It has been a year since the Russians began the process of shifting from a limited military operation to a full-scale war. After the Ukrainians withdrew from settlement talks in Turkey, the Russians realized the West was in it is for the long haul, so they had to adjust to this new reality. The first thing they did was appoint General Sergey Surovikin to take control of military operations in Ukraine. Then came a mobilization of 300,000 additional forces to support the war in the Ukraine.
What followed was a campaign of missile attacks on Ukrainian power plants, rail hubs and strategic infacilities. Then came the mass use of UAVs to overwhelm Ukrainian air defense systems. This was all part of the general shift from a quick conflict aimed at a negotiated settlement to a long grinding war of attrition. The purpose of this new Russian strategy was to slowly destroy Ukraine’s ability to conduct offensive operations with an eye on eventually destroying their military.
A year into this new war, the results are close to what many predicted when the Russians shifted to this model. The West lacks to military industrial capacity for this sort of warfare, so the supply of weapons to Ukraine has declined. Meanwhile, the Russians degraded Ukrainian air defenses to the point where they can now stage constant air raids on Ukrainian supply lines. The long talked about Ukrainian offensive has been indefinitely delayed as a result of these attacks.
It is hard to know what is happening inside Ukraine due to the tsunami of propaganda from the media and the volunteer army of regime toadies online. Trivial events are rolled up into glorious narratives that have no bearing on reality. When the Wagner forces captured the remaining high-rises in the city of Bakhmut, Western sources reported that Ukraine was staging a counter attack to encircle them. In reality the Ukrainians were simply staging a fighting retreat from their positions.
That said, it is becoming clear that the Ukrainians are in trouble militarily and the end may be closer than many realize. For starters, Zelensky now spends most of his time outside the country. Some have speculated that he thinks the end could come at any minute and would prefer to be elsewhere when it happens. For over a year he was doing zoom sessions from his bunker to entertain Western media. Over the last month he has found any reason to be outside the country.
General Zaluzhnyi, the man in charge of the Ukrainian army, has been mysteriously absent for over a month. One short video of him was released, after the Ukrainians put out a series of fake stories about his whereabouts. The man in charge of the defense of Bakhmut has also been keeping an unusually low profile. As with Zaluzhnyi, General Oleksandr Syrskyi was fond of entertaining Western media. Over the last month he has not made any media appearances.
Then there is the new tactic by the Ukrainians of launching drone attacks against civilian targets inside Russia. The first attack was a month ago that targeted the Kremlin before the big Russian holiday. Then there was the very weird attack on a border village with Ukrainians pretending to be anti-Putin Russian militants, using American equipment to stage an uprising. Last weekend, there was a wave of primitive drones sent at Moscow, with a few striking apartment buildings.
Of course, the weirdest thing to happen recently is the long running hype about a Ukrainian counter-offensive that was due a few months ago. It was supposedly set for March, but then was delayed due to weather. Then it was delayed until early May due to logistics and then delayed again for unknown reasons. Meanwhile the Russians have intensified their attacks on Ukrainian supply lines. Maybe one has to do with the other, but no one seems to be interested in the answer.
Maybe this is all 4-D chess, but the parsimonious answer is that things are starting to unravel in Ukraine. A year of increasing Russian attacks on Ukraine’s military industrial system has degraded their ability to fight. Two months ago General Milley said Ukrainian air defenses were near collapse. A couple of weeks ago a New Yorker pieced confirmed speculation that Ukraine was short of ammunition. The spike in Russian air activity over Ukraine suggests they now control the skies.
The weird behavior of Ukrainian leadership and the decline in activity by the Ukrainian military suggests their capacity to fight is critically low. The sudden use of insurgent-style tactics, championed by Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukrainian intelligence, may signal a shift in Ukraine in response to reality on the ground. What Zelensky and his generals may be preparing for is something like what happened in Iraq. The military collapses, but in a way gives rise to an organized insurgency.
This may be the final play by Washington. The neocons have been circulating a Korean-style end to the war. The Russians keep and hold their positions and the Ukrainians, with Western support, hold their positions. There is no logical reason for the Russians to accept something they have for something they do not want. If they keep fighting, they will soon break the spirit of the Ukrainian army and prevent the West from resupplying them with new weapons.
On the other hand, if Washington turns the west of Ukraine into a launching pad for Ukrainian terrorist attacks on Russia, maybe the Kremlin is willing to consider a deal similar to the Korean solution. There is history for this. In the Second World War Ukrainian nationalist worked with the Nazis to attack Russia. Today’s Ukrainian nationalist consider Stepan Bandera, the leader of the nationalists during the war, as a hero and example to follow.
This shift would have several benefits. One it would give Washington an excuse for not dealing with the issue. Useful idiots like Lyndsey Graham could be counted on to call the terrorists “freedom fighters” as he did with ISIS. It would reduce the cost to Washington, as terrorism can be funded at a fraction of a land war. Primarily, it would require Russia to keep fighting after the Ukrainian army was defeated. You can see the appeal of this to the neocons.
It is unlikely that the Russians would accept a Korean-style partitioning of Ukraine, if it means NATO operating in the rest of Ukraine. The neocons probably assume this, so they will move ahead with their insurgency plan. Since this will no doubt spill into EU countries like Poland and Germany, which have millions of Ukrainian refugees now, this has the added benefit of keeping Europe dependent on Washington. Terrorist chaos on the border of Europe is good for the neocon cause.
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“von Rundstedt warned Field Marshal Keitel, Chief of the Wehrmacht High Command in Berlin, that unless the front was stabilized, “fundamental decisions” would have to be made. When Kietel complained about the way the battle was going, Von Rundstedt snarled, “If you think you can do any better come down here and lead this filth yourself!” Von Rundstedt’s request to withdraw troops behind the Orne River, in Normandy, was refused on July 1, 1944, at 5:40 PM. He immediately telephoned Field Marshal Keitel, in Berlin. By this time the Red Army had launched its summer offensive which had utterly destroyed Army Group Center, recaptured Minsk, and torn a gaping hole in the Eastern Front defences. After explaining the deteriorating situation to Keitel, Keitel wailed, “What shall we do? What shall we do?” Von Rundstedt replied, “Make peace, you fools! What else can you do?” and hung up. He was relieved of his command the next day…”
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It’s difficult to see a way out of this Neocon shite. The Anglo/White Europeans seem to be living in a kind of dream world where all will be ok in the end. As for Amurica/USA, you are on the way to becoming GreatSowetto.
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i see a clear way out. the ukraine leadership is captured and/or killed. their military is annihilated. their population is pushed out of the western part of ukraine, into nearby EU countries. and things calm down.
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Even better: Ukraine collapses, Russia/Wagner rolls all the way to Paris, deposing and hanging the traitor EU puppet governments, throwing migrants out and LGBTQ into the closet. Nationalist governments become the rule throughout Europe, with even Britain cleaning out the Augean stables.
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I can get behind your plan, it’s the best outcome I can think of right now. I’d like to add that the new Europebreaks off relations with the GAE too.
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I fucking hate these guys.
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“Useful idiots like Lyndsey Graham could be counted on to call the terrorists “freedom fighters” as he did with ISIS.”
What was the deal with ISIS? Who are/were they really? What was the US role in creating ISIS?
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We (Obama) gave them money and weapons to sow chaos in the Middle East. The war they started in Syria was the excuse for American troops to occupy the Syrian oil fields. We’ve been stealing oil there ever since.
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Israel created and funds ISIS to destabilize Syria and take more Syrian territory
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I have seen the charts of where the oil that originates in the Middle East ends up. It looks like the Iraqi/Kurdish oilfields send the oil to refineries in Israel.
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This whole stupid thing was out motion by Obama a decade ago. After making it through the Cold War without annihilating each other, we now have idiots supplied with American equipment attacking Russia proper.
The question is – how stupid do the Ukrainians get before the end? Do they invade Transnistria and try to pull Moldova into the war? Does Poland do something stupid? Or do put out these fires and concentrate on losing the next war with China?
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My vote goes to all of the above, and maybe a few more not specified in your comment.
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Meanwhile, the Kraine Keyboard Krew is convinced that direct NATO intervention backed by, “secret ammo stashes and flying saucer squadrons,” is on the way.
In Serbia, based civvies managed to damage 41 KFOR mercs, 11 seriously, with nary an F-15 or nuke in sight.
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I wouldn’t want to be in Camp Bondsteel if things really get jiggy in Kosovo. That was NATO’s big prize from the previous war, but I doubt that it would be anything but a wasting asset nowadays, rather an indefensible liability. Just ask those NATO mercs who just got bloodied in northern Kosovo.
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I’m sure there are reasons but this neo-Crimean War is odd. I don’t understand why the Russians don’t make a quick end to it. The Donbass goes to Russia. Lvov and Northwest Ukraine goes back to Poland. Odessa becomes a free port and what’s left of Ukraine become a rump state of wheat fields which has been the foundation of the little bit of independence that Ukraine ever enjoyed.
If the Asian hegemon is forming from Japan to Johannesberg to become the world power with China in the lead and the U.S./Canada is on the way to becoming the Asian satrapy as our rulers seem to wish, what’s to hold Russia back from clearing out these troublesome Banderistas once and for all?
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Russians really don’t want to start a nuclear war – or a direct war with NATO which go nuclear once some western armies are destroyed.
And Russians are Russian – more interested in slowly grinding Ukrainian forces to dust while taking low risks than big risky maneuvers.
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I can’t see a single compelling interest Russia has in ending this war quickly. Russia is suffering minimal losses, and those losses are mostly by conscripts, convicts, and Wagner mercenaries. There has been virtually no damage to Russian military capabilities.
By contrast, Ukraine’s military has been effectively destroyed. They made the mistake of throwing their operating military soldiers into the meat grinder to be slaughtered by Russian artillery, and now are conscripting teenagers and old men as cannon fodder for the Russian. Their weapons systems have all been destroyed. Without Western military aid the Ukranians would be shooting rocks with slingshots.
Politically and economically, time is on Russia’s side. Europe needs cheap oil and gas from Russia far more than Russia needs Europe as a customer. The economic squeeze on European citizens has a far better chance of destroying, or at least hobbling, NATO than any military action could.
Medvedev recently made the statement that the conflict could last decades. Russia sees no compelling reason to end the conflict, and they are correct.
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There was a horrific video a while back of a higher up commander getting fragged by his own troops after ordering them on a suicide mission. Have to wonder if at some point military leadership is going to decide they would rather deal with NATO being angry than getting wiped out by their own soldiers.
Doubt we’re reaching open rebellion with the rank-and-file yet, but rest assured the new conscripts with a weeks worth of training aren’t exactly the more motivated soldiers around.
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You know all that money we’ve sent to ‘Kraine?
I’d bet you that Elensky is making sure his colonels are extremely well-paid since history shows those are typically the guys who stage violent coups.
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I’ve been hoping for a French 1917-style mutiny in the ranks of the Ukrainian Army. Another good alternative would be the 1918 collapse of the German Army which led to mass surrenders. But probably the instrumentalities of control that Ukraine has will lead to a 1945 fight to the end that finished Nazi Germany
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“Ukraine just needs two weeks to flatten the Russians.” – General Anthony Fauci
For anyone thinking the gulf between what was promised and what was delivered will harm our regime, think again. They become fascinated with a toy but discard it just as quickly, then it’s on to the next thing. In the 80s they told us all we had to do was let them get their way and South Africa would be a paradise. They got their way and now the country has one machine capable of making driver’s licenses, and it’s broken. But they move on, and never admit they’re wrong, and never admit defeat, and because they have the bullhorn (as Steve Sailer calls it) reality is whatever they say it is. They never make that mistake that Lot’s wife made; they never look back.
It gets back to Z’s post on the internet the other day. It’s not just changed social arrangements for the worse, from the real to the virtual, it’s also probably rewired brains—especially young brains—to wreak devastation on attention spans. Babies still lacking object permanence playing peekaboo have more supple, pattern-recognizing minds than those who kneeled for George Floyd, wore the mask for Fauci, and now fly their little blue and yellow pennant flags. The result is businesses closed and buildings burnt here stateside, and an entire nation in rubble over in Eastern Europe. Every time I see some photo of an old woman weeping in a cratered-out shell of what was once her home I understand why people treated Kaganites like literal vampires in the past. I’d say someone should stuff a garlic bulb in Robert Kagan’s mouth and a drive a stake through his heart, but he’d probably just eat the garlic and you wouldn’t be able to penetrate the layers of blubber to get at the heart.
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> They got their way and now the country has one machine capable of making driver’s licenses, and it’s broken.
<Insert McDonald’s Ice Cream machine joke here?
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Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom just dropped.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za/book/truth-power-my-three-years-inside-eskom/9781776390625
Sadly, the reviews make the author sound like an effective executive civnat who never quite accepts the reality of his situation.
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unfounded accusations of racism
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To that man I will mention that is the only kind of “racism accusation” that there is. All racism is Schrödinger’s Racism as it all depends on who is opening the box.
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Meanwhile, WaPo helpfully provides a NeoCon top ten list of reasons to keep this charade going. The columnist literally cites one positive to be the ability to use this battlefield as a testing ground for defense industry’s newest products as well as upholding the Reagan Doctrine. Insane.
‘This is the ‘America First’ case for supporting Ukraine’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/30/ukraine-counteroffensive-support-america/
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It’s the America Last reasons for supporting Ukraine. How can anyone say an America First policy is being involved in foreign wars?
Empire is the price we are paying for America’s “diversity” We have 3rd world counties to the South, a friendly Western country to the North and giant moats on the East and West. The only reason we even have this enormous military is because of the last foreign war we had no business being involved in.
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“…is because of the last foreign war we had no business being involved in.”
That’s not true. The US saved the world for democracy. Like the Imperial British Empire and the Soviet Union.
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I hope zelenski gets the mussolini treatment, Russia takes it all & exposes all the shenanigans the us has been up to in Ukraine.
Pivot to China
Couple carrier groups get harpooned,
Game over.
Tara Reed just defected to Russia, safe bet considering the hell that’s inevitable here.
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With 46 biolabs and no cultural enrichers, UKR would, hands down, be the very best place to release the SPARS pandemic.
Wypipo, fallin’ like leaves east to west. Let’s finish the job, and those evil russkies done it!
As much as the Russians appear to be winning on the battlefield, they definitely have an issue with how to end this war and not get bogged down with what remains of Ukraine for decades to come.
The Russians have to deal with the fact that they can’t trust the Americans to keep their word, so any agreement where Ukraine and the US agree that Ukraine would be neutral is untenable. That leaves Russia in a bad spot.
Do they go accept the cost of taking all of Ukraine? Maybe, but that’s a lot of lives and what if you end up in a situation like the British found themselves in Ireland and, late, Northern Ireland. That’s no good.
The Russians could take eastern and southern Ukraine (most of which is heavily ethnically Russian anyway), which would give them a river barrier and more land between Moscow and the West. But this leaves an independent Ukraine, which will be turned into an armed camp aimed right at Russia. (Granted, the new Ukraine will be a very poor, landlocked country, but the American will still turn it into a staging ground.)
The Russians don’t face a lot of good choices. Then again, their choice before was ALL of Ukraine in NATO, which was worse.
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I keep looking for signs of how Russia is planning for the next phase, but nothing so far. They are no doubt thinking about the end game, but I suspect they think it will be done at a negotiating table. This is a classic Russian mistake when dealing with Washington. Even Stalin thought he could have normal relations with Washington.
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Former Russian President and now the vice-chair of the National security council Dmitry Medvedev few days ago: “This conflict will last for long. For decades probably. This is a new reality.
It is necessary to destroy the very nature of the Nazi government in Kiev” Medvedev declared, otherwise the conflict could drag on perpetually with “3 years of truce, 2 years of conflict, rinse and repeat.”
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He’s right. But how do you keep the Ukrainians from rearming and joining NATO without taking over the whole country, which creates a huge nightmare.
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I hope not. The Russians (the world, really) does seem to have learned that they can’t deal with the neocons.
The underlying theme of all these various efforts with the BRICs and others is “get me away from these people.” It’s not so much confrontation as escape.
Recently, the Chinese military refused to talk to the American military. They know that we can’t be trusted, so what’s the point.
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Well, the “debt ceiling” comic opera was a great opportunity for the few sane Congresscritters to put a stop to this nonsense by cutting off its funding. So we now see that the Uniparty is fully committed to this fiasco in Ukraine.
This means that there is no obvious off-ramp. The US has risked its prestige on the outcome. Backing down before the election seems impossible. Victory, in any conventional sense, is also impossible. With respect to our host, I think a Korean-style truce is unlikely, as it is completely unacceptable to the Russians and time is on their side.
So the game theory favors escalation and more provocations as the most likely outcomes. It’s pretty depressing.
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Methodically, the Russians have been establishing escalation dominance. Yes, their initial stated aim for the SMO was the de-Nazification, and the demilitarization of Ukraine, but as subsequent acts by the West have shown, those goals as stated do not suffice to sufficiently guarantee Russia’s national security, only a deeper discreditation of the GAE will serve. It’s a big bite, and they are moving with deliberation, all credit to them.
The evil nature of the US government can’t be overstated. No amount of death and destruction will sate their appetite – of course all couched in high minded rhetoric and morality. I don’t know what it’ll take to rid the world of this noxious, death dealing regime, but somehow it needs to happen.
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The neocons are a big dog and Putin is holding the tail with one hand and slapping the nose with the other hand. They will not let this war end after such humiliation. They probably hate Ukrainians as much as they hate Russians, so the continued destruction is win/win for them.
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To many neocons, dead Slavs on either side are a feature, not a bug.
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Yep. Think of all the money that will be funneled through countless NGOs set up to import infinity young African males into Kiev and Lvov to replace all the dead Ukrainian men. Everybody wins!
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Normally, this would be true, but this neocon adventure has some repercussions.
First, it’s exposing NATO military weakness. None of our weapons have changed the tide of the war and, indeed, are being neutralized by the Russians. Not a good look.
Second, every day shows the world that our biggest weapon – sanctions and the dollar – can be beaten. In fact, as other countries slowly – so slowly – set up alternative systems, defeating sanctions and the dollar will be easier and easier.
Third, this adventure is harming Europe and the world can see that the US doesn’t care. Indeed, we’re profiting from it via nat gas sales to Europe.
Finally, this adventure is draining NATO military supplies, making other adventures more difficult.
So, sure, the neocons hate Russians and Ukrainians and are happy to watch them kill each other, but they are paying a price for this war.
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I figure the drone attacks on civilians are provocations, designed to make the Russians respond in kind so the Western media can have some legitimate war crime to show.
But I must admit I’m a bit unclear on the rules, here. You’re not obliged to only fight back on your own territory if you’re attacked, so why is everybody so worried that the Ukies would use Western fighters or cruise missiles against (legitimate) targets on Russian soil?
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I think that there are several effects. When Russians see attacks on their own territory they are more convinced of the necessity to continue the war; the real objective of the Global American Empire and its NATO puppets is the destruction of Holy Mother Russia. Second, it may justify a greater use of conscript forces; if Ukraine is attacking Russia itself, Russian law may permit use of conscripts on the territory of Ukraine, since they would be responding to attacks on Russian territory. Finally, the nature of the attacks has been mostly against civilian targets, which further convinces the Russian population that the objective is destroying Russia and killing Russians (and given the rhetoric from Lindsey Graham, how wrong are they?). Russians could not complain (much, anyway) about a Ukrainian spoiling attack on Russian formations moving to attack Ukrainian territory, but that doesn’t seem to have happened.
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Good points, very based and black pilled, except Russia wasn’t looking like they were going to throw in the towel any time soon, so why do war crime?
If it’s not fake and gay, maybe it’s to divert Russia AA resources to protect their cities.
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From the perspective of international law and tradition, giving Ukraine weapons to defend themselves on their own recognized land is not an act of aggression toward Russia. Giving Ukraine weapons for the purpose of attacking Russia is an act of war, at least the Russians have a right to make the claim.
That is what freaked out the West about the incursion into Belgorod. Ukraine was supposed to make it look like it was anti-Putin Russians staging a revolt. The pics of NATO vehicles and weapons spoiled the narrative, but also looked like Washington was organizing a raid on Russian territory. I would bet there were back channel calls to the Kremlin disavowing the stunt, which is why Western media dropped it so quickly.
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I see. So if the Ukies use their own weapons it’s kosher?
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That’s right. It seems like a silly distinction, but order depends upon such things.
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Yep, worlds better if its Ukrainian stuff. Principally, it’s better to source weaponry and materiel as close to the area a clandestine op is going to occur rather than flying stuff in. Simpler supply chain, procurements, higher deniability, but also the added benefit local equipment will tend to be better quality, overall, than the worn out riff-raff offloaded by foreign militaries.
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I downvoted because there is no sucjh thing as a legitimate target in Russia. They didn’t want or ask for the war and the Ukraine is a terrorist organization pretending to be a nation. Everything they do is terrorism.
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Ah, but the Ukrainians are not perpetrating these attacks on Russian soil, and against Russian civilians – specifically civilians, mind you – without the direct assistance of NATO. This only adds to the multiple reasons the Russians have to keep on doing what they have been doing that have been listed here by Diversity Heretic. Everyone can clearly see NATO’s hand jammed up the Ukrainians’ asses, controlling their actions, and supplying them with the means to do these things.
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Apologies, but I’m gonna repeat this.
Reasons, y’all.
With 46 biolabs and no cultural enrichers, UKR would, hands down, be the very best place to release the SPARS pandemic.
Whitepeople fallin’ like leaves east to west. Let’s finish the job, and those evil russkies done it!
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Good post by the Zman. The Russians do face a major problem in how to end this campaign in a way that doesn’t lead to a major drain on their resources, but there are a couple of wild cards that could enormously complicate the plans of the Global American Empire to continue to bleed Russia. The first is the prospect of a war with China or Iran. The GAE is already overstretched and trying to handle two or three wars could lead to military disasters (i,e., aircraft carriers going down with all hands). I doubt the American public, even numbed as it is by an incessant media campaign, would accept losses in the thousands. The military itself might revolt–what would be the attitude of the DC, Maryland, and Virginia National Guards to an order to secure key areas in the DC area and to fire on resisters?
The other major wild card is the attitude of the European governments. So far, with the exception of Hungary, they’ve been dutiful puppets. There was a mild winter, but the economies of Germany and the UK are weak and the governments are not popular. Continued high energy costs and inflation might provoke changes in governments that result in an unwillingness to continue to support Ukraine in the amounts to which the Ukrainians have become accustomed. I admit this eventuality does not seem likely at the moment, but the GAE cannot regard it as impossible.
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The other major wild card is the attitude of the European governments.
That’s not a wild card, they want to destroy Europe’s industry and genocide it’s people, whatever the cost.
The Danish government has handled Ukraine with all the honesty, restraint and moral integrity of a streetwalker hurting for a fix, and all the economic prudence of a sailor on land leave after 16 months on an icebreaker.
And nobody seems to mind. They started by giving away all our cruise missiles and artillery to Zelensky (which, admittedly isn’t saying much) and now they’re gearing up to give him our trusty, battle-tested F-16s.
Plus, of course, oodles and oodles of cold, un-earmarked cash.
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Giving away one’s military is no big deal when the GAE is de facto your national defense, anyway. If the Danes actually depended upon their own military as anything more than a symbol, their attitudes might be different.
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True enough. But if our government really wanted to protect Denmark, they’d buy a handful of subs armed with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles.
But since Washington wouldn’t allow that, you can’t really blame Danes for being slow to pony up. Our defense policy essentially means bribing US arms manufacturers to have protection under America’s nuclear umbrella.
Not that stinginess seems to be problem these days: our PM has just dramatically raised defense spending 8 points to meet the NATO-required 2% of GDP for the first time in Danish history. Most of the increase is sent directly to Ukraine, of course, so tax payers don’t mind.
Coincidentally, Danish media is abuzz with rumors that our PM will be the next secretary general for NATO. Apparently, she’s on her way to Washington for an audience with the Geezer in Chief.
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Does she sport a schlong in her knickers as well as a vajajay?
Mette Frederiksen and Ursula von der Leyen should mud wrestle for the job of NATO secretary general; that would at least make it entertaining. I’m personally pulling for Ursula; if she does for NATO what she did for the Bundeswehr, NATO may be unable to suppress a Serbian riot in Kosovo.
The situation in France is roughly as bleak as the one you describe in Denmark. There is a lot of generalized dissatisfaction, but the only opponent to French support for the war in Ukraine is Florian Phillipot; a courageous man, but a voice in the wilderness. It will take a shock to the system to turn public opinion around or even in a different direction.
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That is bizarre I mean we get crazies in the GAE proper because it is the hive-birthplace of crazies, but why someone like Denmark or Finland would look to actively adopt craziness is perplexing.
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That’s because our politicians are globalist sock puppets.
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Collective madness has overtaken the white race. Only the Slavs seem to be at least partially immune.
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It is a dangerous time IMHO. We have NATO conducting a massive air combat exercise in Europe around the middle of June. This is being advertised as the largest ever NATO military air exercise. A lot of U.S. Air National Guard units will participate as well as regular Air Force units.
We all know that an air campaign is the preferable form of war to America/NATO. It is also obvious at this point that NATO is not going to win a land war with Russia as currently scripted. So we are in a situation where America/NATO can’t win except, in their view, they wage an air campaign against Russia. With the massive exercises planned they will have the assets in place to do so.
They could also use the air assets that will be in place to cover a move by NATO from Poland into Western Ukraine and thereby secure their desired rump state. From there they would be free to conduct their “freedom fighter” operations against Russia. Or so the think.
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Bombers away for War President Biden!
And if you’re not speaking Russian, you owe your freedom to a tranny pilot of the heroic Tuskegee Orcs.
Blazes of Glory is the best shot for those poor creatures, I can just see the canned headlines.
Prescient. I was thinking about 2025, but I’d say you’ve nailed 2024.
As said here, they aren’t good at considering consequences, only good at doubling down. Clown World is reaching for perfect.
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Perhaps someone already commented about him, but just when I think the height of my contempt for L Graham (R – SC) can go no higher, lo and behold he says something to raise the bar yet again.
My search engine thesaurus provides over 100 synonyms for ‘low life’ – they all apply.
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Isn’t that the truth. Makes you wonder how he will top this latest one, but you and I know for sure he will find a way.
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I know elections don’t much matter any longer, but as an SC resident I’m looking forward to the 2026 election when I can vote against him. He is not popular here.
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If he is not popular, how on earth does he keep getting elected over and over again? Maybe he has been pioneering election fraud for his globalist friends all these years. “Now, Barack, it’s best to fold those fake ballots so it will look like they’ve been mailed. But it’s no big deal if someone forgets.”
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Maxda – I’m upstate SC and as much as I’d prefer… anyone…to the lap dog – he’ll be reelected.
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Then we really are a satrapy, ruled by puppets of a foreign power. Not an empire, rather, an extension of a hidden empire.
Did democracy have any defense against this? That was libertarianism’s weakness, no defense against enemies voting themselves into a position to take away your liberty.
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Yes. Lindsey is a real piece of crap. Suggesting the best investment we could make is to kill Russians. That is bad enough but I guess it escapes Miss Lindsey that Ukrainians are being killed at a much higher rate thanks to our “investments.”
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Strongly agree. I’ve never been able to find someone from SC to explain to me how this guy keeps getting reelected.
I’m sure that, before each election, the donors shape the battlefield, by refusing to fund challengers and possibly attacking the challengers.
I guess that people like to have a senator with lots of seniority and positions on important committees, to bring back the pork to their state. Graham has that.
I just wonder why their disgust response doesn’t kick in, in spite of all that.
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I imagine virtually every white South Carolinian–barely a majority of the population, I suspect–is a Griller, and one of the defining traits of the Griller is an absence of the gag reflex. How else could they turn blind eyes to the tsunami of dishonor, depravity and perversion that has engulfed AINO?
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Lindsay’s last primary had 8 people on the ballot, so that any opposition to him was divided. Then in the general you are asking SC grillers to vote for a D if they want Lindsay out. Fat chance.
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“Odious pederast” is a good one that I’ve been using to describe him. Believe it came from Andrew Anglin.
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The Russo-Ukrainian War is military evolution in real-time. We are seeing the emergence of precision stand-off weapons (mostly long range missiles, drones, and glide bombs) as the new main paradigm. Add in C4ISR via satellite and surveillance drone (with the ability to detect IR signatures down to the level of an individual soldier’s location), and the new reality is that if you can be targeted, you can be killed. At which point, it’s all about manufacturing capacity of this new weaponry. And we are at the cusp of implementing “intelligent” and “autonomous” hunter-seeker munitions that be unleashed via land, sea, and air modalities of many types (perhaps including combined arms use of all three simultaneously). It used to be that a minefield was a static thing, but not anymore. Soon there will be no safe place for a human soldier on a hot battlefield.
Russia is well on the way to establishing preeminence in weaponry industrial manufacturing capability, while the West is drowning in debt and a declining cohort of skilled workers. The illegal alien invasion in all Western nations is also a ticking time bomb of welfare explosion, crime, and civil unrest. You cannot rebuild an industrial base with unskilled welfare dependents and high energy prices, so the West is doomed but doesn’t know it yet.
Last, Russia’s plan is not to tame Ukraine, but to bury the West. That is their strategy and the Brandon Administration is playing directly into this debacle. Ironically, the only potential redemption for the West is to first collapse and use the fog to rid themselves of the disease that is killing them. Russia is actually doing the West a favor by beating their ass into collapse.
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Excellent post as usual.
I do think one joker in the pack is the NATO exercises in June. While I’m not convinced the current crop of western leaders are so retarded as to use that as cover for a NATO entry into western Ukraine, I can’t entirely rule it out either.
This force would — so it would be claimed — be there not to engage the Russians, but to ensure western Ukraine’s safety. An attempt to “pre-freeze” the conflict and save western face. They’d cite the Russian military entry into Serbia in 1999 as a precedent.
Again, I certainly hope Globohomo is not so retarded as to try this, but…
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Russia knows what this “show of force” is:
“Sound and fury, signifying nothing” (told by an idiot)
US gov really, really wants to tangle with China. Ukraine is going to go on the back burner some way, some how.
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Nothing we can do a damn thing about except for getting our guys to not join. I noticed the head of the Air Force is nominated for Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is a vitriolic anti-white racist who has a new anti-white quota system he is instituting. I pray that the 94% white pilot force just resigns in protest against this guy who hates them and who works for a government bent on the destruction of their nation and their children.
All we can do is stop enlisting though that is dangerous. That strategy could see us paying foreign legions to physically persecute us in a few years time.
Whatever weakens this post-revolutionary regime that rules us is what I pray happens. I pray things happen on a timeline where someone aligned with our viewpoint is positioned to capitalize.
On a positive note, and in terms of where we should focus our energy, it looks like pro-white civil advocacy and education resources are emerging and have men of quality behind them. Let’s invest our energy in these endeavors is that is where our locus of control lies.
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The reality of current military pilots:
Like police, they’re tied to their careers because their (very generous) pensions depend on it.
While they can leave early for civilian flying (there really is a civilian pilot shortage now), the vast majority will continue to work in military reserve units to fill up the pension requirements.
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