Biswapriya Purkayast #6 etc.
Thank you for persisting. The path behind me is littered with dead and dying conjecture but it is worth the risk.
You may be correct as NATZO is fanatical for sure. Yes, Driesen is always worth considering. He grows more strident by the day. Methinks he can smell the flow of blue blood.
Do take time to consider Michael Hudson at Saker and the pissup at the vineyard. The comparison of the papal thugs and NATZO warmongering is pertinent.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Nov 3 2022 3:25 utc | 104

typepad.. still messed up, but different now… reading page one, i can only get to post 50 something… can’t read the bottom half of the 100 comments! jesus..

Posted by: james | Nov 3 2022 3:47 utc | 106

Uwe | Nov 3 2022 1:12 utc | 113
“Video of a US reporter accidentally films the destruction of a strategic weapons depot of the Ukrainian Kiev regime forces located in a 136-meter-deep Soviet bunker – by a Russian hypersonic missile “Kinzhal”. The only real hypersonic missile in the world. Kinetic energy on impact & explosion equivalent to a small tactical nuclear bomb.”
Sounds good. Though I guess I shouldn’t hold my breath about it’s ever being used against a British military target since Putin’s too busy doing things like crawling back to rejoin the grain deal just hours after yet another fatuous proclamation about how the he now finally honest and for true gets it that Russia cannot make deals with pathological liars who are psychopathic enemies implacably committed to Russia’s total destruction.
This latest false-start revelation came months after Putin was shocked, SHOCKED to discover all that grain goes straight to Europe. Of course I didn’t believe for second the Russians didn’t know the destination of the grain from the start, and I’d thought the point was to give the West the rope it needs to hang itself propagandistically. Otherwise what on earth was the point of publicizing what a scam the grain deal was in the first place? Why did Putin do that and then proceed to stay in the deal, thus willingly rendering Russia culpable as well?
And now the Russians tell the world the British are using the grain deal as a playground for military and terrorist attacks, so Russia finally will dump the deal….and then Putin crawls back hours later! And apparently because KIEV gave him “assurances”!!!
It’s beyond any shadow of a doubt, Russia has a rot, if not treason, at the very top. Unless they clear out that rot soon and finally commit to the war they embarked upon last February (seemingly without realizing it at the time), there’s no way this will end other than full-scale nuclear war (since Putin is determined to convince the already-berserk neocons that NATO will be able to launch a first strike and win; I myself am starting to believe that’s possible) or ultimate Russian surrender and dismemberment.

Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Nov 3 2022 4:48 utc | 108

M. K. Bhadrakumar
@BhadraPunchline
1/4 Moscow corners MI6. Russian MFA spokeswoman Maria Zakharova: “there can be no doubt that British intelligence services were involved in the terrorist attack on the Black Sea Fleet base in Sevastopol on Oct. 29 and the act of sabotage against the Nord Stream pipeline.
3:54 PM · Nov 2, 2022
M. K. Bhadrakumar
@BhadraPunchline
2/4 “They will not be left without a reaction. We have stated this in the Security Council. We spoke about that publicly… British ambassador will be summoned and given the relevant materials… the same materials… will also be made available to the public at large.…
M. K. Bhadrakumar
@BhadraPunchline
·
3/4 “They tried to absolve themselves of responsibility for the terrorist attack. They said that they did not even know about anything like that. It was a very strange reaction. They have contacts, as they have always had, with the Russian Defense Ministry.
M. K. Bhadrakumar
@BhadraPunchline
·
4/4 “In principle, they could have tried to clear up certain things. It has turned out that a priori they know the answers to all questions…. They argue they had nothing to do with it. They should have at least asked what evidence we have…”

M. K. Bhadrakumar
@BhadraPunchline

Posted by: Down South | Nov 3 2022 5:23 utc | 110

Breaking news, Nato has sent donated blood to Ukraine with a proportion of the cans containing HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C. 6.3%, 7.4% and 3.2% in the first and 5.9%, 6.8% and 3.1% in the second batch, respectively.
https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1588091373395271682

Posted by: unimperator | Nov 3 2022 9:33 utc | 112

To all those who are commenting on the lack of a Congressional Declaration of War, please note that this is not a purely American phenomenon. As far as I know not a single member state of the United Nations has issued a formal declaration of war since the end of World War 2.
Not a one.
The issue is that you sign the UN Charter to become a member state of the United Nations, and that Charter is a binding international treaty.
An international treaty that prohibits you from choosing to use military force as a means of settling international disputes.
Articles 2(2) and 2(3), to be precise.
Don’t get me wrong: it doesn’t prevent you from waging war (see Article 51) but it does prevent you from *choosing* to use force to impose your will on another country. Heck, it even prohibits you from *threating* to use force to impose your will on another country.
Hence the quaint American euphemism “All options are on the table”.
Plausible-deniability writ large.
Which is all a long-winded way of saying that a President can’t go to Congress and seek a formal Declaration of War because – let’s face it – to do so is to seek a declaratory statement that you are *choosing* to use force to impose your will.
But the forms must be obeyed: a President must satisfy the Constitutional requirement of seeking the consent of Congress.
Hence the need to seek a Congressional Authorization for the Use of Force, which is another bit of sly plausible-deniability.
As in: we’re not saying we are “at war”, Mr President, but if war comes your way then, gosh, go at it with our blessing.
So the USA *wages* war. All the time. But every time it does so it must shout “They’re comin’ right at me!!!!” before blasting away at the poor creature that is caught in the floodlights.

Posted by: Yeah, Right | Nov 3 2022 9:50 utc | 114

I think this an excellent credible analysis worth reading/considering, keeping in mind.
(extract from The Saker by Andrei)
NATO escalates (again) and achieves nothing (again)
20,828 Views November 02, 2022

I think that we ought to begin this overview of what is currently taking place which is that the united West, aka the AngloZionist Hegemony is desperate and in direct to this despair is doing all sorts of very foolish and plainly dangerous things. We all know about the The Big Three:
– The attack on NS1/NS2
– The attack on the Crimea Bridge (CB)
– The attack on the Black Sea Fleet (BSF) base in Sevastopol
Truth be told, these are three completely different events.
[…]
So what do we call an act of war which yields no tangible military benefits?
I think that this is what should be called a provocation.
So what is a “provocation”? There are plenty of definition out there ranging from, for example, the legal one (“Conduct by which one induces another to do a particular deed; the act of inducing rage, anger, or resentment in another person that may cause that person to engage in an illegal act“) to the more common “the action is in the reaction“. The point is, what these apparently rather different attacks have in common was the intention to trigger some kind of reaction from Russia which could then be used to demonize Putin, Russia and everything Russian.
Which, as it happens, is exactly the mantra repeated by the “dumbshit stupid” western wannabe “friends of Russia” who constantly ask for Russian military escalations and when they don’t get what they want and even when they want it (!), they switch over the the AngloZionist strategic PSYOP taking points about Putin being “weak, indecisive, a sellout, etc. etc. etc.”.
Gee whiz, I wonder why Putin remains so obtuse and refuses to listen to his “learned western friends of Russia” 😉
[…]
It does not require a lot of imagination or expertise to see that at the very least the Hegemony is playing with fire, if only because each attack which failed to yield any military advantage only serves to further underscore the awful situation NATO finds itself in. I will summarize this as follows: […]
But the demonic freaks who run the Hegemony are not demonic freaks for no good reasons. These are the folks who brought us 9/11, the WMD crap and the GWOT! These are the folks who destroyed country after country with truly satanic viciousness.
These are the folks who ruined and laid waste to every single country they could take control off, the latest being, of course, the Ukraine itself.
We are dealing with psychopaths who will do absolutely *anything* to stay in power, both on the planetary scale (the Hegemony) or in Washington DC (see video at the bottom of this article)
Finally, and truth be told, everybody knows. It does not take Liz Truss’ message to Blinken to know who is behind all these attacks and the “plausible deniability” criterion as been made so thin as to become irrelevant. Here are just three examples illustrating this: (there are many more!)
– Russian got the GPS tracking data from the drones which attacked the BSF
– The very visible and obvious Global Hawk monitoring flights over the Black Sea during that latest attack
– US AWACS flights in Romanian airspace during the latest attack
There are dozens of statements by top Russian officials which clearly indicate that they are all acutely aware of all this. So far, we can make at least three potentially interesting observations:
– Russia is mostly pointing the finger at the UK (and not necessarily because the UK is the #1 evil doer here, but primarily because it is the weakest link in the US-UK-3B+PU “coalition of the willing”, militarily, politically and economically).
– Russia now has enough in theater forces for a combined arms operation.
– Russia is keeping most of her armed forces in a state of high readiness, including all her strategic forces (nuclear and conventional).
What will happen next is anybody’s guess.
[…]
I will stop here by simply stating the obvious: we are entering very dangerous and unpredictable times.

Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 3 2022 10:17 utc | 116

Pepe Escobar writes

https://t.me/rocknrollgeopolitics/5440
They tell me Scholz is going to China TO WORK OUT A PEACE DEAL WITH RUSSIA VIA BEIJING.

I don’t believe it until I see it, but it would be excellent news if true.

Posted by: Norwegian | Nov 3 2022 13:20 utc | 118

RE:(extract from The Saker) NATO escalates (again) and achieves nothing (again)
…
Reality paging Mr. S(h)aker with an urgent ‘Read-my-Lips’ message => Today is the 253-th day of the 3-day SMO

Posted by: CommiesGOFY | Nov 3 2022 13:37 utc | 120

Delivery of Turkish Bayraktar drones to Ukraine ends:

https://t.me/ZandVchannel/37610
The management of Bayraktar announced to Kyiv that it will reduce (and may soon stop altogether) the supply of its UAVs at the request of the administration of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Resident TV channel reports, citing a source in the office of the President of Ukraine.

Posted by: Norwegian | Nov 3 2022 13:40 utc | 122

The Russians appear to confirm the “It’s done” text message from Liz Truss

https://t.me/ZandVchannel/37611
The “It’s done” text message, which Truss sent to Blinken one minute after the Nord Stream bombing, confirms the participation of the British Navy in these attacks, said Patrushev, Secretary of the Russian Security Council.
Patrushev also said that the Anglo-Saxons intended not only to prepare a springboard from Ukraine to put pressure on Russia, but also to create a precedent for further fragmentation of the Russian ethnos in order to completely eradicate it.

We then have to assume that the Russians can prove the existence and origin of the “It’s done” message and much more…

Posted by: Norwegian | Nov 3 2022 13:50 utc | 124

Re: Posted by: Norwegian | Nov 3 2022 13:50 utc | 126
The interesting thing about this story is the conundrum it places the British in.
If the British say “The Russians hacked our phones – including Prime Minister Liz Truss!!! It’s the Russians fault – they’re the HACKERS!!!
What does that do?
It confirms whatever hacked materials the Russians are releasing are likely legitimate.
So – can the British admit they were hacked by the Russians?
Quite the conundrum!

Posted by: Julian | Nov 3 2022 15:53 utc | 126

Pepe Escobar writes

https://t.me/rocknrollgeopolitics/5440
They tell me Scholz is going to China TO WORK OUT A PEACE DEAL WITH RUSSIA VIA BEIJING.

I don’t believe it until I see it, but it would be excellent news if true.
Posted by: Norwegian | Nov 3 2022 13:20 utc | 119

I share your skepticism. If Scholz wanted a peace deal with Russia, I’m not sure why would it be necessary or beneficial to involve Beijing. It would seem that recent events have given Germany and Russia sufficient common ground to work out a peace deal themselves.
On the other hand, involving China would facilitate Germany’s improving its relations with two major powers through a single diplomatic engagement (for want of a better phrase). So, I guess there could be benefit.

Posted by: David Levin | Nov 3 2022 17:39 utc | 128

@ Bill Smith | Nov 3 2022 18:19 utc | 130
i think at the very beginning – late feb – a lot were taken out… afterwards, it was much more infrequent.. i read just a few days ago 2 taken down… lets see if i can find that now… here is what i found – from a few days ago… the 2nd one might be one of the same 2 listed first..
Intel Slava Z
1:14
0:57
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukraine lost two Mi-8MSB helicopters today.
Intel Slava Z
🇷🇺🇺🇦 A military transport helicopter Mi-8 of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was shot down near Konstantinovka.

Posted by: james | Nov 3 2022 21:54 utc | 130

Irish STATE broadcaster,RTE, who unthinkingly follows the “line” of NATO and the EU with the devotion and zeal that would make 1930’s Stalinist party discipline look positively relaxed, continues to advance the ludicrous theory that the Zaporozhye nuclear power station is now off the grid as a direct result of being shelled by the Russian army, whilst simultaneously in the same report (with no apparent trace of embarrassment or even curiosity at this bizarre notion) stating that the plant is “in Russian hands”, though “staffed by “Ukrainian workers”. Perhaps they are working on the assumption that only a tiny minority of the Irish public will even raise an eyebrow at this assertion, that the Russian military, who have the power station in ‘their hands’ nevertheless shells themselves. I have begun to give up hope in the ability of the Western public to question any of the propoganda being peddled in their media about Russia and the conflict in Ukraine, not only do they not question its assumptions, they do not even attempt to note the evidently nonsensical aspects of the narratives being advanced in the constant torrent of pro-Ukraine reportage.

Posted by: Gabriel in Ireland | Nov 3 2022 23:50 utc | 132

Irish STATE broadcaster,RTE, who unthinkingly follows the “line” of NATO and the EU with the devotion and zeal that would make 1930’s Stalinist party discipline look positively relaxed, continues to advance the ludicrous theory that the Zaporozhye nuclear power station is now off the grid as a direct result of being shelled by the Russian army, whilst simultaneously in the same report (with no apparent trace of embarrassment or even curiosity at this bizarre notion) stating that the plant is “in Russian hands”, though “staffed by “Ukrainian workers”. Perhaps they are working on the assumption that only a tiny minority of the Irish public will even raise an eyebrow at this assertion, that the Russian military, who have the power station in ‘their hands’ nevertheless shells themselves. I have begun to give up hope in the ability of the Western public to question any of the propoganda being peddled in their media about Russia and the conflict in Ukraine, not only do they not question its assumptions, they do not even attempt to note the evidently nonsensical aspects of the narratives being advanced in the constant torrent of pro-Ukraine reportage. RTE news : Russian official signals new retreat in south Ukraine
http://www.rte.ie/news/ukraine/2022/1103/1332905-ukraine-russia/

Posted by: Gabriel in Ireland | Nov 3 2022 23:52 utc | 134

Ireland’s state broadcaster RTÉ, arguably the most rigid adherent to the NATO ‘party line’ in the Western media continues, with a straight face, to promote the idea that Russia is shelling the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power station, which it acknowledges, en passant, is in “Russian Hands”. Thus suggesting the Russian Army are shelling themselves. Is there some unknown prize for the biggest lie to be advanced to the seemingly infinitely gullible viewers of the western worlds mainstream media which we are all unaware of? RTE news : Russian official signals new retreat in south Ukraine
http://www.rte.ie/news/ukraine/2022/1103/1332905-ukraine-russia/

Posted by: Gabriel in Ireland | Nov 4 2022 0:35 utc | 136

@ Julian | Nov 3 2022 15:46 utc | 126
you’re repeating what petri observed earlier and to which hack responded to… always interesting to see who reads or doesn’t read others commentary… see post @ Petri Krohn | Nov 2 2022 18:35 utc | 88

Posted by: james | Nov 4 2022 1:07 utc | 138

@ SeanAU | Nov 4 2022 1:55 utc | 140
that seems like a very reasonable prediction… the war party circle the wagons and support the industries that hold together the war party… nothing changes, even though people like to think voting for team blue or red will have some difference when it comes to usa foreign policy objectives – it never does… thus the idea of both parties being much the same party – the war party – continues to hold much relevance here…
they may differ on domestic issues, but when it comes to how they approach things on the world stage – it is war, war, threats of war and more of the same thing.. has been since 1950 and i can’t see any of it changing now… so – your prediction is in keeping with the reality on the ground… i suppose your prediction is a bit more then this too – you are suggesting an actual ramping up of funding for war on russia and china, using ukraine as the useful tool.. of course we can throw in taiwan as a useful tool as well… or saudi arabia! maybe a nice false flag that can be blamed on iran.. israel would definitely get behind that! that is not my prediction, but an observation on the direction things are headed here… wish i could be less gloomy, but i can’t…

Posted by: james | Nov 4 2022 4:14 utc | 140

Last evening, there were news of a Norwegian tanker “Champion Pula” heading towards Yuzhne port in Ukraine. There have been no news since, but it’s easily assumed it was carrying fuel and it has been allowed to unload? They might have been able to hit any pipe and hose connections during unloading which could have spread and burned the tanker along it, without directly hitting the tanker. It takes quite a while to unload a tanker.

Posted by: unimperator | Nov 4 2022 9:15 utc | 142

reply to 140
Sure, both parties are dominated by the arms merchants. However, the US is getting competition from South Korea selling armor,guns, small fighter jets.
There is growing resistance to funding Ukraine amidst Republicans. One ( Marjorie Green) supposed said, ‘not another cent’ for Ukr. They want war with China instead.

Posted by: Eighthman | Nov 4 2022 12:15 utc | 144