Orgy planned among the Kiev residents if Russia delivers a nuclear strike. 5000 participants so far on party’s telegram channel.

Posted by: rk | Sep 26 2022 17:18 utc | 4

Impressive video (view on a PC) of the Iranian drones now used in Ukraine.
A closer look at Iran’s kamikaze drones Shahed-136 (Geranium-2)
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/10299

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 26 2022 17:40 utc | 6

Izhevsk school shooter was a Pro-Ukrainian Nazi
From Telegram:

An organization of pro-Ukrainian terrorists claimed responsibility for the shooting of schoolchildren in Izhevsk – they run a Telegram channel dedicated to shooting
A certain RAMP (Russian amoral murder portrait) community, which claimed responsibility for the shooting of schoolchildren in Izhevsk, has been sending messages about false mining since September in schools all over Russia and in the Donbass, each time mentioning that the liberated territories of Ukraine are occupied.
The RAMP community has many Telegram channels, one of them is dedicated to svatting (false message of danger), deanon (disclosure of personal data) and columbine. The description of the channel says that its official language is Ukrainian.
Whether the Izhevsk killer Artem Kazantsev has anything to do with this channel is still unknown, the terrorist shot at least 13 people, including children, who were registered in a psychoneurological dispensary with a diagnosis of dementia.
https://t.me/readovkanews/42575

The shooter was wearing a black shirt with a red swastika on it.

There was a school shooter in Izhevsk Russia today. the total number of deaths is 13 people, including 7 children. The animal was liquidated on the spot. Tell me if you see something that stands out on this POS.
https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/27220

Reuters confirms:

Swastika-wearing ex-pupil kills 15 in Russian school shooting
MOSCOW, Sept 26 (Reuters) – A gunman with a swastika on his teeshirt killed 15 people, including 11 children, and wounded 24 at a school in Russia on Monday before committing suicide, investigators said.
The attacker, a man in his early thirties who was named by authorities as Artem Kazantsev, killed two security guards and then opened fire on students and teachers at School Number 88 in Izhevsk, where he had once been a pupil.

Posted by: Petri Krohn | Sep 26 2022 17:50 utc | 8

Did the “coalition of the willing” build new housing for the people in Iraq?
Did NATO build new housing for the broken statelets of Yugoslavia?
Or did the survivors wake up one day to find their currency worthless?
And no new levis jeans or rock and roll?
I can’t remember.

Posted by: Chaka Khagan | Sep 26 2022 18:21 utc | 10

Yes. Results from today: Kherson 63.58%, Zaporozhye 66.43%, LPR 83.16%, DPR 86.89%

Posted by: rk | Sep 26 2022 18:47 utc | 12

Preliminary turnout according to the results of the four-day referendum in the Liberated Areas:
LPR – 83.61%
DVR – 86.89%
Zaporozhye region – 66.43% of the region
Kherson – 63.58%
The referendum is considered valid if more than 50% of the voters have cast their vote. The final day of voting is tomorrow, September 27th.

Posted by: Mo3 | Sep 26 2022 18:52 utc | 14

Name one instance were the Russians have broken through the Ukrainian defensive line and attacked the line from the back.
I don’t know of one instance.
You break through the line at some weak point and attack from the back.
Attacking into the teeth of the enemy is a fool’s game.
Yet that seems to have been the only strategy employed.
Maybe Putin, or the Russian high command don’t really like the Ukrainian rebels in the East.
Their support for the Ukrainian rebels seems really tepid.
The Luhansk & Donetsk People’s Republic forces are reported to do most of the close fighting (and dying), etc, etc.
And Putin lets the neo-Nazis go in a prisoner exchange???

Posted by: Jack | Sep 26 2022 18:54 utc | 16

@ ok, you don’t know anything about it, you never heard of a cauldron, you never heard of the feint on Kiev…and I bet in another post you will say that losses of Russian soldiers are horrendous…Clearly you are just another troll and I at least will ignore any further comment from you.

Posted by: Anthony | Sep 26 2022 19:12 utc | 18

I hear on Military Summary Channel that Russians are in critical situation on the north front. Russians are unable to stabilize the front, says Dima.
It is strange, they 9Russians) do not use their Air force.

Posted by: marko | Sep 26 2022 19:27 utc | 20

Posted by: marko | Sep 26 2022 19:27 utc | 20
I think we have to assume Russia is aware of operative anti-air measures in the area and doesn’t want to risk the loss of planes and men. Strange, though, that they don’t launch a dozen kinzhals or a drone swarm.

Posted by: WJ | Sep 26 2022 19:36 utc | 22

I hear on Military Summary Channel that Russians are in critical situation on the north front. Russians are unable to stabilize the front, says Dima.
It is strange, they 9Russians) do not use their Air force.
Posted by: marko | Sep 26 2022 19:27 utc | 20
There is nothing to suggest that the Allies don`t use their airforce. The daily hit list et al tell you that they do. That front-line is far off from the main fighting areas, so getting troops there in a meaningful defensive position might be tricky. You would expect that the defence of that area is the “job” of the Luhansk army/troops, so one might put the question to them. As Col. Macgregor said, if you step into the ring, you will get some heavy punches. That doesn`t tell how the fight will end. And since we see troops arriving in the SMO area now, the tide may very well turn. As I said before, much will also depend on how the Ukrainians can sustain the drive with man-material and weapons. Thus far, they seemingly dash forward and around most areas of military concentration. Many if`s and but`s, it will beome clearer in a few days, I’d assume. (All the above just MHO.)

Posted by: CM of Berlin | Sep 26 2022 19:51 utc | 24

Ukrainian sources report an attack on the airport in Krivoy Rog, the airport is said to have been completely paralysed.
Apparently these kinshawls are needed somewhere else?

Posted by: Mo3 | Sep 26 2022 19:53 utc | 26

Mo3 | Sep 26 2022 19:53 utc | 26
Ukr say the airport was hit by kh-59 not kinzhal. I doubt we’ll see hypersonics in Ukr again. Official number used was 3 I think

Posted by: rk | Sep 26 2022 19:58 utc | 28

Membrum Virile @29–
I beg to differ. What entities are the ultimate sponsors of the events in Ukraine? The Neoliberal Parasites that run the Outlaw US Empire.

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 26 2022 20:04 utc | 30

Also, on Military Summary, Dima says that there are rumors that Russia is going to use one nuclear bomb to slow down western supply of weapons.

Posted by: marko | Sep 26 2022 20:16 utc | 32

The UK’s chief of defence staff hosted talks with the Russian defence attaché at the Ministry of Defence in London.
Admiral Sir Tony Radakin and Colonel Maxim Elovik met as part of ongoing efforts to “strengthen military to military channels of communication” with Russia.
More horse-trading, then.

Posted by: Night Tripper | Sep 26 2022 20:24 utc | 34

Also, on Military Summary, Dima says that there are rumors that Russia is going to use one nuclear bomb to slow down western supply of weapons.
Posted by: marko | Sep 26 2022 20:16 utc | 32
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That’s rubbish !
This does not require nuclear weapons!
It only needs Belarus for that
All you need is Lemberg
All you need is Odessa
It would only take ships from Romania to be destroyed
All you need to do is destroy airports
All that was needed was to destroy railway lines
For this it would only take next to destroying the power plants of the nuclear power plants
It would take idiots like you to believe it!!

Posted by: Mo3 | Sep 26 2022 20:25 utc | 36

@marko | Sep 26 2022 20:16 utc | 32

Also, on Military Summary, Dima says that there are rumors that Russia is going to use one nuclear bomb to slow down western supply of weapons.

I always thought there was something odd about him. Might be right.

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 26 2022 20:28 utc | 38

Hahaha I doubt using a nuke to stop weapons supplies is anywhere on Russian Nuclear Doctrine books.
I would think the 500+ Russian planes could halt weapon supply channels for months. Not to mention the destruction of all Ukranian roads/bridges and rails. Maybe also communications. They could do thid in case the situation turn Red Alert.
That Military Summary Channel sounds like a bunch of real idiots.
If Russia uses nukes at this point it would be suicide as whole world would go against them. Including China and India.

Posted by: Comandante | Sep 26 2022 20:32 utc | 40

Related to NS2 – Tass – Danish Maritime Authority reported a gas leakage not far from the island of Bornholm.
NS1 pressure problem was confirmed. So both NS are gone. Considering sanctions, any repair is not possible. Who would pay for it anyway? What Russian pipeline goes boom next?

Posted by: rk | Sep 26 2022 20:33 utc | 42

The NS pressure drops on both pipelines is suspicious indeed.
An explosion would have been noticed. It takes a huge explosion to damage those massive pipelines.
I have read various theories.
I think for Russia it doesn’t really matter, they have all but stopped sending any gas. But I suppose they still get money from Germany as if they were still shipping gas, because of those contracts.
Also, in one article they spoke about a pressure drop on the German side, implying that there was none on the Russian side. I know that Russia uses a part of NS2 for their internal distribution. But that doesn’t seem to be affected.

Posted by: Nico | Sep 26 2022 20:35 utc | 44

Rudi | Sep 26 2022 20:34 utc | 43
There is no logic in Blinky. He talks to hear himself talking. And to erase the memory of lizzy trussy’s nuke threats or zely’s demand of nukes to hit Russia.

Posted by: rk | Sep 26 2022 20:41 utc | 46

Posted by: farm ecologist | Sep 26 2022 18:55 utc | 17
Yes over the top but I like him and I don’t know the others

Posted by: jo6pac | Sep 26 2022 20:48 utc | 48

Norwegian @ 38

Also, on Military Summary, Dima says that there are rumors that Russia is going to use one nuclear bomb to slow down western supply of weapons. I always thought there was something odd about him. Might be right.

While back I made the comment that Scott Ritter is an expert that acts like a kid and Dima is a kid that acts like an expert but sadly no one commented on how clever I was 🙁 So I get to make it again 😊
If Dima proves right it’s purely by happenstance. It’s asinine to think Putin and Shoigu would let slip the slightest clue over something like this. Dima isn’t even acting like a 15y/o kid but a 10y/o one. The very few people making these decisions on both sides won’t be leaking it, which is why all this nuke discussion all of a sudden is rather reassuring. I’m with Dmitry Orlov on this, if a message needs to be given on the RF side it won’t be “rumors” it’ll be an above ground test in violation of the Partial Test Ban Treaty in Novaya Zemlya. That should shock everyone awake, if it doesn’t…

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Sep 26 2022 21:01 utc | 50

@ Rudi | Sep 26 2022 20:34 utc | 43
America’s warning that, if Russia uses a nuke against Ukraine, then the US will react “immediately and decisively.” But I wonder, what exactly does the US mean?
The US doesn’t mean anything exactly, and is simply making the point that the US as the world hegemon can decide at any time to do any thing, exercising its authoritative ability to enforce its rules-based international order.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Sep 26 2022 21:10 utc | 52

LightYearsFromHome | Sep 26 2022 21:01 utc | 50
There is a big trial being organized near Novaya Zemlya for their nuclear powered intercontinental missile.
There are clear indications that Russia is preparing to test the nuclear-powered Burevestnik (NATO: SKYFALL) missile. The test site at Pankovo on Novaya Zemlya in the Russian Arctic is extremely remote.
Source; HI Sutton, Covert Shores.

Posted by: Stonebird | Sep 26 2022 21:21 utc | 54

Gee, no outbursts aimed at others OT?!? Yet another troll.
Crooke’s SCF essay is out, “Unpacking the Ukraine ‘Game Change’; Is a Major Conflict Inevitable?”, and it builds on the lines forwarded in his al-Mayadeen column. Crooke leads with this:

Russia is preparing for an escalation in this war. She is augmenting her forces to the minimum level that could deal with a major NATO offensive. This decision was not precipitated by a significant attrition in the existing force. The facts are clear: The militias of Donetsk and Luhansk represent the majority of the Russian allied forces fighting in the Donbas. The militias have been reinforced by contract soldiers from the Wagner Group and Chechen fighters however, rather than by regular Russian forces.
But this is about to change. The number of Russian regulars fighting in Ukraine will rise dramatically. However, the referenda in the Ukrainian oblasts come first; and those will be followed by the Government of Russia and the Duma accepting the results and approving the annexation of these territories. After that is concluded and the territories assimilated into Russia, any attack on the new Russian territories would be treated as an act of war against Russia. As former Indian diplomat, MK Bhadrakumar, notes, “The accession of Donbass, Kherson and Zaporozhye creates a new political reality and Russia’s partial mobilisation on parallel track is intended to provide the military underpinning for it”.
Clearly, we – the world – are at a pivotal moment. ‘Collective Russia’ has concluded that the former low-intensity war is no longer viable:
Unimaginable flows of western $ billions; too many NATO fingers in the Ukraine pie; too wide a ‘Ho Chi Minh Trail’ of ever more long-range and advanced weaponry; and too many ‘delusions’ that Kiev can still somehow win – effectively have undercut any ‘off-ramp solution’ and portend inexorable escalation.
Well, ‘Collective Russia’ has decided to ‘get ahead of the curve’, and to bring the affairs of Ukraine to the crunch. It is a risk; that is why we have reached an inflection point. The $64 thousand dollar question is, what will be the studied reaction of western political leaders to Putin’s speech? The next weeks will be crucial. [My Emphasis]

Indeed, how will those “leaders” interpret Putin’s vow that nobody wants to touch or repeat:
“It is in our historical tradition, in the fate of our people, to stop those who are striving for world domination, who threaten to dismember and enslave our Motherland, our Fatherland. We will do it now, and so it will be.” [My Emphasis]
Crooke then provides a rather select review of events since 2015 and discusses Russia’s geopolitical strategy. After mentioning the SCO Samarkand Summit, he writes cryptically–“mindful of the SCO’s 2001 founding charter”–which in his column he expressed as “the ‘Three ‘No’s’: No alliance; no confrontation and no targeting of any ‘third party.’” Crooke continues:

Yes, China and India are opposed and sensitive to secessionism, but both accept that the Ukrainian attack upon the DLRP was contrived. However, the transition as outlined clearly by Putin “to terrorist attacks is a serious matter”. Putin warned: “In fact, it is about using terrorist methods. We see this in the killing of officials in the liberated territories, we even see attempts at perpetrating terrorist attacks in the Russian Federation, including – I am not sure if this was made public – attempts to carry out terrorist attacks near our nuclear facilities, nuclear power plants in the Russian Federation. I am not even talking about the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant”.
Both China and India in fact are more concerned about terrorism even, than secession. This ‘turn’ paradoxically, has had the effect of hardening their support for Russia. [My Emphasis]

And the #1 Terrorist nation and global supporter of Terrorism is the Outlaw US Empire/NATO. So, we might see the reversal of the War OF Terror to become a genuine War ON Terrorism’s most prolific practitioner and sponsor. Indeed, the CSTO is also formulated as an anti-terrorist Bloc. And after Lavrov’s UNGA performances, anyone doubting the Outlaw US Empire’s use of terrorism isn’t paying attention or is ideologically blinded. Putin also again directly accused the Outlaw US Empire of using terrorists against Russia and of currently employing terrorist tactics. Altogether Putin used Terror five times in his Mobilization Speech, which Crooke partially repeated above. And we’d all likely agree that war is organized terrorism, and the only reason it isn’t called that is historic precedent, although numerous literary sources have referred to the terror of war through the centuries.
It should also be quite clear that Outlaw US Empire Neoliberal Parasites want to destroy the Shanghai Spirit that forms the basis for the SCO and BRI. So, if China doesn’t become directly involved in conflict with the Empire over Europe than it likely will over Taiwan, which the Empire will try and turn into an Anti-China similar to Ukriane.
So, by October the oblasts will be Russian, and NATO will then be directly attacking Russia whether it recognizes the new facts or not. And there’s no way NATO can claim to be acting in defense as it’s already a party to the conflict as Lavrov explained.

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 26 2022 21:48 utc | 56

There are clear indications that Russia is preparing to test the nuclear-powered Burevestnik (NATO: SKYFALL) missile. The test site at Pankovo on Novaya Zemlya in the Russian Arctic is extremely remote.
Source; HI Sutton, Covert Shores.
Posted by: Stonebird | Sep 26 2022 21:21 utc | 54
That’s encouraging. I was getting concerned about the lack of atomic doomsday superweapons.
Alternative; That the sabotaging of the NS2 and probably the NS1 signals that someone was about to break ranks and ask for more Gas. Precipitating a collapse of the 1000 plus sanctions nasty self inflicted destruction for Europe.
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Posted by: Stonebird | Sep 26 2022 21:13 utc | 53
Could be that Uncle Sam wanted a little insurance policy in case the Germans don’t decide to freeze to death this winter like they’re supposed to.

Posted by: ZX | Sep 26 2022 21:53 utc | 58

That’s encouraging. I was getting concerned about the lack of atomic doomsday superweapons.
Posted by: ZX | Sep 26 2022 21:53 utc | 58
Same. Truly concerning the world doesn’t have more civilization ending weapons. /sarc

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 26 2022 21:58 utc | 60

I suggest Russia destroy all the US oil installations in Syria, through which the US are stealing Syrian oil.

Posted by: Nico | Sep 26 2022 22:06 utc | 62

Saw on telegram Putin gave Snowden citizenship today, what’s interesting is that Snowden took it. Granted he has a child born there and this way he can’t be deported and separated which is an imperative for most immigrants. Also with any upcoming war deals like the recent prisoner exchange the USA could say, “throw in Snowden and you have a deal,” and maybe they did. Putin has no love for Snowden and said he considered him a traitor to his country but if it did come down to Putin’s decision he did him a kindness. On the other hand Putin may have had little to do w/ it, Snowden applied and it was just a bureaucratic matter.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Sep 26 2022 22:10 utc | 64

“The wreckage of an American AGM-88 HARM missile that fell in the center of Kramatorsk. Earlier, a similar ammunition fell in Konstantinovka, which may indicate serious technical problems with US-supplied missiles.”
https://t.me/voenkorKotenok/40876?single
Pictures show stamps that they were made in 1985. So it looks like U.S. is clearing out their old stocks.

Posted by: MiniMo | Sep 26 2022 22:12 utc | 66

Posted by: rk | Sep 26 2022 18:47 utc | 12
Posted by: Mo3 | Sep 26 2022 18:52 utc | 14
A few not-G7 journals confirmed international observers. Good to see Kherson got turnout up. Does vote count include displaced?
This weekend I accidently learned from Strana (UA scare quotes) reporting

“Polling stations” will be opened in all regions of the Russian Federation, and several in large cities. For example, in Moscow in every district. They will also work in every major district of the Moscow region. The same applies to the annexed Crimea. Many points for “voting” in the Rostov [RU] region.
[…]
This means that not only refugees from the LDNR and other regions of Ukraine will be able to vote in Russia (according to TASS, more than 4.2 million citizens have arrived in the Russian Federation since February), but also citizens who conditionally moved from Donetsk to Moscow 20 years ago, who have an expired Ukrainian passport

Posted by: sln2002 | Sep 26 2022 22:17 utc | 68

Yuri Podolyak (war blogger/analyst) claims that the Ukrainian offensive N/NW of Lyman lost momentum. Russian mobilization provides gradually more opportunity to pile reserves to block further advances, and attacks on Lyman directly have failed. Ukrainians are on a long narrow corridor. We’ll see what happens, in the next week or so.
https://t.me/Zornkrieger/15280

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 26 2022 22:27 utc | 70

David Levin –
⚡️ Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine
(September 26, 2022)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
💥 Massive fire attack launched at the bases of 14th Mechanised and 95th Airborne Assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) near Senkovo and Chervony Oskol (Kharkov region) have resulted in causing casualties of over 120 enemy servicemen and 15 units of military equipment.
💥 High-precision attacks launched by Russian Aerospace Forces at the provisional bases of the ‘Foreign Legion’ and units from nationalist groups near Svyatogorsk (Donetsk People’s Republic) have resulted in the elimination of up to 100 militants.
💥 Missile attack launched at a forward command post of 10th Mountain Assault Brigade of the AFU near Chasov Yar (Donetsk People’s Republic) during the brigade commanders’ conference has resulted in the elimination of up to 25 Ukrainian servicemen and wounding of over 40.
◽️ 8 units of special military equipment have been neutralised.
💥 High-precision attack at a provisional base of 406th Artillery Brigade of the AFU near Ochakov (Nikolayev region) has resulted in the elimination of up to 50 militants, 10 units of military equipment and over 2,000 artillery projectiles.
💥 Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery have neutralised 5 AFU command posts near Kupyansk (Kharkov region), Shchurovo, Kirovo (Donetsk People’s Republic), Kamyshevakha (Zaporozhye region) and Vysokopolye (Kherson region), as well as of 56 artillery units, 163 manpower and military equipment concentration areas.
◽️ 3 AFU missile, artillery armament and munitions depots near Zaporozhye, Nikolayev and Kramatorsk (Donetsk People’s Republic) have been destroyed.
💥 Fighter aviation of Russian Aerospace Forces has shot down 1 Su-24 airplane of Ukrainian Air Force near Selidovo (Donetsk People’s Republic).
💥 Russian air defence facilities have shot down 13 unmanned aerial vehicles near Bobrovy Kut, Zalyony Gai, Ukrainka, Sadok, Novaya Kakhovka, Maksima Gorkogo (Kherson region), Molochansk (Zaporozhye region), Selidovo and Kirillovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).
💥 19 projectiles launched by HIMARS and Olkha multiple rocket-launching systems have been destroyed in air near Antonovka bridge (Kherson region), as well as near Svatovo (Lugansk People’s Republic) and Novaya Kakhovka (Kherson region).
📊 In total, 302 airplanes and 155 helicopters, 2,087 unmanned aerial vehicles, 377 air defence missile systems, 5,114 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 845 combat vehicles equipped with MRLS, 3,417 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 5,904 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
❗️ Kiev regime continues its provocations near Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
◽️ AFU artillery had been shelling at Volna suburban settlement located near the nuclear power plant.
◽️ A total of 25 projectiles have been launched from Kiev-controlled areas of Nikopol and Marganets (Dnepropetrovsk region).
◽️ Enemy firepower has been neutralised by Russian artillery’s counter-attack.
⚠️ The radiation environment at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant remains normal.
#MoD #Russia #Ukraine
@mod_russia_en

Posted by: ZX | Sep 26 2022 22:40 utc | 72

I am guessing but here is my take on the pssible russian thinking
As i have written several times, russian strategy chages dramatically when they change phases.
When the SMP started they sought to pressure Ukraine into a reasonable peace treaty-independence for the two breakaways plus withdrawal from NATO. When this did not work they withdrew from Kiev and focused on securing Luhansk, Donetsk and Kherson/Zapororishia, with a smaller but real effort around Kharkov and Odessa/Nikoleyev.
With the total withdrawal of Western Europe from Russian gas, there is no longer any hope of peace, nor is there any value any longer in pumping gas through Ukraine – Other than perhaps to support Hungary.
Russia has now shifted focus again and will fully incorprate the four provinces. This is dramatic, and it means I think a complete break with western Europe. I think Russia has decided that it is not worth fighting for kharkov, because without any gas supplies, the cold winter will deliver them to Russia in 2 years anyway. When the residents see the other provinces flourishing in a warm gas filled environment, with their industries closed for lack of fuel, Kharkov will return anyway. After all you can be sure the NAZI troops/enforcers will flee back to the west, where at least there will be some gas via the occasional LNG tanker. None of it will reach Kharkov. They may have some gas resources, but who will finance this project.

Posted by: watcher | Sep 26 2022 22:48 utc | 74

“…Ultimately, this is psychohistorian’s Civilizational War between private finance and humanity. As many are beginning to realize, he’s been correct all along. Because their [Europe’s] political systems generally are far more democratic than the Empire’s, Europeans can more easily elect people that will cater to their interests, which requires leaving the EU and ECB control and returning financial control to government and very restrictive regulation on all aspects of private finance.”
Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 26 2022 19:31 utc | 21
Indeed it is that, karlof1, and isn’t now the position of Europe exactly like what happened when the banks were withholding other countries legitimate funds, a looming, enlightening evil?
Exactly like what is happening to Ukraine as even the land itself is being terrorized. Now it is Europe’s turn. The worsened statelessness of Ukraine shifts seamlessly to the dark misanthropic terror that private finance has become. This is also that.
Again and again in speeches the Russians delineate how it began, for Ukraine, with terrorism, and how it is now ending, in terrorism. We have seen that other places as well. What we haven’t realized perhaps is that terrorism manifests itself in many different forms. Maybe now we shall.

Posted by: juliania | Sep 26 2022 22:54 utc | 76

karlof1 @ 61
Tom_Q_Collins @ 63
Re: Florida, the con that keeps on giving, going on a century now –
Cocoanuts (Marx Brothers) – hilarious auction scene

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Sep 26 2022 22:57 utc | 78

Marko @32
Watched Dima’s video. He appears to be getting a bit unhinged on the nuke issue. Long before nukes, Russia has other options such as hyperbarics…nasty stuff, but not outlawed by Geneva conventions.
Question: Has Dima been getting “donations” or threats from interested parties?

Posted by: aristodemos | Sep 26 2022 23:06 utc | 80

One general about another:
MOSCOW, September 27 – RIA Novosti. Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov is an unsurpassed military strategist, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny said in an interview with Time.
“I grew up on Russian military doctrine and still believe that all military science is in Russia. I studied with Gerasimov. I read everything he ever wrote. He is the smartest of people,” the Ukrainian military leader said.
https://ria.ru/20220927/prevoskhodstvo-1819671590.html

Posted by: JB | Sep 26 2022 23:23 utc | 82

karlof1 @ 61
Tom_Q_Collins @ 63
LightYearsFromHome | Sep 26 2022 22:57 utc | 78
Carl Hiassen has long been the comic bard of Floridian sleaze, although the political system he gleefully skewers obtains mutatis mutatis across America and around the world.
Reading his novels in chronological order is best, due to recurrence of characters, especially a Vietnam vet who was elected governor but flipped out from the sleaze, fled Tallahassee, lives in the swamps and on road-kill, and acts as deus ex machina in many of the novels.

Posted by: John Kennard | Sep 26 2022 23:43 utc | 84

A useful rational review by Patrick Lawrence last week of the SCO meetings.
Western coverage of last week’s summit in Uzbekistan brings us face-to-face with the extent to which Americans are not supposed to see the world turning.
http://patricklawrence.us/patrick-lawrence-appointment-in-samarkand/
and another more specifically about Ukriane and the present moment.
https://scheerpost.com/2022/09/25/patrick-lawrence-in-the-terrain-of-word-war-iii/

Posted by: SeanAU | Sep 27 2022 0:07 utc | 86

LYFH@64:
Really don’t think Snowden had any choice. Say he flew into Paris, my guess is some black suv’s would meet him at the airport. A quiet jaunt to a nearby CIA black site for a little tuning up followed by a one way trip to Gitmo or even dumped out in the middle of the shining sea.
He ought to get down on his knees and thank God Almighty for President Putin every night the rest of his life.

Posted by: morongobill | Sep 27 2022 0:40 utc | 88

For a few weeks we keep seeing the Biden Administration warn Russia not to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
This strikes me as odd, because not only does Russia have no need to use such a weapon in Ukraine, it would go against everything they are trying to achieve there, which is to liberate the Russian people and lands of Ukraine from a fanatical fascist regime.
The US State Department knows that perfectly well. So why do they keep intimating that Russia is tempted to drop a nuke on Ukraine?
Then it occured to me, they are planning another MH-17 to blame on Russia, but this time it will be a nuclear detonation blamed on Russia.
I could definitely see the Biden Regime doing that. Everybody better stock up on iodine pills…

Posted by: Rhinoskerous | Sep 27 2022 0:47 utc | 90

Vk.com and all associated apps taken off app stores worlwide.
@Karlof1 did you lose your account?

Posted by: Lozion | Sep 27 2022 1:06 utc | 92

apple – working for the same corrupt empire 24-7…… who whudda thunk it? fuck apple..

Posted by: james | Sep 27 2022 1:14 utc | 94

So, no one here can quote a single estimate of the number of West-Ukrainian tanks involved in the “great West-Ukrainian offensive” east of Kharkov. No one can point to an article where some estimate is made.
The real reason for this?
The East-Ukrainians (The Luhansk & Donetsk People’s Republic forces) were ordered to withdraw from the whole area.
The West-Ukrainians made a few small attacks on the retreating East-Ukrainians and the lying media turned these into a massive West-Ukrainian victory.
Two questions; Who ordered the East-Ukrainians to withdraw?
And why did they choose to do it at a time when the West-Ukrainians were absolutely desperate for a distraction because of their disastrous losses in the south.
I still wait for an estimate of the number of Ukrainian tanks involved in the “great West-Ukrainian offensive.”
Even an order of magnitude guess.
Was it 10 tanks, or 100 tanks, or 1000 tanks, or 10000 tanks?

Posted by: Jack | Sep 27 2022 1:21 utc | 96

Posted by: Jack | Sep 27 2022 1:21 utc | 96

I still wait for an estimate of the number of Ukrainian tanks involved in the “great West-Ukrainian offensive.”

Dear Jack
Ask in the YouTube comments section. Those guys know *everything*.
Regards,
Arch

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Sep 27 2022 1:29 utc | 98

ZX@79
Overdone is putting it mildly. But the reporting on which the WSWS agitprop is engrafted is solid.
As to Corbyn you are right. The objection to him was that he would not follow NATO policies and would side with AMLO in Mexico and defend the Cuban and Venezuelan governments.
I had the luck to meet a mid level MI guy in the UK in 2016 who frothed at the mouth when the subject of Corbynism came up: the objection, very clearly, was that disassociation with NATO and US Imperialism would make the UK military, Security Services and most of The Establishment redundant- they work for the USA and they know it. What passes for patriotism in the UK ruling class and Establishment is entirely phony- they despise the country and its people their loyalty is to the Empire and their Boss is on the western side of the Atlantic.
They hated Corbyn because he understood this and was able, like Shelley, to understand that the message “We are many, They are few” had immense resonance- it has been in the back of the minds of the people for centuries. Chesterton understood it when he talked of the People of England “who have never spoken yet”.
Unfortunately Corbyn is not a politician, he just makes his living that way, but a poet and prophet..
By the way, Crooke’s article at Strategic Culture is very good this week. His explanation of the thinking behind the SMO very convincing. One of his best.
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2022/09/26/unpacking-ukraine-game-change-is-major-conflict-inevitable/

Posted by: bevin | Sep 27 2022 1:39 utc | 100