I tried to watch / read most of todays media in Germany – it’s basically full spectrum brainwashing, lies, lies, lies… so why are they doing that?
Two things come to my mind:
a) they need support of the masses because the sanctions will hit us hard too
b) they are preparing us to an involvement of NATO

Posted by: zet | Mar 3 2022 19:25 utc | 203

Putin’s latest speech: everything in Ukraine “on schedule”.
The beauty of not Tweeting everything is that it enables flexibility.

Posted by: c1ue | Mar 3 2022 19:29 utc | 205

Idiocrates 172,
Appreciate the intelligent response.
I read what you wrote. You are saying that only the Present exists and not the Past nor the Future. This is the opposite of what I understand to be true. Therefore, in your initial response, you would have been more accurate in your assessment to say that my understanding is completely wrong rather than what you did say, which was, that my understanding wasn’t “exactly right.” Maybe that’s you in polite-mode, I don’t know, but I’m inclined to think that group analysis is better off if we all just mean what we say.
Let’s put your link into context. Those experiments took place in the 70s and 80s, when quantum physics had yet to become a mature field. We now know that there is no collapsing of the wave function in vivo (in nature). These experimental conclusions were completely dependent on the hypothesis that particles materially exist just because when we filter our observations of Reality theough mechanical machinery lo and behold the machinery interprets Reality as mechanistic. Lol. Surprise surprise. And so nerdy man, in his 1980s honeymoon period with computers WANTS to have his cake and eat it too, so he decides the ‘photon’ is a real thing, because that’s what the machine ‘sees’ in freeze-frame, as well as the previously accepted, KISS-principled, actual truth that light is a wave function. So nerdy honeymoon man comes up with the ridiculous notion that there is a fundamental duality to Reality.
(You said that you believe duality has since been confirmed. What is your evidence?)
This era of early quantum physics was the field going through its growing pains, not yet having shed the establishmentarian
and childish scientific materialism of the preceding era. Now quantum physics makes it clear that all quanta is energy.
Energy, by definition, is a continuum. A dynamic continuum.
The now-mature field of quantum physics has shown with it’s much more powerful machines and supercomputers, that no amount of magnification or processing power can collapse the universal Wavefunction; therefore, Reality is Energy.
But that’s not all, obviously. We cannot just say that Reality is Energy alone, because reality is highly organized. So we MUST acknowledge an organizing function. In the West we generally refer to that function as Consciousness. The animists of our universal human heritage referred to the organizing function as some variation of “the great spirit in the sky,” the sky meaning Energy, and comprising both the Sky and Earth. Earth and Sky : different energy (frequencies, and organization of frequency), same consciousness.
Again, energy is a dynamic continuum, and continuums have no parts, and therefore no stopping and starting points. THIS is why the human mental construct of ‘time’ does not objectively exist. And, by extension, this is why the ‘Present’ does not exist. What man mistakes for the Present is of course the immediate Past.
And what exactly is the Past? Well, if reality itself is just energy in symbiosis with that which animates energy — consciousness — then the past is simply the Collective Applied (to energy) Consciousness that we can see has already visibly energized the local universe, because it’s right there in front of our eyes. Right? What we take in with our five senses is simply a continual update of the conscious continuum in our immediate vicinity, so that our consciousness can know how to continue to act upon our energy.
We can KNOW that the Past exists because the evidence that applied consciousness — Life — leaves an imprint on the universe, that Life constitutes a universal memory is everywhere: dinosaur fossils are still taking up space in the universe are they not? Indeed they are. The mineral remnants of their PAST living, biological phase of applied consciousness still persist! Therefore the Past exists.
We can know that the Future exists because the Past cannot be the Past without a future to draw from so as to add to the Past that is always growing in front of our eyes.
It should, then, be no surprise why the establishment has pushed the false religion of the ‘Present’ onto the mind of man. The more lost man is, the easier he is to control.

Posted by: reante | Mar 3 2022 19:34 utc | 207

transmitting real-time information about Russian troops to Ukraine.
Posted by: WJ | Mar 3 2022 19:32 utc | 207
—
An hilariously stupid admission.

Posted by: too scents | Mar 3 2022 19:41 utc | 209

drshivago 201,
In attempting to bargain with the Big Lie you are regurgitating the Big Lie.
The US consumes about 20mbpd.
Has the US and Canada EVER produced the 20mbpd required to become independent?
Will it ever?
The US is a net exporter of refined petroleum but that’s another thing altogether.

Posted by: reante | Mar 3 2022 19:45 utc | 211

@Kooshy | Mar 3 2022 16:18 utc | 97
You flatter yourself.
Europe at the end of the day is just a peninsula sticking out from eurasia. It’s at the far end of the traditional silk road, but not the silk road in and of itself. As such, brI will work just fine with the rest of the world connected. It’s better with europe thrown in. But if they opt out, it’s their loss.

Posted by: cindy6 | Mar 3 2022 19:48 utc | 213

While Russia may win this war, it has been exposed as a much weaker military than it pretended (or believed) to be.
The loss of hundreds of ground vehicles, destroyed or abandoned, as well as dozens of planes and helicopters (and that’s only what has been captured on video!), the massive amount of casualties that necessarily derive from those losses, the 40 km traffic jam that would have been bombed into oblivion by any country with a large and competent airforce, Russia’s inability to secure the skies for all this time, as evidenced by the preference for low-level flying… all this is embarrassing. For Russia, of course, but also for all the pro-Russian commentators such as the Saker et al., who have been exposed as true believers in the best case, along with their audiences who are currently repeating autistic mantras based on the terms “nazis” and “banderastan” to make themselves feel better, or as clowns in the worst case, as they live in denial, and can’t face the fact that all their predictions have been wrong.
Ukraine didn’t fold. The government didn’t escape. Ukrainians support their armed forces. Russia did not destroy the Ukrainian capability to fight and organize with long-range fires. Russian troops on the ground accumulate blunder after blunder, and seem utterly unprepared on many levels.
Russia, the only military superpower on the planet? After this embarrassment?
I believed it, too. But the proof is in the pudding.
Now, I just hope that the bloodshed won’t be too extreme.

Posted by: Eeny | Mar 3 2022 19:51 utc | 215

Update on second round of talks.
“During the second round of talks in Belarus on Thursday, Moscow and Kiev agreed on mechanisms to establish routes via which to evacuate civilians from combat zones in Ukraine.
“The parties have reached an understanding on the joint establishment of humanitarian corridors with a temporary ceasefire. Russia and Ukraine will soon create channels of communication and cooperation to organize these corridors,” Ukrainian presidential aide Mikhail Podolyak said.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 3 2022 19:52 utc | 217

Moldovan President, Maia Sandu graduated from Harvard, worked as an advisor to the World Bank and her native tongue is Romanian. In 2016 she lost the presidential race to a pro-Russian 52 to 48, but in 2020 she won 58 to 42. You have to admire the skill that the US has in co-opting foreign state functionaries! She is all for joining the EU and against giving Transnistria independence.

Posted by: Roger | Mar 3 2022 19:56 utc | 219

Interesting bit here about the idea of confiscating all Boeing AND (!) Airbus aircraft used by Russian airlines. I think they should do it. It will be a welcome relief for the Russian airlines, you know, not having to spend any more foreign currency on leasing payments.
Seems clear that in the mid term, they will have to switch to either Russian or Chinese jets. Those sanctions won’t be taken back any time soon. Once Russian commercial airliners like the Irkut MC-21 and Sukhoi Superjet 100 are out there flying in sufficient numbers, the Russians should take things one step further. In addition to closing their airspace for companies from EU/NATO countries, they should also bar any Boeing and Airbus jets from entering or crossing their airspace. No matter who the owner might be. What do they have to loose with such a measure? The market share of Irkut or Sukhoi is zero, it can only go up with such an incentive for other countries to also buy some Russian planes. It would be funny if, in such a scenario, Russia might get the Iranians on board, too. Iran’s airlines have very old fleets. They were longing to buy replacements from Boeing and Airbus with a successful JCPOA. Those plans turned out to be idle dreams, as we know. So why not give them excellent terms for buying modern Russian jets, in exchange for Iran closing its airspace to those old Boeing and Airbus planes? I’d really like to see European business men trying to get to their business partners in China or Korea in a timely fashion while having to avoid Russia, Ukraine, Afghanistan and Iran on their way!
Last thought: I’d love for B to perhaps write something about Russia’s or China’s commercial aircraft projects! You know, since we got this excellent coverage of the Boing MAX disaster from him.

Posted by: Scotch Bingeington | Mar 3 2022 20:06 utc | 221

Eeny | 216
Here is another “US experts say Russia is failing” article for you:
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220303-us-experts-militarily-the-russian-invasion-is-a-disaster-so-far

Posted by: Keith McClary | Mar 3 2022 20:10 utc | 223

You know what Americans fear most besides not being the greatest power on earth and in space?
1. Mass immigration, and
2. A weak, sinking dollar (In god we trust, god being $$$!)
The EU and Canada have stupidly suffered all the refugee problems the U.S. and Israel created with these two washing blood off their hands together.
Idem for the mass Ukrainian exodus, because this problem was also constructed by hostile U.S. policy.
The ultimate understated goal of U.S. policy beyond destroying multipolarity is to sink the EURO and keep Europe and also Canada harnessed to the U.S. on every level.
If The U.S. succeeds in weakening Russia; China will topple like a house of cards.
Who’s the real Evil Empire?
The key to destroying the U.S. lies with immigration and the economy.
Whichever power can devise a plan to inflict either of the above 2 on U.S. holds an Ace to defeating the Empire.

Posted by: Circe | Mar 3 2022 20:18 utc | 225

@Posted by: Scotch Bingeington | Mar 3 2022 20:06 utc | 222
The Chinese jets, regional one already getting delivered. The bigger C919 still in flight trials
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-aviation-comac-idUSKBN23Z03G
The Russo-Chinese wide body 929 is scheduled for a release date of 2028. The Russian sanctions will concentrate the minds to deliver sooner. The Superjet 100 is already out there, the Irkut-21 is scheduled for deliveries the year, both regional jets.
The West worked hard to stop these being developed, forcing the production companies to domestically source more and more. If they get successful, Airbus and Boeing have a problem in the Res of the World.

Posted by: Roger | Mar 3 2022 20:21 utc | 227

Is it true that Aidar Battalion was routed, went dissolved/extinct and its commander General Maxim Marchenko became governor of the Cherkassy or Odessa region? (as per voltair network)
And were was operating?

Posted by: LeoSam | Mar 3 2022 20:37 utc | 229

turns out that huge 630 billion USD war chest accumulated to support Russia against sanctions was not all in Russia. Turns out they were keeping approx. half in western banks. Brilliant. Remember follow the Leader, he is always right. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/banks-are-stopping-putin-from-tapping-a-630-billion-war-chest-russia-stockpiled-before-invading-ukraine/ar-AAUxE3T?ocid=msedgntp

Posted by: wobblie | Mar 3 2022 20:43 utc | 231

@Scotch Bingeington | Mar 3 2022 20:06 utc | 222
@Roger | Mar 3 2022 20:21 utc | 228
China’s C919, Which competes directly with boeing 737 and airbus 320, is in the certification process right now. In fact, its first delivery was due last year, but certification was delayed, most likely because of potential US sanctions on aircraft engines and some of its key Chinese suppliers. Last time I checked it already had over 800 orders on hand. The main obstacle at certification being obviously the faa. But then boeing 737max is still being grounded in China. So that’s a card China can play.

Posted by: cindy6 | Mar 3 2022 20:44 utc | 233

John Helmer over at johnhelmer.net has a lot of good info. Someone has probably given you that link, but it bears mentioning in case someone hasn’t.

Posted by: Manage without me | Mar 3 2022 20:46 utc | 235

Lots of one sided war propaganda and disinfo spreading best taking a break form this crap. I fear this wont end well, shame on the war crazies, shame on the mess.

Posted by: Hannibal | Mar 3 2022 20:51 utc | 237

Posted by: wobblie | Mar 3 2022 20:43 utc | 232
Putting reserves in foreign banks is certainly stupid as fuck.
For some unfathomable reason a lot of countries do it.

Posted by: Misotheist | Mar 3 2022 20:54 utc | 239

Replying to myself at Posted by: zet | Mar 3 2022 20:44 utc | 233
I should have mentioned that the absolute fiasco for the US of Evil would have been a quick win for Putin. But I think that’s off the table by now…

Posted by: zet | Mar 3 2022 20:55 utc | 241

@Eeny
I think you’re a bit too negative, but I’m far from thinking the same as you. On the other hand it seems logical to assume that Russia didn’t commit its best troops and kept the numbers limited. I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. But yes I also was more optimistic and the past days have been kind of a disillusionment for me.
However don’t forget the famous saying of Moltke, no plan survives first contact with the enemy. And throughout centuries, every army considered best in the world at the time experienced setbacks. The Prussian army was considered traditionally best in the world in 1806, and suffered an absolutely crushing defeat at Iena. Perhaps the most clear example of total dominance was the Great Army of Napoleon, but even it suffered defeats, usually when Napoléon wasn’t commanding itself. And in Spain it suffered an humiliating defeat against the Spaniards and the English, in a situation which resembles quite a bit the Russia-Ukraine one (Russia = France, Spain = Ukraine, UK = NATO).
Perhaps the conclusion is that in the past years we’ve all drunk too much Kool-aid. No army is a perfect set of übermenschen, and reality has a way of being unexpected. However I think Russians will handle it and are used to hardship.

Posted by: Micron | Mar 3 2022 20:56 utc | 243

“Russia is embarrassing its own military with this PR exercise. 500 dead soldiers in couple of days is just the complete tail of dead American soldiers after 15 years in Afganistan. After 8 days Ukros still shelling Donbass? And now they are talking about ceasefire probably because they are afraid what the Guardian or the Washington Post will write about them? I think Russia at the end will get participation trophy and special kind of stupid award. PCR is right, just shut up and do the job.
Posted by: donnie | Mar 3 2022 20:49 utc | 237”
In Afghanistan USA just did what it’s doing best, carpet-bombing the whole country and offshoring the dirty work to allied tribes, CIA black ops teams, and Blackwater mercenaries. What about Iraq ?

Posted by: Micron | Mar 3 2022 20:59 utc | 245

Individuals try to obtain the facts from untrusted sources are particulary subject to manipultation.
Perhaps more so than from recognized proganda of whom at least one can say with fair confidence that they are lying if they are awake and communicating.

Posted by: jared | Mar 3 2022 21:00 utc | 247

@Posted by: jared | Mar 3 2022 21:00 utc | 248
For his part, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recalled that he is Jewish and therefore cannot be a Nazi.
Except when Nazis hold torches to his feet. Then he dances like a Nazi.
In 2019 Zelensky moved to implement the Minsk Accord.
He had a visit from Azov and C14, who made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.
Zelensky backed off. And here we are today.

Posted by: librul | Mar 3 2022 21:07 utc | 249

Not sure the term “fungible” applies.
But Russia will reduce sales of oil to us/eu. Which will cause prices to rise. But China will get good deal from Russia – reducing China demand from other sources. Which will free those resources to be sold to us/eu.
The primary difference would be supply costs.

Posted by: jared | Mar 3 2022 21:09 utc | 251

I just watched the map of the situation in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions and for the life of me i can’t understand why are the Ukrainians not pulling back?
They are almost completely surrounded some of them right now don’t have a change to get out.

Posted by: Ranko | Mar 3 2022 21:11 utc | 253

Ukrainian Nazis have been in cahoots with US-sponsored “moderate terrorists” from the get-go. When Nuland-Kagan, a ziocon from the Kagans’ clan, was organizing regime change in Kiev in 2014, she relied on “White Fuhrers” Biletski, Yarosh, and Parubij.
Nuland-Kagan brought to Kieve cookies and $5 billion to buy collaborators among the leading Nazis, who eventually have sold Ukraine and Ukrainians to US Ziocons and profiteers like Biden and his son Hunter. https://www.voltairenet.org/article215935.html

Chechnya governor Ramzan Kadyrov announced the seizure of the largest Ukrainian military base by a Chechen regiment. Traditionally the Chechens are considered to be outstanding fighters.
Kadyrov also promised a $500,000 reward for the capture of Ukrainian Nazi leaders who arrived in Chechnya to fight with jihadists from the Islamic Emirate of Ichkeria.
On 8 May 2007 in Ternopol (western Ukrainia), the neo-Nazi Dmytro Yarosh, current special adviser to the Ukrainian military forces commander, had organized, together with Emir Dokou Oumarov, a congress to seal the alliance between European neo-Nazis and Middle Eastern jihadists against Russia.

Posted by: Cerena | Mar 3 2022 21:13 utc | 255

@wobblie | Mar 3 2022 20:43 utc | 232
@Misotheist | Mar 3 2022 20:54 utc | 240
you Need to get some basic education in finance.
Keeping reserves in foreign banks is an absolute necessity if you want to conduct international trade, especially when your own national currency is not accepted Globally.

Posted by: cindy6 | Mar 3 2022 21:15 utc | 257

@229 Circe
When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say. That is what the West has done to RT showing their weakness, I say let the CNN idiot open his mouth and prove he is a complete and utter moron to the world.

Posted by: TJ | Mar 3 2022 21:17 utc | 259

“Putting reserves in foreign banks is certainly stupid as fuck.
For some unfathomable reason a lot of countries do it.
Posted by: Misotheist | Mar 3 2022 20:54 utc”
It’s called Globalism.

Posted by: reante | Mar 3 2022 21:18 utc | 261

Posted by: S | Mar 3 2022 20:11 utc | 225

Russian humanitarian convoy with food arrives in Melitopol, Zaporozhskaya (Zaporizhska) Oblast

Here they are.
The guy reported yesterday that they are running out of food and boom.

Posted by: hopehely | Mar 3 2022 21:19 utc | 263

Posted by: c1ue | Mar 3 2022 16:05 utc | 84
Well put.

Posted by: Patroklos | Mar 3 2022 21:24 utc | 265

@Eeny #216:

The loss of hundreds of ground vehicles, destroyed or abandoned, as well as dozens of planes and helicopters (and that’s only what has been captured on video!)…

None of this happened.
One Russian helicopter was hit and fell into Kiev Reservoir (“Kiev Sea”). Another was damaged, but managed to land safely. That’s two Russian helicopters out of service.
Zero Russian planes were downed or damaged—unless you count footage from DCS combat flight simulation game that Ukrainians tried to pass off as real. One has to be an absolute moron to believe the story of the “Ghost of Kiev” who has supposedly downed 30 Russian planes over Kiev, according to an article in Ukrainian Wikipedia. Zero evidence of these “victories” has been demonstrated. In reality, Ukrainian air defense has downed just one plane: their own Ukrainian Su-27, which they downed over Kiev suburbs by mistake on February 25th (photos, video).
Ukrainians (or those who are helping them) are using video compositing software to make videos pushing the “myriad destroyed Russian vehicles” narrative: example 1, example 2, example 3.

…autistic mantras based on the terms “nazis”…

A government that erects monuments to Nazi collaborators, renames streets after Nazi collaborators, teaches school kids how “awesome” those Nazi collaborators were, never mentions how those Nazi collaborators helped Germans murder 1.5 million Soviet Jews in the Ukraine, guarded concentration camps in Poland with European Jews (4.5 million murdered), Soviet POWs (3 million murdered) and others, murdered entire Belarussian villages on mere suspicions of helping Soviet partisans, etc.—that’s a government of Nazis.

Russian troops on the ground accumulate blunder after blunder, and seem utterly unprepared on many levels.

Only on Western and Ukrainian TV.
Conclusion: you are a stupid moron with zero critical thinking skills.

Posted by: S | Mar 3 2022 21:28 utc | 267

librul 245
“That “Stone Age” remark is a favorite of Zios, who constantly want to throw Lebanon or Iran or Syria
back to the Stone Age.”
That’s a canonical piece in their literary oevre of Orwellian propaganda.
The stone age, of course, was the golden age of Man. When modern humans just like us (99pc of our human ancestry) lived on this planet choosing not to lord their evolutionary advantage over all other species. Choosing not to farm. Choosing to earn their place within the ecology.
As diametrically opposed to the herding culture in question, that went from the legitimate earning of a subsistence pastoralism of herding goats to the illegitimate herding of people via merchant banking monopolies.

Posted by: reante | Mar 3 2022 21:33 utc | 269

@Roger #220:

She is all for joining the EU and against giving Transnistria independence.

She also has Romanian citizenship and is a Unionist—she wants Moldova to become part of Romania.

Posted by: S | Mar 3 2022 21:36 utc | 271

@Kadath #243:

At the very least, we can expect a replay of the Afghanistan disgrace, with the West sanctioning it’s former “friends” the people of Ukraine, confiscating the Ukrainian central bank reserves, banning transactions, forming a government in exile and attempting to bank roll a terrorist insurgency in the middle of Europe.

That’s exactly what they’re going to do.

Posted by: S | Mar 3 2022 21:38 utc | 273

@Ranko | Mar 3 2022 21:11 utc | 254

I just watched the map of the situation in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions and for the life of me i can’t understand why are the Ukrainians not pulling back?
They are almost completely surrounded some of them right now don’t have a change to get out.

They are surrounded, except for a corridor in the back, and there is no way to get through that corridor and not get hit by heavy weapons.
This is classic Russian military strategy. For all practical purposes the game is already over there.

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 3 2022 21:41 utc | 275

I’m trying to understand the world in which I live, not to cheer for X or Y.
Posted by: Eeny | Mar 3 2022 21:15 utc | 259
But the point is to change it.
1) Killing nazis is objectively good (although reeducating them is objectively better)
2) Many people have historical reasons not to side with the NATO for any reason whatsoever.
3) Sanctions and their effects are the responsibility of whomever enacted them.

Posted by: Misotheist | Mar 3 2022 21:42 utc | 277

and p.s.
It’s really something to listen to Lavrov talk about double standards.
Did not Russia and China agree to subject Iran to completely BS “double standards” regarding Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities? But back then Russia still wishfully talked about “our Western partners”. I noted today Lavrov has downgraded them to “colleagues”.
Who said it here that the only reality is “force”? And shills like you have been selling the snake oil of Russia as some sort of holier than everyone else b.s. Enough.

Posted by: they_all_lie | Mar 3 2022 21:42 utc | 279

@Emily Dickinson #253:

For what? To continue making themselves pawns in a game that is not to their benefit and promises only endless misery? What kind of derangement makes such self-destruction possible? Nationalism? Delusions of importance (to the West)? Hatred of Russia?

All of the above. That’s Ukrainian Nationalism for you. They never cared about the Ukraine and Ukrainians. They only care about hurting Russia as much as possible. It’s basically a Russia-hating cult.

Posted by: S | Mar 3 2022 21:47 utc | 281

i’ve recently started looking at the saker and moa again after a break and there’s been some decent analysis but i keep seeing “russia has lost the propaganda war”
1. too soon to tell.
2. only if you give half a shit about what the “average westerner”* “thinks”. the cold war, then syria, then (especially) “russiagate” have worn away any tolerance or nuance that could have been engendered by adults running the show or even just basic f_cking gratitude to the people who actually stopped the actual nazis.
it’s – as with anything important – a question of “quantity” vs “quality”. a billion people saying “2 + 2 = 5” doesn’t make it so. they may “win” approval of others idiots but that’s only a “victory” in the tardsphere of social media.
*most redundant phrase ever.
3. i’ve noticed in pretty much any intrawestern slap fights over the 1% of shit they disagree on either side will trot out “the right side of history”. it’s almost always someone for whom history “ends” at the last date they deleted old texts.
i’m guessing putin will be seen as preventing a world war by staging a regional skirmish. but then i’m only basing that on the several centuries of world history i’m aware of.
for now, even some usually mature observers/columnists/trey parkers have been reduced to pathologizing someone they’ve never met. “putin’s crazy and his pecker don’t work lol”

Posted by: the pair | Mar 3 2022 21:50 utc | 283

Posted by: Ranko | Mar 3 2022 21:11 utc | 254
I just watched the map of the situation in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions and for the life of me i can’t understand why are the Ukrainians not pulling back?
They are almost completely surrounded some of them right now don’t have a change to get out.

They, as well as Kiev are Russia’s leverage/bargaining chips. If Zelensky/Western puppet-masters don’t do a deal then Russia will command all to lay down weapons or they will be taken out. Pretty simple to have seen this plan unfolding (well, if you can See).

Posted by: Seer | Mar 3 2022 21:55 utc | 285

@ cindy6 | Mar 3 2022 21:28 utc | 269
I agree.
But I suggest contract price in gold – currency is whatever.

Posted by: jared | Mar 3 2022 22:01 utc | 287

@aquadraht | Mar 3 2022 21:43 utc | 281
Sources: https://t.me/voenkorKotenok/31879
(machine translated)

“General Wenk” is not coming.
According to insiders in Lvov, Zelensky’s demands to redeploy part of the 50,000-strong West military group, which consists of fairly combat-ready and well-armed units, to the most threatening Kiev and Odessa directions have not been met by the Ukrainian General Staff.
The source suggests that this was due to fears over the possible activity of “allies” such as Hungary and Poland, who might encroach on the land that had become derelict.
However, it is more likely that Zelensky’s order was “vetoed” by US advisers who have plans to create a “Ukrainian state” in Ukraine’s western regions.

The bit about partition: https://t.me/voenkorKotenok/31874
The map is self describing. text tells:

Ridovka writes interestingly, (https://t.me/readovkanews/27240) that we already smell the partition of Ukraine. We wrote a long time ago that in our opinion NATO troops will enter Lviv, the Russian Armed Forces will enter Kiev and that will be the end of it. We have no information, but we think the spheres of influence were defined along this line:
1 – US (EU and NATO)
2 – Russia and Belarus

Posted by: aquadraht | Mar 3 2022 22:03 utc | 289

@Posted by: lulu | Mar 3 2022 22:02 utc | 289
Read and saved.
Thx

Posted by: librul | Mar 3 2022 22:13 utc | 291

One possible upside I see : fronts can be non-linear. In other words once you go past a critical threshold of tiredness and lack of supplies, entire lines of defense can crumble. That’s the story of the Werhmacht in 43-44 where lines were sprayed thin and the Soviets were able to bring a huge amount of firepower with Bagration.
So I can see a distinct possibility that the combativity of the Ukie troops may suddenly snap once they abandon all hope of being succoured by NATO and if Russia tightens the vice. That’s the kind of major strategic shock that would impress western minds.
Another thing : quite cynically, it would be good to let especially Mariupol stew for a while, and try to get as many videos of the Azov guys as possible. I have a Moroccan friend who learned about what Moroccan students had to endure from the neonazis, she’s fully aware of these creatures.

Posted by: Micron | Mar 3 2022 22:16 utc | 293

It is all just so blind and self-defeating–breathtaking in its brutal stupidity. It’s as if the very idea of taking responsibility for peace is pure anathema. This is not how adults with other people’s lives in their hands should ever act.
Posted by: Emily Dickinson | Mar 3 2022 21:10 utc | 253
well put. i am constantly surprised at how surprised i am at the inhumanity of the ruling class

Posted by: Rae | Mar 3 2022 22:18 utc | 295

@jared | Mar 3 2022 21:00 utc | 248
Individuals try to obtain the facts from untrusted sources are particulary subject to manipultation.
I think you kind of nailed it there. I would go further and say:
Most are too used to trusting sources especially well-known ones by their brand equity, mistaking data as knowledge and therefore vulnerable to manipulation.
Others takes data from all sides, process it with how things are ACTUALLY developing on the ground and figures out the truth is somewhere in between. Unfortunately we are the minority.
My takeaway so far:
People are too used to shock&awe-let’s-steamroll-the-3rd-world-sand-people video game warfare, and calling Russian moves having stalled. Way too early to call that, childish needs of instant gratification.
For the first time in a long while people on the sideline actually seems to care about civilian casualties (shock horror). Highlighting the western double standards on the value of human lives. cough cough WHITE LIVES MATTER.
Non western whites are only tolerated in the west for their money. C’mon, really? LoL
Even nazis can be whitewashed, that’s a revelation! LoL
What should be apolitical institutions are all getting into the virtue signaling act.
Western whites know their gig is up having ruled for 3-400 years and are circling their wagons. Apologies if this sounds racial but if you zoom out a bit I don’t know how else you can call it. And it is clear to everyone outside the their orbit (of note, the Japanese have long considered that they are the whites of Asia, their words).
Any notion of fairness, freedom and human rights are just casus belli for geopolitical manoeuvres, that it sometimes pan out well is simply a convenient by-product.
i don’t doubt for a second the respect for fairness, freedom and human rights exists at the individual and community level, mainly during peacetime, definitely not at the geopolitical level.
China is riding on a free option. If things don’t go to plan for Russia it can play the diplomat. If it does it’ll be better for it. Either way it wins economically. If it’s ww3 then nothing matters anyway. That’s why USA is incessantly trying to make Taiwan into china’s ukraine.
The Russian war machine isn’t anywhere as well oiled, trained and equipped as zvesda would like you to think. On the other hand its orders of magnitude cheaper than its western counterparts. It also doesn’t need to call in a fire mission to destory equipment everytime it’s abandoned.
Taking out the trash is dirty work, and Russia is slowly getting the job done.

Posted by: A.L. | Mar 3 2022 22:21 utc | 297

WTF, the Ukes put out a video showing their forces, launching a barrage of missiles at Russian clusters.
Ukraine defence
Is this for real? Are these the hundreds of missiles they just got shipped from the U.S.?
If so, why didn’t the Russians track and intercept USNATO’s shipments?
They should be tracking and blowing every shipment sky-high from now on and remove every last bragging point the Ukes possess. I can’t believe this shit.

Posted by: Circe | Mar 3 2022 22:27 utc | 299