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Determining what the regime is plotting is often a guessing game, as the regime has turned itself into the father of lies. The people in positions of authority lie even when the truth would serve their interests. As a result, we are left to look at what is going on around the regime, how various players are reacting, in order to guess at what may be happening inside the black box that is Washington. We just got a dose of that this week when Zelensky arrived rattling the tin cup.
Everything about the trip was weird, compared to what has been the norm regarding Ukraine over the last two years. His arrival was not met with a big ceremony and the media was not flooded with Ukrainian agit-prop. The closest we got on that score was a press release to C-level crazies in fringe media. Six months ago, these stories were regular features in regime media. Instead there were grim stories about Ukraine at a cross roads militarily and politically.
Adding to the intrigue is the fact that Zelensky was not invited to Washington, even though his trip was certainly arranged by the Kagan cult. They first had him show up in Argentina at the swearing in of their new ruler. Since he was in the neighborhood, he decided to swing by Washington just as the Biden administration is begging Congress for more money for Ukraine. This week is the last week to get a package passed as Congress goes on an extended break.
That is the other bit of weirdness. House Republicans suddenly grew a spine for the first time in generations and have refused to give Biden more money for Ukraine without getting significant concessions on immigration. In fact, they are holding up Israel money in the process, which is no doubt angering the usual suspects. The administration refuses to separate out Israel money from Ukraine money and the House refuses to consider a bill that combines the two.
The final bit of weirdness to the drama is they had Zelensky make the rounds in order to guilt Congress into relenting. The thing is, he only met with the Senate and reportedly the meeting did not go well. He did not meet with House members, presumably because they would be even more hostile. He closed his trip with what was expected to be a tongue bathing from Fox News zombie Brett Baier, but the producers gave Bair some real questions to ask, which ruined the effect.
Taken in total, it was a disaster for Zelensky. It is not just being cut off by Congress but the way it was done. He now has to go back to Kiev empty handed and with the impression that Washington no longer loves him. His main card in Ukrainian politics right now is he keeps the money flowing. If he is not keeping the money flowing and he is not on good terms with Washington, then what is his point? Why keep him around if all he does is strut around in gym clothes?
That may have been the point of this trip. Back in Kiev there is a power struggle between the Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, head of the secret police Kyrylo Budanov and Zelensky. Some generals are siding with Zelensky, and no one really knows where Budanov stands, but the bulk of the officer corps backs Zaluzhnyi. What really matters, of course, is which faction is backed by Washington and that is why this trip matters.
It is possible that the Kagan cult has determined that Zelensky is a liability, and they need to find a replacement. If it appears that Zelensky has fallen out of favor and that is slowing the flow of cash to Kiev, then there is a good chance that the anti-Zelensky factions will come together and topple the government. In this context, a military junta run by Zaluzhnyi makes some sense. He is on good terms with the Western war machine, and he has credibility with regards to conducting the war.
On the other hand, this may be a bit of 2-D chess. By now everyone in the White House has to know that Ukraine is lost. The question now is how to manage the endgame, especially in light of an election in eleven months. The last thing the regime wants is scenes of Russian tanks entering Ukrainian cities this summer. If the army overthrows Zelensky, the administration can claim the failure is due to Republicans cutting off funding which resulted in a coup and then collapse.
This sounds a bit farfetched, but keep in mind that Washington overthrew the Ukrainian government in 2014. Everyone in Kiev knows this. That is why stories like this one in a CIA front operation are important. The Kiev Post is not in Kiev. It is one of the many nodes of disinformation operated by the regime. Stories about a third coup in Kiev coming from such a source are intended to send a message. Zelensky’s palace could soon be the closing scenes of the movie Scarface.
One always has to consider ineptitude in these matters. It could simply be that the Biden people have poorly managed all of this and the botched trip to Washington was just one more self-own. Mike Johnson is as green as grass, so he is trying to earn some street cred by holding the line on Ukraine money. The Biden people handed him this gift of trying to tie Ukraine money to Israel money, so he is using this impasse to make pleasant noises about immigration.
Taken as a whole, the best we can say for certain is some elements of the regime are now moving into the endgame phase of project Ukraine. Whether or not they have internalized how this will end is hard to know, but clearly some elements are thinking about how to manage the inevitable defeat of Ukraine. Given the implacability of the Kagan cult, this suggests Zelensky brought the gift of palace intrigue to Washington, as the tribes duke it out over how to manage Ukraine.
In the end, none of it really matters. Moscow has ruled out negotiations with Kiev and is in no mood to do Washington any favors. For the Russians, Ukraine is one part of a larger war against the Global American Empire. That means they will continue to manage the Ukraine war in light of that larger conflict. The fate of Ukraine is no longer in the hands of Washington. Once important people in Kiev understand this, the war ends along with the current Kiev regime.
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Well, I saw today from that uber unquestionable, irrefutable, undeniable and most accurate news source ever, CNN, that Russia has lost 87% of its pre-war active duty ground troops and 2/3 of its pre-war tank inventory. This comes from a declassified US “intelligence” assessment provided to congress – so there! Yet, despite these “heavy” losses, Vlad is determined to push forward at all costs and US officials warn that Ukraine remains deeply vulnerable – LOL. Of course, I’ve seen this supposed report nowhere else. The stupidity and hubris these neoclowns and their flunkies is off the charts. No doubt, Russia’s… Read more »
Victory is just over the next hill!
Berlin remains German, Vienna will be German again!
you may be reading too much into this. The agreements are in place for arthur daniels midland to purchase a giant ammount of farmland , and blackrock has the contract to “rebuild” ukraine. using loans from the world bank of course. the purpose of the war was to drive the ukrainians from their fertile and resource rich land. As a side benefit, they wanted to get kill off the men and make the women and kids available to traffickers. lots of money in that . well , it’s mission accomplished ,time to wind this down. here is a video of… Read more »
You think Uncle Vlad is going to let Blackrock take over what’s left of Ukraine when he’s finished. Blackrock is up there with Nato and Azov on his “Terminate with extreme prejudice” list.
I’ve been saying here for a long time that the GAE has in Ukraine finally picked a fight it can’t walk away from. Whether I’m right or wrong about that, the recent threats by the GAE mouthpieces to congress, about sending America’s sons and daughters to Ukraine if congress doesn’t pony up the money, are certainly one piece of evidence in support of this view.
The CIA did (another) direct intervention in American politics; they “declassified” “estimates” that Russia has had over 300,000 casualties and lost over 2,000 tanks out of 3,000+, in the Ukraine war, just in time for the showdown on the Ukraine money bill. Implying that money to Ukraine is well spent weakening Russia
Russophobes are running with the numbers of course, forgetting the first law of GAE; it’s always fake and gay.
Note how they rigged the numbers. “Casualties” can be almost anything from minor to severe injuries to death. The important number is KIA (relative to the Ukrainian KIA number) and I have not yet seen them give a specific figure for that.
True, and I don’t believe a word of their report. Just the timing of the release is proof CIA has gone totally rogue. They’re not supposed to do ANYTHING domestically. Exactly because their modus is gangster like by necessity. Traitors who grew too big for their boots, like a pet alligator that grew too large and is now out of control
They have lied about everything of consequence since at least the 1940s, but this time they are telling the truth. We can take it to the bank.
Since what they report can almost always be completely inverted and you have something close to the truth, then Russia is probably the strongest it has ever been, economically and militarily.
Comical Ali is suing the CIA for plagiarism
At the risk of sounding repetitive, I think there are some caveats to thinking we are entering the Ukrainian endgame. I’ve spelled them out in my previous comments on this subject, but there is an additional wrinkle that’s starting to bother me. Whenever speaker Johnson talks about his Ukraine funding gambit, he consistently, repeatedly, explicitly, and emphatically states that he believes Ukraine is a righteous cause and that supporting it is the right thing to do. I presume he is smart enough to know how his own words will be taken by others and used against him in the future,… Read more »
If Israeli funding is truly being held up over Ukraine funding, I think we know that Ukraine will get her money hehe.
Mercouris praised this clown?
I like Alexander but sometimes ….
“ The Biden people handed him this gift of trying to tie Ukraine money to Israel money, so he is using this impasse to make pleasant noises about immigration.” Z-man I get where you’re coming from and your use of certain rhetoric to get there. I just have to say for the record and this audience that the influx of border crossers is anything but immigration. It is an uncontrolled *invasion*! The pictures show masses of thousands of people rushing the wall/border openings while the BP looks on. When the openings are closed, as in Lukeville, these invaders bring heavy… Read more »
I know you’re right but it’s still unbelievable. How is leaving the border wide open not failed state behavior?? And why is this not THE story? Because the regime is real….
It’s not a story because America is stone-cold dead, that’s why. Every bit as dead as that possum on the side of the road. Dead politically, dead culturally, dead spiritually and dead demographically. The economy continues to jerk along spasmodically, but it too will fall silent in due course.
Not to blow unwarranted sunshine all over the place but being on the other side of the pond, the commentariat here reminds me that it is not dead. I’ve never met other commentators in meat space but several of the regulars remind me almost perfectly of people I know stateside. The well-meaning but increasingly angry, formerly solid GOP voter male, over fifty who fought off decades of conditioning to realize that this is not just a bend in the road but historical insanity, is represented several times here. The mid thirties white guy with some college background who’s just fed… Read more »
“the commentariat here reminds me that it is not dead.” Thanks for the compliment, but none of us control any institutions of power. That’s kind of like saying in 1965 that there was hope for Russia because Solzhenitsyn had written “Cancer Ward.” No, there wasn’t. None of the dissidents really changed anything, the USSR collapsed because the Old Guard communists finally died off and a new generation of insiders, led by Gorbachev, took over. Gorbachev always thought of himself as a true communist, and his predecessors had gotten it wrong. If anything changes in the the U.S.it will not be… Read more »
Who’s running Russia now?? Solzhenitsyn was not a dud. It takes time. But who predicted last year that 2023 would move the JQ more than halfway into Overton?? The vibe has changed. It’s usually the first thing you notice
“Or worse, the final barbarian invasion of declining Rome by the Goths.”
Whoah there fella!
Remember our host uses Alaric the Goth as his avatar.
Stepping on toes.
Z-man knows what I mean and I know what he means with his avatar. 😉
Who owns the busses?
First, they came for the newspapers, but I did not object, because I was not a newspaper reader.
Then, they came for the television journalists, and I did not object, because I did not watch television news.
Now, they are coming for the books and movies, and there is no one left to object, and so I was nullified.
The busses used to be “Wackenhut”, a private for hire service, owned by a Danish corporation. I’ve not seen them personally dump IA’s in Tucson, but have seen them pick them up by the border. They’ve had a contract for literally decades. I still drive by them when headed out toward the border. True story. We were working the border early 2000. We located and had IA’s intercepted. BP took them as we are not LEO and have no authority. At the end of a long hot day, we bagged it, disbanded, and drove home. The nearest place to get… Read more »
If anyone caught the 60 Minutes piece on Ukraine Sunday, they were in for a treat. The agenda was so transparent it was actually amusing. A chubby older man with a mask was claiming Russian soldiers rigged a torture device from a phone and were shocking his genitals for fun. They rolled out the old script they wrote for John Kerry during Vietnam. Then, he claimed they tied his arms behind his back and pulled them up behind his head so hard his arms almost broke. As he was talking, he was waiving his hands around, which would have been… Read more »
I’m no commie, but Frederic Jameson’s tenets of modernity come to mind. Here is point 4 of a breakdown by an academic summarizing his work. I have always used this description to explain how people are and experience the world: 4) “the waning of affect” (Postmodernism 10) and “a whole new type of emotional ground tone—what I will call ‘intensities’—which can best be grasped by a return to older theories of the sublime” (Postmodernism 6). The general depthlessness and affectlessness of postmodern culture is countered by outrageous claims for extreme moments of intense emotion, which Jameson aligns with schizophrenia and… Read more »
I’m familiar with the cite, but don’t think it’s needed to go so far as DSM-defining postmodernism in order to get the shape of modern agitprop. It seems that news is just made for women now.
But I think there is something special about the dopamine-riddled brains that characterize the modern era, a brain far beyond simple feminine hysterics. I deal with your folk every day; there is something different about them these days. That waning of affect is prescient, for it really describes their flat affect (not a characteristic of traditional women) that only excites when extreme excitement occurs.
[Reply to RealityRules @ https://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=31274#comment-381383%5D “The BBC has yet again poked the eyes of Englishmen by portraying Isaac Newton as a negroid.” What about the Germans and Gottfried Leibnitz? Leibnitz had much to do with the development of calculus, arguably the mathematical techniqies most responsible for Western scientific and technological supremacy. Anyone who wants an introduction or refresher should check out “Quick Calculus”, first written decades ago by a physics professor who needed to raise his students to a minimum level of mathematical competence. The 2nd ed. (which I used) is a crash course in differentiation and integration. Includes also… Read more »
So is he portrayed as a negroid as well?
Leibnitz, the Congo s gift to Germany. On Netflix soon….
Let’s hope that this sparks the appropriate level of outrage in Germany that it should. In my opinion these thefts of our history and our story are not just scandalous, but they are true outrages that should be wholly condemned by the entire civilization whose eyes they spit in and whose will to assert themselves they test. It is absolutely unacceptable to permit these re-tellings. The entire scientific community at a minimum, should stand up and renounce Netflix. The entire German government should as well and every single Western nation should stand and join in unison. This is shocking and… Read more »
Sadly it’s my impression Germany is totally neutered because of you know.. The people in charge of that sad country are truly loathsome so I wouldn’t hold out too much hope
I’m assuming that was a bit of parody by MyS, but in this dayonage it’s hard to tell.
This is probably the only DR blog to have calculus textbook reviews in the comments lol I really like that
He reminds me of Maynard G. Krebs, The Monster That Devoured Ukraine.
Oops, sorry D, fat finger
House Republicans suddenly grew a spine for the first time in generations and have refused to give Biden more money for Ukraine without getting significant concessions on immigration. — I know no one else thinks so, but I still suspect that the cupboard getting a little bare is paying into this. With interest rates dipping slightly the last thing they probably want is trying to stuff another $100+ Billion of addition Treasuries into the already bloated market. Yeah, that’s probably an optimistic take, but it’s not like they actually have any moral objection to what the money is getting spent… Read more »
So, false flag in Ukraine to bring NATO into the war
The good news is: a 10 year war is planned
Not a collapse, but a conversion to a permawar economy
That’s the happy reason for the carefree inflation: it’s self funding, the globalists are funding the economic conversion & political restructuring
(Alex Jones/Jack Poso, link at WRSA)
Alex Jones!
How dare you, sir. Must I remind you of the defamening? The DEFAMENING!
Zelenski is just like Netanyahu: trying to drag the US and NATO into a global war just to save his miserable neck.
Recent hugely expensive debacles – like Iraq, Afghanistan and Covid – have totally reframed the Ukraine issue in the mind of the public. The huge sums already wasted are mind-boggling, so the public now struggles to put US failures in any kind of useful quantitative/financial perspective. So we’re now like one of those island cultures whose number system is one, two, many……. “Failure” is a binary term anyway. Even “inflation” is quantitatively abstract; people just understand that they have less purchasing power. Inflation is another prominent Regime “failure”. Therefore, the choice for the Regime is either to reframe the Ukraine… Read more »
The US is the cause of “Euro butthurt”. The US should pay reparations for the destruction of the pipelines, among many other things, and the destruction of European economy.
“House Republicans suddenly grew a spine for the first time in generations and have refused to give Biden more money for Ukraine without getting significant concessions on immigration.” That’s one way of looking at it. Another way is that it is a symptom of how dysfunctional our country is. “The only way we will give you money for the empire is if you actually do something for the American people they desperately want done” In the end, they will cuck. Either they will just write a check while Biden remains steadfast in his opposition to Americans or he will agree… Read more »
Spoken like a true cynic. And spoken truthfully.
Shades of Tip O’Neill and Ronald Reagan.
This diminutive piece of shteltl trash is simply one more globalist satrap, as useless as the others now ruling in Dublin and London.
May they all end up in the same hole together, along with thier sponsors.
The least embarrassing option would be Zelensky dies a hero’s death by Russian missile strike. In reality he is secreted off to live out his life with a new identity in Israel.
There’s a neighborhood in London that’s basically a refugee camp for deposed dictators and royal abdicators. Instead of tents, they have mansions. There are similar streets in New York and Miami—presumably in every city where the wives of tyrants want to go shopping. None of those are in Israel. That’s where globohomo retires its nameless henchmen, spies and child molesters. If they don’t decide to sacrifice him on TV, Zelensky will get a full pension and his family will be “in” for generations.
Before anybody gets too negative on this whole thing, remember that globohomo did educate us and the English-speaking world that Kiev is pronounced “keev.”
This was certainly worth hundreds of billions and who knows how many dead, so what’s the little bit more that’s required to keep Zelensky and his family in a fine mansion and the finest shopping for several generations? What a deal!
I saw a clip of Zelensky talking to some people, presumably the MIC people, wearing a t-shirt that said “U K RA N I A N” on it. How ironic. I just assumed he was wearing it because he knows deep down inside that he is not and never will be “Ukrainian”
The first think Ukraine needs to do is give him the boot and put an actual Ukrainian in charge of Ukraine. Imagine a Slav running Israel. It’s just insane.
Tars: Imagine any White (west or east European) running his own country for the benefit of his own people. Or observing traditional religious and historical holidays native to the local culture and people – without fear of inciting ‘fury’ and shrieks of ‘antisemitism.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12855619/Shocking-moment-far-right-MP-uses-fire-extinguisher-Hanukkah-candles-Polish-parliament-blasts-female-official-face-tries-stop-him.html
He whom you seek is named Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putin.
Even worse: Zelensky is a Russian Jew. I’ll bet his grandparents were up to all sorts of nasty things back in the Stalinist days.
> The last thing the regime wants is scenes of Russian tanks entering Ukrainian cities this summer.
Putin likes to shit-post in real-life, so I expect this is the exact scenario we’re going to get. The victory parade will probably coincide with the start of early voting too.
It’s highly likely that the most Anti-American country of the next hundred years will be Ukraine. Even long after the U.S. leaves the world stage as a crumbling backwater and racially divided basket case.
“They were careless people, Washington D.C. – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
Great use of Fitzgerald. Yes, long after the GAE has receded into a deracinated, factionalized and Balkanized central core, it will have left so much carnage and heartache in its wake that guessing the national identity of the latest terrorist attacker will be something of a parlor game.
They played polo and were rich together–Tom and Daisy Buchanan
Great stuff JR. I will ignore your dislike of Italian-Americans and compliment you anyway lol.
Zelensky’s voice definitely sounds like money though, right?
I’m not anti Italian. Many good things about the Italians. The problem was an old country mindset on the narrow issue of tolerance for corruption. Mexicans are far worse in this respect.
The dollar bill through which cocaine is snorted kind of money.
Scott Fitzgerald was a prophet.
At least the contemptible, fat rat Vindman gangsters and their progeny will be unhappy, which is a nice thought.
True, Valley. Fat Boy is rather quiet these days, isn’t he?
There’ll be the helluva lot of competition in that particular sweepstakes: Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Russia, Iran, and Libya, among others, will all be players.
I occasionally tune in to the Claremont folks to get a handle on what their discussion points are. On the laughable part, they recently said that The Constitution is still strong enough to govern some long failed/dead aspect of America. I was too busy laughing to remember that aspect. They are very interested in getting a ‘Digital Bill of Rights.’ I think that is about securing American’s ability to acquire the building blocks of AI and robotic technology. Seems very wise. If we can own them, we can build them and stand a chance. The most interesting part is that… Read more »
“I think these guys do take seriously the veneration of Lincoln and the lie of the colorblind society as the new founding’s mythos.”
Thus they miss the most important paradigm that must shift if white people and America are to survive.
They miss it in part because it pays to miss it. The cost of noticing out loud is extremely high. As for America, it is gone. The project to destroy it has succeeded. Now, the only thing to focus on saving are Americans. We are still here, a nation without a state. Step one is to ensure we have a homeland. The point I was making about the cost of noticing out loud, is that I think we are at or close to the moment where noticing out loud, in the right way, out of love and support for our… Read more »
Yes, We had better start noticing in a hurry.
Question, is the inability to plan ahead an indicator of low IQ? Like dogs who just live in the “now”, and when you leave them in the backyard for a weekend, will upset the water bowl and eat every scrap of kibble the first hour you are gone. Reactive to threats rather than proactive to avoid them?
Your messiahism reminds me of the Kaiserist daydreaming of the shampoo millionare at The “Worthy” House. It’s a species of idolatry which will have something in common also with
Jewish
Ethnosadist
White
Supremacy.
I doubt very much, though, that your messiahism will have the same staying power. Maybe you ought to consider the obvious merits of not fantasing about a new and improved Hitler, a Hitler 2.0, a Führer of Liebe for lost, unjewish “white” people.
This isn’t looking for a messiah or a Fuhrer. As Z has pointed out ad naseum, the Austrian painter is long dead and the framing of the world in 1938 is tired and ready to fall. This is about now. Now that America is nothing more than a bunch of ethnic tribes all of whom have been assembled against the one that doesn’t see itself as a tribe, that tribeless tribe is ready to see itself. It has to or it will not survive the historical entropy of democracy and of a multi-racial/ethnic democracy. It will start with one man… Read more »
RR, things are stirring and Overton has slipped it’s anchor since October 7. More people are waking up and critical masses will be reached. The JQ is now so close to Overton I imagine the ADL is getting hysterical
Nobody ever foresaw that it would be the progressive left purging the tribe from the west. But it looks like once the great boomer die-off, which is only now beginning, has come and gone, the tribe won’t have many friends left here. Certainly very few who are now under 40.
Now, now, JZ. Many of us on the right have been pointing out how potentially suicidal Jewish policies on race and immigration are since at least 9/11. They are on the verge of being hoisted on their own petard. It will serve them right.
To clarify, the progressive Left–including some Jews, BTW–has always been more sympathetic toward all non-whites groups than to Jews. And that sympathy was the motive force behind flooding the West with people who had no sympathy whatsoever toward Jews.
Please lay off the boomer/generational divide nonsense. Who do you think foments this white vs white garbage? Wake the hell up.
The ADL has been hysterical since 1919…
True. I have a feeling we’ll soon need new stronger adjectives, good and bad, for where things are going. The old ones have been worn out by exaggeration
What blows my mind is that the Vichy Right has been so conditioned to be good little lapdogs that they feel they have to use Uke/Bagel Land foreign war funding as a club to beg Chomo Joe to do the thing he is REQUIRED to do as President, which is to defend the borders and sovereignty of the United States. That’s not negotiable. If They Were Serious (our favorite drinking game over Sev’s joint) The Republicans could bring impeachment for any number of Federal refusals to enforce the international border and the laws of the United States but, of course,… Read more »
All good points and suggestions, but the fact remains that many if not most Republicans want open borders and endless wars, too. The only constituents who matter to the GOP lawmakers, the donors, insist the red and green flow year ’round. But, yeah, this situation is the equivalent of promising to donate millions to Catholic Charities if your parish priest will hear your confession. Abdication of border enforcement, the primary requirement of a nation-state, renders the central government (and the Texas counterpart, as you point out) illegitimate and able to maintain itself only through raw and brutal force–which is how… Read more »
I don’t call them the Vichy Right for nothing.
They’re so deep into collaboration they can’t envision anything else but collaboration now. It’s Who They Are.
Pickle rick: Good points all, but bonus points for stating that Abbott is not serious. His border theater goes back many years – my son spent 6 months there about 9 years ago and was never allowed a magazine for his weapon. Per official statistics, Texas had a non-hispanic White population of 39.3% in 2021. Factor into that the ‘fellow Whites,’ Persians, various ‘wheatish’ subcons and whitish south Americans (all of whom check the “White” box on the official papers), and in 2023 you’d be lucky to have 35% – a growing percentage of whom are those famed California cuckservatards.… Read more »
If these GOP ‘red state’ governors were really serious, instead of trying to ‘own the libs’ they be bussing those bastards BACK OVER THE BORDER instead of doing the Left’s dirty work for them by spreading them all over the damn country.
Dear God the GOP really is the Stupid Party.
The best Ukrainian military strategy at this point is to retreat to the most defensible positions that they can find, create a mobile reserve and prepare to give ground when necessary. The best Ukrainian diplomatic strategy would be to ask China to mediate negotiations between Ukraine, Russia and the United States. Russia cannot refuse a Chinese request for the opening of negotiations in which China will serve as a mediator. But even talented Chinese diplomats probably cannot find a solution to the conflict unless and until either the Russians simply occupy Ukraine as the Ukrainian military collapses, or the United… Read more »
Why in God’s name would China agree to this? China has no interest whatsoever in seeing the war in Ukraine end. It is an albatross around the neck of the US, it is driving a wedge between the US and Europe, and it is forcing Russia to lean into China as an ally.
This war is a Godsend for China. I doubt anyone in the Kagan cult thought through this carefully.
Evidently the Chinese don’t agree. Last February the Chinese government proposed a peace plan for Ukraine. It was admittedly short on details, and would have to be adjusted in light of developments since then, but it could serve as the basis for negotiations with China as mediator. China opposes most anything that interferes with business and the prestige that would accrue to China in the Global South if it could successfully mediate an end to the Ukraine war would be enormous;
Right, but China didn’t follow through on anything, or make even a feeble attempt to flesh out details. Sounds more like virtue signaling to me.
Exactly.
Never interfere when you enemy is making a mistake.
All those years fighting communism, and now we’re the ones who end up with a regime that’s a riddle, wrapped in an enigma, concealed by a mystery.
There is no mystery they’re all frigging communists and have been for the last 20 years.
75 years at least.
“Zelensky’s palace could soon be the closing scenes of the movie Scarface.”
You said it! In footage not screened on mainstream media, Zelensky is a trembling, agitated cocaine addict. No doubt the CIA are supplying him with their best Colombian marching powder. One way to keep a hold over him. There was a recent meeting with Sunak and Z just looked completely out of his box, gurning ferociously.
Emanual “Manny Man-lover” Macron is another famous politican with a nose like a Dyson.
Can you share a link? Not doubting, just curious.
The footage I saw was on /pol/. I tried to find it on mainstream media sites but they (for obvious reasons) aren’t showing that angle.
What is /pol/? That a reddit or telegram site?
> No doubt the CIA are supplying him with their best Colombian marching powder. One way to keep a hold over him. This! While many seem to think the world rulers are kept in line due to the blackmail of sensational satanic pedo abuses, cocaine is and has always been a much more reliable method of control. The two female former PMs of Finland and New Zealand, Boris “Fat Bastard” Johnson — pretty much all of the “elected” leaders of the West are coke-rattled junkies. The World Economic Forum really ought to rebrand as the World Cocaine Forum. It would… Read more »
We need to step outside ourselves and look at this as objectively and dispassionately as we can. The original plan was for Russia to fold like a cheap tent. Then they’d stand idly by in defeat while Gobohomo Inc and the international jewry raided their finances and resources. That plan has since fallen apart, and there are no contingency plans. We can’t guess what our leaders will do because they have no idea themselves. I see no reason for them to do anything other than what they have been: funnelling billions of your dollars into that pit while taking the… Read more »
That was the stated plan. The real plan was to kill as many Slavs as possible. For some reason, the chosenites hate Slavs more than anybody else. So far, that plan is working.
Fiddler on the Roof lives!
The US has been forced to skedaddle from every one of these military adventures for 50 years…But this time it will be Zelensky and his cabal clinging to the Helicopters, so it will be even easier for the media to memory hole the whole thing..but in the meantime, the political damage has been massive….
I still think there is a strong chance that some “Russian” CIA operative puts a bullet in Zelensky.
I think they have to ease him out Jack. He’s too closely associated in the public’s imagination with the Biden Regime. The optics would be terrible. But who knows?
Good point, but if they think he might mention some unpleasant things, Zelensky gets put on ice. I suspect this will be the case, too.
Zelensky Didn’t Kill Himself
Hard to get more terrible optics than civilians clinging to plane wheels in Kabul.
Just go to an airport and see them waltzing around the terminals amongst hood rats on their cell phones openly bragging about being acquitted for their crimes. The American airport is not the Star Wars bar. It wouldn’t be far fetched to predict that some Latinx or Arabic gangster is using the port to smuggle contraband and sell off used aircraft at loan shark rates within 20 years. The first part is probably already happening. It is definitely happening in Detroit with theft and in Chicago with Saudi owned traffic violation fine harvesting equipment. I could see a flight being… Read more »
The GOP should give Ukraine the funding. If they don’t they will be blamed by Biden and the media for Ukraine’s collapse. What’s another $60 billion on top of $32 trillion?
But they are stupid so they won’t.
Quite wrong..the GOP will be on the right side politically, because the Ukraine is becoming politically radioactive….As is the border disaster…
Why does it matter if the GOP is blamed for Ukraine’s collapse? They are just a wing of the Uniparty and they hate you. THEY HATE YOU! Internalize that!
The war has to stop. While US politicians and their moron voters are concerned about optics, hundreds of thousands Slavs are dying because of American “support” of a senseless war.
Meh. They are going to be blamed for pretty much everything anyway. Some California biddy on a viral TikTok vid was ranting about Republicans being the reason it took $72 to fill her gas tank. And “82 million voters” are going to be manufactured in order to punish Republicans for it.
Nope. Saw this movie before, with Obama’s Syria red line a little over a decade ago, and all the humiliation was on the side of their antagonist (who is probably running the Ukrainian current thing behind the scenes). Has the GOP been blamed for Syria’s or Afghanistan’s collapse? Has any griller anywhere even partially blamed the GOP for the Floyd-Covid riots, unconstitutional lockdowns, or immigrant tent cities in Chicago/NYC? To ask the question is to answer it. Most elected Republicans treat foreign wars purely as a patronage instrument for MIC. Look at their holy-whore candidate from South Carolina who somehow… Read more »
I was intrigued by your lead sentence, Zman. There is, of course, a long-established Father of Lies—acknowledged as such by Jesus. Do you mean to say that our rulers are explicitly devoted to this Father of Lies, and doing his bidding? That the regime has taken on a genuinely diabolic character?
Full disclosure: I consider it quite plausible that this is indeed the case.
I should add that this is a sincere question to you. It seems to me your columns and audio programs have taken a more religious turn lately (more precisely, a Christian turn).
I was an atheist my whole life, but what I have witnessed over the past several years can only be described as demonic. My eyes are wide open and I see demons all around us.
One thing I am sure of is that these demons can not be fought with love and tolerance. Things will keep getting worse until we put a decisive stop to this.
I have a very similar take. The evil is palpable. This phenomenon has been described many times throughout history, with Dostoevsky’s DEVILS the best account. As my life enters its final reel I remain skeptical that God exists but have become quite convinced that evil is real. That’s not very comforting.
The transition from estrogen-drenched NPC’s banning Tchaikovsky to the homosexual senator Graham sporting a woody as he described mass slaughter is sobering but represents the zeitgeist perfectly.
Good that you mentioned The Devils, Jack. Communism and socialism were just kicking off back then, so it’s pretty incredible how Dostoevsky nailed the Left-wing psychopathic personality to a tee.
Just to out mumbojumbo everyone here I’ve always felt that evil is somehow related to entropy. Ever since chemistry 101 I wanted to see the 2nd law of thermodynamics fail in a fundamental way. I admit it is strong. But I don’t believe it is foundational
materialism —-> atheism
(materialism entails atheism)
but
atheism ≠ materialism
and
it’s not true that
atheism —-> materialism.
Well, Hobbes was a strict materialist, but he still believed in God (matter in motion). In practice yes, except that I do believe that atheism leads to materialism. Anyone see that Etsy stuff with the pizza, kids, and one eyed sign? That Abramovic or whatever woman (the one who does the spirit dinners) being made a Ukraine ambassador? And all the images in pop culture of Satanism? Our overlords clearly worship Satan. Whether he really exists is another issue, but their belief is undoubtable. Check out Vigilant Citizen’s website. I have plugged him a few times (no way affiliated), but… Read more »
Atheism —> cynicism —> nihilism —> macro collapse
And the worst is Gaza. You can sort out the Christians of good intent by their position on this. I have heard several so called Christians say that “There are no innocents in Gaza.”
Oh. OK, so all of those dead 3 to 5 year olds were not innocent? Interesting Christian position.
Haven’t encountered any of those, personally. The closest to it are those who point out that there have been no magic bullets since November 22, 1963, so it’s unlikely that anyone can shoot around a human shield.
I do suspect that there are no innocent adult Palestinians in Gaza, though. An adult who chooses to be a human shield has made a choice. And an adult to makes his own kids into human shields has, too.
So how innocent are we for allowing our “elected” leaders to steal an election in front of our noses and spend billions of our dollars on killing millions of innocent people?
@Robbo, “So how innocent are we for allowing our “elected” leaders to steal an election in front of our noses and spend billions of our dollars on killing millions of innocent people?”
Me personally? I took my family away from the Twin Cities when they started the Little Mogadishu Project at Cedar and Riverside. I wasn’t going to subject my family to the often lethal insanity that DFL represents.
As one person, I can’t really stop the collapse. But I can show enough love for my family to get them the heck out the blast radius.
“More than half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened. Since then I have spent well-nigh fifty years working on the history of our Revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate… Read more »
Not forgotten. Confused Him with somebody else, an imposter.
Forgotten God. And fallen for the Devil’s belief that there is no devil.
Amen.
(Thanks for posting this, Jannie.)
Dunno. The Ukraine grift is quite lucrative. The Ho’s and the Help in the Imperial City have sucked the Keeeevvvveeee teat for a long, long time and the withdrawal will be a bitch. The Kagan Cult has been noticed after its decades-long campaign of mass murder and genocide against the goyim. I don’t see these monstrous, greedy clowns letting this one go unless the optics of yet another crime against humanity framed as a failed war is a bit too much to bear in an election year. I do agree that when uber whore Baier is allowed to ask actual… Read more »
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Zaluzhnyi put in charge. He wants to pull back the troops and run a defensive war. That would work for dragging out this affair past the election without a major collapse. Most Americans don’t care about the war so a strategic withdrawal wouldn’t be noticed, especially if the media just doesn’t report on it.
But who knows. The real question is why the Ukrainian people continue to support the war. I realize that they hate the Russians, but they’re destroying their country.
People forget, but Covid insanity ran in the press right up until the Ukraine war started. When it happened it was like a switch had been flipped and they went from all Covid to all Ukraine in a matter of hours. I thought they might take advantage of the Israel-Hamas conflict to push Ukraine out of the way and wrap it up, but there are too many people invested in the cash flow.
Agreed. The Ukraine grift has been the mother lode and won’t be tossed with any ease. This is why I don’t think the Israel/Hamas slaughterfest was an op–the Tribe knows accounting.
The cash will keep flowing after the war. Someone has to rebuild Ukraine. The country will still have a fair amount of natural resources. It’ll Russia in the 1990s all over again. The usual suspects will buy up everything cheap and US taxpayers will funnel cash into those “Ukrainian” companies to rebuild what’s left.
The MIC will need to restock our military’s shelves along with all those new orders from Europe.
The key however is that DC can’t let Ukraine be run by a Russia-friendly govt.
The parts that will have to be rebuilt largely will be under Russian control and I don’t see Putin allowing any Western-linked contractors near there. If this madness continues, and it may, a primary objective will be to let Blackrock and Co. share in that blood-drenched grift of rebuilding.
“The MIC will need to restock our military’s shelves along with all those new orders from Europe.”
I keep seeing this point and I keep asking,
“With what industrial base?”
“With what human capital?”
Instead of a new homeland, just a pirate’s den not subject to EU regulations.
The finest whores, child trafficking, organ harvesting, weapons testing, GMOs, biochem labs- and a money laundry that makes the Caribbean look like a shabby pawnshop.
The pirates are rootless, remember, every land is home to them, the whole world a Schengen zone.
Most of the resources are in the Russian annexed parts of the country and Russia probably won’t stop when the collapse comes.
“He wants to pull back the troops and run a defensive war.”
It’s long past time being too late for that. The pace of Russian advance is set by Russian strategic objectives, not Ukie resistance. The RF still has an enormous pool of men sitting on the sidelines in reserve, extremely well equipped for and well trained in the new way of war, and battle hardened after rotations at the front. Ukraine’s death throes are being dragged out so that the coup de gras has maximum political effect on the real enemy.
Yep. I’m old enough to remember when the Wehrmacht thought it could hold the Soviets back behind the Dnierper.
Other than the Ukrainians themselves, the real losers here will be Europe. The only thing keeping the EU afloat was German industrial production and they threw it away the second they were told to by the Biden admin.
It’s amazing how few “grown ups” actually exist in the western world. Everyone is constantly looking to someone else for guidance, whether that be the Americans in the case of Europe or the media in the case of the Americans. Everything revolves around “perception”, nobody cares about the actual reality on the ground.
The map is not the territory.
Yes. Divorcing Putin from Europe was the larger goal.
> Yes. Divorcing Putin from Europe was the larger goal.
I would say divorcing Germany from a functioning manufacturing economy was the larger goal.
Our rulers seem intent on punishing both Germans and Russians, for some reason…
If you mean (((our rulers))) then yes, it makes perfect sense.
Things They were hoping for: to regime change Putin, introduce degeneracy, break up The Russian Federation, gobble it piece by piece. I think it went wrong when Trump got elected, thus giving Russia several extra years to prep. Had the pranksters been successful it would have opened up a great amount of collateral to keep the ponzi going.
And it seems like they don’t really plan, just tip over the apple cart and try to grab apples or the cart or steal whatever during the confusion.
With lunatics like Scholz and Party Girl in charge, the Europeans dug their own grave on this one. I still can’t work out whether Europe’s leaders are evil or just monumentally stupid. Or both.
“This sounds a bit farfetched” Perfectly plausible and not farfetched at all. We are now at the stage of recriminations. Senators like Vance and Tuberville have come out and said they never really believed in this half-assed venture anyway. Probably others will come out and say the same thing in the weeks and months to come. The administration will be flailing desperately for some scapegoat to blame. As you pointed out a week back, defeat is an orphan. Even the neo-cons will be busy disassociating themselves from this debacle. To paraphrase Shakespeare, “When I said engage in the proxy war… Read more »
Agreed – this is near fetched (or whatever the opposite of far fetched is). The admin being able to claim the failure was due to Republican meanies cutting off funding which resulted in a coup and then collapse – is a pretty good excuse / off ramp.
At this point I suspect even Mr. “Best money we ever spent” Graham may be rethinking his…position.
With Graham, it sounds as though he got a midnight phone call: “We’ve found some interesting photos…”
The little MF’er went right to the source also, meeting with defense contractors.
I like your analogy about his regime ending like Scarface. The little guy standing there with the last of NATO weapons, ‘say hello to my little friend!’
That was the first thing that came to my mind, Zelensky’s body falls into a pool over the words “The World Is Yours.”
In this day and time, the truth of how all this ends will probably be stranger than the fiction of the movie.
I bet Zelenskys palace is even uglier than Tony Montanas was.
‘say hello to my little friend!’
As Uncle Joe said to Ashley…
His next stop was the World Bank. Huh. The folks who make possible those inter-nation weapons credit possible.
“I’m Vladimir Zelenskyy! You f-ck with me, you f-ckin’ with the best!”