After a flurry of peace talks in Saudi Arabia, the Trump peace initiative regarding the war in Ukraine seems to have run out of steam. The last round of talks stalled over the conditions required to create a Black Sea ceasefire. The Russians laid out the conditions they would require, the conditions they agreed to in 2022 under the Black Sea grain deal. Ukraine flatly rejected those terms this time. The Europeans have also made clear that they will never agree to peace.
After Ukraine and the EU rejected the terms, Putin said some things that got little note in the West but were clearly a signal to the Trump administration. The first was at a meeting of Russian industrialists where Putin told them that despite talks with Washington, they should not expect the end of sanctions. The new world order, so to speak, is one in which the Russian economy will operate independently of the West and within the framework of BRICS.
That was a clear signal to the Trump people that ending sanctions was not a carrot and new sanctions are not a stick. The Russians have moved on from the old model where their economy was connected to the Western model. Despite the last three years, the West remains convinced that sanctions are working, and that Russia desperately wants back into the Western economic model. Until the Trump administration sees the folly in this, negotiations with Russia will go nowhere.
Another thing Putin said was in response to a question at a public event about the Trump effort to get a ceasefire. Putin said there will not be a Minsk 3. This is a reference to prior deals with the West over Ukraine. In Minsk 1 and Minsk 2, the Russians agreed to get trapped Western advisors in the war zone free of the Donbass militias in exchange for a peace deal that never materialized. In both cases, the West just poured more weapons into Ukraine.
This is a very sore subject for Russians. They see these prior deals as efforts to trick and humiliate them. When Trump publicly asked Putin to let the trapped Ukrainian troops in Kursk escape, it set off alarm bells in Moscow. It looked like the same old tricks from the Western tricksters. That is the reason Putin made a point of saying there will never be a Minsk 3. He was telling the Russian public and the Russian elite that he will not be fooled a third time.
That has led to two other things Putin said last week. One is he said the Russian army is ready to finish off the Ukrainian army. That is a bold statement, out of character for Putin. He has been warning of a five- or ten-year war since the West cancelled the Istanbul agreements. To now talk about a quick end of the war suggests that something big is on the drawing board. It could also mean the Ukrainian army is in far worse shape than is being reported.
This comment about the end of the war came with a comment about putting Ukraine into what amounts to receivership. Putin suggested that the post-war process would start with the removal of the Kiev government and put the administration of the country into the hands of a UN group. This caused Trump to call NBC’s Manjaw Crazyeyes and rant about being “pissed off” at Putin. He said he is planning to apply new sanctions to Russia in response to these statements.
What all of this points to is that the Trump peace initiative is dead. The Russians were willing to listen, but now that it is clear that Trump has no leverage over Ukraine or Europe, there is no point in continuing the charade. The war in Ukraine will end by military means and then maybe there can be a negotiated settlement. That was the point Putin was making last week. Whether or not the Trump administration understands this is unknown.
The Pentagon, on the other hand, at least the permanent elements, independent of the administration, does get this. They wrote a long, mendacious thriller for the New York Times where they blame the failure of Project Ukraine on the Ukrainians and to a lesser extent the Trump administration. It is a long post worth reading for no other reason than it is a great example of narrative fantasy. It is written like a spy thriller because it is mostly self-serving fiction.
If you want to know why Western politicians seem to be so clueless about so much, it is because they rely on the storytellers called the media for their version of reality. All over Washington, staffers for elected officials read that Times story, shocked to learn that the American military has been running the war from the start. Normal people have known this since day one because the internet exists and people use it, but elected officials get their reality from the media.
The main point of that work of fiction is to make clear that the Ukraine failure was not the fault of the Military Industrial Complex. All the weapons were, in fact, wonder weapons that totally crushed those primitive Russians. NATO tactics were the best and completely baffled those drunken Russkies. The people who brought you the F-35 want to make clear that when the Russian flag is in Maidan Square, it was the fault of the people who refused to let the American military win the war.
As an aside, if you can get past the self-serving fiction, the article reveals just how close we were to extinction. There were people willing to go all in on attacking Russia, which would have provoked a nuclear retaliation. Unsaid, but implied, is that there were people willing to go nuclear, maybe even preemptively. If the Trump administration is serious about changing foreign policy, a top priority must be hunting down those people and permanently removing them from society.
Putting that aside, what all of this tells us is that there will be no negotiated settlement to the Ukraine war, at least not until things on the battlefield change. Perhaps when the Ukrainian army begins to break in a major way, reality will get over the media firewall into the brains of the political classes in the West. Maybe the Trump administration understands this, maybe not. It does not matter because they are not in control of events, so they can only stand by and watch.
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I figured the “pissed off” rant was more fake news, but apparently not. This, along with his bellicosity towards Iran is not good – the kind of s*** I don’t want to hear. It’s starting to look like Trump 2.0 is fizzling. What he needs to do is quit talking tough about those countries and start going after these F-ing judges that are jamming up his domestic agenda.
sadly, it turns out that biden was far more bolder than trump will ever be. of course everything biden did was horrible, but he didn’t let judges get in his way.
That had nothing to do with Biden’s Autopen’s “boldness” and everything to do with the fact that the judges were on his side.
that’s poure cope.
Facts aren’t “cope.”
Actually, Poure Cope’ is a terrific champagne. I think karl was trying to toast you.
and the fact is trump is not dealing with the judges out of timidity. start with that.
Almost hard to believe but it’s been like 4 or 5 weeks since we were all giddy at Trump dismantling USAID, locking down the border, and getting rid of affirmative action. To be fair, all those things are still in place, but since then, all we have gotten is total MIGA and it’s just embarrassing. We didn’t vote for more war in the Ukraine and for Trump to dismantle the First Amendment to protect Israel. Nobody advocated for RFK Jr. in HHS so he can declare antisemitism a public health hazard and demand Columbia explain why their student body has… Read more »
I agree with your disappointments. “Is Trump worth it?”
If the cost of:
* bringing back manufacturing jobs
* dismantling USAID
* dismantling DEI and affirmative action
* stronger immigration enforcement
is:
* special exception to the first amendment that makes it a crime to speak against the chosen
* boundless patronage for Israel, including attacking countries
* infinity H1-Bs
…is the trade worth it?
It’s not even clear yet that we will get what is promised to us in the deal. But it still seems to be our best option.
The same group that caused these problems for decades is going to do something real that that helps us?
Doubt!
The claim is that there has been a real change in that group. That is, the people in that group with the money have abandoned the left due to the refusal of the left to see the group as non-white, with all the special treatment that confers.
If this is true, then that group is willing to take actions that will damage the left and Trump is the instrument of this change.
Is our best choice to support him?
Sure, hence the crackdown on campus and reductions in certain immigration categories.
And then the massive push to bring in East Indians instead of Muslims.
They have switched the weapon they are using, but the ultimate intent remains the same.
I find it hard to believe the plutocratic Finkels have been that obtuse the last half century. Ever since the pomos replaced the Marxists, the Left has viewed Isreal, and in extenso, the Jews, with mistrust at minimum, and loathing at maximum. The anti-white racism which is the Left’s core value–however erroneously, has since the late 60s, comprehended the Jews. The Finks and Blankfeins and Zuckerbergs are impossibly slow on the uptake if they’re just now hoisting in that obvious fact.
“Deal with the Devil” is a perfect metaphor for trades like this. There is a reason why you should never do it.
Everything in the good part will disappear as soon as Trump leaves the office or sooner. Everything in the bad part of the trade will remain and eventually get worse.
“Everything in the good part will disappear”
You’re almost certainly correct. But what are our other choices? Oppose Trump?
There is no political solution
Ostei will say, “We are spirits in the material world” (Police reference)
I’ve got no use for Sting, but that’s a great number.
The bass in that number is killer!
I feel the same way, except my favorite tune is “Fortress Around Your Heart”
I’m partial to “When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still around.”
I loathe that dood and never really understood why. Oh well.
BTW he sure didn’t think up the truth that we’re spiritual beings in a material world.
I hate the Police – did from the first time I heard them.
Never liked the dood and didn’t like their sound, either. And I’m a rocker from wayback.
Are ou an XTC/Andy Partridge fan, then?
Sabaton, Powerwolf, some Eluvietie, etc. European metal. I do have a soft spot for music that remins me of particular times of my life – Boston, Cheap Trick, Blondie, Billy Joel’s Glass Houses, etc.
I will say this–Debbie Harry was possibly the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen. Crazy as hell, but utterly gorgeous before the coke took its toll.
And that’s the nub of it. Understandably, most of us held out some slight hope that Trump could be our Scipio Africanus, turning back the savage horde. But nobody operating inside AINO’s hopelessly corrupt, anti-white system, can do what must be done. It is physically and in all other ways impossible. Trump is less dire than Biden and Kamaltoe, that is our reward for electing him. Pretty small beer, huh?
We’ll all just have to go down with the ship and hope that those of us who do not drown can forge a worthy vessel from the wrack and ruin.
“We’ll all just have to go down with the ship and hope that those of us who do not drown can forge a worthy vessel from the wrack and ruin.”
Galvanizing! Even though this is what I believe it is harrowing to hear it stated so plainly.
It’s not a good trade. One by one, we have nothing without a first amendment and the things he is doing will be used against us for any reason. Two, Israel is a rogue state and since when does tying your lot in with a lunatic regime end well? Three, we all know who is behind the mass immigration they brag about it. I am with EMJ on this being the central issue. Mass immigration is actually a secondary issue as Trump has proven multiple times it’s essentially an administrative issue, and USAID is a bureaucratic issue. Yet the issue… Read more »
He has balls, but he’s basically an unguided missile.
Yep.
He will not take guidance from those who really know the score. Worse, he has no spiritual foundation. His ‘spiritual advisor’ is some New Age hag who pretends she’s a wise priestess. That is some hopeless shit right there.
It’s hard to admit you were wrong and need a new direction when you’re almost eighty. And Donald has a huge ego.
The pretend wise priestess – Paula White, is not where Trump (or anyone else) ought to be getting advise on spiritual matters (or on anything else)
She’s just another pseudo-religious scammer. Not even a very good one.
But Trump’s the one who listens to her, and the one who fetes her in public.
Like I said, I feel embarrassed for the guy. He really does live in 1980. Seems to be a serious dood and then surrounds himself with silly women and loses all cred.
Norman Vincent Peale: Positivist Proto Stantisim. That’s where Orange gets his moxie.
Credit Trump for one thing: the ATACMS stopped flying when he took office.
That was a serious escalation.
maybe we just ran out of them
Let’s face it, we just want to control other nations and to have them be subservient to us. The idea that we can install a government to run a society that is the descendant of thousands of years of civilization and force them to heel to our whims is absolutely batshit insane. We installed the Shah of Iran. He was a thug and the Iranian people removed him. They don’t like us because we tried to impose that thug on them. They removed the thug and now we’re mad that they don’t let us pick their government. These people truly… Read more »
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Indeed, and when Z said the nuclear war hawks should be removed from society, I totally agree and think that such removal needs to be permanent…Trump needs to stop throwing silly fits about foreign leaders who are smarter than he is, and settle down to rooting out all criminals in American government….And seriously, he needs to start ignoring all these District Court judges who have far exceeded their authority…and make it clear that he will continue doing it…If the Republican pantywaists have a fainting spell, get rid of them….
It’s certainly a turning point in history. Russia is simply bypassing the American Empire despite GAE throwing everything except boots on the grounds. Btw, the fact that the boots on the ground threat is a bluff since we couldn’t gather, transport and supply a force that would matter is another sign of an exhausted empire.
GAE threw everything that it could at Russia – sanctions, the dollar and a huge, well-equipped proxy army – and lost. Ukraine will go down as our Syracuse. It’s new world.
oh there were US boots on the ground. now they are boots in the ground. jeebus it took the army 6 god damn days to get one vehicle out of a bog in lithuania?!
True. My point is that NATO could muster at most 100k-150k trained troops. It would take six months to a year to assemble, assuming Russia just lets them. This would strip every US base of trained combat and support personnel. If Russia allowed those troops into Ukr, they’d lose ~200-300 men a day (killed, wounded, exhausted), meaning you’d need to replace troops at that level for a year or so. This would never happen for a variety of reasons. GAE is all bluff when it comes to Ukr. The only leverage Trump has is that Russia would like to avoid… Read more »
Can there be normal relations with an empire whose hallmark is abnormality?
The US is not good at being a peer. We’re like the spoiled only child that doesn’t know what it’s like to have siblings you have to get along with.
The US is good at being a thugocracy. You let us install your government and have that government kneel when we tell it to, and we’re friends. You dare act in your own interests, even when you are a great civilization in your own right, and we bring out the nukes.
True cry baby behavior.
They threw everything they had at Ukraine to fight off the Russians, but we didn’t have much to throw. 1970s America would have made a huge difference, probably even turned to the war against the Russians. But it ain’t 1970s America. We simply do not have the industrial base necessary to fight such a major war. These morons are talking about fighting China. China produces more steel than the rest of the world combined. China could put 40 million or more men in uniform.
The important thing about Ukr is that our economic sanctions and denying Russia access to the dollar didn’t crush them. I think most people knew that our military power wasn’t what it once was, but, now, our economic power and the power of the dollar has been shown to be beatable.
That’s why Ukr will go down as the end of GAE as the global superpower.
“China could put 40 million or more men in uniform.”
Yes, and that would be 40 million MEN, not trannies, queers, dykes, women, or blacks…
I’ve read China has 30 million surplus men (30 million more men and boys than women and girls). Most of them born since the early 90s. This might be BS or at least exaggerated, but they do have over a billion people and a very large industrial base.
They really should stick to just antagonizing Russia. Russian is somewhat easier to learn than Mandarin.
I couldn’t believe my ears when I heard Trump threatening sanctions and tariffs. What’s next, he threatens to send more weapons? For a guy who talked a lot about what an idiot Joe Biden was, he sure is continuing a lot of his policies. The only card Trump has to play is to send Americans to go fight and die along the A-A line. Putin has correctly concluded that there is no desire in the USA to do that, except amongst a small insular tribe of elites who wouldn’t be doing any of the fighting anyway. But for some reason,… Read more »
Unless Trump is ready to cut off support for Ukraine, he as nothing. I think he might know this but has decided to let the money run out on its own. Zelensky said as much last week. He thinks that is the Trump plan. Given the general stupidity of Washington, my bet is they pass a Ukraine funding bill this summer and Trump signs it, while saying some more stupid things.
As much as DC is not reading the internet and folks like you about Ukraine, Vance’s team does seem to be reading them. Unlike the others, he seems to have a much better grasp of the situation. Would be interesting to see what he’s telling Trump.
Vance reportedly said the Houthi adventure was a mistake. He was right, but he did not carry the day.
I continue to believe that much of what Trump is trying to accomplish will depend on whether Vance can win in 2028. The Blob will stall in hopes of a Dem or a cuck winning in ’28. Trump can get the stake against the chest of the Blob, but he’ll need Vance to shove it into the heart.
It is silly after all we have seen t think anything in this country will be fixed by another election. The donor class wanted to reorganize the deep state so to speak. like a company will reorganize to be more efficient. so they didn’t fix the election for president this time. All the Fraud and no arrests? never will be any arrests, because it’s all theater.
I don’t think that it’ll be fixed. I’m just saying the changes that Trump/Vance/some of the economic elite want made probably require Vance to win the White House to finish the job.
Their goals and mine are not the same, though their goals are a hell of a lot closer to mine than the Progressives/Blob.
Vance’s opposition was confirmed on the Signal transcript. I’m cynical enough to think, although it almost certainly isn’t the case, that was leaked to help Vance.
trump will be gone before the end of his term, and maybe vance can institute some smarts in the gop. maybe. not how i would bet though.
surely you jest, peter thiel’s boy will reform the GOP ? don’t think so.
you don’t think thiel wants to remake the gop too?
If he wants to bring Putin to the negotiating table, a Ukraine funding deal isn’t going to do it. Nor are sanctions and tariffs. None of this stuff is going to work because none of this stuff has worked. But, as we have learned many times over the decades in the foreign policy realm, Washington is much more comfortable doubling down on a bad idea than it is in acknowledging its mistakes and changing course.
Trump should have the USA just walk away and leave the EU and the Ukraine to their fate. All focus should be on our country primarily and a distant second, the Western hemisphere.
“Given the general stupidity of Washington, my bet is they pass a Ukraine funding bill this summer and Trump signs it” At some point (maybe soon) ZOG is simply going to be unable to fund this stuff any more. I just did my taxes, and the IRS is kind enough to publish income and outlay charts for every fiscal year in the 1040 instructions. For Fiscal Year 2023, here are the income numbers: Social Security and Medicare taxes, 26% Personal Income taxes, 35% Borrowing to cover the deficit, 28% The FY 2023 deficit was $1.7 trillion. Here are the outlay… Read more »
This is why I think the most likely end for the USA is the same as Z and others are predicting for Ukraine. The money (along with competent people, good will, hope, and willingness to change course) will just run out. No one sensible, no one even close to being in touch with reality, will ever be allowed to be heard. There will be no dramatic “let’s cut the bullshit” speech. When that happens in Ukraine, the Russians will just roll into Kiev and put up the tricolor. In spite of my snark above about learning Russian, I don’t think… Read more »
Yeah the Houthi thing, the Iran thing, and now Trump calling into morning news shows suggests that he is reverting back to Neocon Don. I was worried about this…we all were. But the hope is that Vance et. al are able to reign in Trump’s boomer tendencies.
Politics, like science, advances one funeral at a time. We’re not going to get any relief until this generation of politicians leaves the stage. I say this as someone a few years older than Zman, These knuckleheads were raised on Globohomo and they ain’t giving it up willingly.
Yeah, I think this is the case. We will also need a lot of pain. It may even lead to violence. My bet is for every kook burning a Tesla, there one hundred quietly seething normies who would love top tear him the bits. The 2024 election lower the temperature a bit, but the post is still on the stove and the lids remains tightly fixed.
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I’ve started getting anonymized recruiting texts for a scheduled “uprising” against “chaos.” (Remember when that was the official regime power word against Trump? An oldie.) It’s being sold to me, potential regime goon, as an expansion of the current Elon-focused stuff. The rhetoric is from the Bernie/AOC tour. The op’s “nationwide” coming out is scheduled for Saturday. The signup link I’ve been sent twice, which I haven’t followed, appears to be individualized, phishing style. So it may be a new kind of jeet scam. It’s getting harder to tell as Americans get worse at speaking English. I do associate with… Read more »
If Pajeets are scamming leftists with get-out-the-riot pitches, that’s kind of perfect.
America may yet succeed in being the first nation whose people speak less than one language. Soon we will all be fully Jeet-ified, sitting in our crowded scam call centers, relentlessly robo-dialing each other and grunting non-verbally into the headset.
In her guile and her iniquity, New Amerika has brought war unto herself, where no strife needed to be.
God gave her everything and she stabbed him in the back, then told him he was an Oppressor. We’ll see how that turns out for princess.
Eh, I’m not so sure. Western white man is pretty cucked when it comes to “violence.” It’s a staple of dissident thought that when the SHTF the boog is going to go down and there will be hell to pay, but I have not seen any indication of that yet. To the contrary Western governments are very effective at cracking down on white dissidents from Charlottesville to J6 to the Yellow Vest Riots in France and the farmer riots in Holland tot he truckers in Canada. The Yellow Vest ruckus bears much more scrutiny than it gets, because those riots… Read more »
It will take hunger and iffy shelter. In the States, there is plenty of opportunity and space to flee the poz still, and that acts as a valve.
“The war in Ukraine will end by military means and then maybe there can be a negotiated settlement. That was the point Putin was making last week.” The attitude of the Russians all along has been that events on the battlefield will determine the new borders, the administration of the remaining rump Ukraine regime, and the peace settlement. They’ve been willing to listen to Trump, see what he has to say, what he has to offer. But he’s turned out to be nothing but a bloviating windbag, with little or no traction with the USA’s erstwhile European vassals. He’s overestimated… Read more »
Excellent post
China and Japan on the same page is reminiscent of the pre-’22 arrangement between Russia and Germany, and we know how that ended. Of course, China could set off a global economic meltdown and Russia could not. Great comment.
It was clear to me from the start the goal of the Ukraine war was to get as many white Slavic orthodox men to kill each other as possible. They will NEVER stop pushing it . They will expand it to the rest of Europe once the Ukrainian the men are dead. look at what is going on in NATO/EU Europe. They are disqualifying and jailing any politician who doesn’t go along with the genocide of the native population. They will send their troops to Ukraine soon because they want french, german and British men be killed off too. Europe… Read more »
Those election deplatformings have less to do with repressing the proles, than with blocking Zionists from gaining enough clout to uproot the Globalists. When I looked into the Romanian election deplatforming, I found a literal mercenary company tied to the UAE interfering in the election. That was legit grounds for blocking their presidential candidate.
The people of Europe are still no threat to their globalist overlords. The Zionists absolutely are, enough so to warrant such dangerously obvious tactics. Every single time I look underneath the mask of a successful, “nationalist” politician, I find a big honkin’ Nose.
miforest: “It was clear to me from the start the goal of the Ukraine war was to get as many white Slavic orthodox men to kill each other as possible.“
It’s Holodomor II, the sequel.
The khazarians won’t stop until they control all of khazaria.
“Well, there is no famine.”
– “Maxim Litvinov”
aka Meyer Henoch Wallach Finklestein
Gareth Jones’s Diary
The khazarians play for keeps.
They’re the most bloodthirsty hominids ever to walk the face of this Earth.
It’s your own daughters and wives who mass-abort children in the Amerikan Empire. Not long-nosed, white-haired men.
My take on the Le Pen-situation is that nobody, herself included, wanted her to win because that’d force her to show her colors and the con would be up. So they bar her from office for a few years, her party hopefully loses enough votes to scuttle back in their designated second place when they run against someone other than Emanuelle Maricon, and Marine can go back to bleating about Islamic terror and the horrible fate of being forced to wear a scarf and so forth, the usual kosher-right agenda. The same reason, by the way, why Farage is now… Read more »
Trump is owned, lock, stock and barrel, by the Diaspora. Ukraine is their second front.
Listen to Alex Krainer explain the London-New York axis and you will understand completely. Various tentacles of this axis are also in control in Paris, Berlin, and Brussels. When we talk about the GAE, this is what is being discussed. Listen carefully to this entire interview… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41PALf9kzkc
(((Alex Krainer)))
That’s a no-brainer…
Even if that were true, which it is not (Krainer is a Catholic from Croatia), he puts the finger on the (((money lenders))) pulling the strings. So go back, put your fears aside, and listen.
With a name like Krainer, I’d expect him to be from the Ukraine…
Tarl Cabot: “Trump is owned, lock, stock and barrel, by the Diaspora. Ukraine is their second front.”
200 Years Together
Chapter One
Before the 19th Century
From the Beginnings in Khazaria
https://archive.org/details/200YearsTogether
It does beg the question; who precisely was “Frederick Christ Trump”, and why did he strive to be Shabbos Goy Extraordinaire?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Trump
PS: Màiri Anna MacLeod was from the far Outer Hebrides [Tong, Isle of Lewis]. Donald Trump, and even Barron Trump, both bear a strong resemblance to Màiri Anna MacLeod.
What was implicit now must become explicit: the USA must walk away from this war and let Europe and the Ukrainians find their way out. The whole thing is an expensive distraction for us with no upside at all. Trump has more important matters to deal with and not a lot of time to dol it.
A few weeks ago I said, “What can Trump offer Putin that Putin won’t get on his own in due course? Answer that and you have the beginnings of a peace deal.”
Apparently the answer to the question was “Nothing.”
Ah, but putting the shoe on the other foot … instead of The West ‘degrading’ Russia … via the war in Ukraine … perhaps it is Putin that is degrading the collective military capabilities and inventories of Europe and the USA …. something they are increasingly helpless to halt.
If you want to know why Western politicians seem to be so clueless about so much, it is because they rely on the storytellers called the media for their version of reality. All over Washington, staffers for elected officials read that Times story, shocked to learn that the American military has been running the war from the start. Normal people have known this since day one because the internet exists and people use it, but elected officials get their reality from the media. Exactly. The PMC grew up with All the President’s Men, Network, Murphy Brown, House of Cards, The… Read more »
I don’t understand why the Euros are hell bent on WWIII.
The usual reason of “unite our internal factions by attacking an external threat” may be it.
European countries (the one’s that matter, sorry Lichtenstein) are coming apart at the seams due to unchecked waves of African and Islamic immigrants.
They may truly believe that WWIII will fix the mess they made.
Cuz “green” welfare managerial economies have hit a wall. When all else fails they take you to war.
They believe that “freedom” and “democracy” always defeats “autocracy,” and thus believe that whatever choices they make will prove to be successful.
People who believe that have a nursery school-level understanding of geopolitics.
And not even a nursery school level understanding of “freedom,” “democracy,” and “autocracy.”
Those in charge aren’t European in any real sense.
The Norman lords of England didn’t much care about the welfare of their English subjects either.
They are a mix of American flunkies and Globohomo flunkies.
There is no “we/us” in the equation.
As a patriotic Lichtensteinian, that hurts my parts…
‘The PMC grew up with All the President’s Men, Network, Murphy Brown, House of Cards, The West Wing’
Right. This is their mentality. It’s called ‘programming’ for a reason. Like song, it sticks and is the devil itself to break free from. The Enemy made our spiritual and mental prisons exceedingly comfortable and attractive.
P.S. Don’t forget ‘Sex and the City’ and ‘Ally McBeal’. Their disciples and spawn rule over us.
Maybe Trump stumbles into a two front war with direct engagement with Russians and Iranians. That should make America great again, right?
Third times the charm. Taiwan.
I just shake my head every time some idiot in Washington talks tough about Taiwan. If I was playing a strategic military simulation game and I looked at the geography and array of forces with regard to Taiwan, I’d just say, “No, thanks. Not playing for a sure loss.”
More fronts on the other side of the world. Great for The Grift, everybody else sucks it.
New Amerika drove the Russkies to BRICS and to alliance with China.
Chinese Foreign Minister Declares Eternal Fealty to Russia
Meanwhile, New Amerika is finishing up 50 years of warfare against the white males of its native population. It’s the only war that the United Sistherhood of Amerika has won since WW2.
I read recently that enlistments of White makes is through the roof with the new administration.
Yes, people are really that stupid.
Yup. Still too much blind patriotism – plus economic hardship when White males are finding it almost impossible to get a decent job and have no way of establishing a family. All the fools ‘giddy’ over the ‘official’ end of DEI have ignored all the DEI recipients embedded in the military ranks, and the politicians who are willing and anxious to spill White blood to defend anyone but heritage Americans.
I will speculate that if WM enlistment is zooming, it’s largely because young WMs have no other work option . . . given their feminist society and the preferential education and employment for females and Of Colors the past sixty years.
Also agree that DEI has barely been scratched. People desperately want to believe that Donnie has killed it. Which is ludicrous.
ray-
De facto economic conscription in the West is a huge part of the globalist plan.
Makes sense. In a demonic kinda way.
Yup. The mentality inside government doesn’t turn on a dime. Elections mean nothing. Well, at least he’s eliminating the Department of Education.
If and when he eliminates the NEA and the AFT, then you’ve got something. Dept. of Ed? Meh.
Hate to play ‘history teacher’ but look up how the feckless British drove Mussolini into the arms of Hitler, breaking up the Stresa front alliance.
See how they drove the Japanese away from being their ally in World War 1 to becoming a potent adversary.
To your point, His Story is becoming Her Story … with the feminine mystique pervading everyone’s nostrils …. and they do love their ‘gay’ hairstylists, another wing of the sisterhood.
I’m ok with history teachers. As long as they have the stones to speak the truth.
I am not a history teacher, I only play one on TV.
The “truth” about history? We have not even scratch the bottom of its fucking left testicle – for Joe Normie that is.
While is disappointing that the war will grind on, it is really no surprise. The US has nothing to offer the Russians. The U.S. has only two choices: Continue to shovel money and weapons into the maelstrom, for no long term benefit, [since there is no way to defeat Russia], or withdraw and leave the mess to the Euros.
Like the withdrawal from Afghanistan, I don’t care if it is a debacle. Better a debacle now, than a debacle after three more years of killing, destruction and waste.
One of the most baffling things about the war is how bad it’s been managed by us. One the diplomacy and treaty breaking has been almost gleeful. The complete assault on the dollar as the reserve currency has been entirely done against the will of China and Russia. Weapon systems were fed into battle ONE AT A TIME. So that the Russians could develop counter- measures to each individually. Its like we developed a live action tutorial program to train our enemies how to fight the West. These weapons were meant to be used in combined arms and they just….… Read more »
I continue to believe that the sanctions were supposed to work, that the GAE genuinely thought sanctions would succeed at laying Russia low and toppling Putler, and this explains why they didn’t have a coherent war plan. Because they never thought they’d have to back a war for longer than a couple of months.
People believe their own fantasy of a dollar that has been inflated away and the higher GDP resulting from that. The Russians are mostly self-sufficient and in today’s world, that counts for a lot more.
Excellent point, that most ‘murkins once knew but have now all but forgotten. Even though the younger Russians want to dress and travel and party like western Europeans, their parents and grandparents haven’t forgotton the hard times and still value preparedness and self sufficiency. US politicians are still all in on globalism and ‘one world’ bullshite; Russians are smarter and far more realistic. And they have the food stocks, industrial capacity, and military to back it up – we don’t.
We wouldn’t be in the fix we are in today if more people still have that depression era mentality when it comes to money. I think between technology and Chinese goods, we’ve been conditioned to accept second rate and a throwaway mentality
Well the intent of the war was to weaken Russia hopefully to the point where Putin is gone but not to the point where Russia becomes Libya with lose nukes floating around. Nobody gives a shit about Ukrainians. I would rate it a partial success as the Assad regime collapsed without heavy Russian support.
So you think empowering a bunch of Muslim radicals that we are supposedly against is success? This has all the trappings of being another neocon caused debacle. What did Assad ever do to us? We don’t like him because? He’s not a friend of the small hats? So we unleash atrocities on our fellow Christians that Assad was protecting for whose benefit? For the small hats? I’m sick of that little s*** hole country and the cancer it causes in our government.
Well, I would bet that we are WAY ahead of Russia in gender affirming battle gear and proper protocols for using correct pronouns in the chaos of a firefight. We’ve probably also got far more woman and queer owned defense contractors than they do too. THAT is how you win wars!
Surprise, surprise ziondon makes the same neocon decisions again. Listen, I know there wasn’t much choice, since the whole system is a progressive liberal fag order but I might have to agree with accelerationists from now on. What is there left but to finally get to to collapse of this disgusting white genocidal regime? Nothing is learned, nothing really changes, just a slower road to where we all need to get to before anything good ever happens for our people and culture.
Germany hasn’t caused any problems for everybody since they got rid of you know who. I’m not saying to genocide them, but encourage them to go to greener pastures and become China’s problem? Maybe.
I’m only saying this jokingly. I know it’s more complicated than that and full of the potential for unintended consequences. But they are a problem.
“If the Trump administration is serious about changing foreign policy, a top priority must be hunting down those people and permanently removing them from society.” I had high hopes for integrating Russia into the West after the iron curtain fell, but we’ve got too many bad people in our government. Russia is best advised to maintain an arm’s length distance from the west. The US doesn’t partner with anybody, they just want another poodle to boss around. And I hope Russia sticks it to the Jews who run our country. Maybe I’m wrong, but I feel like it’s their irrational… Read more »
Magic 8 ball says you ain’t wrong.
Win “what” though, they never even tried to make that clear. It was always implied that they dreamed of installing a western stooge in Moscow but that’s so delusional that people should be locked in padded rooms for thinking it was possible.
It’s fascinating to watch because as I’ve been pointing out for a very long time, Trump has a weak hand. Sanctions won’t work. More weapons won’t work. The American Public has never supported direct war with Russia and never will. And won’t they be surprised to learn that the Biden regime went to war with Russia not giving a rat what the public wanted. That NYT story is something Trump should carry out to the briefing room, bring Ratcliffe, Hegseth, and the Joint Chiefs with him, and say something like, “Can you believe this shit? I said we were close… Read more »
It would appear that Trump is advised by the Sebastian Gorka wing of his advisers. He apparently believes or did believe until very recently that:
Even though the West and especially the US started the war the Russians must give in to the West’s ” Rules based order.”
Even though the West was completely defeated and their equipment now litters the Ukraine landscape with over one million dead Ukrainians, that the losers in the conflict get to dictate the terms to end the conflict.
In what fantasy world has this ever been true?
Peace in Ukraine simply isn’t important to the people who matter. Since Trump is mainly about Trump he may take the safest route (safest for Trump) and throw billions more at the Ukraine and let the war run its course.
Outside of Israel, the real battle is domestic and the left’s judges are fully engaged. Don’t worry. Republicans will have some meetings and write some strongly worded letters.
I keep thinking of that thing you said a while ago. Something like things must be way worse than we think. I bet that was the best and most prescient synopsis. An incoherent office park by day and shopping mall by night that is for sale to the highest bidder is not going to be easy to live through.
Some Lefty I was arguing with on another page about cutting SNAP benefits was trying to make his point by how the Navy is scrapping I don’t know how many ships that are only one half into their useful life. (Like how we can waste money there, but not on SNAP.) Reminds me of something I read on the Chans about how we had traitors within our government that knowingly procured substandard steel from China intentionally to weaken us. Makes me wonder if that was the issue with what the Navy is scrapping.
Yes, Russia’s interest in the Ukraine negotiations was simply to reestablish normal diplomatic communications with the US, especially so because that may preempt another close call on nuclear war. Trump’s interest was to bribe Putin into standing by while he bombs Iran at the behest of Israel. And apparently Netanyahoo has given Trump a deadline of April 20th to conduct the attack. Meanwhile, Russia has placed several S-500 air defense complexes in Iran to thwart this planned attack. Methinks Trump will have to back down or suffer a humiliating defeat.
he has already been humiliated multiple times. zelensky leads him around by the nose on a daily basis.
Good post and two thoughts.
Minsk 3-Fool me once, shame on you; Fool me twice, shame on me; Fool me thrice, I’m just a freakin idiot.
The thought that Putin would let Lucy let him try to kick the ball a third time is an insult to him. Does Orange man think he is stupid?
It would be delicious if Putin went all the way to the western border. It brings new meaning to the acronym FAFO.
As someone knowing a tiny bit about Ukrainian history, Putin needs to swallow all of Ukraine EXCEPT for the “Pale of Settlement” regions. They are the cause of the trouble in Ukraine. Let them twist in the wind. They don’t like anybody anyway.
He can install a Belarusian type of government in rump Ukraine and everybody will live happily ever after except for HATO vultures and the Jews.
If he could MAKE Poland take ‘their’ part of Ukraine I bet he would be happy to. I have a Ukrainian friend that says, “those people” from Luhansk and Donetsk “are Russians, we should just let them go!” Woodrow Wilson got the Germans to lay down their arms in 1918, with the right of ‘self-determination’ a big part of his 14 Points. Lloyd George (British) reneged, and instead put a ‘peace’ together that makes the ‘Carpetbaggers’ look like saints. Back to Chat GPT: Q. Does Article 1 of the UN charter recognize the right of self determination? A. Yes, Article… Read more »
The thing is, I see no reason for Putin to want to feed millions of Islamists and Africans … and some Europeans. What might be interesting to consider is that he COULD, and these populations will be at the mercy of the modern version of the Red Army.
Will they rape all the women? Up to them. See, what a game.
Sorry for the bitter medicine, champ. I’ll take the down vote.
I can’t be the only one who has seen a lot of commentary lately that the GAE is trying to peel Russia off from China and turn them against them. As if the last dozen years never happened! Who believes this crap? Does the GAE itself believe it? That they can shift events to their advantage just by playing more magic word games?
oh great, trump called nbc to rant. he really just never learns or changes. combine his (ignorant) impotence on ukraine with his impotence in the face of radical judiciary and you have a spent force. ideally trump is replaced by vance ASAP.
And then what? The blob has shown time and again that it won’t be changed into anything that resembles a representation of normal Americans. As predicted the Trump train has fizzled out. There is no political solution. Most people on our side have known this for quite some time.
oh i agree there is no political fix. and who knows what vance would do as POTUS given he married a pajeet. but at least he is real world smart and effective with the media. just bored to death of trump’s blowhard act.
Tired, hate to disagree, but no – “most people on our side” have NOT known this for some time. Similarly, note Mycale’s earlier comment about how “we” were all “giddy” at the start of Trump 2.0. Yes, patting myself on the back, but I was most definitely not giddy, and left a number of comments stating so. Then I essentially sat back. It’s why I’m commenting and responding less and less these days – my pov has largely diverged from the majority here. The ‘left’ is not vanquished, Putin has no need to ‘negotiate,’ and the heritage American remnant is… Read more »
This is pretty much where we are. Use the time they are focusing on Trump to prepare. Globohomo is going to come roaring back in 4 to 8 years to finish what they started. They’re going to be angry and more vengeful than ever. Don’t be caught off guard.
You are not wrong. Like I “joke” with my friends, wake me up when the shooting starts.
“but I was most definitely not giddy, and left a number of comments stating so. Then I essentially sat back.”
There was undoubtedly a period of euphoria during the honeymoon stage right after Trump was inaugurated. There were certainly positive developments, but people were getting out over their skis, too swayed by the onslaught of PR showman Trump was putting out without any tangible results to back up the hype. I always appreciated your comments countering the irrational exuberance, we have to stay grounded and based in reality.
Thanks.
If EVERY European nation decided to send their young people into the kill box that Ukraine is, it would only signal that they wish to continue to replace their own populations in an even more aggressive and obvious manner. Many historians believe Chamberlain made an emotional decision, guaranteeing Poland, after making excuses for NOT standing up for Czechoslovakia … that would have applied TO Poland … to the nth power —- far away in Eastern Europe, etc. Britain in 1938 had no more ability to puts ‘boots on the ground’ in Eastern Europe than they do today. But guarantee he… Read more »
Roosevelt was pressuring Chamberlain to declare war on germany in 1938.
Do you think the Germans had any responsibility for declaring war on Poland or the USSR or the US. Maybe that was also Chamberlain’s fault using his mind control devices to force the Germans to declare war?!
You don’t get WW2 without the USSR and the USA and that was 100% the fault of the Germans.
Hmm, can’t say I don’t need some citation for your contention. Opinions, like Jalapeno peppers can be ‘hot’ … but let’s see a citation. Chat GPT says: Q. Did Franklin Delano Roosevelt pressure Chamberlain to declare war on Germany in 1938? No, Franklin Delano Roosevelt did not pressure Neville Chamberlain to declare war on Germany in 1938. Roosevelt’s approach during this period was more focused on encouraging international cooperation to prevent war rather than advocating for direct military action. Early in 1938, Roosevelt suggested an international conference to address the growing tensions in Europe, but Chamberlain rejected the idea. Chamberlain’s… Read more »
Waiting….
The main point of that work of fiction is to make clear that the Ukraine failure was not the fault of the Military Industrial Complex. If there are no indictments and prosecutions for the Ukraine graft, which is the tell, this tactic might work, at least with the NPC-like ruling class. We have to accept these people are both infantile and mentally insane. As for the rest of what you wrote, I reup that this madness is still likely to end in nuclear war. The political class and war profiteers in what formerly was known as the West think they… Read more »
The Ukes took a huge “L” in Kursk. Their army might be ready to shatter. If it starts and Russians get inside their decision cycle, it could go fast. The Russians take Odessa, surround Kiev and demand a new government to agree to the surrender.
Like the end of the Franco-Prussian War, it might be a wait for the Ukrainians (like the French) to get organized enough to surrender and sign away part of the country.
The big question is what happens after the Ukraine army breaks. I wrote a year ago that one reason for the glacial pace the Russians have been on is they fear a collapse of Ukraine. A negotiated settlement has been what they want. At some point, they have to decide to win the war and face whatever comes next.
Unlike us, Putin thinks about what/who comes next in Ukraine. This is why he floated the idea of UN supervision and new elections. The flip side to that is that if he doesn’t see anything viable on the horizon, he will likely try to gobble the whole thing.
The Russians are extremely conservative. In 2023 Putin did one of his all day Q&A sessions and someone asked about after the war and it was clear he saw that as a big problem. In his most recent comments about the war, when he said the Russian army was ready to finish off the Ukraine army, mentioned that the progress was slower than people wanted and expected. I took that to mean they slow-walked a lot of plans to see if there could be a deal done with the West. Now, there will be no deal, so we shall see… Read more »
Yes. I wonder if strategic concerns will dictate that the war of attrition should end and be brought to a satisfactory ending from the Russian perspective.
If you believe the cranks at Zerohedge the Ukes have a doomsday plan to convert all their reactors into giant dirty bombs:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-has-secret-nuclear-doomsday-plan-according-former-zelensky-advisor
That’s why Trump offered to take over the nuclear plants. Those guys at Zerohedge might be cranks, but they are not wrong about the Ukes using their 14 reactors as nuclear blackmail.
The equivalent of the 38th Paralell.
“Liberalism has become the hypocrisy of pretending we don’t know good from evil.”
JS
It’s not at all clear to me whom we should be fighting in Europe.
If we are going to do it we first have to get our own house in order.
Nobody, just like George Washington advised.
Absolutely. But if it’s anyone, it’s Brussels/EC
Sure, if they attack our territory or our shipping.
The founders and early national period leaders were, it turns out, pretty damn smart as regards foreign policy.
No one or everyone.
Or just England, if “peace” is the goal. In every situation, for all of living memory and beyond, war is their goal. We all have a favorite story about why that’s so—whether mass death is their primary, secondary, or tertiary goal, etc.—but the fact is out there.
The great English people are no more. Chalk parking lot.
Lie upon lie upon lie.
Americans hate Europeans and Canadians and will use any spurious argument to justify their genocidal aims.
America is all-powerful but is secretly controlled by London. To hell with you and your hateful country.
The EU.
It is very clear. We should be fighting the governments of Europe and the EU. We should be backing the White identitarians as insurgents against hostile regimes. Musk tweeting against Farage and the German, “center”, should be just a prelude to arming the native Europeans to foist a serious and formidable insurgency against the emerging Sino-Islamo/Caliphate
Considering they are actively jailing their political opponents who have been defeating them in elections, I tend to agree. Years ago we all used to joke, “It’s a cautionary tale, not an instruction manual” about Orwell’s 1984. But they are putting people in prison for stating basic biological realities in public. And they seem desperate, bordering on maniacal, to start a nuclear war in Europe.
Bummer, Z and the commentors were sounding optimistic there for a bit, now you’re all back to doom and gloom again predicting the end of the world.
Trump is making unforced errors that undermine the optimism that got him elected.
idk, I think he’s doing his best to play with a clearly losing hand. Ukraine is toast. More weapons won’t help. American troops are off the table. More money will just be stolen by Zelensky. A lot of very good things have been accomplished, including the start of re-establishing diplomatic relations with Russia. I think also the American people needed to see what a petulant little toad Zelensky is, and just how war-mongery the Europeans are. The NYT story is a huge benefit to Trump, as well, because those who do pay attention have been vindicated as to just how… Read more »
Don’s Zionist bent really concerns me. I mean, his friends are all Jews. His daughter married a Jew and became a Jewess, he proclaims all his love to that cancerous little statelet. That part of it is very concerning to me unless he’s trying to set this up so that he doesn’t get blame when the hammer comes down on our greatest Ally. But I’m tired of playing 3D chess and tired of waiting.
Otherwise, I’m not displeased with anything else coming from Trump
These are not blunders. Trump has obviously learned some hard lessons from his first term. Perhaps the elite get their news from the media, but it’s obvious Blumpf does not. He must know a sizeable portion of the American people will be infuriated by drawing out the war in the Kraine. Many are fed up with Jewish policies being forced on America. He has to know finking on the Epstein files will hit his credibility square amidships. The way he talks – he must be drawing his info from the same places many of us do… possibly even this blog.… Read more »
What was the point of what he did in his first term?
Didn’t lock her up, or anyone else, didn’t build the wall and didn’t drain the swamp.
Ordered troops out of Syria and they said no.
So what was the clever plan there?
That was the exposure phase. I think that’s at the groundwork for us knowing what we do and taking action. I mean without all that behavior to back him up, we’re just still cranks spewing conspiracy theories. The fact that he is effectively shutting down government couldn’t have happened without the groundwork that was laid. Once he gets the Department of Education and all the worthless agencies down to 100 or less people in each agency, they are going to be fairly easy to shut down permanently. RFK doesn’t walk into HHS and immediately decide he’s going to fire everybody.… Read more »
Sounds like you’re telling us to “trust the plan”.
Oh brother…….
Not saying that, B. The world – as our esteemed blog host noted – is changing. I believe that in 5 years you won’t recognize this place. Europe is going to either hang Starmer and Macrone and Von der Leyen or they’ll go up in flames… possibly this year. It’s conceivable that the US will get run out of the Middle East. A nuclear exchange between the arabs and Israelis is on the table and it’s possible the jewish problem will solve itself. Russia is now a serious power broker. Blumpf absolutely HAS to start cracking heads and stretching necks… Read more »
You know, I myself have been repeating that line since 2015 when I started reading the red pill materials on the chans. A lot since then has been accomplished. If nothing else, there has been a significant amount of exposure as to what’s going on in our government. But 10 years is long enough. How much more do we have to wait? We’re all going to be dead by the time “the plan” is completed, everybody meets justice and we are all able to sit around with a satisfied smile on our face. Put up or shut up is where… Read more »
Historical cycles rarely run their courses in human time-frames.
Cain: the end is inevitable, Maverick.. your kind is headed for extinction.
maverick: maybe so sir, but not today.
sniff, tho lame!
So Putin refused the original ceasefire deal and reinforced the message by adding conditions for future talks which meant Russia would offer no substantive concessions to Ukraine.
America wants Europe to fund Ukraine after the war but believes Europe has no right to determine what is the nature of Ukraine after the war.Trump supporters boast about how they despise Europeans and want NATO to end but don’t understand that this destroys leverage with the Europeans.
Looks to me that the dishonest and delusional parties to this peace process are Russia and the US.
Maybe abandoning european fascist nations sounds like a better idea everyday. Maybe if trump gives up his idiotic anglophilia we could be done with that worthless continent once and for all. Enough anerican blood and treasure has been wasted there.
“US” and is … you? The hand that rocks the cradle? The “peace process’ as far as America First is a simple calculation: Get. Out. Like the hand behind the Biden cradle … they set a new, low bar for precipitous withdrawal. I would assume, then, that any other form of ‘bug out’ would also be worth ‘bragging’ about like Lunch Pail Joe, amiright? “Peace” for the Russian Federation would mean the snake cannot strike again any time soon — a demilitarized zone so the Ukrainians can no longer shell civilians in Luhansk and Donetsk … and if that means… Read more »
The “peace process’ as far as America First is a simple calculation: Get. Out. Like the hand behind the Biden cradle … they set a new, low bar for precipitous withdrawal. I would assume, then, that any other form of ‘bug out’ would also be worth ‘bragging’ about like Lunch Pail Joe, amiright? “Peace” for the Russian Federation would mean the snake cannot strike again any time soon — a demilitarized zone so the Ukrainians can no longer shell civilians in Luhansk and Donetsk … and if that means pushing the rump of the enemy forces back, so be it.… Read more »
I think a lot of us are not really all that worried about “losing leverage” with the Europeans. They have begun a rather stunning collapse into authoritarianism with the arrests/convictions/jailings of prominent nationalist politicians who have been winning elections. If the Europeans want to go to war with Russia, they’ll quickly have to go nuclear. After the radiation subsides, we can recolonize.
Please stop with the Ukraine news. Sure there is some pleasure in seeing the people on the other side take a political loss (shadenfrude) but all the Russia/Putin boosting is ridiculous. My daughter got her useless 4 year BA in Moscow (no ridiculous student debt). Moscow and St. Petersburg are now nice cities but the bulk of Russia is poor. The majority of the Russian army is poor boys from the equivalent of “fly over country “. Oligarchs have spent more money on yachts than the government has on the Navy. From a hardware point of view their military is… Read more »
A generation or two ago, people still used outhouses in West Virginia, within a stone’s throw of Washington. 50 years is just a blip in history. They will catch up. Especially now that the Jews have squandered all of our wealth on settling their scores while our infrastructure is falling apart.
“The majority of the Russian army is poor boys from the equivalent of ‘fly over country’.”
What do you think our army is? But at least their army is being operated by their own people for their own Nations interest. Our military appears to be operated by and for the benefit of certain special interest groups.
On WRSA, there was a piece that displayed the numbers regarding the active duty military in the US; 175,000.
Im willing to be corrected, but if that is true, what the hell are we poking peers for?
N
It is not 2005 anymore.
You predicted Russia’s inevitable and crushing victory in 2023 for 2023…
Stop. It is EU that’s scared of Russia. Russia is just one country but an entire continent won’t face Russia, ONE country. Even starmer admitted that the UK/EU couldn’t defeat Russia without the USA.
I want facts. The West likes to lie about every country. Not every area outside of the main cities are poor. Plus look at the USA’s top cities. Most are falling apart.