@33
Donald Trump has been known to stalk women on Moon of Alabama. It’s likely him. Your best bet is to renounce your citizenship and find refuge in a foreign country. That’s what I did. I live in a country where he can’t find me. I spent $45K on plastic surgery just as insurance. I recommend that too.

Posted by: Donna | Aug 22 2022 0:18 utc | 103

@KitaySupporter | Aug 21 2022 22:28 utc | 103
As you can see, the documentation is extensive. Link to Secret Documents About KitaySupporter

Posted by: Nefrititi | Aug 22 2022 0:31 utc | 105

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/06/bidens-foreign-policy-is-one-big-mess.html?cid=6a00d8341c640e53ef02a2eec6dbe1200d#comment-6a00d8341c640e53ef02a2eec6dbe1200d
You were asking about a post in regard to prison time. The above permalink should connect you to that post (I believe there was another similar post previous to this. He was at one time posting under his initials and then he also used a third alternate name login as his prior login appears to have been banned by b)
The above post gives the name of the judge who sentenced him. If you provide this to the police it should be possible for them to identify him, his date of release, the terms of release (if any) and his possible present area of residence.
Old Hippies advice is on point. If you have not directly communicated with him, logged in to his website, or downloaded email attachments sent by him, I think it unlikely that he has gained access to your hardware. The one exception to that would be if you use WiFi, that he resides in your area, and you have never changed the default account and password on your router, or updated to the latest router bios.
Best of luck

Posted by: Sushi | Aug 22 2022 0:43 utc | 107

Timing coincidence?
LONDON, August 21. /TASS/. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, US President Joe Biden, French leader Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz have confirmed their continued support for Ukraine.
Posted by: rk | Aug 21 2022 19:57 utc | 67
Nations that either support Russia or do not support US/EU sanctions against Russia :
China. Thailand, Belarus, Vietnam. Serbia, Turkey, Venezuela, Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, the newly elected government of Columbia, Honduras, Algeria, Belarus, Bolivia, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo, Dem Rep of Korea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos DPR, Mali, Nicaragua, Syria, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Algeria, Central African Republic, Gabon, Mali, Zimbabwe, Saudi Arabia, India, The United Arab Emirates, Israel, Slovakia (?) and Hungary do not (or did not not) support energy sanctions Pakistan before the CIA coup), Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Iraq, Madagascar Mali, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, South Sudan, Sri Lank, Tanzania, Azerbaijan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Eswatini, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Morocco, Togo, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
When you have nothing to do, add up the populations and see who supports who.

Posted by: Gurenica | Aug 22 2022 1:13 utc | 109

Serbia/Kosovo is about to erupt, “Serbian President Vucic Vows to Protect Kosovo Serbs if NATO Won’t ‘Do Their Job'”. We know NATO is not there to protect Serbs; rather, the opposite’s the case–NATO’s there to kill Serbs and to prevent the Serbs from defending themselves against Albanian and Kosovo aggression. Russia was unable to help its Serbian ally in the 1990s, but that’s not the case today.

Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 22 2022 1:28 utc | 111

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 22 2022 1:37 utc | 157
there is a Giyane who posts on Craig Murray’s blog. this Giyane sounds like that Giyane, and doesn’t sound at all like hack. this all should go on the Not Ukraine thread.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Aug 22 2022 1:45 utc | 113

Declan Hayes on “Ukraine’s Massive Money Laundering Scam” is at SCF. Here are the introductory paragraphs:

Zelensky’s Ukrainian money laundering scam might well outrank the Dutch tulip mania scam, the Florida Swampland scam and the South Sea Bubble as the greatest scam in recorded history.
Before looking at Ukraine’s government warrants, which gives the game away to anyone with even a rudimentary financial or mathematical background, let’s just quickly survey Kiev’s empty coffers. In the East, Russian allied forces have secured most of Ukraine’s hard currency revenue generators. These apparently include financial boiler rooms, bio war labs and Hunter Biden linked factories to produce an array of opioids such as methadone as well as the ephedrine-type substances of t-phedrine and tri-phedrine which also saw action with NATO’s Syrian proxies. The net result of all that is because NATO will have to outsource such production to another compliant gangster state, to Bosnia, for example, it is money lost to Ukraine.
Although Russia should use all that booty, along with the Azov Nazis they have captured, to go after the bigger and more culpable fish, that is not our primary focus here. For not only has Russia captured an arsenal of smoking guns that should put the entire Biden and Pelosi families away for the rest of their natural lives but they have captured more fungible resources as well. So far, Russian allied forces have secured at least $12.4 trillion worth of Ukraine’s energy deposits, metals and minerals. That figure includes over 63 percent of Ukraine’s coal deposits, 11 percent of its oil deposits, 20 percent of its natural gas deposits, 42 percent of its metals and 33 percent of its deposits of rare earth and other critical minerals including lithium. Because these resources are now permanently outside the clutches and scams of Zelensky’s domestic and foreign oligarchs, they can no longer be used as collateral in their ongoing frauds.
Although Russia’s advances mean there is far less money in Zelensky’s kitty to pay off Zelensky’s creditors, Poland is an even bigger headache for the Kiev junta and America, lest we forget, has always insisted on getting its pound of flesh and more.
Poland is doing to Zelensky’s Ukraine what Dutch multinationals and other predators did to Greece, to which we will shortly return. To fund Zelensky’s war, Polish companies are snapping up Ukrainian farms and produce with discounts of up to 80% and more. Though the Polish Investment and Trade Agency (PAIH) are providing production workshops in Poland for Zelensky loyalists to continue their businesses “in time of war”, the reality is that Polish companies are not only colonizing Western Ukraine but causing capital flight by allowing Ukrainian companies to set up shop in Poland with the same rights and lack of restrictions Poles have.
Ukrainians, given the choice of setting up in Poland or staying in cash strapped, missile prone Ukraine, are voting with their feet and moving en masse to the Polish motherland, whose entrepreneurs are buying up Galicia’s farms and other resources at knock down prices.
Though it is the context of this Galician implosion that Zelensky’s promises to invade Crimea and to march on Moscow must be gauged, the fact that this jumped up naked dancer still commands any respect is certainly one for the history books. Let’s leave aside, for now, the fact that the Ukrainian Army is broken, that Western Europe is now over run by Ukrainian economic migrants with very dodgy political outlooks, that Zelensky cannot let a day go by without asking his NATO masters for another king’s ransom to blow up his nose and that of Hunter Biden and his other key advisors. Let’s instead look at Ukraine’s borrowing, at their GDP linked warrants in particular to see that Zelensky and his court are taking us all for the mother of all rides.

Given how the Plundering Nations operate, none of this ought to be surprising. Indeed, much has been commented upon this at MoA. Hayes makes certain he smears Germany, France and the Dutch as he compares Ukraine to Greece and that trio’s rape of that nation. Seems there’s plenty of material to nail Hunter Biden and his dad, but the Rs aren’t interested, which makes me very curious.

Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 22 2022 1:54 utc | 115

Looks like a major offensive in all arena’s for the upcoming Ukraine “independence” day

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 22 2022 2:41 utc | 117

Posted by: Nefrititi | Aug 22 2022 0:31 utc | 136
Hahaha…..I wasn’t even born yet in 1991. Thank for your concern, a mistaken identity.

Posted by: KitaySupporter | Aug 22 2022 2:57 utc | 119

re:Peripatus | Aug 22 2022 2:15 utc | 169
Why would anyone bother to read anything in that neoliberal hellhole the daily Blog much less take it seriously enough to post a link to it? If you wanna lap up elite driven propaganda containing more lies and half truths than a whitehouse daily presser by all means do so but please don’t be linking to it. There I was thinking we had managed to keep secret that Aotearoa had as many dropkicks as everywhere else.

Posted by: Debsis dead | Aug 22 2022 3:04 utc | 121

njet 2:
As Thompson quietly acknowledges and Mercouris and Scott Ritter point out, Russia benefits from a long war, one that will hit Europe extremely (unbearably) hard in winter. Winter is Russia’s #1 ally. AND the artillery first, one fortification at a time approach greatly reduces Russian casualties and keeps overall Russia commitment level sustainable.
The contrast with the continuing ‘Russia slow, slow is incompetent/weak’ Western propaganda (‘media’) narrative is hilarious!

Posted by: fairleft | Aug 22 2022 3:24 utc | 123

Thanks to who ever posted the You tubes of General Petrov K.P. 1 & 2.
They are a bit slow and subtitled for we english speakers but he is a very interesting man offering good historical background to political USSR and modern Russia.he refers to the World PTB as Mafia and gives a detailed description of how they operate worldwide and in Russia up until recently. Parts of the subtitles are missing when he came to describing Putin’s role unfortunately but that’s a small part.
Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtl7Zt_SU68
Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jk_WM90NME&t=0s

Posted by: K | Aug 22 2022 3:30 utc | 125

Peter AU1 #191
Its all good brother. I will get out in the orchard for a wee while and then crack a coldie. Perhaps Nicolaev will be liberated by day’s end.
There are days when this bar takes on the appearance of a refuge for the online dispossessed or maybe the IT help desk for those having difficulty connecting with something.
Perhaps b might consider a once a month standing thread for the data deprived and editorially starved.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Aug 22 2022 3:40 utc | 127

Grenly | Aug 22 2022 1:43 utc | 159

Full integration with the European Union — through the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) — will be a key step for Ukraine, facilitating its emergence as a major producer and exporter of clean energy.
This is a major step toward reducing Ukraine and Europe’s reliance on Russian energy imports while also advancing critical climate objectives.
DOE’s Office of International Affairs received $30 million in emergency funds from Congress to advance Ukraine’s full integration with ENTSO-E. DOE is focusing on enhancing the cyber and physical security of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and addressing critical vulnerabilities at the intersection of its electricity and natural gas systems.

Arrr.harh. This explains more the background of the Zap~| NPP.
Thanks.
@bar.
What
The
Actual
Fuck

Posted by: Melaleuca | Aug 22 2022 5:17 utc | 129

Jackson Hinkle pulls the energy wires together in some coherent form here.
7 minute utoob but you can see him on Rumble too.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Aug 22 2022 5:27 utc | 131

uncle tungsten | Aug 22 2022 5:27 utc | 219
Jackson. I am beyond impressed with this young man.
Can someone reach out to him and school him on personal security.?
Dugan is a reminder that “they” strike targets soft and hard…
Givi, Motorola, a catalog of journalists (real journalists) from across the globe and across the decades. … paid the price of being either oblivious or careless.
Jackson, at 22, has a potential 60+ career ahead of him… he better learn now about security. PTB will come after him in 1001+ ways.
Hinkle, as a young man, his biggest vulnerability is his dick… as Ritter and Petraeus and Profumo (and++++others) lead a cast of thousands who’ve been compromised.
I’m gobsmacked at the utter bullshit in this thread. But if anyone needs advice on cyber security it’d be Hinkle.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Aug 22 2022 5:55 utc | 133

Melaleuca #221
On Hinkle security. I guess he is savvy and cautious.
I checked in at Alex Christoforo early this morning and noticed he was stern and alert to all the vehicle approaches etc. Tough times for all right now.
The Duran has this line up today as well:
Discussing Ukraine. Glenn Diesen interviews Scott Ritter and Alexander Mercouris
The Duran: Episode 1361
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD44Eb1xDhE

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Aug 22 2022 6:19 utc | 135

psychohistorian | Aug 22 2022 6:36 utc | 225
That would be correct and strange to see something other than fake news from Reuters.
It seems the average nazi death daily is well above 1k, weak days of 300-500 are gone. There won’t be any white flags in the West. They’ll push the war until the last soldier and continue it in terrorism begging for Russia to attack. Then repeat the program for China, Pakistan, Serbia, Iran, Syria etc. What do you think Schlitz doing with soldiers in Bosnia and airplanes near China?
Since the media control is close to 100% they can say anything they want and rewrite history as much as they want. Decades of lack of education and too much money for little work turned most of their population into vegetables.
You can get your popcorn ready to see how Schlitz and Macaron will turn any protests into blood. I can’t wait to see it

Posted by: rk | Aug 22 2022 7:01 utc | 137

US has been eager and on the verge of dropping nuclear bombs on Russia since at least 1962 when US planned false flag attack as excuse to start civilization-ending nuclear war w. USSR “in self-defense.” JFK dox declassified in March 2016 confirm. https://www.newsweek.com/us-soviet-aircraft-jfk-docs-cover-operations-717460
11/20/2017, “U.S. Government Planned False Flag Attacks to Start [Nuclear] War With Soviet Union, JFK Documents Show,” Newsweek, Melina Delkic [It wasn’t to start an ordinary war, it was to start civilization-ending nuclear war, in which entire population of Soviet Union would be eliminated, “only” 40 million Americans would die]…https://www.fff.org/2018/04/19/animus-toward-russia-nothing-new/…(JFK not on board w. Deep State, wanted peace with his fellow Soviet human beings).

Posted by: susan mullen | Aug 22 2022 7:27 utc | 139

@Giyane, the anti Russia tilt of CM has been apparent for a long time, but I don’t know if he had anything to do with the influx of prowar reactionary trolls, though. I did notice it, just as I’ve noticed increased numbers of these clowns here at MOA. I don’t think b welcomes them, though he tolerates them to some extent.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Aug 22 2022 7:38 utc | 141

Just to put the current conflict in Ukraine into perspective:
In 1991 Iraq, USA has fired 60,000 rounds for the entire gulf war.
Russia fires this in one day.
The NATO industrial base is not capable of such production numbers.
Europe is not capable of producing an arsenal capable to stand up to the Russian military.
Expert opinion:
According to ex-US marine corp officer Scott Ritter, the British would run out of ammunition in 2 weeks in a war against Russia. Scott Ritter said they would “not even last 2 weeks because they’d lose their entire army by then.”
According to Scott, NATO has been demilitarized. Even the United States,
According to Scott, has run out of rounds for their most important systems which are meant to break down the russian military — in event of conflict.
Scott says that the Russian military, according to leaked documents by Ukrainian ministry of defense itself — inflicted 250,000 casualties onto the Ukrainians. This is 3x the size of Britain’s entire standing army.
Scott estimates that before the war, no European military would stand in a conflict with the Ukrainian army. He explains that the Ukrainian military would decimate Poland, Germany, Romania, etc.
Having internal knowledge due to his US military background/connections, Scott is aware of the level of support, training and supplies to the Ukrainian military since 2014. Scott describes the pre-2022 Ukrainian military as best combat equipped in Europe with more battle experience than any other army in Europe.
Scott Ritter estimates 15,000 combined casualties for Russia and its allies, this is inline with our previous estimation.
Ukrainians are losing thousands of men without ever seeing a Russian soldier face to face. This is inline with the videos we saw from various Ukrainian units who refused to fight and called on the Ukrainian authorities to pull them out of battle. They said the exact same thing. The casualty ratio between Russia and Ukraine is simply jaw dropping. These are numbers we have not seen in modern history.
Russia is doing this with 200k men, a peace time economy. Russia has not mobilized. Russia has employed 20% of its capability.
One more thing to add: while looking at maps, we only see “small advance” arrows. Small advance arrows accomplish one thing, they demilitarize Ukraine and inflict heavy casualties on the Ukrainians without putting Russian lives at danger. Russia is not on a timed schedule here. They have no reason to rush. Anyone who studied history, especially WW2 battles — is aware that big arrow map moves cost big casualties. Thousands of men die. There’s simply no reason for this. In fact, the longer Russia drags this out, the more they demilitarize Europe and drain the United States military supplies and funds.
At the same time, the Russian military is now the most combat experienced military in the world. The longer this drags on, the more soldiers get combat experience due to rotations. The more pilots get to perfect their skills, navy, intelligence, etc.
No modern military has fought a war even remotely similar to the Ukrainian war. This is not a war where the enemy gets bombed to oblivion by aviation, cities get turned into rubble and soldier then move in like heroes with minimal resistance— this is ground warfare in its purest form; artillery battles, territorial conquest. This is where individual skills and strategy are crucial.
The world has not seen anything like this since WW2. Russia will demilitarize Ukraine. Russia will reach its goals. No magical weapon can change that. No one with military background doubts this.
https://t.me/asbmil/4221

Posted by: unimperator | Aug 22 2022 8:12 utc | 143

Posted by: unimperator | Aug 22 2022 8:12 utc | 237
Good post, lots of good info and interesting analysis in there.
“big arrow map moves cost big casualties” yep.
I like that Ritter acknowledges how powerful of a military Ukraine had and to some degree still has. It would make mincemeat out of most European armies.

Posted by: Haassaan | Aug 22 2022 8:34 utc | 145

@232 pretzelattack Re: JFK, the late Justin Raimondo also called BS on the notion of JFK the anti-war, pro Russia person. I just re-read Raimondo’s 2013 article. Ugh. Typical Deep State behavior on JFK’s part for many years. So I can’t figure out how he could’ve made that Peace Speech at American U in June 1963-unless maybe he had a psychiatric disorder. Of course he was killed five and a half months later. Anyhow, thanks for the refresher.

Posted by: susan mullen | Aug 22 2022 9:25 utc | 147

ThusspakeZarathustra #229

Tungsten no. 222
This video has been removed by the uploader
(That’s what came up when i went to your link)

Still there for me using firefox.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Aug 22 2022 9:42 utc | 149

What is the origin of this shady ”National Republican ARMY”???
Is it fascist or ”socialist”? In their propaganda clip (with the manifesto) I see quite young folks, a bit similar to the antifa types.
Which kind of points to Trotskyites, who can be called communists, neocons, zionists AND nazis…
It seems attractive for some Ukrainian teenagers, Navalny jugend etc.
Of course deeply sponsored and trained by NGO’s, with infiltrants from CIA, MI6 , the SBU and perhaps the Mossad.

Posted by: Rootman | Aug 22 2022 9:52 utc | 151

there’s an email address under “About this site” up at the top on the home page. I don’t know how long he takes to respond. I can’t make much sense of this story, or the sudden appearance of several new accounts for that matter.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Aug 22 2022 10:19 utc | 153

The German politicians and MSM are such Rusophobes no words.
Before the terrorist attack in Moscow the nazi clown and ukrostan somehow disappeared from top of news. U ve had really to search for news about the ukro conflict. Now back again but more intensive than ever. This terroist attack give reason for the hope, that Putin is under attack from inside Russia. They re spinning the story behind the attack are Russian opposition groups. Almost every major MSM jumped on this new front inside Russia. Unbelievable.
https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/plus240599841/Anschlag-auf-Darja-Dugina-Sie-wollen-Putins-Regime-stuerzen-mit-allen-Mitteln.html
They ve choosen now a new Nawalny with Ilja Ponomarjow.
Furhtermore at precisely the right time, a specialist has been pulled, like a rabbit, out of the hat when you need them to successfully represent ur narrative. His name is Pavel Filatyev a deserter and former speznas soldier. He has a lot to say and write about Putin and the incompetent russian army.
https://www.welt.de/kultur/plus240553663/Frontbericht-eines-russischen-Elitesoldaten-Das-steht-im-Tagebuch-von-Pavel-Filatyev.html
This new official Germany is deadly Anti Russian. Putin must be careful with these idiots. U cant trust them at all.

Posted by: Chessmaster | Aug 22 2022 10:36 utc | 155

Sushi | Aug 22 2022 9:53 utc | 249
It is very tough to see any purpose apart from propoganda/provocation in Ukraine shelling the ZNPP and the fog of war nonsense accompanying, from all sides, except the Russian, unless one reaches down into the murk of the biolabs and illegal weapon production (such as PeterAU has investigated)
There is some war derangement syndrome which has taken over all participants and sponsors, once again except the Russians, and which has spread fantasies and misrepresentations across Western MSM media and lately come to figure on blogs such as this, which used to be reserved to serious comment and posts, and which now seem to be polluted with trolls and worse
Why do the peoples of such countries, as UK and Germany, hurrah and encourage their governments in policies which, apart from being prima facie foolish and misguided, will not only bring great hardship this winter but threaten to have severe irreversible effects on their national economies and living standards, perhaps even (given escalation) many of their lives
The solution? Concentrate on what can be said within reason about the real war, discern what can learned about how this is being fought, what/who is effective and what/who is not, and what/who can be applied in home country
I would say that, in general, Africa has drawn quick conclusions, and has realised that this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to study efficient/effective action and to take advantage, to throw off the paper tigers of US/EU influence and controls

Posted by: Gerrard White | Aug 22 2022 10:45 utc | 157

Why do the peoples of such countries, as UK and Germany, hurrah and encourage their governments in policies which, apart from being prima facie foolish and misguided,
Are you certain you read the runes correctly ?
In Germany 62% are opposed to the Berlin regime after 8-9 months in power.
In UK the Conservative Party (subverting the British Constitution through measures introduced by William Hague) is going to plug in the third Prime Minister in a row in Downing Street to avoid Dissolution of Parliament and a General Election.
They only won the election in 2017 by 2200 votes……….so bad was Theresa May who proceeded to get worse………until Johnson replaced her because Parliament was perpetuating itself as in 1653 when it used the Unconstitutional Fixed Term Parliament Act to perpetuate itself and tried to subordinate The Executive to the Speaker of the House of Commons.
That is how Johnson got his majority which he wasted.
There is NO basis to suggest Germans or Britons support the Regime Policies…….it has been decades since British Governments reflected public wishes. Over 1,000,000 took to the streets opposed to Blair’s Iraq War and yet Parliament voted it through !!!!
If you think Germans back this madness you are deluded. The cheerleaders in the media have no doubt family skeletons in Wehrmacht uniforms in those tins of old family photos. Have you ever considered how easy it is to look up the ancestry of a British MP but not a journalist – but it is impossible to know what the forefathers of German media or politicians did early last century unless they are AfD and the media wants to smear them…….
Read Christopher Lasch “Revolt of the Elites”. against the people

Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Aug 22 2022 10:58 utc | 159

I for one , am getting really pissed that my money is being sent to Ukraine , only to comeback and line red china joe’s pockets ,along with the other communists in congress. I’ve heard that over half the weapons are being sold to who knows. The nazis in Ukraine are probably going to bomb that nuclear power plant, and blame Putin. All this started with obozo and his masters.
Posted by: W Wilson | Aug 21 2022 15:49 utc | 17
Strictly speaking, they are not commies.
They are clearly fascists and that simply fits in with all the so-called west being fascist, in the old sense of a uniting of the corporations and government. To call them commies is a diversion from who is controlling things, which is the corporations. In this case, given this particular historical period, the zionist jews (neocons) are also clearly behind this Ukraine war up to their eye lids.

Posted by: Bringoutyourdead | Aug 22 2022 11:02 utc | 161

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/americas-cold-war-master-plan-nuke-russia-14714

Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Aug 22 2022 11:03 utc | 163

I have just read an interesting article in TASS. The Head of the RF Security Council Patrushev has made a clear statement that the USA is likely to default on its debt in the way it has defaulted on its debt with Russia. The USA national debt is $30 trillion (can’t even get my head around that figure) and for the EU it is 10 trillion. He predicted that, any country operating with the US$ or Euro is likely to have that money ‘stolen’ from them some time in the future. I believe it is so the USA does not have to default on its debt. He attributes the economic mess and this debt in both EU and USA to “the printing presses working in these countries” which I assume is referring to the excessive money printing during Covid.
I have no reason to doubt Patrushev’s information, it sounds about right to me. What has given me pause for thought though is in relation to this SMO and the billions of Euros and Dollars being pumped into Ukraine. Scott Ritter stated that Europe has been effectively demilitarised and the USA to some extent also. So, I wonder where the money is now going to come from to replace all the military hardware and weapons that has pumped into Ukraine only to lose it very quickly.
I am not an economist or finance expert but I assume that, using a Bond term so to speak, Licence to Print cannot last indefinitely because sooner rather than later, an economic crash of epic proportions is likely. So, I got to thinking that, as most posters and b have said here that this war is definitely one between the USA primarily with the collective West following suit, but that the reason is not to ‘weaken Russia’ essentially, but to set a scenario where the USA can get its hands on the East’s (including Donbass) trillions of dollars worth of natural resources and also, to defeat, not weaken Russia so the USA can plunder the $73 trillion dollars of natural resources it has.
However, the opposite is what is happening. Russia has won as Scott Ritter said. It is Russia, China and Eurasia that will come out of this solidly. It seems to me as though the USA and the collective West are going to see a massive crash of their stock exchanges shortly and also of their economies. Given Ze’s statements that this week is going to see Russian attacks timed for Independence Day (what he really means I guess is that he and NATO are going to set up a false flat and attempt to blame it on Russia) tells me that for the collective West the3 situation is now desperate, really desperate, with Russia poised to take Nikolaev this week (taking everyone by surprise).
Let’s see what Ze and his mates can pull off in terms of a false flag attack because I cannot see much they can do. I might be wrong on that though.

Posted by: Jo Dominich | Aug 22 2022 11:05 utc | 165

Paul Greenwood | Aug 22 2022 10:58 utc | 258
I second that.
That´s exactly the reason why msm and the government is already designating all dissenting voices on the stance towards Russia as “nazi”.

Posted by: Goingo | Aug 22 2022 11:08 utc | 167

but to set a scenario where the USA can get its hands on the East’s (including Donbass) trillions of dollars worth of natural resources and also, to defeat, not weaken Russia so the USA can plunder the $73 trillion dollars of natural resources it has.
Posted by: Jo Dominich | Aug 22 2022 11:05 utc | 264
The problem for the West was that the resources are in Donbass. Actually Minsk was a method where everybody wins. Donbass isn’t attacked anymore, everyone shares lots of money from resources and all is good. But the West, US that is, thought that is not enough. Let’s kill the Donbass (Russia will surely do nothing, they have no army) then we can get 100% of everything and at the same time we place biolabs and Bojo starts building naval bases and maybe we kick Russia out of Crimea too. Someone was really really high or there’s something else. That is to collapse EU and weaken Russia as much as possible. Or maybe they were high at first but they’ve adjusted to collapsing EU very quickly. Why would the orange man want NS2 completely disabled when there isn’t enough LNG on the planet to replace pipe gas from Russia and at the same time npps are getting closed?

Posted by: rk | Aug 22 2022 11:43 utc | 169

Paul Greenwood | Aug 22 2022 10:58 utc | 258
You say the people do not support state policies, and yet…how come every year in the UKEU there is more of the same only worse
Do you mean to state that there is effective organised opposition to the various ruinous policies imposed on the people against their wishes over the many years, and especially to the disastrous policies adopted in this war ?
There is no recorded trace of any opposition still less organised still less effective that I can find, although I’ll admit I live far from the EU (apart of course from Les gilets jaunes, and one or two others, some Trades Union, but less significant and not broadly based)
So tell –what concrete opposition has been formed with what agenda/proposals, over the years, and especially with regards to this war ?
Otherwise I take the situation to be as stated – the people in these countries may minorly quarrel and meekly complain but they go along with policies adopted by their ruling classes, because lazy submissive and (still) comfortable enough to say, en fin de compte, I’m alright, Jack
Or perhaps it is simply that they are as incompetent and as incoherent as their ruling classes, and are incapable of seeing, as Africans have, that this is a once in a lifetime chance to observe to learn effective action and to throw off their oppressions

Posted by: Gerrard White | Aug 22 2022 11:50 utc | 171

The tragedy of the car bombing murder in Russia may derail any political attempt towards calling Russia terrorist or a terrorist supporter.
Of course, given Western derangement, they will just double down but across much of the globe it will appear crazy.

Posted by: Eighthman | Aug 22 2022 11:56 utc | 173

It’s crumbling in the EU
Exchange rate Euro to US Dollar!
€0.98.9
Within 48 hours, and continues to fall !

Posted by: mac998 | Aug 22 2022 11:57 utc | 175

On August 21, after a remote-controlled explosion of the Toyota Land Cruiser Prado car Dugina was driving, Vovk and her daughter left through the Pskov Region to Estonia,” the FSB said.
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To plot the murder and gather information about Dugina’s lifestyle, Vovk and her daughter rented an apartment in Moscow in the same building where the victim lived. To spy on the journalist, the criminal used a Mini Cooper car. When entering Russia, the vehicle carried a license plate of the Donetsk People’s Republic – E982XH DPR, in Moscow – a license plate of Kazakhstan 172AJD02, and when leaving – a Ukrainian license plate AH7771IP. “The materials of the investigation have been handed over to the Investigative Committee,” the FSB said.

Posted by: mac998 | Aug 22 2022 12:04 utc | 177

@Melaleuca | Aug 22 2022 11:53 utc | 272
Yes, that part I’m sure they believed 100%. And that Russians will remove Putin because they don’t have McDonalds anymore.

Posted by: rk | Aug 22 2022 12:11 utc | 179

Murder has been solved?? Unless the perpetrators(all of them) are behind bars or destroyed, the murder is far from solved. What kind of shady operation are these russians running??

Posted by: Comandante | Aug 22 2022 12:28 utc | 181

Hassan@239….not without NATO weapons…….what they do have in spades though…..stupidity. Had it all, even the Donbas, traded it for a joker.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Aug 22 2022 12:30 utc | 183

Posted by: Comandante | Aug 22 2022 12:28 utc | 260
Technically the crime has been solved. The big fish in SBU are probably known, but they might’ve run off to EU, like the performer herself.

Posted by: unimperator | Aug 22 2022 12:36 utc | 185

“So far, Russian allied forces have secured at least $12.4 trillion worth of Ukraine’s energy deposits, metals and minerals. That figure includes over 63 percent of Ukraine’s coal deposits, 11 percent of its oil deposits, 20 percent of its natural gas deposits, 42 percent of its metals and 33 percent of its deposits of rare earth and other critical minerals including lithium.”
«Given how the Plundering Nations operate, none of this ought to be surprising.»
It is a common claim of NATO-aligned commenters, that the Russian Federation is in Ukraine to plunder its natural resources rather than to defend the people of the Donbas from ukrainian aggression etc.; but the Russian Federation has plenty of natural resources already, and anyhow control of the Donbas etc. and its natural resources belongs to its residents, and that does not change whether they were part of Ukraine or independent as they are now.
It is however also the case that various EU-USA related businesses have been corruptly grabbing chunks of the ukrainian economy well before the “special military operation”, as they were trying to do in the RF during the Yeltsin period, but that is standard procedure in “dog eat dog” economies.

Posted by: Blissex | Aug 22 2022 12:42 utc | 187

«Greece and that trio’s rape of that nation»
At the lowest point in 2012 Greek had the same GDP as in 2000, well before the 2002-2010 fraudulent debt bubble, that does not seem to indicate there was a rape, unless the argument is that Greece has always been raped:
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD?locations=GR-PT-UA
The comparison with Portugal is particularly instructive, as they lines and levels are broadly similar except during the 2002-2010 fraudulent debt bubble.
During that 2002-2010 fraudulent (as admitted by the greek prime minister in the greek parliament) debt bubble, the greek government borrowed 15-25% of greek GDP and imports also grew by 15-25% of greek GDP. Once the bubble burst, greep GDP merely returned to trend.
Greece if anything was “raped” by its own government, that borrowed fantastic amounts of money that were distributed corruptly to their supporters, that then used the loot to buy themselves large amounts of nice imported stuff; despite that their creditors gave them enormous (around 40%) discounts on that debt while continuing to donate from EU funds around 3.5% of the greek GDP to Greece as regional aid.

Posted by: Blissex | Aug 22 2022 12:55 utc | 189

aquileia | Aug 22 2022 12:40 utc | 196
“”That’s like asking, why don’t people in the U.S. vote against their jobs being shipped to China if they don’t like it?””
No it’s not – it’s like asking why do you say that the people who live in what they proclaim to be democracies consistently ‘oppose’ or disagree with their governments yet do not elect those who will execute policies they support or wish for
So yes– how come the US in general the working classs in particular went along with the off shoring of industry over the last 50 years (it did not start with China) — how come they failed to elect governments who would seek to halt or to reverse that and how come they allowed themselves to be walked over by the companies which operated this off shoring ?
Because– they counted up their money and they thought… we’re still alright, and actually forming opposition and organising alternatives and insisting by every possible means that ‘we can’ is too much like hard work
I’d say they were and they still are wrong – and they’re about to find out : this time again they are paying for a war which is a lost cause, having learned nothing so far from all the many failed wars they have allowed their country to indulge in, yet still with this war learning nothing and about to suffer the effects of defeat in ways they never have before
What’s the point of saying it is not their fault if they are the ones who pay the price

Posted by: Gerrard White | Aug 22 2022 13:08 utc | 191

eu natgas
TTF Dec2022 300ish
TTD Q4-2023 270ish
this is panic pricing
10x the mid/high end of what the pre-war pre-covid range based on fundamentals was

Posted by: ptb | Aug 22 2022 13:11 utc | 193

unimperator | Aug 22 2022 12:29 utc | 224
Publicly they say they are using Germany, UK and Canada for training. The local Ukr training bases were more like mercenary camps.
But building permanent Ukr base(s) in Romania, Poland, Moldova is different and they probably would be valid targets for demilitarization. It seems the Borrell gang tries to turn Eastern Europe into a war zone, more or less active.

Posted by: rk | Aug 22 2022 13:19 utc | 195

The US is China’s largest export market, unless they get the BRI up and running they are not going to do anything
Russia is a bunch of corrupt thieves who ruin peoples lives with their “kompromat” and murder journalists
the US is just plain old disgusting at this stage
there is no good side here, just an ugly resource / trade war
F*&^ em all……….

Posted by: abee | Aug 22 2022 13:24 utc | 197

Thank you b for all you do.
Yesterday’s thread was a hot mess with allegations and responses to computer hacking and such.

Posted by: JoeDontSurf | Aug 22 2022 13:35 utc | 199