do nothing.
Your right about the media and the politicians, all a complete farce, ridiculous! How anyone takes them seriously is beyond me
I am remaining cautiously optimistic that the situation in Eastern Ukraine is about to de-escalate.
Why?
Because the Russian bear is showing her teeth, is why. Russia has clearly made her intention to utterly annihilate the Ukrainian military, command & political structure clear in the event of war.
I think sense is starting to prevail at this point, at-least, amongst the Pentagon. Maybe not in Washington DC, where the idiots continue to run the carnival. It remains to be seen if insanity will prevail over reason.
Either way you slice it, Ukraine is toast. Either by military defeat which will take less than 48 hours to be finished or in the long haul as their economy implodes, with or without war.
Moon of Alabama has reached a similar conclusion. He could be wrong, but I think the Ukrainian political leaders have realized they’re in over their heads and that their lives are now directly on the line in the event of war. Although I would love to see Russia wipe them all out, it is preferable that this scenario is avoided, and out of a sense of self-preservation, I think things will now de-escalate.
I could be wrong, but I really, really hope not.
I kind of feel the same way. I don’t think the Empire cares if Ukraine is utterly destroyed but perhaps those in charge in Kiev do. When I started looking at maps, roads, natural geography, and stuff like that I realized what a massive blunder Ukraine was about to make. I don’t know how a long term war between the Empire and Russia would end but in this limited theater Ukraine will be crushed by Russia and quickly.
Perhaps a multi polar world isn’t so bad. Perhaps the return of respect and diplomacy can find a way to satisfy each nation to some degree. I personally would not like a world dictatorship of delusional trans LGBT++ woke-ism. What a stupid ideology to justify violence with. As if a simple greedy power grab is some kind of civil rights freak show.
You might be all wrong, Greifenberg: Maybe their one care is to fulfill Greater Germanias plan to expand the Lebensraum for the Master Races, which was for the Nazi regime to cull the Slave population by 2/3 (two thirds) and to retain the rest as yoackel slaves? That would be just like “greif ein Berg” (grab a burg).
Hi Saker,
This is off topic.
Yes, it is, but I will allow it, as an exception, mainly because are are not making sweeping medical statements about the pandemic. Thank you. The Saker
I note your comments on trusting the Sputnik vaccine. I am also of the same opinion and rejected the offer of the Pfizer ‘vaccine’.
I live in the U.K. and work within health setting. If govt forces clinicians to get a vaccine I would have to go for Sputnik.
Do you or any other commenters have any idea of how to get it?
I sure don’t. If somebody else can stay on topic and explain how to get Sputnik-V in the EU I will allow it. Flood the place with idiotic statements and you will get banned. The Saker
Hi Justin, don’t know if this can be accessed applies in the UK but can try:
1 big thing: Vaccine shopping can be surprisingly easy
https://axios.com/newsletters/axios-vitals-268167ad-748a-41de-a9fa-b618dc8bfded.html
Cheers,
T
Try Serbia?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeC_MfXKED0
Best,
I have heard in Serbia anybody can get vaccinated. They have all possible choices, Sputnik, Sinovac, AstraZeneca etc. People from neighborhood countries make trips to Serbia, get vaccinated and go home. There are people on this forum straight from Serbia, not just Serbs from diaspora, they can shed more light on this question. all I know, vaccination is free. I don’t know about required quarantining, but it cannot be worse than anywhere else, if requested at all. You could even spend two weeks between shots over there. Food is excelent and really inexpensive, lodging too. And Air Serbia never stopped flying.
Good luck my friend and all teh ebst.
@Justin
maybe take a lull in travel restrictions and plan a flight to Serbia, best around June, July..this because the local immunology/microbiology institute is starting Sp.V production under the RF licence and strict supervision of RF specialists..There will be more than needed I would think as the locals are typically opting for Pfizer, AstaraZeneca etc., I know this is a strange bias – it is what it is.. Over in Serbia people are OK to pick whichever one they want, which includes SputnikV, Chinese one too, not sure about the Cuban..
hope this helps, lb
p.s I do not know what they charge if they charge..
p.p.s explore the option of applying online for whichever manufacturer in advance to help your travel plans..i.e you would need an appointment..
Try to go to Belgrade. Ask to book you for Sputnik V.
“It is a sweet karmic justice that the Ukraine wanted to become like the West but that, in the end (maybe even literally!), it is the West which became very much like the Ukronazi-run Ukraine: ideology über alles!”
West was like this for the last 500 years. Only until recently much of the devastation was in Zone B. The War machine came home!
sadly, I can only agree.
except that in my opinion, the origins of the western imperialism are much older, about 1000 years old.
It call began with the First Crusade
are you really a musician?
cheers
I am not really musician. I love music though. You actually know me.I sent you few e-mails back in the summer to discuss the sad situation in Ukraine.
Так мій друг, зараз я тебе впізнав, Привіт!
I have to say that I sincerely hope my fellow Ukrainians refuse to fight and that realize that they die for nothing. I fully understand that the empire wants Ukrainians and Russians to fight each other, and I refuse. I always maintain that the Ukraine crisis is cosmic karma for Europe. Europe has enabled US imperialism around the world and creation of failed states, and now Europe gets a failed state right in its own backyard. I am saddened and ashamed of what is happening in my country.
Unless the Westerners confront their dark history, nothing in the west will change. The Western Imperialism around the world is Nazism under a different name.
Привіт. Nice to hear from you Andrei. Let us pray and hope that the madness will end.
The Saker
Yes, the West has a history of imperialism. Then again, it did not invent it. Don’t forget the Arab invasions of Spain and the Battle of Poitiers in the year 732, when Charles Martel defeated an invading Arab Army in what is today’s France. Then, of course, we have the Ottoman invasions of Europe and the two sieges of Vienna in the 16th and 17th centuries, something “Sultan” Erdogan is incapable of forgetting, trying to reincarnate the old Ottoman Empire.
Indeed, one lose sight of Turkey’s Neo-Ottomanic and Islamist dreams in the present situation.
”In a phone conversation Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin cautioned Turkish president Recep Erdogan about “the importance of preserving the 1936 Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits with a view to ensuring regional stability and security”.
Zelensky to Istanbul praising “Turkey’s support for the restoration of our sovereignty and territorial integrity”
”Ankara views Ukraine as a crucial buffer against Russia and has been a strong advocate for its acceptance into the NATO alliance”.
Ukrainians acquiring Turkish drones which in Turkish own words: ”“We know that Russian capacity is not enough in the face of Turkish UAV’s “They would give the upper hand to Ukrainian forces. Russian backed separatists have their edge, but they are not capable of stemming the new UAVs.”
@Leo: “Battle of Poitiers in the year 732, when Charles Martel defeated an invading Arab Army in what is today’s France.”
I believe that Chanson de Roland was a Holy Roman Empire narrative widely disseminated to conceal the Empire’s defeat by native Basque while trying to invade the Pyrenees “in what is today’s France.” Today’s France is still trying to hold down a simmering revolt by Basque separatists.
Andrei, have you ever written an article elaborating on this subject? I was very curious when you said that the origins of imperialism go back to the first crusade. And does the so-called “deep state” have its origin there too? Or could you recommend a good book or other articles to read? Thank you very much.
Why did the West “became very much like the Ukraine”? Simple – the West screwed the Ukraine without wearing protection.
West has been like this for the long time. Read description of life in medieval Europe in the high middle ages.
Bwahahahahahaha!!!
Quite true, even if also quite sad…
West has been arrogant and raping the whole world. Chickens have come home to roost. Ukraine is the mirror, which reflects back the West the west’s monstrosity. And Savagery.
The UK establishment has a pathological hatred of Russia. After all the provocations from the novichok nonsense, the Institute for Statecraft and the ironically named Integrity Initiative (anti-Russian propaganda mill), why doesn’t Putin just break-off diplomatic relations with the Perfidious Albion that is only interested in the utter subjugation and dismemberment of the Russian Federation? Attempting to maintain diplomatic relations with such a country is a waste of Russia’s energy and resources.
If/when the war in Ukraine starts I have little doubt Russia will win a quick and decisive victory. The West will genuinely respect Russia & Russians.
And then the West will take all of that humiliation out on a non-white country like China. Most “conservative” whites of the West:
*Genuinely believe Russians are their natural allies, &
*Genuinely despise China, & think they should ally with Russia to eliminate Chinese people.
Asians biggest “crime” is being a non-white people that out-compete white countries. We saw this hatred against Japan during the 1980s. The difference then was Japan was militarily occupied by USA, but not China. We see this racism against Chinese in subtle things:
*demonising “shark fin” soup as a “genocide” against sharks
*demonising Chinese as “savage dog eaters.”
*claims that Chinese harvest babies for eating placentas
*demonising Confucius Institutes as “communist indoctrination”
Xi Jinping will really have to help a lot, even if it’s behind the scenes, because China will need to mass produce A-235s & S-500s to defeat US, British, & French nuclear-tipped ICBMs.
Russians’ biggest crime is looking like the Westerners, naturally assimilating and improving “the best of the West”, but thinking and behaving in their own way and not giving a d**n. ;)
No Anonymous, “looking like the Westerners” is what saves Russians from the West.
The atom bomb would never have been dropped on a European / Western-looking peoples (what we used to refer to as the Caucasian race, btw)
Its a deeply psychological thing i.e. ‘they’re too much like us’
Cheers,
No. Compared to the horrors which Nazis and their European allies and henchmen committed in the USSR, the war in the West was no more than a “cousins’ war”. What stopped the US from using nuclear weapons against the USSR was not any racial sympathy. It was, initially, the clear understanding that a small number of nukes available will not prevent the Red Army from overrunning all of Europe, with help and sympathy of much of the population. Then it was the painful realization that the Soviets have a nuclear weapon as well, and the utter inability of the US to tolerate any losses at home. And so it remains.
Not sure I agree that westerners in general, or white Americans in particular, view asian people as non-white. I had a white, good Army buddy way back in 1958 (I’m pretty old) from still very segregated, darkest Mississippi, a good-old boy, who aspired to be a Mississippi state trooper after he got out. Yet he said returning GI’s with Japanese war brides were completely accepted in Mississippi back then, because the Japanese women were considered “cute,” and thereby honorary white: completely accepted by everybody. Also, in Ken Burns’s great documentary Baseball, only blacks were segregated out. I don’t remember for sure any Asian players, maybe there were some. But non-black Hispanics, also American Indians (technically of very-distant asiatic descent, akin to Siberian tribesmen like Samoyeds), were also completely accepted by white teams, if they could play. So I’m not sure that westerners or white Americans view asians in general as non-white (although it’s now PC to include them among “people of color” — likely to increase the non-white percentage).
Dear Sir,
As you have earlier said the four years reprieve provided by Trump Presidency has allowed the pendulum of military might to shift to the other side. It is very difficult to answer how Russia may utilize its rejuvenated power.
The question is not if Russia can defeat Ukraine + NATO, the question is what will happen if Russia burns all bridges to it’s West ?
China will then become the ultimate arbiter without having fired a shot.
IMO it is pointless for Russia to solve the problems in it’s west unless China itself simultaneously engages in its East.
Definitely war is terrible. But is a conventional war inevitable? Surely there are some means to avoid it.
IMO it is pointless for Russia to solve the problems in it’s west unless China itself simultaneously engages in its East.
I think it is a given that China will play a major role in securing the Russian Far East. I would love to know what kind of behind-the-scenes help Beijing has agreed to provide Moscow. If you allow me to indulge in some conspiracy theories:
*Have Chinese factories mass produced Kalibrs or Kinzhals for the Russian military, and provided them free of charge to Russian forces?
*Has China agreed to rebuild all infrastructure and re-finance Antonov & other industries in Eastern Ukraine, in exchange for Russian forces doing the fighting?
*Will China be responsible for fortifying the Russian economy in case Nato attempts an economic attack, e.g. suddenly blocking Russia from SWIFT?
*Will Russian forces be using some Chinese munitions as a way to test them in war?
*Will there be any Chinese pilots flying J-16s painted and marked as “Su-35s?”
Mental World War launched by Western Block is in full swing.
Mental war is using weapons of misleading concepts and half truths
in order to create fear not only to the enemy states but to the own
population . Fear is the weapon of today’s geopolitics as well as of
politics of everyday life. Goal is Domination, so new form of Slavery .
Mental war is prelude to the bloody ones , however bloody wars will be local,
ugly , tragic, yet not the catastrophic.
Defense , apart of war machines , is fate and courage.
So Courage and Fate my Love .
Read up on Gregory Bateson’s schismogenesis (literally means “creation of division”).
“The concept of schismogenesis was developed by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson in the 1930s, to account for certain forms of social behavior between groups. … Bateson posited a symmetrical form of schismogenic behavior that consisted of a competitive relationship between categorical equals (e.g., rivalry) and complementary schismogenesis between categorical unequals (e.g., dominance and submission). Bateson’s specific contribution was to suggest that certain concrete ritual behaviors either inhibited or stimulated the schismogenic relationship in its various forms.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schismogenesis)
It is being appied on the margins to Russian borders (physical and mental) in the Ukraine. Complementary schismogenesis between categorical unequals (e.g., dominance and submission) in Kiev and a symmetrical form of schismogenic behavior in respect to competition with Moscow. Sanctions try to suggest a “no escape” condition and the building of a double-bind condition that reienforces any inherent social/cultural weakness towards engendering schizophrenia. All very scientific and used during and since the WW2 — especially by 3LA’s.
In the 1930’s Bateson propose a novel theory of ritual action based on his in-depth study of the wide variety of behaviors that the Iatmul of Papua New Guinea identify as “naven” — a transvestism rite involving complex ritualized inverted social roles. This was used to avoid overall societal break down due to inherent structural flaws and weaknesess that drove schismogenesis trends to the extreme.
Today, somewhat paradoxically it seems, the US/Nato/EU domain are exhibiting these same transvestism modes. Not the Russians — therefore suggesting perhaps that the real schismogenesis issues are internal to the western zio-(Iatmul)-tribes and that Russia (bear baiting) provides a convenient close-enough “other” to allow subconsious projection to take place.
The level of hysterical vindictive passion in the current DC-complex would suggest this is taking place. China is equaly an existential threat (to the US) but the Chinese features (personal and civilizational) help reduce capacity for automatic subconscious projection.
“In Iatmul culture, observed Bateson, men and women lived different emotional lives. For example, women were rather submissive and took delight in the achievement of others; men fiercely competitive and flamboyant. During the ritual, however, men celebrated the achievement of their nieces and nephews while women were given ritual license to act raucously. In effect, naven allowed men and women to experience momentarily the emotional lives of each other, and thereby to achieve a level of psychological integration.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Bateson#Early_Work:_New_Guinea_and_Bali)
Someone(s) is trying to scratch an out of reach itch and using the Russians as a stick.
The greatest antidote to misleading concepts and half truths is satire and humour. When states lose their commedians and satirists (as the US and UK and much of the ‘west’ has done, and perhaps North Korea) then we know that trouble lies ahead. Look to history at the greatest satirists and humourists any you will discover peaceful societies.
blink on meet the press says there will be consequences! (sarc)
He has not yet reached the level of empty suit rank of kerry.
“unless, of course, the attack actually happens, at which point I will probably reopen an open thread again”
Knowing how fast these things can escalate under modern circumstances and with the Blinken idiots in charge in the U.S., would you actually have time to reopen the thread? Rhetorical, no need for an answer, just a thought.
1. Ukraine head of their military talks of peace
2. Lavrov says that a Nazi war against DLNR would end the Ukrainian state
3. Germany won’t talk with Zelensky
4. Germany and Russia say that Ukraine must abide by Minsk 2
5. Leader of Donetsk (if not DLNR) says that if the Nazis attack then their army will not stop at the existing line of contact
6. If there is an attempted Sbrenica-like seige of Donbass Russia will intervene to save the population according to a very high ranking Russian security official
7. Last but not least Saker’s words above about Russian full scale military exercises
Let’s first look at above numbers 2, 5,6 and 7. Russia and DLNR are telling you what they will do in case of Nazi invasion of Donbass. This is not a bluff but a blueprint of action. Russia is ready and has the upper hand because it has escalation dominance. It can respond to any action the Nazis/west will take and ratchet up to whatever Russia wants. Enough said.
Number 1 could mean Ukraine is backing off and/or there is deep division between career military people and ideological nazis. The careerists in the military know that their goose is cooked if the Donbass is attacked while the Nazis are crazy enough not to care. I’m not wedded to this idea but it just crossed my mind when I heard the complete statement by the military command in Kiev.
Numbers 3 and 4 mean that Germany is not on board with an attack on the Donbass. If the attack takes place and Russia plays its cards right Germany may not join in the western chorus of criticism and may be able to resist stopping the NS2. The Navalny fake poisoning affair in the end didn’t stop NS2. This is very good. It means that this gas pipeline is so important for Germany that nothing so far can get Germany to derail it.
Going by the above I have optimism that conflict will be avoided. I trust that military people know the score and are advising the US/Nato not to get involved and unleash the dogs of war. I also trust that competent military non-Nazi Ukrainians also know the score. However there is a caveat. What we don’t know is what plans are being hatched by Nazis and by the CIA/Deep state/rogue elements working together to provoke a false flag and thus an attack on the Donbass. However I’m sure that Russia has game theorized any action that the Nazis will take and are ready. I have full confidence that whatever Russia will do will be correct. Russia is privy to all that takes place in Ukraine while we do not and can only be armchair commentators.
3. Germany won’t talk with Zelensky
4. Germany and Russia say that Ukraine must abide by Minsk 2
Very interesting. This could change the dynamics of the present stand-off. Any links?
Stand Easy
As I have written before, Europe has experienced two world wars and there is no mood for World War Three. I am not sure Washington and Wall Street understand this. As for Germany, it is also facing pressure from the US to cancel the Nord Stream – 2 gas pipeline, something it is not prepared to do. The US is hoping to force Ukraine to attack the Donbass, to have Russia respond, and then demand that Germany terminate NS2. A war in the Donbass would only benefit Anglo-Saxon bankers. It would not benefit Continental Europe. Washington is testing the patience of it’s European “allies”. Not wise.
Yea, I get the geopolitics. Frau Merkel finally putting her foot down, refusing to meet Zelensky and asking Ukraine to return to Minsk 2 — exactly what RF is seeking to do — would signal that Germany (and Europe) are finally standing up to the US.
With due respect, that sounds too good to be true.
No aspersions meant towards Gary but I want to read/hear/watch what Gary read/heard/watched, for myself. That’s why I asked for the links Leo.
Stand Easy, I’m just reporting what I hear in the news. It’s all there. As I said I’m not wedded to the idea of a conflict between Nazis and non-Nazi military people but just wondering if there’s something there to consider. It’s just an idea that popped into my mind reading the speech by the military head of Ukraine. It may just be silly nonsense. I’d like to open up a discussion on the matter.
Germany has often acted in a way that is puzzling. She doesn’t act in her own interests at times. Kind of makes me wonder if Gen. Gerd-Helmut Komossa was telling the truth in his book “The German Card”. If you don’t have the time to read the book here is a summary.
https://www.rt.com/usa/germany-us-pact-komossa-978/
Watch Germany! Perhaps there is an opportunity to get out from under the Empire’s thumb.
Ukraine says:
>Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister – Minister for Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories Oleksii Reznikov assumes that negotiations in the Ukraine-France-Germany format will take place in the near future.
>”I think there will soon be a conversation between the three leaders of the Normandy format countries, without the participation of a Kremlin representative,” the minister said.
>As reported, on April 5, Head of the President’s Office Andriy Yermak assured that consultations within the Normandy format were ongoing and announced negotiations between Ukraine, Germany and France.
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3225198-ukrainefrancegermany-talks-to-take-place-soon-reznikov.html
I have not commented on this blog for quite a while, but so far, have not abandoned it yet. Not yet.
What I find truly annoying now is the number of the “armchair “experts” and “generals” that have flooded this blog with their “expertise”, including Saker himself. Must be something to do with being men and seeing this as a possible war situation, with tanks, missiles and other weapons! You, men..
Lots of scenarious, with lots of suggestions and instructions as to what Russia should or should not do.. Pleeasee..
We have the best strategist, not to mention, analyst the world can ever have, surrounded by the best military men any country can only wish to have – do you really think that they have not worked out the appropriate responses to any evolving situations?! We should not try to advise or second guess here – just sit back and watch these masters at work. The response will be swift and unexpected. That’s how VVP & these under his command work – it’s their hallmark.
I would absolutely agree with some comments that US/NATO will not get involved in this Ukranian quagmire, but will be doing their best to encourage the stupid ukie shmocks to go for it! To be honest – I wish they do just that. That way the festering, stinking boil will be surgically removed and hopefully healing could start at last. Either way, that country in it’s present state is finished. I have said exactly that a year ago in one of my essays here. The neocons, using the radical, unhinged ukro-nazis garbage, [nurtured by them, by the way], to subvert and take over, have created the country’s destruction – this is like everything else they touch – you know, the Midas touch in reverse – whatever they touch turns to s..t!
This is what that country, that used to be called Ukraine has become. It will be up to them there to find the ways to recover if they can, if not, they will just become another Somalia but of the European continent – a prime example of what happens when you cut ties with Russia, sell yourselves to the “Western patrons” and engage in a sick, rabid Russophobia. I hope the rest of you, in former soviet republics and eastern Europe are paying due attention..
It is a shame you don’t comment more often. I’ve enjoyed what you have to say on many occasions.
I like the conversation level here and I think like many people I just want to make some sense out of these events. I am not a lover of war of any kind. It is always a tragedy.
Greifenberg:
Katerina fez lembrar o estilo Maria Zakharova, talvez?
:-)
Google translation,MOD:
Did Katerina remember the Maria Zakharova style, perhaps?
:-)
@Katerina: “Must be something to do with being men and seeing this as a possible war situation, with tanks, missiles and other weapons! You, men..”
Likewise I too noticed the unusually high number of posts — including mine. Reminds me: at school our science teacher was against giving weapons to grown men; he said, they will only want to play with them.
“We have the best strategist, not to mention, analyst the world can ever have, surrounded by the best military men any country can only wish to have – do you really think that they have not worked out the appropriate responses to any evolving situations?! We should not try to advise or second guess here – just sit back and watch these masters at work. The response will be swift and unexpected. That’s how VVP & these under his command work – it’s their hallmark.”
How do common people judge the competence — the decision-making ability– of their leaders? Perhaps not entirely, but certainly by the success or failure of their past decisions, however each individual defines success or failure.
On a scale of 1 – 10, 1 being “bad” and 10 being “good”, how would YOU rate Russia strategists’ past decisions with respect to the US’s newly-acquired drone-nation “Ukraine” before, during and after the US conducted the Maidan coup, right up to the moment you typed your comment?
For example, specifically, do you think that there is anythng Russia could or should have done just before, during or just after the actual coup that would have prevented the coup from either taking place or being successful for longer than momentarily, and by so doing kept an extremely grateful Yanukovych and his government in power, making unnecessary all of what has transpired in Donbass and Crimea after what turned out to be a successful coup right up to today (including Russia apparently “deciding” to allow “the West” to send military hardware and “advisers” into “Ukraine” to whatever level “the West” desired)?
Maybe we shouldn’t try to find fault with the past decisions of those strategists. What would be the point? After all, we can’t chage history. But those same strategists are formulating Russian policy (behavior) today. Will they do “as well” today as they did in the past? I guess it all depends upon your own definition of “how well” they did in the past.
BTW, have Russian strategists ever made mistakes? If so, what are they and did they learn anything from them? I’d really like to know.
To Ishkabibble
You wanted me to reply to your question? Well, here is my reply.
I judge competence in others by their smart and intelligent decisions, carried out in a confident and thoughful manner. Russian President and his team personify that.
You have obviously missed the part in one of my essays where I have stated that Russia absolutely does not interfere in the affairs of the former soviet republics – they are left entirely on their own to manage themselves. That’s a good policy. If they make a mess of it, well, whom are they going to blame? If the puppets that “West” likes to install there, become delusional and show actual aggression towards Russia, they get a hard slap down – as Georgia can attest to. The same will happen here, with the ukro sh..te.
In answer to your question – I would say that is an excellent Russian strategy. Also, sometimes hard lessons need to be learned by some.. They are slowly learning these and also their manners with regard to RUSSIA.
“You have obviously missed the part in one of my essays where I have stated that Russia absolutely does not interfere in the affairs of the former soviet republics – they are left entirely on their own to manage themselves.”
Yes, just like in Belarus. Mr. Lukashenko and his government got no assistance from Russia in their recent time of need; were “left entirely on their own”, twisting slowly in the Western NGO wind, and things there have turned out just fine, again, without any Russian assistance at all.
( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HeggWVHf3M )
Too bad Mr. Yanukovych didn’t take some political lessons from Mr. Lukashenko. Things may have turned out entirely differently in “Ukraine” if he had.
To Ishkabibble
I just wish some people would retain the information that they get to hear. Russia and Belorussia (that is the correct way to pronounce it) have a signed UNION Agreement, that stipulates, among other things, a mutual defence. That was described several times during that deranged attempt by the “West” at the “regime change” in that country. And you are still ignorant of such an agreement between the two, which makes all the difference? Please don’t bother to get into some “discussion” with me without knowing the facts. Thank you.
Srebrenica-like siege?! Russians truly don’t have any understanding of history of the Balkans, that is why Russia is slowly being encroached up on by Nato. Croatian Operation Storm (with Nato assistance and planning) was the blueprint for the Georgian offensive and for a potential Donbass offensive (won’t happen).
First: The Srebrenica military command got the orders from Sarajevo to lure Serb forces away from Sarajevo, the jihadi/criminal commander of Srebrenica Naser Oric did just right that, attacking surrounding Serb villages and murdering and torturing civilians with blades, while inviting the Serb forces over radio to come to Srebrenica, a demilitarized zone, for a fight. Naser Oric was so pathetic, he sold UN humanitarian aid (food) at the highest prices to his own people in Srebrenica.
Second: The capture of Srebrenica was not planned by Serb forces, it was opportunistic. Srebrenica defenses was left wide open and Naser Oric left for Sarajevo by helicopter.
Third: Ratko Mladic invited international MSM, including CNN, to join his forces while taking Srebrenica. They filmed everything.
Fourth: Ratko Mladic declined request by local Serbs to join his military in the take over of Srebrenica, he declined because he was afraid for revenge killings.
Fifth: after a few days after the capture of Srerenica, Ratko Mladic left for Serbia for consultations. During this period of his absence, executions happened. How many executed is still debated today by Serbs.
Sixth: Majority of killed Srebrenica Muslims was legal, they died when they tried to force themselves to other towns through Serb defenses.
Seventh: The Hague tribunal comes with the number of 1000+ executed Muslims. They got this information from a Croat Drazen Erdemovic, a mercenary who fought on the side of Muslim forces, Croat forces and Serb forces. At the time of the Srebrenica capture, he joined Serb forces and apparently participated in the execution of 1000 muslims, that is what he told the Hague Tribunal. His testimony about Serb military leadership involvement got him released by the Hage after just two or some years in jail.
Saker,
Thank you for enlightening us all over 10 threads and for the most informative piece by Andrei Martyanov with his exquisite dry humour.
We certainly hope that they keep talking to each other and that reality will sink in to call off their suicidal adventure. The moneylenders behind the throne have no interest in dying for their first tier tools’ (neocons) grudge against Russia or for their second tier tools’ (political class) ideological narcissism.
In the event that they disobey their moneylender masters and go ahead, and the fungus called Biden somehow retains a modicum of cognitive faculty to not launch nukes, the immediate casualties of any foolishness by US Navy captains will be Lockheed Martin’s stocks crashing from the evidence of how their “mighty” shipborne Aegis systems ended up as scrap metal at the bottom of the Black Sea.
Should all nearby Aegis Ashore launchers be Khinzaled in the early stages of the war? These would be retaliatory attacks on what are effectively US territories on foreign soil. I think RF should, to roll back gains they made after they tore up the ABM treaty.
US EUROCOM being the main enemy command centre should be turned to ash and that will undress the paper tiger to Europoodles. I hope Putin will make good his promise to go after the decision-makers. I hope that threat extends to the moneylenders behind the throne. Bunker busters galore.
It will hurt them. After hydrocarbon transactions I reckon the next biggest backer of the dollar is billion dollar weapons sales transactions. Their reputation will be in tatters as images of their supposedly superior missile system turned to slag circulates around the world. Likewise the myth of their military superiority crashes.
End of empire as we know it. Even the dollar fiat currency ponzi scam will crumble. The US national debt will start to bite. Secessionists will make a move. Bye bye USA.
In the event that they disobey their moneylender masters and go ahead, and the fungus called Biden is relieved of duty, then God help us all as that cackling wench called Harris may very well launch nukes goaded by fuming neocons firm in their hubris of a winnable nuclear war.
I have little confidence that their ABMs or THAADs will save them, if they even work as advertised. It’s a pity that (officially) RF’s S500s aren’t ready yet, but at least Moscow’s ABMs are recently upgraded. RF will be less damaged than the USA and its allies, but nobody will escape the nuclear winter and radiation laden winds and rains.
End of modern civilisation as we know it. Suicidal ideology über alles indeed. May God have mercy on the survivors.
Todesfuge
(Death Fuge)
Schwarze Milch der Fruhe wir
Blinken sie abends
wir Blinken sie mittags und
morgens wir Blinken sie
nachts
wir Blinken und Blinken
(etc, with apologies to Paul Celan)
Google translation,MOD:
Death joint
(Death Fugue)
Black milk of the morning us
They blink in the evening
we blink them at noon and
in the morning we blink them
at night
we blink and blink
“… (a) total of 40’000 soldiers, including 20’000 US personnel (it is unclear how many transgenders that includes).
^ Dear The Saker this is funny, I laughed a lot. Thank you.
Please excuse this inconsequential comment in the ongoing highly educational analysis, brain storm, of the ‘Donetsk standoff’. Good versus bad.
For me it has been a palliative.
Your forum here is of the highest quality A fair degree of slack given, including to numpties such as me, but superbly moderated (let an ill-informed comment be rebutted rather than excised).
Sorry, my point here is about your humour. It’s important.
Such as when you, The Saker mentioned Tom Clancy, and others have in the comments I was reminded of my reading of ‘his’ The Bear and the Dragon.
Oh dear I got so far into the book (my one and only of ‘his’) and rarely for me threw it in the bin … but then decided to finish it just to see how bad it was.
I wasn’t disappointed it is a perfect turd. Laughably bad, as is mainstream media yet people mop it up and want more.
Serious times let people that can live in it, through it and yet rise above it retaining their human qualities hold sway.
There are many loyal supporters of Putin in Russia who wonder, or who are dismayed, by the Kremlin’s very restrained response the slings and arrows being hurled at Russia from Washington every week or two. The Kremlin speaks of its response being “asymmetrical” but that gives little satisfaction to many Russians who fret that their national pride is being insulted by Washington without a price being exacted.
People are more and more sick and tired of Putin no retaliation since 2014. Even if they like or used to like Putin.
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2021/04/11/cold-war-fever-in-brussels/?fbclid=IwAR2keKWDFIx8SYnS4QaM5VXcRqlKW7UPOCdGaULHVEvDBQV9YPBty9xIRS4
War denier,
Gilbert Doctorow. You cite as a source
Really.?
If you don’t know why I am snarking. You have a search engine.
Russia should let Erdogans play its treacherous game and after the warmongers facilities are destroyed all the way to the Danube it should the swing back around a totally clobber the Turks and take back Constantinople.
It is not just the ukraine that sits in the scales it must also be Turkey.
As it was foretold..
I give up on trying to figured out the leadership and elites of countries including the Ukraine who are deluded, arrogant, and stunted in pursuing this Ukrainian gambit. I too have also asked if Europe has forgotten the experiences of WWII. After reading polls of Europeans about which country played the biggest role in defeating the Nazis showed that the Americans were the most responsible, then yes, NATO/EU has forgotten the war. Except for Russia. History may make a come back.
An unprecedented case – the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the General Staff and the Air Force is suing Defense Minister Andrei Taran.
So says an article from Southfront, related to the Ukr defence minster, a former general, overstepping his authority. Don’t know how far this is true but it adds to Dmitry Peskov’s statements about Kiev having to exert greater control over elements of the UAF in order to avoid ‘to uncontrolled actions of various units of the country’s armed forces…’ leading to another Srebrenica in southeastern Ukraine.
At any rate this is another indicator of how badly things can go — total disharmony and confusion at the top of the chain of command are not conducive to victory — for the Ukrainian forces should they embark on an assault on Donbass.
https://southfront.org/zelensky-busy-with-censoring-his-opposition-while-army-commanders-sue-the-defense-minister/
In the meantime Manlio Dinucci, a regular contributor to Voltairenet, has penned his take on the irony of Defender-Europe 21 in the time of Covid — 30 000 US soldiers moving and mixing freely with soldiers from dozens of allied and ‘partner’ countries while Europeans are locked down in their homes. BTW about 40% of US marines have refused Covid jabs. Granted, they’re marines, not army, but something Europeans may want to think about when they’re being ‘defended.’
https://iacenter.org/2021/04/10/u-s-army-unleashes-defender-europe-21/
“n the meantime Manlio Dinucci, a regular contributor to Voltairenet, has penned his take on the irony of Defender-Europe 21 in the time of Covid — 30 000 US soldiers moving and mixing freely with soldiers from dozens of allied and ‘partner’ countries while Europeans are locked down in their homes.”
This tells you all you need to know about the reality of that particular issue.
Ukraine starting a war in spring? In many Russian cites, you’d have trouble getting to work, let alone a battlefield, in spring. It has to be Americans making the decision.
Maestro! Identarian ideology Uber alles. Never Never land magical thinking trump’s all. Chris Hedges, America, the fairwell tour, uses as a driving metaphor Durkheim ‘on suicide’. I’m trying to find the courage and determination not to hide in Zurich.Salutations!
If war broke out in Europe, then what would happen in Asia? It looks like Russia, China, North Korea vs US and Australia. Russia has a naval base in Kamchatka peninsular and a considerable naval force with Borei class subs and warships. China has Taiwan to unify and North Korea has south korea to unify. No clue what US is thinking despite all this, but they will be very busy. China has the largest number of warships in the world. North Korea has one of the largest sub fleets in the world. Will find it out soon enough.
The Ukies will fold, maybe become like gnats. But they know now, no ones gonna help them and their life expectancy is below zero.
Yeah, agree. Having only Turkey left to talk to pretty much tells the story.
After Erdogan talked to Zelensky, they signed a statement containing a paragraph saying the resolution of the Ukraine issue would be based on the Minsk 2 agreement.
So when on the surface it looks like Erdogan works against Russia wrt. Ukraine, the opposite is the reality.
Grandes ataques precisam de noites sem Lua e estradas secas (compactadas).
Tivemos uma semana se Lua semana passada, as tropas estão em prontidão, descansando essa semana, próxima semana, semi prontidão, depois da próxima Lua Cheia, pode ser que o Saker reative as postagens ao vivo.
O Voenkor ainda pode soprar.
:-!
Google translation,MOD:
Major attacks need moonless nights and dry (compacted) roads.
We had a week if Moon last week, the troops are ready, resting this week, next week, semi-ready, after the next Full Moon, it may be that Saker reactivates the live posts.
Voenkor can still blow.
: -!
“(it is unclear how many transgenders that includes)”
My guess would be most of them !!
Don’t forget pregnant women – if Biden’s maternity uniforms are ready…
Something should be done to stop Western-Zionist bankers from taking over the entire resources and life of our planet as they have been eyeing Russia with its huge size and natural resources for a major privatization agenda. Russia is one of their favorites and if they continue as they are doing, Siberia could go to the highest bidder. This is very serious. The world must unite, in order to defeat the US and its EU puppets once and for all. The Ukronazi-Banderistan war will surly expand into major battles in other parts of the world.
I had an interesting “waking dream”. Anyone who experiences waking dreams will understand. They will also understand it is NOT necessarily a prediction of events to come. Please forgive my lack of knowledge of military tactics and strategies, as well as my limited knowledge of geopolitics. I will simply describe what I saw in layman’s words.
I saw the line on the map that separates western Ukraine from the Donbass forces.
I saw an overwhelmingly massive Russian ground force drive across the border into Ukraine, at night, rather like a blitzkrieg. Like a snake, the Russian military did not stop until it had formed one continuous and narrow line from north to south, separating the Donbass region from western Ukraine. Once they stopped moving, their weapons were pointed in both directions, east and west. Although there was some resistance and the Russian suffered losses, the Russians did not fire a single shot.
The Russian government announced its sole intent was to enforce Minsk 2. It also announced its military would not fire a single shot unless fired upon by the Ukraine military or the Donbass military, in which case they would annihilate the specific battery where the shots were fired from with a huge demonstrative show of explosive force, then cease firing. They did so several times.
The Russians treated both sides alike. When the firing had ceased, the Russians ordered both sides to withdraw a certain distance, and then to withdraw an even greater distance, with appropriate military action if they failed to do so. When the Russian military saw that both sides had complied, the entire Russian military packed up and left Ukraine.
The Russian government stated its military would destroy any Ukraine or Donbass military that moved inside this miles-wide “no mans land”.
Germany knew – and approved – of the operation ahead of time and provided “behind the scenes” support.
This sounds like a plausable scenario, but it’s unlikely to play out like how it did in your dream. First of all, the Donbass military would never fire on Russians, nor would the Russians threaten them – maybe I’m wrong, but I’d like to think they would treat eachother as brothers.
But despite that, I think this is a significantly likely outcome. We could have RU peacekeepers controlling the dividing line like what happened in Armenia between Armenia and Azerbaijan. It would make sense for them to pull out, though, like you said, as Ukraine would certainly target and attack in various attempted provocations. Anybody who tries to move into the dividing line could instead be targeted by airstrikes or missiles rather than having boots on the ground.
Ukraine wouldn’t be able to do shit about it as if they attempt to move into the “no man’s land” their forced would quickly be obliterated there. Then if Russia doesn’t have to have boots on the ground it’s not much of an invasion either, but of course the US elites will still scream and cry…
Chinese wisdom:
Washington et al. are ‘paper tigers’ = Claim or appear to be powerful or threatening, but are actually ineffectual and unable to withstand challenges [Wikipedia].
I believe the closing sentence of the introduction says it all: ideology/philosophy uber alles?
This is what makes the situation VERY dangerous. With ideology/philosophy superceeding common sense, calculations of probabilities in Ukraine and the Black Sea are ultimately irrelevant, as the standoff is either a distraction and/or a fuse not a calculated and useful confrontation of itself.
For almost a decade the West could get away with proxy wars, write blood cheques on an overdrawn account but that started changing in 2016/2017 with the election of Trump. The West’s influence account is completely empty but they sorely need a distraction to reset their financially, culturally and morally bankrupt system without attracting blame – diversion. Instead of cleaning the slate and starting over, like Russia and China did two decades ago, they prefer and believe they can jump from one horse to another in full gallop while they only ever ride children’s arcade robotic horses, not the real ones!
Worse people in the West are waking up to the decades of nonsense and deception which will be highly prejudicial to leaders, possibly including execution, Neuremberg style.
And herein lies the danger. They ultimately don’t care how many people die, worldwide, how many ships are sunk in the Black Sea, or elsewhere, as long as the result is sufficient to divert attention from themselves and provide a scapegoat for and opportunity (space) to start fixing or even reinforcing their mess!
Will the Ukies be their proxies at a price (EU membership)?
Maybe that’s the wrong question. Better question:
Will a localised war be sufficient?
I doubt it. They NEED a world war because everything is falling apart and their populations are revolting. To provide a solution on such a scale, ships in the Black Sea could create a Pearl Harbor event and the Ukies be used as the fuse (as attempted but failed with MH17)!
These people believe they OWN the world financially, so whoever “wins” is ultimately irrelevant as everyone ultimately owes them money and consequently they own them. And war is excellent “business”: you finance the destruction, then you finance the reconstruction, whilst decreasing plebescites to counter you?
I believe the above superficially sketches the true motivation for these moves and illustrates the real danger – a win-win for the money and a loss for everyone else.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine in Donbass were left without satellite communications, GPS and SEC equipment due to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (Sevastopol News Portal)
According to the news-r.ru portal, in the Donbas, the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were subjected to a “radio strike” due to electronic warfare from the RF Armed Forces, and now they are left without GPS.
Now the Ukrainian army does not have the opportunity to use its UAVs, radars, radar reconnaissance systems and other instruments for confrontation. This information was shared by the Chinese edition of Sohu. According to the newspaper, the OSCE reported a surge in activity to suppress signals. Such maneuvers contribute to the emergence of opinions that the escalation of the conflict is already close.
Sohu experts note that by this method the Russian Federation wants to return Ukraine to the “path” of the Minsk agreements and force Ukraine to comply with all previously signed agreements. At the same time, the publication also notes that Russia has clearly voiced its position on the protection of its citizens in Donbass in the event of an escalation of the conflict.
Confirmed via land line conversation, Gorlovka DNR, 23:40 11 April 2021.
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An intelligent way to deal with ‘paper tigers’.
Read all your three books, Auslander, waiting for the next one.
Cheers from France.
Mario José Medjeral
I am pleased you enjoyed my writings. I hope to have Book 2 of Third Defense up by late summer.
Kind regards
Auslander
Hi Auslander,
I was looking for a type of asymmetric ‘thing’ to happen. Perhaps this is it. I don’t see this reported in any other sources yet, so, did it just happen? And please assure me – I know you won’t post if the info is not dead on right, but are you truly happy with this info, i.e., we can accept this as fact? or do we put some % veracity on it?
I have a batch of questions, but let’s stick with only one more – how long in time can such a cut in connectivity be sustained? Perhaps, how long will make it effective? Can they use a different radio system and re-instate communication quickly? Internet perhaps?
Hugs
Amarynth
This was apparently some time after dark on 11 April, means after 19:00. It is confirmed to the extent it can be, IOW I am not physically on location. I do not know how long Mother will do this but I do know it can go on basically forever. I do not know if this figures on the ‘no fly’ zone for the orcs et al, but it might well be. I am not an expert on the various frequencies negated but I’m sure Mother has thought of this and can and will act appropriately.
In my opinion this act, whether permanent or temporary, was to show the orcs et al just what Mother can do from inside her sovereign territory. In a way it’s like being on guard duty wherein you can not leave your post without specific orders, but you can send your bullets wherever needs be.
Auslander
Thank-you sir. I’ll make sure that this reporting reaches those that it must reach as soon as daylight dawns, and people are done with their yawns :-)
Spot Report 6/2021: SMM long-range UAV unable to take off due to dual GPS signal interference
KYIV
7 April 2021
Auslander
Thank you for the update. As always, it is much appreciated. I wonder if The Saker has additional data from his sources. As for this “radio strike”, it was obviously Russia’s warning to Ukraine that it will not tolerate any aggression against the Donbass.
Leo
The orcs have been told in no uncertain terms what the result of an attack will be. Remains to be seen if they believe the warnings and/or if they think Foggy Bottom has their backs.
Auslander
Minsk A is dead, for years now. It’s purpose was to buy time, forced ukraine to stalemate, is pointless apart from that. The 2 Donbass republics are NOT going to be part of ukraine again, they are heading towards Russia.
Once a critical mass of Russian citizens is reached, together with certain objectives that Russia still has to deal with, the independent Republics will be invited to join Russia.
In WW1 Europe consisted of nation states. Based on ethnicity. They withstand, and dish out, cataclysmic levels of violence and stress. They could commit to total war for four years. Russia was slightly weaker because it was an empire. USA was arguably weaker for similar reasons but did not have to withstand so much punishment.
A similar story repeated itself in WW2, albeit in an even more hysterical and desperate and insane tone. And arguably both USA and Russia were stronger.
Then came the Vietnam war. And USA struggled to even maintain subscription. Relatively small losses resulted in political and cultural upheaval.
Today? Fuhgeddaboudit. Its unthinkable. USA has worl history’s strongest, biggest, best trained most technically advanced, most mobile. Expeditionary force. Its contemporary in the British Army was chewed up in 3 months in WW1. The woke superficial vain hedonistic diverse selfhating freak that US culture has been moulded into will not tolerate any drop in living standards or any sacrifice for a common goal. It wont happen. And I can’t help but think that our globalist overlords must be aware of this? They are evil, not morons. And I think we have seen a development ever since 1989 of our globalist overlords and the US empire to rely ever more on show and bluster and theater, rather than cold hard physical action. The games they play, they play for a domestic audience, for funneling money to the MIC, for showing the financial elites or whoever runs this thing that they are giving them their money’s worth, like a lay about trying to make his believe he is working hard.
Russia moved troops into position. Partly to make western action impossible. And partly to demoralize Ukraine. Russia prefer the NovoRussia militias to hold the line. And that will be a lot easier if the Ukrainian soldiers know that there is no hope of victory, that the best they can hope for is to be overrun by the Russian conventional army. That is what I believe.
And I believe that Washington and the other globalists only have pockets of die hards and fanatics, most of them are grifters that want nothing to do with dangerous things like picking a fight with Russia.
…and USA struggled to even maintain CONSCRIPTION..
The caterwauling and sniggering here in Australia over Putin putting in place his potential ability to have another couple of terms, is ubiquitous!
I have no doubt why he has because he, to my mind, isn’t going to let the likes of Navalny and other Globalist Neocons destroy Russia and turn it into some plaything for Western Corporations to Balkanise and distribute on the New York Stock Exchange.
So in my opinion that is one more reason the “Hate” machine gets frenetic.
At the moment people on this and other like web sites appear to understand, but I hope not blindly idolise the man.
I’m Australian and refuse to be Americanised by using “Zed’s” when the original English used “S’s”, so there is no misspelling above?
It’s like not wanting to be Balkani(z)ed?
Dear Saker, I remember that Sting song and remember that feeling of repulsion for the viscerally Russophobic subliminal message those lyrics entailed: But truth be told I was not alone. There was even an Italian singer who went on record saying that if he had written the lyrics for that song (Russians) he would have been laughed out of the Italian music scene…. And rightly so. And somehow this Italian singer’s comments (can’t remember the guy’s name) got to Sting’s ears and Sting said (I am paraphrasing): when this Italian fellow will achieve International fame, we will see…
Supremacism is constitutive to the Anglo political culture and Sting knew very well that you can not get International attention unless you sing in the Master’s language, and we all know which one that is.
And here is why I am writing this: the idea of West in singular number does not exist, as of now with the factual collapse of Catholicism, the West it is an Anglo (and protestant, thus capitalist) colonial construct. Russophobia in our nations now known as PIGS was relegated to hardline fascist nostalgics and the comprador and collaborationist classes of the Anglo invaders.
Of the Anglos we only need their language, not their mind, because the Anglo’s mind is the master’s mind Saker, as such we have to think outside of the maser’s mind.
And don’t forget: Las Malvinas son Argentinas.
по братски, Roberto
NATO doesn’t need to defeat Russia in LDPR, in fact it might prefer to lose.
The goal here is to severe Europe from Euro/Asia and then merge the European and USA economy into an anti socialist alliance. If Ukraine can defeat the evil Russians then there would be less excuse for NATO to rescue Ukraine from “Russian aggression”.
However if poor little Ukraine is aggressively attacked by evil Russia while the freedom loving west has to stand by helplessly, because it is hand tied by high moral values and adherence to inter national law – then they get what they want.
Russia is now an evil treat and NATO has no choice but to allow Ukraine to join the brotherhood of freedom loving NATO nations and Independent Europe responds to public demand by severing all ties with “the commies”.
NATO ships in the black sea would then make sense, they would just stand off providing radar and electronic warfare without getting visibly involved.
Don’t know if you have noticed but the most active political movement in the US at present … IS the ‘commies’ (Antifa and BLM).
There not commies and the democrats are not left wing
The most active “movement” in the USA today is facist (Rule by corporations, or more correctly the people who control them). The yanks have been so long brain washed that they think Trump is a Russian commie and Clinton a Chinese commie.
War of liberation is raging.
The war of zone A against zone B is no longer just about occupying territories, but about controlling symbolic/identity spaces. The goal is to get the enemy to fight on your side without even noticing it. The enemies of the Neocon are the peoples, all the peoples of the earth. Russia, China and Iran are winning this war for zone B. Zone A is collapsing. The final defeat will be monetary, when the fiat currencies of zone A will no longer allow this zone to live at the expense of zone B. I have a special thought for my mother Africa while writing this last sentence.
The Stalingrad of zone A was the victory of Tian An Men in 1989. The defeat of Kursk for zone A was the Putinian resurrection of Russia. I don’t know if the final offensive, like Operation Bagration, is already underway.
Now the only recourse of the masters of zone A is nuclear blackmail. Russia must not bend, at any cost. Because with transhumanism no victory or reconstruction will ever be possible again, because Humanity will be gone.
As to Sting, his song made me nearly puke when i first heard that line:
“Sting expresses the following hope “Believe me when I say to you, I hope the Russians love their children too“.
Despicable because it came from a British songster. The English are famous the world over for not careing for their kids, and much less loving their children. (Note: the braindead “Prinz-Gemal” and Duke of Edinburgh wanted to be ‘reincarnated as a deadly virus — he also mobbed his son into despair.)
Mr Sting (is that a flue jab allusion?) is à par with the Irish Idiot who sang “Do they know its Christmas?” about starving Ethiopians — not knowing Ethiopia had been both Christian and Mosaic centuries before Britain and Ireland.
Judging by all the photos & video from last 3 weeks on this Twitter account of Igor Gurkin (Strelkov?) a huge section of the Russian army especially armoured divisions is in the Ukrainian border by now.
https://mobile.twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/media
I think you are mistaken about the person (in fact I am sure of it) and it seems to me that this account is that of a troll from Kiev and it is certainly not by following him that you will get any information…
Here you will find information from a resident of Sebastopol, he has been posting for years:
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/
The FUNNIEST Russia-Gate Headlines Of All Time.
https://youtu.be/cr2SmniV0HY
In 1985, the singer Sting released his famous song “The Russians“. In this, truly quite beautiful, song Sting expresses the following hope “Believe me when I say to you, I hope the Russians love their children too“. In 1985 I was only 22, but I remember thinking “folks in the West wonder whether we love our children too – how weird, as if we were some kind of different species and not quite human”.
Dear Saker,
When a superior and exceptional ethnic group or nation wants to demonize other ethnic groups or nations the “they don’t love their children” card can be used to great political effect. Here in Australia in October 2001, we had the “the children overboard scandal” where brown-skinned asylum seekers were demonized by the Australian Government as the worst parents from hell. Even though a later inquiry showed the Government to be lying, many people believed them and they got away with this disgusting behaviour and were never held to account. In fact, the incident was used to bring in harsher policies and treatment to asylum seekers, which remains to this day.
The biggest and most dangerous issue is the propaganda war being waged by the five eyes group(USA, UK, CA, AU, NZ) against the rest of the world. By the time the propaganda is shown to be untrue, they always have managed to change facts on the ground to their advantage. The big LIE is the weapons technology of the west.
As to the term “the Five Eyes Group”, four things should be said:
1: There are three eyes (Aus und Neu) that only look at what the leading two eyes (us and eng) want them to see.
2: Saurión all-seeing eye sits in the Isreëli state piggiy-park plantation of the Zionists in occupied Palestine and commands the other palantirs to obey that evil critters most foul will. So there are five one-eyed mice — ‘the five Ayes’ following the bloody-eyed big eye.
3: There is a Nordic fairy-tale about five trolls blundering through the boreal forests and hills led by the one troll who carries their single eye (they take turns).
4: Each of the five Anglo-chauvinist lies -shouting out laud for gods’ shakes — all having but one eye each means not having a depth sight and no ability to see things in perspective. This bad eyesight they have infected The Ukraine with too.
Of course, they will not be held accountable for violating hate crime laws, it is only applied arbitrarily to those who are Anti-Jew and Anti-Israel for political purposes.
Not to trivialise the situation, but Ukraine is perhaps the distraction and the threat. It’s possible Russia learned of the cyber attack in Iran and were told to keep shtoom. Maybe far fetched but Iran is the only game in town to Israel. And there might be more to the cyber attack than meets the eye.
“they are quite literally putting their children, and the entire planet, at risk and for absolutely no valid reason except a passionate, yet dull, hatred of everything Russian.”
I didn’t read all the 150 comments,so I don’t know if someone said what I’m going to say.
The Western elites are behaving in desperate mode, so their behaviour should be seen under the light of trying to save the systems (basically meaning the state of things that allow the elite’s privileges) before irreversible changes get out of their control and they end up losing more thatn they calculated.
I think that the hatred towards Russian people from the West is just a vehicle to convey their objectives, not the main reason for which they are puting their offspring and the entire planet at risk.
As if their motto were “either we the elites are at the top and the ones who decide or we the planet popuulation die all together”.
“Aut Caesar aut nihil” (It’s all or nothing).
Hitler died a deeply disappointed man because “the rotten no good cowardly German people” refused to commit collective suicide alongside their Leader when his ambition to control the world was crushed by the Russian Bear. He said his experts had let him down: they had assured him that no country — let alone a “backward, big, clumsy country” like Russia — could produce so many tanks so quickly.
Fortunately for “the rotten no good cowardly German people” Hitler had no Samson Option with which to immolate his volk in a final fiery Valhalla, because Germany had failed to produce the atom bomb (Hitler having contemptuously delegated that crucial task to the lowest pigeon in the High Command’s pecking order: the Postmaster General). I guess there are going to be some deeply disappointed Leaders among our uber-ambitious Anglo Zionazi Capitalists when Cold War 2 ends, and they will blame everybody except themselves. Keep them away from the red button.
Source for Stalin’s tanks:
Even before the United States entered World War II in December 1941, America sent arms and equipment to the Soviet Union to help it defeat the Nazi invasion. Totaling $11.3 billion, or $180 billion in today’s currency, the Lend-Lease Act of the United States supplied needed goods to the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1945 in support of what Stalin described to Roosevelt as the “enormous and difficult fight against the common enemy — bloodthirsty Hitlerism.”
• 400,000 jeeps & trucks
• 14,000 airplanes
• 8,000 tractors
• 13,000 tanks
• 1.5 million blankets
• 15 million pairs of army boots
• 107,000 tons of cotton
• 2.7 million tons of petrol products
• 4.5 million tons of food
https://ru.usembassy.gov/world-war-ii-allies-u-s-lend-lease-to-the-soviet-union-1941-1945/
What they neglect to say that the first tranches of material were paid for in Soviet gold, and much equipment was undesired by the US. The Airacobra was considered defective by the US Army, yet the Soviets made it work by using different tactics.
I am not implying the yank/banks were altruistic.
The program could be better termed “lend/fleece” rather than lend-lease.
I was responding to this:
>He said his experts had let him down: they had assured him that no country — let alone a “backward, big, clumsy country” like Russia — could produce so many tanks so quickly.<
Which is why I wrote:
“Source of Stalin’s tanks”.
You’re wrong about the tanks supplied by US under Land lease which were mostly early Shermans and which were not very effective against German Panzers.
The tank that won most of the battles for the USSR on the eastern front was the T-34. Period. The USSR built over 80,000 of these tanks during the WW2 years of which many tens of thousands were destroyed by the end of the war.
Yes, Land Lease was a real event and it was vital in terms of food and supplies of critical raw materials and machinery to the USSR but the supply of US tanks was not an important factor.
Wiping out one or two American carrier strike groups would send a clear message to America and its allies that they need to rethink their position in the world – quickly.
And if China simultaneously attacked Taiwan and wiped out a carrier attack group in the South China Sea, that would add an exclamation point.
“The Whigs celebrated Clay’s vision of the American System, which promoted rapid economic and industrial growth in the United States through support for a national bank, high tariffs, a distribution policy, and federal funding for infrastructure projects.”
“Whigs were less in favor of expansionism than their Democratic counterparts, and Whigs tended to oppose the Mexican–American War and the acquisition of new territories like Cuba.”
There are other good tidbits, but you get the point. Sounds like the Wigs would like stuff like BRI, not false flag pretexts and the resulting shoving of 2,000 lb bombs on sleds out of the back of cargo planes at 29,000 feet to create #$%^hole countries.
If the above about the Whig party in the Wikilier entry is true, perhaps we need more Whiggers and fewer wiggers, unless of course, you know that trite expression, walk and chew gum.
In an earlier posting, the Saker mentioned that it was not easy to make predictions with absolute certainty.
Some projections can be relatively predictable: such as when i pontificated as a student in 1974 that lasers would one day be placed onto fighter jets. Other students thoroughly ridiculed my assertion and said that lasers could never ever ever be smaller than a huge building. The parameter that i used for prediction was a single one: the miniaturisation-trend. I simply pointed out how the Biro developed. By an amazing coincidence I met the chief developer of the laser miniaturisation project about 4 years ago and he confirmed there was indeed a program with the aim to place lasers on US fighter jets.
I also predicted then, that the USA would one day turn totalitarian and Russia would become a free and open society. Again in 1974, such an idea seemed ridiculous to fellow students. I used the single parameter – based on history, how Germany developed 1929-1945 and how similar the USA was trending, as a fascist entity where the majority seemed ignorant and an elite had impunity. In Russia’s case this was also an easy prediction based on the popular uprising against the Czar and the trend for people to want to again break free of the totalitarian structure (at that time i had just viewed the original film of the mutiny on the Battleship Potemkin)
I also asserted that there would be a crossover period between the USA becoming totalitarian and Russia becoming a more free society. The two blocs would come to some better understanding at the crossover point. The parameter i used was a simple trend line based on the previous prediction. This was also thoroughly ridiculed by my fellow students.
Another assertion that i made was that one day, Europe would join Russia against the USA to help Americans free themselves from totalitarianism. Again i used parameters from history: That of the Russians giving support in the US Civil War and of alliances made between warring partners who settled differences to join against a worse common enemy (such as in WW2)… As it has been proven that European leaders have no spine, i cannot now continue to be confident in my prediction that Europeans will ever understand Russia better and seek common destiny.. But…never say never. The trend is currently 50/50…
i could now assert that it was obvious that a Russian show of force would make NATO back down from its brinkmanship? is that not an easy prediction to make, for Russophiles? (even if i say so in hindsight).
NATO will do some heavy Think-Tanking and find other ways to try to continue to upset Russia (+China+Iran+others). It is both in the Nature and in the Nurture of NATO, to continue along this path. But the advice given by such sources will mislead Western leaders into making wrong decisions: sanctions against Russia being one of them – which have backfired and made Russia stronger. i note a guy called Kurt Volker appearing on the UK television news, coming out with all the usual silly tropes about Russia, with the newscasters unable or unwilling or incapable of challenging his assertions…and Volker smiling as if to say “I hope i have managed to do my bit to fool you guys.”
Based on the precedent of Germany in WW2 (where 9 intelligence apparatuses competed with Admiral Canaris for the ear of Hitler), is that the US has even more such entities / far too many competing intelligence agencies and players whose proxies will be fighting one another. A situation which an ex-US Special Forces friend stated to me “happens far more often than we care to admit.”
So Russia can just sit back and watch as these proxies decimate one another.
Biden will continue to put his foot in his mouth, soiling the image of the USA in the “decent + ethical world.” Gradually maybe even the Western leaders with a bad case of Stockholm Syndrome, will seek an alternative path which does not compromise their sovereignty but i do not hold my breath.
The US dollar will continue to lose value. The runaway money printing and vast expenditure on the military are incompatible parameters in the long-term. That is a certainty.
The British public is being bombarded with mail-outs from charities. One that has recently appeared is begging for funds to “assist the collection of stray dogs in Moldova.” This innocent-sounding venture has a far more sinister undertone. There is a pattern to such postal circulars. I have experienced these circulars from NGOs, in turn, for all the various theaters of conflict that the UK and US government have been deeply involved in…the Yemen, Afganistan, Iraq, Syria…Georgia, Chechnia…Each theatre of operations was accompanied by a flurry of NGO activity, basically asking the taxpayer to help subsidize a predatory fundamentalist agenda. Take Montenegro as an example. The NGOs moved into the country. The population was firmly supportive of Russia. The NGOs worked in close coordination with each other, tightening the noose around a reluctant population until there was a point reached where NATO entered the country in the form of trained mercenaries who then attacked and beat up legitimate protests. The NGOs play the role of a Trojan Horse. The NGO gets visas for its innocent sounding activities and then a UK Foreign Office staffer asks the charity if they can also send a volunteer to work alongside the charity. In this manner, hundreds of NGO workers infiltrate a country and the political operatives then link up to destabilise the existing political order. OK… for many of you i have been stating the obvious. These processes are known.
But what i am alluding to is that Moldova is currently a major theatre of operations…where the only final outcome is that Moldova will soon become another Stepford Wife of NATO. That is an easily predictable projection? No? This situation will develop further regardless of any conflict in the Ukraine entity but it will start to threaten the position of Transnistria…
Much has been written by contributors here that the Ukraine has been quite good at infiltrating Russia and making mischief there. This is one of the eternal puzzles for me, why Russia, who has a history of successful infiltration of western societies, has not shown any sign of willingness or capability or capacity, to infiltrate the Ukraine and challenge NATO activities there….The Russians know the language and culture and mindset and can easily integrate and merge into that society…it is their own kith and kin…That i find the most strange of all the issues surrounding the Ukraine. The overt posture of today might not have been needed if covert operations had been instigated after 2014 ?
I’d say because all those covert and NGO-type activities eventually bankrupt the state. Russia is determined to run a government with a clean balance sheet in order to be free of the Empire’s greatest source of influence: dollar dominated debt. Meanwhile, the US now spends more than two dollars for every one it collects in taxes.
OK…so the USA spent $5 billion (mostly on bribes) + some cookies + 100x innocent Berkut+ civilians murdered. They did this overtly – and Russia let them get away with it.
As the US is just printing more money…whats $5bn?
What im saying is the covert cost to Russia since 2014 of a war of attrition, removing neo-nazis from the gene-pool would have been a fraction of this.
The current overt cost to Russia of placing 500,000 troops in position, ie at staging points, is far higher today than a covert war of attrition.
but then again, events have forced Russia to spend on development of weapons that far outmatch the West….The cost is bearable, considering that their manufacture is state owned and state run.
Sad that just like the Germans suddenly sprang into life and developed major innovations when they were preparing for war, or like the uS after 1941, it has to take a crisis to motivate governments to respond to external threats.
That the US has decided to finance their weapons procurement by NOT taxing its citizens is not a choice between covert and overt activity. rather, it is a financial-model-gone-wrong.
Russia can still do a lot of covert activity without needing to bribe the Ukie population. Give an eastern Russian-Ukie a good weapon and he will use it the right way.
If you think God will help us all then you are as crazy as all the rest.
These mugs know what is up. God may judge us all but help us all? This is not the Kingdom of God – stuff New Jerusalem on th Potomac. Would any God help people openly blasphemy morning, noon and night? I could go and bore everyone but why bother?
I am reminded of the movie”Wyatt Earp” with Kevin Costner. It’s the bar scene where the bartender asks Wyatt if there is going to be a fight. Wyatt answers, I think there must be. That’s how I see the situation in Ukraine.
It’s more than Ukraine, it’s about the wests desire for a new world order. The Devos crowd had there meeting and Putin said no. Russian and China desire a multi polor world. For the west ( basically USA and British) to succeed they must destroy Russia.
This fight is coming sooner or later. Unless the psychotic neocons are destroyed the world will never be safe.
I am a American living in Mexico. I escaped the insanity a few years ago. There is no fight in the people of the USA to rid them of this menace. The attention is towards BLM and SJW fanatics. Watching cities burn and young people running amok. One can’t even defend ones self with out getting arrested. Sad out come for my country. A stolen election, military guarding the capital, covid lockdowns, constant spying on the people, criminal banking element, a trillion dollar military that can’t build a plane that doesn’t shoot itself. It’s a cartoon but a very serious one. MAD is real and we should all be paying attention.
Looks like Alexander Mercouris at the Duran called it right, there seems now to be little prospect of a war, too many people were looking at the worse case scenario. Now Russia Confirms Putin-Zelensky-Merkel-Macron Ceasefire Summit Is Coming
Like Anglos would let it happen unchalenged.
Brace for incoming false flag!
How do we know that “Ukraine wanted to become like the West”? Did the cityzents show such a will on some refferendum?
The Americans need to be humiliated militarily, been saying it for a while. Send them home with half a battle carrier group sank 1000km from Russian shores, something that cannot be spun in any other way than a catastrophic defeat. Watch the US allies disappear overnight. The Russians in the past have always done things in a way that allows the US to ‘save face’, that time is gone. The US elites and the US people must be left in no doubt who and what they are dealing with. There is no common sense left in the west, Russophobes clinging to their failed past. Time to thoroughly shake up the western ‘order’ and show the world that there is an alternative that you are welcome to join, if you play by the rules of sovereign statehood and non interference, with respect all governed by rule of international law.
Mussolini defined fascism as the union of the state and corporations. That’s what we have seen in the US. Russia under Putin has shown amazing restraint to a litany of attacks by the west at the behest and direction of the US. The time for a tactical and strategic kinetic Russian response is inevitable. Putin has become the defender of the free world. US collapse is inevitable and they are willing to burn it all down on their way out.
Dear Saker Community,
Witness the fighting capability of Italian women in NATO’s unisex army; it will send “shivers” down your spine (make sure you turn the sound ‘on’).
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1381101676581412867?s=20
Noi italiani vogliamo sempre essere simpatici, ormai ci conoscete.
Yandex translation. Mod:
We Italians always want to be nice, by now you know us.
Dear Saker,
Hats off for your splendid job. I am from Ethiopia (East Africa region). I follow the situation in Ukraine and Russia very closely, perhaps next to my region. The traps set by the greedy empire are too many. Had Russia not been the Oasis of wisdom having leaders like Putin, Lavrov, Shougu & co, the end of the plant could be a done deal long ago.
I feel sorry for the Ukrainian people as they are hostaiges of their own hate mongering, callous & brainwashed elite. Every country having the resources, history and/or the potential for development is tracked, pillaged and thrown away by the Empire. Ukies are suffering to prepare them as a launch pad against Russia. Look what is happening on Brazil, around China, Iran, etc. Even harmless & poor Ethiopia is under the Empire’s coercion collaborating with a tribal terrorist group called TPLF. Ethiopia’s fault is it’s resistance to colonialists and thousands of years of uninterrupted history. Not likened by the Empire and it’s European vassals.
Though, dangerous it may appear now the Empire’s grave is close by. It is irredeemably disintegrating The whole world will sooner or later breath a sigh of relief.
Once the the Empire and it’s head parasite (neocon) is done away with, the global south in collaboration with Russia and China will focus on enhancing humanity.
What if the crazy AngloZionist start importing Sputnik V then mix the batches with a spiked coctail that starts killing people and then say ah now we must take the bad Ruskies,(plus blame all “vaccine” deaths and sufferings from Astra Zenica and phifizer on the russians) They could easily do that, in cahoots with the media to deflect all the crap coing on at home, what do you think?
So if it goes hot between US/NATO against Russia over Donetsk & Lugansk, the west will be quite occupied. Seems like an opportune time for China to take back Taiwan and possibly for the Axis of Resistance to move on Israel at the same time.
Excellent analysis. As most Saker readers are aware, US post-WWII global hegemony has rested on three interacting facets: 1) unrivaled military power, 2) control of world’s energy reserves, and 3) maintaining the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. All of the pillars supporting US power are now breaking down from decades of neo-liberal economic policies, spending vast sums of public money on the military and war and more recently, attainment of economic/military parity by China and Russia.
The Covid19 pandemic has accelerated US economic decline; American capitalism confronts the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression- plagued by excess capacity and slack demand, increasing bankruptcies, exploding deficits, stagnant wages and high unemployment, with millions of families facing eviction from their homes, food insecurity, loss of medical insurance and financial ruin. These problems have been compounded by spending astronomical amounts of taxpayer money bailing out Wall St, subsidizing the Pentagon and looming strategic debacles in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen. The Pentagon is incapable of extricating itself from these conflicts as doing so is an admission of failure and by extension military weakness. US economic decline has progressed to the point where the very survival of the American empire is contingent upon continuous debt monetization [i.e., money printing] to prop up Wall St. and insolvent banks, the Pentagon and war. It appears the Biden Administration views the Russia-China–Iran axis as an unacceptable obstacle to US global hegemony. This position is endorsed by the ruling elite, while corporate media, which serves as the ‘ministry of propaganda’ is doing its part by constantly villainizing Russia and China to prepare the American public for nuclear war. The potential for direct military confrontation with China, Russia and Iran exists in multiple theaters including Ukraine, Middle East- Iraq, Syria and Persian Gulf and Taiwan Strait. See- US economic decline and global instability Jan 19, 2021; Link: /us-economic-decline-and-global-instability/
A slight correction to your list of US pillars of power: the appearance of ‘unrivaled military power’ (UMP) (remember, they’ve not won a war since 1945, not counting Grenada) – but rather than ‘unrivaled,’ I’d say it is the willingness to use MP, contrary to all rules and opposition. No other country has been as brazen in this regard.
Additionally, a while back, it was also economic power (before they off-shored most of the manufacturing capacity); ability and willingness to bribe elites world over (or, dispose of the disobedient ones); and a vast spying and listening apparatus (remember, they listened in on Merkel).
Everyone tends to assume that because the USA and Russia are nuclear powers, that neither would ever directly attack the military forces of the other.
However, I refer you to the Falkland Islands War of 1982 in which Argentina invaded and occupied the Falklands and South Georgia Island, which were territory of the nuclear armed Great Britain. Ironically, Britain had been working toward ceding the Falklands to Argentina for several years against the interests of the inhabitants. But the Argentine military dictatorship became impatient and decided to simply take them by force.
In the ensuing 70 day war, the British lost seven ships. While there were also substantial land campaigns on the islands themselves, the war was primarily aircraft and submarines versus destroyers and capital ships. The British Navy had woefully inadequate air defenses, which allowed the Argentine Air Force to bomb them directly, in addition to using stand-off weapons such as Exocet anti-ship missiles.
One British commander remarked after the war that had the Argentines not used faulty fuses on their bombs, the British would have lost. In addition to the many successful hits, Argentine pilots managed to land six bombs on target that penetrated the British ships but failed to explode because they were dropped from an altitude too low to allow the fuses to arm themselves.
My purpose in making this comment is to illustrate the point that just because there are two nuclear powers who could annihilate each other does not necessarily mean that they would never engage in a conventional war, particularly in overseas territories. This is because a Naval defeat by either party did not represent an immanent threat of invasion of their home-front. Therefore both countries were willing to take risks and absorb losses that they never would have attempted in direct war on the other’s home territory.
Given that the USA has a military empire spanning the globe, and that Russia also has assets deployed abroad, it seems likely that an escalation of the proxy war being fought through Ukraine and Syria for the past decade, would probably take the form of attacks on each other’s navy or air force assets deployed abroad. Given that naval vessels are usually positioned in international waters, attacks on the other’s navy have the lowest risk of nuclear retaliation or destruction of relations with a NATO host country of, say a US missile battery.
After 28 years of failing to listen to repeated Russian warnings, NATO has surrounded Russian and placed forces up against her flanks. At some point, Russia will strike back.
This is a little confusing, since Argentina is not a nuclear-armed State. That eliminates the possibility of a nuclear exchange, which is what the entire calculus of MAD is all about. I suppose you could argue that the UK would use nuclear weapons if they were losing the Falklands war, although I think that is extraordinarily unlikely. In either case this was not an existential threat for either party. US / Russia is an entirely different matter and in my opinion, a direct conflict between the two at any level beyond an aircraft or two going down would risk a nuclear Armageddon that would end both countries, and perhaps human civilization. It must not happen.
I had a Scientist working for me who, when I stated that one of the many reasons for not supporting Hillary Clinton was that she seemed to want to have a war … with Russia, said ‘why not’. My jaw just dropped and my reply was ‘do you want to die?’. But, it did tell me that there were even intelligent people who did not seem to comprehend what a US / Russia war would be.
Steve
I heard somewhere (not sure where anymore) but apparently Maggie Thatcher did plan to use nukes on Argentina, which is why apparently the French caved in and gave the UK the codes for the Argentinian Exocet missiles and hence allowed UK to win the war.
I cannot swear to the accuracy of the report.
Steve, the fact that the USA started a proxy war with Russia in the first place suggests that you are mistaken. The USA seems to think they can fight a war with Russia over Ukraine without it going nuclear. The reverse may also be true.
Firing missiles of any kind at either the US or Russian mainland will certainly escalate to nuclear war. Engaging military targets of either nation at sea or on foreign territory is unlikely to escalate to a nuclear exchange.
The one exception to that would be nuclear missile submarines or bombers which are part of both countries’ nuclear triads. Attacking either nation’s nuclear triad would also trigger a nuclear exhange.
I too recently was reviewing my memory; my memory was that I had read that during the Falklands war that Margaret Thatcher contacted Valéry Giscard d’Estaing President of France and demanded the override codes for Exocet missiles. Thatcher was reputed to state that failing to get the overrides that GB would / could escalate to using nuclear weapons on the Argentine fleet. My memory is that it was stated that the President of France passed on the overrides.
A couple months ago I researched it slightly to review and only found the above statements of the poor fuses and British luck. If others have good sources about the usage of the Exocets in the Falklands war, I would be appreciative. peace out
see Robert Green on UK nukes and murder https://youtu.be/nH6xkjMNdnk The Falk war seems to have come quite close to “it”.
I recall Maggie claiming that there is no society, only the individual… What a claim!
Skynews report on the Russian troops in Voronezh
https://youtu.be/OZeEbsY398Y
Greeting of Peace, please listen to TruNews.com hosts Rick Wiles, Ed Szall, Doc Burkhart discussing the tense situation in Ukraine. Apparently, Russian city of Cheropovets is preparing to receive war deads for burials. God Almighty give swift victory to the patient and the Just, Ameen.
https://www.trunews.com/stream/russian-cities-prep-for-possible-mass-burials-of-war-dead
I would advise you to take such dramatic claims with a grain of salt.
However, it begs the question what would be the situation in the US if a war starts and they have many many dead? Without even knowing about this escalation and crazy politics of their leadership at all and all of a sudden a total existential war is served to them.
“Believe me when I say to you, I hope the Russians love their children too“
I’m in total shock!
English is not my language, and until today I had always though that song by Sting actually said:
“Believe me when I say to you, that the Russians love their children too“
that is, I had always thought that Sting was saying to the warmongers that their demonization and fear of Russians was wrong, because Russians are humans loving their children “just as us”.
It never crossed my mind, not even once, that the song could basically say “I hope Russians are humans”; my esteem for Sting has suddenly plumeted. I am quite disgusted.
Actually – He says both. “That the Russians love their children too” is the first refrain. The last one, “I hope”.. is the end of the song, and sounds more desperate. The first one is a call to our leaders, I think, stating that the Russians are indeed human. The last line reminds us of the Mutually Assured Destruction, reminding us, as listeners, that a nuclear war will destroy us all, Russians and Americans alike. I always thought the last line can be interpreted as “I hope the Russians understand this”, regardless of who begins the war.
The technology of propaganda is inflation, conflation, and repetition of messages in every media form, this shifts meaning and facts constantly thus creating the big LIE because the information is no longer attached to its correct context. The average busy person can’t keep up with all the fact-checking that needs to be done just to stay reasonably informed with what is really going on…even if they manage it, it is no longer significant as factual information, as the facts on the ground would have already shifted again. The big LIE is very hard to penetrate through and get to the truth of because there are just so many layers of untruths appearing in the 24-hour news cycle that real communication and understanding becomes impossible, the lies keep piling up before any truth can be uncovered. It just all happens too fast.
The lyrics actually are “If the Russians…” and “I hope the Russians…”. The meaning of the song is very clear if you interpret it within the context of when it was written. The lyrics imply that if the Russians(Soviets would have been more accurate in the lyrics) love their children too, then they will give up the ideological fight because there will be no winners when the real fighting happens. Silly Gorby believed Sting and the Anglo/five eyes big LIE…and…well…we know how that ended up….more war and death and Russia in a more weakened position. Sting is part of the Anglo/five eyes propaganda machine because he reinforcers the big LIE. Consciously or not he is a propaganda tool. The present power imbalance is dangerous for the whole world, not just Russia.
The only way the US will cease their war mongering ways is for the country to suffer millions of war dead, trillions of $ on property losses on US soil. End of story.
“they would need months to redeploy the necessary forces and means to Europe”
They have been flying cargo plains all the time to Ukraine. If they follow their tradition of invading in June (as a couple of times before), they might be able to pile something. However, where would the soldiers come from for that war…
This reminds a bit of the movie “White Tiger” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Tiger_(2012_film)). We are witnessing the continuation of the movie – current time picking off from the end of the movie.
Putin doesn’t pick up Zelensky’s calls, quite understandable and what could a conversation with Zelensky amount for.
It’s so evil and dark that they keep their own society unaware and uninformed of what they are doing and the madness they are creating. They don’t want their population to sanction their decisions. That’s bad. They do it all the time, but now it’s worse and more crucial. Someone would need to spill the beans.
When I read this again it really hit me. The average American is not aware of what is going on in the Ukraine. My friends don’t ever mention it. These are regular decent people that I personally know and the same is true for most of the patrons at my local neighborhood bar. People don’t know about it much less how serious the situation is.
Let’s hope that the phone calls continue and that cooler heads at the Pentagon prevail.