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April 2, 2023
Ukraine Open Thread 2023-79
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@Organic # 187
The US nuclear missles and delivery systems are old, the Russians have Modernized and are producing the next generation of missles. The US propaganda likes to pretend they have the advanced gear but they are way behind in almost everything. Russia has better artillery better air defense better missles better subs better torpedo’s and a larger variety of UAV’s. The Americans have control over a way way larger group of humans so it keeps them in the running but as far as military technology goes they fell behind.
Posted by: OohCanada | Apr 3 2023 7:01 utc | 201
Good article up at the Simplicius site dealing with Russia’s economic situation. Kind of sucks to lose Saker, but some of his contributors are doing some good work.
Posted by: Haassaan | Apr 3 2023 7:05 utc | 202
Marty from Amerika is showing the real self more and more. After he commented on his blog that DU is nothing important, but not in the videos, now he hates the dead dude and tries to make the event go away. But he completely ignores that there are other 24 victims, 6 severe.
Today in Melitopol there was a another car bomb. The victim, a local official, is in serious condition.
Posted by: rk | Apr 3 2023 7:08 utc | 203
Put another way
If you don’t accept reality
See reality for what it is
You’re going to be walking around
With all your earthly belongings in a bag
Talking to imaginary people
Take a walk in any urban center you will see some corroboration
Of this condition
Posted by: Dingo | Apr 3 2023 7:10 utc | 204
Thoughts on the indictment of Trump ensuring he is the Republican candidate thereby ensuring Biden will win.
Updates with graphics/ map
Rybar summary for April 2
https://twitter.com/Cyberspec1/status/1642773896868012033
Posted by: Melaleuca | Apr 3 2023 7:19 utc | 206
@shadowbanned | Apr 2 2023 23:42 utc | 149
“1) Compound interest means that either the total size of the “economy” needs to grow in order to cover the ever increasing claims made by the financial system, or the system has to start further impoverishing people in order to pay off the credit holders. The latter is highly destabilizing, so economic growth is pretty much mandatory
2) But you can’t grow the economy without growing the use of physical inputs. Which means that once you have exhausted those on your own territory, you need to take over the resources of others
3) Once you run out of poorly defended areas to take over and exploit, you eventually will have to go after the strongly defended ones. Which means major war.
(we are here)”
Damn shadowbanned, that is some good economic shit that.
Posted by: gT | Apr 3 2023 7:26 utc | 207
Forget about even what happened today. That Budanov is still alive after all the very specific threats and other outrageous statements he made regarding what he plans to do to Russia, tells you all you need to know about the way this war is fought.
Recall how Dzhokhar Dudayev was liquidated in 1996 — he used a satellite phone, that was intercepted, and two missiles flew at where he was immediately. That was in 1996 — the depth of the malaise of Russia and its armed forces.
If they were able to do that then, they absolutely have the capability to incinerate everyone in Kiev right now on a moment notice now too. And yet nobody has touched Budanov.
Or Danilov, who was outlining detailed plans for ethnic cleansing of Crimea yesterday, how Sevastopol will be renamed to erase all historic connection with Russia, etc.
In what world could such people be left alive after the war has ended? Why not finish them off now, when that would also help with the war?
Questions, questions…
Posted by: shadowbanned | Apr 2 2023 23:04 utc | 133
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Two reasons.
1) Because Ukraine’s capacity for terrorism simply cant match that achieved by the Chechen separatists/jihadis. Which struck far more often & bloodily. So it’s a matter of perspective.
2) Killing the head wont destroy the body the “organisational hydra” of the SBU will simply generate a new head, one which might be quieter, less annoying but more competent at the actual job, rather than shitposting. Which is a net loss for Russia.
The Ukrainians can officially rename Crimea or the sun & stars in an insulting manner vis-a-vis Russia. However until they can manage to take the place, it’s just public verbal wanking to relieve the collective mental stress of a losing war.
After all rhetoric tends to get more wild, bloodthirsty & delusional when a side is losing a war not less.
Posted by: Urban Fox | Apr 3 2023 7:27 utc | 208
“On March 31, Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the country’s updated Foreign Policy Concept, which says that Moscow can use its armed forces to prevent and repel attacks on Russia and its allies.”
The above could be a game changer countries that want ally with Russia but are afraid of what Nato might do to them could be reassured that Russia will intervene on their behalf if they are attacked, the likes of Saudi Arabia could benefit from this, and the axis of influence in the Middle East could greatly change from American to Russian, and possibly Chinese.
https://tass.com/politics/1597993
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 2 2023 16:11 utc | 30
I’m thinking that I might be missing something here, or perhaps Russia’s announcement of an updated Foreign Policy Concept is being deliberately kept low key.
Another possibility is that merely releasing an updated Foreign Policy Concept isn’t enough to alter the intent of Russian law, which prohibits conscripted soldiers from being deployed outside of Russian territory unless war has been declared.
Imo, “prevent and repel attacks on Russia and its allies” would to most Westerners imply that Russia would if able now employ one of the better methods to prevent attacks, and that would be to take out the enemies resources at their source, that being on their territory, and using all of your military to accomplish that.
So maybe there is some nuance here, and this updated Foreign Policy Concept doesn’t go up against Russian law regarding deploying conscripts outside of Russia, as their actions would be deemed defensive, and not part of an all out war which presumably would predicate destruction of the enemy state to the point that they surrendered.
So maybe a declaration of war would only have to come later, after Russia got done defending itself on Ukrainian soil with Russian conscripts, and yet Ukraine made it clear that though defeated they would go about rebuilding their military and keep going on the offensive. If that became the case, maybe the thinking is going, only then would Russia need more than this updated Foreign Policy Concept so as to legally finish the job of taking out the NATO backed puppet state which was fronted by the Zelenskyy regime.
Posted by: Babel-17 | Apr 3 2023 7:57 utc | 209
@133
that’s pretty controversial. Of course you can choose to believe Wikipedia. But at the time of Dzhokhar Dudayev’s death, a Russian General (I don’t remember his name) said “I wish we had this technology” (to locate a phone signal and answer with a missile). Back then, I do believe this was science fiction for Russia. Nowadays they probably could and would. The fog of war can be rather thick.
Posted by: Anthony | Apr 3 2023 8:23 utc | 210
Posted by: Debsisdead | Apr 3 2023 2:11 utc | 180
Yes. Thank you for that.
Posted by: Tim | Apr 3 2023 8:29 utc | 211
Babel-17 (208).
Russia repelling attacks might be a bit over the top, though they have done it in Syria, it could be more like stationing good defensive weapons in it allies countries, but you just never really know.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 3 2023 8:53 utc | 212
I got to say, is is amazing to move from Russian Telegram (it does have good autotranslate function to English!) to this or other Western anti – Nato site or discussion board.
Guys, do you realize that almost nobody in Russia is as naively optimistic as you? Discussion about war moves in completely different parameters there. Here, what one of rare realistic English speaking bloggers Roloslavsky says (I would recommed Moscow Calling, Strelkov, Dimitriev, and similar TG channels):
“Here, I ought to explain the two dominant views on the war among the Russian war bloggers. In short, the optimists believe that the war is being fought badly and that the leadership made many mistakes, but that victory is still within Russia’s grasp. For the longest time, I was firmly in this camp. This comes off as strange to the Westerner because they are not aware of any constructive criticisms whatsoever of the Kremlin because they only read people like Lira, Saker, Macgregor, Ritter and other mindless cheerleaders. I am the only English voice that I am aware of providing this perspective. But criticism of the war effort is so mainstream in Russia now that it even gets voiced on the state media by guests with increasing frequency. In the West though, this kind of talk gets interpreted as being pro-NAFO/NATO propaganda, naturally.
Now, the pessimists believe that the war is being fought badly and that the leadership are traitors or that a significant portion of them are – enough to sabotage the war effort anyways. I have come around to this view in recent months myself. And the pessimists did not like Tatarsky because they viewed him as a sell-out and a gatekeeper personality in the same way that we would view media figures like Steven Crowder or Ben Shapiro as ideological gatekeepers keeping the American masses pacified with siren songs of voting harder and convincing Messicans to vote Republican. But this characterization is a bit too harsh because while Tatarsky’s brand of patriotism was indeed the kind that was acceptable to the Kremlin, it was also probably what he more-or-less believed in himself anyways, organically”
Posted by: IGOR VUKSANOVIĆ | Apr 3 2023 9:10 utc | 213
@212
somehow or other you do not sound authentic. And the TG channels you mention…that’s sixth column, not mainstream. I don’t think Prighozin would have any patience with your kind. But you tried and I guess they paid you for that.
Posted by: Anthony | Apr 3 2023 9:15 utc | 214
The terrorist attack in St. Petersburg was planned by the Ukrainian special services with the involvement of agents from among persons collaborating with the Navalny Anti-Corruption Foundation , of which the detained Trepova is an active supporter, – the anti-terrorist committee of the Russian Federation
@rtrdonetsk
https://t.me/RtrDonetsk/16397
Posted by: hankster | Apr 3 2023 10:01 utc | 215
It’s all so complicated !
Who gains by that ?
Answer… America & England of course.
I notice a lot of very subtile, low key anti Russia commentators creeping in hoping not to be noticed.
I only know what I read on this site and try to make sense from that.
As far as I can see so far it’s win win win all the way for Russia in Ukraine and world wide.
But keeping to the basics, it seems to me that. America desperately wants to directly involve nato against Russia. That esculation would they wrongly reason, be a double win for the US.
Zelensky would also want to directly involve nato. For the deluded reasons he thinks it will give a ticket to join the nato club. Plus of course as the US resident puppet he dose what he’s told to do.
Now I beleave dispite all the loud war talk, the individual European countrys aren’t mad enough to actually want their countrys turned to rubble. That’s a given.
So what their doing is the old one step forward to steps back routine.
How will all this interconnect.
Beyound doubt the balance of power has defiantly swung Russias way. Add to that the massive support from all round the globe for Russias ‘free new world order’
Then of course independent of The Russia conflict America is decomposing on all levels internally and geopolitical.
Be it fast or slow, it matters not.
Russia wins.
So those nay sayers creeping in to the bar, are just another sign of the west losing.
Posted by: Mark2 | Apr 3 2023 10:03 utc | 216
@ Anthony 213
Ha Ha. The clue was in the name Eager Fucksonofabitch. Hollywood loves those subliminal advertisements. Whizzbang it’s US election time. Oh no. That means we’re going to have a whole year and a half of BBC anti-Trump shilling and trying to pretend Biden is cool. Aaargh get me out here . I’m a nonentity. If I did have an empire, 100 years ago, I didn’t even want it . Why have I got to listen to 18 months of drivel about someone else’s empire which is even more criminal than the one I come from?
Posted by: Giyane | Apr 3 2023 10:06 utc | 217
@ gF 206
With all due respect, making money out of lending money is categorised by Allah as more despicable than incest. Obviously that means that the rot in your life will set in unnoticed by either paying or charging interest. It’s not a financial calculation , it’s a breakdown of your sanity.
In the West [we are here].
Shadow of shadow band
Posted by: Giyane | Apr 3 2023 10:17 utc | 218
first time dissapeared here goes again
The terrorist attack in St. Petersburg was planned by the Ukrainian special services with the involvement of agents from among persons collaborating with the Navalny Anti-Corruption Foundation , of which the detained Trepova is an active supporter, – the anti-terrorist committee of the Russian Federation
@rtrdonetsk
Posted by: hankster | Apr 3 2023 10:51 utc | 219
So,, every mushroom cloud has a silver lining? It’s hard to predict what insanity will unfold in the future.
Posted by: Immaculate deception | Apr 3 2023 11:04 utc | 220
@ Urban Fox 207
What is terrorism?
Exceeding the limits of normal, rational humanity.
How is it achieved?
All militaries prepare soldiers to be super ruthless by some means of physical and emotional stress followed by in the old days alcohol, but nowadays Lithium to burn out the protesting ego’s memory cells of human compassion.
Now called Torture Rendition Brainwashing .
After 9/ 11 USUKIS went on a massive campaign to lock up, torture, and brutalise maybe millions of Muslims. Everybody was at it including the Middle Eastern dictators, US prisons in Afghanistan, Eastern Europe , and many other Countries.
This was yet another zionist plot to defame the beautiful name of Islam.
Islam doesn’t permit mindless terrorism.
Based on the principle that Deniers of God will face Hell fire in eternity, some effort must be made to reach out intellectually to the religious instinct.
In the case of Communism the religious instinct was banned because religion had been abused by the priveleged to retain their enslavement of others.
If a religion is creating injustice, it isn’t a religion. Even the religion of Communism or Capitalism.
What happened with Communism was total, tyrannical oppression. Chechens used violence against a totally oppressive system. What has happened with capitalism is torture rendition brainwashing. The use of proxy violence while the USUKIS remain squeaky clean.
A reformed Russia is using violence against USUKIS tyrannical oppression. You can’t stop humans from using violence against hypocrisy, if the hypocrites refuse to listen.
Posted by: Giyane | Apr 3 2023 11:05 utc | 221
We wrote that the Office of the President is trying to force the parishes of the UOC to move to the OCU, and they promise a number of bonuses for such a step. At one of the meetings with the functionaries of the Office of the President, Onufriy said that Zelensky was offering 30 pieces of silver to the UOC to give faith.
Such a message pissed off the President and he gave the green light to the legal mechanism for the transfer of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra under the OCU, in fact, unleashing a religious war within Ukrainian society.
Thirty pieces of silver is the payment for betrayal, which, according to the New Testament, Judas Iscariot received by agreeing to extradite Jesus Christ to the high priests.
https://t.me/rezident_ua/17136
The resident is right that Zelensky tried to buy the priests of the UOC so that they would come under the control of the “manual” OCU, but the plan failed with 30 pieces of silver. We also got inside about this in January. After, Yermak suggested moving on to the intimidation-cleansing-squeeze algorithm.
Now the case of provocations and discrediting everything is under the strict control of the OP.
Posted by: Down South | Apr 3 2023 11:10 utc | 222
Our source reports that due to the huge losses in the Donbass direction, the hospitals on the first line of the rear are overcrowded, and the doctors are already “tired”.
The army is now experiencing a shortage of medical workers and qualified personnel.
Soon they will attract women with medical education. This will be mandatory, as will the ban on them from leaving Ukraine.
Posted by: Down South | Apr 3 2023 11:12 utc | 223
📌🇷🇺🇺🇦Situation in Artemovsk: 11:00 3/04/2024
📌In the Khromove-Azom direction, units of PMC Wagner continue to focus their assaults on pushing further from the Azom Facility but also liberating the residential area nearby. In recent days, Ukrainian forces have been slowly withdrawing some forces from Khromove to Central Artemovsk, and in rare cases, some units were withdrawn to Chasiv Yar. Opposite the Bakhmutovka River, Units of PMC Wagner advanced to the Bakhmut Multipurpose Hospital.
🔻In the Market Area, units of PMC Wagner are pushing towards the stadium. Recently, units of PMC Wagner were able to liberate Myru Street. In Central Artemovsk, PMC Wagner have advanced from the Local Administration Building in the direction of the trainline. Freedom Square was liberated by PMC Wagner, and now fighting is centred along the City Park.
🔻In Southern Artemovsk, PMC Wagner are pushing towards the lower industrial environ of Artemovsk. The entire of the city opposite Mariupol’ska street has been liberated. In recent days, PMC Wagner have deployed reserves (who have recently finished training in the rear) and they are now attacking in the direction of Krasnoye-Chasiv Yar.
⚡️📌 Some Ukrainian units (elite and artillery) are being moved out of Artemovsk and are being repositioned on Chasiv Yar
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/40196
Posted by: Down South | Apr 3 2023 11:16 utc | 224
“26-year-old Daria Trepova was detained in a high-rise building on Fedor Abramov. The girl claims that she was framed, she allegedly did not know about the “stuffing” of the bust. Daria sent the same message to her friend immediately after the explosion.
According to our information, Trepova has been living in Moscow for the last few months, where, presumably, she was recruited. On the last day of March, Daria arrived in St. Petersburg and rented an apartment for daily rent on the 4th line of Vaska. The location is literally a couple of minutes walk from the cafe where Tatarsky gave a lecture.
Yesterday, at about 17:00, Daria, not immediately finding the entrance to the institution, brought a box with her — there was a plaster sculpture inside, presumably stuffed with explosives. Visitors of the cafe note that the girl was dressed in a “short skirt”, smiled, attracted attention, but did not cause much suspicion. Including the deceased Vladlen Tatarsky, he himself jokingly suggested that she “check if there is a bomb in the box.” And then he invited the visitor to sit next to him. Daria initially refused, citing shyness, but then stood on the side.
A few minutes after the explosion, the suspect left the establishment and quickly left in the direction of her rented apartment. There she changed her image and sent a nervous message to her friend. She wrote that she was allegedly framed, after completing this “task” they promised a quiet departure outside the Russian Federation, where a workplace had already been prepared specifically for her. According to our information, the security forces found a bag with Daria’s belongings in the apartment on Vaska. Inside the shoes are covered in blood and the left mobile phone (in the gallery there are photos of Tatarsky).
It is previously known that after the tragedy, the suspect tried to cover her tracks, she was recorded in the south of the city, but eventually found in an apartment on Parnassus. The girl moved into the apartment with a suitcase and in a modified image (in the photo on the left). Presumably, Daria then planned to leave for the nearest abroad and hide.”
https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/52178
According to our information, Trepova, who organized the terrorist attack in St. Petersburg, where a Russian military commander died, was framed by Ukrainian colleagues (working for the GUR), who, together with Daria, worked for Western funds. Most likely, Western mediators were also involved. Therefore, Trepova knew that everything would be fine – the West would help her.
There is information that all the attacks are supervised by the British intelligence services, and the OP employs British advisers in various areas, including the media department.
The conclusion from this story: do not trust “Ukrainian friends.” Yes, in general, now you should not trust anyone, so that tomorrow you will not be framed-thrown.
Posted by: Down South | Apr 3 2023 11:22 utc | 225
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Posted by: Orange | Apr 3 2023 11:35 utc | 226
Orange @ 224
Brilliant
Duck duck go who started as a free speech and activism platform.
Now has almost total censorship of pro Russia news and information.
Sadly duck duck go, died.
Duck duck gone.
Posted by: Mark2 | Apr 3 2023 11:51 utc | 227
Posted by: Ink | Apr 3 2023 7:19 utc | 204
Alternatively, they need a reason to explain their vote rigging, by generating a semi-plausible reason why Republicans performed poorly. For the mid-terms they raided Trump, months before the mid-terms, to create that reason; however 2024 needs the return of Trump as candidate to create that narrative of ‘an energised base and revulsion of the centre’ to disguise the industrial cheating, that will be needed to drag Biden’s political corpse over the finish line.
Or
This is a cynical move by the progressives to force Biden to step down so they can pick the Gov. of California, whose started campaigning already. The line will be, well now Trump’s in the race and he nearly beat Biden last time, we need someone who can be a plausible victor, through ballots, not votes obviously.
Either way, the arraignment of Trump should be seen through the dual lense of Democratic electoral interference and the civil war in the party between the old-guard and the rapid progressives, for total control.
Posted by: Milites | Apr 3 2023 11:53 utc | 228
Which trend is worse for a country?
Daily purposeless train wrecks and factory explosions without cause, or seldom killing of journalist in restaurant?
Posted by: Greg Galloway | Apr 3 2023 11:57 utc | 229
@ Immaculate Deception 218
There was a very short spell of sanity after 2007 arising from Saudi Arabia’s deal
with the US, Interest-free money in exchange for control of Damascus where Jesus pbuh is soon supposed to return.
That sanity ended in February 2022 when the US stole Russian savings and sanctioned Russian Energy because Russia objected to US / Saudi use of proxy terror in Syria.
Yes , the main culprit in the current insanity is Saudi Arabia for trying to buy spiritual respect using dirty Zionist terrorism.
The US spending spree on weapons for Ukraine will easily be oaid for by war profiteering sales if fuel to Europe.
Saudi Arabia may try to make the same mistake with the SCO, viz, buy access to Damascus in exchange for interest free cash. But China has plenty of capital and Saudi Arabia will likely go back to the US and play the same stupid game of proxy war.
What is actually needed to restore sanity again is Riyadh to grow some moral authority for itself and for Islam, and China to be allowed into the USUKIS banking cartel with minimal interest rates.
Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.
Total reform of Saudi oppression and disdain for other faiths and other Muslims. Multipolarity of faith leading to proper interfaith discussions and reform.
Total reform of US economic unipolarity leading to a universal focus on conserving the planet. Not exporting pollution .
Job done.
Posted by: Giyane | Apr 3 2023 12:01 utc | 230
Posted by: Comandante | Apr 2 2023 21:10 utc | 105
Most humankind will survive.
The Waste will not, will regress to XIVe century, while Asia, South America and Africa will start blooming from the level they currenly have , without being inhibited by the Collective Waste monopolies on everything.
Posted by: Greg Galloway | Apr 3 2023 12:06 utc | 231
Posted by: Orange | Apr 3 2023 11:35 utc | 224
Posted by: Mark2 | Apr 3 2023 11:51 utc | 225
Oh? I just tried it. Got nothing of the sort.
Posted by: waynorinorway | Apr 3 2023 12:11 utc | 232
More puppets are active today:
Robert Habeck arrived in Kiev on Monday. He said ‘The purpose of this trip is to give Ukraine a clear sign that we believe that it will be victorious, that it will be rebuilt’
Zely will visit clone Duda and nato will publish a multi-year war plan for Ukr.
Posted by: rk | Apr 3 2023 12:15 utc | 233
Posted by: IGOR VUKSANOVIĆ | Apr 3 2023 9:10 utc | 212
Civil War comparison en route, lol.
Among hard bitten Union Army veterans there was a large contingent of chronic pessimists, and the way they talked, with their fatalism, was very Russian you might say. 😉
They would speak of Lee as the most brilliant mastermind since Caesar, and would darkly predict that his next move on the battlefield chessboard would send their side reeling. They were convinced they were led by idiots and drunks, and also drunken idiots.
But none fought harder than they when the bullets started flying because their fatalism gave them strength. They would speak of themself as consigned for death, so no battle offered anything new to fear.
“What is dead may never die”, like the believers in the Drowned God in Game of Thrones would say.
It took years, but that Union Army defeated the demi-god General Lee, even though led by idiots, drunks, and drunken idiots, and manned by archetypal pessimists and cynics.
Posted by: Babel-17 | Apr 3 2023 12:52 utc | 234
@Giyane 215
Pray tell us, where does your name come from?
And my belief remains that all empires come and go, but that forging a new empire everytime is our only hope for a better one (or “How the Steel was Tempered”, as an example of endless dedication and courage).
Posted by: Anthony | Apr 3 2023 13:03 utc | 235
⚡️ Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (3 April 2023)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
◽️ In Kupyansk direction, aviation and artillery of the Zapad Group of Forces inflicted a fire damage on the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) close to Sinkovka (Kharkov region), and Artyomovka (Lugansk People’s Republic).
💥 Up to 75 Ukrainian troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, two motor vehicles, and one D-30 howitzer were destroyed.
◽️ In Krasny Liman direction, the ground-attack aircraft, artillery and units of the Tsentr Group of Forces have inflicted a fire damage on enemy manpower and military hardware close to Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People’s Republic).
💥 Up to 50 Ukrainian troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, one pick-up truck, and one D-30 howitzer were destroyed.
◽️ In Donetsk direction, the Yug Group of Forces and artillery have eliminated up to 285 Ukrainian troops, one tank, three infantry fighting vehicles, one armoured fighting vehicle, eight motor vehicles, two pick-up trucks, one Grad MLRS vehicle, four D-30 howitzers, and two ammunition depots.
◽️ In South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, aviation and artillery of the Vostok Group of Forces inflicted a fire damage on the AFU units close to Ugledar and Novomikhailovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).
◽️ The enemy’s losses in this direction during the day amounted to 45 Ukrainian troops, two pickup trucks, one D-30 howitzer, and one Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery system.
💥 In Kherson direction, up to 10 Ukrainian troops, two motor vehicles, and one Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer have been destroyed over the past 24 hours.
💥 Operational-Tactical Aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Group of Forces have engaged 79 AFU artillery units at their fire positions, manpower, and military hardware in 98 areas during the day.
💥 Air defence forces have intercepted 10 HIMARS and Smerch MLRS projectiles during the day.
💥 Moreover, seven Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down close to Aleksandrovka (Donetsk People’s Republic), and Naugolnoye and Staraya Krasnyanka (Lugansk People’s Republic).
📊 In total, 405 airplanes and 228 helicopters, 3,648 unmanned aerial vehicles, 415 air defence missile systems, 8,521 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,078 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 4,494 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 9,287 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
#MoD
🔹 @mod_russia_en
Posted by: unimperator | Apr 3 2023 13:04 utc | 236
Babel-17 | Apr 3 2023 12:52 utc | 232
Your US Civil War analogy has legs.
The Union Army had a greater population from which to draw men and a much larger industrial base to make weapons. The war was also fought, with the exception of Lee’s foray up the Shenandoah Valley north to Antietam and Gettysburg, on Confederate soil.
Both of those advantages apply to Russia in the current conflict.
However, a major difference is that the Confederacy did not receive major support of men or materiel from abroad; Ukraine has.
Posted by: Ciaran | Apr 3 2023 13:14 utc | 237
Congratulations to the Ukrainians, now not only Russia is at war with us, but also the West, represented by the IMF, which has set such conditions for a loan that resembles the slave duties of the Middle Ages! Those who did not leave Ukraine will leave because of the war due to taxes, or rather dues!
The IMF file contains forecasts for government revenues up to 2033.
The post-war recovery in the eyes of our officials and the IMF is Raising taxes on all fronts.
Personal income tax from 6.6-7% of GDP to 9.5% of GDP, or as I understand it, the rate increase from 18 to 25% approximately.
Income with ERUs from 6.6-7% to 7.7-7.8% of GDP or somewhere the rate increase to 25% from 22%
Raising excise taxes from 2.7% of GDP to 4.2-4.3% of GDP.. hello, unmeasured taxes on cigarettes and fuel.
Raising VAT revenue from 9.5-10% to 11-11.6% of GDP, or most likely to 24% VAT.
As I understand it, for taking 50% from the salary and bread with 24% VAT and fuel for 1.5-2 dollars in a poor country … now our warriors are fighting … However, it is unlikely that the move to the EU and the memorandum with the IMF could have expected something else
https://t.me/informpolitika/497
⚡️⚡️ ⚡️ Our source in the OP said that the Office of the President gave guarantees to the West that the Verkhovna Rada would vote on all the bills envisaged by the IMF program. The issue is under the personal control of Bankova, people’s deputies have already been instructed not to criticize scandalous points, and the IMF loan has been called the only chance to save the Ukrainian economy.
https://t.me/rezident_ua/17140
Posted by: Down South | Apr 3 2023 13:14 utc | 238
Russia should take the gloves off, after a terrorist killed the blogger.
Take the WSJ reporter and put him in isolation. Announce the the next time Kiev tries a provocation, he’ll be summarily executed, live on video.
The howls will be loud enough to hear in Moscow, but it will be effective. Quietly, a dispatch to Kiev will be sent from the puppet masters:
STOP!
Posted by: Chris | Apr 3 2023 13:15 utc | 239
Zelensky made many high-profile statements today. He disowned the terrorist attack in St. Petersburg, like all the previous times.
According to the source, about the basement and the bucket, the statement was made specifically for screaming headlines. He was advised to take this step by foreign media advisers. Since there is a lot of negativity in the Western press (losses in Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Kremennaya), the beginning of a religious war unleashed by Zelensky himself, a terrorist attack against a journalist in the Russian Federation), these topics need to be interrupted.
If the Ukrainian crisis is not warmed up in a positive victorious way, then the growth of negative sentiments in European society will intensify, which will entail a reduction in military and financial assistance.
Posted by: Down South | Apr 3 2023 13:17 utc | 240
Re: Posted by: Outraged | Apr 2 2023 22:37 utc | 122
@ unimperator | Apr 2 2023 20:09 utc | 94
The data does not lie.
Look at todays AFU AFV/Vehs losses. Not a single MBT, few IFVs, numerous junk APCs and ‘armored’ vehicles with zero combat power, and since start Dec’23 increasingly pick-up ‘Technicals’ and simply due desperation increasingly civilian 4WD & SUVs. Sample the reports through last four months Ukraine Threads. Along with having their entire logistical vehicle fleet annihilated they are now forced in desperation to use ad-hoc 1,000 Liter water tanks concealed in a civilian passenger vehicle/s to transport & distribute POL. This is an Army on a death-ride.
What you have to say here is very strange.
So if the AFU is utterly destroyed and devoid of useful vehicles to fight this war with – what on earth is Russia waiting for?!?
Why is Donetsk city still being shelled and civilians dying?
Why don’t the Russians launch a broad offensive throw Chernihiv/Sumy/Kharkiv and surround this Ukrainian ragtag army and finish them off?!?
The statements you make don’t stack up with what is happening on the ground. At all.
Posted by: Julian | Apr 3 2023 13:23 utc | 241
Down South | Apr 3 2023 13:14 utc | 236
Which is why Yanucovich rejected the IMF’s deal 10 years ago.
The IMF is merely an arm of Western banking that places sovereign nations into debt servitude. Ask Argentina.
Posted by: Ciaran | Apr 3 2023 13:25 utc | 242
Posted by: Julian | Apr 3 2023 13:23 utc | 239
It would make sense if they have massive stockpiles built up during 2014-2022. Which is very possible, that during that time they managed to get a lot more than they used, as they weren’t fighting full war. Remember that Nato has pumped tens of billions $ into Ukraine during those years. The stockpile in Avdeevka might be hidden in some deep bunkers, etc.
Posted by: unimperator | Apr 3 2023 13:32 utc | 243
Ciaran | Apr 3 2023 13:14 utc | 235
“Your US Civil War analogy has legs.
The Union Army had a greater population from which to draw men and a much larger industrial base to make weapons. The war was also fought, with the exception of Lee’s foray up the Shenandoah Valley north to Antietam and Gettysburg, on Confederate soil.
Both of those advantages apply to Russia in the current conflict.
However, a major difference is that the Confederacy did not receive major support of men or materiel from abroad; Ukraine has.”
And most here shrilly insist that McClellan is the genius general who will win the war. They vehemently reject any contention that McClellan doesn’t know how to fight and perhaps doesn’t want to but rather would prefer to let the Confederacy go its own way. Anyone who suggests that the Union needs someone like Ulysses Grant who will fight the necessary fight is a “troll”.
Well, so far it looks indeed like the Union will win or lose with McClellan all the way.
Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Apr 3 2023 13:35 utc | 244
The madness of the mobsters.
“ @WarMonitors
Zelensky, commenting on the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said that the Russians “still have time to leave, otherwise we will destroy them”
12:38 pm · 3 Apr 2023 “
The desperation of Das Bunker and coke head actors is burning bright today.
The dumb desperate Vauxhall cavaliers of the Thames – the US occupation embassy in the U.K. is near there, south of the river Thames. Assange is tortured in a dungeon daily not far off. They really hate honest journalism and fair elections.
This is them taking their war to Russian streets? Blowing up a room full of people?
Maybe having a hypersonic syringe up their deep bunker made them berserk. Maybe bakhmut falling and front lines collapsing. Maybe they’re dollar hegemony and desertion by their house slaves , India, Saudis, Japan!
Whatever the treasons (sic)- there will now be some very nervous exposed peoples across the globe who can expect the chickens coming home to roost.
The blood thirsty villains masquerading as journos !
Their hung-ho, millionaire lifestyles and ‘jobs’ , the Ken and Barbies moulded waxworks, working for the billionaires , who are beholden to the trillionaire Slave Owners, preaching snake oil daily into us, self deluded slaves, addicted and clamped onto their teats.
We don’t need a mass murdering war and racist hatred – just a spring clean – there are a few bunkers that need airing, the odd superyachts visiting some Bermuda triangles slushes, some strange private jet failures… nothing spectacular.
A sudden calmness to descend as if the predators have suddenly vanished from the jungles. Aahhhh.
The airways need cleansing, of detritus and filth that would make any of our granny’s shriek in horror as they rush to shield our eyes.
Hollywood pornification of the kids , media moguls feeding off the deluded frozen children adults they create who drivel and fantasise all their lives and really believe they live in a place that is so special and secure, that the whole world envies and desperately tries to migrate too – just because of a few, desperate peoples terrorised to leave their homelands, deluded into believing the pavements are filled with gold here and all is safe and secure across the borders.
There are some thespians, puppets , I bet most couldn’t act themselves out of a make believe paper bag – that need to practice taking a real bitch slapping for their blind support of their Nazi masters regimes.
Yes, let’s not forget all these Nazis, these antediluvians, who must forever recede into history just like the dinosaurs that did their begetting.
It is our Earth – not theirs.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Apr 3 2023 13:38 utc | 245
@ Anthony 233
Kurdish word for dear/ darling
Thanks for asking
Posted by: Giyane | Apr 3 2023 14:01 utc | 246
Flying Dutchman | Apr 3 2023 13:35 utc | 242
Good point. Time will tell.
Posted by: Ciaran | Apr 3 2023 14:01 utc | 247
Posted by: Ciaran | Apr 3 2023 13:14 utc | 235
Indeed, Ukraine has seen massive amounts of foreign support, and Russian Generalship and intelligence gathering, while fair game for criticism, has been far superior to what the Union Army had, so while history might be rhyming, it isn’t repeating itself in any kind of a strict fashion.
Amazing though that the spiritual descendants of the better Union Generals in today’s Pentagon seem caught off-guard as Russia’s inherent advantages, so similar to the ones that the Union had, reap massive benefits. Perhaps not amazing at all though, and they are actually just dutifully not emoting “I told you so” to the warmongers in the Biden administration and Congress.
Eventually all the dead and wounded will get accounted for, and honest historians will ask, “What were they thinking of?” of those that spiked the chance for Zelenskyy and Putin to hammer out an arrangement.
Posted by: Babel-17 | Apr 3 2023 14:02 utc | 248
@246 if russia loses the historians will only write about the blood thirsty stupidity of last Russians. The only tragedy will be that they weren’t slapped down when they waltzed into Crimea.
The embarrassing parts will be whitewashed and then they’ll simply rewrite history.
It’s happening as we speak with world War 2.
Unless of course they send in Putin, gerasimov and the central bank lady in a t72 and drive into ugledar. Then russia may be able to fight properly.
I mean they could at least try one khinzal on a bridge right?
Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Apr 3 2023 14:17 utc | 249
@ Babel-17 | Apr 3 2023 14:02 utc | 246
Comparison of real (productive rather than parasitic) resources and the results of thirty war-games were apparently too subtle for the “geopoliticians” involved.
Posted by: John Kennard | Apr 3 2023 14:26 utc | 250
Time to take a break and to put on some inspirational music …..
The Dark Side of Bakmuth … oops …
Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon (50th Anniversary) [2023 Remaster] {Full Album}
43 mins Superb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9ynZnEBtvw
Posted by: Don Firineach | Apr 3 2023 14:27 utc | 251
Russia is eliminating more soldiers and material than NATO can replace. If Ukraine continues to fight as it is now, it will ultimately lose the war. They must therefore go for a major attack while they have sufficient resources left.
Russia on the other hand knows this. It knows that its way of waging war forces Ukraine to expose itself. It just needs to continue as before and build up its defense and wait for Ukraine’s attack. All the while they are constantly reducing the power of this coming attack.
Posted by: ulfhp | Apr 3 2023 14:36 utc | 252
“Cunctando restituit rem”
OTOH this war is more than physical. There will be no return to the western financial, monetary and economical sphere. Not ever. So Russia really isn’t in any hurry to do this or that.
@LGB #119
My sympathy. The great US of A lost the plot around 1970 …
The last 50 years have been painful to watch …
The ‘dream’ has died …
Posted by: Don Firineach | Apr 3 2023 14:38 utc | 254
Posted by: Anthony | Apr 3 2023 9:15 utc | 213
It may sound so to you, Western Consoomers of the war porn in the Lira-esque form worship the RF leadership just like they worshipped Mr. Mustache or “Diversity” but others are not so eager to throw critical thinking away for pretty air up you-know-what.
They have conditioned you to be Black or White, you hate!!! or you worshipp leadership´s feet, never moderation from the Western guys.
Posted by: Frog | Apr 3 2023 14:39 utc | 255
You can’t really blame the Ukrainian people for putting their hopes into Zelenskyy. He ran on a peace platform and despite everything he seems to be working toward that outcome, just not peace at any price.
He is being niave about Crimea and the Donbas but in the end he will recover Kherson and Zaporizhzhia once the Putin regime has fallen. History will definitely mythologize him as a Churchillian figure, though like with anything the reality is more complex.
Posted by: Featherless | Apr 3 2023 14:53 utc | 256
Posted by: Featherless | Apr 3 2023 14:53 utc | 254
sarcasm?
Posted by: pretzelattack | Apr 3 2023 14:57 utc | 257
pretzelattack | Apr 3 2023 14:57 utc | 255
just a different viewpoint
Posted by: Featherless | Apr 3 2023 14:58 utc | 258
Another country joins the gang of murderous robbing bullying thieves know as Nato.
“Finland will join NATO on Tuesday, April 4, said the Secretary General of the Alliance Jens Stoltenberg.
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“This will be a historic week. Tomorrow we will raise the flag of Finland at the headquarters in Brussels, and it will become a member of the alliance,” he said.
This was confirmed by the Office of the President of Finland.”
https://ria.ru/20230403/nato-1862646740.html
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 3 2023 15:02 utc | 260
#252 “ The great US of A lost the plot around 1970 …”
(Not) Coincidentally, 1971 was the year the US effectively defaulted by unilaterally “temporarily” suspending conversion of USD to gold at the agreed-upon price. Since then middle class real wages have stagnated or decreased. Probably also not coincidental that China was opened up the following year.
Posted by: BillB | Apr 3 2023 15:03 utc | 261
Posted by: Featherless | Apr 3 2023 14:53 utc | 254
All plots, no strategies. That is the problem of Zelensky, derived from his background. If the Ukrainian people had pinned their hope on him, they will lose eventually. In reality, may be they are afraid of his brutal suppression of non-conformists.
Just looked at the Ukraine war, a lot of cunning tricks, hundreds of thousands of perished brave soldiers, bottomless western assistances in war materiel and money, countless missing weapons and money, Ukraine is still losing territories.
Ukraine cannot win over an occasional Ukrainian induced nose-bleeding, methodical, scorched-earth Russian strategy.
Posted by: KitaySupporter | Apr 3 2023 15:06 utc | 262
Russian authorities finally lose patience with the absurd Western captured body known as the ICC.
“Russian State Duma committees are preparing amendments that would ban activities of the International Criminal Court and other international agencies, aimed against Russia and its citizens, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin announced Monday, according to the Duma official Telegram channel.”
https://tass.com/politics/1598649
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 3 2023 15:06 utc | 263
Foreign mercenaries (more like terrorists and Nato affiliates) now common among the increasingly sparse Ukrainian forces the majority of the so called mercenaries have found to be Poles.
https://tass.com/politics/1598681
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 3 2023 15:10 utc | 264
Another country joins the gang of murderous robbing bullying thieves know as Nato.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 3 2023 15:02 utc | 258
… never mind, pay them no mind as the writing is on the wall and the penny is beginning to drop …
” … today Brazil, largest Country in the western hemisphere to the South of us, cut a trade deal and will now do trade in their own currencies. Get right around around the dollar. They are creating a secondary economy totally independent of the United States. We won’t have to talk about sanctions in five years because there will be so many countries transacting in currencies other than the dollar that we won’t have the ability to sanction them.”
DonbassDevushka
Link : DonbassDevushka
Posted by: SattaMassaGana | Apr 3 2023 15:17 utc | 265
KitaySupporter | Apr 3 2023 15:06 utc | 260
I have to disagree. He has successfully repelled invasions of Kiev, Chernihiv, Sumy and Kharkiv and fought the Russians to a standstill in the Donbas. You can argue that these were feints but there’s no real evidence of that, and half of the Donetsk region remains outside of Russian control more than a year later. By all objective measures Zelenskyy is a historical figure, a national hero.
Posted by: Featherless | Apr 3 2023 15:19 utc | 266
Posted by: Down South | Apr 3 2023 11:10 utc | 220
Thanks, Down South, for these reports. As we approach the major holy season for the Orthodox, the attention goes to this crucial part of the story, and to those brave Orthodox who resist the takeover of their church. As it has been in so many other conflicts the west has initiated this century, ancient christian churches and their populations have come under threat worldwide. And their peaceful protests resemble for me the ones initiated by Buddhists in times past the memory of our younger generations.
God bless them all.
Posted by: juliania | Apr 3 2023 15:20 utc | 267
Posted by: Featherless | Apr 3 2023 15:19 utc | 264
Wait till the wealth he and his co-script-writers have collected illicitly becomes known.
Posted by: KitaySupporter | Apr 3 2023 15:23 utc | 268
Julian@239….you have never walked through a muddy field, wearing full battle dress…some must crawl, give it a try, all your questions will be answered.
Cheers
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Apr 3 2023 15:28 utc | 269
Is the USA interfering or planning to back Turkish president Erdogan’s opposition leader come the next Turkish elections, and what would be the consequences of Erdogan losing on the Ukrainian conflict and access to the Black sea.
“Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his doors are closed for US ambassador to Ankara Jeff Flake following the diplomat’s meeting with Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the presidential candidate for the opposition alliance.
“What is (US President Joe) Biden’s envoy doing? He goes and meets with Mr. Kemal. Shame on you, use your brain,” Erdogan was quoted as saying by Turkey’s Star newspaper on Sunday amid growing tension between Washington and Ankara.
“You are an ambassador. Your interlocutor here is the president. How will you ask for a meeting with the president after this,” Erdogan asserted, adding that his doors were now closed for the American envoy to “let him know his limits”.
Presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey are scheduled for May 14. Kilicdaroglu, nominated as the presidential candidate for the country’s six opposition parties, is seen as the incumbent president’s main challenger.”
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/04/03/700871/Turkey-Erdogan-Avoids-US-envoy-Jeff-Flake-Kemal-Kilicdaroglu
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 3 2023 15:32 utc | 270
Trepova was reportedly given figurine packed with explosives by accomplices, told it contained wiretap, and given job of getting close to Tatarsky in order to “recruit” him for anti-Russian cause.
Moscow officially classifies blast that killed Tatarsky a TERRORIST ACT, saying it has evidence that attack was organized on Ukrainian soil. https://t.me/IntelRepublic/17670
At least the Dugina killer had a planned escape and help from her sponsors. If the above is true and Trepova was set up by the sponsors she trusted then this is a colossal black-ops fuck up, who will ever sign up to be their sucker again? From now on all the SBU will be able to recruit are suicide bombers. Welcome to Borrell’s garden.
Everything about Ukraine is just crude and rude, and practically wanton. A recipe for failure and this was absolutely coming out of the UK. You can destabilize a small country this way, pile on the chaos fast, but it’s ignorant and ridiculous against a large stable country that’s been around for a 1000ys. Only rich kids who coasted through school and life can function this stupidly.
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Apr 3 2023 15:32 utc | 271
“By all objective measures Zelenskyy is a historical figure, a national hero.”
This is like insisting some time in 1915, one year into WWI, that Kaiser Wilhelm was a national hero.
Posted by: OnceWere | Apr 3 2023 15:37 utc | 272
If Daria Trepova was just a stupid pawn then why did she cut her hair so short as can be seen at the time of the arrest ?
In the cafe her hair was very long. I doubt a stupid pawn would be cutting her hair shortly after delivering a “gift”.
Posted by: Tom_12 | Apr 3 2023 15:37 utc | 273
Ukraine will be the rock that the EU perishes on, European citizens need to wake up and sack their governments , governments that are hellbent on keeping war going in Ukraine, at the expense of their own citizens wellbeing. As for the USA, its surely a lost cause util the people rise up.
“The United States and the European Union have announced new shipments of military aid to Ukraine.
The US government announced on Monday a new package for the Kiev forces fighting Russian troops in pro-Moscow regions in eastern Ukraine. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington will send Ukraine $350 million in weaponry and equipment.
Separately, a group of 17 EU member states plus Norway said they have agreed on a two-billion-euro plan to deliver artillery rounds and other ammunition to Ukraine over the next year.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell had called on member countries to provide Kiev with one million artillery rounds, including from their own stockpiles. Borrell described the move as “a historic decision” for the 27-nation bloc and Norway.”
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/03/21/700234/US-EU-Ukraine-Kiev-Weapon-Shipment
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 3 2023 15:40 utc | 274
Posted by: Featherless | Apr 3 2023 15:19 utc | 264
But of course. PR is the measure of a man!
Posted by: alek_a | Apr 3 2023 15:42 utc | 276
Apr 3 2023 15:19 utc | 264
horse feathers
ur objective measure is scented!
hero like hitler…. in 1945!
Posted by: paddy.kivlin@protonm | Apr 3 2023 15:44 utc | 277
Tom_12 @ 271
If the above is true then she was in a panic and on her own to improvise an escape plan. It would explain why she was caught in her own apartment. She had no escape plan because either she knew it was a bomb and trusted her sponsors to take care of her as they would have promised, or she thought it was a bug and had no plans to get out because she wouldn’t need to.
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Apr 3 2023 15:47 utc | 278
@Steven Starr 134
“but it was Blair who was put in charge of the project by NTI and he called the shots and got the credit”
Why am I not surprised.
Have a good day in the field.
(Central Europe having surprisingly shitty weather at the moment with minus degrees. Outside work makes no sense this way.)
Posted by: AG | Apr 3 2023 15:49 utc | 279
“or hitler in april 1945!”
April 1945 is a little late. But the future was definitely looking bright for Herr Hitler at the one year mark in 1940.
Posted by: OnceWere | Apr 3 2023 15:53 utc | 280
@BillB #259
Yes- a turning point and the beginning of the ‘death of the American Dream’
Brief video …
https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/
And the oligarchs/plutocrats at top (who OWN Congress) benefit from all US wars while vast majority of US citizens stagnate in a state of existential insecurity and are fed bullsh1t of various stripes … it is sad to see for a once proud Republic
Posted by: Don Firineach | Apr 3 2023 15:58 utc | 281
@272 – I think Catherine the Great was onto something with that Pale of Settlement thingie.
I have had the displeasure of knowing many Ukrainians. Catherine wasn’t called the Great without reason.
That said, Nestor Makhno remains one of my heroes.
Posted by: lex talionis | Apr 3 2023 15:58 utc | 282
“..By all objective measures Zelenskyy is a historical figure, a national hero.” Featherless@264
You are assuming that posterity in Ukraine will approve of the project to deprive the citizens of half the country of their most basic rights and attack them, employing artillery and death squads in order to prevent their speaking Russian in public places-such as bars- and electing their own local government.
Zelensky will be seen, by all but a decaying nest of Banderites, as a national tragedy: a shallow brained and amoral opportunist who followed orders from his country’s enemies to plunge it into civil war until it was destroyed. And was well paid for performing this role.
The analogy with Hitler is apt, except that it is less than fair to Hitler, who for all his many faults was not in it for the money as Z appears to be.
Posted by: bevin | Apr 3 2023 15:59 utc | 283
Title is misleading here. Putin’s Enormous Blunder should read as Was This offer ever offered to any European/nato member – WHO KNOWS.
Maybe offered to -Hungry, Serbia, Greece, turkey, Belarus, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania, Romania,+++ ???
https://www.globalresearch.ca/putin-enormous-blunder/5814663
Posted by: angelo | Apr 3 2023 15:59 utc | 284
European citizens need to wake up and sack their governments
Republicofscotland | Apr 3 2023 15:40 utc | 272
Those from East are very poor and have decades of slave mentality, there are no protests and if they, start the police sends everyone to the hospital instantly. Those in the West have too much money to be worried now. From 2024, when the energy price difference won’t be paid by their governments anymore, the West will start to see higher prices but still a lot of money available and more slaves from the East will come to work for even less than before.
Resources still arrive in EU using India or China routes. Higher prices but available. And EU has approved bugs and worms for food. So don’t expect any problems from the braindead population of EU in the next 3+ years. Until then the control will be strong and protests will disappear like they disappeared in East EU.
Romania begged today for more US troops and weapons on their land. So the little slaves are forced to pay even more billions each year to US, the host pays for everything. It’s very funny. Wasn’t Ukr “winning” completely, going to Moscow to arrest Putin?? Entire EU will will have to support US and do nothing else. first Eastern slaves, then Western slaves
Posted by: rk | Apr 3 2023 15:59 utc | 285
“If Daria Trepova was just a stupid pawn then why did she cut her hair so short as can be seen at the time of the arrest ?
In the cafe her hair was very long. I doubt a stupid pawn would be cutting her hair shortly after delivering a “gift”.”
Maybe she is an intelligent pawn and she realised that she was used as a pawn? Btw, did she leave the place before or after the explosion of the bomb?
Posted by: Apollyon | Apr 3 2023 16:00 utc | 286
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Apr 3 2023 15:47 utc | 276
Could be.
She was there when the explosion happened which would support her defense that she knew nothing.
Posted by: Tom_12 | Apr 3 2023 16:04 utc | 287
@Elmer Fudd 146
what are those Russian defenses that are supposedly so efficient?
against ballistic missiles?
And how do they know/we know that they in fact do work?
I remember the discussions between Postol and the RU delegation on Moscow´s city missile defense.
Postol said it was useless.
And I believe him.
But I am not a scientist.
When it comes down to the real arguments that count, the physics of the act of interception – the US government scientists did not have theoretical phyiscs on their side nor practical experience since we have had no authentic war scenario to truly do the test.
There is a good albeit older discussion between those guys on C-Span on the issue of missile defense:
132 minutes, Febr. 1st 2012
https://www.c-span.org/video/?304109-1/ballistic-missile-defense
“Ballistic Missile Defense – Participants spoke about U.S. ballistic missile defenses and the future of U.S. foreign policy. Among the topics they addressed were the current nature of the nuclear threat, future deterrence strategies, and non-proliferation efforts. They responded to questions from the audience.”
panel:
Jack Citrin
Director University of California, Berkeley->Institute of Governmental Studies
Michael Nacht
Professor University of California, Berkeley->Goldman (Richard and Rhoda) School of Public Policy
Ted Postol
Professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harold Smith
Assistant Secretary Department of Defense->Atomic Energy
Dean Wilkening
Director (Former) Stanford University->Center for International Security and Cooperation
I don´t want to appear dogmatic however.
Posted by: AG | Apr 3 2023 16:05 utc | 288
@BillB #259
This chart shows the early 1970s as decisive …
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09/rand-study-how-high-is-inequality-us.html
Posted by: Don Firineach | Apr 3 2023 16:06 utc | 289
Posted by: Tom_12 | Apr 3 2023 16:04 utc | 285
Forgot to add. After she gave the “gift” she wanted to leave or go to the back when asked to sit up front !!!
50/50
Posted by: Tom_12 | Apr 3 2023 16:08 utc | 290
LGB comment
“Ukie Twitter and it’s as disgusting as your woudl expect:”
Yes had a look at that. HaHa merda.
Reminds me of the White Helmets in Syria. I understand these Spaced Balls are back in Syria. Syria has been getting hotter with each passing day since Feb.24 2022.
” look over here not there…
https://www.google.com/search?q=homer+simpson&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj2393EjI7-AhVplIkEHelEDB8Q_AUoAnoECAUQBA&biw=1680&bih=869&dpr=1#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:be65c369,vid:7azzvdJG2_M
Posted by: a | Apr 3 2023 16:10 utc | 291
@rk 283
We are more or less in agreement with respect to the fate of Europe. There will be no future for the EU now other than as a protectorate of the US. Perhaps it will become like Guam or something… part of the US but with no rights to vote or participate in US politics.
The brits were wise to get out.
Posted by: Chris | Apr 3 2023 16:12 utc | 292
the russian ronnie raygun has already won the Star Wars, as far as much of the commentariat here at MoA goes. let the nukes fly already. russia will maintain the purity of its essence, no worries.
Posted by: rjb1.5 | Apr 3 2023 16:17 utc | 293
I might have mentioned before, first vertebrate was 500 million years ago, earth has a solid two billion years to go before it starts to go red giant, but that itself will take an other 3 billion years. Whole evolutionary shindig from from first vertebrate to human can be repeated 4-9 times, no problemo. If that doesn’t cheer you up I don’t know what will.
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Apr 2 2023 16:18 utc
You are forgetting that the natural processes over that first 500 million years will have sequestered all of the Carbon, which forecloses on the possibility of future Carbon-based life forms evolving.
Posted by: Dave | Apr 3 2023 16:18 utc | 294
“The brits were wise to get out.”
Chris (290).
The Brits are so far up the USA’s arse that it hard to know where the USA ends and the Brits begin, they might be out of the EU (Though Northern Ireland is still in) but Westminster has capitulated utterly to Washington, so much so its embarrassing.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 3 2023 16:28 utc | 295
A people that fought the Nazis, for life or death, sometimes with nothing!, and lost about 25 million people in the process, but nevertheless eradicated the Germans! Do you, just for one split second, just ONE! think they would bend to a rabble of ungodly, spoiled leftist looneys supporting and working with died in the wool Nazis?
If so, you have learned nothing.
Posted by: g wiltek | Apr 3 2023 16:36 utc | 296
“You are forgetting that the natural processes over that first 500 million years will have sequestered all of the Carbon, which forecloses on the possibility of future Carbon-based life forms evolving.”
Dave (292).
In the first 500 million years the first stars formed they were huge and tinged heavily with blue due to the huge amounts of Hydrogen that they were made from, we are now on the thousandth generation of stars (suns) each generation producing more and more heavier elements the first generations had very little heavy elements and iron.
Remarkably a star has been discovered in our very own Milkyway galaxy that has very little iron within it and has blue tinge to it, its thought to be a second generation star, making it around 13 billion years old.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 3 2023 16:36 utc | 297
Note: The Ukrainian Civil War is a mere side show to the Global Struggle.
Posted by: Exile | Apr 3 2023 16:44 utc | 298
The Brits are indeed up Uncle Sams arse, but they’re doing so willingly.
When the euro implodes, which will happen before the dollar does, the EU will have no choice but to become the 51st state, a sort of Disney world for Americans.
Too bad as I thought that the French at least had some more pride.
Posted by: Chris | Apr 3 2023 16:49 utc | 299
Posted by: polarbear4 | Apr 2 2023 19:48 utc | 86
the west will strike with nukes first, whether as a false flag or otherwise.
Nice prophecy, could be true. Here is another one: If my German city is hit by a nuclear bomb, chances are that it will be a US-bomb, not a Russian one. The US elite is mentally fucked up so badly that they will rather destroy something instead of letting Russia, or anybody, have it.
Posted by: grunzt | Apr 3 2023 16:53 utc | 300