karlof1 | Mar 15 2022 21:39 utc | 185
Putin foresaw this day back in 2002 where Russia embarked on its next gen weapons systems. Everything he has done in the last two decades has been in preparation for what he has tried to avoid or avert. I can’t see that gold as being anywhere other than in Russia, however I guess time will tell. Nobody is perfect as they say, but what Putin has done to take Russia from where it was in 99-2000 to where it is today – that is something that will be in the history books.
And the fat lady – or as pepe would say, the fat transvestite still hasn’t sung.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 15 2022 22:03 utc | 203

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

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

Trouble with almost all American military experts is that they see everything through the eyes of the American military. Few have the ability to see it through anybody else’s eyes. Pat Lang falls into this group. He expects all operations to be as high intensity as American ones (clay feet) which come at a cost, units are exhausted more quickly (14 days). Instead as M. K. BHADRAKUMAR reports:

Clearly, this also explained the slow pace (appearance of clay feet) and low intensity of the operations (far longer than 14 days) interspersed with lulls in the fighting and the tactic of encircling large settlements instead of attacking them frontally.

When it comes what Russia’s political objectives are with this conflict, then most American military experts are completely lost, for some reason they have an obsession about capturing territory and destroying things, Pat Lang not so much

Posted by: Ghost Ship | Mar 15 2022 22:08 utc | 205

Seer 94
Hey that’s great!
I’ll check out your link tonight or tomorrow morning.

Posted by: reante | Mar 15 2022 22:08 utc | 207

Arioch | Mar 15 2022 21:53 utc | 193
Arioch I tried the telephone number to get the code on my phone a number of times but I never received it. Maybe it blocked here now but I could not hook up to telegram on my computer.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 15 2022 22:13 utc | 209

@Rae, #145:
You are right that the article you linked to isn’t worth reading except to understand zombie logic. But it is the zombie logic that bothers me. Western pundits keep cranking out zombie pieces such as this one because there is a market demand for them. Lots, I mean lots, of common people in OZ (for that matter, in most western nations of today) love to hear/read this kind of logic. That’s why newspapers sell them, airwave broadcasters sell them, politicians sell them. How come? Do common folks in the west are sophisticated to the point of having figured out ideology differences and like to harp on the ideological contest? or is it because of the racial subconsciousness?
I believe it is the racial subconsciuosness.

Posted by: Oriental Voice | Mar 15 2022 22:18 utc | 211

@Oriental Voice #204
I disagree with your premise that there is a “market for this”.
The incredibly low, and continually falling, ratings of the mainstream newspaper and TV shows say the opposite.
Rather, it is far more likely that these shows are talking to each other – the American and European upper classes – as opposed to representing any form of will of the general public.

Posted by: c1ue | Mar 15 2022 22:21 utc | 213

OPCW PROMOTING MASS MURDER
The two criminal organization most responsible for the coming nuclear holocaust are Bellingcat and OPCW, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. They have promoted mass murder by rewarding terrorist use of chemical weapons. After every terrorist attack in Syria they falsified evidence to accuse “Assad”, in an attempt to start a Western war of aggression on Syria.
I first noted the foul play at the OPCW in April 2013, after the March 19 sarin attack on the Syrian Arab Army in Khan Al-Assal near Aleppo. The Western plan was to turn the OPCW investigation of the attack into an Iraq-style invasive inspection regime and end Syrian sovereignty. I explained the plot to my friend Adam Larson who wrote this article for Global Research:

Was the Syria Chemical Weapons Probe “Torpedoed” by the West? – Adam Larson, Global Research, May 2, 2013

In August 2013 the OPCW investigators (not “inspectors”) finally arrived in Syria. The same night terrorists filmed themselves firing up to a dozen sarin rocket to sparsely populated areas near the front lines in Ghouta, the area surrounding Damascus. It took Adam and other eight years to find the launch site of the rackets shown on the grainy nighttime videos. This find refutes all claims of “Assad” or the Syrian Army being responsible for the attack.

New evidence resolves the controversy surrounding the 2013 Syria sarin attack – Rootclaim, June 18, 2021

Every warmongering channel was immediately flooded with massacred children. The terrorists claimed they had killed 2000 people in total. No evidence existed or was ever presented that anyone had died while at sleep in their homes. No search and rescue work ever happens. To me it is obvious what happened. Hundreds of mainly Alawite hostages were killed with poison gasses in confined spaces, most likely cellar prison cells.
Bellingcat emerged as a co-conspirator in the Ghouta hoax. For the last nine years the two organizations have been twisting the truth and thus promoting World War 3. OPCW was finally exposed as a criminal organization during their fabrication of the Douma massacre and hoax chlorine attack.

Alleged Chemical Attack in Douma, April 7, 2018 – Monitor on Massacre Marketing

There are now hundreds of post and articles online about OPCW criminality. I will post just one from our blog.

The OPCW, Power and Lies, a Mental Iron Curtain – Monitor on Massacre Marketing, January 25, 2020

For more see these archives:

OPCW by Caitlin Johnstone

OPCW on Grayzone

OPCW on Monitor on Massacre Marketing

Category:Chemical Weapons on A Closer Look on Syria

Posted by: Petri Krohn | Mar 15 2022 22:27 utc | 215

Oriental Voice | Mar 15 2022 22:18 utc | 204 I believe it is the racial subconsciuosness.
I see it all about me, but I think the terminology needs to be changed. Now it is perhaps more about culture and language. different culture and different language is far outside many’s comfort zone. If it was blackfella’s – from wherever then you could call it racial but this one is about the snow niggers. The evil Ruskies. And for the average Aussie about me, its all about mighty yankistan protecting us from the yellow hordes to our north.
And while the clowns around me look anxiously to the north, the mighty yankistan sneaks up and fucks from the rear. Many billions now heading to yankyland for “defence”.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 15 2022 22:33 utc | 217

Article in Foreign Affairs, worth a reading:
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/ukraine/2021-12-10/dont-sell-out-ukraine
Don’t Sell Out Ukraine
The West Must Respond to Russia With Strength, Not Appeasement
By Dmytro Kuleba
December 10, 2021
Kiev Regime allways wanted a war between NATO and RF, and still does. Kuleba is fluent describing it.

Posted by: DerailedGear | Mar 15 2022 22:34 utc | 219

Preparing for the next war:
https://johnmenadue.com/strategists-admit-west-is-goading-china-into-war/

Posted by: Paul | Mar 15 2022 22:44 utc | 221

Now we know why Novitchok was so ineffective !

Posted by: Marjorie | Mar 15 2022 22:47 utc | 223

I don’t understand it
“Russia in January increased investments in US government securities to $ 4.5 billion”
https://russian.rt.com/business/news/976468-vlozheniya-ssha-gosbumagi

Posted by: FZappa | Mar 15 2022 22:53 utc | 225

fyi
if any of you like detailed maps, plus some commentary/updating about Ukraine-Russian war:
https://twitter.com/Suriyakmaps/status/1503142180046704648
@Suriyak @Suriyakmaps
– Russian-Ukrainian war map (frontlines) https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1V8NzjQkzMOhpuLhkktbiKgodOQ27X6IV&ll=48.65170126924719%2C32.23071799542027&z=6
his note:
On #Mariupol front #DPR in coordination with #RussianArmy took full control over Livoberezhnyi District. Now 45% of the city is under their control.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 15 2022 23:04 utc | 227

My impression is that Lira found a young Ukrainian woman online and moved to Ukraine to be with her and to have children.
He should have some valuable info on the ground in Kharkov and generally.
Otherwise, his theories are a bit disjointed. Reagan was heading toward Biden-style dementia by the time he was elected president. And he was a Fascist before he lost his faculties.

Posted by: Chaka Khagan | Mar 15 2022 23:06 utc | 229

Peter AU1 @197–
Thanks for your reply. I wonder what Putin actually thinks about 911. I know Russia’s official reaction at the time, but after 21 years, I’m sure he doesn’t accept the Empire’s conspiracy theory. Then there’re the other prominent political murders during the 1960s. Not as bloody as Russia’s history, but Russia hasn’t attempted to hide that part of its history unlike the Empire. Putin clearly isn’t at all like his Western counterparts, and IMO that rankles them. IMO, the decisions he makes between now and 2030 will be more important than those from 2002-2022.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 15 2022 23:25 utc | 231

@Posted by: simon crow | Mar 15 2022 21:41 utc | 186
I was not attempting to be snobby, more calling it how I saw it. His financial comments were following the “state finances are just like household finances” incorrect parallel that is the basis of so much right-wing rhetoric. The US will not go “bust” until it has to borrow in foreign currency and others no longer accept its currency as payment for goods. The same fallacy that the Russian central bank seems to be caught up in, hopefully that is changing now. I very much remember this fallacy from the days of Maggie Thatcher. His comments about Ukraine are very much appreciated, an area about which I have also learnt a huge amount from other posters and some of the links. Mercouris and Christoforou really know their stuff, which contrasted with some of his comments in their show.

Posted by: Roger | Mar 15 2022 23:35 utc | 233

@waldorf, oh for sure. I’m on telegram and exposed myself to both Russian analysis and propaganda. And they are definitely putting out highly produced media for Russian language audiences. But there’s also a heavy influence of humanitarian “propaganda” for that audience as well. The “polite people” verbal meme is gold. That’s what’s most important to get out, especially to non-western audiences if Russia wants to “win” the information war on a strategic scale.

Posted by: Lex | Mar 15 2022 23:48 utc | 235

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUurRv48HDo
Clip from Ukrainian TV. The host openly calls for the extermination of Russian children. I cannot imagine the YouTube algorithm letting it stay up for long.

Posted by: Delboy | Mar 15 2022 23:55 utc | 237

Posted by: K | Mar 15 2022 22:28 utc | 209
“He is most definitely being protected. But by who?”
Part of the western propaganda is that the Ukrainian people are fully supporting the fight. I suspect it it a lot less than what we are being told.
There seems to be a high % of military age men on those refugee trains.

Posted by: ted001 | Mar 16 2022 0:03 utc | 239

Having now read this entire essay, “Bretton Woods III”, I suggest it be read by all barflies having knowledge of finance and understand the implications when “Commodity correlations are also at 1.” As I predicted, the Sanctions from Hell will turn out to be the grandest of all Tar Babies, with the linked essay explaining how that will materialize. Galzyev and associates are all ready to pounce now that the underlying conditions are set.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 16 2022 0:12 utc | 241

Peter AU1 @233–
I understand completely!! I too have my distractions, and it’s time to enjoy a few!

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 16 2022 0:14 utc | 243

re my above
Also related at ZH is Zoltan Pozsar reference to Doom Loop:
“Pozsar’s “Margin Call Doom Loop” Prediction Comes True As Trafigura Faces Billions In Margin Calls”.
but you have to find the link which causes rejection if put here.

Posted by: chu teh | Mar 16 2022 0:18 utc | 245

Within the next 10 days, the facts on the ground in conjunction with the unwillingness of the West to commit to this war will convince Zelenskiy to accept the Russian terms with regards to NATO, Donbass and Crimea. If Parshinyan can stay in control despite the lost war, then so can Zelenskiy. Perhaps he’s already preparing for the next day.

Posted by: s | Mar 16 2022 0:19 utc | 247

Occurs to me that Mr. Lira will be reading some of the responses to his videos. Perhaps he will be commenting here shortly.

Posted by: dh | Mar 16 2022 0:30 utc | 249

Re: Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 15 2022 18:12 utc | 111
Gonzalo was originally ‘trapped’ in a hotel in Kiev when the Russian invasion began.
He has since returned (after about a week?) to Kharkiv.

Posted by: Julian | Mar 16 2022 0:38 utc | 251

Posted by: Petri Krohn | Mar 15 2022 22:27 utc | 208
Aaron Mate at the Grayzone has been outstanding in pursuing the OPCW coverup. I didn’t follow that as closely as I might have, due to the Ukraine crisis, but I have seen him many times on Jimmy Dore and I subscribe to his Substack. Highly recommended. He’s one of the few people who seems to have some intellectual integrity.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 16 2022 0:40 utc | 253

Posted by: Delboy | Mar 15 2022 23:55 utc | 230
“I cannot imagine the YouTube algorithm letting it stay up for long.”
I can.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 16 2022 0:44 utc | 255

Cool vid from kherson – smerch moving in.
Most interesting is calm manner of the people as then enemy rolls in.
Vid will be taken down shortly I imagine.
About that “volunteer” vid on ASB/Military.
He says hes american.
Seems pretty composed under circumstances.
Americans/Brits/Canadians so transport is organized.
Does not seem a lover of Ukraine.
Fit, young, bright.
So basically mercs.

Posted by: jared | Mar 16 2022 0:53 utc | 257

Posted by: james | Mar 16 2022 0:19 utc | 239
Well, consider the source, but this is the story being spun…
On a trip shrouded in secrecy, 3 European leaders travel to Kyiv to offer support.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/15/world/europe/european-leaders-ukraine-trip.html

The leaders of three eastern members of the European Union traveled to Kyiv on Tuesday on a high-risk mission that was kept under wraps until after they had boarded a train to the embattled Ukrainian capital.
Poland’s prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, posted photos on Facebook of the men sitting round a table and poring over maps, and the Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, did the same on Twitter.
Dnešní cesta do Kyjeva s premiéry @MorawieckiM a @JJansaSDS a vicepremiérem Jaroslawem Kaczyńským za ukrajinským prezidentem @ZelenskyyUa a premiérem @Denys_Shmyhal. pic.twitter.com/AzT03Gi19G
— Petr Fiala (@P_Fiala) March 15, 2022
“It is here, in war-torn Kyiv, that history is being made,” Mr. Morawiecki wrote. “It is here, that freedom fights against the world of tyranny. It is here that the future of us all hangs in the balance.”
Later in the day, Ukrainian media aired video footage of President Volodymyr Zelensky, in what has become his signature khaki green T-shirt and fleece, striding into a meeting room and sitting down with Mr. Morawiecki, Mr. Fiala and the prime minister of Slovenia.
“Your visit to Kyiv at this difficult time for Ukraine is a strong sign of support — we appreciate it,” Mr. Zelensky said in a statement released with the footage.

Notice the emphasis on “we are all in Kiev”. I suspect this is a CIA information operation to convince people that Zelensky is still in Ukraine instead of hiding in the basement of the US Embassy in Poland under CIA control. Or perhaps he came in on the train, since they figured the Russians knew about it and wouldn’t bomb it.

The European leaders were reported to have traveled by train from the Polish border, a journey of at least seven hours. Ukrainian officials released few details about the trip.
Well, we do know one thing. Russia has been avoiding targeting the trains as part of their goal to not totally inconvenience the ordinary lives of Ukrainian citizens. Lira pointed that out when he traveled from Kiev to Karkhiv.

There was no indication that Moscow had guaranteed safe passage for the prime ministers. Mr. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, said that the governments of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovenia had not been in touch with the Kremlin about Tuesday’s trip.

There’s no way they made that trip without Russia knowing about it, whether or not they asked permission.
Clearly this is just another propaganda move. Note the quote: “The symbolism is powerful.” That’s exactly the entire point of the exercise. Now they will come back to their capitals and demand a no-fly zone.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 16 2022 1:03 utc | 259

Here is an interesting article entitled “Under the Wolfsangel: The uncomfortable truth about radical ideologies in Ukraine.” It provides excellent background information about the history of the Nazi in Ukraine.
https://www.rt.com/russia/551975-nazi-influence-ukrainian-politics/

Posted by: Old Mike | Mar 16 2022 1:08 utc | 261

Apparently there is some controversy going on about the foreign volunteers. Apparently there is a viral video going around by one of them that when they arrive their passports are being cut up so they can’t leave. Then some others chimed in and claim that the ones saying that were just disgruntled because they failed the “vetting process” (whatever that is.) So right off the bat, their “mercenary army” is falling apart like most mercenary armies do. As Scott Ritter said, the CIA is utterly incompetent at organizing insurgencies…
There’s a Twitter thread here…
https://twitter.com/KaczynskiOhana/status/1503737123261800452

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 16 2022 1:12 utc | 263

I read the ZH piece about Pozsar’s Doom Loop and below is the final paragraph of the posting
”
Meanwhile, from a geopolitical standpoint, one can argue that it is precisely this margin call “doom loop” that Putin hopes to spark and propagate across the financial system now that virtually everything – from food, to energy, to finance, to economics – has been weaponized… not to mention that China is now also hoping to usher in the petroyuan as it seeks to eventually displace the petrodollar from global circulation. And since we are now in a state of financial warfare, absent a ceasefire in Ukraine, expect much more commodity volatility, and many more multi-bilion margin calls, until eventually the big one is triggered, one which leads to a near default not of the LME but of a far bigger clearinghouse, a topic which none other than the world’s (formerly) biggest hedge fund bear, Russell Clark has been spending night and day discussing on his blog in recent weeks.
”
I did not follow the Russel Clark link but left the shout out in
This is another reason for a false flag. To cover for the birth of a Bretton Woods III alternative to the US Dollar or try to abort the birth in some way.
The Ukraine biolabs issue has Tulsi Gabbard being called a Russian asset by the Blue team as she attacks Mitt Romney of the Red team for calling her questioning of the existence and nature of the biolabs some sort of treason.
The Ukraine biolabs issue has China backing the call for more information from empire about existence and nature of the world wide empire biolabs
And then somewhat related we have the Rand Paul initiative against Fauci as reported at ZH
”
In an op-ed for Fox News, Paul noted that the action “would eliminate Dr. Fauci’s position as NIAID director,” as well as “divide his power into 3 separate institutes.”
Paul explained that “Each of these three institutes will be led by a director who is appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate for a five-year term.”
The Senator added that “This will create accountability and oversight into a taxpayer-funded position that has largely abused its power and has been responsible for many failures and misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“No one person should have unilateral authority to make decisions for millions of Americans,” Paul urged, adding that his amendment could “ensure that ineffective, unscientific lockdowns and mandates are never foisted on the American people ever again.”
“No one person should have the sole authority to dictate science, especially when that one person wasn’t ever following the science,” Paul asserted, emphasising that “For two years our lives were held captive by petty tyrants and power-hungry bureaucrats.”
”
The shit show continues until it doesn’t…..

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 16 2022 1:19 utc | 265

For some reason this bothers me on so many levels (from the fraudian, also known as the guardian in uk):
The US Senate has unanimously passed a resolution condemning Russian President Vladimir Putin as a war criminal, a rare show of unity in the deeply divided Congress.
The resolution, introduced by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and backed by senators of both parties, encouraged the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague and other nations to target the Russian military in any investigation of war crimes committed during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Reuters quotes Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in a speech on the Senate floor ahead of the vote:
“All of us in this chamber joined together, with Democrats and Republicans, to say that Vladimir Putin cannot escape accountability for the atrocities committed against the Ukrainian people.”
Would Putin demand Schumer’s head as pre-requisite for the future peace talks?

Posted by: Boo | Mar 16 2022 1:23 utc | 267

@ Richard Steven Hack | Mar 16 2022 1:03 utc | 251… thanks… yes – that is how i see this… cia propaganda exercise that is bullshit..

Posted by: james | Mar 16 2022 1:26 utc | 269

He is nearly there.
There IS a single over arching string.
What we are witnessing is collapse of empire.
Yes they have lifetimes.
It’s nothing new.
The Roman phase is known as the ‘Dominate’
Many petty Caesars arise in the end internecine days
as the empire fails to subjugate the rest of the world.
Their praetorians become king makers and controllers.
Ultimately the empire disappears into ignomy leaving cultural artefacts.
These who owned and financed the imperialists move on to the next empire.
This time it is different. Because their footholds in the New aren’t secured. They are panicked.
They are close to doing something stupid. But I doubt they will. They are trying to do what China did.
500 years ago when that empire met the Other.
They retreated behind a wall. A purdah.
Didn’t work out that well for them did it?
In these historical terms is where we are.
In a generation or two people will look back upon it as the idiots of tge C21st who were trying to pretend they were still in the C20th or earlier.
Rome is a nice place to visit and so will be DC and its monuments.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Mar 16 2022 1:26 utc | 271

Max Blumenthal & Aaron Mate, interviewing Col Doug Macgregor on the topic of Ukraine war and where the US gov is at in relation to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFngc_8RiVc
(~55min interview)

Posted by: ptb | Mar 16 2022 1:31 utc | 273

@ Boo | Mar 16 2022 1:23 utc | 258 with the US Senate resolution calling Putin bad names
I am reminded that once or more during each congress the puppets pass resolutions reaffirming changing the original US motto from E Pluribus Unum to In Gawd We Trust in the early 50’s to fight “godless communism”.
SSDD Same Shit, Different Day

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 16 2022 1:38 utc | 275

So much for the “mercenary army”… These news sources are sketchy, but supposedly he was killed within twenty minutes of entering combat without even firing a shot.
The world’s top sniper “Wall-E” was killed in Ukraine, the details of the death were exposed: it’s just too high-profile
https://inf.news/en/military/a91b3625b767370c55d3f0b9ff269782.html
Is Canadian Sniper Wali Dead? Who killed Sniper in Ukraine?
https://absolutegeneralnews.com/is-canadian-sniper-wali-dead-who-killed-sniper-in-ukraine/

In fact, Wall-E was already targeted by the Russian army as soon as he got off the plane. Later, when Wall-E was transferred to the base, he was locked by the satellite. After the Russian army made a precise bombing, Wall-E was killed in action.

Exactly. As Martyanov says, “If we see you, we can kill you. And we can see you.” Sniping Afghans is one thing – sitting under a Kaliber missile strike another.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 16 2022 1:48 utc | 277

Don Bacon | Mar 15 2022 15:13 utc | 13
Don I think Lang will ban you now like he banged me, I know he reads this blog

Posted by: Kooshy | Mar 16 2022 1:59 utc | 279

Below is a link to the latest posting at Wall Street on Parade about why a false flag would be convenient to sweep another example of rules-based-order versus law-based-order under the rug
5-Count Felon JPMorgan Is at the Center of a New, Multi-Billion Dollar Trading Scandal
Tomorrow’s opening back up of the LME market for nickel is something of a side show if, indeed, the China/Russia axis is going to create a currency backed by resources. Those included in the currency definition will see significant increase, IMO.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 16 2022 2:02 utc | 281

The fake news is that the Russian effort is “stalling” causing a chemical “false flag” . . .from DOD. . .
NATO Chief: There Will Be ‘High Price to Pay’ for Russian Use of Chemical Weapons

“They are making absurd claims about biological labs and chemical weapons in Ukraine,” said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who spoke today during a press conference in advance of tomorrow’s meeting of NATO countries’ defense ministers. “This is just another lie. And we are concerned that Moscow could stage a false flag operation, possibly including chemical weapons.”
Stoltenberg said Russia has already staged “false flag” operations within Ukraine to justify its actions there. A false flag operation is a hostile action made to appear as if it were perpetrated by another party, then used to justify other aggressive actions.
“We have seen that they, throughout this crisis, have tried to create different kinds of false flag operations to try to provide excuses for use of force,” Stoltenberg said. “We saw that in the lead-up to the intervention. And now we are seeing them accusing Ukraine and also NATO allies of producing and developing chemical weapons, and that’s an absolute lie.” . . .here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 16 2022 2:04 utc | 283

@Posted by: james | Mar 16 2022 0:19 utc | 239
The plucky politicos meeting Zelensky “in Kyiv” reminds me of the “Capricorn One” movie about a NASA mission “to Mars.” The photos of the daring leaders betray a bit of grim desperation. Easy to understand why, of course: to maintain the narrative, the Mission Controller ends up by having to hunt down the astronauts who have become surplus to requirements…

Posted by: Cortes | Mar 16 2022 2:07 utc | 285

@Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 16 2022 0:40 utc | 246
Aaron Mate at the Grayzone has been outstanding in pursuing the OPCW coverup. I didn’t follow that as closely as I might have, due to the Ukraine crisis, but I have seen him many times on Jimmy Dore and I subscribe to his Substack. Highly recommended. He’s one of the few people who seems to have some intellectual integrity.
I could not agree more, the Grayzone is one of my go to places for analysis, and Aaron certainly does show the integrity lacking in so many other “journalists”. The OPCW coverup is a huge story that has been hidden by the MSM, it certainly destroys the legitimacy of all the “Russia poisoning” stories so supported by the OPCW.

Posted by: Roger | Mar 16 2022 2:09 utc | 287

Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 16 2022 2:04 utc | 274
I really wish, even at the risk of WWIII, that Russia would drop a Zircon on Stoltenberg… And Josep Borrell, too. These two morons, as Mercouris said, are directly responsible for this war. All they had to do was say, “No NATO for Ukraine – ever”… “They just had one job…”

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 16 2022 2:11 utc | 289

Kooshy,
I was just reflecting on the fact that the US public believes, wrongly, that the new weapons that Russia has in it’s arsenal are just a bluff.
They have been led to believe that their AD system is good when it is not.
This makes it more likely that we will reach the nuclear weapons stage.

Posted by: CarlD | Mar 16 2022 2:16 utc | 291

Ukraine scored a hit today. They destroyed at least 4 Russian helicopters at the Kherson airport.

Ukraine Strikes Back: Barrage Leaves Russian-Occupied Kherson Airbase In Flames
A satellite image The War Zone has obtained from Planet Labs confirms that Ukrainian forces have damaged and destroyed a number of Russian helicopters, and caused other damage, in an attack on Kherson Airbase in the southern part of the country today. This is the second major Ukrainian attack in as many weeks on this base.
The image, portions of which are seen below, was taken at 11:35 AM UTC, or 1:35 PM local time on March 15th, 2022. Multiple large fire sources, including a number of burning helicopters, can be clearly seen on one of the base’s main ramps.

Ukraine claimed that a previous strike at the same airport destroyed 30 helicopters. The real number was far less.

Posted by: Petri Krohn | Mar 16 2022 2:28 utc | 293

Don I think Lang will ban you now like he banged me, I know he reads this blog
Posted by: Kooshy | Mar 16 2022 1:59 utc | 270
Well put a bandage on the orifice he banged you and say what you think here. b’s a german officer and we all say heil hitler. Martyanov is just across the road and all you have to do there is say nyet. Apart from that, if you are military it would be good to have your opinions. I remember you from the the old farts site.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 16 2022 2:33 utc | 295

The Puppet talk is as good as any I’ve ever encountered.
But Putin and Xi are real leaders, not autocrats.
Lee Kwan Yew explained with his customary clarity:
“Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.
“This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks.
“Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and the trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, the wrong the right.
“In a country where opinion has sway, to seize upon it, is to seize upon power.
“As it is a rule of humanity that the upright and well-intentioned are comparatively passive, while the designing, dishonest, and selfish are the most untiring in their efforts, the danger of public opinion’s getting a false direction is four-fold, since few men think for themselves.”

Posted by: Godfree Roberts | Mar 16 2022 2:53 utc | 297

What angered Moscow? Some history from a TheHill opinion contributor. . .
There was the promise of Russian-bordering Ukraine joining NATO. Progress toward that goal was marked by Ukraine’s acceptance in the NATO-affiliated North Atlantic Cooperation Council in 1991; NATO’s Partnership for Peace program in 1994; the NATO-Ukraine Commission in 1997; and the 2008 statement that NATO “welcomes Ukraine’s and Georgia’s … aspirations for membership and agreed that these countries will become members of NATO.”
So this was not a sudden issue, it was a thirty year assault against Russian security.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 16 2022 2:54 utc | 299