NJH | Jan 27 2023 6:18 utc | 297
>Neocons….. Some of them are OK……
Curious as to your familiarity with the Project For The New American Century.
And the cast of characters, including props, wardrobe and special fx?

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jan 27 2023 7:16 utc | 303

Milites @101
US Col. Daniel Davis , who fought the tank battles in Iraq with Abrams vs old Soviet era unmodernized T72 tanks, makes the similar point that it is not the sophistication of the tank but the training and experience of the crew that determines the outcome of the battle. He goes so far as to say that if the trained American tank crews were the force with the T72’s and the untrained Iraqi’s operated M-1 Abrams, the Americans woul still have been victorious, as the Iraqui crews training and experience was abysmal.
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2023/01/ukraine-wont-get-leopard-2-or-m1-abrams-tanks-does-it-matter/

Posted by: mjh | Jan 27 2023 7:27 utc | 305

@NJH | Jan 27 2023 6:18 utc | 297

Political Terminology – The 9 minute FAQ to knowing everything necessary to understand American politics (Version 8) The Ninety Second Version
Perspective matters. But then if you imagine that the ability to communicate meaningfully is important, then definitions are important too. And then reality bites.
Conservative = rejecting change.
Progressive = acknowledging that change in society and technology mandate change in order for a culture to remain viable.
Left = representing the interests of the sans culotttes (poor), proletariat (working class) and petite bourgeoisie (small merchants and professionals)
Right = Representing the interests of the powerful and wealthy
Capitalism = Private ownership and control of the means of production
Socialism = Private ownership and public control of the means of production
Communism = Public ownership and control of the means of production
Direct democracy= People themselves discuss and vote on issues of interest. Not an American idea.
Any other system = Not democracy. Intended to ensure that the wealthy and powerful maintain their wealth and power.
Neoconservative or Neocon relates to or denotes a supposed “return” to a “modified form” of a never-existent and completely imaginary “traditional viewpoint” (AKA “Hate the other”), characterized by an emphasis on imaginary “free-market capitalism” (AKA “Fuck the poor”) “deregulation” (facilitating looting), reductions in government spending, collapsing infrastructure, boosting profiteering, impoverishing the not wealthy, while making labor non-competitive and promoting an aggressively “interventionist foreign policy” which has always been the reality of the hyper belligerent USA. It also speaks unintentionally to the con trickery required to get the poor and powerless to support policies which exclusively benefit the wealthy and powerful. Neocon is synonymous with war monger, and as such, is indistinguishable from neoliberals (infra).
Neoliberals or Neolib relates to or denotes favoring of policies that promote totally imaginary “free-market capitalism” (AKA “Fuck the poor”), “deregulation” (facilitating looting), reductions in government spending, collapsing infrastructure, boosting profiteering, impoverishing the not wealthy, while making labor non-competitive and promoting an aggressively “interventionist foreign policy” which has always been the reality of the hyper belligerent USA.
Neocolonialists are characterized by the use of economic, political, cultural, or other pressures to control or “influence” other countries, especially former dependencies, AKA “the West”, as shown by the annual net transfer of c. $US 4 trillion from poorer countries to wealthier countries.
Republicans = controlled by the wealthy and powerful and relying on conservatism to maintain the status quo and fuck the rest of society. Republicans are neoconservative, neoliberal and neocolonial, and their subservience to the oligarchy is leading us to environmental catastrophy, thermonuclear warfare and human extinction.
Democrats = controlled by the powerful and wealthy and relying on the hope of change maintained by paying lip-service to the rest of society when the wealthy and powerful do not object, but fucking the rest of society anyway. Democrats are neoconservative, neoliberal and neocolonial, and their subservience to the oligarchy is leading us to environmental catastrophy, thermonuclear warfare and human extinction.
Joe Biden is a Republican masquerading as a Democrat by paying lip-service to the rest of society while fucking them unmercifully without a lubricant – which is exactly what the wealthy and powerful want and so exactly what any government by the Republicans or Democrats will deliver. Meaning that neither has a leftist molecule.
Perhaps Americans will wake up to reality and stop enabling this toxic system before human extinction, but I doubt it.

From my Political Terminology – The 9 minute FAQ to knowing everything necessary to understand American politics.

Posted by: Hermit | Jan 27 2023 7:40 utc | 307

@Melaleuca | Jan 27 2023 7:22 utc | 309
Not even (Hitler) and just not (everything else implied).

Posted by: Hermit | Jan 27 2023 7:43 utc | 309

@ Doug Hillman | Jan 27 2023 3:18 utc | 257
thanks doug.. good commentary and we do see it much the same way.. thanks!

Posted by: james | Jan 27 2023 8:01 utc | 311

annyone confirm???
Killnet is taking German aviation on its knees- Russian hackers halted the work of almost all major German airports
Killnet hackers halted sites of major German airports: the web pages of Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Dresden, as well as a number of other international air hubs, are already down. In addition, the sites of the Federal Foreign Intelligence Service and the Bundestag are down.
Judging by messages on their resources, hackers do not plan to stop there – the attack will also be carried out on government and financial sectors. The day before it became known that Berlin “bent” and will supply Leopard tanks to Kiev. However, this will not happen soon, and Scholz has time to change his mind.

Posted by: Jo | Jan 27 2023 8:10 utc | 313

@Alex Vadim | Jan 27 2023 7:14 utc | 307
I don’t know where you found that, but it is total bull shit.
Recognizing that war was coming and that the USSR was not yet strong enough to stand alone after a decade futilely attempting to negotiate with the UK and France, Ribbentrop and Molotov negotiated what has been called “the most famous pact in history” in under twenty-four hours, in a continuous meeting all of which is on record in the Russian archives. Only one hitch came up in the negotiations: Stalin demanded two Latvian port towns. Ribbentrop requested a recess. Gene Smith describes:
Ribbentrop agreed to everything, but when Stalin expressed an interest in the Latvian warm-weather ports of Libau and Windau, he said he would have to consult the Leader…. [Ribbentrop] put in a call to Hitler and told him of the Russian request that the Latvian ports be assigned to their
sphere of interest. Hitler sent an orderly for an atlas, looked at the map of the Baltic coastline, noted that the ports were
a stone’s throw from East Prussia, but told Ribbentrop to tell Stalin he was welcome to them.
Smith, Gene (1987). The Dark Summer: An Intimate History of the Events
That Led to World War II. Macmillan. p.197
In essence in the Ribbentrop-
Molotov pact, Hitler conceded that Stalin’s slice of Europe would include Finland, Estonia, Latvia, eastern Poland, Bessarabia, and, later,
Lithuania and Northern Bukovina. Stalin would sell Hitler the food
and raw materials needed to crush his opponents and repatriate to
Hitler all anti-Nazi Germans in his new territories or any who sought
refuge there.
Hitler still admired the English, expected England to recognize that Poland was done for and to stand aside ignoring the guarantees it had provided Beck, and in the medium term, still anticipated an agreement between the UK and Germany to defeat and partition the USSR, always an obsession of his.

Posted by: Hermit | Jan 27 2023 8:13 utc | 315

👉👆👉 Ukrainian post….
Russian troops began an assault on Ugledar.
Ugledar is of key importance for the Russian Federation, it is a strategically important point of communications in the south of Donbas, a border for the deployment of the future Ukrainian offensive on the Crimean Corridor.
The capture of Ugledar will significantly improve the strategic position of the Russian army in the Donbass, and will allow the defense to be deepened. The goal of the Russian command in the 2023 campaign is to capture the entire Donbas, or push our army away from the Crimean corridor. To capture Ugledar, the Russians concentrated their best forces – brigades of marines and airborne troops, ammunition stocks.
For us, the successful defense of Ugledar is a task of maximum losses to Russian elite brigades. We remember how the Russians tried to capture Vugledar for the first time in the fall, and stopped in the village of Pavlivka near the city. The Russian regular army is very sensitive to losses, and in the Russian media there was then a wave that the Russian marines were defeated. Ugledar is a convenient line of defense, it is on the heights, the enemy is advancing from the lowlands, there are opportunities to inflict a new defeat on the enemy.
The battle for Vugledar will determine the entire course of the subsequent war in southern Ukraine in 2023.

https://t.me/sitreports/3831

Posted by: Down South | Jan 27 2023 8:28 utc | 317

In Kyiv, local administrations are preparing to get rid of the male population.
At the very least, lists of male employees were requested from all local state enterprises and services.
Apparently, whole teams will be sent to the front.
Who’s ready to die for the West?

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/30922

Posted by: Down South | Jan 27 2023 8:35 utc | 319

@alek_a | Jan 27 2023 8:10 utc | 319
The trouble with that is that when you throw out the commonly understood meanings and associated comprehensions of words, you lose the power to communicate at all, because all meaningful communication is based on shared experience and understanding. Without that, as Wittgenstein proved, “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

Posted by: Hermit | Jan 27 2023 8:48 utc | 321

Clearly an important new piece by John Helmer suggesting peace-feelers by Blinken to Russia…
Blinken Explainer (Nuland Too)
http://johnhelmer.net/blinken-explainer-nuland-too
“…A breaking news story which has blindsided the mainstream and also the alternative media.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 27 2023 8:56 utc | 323

Think of the propaganda victory for Russian President Vladimir Putin if pictures emerge of disabled American tanks on a Ukrainian battlefield. – CNN
Posted by: Down South | Jan 27 2023 8:33 utc | 323
Think of Putin’s propaganda Victory right: Russia is once again being attacked by German battle tanks.
Any thoughts on which way his approval ratings will go in the coming weeks? Any thoughts on the success of future mobilization waves that may become necessary? Any thoughts on the support of his citizens should he decide to escalate the war beyond the borders of Ukraine?
Unless those tanks turn out to be Game-changing Wunderweapons, NATO just committed a blunder of epic proportions.
And a PS: With the real war being fought in diplomatic arena, both Russia and the West fighting for support by the other 180 countries in the World: will the tanks win support for NATO? Or for Russia?

Posted by: Marvin | Jan 27 2023 8:59 utc | 325

Now Biden (USA) is already rowing back as far as their tanks are concerned, with delivery dates from 2024 onwards.
It would be embarrassing for the Americans if their tanks burned… their industry lost customers in rows.
Disadvantage of arms shipments to the “shop window” Ukraine where customers can now see practical capabilities of the highly acclaimed arms.
Think of F35 and co.
On the other hand, videos are circulating on Telegram where hundreds of Abrahams are already driving through Germany on freight trains!!!
All heading east…
Ergo: Will there be an escalation sooner or later….the desired escalation, it seems…
The last chance for the West to maintain its system ” supremacy “, because Ukraine has now become essential for the West !!!
Biden and & never expected that, their analysts were once again WRONG as so often!

Posted by: mo3 | Jan 27 2023 9:13 utc | 327

The RAND people have just published a new study titled “Avoiding a Long war”
https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA2510-1.html
with very interesting cost-benefit discussions – a must read. It seems that there are some people in the US considering a more realistic approach to the outcome of the conflict.

Posted by: Udkanten | Jan 27 2023 9:22 utc | 329

Latest Macgregor…
Douglas Macgregor – A Huge Offensive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yGozTWRqLk
This one was interesting for two reasons:
1) He tempered his estimate of the number of Russians in Belarus. He had been saying 100,000, now he says “80-100,000 – “and it could be more or it could be less. It’s hard to see up there.” He continues by saying there is a lot of hardware going into Belarus.
Mercouris has suggested that what is happening in Belarus is the integration of the Belarus army into the Russian army. This would make sense. It would explain the disparity in numbers of the Russian troops – you simply add in the Belarus forces. It also explains the new hardware – they’re re-equipping the Belarus army to Russian standards as part of the CSTO.
2) He essentially agrees with me that a large new offensive may NOT be immediately in the offing, until the Donbass has been ground down. He points out that in the Zaporizhia region, there is some flat and undulating terrain, and if the Russians see an opening they may try a more rapid advance in that direction. He then says:

“But the Russians have proven, over the last few months, to be very deliberate. The understand the impact of linking the overhead intelligence, the surveillance and reconnaissance assets, terrestrial and space-based, to the various strikes systems. They used their air force very effectively as part of this larger strike approach. I don’t see that changing very much. I don’t think they’re going to put ground forces at risk of being suddenly attacked by weapons and troops that they have not already identified by moving too quickly. But those slow, deliberate grinds will have an effect. My own thinking is that we’re going to see all of this happen in the East first, and when the East is largely devoid of Ukrainian resistanceand cleared, that’s when you will see the crossing of the Dnieper River and the northern offensive begin, because one of the stated goals from the very beginning of this discussion about offensives has been to cut off Ukraine from the Polish border. That has to happen. And something is going to have to be done about the regime in Kiev. But that will be the last thing that I think is on the agenda.”

This is pretty much what I’ve been saying lately. It appears he has adjusted his opinion about a large, multi-axis offensive – or more precisely, that he also believes as I do that it’s a question of WHEN such an offensive might occur, and not whether it will occur.
He further states:

“But it just won’t look like a WWII blitzkreig. I keep hearing people talk about blitzkreig. That was a different era, and that kind of capability exists, but it’s not something that you do in this era when you have an ISR strike arrayed against you.”

Worth listening to the whole thing.

Posted by: CharlesLutherThanos | Jan 27 2023 9:29 utc | 331

❗️🇷🇺🇭🇺Those Hungarians who voluntarily surrendered and were captured by Russia will not be handed over to the Ukrainian side and will be immediately transferred to Hungary.
The surrendering Hungarians must immediately declare that they are Hungarians.
On Tuesday, Russian military expert Igor Korotchenko suggested to the Transcarpathian Hungarian soldiers conscripted into the Ukrainian army that they surrender to the Russian army as soon as they get to the front. The collected Hungarian prisoners of war are later transported by air to Budapest and handed over to Viktor Orbán.
https://t.me/ZandVchannel/49026

Posted by: unimperator | Jan 27 2023 9:48 utc | 333

Annalena is worse. Of course her one year course at the LSE in public international law and her unfinished doctorate in natural disasters and international law has provided her with an excellent training in being a one woman disaster in German Foreign Affairs.
Posted by: Paul McGrory | Jan 27 20
Stupidity?
Incompetent lack of awareness?
Or something more malicious and sinister?
Remember her I don’t care what the voter’s think comment!
Some seriously unhinged freaks integrated in the German political system.
Not a good advertiser for the public list election where you have these idiot’s foisted whether you like them or not.
Or are greens smug well to do nihilists who really don’t care about people?

Posted by: jpc | Jan 27 2023 10:01 utc | 335

@ # 99:
….
I have heard it said that Baerbock is the most popular politician in Germany. She’s safe. Her entire career is built on lies and deceptions, and the German people at large don’t seem to care.
….
It seems to be that way. But even the (West-) Germans – while often shidden virtually the most stupid people around and, to a certain amount, politically being really retarded – are not completely and as an aggregate dumb & numb. Looking on things concerning your assumption, much of that IMO is also mostly nothing but propaganda: One of Germany’s new Wannabe-Massas – Baerbock or Habeck – last year ostensibly had been rewarded being »Politician of the Year«. No research is capable of showing, that such a title or commendation had ever officially existed in Germany.

Posted by: Yogi | Jan 27 2023 10:09 utc | 337

John Helmer has an interesting take on behind the scenes ‘diplomacy’ by Blinken via the WaPo, suggesting some major US concessions are being floated:
http://johnhelmer.org/blinken-explainer-nuland-too/#more-70544
https://tntradiolive.podbean.com/e/john-helmer-with-jeremy-beck-26-january-2023/

Posted by: Et Tu | Jan 27 2023 10:17 utc | 339

Posted by: Hermit | Jan 27 2023 7:40 utc | 312
Nice definitions of terms. But after that it went a bit pear shaped

Posted by: Tim | Jan 27 2023 10:26 utc | 341

Baerbocks “we are at war with Russia” isn’t the only blurp. Also another minister in an unnamed country in North EUrope said that “we are at war with Russia… ahem… energy war with Russia”. It’s all sub-conscious conditioning.

Posted by: unimperator | Jan 27 2023 10:44 utc | 343

@# 177: …
But well, she may be less hypocritacal than most Western politicians.
…
Really shure about that? This person even showcased herself being nothing less than emissary of feminism (in foreign policy), doing those things that this hideous Mrs. Clinton had entitled as »masculine foreign policy« 10 to 15 years ago. This persons level of hypocrisy resembles that of a small child, not of an adult, challenging even Scholtz all the time.

Posted by: Yogi | Jan 27 2023 10:49 utc | 345

jpc | Jan 27 2023 10:01 utc | 340
They’re puppets, no need for brains.
However, Barecock’s speech is pure PR gold but Russia isn’t using it, only Zakharova had a little weak online message and was again briefly mentioned in her press conference today. If they don’t care, why should we?

Posted by: rk | Jan 27 2023 10:52 utc | 347

The Russia developed hypersonic and the success e.g. was like a blow for CIA and & possibly suspected but NEVER known with certainty !!
mo3 | Jan 27 2023 10:50 utc | 351
Actually it’s the opposite. Russia has spoken about its hypersonics many years ago, long before it went into production. Western MSM and “experts” declared it impossible at that time, I remember reading those articles at that time, was very funny. Even today you can find “experts” in MSM saying they’re not really hypersonic, Putin is lying. If you search the Combat Approved episode (or the original episode in Russian) you’ll see that is has an even more distant history.

Posted by: rk | Jan 27 2023 11:05 utc | 349

Hermit | Jan 27 2023 8:13 utc | 320
I do respect your views on German Russian non-aggression pact. It was timely. However you are mixing two different historical events. I will attach a link for more information. I was simply asking for anything new on this subject to read. I guess nothing new from archives or literature. Cheers
https://erenow.net/ww/risefallthirdreich/134.php

Posted by: Alex Vadim | Jan 27 2023 11:13 utc | 351

He also understood that the differences between Fascist imperialism and Liberal imperialism were of degree and not type, Or more precisely of aesthetic – as the British empire was almost as bad as nazi Germany ever was, it just styled itself differently, more liberally. It’s telling that all the liberals in Germany gladly lined themselves up behind the fascist cause.

Posted by: Lachlan | Jan 27 2023 11:18 utc | 353

@ Paul McGrory | Jan 27 2023 6:49 utc | 302
…
a one woman disaster in German Foreign Affairs
….
Simply wonderful! YMM[and several others’]D!

Posted by: Yogi | Jan 27 2023 11:39 utc | 355

Why has Putin not sent out professional hit men after the likes of Boris Johnson, George Soros, the Davos Dildo Schwab etc.
Posted by: jgalt | Jan 26 2023 21:06 utc | 140

What if we killed the bad guys at birth? There would be no reprisals.

Posted by: Leuk | Jan 27 2023 11:41 utc | 357

Can someone help me with my maths…
How many western tanks crossing the border into Uqraine = equals one nato war against Russia.
Given that the exchainge rate could be different in nato compared to Russia.
Anyone foolishly suggesting Uqraine invited them in. fails the test automatically.

Posted by: Mark2 | Jan 27 2023 11:48 utc | 359

This morning Russia is announcing that the fortified Ukrainian stronghold of Ugledar has fallen to the Russians.
Google translate needed.
https://warnews247.gr/asyllipti-itta-ton-oukranon-fernei-neo-ntomino-katarrefsis-oi-rosoi-me-mia-keravnovola-epithesi-pairnoun-to-ugledar-i-poli-frourio-epese/

Posted by: jgalt | Jan 27 2023 12:03 utc | 361

How many drone strikes did Obama do with many innocents who were collateral damage? Over 100000 that he oversaw personally.
https://original.antiwar.com/nicolas_davies/2017/01/18/obamas-bombing-legacy/

Posted by: jgalt | Jan 27 2023 12:06 utc | 363

the big news over the last few days is the soon-to-happen round up of Ukrainian citizens in the EU and likely in North America.
@ exile | Jan 27 2023 11:43 utc | 363
Further to your question…
Who gets sent to Ukraine first, Ukrainians who have fled to the U.S. since 2014 or American troops?
Likewise Canada, will they send recent Ukrainian arrivals back to Ukraine before they send Canadian troops?
Will the American and Canadian populations accept their guys coming home in a body-bag while their
able-bodied neighbor Ukrainian immingrant mows his lawn and has a cold beer on his patio? Hmmmm…
(OT, but as a life-long Detroit Red Wings fan I just may support sending Canadiens to Ukraine. Just joking Habs fans, just joking.)

Posted by: waynorinorway | Jan 27 2023 12:11 utc | 365

[370]
Be fascinating then perhaps I won‘t keep seeing €90,000 SUVs with UA plates everywhere. These guys obviously had a comfy ride across Europe in new ostentatious Mercedes, Toyota, Audi, BMW land ships
They kindly repainted telephone switching boxes yellow and blue although some have been repainted red and white
I won‘t need to wonder about BW types slouching around in Flecktarn with hands in pockets or with shoulder length female locks or hanging around looking positively unmartial

Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Jan 27 2023 12:33 utc | 367

Lachlan [357]
Hitler offered Stalin India but Josef wanted Denmark and Hitler knew why

Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Jan 27 2023 12:35 utc | 369

Posted by: Hermit | Jan 27 2023 7:40 utc | 312
Absolutely spot on, full stop. The rip off will continue even after the afflicted lash out at each other in misplaced rage.

Posted by: MillerJ | Jan 27 2023 12:43 utc | 371

Anyone know the legality of sending refugees and emigres home for conscription? Someone with some actual legal knowledge? Seems to me to be very illegal, it would need a lot of process to determine specific status, work, family, kids, health, mental physical fitness, and some sort of decree, which EU leader or parliamentarian is going to push such a decree? Are the German, French, Italian, Spanish police going to forcibly grab people with friends and kin screaming and crying on the street? That will look real good on the night news. Fun to watch the spin, “but we are helping Ukraine”.
It would set a precedent across the board too. Maybe India will ask for Sunak to be extradited for military service?
So much nonsense since the internet was invented.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jan 27 2023 12:55 utc | 373

Incredible that the west are now supporting genocide and NAZISM.
https://amgreatness.com/2023/01/26/inside-the-nazi-whitewash-of-ukraine/

Posted by: jgalt | Jan 27 2023 12:57 utc | 375

We’ll thwart their spring plan
📝 Journalist Yury Podolyaka on the supply of military equipment:
▪️Our aviation and artillery are actively working in Ugledar. First, there must be a fire defeat of the enemy. Our heavy equipment will support the infantry, then we need to remove the snipers from the roofs. And only then will begin more active preparations for the assault. Carbon is important because we are taking away enemy reserves.
▪️As practice has shown, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are throwing reserves here from under Artyomovsk. Either the enemy does not have a strategic reserve, or he is being cherished for a rainy day. Now the entire front line is rippling, our troops are trying to go everywhere. Therefore, any local defeat incurs heavy losses for the Ukrainians.
▪️For Kyiv, the loss of 5-10 thousand people is already critical. Until the enemy trains reserves for the spring campaign, we will keep moving forward. We now need to inflict such a defeat on the Armed Forces of Ukraine that they will already begin to spend reserves to eliminate breakthroughs. We, in turn, need to prepare our reserves so that the Ukrainians cannot even launch an offensive.
▪️The winter offensive campaign no longer took place, because the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated near Soledar and suffered heavy losses near Artyomovsk. Stocks preparing for the winter were used up.
▪️Those columns of tanks that show are not related to deliveries. The Americans will send 31 Abrams. It must be understood that these are tanks produced in the early 90s from storage. They still need to be put on alert. The Americans will provide the tanks with minimal plating and armor. It is obvious that sooner or later the technology will still be in our hands. It is important for the United States to convince Kyiv to go on the offensive. There are still about 3.5 thousand tanks in storage, they can be delivered for a long time. However, in terms of level, they are like our T-72 and T-80.
▪️“Leopards” will be delivered faster, many tanks will come from Poland, Germany and Spain. Poland announced the delivery of 60 tanks. The position of the Western countries is disastrous. They don’t have enough technology anymore.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/30983

Posted by: Down South | Jan 27 2023 13:05 utc | 377

@jgalt 380
Today I was reminded that in 2021 Anatoly Karlin predicted that Russia would soon be blamed by NATOstani “history” for the Holocaust.
The process is well begun.

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayast | Jan 27 2023 13:08 utc | 379

What we warned about is happening, but the Office of the President.
– growing contradiction between staff officers and soldiers
– a drop in morale due to stupid mobilization, where they drag everyone by force.
This threatens that under pressure from the enemy of the Defense, the ranks will crumble creating holes, as happened in Soledar, when part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine left, and part did not even know about it and fell into a partial environment.

https://t.me/legitimniy/14656

Posted by: Down South | Jan 27 2023 13:12 utc | 381

Chris | Jan 27 2023 12:58 utc | 381
It’s going to difficult to send them back to Ukraine without rounding them up en masse.
Sadly it is not difficult at all; here is how they did in 1941
https://www.google.com/search?q=rafle&client=opera&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&vet=1&fir=MYkuiLIa4CFMOM%252CkN4rxF70BbThWM%252C_%253BxYt0QNuqwiupSM%252CG72WOQcFNDu_uM%252C_%253BWUNKrJukhIANyM%252CzEYIZkSJtGE1yM%252C_%253BPhfX5CKNXqiU1M%252CttGl2f9PX0-yCM%252C_%253Bzy8L5he_UUODNM%252CsLI_99wBD1ZdEM%252C_&usg=AI4_-kQf2zjxvtUpiN0GCjG–LzTysp5Rw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjNpNjo6ef8AhXWTKQEHdyvAQMQ_h16BAhNEAE#imgrc=PhfX5CKNXqiU1M

Posted by: Lapin | Jan 27 2023 13:17 utc | 383

That will look real good on the night news. Fun to watch the spin, “but we are helping Ukraine”.
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jan 27 2023 12:55 utc | 378
Like that or complete silence. They don’t report anything from Donbass, why would they start with something bad at home? Tell them they will be moved to a different location so you don’t have to force them into the trucks, disable phone numbers, block wifi along the route and back to Zely before midnight.
I see more videos from the hunt for meat in Kiev. It seems they don’t have many options left, they’re taking from the biggest nazi supporters, the party people of Kiev. And they’ve closed the subway station during the latest air raid alarms, so when people arrived they had the surprise of becoming instant soldiers. Or that video a few days ago with a fake ambulance collecting men on the streets. Very creative people

Posted by: rk | Jan 27 2023 13:31 utc | 385

Re. Yogi | Jan 27 2023 13:07 utc @ 383
I think it really comes down to if you can see them they can see you so I wouldn’t advise creeping around a tank crew’s supporting troops with a potato. I know you are thinking of inexpensive solutions but where is the profit in that? However, here is another idea promoted by the MIC, touted as air defense, probably because they can make some more money off it. Here is an extract: “During his brief time as Prime Minister of Israel, Naftali Bennett last year claimed that the nation’s Iron Beam laser interception system successfully shot down a missile, at a cost of $3.50 per shot. That’s significantly less expensive than the PAC-3 missiles used in the Patriot air defense system, which cost $4 million a piece.”
Linky: Buck Rogers Lives

Posted by: Quid Me Vexare | Jan 27 2023 13:38 utc | 387

@ LightYearsFromHome | Jan 27 2023 13:31 utc | 391
Very astute. Quite true when one looks back re events & commemorations over time.

Posted by: Outraged | Jan 27 2023 13:45 utc | 389

Without that, as Wittgenstein proved, “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
Posted by: Hermit | Jan 27 2023 8:48 utc | 326

Hardly a “proof”, more of an admonishment, Buddha would have approved. And an admission of the limitations of language and logic, explored more deeply by Godel, Korzybski, etc.

Posted by: Opport Knocks | Jan 27 2023 14:03 utc | 391

@ # 392:
The named potato was only an example in the general sense of »little cause, but considerable effect«, nothing more. Therefore creeping around a tank with even potatoes, as you say, never was meant as a remedy against them. Anyway – the big profit of »inexpensive solutions« should be clear: Avoiding total destruction of those invincible tanks would mean a much easier life for the merchants of scrap metal, but, in the first place and even more, preventing further environmental destruction by additionally feeding up the soil with again thousands of gallons of mineral oil and hydraulic liquids. Further on here: If those claims of Mr. Bennet were true – provided those Iron Beam Laser really existed – whouldn’t such a thing also be suitable for some »reworking« of the guns’ barrels of those invincable tanks in the field?

Posted by: Yogi | Jan 27 2023 14:13 utc | 393

Apparently the Aachen carnivalists are still thinking, this war can be ridiculed by bestowing Baerbock with a special order, the so-called “Orden wider den tierischen Ernst “Medal for Combating Deadly Seriousness” awarded during Carnival” by the Aachen carnivalists on February 6th.
Annalena Baerbock is being honored because she “stands steadfastly and humorously on the diplomatic stage,” according to the AKV’s statement. Baerbock is being honored as “a modern knight who stands for a foreign policy at eye level, in the service of peace, security, climate protection, democracy and human rights.” “Especially in these difficult times, which frighten many people, she convinces with humor and humanity in office, two important tools in the fight for hope and peace.”
This spooky event will be attended by many clown members of the political elite and prominent people of the upper class. TV promis. On ARD TV
For me this is the first openly awarded war medal –
https://www.prisma.de/tv-programm/Wider-den-tierischen-Ernst-2023,42987380
I declare this a shameful sign of drunkeness and warlust of a people that has lost every sense of reality.

Posted by: OldCH | Jan 27 2023 14:18 utc | 395

I can just see the reaction of the Russian people after the release of the first picture of a leopard marked with a balkan kreuz fighting in ukraine.
I think there will be a response for the ages.

Posted by: T.D. | Jan 27 2023 14:35 utc | 397

… They’ve been slowly but systematically excluding Russia from WW2 memorials in the west for 20ys now. At first it seemsed like petty rancor and part of the various scattered sanctions, but in hindsight you see it was all very systematic and planned going back to around 1997. It’s been a slow but incessant post cold war demonizing of Russia that reached the crescendo last year. A good part of the timing involved having had to wait for the last of the WW2 generation in the USA, France, and UK to die off.
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jan 27 2023 13:31 utc | 391
Revisionist history is as old as history. We may even say that even the first history was a revisionist view of what really happened. It seems the target of such revisionism has always been someone on the wrong side of the collective West. Take the case of Serbia and its role in the WWI. My good friend told me that 100th anniversary of WWI exhibitions in Paris in 2014 practically did not mention Serbia. The exhibition on Champs Elysees had one photograph of a Serbian soldier from 1918. No mention at all of Serbia at the exhibition at Palais de Luxembourg. This is the country where the WWI started, whose army repeatedly defeated the invaders from Austria in 1914, which were the first allied victories in the long war. Not to mention the shameful (according to Le Figaro) treatment of the President of Serbia during the 2018 commemoration of the end of WWI also in Paris, when he was allocated a place on the opposite platform, among lower-level ministers, diplomats and other officials, while the presidents of countries which were defeated in the war sat around President Macron on the main platform.

Posted by: Pagan | Jan 27 2023 14:39 utc | 399