@ aristodemos | Oct 13 2022 17:01 utc | 26
thanks aristodemos.. i’m in canada and don’t have a clear idea of what is what in the usa, or much of anything about this mcgregor dude… hard to know what it will take to change things in the usa, but i wish you and the fellow americans all the best sorting that out… we can’t seem to figure it out here in canada either… we have a bunch of warmongers and windbags that seem to be calling the shots, or following orders from south of the border too… group think… cheers and thanks for your posts..

Posted by: james | Oct 14 2022 5:07 utc | 203

“Rather than attack the Ukrainian army on the flat fields of the Kherson bridgehead, let’s evacuate the civilians from Kherson city, and let the Ukrainians capture the city and THEN we will bomb them after they take refuge and hide in the buildings”.
“Genius! And as usual, anyone on a message board who disagrees is trolling”.

Posted by: Simon | Oct 14 2022 5:15 utc | 205

Posted by: William Gruff | Oct 13 2022 21:52 utc | 130
At the head of this dictatorship was installed a Korean figurehead who had been groomed in the US for many years to take over (don’t tell me you never noticed how the colonial viceroys the US always installs around the world have been kept in storage at Harvard or George Washington University awaiting their chances to be America’s pet dictators in their homelands).
=====================================================
Indeed, it is a cozy little family. Syngman Rhee of ROK and Chiang Kai-Shek of Taiwan founded Asian Peoples’ Anti-Communist League. If you ever wondered where all the crazy Natzos went after WW2, this is your answer. In fact, Chiang Kai-Shek’s son literally was in the Wehrmacht. In 1966, the organization morphed into World Anti-Communist League merging with Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN). ABN was headed by Yaroslav Stetsko, who was picked by Bandera to be one of the top henchmen of the newly formed Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.

Posted by: Jun | Oct 14 2022 5:43 utc | 207

@SeanAU | Oct 14 2022 0:29 utc | 172

NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg: NATO condemns the “terrible and indiscriminate attacks” on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.
Let’s remind Stoltenberg what and how NATO behaved in Yugoslavia 1999
see good ref video via telegram /azmilitary11/24279

He will already know, Stoltenberg speaks the Serbo-Croatian language.

Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 14 2022 6:01 utc | 209

@Piotr Berman | Oct 14 2022 4:21 utc | 199

Quisling perhaps got a good deal for his people under the circumstances.

He was executed October 24, 1945.

Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 14 2022 6:11 utc | 211

fye
big words from a little man
and this moronic neo-con has 1.4 million followers
https://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1579845493986762752
Mike Pompeo @mikepompeo
You know how we can convince Vladimir Putin to withdraw from Ukraine?
Give the Ukrainians the weapons they need to win.
9:44 AM · Oct 11, 2022
6,731 Retweets 2,411 Quote Tweets 55.2K Likes

Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 14 2022 6:37 utc | 213

Norway subjects: https://www.refworld.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/rwmain/opendocpdf.pdf?reldoc=y&docid=5d4adf374
The Uk nationals are actually King’s subjects, even though they don’t really want to advertise that.

Posted by: Paulg | Oct 14 2022 6:41 utc | 215

As bad as things in Ukraine are, I doubt NATO/Elensky can make it go full-Paraguay in terms of national suicide. Total state-breakdown would occur first.
What is the situation in Kherson? It looks like the AFU is stalled-out. So are is the RF clearing out civvies like Donetsk city, because the Ukrs are doing their good-ole ”lob shells & kill random people” routine?
Posted by: Urban Fox | Oct 14 2022 2:54 utc | 194
It means the Russians are not planning to stop the shelling any time soon, as in Donetsk. One of the political goals of the SMO is to exhibit the NotZeeism of the Kiev regime for all to see. (This matches up with the great price Yurpeans are being asked to pay.)
Since they have hamstrung the Ukrainian electric grid, in hopes of getting the NotZees to stop acting like rabid dogs, it is going to be harder to keep the war going.

Posted by: Bemildred | Oct 14 2022 7:04 utc | 217

NATO will start a nuclear war exercise next week. In the “Steadfast Noon” exercise, the air forces of 14 NATO countries practice a first nuclear strike from Poland.
Scott Ritter think, that is extremely danger and should be cancelled, because of the high tensions between Nato and Russia.
Sources:
https://www.washingtotimes.com/news/2022/oct/12/nato-hold-steadfast-noon-nuclear-drills-despite-ru/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/11/nato-chief-says-long-planned-nuclear-exercises-to-go-ahead
Scott Ritter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlP6rtawQLo

Posted by: Mikkado | Oct 14 2022 7:07 utc | 219

Mikkado | Oct 14 2022 7:07 utc | 218
“NATO will start a nuclear war exercise next week. In the “Steadfast Noon” exercise, the air forces of 14 NATO countries practice a first nuclear strike from Poland. Scott Ritter think, that is extremely danger and should be cancelled, because of the high tensions between Nato and Russia.”
I wonder what the odds are that NATO (or some wildcat faction within it) plans to use the pretext of this “exercise” to launch a real first strike.

Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Oct 14 2022 7:28 utc | 221

Jason Jay Smart
@officejjsmart
Elon Musk’s Starlink says it can no longer afford to give Ukraine 🇺🇦 free service and asks the Pentagon 🇺🇸 to pay for it. Starlink had been a game changer in the war.
This comes days after Ukrainian Ambassador
@MelnykAndrij
told Musk to “fuck off.”
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Replying to
@officejjsmart
and
@MelnykAndrij
We’re just following his recommendation 🤷‍♂️

Posted by: Down South | Oct 14 2022 7:43 utc | 223

@Posted by: Jun | Oct 14 2022 5:43 utc | 206
What you bring up about Chiang Kai Shek is complicated through the everpresent doubleplay by the anglosaxons. Chiang most likely didnt comprehend the true nature of that doubleplay. He was a christian and felt strong commonality with the official pose of anticommunism on the part of the anglosaxons. He probably believed that communism was due solely to the Soviets, but did he fully appreciate that it was the anglosaxon aristocrats who brought communism to Russia as well? I dont think so. Therefore the anglosaxon masterminds were fooling everybody including many on all sides. It is difficult to optimise your strategic moves when you havent decoded what is really going on. Chiang received military equipment from Germany and he was fighting Japan so he needed support.
Further his ideological leader until 1925, Sun Yat Sen, had a positive view of previous german leaders like Bismarck.
Todays chinese leaders call themselves communists but if Chiang could return from the grave and experience how things have changed I suspect he would have admired the new China.

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Oct 14 2022 7:59 utc | 225

🇷🇺🇺🇦The fighting for Bakhmut is entering its climactic stage. The enemy in this direction is seriously exhausted, our units have penetrated deep into the city and are storming the main defensive line, and therefore the AFU command requires urgent reinforcements, otherwise the fall of the city will not only be inevitable, but will happen very quickly.
And here is where a very unpleasant fork of decisions emerges for Ze-k (Zelensky) and his gang. Surrendering a major city to the enemy would collapse the myth of an all-conquering Ukrainian army, without which Western aid could be curtailed. It would also be a blow to the image of the authorities inside the country and against the backdrop of a stalled front an unpleasant hint of future defeats.
And this is where they have to make a choice. Either withdraw their units from Zaporozhye and Svatove and reinforce the grouping near Artemovsk, or invest all their forces in a final strike.

https://t.me/azmilitary11/25118

The Nazi command has deployed Right Sector units to prevent the Ukrainian Armed Forces from retreating from Artemivsk.
Up to 200 Right Sector fighters have been deployed in this direction and have been ordered to stop the retreat of units of the 93rd Army Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/14075

Posted by: Down South | Oct 14 2022 8:14 utc | 227

“In fierce battles, under the steel rain of Russian shells, we held on to every piece of our land. We stopped the enemy onslaught and buried the myth about the invincibility of the Russian army. And now we’re getting ours back. No one and nothing will stop us,” Zaluzhnyi said in a Twitter post.
Who are these we? Zaluzhny and his cohorts, Zelly and his cohorts? They sure withstood the Russian onslaught, hiding underground, but the poor untrained Ukr conscripts didn’t.

Posted by: Paulg | Oct 14 2022 8:24 utc | 229

Posted by: Andrew | Oct 14 2022 2:23 utc | 188
This is embarrassment for Russia
https://www.rt.com/russia/564632-belgorod-ammo-depot-fire/
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Not necessarily. Was it a large arsenal or just a small one with small arms and small grenades?

Posted by: oldwoman | Oct 14 2022 8:31 utc | 231

I wonder what the odds are that NATO (or some wildcat faction within it) plans to use the pretext of this “exercise” to launch a real first strike.
Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Oct 14 2022 7:28 utc | 220
What is more interesting what sort of weapons and armor NATO will leave behind when they leave Poland.
They always use this sort of execises to leave gifts for their friends.

Posted by: Martina | Oct 14 2022 8:33 utc | 233

Ukrainian TG-channel “Resident” writes:
“Our source in the Office of the President said that the Office of the President is awaiting the approval of the budget for 2023 with Western partners, and part of social spending will have to be cut further.
The catastrophic budget deficit is forcing the Government to turn on the regime of total savings, at the request of the IMF, not only social programs have been “cut” (and as we know, there are no plans to increase pensions, minimum wages and benefits next year, despite the collapse of the hryvnia exchange rate from 28 to 42 per dollar from a corresponding rise in prices for all goods), but also medicine.
About UAH 176 billion were allocated for it in the 2023 Budget, which is almost UAH 20 billion less than this year. Financing was also “cut off” under the program of medical guarantees, and this is payment for the treatment of citizens – by 11%. Moreover, according to insider information, expensive healthcare programs will also go under the knife, primarily oncological and dental care.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/14166

Posted by: Down South | Oct 14 2022 8:37 utc | 235

@Down South 134
UAH 176 bn amounts to roughly 4.2 bn Dollars given the exchange rate of 42 HRY ./. $.
That can´t be enough for the whole year.
I read that 404 is burning through about 5 bn $/month.

Posted by: Goingo | Oct 14 2022 8:52 utc | 237

Russia has few allies because it has gone out of its way to not make allies. It has completely thrown away the enormous soft power the USSR had. It has been following the asinine line that it needs no allies and has no reason to go to war to save nations even of historically vital importance to it, such as Ukraine. Obese blowhard armchair generals like the Faker and Martyanov have been bleating this line like constipated elephant seals for years, while simultaneously claiming that Russian intelligence knew everything that was going on in Ukranazistan.
Which is moronic, because Russian intelligence apparently knew less than what even I knew, let alone people like Strelkov. For years I’ve been saying that it was an incredible geopolitical idiocy for Putin to have permitted the Maidan coup in the first place, compounded by the imbecility of recognising the nazi coup regime and not helping the Donbass crush them, either by direct intervention or training and weapons. I had said it would inevitably lead to Russia having to fight a NATO army in Ukranazistani uniform in a major war, which is where we are now.
As for what comes next, if Surovikin had not been appointed I would have assumed Putin was going to do a Miloseviç, abandoning the Donbass in the hope that it would lead to a rapprochement where his oligarch cronies could do business in West Europistan again. But that would be a step much too far for the average Russian to swallow: Putin could not possibly survive it. Also there is no indication that the Europistanis can or will improve relations; their Warshington slave owners won’t let them. With Surovikin in charge, allegedly after making a condition that he must be given a free hand to use everything bar nuclear weapons, Russia seems to have finally decided to fight for real.
https://www.unz.com/ishamir/the-dull-war/

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayast | Oct 14 2022 9:00 utc | 239

Lapin | Oct 14 2022 9:01 utc | 239
“10% for the big one”
You might be right. That´s why they are asking for even more. Coke ain´t cheap.

Posted by: Goingo | Oct 14 2022 9:09 utc | 241

Now this “continuous loop” with the alleged nuclear weapons threats from Putin…. these threats are ONLY to be heard in the West ❗
(Not in the rest of the world, there they talk about nuclear threats being pushed up by the West !! )
Putin has only ONE…. made it clear that Russia will never lose or be defeated ❗
(Which the USA or China would have made just as clear in the opposite case!)
.
What does the “West” achieve with such reports more or less around the clock, with talk shows by worn-out generals, so-called Russia experts, yes and now even with a NATO nuclear exercise less than 600 km from the Russian border ❗
.
Right, the population is prepared mentally, it is suggested that the RUSSES are threatening and beginning!
.
How did wars in history begin?
With the assertion “HE WILL ATTACK US” we were just faster!
Yemen / Iraq / Syria / Kosovo / Vietnam even in 1939 started suggesting the masses.
Pictures… the best way to create a mood, panic – fear a welcome side effect (see Corona)
A people in fear accepts almost everything! ” War too ! ” cheers for the first strike !!! ( See 1939 ).
.
It’s no longer about weakening Russia at the expense of the Ukrainians ❗
Things got out of hand for the “West” especially the USA ‼
Who NEVER expected that about 85% of the world population would support Putin or refuse to help
This conflict :
Has developed into a struggle for existence for dollars / euros and thus supremacy in the world ❗
It’s about the pure struggle for existence of the system ‼‼
And that is dangerous.
Because who fights for existence knows NO limits!
Only an escalation might give the WEST a chance
that breaks the formed axis against USA against yes Europe vassals!
In the hope of nuclear use = avert and condemn Russia ❓
.
Ergo, it is suggested that he started it, the west was only slammed first for protection.
Not just for the eyes of the people…..
No, the world has to believe it ❗
Although, since there are doubts, because NO country in the world still believes in the USA, the reason why the USA does not threaten itself but leaves it to the Europeans ‼
.
Resolution of the EU :
A secret ballot as requested has undermined the USA with their allies!
Poor states can’t afford to agree against USA yet
Strong states ALL voted against…
Only NO commenter says that..
Still celebrating the result as a success.
success of fear in truth ‼
End
.

Posted by: Mo3 | Oct 14 2022 9:30 utc | 243

http://www.worldgovernmentbonds.com/bond-historical-data/ukraine/1-year/
Yup. Nice yield. Seems like a safe way to get rid of my money.

Posted by: Goingo | Oct 14 2022 9:31 utc | 245

Forwarded from Southwind
t.me/south0wind/2835
Many experts in both the public sphere and the Ministry of Defense, are studying the question of how to increase Russian army effectiveness in the here and now.
I was presented with the opportunity (https://t.me/south0wind/1549) to study the Boyd Cycle (aka the OODA Loop: observe – orient – decide – act) in the context of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. This was before Yerevan lost the war.
In the context of the RF Armed Forces, the lack of technical reconnaissance and target designation means immediately comes to the fore. Solving this problem will immediately increase the effectiveness of the “observation” stage.
If each command and control body and individual commanders proceeded from this principle of quick decision making using available resources, rather than the basis of rigid regulations and directives, our force effectiveness would increase.
The OODA loop comes into play when developing combat planning documents, which during the Second World War, if the situation required it, were worked out by hand and on the knee.
This also applies to the notorious ROK (Reconnaissance Fires Complex) and RUK (Reconnaissance Strike Complex)
The entire war machine must learn to think faster.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/14175

Posted by: Down South | Oct 14 2022 9:43 utc | 247

No, slav does not come from “slava”; it comes from “slovo” meaning “word”

Posted by: Platero | Oct 14 2022 9:53 utc | 249

Truly something amazing footage (Spornoye, assumably somewhere in LPR). UAF troops defend an area with a few already destroyed house rubbles, then they get killed by long range tank/artillery shots, then the next wave are fed in exact same spot and bury the previous ones in a hole. Then they are killed etc. conveyor belt at work. This thing can keep going on for another year or more.
https://twitter.com/200_zoka/status/1580836071406940160

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 14 2022 10:02 utc | 251

Melaleuca | Oct 14 2022 9:28 utc | 241
“I read recently about Ukrainian government bonds issued I think after the first color revolution in 2004.
I think a good chunk of the monthly $5bil goes to pay the bond holders… JPMorgan and the rest of the gang…
It came up as part of recent stuff about the London gilts bond market spasm a week or so back….
hmmm, I thought, interesting…”
An awful lot of billions borrowed by Ukraine or foisted on Europe as guarantors for the loans or the lend-lease program. When Ukraine goes belly up that’s a rather large bad debt for someone to write off.
Wonder who will wear the loss?

Posted by: Cyberhorse | Oct 14 2022 10:07 utc | 253

🇺🇦🇷🇺 𝗨𝗸𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗙𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘆 !
The General Staff continues to accumulate reserves on the Southern Front, at the moment the Armed Forces of Ukraine have assembled a group of 60 thousand, of which half is in Nikolaev and is preparing to strike at Kherson.
The Biden administration is urging Zelensky to storm Kherson in order to retake the city before the 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 and allow the 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 to use this victory as a symbol. Zaluzhny advocates a phased campaign, and warns of 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘃𝘆 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 during the assault on Kherson, which Russian troops have turned into a 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/14186

Posted by: Down South | Oct 14 2022 10:41 utc | 255

Want to time travel back to the mindfarking days at the very start of RussiaRussiaRussia?
There’s a trial underway that’s attempting to get right to Ground Zero of where and who and why it all began ……\(well, we know why….it was HRC explaining why she lost to the guy the DNC recruited to be a Pied Piper…to force the “anyone but Trump” voters to pinch their nose and vote for the toxic HRC)
That Trump became the scorpion to her frog… that she was betrayed by someone who’s nature it is to betray and lie..she loathes herself for being fooled….and the world must never think that she failed…but that devious forces… RUSSIA! did this to her…
The Igor Danchenko Trial – Day 3
Revealed – the FBI Paid Danchenko over $200,000
Techno Fog. https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog
>We have the transcripts for the 1st day of the Igor Danchenko trial.
>The FBI’s million dollar offer to Christopher Steele.
>Sergei Millian being a prior FBI Source.
>And – how it was a bad day for FBI leadership.
Ukraine?
So many of the key cast is this tragi-comedy were Ukrainian, or US State Dept with deep and long antipathy to Russia… remember how Paul Manafort got “taken out” of the Trump campaign so early… Manafort knew about the first colour rev of 2004, and the long effort put into the 2014 Maiden coop…. Trump had to be kept away from the stinking corrupt (and profitable) mess that was Ukraine.
And here we are.
Ukraine are smouldering bomb site, and NATO|US casually hyping nuclear exchanges to “settle” the dispute…

Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 14 2022 10:54 utc | 257

An article has been posted on the Dances With Bears website detailing what the FSB claims was how the Crimea Bridge bombing was carried out:
THE UKRAINIAN M.O. FOR THE CRIMEAN BRIDGE ATTACK – THIS IS HOW THE OPERATION WORKED TO THE POINT OF DETONATION

Posted by: B. Wildered | Oct 14 2022 11:03 utc | 259

‼️🇸🇪❌🇩🇪🇩🇰Sweden blocks joint investigation with Germany and Denmark into Nord Stream explosions.
Sweden says the “safety classification of the investigation is too high” to share the result with other countries, Spiegel reports‼️ “>https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/ausland/id_100066078/schweden-will-nicht-gemeinsam-mit-deutschland-ermitteln.html

https://t.me/azmilitary11/25147

Posted by: Down South | Oct 14 2022 11:22 utc | 261

@aristodemos | Oct 13 2022 20:49 utc | 112
Just leave Stoltenberg be. When this is over he’ll wish he was in Trollheimen in a bikini.
Trollheimen without Stoltenberg
https://naturfotografen-forum.de/data/o/103/515948/image.jpg

Posted by: Anne B | Oct 14 2022 11:31 utc | 263

@248 Platero
There is still no consensus on the issue of of the etymology of “Slav”.
1. It derived from Slava (glory)
2. It derived from Slovo (word)
3. It derived from slava- that once had the meaning of worshipper ( practicer of a common Slavic religion)
4. Derived from the ancient Indo-European word slaous which meant people.
The word Slovo, and the related Slava and slukh (” hearing”) originate from the proto Indo-European root klew (” be spoken of, glory”).

Posted by: Crazyplanet | Oct 14 2022 11:40 utc | 265

🇩🇪🧐👮German investigators came to the conclusion that the damage on the “Nord Streams” can only be the result of explosions, the ARD TV channel noted.

https://t.me/azmilitary11/25153

Posted by: Down South | Oct 14 2022 11:48 utc | 267

Just read this at the guardian:
“Elon Musk’s SpaceX has said it cannot afford to continue to donate satellite internet to Ukraine and has asked the US government to pick up the bill, according to a report, as the relationship between the billionaire and Kyiv breaks down.”
“We are not in a position to further donate terminals to Ukraine, or fund the existing terminals for an indefinite period of time,” SpaceX’s director of government sales wrote, in a letter seen by CNN.
What happened?

Posted by: ThusspakeZarathustra | Oct 14 2022 12:36 utc | 269

Ooops; I messed up the quote, try again
“We believe this to be the work of thieves, and I’ll tell you why. The whole pattern is very reminiscent of past robberies where we have found thieves to be involved. The tell-tale loss of property — that’s one of the signs we look for.“
— Peter Cook, Beyond the Fringe “The Great Train Robbery” (1964)
Source: https://quotepark.com/quotes/1818128-peter-cook-we-believe-this-to-be-the-work-of-thieves-and-il/

Posted by: Lapin | Oct 14 2022 12:43 utc | 271

Posted by: SW (also Berlin) | Oct 14 2022 6:54 utc | 215
In “Europe” UNHCR includes Russia too.
The people actually registered for Temporary Protection or similar national protection schemes are 4,350,995, the total number of refugees is given as 7,678,757.
This “refugee” number is suspiciously close to net border crossings, when you add border crossing towards Europe and then remove from them reverse border crossings towards Ukraine, you get a very similar number to those 7.6 million people given as refugees – around 7.4 million.
>>In this expression, where are the people who fled to Russia? Did you include them in the phrase “toward Europe”? It doesn’t seem so.
Obviously i thought about them. But even when i include them you get less population taken by Russia by taking “the 4 regions”, not getting the full population of those 4 regions, and thus leading to wrong calculations, because:
1 There are 8 million internally displaced people in Ukraine, many of those are obviously from the war zones in the 4 regions, and some of those from the 4 regions certainly moved to the EU too and not to Russia, for example right now in my country we are taking refugees from Zaporozhie region.
So Russia does not get the full population of those 4 regions even taking into account that some of these people fled to Russia, and not to Ukraine or the EU.

Posted by: Passer by | Oct 14 2022 13:08 utc | 273

Posted by: CommiesGOFY | Oct 14 2022 12:47 utc | 271
Imbecile, stop spouting bullshit. Moldova was Bessarabia before – the land liberated from the turks by the Russians. It was never Romanian save for a brief period between the world wars. There are multiple people leaving there – Russian, Gagauz, Bulgarian, and yes, Romanian who are the majority.
And yes, go fuck yourself, degenerate.

Posted by: Boo | Oct 14 2022 13:10 utc | 275

Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) Front Update: The Russian Army installs its flag on the broadcast tower of the furniture factory in the eastern, industrial part of Artyomovsk.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/14203

Posted by: Down South | Oct 14 2022 13:22 utc | 277

Explosives used in TERROR ATTACK on Crimean Bridge was sent by sea from Odessa, if it turns out grain corridor deal was abused to allow for transportation of explosives, this will put into question further functioning of corridor – Putin.

https://t.me/IntelRepublic/1776
Video embedded.

Posted by: Down South | Oct 14 2022 13:32 utc | 279

cyberhorse @ 252
Wapo article blames tax breaks, pension funds, and Blackrock et al investment strategy (LDIs) for the instability. article
Here’s what Blackrock was thinking in July…getting antsy. article
Does this bond payment extension have anything to do with it?
article
Finance is not my specialty…trying to auger some sort of understanding through the jargon.

Posted by: Objective Observer | Oct 14 2022 13:35 utc | 281

ThusspakeZarathustra @268 [re: Elon Musk going cold on the Ukraine] “What happened?
Despite the common sentiment here, Must is not an idiot. He got tired of hearing that the Ukraine is full of Nazis and watching the Establishment and Twitter’s bot army trying to deflect, so he did his own investigation. He obviously discovered that the Ukraine IS full of lunatic Nazis, and that he had been lied to about it.
I doubt very much that Musk cares at all about the Nazis. He’s practically a Nazi sympathizer himself; on the other hand, he very much cares about having been lied to and made a fool of. His about face on the Ukraine is not so much an “Ef you!” to the Ukraine as it is to the old guard of the oligarchy whom Musk thought he was getting to be closer buddies with.
Then there is the issue of the establishment piling on Musk when he was just hinting at the obvious best case solution for the Ukraine. Again, it is not that Musk cares about the Ukraine but rather that he realized how close we are getting to true Armageddon. Musk needs a few more years before he is ready to go to Mars (yes, he literally intends to go to Mars), and he knows a nuke war will wreck supply chains much more than the Covid did. He cannot afford that right now. In ten years? No problem, but not right now. So again, this is an “Ef you!” to the war mongers and notice that he is not going to carry their water any more. I suppose he thinks that might get them to do some of the introspection they have been avoiding for decades? Good luck with that.

Posted by: William Gruff | Oct 14 2022 13:57 utc | 283

Posted by: William Gruff | Oct 14 2022 13:57 utc | 282
you would think that more elite billionaires would be like this. i mean most of them aren’t even planning to go to Mars, so their asses will get fried along with the plebes.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Oct 14 2022 14:07 utc | 285

but did he fully appreciate that it was the anglosaxon aristocrats who brought communism to Russia as well?
Posted by: petergrfstrm | Oct 14 2022 7:59 utc | 224
Puhlease! Putin and Lavrov use this ‘anglo-saxon’ moniker as well. Saker’s Anglo-Zionist is much better. I doubt there’s been more than a handful of white, protestant anglo ‘communists’ in the past century. It was a Jewish project through and through. As was all the nasty business in China involving opium which still rankles over a century later… as was a significant percentage of the slave trade in the US….as is the current imbroglio in Ukraine….

Posted by: Scorpion | Oct 14 2022 14:18 utc | 287

“… The entire war machine must learn to think faster.”
Posted by: Down South | Oct 14 2022 9:43 utc | 246
Perhaps we can already see a hint of this in the recent videos of Lancet drone strikes? Something lightweight and precise that can be operated via a much shorter chain of command, augmenting or simply bypassing slower response mechanisms.

Posted by: anon2020 | Oct 14 2022 14:23 utc | 289

pretzelattack @284: “you would think that more elite billionaires would be like this. i mean most of them aren’t even planning to go to Mars, so their asses will get fried along with the plebes.”
Nah, they have their luxury bunkers. The bigger issue is that unlike Musk most of the billionaire elites actually are idiots. They’ve been stepping over Russia’s “red lines” for decades and don’t see a problem with it.

Posted by: William Gruff | Oct 14 2022 14:29 utc | 291

It’s not hard to see why, as per one of my above posts , 90% of casualties are through artillery

🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦Artemovsk (Bakhmut) heavy fighting.
“Wagner” is pushing forward in that direction

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1580923752107642880
Video embedded in Tweet

Posted by: Down South | Oct 14 2022 14:34 utc | 293

@Melaleuca | Oct 14 2022 8:02 utc | 225

(I think the Norwegian mass shooting? The Norwegians here can confirm or dispute)

Confirmed. There was a police exercise in the days before and on the same day finishing at 15:00 on the same day matching the incredibly improbable scenario that took place at Utøya island 22. July 2011, the shooting was just a few hours later. It was first a bombing of the Goverment house (PM Stoltenberg’s office) in Oslo, complete with crisis actors + real dead victims. Then it was the mass shooting an hour drive from the city at the Utøya island where Stoltenberg’s party have summer camps every year, and he is always present.
In Norwegian language
https://www.jostemikk.com/category/22-juli-saken/
Facsimile from Aftenposten MSM newspaper 26. July 2011 confirming what I say, Information confirmed by police then (later it was memory holed).
https://www.jostemikk.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Terror-drill-22.-juli-2011-1.jpg

Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 14 2022 14:38 utc | 295

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Oct 13 2022 19:12 utc | 63
I thought Bruce Cumings, “The Korean War”, really showed that a civil war would have resulted in much fewer deaths than the war the US brought – 8 million gallons of napalm and just about every village and city flattened, in both the North and South. We also see the same pattern there that we’re seeing in Ukraine. The US sides with those who sided with Japanese fascists who were anti-communist/anti-China….

Posted by: zeke2u | Oct 14 2022 14:51 utc | 297

John Bolton: The ultimate US goal should be to remove Putin from power through regime change or targeted assassination

Posted by: rk | Oct 14 2022 15:16 utc | 299