Posted by: Down South | Jan 13 2023 4:45 utc | 201

The Ukrainian terrorist forces have again shelled populated areas of the #Donetsk agglomeration. #Donetsk, #Gorlovka and #Makeyevka have been hit. One civilian was killed and four wounded in the attack on a milk factory in the DPR capital.

This “.. Have again shelled populated areas ..” should be no longer tolerated.
Esp. Donetzk City should be freed of permanent UAF/Mercaneries shelling!
Why still – since last 3 months – not yet secured by RF ?
Find them NAZI’s bunkers and destroy their US-HIMARS fire stations ! asap. via Helicopters!

Posted by: spare-truth | Jan 13 2023 5:04 utc | 203

Consider that NATO wouldn’t have a clue about what to do with Russia if it captured it. That’d be a plot for a farcical comedy movie. It could be made like a Three Stooges one.

Posted by: barstool | Jan 13 2023 5:10 utc | 205

Posted by: Jen | Jan 13 2023 4:37 utc | 196
Thanks for that. How’d you figure out that it’s operated from Kazan? IP reverse lookup? Like you, I couldn’t find anything about its ownership or finances and they don’t have an “about” page unless I missed it. And yes, the reason I had these questions is the overly cynical and pessimistic tone it takes on the SMO.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 13 2023 5:13 utc | 207

I’m new here and too be honest…bad with technology…so haven’t figured out how to reply to specific posts. I’m responding to the post about about the United States trying to tie up lands in northern territory…. Darwin harbor and then shifting to W.A. …..what is specifically going on in western Australia? You do know of the coup against Gough Whitlam?

Posted by: Joe | Jan 13 2023 5:14 utc | 209

@79
People like you are the reason others simply don’t take the Bible seriously. You try and make everything Jesus said futuristic! If you would have just read a little further in Luke 21:32 and Matt. 24:34 you would have known that Jesus was not taking about some future armageddon. The things He spoke of was to happen in that very generation. That event was the destruction of Jerusalem of AD 70. Not the war in Ukraine or any other future war here on earth.
Then you vaguely mention Daniel… I suppose you referred to Daniel 11 about the “King of the North”. This has no relation to anything today. It referred to the war between Syria and Egypt. The “king of the North” mentioned in Daniel 11 is actually a series of Greek kings in Syria of the Seleucid dynasty. Syria is to the north of Israel, so the king in Syria is the “king of the North.” Egypt is to the south of Israel, so the series of Egyptian kings of the Ptolemaic dynasty is the “king of the South” in this passage.
Then you mention Rev. 6:4 as though this was the cumulation of all that is to happen in the “end”. But Revelation has 22 chapters so that’s not all folks.
Lastly, again you take Mark 13:8 and try to apply that verse to today’s wars. But again, Jesus said in verse 30 “Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.” So if that verse is meant for today. The people Jesus spoke to are now over two thousand years old!
So please don’t try and post some obscure Bible verses that you have no clue what their meaning are to some war you want to be the “Last” war or your own “armageddon. It’s people like you who give the Bible a bad name.
For more on what the Bible says…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmcuiaQ5hAt3Hjz-VXG5-VQ

Posted by: DALE FERGUSON | Jan 13 2023 5:19 utc | 211

If it is nowadays (Fr. 13-JAN-2023) has starting a “real war” between US_NATO and RU-Federation, I just wonder, why RU is still so relatively “calm” of that ..
Are weak? – are supid? – NO !
RU/RF is now ready, prepared to start a “some new” modern fighting methods, that NATO has not yet realized till today.
We’ll see what happened ..
But I suppose that it is a non-good way for Europe (incl. Nuclear work-out of Brussels)!
All best – v.d.Liars. Female first – BBoeck!

Posted by: spare-truth | Jan 13 2023 5:41 utc | 213

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jan 13 2023 4:44 utc | 199
Sorry: Opport is correct. You do Australia, eh.

Posted by: Laurence | Jan 13 2023 5:42 utc | 215

@all
All of You are at a critical status, still currently watched by xxx (pls. fill xxx as you like).
So pls continue to say what the hell may to have said on any of subjects/issues here!
The video of dead-shooting 3 soldiers shows you – at least – the real soldiers life before ‘end’ without any last Msg. to your wife & childs!
Putin will stop that asap. – within 3 years. Believe? – Or Not?
Thanks for reading ..

Posted by: spare-truth | Jan 13 2023 5:58 utc | 217

FieryButMostPeaceful | Jan 12 2023 15:46 utc | 2
Good idea. Love it. Sanction the USA and make Lindsay Graham and all the other arrogant unfeeling psychopaths soil their pants and start worrying about their own health and safety rather than destroying other peoples lives.

Posted by: Ike | Jan 13 2023 6:22 utc | 219

Posted by: Jen | Jan 12 2023 22:38 utc | 101
Stalingrad is a very large tableau and made possible by Hitler’s fanatical obsession with taking the city. Zhukhov had forces from the Far East because Japan decided to attack Pearl Harbor rather than take further casualties in Manchuria trying to fight Red Army.
USSR also received Intelligence on Wehrmacht from Royal Corps of Signals Listening Stations across Persia and Central Asia set up in 1920s which were decrypted in Bletchley.
There was a lot more to this battle than simply men involved in close combat in a metropolitan region and NOTHING of the sort took place in any area where Western Allies were engaged – not in Monte Cassino and not in Falaise and not in Huerttgenwald………
Most people are ignorant of what actually took place in Operation Bagration or Operation Uranus or anything that happened on the Eastern Front where 80% German casualties fell – including the father of Gerhard Schroeder and brother of Helmut Kohl – which shaped their desire for excellent relations with USSR/Russia.
Merkel. aka Kastner aka Kazimierczak, granddaughter of a Berlin policemen who changed his Polish name to German – is the postwar generation that has caused so much trouble whether Blair, Brown, Cameron, Macron, Hollande, Scholz, etc

Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Jan 13 2023 6:27 utc | 221

Some posters here occasionally refer to the Khazars. I became curious. If you are curious – find a map of Khazaria and overlay it onto the battle ground in Ukraine. Then read some history about this wealthy kingdom…

Posted by: MG | Jan 13 2023 6:32 utc | 223

.. going ahead towards western areas .. (be lucky Biden-Hunter, H.Clinton, Pentagon, CIA)
that means also to get on “new” very close positions near border USA, border Canada.
Exercises and plan schedules are still running today, even N-Korea is interested but not yet involved. WW-III is running on a small-smoking level, when US further escalates, seem to follow the 1st. Zirkon (or even Poseidon) fired towards Washington-DC.

Posted by: spare-truth | Jan 13 2023 6:42 utc | 225

barstool #204

Consider that NATO wouldn’t have a clue about what to do with Russia if it captured it. That’d be a plot for a farcical comedy movie. It could be made like a Three Stooges one.

NATO did capture it in the early 90’s. They listened to the advice of stupid piss head President and agreed that a black belt Ju Jitsu strongman be appointed prime Minister and then get him elected President after the con man piss head ‘President’ stood down.
NATO organised the election of the black belt Ju Jitsu President.
Vlad Putin and his team of super heros threw UKUSA/NATO out on its arse, snafu’d the oligarchs, terminated a few traitors and laughed.
The godess assures me you only get one Russia, the UKUSA had their share and gave it back. LOSERS.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jan 13 2023 7:08 utc | 227

DALE FERGUSON | Jan 13 2023 5:19 utc | 210
“The things He spoke of was to happen in that very generation. That event was the destruction of Jerusalem of AD 70. Not the war in Ukraine or any other future war here on earth…
It’s people like you who give the Bible a bad name.”
Dogmatists like you are among those who distort the interpretation of scripture. Jesus himself quoted what Daniel wrote about the desecration of the temple in 168BC as referring simultaneously to events of that past time and to events to come soon after his own death, and therefore also possibly to events in the more distant future.

Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Jan 13 2023 7:40 utc | 229

So here is Russia’s gold Bradley challenge at https://t.me/Slavyangrad/28650

Does this mean that the Americans have supplied the AFU with a “miracle weapon” that will change the course of the war? No! Bradley has many shortcomings and we have something to destroy this IFV with. The presence of dynamic protection does not guarantee the survival of the vehicle even after a cumulative grenade hit from an RPG, and the side armor will not cope with the guns of our BMP. About what will happen to the Bradley when meeting with a tank shell, we will simply keep silent.
Russian military commanders and patriotic bloggers promise mountains of gold to whoever destroys the first Bradley, not because it is such a terrible enemy, but because it is priceless to show the world footage of burning modern American technology.

I immediately thought of County Joe – be the first comrade on the block to send a Bradley home in a box.
Is there a bonus if an Iranian drone named Soleimani gets the job done. Imagine the outrage if it was crowdfunded 😉

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jan 13 2023 8:05 utc | 231

The latest Brian Berletic…debunking the notion of western tanks being of any real significance in Ukraine…
Will Western Main Battle Tanks Turn the Tide in Ukraine What do Russian Gains in Soledar Mean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13MBwNsFWLs
From the description:

78,474 views Jan 12, 2023
Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for January 13, 2022.
– Russian advances near Soledar and Bakhmut contradict “Ukrainian offensive momentum” narrative;
– Russian operations are consistent with the “demilitarization” objective for the special military operation;
– Bakhmut & Soledar are fortified cities along one of Ukraine’s last defensive lines in the Donbass region;
– West is announcing plans to send Western main battle tanks including Challenger 2 and Leopard 2 tanks;
– Challenger 2 and Leopard 2 tanks use different ammunition & both require an additional crew member (loader) increasing training demands for Ukrainian forces;
– The large variety of equipment the West is sending will create additional burdens for Ukrainian forces without any notable benefit;
– Western main battle tanks have proven to be vulnerable to (Russian-made) modern anti-tank weapons even under relatively ideal conditions;
– Ukrainian forces will be going into battle without sufficient artillery or air cover and facing off against Russian forces reinforced with an additional 300k men, new defenses, and an influx of new weaponry;

– RSH

Posted by: CharlesLutherThanos | Jan 13 2023 8:19 utc | 233

Listening to the Scott Ritter interview referenced in this thread… The link again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsWQYBIoSWU
He’s really grim in this one. Basically he says “It’s over…WWIII is inevitable if NATO doesn’t stand down. Prove me wrong.” He’s given up hope, he says. From the video description:

Excerpt from a webinar by Diane Sare on January 8, 2023
Watch the full event at https://rumble.com/v24xb2c-sare-for-senate-webinar-can-nuclear-war-be-avoided.html
Thank you Diane for having me. Thank you Colonel Black for speaking, and Helga also.
I was struck by the music of Diane’s chorus, Mozart’s Requiem. I’m not quite the classicist that you are, Diane. I come from a more, shall we say, working class musical foundation. But when I conjure up the music that is sufficient to describe the topic at hand, which is nuclear conflict, I always get Johnny Cash’s song, “The Man Comes Around,” and the final verse of that, which is spoken by his voice, which is rattling, because he was literally on his death-bed: “I heard a voice in the midst in of the Four Beasts, and I looked and beheld a pale horse, and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.”
That’s what we live in, today. This isn’t some sort of future look into hellish Earth. Death is on a pale horse, riding to us, as we speak! And if you don’t recognize that, if you’re not aware of that, then you’re going to just blissfully go to the abyss, the Armageddon that Helga spoke of. We are on the cusp of thermonuclear war.
I keep hearing people talk about comparing the situation we face today with the Cuban Missile Crisis: Let me tell you something about the Cuban Missile Crisis. (A) I was a baby, so I don’t know anything firsthand. But (B), I used to be good friends with a gentleman named William Pope, who was right there next to Kennedy, when this happened. Do you know how we avoided nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis? Diplomacy. Old-fashioned diplomacy. Americans talking to Russians, Russians talking to Americans. Politically, we may not have been able to do that, up front, through standard negotiations, but we had back-channels that were approved by the President of the United States and by the General Secretary of the Communist Party, Khrushchev.
But today, we don’t talk. And we have our intelligence heads meeting in Ancre and other places around the world, but this isn’t a negotiation. We are in the midst of, not just a heightening of tensions, but we lack the mechanisms to resolve these tensions. There is no diplomatic interaction worth of the name, between the United States and Russia, today.
I just had lunch with Anatoly Antonov, the ambassador from Russia, and he laments the fact—here’s a man, this is a man, because of what you think of Russia, of him personally, I don’t care! I really don’t! He’s a man that sat down across from American negotiators during the administration of Barack Obama, and negotiated the New START Treaty, the last arms control treaty in existence today, between the United States and Russia. He was the Russian negotiator. So he’s a man who’s accomplished far more than any of the people that currently reside in a State Department bay in any capacity! Not a single one of them has accomplished what Anatoly Antonov has. And yet, he’s the ambassador of Russia to the United States, and he sits in a gilded cage: He’s not allowed to interact, nobody wants to interact with him, nothing is happening! Except this, and this is something he has spoken of, and senior State Department officials have spoken of.
Because, at the time I met him, it was the 35th anniversary of the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty [INF]. That happens to be a treaty that I played an important part in implementing. It was signed in December of 1987, and began implementation on July 1st, 1988.
There was a reunion of sorts of all the old INF hands, and we had somebody from the State Department speak who was off the record, so I can’t identify the individual or the content of their presentation, except to make the following note: There was widespread recognition on the part of everybody there, that the State Department no longer had any say whatsoever—any say, whatsoever—in the nuclear posture of the United States of America. And that, when it comes to nuclear issues, in matters relating to the nuclear enterprise, the Department of Defense reigns supreme. It is responsible for every aspect of the nuclear enterprise to this day, who include any notion of arms control negotiations.
When I brought this up to Ambassador Antonov, he said: Well, sadly, because nothing exists in a vacuum, you can’t expect the Russians to retain a certain expertise in arms control negotiation, if it isn’t exercised. It’s like any muscle: if you don’t exercise it, it atrophies. And the Russian negotiation component has likewise atrophied, and stepping into the vacuum is the Russian Ministry of Defense.
So we have the world’s two largest nuclear arsenals, and the people responsible for coming up with mechanisms to control these arsenals, and to hopefully diminish these arsenals, are the very same people who are responsible for modernizing these arsenals and making these weapons more relevant to their respective national security postures!

– RSH

Posted by: CharlesLutherThanos | Jan 13 2023 8:25 utc | 235

Posted by: htyul | Jan 13 2023 2:54 utc | 173
thanks for that link. damn, that was a powerful and moving performance.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Jan 13 2023 8:46 utc | 237

giandavide | Jan 13 2023 9:33 utc | 236
“a thing i read often here in the comments are that stopping the war means the abandon of dollar as a reserve currency. then what should be the new reserve currency?”
This and the rest of your comment assumes the perpetuity of globalization, but globalization is reaching its end. Soon there will be no such thing as a reserve currency, nor should there be.

Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Jan 13 2023 9:51 utc | 239

Soon there will be no such thing as a reserve currency, nor should there be.
Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Jan 13 2023 9:51 utc | 237

There are technically 8 world reserve currencies now, with the US Dollar at just under 60% and on a downtrend. There has to be an account surplus currency tabulated somewhere and of some form or other for any country that runs a trade surplus. That is all a bank deposit is, a placeholder for as yet undetermined goods/services to be carried out in the future.
The recent Zoltan Poszar (Credit Suisse) articles:
Commodity & War Encumbrance
and
War & Currency Statecraft
indicates how this might happen in view of the US/EU blatant weaponization of finance as part of this conflict.
He speaks of “Commodity Encumbrance” where, what was a previous dollar ore euro account surplus balance, would be an entitlement to be paid in gold, oil or any other agreed resource. I do not understand why he does not also include finished goods and/or human labor in the mix.

Posted by: Opport Knocks | Jan 13 2023 10:26 utc | 241

Posted by: giandavide | Jan 13 2023 9:33 utc | 236
SDRs or “Bancor”

Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Jan 13 2023 10:32 utc | 243

The rest is for nato to take, especially Odessa for a little UK base.
Of course it is……….you are the one with such inside knowledge…….and geostrategic experience

Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Jan 13 2023 10:42 utc | 245

Tom_Q_Collins @ 206:
I Googled “business” and “gazeta” and the results took me to the Business Online’s link. Google Translate rendered Business Online’s page into English and I looked around the page. The media outlet’s address is in Kazan and most sports, entertainment, culture and other articles there focus on events and news in Kazan and Tatarstan.

Posted by: Jen | Jan 13 2023 10:59 utc | 247

What would happen if Russia gave NATO an ultimatum – back off or Russia declares war on all the unfriendly countries?

Posted by: D J G | Jan 13 2023 11:23 utc | 249

Est-ce que quelqu’un peut expliquer au pro-Ukrainiens à quel point les chefs USA n’en ont rien à fiche d’eux et savent bien qu’ils sacrifient l’Ukraine sans espoir qu’ils l’emportent.
Ces chefs n’agissent que dans le but de nuire à la Russie.

Posted by: Christophe Nicolas | Jan 13 2023 11:55 utc | 251

“These leaders act only in order to harm Russia.”
Problème traduction

Posted by: Christophe Nicolas | Jan 13 2023 11:59 utc | 253

Oh, and forgot, they unfriendly countries are now free if not obligated to sink RF navy ships and subs, supply ships, merchant marine etc. anywhere in any ocean.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jan 13 2023 12:18 utc | 255

Posted by: bullocky | Jan 13 2023 6:26 utc | 219
Just do a search for “Christchurch shooting video” and you’ll find it easily.

Posted by: Peter Williams | Jan 13 2023 12:35 utc | 257

Posted by: D J G | Jan 13 2023 11:23 utc | 247
“What would happen if Russia gave NATO an ultimatum – back off or Russia declares war on all the unfriendly countries?”
Nothing. Now if Russia were to actually unilaterally declare war on any other NATO country, then there might be consequences.
But Russia wouldn’t do that, absent some considerably more serious provocation than at present, it’s an irrelevant question. Also if Russia were sufficiently provoked, they probably wouldn’t bother with declaring war until the first strike had been launched, whether that be conventional or nuclear.
Questions like these get asked by people with no appreciation of how the real world works. And then you get answers like the ones from LightYearsFromHome…
– RSH

Posted by: CharlesLutherThanos | Jan 13 2023 12:42 utc | 259

I have come to the conclusion that Zelensky is a complete and utter animal. I feel for Zaluzhny as he is advising Zelensky to withdraw the troops in Bakhmut to safety and has also provided other sound military advice on the situation in other areas However, Zelensky is totally ignoring Zaluzhny’s requests and advice. I have often wondered why a President of a country would wantonly and knowingly send young men, middle aged men and older men into a veritable meat grinder to certain death. Especially when those men have had little or no training as conscripts. Ze is now looking to conscript 16yrs-18yr olds.
Well, I read in Pravda yesterday a tweet from a Russian Politician that said the USA was paying Zelensky around about USD1million per day for him to keep the war going. Obviously, Zelensky doesn’t give a damn about the Ukrainian people just himself. I hope and pray now that Russia make the BIG move and end this thing and hope they get to arrest Zelensky, Arestovich, Kuleba and other Ukrainian politicians and detain and put them on trial as the War Criminals that they are.
What decent human being would genocide their own population in this way just out of sheer greed and lust for money and power. Boy, Zelensky is showing himself to be 10 x worse than Hitler. He’s giving Hitler a good run for his money.
Shame on the USA, the EU and their morally and intellectually bankrupt politicians. Hell will have a special place for them and I hope that Hell is here whilst they live. They shouldl be locked up for the War Criminals that they are.
God Bless President Putin and Russia.

Posted by: Jo Dominich | Jan 13 2023 13:12 utc | 261

Posted by: Jo Dominich | Jan 13 2023 13:12 utc | 259
Kapo (i.e. zelensky) has no agency. He says and does what his handlers tell him. I think he may have had a nervous breakdown somewhere in the middle of 2022. He overcame that with liberal use of coke and possibly other drugs. I think even without drugs he would have been okay if this was a very low intensity battle, US funds coming in and him getting a cut. However the battle had been catastrophic re UA casualties. Hence the need for drugs. And once you go alongwith vileness for some amount of time, it becomes part of you. Sage people of yesteryears always said it’s always a slippery slope. Search the word ‘kapo’ in wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapo

Posted by: RealBeast | Jan 13 2023 13:49 utc | 263

I have come to the conclusion that Zelensky is a complete and utter animal. I feel for Zaluzhny as he is advising Zelensky to withdraw the troops in Bakhmut to safety and has also provided other sound military advice on the situation in other areas However, Zelensky is totally ignoring Zaluzhny’s requests and advice. I have often wondered why a President of a country would wantonly and knowingly send young men, middle aged men and older men into a veritable meat grinder to certain death. Especially when those men have had little or no training as conscripts. Ze is now looking to conscript 16yrs-18yr olds.
Posted by: Jo Dominich | Jan 13 2023 13:12 utc | 259

Zelensky is an animal, we can agree on that. But why the excuses for Zaluzhny?
I see multiple people expressing sympathy for Zaluzhny, which is just absurd.
Scott Ritter has on multiple occasions said that the Russians “see him as an honorable man”, etc.
Seriously, WTF?
AFU has been shelling civilians for years, escalated it drastically over the course of the war, and not just that, but once they got the anti-personnel M30A1 HIMARS rounds (the ones with the 180,000 tungsten shrapnel pieces) started unloading those on civilians too, in Kherson, Lugansk and Donetsk.
Now who is on top of the AFU hierarchy and is thus ultimately responsible for those barbaric war crimes (by either ordering them or not stopping them after the first time it happened)?
And who is posting photos of himself with Bandera’s portrait behind him?
The man is a bona fide Nazi war criminal and should have been taken out months ago if the Russians were truly serious about the whole denazification business.
And there is nothing to “feel for” him.

Posted by: shadowbanned | Jan 13 2023 13:53 utc | 265

Yeah, curiously, it’s the geezers who never saw the real horror show who seem eager to experience it second, or third hand.
Posted by: john | Jan 13 2023 12:27 utc | 254
Tolstoy knew that. battle brag 12:00 to 14:20.

Posted by: waynorinorway | Jan 13 2023 14:00 utc | 267

LightYearsFromHome | Jan 13 2023 12:11 utc | 252
They might have more to worry about than stopping shipping if their cities were being destroyed, don’t you think?

Posted by: D J G | Jan 13 2023 14:14 utc | 269

aristodemos | Jan 12 2023 23:53 utc | 129
If I understand you correctly, removing some 2 oblasts from 404 country will clear the way to convert the rest into potentially happy citizens of RF. And the West will eventually find a new toy and forget about poking the bear.
R3DP1LL3R | Jan 12 2023 22:40 utc | 102

The entirety of Ukraine not currently under Allied control will need to be removed. Total depopulation must be the goal.
Once that is met, a very strict filtration and vetting will need to occur to allow people back in. Better to just repopulate 404 with current Russian citizens.

What happens to those people that are not allowed back in?

Posted by: grunzt | Jan 13 2023 14:18 utc | 271

CharlesLutherThanos @ 257

Nothing. Now if Russia were to actually unilaterally declare war on any other NATO country, then there might be consequences. Questions like these get asked by people with no appreciation of how the real world works. And then you get answers like the ones from LightYearsFromHome…

Whether you think Russia will declare war and actual likelihood is not what the OP asked. “Now if Russia were to actually unilaterally declare war” is what D J G @ 247 asked, you mention there would be consequences, I suggested what some would be, and they would not be good, of course the west could ignore Russia’s declaration and not escalate, it would be odd but it could, but Russia would still have opened that can of hurt.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jan 13 2023 14:20 utc | 273

Same report, every day, for a year. The talking heads on youtube said it was too muddy, must wait for negative temperatures. I don’t know how many weeks of -15C it takes to freeze mud but there is no offensive and I doubt it’ll be. The old strategy won’t be changed. In a few months they’ll take Bakhmut and slowly reach the new regions borders next years. The rest is for nato to take, especially Odessa for a little UK base.
Posted by: rk | Jan 13 2023 10:33 utc | 242

It’s projected to be +10C again in a few days.
It’s quite clear it’s not going to really freeze this winter at all (so much for climate change being a hoax).
Which means mud season all the way to April.
By which time there will have been God knows what kind and how many additional Western weapons poured into Ukraine. Maybe not just weapons…

Posted by: shadowbanned | Jan 13 2023 14:32 utc | 275

Not much of a bluff to the dead.

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jan 13 2023 14:39 utc | 277

shadowbanned @ 273:
Jetstream management
https://urbansoldier.weebly.com/weather-modification.html

Posted by: e | Jan 13 2023 14:58 utc | 279

Rada removes Medvedchuk and three other MPs from office (RIA Novosti, January 13, 2023 — in Russian)

The Verkhovna Rada of the Ukraine has stripped MPs from the “Opposition Platform—For Life” Viktor Medvedchuk, Taras Kozak, Andrey Derkach and Renat Kuzmin from their mandates, Rada MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak said on Friday.
On Tuesday, Vladimir Zelenskiy announced that he approved the decision to deprive Medvedchuk, Derkach, Kozak and Kuzmin of Ukrainian citizenship.
“The Rada has removed them from office due to the loss of citizenship: Viktor Medvedchuk—320 votes in favor, Taras Kozak—317 votes in favor, Andrey Derkach—314 votes in favor, Renat Kuzmin—319 votes in favor,” he wrote in his Telegram channel.
…
Earlier, the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that Medvedchuk was handed over to the Russian side as a result of an exchange of prisoners with the Ukraine. In April last year, the SBU announced the detention of Medvedchuk on behalf of Zelenskiy. On October 8, 2021, Ukrainian law enforcement officers announced that they suspect Medvedchuk of treason and assistance to terrorism. Medvedchuk himself stated that he considered the criminal cases opened against him to be political persecution.
The State Bureau of Investigation of the Ukraine stated that Kuzmin was suspected of treason. The SBU suspected Derkach of working for Russian intelligence. Kozak was suspected of treason and embezzlement of national resources in the Crimea.
…

So Zelenskiy can strip any Ukrainian politican of Ukrainian citizenship, and that automatically results in their removal from whatever office they were holding, including a seat in the parliament. What an amazing democracy! What a stellar example of human rights and pluralism! Medvedchuk publically disagreed with Putin’s statement that Russians and Ukrainians are “one people”, he never wanted Russia and the Ukraine to be one state, all he wanted was to have normal, friendly relations with Russia, recognizing that Ukrainian and Russian histories are deeply intertwined—that’s all. For that, in modern “democratic” Ukraine, he was stripped of citizenship. Modern Ukraine is a totalitarian Russophobic state (even though majority of its citizens are Russian speakers, have relatives in Russia, worked/lived in Russia, etc.). That a totalitarian Russophobic state is needed “to protect Western democracy” tells us all we need to know about “Western democracy”.

Posted by: S | Jan 13 2023 15:27 utc | 281

Russia has no interest in declaring war on NATO, it is fighting it here in Ukraine, but its hands are somewhat tied, no aircraft, no long-range missiles. It is gradually reducing its stockpile of weapons and thus weakening its desire/capacity for direct combat. The nuclear weapons remain, but here too, NATO is a bit of a coward and it needs an excuse.
The fact that the Western media is turning any Russian gains or changes in command into proof of defeat is in itself in the Russians’ interest as it momentarily avoids the need for escalation to prove that they are the strongest in the playground.

Posted by: Le Catalan | Jan 13 2023 15:35 utc | 283

TASS 13 Jan, 15:52: Russian troops complete liberation of Soledar.
Wagner boss is such a naughty boy. No six months of artillery duels and no withdraw? General staff of cardboard is upset. Must suggest a ceasefire, all those nato tanks and Polish airplanes and radars from Israel should have time to arriveand the German Patriot isn’t even in Poland yet.

Posted by: rk | Jan 13 2023 16:07 utc | 285

CharlesLutherThanos at #235-
And, of course, as revealed by Merkel, Hollande and others, not denied at all by anyone in the Global West, the duplicity in getting to the Minsk accords, only as a deception to buy time to allow Ukraine to rearm, has the effect of killing diplomacy. Diplomacy was the Cuban missile crisis’s safety valve. That is now fucked up beyond repair as the West has destroyed trust. Completely. It’s going to take West actions, over a protracted period, not words, that may allow a scintilla of trust to re-emerge. But even then, why on earth would Russia or China (or indeed Venezuela, Cuba and most of Africa and Asia) trust the West?

Posted by: Vragtes | Jan 13 2023 16:28 utc | 287

@shadowbanned | Jan 13 2023 14:32 utc | 275

It’s quite clear it’s not going to really freeze this winter at all (so much for climate change being a hoax).

We had -20C a couple of weeks ago + lots of snow and now +5-10C and rain the last week. It is called weather. I am always reminded about that by the ideologues when I mention the cold.
I don’t think the weather matters all that much for the Russians, they have experience, it is their home.

Posted by: Norwegian | Jan 13 2023 16:59 utc | 289

Shadowbanned @ 280
The science behind HAARP is quite available. Why did you go after the poster who brought this matter, once again after several other postings discussed this issue? Lunatic? Some of your postings seem quite reasonable. This one is a bit over the top. Perhaps you are one of many who suffer from cognitive dissonance?

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 13 2023 17:29 utc | 291

from BreakingDefense
What is a ‘main battle tank,’ and how will Ukraine use them?
European nations are poised to send Ukraine main battle tanks. But Western MBTs will require different training, tactics, and logistical support than the smaller Soviet-derived designs Ukrainian troops are used to.

WASHINGTON – The dam has broken for main battle tanks, with Poland pledging to provide Ukraine small numbers of the massive armored vehicles and more nations expected to follow. Now for the hard part: getting Ukraine enough of these heavy tanks to matter — and then teaching Ukrainians how to use them, because Western war machines are very different from the Soviet-derived designs they’ve fought with since 2014.
Poland has pledged about a dozen German-built Leopard IIs, Finland has suggested a Europe-wide effort to send Leopards, and Britain is rumored to be sending ten of its home-grown Challenger IIs, but Ukraine’s top commander, Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhny, has said he needs 300. So the numbers are too small to matter much militarily — so far. What’s more, sending many small batches of different tanks is a logistical nightmare. Ukrainian support troops already have to make heroic efforts to maintain a hodgepodge of often-incompatible equipment, from Western tech to Soviet-era holdovers to captured Russian machines, all with different requirements for training, supplies, and spare parts. . .here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Jan 13 2023 17:37 utc | 293

Posted by: Passerby | Jan 12 2023 22:19 utc | 94
That Russia is pushing North America and Europe in recession is incredible.
They do nothing of the sort.This is the west own predictive programming. What they don’t understand is that they have forced Russia to discover the difference between finance and real-economy. Michael Hudson is my recommended source of enlightenment.
https://michael-hudson.com/

Posted by: Anne B | Jan 13 2023 19:38 utc | 295

Interesting times.
A few ghouls, odds & sods off-topic dispersed like fly-blown red herrings. The sellers of doubt appear to be in full retreat!
War is hell General William T Sherman.

Posted by: Bad Deal Motors On | Jan 14 2023 13:51 utc | 297