Opport Knocks | Jan 12 2023 20:59 utc | 70
Foxhole vid is real.
Here’s one of the guys who died:
(on telegram. Can’t locate ATM. will post if I find it again)

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jan 12 2023 22:44 utc | 104

Posted by: comrade simba | Jan 12 2023 22:26 utc | 96
You may try this
https://www.thepostil.com/conflict-in-ukraine-genesis/

Posted by: Antonio Ferrao | Jan 12 2023 22:46 utc | 106

lahire | Jan 12 2023 22:29 utc | 97
At some point, the Ukrainians will change their government. Until that time comes, they remain cannon fodder. Russia has no interest in regime change. They could have wiped out the Ukraine government at any point. It is up to the Ukrainians to change their government and that will come, but untill then, Russia will kill any who take up weapons against Russia. Georgia learnt its lesson short and sharp. Ukrainians appear a bit dumber.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 12 2023 22:59 utc | 108

Peter AU1 | Jan 12 2023 22:59 utc | 107
>…Georgians learnt their lesson.
Yep. And this week, when Ukraine/ U$ came a knockin, wanting that Buk system… Georgia told them to go fuck themselves.
They “remind” Ukraine they paid full price for the system in 2007, under a secret deal { which set them up for 2008 }.
Some Georgians must be looking at Ukraine 2022-23 and realising how very much worse it could have been for them.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jan 12 2023 23:06 utc | 110

IMHO the meme that UKR will run out of troops misses the point – since Kharkov counteroffensive, NATO troops or “mercenaries” have been increasingly added to the mix, and the ratio will increase as actual Ukrainian troops become scarcer and less well trained.
This coincides with the UKR adoption of a NATO organization – if the “UKR” troops are actually NATO, why complicate their use by following the older Soviet style UKR order of battle?
The increasing indications of Ukies with Polish armbands, the radio chatter in Polish, Romanian etc which seems to be increasing since Kharkov, and the likelyhood that M777 and HIMARS and other fresh assets are operated by NATO “mercenaries” shows that UKR still have troops to throw in the fray. I think this will become increasingly clear in the next phases of the war.

Posted by: Simplicius | Jan 12 2023 23:11 utc | 112

comrade simba @96–
Back in March of last year I wrote this article, “Why “True Aryans” Hate Donbass Residents: Proof of the Attempted Genocide” based around an article provided by MoA commentator S: this article by RIA Novosti, “Why ‘True Aryans’ Hate Donbass Residents”, which is in Russian of course. I provided the full translation in my article; but for your purposes, you’ll want to take the article’s URL and paste it into the Lefthand box at Yandex Translation, then click the translate button in the righthand box and await the translation, which can then be copy/pasted into a word processing document of your choice.
If for some reason that article doesn’t fit your needs, there are many more available through English language Russian media I can direct you to or you can search for. Unfortunately, the sad reality is there are very few credible articles by English language media on the start of the current Ukraine situation. Perhaps the most damning is the series that Cynthia Chung wrote about how the Outlaw US Empire preserved and nurtured Nazism in Ukraine and Europe after WW2 ended. This link is to the second of her three part series on the subject that provides the US government sourced investigations and publications based on them–facts few Americans or anyone else know about. And as I said, there are many more, none of them pretty from the West’s standpoint since they expose its crimes, cynicism and hypocrisy.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 12 2023 23:14 utc | 114

Vitaly Milevsky or the guy on the left with blood pouring out of his right ear was a rabid Ukrainian nationalist who wore a UPA red and black flag on his body armour. He and his two compatriots where killed by a Siberian of the O group in the Svatovo area… Milevsky belonged to the 518th battalion of the First Seperate Special Forces Brigade. Everyone was stunned and probably deaf from the frag grenade and yes it was very real….those 5.45 calibre rounds are ice picks…they would have entered the skull through the face or temple area of the Ukrainian in black vest on right and penetrated the kevlar helmet with no deformation… lodging into the wall of the dugout. A bullet put into the head like this bleeds very little.. especially entry wound. At that range there would even be powder burns. This is not Hollywood. With the deployment of the Black Sea fleet and reorg of the General staff I suspect the Tank Armies in the Russian lines will pour through the last defensive line in Kramatorsk soon…I think the Russian battlegroups in Belarus are there to dissuade the Polish and to divert resources to the defence of Kiev….but the thrust will be through Kramatorsk

Posted by: Joe | Jan 12 2023 23:16 utc | 116

Oops, again@116
should be: “semicircle behind his neck”. Need to switch on the lamp here as dusk is upon this location and another booboo was entered.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 12 2023 23:18 utc | 118

The Wehrmacht didnt lose the Kursk battle in a sense that it lost the ability as a coherent fighting force. The battle for Kursk was simply abandoned. The Southern pincer was actually quite successful, especially the 2nd Waffen SS Panzerkorps, breaking through two defense lines early on and forcing the Read Army to commit its reserves. On the third defensive line, the famous tank battle commenced. The Northern pincer was bogged down early on and could not reach the set out goals.
Then the Red Army launched Operation Kutusov to cut off the Northern pincer breaking through the guarding flank. This forced GFM von Kluge to fall back. The Red Army was able to reach Oriyol with Operation Kutusov. When the Northern pincer fell back, the Southern pincer abandoned the operation as well. In conclusion, while the Wehrmacht failed to reach the objctives, it wasnt rendered ineffective. The Wehrmacht was still able to conduct defensive operations up until Operation Bagration. The destruction of the Heeresgruppe Mitte was the end of the Wehrmacht’s ability to put up organized defensive lines in the East.

Posted by: Arne Hartmann | Jan 12 2023 23:26 utc | 120

I try to follow what the MSM is saying because it has a propaganda impact on Americans if it is repeated loudly and long enough. The US is worried about Wagner PMC and is doing what it can to “neutralize” its activities. The State Department is obviously worried about the fact that Wagner PMC has shown to be very successful in Soledar and Bakmut, but what the State Department SAYS is that they are worried 1) because of Wagner actions in Libya and Central African Republic 2) human rights concerns 3) contains a large contingent of convicts.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-envoy-russian-wagner-groups-activities-intolerable-96400183

Posted by: Belle | Jan 12 2023 23:36 utc | 122

Belle – the US doesn’t want a piece of Wagner and they know it

Posted by: me | Jan 12 2023 23:41 utc | 124

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 12 2023 23:07 utc | 110
I am not of the same ethnicity as that clan, my ancestors were Church of England, living in the England/Scotland long before they arrived.
They own none of the CBs that you listed, and I doubt they have much, if any, influence on policy. Though they will pay close attention to it. Neither they, nor their family corporations, own a significant block of shares in any US bank that is one of the 1000s of shareholders in the US Federal Reserve. Nor are they on the Boards of the dominant US Banks. So there is no possibility of exercising voting control.
With a handful of exceptions who still run the family banking house, the majority of Roths are passive trust fund babies. Still rich, but without significant influence.
There was a poster here a few days back who linked to research into the 1800+ interlinked global corporations that effectively run the world. I suggest you pay attention to them instead of the billionaires of the last century. Though I respectfully suggest the current generation would much rather you focus on the past.
I won’t dignify your faulty interpretation of “The Crown” with a lengthy response, except to say that Crown Land here in Canada, means government land. I suppose it imbues more gravitas to use the former, ditto for legal proceedings, Crown Attorneys, etc.

Posted by: Opport Knocks | Jan 12 2023 23:43 utc | 126

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 12 2023 22:23 utc | 95
I don’t think Russia is interested in controlling regions and cities where it may only have sixty percent support so for that reason I don’t think they will try and take other regions militarily.
True indeed , and I agree maybe those people in those regions should risk life and limb to get their freedom as have those people in the Donbas. I believe Putin even alluded to that in a speech many months ago , during the referenda.
However, that leaves much of the Motherland out of Russia’s borders. Can Russia leave Odessa and Kiev out of Russia , when they are or were quintessentially Russian? This must be considered ,because Reconquistas need to be paid for in blood . Spain would not be Spain now , if the Spanish Monarchs from El Cid to Isabella or Spain etc allowed Referenda results to be the guiding principle , as the lands retaken were under the Muslims for over five hundred years and thus they would have had Significant “No” counts. To contrast, In my opinion, Tito was too nice and humanist. He should have thrown both demonstrated Croat and Muslim Nazi collaborators out, as did many other European nations. His Humanitarianism allowed the Yanks to coop Croat and Muslims and thus we had Bosnia and Kosovo.
Russia must not find itself in a similar position. It must control thise parts via direct or indirect means and all ukronazis killed and /or deported with their families to Poland or Germany. Let those virtue-signalling satraps deal with the demographic and associated societal problems.

Posted by: Brother Ma | Jan 12 2023 23:47 utc | 128

grunzt@91
Most likely the Stavka as well as Russia’s civil administration has already considered your concerns and caveats relating to the Banderite/Uniate deracinated Eastern Slavs in Galicia and Volhynia. As the RF is most likely to create a NovoUkrania as a returned element within the Federation, they will make certain that the NU republic or oblast or whatever will create a public divorce with those two wayward oblasts and perhaps join with the RU and Belarus in creating a disarmed and neutralized reservation for those juvenile delinquents.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 12 2023 23:53 utc | 130

Posted by: pretzelattack | Jan 12 2023 23:42 utc | 124
Could you give us the book report or short summary? I’m not in a place where I’ll be able to watch video for quite a while.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 12 2023 23:55 utc | 132

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 12 2023 23:55 utc | 131
summary–high chance of nuclear war, because the diplomatic mechanisms of avoiding this have been eviscerated. Russia will not negotiate now, it will take Ukraine (and as I understand him, will move to kneecap NATO, how far I’m not sure, to Germany?). it’s existence is at stake, and there is nobody in the West it can negotiate with–the UN has been compromised, not to mention NATO and the US and sundry other entities. Russia will dictate the terms of NATO’s surrender, and NATO will accept them or take us all into nuclear war. He references the Dylan Thomas poem and poses the question–will NATO go gently into that good night? he is not optimistic. he refers to a Johnny Cash song, written or sung when he was dying, about death, to describe our present situation.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Jan 13 2023 0:01 utc | 134

Posted by: Joe | Jan 12 2023 23:16 utc | 115
Boy , was I wrong about them being poorly – trained Russophile forced conscripts then!
Right about the shooter being from Siberian Russia though, which proves you need to read many diff articles to get the full pic of what is going on.

Posted by: Brother Ma | Jan 13 2023 0:10 utc | 136

In battles in the Artemovsk direction, Wagner fighters completely destroyed the 61st brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. We are talking about the brigade whose fighters brazenly marched into Kherson last fall and committed their atrocities against the local population there.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/28644

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jan 13 2023 0:12 utc | 138

Brother Ma | Jan 12 2023 23:47 utc | 127
I suspecvt that along with the changes to the Ukraine constitution in the sellmewnt, there will also be refcerendums in what are considered the Russian regions.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 13 2023 0:32 utc | 140

Arne Hartmann@119 and many others
War has many dimensions. As The Soviet Union was still in charge of the Comintern and was idealized by most C.P. members and fellow-travelers across the world; there were many so inclined who did influential work behind the lines. Among them, even surpassing the Rotte Kappele in Deutschland itself, was one Richard Sorge, a secretary in the German embassy in Tokyo.
Sorge had access to the safes in the embassy and carefully photographed highest secret documents, including the intended “Kesselschlacht” in the Kursk Salient, where even Herr Porsche himself designed what was then presumed to be the premiere tank on the battlefield, the Konig Tiger.
Possessing this material moved along the channels from Tokyo to Moscow, Stalin and the Stavka were initially somewhat hesitant or maybe even suspicious of the photostats. However, when other “sends” from Sorge were proven out in the course of events; The Russian High Command decided to invert the “Kesselschlacht” and prepared the ground in that salient with one of the most extensive and carefully delineated defenses in depth in military history. Embedded 76mm antitank guns, infantry and sapper lairs, minefields, tank-traps and many other implementations in advance created a trap for what became the “Burning Tigers” which had no forward facing machine-guns, because of the density of the armor and which were either poorly or inadequately supported by infantry and thus were readily taken out by sappers who approached them from flanks and rear and knocked them out with satchel-charges tossed beneath their soft underbellies.
Many military historians concluded that the Battle of the Kursk Salient was won primarily by a German Communist who had not been properly vetted by the embassy in Tokyo…Richard Sorge.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 13 2023 0:35 utc | 142

“me”@123
So the U$$A is a bit chary of Wagner and its various former prisoners…good on them due to the fact that the U$$A currently holds some 25% of the world’s incarcerated individuals, while making up only 4+ percent of the planets population.
Perhaps its a good thing that the U.S. military is at wits end right now as their recruitment rates have tanked and many of their would be enlistees are horrifically overweight as the majority of young American males are mere sub-urbanites while those relatively few country boys sport so many practical skills that they usually land well-paying jobs in various craft and construction fields
Hoping that the many intel types who haunt this site like it was Halloween right across the calendar, do not possess the channels to their superiors that “hey, why don’t we get someone like Blackwater/Academi, owned by the egregious Eric Prince to convince some of the pro$titians in the Di$trict of Corruption to access some of the hundreds of thousands of American prisoners and let them escape their fetters and bars by joining up. ”
Some of those guys have nothing better to do than work out all day, putting a bunch of them in far superior physical condition than their prissy preppy burbie baby nice kids. I’m afraid that many of those guys would jump at the chance to get outta the “hole” and do them some killing for the good old “USA, USA, USA!!!!!”

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 13 2023 0:55 utc | 144

aristodemos – sadly, I think the US would do the same thing. There is precedent in previous wars, and I could see the private prison industry jumping all over ‘leasing out’ their prisoners to the USMIC for profit and to free up space for the rest of us. The deal the US prisoners would get would not be so gracious as the ones the Wagner group is offering, and I doubt many would be able to collect on the deal if it came down to it anyway. These prisoner soldiers would be almost exclusively from the lower classes and many (most?) would not even be US citizens, illegal immigrants will do just fine.

Posted by: me | Jan 13 2023 1:02 utc | 146

RE: comrade simba @96–
I wholeheartedly second karlof1’s recommendation of Cynthia Chung’s exposés of the US and its massive support and uses of Ukrainian nazis toward the end of WWII until this very day.
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2022/04/04/how-ukrainian-nationalist-movement-post-wwii-was-bought-and-paid-for-by-cia/

Posted by: AntiSpin | Jan 13 2023 1:24 utc | 148

This is very good info about WTF is going on in Russia.
https://m.business-gazeta.ru/article/579007

Posted by: Lubomir | Jan 13 2023 1:31 utc | 150

Opport Knocks @125
COE, with even a tad of Scots ancestry. So be it. As for the Crown and including the Crown Lands there in Canuckistan, a devolved entity compared with its effervescent culture during the 70’s; I would doubt that you would dare deny that your Dominion is well named ,as it happens to enjoy the presence of a Governor General, who presumably was named to that position by the late Quean, and currently serves King Chuck.
This takes us to the Southern Hemisphere and another of the Five Eyes, the Commonwealth of Australia, still suffering under DOMINION status. Now we needs must revert to the U$$A invasion of Vietnam back in the 60’s and early 70’s, when Australia’s then Prime Minister Gough Whitland was stoutly against sending Diggers to the fracas to the northwards. His position was not well received by the Puppet Regime in the Di$trict of Corruption and they informed The City, that they did not approve of Whitland and that they wished him removed. Australia’s Governor General at the time promptly sacked him.
The Five Eyes, includes the U$$A, whose Stars and Stripes flag is but a slightly adjusted replication of the old British East India Company, aka the John Company. John happened to be the identity of a number of gentlemen from “The Ethnicity” who were also British subjects, such as the Sassoons.
Should you insist on my delving into “The Ruling Elite” by the courageous Deanna Spangola, who unlike myself loads her volume with copious footnotes, et al; we can go at it tooth and nail. My take is that you may well be an academicist or possibly a barrister, to judge from your tone. So I shall rebut your ridiculous claims that the Mangy old Lion does not include any teeth who are in full control of City of London.
Sometimes you get downright silly, like your claim that there are THOUSANDS of shareholders in the “Federal” Reserve Bank.
That private entity (at least you do appear to admit that it is not owned by the U.$ government) is In fact owned by a consortium of major banks, many of which became “too large to fail” and were bailed out by the U.$. treasury to the tune of several trillions of dollars following the 2008 financial collapse.
Primarily, though, primacy of ownership is held by no more than eight crime clans, seven of them of the Ethnicity and only one of the seven being American and officially not of the ethnicity, even though John Davison Rockefeller happened to be the son of David Aaronovich Rockefeller.
Should you prefer to pursue this matter further, I will take the time to dig through the archives and cite the familial names of those seven Ethnic crime clans.
You do realize, I should suppose, that an intermarried consortium, each of which possesses large measures of preferred stocks as well as bonds in the “Fed”, are able to determine policy within the entire institution for the simple reason that there is no other possible COMBINATION which can out-vote them in their coverted board of directors meetings.
Those interlinked global corporations, the vast majority of the cited 1,800 such, are hardly “owned” by their numerous private shareholders. Those individuals are mere serfs on the plantation. ..or minor minions at best. There is general ownership (similar to the faux “democracies” which make up the Western Combine) and then they are the interlocked primary owners who control the preferred stock and are the major bond-holders. They may seem to be in competition to those who have not deigned to study these matters. However, they work as a TEAM…even to such commercial entities like Pepsico and Coca Cola, who work together to maintain their various monopolistic holdings.
You Sirrah, appear to be either not well schooled or simply a cad…quite possibly a plant as well on this site. As for private ownership within Canuckistan, may I nominate the Bronfmans and the Thompsons. Your country under the Trudy/Freeland regime is in a pitiful state, what with those WEF J.G.’s little dictatorship with free euthanasia on demand. Perhaps you would better engage in the resurrection of “True North Brave and Free” instead of continuing to introject toxins into this site.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 13 2023 1:36 utc | 152

This blog is a magnet for the single largest collection of paranoid, psychotic, homicidal maniacs ever known to mankind. Kudos b!

Posted by: Muthaucker | Jan 13 2023 1:39 utc | 154

now is not the time to get upset over the violent deaths of Nazis. Buck up, son.

They looked more like conscripts that were pulled off the street, shown the basic operation of an AK and 3 weeks later found themselves in that hole.

Posted by: Fred | Jan 13 2023 1:42 utc | 156

Posted by: Muthaucker | Jan 13 2023 1:39 utc | 153
Yes there are an awful lot of you trolls. Your lot instigated this war and are 100% responsible, just as you were for the slaughter in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, Laos and Cambodia and are fellow travelers with the slaughter in Yemen and Palestine.
Your hypocrisy disgusts me.

Posted by: watcher | Jan 13 2023 1:47 utc | 158

@ aristodemos | Jan 12 2023 23:46 utc | 126
The eventual eighth President of America, George Washington, along with two thirds of the founding fathers, were heavily invested in land speculation via the Ohio Company of Virginia. Another rich man’s war, poor man’s fight, started after King George III’s Royal Proclamation of 1763 forbade all settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains.

Posted by: ? | Jan 13 2023 1:48 utc | 160

Melaleuca@138
You may well be onto something. Maneuvering within the Di$trict of Corruption will soon go into high gear. Take the Republican Party, for instance: Ben Sasse gave up his senatorial position for Nebraska to take on the presidency of some Southern university…North Caroline, I seem to recall. Though from one of the most reliably conservative states in the nation, Senator Sasse was broadly viewed by the populist emergence within that party as a RINO…acronymic for Republican in Name Only.
Currently, the Democrats are doing their all to take down Congressman Santos from New York State. He was one of those GOP candidates who defeated a seated Democrat in a somewhat rural and working-class district…formerly the haunt of the D’s. Like the vast majority of Congresscritters, Santos appears to wear some dirty laundry. Thus the Pretzeldunce’s fellow sniffers are on him like a pack of coonhounds.
Following the circus centered on the #3 in line for the presidency (a not impossible goal for that climber), McCarthy was obliged by around twenty of his fellow Republicans to submit to their not unreasonable demands in order to achieve his goal of being the Squeaker of the Mouse.
What appears to be occurring is that even the “Wokies” amongst the American public are becoming ever more cynical towards the entire federal governmental apparatus. Amazingly and amusingly, the left/right dichotomy between the Dems and the Reps has managed to achieve a political 180, where now the Reps appear to be a voice for the “downtrodden masses” while the Dems, in close cohesion with the mass corporate media, almost all of academia and even federal entities such as the FBI, have become caught up in sled-dog harnesses on behalf of the corporate state.
Fiction writers and Hollywood screen-writers could not have come up with such a scenario. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of Americans huddle in makeshift shelters out on the streets, public infrastructure is falling apart for lack of proper attention; airline flights are cancelled or delayed; private indebtedness to credit card usurious predators has virtually achieved escape velocity…and the band plays on, with nearly countless billions wafting away to the Ukraine rathole.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 13 2023 1:57 utc | 162

@ Muthaucker | Jan 13 2023 1:39 utc | 153
Not many of you left, eh.

Posted by: Laurence | Jan 13 2023 1:59 utc | 164

Of General Interest for Americans
Just now caught the Chew Pork Slymes, aka “The Grey Lady” and broadly known as “America’s” “Newspaper of Record” is happily dancing on the newly dug and prepared political grave for Congressman Santos, a Republican of relatively little repute, who defeated the Democrat anointed candy-date in an upstate New York district.
That publication, for some 130 years owned by the Ethnicity, was all in on the U.S. getting involved on the side of J.P. Morgan’s “Allies” in WWI and also instrumental in Roosevelt’s campaign to get his regime into WWII. They have no shame and no love for common humanity. Though they hire some of the most talented journalists that dirty big money can buy and also contain the best American crossword puzzles around; that institution is becoming more and more toxic in its partisan subjectivity.
Some years back, while still at the homestead, during Northern Minnesota’s winter months, I cheated a bit instead of going outdoors in -20F temperatures, making a deposit upon a spread-out three signatures of the NYT, bundling the mass up after the fact and then pitching it into the maw of the wood-burning stove . No odor, no muss, no fuss and a perfect sendoff for the most disrespectable publication across the fruited plain.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 13 2023 2:14 utc | 166

AFU is a spent force and Russia is very likely to finish them off in the next 6 months. So NATO has to decide to either accept defeat or go all in, first with Polish and Baltic troops into Western Ukraine to free Ukrainian forces that then move to stabilize the front in the East. At that point, it is a NATO – Russia conflict. The fact that Gerasimov now leads the SMO reflects to me RU MOD thinking that NATO very likely will intervene.
Posted by: Arne Hartmann | Jan 12 2023 16:37 utc | 11
I don’t know if your conclusion about the MOD thinking is correct, but AFU is indeed a spent force and Russia is setting the table for something. It seems to me that once the Ukrainians were unambiguously knocked back on their heels in the spring and early summer months of 2022, the Ukrainian strategy of hold-at-all-costs, mobilize everybody, and throw human resources away on ersatz offences has been to buy support and time. Their conduct of this war has made no military sense unless it is looked at in this context. The question is: Why are they desperate to buy time? Do they know NATO will intervene and are therefore buying time for NATO; or do they *hope* NATO will intervene, knowing it is their only chance for victory? Their heroically suicidal offences seem to be mostly for show so far, to demonstrate their “loyalty” to the beast that guides them, in hopes of impressing their masters so deeply that they are rescued. The Ukrainian leadership appears from my vantage point to be insane, but possibly they fervently believe the West will be drawn in if they hold the line just a little while longer. As for NATO, I don’t think it is capable of intervening with great force. It is capable of keeping the water at a slow boil, however. The Ukrainians will suffer grievously in any case.

Posted by: Activist Potato | Jan 13 2023 2:20 utc | 168

Posted by: Activist Potato | Jan 13 2023 2:20 utc | 167
“As for NATO, I don’t think it is capable of intervening with great force. It is capable of keeping the water at a slow boil, however. The Ukrainians will suffer grievously in any case.”
likely true, the ‘battlespace prep’ (which the us marines are planning for west pacific over formosa) would be a year or more, while uaf burns usa ammunition and air defense launchers and expendables.
nato is not able to project past central poland. usa would need to build an iron mountain and a very large lake of fuel/pol within easy range of russian interdiction assets.
usa going in to east poland is nothing like it building up to take iraq out of kuwait!
for example us air and missile defenses are unaffordable, unreliable, and poor performing wherever they tilt against third world guerillas.
and rf would likely not sit by and watch a 21st century pagonis build and iron mountain like iraq did….

Posted by: paddy | Jan 13 2023 2:37 utc | 170

@51
WW2. My uncle, an officer in the German army, was captured in Russia – their western front – supposedly a day after Stalin (or someone else) ordered army to stop shooting officers. He was in the salt mines for years. Probably not labouring. As it was late in the war would he have been in this area Soledar, or are there salt mines further east? The things you don’t think to ask.
Always said he was treated well and that they had more food than the guards and that they shared food with the guards.

Posted by: Inki | Jan 13 2023 2:53 utc | 172

“Johnny Cash song, written or sung when he was dying, about death, to describe our present situation.”
Posted by: pretzelattack | Jan 13 2023 0:01 utc | 133
a cover from a NIN original, the cover better than the original, and an absolute classic – listen to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI

Posted by: htyul | Jan 13 2023 2:54 utc | 174

Re: Posted by: young | Jan 12 2023 16:03 utc | 5
You are just obsessed with the prospect of nuclear war aren’t you.
Once again you are entirely wrong though – there will be no Russian-launches nuclear war when Donetsk is finally captured.
You are 100% erroneous in the conclusions you’ve drawn.

Posted by: Julian | Jan 13 2023 2:57 utc | 176

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 13 2023 0:55 utc | 143
I agree with much of what you have said , and have now earned about the John Company. In all my reading on the BEC, I had never heard that term. Can you believe it!
I have never seen evidence of Rockefeller (born 1839 ) being Jewish or having Jewish antecedents. His father was William “ Big Bill “Avery Rockefeller, and mother was surnamed Davison.
Yet, there was much intermarriage with people surnamed Spelman,Aldrich, Chapman etc all also Jewish names but not necessarily so. Most Ashkenazis have German or East Slavic surnames that natives also have. So one cant say they were Jewish just from the surname although a betting man could make money in general just on the basis of the conjunction of surnames and occupations.
As for the Dismissal of Whitlam , the sacking Governor – General was named …John; Sir John Kerr ,or Cur , depending on your political persuasion.
Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 13 2023 0:09 utc | 134
I didn’t know Rothschilds bested Montefiore in the Wake of the Waterloo Victory. Interesting.
Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 13 2023 0:35 utc | 141
Poor Sorge even warned Russia of the exact date of Barbarossa and he wasn’t believed by Stalin . How sad is that ?
Posted by: MiniMo | Jan 13 2023 0:57 utc | 144
Christchurch massacre ? True or not? I also noticed a few things you mentioned like the bodies in corners etc but not blood packets or dummies (yet I never ran it in slomo or watched it over and over). I want the truth and like thinking rationally as much as I can. Are there fakes in the world? Yes. Are there fake assassinations? Yes.
However, assuming you are correct and they were all crisis actors or dummies, how do you explain the lists of dead? Wouldn’t people who saw familiar faces on Tv , call out the sham if they saw their moslem friend back at work , or walking down the street some time later? Could the Nz intelligence and gov hide fifty or so people and all their known families forever in some “witness protection scheme”. I find that hard to believe. However, tell me more if you want ,on the “not ukraine “ thread.

Posted by: Brother Ma | Jan 13 2023 3:02 utc | 178

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 13 2023 0:32 utc | 139
** Tipping of hat **

Posted by: Brother Ma | Jan 13 2023 3:10 utc | 180

“At some point, the Ukrainians will change their government. Russia has no interest in regime change. They could have wiped out the Ukraine government at any point. It is up to the Ukrainians to change their government and that will come,”
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 12 2023 22:59 utc | 107
It is very wise of the Russians not to forcefully execute regime change. The change has to come from within, or it will not be long-lasting or permanent. The Russians want a lasting peace – taking out leaders before the surrender/revolt of the people will only create further resistance among those who support the leaders. The government has to surrender with terms, its people rise up to depose it, or it and its people subjugated by force, which in all cases means elimination of all/most of the hostile agents.
The Americans take out regimes all the time, but don’t understand or change the people. That’s why their empire will never stand the test of time.

Posted by: Activist Potato | Jan 13 2023 3:20 utc | 182

Jen @ 152
Katchanovski was just on the Useful Idiots podcast with Aaron Mate and Katie Halper. He also has a Twitter account that recently has some interesting polling data…Republican support for Ukraine steadily dwindling.

Posted by: Objective Observer | Jan 13 2023 3:29 utc | 184

“This blog is a magnet for the single largest collection of paranoid, psychotic, homicidal maniacs ever known to mankind.”

And you must be incredibly brave for telling them that, whoever they are! 🙂

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jan 13 2023 3:39 utc | 186

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 13 2023 2:49 utc | 170
Hi, what You posted on @170 is the truth.
But, who may have the “Right” way to publish here?
I’ll make a trial here (beside US-Cencorship Robots on this channel).
You’ve captured my last comment (there is contained some like “assassinated”).
Even if yes/no confirmed and/or passed of that ‘word’ by this operating host-master(b),
I’ll set that expression whenever needed.
Thus I caqn tell You, The RF-Army incl. Wagner PMC are preparing some new “tactical” systems on Air + Ground that US-Intel has not yet recovered …

Posted by: spare_truth | Jan 13 2023 3:49 utc | 188

Posted by: Arne Hartmann | Jan 12 2023 19:59 utc | 57
The collapse of the Wehrmacht came with Operation Bagration from June to August 1944. The Red Army encircled the Heeresgruppe Mitte in Belarus and ended the Wehrmacht’s capability to effectively withstand the Red Army. Operation Bagration was the biggest defeat of any German army in history.
Fascinating history.
There are many criteria for defining a turning point. Didn’t Yamamoto declare the attack on Pearl Harbor a turning point? Similarly, Operation Barbarossa could be declared a turning point.
Major battles, sea and air battles included can also be a turning point, Midway and Stalingrad come to mind. Operation Bagration also makes that list.
El-Alamein got the Germans out of Africa. Hitler did not (could not) send fuel, ordnance, spare parts and supplies to Rommel. Montgomery read that correctly.

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Jan 13 2023 3:50 utc | 190

Back to Ukraine.
I think the next big battle will be for the Yahinde. SW of Krasna Hora. Of course Ukraine PR will call it a small, insignificant town that has been abandoned for some time. No real reason for Russia to attack it and make a big deal about it.

Posted by: BroncoBilly | Jan 13 2023 3:55 utc | 192

BroncoBilly | Jan 13 2023 3:55 utc | 191

I think the next big battle will be for …

What “we” think the “next battle” would be it’s only a speculatiion, as you say.
None of us is able to fore-say anything for the next days – but something is rumoured in background, .. so wait what this Friday-13th will bring on good/bad news for either side in Your’s/Our’s MSM.

Posted by: spare_truth | Jan 13 2023 4:09 utc | 194

fanto | Jan 13 2023 4:15 utc | 194

.. As Ritter says – it is “insanity”. (I can have lofty dreams?) ..

You should’nt have “dreams” so far too much so far, but it’s legal to have those, as I do.
The RF-Guys are still fighting this complete Friday-13th night long, they have losses and wounded men, as usual. This is NOT a video-game – this is real-time – every minute!
Wait .. RF is something planning about more effective measures next days than before.

Posted by: spare_truth | Jan 13 2023 4:35 utc | 196

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 13 2023 1:36 utc | 151
It appears you are so far down the “eight family” conspiratorial rabbit hole, you will never see daylight. While there may have been merit to the thesis 50 years ago, the world has moved on. None of the families are among the top shareholders of the Member Banks of the Regional Banks that make up the Federal Reserve, nor are they represented on either the Board of the Fed or the boards of big member banks, it is easy enough but time consuming to look them up. There are no Federal Reserve preferred shareholders, only Class A (varied by bank size) and Class B-C supposedly representing public interests.
The Treasury Department is the beneficial owner of the Fed, and receives all profits after the statutory 6% dividend is paid to member banks. Recently that was typically almost $100 billion, making it easily the biggest revenue line item in the Federal Budget.
As for Ms. Spingola, those are interesting from a historical perspective, but the effort would be better spent to document the malfeasance that is happening now and under our noses. If you crawled out of the rabbit hole you might notice it.
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The British Monarch has never declined the recommended Government of Canada nomination for the 100% ceremonial position of Governor General. Ditto for the Provinces. The monarchy is nothing more than a diversion for the plebes, a tourism attraction, seller of tabloids and a touchstone for a few elites who think it confers respectability by association.

Posted by: Opport Knocks | Jan 13 2023 4:39 utc | 198

Opport Knocks | Jan 13 2023 4:39 utc | 197
Your opinion about the purely ceremonial, comedic and antiquated role of the Governor General was shared by Australians. Right up to (and even after) the GG sacked the Prime Minister ….

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jan 13 2023 4:44 utc | 200