According to Pat Lang, the Russian military has always had clay feet and will now collapse within 14 days.

Posted by: Bill H. | Mar 15 2022 14:51 utc | 4

Bill H.
I saw that. Left me shaking my head.
Mark

Posted by: Mark Gaughan | Mar 15 2022 14:54 utc | 6

This is the kind of reporting we all need, from local people that are there in the thick of it, on the ground.
Thanks!

Posted by: Hannibal | Mar 15 2022 14:59 utc | 8

Fantastic guy!!!!!! Thank you for posting

Posted by: Isqabelle McEwen | Mar 15 2022 15:04 utc | 10

This is it . . .we have reached the tipping point.
…from State:

The United States welcomes the passage of New Zealand’s new sanctions regime, which allows the imposition of sanctions on those responsible for, or associated with, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It also gives the New Zealand government the power to sanction individuals and entities that are of economic or strategic relevance to Russia and will ensure Russia cannot use New Zealand to circumvent sanctions imposed by the international community. Additionally, the law authorizes the imposition of sanctions on those supporting Russia’s invasion, including members of the regime in Belarus. For the first time, New Zealand has extended its sanctions authorities beyond its UN Security Council obligations.
New Zealand’s announcement underscores its commitment to the freedom, territorial integrity, and sovereignty of Ukraine and illustrates New Zealand’s lasting commitment to preserving the rules-based international order. Together with the international community, we will hold Russia to account for its aggression. . .here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 15 2022 15:11 utc | 12

Thanks, b. Battleground New York? (This guy totally doesn’t work for a Russian oligarch, not that Zelinsky regime neither.)

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Mar 15 2022 15:13 utc | 14

@Likklemore #5
It is a little early to say the petrodollar is dead.
The Saudis still want a military backer vs. Iran, plus they have A LOT of money tied up in US companies, banks etc.

Posted by: c1ue | Mar 15 2022 15:17 utc | 16

“The nightmare scenario for India would be if the U.S. comes to the conclusion that it confronts a greater threat from Russia and that this justifies a strategic accommodation with China.
Posted by: too scents | Mar 15 2022 11:58 utc | 351
even setting aside that it was mao who approached the nixon administration and not vice versa, there are no Nixons or kissingers or adults in the US ruling establishment today who can reverse the current idiocy of taking on both Russia and china together.
and even if a leader of caliber fell from the sky, he would lack the political capital to befriend or accomodate either Russia or china. (the economic decline or collapse in the years ahead will mean no administration can deliver on their lofty campaign promises.)
and there simply has been too much propaganda spread against china that any possibility of a course correction has been foreclosed. in that respect, the disinformation campaigns have shackled the space for any US administration to maneuver. probably that is by design by the deep state, as some new provocation always occurs whenever bilateral relations show signs of deescalation.
so I guess India need not worry haha. though the truth of it is they should be concerned, not with who is on the US’ hit list, but with the fact that siding with the US necessarily means a loss of sovereignty.
are there any voices in India who still speak of non alignment and are taken seriously?

Posted by: mastameta | Mar 15 2022 15:23 utc | 18

Mr. Gonzalo Lira voiced something that I’ve come to accept as being closer to the truth, i.e. that the puppet masters are incompetent themselves. Far too often in conspiracy-theory circles it is accepted as a given that behind everything there is a small cabal of evil geniuses that are 5 steps ahead of everyone and wield absolute power and control. I myself subscribed once to a version of this, but as time goes on I’ve come to doubt it more and more, especially given how things have played out against the interests of the supposed puppet masters. Perhaps the people who run things are really out in the open for us all to see, and there is no wizard of Oz behind the curtain. It would explain why their empire is collapsing.

Posted by: AnalyticMind | Mar 15 2022 15:27 utc | 20

Posted by: AnalyticMind | Mar 15 2022 15:27 utc | 20
Some of them could be geniuses, most of them are evil privileged mediocrities.

Posted by: Misotheist | Mar 15 2022 15:31 utc | 22

I concur.
Mister Lira has also made a Video Highlighting Zelenskyy and Hunter+Pops Biden Patroned by Ukrainian Jewish Oligarch Igor Kolomoisky.
Kolomoisky owning the TV Station that Hosted Zelenskyy and Burisma (Energy Corp) that Hosted Hunter (with a 10% Payoff to Pops). Kolomoisky is also alleged to employ the NeoNazi for Security+Muscle.
We can’t ignore the Ethnic War that the Khazari-Ashkenazi Jewish-Tribals have been waging against Russia. Briefly speaking, the Old Khazar Kingdom-Khaganate was where the Ashkenazi Jewish Originated via Mass Conversions. The Khazar were eventually crushed by Old Russia; but the Khazari-Ashkenazi Jewish-Tribals have engaged in an Centuries-Long Campaign against Russia and in Economic-Political Influencing Schemes across Europe and America – Usurping/Controlling their Monarchies+Aristocracies+Oligarchies with collaboration with Freemasons+Catholics+Anglicans ( their Crown Jewels being GBRittania and Murica).
Russia were Felled/Tested several times through AngloMurican Jewish-Masonic Agency:
*Russo-Jpnese War(Schiff Funded, AngloProvoked);
*WWI(Churchill+OthersvsDEU, with AngloJewish bringing Murica in before the Cease Fire);
*Jewish-Bolshevik Revolution;
*WWII(ChurchillvsDEU, with Churchill recruiting Stalin into a Grinding WarFront with DEU);
*EconWar for the SUN Collapse;
*Post-Soviet Plunder by Harvard/Chicago/WashingtonDC.
Kolomoisky+OtherUKR Oligarchy have Everything to Lose.
The Current Blinken+ColoRevoSoros-Schwartz+Nudelman-Khagan of the Obama-Biden Teams have been working on Flipping Kiev with Ethnocidal Removal of Russian Navy + Ethnic Russians in Crimea-Sevastopolis/Donbass/EastUKR since 2010 and placed into Action in 2014.
With the WEF-Davos Plutarchy endorsing the Economic Bridge-Burning to thwart NordStream2/RUS-EnergyTrades and CHN SilkRoad (which would have obsoleted NATO and diminished AngloMurican+Davos Businesses in Europe) – the Kolomoisky/Zelenskyy/Bandera-Fascists will most likely plan various Sputeful Scortched-Earth FalseFlagOps targeting:
*Donbas;
*Crimea;
*Russian Troops;
*Other Ethnic Russians;
*UKR Civilians+Troops with Western Media Highlighting;
*Surrounding Nation-States – with NATO-Monkey and Bandera Hosting POLand most likely.
NATO may try to announce an Insurgency; but IMHO, once RUS Finish their “ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US” Operations upon Zelenskyy+Bandera-Fascists, RUS may call in the CSTO+SCO for PeaceKeeper+Reconstruction Ops as they redefine New Borders.

Posted by: IronForge | Mar 15 2022 15:36 utc | 24

In the long run, I’d rather see India and China having a non-aggressive relationship or even, long-term, some loose alliance or alignment than seeing India or China allying with the USA.
Bill H – 4 – About Pat Lang
I think the good colonel is into wishful thinking mode now. Russia had a rotten army in WWI and it took 3 years for it to disintegrate, it had a weak army in the Winter War and it didn’t collapse, it had barely any reason (from a soldier’s point of view) to be in Afghanistan and it didn’t really collapse. The only reasonably fast collapse was Chechnya, with the invasion of Poland in 1920 a distant second. Unless NATO enters the fray and begins to pound supply lines and vehicles all across Ukraine, it won’t collapse in a couple of weeks. Of course, I don’t expect Russian army to have top morale because this isn’t them being invaded right now – Putin argues it’s pre-emptive, but morale-wise he can’t expect his army to be as convinced and righteous, you only achieve such high morale when invading other places if you have absolute technological superiority, like Iraq 2003.
Daily Mail is trash, they don’t know anything.
Last but not least, plenty others assumed Russian/Red army would collapse and the whole country was a rotten house that would fall down as soon as someone kicked the door open. Considering what happened to those who shared such expectations back in 1941, I’d be a bit wary.
Of course, it’s also wrong to delude oneself and assume Ukraine is so rotten nobody there will fight and Russian army will be greeted with flowers. Barely any invading army ever was, no matter the cause.

Posted by: Clueless Joe | Mar 15 2022 15:37 utc | 26

The Saudis are using their petroleverage to solicit more assistance from the US in their ongoing slaughter of some goat herders. The US will soon acquiesce that it’s become abundantly clear to them (mostly from abysmal polling) that the overwhelming majority of Americans don’t give AF about the plight of some obscure tribe halfway around the world, green energy/climate change, pronouns, CRT, BLM and a raft of other progressive causes that naturally fall by the wayside once the middle class is presented with $5/gallon gas and $6/loaf of bread.
I wouldn’t worry about the Saudis divesting themselves of the almighty dollar just yet. They can turn to the Chinese as their protectors but they’ll soon find out that there are many strings attached with a Chinese alliance also.
It looks like Iran is going to consummate the deal and that Venezuelan scumbag Maduro is going to play ball after all. He’s another capitalist cretin disguised as a “Bolivarian” who will die with a 9 to 10 figure net worth much like Chavez. Oil will start flowing soon enough and the US can go back to being pragmatic hypocrites.

Posted by: WastelandChic | Mar 15 2022 15:40 utc | 28

fossil fuel propaganda and resisting brutal thug cops are not trendy causes. way to hide the propaganda tho.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Mar 15 2022 15:45 utc | 30

Posted by: Likklemore | Mar 15 2022 15:08 utc | 11
Non grata in Russia are Biden, Killary and other USA officials: https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1804365/
And also officials form Canada: https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1804374/
MID RF site is almost non-working. Either DDoS, or people all around the world rush to check the news (with is, essentially, DDoS too)

Posted by: Arioch | Mar 15 2022 15:47 utc | 32

@ Arioch | Mar 15 2022 15:47 utc | 32 from your link on canada –
“Statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry on personal sanctions against top officials, parliamentarians and anti-Russian figures in Canada
514-15-03-2022
In response to the feverishly imposed official Ottawa, which competes in a Russophobic rage with Washington, all the new sanctions that were extended to the top leaders of Russia and almost the entire Russian deputies, since March 15 of this year. The “black list” of persons prohibited from entering the Russian Federation includes Prime Minister J. Trudeau, Ministers of Foreign Affairs and National Defense M. Joli and A. Anand. Most of the deputies of the House of Commons of the Canadian Parliament and aggressive pro-Bander elements are also among those banned.”
followed by a list of 313 people – all house of commons politicians mostly…
This step is forced and taken in response to the outrageous hostility of the current Canadian regime, which has tested our patience for so long. Every Russophobic attack, be it attacks on Russian diplomatic missions, airspace closures, or Ottawa’s actual severing of bilateral economic ties to the detriment of Canadian interests, will inevitably receive a decisive and not necessarily symmetrical rebuff.
The following is a list of Canadian citizens who are included in the list of persons who are now denied entry to the Russian Federation:

Posted by: james | Mar 15 2022 15:54 utc | 34

#4 Did you not notice that Pat Lang’s report was based on anonymous “UK Defense sources” like “WMD in Iraq” was before we invaded?

Posted by: Eric Zuesse | Mar 15 2022 15:57 utc | 36

@ Eric Zuesse | Mar 15 2022 15:57 utc | 36… straight from integrity initiative or bellingcrap probably… pl is a sucker or someone paid him to keep shut..

Posted by: james | Mar 15 2022 16:00 utc | 38

Polish, Czech & Slovenian Leaders Head To Kiev By Train In Show Of Support To Zelensky
I highly doubt the Polish , Czech and Slovenian leader are going to Kiev to show support . More likely they are probally going to tell Ze it is over and to save his people .

Posted by: Cheryl | Mar 15 2022 16:02 utc | 40

It is a little early to say the petrodollar is dead.
The Saudis still want a military backer vs. Iran, plus they have A LOT of money tied up in US companies, banks etc.
Posted by: c1ue | Mar 15 2022 15:17 utc | 16
Thanks ciue. You just placed your thumb on the Big worry – “the LOT of money tied up in US companies, banks, etc. “ After sanctions on Russia (largest land mass with nukes, USNATO playing chicken with a nuclear power) that ‘money’ is no longer safe and it’s time to find a safe harbour from the perfect storm. The West (EU and Uncle Sam) shot themselves and the global financial system.
China, Turkey, Brazil and India are openly moving to de-dollarize.
And No, as demonstrated – Afghanistan, Iraq and now Ukraine – the Saudis can no longer depend on Uncle Sam’s military.
The On Again, Off Again Contract aired in 2017.
Feb 25, 2021
Saudi Arabia Negotiating S-400, Su-35 Buy
https://www.defenseworld.net/news/29050/Saudi_Arabia_Negotiating_S_400__Su_35_Buy#.YjC04y-cZwY

Saudi Arabia is negotiating the purchase of S-400 air defense systems and Su-35 jets with Russia, three years after the two countries signed a military cooperation agreement.
“Until we sign the contracts, we are not talking about this … The negotiation process is underway,” Sergei Chemezov, CEO of Rostec, said during an interview with RT.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump had approved the sale of Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) missile systems, S-400’s competitor, to Saudi Arabia. With the new Biden administration reportedly having frozen the sale of weapons to Saudi, it may seek other alternatives. [.]

Fast forward 2022.
“We need you to increase oil output to help make up for sanctions on Russia.”
Having frozen the sale of weapons to Saudi…….no warm hugs for you. Go pound sand.

Posted by: LikkLemore | Mar 15 2022 16:09 utc | 42

Posted by: james | Mar 15 2022 16:10 utc | 43
i would say that your text is a bit unhinged, and “313 people – all house of commons politicians mostly” feels way over board.
actually the next step feels to only declare war officially.
if anything, that was a nice bar.

Posted by: Arioch | Mar 15 2022 16:12 utc | 44

Re the Saudi thing, perhaps they can read the writing on the wall? From the way the “west” treated “friends” like Saddam all the way to today’s incredible narrative building against Russia and soon China … the oil sheiks’ turn will come too and they better know it.
Whether it’s in five or ten or twenty years, at some point the USUK will decide that they don’t need them any more and right then and there, the narrative building against the Saudis and the rest will gallop into full speed and all their holdings in the west will be confiscated from them and they themselves will be locked away.
So perhaps they can see the day coming and want to defang the snake before it bites?

Posted by: Caliman | Mar 15 2022 16:15 utc | 46

Russian rocket tech that caught the west off guard.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-deploys-mystery-munition-ukraine-114716254.html

Posted by: jo6pac | Mar 15 2022 16:25 utc | 48

Russia quits EuroUnion Council
https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1804379/

Posted by: Arioch | Mar 15 2022 16:26 utc | 50

I too have been impressed by G. Lira’s recent commentary, I really must object to the overarching message of his latest video (the second that b has linked above).
There very much are people behind the scenes who are “pulling the strings” of our political leadership. Those people are The Oligarchs–the current ruling capitalist families of the US (Rockefellers, Bezos, Gates, Kochs, Dows, DuPonts, Akersons, Hewsons, Bushes, Perots, Gettys, Zuckerbergs, Clintons, Cheneys, the Waltons, Cargill-McMillans, E. Johnsons, Hearsts, Coxes, Duncans, Marshalls, Hunts, Goldmans, Mellons, Basses, Sacklers, Crowns, Hughes, Pigotts, Chaos, C&J Johnsons, Phipps, Scripps, Bechtels, Dursts, Barbeys…).
That’s just a partial list, with most of them taken from Forbes. Then there are all the old-money clans who have their wealth hidden behind funds like Vanguard, StateStreet, and Blackrock–descendants of the Carnegies, Vanderbilts, and fringe families like the DeVoses, who are harder to identify than the big Old Money groups.
In any event, these are the people who set policy and decide for the rest of us who will be “elected” (via largely rigged via mass media, propagandized deceits, and sometimes directly rigged “elections”) to implement the policies and changes they have decided upon “on our behalf.” They coordinate these actions via “foundations” and “thinktanks” like CFR (US national coordination), Bilderberg (international coordination), WEF (international coordination), The Atlantic Council, the Trilateral Commission, the Heritage Foundation, Family Research Council, RAND, Brookings, Cato, Kaiser, CSIS, OSF, Carnegie, CNAS, and even more innocuous-looking groups like the World Wildlife Foundation.
Yes, Lira’s correct: our “leaders” are puppets which are being pulled in different directions by competing interests, but is wrong in the timeline where he identifies the origins of this current situation: it goes back to Nixon. Bush Sr. lost his presidency because a good number of these oligarchs decided to back Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton–whose entire political experience up to that time was Governor of Arkansas (i.e.: a political nobody) was clearly pulled in many directions during his time in office. Reagan was hardly in charge of his presidency: he was literally falling asleep during the daily briefings for the last 3 years of his presidency, and how does anyone think that Dick Cheney got the idea about how he could do an end run around the bureaucracy and run the US as effective President while Bush Jr (“Shrub”) occupied the office of President? Hint: he was just repeating what had already been done to Reagan.
In fact, I would push the timeline even farther back: to LBJ, who probably would not have gone into Vietnam if he had been getting honest assessments from the intel and military branches of the government, but was lied to in order to force him to do what they killed Kennedy for not doing (a fact LBJ was quite familiar with).
Certainly, Truman and Eisenhower were both also strongly manipulated by factions within their presidencies: Truman because he was stupid, and Eisenhower because he was old, and weak. Eisenhower, at least, tried to warn everyone what was happening.
So basically, the trend towards Oligarch domination of the US government goes back at least to the time of Eisenhower and almost certainly to Truman, but I would suggest that the plans to set up an oligarchy that runs the democracy likely go back to when the Robber Barons got together shortly before WWI and set up The Fed. Clearly, Teddy Roosevelt was trying very hard to steer the country away from that, but also–just as clearly–old Southern Plantationer Woodrow Wilson was perfectly happy to help the Oligarchs get their way, as were Taft, Harding (Teapot Dome!), and the double-whammy of close FBI advocates Coolidge and Hoover.
We were all being set up going as far back as then; it just took another 100 years before the oligarchs could seal-the-deal. But yes, it is set, now–and as with every other oligarchy in history, “too many cooks spoil the broth” so the infighting, greed, vain pseudo-statesmanship, and selfish protections these families are exercising against the rest of us are tearing the economic and social fabric of the country apart.
Gen Xers and after–Millenials, the Social Media brats, and whatever comes after them–really need to stop talking in terms of “US Democracy.” The US is run by Oligarchs, and the sooner that idea takes hold, the better for everyone in the world.

Posted by: Pacifica Advocate | Mar 15 2022 16:29 utc | 52

He’s still doing it, repeating his attacks on Zelensky and Kolomoisky while in the middle of Kharkiv and supposedly already having had encounters with ultranationalists. Its very evident that his narcissism is far stronger than any common sense related to self-preservation. He has been popping up on as many podcasts and YouTube channels as he can to repeat the same commentary; I guess he’s hoping that his status as sole Yankee on the ground, will boost his subscriber base. This, however, seems to be his primary selling point. He has frequently been on the Duran (to the extent he now makes me doubt their analysis) where I have strong feeling he repeats analysis he has read elsewhere and passes it off as his own. He never really diverges from the hosts and ends up creating an echo chamber that would be far less useful than someone who engaged with them in a more critical manner, if even just to play devil’s advocate for opposing views.
Regarding the possibility of a false flag, this is something people have been raising warnings about for weeks. For me, it was when British media began using Hamish de Bretton Gordon as a source for stories on cluster bombs. That ghoul showing his face is practically a countdown for the White Helmets and sarin/novichoks to make an appearance. Of course, they will tailor things differently for this case, even though they have the OPCW in their pocket the public are a fickle bunch and simply repeating the same dog and bone show may prove unattractive. Perhaps it will be Soman or VX, something fresh that can be labelled as “especially horrible” and portrayed as “even worse than Sarin”. Whether or not that is the case, the public will lap up any scare stories, accept anything ‘experts’ tell them, and ignore any amount of factual evidence independent investigators offer.
One thing holding them back is likely to be Russia’s quasi-allies who will recognise it for what it is and may actually speak out in Russia’s defence. Another, the military telling the spooks who devise these schemes that, regardless of public opinion, they won’t get into a shooting war with Russia. Another, the economic elements within the governments and states who see any further escalation as ruinous. The question is how much sway do the political fanatics like Nuland and Blinken have over the intelligence assets. One danger is that they bypass the chain of command and work directly with mid-level disaster merchants like Bretton Gordon and his connections among groups like the jihadis recently entering the field of play.

Posted by: Brannagyn | Mar 15 2022 16:29 utc | 54

After watching Patrick Armstrong’s heartbreaking video of the Donetsk attack, I was horrified to see that Kiev using CCTV footage of the Toschka strike and claiming it is a Russian attack:
http://www.stationgossip.com/2022/03/bus-stop-literally-vaporizes-as-russian.html
I would say unbelievable but sadly it’s what they do…

Posted by: mtw | Mar 15 2022 16:31 utc | 56

Gonzalo is right. All the leaders in the west are puppets. The only exception I can think of is Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary. He has some integrity.

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 15 2022 16:33 utc | 58

Additional info on dedollarization. From today’s sitrep at Saker’s, Amaranth reports:
“This was noted by Godfree Roberts:
“In two weeks, China, Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan will reveal a new, independent, international monetary and financial system.
“It will be based on a new international currency, calculated from an index of national currencies of the participating countries and international commodity prices. [Mar. 14, 2022, Sputnik News].”
I briefly searched Sputnik but didn’t find any such article. The previous info about the new monetary system didn’t provide any timeline but was clear that it involved the core SCO and EAEU nations. Also, “Russia wants to scrap dollar-pegged metals market”. And it will do the same for all its dollar-denominated markets as will all its allies as Eurasia forges a new path.
I expect the new currency and monetary system will be adopted by all SCO, BRICS, and ASEAN nations which translates to half the planet’s people, and developing African nations will find this attractive also as it helps free them from dollar-dependency. The Outlaw US Empire will soon discover what the sentiments of the genuine international community are towards it and its illegal ways.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 15 2022 16:34 utc | 60

It is not in the Saudi’s interest to have the UD$ collapse, considering the billions (?trillions?) of dollar denominated investments that they hold. However, US actions may lead to a dollar suicide, in which case the Saudis will want to have hedged their bets.

Posted by: Rob | Mar 15 2022 16:40 utc | 62

From rt.com (it is still available with shaw ISP) “US looks for ways to get heavy Soviet weaponry to Ukraine – media
The US is reportedly trying to provide S-300 air defense systems to Kiev after an arrangement with Polish planes has stalled”. It sounds more like a fantasy aimed at the USA audience, just to make them feel good about Biden doing something. I hoped Russian army has some capabilities to handle this, if it is actually true.

Posted by: Calgary guy | Mar 15 2022 16:46 utc | 64

in other news,
“DOD shocked that power point displays manufactured for Boeing’s marketing campaigns in the battle of the boardrooms and committee hearings are easily overwhelmed on the battlefront; request huge budget increases.”

Posted by: rjb1.5 | Mar 15 2022 16:50 utc | 66

“He is completely wrong about AOC. She is Marrano royalty and has her position because she is old family. No one ever gets the free publicity/product placement she has had unless well placed and highly privileged.”
Sorry to say you have absolutely no clue about AOC. There is no such thing as “Marrano royalty” in Puerto Rico, and if there was do you think its dauphine would look like a mulata? I have absolutely nothing against people of Afro-Puerto Rican heritage, but they are by definition not constitutive of any sort of aristocracy in Puerto Rico, as opposed to the white Puerto Rican descendants of the Spanish mercantile and old slaveholding class. Her so called Jewish ancestry is essentially an old wives tale that rural uneducated people tended to pick up from assorted media and which served to inspire them think of themselves as not simply peasants of unmarried mixed race stock.

Posted by: Ludo | Mar 15 2022 16:51 utc | 68

Lavrov on Bioweapon labs:
“‘We will demand, in this situation, that first this problem be considered within the context of the commitments for all countries participating in the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. Secondly, we will double and triple our efforts to make the Americans stop blocking our proposal submitted 20 years ago, about the need to establish a special verification mechanism under this convention for any alarming reports that there are agents out there that can be used to make biological weapons,’ he noted.
“The US is against this mechanism, since it will ensure the transparency of any biological activity, the top diplomat stressed. ‘The Americans don’t want to see this transparency, since it is more convenient for them to do everything under their control, which is what they are still doing,’ Lavrov stressed.” [My Emphasis]
And China will back Russia on this to the max, as will most of the free world–NATO nations not being members since they’re clearly enslaved by the Outlaw US Empire.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 15 2022 16:52 utc | 70

I stopped reading Lang (and giving credence to his analyses) when I read a post of his on the Custer Fight, where his position was no way natives could have defeated the US cavalry. like somebody else wrote, Lang was a spook not tactical.

Posted by: Oso | Mar 15 2022 16:55 utc | 72

Posted by: Useless meat beater | Mar 15 2022 16:31 utc | 57
Yap. Name checks out.

Posted by: Pacifica Advocate | Mar 15 2022 16:59 utc | 74

Reportedly, https://aftershock.news/?q=node/1080457
1. Iran does not think Russia is slowing or blocking JCPOA
2. USA agreed to give Russia warranties rusophobic sanctions would not interfere with JCPOA provisions

Posted by: Arioch | Mar 15 2022 17:04 utc | 76

rjb1.5 | Mar 15 2022 16:50 utc | 64
request huge budget increases, with even less oversight”

Posted by: rjb1.5 | Mar 15 2022 17:07 utc | 78

Posted by: jo6pac | Mar 15 2022 16:25 utc | 48
decoys to trick self-guiding missiles off real target are decades old, i think they were deployed by USAF since 1960-s or 1970-s.
if today that could “catch West off guard” then it only can mean that “finest military force in galaxy” is actually today worse than it was 50 years ago

Posted by: Arioch | Mar 15 2022 17:11 utc | 80

WJ 370
Ye have little faith so far in a nobody named reante having grocked their most excellent collapse management plan. Somebody had to, right? I don’t doubt there are others who are figuring it out in other languages.
I keep saying it because it bears repeating until it begins to click for one other person here, then two, then a dozen. Because that’s when the ‘fun’ will begin. And the teamwork.
As it is there’s little to no teamwork here. Mostly what there is here regarding a worldview is a stale, politicized, and anti-imperialist Left-libertarian/trad conservative political orientation, otherwise known, in umbrella terminology, as national socialism, with a fairly poor grasp of numerous categories of fundamentals. With the notable exception of a few commenters.
I’m here to help the commentariat see. Not to see what I see, but to see at all, beyond the ideological prison. Few here will try and say that they are not ideological. Ideologies are boxes. Boxing in the mind is totalitarianism in action. We do it to ourselves.
To your point regarding future US politics remaining the same ol same ol, WJ: how do you square what you see will be the collapse of the petrodollar with what you believe will be the continuation of the petrodollar political establishment? How does the neolib/neocon petrodollar establishment exist without the petrodollar? That would be like expecting that Leonid Brezhnev, had he lived to the age of 85, to do a 180 in the mid-1980s and suddenly implement Mikhail Gorbachev’s glasnost and perestroika, and beyond that, it would be to expect Brezhnev, had he lived to 90, to be the one to oversee the post- peak oil privatization instead of the punch-drunk Yeltsin!
It doesn’t work that way…
The reason Putin and Xi can manage both sides of this global, inverted perestroika is because for them the destination (socialism) is a political homecoming.
The US is going through a compressed version of the USSR collapse (the whole world is going through a compressed version), because the USSR which became Russia was able to prop itself up with Globalism until privatization was complete and it was absorbed into Globalism. The US (and the world) has no such crutch to prop itself up with during the restructuring. Which is why within the last week here we can all see the rationing of food coming. The rationing will lead to chronic malnutrition which is the precursor to famine. The elite will use the bioweapon fears seeded during the fake plandemic as political cover for the famines. They will falsely blame famine-related disease and death on ‘viruses’ and anaerobes.
The predictive programming for it can be seen in Lt Col Gabbard’s re-emergence into the mainstream consciousness over the last 48hrs. Right now, the Hawaiian Punch is having her coming out party 2.0, and has already started the housecleaning and called on the most recent neocon top-dog Mitt Romney to resign. And she’s going for Hillary’s jugular. And she has the top 4 news media celebrities in her corner. And she is the only person speaking the truth during a time when the polls say 12% of people trust congress to do a good job.
What’s it gonna take for you to let go of the hurt, WJ, and start seeing clearly?
My brother.
Posted by: reante | Mar 15 2022 17:08 utc | 382

Posted by: reante | Mar 15 2022 17:14 utc | 82

What makes you think it’s the Ukrainian Army that is at a complete breakdown? Posted by: Inkan1969 | Mar 15 2022 16:46 utc | 63
They abandon equipment for lack of fuel and are moving from BMPs to “technicals” improvised on stolen farmers trucks.
They attack the civilian population to build moral.

Posted by: too scents | Mar 15 2022 17:17 utc | 84

Statement by H.E. Ambassador Shulgin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the OPCW at the 99th Session of the Executive Council, General Debate, Hague, March 8, 2022
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1804392/
….We all know perfectly well what this kind of dictatorship leads to. The illegitimate decision to assign the OPCW with extrinsic attribution functions has transformed one of the most successfully organisations ever in the field of disarmament and non-proliferation into a kangaroo court for undesirable governments. The team created within the Technical Secretariat for these purposes – the Investigation and Identification Team (IIT) – continues to put its stamp on dubious documents, the bias of which is clear to thoughtful delegations. It is difficult to imagine the objectivity of “investigations” that are conducted post factum – many years later, when the chain of events is nearly impossible to reconstruct…
…The references to certain unknown “third-party expert evaluations” concealed by the Technical Secretariat from States Parties to the Convention cannot be accepted as evidence. The “take our word for it” approach in such a sensitive matter is absolutely unacceptable….
We welcome the willingness of Damascus to continue constructive collaboration with the Declaration Assessment Team (DAT) examining the Syrian Arab Republic’s initial declaration under the Convention. At present, meticulous work has been conducted by both sides. The Syrian authorities have repeatedly been asked to take unprecedented measures of transparency that go far beyond the framework of the Convention regarding its former chemical military programme. And Damascus has in fact proven its dedication to comprehensive cooperation. In this regard, the situation concerning the regular deployment of the DAT to the Syrian Arab Republic has given rise to great concern. We see an artificially created political kerfuffle and attempts to skew the actual state of affairs in such a way so as to present the situation as if the responsibility for the 3 suspension of the DAT’s work lies with the Syrian side. That is far from the truth. Syria is ready to receive the DAT, as it stated six months ago. We call on the management of the Technical Secretariat to take that fact into consideration in its contacts with its Syrian colleagues.
We also believe that the planned negotiations between Director-General Mr Arias and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Syria, Mr Mekdad, will help to more closely align positions and find a path towards resolving matters of dispute.
We have noted the conclusions of the seventh report of the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh / ISIL (UNITAD), which establishes that terrorist organisations active in the Middle East not only use toxic chemicals, but also have their own technological and manufacturing base used to synthesise military-grade toxic chemicals. We find it hard to understand why such an important aspect remains outside the focus on the OPCW’s attention, even though the Technical Secretariat was informed of the results of UNITAD’s work back in September last year.
Chemical terrorism has already become a reality that requires decisive, consistent, and urgent actions from all. In this regard, I would like to hear from the Director-General of the Technical Secretariat as to what measures will be taken in connection with the information that is constantly received from the Syrian side, both by the OPCW Technical Secretariat and the United Nations Secretariat, about preparations being made for terrorist attacks and provocations involving the use of toxic chemicals and military grade toxic agents.
Among other pressing tasks is the implementation of Article XI of the Convention, which provides for the facilitation of international cooperation in the field of the peaceful use of “chemistry” and the removal of barriers to the economic and technical development of all countries. It is important that the resounding declarations in support of efforts under Article XI are reinforced with palpable results in practice.

Posted by: Arioch | Mar 15 2022 17:19 utc | 86

Justin is called Justin Castro. Long story…connected to Cuba
Posted by: Likklemore | Mar 15 2022 17:14 utc | 81
that is a long and kind of dirty story, with many suspicions but little evidence
i actually am glad that at least out MoFA did ont turn into Gossip Girl yet.
there has to be at least a few adult MoFAs in this world

Posted by: Arioch | Mar 15 2022 17:21 utc | 88

This new Eurasian commodity-based currency sounds a bit too little too late
Should have been in place at least 3 years ago, now we’re close to total war

Posted by: Paul435 | Mar 15 2022 17:32 utc | 90

@ c1ue | Mar 15 2022 17:04 utc | 75

You totally missed the point on what Lira said.

No, you missed both my point and his.
I quote from the video:

“None of our leaders have any kind of agency. They are not in control….in the West, we don’t have anybody in charge.”

We do have people who are in charge: the Oligarchs who choose our governments for us, and manipulate what policy will be from behind the scenes, while using the media to guss it all up and pretend as if we-the-people endorsed the ideas and support the government’s decisions.

What he said was that there were string pullers behind many of the West’s leaders, but that the string pullers are fighting each other with the result being incompetence.

He even specifically said that he wished there were some evil mastermind at work.

And what I pointed out is that yes, there are “evil masterminds” at work–people who largely agree with one another, who largely agree on their own class interest, who largely operate in support of one another in terms of policy and legislation (especially economic and foreign policy). From there, what follows is that the reason our government seems so “incompetent” is because these Oligarchs don’t share the same interests as ordinary people and live inside a tightly insulated bubble (the famed “Beltway Bubble”) where their version of “reality” is really just a bunch of narcissistic opinions which don’t match up very well with reality–either in terms of domestic or foreign relations.
I think you’re having trouble understanding what “Oligarchy” means; literally, it is “rule by the few.” Oligarchies become inherently less stable over time, and the Greeks posited that they inevitably morphed into “tyranny,” “monarchy,” or “dictatorship” of some form or another.
Currently, as the US steers itself closer and closer to crisis, the Oligarchs will become more united in some things, and less united in others. Caesar and Nero, for instance, were assassinated by the Oligarchs of Rome because they appealed to the ordinary citizens and free laboring classes of Rome by implementing laws and policies that limited or eroded the powers of the oligarchs. A good analogy there with the US are the Kennedys.
However, the current political class is doing exactly what they are being instructed to do by the oligarchs who currently sit at the top. What we are seeing is not “incompetence,” but rather a dutiful enforcement of the policies which have been dictated to the political classes by those who are powerful enough to enforce their obedience.
In other words: there are people at the top who are in control of things, but they are Oligarchs, unanswerable to democratic methods of recall, and also extremely out of touch with the practical realities of both the current battlefield in Ukraine and how the world economy is approaching a massive paradigm shift that will soon render all of the economic and foreign policy “experience” upon which they currently base their decisions entirely bereft of meaning or efficacy.

Posted by: Pacifica Advocate | Mar 15 2022 17:39 utc | 92

“Again, Lang was a spook and knows nothing about military strategies, tactics and command.”
The Soviet forces that Lang was familiar with were similarly described by others, including Andrew Cockburn. The current Russian forces are another matter.
Lang, who was a Green Beret colonel, iirc, delivered good analyses of the fighting in Syria, and was always far superior to MSM/Borg wishful thinking. He’s really deteriorated since the 2020 elections, raving about Biden as a ‘socialist’ and pushing hysteria about antifa. Kinda sad, really.

Posted by: dadooronron | Mar 15 2022 17:42 utc | 94

Posted by: reante | Mar 15 2022 17:14 utc | 80
I’m pretty sure that I’m in line with you. Seeing the forest through the trees is often overwhelming for most.
Ideologies and such are, at their base, all about survival. Survival is about RESOURCES. As I’ve stated for decades: ALL WARS ARE ABOUT RESOURCES (either direct or indirect control of).
I would be interested in your take on Sir John Glubb’s The Fate of Empires: http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf

Posted by: Seer | Mar 15 2022 17:44 utc | 96

Continually predicting a false flag does no make it any less likely nor less credible when it happens.
I would assume it will happen because there is precedent and they seem effective in creating public support for firing some missiles at some target. Really I think the public things military hardware is cool and what fun is it if we dont use it. It is the cruelty of juvenile mob mentality.
I would say assume the worst and you wont be disappointed. There will be one, there will military and economic aid to Ukraine. If there will be direct conflict then so be it. I am hoping Russia is not sweating it because if they are then they were foolish to start this thing.
Nattering ninnies.

Posted by: jared | Mar 15 2022 17:46 utc | 98

Whatever is said by whom, doesn’t matter. Those who care to see reality, will, in the end get reality, no matter the amount of BS swirling around. And believe me, the amount dished out daily, by the U$A’s propganda machine, the MSM, is historical.
Reality is on the way, hopefully manifesting in a new multi-polar reality…..

Posted by: vetinLA | Mar 15 2022 17:50 utc | 100