Excerpts from Thierry M’s latest which is about expanding war, specifically Japan, along with his typical amount of historical background.

Last week, during the Schuman Forum, Josep Borrell presented his first report on the implementation of the “Strategic Compass”. The idea is to coordinate the pooling of national armies, including intelligence services, in a spirit of integration rather than cooperation. Emmanuel Macron’s project now buries that of Charles De Gaulle and the French Communists. The “Europe of Defence” now appears to be a slogan aimed at placing not only the operational forces of the EU member states under the authority of the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), now the US General Christopher G. Cavoli, but also at taking control of all the financing decisions that were previously the responsibility of the national parliaments, and even of the decisions on armaments and organization that were the responsibility of the member states’ executive bodies. Thus, the Union is organizing a common army without knowing who will command it….
[Picture Yoshio Kodama:] Yoshio Kodama, the first godfather of the yakuza, played an important role in Japanese militarism. After World War II, he was imprisoned and then benefited from the change of policy in the United States. He founded the Liberal Party from which Shinzo Abe and Fumio Kishida emerged. Kodama directed, under the radar, many CIA operations in his country. He was a member of the World Anti-Communist League when Slava Stetsko (the drafter of Article 16 of the Ukrainian constitution) was president…..
[Picture Ukraine Japan Alliance:] On March 21, 2023, Fumio Kishida and Volodymyr Zelensky form an alliance against Russia and China. Both extend the ties established by Yoshio Kodama and Slava Stetsko.
In their final communiqué, Fumio Kishida and Volodymyr Zelensky emphasize “the inseparability of Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific security” and “the importance of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait. For them, it is not only a matter of defending Ukraine from Russia, but also Japan from China. This communiqué lays the foundation for a new alliance between the successors of the Nazis that are the Ukrainian “integral nationalists” [2] and the successors of Shōwa nationalism. Today’s Ukraine is the only state in the world with an explicitly racist constitution. Adopted in 1996 and revised in 2020, it states in Article 16 that “Preserving the genetic heritage of the Ukrainian people is the responsibility of the state.” The widow of the Ukrainian Nazi Prime Minister, Yaroslav Stetsko, wrote this article. …
This remilitarization of Japan is supported by Washington, which has already switched sides by supporting Ukraine. U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo Rahm Emmanuel [!!!] tweeted, “Prime Minister Kishida is making a historic visit to Ukraine to protect the Ukrainian people and promote the universal values enshrined in the UN Charter…About 900 kilometers away, a different and more nefarious partnership is taking shape in Moscow,” (referring to the Putin-Xi summit).
For his part, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Wang Weibin, said on the contrary, regarding the Prime Minister’s trip that he “hopes that Japan will press for an appeasement of the situation, not the other way around. For its part, Russia sent two strategic bombers over the Sea of Japan for about seven hours.

The preparation of a new World War
Finally, to Bevin @59 viz George Bush being responsible for everything bad that has since been transpiring.
a) you must be joking, dude!!
b) that said, clearly he has a fascination with the 4 Horsemen…
George Bush the Great Painter masterfully portrays the Future he birthed and the Gods he worships
c) seriously, do you think such an artist has the smarts to do anything much more than ensure his cahones don’t get tangled up in his macho flight outfit jock strap thingy?
The Willing Suspension of Toxic Masculinity
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Let’s hope it’s all just harmless neocon kayfabing, eh?

Posted by: Scorpion | Mar 30 2023 22:29 utc | 104

FWIW, Trump believes that Russia will take all of Ukraine. Always thought that he was not half a jackass, but compared to what we have now, wishing for the old days. I measure our current mal-administration in dog years. Because the last couple of years seems like decades. Blinken, Kirby, Milley and the rest are delusional if they think they can survive against China, Russia and most of the rest of the world. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. No one can stop the turn of the tide. Cheers!

Posted by: Immaculate deception | Mar 30 2023 22:41 utc | 106

@alek_a
This is why the West is still going strong despite all things going south.
The West is good at winning the press conference. However, in the field of play, the laws of physics win. Entropy is one of my favorite “players.”

Posted by: Chris | Mar 30 2023 22:57 utc | 108

John Kennard @104–
Dollar Hegemony’s been an “extortion racket” since its inception prior to WW1 when it was officially introduced. IMO, that’s the underlying truth to the Rothschild and Jewish Bankers tales. As Hudson’s detailed, the story/extortion racket is actually very old, but in “modern” times it began with the creation of the Bank of England by William of Orange as detailed in John Brewer’s Sinews of Power specifically for the financing of war. It seems rather obvious that without banks govermments would have a very hard time raising the money required to fight wars as they’d need to heavily tax everyone, including the nobility; so, the nobility created banks so they wouldn’t get taxed. Rome of course had no banks but did have a treasury which minted its own currency, which was debased to the point of worthlessness by waging wars. And essentially that’s what’s happening to the US Dollar , although it’s been able to avoid the ill effects of debasement so far but the bill is coming due.
I wasn’t the first to do so but 30+ years ago I wrote the way out was to retreat from Empire and save the $1+ Trillion/year spent on its upkeep. Changes wrought since then mean that more needs to be done but that first step is still the most important. What the public must recognize is the Manichean Evil being promoted doesn’t exist in China or Russia; rather, it exists in wanting to make war on those two nations, just as expanding NATO to the East was/is evil for the same reason and why Russia naturally opposed it.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 30 2023 23:15 utc | 110

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 30 2023 23:15 utc | 109
Wonderful comment. Thank you so much.

Posted by: Mexicana | Mar 30 2023 23:32 utc | 112

Posted by: Ghi | Mar 30 2023 18:59 utc | 56
Well, I laughed heartily …

Posted by: CM of Berlin | Mar 30 2023 23:48 utc | 114

@ karlof1 | Mar 30 2023 23:15 utc | 109
We agree on empire, that racket of rackets.
I draw the historical line at the US Constitutional Convention, which abolished aristocracy and theocracy but retained the premier instruments of British and American plutocracy, our pay-for-play political and legal systems:
Guess who those have never favored?
As for the historical diggers, might one point out that Sumer-Akkad practiced loans at interest with collateral, debt-slavery, and mercantile warfare?

Posted by: John Kennard | Mar 30 2023 23:52 utc | 116

All – thanks so much for your responses to my Bakhmut question.

Posted by: TreborSays | Mar 31 2023 0:13 utc | 118

Eighthman | Mar 30 2023 23:10 utc | 108
>…”permanently demilitarizing Ukraine by killing off enough Ukr. males such that they never recover.
The demographics posted here yesterday? Day before? … claimed the number of Ukrainian (fertile) females had reduced from 200k to 50k.
I’m presuming they fled 90-10 west and east.
That’s the end of Ukraine. Those females are never returning.
It’s China’s “one child policy” supercharged. The Chinese aborted 30million female foetuses, their demographic spread is now showing the impact.
In post a apocalyptic Ukraine, the number of 50k fertile females could reduce further…
Immigration will flow to the rebuilt and revitalised regions like Mariupol… which of course, are no longer Ukraine, and unlikely to ever be so again.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 31 2023 0:23 utc | 120

De-Militarization & De-Nazification
Were actually 2 of the original 4 “D”s stated at the Potsdam Conference as goals to pacify post War Germany.
So, I assume, Putin did also use them two terms on a symbolic level as a historic reference.
Since he will know that De-nazification is a really big word and its not as two-dimensional a problem as De-Militarization. Besides these “identity issues” go beyond and are parallel to the Nazi-stuff. Unless you not just intend to disarm the hardcore crazies, this will be a longshot and only by peaceful means. In fact the multi-ethnic tradition of Soviet/Russia might still offer some of the best reference for solutions.
Nicolai Petro said an interesting thing: He believes, the problem might resolve itself by generational shift, as the young generation seldomly is concerned with the problems of their parents.
What matters most is their reality in the moment and prospects. They don´t care so much about the past.
So you have to create sound and humane structures for the present times and for the coming decades.
Whereas De-Militarization in fact is a pressing issue for here and now.

Posted by: AG | Mar 31 2023 0:32 utc | 122

P. Walker wrote:

“One cannot blame Russophobia for Trump’s ending of the JCPOA. That act did incredible damage because it publicly cemented the idea for everyone to see that a Presidential treaty signature isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.”

Considering the circumstances revealing the truth did the world a favor. It is more damaging if anyone in the world still has any illusions that the US can be trusted.
I’m far from sure but maybe things would be different if everyone understood it.
Currently in Europe such an understanding seems limited to a few people among the old left and the new right.

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Mar 31 2023 0:43 utc | 124

Eighthman | Mar 30 2023 23:10 utc | 108
Melaleuca | Mar 31 2023 0:23 utc | 119
The West also may not want Ukraine repopulated (at least not with Slavs). It is not far fetched that the West would be satisfied using West Ukraine or the rump or whatever you want to call it, for resettling migrants from Africa and the Middle East. Perhaps, part of Ukraine’s remains could even be a colony of Greater Israel.
Actually, I don’t think the West cares anything about Ukrainians or Slavs except to keep them in a box; so they don’t cause them any trouble.

Posted by: Jerr008 | Mar 31 2023 0:53 utc | 126

why wars is an excellent question seldom asked.
Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 31 2023 0:51 utc | 124
Because they are the best way to
a) create a name which lives forever echoing in Eternity. Kings, after all, feel close to (being) Gods.
b)if you don’t give the Barons an opportunity for plundering of Others they will plunder each other or plunder you and your Crown!
c) before the invention of movies, record players and TV, war was infinitely more entertaining than watching cheese and wine being made.
Clever Chinese. They took shamanic divination and worked out a profoundly deep system which a bored aristocrat can literally spend a lifetime trying to plumb and never will. Even Confucius couldn’t do it and wished he had another couple of lifetimes to do so. Puzzles, within puzzles, within puzzles.
I appreciate your remarks about America above. Because of your continuous use of the term Outlaw US Empire I’ve developed the perception that you hate everything about the country including the people since presumably you blame them for all the many crimes you often reference. Remember I never read what you wrote 30 years go, only what you have written of late. One can argue (or not bother ) about exactly who ‘they’ are, but fer sure there is a ‘they’ there, and fer goddam sure they don’t have the interests of We the People in mind. At all.
This happens in all countries to a certain degree of course, but sometimes it’s worse than others and these are very bad times that way I trow. Practically speaking, the US is a captured polity as far as I can tell so whatever Empire ‘they’ have going, I don’t think it’s really the ‘US’ any more but something piggy-backing on what used to be the US.
And those remarks about Pennsylvania deserve more contemporary coverage. Looks like a lot of unfortunate stuff went down from the get-go, most of which is rarely discussed let alone understood, so if ever there IS substantive reform/revolution, the entire nations should go back to the drawing board. But the country doesn’t have the ability to agree about whether or not men should compete in girl’s sports and undress in their locker rooms let alone determine a good constitution.
It’s going to get much, much worse before it gets better. I hope Russia-China have a way of blocking any sort of nuclear confrontation. That way they can let the US-West lie fallow for a few generations doing some long overdue house keeping. But I doubt it will go that smoothly.

Posted by: Scorpion | Mar 31 2023 1:09 utc | 128

Jerr008 | Mar 31 2023 0:53 utc | 125
It’s widely known that parts of Ukraine are wanted as a New Israel or Greater Israel.
But it’s not western Ukraine that’s wanted.
It’s the very rich, once eastern Ukraine… now Russia … the Donbas…
And Crimea. Especially Crimea.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 31 2023 1:17 utc | 130

usa closes its hypersonic missile program as it failed. its now proceeding with the hyperinflation program and will be far more successful with that.

Posted by: hankster | Mar 31 2023 1:29 utc | 132

Scorpion @127–
Failure to observe how I conduct relations with my fellow citizens makes your accusation that I “hate everything about the country including the people” utterly absurd and as false as a wooden nickel. It also impinges on your ability to be seen as a fair and credible judge.
As for my question, Why War? I left the context ill-defined, and my point was completely missed.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 31 2023 2:04 utc | 134

Scorpion @127–
Failure to observe how I conduct relations with my fellow citizens makes your accusation that I “hate everything about the country including the people” utterly absurd and as false as a wooden nickel. It also impinges on your ability to be seen as a fair and credible judge.
Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 31 2023 2:04 utc | 133
I’m sorry you feel that way. I was just offering honest feedback. You use the term many times a day but I don’t recall your ever once defining or explaining it though perhaps you did so elsewhere or years ago. The term ‘Outlaw US Empire’ sounds like an indictment of the whole country. That’s why I was pleased to see something different from that expressed. And I certainly didn’t direct any sort of personal insult, was just discussing terminology.
I don’t pretend to be an impartial judge of anything. I form opinions as best as I can, nothing more. And for sure have biases.
Chill!

Posted by: Scorpion | Mar 31 2023 2:19 utc | 136

Outraged @106
Cheers Outraged, praise from Caesar!
Terrorizing civilians seems to be the preferred use for Ukraine’s Tochka U’s (Kramatorsk railway station, Donetsk City etc). I assume the Grom-2 has superior accuracy, but this may just mean they use them for more targeted atrocities a la Rogozin’s birthday dinner.
Putin explicitly mentioned Yuzhmash as a major threat after Zelensky’s ‘NATO or Nukes’ speech in Feb 2022. If the war enters a more mobile phase by the time it gets to Dnepropetrovsk it may be possible to capture its facilities largely intact, but leaving it in the hands of the Banderites is not an option.
Just as a reminder of what Ukrainian workers could create alongside their Soviet brethren, here’s some recent photos of the warhead ‘bus’ of the SS-18 ‘Satan’. Quite an impressive piece of kit, you can only imagine what the Sarmat equivalent would look like!

Posted by: S.P. Korolev | Mar 31 2023 2:29 utc | 138

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ #Chronicle of the Special Military Operation for 30 Mar 2023⚡️
🔹 #Starobelsk (#Svatovo) Direction:
▪️ In the #Kupyansk sector of the front, the situation has not changed significantly: artillery duels and mutual reconnaissance continue along the line of contact.
▪️ In the #Liman direction, Russian troops are fighting positional battles at the #Torskoye – #Terny line, as well as in the Balka Zhuravka area.
🔹#Lugansk People’s Republic:
▪️ Ukrainian terrorist formations fired at least four rockets from HIMARS rocket launchers at #Troitskoye village. Residential buildings, a hospital and a shop have been damaged. One civilian was killed and 14 others were wounded.
🔹#Soledar (#Bakhmut) Direction (MAP):
▪️ In the north of #Bakhmut, Wagner PMC assault squads are advancing in the Selishche area. Fighting is also taking place on the outskirts of Levanevsky Street and adjacent houses to the AZOM industrial zone.
▪️ In the city centre, Russian troops, after taking control of the central market area, proceeded to storm the AFU positions near Nizhnyaya Street. Heavy fighting is taking place for control of the Bakhmut City Administration building.
▪️ In the south of #Bakhmut, the Sobachevka and Budyonovka districts are fully liberated. The “Wagnerians” started a battle with Ukrainian formations north of Shirokaya and Mariupolskaya streets, expanding the zone of control.
▪️ Near #Krasnoye, #Khromovo and Orekhovo-Vasilyevka the frontline has not undergone significant changes. Fighting continues for control of key enemy positions and for the route to #Konstantinovka.
🔹#Donetsk Direction:
▪️ North of Avdeyevka, Russian forces continue position fighting in the forest area near Novobakhmutovka.
▪️ Southwest of the town, the RF Armed Forces are shelling strongholds of Ukrainian formations on the outskirts of #Severnoye.
▪️ Ukrainian terrorist formations once again shelled the #Donetsk agglomeration. The machine-building plant in #Yasinovataya has also been hit, with three employees wounded.
🔹#SouthDonetsk Direction:
▪️ In #Maryinka, Russian units, with fire support from tanks and artillery, were able to advance in the centre of the town. After encircling from two sides, the enemy was forced to retreat from strongholds in the church and district council building.
🔹#Kherson Direction on #SouthFront:
▪️ Artillery duels continue along the entire line of contact, with Russian forces striking enemy targets around #Kherson and #Berislav.
➖ In turn, the enemy terrorists shelled the left bank of #Kherson region, including residential buildings in Novaya Kakhovka, Gornostayevka and #Alyoshki.

https://t.me/sitreports/6515

Posted by: Down South | Mar 31 2023 3:37 utc | 140

Russell Bentley at The Greanville Post, is worried about the ukrainian attack he sees coming.
“…I have said since I arrived in Donetsk in 2014, that “As goes Donbas, so goes the world.” Those of us who have stood our ground for 9 years and fought the nazis of the 21st century to a standstill on the Donbas Front have not only defended ourselves and Russia, but the future of Humanity from those who would exterminate most of the world’s population, and enslave the rest. And now, the denouement is upon us. One bright, cold day this April, the clocks will strike thirteen, and the decisive battle of this 9 year war will take place. That day may well turn out to be as portentous as October 24th, 1929 or September 1st, 1939. Or May 9th, 1945. The UAF/NATO offensive is coming. We will soon see where it lands, and whether Russia will win or lose this war.”
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2023/03/30/the-bakmut-diversion-and-the-donbas-defense-a-view-from-donetsk/
If Russia is prepared and under competent and serious military and political leadership, Russia can break the upcoming nazi offensive, the UAF will be finished, and NATO will withdraw, or at least have serious reservations about the advisability and ability to remain or invest further billions in a lost war. Russia can then advance to Kiev and take control of it, and all the territory east of that. This will achieve the stated goals of the SMO – the denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine, and the removal of all military threats to the Russian Federation and its People from Ukrainian soil. There are only two outcomes. Victory or Death.
Not just for Russia, but for Humanity itself. Who defends Donbas, defends Russia. Who defends Russia, defends the world.

Posted by: bevin | Mar 31 2023 3:43 utc | 142

A partial answer to Trebosys who asks why Russia still hasn’t taken Bakhmut. According to the Russian press today, a Ukrainian prisoner says that the Ukrainians in Bakhmut have a tunnel all the way to Chasov Yar

Posted by: James Morrell | Mar 31 2023 4:51 utc | 144

I have to drop in to say this…
Listening to The Duran livestream from today.
Mercouris pronounced the word “Abrams” CORRECTLY! FUCKING FIRST TIME AFAIK! LOL
Bye, again.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 31 2023 6:06 utc | 146

Down South | Mar 31 2023 3:43 utc | 142
re…and replace them with… F-15s…
Maybe you suggest in 10 years a scaled-down f15 would make a vicious drone platform? I speculate AI on an old, cheap, off-the-shelf, proven mule would be wild. OTOH in 10 years there might be no need.
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Posted by: chu teh | Mar 31 2023 6:51 utc | 148

cut a deal in 20 minutes.
Posted by: Boris Badenov | Mar 31 2023 0:39 utc | 122
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Just such a deal moved the American Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

Posted by: too scents | Mar 31 2023 7:01 utc | 150

@ Melaleuca | Mar 31 2023 7:03 utc | 149
“Facts on the ground”.

Posted by: too scents | Mar 31 2023 7:06 utc | 152

Previously Likklemore posted a Sputnik article where an ex-DOD official said that a fractured Ukraine “permanently polluted with mines and depleted uranium dust, with a collapsed infrastructure and half of its prior population” is a win scenario for the Pentagon. That is true, the West is pursuing a scorched earth policy in Ukraine, and as many have said, America is intent on pursuing a scorched earth policy in Europe as well.
But what is not true is the fractured Ukraine business, Ukraine can only be fractured if Russia allows it, and no-one knows what the Russians want. Definitely the Russians will be stupid to allow Ukraine to be fractured and then the non-Russian areas used against Russia yet again. Much better to fix the problem up properly now.
Then mines are not a problem, the Russians can easily clean up all the mines, it just takes time. But to quickly clean up the mines, Russia can probably just fire fragmentation cluster munitions over the areas that have been mined via shelling. If the cluster munitions are set to explode on contact with the ground immediately after being released from the holding cluster, the overwhelming majority of the mines should be destroyed because the the cluster munitions are likely to fall right next to the mines as the amount of cluster munitions released will be something like 100 times the amount of the mines in a given area. The cluster munitions could even be set to explode like 10 seconds after being dispersed, that will ensure that the cluster munitions explode and don’t cause problems later on. However Russia does not want to use its cluster munitions in Ukraine.
But the DU is a problem, Russia cannot allow DU to be dispersed on Russian lands without doing the same thing to NATO lands. Putin will be in trouble with his military if he doesn’t respond in kind. Hence the whole of Europe is going to be scorched earth as intended by the Americans.

Posted by: gT | Mar 31 2023 7:37 utc | 154

Farhan Haq is the guy in the video “debating” with the Chinese journalist. Haq is officially the deputy spokesperson for United Nations Secretary General and has held the post for more than 15 years.
Although he was born in Pakistan, he is an American citizen and has been living in the US for more than 20 years (and his English is top-notch, so no language issues).
He’s also gotten in trouble before with journalists for twisting the truth on issues like Kashmir. Very clearly a pro-US stooge from top to bottom.

Posted by: Sam (in Tiraspol) | Mar 31 2023 7:53 utc | 156

: Scorpion | Mar 30 2023 17:15 utc | 34
Russia&CHINA are not obligated to save the dumb west from their ZOG slavery
ZOG loves to be the police man, CHINA & Russia have no interest in being police man
SO China & Russia let ZOG be worlds-policeman of former UK-commonwealth colonys
Israel gets to the western terminus of silk-road worth $100’s of Billions USD annually
ZOG needs goyim to rape, organ-harvest, and bleed so as long as its not chinese or russians, OMERTA its all good;

Posted by: paracetamol | Mar 31 2023 8:39 utc | 158

The “Office of the President” stated that there would be no place for Orthodoxy in Ukraine – only schismatics. Regardless of the degree of loyalty to the authorities
Advisor to the head of the “Office of the President” Mikhail Podolyak said that there will be only one Orthodox denomination in Ukraine – the OCU.
“ We will reach the right ending. The UOC will lose all opportunities to influence the inner world of Ukraine. The UOC will gradually go to Russian cities and do something there. And in Ukraine there will be an OCU, only an OCU,” Podolyak said.
If you want all the tens of thousands of priests and several million Orthodox to “go to Russia” and “do something there”, i.e. prayed to God, since there will be no more place for Orthodoxy in Ukraine, then open the borders and give people time to move for a religious reason. Otherwise, you will be imprisoned for praying in the catacombs.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/39814

Posted by: Down South | Mar 31 2023 8:47 utc | 160

In Ukraine, they want to create an open register of draft dodgers.
If a person liable for military service was informed about the need to appear at the military registration and enlistment office, but did not come, for example, twice in a row, then the TCC will have the right to publish his personal data.
The register of “evaders” will perform the function of public pressure on men who evade coming to the military registration and enlistment office. After the citizen nevertheless fulfills his obligation, the information from the register will be withdrawn. People’s deputy Venislavsky is working on the bill.
And then the Ukrainians talk about “democracy, the right to choose and speak, confidentiality of personal data” and while the government throws noodles on its ears about protecting the rights of citizens of Ukraine, on the Internet all objectionable citizens are published and publicly humiliated.🤬

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/39831

Posted by: Down South | Mar 31 2023 8:51 utc | 162

Orban on EU troops in Ukraine: A year ago, the dispute was about whether it was possible to send lethal weapons to Ukraine: the Hungarians then and now said no. But Western countries also hesitated. Now this is not a question. Now the question is only tanks, or how many aircraft, or shells with uranium-containing elements, or troops.
We are close to the fact that in the conversations of European leaders, the question of whether EU member states can send troops of some kind of peacekeeping type [to Ukraine] in any form, or better not to send, has become legitimate and accepted. We are close to this previously uncrossable border.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/39846

Posted by: Down South | Mar 31 2023 8:55 utc | 164

“ We will reach the right ending. The UOC will lose all opportunities to influence the inner world of Ukraine. The UOC will gradually go to Russian cities and do something there. And in Ukraine there will be an OCU, only an OCU,” Podolyak saidPodolyak is openly calling for the ethnic cleansing of over 10 million people. This aligns with Blinken’s repeated statements that all ‘Russians’ must leave.

Posted by: Exile | Mar 31 2023 9:05 utc | 166

Posted by: Down South | Mar 31 2023 8:53 utc | 161
An article that conveniently forgets the Russians, with their tank trains, pioneered this psyops tactic. The real disinformation operation was secretly building up the forces for the left hand hook and using the USMC to fix units on the Kuwaiti coast. NATO are trying to replicate the Russian strategy of misdirection, but their options as to where they are going to launch the offensive are being restricted by the delays being forced upon them by Russian operations across the front. Too many posters equate military success solely with territorial gain, restricting your enemies options and controlling the clock are also signs of strategic/operational dominance.

Posted by: Milites | Mar 31 2023 9:37 utc | 168

Just reread that article, which is even more tenuous.. Bradleys had operated perfectly in Iraq in ODS, why would anyone think they would not function in 2003?

Posted by: Milites | Mar 31 2023 9:42 utc | 170

Turkish Parliament has withdrawn its objection to Finland joining NATO
Another triumph for Putin, making his empire stronger by extending the border with hostile military forces by 1300 kilometers

Posted by: Noam A. Larkey | Mar 31 2023 9:48 utc | 172

Prigozhin’s “Plan for Russia’s Victory” in the SMO in Ukraine
#10 (mobilization) appears wrong, though. It’s citizens, not rubles. – Apropos, CyberspecNews informed yesterday “…Putin signed a decree on spring conscription, according to which 147,000 people will be called up to the Russian Armed Forces from April 1 to July 15…”

Posted by: OttoE | Mar 31 2023 9:53 utc | 174

Posted by: OttoE | Mar 31 2023 9:53 utc | 172
And the Western media will turn this announcement into some argument about “massive losses of the Russian army”, no doubt about that.
Meanwhile …

The Ukrainian Air Force never fails to impress. Earlier we wrote about pilot Vadim Voroshilov, who ‘traded’ his Mig-29, worth tens of millions of dollars, for a plastic kamikaze drone Geran-2, which cost about a thousand times less. At least at that time, the Ukrainian pilot survived and even received the praise as a hero from the media.
However, the new ‘feat’ of the drone fighters was better than the previous one. At night from March 27 to 28, Major Denis Kirilyuk of the Air Force of Ukraine, flying a Su-27 fighter jet, died while trying to destroy a Geran-2 drone. The effectiveness of Ukrainian combat aviation has risen to an unattainable standard. This time, the price for the downed drone was not only a valuable fighter jet, but also the life of the pilot, who had spent many years in training.
In the light of such facts, the Zelensky government’s desire to get hold of American F-16 fighters seems inexplicable. After all, if the organization of combat operations and training of pilots in Ukraine is so bad that even on familiar types of aircraft pilots crash trying to shoot down a simple UAV nicknamed “Moped”(Scooter), then what will happen when the same pilots get completely unfamiliar Western machines?
It is interesting that Russian pilots on the very same Su-27s have managed without using weapons to successfully bring down the strategic American MQ-9 Reaper drone, which is even more expensive than the actual fighter jets. The Russian aircraft remained unharmed and the pilots were not only alive and well, but also received government awards.
In the light of such facts, it seems clear why the Western coalition is in no hurry to give Ukraine the American F-16 fighters. While U.S. National Security Council Coordinator John Kirby described as idiots the Russian heroes who successfully intercepted the drone, the English language apparently lacks words to describe the Ukrainians who destroy their own aircraft for the sake of plastic drones.

https://t.me/waronfakesen/2382

Posted by: CM of Berlin | Mar 31 2023 10:04 utc | 176

@170
This is so silly. As if NATO hadn’t been planning all along to do this. Then saying it is President Putin’s fault, it’s absolutely perverted. That’s disgusting troll behaviour. NATO wants a catch-22 for Russia, but please understand: it will be the Finns who pay the price (and no, Biden never heard of moomins and doesn’t care if all of Finland is destroyed). The ugly behaviour of NATO and its trolls, why, it makes me vomit (on you, sorry!).

Posted by: Anthony | Mar 31 2023 10:27 utc | 178

I see Israel and Azerbijan have sorted some kind of deal to act in concert against Iran.
Generally the international scene seems to be improving, as BRICS+ approaches parity with G7, but there’ll always be setbacks.

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Mar 31 2023 10:32 utc | 180

Posted by: Noam A. Larkey | Mar 31 2023 9:48 utc | 170
Posted by: Anthony | Mar 31 2023 10:27 utc | 176
The Nato “membership” has pretty much nothing to do with US-Russian proxy war in Ukraine. It’s just an excuse. Finland was already a member in 2014, through their backdoor agreement of hosting Nato troops and supplying them free of charge. The current NAFO narrative is baseless.
Moreover, everyone should recall that the supposed poll according to which the will of the people for approval of Nato membership was conducted through approx. 1100 people, and conducted by the British “marketing” firm TNS Kantar. The purpose of polls is not to measure actual support, it’s to message what people must/need/should think. That’s the consequence of outsourcing thinking to wolves, in sheeps clothes.

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 31 2023 10:38 utc | 182

I do enjoy watching Tucker C’s opening monologues
Posted by: Scorpion | Mar 31 2023 2:30 utc | 138
Of course you do lmao

Posted by: Old Fart Legion | Mar 31 2023 10:43 utc | 184

Posted by: JMF | Mar 31 2023 9:37 utc | 167
Basically the point in that post is the UAF will pull their “mega concentrated” troops back to Konstantinovka and instead attack toward Gorlovka. They might do that, but then they risk getting encircled from behind in Konstantinovka once Bakhmut falls.
It really depends on force ratios after all. When talking about Bakhmut, as long as UAF holds Bakhmut, they have shorter interior lines from Bakhmut-Konstantinovka-Gorloovka-Avdeeva, compared to Russians from Bakhmut-Gorlovka-Avdeevka. They could theoretically attack towards Gorlovka, or reinforce Avdeevka. But if/when they lose Bakhmut, the front will shorten, which benefits more Russian side in this front. Any UAF attack towards Bakhmut flanks becomes less viable, and moot. At that point UAF can decide to defend Chasov yar (Konstantinovka, more likely as Chasov yar might be already far too compromised), or they can attack toward Gorlovka as suggested.
But it’s easy to see where Russell Bentley is coming from, even if UAF manages to banzai-charge and wedge its way through into Gorlovka or another large DPR town, it will result in chaos due to them suddenly having hundreds of thousands human shields all over again, and it’s suddenly Mariupol x10. Russia must take that into account when planning their fronts in the Donbass to not allow Ukrainians wedge themselves into the city. On the same time they need to proactively encircle and destroy the Ukrainians.
If they didn’t need to worry about the civilian population, Russians could allow Ukraine to attack towards Gorlovka and come from behind and take Konstantinovka.

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 31 2023 10:56 utc | 186

@ Exile | Mar 31 2023 9:43 utc | 169
‘NATO is building a massive military force…’
Already for some time.
I do not trust a bit that NATO is depleted, that is why it is ‘sending’ its trash to Ukraine, forcing Ukrainians to make-do with it, hoping to exhaust RF this way. Also, by now they realised that hiring Ukrainians to retake Crimea was not the best idea.
No wonder there, as just look at the Western decision corpus leading it and plotting the other great thoughts and ideas.
Forgetting the only postulate stating that nobody never goes to war with Russia, out of the blue NATO births the general idea to, at some point and under whatever pretext, start a humanitarian counterattack to try to engage in an attempt to destroy ‘evil’ RF.
RF is not stupid and knows that intent. And Combined Western Axis again didn’t listen to RF leadership that claimed if that is the case, then please come and try it.
So far RF pretty much successfully holds back, doing only what is necessary within the battlespace, here and there intensifying actions, as they see fit, but not going overboard with those.
RF is often rotating its command structure, hides its capacities and its best weapons, using some stuff here and there, but far from being fully engaged, that Combined Western NATO Axis wants us to believe.
The biggest issue that I see within CWN Axis is where to find optimal amount of soldiers to do the task. I do not see European-wide mobilisation attempts, and I do not recognize a political will to commit to fight and certainly die on the Eastern Front, so far.
I might be wrong there, too. I see Poles volunteering already, while there might be some others to step up.
However, there are some indicators that indeed China and RF together with some others just might succeed to put its own combat Alliance. Having done that, asap. go on a massive conventional pre-emptive kinetic action, reducing massive NATO/USA military presence around the planet.
It might start in Syria first as according to UN ‘there are no US military presence’, so it might be perfectly legal to flatten those 3 pro-ISIS bases there.
Everything else is in vain to reduce the US dominance.
USA, with its currency endangered, will do literary anything to prevent its demise from being, for them, an efficient World’s racket method and the ultimate plundering tool.
Now conquering the entire ‘golden billion West’ this whole US led Axis venture became a ‘block of countries with a dangerous intent’ to the rest of the planet and if nothing else that alone justifies any action to curb it.

Posted by: whirlX | Mar 31 2023 11:16 utc | 188

The office of the President gathers radicals for provocations near the Lavra. The task is to provoke believers with the help of provocation to take some emotional steps, in order to disperse this “picture” later. At Bankovaya, a whole media department is now busy discrediting churchmen.
It is especially funny to observe the overclocked Bank thesis that the priests of the UOC ride Mercedes, and that the priests of the OCU or any other religious structure ride trams? Here’s a common example of double hypocritical standards, it is directed at stupid people who absorb such stuffing and do not even turn on logic and critical thinking.

https://t.me/legitimniy/15065

Posted by: Down South | Mar 31 2023 11:24 utc | 190

Ukrainian Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko has said that the world’s biggest commodity companies should share their super-profits with Ukraine.
and just like that corporates lose interest in ukraine. being woke is one thing but being on the hook to the cocainskys hole in the money bucket is something else completely

Posted by: hankster | Mar 31 2023 11:28 utc | 192

‼️🔥 “Bakhmut is hell on Earth! The defense system was thrown into the slaughterhouse. The locals are waiting for the Russians to liberate them” – a military UAF in an interview with El Pais
The Spanish newspaper writes: “ In his speech, this young man from the Ukrainian Terodefense severely criticizes the command:
▪️“What pisses me off the most is the fact that they are sending the front line of the terodefense corps, and not more experienced fighters,” he regrets, referring to the massacre in Bakhmut. He calls Bakhmut “hell on earth”.
▪️ There, “the most paradoxical and incomprehensible thing is that civilians remain. He does not hide the fact that the Ukrainian military knows that many of them , supporters of Moscow, are under bombs, waiting for the Russians to liberate them.”
▪️VSUshnik believes that there is no point in holding the city.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/39861

Posted by: Down South | Mar 31 2023 11:31 utc | 194

Removing Trump from the table as potential presidential candidate removes obstacles for US deep state doing whatever they want in the foreign policy arena. Poland has already begged Biden for Nato to open a front against Belarus. Poland thinks they can drag everyone else in, too.

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 31 2023 12:04 utc | 196

In Syria we watched Russia face down the US. A slight gust of wind before the storm. Ukraine – a drop in the ocean, a catalyst. It is changing the world. De dollarization, at the start a trickle, now a flood. Incredible.
The world is discarding the US dollar for trade. US has its printing presses running hot propping up its banks. Dollars being printed, dollars coming home to roost. Perhaps western governments will supply wheelbarrows so their citizens can carry enough money to buy a loaf of bread.
Friends and family.. none have read or do read, none have traveled. With the Russia China joint statement, I told them to buy gold. None have.
My wife and daughters are fully aboard Biden’s faggot train. The propaganda is pretty and nice for them.
The idiot Ukroids, just cannon fodder for the US deep state. I don’t bother with day to day reports anymore. They want to be nazi’s, they can enjoy the fruits of their labours.
So, will China wait for the US to strike first or will China strike at a time and place of its choosing?

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 31 2023 12:21 utc | 198

Re: NATO’s glorious 2025 Counter-Offensive
My guesstimate of the 650,000 NATO ground forces being assembled:
200,000 Kiev
200,000 USA
100,000 EU
100,000 Mercs and BaziBazooks
50,000 England, Oz, Canada

Posted by: Exile | Mar 31 2023 12:33 utc | 200