One of the interesting sidelights to the crisis in Ukraine is the hyper-reaction of the American media. It has been a blend of foaming at the mouth jingoism, unhinged hysteria and absolute nonsense. Since the rest of the English-speaking world follows the lead of the American media, the world has been flooded with what probably sounds like a tidal wave of craziness. The start of actual fighting in Ukraine has made the situation worse in the information space.
As is so often the case, the one place you must avoid if you want to know what is happening in Europe right now is the American media. They have fallen for at least one Sam Hyde gag. They have been caught using old pictures from different events and screenshots from movies. They seem to be willing to believe the most outlandish nonsense about both sides. Of course, the Ukrainians are the Spartans at Thermopylae and the Russians are bloodthirsty Nazis.
What we know so far is that there has been some contact between Ukrainian forces and Russian forces. We also know the Russians are now staged in-country, outside various cities and strategically important spots. We also know that the Ukrainians have been willing to talk, after initially refusing peace talks. The first round happened a couple of days ago and another round is scheduled this week. We also have not seen much in the way of reliable footage indicating heavy combat.
Taken as a whole, with the understanding that lots of pieces of the puzzle are missing, the most likely situation right now is not much is happening. The Russians swept in but stopped short of going into major cites. They have most certainly occupied the disputed provinces in the east and have liquidated the Ukrainian irregulars. Otherwise, the lack of images is the result of two armies in a stand-off as the political and psychological war rages around them.
For their part, the Ukrainians have no reason to engage the Russian army directly, as they would eventually lose. It may take a few weeks, but the outcome is certain and the price to the civilian population would be high. They have the backing of the West to a point and the longer their army is in the field and functioning, they have a chance to cut a deal with the Russians. For Zelensky, his army and his cities are chips he will play over the next weeks to make a deal for himself.
Interestingly, the Russians may have a similar calculus. As long as their army is camped outside Kiev, they have options they did not have last week. For example, they can settle the question of the eastern provinces now. The facts on the ground matter and those two provinces no longer belong to Ukraine. They can also force NATO to discuss their security concerns in a serious way. The longer their army is in the field the more willing the West is to cut a deal with them.
That is where the Ukrainian and Russian similarities end. Zelensky agreed to talks because he knows the other option is he becomes a CNN anchor. If the press reports were true and the heroic Ukrainian army was fighting the Reds to a standstill, his position would be simple. Russia leaves or else. He is at the table to buy time and avoid being run out of his own country. He is looking for a face-saving deal that leaves him in power and in good standing with the West.
The Russians want what they have plus two more things. They have the provinces and they are not going back to Ukrainians control. What they want from the peace talks is agreement from Zelensky on this fact. That becomes an endorsement of the deal and thus strips the West of claims to the contrary. They also want an end to discussions about Ukraine joining NATO or the EU. If this comes from the Western puppet government, it basically comes from Washington.
A wildcard in all of this is time. It is assumed the Russians wanted to quickly knock out the Ukrainians, but that appears to be false. They want a deal with this Ukrainian government, not one they install. That means they came into this with a much longer timeline than has been suggested. How long they are willing or able to keep their army in the field is unknown, but it is probably months, maybe longer. All we know is we do not know their timeline for ending this.
For now, the Ukrainians have all the time in the world. The West is waving around their flag on social media and promising support. They know this is mostly public relations and that eventually, the West will move into other issues. For now, they have no reason to cut a deal with the Russians. They have every reason to stall for time and hope some miracle happens that causes the Russians to change their position. Like the Russians, they have months, maybe longer to wait.
Another wildcard in all of this is economics. Ukraine and Russia ship a lot of food and energy to the MENA countries. The reason that region was convulsed by revolts ten years ago was food and fuel prices spiked. In a world already suffering double-digit retail inflation and supply chain problems, another factor driving up prices for essentials could create massive headaches for everyone. It is not as if the Western countries are in peace and harmony right now either.
That brings in the other wildcard. Another wave of migrants from the south could easily swamp Europe this spring. What keeps the waves of migrants from flooding Europe are countries like Syria and Turkey. The former is a Russian client state and the later has a lot of axes to grind with the Europeans. Turkey has been in economic crisis for months, so opening up the migrant valve could be a useful way to lower the temperature domestically, especially if there are food shortages.
What all of this means is this conflict could stagger on for a long time before the parties decided they have to settle things. It also means the geniuses in Washington who instigated this did not anticipate any of what is happening. That will surely cause problems in trying to reach a deal. They have backed themselves into a corner and cannot sign off on any deal right now. That will drag out whatever negotiations are happening between Ukraine and Russia.
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it’s so funny; you can almost see hebe sites like pjmedia changing tone (and course) almost in real time. from the frothing jingoism on the first couple of days, to a much more measured and less certain tone now. who knows why the word was given to back down.
i wonder if the ruling cabal was unsettled that their usually reliable boob bait wasn’t having the expected effect on the rubes? or that the unvaxxed were openly stating a preference for russian rule than life under the cabal.
who knows what’s really going on in the various halls of power; what information they are seeing (that portends bad times for them personally). for all we know there are hit squads out there doling out lessons in reality…
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The rubes not taking the boob bait at the usual rate has unsettled the Ruling Class. It is why the propaganda continues to be dialed up as it becomes more obvious this is playing out differently than everyone expected. Tells you all you need to know as to what the Banana Empire thinks about its blessed minorities usefulness as soldiers.
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My other candidate for the name of this age (after “The Age of Why Bother?”) is “The Penthouse Forum Years.” If there are any younger readers on this site, Penthouse was a nudie mag back in the days. It always started with a “letters to the editor”-type section called “The Penthouse Forum.” Those letters almost all started “Dear Penthouse, I never believed this could happen to me, but [wildly improbable bedroom tale].”
Here in Clown World, pretty much every day I find myself saying “I never thought this could happen to me, but….” As with Ukraine. I never thought it would happen to me, but I’m even hearing Normies and Grillers making “Red Dawn” jokes. As in, “If they remade Red Dawn today, it would last five minutes. The Red paratroopers land, everyone pops champagne corks, credits roll.”
The Blue Checkmarks are getting desperate.
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if i was putin right now i’d think about ending all trade with eu, why supply ur enemies?
I’d try to sabotage the whole thing, force it to implode, if germany’s economy collapses then the whole EU follows.
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Right?
German industry is highly dependent on Russian gas. Removing that would force shutdowns for an indefinite period. There are a lot of industrial processes that are a huge pain to restart. There are some that are basically unrecoverable without a complete overhaul of the system.
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Germany gets 60% of its energy from Russia. Europe gets almost all of its fertilizer from Russia and Belarus. It seems unlikely that Germany wants to get into a starvation fight with Russia.
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And yet no one asks when does Russia turn off the gas and block the commodities exports. And what happens then? The western leaders seem to think that Russia will just let its economy be destroyed without retaliating.
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Don’t they? The ruling class won’t starve.
Western governments will do whatever most injures the average Westerner.
“if i was putin right now i’d think about ending all trade with eu, why supply ur enemies?
I’d try to sabotage the whole thing, force it to implode, if germany’s economy collapses then the whole EU follows.”
Why doesn’t he just nuke Berlin if he really wants to destroy the EU? The reason he doesn’t is the same reason he’s fighting with one arm tied behind his back in Ukraine. Putin is not a madman like Globohomo tries to portray him as. He wants to keep the engagement as limited as possible until his very reasonable objectives are met.
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Clearly, the Russians don’t want a US style ‘you broke it, you bought it’ Iraq to deal with. The Ukrainians have water, power and internet with which to tweet their stronk brave fierce AK wielding wahmen’s feet pics. Zelensky is a court jester. It will be amusing to see where he lands.
The other big wild card is where this goes with China, how long they wait to Borg-ify Taiwan, and whether they join with the Russians in a dollar reserve alternative. We are particularly vulnerable to that right now.
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Every country is interested in an exit from U.S. soft hegemony, largely in big tech and financial tools. We’re likely going to see a couple more universal payment processors and a more nation-based social media in the future. The SWIFT gambit was a gross misstep that is going to severely damage the U.S. dollar as reserve currency.
This is good for us, as the alternative is our current universal payment processor and social media landscape that is simply a high-tech foot-soldier of WEF goons.
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“…every country is interested in an exit from the US” Adding to the problem is that many US states want out too.
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All the attention is on the tanks and guns, but the real war is over global economics. China sees Russia as a useful ally in undermining American control of the global economy. The Chinese are not alone. I get the sense that the money men are now telling Washington that they are flirting with economic disaster. Dumping Russia from SWIFT is not smart in the long run, which is hat should matter, not this regional dispute.
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china is the dog that didn’t bark. haven’t heard of them mobilizing any forces, or doing anything to cause more mischief. maybe xi already has his hands full with internal struggles; he hasn’t left the country in over 700 days (according to reports). the price of oil spiking can’t be good for the chinese economy, nor would a major disruption to production.
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Xi having his plate full with internal power struggles would be good for the US and the world.
Long term, China will invade and possibly/probably take some chunks of Asian Russia that are rich in resources, particularly timber and metals. I’ve been watching China. It is too early for them to turn on Russia due to their Taiwan ambitions, so they are being neutral/leaning Putin at the moment to play both sides against the other, which strengthens Russia.
I agree “Biden” has received word from financial interests that the longer this goes one, the harder it will hit the United States and Western Europe. The inflation and supply chain issues are about to get infinitely worse.
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“Biden” has received word from financial interests that the longer this goes one, the harder it will hit the United States and Western Europe. The inflation and supply chain issues are about to get infinitely worse.”
I think this is a feature not a bug as far as the WEF is concerned. The have to destroy the old system in order to bring the great reset to fruition.
This whole thing feels like a scam to me.
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Yep. This war isn’t about tank and artillery. It’s about banks and trading.
The Americans hit about as hard as they could hit with sanctions – and it hurt Russia, a lot. (Cutting off the Bank of Russia was huge. They can’t defend the ruble.) Now, we’ll see if the preparations that Putin has been making for a decade work.
The Americans seem to think that they’ve delivered the killer blow. The ruble has been hammered. The Americans expect extremely high inflation and a lack of imports will squeeze the Russian people and businesses until they collapse or overthrow Putin.
Maybe, maybe not. We don’t have much left to hit the Russians with. If we can’t take them out quickly, if they start to use work-arounds, things will look bad for the Americans.
In addition, the Russians still have their big weapon – withholding vital commodities – left to deploy.
Either way, this is not good for the Americans long-term. China and India are watching this and learning. They’ll also double their efforts to get off the dollar/SWIFT system.
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I have only seen one or two people remark on the danger to the dollar as the reserve currency by dumping Russia from SWIFT. China, India, the Gulf petro states, really anyone who isn’t on board with globohomo, have to be looking at these sanctions and saying “we might be next.”
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You know, if Foggy Bottom managed to bring India into an alliance that includes China, however temporarily, that a monumental failure even for those idiots.
There’s a lot of meat on this bone for sure. For starters, Russians have been divesting from US dollars for quite some time now even before this move, probably in preparation for it.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/06/03/russia-to-remove-dollar-assets-from-national-wealth-fund.html
They’ve been investing in Chinese yuan, gold, and euros. Likewise, it’s been very underreported that China is hoarding gold. They’ve been mining a lot of it, with strict limits on exporting any, and they’ve been the worlds biggest importer.
https://moneyweek.com/investments/commodities/gold/603131/how-much-gold-china-owns-yuan-reserve-currency?amp
They both want to switch away from the US as the world reserve currency, as they see it gives the US too much power. It also allows the US to print wealth for its citizens, which the US has really taken advantage of in the last 2 decades. It wouldn’t shock me if they both move to gold backed currencies. This would make a lot of countries move to them as reserve currencies as it signals fiscal responsibility and has tangible value. Certainly, I don’t trust the Chinese. Any switch to a good back currency would probably be temporary. All they’d have to do is make it work for 20 years or so and they’d completely break the back of the US.
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And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
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They have every reason to stall for time and hope some miracle happens that causes the Russians to change their position.
Zelensky is probably banking – like Churchill – on his tribesfellows dragging the US into the war. That’s why European leaders are telling their subjects to volunteer to get killed a Russian soldier: the more dead civilians, the better chance of riling the US public.
This week is the first time I’ve seen actual crisis actors in Danish media. This guy – we’re expected to believe – is teaching his 10 and 13 yo daughters to produce Molotov cocktails.
https://nyheder.tv2.dk/udland/2022-02-27-dansk-far-laerer-sine-boern-at-lave-molotovcocktails-vi-er-naesten-konstant-paa
For many years I’ve held Danish regime journalist in amused contempt, but I’m gradually beginning to hate them.
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Zelensky might want to rethink that strategy. Outside of yahoos from the Right pouring vodka into storm drains, and left-wing social media users posting Ukrainian flags on their social media profiles, the other 80 percent of this country largely is indifferent. Besides, if that could be effective, we already would have Deep Fake video “evidence” of it happening.
It honestly seems all parties made miscalculations here, which, of course, is how you also get things like World War I if it drags out and someone does something stupid, which is a much greater possibility than in 1914.
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I suspect his strategy works better in Europe. Hard to say, what with our Cloud People gone off to lala-land, but it seems to me that the Scandis are buying into the hype.
We’re not used to government lying this big to us; small stuff to get re-elected or to ingratiate themselves with corporations, sure, but not lies meant to draw us into a nuclear war or, as with Covid, to destroy our economies.
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“…as with Covid, to destroy our economies.”
Covid didn’t destroy their economies (FB, Amzn, Google, Ahold are doing fine). They destroyed OUR economies: small businesses which don’t have access to global capital markets.
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European leaders likely are about to find that loss of trust is exponential, then. Late last year some thirty of so percent of Americans had decided it best to dismantle the United States. If a reliable poll were taken now (it won’t be), I suspect a clear majority would hold that position now.
Lying works, and then it doesn’t.
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And just like that, amazingly enough, ALL COVID ALL THE TIME has magically disappeared and been displaced by PUTIN IS RUSSIAN NAZI… I swear, our media and “government” are so pathetic. Do they really think this garbage is going to get Americans on board with whatever lunatic plans they have in mind? I just hope the bear was prepared, at least to some extent with the economic sanctions, which seem fairly onerous. Hell, even Switzerland is getting in on the action – what’s that all about?
Btw, the “Zelensky is agreeable to talks because he knows the other option is he becomes a CNN anchor” line almost launched the dreaded coffee spray.
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“All COVID All The Time YOUGUYSWE’REGONNADIELEBENTYLEBENTYLEBENTY!!!!!!!!!” polled poorly and needs to be replaced. Like a TV show with dropping ratings.
One wonders how “OMG PUTINISHITLER!!!!” is playing in Peoria. Probably not getting many eyeballs. COVID was OMG over here ready to kill us. Ukraine is somewhere, y’know, over THERE.
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Yes.
They absolutely believe that, after years of telling white men, “We hate you and want you dead,” they can do a 180 and rouse them to go fight and die in Ukraine for, “muh freedoms.”
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This is probably the silliest war in the history of mankind. The Ukrainian politicians are acting like hysterical women and their President is doing what he does best, acting! It shows how low the U.S. intelligence has become when most people believe the clownish media reports coming out of that area. I believe one U.S. politician actually believed the Sam Hyde troll story.
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“Godspeed, Samuyil!”
I won’t be watching the SOTU tonight but I hope I hear reports tomorrow of Biden’s eye filling with blood and he soils himself. Not because I hate Biden (how can you hate the undead?) but I really want to see how the regime ignores it.
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Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday. Several months ago I thought what I was going to give up for Lent this year and I decided the internet. I can’t be completely ignorant so Saturdays I am going to let myself go online and see what’s going on in the world but that’s it. Also I don’t have a TV or listen to radio and I work and live by myself so I’m going to be completely cut off. But the situation in Russia and Ukraine has exponentially upped my annoyance of the world online. The media is worse than ever but even on my local next door feed people are changing their avatars so it looks like a Ukrainian flag. They’re being told to care about something so they do. Somebody was trying to organize a protest. Why?!? I’ve become inordinately happy about my Lenton sacrifice.
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“Since the rest of the English-speaking world follows the lead of the American media, the world has been flooded with what probably sounds like a tidal wave of craziness”
Oh how I wish the craziness were restricted only to the English-speaking world. Every country in the US sphere of influence is becoming progressively retarded. Even the “based” V4 countries – the Covid craze broke them and now they are just as rabidly insane as the US.
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Noticed that everyone in the U.S. sphere now have the attention span of hamsters. The media saturation is not an accident. The first developed nation to limit it’s citizens use of media to an hour a day will conquer the world within ten years, for the sole fact that they can think more than a week into the future.
There’s a reason a lot of tech oligarchs who are essentially luddites when in comes their kids.
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The only nation limiting their citizens use of media I am aware of is China. They are definitely doing the right thing, though only time will tell if it’s enough.
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That’s a double-edged sword, too. Constant saturation of propaganda causes attention spans to shorten to the point the Next Big Thing happens at a faster rate.
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The Germans have lost their minds too, the EU is now arming the Ukraine, this pretty much makes the EU a defense pact. the up side for the US is it looks like they have divided the Germans and the Russians long term. but this only makes China stronger
This war and the western reaction to it looks like a major pivot point in history
I wonder how long before Putin cuts his oil or gas exports in response to the sanctions
May you live in interesting times
The Europeans have made a Faustian bargain with the US. At some point, it becomes cheaper for Europe to pay for their own defense rather than hide behind the US protective umbrella.
So far, we’ve given them a wave of refugees from Syria and Iraq and now another wave coming from Ukraine. We’ve jacked up their energy and food prices immensely by fomenting this NATO “yes/no” conflict in Ukraine. The current situation must cost Europe more in the long run than simply increasing their defense spending/defending themselves and regaining their economic autonomy.
I’m pretty surprised that the Europeans haven’t figured this out yet. Ironically, had the Germans taken Trump’s advice and just spent more on defense, they would have saved themselves a fortune of money in the long run.
We talk about the “political vacuum” here in the US and the lack of good leadership. But it’s just as bad in Europe, or even worse. Does anyone here think that Willy Brandt would have presided over this debacle?
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what protective umbrella? i suspect that president potato head has change their calculus to the point that American involvement in EU is now seen as a net negative.
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what protective umbrella?
Nuclear weapons. The “bargain” – the US dictate – is that Europe don’t build nukes and in return the US would retaliate against Russia if they attack Europe.
For the monies Denmark pays US defense industries, we could buy a handful of subs and arm them with nuclear cruise missiles – we’d be as inviolable as America itself.
I strongly suspect much of the US hatred towards France – and De Gaulle in particular – stems from De Gaulle’s decision to build a nuclear strike force so that France would not depend on the US for their defense. A decision taken when it transpired that both US and USSR war plans was based on using Europe as a battle ground for a nuclear confrontation.
Since then, there has been no end to the jokes about surrender monkeys, used rifles for sale and tanks with eight reverse gears, aimed at the only country in Europe prepared to actually defend itself.
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Edit button, please.
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That’s an excellent point. The nuclear proliferation waiting to happen is in Western Europe, Japan, and South Korea. All have the capability; from what I understand, even Taiwan may. It is a very dangerous moment.
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Europe with a few exceptions is not accustomed to a restive citizenry in the post-Cold War era. That’s about to change. The consequences there will be interesting.
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Dear God, Fox News has become the home of raving, NeoCon lunatics. Running through the electronic streets of America shouting “to arms!” ” to arms! ” at the top of their lungs. Anchors calling for air strikes on Russian columns to making comparisons to Mustache Man.
They are insane.
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If they keep cranking the dial to 11, soon all they’re going to have is a deaf audience.
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Deaf and dumb, to be precise.
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The question is how big, and how gullible, is their audience?
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I also would be curious to know how many conservatards are out there relative to the larger American population. I’m sure it would be depressing, but I still get the feeling even a lot of them are having trouble these days being patriotic for blm and rainbow stuff. Or at least suppressing the knowledge that, that is in fact what American patriotism is now.
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There’s been some comeback, but Fox shed almost 40 percent of its audience after the election.
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I don’t think this will last months, or even weeks. The Russian army encirclement of Kiev is not for the purpose of bombardment (as promoted in Western media) , but rather siege and isolation of the inhabitants. Their wildcards are cutting off water and electrical power to the city if need be.
The geopolitical calculus is over whether Russia settles for absorbing just the eastern provinces or the entire eastern half up to the Dnieper, and including Kiev. That is what Zelensky’s puppet masters must confront if they keep dragging this out.
One of the interesting aspects of this conflict is the way that it is being portrayed in the media, and especially on the internet social media platforms. We now have two generations of youth that have grown up on video gaming and seem to think that real wars are just like in the games, i.e. simulated bloodshed and death with a reset button. Methinks it’s going to be quite a culture shock if, or when, things go hot and the city folk learn what Dresden learned in WW2.
Moral of this story. Get your ass out of the big city NOW.
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Fear not! Reddit has the situation completely under control and is sending in her best mercenaries.
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I think my favorite Media freakout right now is OMG, Putin put his nuclear forces on high alert!!!
If true — big, big IF — that’s only because well, duh, of course he would. GloboHomo is clearly terrified. At this point, either Zelensky goes or GloboHomo goes, since if Zelensky cuts a deal and remains in power that’s a total repudiation of all the previous Deep State-instigated shenanigans. Would Tapioca Joe and the Juggalos risk cracking off a nuke to keep their gravy train running? [Shakes magic 8 ball]…. all signs point to yes, because they’re Juggalos. These are the people who think Twitter is real life; to them, going nuclear is just leveling up a sick burn or a dank meme. Putin knows this, which is why he’s ready for Armageddon. Only that kind of rhetoric can signal through all the Blue Checkmark noise.
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Not the biggest fan of Putin here, but he has solid reason not to want this batshit crazy nation having nukes in his backyard. That Magic Eight Ball has a message that reads “MEN CAN HAVE BABIES.” The Woke madness has international repercussions, too.
Zelensky had better watch his front and his back. If he cuts a deal with Russia (or releases some pretty nasty information about American and European 10 percenters), the West may do the job Russia won’t do.
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“Would Tapioca Joe and the Juggalos risk cracking off a nuke to keep their gravy train running?” That’s the truly scary part. The Left has always been filled with physically weak, passive-aggressives. In the past, that made them less likely to push us to the brink. But now they are like an angry BPD ex-spouse who will do anything to get the kids.
” It also means the geniuses in Washington who instigated this did not anticipate any of what is happening.”
Same old, same old. This playing out over a longer period is having unanticipated financial effects, which really were utterly predictable if someone was not retarded. It was not as if inflation and supply chain disruptions already were serious problems due to the rapidly memoryholed Greatest Plague of All Time.
A secondary concern, albeit an important one, is the rubes aren’t consuming the boob bait at the usual rate. Just as the Left thinks Twitter is reality, the Right thinks yahoos pouring vodka down the drain on YouTube represents a sizeable chunk of the population. Disinterest is not the Ruling Class’ friend, and neither are financial calamities they themselves do not orchestrate.
For every rube putting a Ukrainian flag on their social media profile, there are probably three unaware a war is underway and ten who do not care one bit about it.
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“For every rube putting a Ukrainian flag on their social media profile, there are probably three unaware a war is underway and ten who do not care one bit about it.”
The Ukrainian flag has always been ripe and ready for Woke-isation. Think about it, it just needs a couple of other coloured horizontal stripes on top of it, and Presto! You’ve got The Fag Flag.
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Good point. Zelensky might be able to rally wider support if he came out as gay.
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I hope you are right about the boobs not taking the bait, but my limited contact with normies tells me that have swallowed it hook, line and sinker.
Globohomo doesn’t waste opportunities: in Poland, refugees start arriving, mostly blacks and arabs, obviously.
https://twitter.com/Bob_Gedron/status/1498236348683198464
Notice in the low right corner a “solidarity with Ukraine” tv frame, which certifies this newscast report is from yesterday.
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I was told these things have a five hour runtime. When does Iron-man swoop in with a pithy one liner?
This new marvel movie is weird.
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Hilarious.
Isn’t “iron man” a black woman these days?
IDK. But the new side character “the Ghost of Kiev” is.
Ahem. “Ghost of Keev”.
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The strong Black woman, a refugee from racism, known as the Ghost of Keev, goes to her shed and fires up her F-18 hobby craft once all the neighbors go to sleep.
Well disguised by the darkness of the night, she flies stealthily. “Now nazis know what oppression feels like”, she breathes to herself as she shoots down yet another outdated Russian propeller plane. The racist soldier lands on the ground with a satisfying “thud” and snaps his neck.
“Kill confirmed” she radioes into ground control. The IDF readies its jets, preparing for a strike on the Nazi hotspot of Moscow. The story continues…
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The Western propaganda blitzkrieg on MSNBC’s Morning Joe is the stuff of legends. It is astonishing. More disagreement follows.
Has the Antichrist- the Judeo-Anglish Empire, implacably evil and undeniably brilliant- has the Antichrist Sun Tzu’d the Chessmaster?
Appear weak when you are strong.
Sloppy Joe blew Afghan, yes?
No. He sacrificed 9000 Americans to create a Benghazi weapons ratline to every paramilitary in Central Asia. The Bear will have a dozen “independent” terriers harrassing its shanks.
The depth of the blitzkrieg tells me Hollywood storywheels have been spinning for quite a while in preparation.
It was already announced that accepting ethnic Ukranian refugees would be racist, so NATO Poland will be taking in “125 nationalities” from Ukraine, while the Orthodox will be given guns to die in the streets. Every nonwhite criminal will flee through the open door, a Ukie Spring.
The pattern is the same.
The problem is, how to neutralize Russian nukes?
Why, seize them, of course.
Discredit and depose the leader.
Crazy Putin has gassed Syrian baby hospitals and is launching SAMs into Ukie schools! Cruise missles into Maidan Square!
Steal the gold (as they did in Ukraine).
Set up the enforcers. Azov Battalion, Right Sektor, Bandera brigades- these were Contras hired to protect the Orange/Rotfront Maidan puppets.
Steal the oil/gas. Squat on the lines demanding transit fees, or force the target to sell through a third party- the same gangsters squatting. The pipeline delivery stays the same, only the paper entity changes.
Steal the money- why, last year, the US gained new powers to seize private bank accounts of expat foreigners and their kids! They need to grab the dirty Russian money in London, take their yachts and their girlfriends’ houses!
(SWIFT, a private Belgian company, will be happy to see the competing CIPS crippled.)
Then…steal the nukes.
Those can be pointed at China, India, and Pakistan (a dog that will lick any hand that feeds it). They will be brought to heel.
The biobombs have been guaged for their limits and effectiveness. Time to start field-testing the impact of small tactical nukes. A first use as an EMP to ground the Russian Air Force was suggested.
Some Ukrainian bases fly huge Nazi flags that the media mysteriously cannot see.
The shelling of Donbass went from 80 a day to 1200 a day after Feb 16th.
In 2014, “F the EU” Nuland’s spokesperson was Jen Psaki.
The EU is debating membership, while Zelensky has openly considered the possiblity of NATO membership too.
We set the trap, and began poking the Bear, hard. Russia is unprepared for the depth of our media onslaught. Putin may be facing a multi-front campaign.
History isn’t going to rhyme, no, this time it’s about to repeat. The Trotskys, Bolsheviks, and Weimar are about to send their Lenin. Time for another Russian Revolution, this time for keeps.
The Black Messiah has arrived for the first time, the civilization of the Christ must be broken. The Tribulation is come.
Take heart! It is for this battle that the Creator made us. The black mold will not take the greenhouse.
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Heh. A good piece keen to illustrate how little we know about what is actually happening in either country. I’ve not really been following it, although Covid has dropped to second tier news round here now that a New Hitler is Shutzstaffelin’ his way into town.
As you mention, and as has been custom in DR circles now, we treat everything in the MSM as manipulative propaganda at best, outright lies at worst. It seems reasonable to this pleb that there is a beef between Russia and Ukraine. It also seems like it would be easy to find evidence from other sources (actual people on the ground) as to the whereabouts of both sides forces. Other than that? I cannot say I give two hoots, although I mean neither side ill will.
I thought I’d be concerned about the economic fallout, but to be fair, such fallout has been expected (and worse) since The Shamdemic piled up hardly any bodies on our streets and our leaders flapped their labia in collective hysteria. In short: we are due hard times, Russia or no Russia. That is a fact.
On the ground here in England, it seems as though MSM hysteria is at it’s usual hyperbolic best. Of course people have been called Nazis. Of course various celebrities have backed Ukraine. Of course we ‘stand united’. And naturally, many papers and a few individuals have said: “It’ll be the Baltic states next!”, “What if they go into Poland, Rumania &c!”. It is simply all so tiresome.
Odd though, not many seem to care one jot. At the weekend I made haste to Ripon Cathedral and then met an ex-Armed Forces friend of mine and his wife. None of us even mentioned the “war”. It did come up with someone else, but only once, and then it hang in the air until exactly nobody bit, because nobody really cares. Because like everything we’re conditioned to take seriously, it has almost zero direct impact on us. Of course, the ripples may touch us – but who can say they would not have anyway.
On the subject of Ripon Cathedral, which is very beautiful, it seems the first church was supposedly constructed by St Wilfrid – a gentleman of Saxon vintage. Wondering about him and his times, I found myself staring at the only masked family in the Cathedral and thinking “fucking pussies”.
Thanks again for the article, Z Man. And thanks for trying to analyse a situation which is a political hot potato and thusly, prone to being warped. I trust you have your sources?
Also, really positive message from yesterday’s essay; that was a brilliant read. Great to hear everyone’s thoughts, too.
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Now this was funny: “flapped their labia.”
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Heard report from knowledgeable colleague that the Ukrainian model posing with her weapon was actually holding an Airsoft variant. Propaganda, or “influencing”?
Caveat: Did not see image myself
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You mean the one who went on Fox and openly stated, “We are fighting for the New World Order?”
https://patriactionary.wordpress.com/2022/03/01/saying-the-quiet-part-out-loud-2/
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Now whenever I see Shamil Hyde a line comes back to me: “If I had ten divisions of those men, our troubles here would be over very quickly.”
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“Zelensky agreed to talks…..He is at the table to buy time and avoid being run out of his own country.”
Really, his “own country” is Israel. Hopefully Russia takes care of the Zelensky problem. Why the hell is a not-Ukranian running Ukraine? It’s clowns all the way down.
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Today marks the first day since Sept 2021 that we are free of vax passports in Ontario! (To all the politicians – go h*ng yourself this will not make me forgive you).
There seems to be no interest in war here, either. The massive and rapidly growing “POC” population has absolutely 0 interest in a war between 2 countries of whiteys. Many Muslims are quietly sympathetic towards Russia but they aren’t going to fight either way. The types of Christians who wanted to glass the Middle East 20 years ago are tepidly pro-Ukraine but for the most part are pretty neutral, and still angry about their churches being shut down for the COVID scam (if they even still exist, the majority of churches closed with COVID and seemed to never re-open). All the unvaxxed, much of the working class, and many small business owners are outright hostile towards the regime after the past 2 years. Normal white people are busy taking Jayden and Brayden to soccer class and drag queen story hour at the library. The military, full of conservative whites, hate Trudeau.
There are are a few people who want to brutally rape and murder all Russians. These are the types of people who were having mental breakdowns from the trucker protest in Ottawa, and said that honking is violence. The people who decided to lock down for the past 2 years, and demand violence/discrimination against the unvaxxed. The people who think they are the star of an Avengers movie and the Ghost of Ukraine will heroically down 100 planes and 6 submarines. Useless and dysgenic parasites who spend most of their time on Reddit, and some Boomers who still believe the TV.
Loyalty works both ways. The regime has been telling all the White men around the globe that we are evil, and filling our communities with alien people and pumping them full of anti white propaganda. Poisoning white men with rap music and drugs, forcing us into lockdowns, shutting small businesses and churches. I have nothing but hatred for Globohomo and their people, personally. I hope they take over all of Ukraine, but we will wait and see what their end goal is.
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“They” as in Russia, not Globohomo. Wasn’t too clear in the last sentence.
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There are many sites on the internet that I visit that have adopted the “Putin is Hitler!” motif. These sites usually contain useful, contrarian-to-the-MSM-blather information. It makes one suspect that much of what passes for the “right” is just part of the dialectic that has ruled the world for over a century. I believe the internet is just the latest media creation designed to keep us paralyzed with disinformation. I’m not sure that TPTB in the late 19th century knew how useful movies and radio would be in blinkering the masses, but when they saw how easy it was to entertain the sheep, they knew they had a keeper. With the development of television in the 20th century, they were able to have an outlet for their propaganda in almost every home. The creation of the internet and the personal cell phone in the late 20th century gave them 24/7 access to nearly everyone. We are now so hemmed in with disinformation we can’t separate the wheat from the chaff. Hopefully, enough of the lemmings have realized that wars are just the continuation of politics by other means. There has never been a war in the last two centuries that has benefited anyone other than those in control. If sanity reigns and we don’t destroy a few more millions of people, this will mark a true sea change in the relationship between the dirt people and the cloud people.
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Trump – Hitler
Trucker convoy – Nazis
“Honk Honk” – code for Heil Hitler
Trudeau – employing Hitler tactics
Antifa – Hitler brownshirts
Unvaxxed – Jews in 1939
Putin – Hitler
Ukraine – must be de-Nazified
Would be nice if we could move past 1945 lol.
The fact that there is a lot of noise coming from many normie cons and Fox news is discouraging. It’s as if the last 20 years never happened. The lies that took us into Iraq and kept us in Afghanistan. Fake Syria chemical weapons and barrel bombs used by the “animal Assad” and everything else. Now we have the fake Snake Island heroes and the fake Ghost of Kiev and tons of other fakery, but if you read the other sites they(many normies) are eating it up. Before all this there was the Kosovo debacle and who can forget the babies tossed out of incubators by Iraqi soldiers in 1990. Everything is fake.
For those who dabble in the market, as I do: 02/28 and 03/01 I’ve bought some beaten-down Russian stocks: OGZPY, LUKOY, and SRBCY. They have gotten slightly to greatly more beaten down since I bought them. No matter, it’s a crap shoot. Western sanctions, confiscation by either side, etc. all remain risks. But if there is any degree of normalization, these stocks may do quite well. Or I may lose it all.