@ pretzelattack post 92
you’re very welcome. Macgregor has credibility and too intelligent to throw his hat in the contest for president.
@ YLTH post 62
Get this. RT has a video up
Russia trains strategic missile forces (VIDEO)
A rocket division in Siberia is practicing the deployment of nuclear-tipped Yars missiles, the Defense Ministry has reported

Russia is testing the combat readiness of its strategic missile forces with a training exercise involving around 3,000 troops and road-mobile Yars intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), the Defense Ministry announced on Wednesday.
The maneuvers are being conducted by the Novosibirsk Rocket Division, a unit headquartered in the Western Siberian city of the same name. The force belongs to one of Russia’s three army-level units of its ground-based strategic deterrence branch.[.]
RTLINK

and this guy Turner is not always 100 % with the true goods but he posted without citing sources RF and US have gone silent with each other.

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told Russian news agencies that Moscow has halted all information exchanges with Washington envisioned by the last remaining nuclear arms pact with the U.S. after suspending its participation in it last month.
Along with the data about the current state of the countries’ nuclear forces routinely released every six months in compliance with the treaty, the parties also have exchanged advance warnings about test launches. Such notices have been an essential element of strategic stability for decades, allowing Russia and the United States to correctly interpret each other’s moves and make sure that neither country mistakes a test launch for a missile attack.
If Russia terminates missile test warnings, it would mark yet another attempt by the Kremlin to discourage the West from ramping up its support for Ukraine by pointing to Russia’s massive nuclear arsenal. In recent days, President Vladimir Putin announced the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons to the territory of Moscow’s ally Belarus.[.]-30-
Turner opines:
“For literally years, both the US and Russia have notified each other about all aspects of their nuclear aresenals; movement of warheads/missiles, test launches and track of test launches, etc. That has now stopped.[.]
This situation between the US/NATO/Ukraine and Russia, is growing more dangerous by the hour.”
source:
halturnerradioshow.com

The takeaway:- preparing for any eventuality, we will not be given a pre-alert.

Posted by: Likklemore | Mar 29 2023 22:52 utc | 104

@sarmat | Mar 29 2023 15:34 utc | 24
The Western oligarchs want a war of depopulation, started by Russia (or China) and ended by the West, which they expect to survive in their luxury bunkers, allowing their clique to inherit the earth. Russia (and China) know they are delusional. Any widespread nuclear exchange will result in human extinction. See my Wars of Depopulation.

Posted by: Hermit | Mar 29 2023 23:01 utc | 106

Posted by: Sarlat La Canède | Mar 29 2023 21:05 utc | 88
“Biscotte they’re not as stupid as you, you, you have now given your views, poss name & address to the people who really, really would like to know who their enemies are ?
Mmm, kay?”
Oh dear… so I ‘poss’ have. But then you don’t know anything about me do you? And this is the “Internet Age” isn’t it where everybody talks and nobody listens.
At my age – old enough to have provided succour to the UK miners in their 1980s existential strike – I am obviously stupid as you knowledgeably state…
As before, I’m prepared for my enemies to know where I stand. Mmm, Kay?
QK

Posted by: Qolotlh Kernow | Mar 29 2023 23:07 utc | 108

bevin @ 105

Does anyone recognise this name?….U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo Rahm Emmanuel tweeted.

So, that’s where that carpetbagger wound up, now he’s become a riverboat gambler fleecing Japanese rubes.
Japan is being turned into the Poland of Asia, needs another 1-2 years for the rabies virus to penetrate to the brain and they start foaming at the mouth and snarling at everything. DPRK has China and Russia’s back there, one false move and you get nuked, just like Belarus covers Poland. If it ever comes to nukes it’ll begin and end there – Poland and Japan, immediately after there will be a parlay, a wind down and some form of truce all around. But, much too late for sorry ass Poland and Japan.
How do you say, “Duck, you sucker!” in Polish and Japanese?

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Mar 29 2023 23:30 utc | 110

Mariupol was surrounded and it still took almost a month to capture it. We see similar with Bakhmut, urban fighting is slow.
Posted by: alek_a | Mar 29 2023 21:55 utc | 94
That may be by design. There is a new YouTube video by Austrian Oberst Reissner. Unfortunately, for now, quite long (55min) and in German language only. Reissner has posted the, imho,by far best analyses so far, after Lyssychansk, and after the New Year. In his current analysis, heclooks at the learnings so far and concludes that for Russia, the strategy of leaving cauldrons open to suckee in enemy groups and slaughter them from fortified positions works way better than advancing and attacking them in open fields.
Bakmuth specifically is credited with successfully destroying Ukraine’s Spring offensive by forcing Ukraine to pull it’s elite units away from the Zaporitscha front to attack the Russian ounces in Bakmuth and keeping the supply line open.
Well, either that or accepting that Putin may have told the truth when he said he’d rather wait a few weeks until Ukraine surrenders ( in Mariupol ) then watch his soldiers die when they force victory by storming well defended positions.

Posted by: Marvin | Mar 29 2023 23:43 utc | 112

But the ideological testosterone which had accumulated over so many decades had to go somewhere. Partly, it went into the first Gulf War in 1990-91, but that was unsatisfactory too: a quick victory against a feeble opponent.
….residual aggressiveness…
….above all a desire to inflict on the new Russia a defeat which history had denied them with the fall of Soviet Union.
https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/the-threat-of-back-to-normal
All political questions in Washington are settled by defeats for some and victories for others, and the weak are trodden into the ground.
…It was not that there was a master-plan to destroy Russia: rather, what the Russians though and wanted was irrelevant, and could safely be ignored, because they didn’t have the force to back it up. And only force mattered.
…the beginning of globalisation. The advent of international satellite television…
…in the kinds of hotels frequented by journalists, media pundits, intellectuals and Thomas Friedman, you would find the same print media you were used to back home, as well as English-language newspapers like the Japan Times masquerading as local products. It was possible to believe that the whole world was coming to resemble the West, or even the United States, provided you stayed in English-speaking hotels, ate at restaurants with English menus and confined your meetings to those who spoke English. “They’re just like us, really” I was told by any number of confident, if ignorant, western businessmen or NGO workers, who might as well have stayed at home for all the experience of a foreign country they actually had. Moreover, since such publications and TV channels only gave the US or western perspective on any issue, it was possible to believe that in the great crises of the day the US was playing a far more important role than it actually was.

Posted by: Arioch | Mar 29 2023 23:51 utc | 114

Chiselling away at the hegemon — ditching US dollar and eventually,it becomes difficult to fund those 800 bases and forever wars:
Let this sink in de-dollarization accelerates.
China, Brazil Strike Deal To Ditch Dollar for Trade
https://www.barrons.com/amp/news/china-brazil-strike-deal-to-ditch-dollar-for-trade-8ed4e799

China and Brazil have reached a deal to trade in their own currencies, ditching the US dollar as an intermediary, the Brazilian government said Wednesday, Beijing’s latest salvo against the almighty greenback.
The deal will enable China, the top rival to US economic hegemony, and Brazil, the biggest economy in Latin America, to conduct their massive trade and financial transactions directly, exchanging yuan for reals and vice versa instead of going through the dollar.[.]

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are BRICS founding members with 20 countries seeking memberships; including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran, Mexico, Turkey, UAE, Argentina, Morocco.

Posted by: Likklemore | Mar 30 2023 0:20 utc | 116

Ian2@87
Where in the Pacific? China is not going to engage in military actions re Taiwan, which is an apple slowly ripening which will fall into Beijing’s lap soon enough.
Where else? A CIA/Turkish guerrilla war in Zinkiang? Or Tobet? Hardly likely.
I see no prospect of any US initiatives, except of the propaganda/provocation type in the Pacific. Surely you fon’t believe that South Korea is going to invade the North, again?
The truth is that the US is at a tremendous disadvantage in the Far East, and most of Asia and having Australia on their side won’t do them much good.
That’s why they have chosen the European venue it is the only one remotely favourable to them. As to North Korea using its forces in Europe why should it not? NATO threw in its weight behind the US Sygnhman Rhee and fascism- they almost reduced the country to ashes. North Korea owes them…
Posted by: bevin | Mar 29 2023 21:56 utc | 95

The US European adventure is failing and if they cannot convince the Poles to be the next fools then they’ll need another conflict elsewhere to satisfy their sadistic needs. The US have never shied away from causing chaos on China’s doorstep. It’s anybody guess on where it’ll happen.
You’re right that South Korea won’t make the first move. I expect them to goad the North Koreans to provide the casus belli for the US. Although there’s nothing to stop North Korea to send troops to help Russia, sending fifty thousand (50,000) troops to the European front is simply not realistic for them. Pure Hollywood.
IMHO, Taiwan should not be ignored. Both the US and Japan will make many attempts to get things going; whether they succeed is another matter.

Posted by: Ian2 | Mar 30 2023 0:38 utc | 118

There are informative reports, analysis and maps on Ukraine & Syria at SOUTHFRONT.ORG – I am curious why it is not mentioned more often at this site.

Posted by: Rick Sterling | Mar 30 2023 0:59 utc | 120

Didn’t save links as I trawled around this morning.
The US reported it conducted a hypersonics test in the Pacific in early March arch … which failed.
And somewhere else reported US announced it won’t continue hypersonics program with Lockheed…
Elsewhere, Russia just completed a weapons test in the Pacific… successfully.
And Lloyd Austin told Congress the U$ is the best most powerful yaddda yaddda yaddda and Congress was well pleased.
If I have time to retrace my clicks and find links… I’ll post. But it’s kinda white noise really…

Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 30 2023 1:05 utc | 122

@ Jo Dominich @ 27
This is purportedly (in Russian) a price list circulated in Ukraine which offers to melt down gold Orthodox crosses and render them into Christian ones.
https://peremogi.livejournal.com/65711877.html
Could be a provocation, I suppose; the Russians understand the value of carefully-introduced propaganda as well as anyone. But I tend to think it is genuine, because Russia at the beginning of the conflict had little motivation to hate Ukrainians, and opened the SMO cautiously with leafletting and broadcasts urging Ukrainian forces to surrender and they would not be harmed. I cannot find a single instance in which a Ukrainian who surrendered during that time was injured or killed as a result of having surrendered. There is still nothing in it for Russia to whip up hatred against Ukrainians.
Poroshenko began an introduced schism in the church in his attempts to push the Russian Orthodox religion out and usher in a new Ukrainian form.

Posted by: Mark | Mar 30 2023 1:16 utc | 124

re Sarlat La Canède | Mar 29 2023 23:19 utc | 109 who foolishly claimed “When the wise point to the Moon, the fool looks at the finger.” as a defense for his idiotic thinking that signing an englander government petition is not as ‘safe’ as publishing nonsense such as his anonymously.
I have been using a nym here for more than twenty years but at no stage did I ever imagine that every posting here would/could be anonymous to that blob who comprise the assorted security intelligence forces on this old rock of ours.
Every posting to every blog everywhere on the net is recorded and all details held for further investigation if required. If this particular blog does cause immediate concern then I believe that all new nyms such as yours which appear are checked immediately – but maybe you already know that as a low level derp on the inside – who knows whatever you are trying to school posters who have a far more intimate and in many instances a more direct personal knowledge, that of having experienced the invasive actions of the blob than the tosh you offer.
The sole reason we use nyms is a protection of us and our families from nutters, employers and low level law enforcement.
If you believe that posting opposition to DU shells here is less likely to cause issues than signing a petition to that effect, then it is most certainly you who is looking at the finger rather than the moon.
None of this should be a concern to posters most of whom understand that our numbers across this and a kazillion other sites is what protects us.

Posted by: Debsisdead | Mar 30 2023 1:30 utc | 126

The phrase “Post War” this and that required no elaboration in world history discussions–whether you understood it as the Great Patriotic War or World War II–it was what it was. Who knows how long this current marker will endure?
The numbering system version pales inadequately before what I’ve discovered among the details of the ‘advances’ in military powers, even excluding the nuclear curtain call. Even minus the nuclear, what portends is WW5–skipping a few numbers for the incredible evolution in the general science of bellicose lethality. I have been staggered by big war’s unremitting elaboration since ye olde WW2.
Making one practical prediction from the war lessons I have learned: strategic nuclear weapons aren’t at all a high hurdle to jump. A short walk from where we are today, and well and long prepared for by all sides.

Posted by: Elmagnostic | Mar 30 2023 1:51 utc | 128

Bevin @ 105, Melaleuca @ 119:
Better that Japan has Obama flunkey Rahm Emmanuel as US ambassador and not us down here. We have Caroline Kennedy as US ambassador.
Oh, wait … Kennedy had previously been US ambassador to Japan. Will that mean that when she migrates to the next unlucky country as ambassador, we AUKUS suckers get Rahm Emmanuel?
Kennedy’s record as US ambassador to Japan, and part of her nomination for the ambassadorial post in Australia:

Caroline Kennedy served as U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 2013-2017. She played a critical role in the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II culminating in the historic visits of President Obama to Hiroshima and Prime Minister Abe to Pearl Harbor. She advanced the realignment of U.S. Forces in Okinawa, promoted women’s empowerment in Japan, and increased student exchange between the U.S and Japan. In 2017, she founded the International Poetry Exchange Project to virtually connect students in Japan, Korea, the Philippines, and the Bronx through the power of the spoken word. In November 2021, she was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun, the highest honor for which foreigners are eligible, for her efforts to strengthen the US-Japan alliance.
Prior to her time in Japan, Kennedy was at the forefront of education reform efforts in New York City, creating public private partnerships to promote arts education, school libraries, and performing arts spaces. She served as the CEO of the Office of Strategic Partnerships at the NYC Department of Education from 2002-2004, Vice Chair of the Fund for Public Schools from 2002-2010, and served on the Board of New Visions for Public Schools.
An attorney and author, Kennedy has published 11 New York Times best-selling books on law, civics, and poetry and serves as the Honorary President of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. She is a Director of the Carnegie Corporation and a member of the Board of Advisors of the International Rescue Committee.

Seems like the very model of a regime-change activist: advancing military ties between the US and the host nation, parading as champion of women’s rights or other minority group rights, selecting so-called future leaders for scholarships to US educational institutions.

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Mar 30 2023 1:59 utc | 130

Refinnejenna | Mar 30 2023 1:59 utc | 130
Thanks Jen for the bio. Concur with your assessment.
Puts a little more context to the “Quad” alliance which is now almost forgotten given India is being so “recalcitrant”, to borrow a Paul Keating epithet from decades past … (@bar Keating called the then Malaysian president “recalcitrant” for reasons that I can’t remember and can’t be bothered refreshing my memory)
If Keating continues to be outspoken against AUKUS, and the slow growing cluster of similarly AUKUS-cautious crowd coalesces around him…..
We here may indeed find we are in need of some Rahm Emmanuel ambassadorial “attention”.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 30 2023 2:18 utc | 132

“.. Malaysian president”
You mean Prime Minister. Malaysia like Australia is a monarchy, though it elects its own.
Sorry to be pedantic but..

Posted by: bevin | Mar 30 2023 2:23 utc | 134

Posted by: Debsisdead | Mar 30 2023 1:30 utc | 126
don’t protest in the streets. they might find you! they might even take pictures. and use facial recognition software. and etc.
there was a scene on twitter of the french firemen fighting off the police. did my heart good. but maybe those men should have given more thought to “getting caught”?
somebody is simply a coward, masquerading as sophisticated.

Posted by: rjb1.5 | Mar 30 2023 2:28 utc | 136

“….They are probably planning on killing most of us through some engineered virus too, they were behind covid too, after all. There’s proof of that too, but for some reason I can’t post the link on this site, the message won’t go through.” just somebody@100
We have much to be thankful for.

Posted by: bevin | Mar 30 2023 2:34 utc | 138

@ bevin | Mar 30 2023 2:34 utc | 138

We have much to be thankful for.

Spoke to soon. 🙁

Posted by: Outraged | Mar 30 2023 2:55 utc | 140

@4 I think he means the US will abandon him and his regime if they lose bahkmut after wasting so much on it. Worse he didn’t follow instructions very well. I think Zelensky is burning out, and he’s going to be the Pow murdering, nuke plant bombing world War 3 maniac scapegoat when the us concedes donbass but activates Poland to invade from the west and fight russia.
Prigzorhin is sandbagging. Positions there are being replaced with regular army. I don’t doubt he’ll move in another direction and keep going. He’s a dynamic guy with ambition and power.

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Mar 30 2023 4:07 utc | 142

” there was a scene on twitter of the french firemen fighting off the police. did my heart good. but maybe those men should have given more thought to “getting caught”?
somebody is simply a coward, masquerading as sophisticated.
Posted by: rjb1.5 | Mar 30 2023 2:28 utc | 136 ”
Actually, those firemen should have given more thought to bringing melee weapons with them.

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | Mar 30 2023 4:17 utc | 144