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Depending upon who is doing the reporting, the great Ukrainian counter-offensive is now entering its second week, or the pre-counter-offensive probing maneuver is winding down in preparation for the long-awaited counter-offensive. However, it is described, the Ukrainians are conducting largescale offensive operations at several places using the Western armor. We know this because of the images of German Leopard tanks on fire that we are seeing online.
It is far too early to draw any conclusions about the success or lack of success of this new operation, but it is clear that we are seeing another example of how Western leaders came to believe the narratives they created in the information war. This is an increasing phenomenon where the information production centers of the managerial class create narratives so compelling that the managerial elite confuses these manufactured realities with genuine reality.
In this case, the manufactured reality said that the Russian defensive lines were undermanned and under supplied. Despite the daily display of firepower, the Russians are running out of everything. On top of that, morale in the Russian ranks is low due to the fact the Russian army is composed of conscripted peasants. The narrative that evolved over the last six months of hyping the offensive is that as soon as Western tanks appeared, the Russians would scatter.
This explains why the Ukrainians used the most advanced armor in their assault on Russians lines in the south. The images of destroyed Leopard 2 tanks, Bradley Fighting Vehicles and Finnish mine clearly tanks that have been all over the internet the last week tell the story. This frontal assault with the best Western equipment was supposed to be a promotional vehicle for the benefits of arming Ukraine with the weapons it needs to drive the Russians all the way back to Moscow.
What happened instead was a disaster for Ukraine. In the south, they launched attacks on three areas, all of which got bogged down in minefields. As the Ukrainians tried to maneuver out of the minefields, the Russians attacked them with Lancet drones, KA-52 attack helicopters and artillery. Depending upon who is telling the story, Ukraine has already lost between fifteen and thirty percent of its Western armor and has yet to reach the first line of Russian defenses.
If we accept the Western number as fifteen percent, it is clear that these offensive operations will have a short duration. Keep in mind that the action so far has happened in the security zone of Russian defenses. This is the extreme outer layer used to detect how the enemy is approaching. Ukraine has yet to penetrate this area, which is lightly defended relative to the proper defensive lines. In order to reach the defensive lines, it means suffering massive losses in men and material.
What is remarkable about this is that the United States has spy satellites positioned over Ukraine. They have been providing Ukraine with intelligence from satellites for over a year. NATO has been providing targeting information along with the guided munitions they supply Ukraine. The United States operates the Global Hawk surveillance drone over the Black Sea. In other words, the West has been watching the Russians build their lines in real-time for months.
Despite what they clearly see happening, the narrative prevails. You see it in this detailed report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies. It goes into great detail about Russian defensive preparations. Woven throughout the report, however, is the familiar talking points about the inferiority of Russian equipment and the condition of the Russian military. When asked who they believe? The official narrative or their lying eyes, the writers chose the former.
That is the important part about understanding the power of narrative within the Western managerial elite. Disconfirmation is always met with an organized effort to force the contrary information onto the narrative. Maybe the narrative is tweaked to account for the new data, but the final chapter never changes. The good guys always win in the end and the West is always the good guys. After all, the lesson of history is that the good guys always win.
What we see happening is the narrative makers are converting the results on the battlefield into a new chapter of the story. In this chapter, the West supplies Ukraine with nuclear weapons. Note that this is cast as a defensive action. The superpower cries out in pain as it supplies Russia’s opponent with nukes. Note also that this policy paper is not produced by a random crank. AEI is one of the most influential and well-funded think tanks in Washington.
If that is not terrifying enough for you, there is now talk of letting NATO members “voluntarily” send troops into Ukraine. The Poles have already sent thousands of volunteers, but now there is talk of bring the Baltic states into the mix. The idea is to provide F-16 fighter jets with Western trained pilots from the eastern members of NATO in order to provide air cover for Ukrainian offensives. After all, the Russian army is ready to collapse so they just need one final push.
One of the enduring mysteries of the Great War is how the rulers on both sides kept at it despite the obvious futility of the war. Both sides remained convinced that the other was running on fumes. All they needed to do was keep up the pressure and the other side would eventually crack. They were right, in that the Germans did eventually crack, but not until the continent was reduced to rubble. Imagine if both sides even had crude nuclear weapons. That is where we are now.
That is the terrifying part of this war. Western leaders have become immune to reality, so they embrace narratives produced by people with their own interests. The neocons want to blow up the world. The military industrial complex wants to keep selling expensive weapons. The Ukrainian dictator needs the war to keep going in order to avoid assassination. Everyone involved has a reason to believe the narrative over their lying eyes, so reality remains on the sidelines.
The hope is that events on the ground will reach a point where the remaining sane people in power feel they must step in and stop the madness, but this Ukrainian offensive suggest reality is no match for a good story. Western managerial elites have evolved to the point where they now live in a world of their own creation. It is not hard to imagine them standing in front of a window with VR goggles strapped to their faces as a mushroom cloud forms on the horizon.
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The neocons haven’t been able to kill enough of their ethnic enemies, the Russians, so sending more Ukrainians to their deaths will have to do. If the intel is as good as they say it is, they know the outcome and do it anyway.
On nukes: Rubin. Irish?
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They probably hate Ukranians even more than Russians, having starved an estimated 7-10 million of them to death in the Holodomor. It could be a win for them whichever way it goes.
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In every institution I have contact with I see the narrative phenomenon. I have witnessed how the upper echelons always mete out destruction and demoralization below but never smell the smoke in their citadels. Feel the pain of it? Ha! You feel pain from my benevolence? Good. I merely identified more person in whom evil must be eradicated – and if you won’t self-eradicate it, you will be banished and eradicated!
I’ve also seen, every single time, that there is the same underlying narrative that they internalized when they began to rebel in adolescence.
“The good guys always win in the end and the West is always the good guys. After all, the lesson of history is that the good guys always win.”
Except that the underlying narrative is that the West and Westernkind are evil. Yes, they are the good guys. But, The West and its people are evil, and evil must be destroyed.
So, it all makes sense. You have to say, they are doing a remarkably good job of sticking to the most fundamental, underlying narrative and following it to its logical conclusion.
In another time they would live much closer to the people and would not be able to escape the people’s essential remedy to madness that threatens survival. When duty is abandoned and power inverts everything, the power to remain convinced must be removed from the vested by removing the vested – permanently.
It is not clear that is an option in modernity. The sheer numbers of the inverters is too great, they are mostly anonymous and very remote and they are widely dispersed. Still, it is all underwritten by a few highly centralized sources of funding. Take away the money and it all falls apart.
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The war in Ukraine is looking more like the Eastern Front of WW2, and we all know who won that war. A lot of people don’t know that Romania, Hungary and Italy sent Armies to the Eastern Front. Spain, Croatia and Slovakia sent Divisions. Add to that all the foreign legions and pretty much all of Europe was involved against the USSR. There are many quotes about people who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it. The people who made those quotes obviously didn’t understand the sick mind of the neocon.
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Based on the information Z has included in his post:
– Multiple Russian Defensive Lines
– Armored attacks caught in minefields
– Accurate military intelligence on the situation on the ground available for review
– Ignoring the intelligence and pressing forward with the operation
– Delays in launching the offensive allowing for strengthened defensive positions to be created
– Leadership ignoring the situation on the ground
It appears nobody in the West took a look at history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Citadel
Granted, the numbers of troops and equipment were exponentially higher in the past, but seriously, did no one take a look at the maps and see ominous signs here?
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It really is incredible. The big difference is you can see how the Germans would not know that the Russians were prepared for their attack, given the technology of the time. There is no excuse for the West to not know what would happen if the Ukrainians made an assault on the Russian lines.
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Profound stupidity and titanic hubris is not an excuse?
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Escalation is the only reason that makes any sense. The Ukrainian “sacrifice” will justify using NATO troops to “save” Ukraine. After that, we’re f**ed.
The AEI nuke proposal might be the most frightening policy ever contemplated. I can only hope it’s being floated to make other options sound less insane.
Because narrative has taken the place of religion in the minds of our institutional elites, I do not think they can conceive of losing in what they believe to be a righteous cause, or even being wrong. They will annihilate us all rather than admit even the slightest moral or intellectual failure.
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Exactly that. From the very start of the ‘Special Military Operation’, I’ve been experiencing a disquieting sense of déjà vu from the narratives coming out of the collective West. The shock and awe sanctions came with a paraphrase of the Hitler quote. By now we’re up to the ‘one final push’ sold to Wehrmacht soldiers in the lead-up to Kursk. The sequence of these claims has been uncannily eerie.
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“Western leaders have become immune to reality, so they embrace narratives produced by people with their own interests. The neocons want to blow up the world. The military industrial complex wants to keep selling expensive weapons. The Ukrainian dictator needs the war to keep going in order to avoid assassination. Everyone involved has a reason to believe the narrative over their lying eyes, so reality remains on the sidelines.”
The only ones who matter are the US military contractors. The rest are butt boys, errand boys, court jesters. Unless you think that Biden, Scholz, Macron, and Stoltenberg are leaders rather than spineless and mindless catamites. Zelensky is a butt boy who takes orders from the other butt boys. The neocons likewise take their orders from the military contractors. The US is now a permanent war state.
To use the words of Taleb, none of these scumbags have their own skin in the game. That’s why they’re divorced from reality. When your life is at stake you become realistic. Otherwise you play space invaders on a computer terminal.
In all of this there is one constant: Putin will not budge. Behind Putin, the Chinese will not budge.
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I’m genuinely afraid of what’s going to happen when the truth comes out that all these weapons of war the GAE has constructed are actually just white elephants.
Overly designed monsters that exist to raise profits of the MIT, and are in practice ineffective against an enemy that can actually shoot back.
They will not learn, naturally. Smart money will be they act like a drunken husband who just got fired on the job. Takes it out on the dog.
We are the wife.
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*Takes it out on the wife, but dogs work too.
Related, anyone got bestiality on their bingo card for new thing? Before or after pedophilia, I’m taking bets!
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Lol. Yep I always thought that was a toss up but it’s looking like pedo is ahead.
So then animals?
I can’t imagine what might be next.
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The GAE MSM will never permit normies to learn that truth.
GAE normies will learn that truth when their complementary deliveries of canned sunshine arrive.
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The only adults in the room are the Russians, who are deliberately slow-rolling their war efforts in order to keep Brandon from pushing the button. Will our fag military command refuse this order? No one knows. This reminds me of a scene from Blazing Saddles where the negro sheriff holds a gun to his own head and threatens to shoot if the pitchfork mob doesn’t back down. God help us.
We now know that Ukraine oligarchs gave Brandon two $5 million bribes and kept bank records to prove it. When Ukraine loses, those chickens come home to roost and not even the corrupt Stasi can save him. That is Brandon’s incentive for going nuke crazy. So yes, the probability of a nuclear escalation is non trivial anymore. Go VOTE-HARDER, that’ll fix it. Guaranteed!
How far we have fallen.
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We know some in the ruling class are getting feelers out for an exit button because they are talking about this openly. With Newsom now trying to make a splash with his gun control amendment, we may see a DeSantis/Newsom matchup.
My only hope is the fix is so obvious anyone ever getting excited about a new election gets the same level of mockery as pro wrestling fans.
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The terrifying narrative:
The beautiful people wearing the new Apple VR perfectly happy in their world while in the actual reality the world has mushroom clouds over our cities.
We really do live in the world of media narratives.
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“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality” – Karl Rove on W’s foreign policy.
So it would be okay if they just ignored reality, or spun narratives that the plebes will conflate with reality. But they think they can actually create reality. This is the essence of the problem.
That quibble aside, I completely agree with Zman that these lunatics are perfectly capable of watching mushroom clouds through VR headsets. Why not? They have already killed so many all over the globe. We are all just so many ants to them.
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The contempt and derision of conscripted soldiers is a modern phenomenon.
The US conscripted 10 million (out of 16 million total who served, or were forced to serve) in WWII.
All, we are told, are equally heroic, noble, and brave. Forgotten is that the majority of US men had no interest in dying horrifically to serve FDR’s dream of Empire.
Drafted Americans = Heroes. Drafted Russians = morons and criminals.
When the US runs out of wonder weapons (I see depleted Uranium rounds are officially next on the menu), all that’s left will be masses of bodies to throw at Russia and China.
Wonder if they’ll have the stones to reinstitute the draft and waive basic fitness standards for this pointless war?
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Depleted uranium?
We already have lunatics at AEI writing op-eds about handing tac nukes to Ukraine.
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Amazon reserves the right to turn off your smart home’s utilities if their delivery driver perceives the automated doorbell output as, “rayciss,”
https://patriactionary.wordpress.com/2023/06/13/rayciss-there-goes-your-power/
…and this is why home automation is the utter height of stupidity.
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The US military has been immune to reality since Korea, and every conflict since including the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, Gulf War, Iraq, and Afghanistan in addition to some minor wars in Somalia, Yemen, and Libya.
Now it seems the US military can’t even win a war they’re not actually fighting.
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This is about right. The GAE wanted to transition to proxy wars since it can no longer win directly. That decision is putting us all in grave danger since it appears a nuclear holocaust is preferable to them than having their utter impotence exposed.
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There are some points of order:
The US military is busy purging itself of war fighters, warriors and tacticians and replacing them with perverts and vibrants. They can no longer recruit new talent or retain the older experienced personnel to train them. America will never win another war anywhere as long as this remains the case.
Western Europe is on the ropes. If you think the American economy is bad…Germany just de-industrialized itself. Britain and Fwance are racing to be next. TIn addition they have nothing left to give the Kraine.
Finally, political stability in the west is eroding. Joe Biden, Justin Turdo, Macron, that fuggin pakie PM in Britain…these guys can only maintain power by attacking and undermining their local enemies within their own countries. Joe Biden is hated in over half the country. Turdo La Doo is hated and loathed by 2/3 of Canada. The Globohomo grip on power and to create narratives is slipping.
It’s entirely possible this is the straw that breaks Globohomo’s back. Regardless…the current western order is almost finished.
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Hold up, hot rod. “…these guys can only maintain power by attacking and undermining their local enemies within their own countries.”
The Pride surge is to drive out the last patriots in the military.
Everybody can see the recruitment of those convenient border crashers.
The entire graduating police academy classes of Los Angeles have been Latino.
Illinois has passed legislation to deputize and arm immigrants while shutting down 2A Americans.
I imagine Turdo and the other vassals are all up to the same hijinks.
Big Men on the corner, gang rule on the streets, checkpoints at every frig and Ring doorbell.
Poisoning the rural to drive them into smart cities as broke, desperate internal refugees.
Either a Kerensky moment (Russia’s 8 months of democracy before Lenin) or
Warlord Period coming soon?
Or can we count on the crazies being somewhat benevolent as they have so far, keeping the Target stores open and the Internet on?
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Now, the Neo-conservative end of the Cloud People Club have evidently bribed the government of Moldova, and are wanting to open up a Southern theatre of their proxy war. There’s a place called Transnistria that broke off of Moldova for all the right reasons; i.e., persecution of a Russian minority, and Moldova wants it back. Transnistria is also home to the biggest arms dump in Europe, and the Russians there absolutely despise Romanians. It would also be a good place for the Neos to put on a show, especially for those who don’t believe their narratives.
Of course, many people there are already screaming about not wanting their communities all blown up, but that doesn’t seem to matter. This could get real interesting.
By getting interesting, you know anything at this point could take a literal wrong turn to World War III. Just remember, one time a car driver took a wrong turn, and the events that came out of that mistake resulted in, 4 years later, over 20,000,000 being dead.
This show still has a lot of life left in it, and it won’t be Ukrainian much longer, as so many of them are already dead.
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Reminds me of WW2 when a 19 year old woman beat a seasoned general in naval war games. He was so myopic in his thinking he had no conception of how the enemy thought and how they would react.
The general in this instance ate his humble pie and changed tactics dramatically. Our current leaders will do no such thing.
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They always prepare and fight the last war. This is true throughout history
No visionaries make it to the upper echelon. A good example is Billy Mitchell.
The most modern land based armor is as obsolete as the dreadnought. What do you think the American public will do when the first carrier battle group is harpooned. Imo even the best coordinated combined force would likely be stopped.
These poor bastard ukes are lab rats and will be annihilated in this experiment. The arrogant neocons calling the shots cannot imagine or accept the obvious inevitable outcome. I think Z is right to be alarmed.
I feel we will get and deserve what is coming evil noecon filth degenerates in charge.will bring it.
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The Germans tried to call the war off at the end of 1916, but, certain people who were intent on acquiring an attractive Mediterranean beachfront property, put the kibosh on it.
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Secondly, the First World War could not end until a certain military organisation had achieved their wartime strategic objectives.
This proxy war in Ukraine is no different.
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The southern district the Ukes are throwing themselves against is also the one most heavily fortified by the Russians.
Both sides have watched for months as the Russians built up their defenses–yet, the Ukes’ worst option is also their only option. They must try and break through those lines. Why?
Crimea. They must retake Crimea in a Hail Mary pass, to cut off the Black Sea fleet. This is the only gamble of Ukrainian victory before the Ukes run out of men and supplies.
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Trudeau announced another 500M in aid for Ukraine. If he just gave every Canadian $10 the money would be better spent.
We still have like 560,000 more Ukrainian refugees to import. All the brown men he also imported need white women, as access to white people is a human right.
Getting sick of this Ukraine scam. Ukrainians are easily brainwashed by the left wing agenda too, they are eager to compensate for their “backwards” country by adopting the most globalist positions, like all the smart Western people do.
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“Western leaders have become immune to reality”
That’s been the danger from the start. The puppets in elected positions are stupid as well as psychotic. The MIC is greedy and delusional. The ones who actually call the shots are the same. One false move and they may light the world afire. If nuclear weapons have indeed been sent to Ukraine or that is the plan–and I hope that’s not true but would be hardly surprised–that’s one hell of a giant step in that direction.
I always thought there was grave danger of nuclear war, but it seems probable now. There will be no opportunity to hang these monsters since everyone will die or wish they had died if this plays out. The Bronze Age Death Cult never should have been allowed to get us into this position, but here we are. There was nothing we could have done in such a sick society to stop it.
The only two conclusions that can be drawn are either these types are so divorced from reality they cannot envision their own deaths, or they don’t care if they die. It may be some combination of the two. Regardless, this may be game, set, match for our people.
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Z: “the power of narrative… Disconfirmation is always met with an organized effort to force the contrary information onto the narrative. Western leaders have become immune to reality… Reality is no match for a good story. Western managerial elites have evolved to the point where they now live in a world of their own creation.”
Our fundamental problem here is neuro-psychiatric.
The Insula-dominant Amygdala-submissive White sh!tlib personality type [unitardian, quaker, wesleyan, jesuitical, etc] is utterly beholden to Narratives, Fantasy, Mesmerization, and Hypnotization.
For any amongst us who havn’t read it yet, you simply must familiarize yourselves with the epic 2013 neuro-radiological imaging study:
Red Brain, Blue Brain: Evaluative Processes Differ in Democrats and Republicans
February 13, 2013
https://tinyurl.com/bddymkpw
The White sh!tlib psyche is literal psychological putty in the hands of the Bronze Age Death Cultists.
[“Dredel Dredel Dredel, I made you out of clay; Dredel Dredel Dredel, and with you I shall play…”]
White sh!tlibbery is an existential Darwinian flaw which must not be allowed to drive into extinction those of us Whites with properly functioning [Amygdala-driven] Common Sense.
So we have to fight our way through two enemies: Our hypnotized White brothers & sisters, and the Bronze Age Death Cult which induced the hypnotization in the first place, and which very carefully [over the course of about a century] selected the hypnotizable to function as the psychological eunuchs of the Deep State.
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The reality is the US cannot fight any peer-to-peer war. It’s been eighty years since we’ve encountered a peer. Colonial-style campaigns, along with their make-believe victories, have taken their toll and our moronic elites are just damned lucky Putin is in power.
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The point of today’s post is that the managerial elite have been seduced by their narrative to the point of not discerning or caring to discern the variance of their narrative from reality.
But the elite may not be suicidal, nor can they be sure if or how they might survive the results of nuclear warfare and how that circumstance might involve the rest of the world.
It may be enough to declare victory at some point and go warmongering elsewhere. My own little narrative holds that the leadership of today’s Soviet-lite America and the CCP understand each other and are planning for the American branch of the elite to play the role of the Bosnian Muslims following the Ottoman takeover of the Dalmation coast in the fifteenth century, pan-Asian colonization of North America with the “native” elite managing local affairs.
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Yes. That is my best guess as well. I think the Amer-European satraps will be vassals of a certain “Western” democracy that holds all of the data and guards the global panopticon’s server and storage farms.
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Putin and Xi, watching Man In The High Castle series together, nodding and winking with big grins on their faces!
**(bursting into outright laughter when the Noble Jevvish Guy goes all Revolutionary Patriot)
[Cross-posted from Moon of Alabama]
I think the destruction of the Nova Kakhova Dam presents a much bigger problem for Russia than many here seem to realize. The fact of the matter is that there is no way to spin this that doesn’t make Russia look bad, because either Russia did it or they allowed it to happen. Now, I do not for a moment believe that Russia did it, but I really have to wonder why they weren’t more protective and alert. They have known for a long time that Ukraine had designs on the dam. They should have taken them more seriously.
The strongest argument against Ukraine blowing up the dam is the fact that doing so would provide little to no military value, so why would they bother? The problem with this argument is that pretty much nothing Ukraine has done from the beginning has had any military value either, but they do it anyway. Whether it’s shelling Donetsk, or shelling the ZNPP, or pouring untrained recruits into the Bakhmut meatgrinder, or firing off 30 patriot missiles at a time and getting their patriot installation blown up, Ukraine’s actions all have a recognizable set of characteristics that absolutely must be paid attention to.
1. Ukraine commits acts of terrorism against, civilians, civilian infrastructure, and its own people, and it uses Western weapons to do so.
2. Ukraine does not fight for military objectives; it fights for reasons of international PR and domestic regime preservation.
3. Once Ukraine has settled on an objective, it never changes its mind.
Once you take these three things together, a very chilling picture emerges. The Nord Stream pipeline, the Kerch bridge, and the Kakhova dam were strikes one, two, and three. It needs to be “three strikes and you’re out,” because strike four means attacking the ZNPP. Russia absolutely cannot allow a strike four. Russia had better realize that it is dealing with a terrorist state next door which is not susceptible reason or even the ordinary means of military persuasion. All three of the other strikes depended on Western weapons and/or Western operational control to carry out, so it is reasonable to assume that Ukraine will continue to get all the aid it needs until strike four is accomplished. This has been the pattern all along.
What can Russia do? Well, it would be a very fateful step to declare open war upon Western countries, which Russia is not yet prepared to take. And Russia cannot defend all its infrastructure at all times from terrorist attacks. It seems like only one choice remains: Russia must break the partnership by eliminating the cat’s paw. Nothing else will suffice other than the swift and total obliteration of the regime in Kiev. Zelensky and his generals must be swinging from lampposts before the week is out, their capitol destroyed, and a rifle butt put to the face of any Ukrainian who objects. Enough of this nonsense.
Also, I agree with the commenters above who opined that a storm shadow missile could not have inflicted the damage on the dam. This was an underwater explosion, which means Western complicity, which means the West is responsible for direct acts of international terrorism. Our leaders are guilty of capital crimes and must be sent to a fitting punishment.
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The Duran guys cover this well.
https://theduran.locals.com/post/4140827/fighting-stuck-in-gray-zone-neocon-escalation-tactical-nukes
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It’s up to the French now. Particularly Macron, who from all recent speeches, wants an end to this. He needs to rise to the occasion, and give a rousing, “highly controversial” speech that pivots French foreign policy to say to the U.S. “what the hell are you doing here anyway? I think you’ve done enough yankee.” Unlike in 2003, both parties will be once again renaming “French fries” “freedom fries” or “Solidarity for democracy fries.”
Whether Macron can get his African bodyguard’s penis out of his mouth and do this is questionable. His is a politician after all, a globalist one and without a shred of real leadership.
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The parallels between between this offensive and Operation Zitadelle, the Wehrmacht’s July 1943 attack against the Kursk salient, are many. The Soviets had months to prepare their defenses and inflicted losses on the Germans that they couldn’t afford.
Amazing that people are unable to learn from the past.
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