A reader recently asked me why I have not posted any maps of the military situation in the Ukraine, and that is a fair question which I will answer below.
There are a few reasons for this, but the main and most obvious one is this: unlike the first month or two of the SMO, there are very few changes worth showing on a map. That is NOT to say that there are no changes on the frontlines, there are, plenty, but they just don’t translate into nice looking maps.
A recent post on Moon of Alabama quoted what appears to be a leak from the Ukrainian command and which I will repost here:
Ukrainian channels are discussing what might be a leaked data from AFU General Staff:
– The AFU are only at 43-48% strength
– medical workers at their limit
– small arms and armor are not enough
– 191 thousand soldiers were killed and wounded (only AFU, not including others)
– there is not enough hydraulics and liquid nitrogen for M777 howitzers
– no one cares about the missing – there are no statistics
– the equipment transferred by the West is running out
– Western weapons are operated by amateurs, since there are no qualified specialists
– no way to repair weapons on the spot due to the lack of spares and specialists – everything is sent to PolandBTW, even with this dire report, I would caution against predicting a decisive break in morale. As with Peski, the walking wounded are sent straight back into the trenches
I would just add here that Peski has been taken.
But the key factoids here are “The AFU are only at 43-48% strength” and “191 thousand soldiers were killed and wounded (only AFU, not including others)“.
Figures might change from country to country, and it all depends on the type of warfare which is being conducted, but the rule of thumb I was taught is that any unit which loses over 30% of its strength is not capable of fulfilling its theoretical combat missions. Now, in history, there are plenty of examples of units with 30% or even more losses, but such units can only hold their ground, not operate an orderly withdrawal nevermind a counterattack. The eventual outcome is always the same, eventually such units collapse and disappear (dead, prisoner or escape).
Put otherwise, at this current stage of the war, statistics such as the one above tell the story, maps don’t.
That being said,
The truth is that the Ukrainian forces in the Donbass have been in a de-facto operational cauldron since the first week of the SMO. That is not the result of any special Russian military move, but a factor of geography. Simply put, the eastern Ukraine is a gigantic cauldron. True, it as not a locked cauldron, meaning that the Ukrainian side still could move forces into and out of the cauldron, but it was already “locked by fire” meaning that Russian forces could, and did, attack the forces moving in and out with devastating effectiveness.
Quick reminder: the Ukrainians, supported by billions of dollars from the combined West did have eight years to prepare very strong fortifications along the towns and cities they controlled before the SMO. Maybe somebody expected the Russians to move in frontally, carpet bomb the Ukie-controlled Donbass (as the USA would do) and then frontally attack taking huge casualties in the process. The Russians, wisely, did not oblige. Instead, they chose to slowly grind down the Ukrainian defenses.
These tactics did, by the way, result in quite a few towns and villages being liberated by Russia (Izum, Peski and others), and quite a few tactical “cauldrons” which eventually were absorbed. But, again, the maps did not reflect the nature of what was taking place.
One question I get a lot is: how come the Russian can’t even stop the shelling of Donetsk from, say, Avdeevka? They have a much stronger and larger artillery force and they have very good counter-battery capabilities, so what is the problem here?
Simple, the Ukrainians position their artillery right next to buildings occupied by civilians. So when a Ukrainian mortar, howitzer or MLRS fires at Donetsk or Makeevka, the Russians DO see where it fired from, but they cannot simply reply with a volley of their own, because that would be killing tens if not hundreds of innocent civilians. That would also give the West the “Russian massacre” they so badly wanted in Bucha. So, instead of firing back, the Russians then refine their firing data, which not only takes time, but also allows the Ukrainians to move, not necessarily by much, just a few tens or hundreds of meters, sometimes just on the other side of a building.
So the Russians decided that moving in slow makes much more sense than to frontally storm the Ukrainian fortifications. This is better for both the LDNR and Russian forces and it is much better for the civilians.
Look, why do you think that the entire civilian infrastructure of, say, Kiev or Kharkov is fully functioning? If you really sincerely believe that the Russians could not destroy it on day 1 of the SMO, you might as well stop reading and never revisit this blog again. For the rest, here is the truism which really explains it all
==>>The Russians do not fight wars the way the USA does<<==
What do I mean by that?
Here is the basic US war plan:
- Attack a basically defenseless country
- Achieve air supremacy (in the absence of any modern air defenses)
- Fire a large amount of cruise missiles, followed by massive air strikes
- If that is not enough, deliberately target and destroy the entire civilian infrastructure
- Then send in ground forces whose basic tactic is this: advance and shoot defenseless people, and when meeting any resistance, call in an airstrike. Then continue.
- Declare victory and leave (ideally while leaving a comprador puppet regime in control)
The result is well over a million dead in Iraq, the total devastation of Libya, the massive bombing of Serbian civilians in Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo, etc. etc. etc.
The Russians simply reject that “logic” on moral and pragmatic grounds. Remember the #6 above! That is *not* a viable option for Russians.
Historically, genocide has ALWAYS been the Western way of war, this is especially true of the British and the US Americans. You don’t have to believe me, simply read this book: The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607–1814 by John Grenier, who retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2009 after a twenty year career in which he attained the rank of lieutenant colonel and served two tours as a professor at the Air Force Academy. He currently serves as the senior professor in American military history for Norwich University’s on-line Masters of Art in Military History (MMH) program. Really, I mean it, get his book, read it, and lose any naive illusions you might have about “Western democracy” and how “liberals” wage war on others.
Another question I get is this: why do the Russian not bypass the Ukronazi towns and villages in the Donbass and push on deeper inside the Ukraine? The answer is simple: because that would place Russian forces in between the still existing Ukrainian positions which the Russians are slowly grinding down now and the Ukrainian forces in the Central Ukraine. It is hardly surprising that the Russians do not want to have their forces fighting on two fronts, one to the West and one to the East. So what about the famous “deep armor operations” or the use of battalion tactical group as a tactical-operational maneuver group? These are all parts of a regular, full-scale, combined arms operation, yes, but the SMO is NOT, repeat, NOT a regular combined arms operation. One example, when the Russians initiated their SMO the Ukrainians had a pretty substantial numerical superiority over the Russians, combined with specific military technological elements (such as advanced secured communications) which the LDNR forces did not have at all, and which the Russian military did have, but not down to the same subunit levels as the Ukrainians. What do we see today? The numerical superiority is gone, and the advanced technologies given to the Ukronazis by the West have only made things more difficult for the Russians, but failed to affect the outcome.
And, of course, the “favorite” one: you (and others) have said many times that Russia could and would defeat the Ukraine in days, a few week max. So now do you admit that you were totally wrong?
First, let’s begin with the assumption of that question, that is to say that Russia did not defeat the Ukraine in days or weeks. Is that even true?
I would argue that is is not. The Russians *DID* successfully basically disable the Ukrainian armed forces in the first few days and weeks of the war: almost the entire Ukrainian air force was destroyed and so were much of the Ukrainian air defenses. As for the ground forces, they have failed to execute a single effective counter-attacks, at most they claimed that every Russian retreat was a result of their counter-attacks, but let me ask a simple question here: if those counter-attacks were successful, where is the result??? Nothing, well, other that the utterly fictitious fairy tales coming out of Kiev, of course. And since Kiev has been wall-to-wall lying about everything from Day 1 of the SMO, how can anybody take their grandiose statements seriously?
So what really happened?
What happened is that the untied West decided to throw its full military might behind the Nazi regime in Kiev. Not only have BILLIONS of dollars worth of equipment been made available to the Ukrainian forces, there were also THOUSANDS of “volunteers” sent to the Ukraine to support the Ukronazi forces (see chart of the right, click here for higher resolution. Quick translation of the main terms: Страна: country; Прибыло: arrived; Уничтожено: destroyed; Убыло: departed; Всего: total).
Last, but most certainly not least, the US and NATO are making use of all their C4ISR capabilities in support of the Ukronazi forces. In fact, it would be accurate to say that the US+NATO have now taken full control of all the military operations in the Ukraine (they have also presided over the total crackdown on any and all forms of internal Ukrainian opposition!).
Once this is understood, let me ask you three simple questions:
- Have I or anybody else declared that Russia would militarily defeat the combined forces of the US+NATO in days or weeks?
- How long would YOU estimate it would take the Russians to achieve such a goal?
- Do you really not see that IN SPITE of that massive and total support of the West, Russia is well on her way to do just that, to defeat not only the best and biggest proxy force in US history, but also all the efforts of the combined West to defeat Russia militarily and economically?
If you did not see this, say, even one month or two ago, I could understand. But if you STILL don’t smell the coffee, then I declare you hopeless, encourage you to stop reading this article and stay away from this blog :-)
Seriously, if the combined West had left the Ukronazi regime in Kiev to its own devices “Ze” would have had to capitulate about 10 days into the SMO, if only to spare the lives of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians.
Did the Russians expect such a massive reaction from the West? The term “expect” is very misleading. That is not how these things work. Operational and strategic plans are not based on a single scenario which you “hope” will materialize. Here are also two things which we should always remember:
- It is the job of the intelligence agencies and the operations planning departments to prepare and model for as many possible scenarios (or scenarii?) as reasonably imaginable.
- Operational and strategic plans do not deal with tactical issues and they CONSTANTLY change depending on a feedback and decision making loop.
One example: Putin admitted during a TV interview that when the Russians moved into Crimea he had placed Russian nuclear forces on maximal alert. Does that meant that anybody in the Kremlin or the General Staff “expected” the US to nuke Russia? Of course not! But they DID consider that possibility and took the needed action to try to prevent it.
Same here. I am very confident that the Russians were fully prepared for the West’s insane and, frankly, suicidal reaction to the SMO. In fact, that “maximal” response was one of the MANY contingencies which the Russians must have prepared for. As a former intelligence analyst, I can tell you that military analysis does look at as many options as possible and then the operational planning folks make their own preparations for any contingency.
It is now abundantly clear that the West is determined to fight Russia down to the last Ukrainian. Hence the truly idiotic order given to the best and most capable Ukrainian forces to not engage in a mobile defense but to hold their ground in the Donbass until they are totally destroyed.
Furthermore, it is also abundantly clear that the Western countries are willing to destroy not only its own economies, but the entire international financial system to try to hurt Russia (and China) as much as possible.
In other words, Russia is not engaged in a war against the Ukraine, but against the entire united and consolidated West.
==>>Have I not been saying just that since at least 2013?<<==
How long will this war last?
I cannot answer that because the answer depends entirely on: how suicidally stupid the leaders of the AngloZionist Empire are?
The Ukrainian forces in the eastern Ukraine have no hopes for an orderly retreat anymore, so they will be destroyed. How soon? I don’t know, that depends on the folks in the trenches and how strong a grip the Nazis have over that force.
Will there be a Ukrainian counter-attack towards Kherson? I sure hope not.
Why? Because currently the Ukrainian forces are dug in inside the city of Nikolaev, and if they decide to attack, they will not only have to get into their pre-battle order formation outside the protective confines of the city, but then they will also have then cross a mostly empty plain. In other words, it will be a massacre.
Might they still try? Sure! ALL the orders given to the Ukrainian forces by the USA+NATO are de facto suicidal and make no military sense. No Neocon will ever give a damn about more massacred Ukrainians.
What else could the Ukrainians do?
Mostly, what they have been doing so far, including:
- Massacring as many civilians in the liberated areas as possible, including with the use of banned weapons (anti-personnel mines and cluster munitions).
- Organize effective terrorist attacks not only in the liberated areas of the Donbass, but also inside Russia (that the Ukrainians have proven pretty good at)
- They might conduct further attacks against Russia, Crimea and the Crimean bridge. None of them will make any military difference or even have much of an impact, but it will be good PR, especially with the full support of the AngloZionist propaganda machine aka “the free press”.
- They are trying hard to bomb the nuclear power station in Zaporozhie. The power plant at Chernobyl might become a target again. Finally, the Ukronazis still have access to plenty of spent nuclear waste which they could use as a “dirty bomb” against their own population and blame Russia (think of it as a “nuclear Bucha”).
- The steady flow of fixed and rotary wing aircraft from Poland, Romania and other countries will continue, giving the Ukronazi propaganda the illusion that Russia does not have air superiority over the entire Ukraine.
There is also a very real possibility that Poland and Hungary might move into the western Ukraine to “protect” their nationals. They have, so far, refrained from doing so, at least openly, probably because US/NATO commanders do not want to risk a Russian strike on NATO forces (even these idiots Biden and Stoltenberg have publicly said that!). However, if done intelligently, Poland and Hungary might well obtain by entirely non-official channels, a Russian promise to “look away” and not take any action. Why? Because Russia has no need whatsoever for these territories and because Russia will be more than happy to let the Poles and Hungarians deal with the Ukronazi nutcases of the western Ukraine.
I hope that the above answers at least some questions you might have had.
I will mention one last thing: while the collapse of the international financial system is already well underway, its effects have, so far, not been fully felt, most definitely not in the USA and not even fully in the EU. Once the magnitude of this self-inflicted disaster become absolutely undeniable, not even by the Neocon-run “free press” things in the West will began to change politically. So now is the time to wait and see, not speculate.
Andrei
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I am sorry but again I think you are doing everything possible to explain the inexplicable. Namely why Russia is extending the suffering of civilians by not more decisively terminating this ‘conflict’? Russia has maintained air superiority over Ukraine since pretty much the beginning. Withdrew from a lot of the conquered territory in the north. And while we know that Russia does not operate like the US it does not explain the month long stalement in the east with a reduced and demoralized Ukrainian army.
While I know it is difficult to question or criticise Russia on this site I think even your own analysis from the beginning of the operation predicted a completely different outcome, this cannot be denied and is an objective truth. So why are we witnessing this stalled conflict?
To me this looks like a deliberate extension of a war to deepen the economic pain of sanctions that the west has inflicted on itself. Western Europe will soon find itself strapped of ressources to produce the goods it needs to export to maintain its economies afloat (especially the northern European economies). While one can label this stupidity, I call it an intentional move. Too much has transpired in recent months that make no rational sense to continue labelling these decisions mere ‘lack of foresight’ or ‘stupidity’, it is just a pity that few people dare to see it for what it is. Respectfully Alexander.
I suspect the main problem for the Russians is that they do not have air superiority. The airspace is contested. The Russians have a substantial measure of control over the airspace, but enough of Ukraines air defenses remain up – with the significant help of US AWACS and other ECM assets. AWACS provides early warning to Ukraine Air Defense saving them from having to keep radars on. This plus skillful handling by Ukraine has made complete suppression of Ukrainian air defense impossible.
This limits the effectiveness of Russian air power particularly when it comes to interdicting communications behind the front lines and in suppressing what remains of Ukrainian artillery and tracking down the famous HIMARS.
Thus the Russians are operating with greatly reduced support from the air.
It may also be that as long as Ukraine is willing to send reinforcements into hopeless battles, Russia is content to target them with artillery.
The big question is which side has time on their side. I have been on the “time favors the Russians” side of that question. But in war it seems like delaying decision always increases the risk of surprise outcomes.
So far, Russia holds the escalation card. I.e. the tempo of operations is mostly dictated by Russians while the Ukrainians and the West react.
Until that changes in some way, I do not see Russian going on a rampage.
Lastly, a long war very much suites its main organizer behind the ocean. The longer the war the more EU will become dependent on the US, whether they like it or not, and thus the better for the US.
At times one has to wonder who was the main target of this conflict. Everyone says China with Russia standing in the way. But reality says a (final) subjigation of European Union would make a lot more sense as that is what is happening. Kinda like the Wraith “taking care” of their feedstock safety …
” Everyone says China with Russia standing in the way.”
That thought has crossed my mind often. I don’t have enough insight into US/NATO – China relations to imagine an answer, but the question has occurred to me a lot.
Think about it. This war is happening for one reason only, that being US/NATO’s hellbent determination to turn the Ukraine into a military stronghold on the RF’s borders. For US/NATO, the benefit of achieving such a geostrategic position is that, in future bilateral relations, America could exert historically unprecedented coercive leverage over Russia.
In other words, if US/NATO wins this war, it can use its position in the Ukraine to bully Russia into subordinating its foreign policy to that of the United States. That’s US/NATO’s ultimate objective.
But that raises the question of why, exactly, is achieving that influence over Russia so important to America? After all, the US and its allies have known since 2007 that staying the course regarding the Ukraine runs the risk of a terrible, bloody, ruinous, conventional war in that country. Maybe even worse. Yet in spite of knowing this risk, US/NATO steamed full speed ahead, triggering the 2014-15 Donbass War and ultimately forcing Russia to invade the Ukraine as a defensive option of last resort.
I can’t believe that anyone in Washington DC or Brussels really believes that Russia is, was, or will be a “threat” to America or Europe. Therefore, US/NATO aggression against Russia via the Ukraine doesn’t serve a defensive purpose for the West.
This line of thinking (that I’ve outlined here) leaves me wondering, perhaps America wants to subdue and neutralize Russia in order to eliminate the latter as a potential Chinese ally in an expected US vs China showdown a little later in the 21st century? Is that what Atlantic Alliance foreign policy hawks are thinking? Might this explain why, to them, the Ukraine is worth sacrificing such enormous blood and treasure?
If so, there’s an huge potential downside to US/NATO’s decision to make this penultimate geostrategic gamble. That’s the possibility that the West will lose this conflict. The consequences of a full-scale, humiliating US/NATO withdrawal from the Ukraine could be the “straw that breaks the camel’s back,” so to speak. Tony Blair himself admitted as much when he recently said the West’s looming defeat in the Ukraine will mark the beginning of the West’s irreversible decline in world affairs, and the true beginning of China’s ascent.
Yes, that is the, by now, “conventional” interpretation. It assumes an (eventually idiotic) offensive strategy of acquiring new/additional dominions.
What is my point is that sometimes simple explanations are the right ones.
What if we assume this conflict’s objective is primarily to shore/secure the ALREADY CONTROLLED dominions i.e. the EU and thereabouts. Well, under that assumption the current (as in 2005-now) strategy actually makes a LOT of sense.
Or do we keep believing the (real) strategists in the US are idiots?
I’ll tell you the reason GW. Energy and resources. Russia controls about one third of the World’s resources. History repeats itself. Why did Germany start the Eastern Front during WW2 ? – to get at Russia’s oil reserves because Germany had none of their own and relied on synthetic oil from coal at the time. Same reason Japan attacked the Indonesian Archipelago during WW2 – for their oil reserves, again because Japan had none of their own and oil was being embargoed by the US/UK at the time.
For Russia, better to have a war now on Ukraine land than on Russian land tomorrow. Plus Russia has all the energy and resources to beat Western Europe in any war. On top of that, Russia has a strong and stable leadership. Time wise, Russia can wait till after Winter has softened Western Europe’s resolve.
The USA is in the process of losing control of Europe. “If we can’t have it, nobody else can have it either”
It’s a scorched earth policy (economically and maybe eventually militarily, but the outcome is clear Europe is screwed.
«who was the main target of this conflict. Everyone says China with Russia standing in the way.»
It is not that crude, it is just standard “domino theory”: east Germany is the first domino, then Poland and Hungary and Romania, then Ukraine, and then the Russian Federation itself, and finally China:
* Up to several years ago the Russian Federation was just considered by the USA elites as a convenient fake threat to justify bigger MIC spending, so to keep it as a fake threat they refused to normalize relations with it.
* Then the USA elites started thinking that they had a real threat, and it was China, that would soon able to inherit the leading role in the global market that the USA elites had created.
* Therefore the USA elites decided that the Russian Federation was no longer useful as a fake threat, and decided to “normalize”, in the usual way: surround, isolate, breakup.
* The war aims of the USA elites against the Russian Federation is to be “invited” to build a chain of CIA/DOD military and biowarfare bases on the northern and western borders of the PRC, from which to train, fund and arm large numbers of “freedom fighters” insider the PRC, “prometheism” but applied to the PRC.
* To be “invited” to build those bases there has to be regime change in the RF and that was and still is the aim of the 2014 proxy-war of aggression by Ukraine in the Donbas and the “special military operation” is the Donbas counter-attack against it, the latest episode of that old war.
«But reality says a (final) subjigation of European Union»
Teaching a lesson to the european vassals, who seemed a bit too ready to sell-out to the PRC and use it to counter-balance USA elite influence, is important and useful too, but it is a welcome side-effect, not the aim of the proxy-war against the Donbas.
Russians do not have air superiority?
They have had air supremacy within 48 hours of the war. Most of the Ukrainian army is destroyed, not 48%, but near 80-90%+ They will likely have lost 250k+ men by end of August.
Russians haven’t advanced, because they are trying to keep casualties at a minimum, Russia’s 2k losses, majority were in the first 2 weeks due to the rapid advance in the “feint’ maneuver.
It is very difficult to move less than 200k men in a such a large area without exposing flanks, and being targeted by partisan/guerilla/SBU forces, which is what the UAF now is. Russia invaded while being massively outnumbered, now they are now near parity in numbers, or even inferior to Russia, LPR, DPR military. Ukrainian elite units have been captured or destroyed, even the propaganda 59th brigade has been annihilated, hundreds of them died in a indirect fire event, no more trophy videos from them. Most of the remnants are being filled by Territorial defense militias, and foreign mercenaries, 10k+ of them have be losses..
The war is long because Zelensky is a puppet who holds no power, like Hitler, he is a an actor for Jewish/western powers who want to throw Ukrainian men into the meat grinder of Russian artillery, and their women whore themselves in the west. Ukrainian men and western men in generally are just ignorant and apathetic to their leader decisions.
@Avirgo
“… and their women whore _themselves_ …”
Never ever spit on a woman /or a man/ who IS FORCED to sell herself /himself/ for there is no other perspective left. And by sell all kinds of “sell” are meant.
Never. Ever.
Do spit on those who sell themselves when there are other ways possible to survive and prosper left to them.
In Ukraine, the women ARE WHORED OUT as a mass business. For decades. For the wast majority of them, it was not a choice if they wanted to have food on the table the next day for themselves (some) or their kids (more often). For a young women there, the situation is (and was) often way worse than in the poorest countries of Africa where there is at least the social net of tribes to fall onto.
Nough said.
Utterly delusional and false. They have been a major part of Ukraine’s degeneracy for a long time now. There is no need to respond further.
Are you okay? Just the first point, if Russians had air supremacy, they would shoot down cruise missiles / HIMARS etc, are you saying they’re intentionally letting rockets fly through? There would be massive amount of airstrikes from RU side then, look at Syria situation where planes are used…
Even if you have total air supremacy, you can’t stop Ukrainians from shipping missiles from NATO countries into the Ukraine and firing off missiles from random locations, from near civilian homes, Russia is avoiding civilian casualties as much as possible. Thesaker mentions this in his post.
I can understand why there is confusion in your mind. After 20 years in the military in tactical and operational areas of expertise it is still hard to understand the modern battlefield. Most of the newer weapons are integrated with each unit through secure electronic channels, and the technology changes rapidly. However, a study of modern warfare helps to bring the pieces together, and to understand the thinking of the Russian mindset integrating it into the overall operation. The Russian looks at a Ukrainian as a type of Russian, or a brother that is being psychologically played to hate and kill Russians by his leadership. The Russian doesn’t want to kill his brother, but he must fight him in self defense to protect his nation and families.
You are mostly correct. The Russians, Germans, Japanese and the muslim world have proven time and time again to fight to the finish, by all means necessary. Modern warfare is not entirely different from historical warfare, the principles have remained the same, it is only the instruments and banners that have changed.
This war is prophetic in nature, and as a student of science as well as religion, I think there is more to it than what meets the eye. This war is both symbolic and literal. The collective west has been trying to provoke a nuclear war with Russia for nearly a century now. Why? Because they have been brainwashed to believe that the next evolutionary step for mankind is to be united under one world government, with one currency, one language and one religion. This mindset has taken many shapes, whether it be capitalism or communism. Remember that the Tzar of Russia did not receive any help from his royal cousins in England or other parts of Europe, they let their extended family perish, so yes the USSR was in fact an evil step child of the west, existing only to serve one purpose, a bogeyman.
After the planned collapse of the USSR, the collective west celebrated, thinking that now it would be a lot simpler to unite the world, especially since everyone outside their sphere was/is poor and in need of “loans”, which cost them their sovereignty. Those that stood tall against this “debt trap” enslavement were invaded, regime changed, and ultimately “re-educated” into becoming western puppet states. Forget the middle east, just look at Germany and Japan. They failed at turning Russia and China corrupt enough to agree to this plan.
You must give the west credit for their intelligence in developing nefarious plans. The current economic decline was planned, as was the pandemic, and many other world changing events that occurred “overnight”. These are not conspiracies, so long as when you ask “who benefited the most” and the answer is the “west”, just look at who gained most from 9/11, OBL/AQ sure didn’t.
Again the question is why? Who stands to gain from the chaos? Surely the rich that run every branch of government on this planet do not gain anything from it…. They do. Here’s why.
#1 Make people desire “freedom” and “progressivism” by manufacturing oppression.
#2 Once they have had a taste of this “freedom” convince them to exchange their “security” for it.
#3 Now that they are less conservative they will be strong supporters of the one world gov mission.
#4 Rinse and repeat until a majority of the world is dependent on this system.
#5 Crush any opposition through overwhelming economic sanctions / shun from the cool kids table.
#6 Any foe left standing is a threat that must be dealt with militarily.
#7 With global support, any fear can be made to push the world closer to a singular government
Here is where it gets tricky, no one world government can exist if nuclear weapons are in the hands of those that oppose it, why do you think they are okay with some having it but not others.
#8 Make nuclear war “winnable” (this is going to backfire for them), so that all parties are left without nukes, but the “collective west” still has sufficient dominance to control the world.
#9 Survive the nuclear war, take control of the world’s energy source in the middle east, and food.
#10 Offer commodities to those willing to become vassals, and starve those that are in opposition.
This is the plan, mark my words we will see a nuclear war in our lifetime to achieve it. Right now we are in the slow and painful buildup. But this is not a linear progression, it is exponential, so I expect a nuclear war within Biden’s 4 years, so most likely next year.
Just think about what “build back better” means, and why there is a female vice president.
Europe and the US will utterly be destroyed by the nuclear war, but they have invested their future in Israel, which will survive and take control of the middle east’s energy and global food supply. This will be short lived, because Russia too will survive, as will China. A post nuclear, conventional war will be fought for decades, with the ultimate result being a multi polar world, and a western loss. They will achieve their “one world government” for “one day”, only to realize that they’ve brought the devil into our world in the flesh.
Hi Alexander
Is it that you don’t get it… or simply that you won’t?
I suggest the latter given the situation looks patently obvious that Russia has absolutely no intention of extending this SMO… whereas Natostan’s plan is to do precisely that… what’s more it is even publically stated, even by war pigs in high places.
Note… I didn’t label the situation in Ukraine a war… it is not a war!…at least not as far as Russia is concerned… YET.
When push finally comes to shove, I dare say Europe will be under no illusions if Russia finally loses all patience with the infantile West. So far this is a special military operation skillfully planned with the intent of cleaning up a festering neo-Nazi cesspool on Russia’s border, but without wrecking the entire East of Ukraine and causing untold civilian casualties.
Perhaps Lindsey Graham’s recent idiotic revelation might clear up this confusion for you?
Straight from the horse’s ass, Lindsey Graham…as he so courageously extols the idea that Ukraine should fight, not to the last soldier… no, actually to the very last person… what a BRILLIANT IDEA!!!
/the-us-plan-for-the-ukraine-from-the…/
… quote…
“I like the structural path we are on here, [oink oink].
As long as we issue Ukraine with the weapons they need and the economic support they will fight to the last person… [oink oink]”
… end quote…
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Apparently, his next planned announcement will be that after the U$ stoking up a bonfire in Ukraine he is also excited about the “structural path” of their tactics as it is planned that they will likely end up burning down most of Europe, including even their old partner in international crime, the UK.
In the process, their MIC industry will flourish, massively benefitting the 0.1 per cent of thieving kleptocrats and then their corporate raiders can begin buying up distressed assets and public utilities all over Europe for pennies on the pound. This is the Natostan plan which includes breaking up and neutering Russia so that they can then go after the main prize China to subdue that economic powerhouse as well.
Same old playbook… same old, same old in Sri Lanka too… as they now set upon destroying that country … and simply for daring to be an important hub location in the huge new BRIICS+ Belt and Road economic and infrastructural initiative. It’s what they do!
Your hypothesis that Russia is trying to extend the war is clearly at odds with reality. It is painfully obvious that Russia wants this debacle tidied up as quickly as possible but meanwhile still minimising damage to both Europe and the wider global economy. The West has already set about busily destroying its economy and its future prosperity… it needs no help from Russia or anyone else in this task.
The new BRIICS+ movement [along with the monumental… to date $3.5 trillion BRI Belt and Road Intiative] now has ~90% of the population of the world clamouring to join this cooperative trading group. This represents an alternative Zone B financial paradigm that non-aligned countries can join.
With virtually the entire global south, the notable exceptions of course being NZ/Australia [both pathetic Natostan lapdogs], the number of countries that have either joined or signalled their intentions to do so, is well over 150 already.
This is a continuation of WW1… and hopefully, a final battle that offers humanity a choice between a completely new financial and security paradigm, and the outgoing self-destructive City of London/Wall Street brand of predatory financial colonialism.
Once again this is a banker’s war and the Ukraine debacle is merely one small front in what is essentially a global financial war. The military corollary of course is the expansion of Nato into a worldwide force that will be the proxy attack dog to enforce the Mr Global plan including the elimination of 90% of global population.
This is a final desperate attempt by these western kleptocrats to prolong their model that habitually thieves from all of humanity in order to enrich the 0.1 per cent of the global population. It is an extremely poorly disguised attempt to instal a central bankers’ global dictatorship in tandem with Mr Global, along with Malthusian centralised population control, and the so-called green agenda.
Russia is the nemesis of the old Zone A funny-money predatory debt trap casino model. Without Russia, no other power had the wherewithal to challenge the western hegemon… not even China. Even Russia had to wait an agonising eight years, post the Obomber regime installed neo-Nazis with the Maidan colour revolution/coup de tat. Natostan has shown the world its true colours now and hence around 90% of the population is voting with their feet.
Well done Natostan… you set out to isolate Russia and ended up isolating yourself from 90% of the world population. These countries will now be perfectly happy to have as little as possible to do with you. Good on you BoJo and ‘Not So Super Mario’… gosh, look how your cunning plan of getting rid of Putin turned out.
So too the semi-brain-dead POTUS… with a massive 11% support in the latest polls. Putin meanwhile has the highest support of any leader in history… most of the very few that don’t support him are only critical because they view him as being not hard-lined enough on western imbeciles.
The link below is a good overview of what is in essence the biggest capital and wealth development renaissance in global history… albeit parts of it are 150 years delayed, but far better late than never. I suggest you read up on this and then endeavour to make the connection.
One final comment… surely if Putin and Xi were actually working for Mr Global we would have comprehensively lost this battle long ago and all subsequently have been herded off into worldwide gulags well before now?
https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/the-american-spirit-behind-chinas
Respectfully from the south seas
Col
Nice one Col. Cheers.
Hopefully, I might just have saved Andrei some exceedingly frustrating keyboard time in responding to what is essentially a very nuanced distinction between poorly disguised trolling, and flat-out terminal cognitive dissonance.
right on the money your mind is cheers
Well, Alexander’s nonsense inspired me to write this: /a-short-vademecum-for-aspiring-trolls/
:-)
Excellent work Andrei
You made my day with your comprehensive trolls handbook.
(-:
You are exactly right. Russia is doing what it said it had to do: denazify Ukraine while killing as few Ukrainians as possible, stop Ukrainians killing Ukrainians, and remove the NATO threat from Russia’s border.
A few weeks ago I said that when enough civilians had left Kiev, the city could be flattened, but I see that Russia is smarter than that.
Alexander should stop trying so hard. Just wait and see.
Brilliant response Col – hitting all the key points.
Bravo!
I believe I made it abundantly clear in my comment that I think Europe is in a self-destruction mode with its self-imposed energy sanctions against Russia. This does not mean, however, that the status quo does not benefit Russia in the sense that it keeps commodity prices (both energy and soft-commodities) elevated despite a looming global recession.
Look at Russia’s trade surplus in recent months, despite massive discounts on its oil exports. And not to mention the value of food exports (that which is still being exported and not banned due to domestic restrictions). Of course Russia will weather this crisis far better than the west.
While I live in the west it doesn’t mean that I am supporting the western political establishment, I don’t know what made you think this? Because I called out the slow progress in the military operation and western pundits have used that argument?
I also don’t disagree with you that Bankers are benefitting from this war or if you prefer the special military operation. I think the main point of disagreement is that I think this conflict is designed to drag out (today we have Mr. UN Global Guterres warning of a nuclear catastrophe again, how many times have we heard this before in recent months? Is it preparing the public for a false flag soon?).
Again, I may not play in the camp Putin and Xi are Mr. good fighting Mr. evil in the west because I don’t believe in a black and white world, I see this puts me at odds with this blog. If you wish to label my comment poorly disguised trolling then so be it, it’s really not my intention to troll, however but ask questions.
«Europe is in a self-destruction mode with its self-imposed energy sanctions against Russia»
It is very easy to boycott russian fuel supplies during summer. In the dreams of the european elites before their fuel stocks run out there will be a “color revolution” or a “democratic coup” in Moscow and the issue will disappear, but don’t be surprised if that does not happen and the european elites suddenly very cynically create giant loopholes in their boycott of russian fuel supplies just before winter.
It is a contest as to who can last longer, and the current RF position seems to be is to ensure that the european elites cannot accumulate fuel stocks during summer to extend their ability to last into the winter.
Thought I was the only Kiwi that felt this way Col. Well put together
All good John, albeit we are but an exceedingly small group.
Meanwhile ‘our’ feckless Govt is enthusiastically showing solidarity with a bunch of murderous neo-Nazis who are led by a feckless comedian that gets off on dancing in tights and stilettos.
But wait… now we have a very dangerous NZ news reporter that has scored an interview with Z himself. I can only imagine how this will be spun when we finally get to sit through the entire interview.
Don’t even get me started on our thuggish arch-nepotist MOFA… its as if the entire western world is having a competition to see who can outdo one another as to the most outrageously idiotic and inept cretin they could possibly rake up to fill this vitally important ministerial position.
No doubt about it, Natostan certainly appears to have developed a death wish… if not for their ‘leaders’, most definitely for the vast majority of us hoi polloi.
Cheers and warm regards
Col
Yes, the Western leaders have quite deliberately steered us here because although they hate Russia and Orthodox Christianity(i.e real Christianity) they *really* hate their own population and will now blame Russia and Putin for the deliberate de-industrialization of the West in order to let their dream of an Eco/Diversity Neo-Feudalism come to pass.
In short, Russia will do what´s best for Russia while the Western elite will do their utmost to hurt their own lower classes, i.e if you´re not a Billionaire or their handpicked middlemen/slavedrivers you´ll eat the bugs.
Yet Western people(80% of them anyways) got no clue or do not dare to even speak up, even when they are forced to hurt their own children by mandates.
As per “the Saker” category structure defined in a previous topic, this message that I am now posting is a: Group A Sincere (however misguided) posting. It can be further defined as “Religious Nutcases and Assorted Bible Thumpers.”
Question: What standard did you employ to determine that “Orthodox Christianity” is “Real Christianity”? Your inference is that Jesus Christ started your church and/or system of religion. Evidence?
One might ask who wouldn’t like to see an end of the conflict? Most of us would. But there is an unfortunate answer to the question. The Ukrainians not only don’t want to stop this madness and accept the loss of the Donbass, they want to reclaim Crimea, and have shown no willingness to accept mutually agreeable terms. How can any progress toward ending combat be made while that continues.
I agree that the current Russian tactic is a slow war, but of course it is not a Russian decision alone! Multiple variables decide which scenario we arrive at. The positions and actions of the West and Ukraine, China, the whole world, the tangible results of these actions, the trajectories resulting from these actions etc. have resulted in the current scenario, which of course was is one of multiple possible scenarios forecasted before the SMO.
I think the key to understanding the situation is that the overarching mission of Russia is a multi polar world in which it can be relatively free of Western hegemony. There is also an understanding that the transition from Western hegemony to multipolarity has to occur at a realistic, slow pace, otherwise there is a risk that the Western elites may take irrational drastic actions, even unto nuclear war.
Given this, I think Russia now thinks it is in a good equilibrium where the war is proceeding slowly but efficiently and effectively, Andrei’s pain dial is being turned up at a reasonable and steady rate, the West continues its overall downward trajectory, and the ‘rest of the world’ – Russia, Asia, Africa, Latin America – have sufficient time to adjust politics and economies towards multipolarity.
Now, consider If Russia increases the scale and tempo of the war. This might encourage Western politicians to escalate, rallying their populations, then forcing Russia (and perhaps China) to escalate, all in all disrupting the preferred transition to multipolarity.
I think that is where we are now. Of course Russia and everyone else is continuously re-assessing.
Stepping back to even the bigger picture, war and geopolitics are ugly and unfortunate. But they are part of this sinful world. We are sinners and God forgive us.
Well, Alexander P, there are the cosmic factors:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV2cezWAcWs&ab_channel=Suspicious0bservers
WORLD GOING CRAZY | The Unseen Factor
The planet is undergoing magnetic field changes, driven by those in the Sun and Galaxy.
Within us are living electromagnetic systems too.
Back to the article:
“How long will this war last?
I cannot answer that because the answer depends entirely on:
how suicidally stupid the leaders of the AngloZionist Empire are?”
Change in the “AngloZionist Empire” would require real, radical, revolutions in “The West.”
That is, “The West” would have to stop being fake democracies.
Good luck with that!
In Canada, I have been working on the funding of politics problems since 1984. As a result, I have already had two court cases against the government about the laws controlling the funding of political parties, and I recently started my third court case in Federal Court T-1481-22.
Figuring one’s way out of the vicious spirals of the funding of the political processes is difficult.
Good luck with that!
The Ukrainians are very well dug in and this is problematic when they’re dug in cities filled with civilians. Unless you are willing to annihilate a city along with nearly all it’s occupants, than you have to dismantle a complex maze of explosive violence section by section like we saw in Mariupol.
You misspelled “Why doesnt Ukraine surrender in the face of overwhelming force and impossible odds?”
“To me this looks like a deliberate extension of a war to deepen the economic pain of sanctions that the west has inflicted on itself.”
That is a very real possibility and is most likely one of the reasons. When someone holds $300 BILLION of your money illegally then yea let them suffer until they give it back. With INTEREST!!!
Another reason is to minimize Russian casualties. Too many dead bodies makes for bad publicity and the public support is fickle. They are inflicting 7:1 to 10:1 losses with this slow grind so why go faster?
The goal is also much bigger than just Ukraine. The economic front is the big one. If they can lower the reserve currency status even 10-20% away from the US dollar over a 3-5 year war then that will do more damage than all wars since WW2 combined.
@Dan Farrand: There is a difference between air supremacy and air superiority. Contrary to what you say, Russia has air superiority in Ukraine. It doesn’t have air supremacy. I just learnt that Biden regime had been arming the Ukrainians with small amounts of High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARM), which can be used against Russian air defences. These are some of the reasons why Russia has not been able to reach the threshold of air supremacy.
In fact, air supremacy cannot be achieved, even theoretically, against modern air defenses.
However, to say that the airspace over the Ukraine is contested is also false, as it makes it sound as if Ukrainian aircraft can challenge the Russian Aerospace Forces, which is false.
Russia has both air superiority and supremacy in Ukraine. Russia can hit any target at anytime, however Russia chooses not to strike civilians and civil targets. Even low value military targets where collateral damage would cause civilians to be injured or killed are not to be hit. This is exactly what the human rights inspection of the battlefield said Ukraine forces were doing and Russia was not doing.
this comment has been flagged as of little/no value (possibly troll) by the saker
No it doesn’t have supremacy as it won’t fly bombers over Ukraine for fear of them being shot down. The bombers could target Ukrainian forces and weapons more precisely.
Also Ukraine still has fighter jets, and Russia claimed it just shot down 3 of them. By my estimates Russia has shot down at least 300 Ukrainian fighter jets since the first week or so, so saying the Ukrainian air force was “destroyed” already in the first week was mistaken.
The Ukrainian Air Order of Battle, before hostilities began, was under 150 fighter jets.
Then they must be getting them from other countries, because I noticed Russia reporting almost 2 Ukrainian fighter jets per day. I even started counting them in later April (April 17) and did that to late May. However, I wasn’t strict and some days I didn’t check. So a lack of a date doesn’t mean there weren’t any shot down in the missing days.
Anyhow I have a list of translation of what Russia reported and though I count 46 in the 42 days, there are many days (gaps) where I didn’t check (April 20-29), May 3, 4, 11, 13-15, 17, 19, 20, 22, 25 – so 21 days I didn’t (necessarily count). Deduct 21 from 46 days you have 25 counted days.
So 46 planes shot down in 25 counted days when the war has been going on for 168 day. (I did notice a lack of planes reported being shot down for the last week, but then 3 were reported again today.)
So here is my list of 25 days, with the total number of fighter jets reported shot down that day parenthesis:
Apr. 17 2 Ukrainian MiG-29s and 1 UAV were shot down (2)
Apr. 18 Shot down 2 MiG-29, 1 Su-25 and 11 UAVs (3)
Apr. 19 Ukrainian MiG-29 and 4 UAVs were shot down (1)
Apr. 30 In the area of N. p. Chervony Yar, Kherson region, a Ukrainian Su-25 was shot down (1)
May 1 In the area of N. p. Petrivske, Kharkov region, 2 Ukrainian Su-24 bombers were shot down a little later, a Ukrainian Su-25 was also shot down (3)
May 2 In the area of Slavyansk, a Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter was shot down during an air battle (1)
May 5 Air defense systems shot down 3 Ukrainian aircraft – Su-24, Su-25 and Su-27 (3)
May 6 In the area of N. p. Transfigured shot down Ukrainian Su-25s and MiG-29s
In the area of N. p. Platonovka shot down Ukrainian Su-27 (3)
May 7 Su-24 bomber, a Su-27 fighter jet and three Mil Mi-8 helicopters (2)
May 8 Two more Ukrainian Su-24 bombers and one Mi-24 helicopter were destroyed over Zmeiny Island
In the area of N. p. Pogonovka shot down Ukrainian Su-25 (3)
May 9 Two MiG-29s and one Su-25 were shot down (3)
May 10 In the area of N. p. Novaya Dmitrovka (Kharkiv region) Ukrainian Su-25 shot down
In the area of N. p. Wide (Dnepropetrovsk region) shot down Ukrainian Su-25 (2)
May 12 In the area of N. p. Lozovaya shot down Ukrainian Su-27 destruction of the MiG-29 aircraft of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of about Zmeiny in the Black Sea (2)
May 16 In the area of N. p. Evgenovka and Velikaya Kamyshevakha shot down 2 Ukrainian Su-25s,
Su-24 was shot down in the area of Snake Island (3)
May 18 2 Ukrainian Su-24s were destroyed near Dnepropetrovsk at a military airfield
Above the n.p. Trypillya was shot down by a Ukrainian Su-25, and over the settlement Stone Yaruga – MiG-25 (4)
May 21 In the area of N. p. Belitskoye and Novoaleksandrivka shot down 2 Ukrainian Su-25s (2)
May 23 Air defense forces over the settlement Kiselevka and Pavlograd shot down 3 Ukrainian Su-25s (3)
May 24 A Ukrainian MiG-29 was shot down near Kramatorsk (1)
May 26 Above the n.p. Gusarovka shot down Ukrainian MiG-24 (1)
May 27 Above the n.p. Belyary shot down Ukrainian MiG-29 (1)
May 28 Above the n.p. Zagradovka and Barvenkovo shot down two Ukrainian Su-25s (2)
“Also Ukraine still has fighter jets”
Nuanced correction. Ukraine keeps receiving additional fighter jets. How many of the original jets they still possess would be approaching or at zero.
Furthermore, I fully expect that either side would count ‘suspected shot down’ jets \ destroyed tanks in their numbers. In general neither side will have an easy time getting absolute confirmation of anything other than their own losses, which would be highly guarded numbers.
“So now is the time to wait and see, not speculate.”
There is a definite strategy, in the wings since at least 2008, to put the transatlantic financial system through reorganization.
The Schiller Institute has documented that precisely.
Cowardice in the face of a dying financial Empire is un-American, maybe typical EUropean?
Glazyev of Russia recently pointed out that that greatest 21st Century thinker is Lyndon LaRouche – his 4 Power solution to the desperately dangerous situation was acknowledged by India’s Hindu press :
“Schiller Institute Calls for New Bretton Woods To End War, Economic Crisis,”
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/schiller-institute-calls-for-new-bretton-woods-to-end-war-economic-crisis/article65733943.ece
These 4 powers, Russia Federation, China, India, USA together, only, have the capability to deal with Pelosi’s dying Empire, even when she plays the Elephant Cow in the China Porcelain store. Each alone or separately cannot deal with this.
So, do what President Trump failed to do with his otherwise earthquake Presidency – exonerate LaRouche, who was attacked by exactly the very same Mueller who attacked Trump.
London’s Guardian published the marching order’s to remove Trump 4 days before the FBI raid on Mare Lago.
Since when does London dictate the US election process?
Descartes’ ‘I think, therefore I am’ was ridiculed by Leibniz – I think of dinner therefore I am?
I think therefore I act is better than “waiting, not speculating?”
Act on the physical economic ideas – they have real power!
It may be strange and a big surprise for some people but London owns the US not the oppositive(in terms of financial power the City owns WS even if WS looks much bigger).US army is just the police of the City not vice versa.Who pushed ZE to refuse negos? The Boris of course.UK was behind every false flags to arrive to this war today, it was a slow well calculated psyop to prepare the war and the biggest psyop manipulation of all times:
– fake chems attacks in Syria
– Skripal fake poisoning(where are they?)
– Navalny psyop
– Failed coups in both Kaz and Belarus
– The all Russiagate psyop and possible stolen election(with the miracle arrival of 3.5millions mail’ votes, we know understand why having zombie Biden was a MUST for both US UK Deep States(with neocons taking real decisions),Trump just avoided us a war during 4 years
– Mutiple ‘coups’ sometime it is CIA sometime Foreign Office (aka MI6)
– Bellingcat (uk MI6), multiple murders from RU diplomats to ‘ballet’ aircraft in Syria
– total control (‘D Note’ in the UK, msm can not print what they want during a war otherwise journos risk jail), white helmets…
– multiple cover actions we do not even know about, be sur there are many(don’t forget our mossad ‘friends’
– MI6 + foreign office in the UK have more people-agents than the all official military which can take place in a football stadium
– MH 17 and maybe the other MH flight near China (with lot of chips experts on board)
– probably the RU vessel sinked is also more likely a UK than a US action
– according to some sources, UK US advised Putin via unofficial channels, their red lines(not killing the ZE who is guarded by hundreds of SAS sp ops, otherwise first strike on Russia)
– mutiple threaths against other Brics or non Brics yet but global south leaders with regime change
– NSA and MI6 have kompromats on ALL EU and other countries leaders(except five eyes) being about sexual, corruption, fiscal matters etc….easy to blackmail them even if they destroy their economies(they don’t care poor and middle class don’t vote for them), if their populations dare to revolt then false flags or destruction like yellow vests(fear ops)
– multiples jihadis attacks (bataclan, Brussels, Nice, etc…)Charlie (eventhough probably a mossad this one?)
– gladio ops like Bologna train station, fake Red brigades, Killers of Brabant in Belgium(nato headquarters and the city in Europe with the biggest spying activity), Madrid train station etc…
– Migrants psyop with millions entering the EU to weaken Assad capabilities in manpower.
This is now an existential threath for Nato and the EU, as well of course for Russia.
– The Taiwan circus is just blackmail on China to abandon Russia.
The most dangerous moment will be when they will not be able(even with their ‘free press’), to hide the truth of their defeat anymore, they will try ANYTHING to avoid that.
Like Saker said expect crazy false flags(9/11 will be a joke compared) including againstcivil nuclear sites(this is really trending now).
They can not lose or they are simply finished, credibility at zero..all the narrative will fall apart.
People will start to realize and ask why did we have to ruin our lifes of your warmongering which delivered nothing?
Western populace will only start to feel the pain in the winter when they will get their yearly energy bills, inflation will still be higher, coal and oil embargos(or cap) will start soon(coal today)oil 12/05.Easy for Putin to collapse them even more with little losses, full embargo for the unfriendly list on anything Russia in the winter (from nov 22 to april 23), they will capitulate or else industry will stop in most EU countries with electricity blackouts, no more diesel, food prices skyrocketing etc..
Cynic sociopaths like Macron already blocked the price of energy at + 4 % for 2022, iso + 453 %…giving ‘energy’ checks, vat discount , gas discount etc…but at one moment it will not be possible to bail in the all country. External debt will skyrocket because all this ‘blocked’ prices and ‘discounts’ are paid by..the state of course to private companies, eventhough he nationalized back EDF(electricity)but at the cost of 9 billions.
This is just one exemple for one country, many other countries (like the UK) will be much less generous (see daily telegraph of monday).40% in the UK risking deep poverty.i
Of course the new narrative is already in action(see CBS and Amnesty which have been cancelled since).
New narrative will be: Russia lost, they have 200.000 kia oh no let’ say 300k…why not 400k, ghosts of Moscow anyone?
They only took 25 % of ukraine, though it is a catastrophic humiliation (even if Russia takes 99 % it will be a defeat),even if Russia never had the will to take all of ukraine of course.
Donbass is poor etc..everything is destroyed they have no money to rebuild, Putin is a pariah now, in Moscow there is a terrible famine, millions are marching on the Kremlin etc..
Not to forget Putin has 14 cancers and parkinson, this time it is sure according to a leaked source in the Pentagon….
They are not very creative but it still works on certain people(senior, elderly who watch msm tv 10h a day or still read paper news). Bourgeoisie compradores will always side with the official line of the Macron, euro idiots, Biden woke, poles + 3B etc ..a few will fall like Draghi or Bojo but will be replaced by clones with the same narrative.
War is peace – black is white – ukraine is good Russia is evil
Empire of lies confirmed.
With the death of Dave Rockefeller there is no major American figure in the NWO, so the City of lLondon financiers are trying to direct their puppet, Biden from the UK. They are too old and making many mistakes because of the huge difference between UK and US
excellent work ‘war is on’ cheers
Absolutely correct!
Don’t you EVER underestimate the arse-end of the USUK conspiracy.
Well said ‘War Is On’ !!!
Cheers
Col
@War is on A brilliant summary – this should be expanded (not that it needs much added to it) into a stand-alone article for this site.
“…Elephant Cow in the China Porcelain store”
+1
Andrei, do you think, or imagine, that NATO and the Pentagon peeps read your blog? I would guess not!
I would definitely imagine they do. I think it’s read in every jurisdiction throughout Europe and all military bases and at many levels within that bureaucracy. I would further suggest that it’s read by the troops themselves who know they are being completely bullshitted by the “democracies” that orders them to kill civilians at slave wages. I bet you dollars to donuts, someone within range to hear shelling is reading it right now.
Of course they do, hence the fact that the first comments are almost always trolls: they have to “jump in” early to then derail the conversation.
I will explain that in some more details in my next post.
I think low level patriots read this blog. The high level people probably don’t because they have to adhere to the “Liberal Democratic” line. Too much Saker and the top people in DC could not maintain the political Bullshit.
Andrei, could you timestamp your posts so that we can see how soon the trolls posted their reply?
I suspect that in order to be first, they have multiple replies ready and waiting, drafted to cover most contingencies, their posts might well be automated.
Saker, in which case, they need to know that their fate will be as in Revelation 20:10.
They can go and read https://t.me/s/swodki & https://t.me/s/boris_rozhin/ for example, to see what effect their actions have, especially on the civilians, and if they continue on the same path, then there will be NO escape for them. They have been warned and will have no excuse., they are always just one heartbeat from Hell.
Why would the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) need to buy an additional 1.6-billion rounds of ammunition since 2017, in addition to the 360,000 million rounds of hollow point ammunition, and the 1.5-billion rounds of ammunition it ordered in 2017?
If the US government’s intent is to kill, murder, slay, massacre, annihilate Americans 1.6-billion rounds of ammunition to kill 230-million people is definitely over-kill, but that’s what the word massacre means.
In addition, a number of US agencies, like the IRS, are purchasing large quantities of arms and ammunition.
What’s that all about?
Has any of that ammunition made its way to the Ukraine?
And we in the U.S. are already crying over it. ‘Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country (har-har-har)’
Now we know that it is one of those gas stations that makes a lot of money from the convenience store selling food where you pay for the gas.
Curry: There’s one thing we gotta get, Hayes.
Heyes: What’s that?
Curry: Outta this town.
This war was always going to bog-down…that’s what happens when two large, resourceful countries go to war.
I’m not talking Russia and Ukraine but Russia and the U.S.
The only way the U.S will be defeated is to cause real pain in their safe space…at home, this requires shutting down Europe and causing more inflation.
November will see the end to Democrate power but that doesn’t matter since U.S is not a democracy.
A winter game is next…Russia has slowed down waiting for winter to bite.
A team of saboteurs throughout Europe could make for a very cold winter…indeed.
The economic war is lost for Ukies and at 100%.
If the ‘west’ really wants to deprive Russia of money it must immediately lift the sanctions and restart importing oil, gas and coal from Russia at then much lower prices.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/08/how-ukraine-lost-its-riches.html
Yeah, Market Price less 8-10% discount for Agent Commissions.
Those cushy NS1 contracts are forever gone. Shame that, not!
Maybe they can load all the biolab residues into one warhead and return them to the US, postage paid.
It all eerily reminds me of the stalemate that happened at the beginning of World War I. Ever since the USSR vanished, it felt like things went back to how it was before World War I. 🤔
I have the same feeling as I had in 1879 under the Zulu war. The Queen was unfair to Sergeant Frank Bourne who never got a reward for all he did to defend Great Britain.
He did pick up a 2nd language from the Xhosa speaking tribes.
Io, da profano mi domando perché i russi non hanno disabilitato le ferrovie, i ponti e le strade che collegano l’ucraina con i paesi che li riforniscono di armi, armi che causano la morte di soldati e civili russi, perché i russi non hanno disattivato le linee elettriche ucraine, e terzo mi domando e ti domando: perché la Russia continua a rifornire con gas petrolio e tutto ciò che i suoi accerimi nemici chiedono, quando basterebbe chiudere tutte le forniture per mettere in ginocchio l’occidente e sprofondarlo nel medio evo.
Translation. Mod:
I, as a layman, wonder why the Russians have not disabled the railways, bridges and roads that connect Ukraine with the countries that supply them with weapons, weapons that cause the death of Russian soldiers and civilians, why the Russians have not deactivated the Ukrainian power lines, and third I wonder and I ask you: because Russia continues to supply oil with gas and everything that its enemy accerimi demand, when it would be enough to close all supplies to bring the West to its knees and sink it into the Middle Ages.
Io penso che Russia prova a non danegiare molto i civili in Ucraina, visto che i legami tra russi e ucraini somo abbastanza spesso. Sull’argomento economico, è vero che ezistono diversi tipi di persone in ogni posto del mondo, buona parte di loro supportanno i russi, anche in UE. Finalmente denaro è denaro. Sto allenamento il mio italiano, dispiace qualsiasi errore.
I believe that Russia tries to not damage civilians in Ukraine, since they all have a lot of connections each other. About economics, there are people aall around the world supporting Rssia, including inside EU. Finally, money is money.
Mike, buon italiano
Si va bene il denaro, ma se questo denaro gronda sangue della tua gente non è molto intelligente
Grazie mille!! ((= Mi sembra che questa guerra è anche per cuori e menti… se persone muorono di freddo e fame in UE, tutto può cambiare nella opinione pubbliche pro Russia. è come un gioco di scacchi, nonostante la tormenta è solo cominciata.
Looks like this war is for hearts and minds too. If people in EU dies in cold or hunger, everything can change in public opinion pro Russia. It’s like a chess game, but the storm is only beginning.
Russia can not do this because there is every type of normal civilian commerce happening at all the same border crossings. Trade, tourism, humanitarian assistance, howitzers, ammo, combat gear, they are all on the same trains and using the same roads. The West has no qualms about shielding these shipments with civilians. So far, Russia’s tactic is to wait until the military gear is separated from the civilians further inland, then attack.
Even to a layman it seems that bridges should be disabled. It could be done at night. While it would bring inconvenience to civilians, it would be inconvenience many degrees lower from, say, destruction of electric plants or hospital. On the other hand, bridges over Dnieper seem really essential to Ukrainian war effort in Donbass.
Ditto for so called electricity substations which power said trains.
Technically, doing so is a war crime. Perhaps especially so since there is no declared war here. We’ve become accustomed to destroying civilian infrastructure by the way the US wages war. Other have pointed out some reasons for why Russia has not done so, and they’re all valid reasons. The kremlin is quite legalistic and knows that behaving the way the US does would bring howling condemnation from Oceania. Lastly, Russia is showing to the rest of the world that it is not the US in terms of behavior. The sanctions don’t work because most of the world doesn’t implement them; most of the world doesn’t implement them because it sees all this quite differently than Oceania portrays it. Russia has much international goodwill, the new boss acting just like the old boss is the fastest way to erode that.
I think your questions are legitimate & no doubt thought off by many who support Russia & China. A question I have continuously is why Russia has not stated that the Countries Sending weapons would be targeted. After all it is deliberate & with intent to damage & injure Russians !
If a definate warning is given that the doner Country will be targeted directly – would that not be a way of stopping or slowing dramatically the flow of new weapons to the criminal Uki’s ? Of course after the warning who could complain if retalitaory action was taken? Why should Russia be drained of resources while uSA & NATO gloat openly about what they send?
What would the uSA do if Countries were openly sending Weapons to a foe they were fighting? We all know they would attack the sender – – I’d like to see Russia up the anti & give the warning then follow up! If Andrei sees this I’d appreciate his comments.
Quanto meno dovrebbero , ai paesi ostili che hanno e continuano ad inviare armi chiudere tutte le forniture energetiche e alimentari,
Considerato che questi paesi non avrebbero esitato un secondo a strangolare i russi.
At the very least, hostile countries that have and continue to send weapons should shut down all energy and food supplies,
Considering that these countries would not hesitate a second to strangle the Russians.
So NATO has the Ukrainian Army build a Hindenburg Line in the Donbass, and in response the Russians use Falkenhayn’s Verdun strategy to ‘bleed them white’; in other words, Kiev MUST hold the Donbass and all the Russians have to do is just keep blowing them up.
Are the Russians taking losses? Of course, this is war. But in an artillery war, which this is, they will prevail.
AND – the longer this goes on, the more advanced the economic and political implosion of the West becomes.
Yes brutal as it is some Americans need to start dying to concentrate their minds,hit all those bases in Western Ukraine where no doubt Nato people are located,Russia could also blast those illegal US bases in Syria.
Or find a way to show Europe that Russia is their friend, partner, family, honest trader, and neighbour. And help Europe to see the US as it is: a corrupt gang of exploitative, violent, agreement-incapable USers.
What’s it gonna be, Europe? “Let’s sign a gas contract for 30 years at a fair price.” or “Never give a sucker an even break.”?
Sorry to say, it’s going to take a great deal of long-term pain for the Euro-xrash to wake up and actually do something effective.
Problem is those European leaders are cowards and many of the population are zombified idiots,i know because i live in the UK and see and hear these people every day,many are beyond help after years of brainwashing,the level of ignorance is unbelievable.
Its also a good deal for The Vatican (which sees itself as “God’s Church” – reflect for a moment on the <inference of that!) the only losses are Orthodox Christians.
The Vatican is every bit as much as a geopolitical player as the Pentagram & the City of London, aka ‘The City’ – the 1 sq, mile of bankers H.O.’s (an entirely separate jurisdiction to the rest of the UK, btw).
Since the 1057 Great Schism, The Vatican has been trying to ‘reel in’ the Orthodox Church & more recently the Protestant Reformation.
But also a good deal for Anglo-American white supremacists: the only losses are the Slavic brotherhood.
Even when the Euro-zone blows up this winter with revolution /civil wars/ civil disobedience (whichever form it takes) the Anglo-Americans still think theyre ‘safe’ – separated by sea.
It’s all planned & calculated well in advance.
Correct. Russia is conducting a long-term war of attrition both militarily and on the political/economic level.
Here in Germany, they report North Corea offered 100.000 soldiers to fight in Ukraine. Is this information accurate?
If yes: Why this offer? The Kims are said to be somewhat interesting, telating to their logic. I didn’t expect the actual Kim being this interstingnlogically, though.
Utter nonsense.
At most the DPRK might provide construction crews for the rebuilding of the Donbass
Probably won’t happen, but it makes sense. DPRK could get a lot of combat experience in modern warfare. Also would hurt DPRK’s main enemy, the US/
DPR Head Pushilin is/has discuss with NK about workers for rebuild.
This was on several Telegram.
No one thinks any troops.
Iranians would probably make better fighters, and Iran has a large population. So if they sent troops on the DPR/Russian side it would help with the manpower shortages of the DPR and because Russia hasn’t sent in near enough soldiers to control even eastern Ukraine.
I saw nothing like this in Germany. Did you dream this or from what source came this?
Many thanks to our dear, gracious, host!
I read nothing in his essay with which to find fault. I applaud.
We perhaps might quibble with respect to goal. It seems implicit that 404 is merely an opening, and that the overall goal far exceeds mere denazification and demilitarization of that arena. However, the stated topic limits to 404, hence again, nothing to disagree with. Good topic discipline!
Recalling the Russian ultimatum regarding NATO retreat to status quo ante1997 etc and the requirement to repatriate the atomic weapons, and so on. I note that these remain as stated… Now then, SMO-404 seems to be creating indirectly political and economic “vectors” and manifestations that will, in the best indirect strategy, cause just such changes…the champions of evil and occult are in a highly fragile and metastatic condition, even a “prick” here and there, well placed, may result in a cascade of rapid disorganization. And note that, if AZE/NATO does become obliged to comply, then the AZE foundations seem liable to crumble as a consequence. AZE propaganda speaks of a “Russian collapse” – this seems to be projection of a deep intuition not about Russia, but about themselves.
It seems reasonable to see a slow SMO-404 as a judo routine, accelerating the demise of AZE/NATO. Many expect “domestic difficulties” within AZE to result in “excessive load” on the maintenance of discipline in AZE domestic arena. One is reminded of MacBeth. And, in the fullness of time? Birnham Wood? Too rapid an operation SMO-404 would make for unnecessary and emotional desperation, less control of the arena.
What diabolical methods will attend the defeats? The germs, the “dusting” with atomic crud? Yet it seems inevitable to my eye that heroic Macduff and the evil illegitimate (and cowardly) Lord must come together and resolve the conflict by force. “No man born of woman” can harm Macbeth, but as we know Macduff is not born of woman…and here I wonder, can we see the Russian (and Chinese!) leadership and people as born of woman, or as deliver’d in the bloody rippings of war, as steeled and tempered in the fire of the second world war, and their most difficult and heated revolutions?
Thanks, again, Friend Saker. Best wishes for you and your family, and especially for your health, brave old man!
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The main difference with USA wars are the people. If the USA would liberate Canada, they would act differently than in Iraq and other places. Because Canadians are the same as Americans. Also USA has attacked some countries just for punishment with no intention to concquer. In Canada they would act like Russia in Ukraine.
And there is also one big reason for such questions for you. Your readers aren’t Russians. Russians abroad also have private connections with the homeland. Other nationals on your blog only don’t believe in their governments good intentions. So they are seeking informations from other side. But for the majority only 5 minutes radio news with weather and traffic are enough. They are living under the constant propaganda. Today articles in Slovenia: Russia will destroy Zaporožje power plant by switching it off the Ukrainian grid and connecting it to the occupied grid. (Just for information: half ours nuclear power plant was switched off from Croatian grid 20 years ago. Nothing was destroyed, only the state had to pay for this with interests.) So we are near nuclear catastrophe. This topic lasts for about a week and all Slovenian nuclear scientists and burocrats are invited. With constant exposure of the Nonrussians to propaganda such questions starts. It would be great if we would be looking at great progress on maps. But instead the progress is slow and we see and hear Zelensky everywhere and anytime.
Poor Zelensky just gets uglier and more hate-filled. A rage-spitting, yapping dog. Even South Korean TV news has begun to ignore him.
Progress is slow because Russia didn’t send enough troops to tackle the job. The DPR have been doing most of the fighting and their lack of enough manpower is why they have trouble making quick progress. Even Russians on Telegram think Russia needs to send more forces to help, if not a conscription, they need to get more volunteers.
Meanwhile, U.S. and NATO countries have been pouring in money and weapons and mercenaries to help support Ukraine’s government and military.
No, progress is slow in Donetsk because that is what Russia wants. And it will continue to be slow while Russia uses Zaporizhzhia and Kherson to move into Odessa this winter. Its kind of obvious what Russia is doing. Makes me wonder why the Ukies are going along with it.
No news is better than false news.
And the key right now is (they say), to try and take control of the largest nuclear power plant (appears to be on the Russian side of the lake), w/o the remaining forces (workers), damaging the plant in some way rather than willingly turn over control of the plant.
Once they “take” control of the plant, the energy would then be diverted back to the eastern part of the country, leaving the western side, yes, dark, for now at least.
I’ve traced the source of these things (reptiles). They’re from a freak orbit on the dark side of the earth, in a permanent state of eclipse.
Quatermass
“Furthermore, it is also abundantly clear that the western countries are willing to destroy not only its own economies, but the entire international financial system to try to hurt Russia (and China) as much as possible.”
This seems unlikely Andrei.
Everyone’s got it arse about, I reckon.
The economy (actually the monetary system) is failing, which is the actual reason for the war.
The inflation they are deliberately creating and ostensibly fighting is to counter a powerful deflationary trend which threatens the banks’ control of money creation.
All wars are bankers wars.
The monetary system is not failing, but they make it fail. The bankers behind this system ARE the system, they decide whether it will fail or not, and they will blame anyone but themselves for it and once again will use the failure to enrich themselves even more.
Together we can simply refuse to pay the debts, because they have been illegally and unavoidably created by a debt-based system that is using usury on large scale to empty all pockets worldwide except those of the bankers.
Thus the people should, everywhere, cancel the debts and confiscate the wealth of those behind the central banks who have enriched themselves beyond imagination with sheer ponzi schemes. Arrest all who have helped to enable these systems and the necessary policies.
Restart with a wealth-based monetary system corrected by average value of a basket of important commodities.
When you see the $US rising and treasury interest rates falling (even as the Fed is raising rates), the system is failing.
What it means is there is a shortage of $US in the system.
More debt must be created.
Since 2008, the banks will only lend to govt (hence virus, stimulus, war, waste), or against the best security (hence housing bubble).
Your last two paragraphs are spot on.
Masterstroke, again and again, Andrei!
Nobody has a better understanding of What is really going on. Thank you!
In the mentioned Moon of Alabama post it’s ‘191 thousand soldiers killed’ and in the mentioned ‘key factoids’ it’s 91 thousand soldiers killed. Since the source indeed talks about 191, the 91 is missing the 1 in front of it.
Pipelines through friendly territories directly to Hungary would be amazing.
Looks like nio is opening a factory in Budapest, with cheap energy Hungary could become the new manufacturing hub of Europe.
With new railways and revitalization of industry in the neighborhood, hopefully all the expat brains will start to return.
I am quite excited to see what new products and innovation will be born from the new partnerships.
The entire article is spot on.
However, the last paragraph is the most important.
It is the flanking action.
After the embezzler has taken everything he burns down the business to cover his tracks.
It isnt senseless destruction, it’s completely rational psychopathic behavior.
Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is going to be a major objective of a Ukraine counter attack.
The Western strategist have realised its strategic importance in the winter tactical war, if Ukraine controls it then Europe can survive winter much better.
This could see a major nuclear crisis, because Russia will-not give it up.
I wonder where you got the transmission capacity, because after an emergency synchronasing of the ukrainian grid with that of the eastern EU in (maybe, i do not remember) march the capacity was 100 MW and just very recently it was increased to 240 MW.
Under present konditions tens of GW will be needed if the winter gets really cold, but the western and the eastern grids have low exchange capacity, so even if the interconnection capacity between Ukraine and Romania would increase it would not help France or Italy.
The capacity loss from Russia to Finland is 1,3 GW, and just a portion of that got electricity prices in Finland and Sweden to soar when the wind gets lazy… in the middle of the summer.
Besides, under a previous winter Belarus had to help Ukraine because Ukraine got short on coal, so i wonder if – while war being raging – Ukraine could export a single kW on a cold day.
The people on the Ukrainian side funding this war don’t care about Ukraine…that’s obvious.
I’m wondering if Putin/Russia sees the EU’s economic/military capitulation as a 4th rung to its original objectives of the SMO and have adopted go slow tactics as the best overall strategy, turning the screw, or as our friend John Bolton has said on several occasions ‘squeeze them till their pips squeak’.
Have I or anybody else declared that Russia would militarily defeat the combined forces of the US+NATO in days or weeks?
Remember when the Ukrainian army “defeated” the 10km long Russian tank column around 6 March 2022? As pointed out by the rock solid analyst Larry Johnson:
*Why did the Ukrainian air force fail to launch air strikes against that vulnerable column?
*Why did the Ukrainian army fail to launch artillery strikes against that same column?
*How come the Ukrainian army could not get infantry on bicycles with javelin missiles to attack?
The best answers I could come up with (courtesy of Mr Johnson):
*The Ukrainian air force was not capable of launching air strikes
*Most of the Ukrainian artillery was destroyed
*Ukrainian command & control was either too disorganised to mount such an attack, or they were too scared of Russian defences
Brilliant Summary Andrei you are a writing/thinking genius I for one am very glad your back to work! much grace and health to you
we need you to keep teaching!
stay in Joy and keep the faith No Fear for God is on your side,
Major General Carlos Branco last sunday night in CNN-Portugal made a comment that I quote from memory:
This is one of the better military summaries that has been posted on any site, Andrei, including the ones posted here by your former associate whose name escapes me. A couple of points:
1. The numbers of KIAs have been vastly inflated by both sides for propagandistic purposes. The truth is in this kind of ground warfare casualites are slow and steady and not dramatically incurred. I would be surprised if the Russian dead much exceeded 10,000 soldiers to date, with over half of those occurring in the north in the early days of the SMO largely to ensure versimilitude for the UA forces to maintain a robust defense. I would also doubt the UA dead to have exceeded 60,000 to date. That suggests a 5-1 to 6-1 superiority ratio for the RF, which is impressive but not so impressive as to be fanciful.
2. The reason there has not been no dramatic movement in the line of contact in the DNR since the SMO began is twofold: first, because the RF has only provided modest assistance to the DNR and second because the UA concentrated most of their troops in this area. This is in contrast with the LNR, which had much less of a concentration of UA forces. This tells you everything you need to know about both sides’ strategic operations.
3. The UA’s strategic concept (2014) was essentially to create conditions on the ground that would buy time for NATO to open a front against the RF. In that they were misled by the U.S., who will never open such a front absent a Russian advance into central Europe. It appears the UA has no secondary strategic concept.
4. The RF’s stragetic concept (2020) has been to deconstruct the Ukrainian state, beginning in the south. The reason why the line of contact in the DNR has not witnessed many dramatic shifts is that the RF has no interest in doing so until ALL of the Black Sea coastal region is under full Russian control. When it turns its attention to the Odessa region there will be a Western reaction, because that brings the RF to the border of Romania. It is unclear what that response will be, though it will likely involve Kaliningrad and be politically (though not necessarily militarily) provocative.
What all this means is that the Donetsk is in reality a diversion. Russia accomplished its goals in the Azov when it took Mariupol. The key to the RT’s strategy for taking Odessa is to isolate it from attacks from any fortified base, and that largely means Nikolaev. It should take about 4 months to create a new line of contact from Nikopol to Nikolaev, which happens to be the duration which the RF promised to the UN not to attack Odessa from the direction of the Black Sea. I expect Odessa will be cut off from the north and northeast sometime after New Years, with the onset of winter as a strategic ally on the Baltic and Eastern European border.
Good post ! There is one thing I know without all the speculation; Ukraine will be broken up and will not be threat to Russia !
Ukraine could have been mostly one state with only minor losses in the Donbas. But the decision to continue the hopeless war also ended all chances for Ukraine other than to be a poor vestige and that stupidity they own.
Well explained. Makes perfect sense.
Ever watch a cat play with a mouse? They do it to keep from getting hurt and to wear the mouse out. Russia = cat, Ukraine = mouse. This could go on a long time.
Another analogy I like is the strategy of American boxer Muhammad Ali. He called it “rope-a-dope”. He would lean on the ropes, allowing his opponent to whail away at him, only deflecting the most serious blows. And then along about Round 3, with his opponent exhausted from the workout, he’d come off the ropes and start punching. He was a really big man, could take a lot of abuse, and usually deliver the knockout punch when he came off the ropes.
Also, as several analysts have mentioned, General Winter is coming …
But it is the Donbass people who are suffering the most:
Unofficial Bezsonov “Z” forwarded from Reporter Rudenko V
Briefly about life in Donetsk, there is no water, and now half of the city is without electricity. Constant sounds of arrivals and departures. No one living here knows when and which area will be under the gunpoint of the Nazi artillery.
In general, another hellish summer for the inhabitants of the capital of the DPR.
As regards the issue of Polish and Hungarian interest in the Ukrainian territories, i would make a stronger distinction between the two.
Hungary comes across as a ‘rational actor’ which will coordinate reasonably with Russia. They have already issued Passports to Hungarian ethnics in the Ukraine..they have already engaged in the educational system and they have ‘absorbed’ many Ukrainians who fled from being called-up already after 2018…
Poland is a far more volatile and unpredictable crowd. They would have more territory to gain, if they played their cards right…
Maybe this is a golden opportunity for Russia to say to Poland that they can have their old lands back within the Ukraine, provided they surrendered Pommerania and Silesia as well as Stettin, back to German sovereignty……provided both Poland and Germany ejected NATO…
The problem with this analysis is that its only land now. After the Second World War all the Germans were ejected from Silesia and Pomerania. For good or evil they are truly Polish lands now, just as East Prussia is truly Russian. It is the same problem with the Baltic States, only much more ancient in nature: they are truly Baltic in nature, at least around the coasts. It will take war and depopulation to change that. Russia will not grant concessions to NATO members after the spasm of hate from Europe.
You raise some good points. But we have many Poles here in the UK and i have often asked them how they feel about Pommerania and Silesia. Apparently the Poles use a mocking terminology for anyone who lives in these former German territories. As to why mocking, it has to do with a feeling that the ‘new’ immigrants into these areas are not integrateable into Polish culture. The German people may have gone but the remaining buildings are still very Germanic, so the Poles who move in, feel as if they are only there temporarily. The German ‘feel’ of the land, does not make them comfortable to be there. I know many German families whose Grandparents were ejected from Pommerania and Silesia, and the grandchildren state that they would love to move back there….a case of Ostalgie, which might just help to drive a resettlement if it were achieved… The exiled Balts also kept their Ostalgie alive with cruise ship trips before 1990 but the Russian population have always been the more economically active players there since 1945….
But i think you are totally correct. Russia has no need and now, no wish, to make any concessions that could improve the interests of NATO countries. Maybe Hungary will take the hint and be the first to eject NATO, in which case they would have a sympathetic ear from Russia …but Russia would not trust Poland as much.
No one will abandon NATO, not the Turks, not the Hungarians. The Russian leadership knows this, which is why it hasn’t branded it a terrorist entity.
I don’t think I’ve seen a nation more fanatical for completely farcical reasons since Paraguay in the late 1860s.
“a nation more fanatical for completely farcical reasons”
Many ruthenians, poles, lithuanians want back the “Intermarium” empire in which their ancestors were big cheeses, in the same some turks want to ottoman empire back, etc.
«since Paraguay in the late 1860s»
I doubt that _elensky’s last words will be “I die at the same time as my country” (“moro con mi patria”) when he dies in his large villa in Italy or Florida.
«Look at this lithuanian fanatic and his “Smolensk is Lithuania” mug:»
https://twitter.com/MatasMaldeikis/status/1537043521261211651
Note that is not even about Vitebsk in northern Belarus, but Smolensk in western Russia. I guess the idea is when, soon enough, the joint ukranian-polish-lithuanian armies occupy Moscow, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania will be restored, and the Russian Federation will be broken up and Muscovy will be cut down to size as it was:
https://www.csce.gov/international-impact/events/decolonizing-russia
This is off-topic, but I’ll ask it anyway.
Concerning the war, during the day I regularly google search war news. Problem is, Ukie state media articles always show up at the top of the google results. You know what I’m talking about, sites like Ukrinform, New Voice of Ukraine, Ukrainska Pravda, among others.
Does anyone here know of any ways to rig search engines so they automatically block certain sites from showing on the return list? Can something like that be done to google?
Maybe I’m too lazy to research the issue myself. Either way, if anyone here’s Internet savvy and knows filtering search results, kindly educate me.
Other blatantly anti-Russian sites I’d like to block are Radio Free Europe, The Hill, ISW Study of War (believe it or not, this NATO propaganda outlet is being treated as a “neutral and objective” think tank by Western MSM!), and Newsweek. It would be convenient to block Forbes, too, given that the obnoxious Ukie cheerleader David Axe is writing their war news these days.
Thanks in advance for any advice offered.
Time was, you could just put a “-” in front of a word, so results with that word would be discarded. Like: WAR -Ukraine
But it doesn’t seem to work any more with google (or whatever it’s called now. I never use google.)
Try this. I know it’s microsoft, but
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/advanced-search-options-b92e25f1-0085-4271-bdf9-14aaea720930
Thank you Andrei for mentioning Greiner’s book. It is indeed an excellent book, well-written and well-argued. Greiner goes against the grain in stating an ‘American Way of War’ that is different and less palatable from the popular view held in the American mind which sees the US military as something of a noble organisation and thus thank every person in uniform that they meet ‘for their service’, ad nauseum.
I first read it at the start of Gulf War 2 in order to understand ‘shock and awe.’ The thing that made me buy the book was the epigraph, a quote from Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’, to wit:
They were no colonists; their administration was merely a squeeze, and nothing more, I suspect. They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force – nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. They grabbed what they could get for the sake of what was to be got. It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind – as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness. The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
Having read the book, I’ve come to believe that what Greiner wrote about was translated into the present-day US Army’s ‘Soldier’s Creed’ formulated during Rumsfeld’s time as SecDef.
The late Robert Fisk who was outraged by Abu Ghraib (do Westerners still remember?) had this to say about Rumsfeld’s creed.
https://youtu.be/eUOFLEUP-eI
==>>The Russians do not fight wars the way the USA does<<==
Absolutely. Looking from afar, it would be impossible for Russians — who seek blessings before any action; who, on the way to the front would slow down their armoured vehicles in order to be blessed even by an ordinary grandmother standing by the road, — to embrace the, frankly, shaytanic American ‘Way of War.’
Great great analysis, I missed these insights into the situation, given that it’s very difficult to gain proper real informations living in this empire of bullshits I live which is called Italy but it should be called Zombieland.
Yes, Italy is just out of control, the financial vampires are in full action in every sector of life, it’s a really crazy moment here, there is propaganda and lies every second and people are just turning into zombies.
This I want to tell you: never underestimate the real potential of these vampires, which is huge and especially powerful on minds.
And never underestimate that given that the financial system is actually abstract and based on nothing, they have the potential to cover the big crisis they are facing for a long long time, given the impression to people that all is fine and under control, even if it’s not.
Something like that already happened in 2008, to a much less degree, but actually the financial system collapsed under its own contraddictions. Did anybody notice that? Try ask to the people living their life as all is normal and the same forever. They don’t even know what you are talking about. What? 2008? What happened in 2008?
So the point is that Usa+Nato can go on somehow with this war forever and at the same time convince its people that nothing is happening. And given they have a huge number of weapons and that they can invent money through an abstract financial system they themselves invented, they can also use the strategy to keep the war going forever, maybe also putting China inside the plan with the Taiwan issue, as they are trying to do.
Do they care about their own population?
Not at all.
They can sacrifice their own people, destroy their own economies, make the west poor, forcing Russia and China to do the same.
Hoping this way that sooner or later Russia and China must stop for the sake of their own populations, because they care about it.
And if even we arrive at the point that all west becomes a poor disintegrated land, that’s good for them, they can invest and build what they dream of: a new middle age of a small aristocracy and a population of slaves kept by technology.
To some point they will run out of ukies…but as you say, no problem there are many idiots russophobes waiting in line to die(Pol + 3B) and if necessary all former Eastern Europe with the exception of Hungary and Serbia.
Notice how the so-called gentler sex are heading up most of these Foreign Ministries.
Makes you want to puke. Must be that these skanks are easier to corrupt.
Russians know how to fight; ask the Germans…
Hope Russia is not going to fall (again after Odessa wheat ‘agreement’) in this trap.
The motives of the shelling of the Zaporozhye NPP by Ukrainian troops became clear
Statements were made from Kiev about the need to create a demilitarized zone and deploy peacekeepers in the area of the station. It was for this purpose that the Ukrainian troops carried out constant shelling of the nuclear power plant. The fact is that in this way the Zelensky regime plans to use a mechanism to stop the offensive of Russian troops by deploying “peacekeepers” in the area, and in fact – legalizing the NATO contingent on the territory of Ukraine.
“The solution that we demand from the international community and all our partners is to create a demilitarized zone on the territory of the station. The presence of peacekeepers in this zone and the transfer of its management to them, and then the management of the station to the Ukrainian side would solve this problem,” the statement of the Ukrainian Energoatom reads.
To this end, a large-scale information campaign has been launched about a possible repetition of the Chernobyl disaster, and all strikes on the territory of the NPP are attributed to Russia. The calculation is simple – if the NATO contingent is legalized in the specified area, it will not only complicate, but in principle make it impossible for the Russian army to advance in the Zaporozhye region.
Well, as for the statements of the Ukrainian side that such a step “will reduce the risk of a catastrophe that may arise due to hostilities within the nuclear power plant,” they are negligible in essence. To reduce the risk of a catastrophe, Ukrainian troops simply need to stop firing at a nuclear facility.
You, and most of the commentators, even “pro-Russians” commentators, get it wrong in relation with western Ukraine. USA and its puppets aim to extend the conflict and Russian has no choice to continue all the way to the western Ukraine. Any territorium left as “Ukraine” will be used as pawn to attack Russia; it will never be neutral. If Russia does not take over the ENTIRE Ukraine, Russia will regret not doing so immensely.
What do you think this entire conflict is aimed by the neocons and neoliberals?
You may wonder: What would Russia do with so many nazis in western Ukraine?
The history suggests you what happened in Kaliningrad with the germans there when Russia took over. Also, with the movement of people between western Ukraine and Poland right after WWII. Russia has not choice but to do so. Any one understanding human behavior would understand what to do to deal with this situation.
This is what this conflict is heading BEFORE it started.
It is a sad reality, not what I’m wish of want so, but . . . it is what it is. Long peaceful coexistence benefits all parties involved.
The Soviet did a real BAD job with its population within the Soviet Union, by keeping and feeding such fragmented cultural views. It paid the priced in the early 90’s. Socialists bought their own BS of undistructive view of themselves, as the greens do today.
Countries, cultures, languages, etc are made up. It is part of human behavior to adapt.
An example: Crimea passed from Greek in culture, to the Ottoman culture and then to the Russians. Nothing stay the same.
The comparison between USA and Russia is valid to certain areas only. Many places in USA were pretty empty when they were conquered. What Russia owns todays, e.g., the far east and north east were pretty empty when they were conquered by the Russia Empire as well. In that sense, it is equivalent. However, other places, already populated, is another issue.
The Russian Empire was not into integrating people and cultures, to be honest, so I don’t even expect to have such standards, let alone that most of the south of the Russian Empire was conquered in the 1800, and they were to certain extend populated; those wars (to conquer the south) took decades by the Russian Empire to be acquired. The issue is that the Soviet Union solidified such cultural separations. I would understand at the beginning as the newly formed Soviet state was weak, but after 70 years!!….it is the arrogance of the left, that makes them think they carry the untimely truth. The Soviet constitution should have been emended after the WWII or so. Again, I can only explain it due to the left arrogance.
The United States is in a different situation, as most of the people in the states come from other countries. Sure, USA has programs to encourage people to move to different places but those more family oriented groups, e.g., Italian and other Hispanics, tend to be clustered themselves, making it harder. This explains the reason of Spanish as a strong language in certain areas, e.g., in Miami; but despite that, Miami is more “American”, in the sense of the letter of the US constitution and its philosophy than other places in USA. Again, this boils down to the reason of why people MOVE to USA. They were not conquered but move to USA in search of freedom. But when it comes to conquered already populated places, people tend to forget that USA did conquer the entire Mexico, but because its population and cultural differences, the USA leaders decided not to stay there. Let us be honest and fair.
Sure, it takes work to embeds different cultures into one, and no need to repress one other another one, but find a common good. After all, human only care about having a good life. There are good example of that, even within Russia today, but also in USA. However, many leaders have been lazy or naive or passive or similarly not to take into consideration that other nations will play the ethnicity card to split other countries.
Ukraine has been encouraged into the neo-nazy thinking, this time, not the western part but this has infested the entire country. Russia has been very lazy not to counter attack that, no with the army, but with ideologies. Not that I buy into ideologies as they are vessels of excuses to reach and/or sustain power but people need that “saga” to believe into something. In the absence of ideologies other bad ideas may come in.
All this is sad, but it is what it is, and I don’t see any long sustainable approach but to go all the way to west for Russia. No other viable choice.
Putin waited patiently for the Nazis to gather in Ukraine. Then he sent his men to kill them.
Yes Cookie, maybe Russia is now waiting for ‘General Winter’ to work his/her magic. I can imagine the Ukraine, and Europe, stumbling through the first winter, on survival mode, but not the second and third winters.
The people will have rebelled long before then, unless Anal Schwab can implement the WEF totalitarian state, nourished by two servings of insects per day!
And the European leaders must be wondering about the black market weapons, moving through unseen channels. How long before they are ‘returned personally, to sender’!
Thank you for the effort you made to write this great article
I fully agree with your reasoning, since Russians aim is making NATO and the EU irrelevant.
Brussels (Washington) are aware and they are acting suicidal in every aspect.
I do expect the Western financial system to collapse before year end, which is on intensive care since the last crisis (2008), flooding massive debt and fiat money.
“Hence the truly idiotic order given to the best and most capable Ukrainian forces to not engage in a mobile defense but to hold their ground in the Donbass until they are totally destroyed.”
Indeed, it does look like a perverse self-genocide mission driven by external forces.
Why is this death cult appears to be highly successful in engineering its own deconstruction?
Firstly, a highly sophisticated modern propaganda system with ‘comedian’ actors working 24/7 from the top down.
Secondly, a complex and somewhat confused history of a disputed border region that pulls in three cultural directions and is divided in half by historic religious affinities. While the UK managed to weld together the English, Scots and Welsh, it seems the necessary ‘monarch’ element is missing in the Ukraine case.
Thirdly, a collection of criminal neo-colonial enterprises are desperate for new opportunities to exploit “terra nullius” in order to keep a decaying bankrupt late-cycle crony capitalist system going (for the benefit of the 1%).
The less people at the end reduces compensation liabilites, moves peasants off the land, and opens up huge industrial-scale plantation agriculture. As noted in the three coproations mentioned below, this is currently a USA+Germany combo.
For example, as uncovered by iEarlGrey (Telegram) and discussed at the 12:34 mark in “Kiev Cash Grab” https://youtu.be/eKsN023LkH8?t=753
In sum: “Ukrainian farmland from 2024 can be bought by unknown legal entities” and scale is indicaded with “Since the moratorium was lifted, according to the agency, 17 million hectares of Ukrainian land have been leased by three international consortia with the participation of American capital — Cargill, Dupont and Monsanto.”
Link (from YT iEarlGrey):
“Ukrainian farmland from 2024 can be bought by unknown legal entities”
https://tinyurl.com/2pqdhknz
Applying Yandex translate.
https://translated.turbopages.org/proxy_u/ru-en.en.f0e63f9c-62f3bd88-7bcc7f3b-74722d776562/https/www.gazeta.ru/business/news/2022/08/10/18297248.shtml?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=desktop&updated
The purpose of a system is what it does, and this system is grinding down the Ukraine military forces — and through that, the country itself, via baiting the Russians. Slav on Slav until the wheat fields are ‘enclosed’ by transnational agri-corporations.
I wonder how the western companies are planning to enforce any property titles (on paper) to land which has been integrated physically into the russian sphere by the end of the SMO.
Outcomes may be complex due to various technical legal definitions as to whether this “special operation” is a formal war or not etc. However, I’d assume various legal WTO related scenarios for owner/shareholder compensation for loss of profit will be played out etc. Recovered by “more sanctions” and “Russian asset” confiscation. The same type of strategies they use in Latin American nationalization compensation cases.
The scam would basically be the Urainian criminal class grabbing the case and running as the country fails (e.g., exit Afghanistan). Then these international companies sue for compensation from Russia via the Western courts and WTO systems. Just another grift angle.
The west has left all legal frameworks in shambles, by confiscating Russia’s assets held in the west. I don’t see how the west could successfully make any claims based on a legal framework which itself has thoroughly trampled upon.
If I was in Russia’s place, I’d drop any such written claim unanswered into the waste paper bin.”Western courts” – my ass!
Good stuff Andrei, thank you.
I think this analysis is pretty bang on, so I won’t quibble over details as I am a layman in the military area. The only thing I will add, and I hope it is an addition, is that it seems fairly obvious where the mid term obligations of the SMO must be. I say ‘obligations’ because they have been admitted as such by VV Putin, S Lavrov, Peskov, etc…For example, the admission that Ukraine took advantage of the ‘goodwill withdrawal’ from Bucha to stage a massacre partly with old corpses and sadly, partly with freshly murdered Russian speakers/supporters who wore white armbands. This incident in particular meant that Russia had to commit to permanently keeping all liberated territories, and is obliged to continue this. If you follow P Lancasters/ G Phillips’ interviews with liberated populations, their main fear is that the Russians will leave, thus letting the killers back in.
Again, the recent interview with the Azov press officer from the subsequently bombed prison camp showed that Arestovich, and by implication Zelensky, are completely guilty of ordering the torture and murder of Russian POWs at least as early as March 1st 2022. Thus, liberating Ukranians from the ‘elensky regime is another obligation that has been acknowledged.
The Russian central command must know far more than any of us here, and so must know how close the Kiecv regime is to collapse, i.e. very close, and they must have planned for what they will do when that collapse happens.
People criticised Peskov, who is a decent guy, early in the SMO because he said the deaths are a tragedy, but necessary. How much more so now?
As a Pagan, Western loyalist, I have little in common with most of the people on this blog, but I am on record, on YT lamenting the Russophobia, and begging my countrymen not to give in to stupid hatred, as I have always liked and admired Russians, especially VV Putin. Yes, the Russians must win, for all our sakes, but I take no joy in the cost to Ukraine, nor will I label them Nazis. They, like us in the UK, are under an occupation government, and that government does not reflect them, or their views. The young people are to be commended for their bravery, and patriotism in defending their country. They are ill led, and led astray, but they are beautiful, and brave, and they are dying in their thousands. Peskov, a decent, honourable and likeable man, is right. It is a tragedy. Do you love the Slavs? Then lament, and understand the pain that grim duty must cause the Russian leadership.
Andrei,
I am happy you are back. I missed your thorough analysis. God bless you and yours.
Sincerely,
Jamie
Saker, thanks for an intelligent summary of the situation. Appreciated!
Andrei: “I will mention one last thing: while the collapse of the international financial system is already well underway, its effects have, so far, not been fully felt…”
I believe that the above will be the biggest long-term result from the SMO, via the follow-on US/UK/EU (NATO) financial actions. It is one thing (in other nations’ eyes) to sweep-up the assets of a minor nation for some ‘transgression’. It is quite another to freeze/seize/confiscate the assets of a Major Player. That causes a “this could happen to me” reaction, which in-turn leads to serious contemplation of withdrawing from that System.
On the one hand, this could lead to a separate, multi-state-administered financial system. The Russians, Chinese, and perhaps Iranians & Indians seem to be in the early stages of formation of this kind of system.
On the other hand, there are certain parties that seem to want to bring everything down, in order to “Build Back Better” (with them in-control, of course). This is just a more-hidden, modern version of Feudalism, with Nobles & Serfs.
Time will tell which vision of the future prevails…
The tempo of the SMO depends in part on the financial collapse of the West. Neither the Russian Federation nor China can afford to see the insane leadership of the West continue and recover. If necessary the takeover of Taiwan by force will be carried out. This will be the coup de grace for the West. But the resulting destructuring could have very serious consequences.
Therefore, at the same time as the West is collapsing financially, an alternative must be offered so that those who leave the Titanic are not left alone.
In other words, the collapse of the West must be counterbalanced by the creation of an alternative. Will these two simultaneous and opposite movements be completed by the spring of 2023? Or will a 2nd winter be necessary.
Wait and See as our host says. Thanks to him.
The point is we are all convinced that the west will collapse financially.
But let’s not forget that the financial world is an abstract system based on nothing and running under the rules created by itself.
So the financial situation might be just a transition rather then a collapse. Transition to a monopoly, an oligarchy, a plutocracy.
It already happened in 2008. The whole system collapsed, but actually they changed the rules and the collapse was turned into a transition and the social system turned swiftly into a plain plutocracy.
So in 2008 the financial powers gained even more power and cancelled any opposition.
So it’s better not to rely on the western collapse to help a Russia victory. It’s too complicated and dangerous to see it this way.
The only option is a big change into west society and an awake of Europe. And I think that China can be the solution, because China is very deep into the financial mechanism and could force it to look for a compromise.
And of course the real solution would be that the whole Europe and West realize that the financial system is the REAL big problem and start to get rid of it.
Unfortunately there is no sign that Europe is on the way to realize that. It’s the opposite.
So I really guess that this war will keep going for a long time and will also involve China.
And I think that only if China gets involved, we will move into a solution.
The financial system is not an illusion. It is based on trust, it is immaterial but not an illusion. This system allows the USA to finance its budget deficit for free, which is nominally very close to the gigantic budget of its armies. The world will be free of the US threat when this free lunch stops. It seems to me that then the size, therefore the threat of the US army will drop drastically.
The financial system of the west is based on credit in US$. More credit can collapse the system and reinforce the control of the elites if there is no alternative to get out of this circle. In order for the exchange of material goods to continue, an electronic payment system must be created. It may be, and I think it is even necessary, but I am no one in this matter, that the President of the Russian Federation makes an announcement this fall at the Vladivostok forum. For Iran, China, Russia, India and Turkey, exchange in national currencies is a possibility. But to connect Africa and South America to the new world, I believe that a new reserve value is needed. Because if the new system works on national currencies, the establishment of a foreign exchange market for many currencies is not possible in such a short time.
Money is a claim on future energy/resources. In 2008, the financial collapse was averted by doubling down on money/debt creation. The world did the same during Covid – money/debt creation to get us through the pandemic. There is now such a mis-match between money in circulation and energy/resources that something has to give. We either revalue money (inflation) or we gain control of Russian energy/resources. This is what this war with Russia in Ukraine is about.
You forget to think outside the Western box. There is an alternative to the West. And that is the game changer that will bring it all down. It’s over.
Thank you for a clear-headed fact based perspective Andrei.. One of the very few worth listening to. One question, do you think the Russians have considered attack on nuclear power plants, or nuclear debris? If so, how could they actually manage such threats?
Saker,
Thank you, you do answer most of “complaints” or difficult to understand things some of us have opened. It is also true, West is giving Ukies full intelligence, financial and weapons support. I am aware of that. If Ukraine Zombie Army wants to fight to the very end, war will last for some time, I am sure.
However, there is no army that does not have shortcomings or mistakes. It goes for Russians too. Yes, we nonexperts will much more often be wrong then right. But still, I hope doors will not be completely closed in comments section to aksing some uncomfortable questions. Hopefully, something good can come out of prolonged debate.Basically these are INTERESTING questions, important also for possible future military conflicts with Empire….
For instance, unfortunate Avdeevka (Marinka, Peski). Do people in fact REALLY still live in this hell on earth places, or have they mostly left months ago? I mean, situation is, all Russian care nonetheless, already unbearable in those villages. If most of population has left, then maybe Russian hands could become “less tied” in respect to the problem. In fact, this seems to goes on right now. That is type of question that I think we should be able to discuss.
Same for problems of equipping army with drones, protective equipment for border guards, lack of modern sniper rifles….Yes, there are also problems, probably most of them small-to-medium variety, so even Russian Telegram channels tell us, but so what? Let us discuss them, and it will be much better in long run even from point of view of “winning hearts and minds”. It does not help if naive individuals start considering Russian army as superhuman or invincible everywhere and anytime (and no, Saker never said that, of course).
This makes me suprising why for instance stock markets in western nations have not been collapsed because they are the first reacting and very fast. There seems to be no really fear and certainly not panic. The main reason perhaps that investers don’t Ukraine as much crucial as MSM is suggesting.
It’s been 14 years that Wall Street is totally manipulated
Travis, It seems to me that the clown world western markets only care about free money from the central banks. When there is bad news for the people e.g., unemployment up, CPI up, PPI up, ect., then the traders expect the interest rates to go down or not up, and eventually the QE and reverse repo scheme will keep going. Valuations mean nothing any longer. Another thing that I’ve noticed is that they can always trade a decline because that has been legalized in the U.S. since 1999 or 2000 I believe. Glass Steagal.
Debt is wealth under Neo Classical MMT.
The million dollar question is how come Zelenski and his government are still functioning. After months of deaths from this SMO I’m really surprised Zelenski is still alive
I can see how letting Hungary take back their small ethnic areas in Western Ukraine might be a good idea. As long as they don’t go across the Carpathians. But Poland has very few ethnic Poles in Ukraine left from the pre-war numbers. And those aren’t clustered in groups along the borderline that could be ceded to Poland. And since the Romanians (unlike the Hungarians) aren’t at all friendly to Russia.It would be a bad idea to reward their Russophobia by giving them any territory.If Western Ukraine was to fall to NATO they would make it into a propaganda “piedmont” for a “Ukrainian” resistance state.During what they’ve done in Iraq and Syria with the Kurds there. Train them as soldiers,terrorists,and spies. And send them back into the liberated territories to cause pain to Russians.
The issue of Western Ukraine needs to be solved finally. Those that can live in peace be allowed to continue to live there. Those that are totally nazi supporters,be removed from the region. Either force them out into Poland,transfer them to other areas as the Poles did to their Ukrainian minority. Or adopt a modified policy similar to the Chinese Uyghur policy of reeducation and try to salvage the next generation. That is a policy the Russians may need to institute in the liberated territories as well. To root out the propaganda that has perverted some people in those territories too. The Bandera ideology must be fully rooted out or it will fester and return to give trouble there for decades.
Long Live the RAF (Rusian Armed Forces)!
Russia and Belarus has just been hit!!! Wtf is Putin doing? China a paper tiger. Russia now doing what? This is crazy. Is Putin just controlled opposition?
I’ve been watching the latest Lira Roundtable. I’ve confirmed a suspicion I’ve had for a while now. Dima at the Military Summary channel is a Ukrainian supporter. He tries to be neutral and report the facts. So I still will watch his reporting. But now I see I was right all along about his true loyalty. It seems his wife is West Ukrainian from a Russophobe family,with her brother fighting in Donbass against Russians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW61u2C7Hwk
And that makes him what ….everything he says can be fact checked within a few days….and he has to sleep with his wife every night…..he walks the fence, if ones spouse switched religion or political affiliation, does one look for a new spouse or does one compromise …..33 yrs and counting for me, easy answer.
Cheers M
You did read where I said ” He tries to be neutral and report the facts. So I still will watch his reporting. “,right. He has a few moments where when the Ukrainians claim something he seems to accept that. But 99.9% of the time he is neutral. But from the Lira Roundtable it seems to me clear where his sympathies lay.I just think when listening to his analysis of future moves we should understand that. As for his daily reports of ongoing events,I think we can accept that reporting fully.
Saker,
I just want to say that I appreciate your blog and the logical consistency of your thoughts. It took me 5 decades of constantly learning from a foolish mindset created by the western lack of a complete education and propaganda. I have found that people like yourself and others are searchers for the truth no matter where it leads, which is a rare trait it seems.
Please keep up the good work.
Nikolai K
Interesting to remember that a month or two back Scott Ritter was saying that US/NATO aid was a game changer (not game winner), and that the war with “Ukraine” was becoming a different animal. I seem to remember he took a lot of heat for that…
Great post, Andrei, thanks for updating us with your read of things.
It will be great when the U.S. is dethroned from its role as enforcer of The Empire, and our military assumes its sole rightful role of defender of our borders. Thank you Russia for battling and besting The Cabal, you are freeing the world as a result of such.
Excellent analysis by Andrei as always – I think that Russia is not fighting an here and now war but a very systemic campaign to kill hundreds of thousands of western soldiers and destroy billions and billions worth of equipment knowing fully well that this will be taken of the table for the next two decades while all this men and equipment are turned to dust – It’s just impossible for the West to replace such a huge quantity of trained men especially when their young men doesn’t want to join the army – Also with no major industrial base for manufacturing and engineering related works, it’s going to take a long time before all this equipment is build again not only as replacements but also as buffer, a task going to be all the more hard when the global South start restricting access to minerals and raw materials – I believe the grandmasters of Russian strategic planning are playing an extremely long game where once the West is completely depleted, Russia and it’s allies are going to start offensive operations across financial, military, cyber, cultural, raw materials and finished goods etc against the collective West to destroy it completely and comprehensively – A very long winter is coming for the Western Hemisphere and it’s lackeys although one feel sad for it’s population for the hardship they are going to endure
65% of Russians are ready to support Putin’s possible decision to attack Kiev!
The study was conducted through a telephone survey on August 3-10, involving more than 12,000 respondents in eight federal regions of the Russian Federation..
Eco News of ‘sanctionnists’
A large aluminum plant in Kentucky is temporarily halting production and laying off more than 600 workers due to rising energy costs. Century Aluminum has announced plans to shut down its Hawesville smelter for 9 to 12 months starting in August.
The Bank of England predicts a jump in inflation in the country to 13% with wages rising by 5.25% in the fourth quarter of this year.
This means a drop in real wages by 7.75% — the strongest since the 1920s, the British Congress of Trade Unions reported on Thursday
Because of these problems, France has already ceased to be an exporter of electricity in 2022, since half of the French nuclear power plants are shut down for maintenance.
Europe is experiencing a shortage of diesel fuel due to disruptions in supplies, and in the near future the problem will worsen as the EU ban on imports of Russian oil comes into force. Today, the Russian Federation is the largest supplier of diesel fuel to Europe.
Siemens has suffered losses for the first time in 12 years.
The company servicing Nord Stream missed 1.66 billion euros due to write-offs of the value of the stake in Siemens Energy. The decision to leave Russia cost the company 442 million euros.
In Germany, Rhine water levels at Kaub will become impassable to barges carrying coal, oil and gas later this week, which will seriously impact German industry
Sanctions backfire:
Electricity bills in EU have increased by an average of 42% in 2022, whilst gas prices have increased by an average of 83%
Well done Ursula, Macron, Sholtz and co – sincere condolences
A catastrophe of biblical proportions is going to happen to the EU US UK this winter.
…states one of the most popular and widely circulated British publications, The Telegraph: “Welcome to modern Britain, where nothing works, everything is expensive, and we are all too busy arguing about the causes of our troubles, to find any solutions”.
Residents of the country are anxiously watching the constant increase in the projected marginal price of electricity for the average household. So, the consulting company Cornwall Insight believes that utility bills will soar from £1971 to £3,581 in October and £4,266 in January,
absorbing 14% of the income of an ordinary British family. The poor segments of the population will not be able to cope with such expenses at all,” The Telegraph notes
The state ceases to function normally, — emphasizes The Telegraph. While in one part of it, due to the record heat, it was forbidden to use hoses for irrigation in order to save water, in another , in north London, there was a breakthrough of highways that flooded the streets of the city. A recent investigation by The Telegraph revealed that over the past three years, the police have failed to solve a single theft in eight out of ten areas of Britain and Wales.
The number of people on National Health Service waiting lists has grown from a pre-pandemic 4.4 million to 6.6 million. Queues at airports are growing, food prices are rising, and there are more and more strikes.
Wages in Britain have stagnated for ten years. Transport workers, firefighters, doctors, nurses, teachers, postal workers, civil servants, lawyers and even television producers — they all refuse to work, — reports The Telegraph
Such a difficult economic situation has developed in Britain due to the conflict in Ukraine, anti-Russian sanctions, high inflation, disruption of supply chains caused by the epidemic, as well as the retreat of globalization.
In addition, Britain is faced with the problem of an aging population, which increases the burden on its financial system, The Telegraph concludes
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/08/11/britain-really-broken-cant-afford-fix/?fbclid=IwAR0JI5QECaFCas-bQbpg8vHB6NSdTHaXuR5pdbel3z8ycDB3ZLMTzAU4lwk
Not all questions answered:
– Why are Selensky and his leadership lot not being taken out?
– Why is the Verchovna Rada, today only consisting of Selensky approved people, not being taken out?
– Why are the military and SBU command structures not being destroyed?
– Why is it still possible to transport huge quantities of weapons (like HIMARS) and ammo from west to east?
Maybe the weapons manufacturers haven’t reached their quotas.
Maybe govt haven’t reached their inflation targets.
Maybe there is not enough new money yet in the system to satisfy the banks.
Maybe the Russian timetable is just coincidentally the same as the West’s’.
Maybe they’re still working on a new virus.
Maybe they’re waiting for the climate to change.
Cynical? Moi? No no no no no.
– Why are Selensky and his leadership lot not being taken out?
They are Western stooges so stupid that taking them out bears a high chance of them being replaced by less stupid ones. As it stands, Zelensky is in a tightly bound relationship with Western elites that severely curtails each party’s ability to take rational decisions. Nothing could be better from the point of view of the Russians.
– Why is the Verchovna Rada, today only consisting of Selensky approved people, not being taken out?
The Verchovna Rada, because of the very fact that it only consists of Selensky approved people, is inconsequential, thus not worth a single bullet.
– Why are the military and SBU command structures not being destroyed?
They are being destroyed. The top leaderships are in hiding but lower levels are attacked and killed on a near daily basis.
– Why is it still possible to transport huge quantities of weapons (like HIMARS) and ammo from west to east?
Basically, there are two possibilities. It could be that the Russians are happy with these weapons and ammo being transported to the East since that allows them to destroy these weapons and ammo at a convenient distance from their own borders. Given it is so, then the SMO is conceived to be much longer-lasting and wider-ranging than is currently believed by most. That would make a lot of sense since, even with all of Ukraine taken, Russia would still have to worry about US missile bases in Poland, the Czech Republic and Romania, and about the US presence in all of Europe, for that matter. But it could also be the case that Russia finds it too difficult to stop the flow of weapons and ammo to the East for variou reasons.
Thank you – a useful article. I am sometimes asked the same questions (usually in a batch) & I am not always able to formulate the answers correctly in time to prevent the discussion from veering off into the bush.There is one problem with the slow progress of the Russian military operation – it is that not only Russians gradually learn and refine/adjust their tactics – but that the NATO command of the Ukrainian forces learns & improves their tactics too. The result at some point might be a sudden escalation of the conflict to the nuclear – with the US and NATO, not, of course with the Ukraine, and it seems the “western” media already started preparing the public for it.
Response to your post from a former thread.
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@ sean the leprechaun on August 10, 2022 · at 10:11 am EST/EDT
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See, that’s part of the info lag, Dima mentioned a push towards Nikolaev, you’re saying it’s almost deserted, where’d you get that info??
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Well, you could look for that info yourself.
You can be sure I never post anything without verifying it, not once, but several times, before posting it.
War is serious business, lives are on the line, misinformation and fake news are irresponsible recklessness when it comes to war.
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https://riafan.ru/23574703-nikolaev_sdayut_bez_boya_gorodskoi_garnizon_vsu_speshno_otvodyat_pod_kiev_i_na_zapadnuyu_ukrainu?utm_source=warfiles.ru
Nikolaev surrender without a fight: the city garrison of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is hastily withdrawn to Kiev and Western Ukraine
Zelensky’s large-scale PR campaign, based on promises to recapture Kherson, ended with a hasty retreat of the last combat-ready units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the Mykolaiv region.
The shameful flight, by analogy with Mariupol, has already been called an evacuation. In any case, in the order on the transfer of the 36th marine brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Nikolaev to Kiev, this is exactly what this process was called. After the Marines gradually began to take out other units, not forgetting even the green recruits. More or less experienced cadres are sent to the capital, and reservists recruited only recently are sent to Western Ukraine.
Apparently, the Kiev regime is carefully and quietly handing over the Mykolaiv region. It is interesting that at the same time, Zelensky’s propagandists continue to actively advertise the offensive on Kherson, which the AFU command has been preparing for the second month. The statements of Ukrainian politicians and the actions of the Ukrainian army eventually reached a certain peak of surrealism, when the military in practice demonstrates the notorious counter-offensive in retreat, invented by one of Zelensky’s visionaries, Arestovich.
Former Verkhovna Rada deputy Igor Markov, who is now in the thick of events in southern Ukraine with the Odessa volunteer Brigade, told guests of Vladimir Solovyov’s studio about the evacuation of Ukrainian militants from Nikolaev.
“I would like to start with some really good news in my opinion. Today, against the background of the huge success of the Allied forces in the Donbass, the brilliant work of our artillery and rocket launchers, and the actions of our units in the Mykolaiv direction, the 36th Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, stationed in Mykolaiv, received an urgent evacuation order for Kiev. The regional military enlistment office received a command to urgently evacuate all certified employees with personal files of persons subject to mobilization and persons of military age to Western Ukraine. Approximately in the area of the city of Rovno. Other units are also gradually being withdrawn, some to Kiev and some to Western Ukraine. In fact, they are evacuating the entire garrison. So the rats ran. Nicolae is handed over without a fight. I think that in the very near future we will liberate the entire south of Ukraine from the Nazis, ” the ex-MP expressed confidence.
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https://tass.com/defense/1490329
Members of Ukraine’s 59th, 61st brigades leave positions — Russian Defense Ministry
Given the huge losses that the Ukrainian forces are suffering on the Nikolaev front, service members of the 59th and 61st Brigades and the 35th Marine Brigade refused to obey attack orders, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov said
MOSCOW, August 6. /TASS/. Service members of Ukraine’s 59th and 61st Brigades and the 35th Marine Brigade are leaving their positions after refusing to obey attack orders, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov said at a briefing on Saturday.
“Given the huge losses that the Ukrainian forces are suffering on the Nikolaev front, service members of the 59th and 61st Brigades and the 35th Marine Brigade refused to obey attack orders, they are defecting, leaving their positions,” he said.
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Of course, the UkroWerhmacht calls that “evacuation,” as they “evacuated” from Lisichansk/Severodonetsk, and “relocated” from Mariupol to prison.
Russians call it differently.
As for your opinion on the content of the Saker’s blog, I believe this, his latest post, is the best answer to the opinion of those cowardly suggesting a retreat is the order of the day.
As I stated on that thread, I will not engage in that subject.
Lone Wolf
Why don’t you, Lone Wolf, do Sit Reps or mini Sit Reps? It seems you keep track of what is going on and know how to interpret what is happening as well as anyone here.
@ jojo on August 12, 2022 · at 6:41 pm EST/EDT
I do, to the best of my ability.
There are several limitations in term of space, as there is no one section of the blog dedicated to the war, and only when there is an official Sit-Rep, a post by the Saker, or an Open Thread, I can do it.
Just FYI, I am planning on writing a Sit-Rep-like post at the new thread the Saker opened today.
Thanks for your suggestion.
Lone Wolf
Thank you Andrei, for your insightful analysis of the present situation in the Ukraine and your accurate description of our “West”, led by the Neocon US/NATO and their demagogue Puppet-servants in Brussels.
The USA is in deep Shit…(excuse the language) but that is the only way I can describe the USA. The 2008 Global Financial Crisis, caused by a corrupt federal reserve bank and corrupt USA Institutions that seem to want to re-enact the 1929 Great Depression, in order to dig their way out of the 31 trillion USD financial hole the USA and NATO had gotten itself into, after successive failed War crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria…well the list just goes on and on. And then the Germans of all cancel the essential Nord-stream 2 Pipeline, from Russia, which was Germany’s biggest trading partner. All this, to appease the authoritarian USA who demonized Russia as well as China now for decades. The USA Economy is in deep trouble, as is the European Union. Russia is the greatest European Nation with its 146 million People, a modern multicultural society, China with 1400 million amazing People with a strong economy and here we got the USA, mired in endless Wars, a broken down economy, a corrupt Wall-street casino where central banks devalue their currency endlessly, to beggar their Neighbors in a slow race to the bottom, where populous Demagogue Governments rule to appease the basic instincts of the lowest common denominator: the Mob, plain stupidity, greed, jealousy and hatred is fed daily to those, to lazy to think for themselves. It is a sad situation and what happens next is the outcome of all these lies and deceit, all these years of greedy corruption and divide and destroy mentality of the so-called West.
Ce n’est pas la Russie qui fera chuter l’occident comme ce n’est pas l’occident qui a fait chuté l’URSS, c’est Dieu qui le fera.
La Russie se contente de ne pas se faire bouffer par un occident devenu dingue et à prendre son bâton de pèlerin pour le faire comprendre aux autres nations.
Lorsque l’URSS est tombée à cause de Tchernobyl du fait que la science matérialiste était leur religion s”effondrant, les USA ont pris la grosse tête sous l’influence des néoconservateurs donc des gens dans la mouvance du messianisme Juif qui ne reconnait pas que le Christ est le Messie et qui use de méthodes malsaines.
L’occident est déjà arrêté, il vit “ses premiers jours de Tchernobyl” car il s’est lui même génétiquement empoisonné au nom de la santé
https://twitter.com/idrissaberkane/status/1556962598440112130
https://twitter.com/pam33771/status/1555207342907686913
La religion de l’occident est de se justifier au nom de la santé du monde mais avouez que c’est raté, c’est donc sa psyché qui est atteinte au delà des désordres corporels qu’il a disséminé partout.
Dieu a permis cela pour faire chuter les élites occidentales qui n’ont pas voulu tenir compte des avertissements de ceux qui les apportaient mais ont préféré les ostraciser. La Russie n’a pas à se déchaîner car c’est déjà trop tard pour l’occident orgueilleux.
machine translation:
It is not Russia that will make the West fall as it is not the West that made the USSR fall, it is God who will do it.
Russia is just trying not to be eaten by a West that has gone crazy and to take its pilgrim’s staff to make other nations understand it.
When the USSR fell because of Chernobyl, because the materialistic science was their religion, the USA took the lead under the influence of the neoconservatives, that is to say, people in the movement of Jewish messianism who do not recognize that Christ is the Messiah and who use unhealthy methods.
The West is already stopped, it is living “its first days of Chernobyl” because it has genetically poisoned itself in the name of health.
The religion of the West is to justify itself in the name of the health of the world, but you must admit that it has failed, it is therefore its psyche that is affected beyond the bodily disorders that it has spread everywhere.
God has allowed this to happen in order to bring down the Western elites who did not want to heed the warnings of those who brought them but preferred to ostracize them. Russia does not have to go on the rampage because it is already too late for the proud West.
Andrei:
Welcome back.
You say you won’t provide any maps any more.
Would you (or anyone else) please provide links to web-sites that can provide these maps instead?
There is this one: https://liveuamap.com/ but of course that only gathers information from western sources, mainly the UAF, and is necessarily coy about admitting disappointing losses.
There are also various you-tube channels that show maps from elsewhere, but I’d rather go the source to see the latest situational representation.
Dimi (Military Summary youtube channel) seems to use MiltaryMaps as well as the afore-mentioned liveuamap, but I’ll be buggered if I can find it even with a VPN using a Russian server.
Thanks in advance, Ant.
But looking at it geographically, a full “annexation” including western Ukraine / Lvov-area may expose too much border perimeter into the rest of Europe (making defense of “full-Ukraine” difficult for the Russians)…
If NATO had a thought they have any chance of confronting the Russian offensive and stopping their advances at the beginning of SMO, NATO forces under disguise of UN peace keepers would be in Ukraine in early March.
However the preparedness of EU NATO defences were shuttered by an old rusty drone penetrating their air space almost 800 km deep and flying the full hour over three NATO countries without being seen, or heard not to mention intercepted and shoot down.
If they couldn’t organise this small and in military sense a trivial task facing Russian troops would be a suicidal mission as it is proven now in Ukraine throughout the current situation on the ground.
If the biggest and the most armed and trained by NATO army cannot stop SMO the rest of EU NATO allies armies would be just sitting ducks vaiting to be slaughtered.
It wasn’t really mentioned here but it’s important to remember that Ukraine isn’t the only card that the West has to play against Russia. This year has already seen conflicts around Russia in Karabakh, Kazakhstan, Karakapaklstan and Badakhshan. ISIS is dangerously growing in the north of Afghanistan. The Armenian government as well as Kazakhstani oppose any prorussian demonstrations. Antirussian mood is growing among Kazakhs which makes it clear that one day this country will explode and Russia will have to intervene.
Also, decolonization of Russia agenda in the West becomes more obvious. There are numerous organizations like free Buryatia, free Bashkiria and so on are created by the ethnic minorities in exile. All ‘liberal’ NGOs and news agencies relocated to Europe and operate from there. This whole process cannot be underestimated.
“Russia will be more than happy to let the Poles and Hungarians deal with the Ukronazi nutcases of the western Ukraine.”
LMAO. Now there is a truly funny possibility that is highly likely. Hey Europe, here are a bunch of Nazi refuse. All armed and ready to “share the love” with you now.
George Webb was saying a while back that a lot of the Ukronazis are already out of the country and in Kosovo. He thinks that will the next fallback launching pad for attacks on Russian friendly countries to destabilize them.
Thank you for your insight, Andrei!
The difference to WW2 is that the UK this time cannot diplomatically enable the proteged successes of a Hitler anymore but just would get a refund on their own wicked strategies now. And if they drive it too far they have to go swimming all along in a tsunami wave. Maybe that’s why some Harry already moved to Canada early…
And if you still believe 9/11 was a terrorists attack, go, find the terrorists in the US billionaires circles. They did show up again and again (as villains always do).
I accept and appreciate the information given by Saker.
And I thank Saker for allowing discussions.
But, I see too many kids commenting here with wishful thinking.
“Why Russia don’t do this or do that?” questions by this armchair critics are irritating at the minimum.
Can you just remove them altogether?
I do not mind even if you shut down the Comment section, seriously.