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Cecile's avatar

If the west is determined to have a war, perhaps arms and ammunition will be irrelevant? How many billions has the US poured into bio and chemo labs? We have already had a test run of bio-warfare, and I am sure many recall the mass collection of slav blood a few years ago – with the purpose of modifying agents to target that population.

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AmericanCardigan's avatar

Regarding Belousov; The main question for me is how will Russia/Putin keep him alive from MI6, CIA, or Mossad? He's a bigger threat than Putin if what I read is correct.

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Steghorn21's avatar

Russia's military-industrial transformation over the last few years has been remarkable. It seems that the Western "elites" still think Russia is McCain's gas station masquerading as a country and refuse to acknowledge how much the game has changed. I don't either think that the West is capable of building anything like a similar military-industrial system in response. We don't have the money, the production capabilities or the mental toughness. As for any ideas the neocons have of bringing back the draft, forget it. Finally, what is starkly clear in all this is the exceptional calibre of the Russian leadership group. Who do we have to match Putin, Lavrov, Medvedev, Shoigu and now this rather formidable newcomer? Biden? Scholz? Sunak? AOC?

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Brother Ass's avatar

Little Manny Macron.

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Steghorn21's avatar

The only exceptions I can think of are Orban and the hopefully-still-with-us Fico. That Italian, dude, Salvini, seems to have offered some hope, but he has vanished. And unfortunately, I don't think Trump fits into this category either.

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Brother Ass's avatar

“unfortunately, I don't think Trump fits into this category either.”

Ditto.

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ML's avatar

I mean, does Blinken think he’s Clapton?

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

No, he believes himself greater than Clapton.

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Steghorn21's avatar

What's his next hit going to be? "Good Golly, Hez Bolly?" Can't wait for his "Greatest Hits" album: Highway to Hell, Addicted to Gov, I Second that Explosion, We are the Weird, Leader of the AIPAC.. C'mon guys, help me out here!

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ML's avatar

The way things are going, “Lay Low” might be a smash!

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Steghorn21's avatar

or "The Final Countdown"

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Steghorn21's avatar

More like Claptout

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

Shades of John Kerry…

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ML's avatar

Does he think he’s on Eurovision? This is a war, and the “‘rocking” West is losing big time. Incomprehensible. Shockingly, earlier with Blinken, Zelensky seemed to read rightly his sponsor’s lyin’ eyes.

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Steghorn21's avatar

Our Swiss "guy" won that this year. We're all so proud - not. The headlines in the national news were "A great victory for Switzerland and the third sex!" These events are all evidence of our terminal decline.

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

It’s not terminal decline to the supremacists, it’s onward transhuman soldiers to the brave new world they want.

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Steghorn21's avatar

They will be disappointed.

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Vlad's avatar

The general consensus among military experts in Russia is that NATO's combined forces are too large to be countered by conventional means. Only nuclear ones, right away.

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AmericanCardigan's avatar

Think Naval blockades in North Arctic, Kalliningrad, Black Sea etc. for starters. NATO would make pushes in a large front from Finland through Baltics, is my assumption. France (Macron) has already stated he's interested in sending troops. This could be an extension of this. Hope it doesn't take place.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Blockade breakers? Hypersonics.

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AmericanCardigan's avatar

They'll still try it. Just wait and watch.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Will Schryver addresses much of this today. I'm going to excerpt it tomorrow.

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