Regular readers will be familiar with one of my favorite refrains: The best government money can buy. Leave it to the Babylon Bee to develop that concept in a truly creative way: This innovation promises to do away with the sleaziness inherent in the old concept of “making the sale” to John Q. Public:
Watched the Russian woman in the video on Larry's site. Maybe its a show but the Russians have to be beyond pissed off with this German tank issue. Regardless of how many of them there are and that they'll probably be blown to bits rather quickly, the symbolism of Deutsche panzers rolling across the same ground a short 80 years on is chilling. It shows an amazing level of hubris, historical ignorance and stupidity.
You don't have to buy into the whole narrative about feeling sorry for the Nazi prisoners from Stalingrad to realize what a stupid idea it is to send German tanks adorned with the iron cross to Ukraine to kill Russians.
A very recent podcast of former Israeli foreign minister Naftali Bennett given to Hanoch Daum where I learned some of the early 2022 detente' details shared. Interestingly I just went on Google to find the podcast and Google has now shadow banned this search with the usual "results are changing quickly" banner. I read a summary at AZgeopolitics twitter feed earlier today and it is truly alarming. Bennett agreed to the podcast on the condition it be fully shared. Warning: It's rather lengthy.
Summary: Boris Johnson a full go hard NATO engagement. Scholz and Macron more measured while Zhou wanted both.
Thanks Mark. I usually follow Geroman, AZgeopolitics, Rybar in English, and Big Serge on twitter to get updates 3 or 4 times a week. Imagine you do something similar.
"After agreeing to supply "Leopard 2" tanks to Ukraine, Germany's partners in the EU suddenly fell silent,"- Kevin Kuehnert, Secretary General of the SPD party, part of the government coalition.
Too bad JB had so much confidence in himself and in the proxy war he waged against Russia. Too bad that the same situation that JB made in Afghanistan is being repeated in Ukraine. After just a few months after the beginning of war, the two sides were ready to talk and probably come to a negioated settlement. But JB didn't want that. Didn't ALLOW that. He inserted himself and forbade a negioated settlement. Now Ukraine has lost all of it's military, had it's cities reduced to the stone age, had millions displaced and fleeing the country to Poland and other places, and Ukraine has lost badly and can expect to lose more land, in order to end the killing.
Ukraine owes JB a big "Thank you". If that was "help", I would be afraid to find out what would happen is JB wasn't "for" Ukraine.
However, there is no accident involved here. Anybody with a functioning brain could tell Ukraine had no chance of beating Russia. Ukraine had a army 5 times bigger than Russia's, but Russia's reserve military is many times bigger than Ukraine. Any idiot would realize that "sanctions" would have little to no effect on Russia. It has MASSIVE resources from gold, oil, gas- just about anything physical- Russia has a lot of it. It has another country that is worried about continuing energy supplies, China, that has a adjacent border. And China didn't even pretend it wasn't going to trade with Russia. In fact, China sold Russia's oil to Europe after a STEEP mark up. So the "sanctions" were useless, they only hurt the US and Europe. Refusing Russia access to the SWIFT banking system, was a ONE time adjustment- Russia soon demanded to be paid in rubles. At first the price of the ruble dropped, but it is now higher than it was when the war started.
IOW, JB did not get any military help (at least from US military, PLA may have helped) to decide to go to war with Russia (as proxy) Whoever told him that this was a good idea, was NOT ON AMERICA'S SIDE. China OWNS JB. Just from WHAT WE KNOW about the money flowing to JB regarding Russia, Ukraine and China shows that JB is ANYTHING but his "own man", he owes great debts to the people that have so lavishly funded his family.
America got a RAW DEAL from the trade of Trump for JB.
We traded a successful patriotic American, who wanted the best for the US (and our economy was at it's height, economists said that the economy then had the "best numbers of our lives"). Everybody was making more, America was energy independent. We had solved the border crossings, and illegal immigration was at it's lowest levels in years. Joe Biden turned that ALL AROUND and did it in just 2 years. Thanks Joe (and the corrupt 'democrats')
Joe Biden is the Manchurian Candidate, and in fact accomplished MORE in damaging the United States that would EVER be BELIEVABLE in a movie.
Don't forget the 'democrats' help, they don't get off the 'hook'.
And the MSM played a irreplaceable part in selecting Biden (the "election" was anything but "free and fair") and in producing a excuse ("most secure election in our lifetime") for the massive cheating. China undoubtedly had a huge part, and 'democrats' eagerly betrayed their country to achieve what China wanted.
This type of probing RF offensive seems possible due to the lack of UK armor, artillery, counter battery artillery, and air support essentially forcing UK light infantry to reinforce defensive lines/fortifications while the RF forces destroy them in place or in transit with overwhelming drone directed artillery strikes and thermobaric artillery. It exemplifies Gen George S Patton: "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his".
Marvelous. Not everybody has a price, but if you work in Washington...
I don't see " THE WAR IN UKRAINE NEARING THE CULMINATING POINT" nor "Russia's deliberate and methodical conquest of Ukraine" but the rather "a major intensification of the war of attrition approach." Russia has a good thing going. Why stop? I commented on an earlier post that Congress is destroying the dollar. MMF-the theory that the more you owe the richer you are, is taking us down, but Russia and our stupid sanctions can take away the prop that we get from being the reserve currency.
“US and Allies recognizes nine Principles of War: Mass, Objective, Security, Surprise, Maneuver, Offensive, Unity of Effort (aka Unity of Command), Simplicity, and Economy of Force. I think there are at least three more: Attrition, Annihilation (which is a Russian Principle of War), and Geometry (or Shape).”
Stand tall, Billie Sol, we don’t know you at all,
We’ve taken down your pictures from the wall.
Well, we don’t want to handle an agriculture scandal,
We have got to face elections in the fall.
Phil Ochs continued: “And now I’d like to say, that crime sure doesn’t pay,
But if you’d like to make some money on the sly, well you can always rent, the U.S. government, it’s the best one that money can buy.”
Watched the Russian woman in the video on Larry's site. Maybe its a show but the Russians have to be beyond pissed off with this German tank issue. Regardless of how many of them there are and that they'll probably be blown to bits rather quickly, the symbolism of Deutsche panzers rolling across the same ground a short 80 years on is chilling. It shows an amazing level of hubris, historical ignorance and stupidity.
You don't have to buy into the whole narrative about feeling sorry for the Nazi prisoners from Stalingrad to realize what a stupid idea it is to send German tanks adorned with the iron cross to Ukraine to kill Russians.
It does have a certain "deja vu" quality about it, doesn't it?
A very recent podcast of former Israeli foreign minister Naftali Bennett given to Hanoch Daum where I learned some of the early 2022 detente' details shared. Interestingly I just went on Google to find the podcast and Google has now shadow banned this search with the usual "results are changing quickly" banner. I read a summary at AZgeopolitics twitter feed earlier today and it is truly alarming. Bennett agreed to the podcast on the condition it be fully shared. Warning: It's rather lengthy.
Summary: Boris Johnson a full go hard NATO engagement. Scholz and Macron more measured while Zhou wanted both.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/breaking-silence-bennett-admits-mistakes-urges-government-not-to-act-power-drunk/
Thanks Mark. I usually follow Geroman, AZgeopolitics, Rybar in English, and Big Serge on twitter to get updates 3 or 4 times a week. Imagine you do something similar.
"After agreeing to supply "Leopard 2" tanks to Ukraine, Germany's partners in the EU suddenly fell silent,"- Kevin Kuehnert, Secretary General of the SPD party, part of the government coalition.
Too bad JB had so much confidence in himself and in the proxy war he waged against Russia. Too bad that the same situation that JB made in Afghanistan is being repeated in Ukraine. After just a few months after the beginning of war, the two sides were ready to talk and probably come to a negioated settlement. But JB didn't want that. Didn't ALLOW that. He inserted himself and forbade a negioated settlement. Now Ukraine has lost all of it's military, had it's cities reduced to the stone age, had millions displaced and fleeing the country to Poland and other places, and Ukraine has lost badly and can expect to lose more land, in order to end the killing.
Ukraine owes JB a big "Thank you". If that was "help", I would be afraid to find out what would happen is JB wasn't "for" Ukraine.
However, there is no accident involved here. Anybody with a functioning brain could tell Ukraine had no chance of beating Russia. Ukraine had a army 5 times bigger than Russia's, but Russia's reserve military is many times bigger than Ukraine. Any idiot would realize that "sanctions" would have little to no effect on Russia. It has MASSIVE resources from gold, oil, gas- just about anything physical- Russia has a lot of it. It has another country that is worried about continuing energy supplies, China, that has a adjacent border. And China didn't even pretend it wasn't going to trade with Russia. In fact, China sold Russia's oil to Europe after a STEEP mark up. So the "sanctions" were useless, they only hurt the US and Europe. Refusing Russia access to the SWIFT banking system, was a ONE time adjustment- Russia soon demanded to be paid in rubles. At first the price of the ruble dropped, but it is now higher than it was when the war started.
IOW, JB did not get any military help (at least from US military, PLA may have helped) to decide to go to war with Russia (as proxy) Whoever told him that this was a good idea, was NOT ON AMERICA'S SIDE. China OWNS JB. Just from WHAT WE KNOW about the money flowing to JB regarding Russia, Ukraine and China shows that JB is ANYTHING but his "own man", he owes great debts to the people that have so lavishly funded his family.
America got a RAW DEAL from the trade of Trump for JB.
We traded a successful patriotic American, who wanted the best for the US (and our economy was at it's height, economists said that the economy then had the "best numbers of our lives"). Everybody was making more, America was energy independent. We had solved the border crossings, and illegal immigration was at it's lowest levels in years. Joe Biden turned that ALL AROUND and did it in just 2 years. Thanks Joe (and the corrupt 'democrats')
Joe Biden is the Manchurian Candidate, and in fact accomplished MORE in damaging the United States that would EVER be BELIEVABLE in a movie.
Don't forget the 'democrats' help, they don't get off the 'hook'.
And the MSM played a irreplaceable part in selecting Biden (the "election" was anything but "free and fair") and in producing a excuse ("most secure election in our lifetime") for the massive cheating. China undoubtedly had a huge part, and 'democrats' eagerly betrayed their country to achieve what China wanted.
Pretty unsportsmanlike of the Russian’s to refuse to play by the neocon’s rules! When you live in a fantasy world, reality can be a b**ch.
Love it!
This type of probing RF offensive seems possible due to the lack of UK armor, artillery, counter battery artillery, and air support essentially forcing UK light infantry to reinforce defensive lines/fortifications while the RF forces destroy them in place or in transit with overwhelming drone directed artillery strikes and thermobaric artillery. It exemplifies Gen George S Patton: "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his".
Marvelous. Not everybody has a price, but if you work in Washington...
I don't see " THE WAR IN UKRAINE NEARING THE CULMINATING POINT" nor "Russia's deliberate and methodical conquest of Ukraine" but the rather "a major intensification of the war of attrition approach." Russia has a good thing going. Why stop? I commented on an earlier post that Congress is destroying the dollar. MMF-the theory that the more you owe the richer you are, is taking us down, but Russia and our stupid sanctions can take away the prop that we get from being the reserve currency.
Tom Kratman wrote in discussing principles of war that the Russian model includes Annihilation. The US model does not…
https://tomkratman.com/indirectly-mistaken-decision-cycles/
“US and Allies recognizes nine Principles of War: Mass, Objective, Security, Surprise, Maneuver, Offensive, Unity of Effort (aka Unity of Command), Simplicity, and Economy of Force. I think there are at least three more: Attrition, Annihilation (which is a Russian Principle of War), and Geometry (or Shape).”
The US government got Zelensky out of UK to do his propaganda tour in
Washington, DC. No sub needed.
Confirmed by history to be true
Taken out of context... but still confirmed by history to be true.