It’s so obvious that Ukraine and the EU are the sacrificial pawns in this U.S.-scripted tragedy and they just don’t get it. They’re just willingly throwing themselves on the altar of America ready to be eviscerated.
Currency predictions have the EURO tanking 15% over the next 4 years. I predict it’ll be worse. I predict financial disaster for the Eurozone.
One man’s loss is another man’s gain and the U.S. will exploit everyone’s misery and doesn’t have to bloody or dirty its hands. It can blame everything on Russia, the Villain in its script.
Don’t you get it world? America is a global predator. Don’t get sucked into its play!

Posted by: Circe | Mar 4 2022 2:59 utc | 404

Posted by: Richard Steven Hackr | Mar 4 2022 2:58 utc | 405
See my comment at 404. I still have no idea how these people imagine a US/NATO “intervention” is not going to eventuate in the annihilation of Europe, the US, and most of Russia.

Posted by: WJ | Mar 4 2022 3:01 utc | 406

Posted by: WJ | Mar 4 2022 2:55 utc | 404
“I feel we are really at a very precarious position now.”
We are. I don’t think the Pentagon wants to do this because at least some of them realize what it means. But the question is can they talk down the neocons who are pushing this. It’s been the neocons all along behind this Ukrainian mess since Nuland was handing out cookies in 2014.
Russia knows this, which is why it put its nuclear forces on alert – to send a message to the Pentagon that direct intervention would be a really bad idea. Sergei Lavrov has also issued a stark warning.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hackr | Mar 4 2022 3:02 utc | 408

This piece sums up my annoyance at so many of the “left” who have come out against Russia:
The Hypocrisy of a Leftist “No to War” that Comes too Late
“I am writing this trying to contain the rage and indignation I feel at the reactions of the Western left and society in general about the Russian counter-attack against Ukraine … Yesterday I saw the social networks full of NO TO WAR posters which have been cleaned of the almost 20 years of cobwebs since the war in Iraq. I could say that those same posters have been forgotten at the bottom of the drawer of infamy, while Israel massacred Palestine. While the U.S. ravaged Afghanistan, or Libya, in massive bombings that resulted in the deaths of more than 150,000 people, including thousands of children. Deaths which the US has refused to investigate. But to say all this, it would be too easy. I could say that when the media told you again, that as with Libya you had to intervene in Syria, you kept quiet while the US attacked a sovereign country and plundered its oil reserves … But I want to focus on the war that broke out in Ukraine in 2014, to which, your vapid posters are 8 years too late. Everyone can become absent-minded, we can all make mistakes, but it is also possible that there is something more perverse depending on the “oversights”.”
Highly eloquent spleen venting.

Posted by: Roger | Mar 4 2022 3:03 utc | 410

Still watching http://www.rt.com “on air” live feed here in south west Ontario. Feels like listening to Radio Free North America.

Posted by: Roger | Mar 4 2022 3:08 utc | 412

I collected my personal thoughts on all the articles I read, including MoA, and then injected some unofficial intel from my dark contents. You all might find it very interesting.
https://metallicman.com/mm-thoughts-about-war-in-the-ukraine/

Posted by: Rufus Arrr | Mar 4 2022 3:11 utc | 414

Posted by: Roger | Mar 4 2022 3:08 utc | 414
… only without the decent social and political ideology 😉

Posted by: Patroklos | Mar 4 2022 3:14 utc | 416

Putin comments on Russian offensive in Ukraine
https://www.rt.com/russia/551174-putin-ukraine-offensive-remarks/
“The offensive is proceeding strictly according to its “schedule,” Putin stressed, while admitting certain issues were experienced during the military operation. For instance, the Russian military has established safe corridors for Ukrainian civilians to escape the combat zone, yet local “neo-Nazi” forces and foreign “mercenaries” have been trying to prevent them from leaving, he said.
“Nationalist and neo-Nazi groups, foreign mercenaries, including those from the Middle East, are using civilians as human shields,” Putin stated. “As I’ve already said, there is absolutely objective data, photos of how they place heavy military equipment in residential areas of cities.”

Posted by: Richard Steven Hackr | Mar 4 2022 3:42 utc | 418

Thanks Roger.. I am also following that YouTube account for regular updates. I had no idea that translation could be done in the video itself. I was taking the entire transcript and translating it on other translator portals.

Posted by: AB17 | Mar 4 2022 3:45 utc | 420

Wow, Lindsey Graham just called for the assassination of President Putin, live on Fox TV and then tweeted it out. The Americans have gone totally insane, virtue signaling for domestic political gain is rendering the US utterly incapable of diplomacy. Graham might be able to delete the tweet, but he’ll never be able to walk this comment back, he is torching the US’s ability to de-escalate with Russia.

Posted by: Kadath | Mar 4 2022 3:50 utc | 422

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 4 2022 2:54 utc | 402

Israeli Jews, meet Chechens.

I expect they’ll take every opportunity to purge their ranks of everyone not of pure Ashkenazi bloodline.
As well as throw in a bunch of ‘jews’ from the ranks of ISIS in Syria …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 4 2022 3:58 utc | 424

@ Kadath | Mar 4 2022 3:50 utc | 424
Lindsey Graham — or, as I prefer to call him, Senator Beverley Leslie — is proof that hysteria isn’t limited to Freudian women, although the cause of the hysteria in both cases, namely, insufficient access to the male membrum virile, is no doubt the same.
Nor is he the type to walk back such a tweet.

Posted by: malenkov | Mar 4 2022 3:59 utc | 426

@Posted by: Roger | Mar 4 2022 3:03 utc | 412
Responding to myself, forgot to put the link to the article I quoted:
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2022/02/28/the-hypocrisy-of-a-leftist-no-to-war-that-comes-too-late/

Posted by: Roger | Mar 4 2022 3:59 utc | 428

Post from a commentator over at The Saker who’s been posting some useful comments in the last few days. He makes an excellent point about the “Russians are running out of food” bullcrap.
Nightvision on March 03, 2022 · at 3:11 pm EST/EDT
Dozens of videos coming out of Russian humanitarian deliveries of 30tons and more to various regions of Ukraine, just as they did in Syria.
https://twitter.com/gbazov/status/1499443837294583815
https://twitter.com/RWApodcast/status/1499261072787841025
https://twitter.com/gbazov/status/1499377082345873415
https://twitter.com/tassagency_en/status/1499316286366621697
Now remember, the propagandists in the West claim that “Russian army has completely run out of fuel and food”. So they’ve run out of food but are able to deliver 30 tons daily to various regions of Ukraine at a moment’s notice, to support the civilians that the Nazis have abandoned or are using as human shields?
This is a huge contradiction and debunking of Western media propaganda and lies. If Russia can send that many tons of aid to the furthest reaches of Ukraine, you can trust it is supplying its troops well.”

Posted by: Richard Steven Hackr | Mar 4 2022 4:04 utc | 430

Gleb Bazov report on Twitter:
Gleb Bazov @gbazov
#UKRAINE—Obviously drunk during a press-conference, #Zelensky pleads with #Putin to negotiate face to face (over a shot of vodka?), “not like #Macron, thirty meters away.” This a very strange display. A pitiful, but somehow comical caricature. #Russia #RussianUkrainianCrisis
https://twitter.com/i/status/1499440059837296643

Posted by: Richard Steven Hackr | Mar 4 2022 4:09 utc | 432

nakedcapitalism.com is running a thread on war and peace in Ukraine, some good but a lot (it seemed to me) less facing the realities that may soon be upon us. However, I stayed away from predicting such; just did my best to clear up a misconception about Putin’s aims for the Ukrainian army as he has indicated that. As I was typing it, that seemed to me a real possible plan for dealing with the situation at Mariupol, to make those troops aware of the ramifications of continuing to use civilians as hostages. My hope would be that they could offer something real in exchange for precious lives. Here’s my post:

The Russian objective is to have the Nazi element brought to trial much as were tried the perpetrators of war crimes at Nuremberg. There were crimes committed at the Maidan and at Odessa. Putin has said that they know the names of those who committed them. And now there will be added crimes against civilians if they are not released through the corridors provided by the Russians from the cities which are now surrounded.
I remember Putin congratulating the Ukranian army for not creating bloody conflicts when Crimea blockaded itself against the north. He is no doubt reaching out to such elements even now. We should also remember that even more than the US, Ukraine’s economy has been in bad shape BEFORE all this started. And finally, please remember Chechnya.

It was still waiting for moderation when I left.

Posted by: juliania | Mar 4 2022 4:18 utc | 434

Posted by: Roger | Mar 4 2022 4:08 utc | 433
Yup. The level of insanity in the MSM coverage of this is beyond anything I’ve ever seen in my 72 years. And it works because most people are ignorant of things like military operations.
I read a couple books years ago by a guy named Jim Dunnigan, who was a role-playing game developer who understood military matters because he researched it for his games. His profile is here: Jim Dunnigan – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Dunnigan
His books include:
Wargames Handbook: How to Play and Design Commercial and Professional Wargames, Third edition, 2000. ISBN 0595155464.
How To Make War: A Comprehensive Guide To Modern Warfare, first edition, 1983
How to Make War: A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Warfare for the Post-Cold War Era, 3rd edition, William Morrow, 1993. ISBN 0-688-12157-8.
How to Make War: A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Warfare in the Twenty-first Century, 4th edition, HarperCollins, 2003.
With Albert Nofi
Shooting Blanks: War Making That Doesn’t Work, 1991. ISBN 0-688-08947-X.
Medieval Life and the Hundred Years War (200,000 word online book, 1994)
Dirty Little Secrets of World War II: Military Information No One Told You About the Greatest, Most Terrible War in History, William Morrow, 1994. ISBN 0-688-12235-3.
and many more.
I read How To Make War and Dirty Little Secrets back in the day. Plus I’ve spent a fair amount of time reading about various conflicts over the years by military analysts, which gives me a slightly better perspective on the military than the average citizen. I’m no Andrei Martyanov but I can understand what he’s saying. So it’s apparent to me that the vast majority of this MSM stuff is just “out there beyond Pluto”, as a character said in one of the “Lethal Weapon” movies.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 4 2022 4:20 utc | 436

Further to senator Lindsey Graham’s recent call to assassinate Putin, I just noticed that this discussion at Council on Foreign Relations that was livestreamed this morning and it also brings up assassinating Putin (around the 43 min mark – note that CFR avoids using the A-word, although the tone about removing/eliminating him is crystal clear in it’s intention). No way that is a coincidence, Graham has spoken to the CFR numerous times and the Neo-Cons at the council must have been talking about this behind the scenes for sometime and now they are starting to tease the idea publicly. Graham is an idiot, but also a coward who never stuck his neck out on anything without the support of the backroom figures. They probably planted this idea in his head during their meetings and Graham embraced it full hog so he immediately spat it out the next time he was in front of the cameras.

Posted by: Kadath | Mar 4 2022 4:29 utc | 438

Another Nightvision post from The Saker:

Nightvision on March 03, 2022 · at 3:35 pm EST/EDT
Updates re: Mariupol
-Reports allege that RF troops coming from Crimea have slowed in order to first secure the northern flank, (thus all the reports of capturing Energodar, and Zaporizhizhia activity.
-Reports indicate Mariupol will not be stormed, despite last night’s attempt from both west/east flanks which may have just been testing attacks. According to report, RF intends to continue accruing forces and surrounding Mariupol and resolving it via negotiations. Seems perhaps they intend to try to get a surrender, which logically seems not possible due to the fanatical nature of the Nazis there. But there’s obviously many factors we are not privvy to. We have learned for instance, that Azov has refused to allow civilians to leave and there are many reports of them using civilians as shields, including a report of a possible upcoming provocation where Azov has placed a bunch of civilians in a building and plans to blow it up if Russians storm the city (basically hostage situation) to blame the falseflag of mass civilian casualties on RF. I’m just thinking out loud, so it seems perhaps RF has decided that it’s too risky to storm the city because the civilian casualties would simply be too high. They may continue doing precision strikes on Azov gatherings to try to whittle them down.
-With that said, other reports stated DNR/LNR troops will do most of the frontline storming while RF will support with heavy fires from rear. So we’ll see how it develops.
-Meanwhile the final northern road out of the city WAS confiremd to be cut by allied forces so it does appear that Mariupol now is officially completely besieged with no avenue of escape.

My comment: I don’t think Russia will storm Mariupol. They will do the usual Syria tactics: Surround, cut off food and water, probing attacks, then weakening attacks, then when the city falls, send in the Chechens to mop up the Azov die-hards.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 4 2022 4:31 utc | 440

https://metallicman.com/mm-thoughts-about-war-in-the-ukraine/
Posted by: Rufus Arrr | Mar 4 2022 3:11 utc | 416
Wow. Thanks, that was quite a ride.
While people should read the whole thing, I thought that this brief video you included nicely puts the current Ukraine situation into perspective and should also be shared widely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymdIC5EJgQk

Posted by: farm ecologist | Mar 4 2022 4:39 utc | 442

@ WJ | Mar 4 2022 2:55 utc | 404 quote
“What I can’t understand about this maneuver by the UK, however, is what they hope to achieve.” (United Kingdom calls for emergency UN Security Council (UNSC) meeting following clashes at Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant)..
it is the same as running a model up the runway…. basically you put on display how russia is busy trying to destroy ukraine by blowing up its nuclear power plant – the most insane thing that the uke-nazis would like to do, but you finger the ruskies for it…
doesn’t matter the reality… people who watch the news have had their reality so twisted out of shape, this will fit right in! the uk brought up monty python and etc. etc.. they brought us the skripal bullshit more recently and i am sure there is not a stone un-turned with the likes of integrity initiative and cambridge analytics….
think of it as a different type of front page in a made up fictitious newspaper – one that most people believe whole cloth…
that is what ””they”” how to achieve WJ.. i imagine they will have some success with this complete bullshit too..
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reading up thread, the talk moves on to assassinating putin.. this really ought to surprise no one after all the recent examples on display from these completely insane people in the usa political system! it is how the usa system works after all! freedumb and dumbfuckery on display 24-7….

Posted by: james | Mar 4 2022 4:41 utc | 444

From The Saker:

The Saker on March 03, 2022 · at 4:38 pm EST/EDT
More news from the West:
*The Russian Paralympic team was told to fly to China only to be told there that it won’t be allowed to compete.
*Russian dogs and cats have been removed from international competition.
*Apparently, so was a tree (?????)
*Russians have been take off the organ donation list, medicines are now being denying to them.
(and that’s just from watching 5 min of a Russian talk show).
Remember how the Nazis had “Judenfrei/judenrein” lands?
Now the West will become “Russian free”, pure in all its majestic hatred for the Snow Niggers. “Russenfrei” already exists: https://www.urlaubstipps4u.de/hotel-tipps/russenfreie-hotels
You know what?
The West deserves itself!
I can’t think of a bigger shame

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 4 2022 4:51 utc | 446

There is one upside to this.
The news media has done such a great job of selling support for Ukraine
that the country is united on both sides of the isle.
The media hasn’t brought us together like this since we invaded Iraq.

Posted by: librul | Mar 4 2022 5:00 utc | 448

Posted by: Richard Steven Hackr | Mar 4 2022 4:09 utc | 434
Dunno about you, but I would certainly be dosing myself generously were I in his situation. Poor guy is losing it. Some part of me actually thinks his original run for office was a protest/joke, he had absolutely no idea what he was in for. You couldn’t make his story up lol:}

Posted by: Femail | Mar 4 2022 5:36 utc | 450

Douglas Houck @400–
Of course, Oil Price won’t admit the Outlaw US Empire is already in Recession and in fact has yet to recover from the massive banking and Wall Street criminal fraud scandal of 2008 that caused what was termed the Great Recession. Demand destruction since then kept oil prices lower than they might have been. Since then, global aggregate demand has actually lagged extraction rates but lots of oil is being kept off the market via illegal sanctions that are about to increase. To circumvent the sanctions, Russia will simply sell its hydrocarbons for rubles, yuan and other national currencies, and it has more than enough power to escort tankers so they don’t get molested.
Russia doesn’t aim to harm civilians; its leaders know they don’t have much if any control over their governments. So, it’s likely that pipeline gas and oil will continue to flow IF they’re paid in rubles, yuan or some other currency outside the dollar and euro zones. But I don’t think such a concession will be made to the Outlaw US Empire. It must begin to pay for its evil.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 4 2022 5:37 utc | 452

Reuters is reporting the the fire at the nuke site in Ukraine was started by a Russian attack…..it was my understanding that the nukes were an early goal and all were under Russian control/protection
So what is the truth?
I read also that Pompeo in in Taiwan and says that the US should recognize Taiwan as a country….
Empire needs distractions that it can blame for its demise.
I got to https://www.metallicman.com/ finally and read the piece….here we are.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 4 2022 5:46 utc | 454

psychohistorian @456==
From this report, it appears to me to be a combo of an attempted false flag that was essentially a smoke bomb. You’ll note the IAEA says nothing of importance was damaged; the hysteria produced is the key to the false flag thesis. Of far greater importance is the revelations of WMD work performed by the Ukies with the active assistance of the Outlaw US Empire.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 4 2022 5:59 utc | 456

This is very curious, “Pentagon opens hotline with Russia” to promote deconfliction. It was initiated on 1` March by the Outlaws and is modeled on the one established for Syria.
It’s a move that makes total sense for the militarily outmatched party.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 4 2022 6:06 utc | 458

Posted by: Jože | Mar 4 2022 6:05 utc | 459
RT.com still working fine for me in San Francisco. Maybe once the propagation of the DNS expiration time arrives, that will change things, but everything is fine right now.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 4 2022 6:12 utc | 460

Great new drop by Patrick Armstrong:
https://patrickarmstrong.ca/2022/03/04/russia-ukraine-2/

I would expect large-scale surrenders of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to begin in the next 24/48 hours (Chechen forces already claim one and have an impressive collection of “trophies” to prove it).

Posted by: Seer | Mar 4 2022 6:16 utc | 462

Bye, bye Quad; you sure didn’t last very long, “US considering sanctions against India: Washington wants New Delhi to denounce Moscow or face penalties for buying Russian weapons.”
Excellent!! Now Russia, China, Iran, and India are all being bunched together by the Idiot Empire’s actions. Bravo!! One of the clear aims of the tarring of Russia over its security action was to blow up BRICS and SCO, with BRICS seemingly the easier of the two. But BRICS is as solid as ever as is SCO. And that would’ve been a strategic goal of the Empire that has now failed.
The results of Russia’s operation I see coming will not please many other than Russia and her allies. But then Russia doesn’t give a damn anymore what the NATO nations think anymore. They will be served a fait accompli and told they must learn to live with it and a new security arrangement for Europe.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 4 2022 6:17 utc | 464

Seer @464–
Yes, it is quite good. Here’s another bit:
“Judo is about deception and using the opponent’s strength against him. Putin, the judoka, has judoed the West into suicide. Put your money in our banks, we can confiscate it; put your assets in our territory, we can steal them; use our money and we can cancel it; put your yacht in our harbour, we can pirate it; put your gold in our vault, we can grab it. That is a lesson that will resound around the world. A naked illustration that the “rules-based international order” is simply that we make the rules and order you to obey them. In 2 or 3 weeks everybody in the world who is on the potential Western hit list will have moved his assets out of the reach of the West. Xi will permit himself a small smile.”
The Putin Doctrine at work.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 4 2022 6:27 utc | 466

”
It also proves that SOMEONE in the US and NATO administration DOES want a war between the US/NATO and Russia – and they have the influence to get it.
Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 4 2022 6:09 utc | 461
”
WJ also asks Cui Bono?
I continue to believe we are in a civilization war about whether finance continues to be run by an inherited cult of global private finance owners or more like China’s example of core public finance tools and regulations.
If you were a member of this cult, to what ends would you go to retain that power/control? All wars are bankers wars and war is good cover for financial and Covid malfeasance.
I think the cult will think nothing of bringing humanity to the edge of extinction…the have already used nukes and unproven levels of bio-chemical warfare.
I am one of those that thinks the God of Mammon cult is not all Jewish but may even include a pontiff or other monotheistic religious leaders as well as others
They have staved off public exposure and challenges for hundreds of years. They think they will/should continue to do so and imbue their puppets with that fervor.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 4 2022 6:37 utc | 468

Posted by: Patroklos | Mar 4 2022 3:13 utc | 417

Indeed. It’s as though the Cold War is back and we’re the ones living in the DDR.

Without the cheap housing, free education and job security, of course.

Posted by: Herr Ringbone | Mar 4 2022 6:50 utc | 470

Front month wheat futures above 1350.
https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/futures/W1

*knock knock* (at the window)
Who’s there? (hunger) oh, hunger!!
See how love flies out the door…
For, money makes the world go around

Posted by: too scents | Mar 4 2022 6:56 utc | 472

malenkov 449,
“Of course, Miss Lindsey represents a state full of religious hysterics awaiting the Rapture, and he might believe that nonsense himself . . . in which case they would find thermonuclear war to be highly desirable.”
I find that ungenerous. I know many evangelicals and while they believe in the rapture and think this looks like endtimes they’re not Heaven’s Gate type fools like you’re making them out to be. They’re taking responsibility for their children and preparing for hard times. Hard working folks. Sure they been hoodwinked by Judaism but they were born into it and family comes first.

Posted by: reante | Mar 4 2022 6:57 utc | 474

There I was, watching RT America, as a reporter was talking, and in the middle of the sentence, the channel went dead and the word “Dish” came up, with some kind of music. A little while later the music stopped, and then :The channel is no longer available”.
And just like that, in real time Dish took RTAmerica off the air, some 6 hours after Direct TV did.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what censorship looks like.
Now I just have SyriusXM the Classical Symphony channel to tune into. Time to ditch that cable, me thinks – after all, it’s not like the upcoming World ice Skating championships will be worth watching without the Russians and the Chinese pairs. I am sure finally some American female skater will get a medal of some sort. Who knows, perhaps even that runner-up, singularly unimpressive team with (the one with the non-binary guy, I think. Or may be the other one, with binary skaters).

Posted by: Merlin2 | Mar 4 2022 7:15 utc | 476

A teacher in the ‘United’ States is fired for teaching a balanced view of the Russian-Ukraine war, teaching the objectively correct facts that there are sins on both sides.
The democratic facade of the Amerikkkan Empire is crumbling fast.
https://twitter.com/RealAlexRubi/status/1499473481070788615?cxt=HHwWjoC-1ffLmc8pAAAA

Posted by: Hidari | Mar 4 2022 7:20 utc | 478

Bad news: the USA has closed its airspace to Russian flying aircraft carriers like this one.
The Latest In Russian Weaponry/s
If tension gets any worse, maybe the US might even ban Russian SU-57 and TU-160’s from waving the Russian flag in their friendly flights over the White House and the Pentagon.

Posted by: BM | Mar 4 2022 7:24 utc | 480

The mask fell off some time ago but only now am I aware of this. Right after Maidan Congress signed onto funding Nazis in Ukraine. I don’t seem recall to recall hearing any screaming from ADL or Israel. Obviously these Nazis were kosher.

Congress Has Removed a Ban on Funding Neo-Nazis From Its Year-End Spending Bill
Under pressure from the Pentagon, Congress has stripped the spending bill of an amendment that prevented funds from falling into the hands of Ukrainian neo-fascist groups.
By James Carden

Link
Amazing

Posted by: Tom_12 | Mar 4 2022 7:30 utc | 482

most overwhelming propaganda blitz
Posted by: pretzelattack | Mar 4 2022 7:32 utc | 485
—
They have been applying the scientific method.
It is a shame the same effort wasn’t put in to manufacturing goods.

Posted by: too scents | Mar 4 2022 7:38 utc | 484

@481
Before Russia would consider a nuclear exchange NATO would have to start killing Russian soldiers. I think that is the only real step between now and nuclear Armageddon.

Posted by: Haassaan | Mar 4 2022 7:54 utc | 486

My comment: I don’t think Russia will storm Mariupol. They will do the usual Syria tactics: Surround, cut off food and water, probing attacks, then weakening attacks, then when the city falls, send in the Chechens to mop up the Azov die-hards.
Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 4 2022 4:31 utc | 442
Russia knows how to deal with terrorists holding hostages, doesn’t it?

Posted by: Olivier | Mar 4 2022 7:58 utc | 488

Tass is reporting, “the United States expects that Russian-Ukrainian talks will lead to the immediate halt of Russia’s military operation and withdrawal of its troops from Ukraine”
https://tass.com/world/1416421

Posted by: Menz | Mar 4 2022 8:09 utc | 490

This seems like an own goal from an operational security point of view:

From “Event 201” to “Cyber Polygon”: The WEF’s Simulation of a Coming “Cyber Pandemic”
Last year, the World Economic Forum teamed up with the Russian government and global banks to run a high-profile cyberattack simulation that targeted the financial industry, an actual event that would pave the way for a “reset” of the global economy. The simulation, named Cyber Polygon, may have been more than a typical planning exercise and bears similarities to the WEF-sponsored pandemic simulation Event 201 that briefly preceded the COVID-19 crisis.

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/02/investigative-reports/from-event-201-to-cyber-polygon-the-wefs-simulation-of-a-coming-cyber-pandemic/

Posted by: too scents | Mar 4 2022 8:13 utc | 492

Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 4 2022 8:04 utc | 491
I wonder if the “kill Putin” crowd realise there’s no guarantee his successor will be amenable to their wishes …
Better the devil you know?

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 4 2022 8:14 utc | 494

Richard Steven Hack | Mar 4 2022 6:56 utc | 475
I’ve lived through the hours/days of the Cuban Missile crisis of October 1962 with a line-up six B-52s at nearest commercial airport, moved to Europe and squeaked through the Chernobyl fall-out … do not consume spinach and all greens such as salad … this time irrevocable steps have been taken … I will take family to Portugal away from industrial complexes, Rhine-Ruhrgebiet, Rotterdam port and major capitals. Don’t want to be at end of a convoy of cars.
Get closer to the equator or preferably to the Southern Hemisphere … question is do you want to survive?
Doomsday clock was at 100 sec. before midnight, IMO that has been halved. Ruled by crazies making decisions in a virtual world on digital screens. How much decision making and simulations are controlled by human mind or analytics and algorithms by AI.

Posted by: Oui | Mar 4 2022 8:26 utc | 496

ban cats or trees….Pathetic.’
Posted by: Paul Damascene | Mar 4 2022 7:45 utc | 487
To ban cats, I understand, it is possible, but to ban trees? ROTFL!
Beware:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbV2Hr0qRdo

Posted by: Olivier | Mar 4 2022 8:29 utc | 498

To ban cats, I understand, it is possible, but to ban trees? ROTFL!
Beware (2):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzugQBkUrZk

Posted by: Olivier | Mar 4 2022 8:32 utc | 500