Right now there must be a team of the very best minds available pondering on the best way to eliminate our nuclear armed subs. Wonder if DEI and overall negligence haven't already taken care of that.
I just love Andrei Martyanov's way with words, always plain spoken, often vulgar, yet truthful, and he's winking behind his nerdy genius glasses with a boyish smiling face. Priceless
We saw how Iran, whose military is far behind that of Russia, managed to hit almost every key Israeli military and intelligence facility in the recent war. Imagine how much damage Russia, with its far greater capabilities, could cause to any NATO nation. If the Iranians know every Israeli key site, then the Russians already have the key coordinates for Western targets keyed in.
The United States, Britain, and Israel have been working on a new Middle East map for decades. In 2006, Condoleezza Rice said there will be "birth pangs" in the process:
"New Middle East Map
Secretary Condoleezza Rice stated during a press conference that
“[w]hat we’re seeing here [in regards to the destruction of Lebanon and the Israeli attacks on Lebanon], in a sense, is the growing—the ‘birth pangs’—
of a ‘New Middle East’ and whatever we do we [meaning the United States] have to be certain that we’re pushing forward to the New Middle East [and] not going back to the old one.”1
Secretary Rice was immediately criticized for her statements both within Lebanon and internationally for expressing indifference to the suffering of an entire nation, which was being bombed indiscriminately by the Israeli Air Force."...11/18/2006, "Plans for Redrawing the Middle East: The Project for a “New Middle East,”" Global Research, By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya...https://www.globalresearch.ca/plans-for-redrawing-the-middle-east-the-project-for-a-new-middle-east/3882
The Russians have already shown that they know how to leapfrog forward positions of the AFU and create breakthroughs that can result in large territorial gains. They don't do this for the simple reason that it is far more effective for them to fight the Ukrainians in the East where Russian supply lines are short and the AFU supply lines extend all the way to Poland.
At last the gloves come off. They killed a top SBU colonel and hit the refineries belonging to the Azeri leader. They're showing the Western leadership and elites that there may be a personal price to pay for them in all this.
"It’s a common complaint that Russia is proceeding too slowly."
What an odd thing to say. Who is stating that complaint? Russians? Or maybe the panoply of pundits who have no clue as to what goes on behind closed doors at the highest echelons of the Russian, American, Ukrainian, and European governments?
I would like to read what Trump should have done in January of this year, now with 6 months of hindsight, if he had been competently briefed by American "experts", those parasites in the deep state in service to American hegemons? Accede to Russia's (very reasonable and consistent, IMO) demands while holding off the deep state? If you think that was possible, you have no clue as to the depth of the reach of the MIC/IC/State Dept.
Mohawk, re: "the Russians are proceeding too slowly," it's been said very often by commenters to the Moon of Alabama blog (a site Mr. Wauck has referenced from time to time). Ukraine gave up its sovereignty around 1990 when it agreed to accept US "help," ie to become a US colony, ie a money laundering spot for billions of US tax dollars, crawling with CIA. US taxpayers in 2014 financed the violent overthrow of Ukraine's elected government. As a US taxpayer I'm tired of being viewed as the ATM machine of US global predations. Someone has to stop the US. To date, no one has made the slightest attempt to do so except Russia. I thank them, wish them all the luck in the world, quickly if possible.
I agree with your sentiment. Do you agree that Trump is working toward getting us out of Ukraine? If not, and taking into consideration the large array of anti-Russian forces in the DC establishment, as well as the military, economic, and political intelligence at your disposal, how would *you* propose achieving that end?
Why hasn't Trump undone in less than 6 months the 30+ years of American skulduggery dating back to the pilfering of Russian national resources in the early 90s, NATO expansion beginning in 1998, Nuland's Maidan revolution, broken Minsk agreements, and Nord Stream 2?
We already know everyone here disagrees with Trump's strategy. But here we are ... so again, what would you do moving forward?
Me? I'd be quietly fire the deep staters in the IC/Military/State Dept and in order to buy time. pay lip service to providing Ukraine with weapons we can't possibly deliver and placing further, known-to-be-ineffective, sanctions on Russia. I believe Russia will interpret these three things as deescalatory.
My I suggest Mohawk he listens to advice from someone like Tulsi Gabard and not publicly insult her and not listen to the Zionist plants that he puts in his ear. Then start telling the truth and stop flip flopping as his knee-jerk actions always lead to. It is now obvious everything he previously said was all a scam with his comment I don't need MAGA mob any more so any hope he will do anything positive for the little man domestically or in regards foreign is pure cognitive dissonance.
He is a hucksters who looks after himself and fellow oligarchs if they act obsequious unlike Elon Musk and no one else. Oh sorry his Zionist donors are high up on his list of course.
I don't have an opinion on the questions you posed. As to presidents in general, I think they should resign if, for example, they promise to stop a war in 24 hours then fail to do so.
It's a very common complaint. And to be fair, even those of us who sympathise with Putin and Russia get frustrated at times. We can't always escape that Western "shock and awe" mindset and see things from the longer Russian perspective.
Russians are still very supportive of Putin; those that criticize him for proceeding slowly are a festering sore. My point is that Trump was handed a sh!t show from day one. He has to publicly demonize Russia to keep the warmongers at bay - covering by misleading Americans that we'll ship weapons to Ukraine and sanction Russia further - neither will happen. It's Kabuki theater, but necessary to divert attention from Trump's maneuvers at the State Department and the Pentagon to ensure the unwinding of the war without debilitating his administration. I think it's the only hand he has to play.
So again, I ask, what should Trump have done differently? Does anyone actually recommend that Trump should have publicly said, back in January or whenever he found out he was fed BS, that he's acceding to all Russia's (reasonable) demands? He's dealing with $37T in debt, a dysfunctional bond market, domestic opposition that wants to kill conservatives ... and foreign and domestic enemies that will take any sign of weakness as a signal to escalate all manner of attacks? It's easy to say he screwed the pooch, more difficult to provide a solution, especially without access to the information he has.
I get comments along that line from Putin haters all the time. If you read the comments you'll see them. Yes, those comments come from Russians and those who follow certain Russian oriented sites.
You're right about that. I've followed a few russian sites and some of them were complaining about the russian military's strategy on the ukrainian front. considering their (russia) progress and accomplishments, I'd say the strategems the russian military employs are rather effective.
Right now there must be a team of the very best minds available pondering on the best way to eliminate our nuclear armed subs. Wonder if DEI and overall negligence haven't already taken care of that.
I just love Andrei Martyanov's way with words, always plain spoken, often vulgar, yet truthful, and he's winking behind his nerdy genius glasses with a boyish smiling face. Priceless
We saw how Iran, whose military is far behind that of Russia, managed to hit almost every key Israeli military and intelligence facility in the recent war. Imagine how much damage Russia, with its far greater capabilities, could cause to any NATO nation. If the Iranians know every Israeli key site, then the Russians already have the key coordinates for Western targets keyed in.
The United States, Britain, and Israel have been working on a new Middle East map for decades. In 2006, Condoleezza Rice said there will be "birth pangs" in the process:
"New Middle East Map
Secretary Condoleezza Rice stated during a press conference that
“[w]hat we’re seeing here [in regards to the destruction of Lebanon and the Israeli attacks on Lebanon], in a sense, is the growing—the ‘birth pangs’—
of a ‘New Middle East’ and whatever we do we [meaning the United States] have to be certain that we’re pushing forward to the New Middle East [and] not going back to the old one.”1
Secretary Rice was immediately criticized for her statements both within Lebanon and internationally for expressing indifference to the suffering of an entire nation, which was being bombed indiscriminately by the Israeli Air Force."...11/18/2006, "Plans for Redrawing the Middle East: The Project for a “New Middle East,”" Global Research, By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya...https://www.globalresearch.ca/plans-for-redrawing-the-middle-east-the-project-for-a-new-middle-east/3882
And Simplicities had a picture "US Al-Udeid base in Qatar hit the expensive US communications complex there with shocking precision"
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/trumps-weapons-magic-show-is-smoke
The Russians have already shown that they know how to leapfrog forward positions of the AFU and create breakthroughs that can result in large territorial gains. They don't do this for the simple reason that it is far more effective for them to fight the Ukrainians in the East where Russian supply lines are short and the AFU supply lines extend all the way to Poland.
https://sonar21.com/russia-goes-on-the-offensive-against-us-investors-in-an-odessa-port/
At last the gloves come off. They killed a top SBU colonel and hit the refineries belonging to the Azeri leader. They're showing the Western leadership and elites that there may be a personal price to pay for them in all this.
G'day Steg, any links re Azeri refinery please. A good piece of news.
Can't remember which of the commentators mentioned it (Duran, LJ?) but this guy mentions it in paragraph 5
https://armenpress.am/en/article/1224798
"It’s a common complaint that Russia is proceeding too slowly."
What an odd thing to say. Who is stating that complaint? Russians? Or maybe the panoply of pundits who have no clue as to what goes on behind closed doors at the highest echelons of the Russian, American, Ukrainian, and European governments?
I would like to read what Trump should have done in January of this year, now with 6 months of hindsight, if he had been competently briefed by American "experts", those parasites in the deep state in service to American hegemons? Accede to Russia's (very reasonable and consistent, IMO) demands while holding off the deep state? If you think that was possible, you have no clue as to the depth of the reach of the MIC/IC/State Dept.
Mohawk, re: "the Russians are proceeding too slowly," it's been said very often by commenters to the Moon of Alabama blog (a site Mr. Wauck has referenced from time to time). Ukraine gave up its sovereignty around 1990 when it agreed to accept US "help," ie to become a US colony, ie a money laundering spot for billions of US tax dollars, crawling with CIA. US taxpayers in 2014 financed the violent overthrow of Ukraine's elected government. As a US taxpayer I'm tired of being viewed as the ATM machine of US global predations. Someone has to stop the US. To date, no one has made the slightest attempt to do so except Russia. I thank them, wish them all the luck in the world, quickly if possible.
I agree with your sentiment. Do you agree that Trump is working toward getting us out of Ukraine? If not, and taking into consideration the large array of anti-Russian forces in the DC establishment, as well as the military, economic, and political intelligence at your disposal, how would *you* propose achieving that end?
Why hasn't Trump undone in less than 6 months the 30+ years of American skulduggery dating back to the pilfering of Russian national resources in the early 90s, NATO expansion beginning in 1998, Nuland's Maidan revolution, broken Minsk agreements, and Nord Stream 2?
We already know everyone here disagrees with Trump's strategy. But here we are ... so again, what would you do moving forward?
Me? I'd be quietly fire the deep staters in the IC/Military/State Dept and in order to buy time. pay lip service to providing Ukraine with weapons we can't possibly deliver and placing further, known-to-be-ineffective, sanctions on Russia. I believe Russia will interpret these three things as deescalatory.
My I suggest Mohawk he listens to advice from someone like Tulsi Gabard and not publicly insult her and not listen to the Zionist plants that he puts in his ear. Then start telling the truth and stop flip flopping as his knee-jerk actions always lead to. It is now obvious everything he previously said was all a scam with his comment I don't need MAGA mob any more so any hope he will do anything positive for the little man domestically or in regards foreign is pure cognitive dissonance.
He is a hucksters who looks after himself and fellow oligarchs if they act obsequious unlike Elon Musk and no one else. Oh sorry his Zionist donors are high up on his list of course.
I don't have an opinion on the questions you posed. As to presidents in general, I think they should resign if, for example, they promise to stop a war in 24 hours then fail to do so.
It's a very common complaint. And to be fair, even those of us who sympathise with Putin and Russia get frustrated at times. We can't always escape that Western "shock and awe" mindset and see things from the longer Russian perspective.
Russians are still very supportive of Putin; those that criticize him for proceeding slowly are a festering sore. My point is that Trump was handed a sh!t show from day one. He has to publicly demonize Russia to keep the warmongers at bay - covering by misleading Americans that we'll ship weapons to Ukraine and sanction Russia further - neither will happen. It's Kabuki theater, but necessary to divert attention from Trump's maneuvers at the State Department and the Pentagon to ensure the unwinding of the war without debilitating his administration. I think it's the only hand he has to play.
So again, I ask, what should Trump have done differently? Does anyone actually recommend that Trump should have publicly said, back in January or whenever he found out he was fed BS, that he's acceding to all Russia's (reasonable) demands? He's dealing with $37T in debt, a dysfunctional bond market, domestic opposition that wants to kill conservatives ... and foreign and domestic enemies that will take any sign of weakness as a signal to escalate all manner of attacks? It's easy to say he screwed the pooch, more difficult to provide a solution, especially without access to the information he has.
I get comments along that line from Putin haters all the time. If you read the comments you'll see them. Yes, those comments come from Russians and those who follow certain Russian oriented sites.
You're right about that. I've followed a few russian sites and some of them were complaining about the russian military's strategy on the ukrainian front. considering their (russia) progress and accomplishments, I'd say the strategems the russian military employs are rather effective.