Posted by: MiniMo | May 3 2023 19:03 utc | 95
He reads his Surovikin-approved scripts really well. You strangely missed out the fact that he also said the UA had lost over 500 men in that engagement and last night secured several more city blocks.
As for drone strikes on the mainland, one simple question. How does that help UA forces getting hammered daily on the line of contact and increasingly losing their logistics hubs?

Posted by: Milites | May 3 2023 19:14 utc | 104

MiniMo | May 3 2023 19:07 utc | 97
Another pop up troll. You clowns have no shame.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | May 3 2023 19:11 utc | 99
You are the one attacking other commentators instead of posting about Ukraine. You are violating the rules here. If you don’t have a good counterargument you shouldn’t be making such posts.

Posted by: MiniMo | May 3 2023 19:18 utc | 106

I watched the video and am not sure if the drone even hit the flag pole.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | May 3 2023 17:58 utc | 46
I watched the video, especially the color of the explosion, and wonder: was that drone loaded with fireworks, to get nice video footage?

Posted by: Passerby | May 3 2023 19:21 utc | 108

is that (hate and hysterical blame of jewish people) a defining characteristic of true NAZI’s?
or is there something else, as well?

Posted by: Not Ewe | May 3 2023 19:21 utc | 110

Meanwhile, despite the hand-wringing and crocodile tears from the trolls, the demilitarisation aspect of the SMO continues at a steady pace. Today’s “clobber list” from the Russian Defence Ministry: https://eng.mil.ru/en/special_operation/news/more.htm?id=12466143@egNews

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kupyansk direction, aviation and artillery of the Zapad Group of Forces have engaged the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Stelmakhovka (Lugansk People’s Republic), and Kamenka (Kharkov region).
Up to 40 Ukrainian troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, and one D-30 howitzer were destroyed.
In Krasny Liman direction, Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery of the Tsentr Group of Forces engaged the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Nevskoye and Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People’s Republic).
Up to 50 Ukrainian personnel, one armoured fighting vehicle, two pick-up trucks, and two Msta-B howitzers.
In Donetsk direction, the assault detachments continue fighting in the west part of the city of Artyomovsk. Russia’s Airborne Troops have been paralysing the enemy’s action on the flanks. Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, artillery, and heavy flamethrowers of the Yug Group of Forces have foiled enemy’s attempts to counter-attack from the areas of Bogdanovka and Grigorovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).
The Russian aviation have made 9 sorties in this area during the day. The Group’s artillery have performed 63 firing missions.
The enemy’s losses in this direction during the day amounted to over 385 Ukrainian servicemen and mercenaries, one tank, four armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, and D-20 and D-30 howitzers.
In South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, aviation and artillery of the Vostok Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on AFU units close Ugledar (Donetsk People’s Republic), and Temirovka and Gulyai Pole (Zaporozhye region).
Total enemy losses in these directions amounted to over 70 Ukrainian troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, and one Giatsint-B howitzer.
In Kherson direction, more than 40 Ukrainian servicemen, three motor vehicles, one Giatsint-B howitzer, and one Akatsiya self-propelled gun have been eliminated during the day.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Group of Forces have engaged 86 AFU artillery units, manpower and hardware in 102 areas during the day.
One U.S.-manufactured AN/TPQ-50 counterbattery warfare radar has been destroyed near Stepnogorsk (Zaporozhye region).
An ammunition depot was annihilated close to Progress (Sumy region).
The air defence forces intercepted four HIMARS MLRS projectiles and one U.S.-made JDAM bomb during the day.
Moreover, 16 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been shot down close to Podstepnoye (Kherson region), Olshany, Svatovo (Lugansk People’s Republic), Sergeevka, Volnovkha, Vasilyevka (Donetsk People’s Republic), Tavolzhanka (Kharkov region), and Romashkovo (Sumy region).
In total, 416 airplanes and 230 helicopters, 3,935 unmanned aerial vehicles, 421 air defence missile systems, 8,948 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 1,095 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 4,717 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 9,928 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

Posted by: West of England Andy | May 3 2023 19:27 utc | 112

While Ukraine and USA keep denying their obvious objectives of genocide and making the world safe for trans and other delusions, Russia has been very clear and unwavering on theirs: demilitarization of Ukraine and the elimination of the Ukrainian Nazi movement. Every day there is less of the Ukrainian military (and as a bonus, less weapon systems and defense dollars throughout NATO) and every day more Nazis die. How is Russia not winning this military operation?

Posted by: JT | May 3 2023 19:33 utc | 114

Lightyears #111. You say Europe was broke leading up to WW2, but back then, US was an industrial powerhouse during, cranking out a battle ship every 2 months. British seniors still alive today thank the US for saving their bacon. However since the 1970s, the US shipped it’s industrial base overseas and today it takes 8 years for the US to make a ship and the parts and 85 percent of all goods are imported from China who the US is provoking into war. “Stupid is as stupid does”- Forest Gump.

Posted by: Willow | May 3 2023 19:34 utc | 116

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦Failure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Zaporozhye Front: ours repelled the attack , the enemy suffered casualties
▪️On the evening of May 3rd, 2023, after a small artillery preparation with sparse support from armored vehicles, the infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked in the area of ​​the settlement. Rabotino near the town of Orekhov in the Pohovsky district of the Zaporozhye region.
▪️ The task of the assault group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was to capture the defender of the 291st regiment.
▪️ Our scouts recognized the movements of the enemy group in time and responded with fire together with motorized gunners.
▪️ Tanks quickly came to the rescue and artillery joined them.
▪️ Armed forces of Ukraine began to suffer casualties and retreat, at least one unit of armored vehicles was burned at the beginning of the battle.
▪️ Our howitzers and mortars continued to hit the retreating enemy, increasing the number of casualties.
t.me/RVvoenkor
https://t.me/NovichokRossiya/29630

Posted by: unimperator | May 3 2023 19:37 utc | 118

Again allow me to recommend WEAPON OF POWER, MATRIX OF MANAGEMENT: NATO’s Hegemonic Formula
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii140/articles/grey-anderson-weapon-of-power-matrix-of-management?pc=1510
Posted by: bevin | May 3 2023 18:23 utc | 62
Thank you. In simple words, the US has been Nazifying Ukraine to impose fascism on the world.
The particular feature of the ideological situation and practice is the heavy involvement of Straussians (neo-talmudists) in the process of the Nazification of Ukraine.
The financing, training, and weaponizing of Banderites (self-proclaimed Ukrainian Nazi) was never opposed by the American Jewish Community.
The Nazification of Ukraine never interrupted the Jewish Lobby’s vicious attacks on honest historians whose research contradicted the questionable mems of holobiz.
The support for Banderites (all 37 Jewish members of the US Congress have been supporting Zelensky’s government laced with self-proclaimed Nazis) also never stopped the demands for more holobiz reparations, including reparations for “genetic trauma” to the future generations of Jews, to the infinity.

Posted by: Cerena | May 3 2023 19:42 utc | 120

The owners of the collective west – Banksters and fascist mega-corporations – are psychopathic enough to condemn the world to suicide by advanced weaponry. It is unfortunate that there’s no compulsory test on psychopathy for people in influential positions.
“The EU brought to its knees by the Straussians,” by Thierry Meyssan
https://www.voltairenet.org/article217976.html
Posted by: Cerena | May 3 2023 18:48 utc | 83
1. https://mises.org/wire/charles-schwab-and-other-big-banks-may-be-secretly-insolvent
2. “As of the end of 2022, the bank with the largest amount of assets marked as “held to maturity” relative to capital was Charles Schwab. Apart from being structured as a bank, Charles Schwab is a prominent stockbroker and owns TD Ameritrade, another prominent stockbroker. Charles Schwab had over $173 billion in assets marked as “held to maturity.” Its capital (assets minus liabilities) stood at under $37 billion. At that time, the difference between the market value and face value of assets held to maturity was over $14 billion.
[Read More: “Yes, the Latest Bank Bailout Is Really a Bailout, and You Are Paying for It.” by Ryan McMaken]
If the accounting technique had not been used the capital would have stood at around $23 billion. This amount is under half the $56 billion Charles Schwab had in capital at the end of 2021. This is also under 15 percent of the amount of assets held to maturity, under 10 percent of securities, and under 5 percent of total assets. An asset ten years from maturity is reduced in present value by 15 percent with a 3 percent increase in the interest rate. An asset twenty years from maturity is reduced in present value by 15 percent with a 1.5 percent increase in the interest rate.”
3. “Held to Maturity” always means Current Market Value is Less Than “what we paid.”
4. TD bank sold TD Ameritrade to Schab. And TD is/was a Large Shareholder in Schwab.
5. This is but a small slice of the wobbly, spinning Top conjured by the New York and London COKEHEADS from the dying U.S. dollar.

Posted by: kupkee | May 3 2023 19:47 utc | 122

Norwegian @ 100
collaborationist

Posted by: Peter AU1 | May 3 2023 19:49 utc | 124

Articman @ 88
As you observe, there’s a notable amount of trolls on the last couple of Uqraine threads, all with a particular agenda.
I commented on the last thread they come from a media misinformation organisation called Bellingcat a front ran by UK MI6.
I’m watching and joining all the
dots.
————
Just somebody @ 84
And your a classic example!
Your comment is designed to give this site the appearance of a conspiracy theory site.
I’l fetch me tin foil hat then ha ha
Not a chance, keep trying boys.

Posted by: Mark2 | May 3 2023 19:51 utc | 126

Priggers claims the counter-offensive has begun.

Posted by: jared | May 3 2023 19:54 utc | 128

Seems the Ukrainians made another “recon-in-force” and had to retreat, which actually led them losing their initial position. Just a theory, but if the Ukro forces are relatively scattered and not committed yet, it might yet cause disruptions in any offensive plan.
” Vladislav Ugolny reports:
According to my sources, the Russian forces, pissed off by the insolence of the Khokhols, are now counter-attacking near Orekhovo to occupy Ukrainian positions “on the heels of the retreating” Ukrainian troops.
Specialists from the Zabaykalsky Military District’s drone swarm have been brought into the fight. The 18th Machine Gun Artillery Division (PULAD) are digging up buried T-55s in order to move them to the most endangered area.
The front has come into motion.”
@Slavyangrad

Posted by: unimperator | May 3 2023 20:01 utc | 130

Wake up people, you are being had. Both the West & The East (the leaders, that is) are on the same side, just acting like enemies. They both bow to the real rulers of this world, the Luciferian banking cabal who want a third world war so they can get their one world government and make the whole planet their slaves… Wake up…
Posted by: just somebody | May 3 2023 18:48 utc | 8
However you describe it, the real enemy is government. Dosn’t matter if it is leftists or rightists, insiders or outsiders, by the top or by the bottom, the enemy for thousands of years has been government.
Without government the sane but duped 98% would have long ago killed off the psychopathic 2% in the human gene pool.
That’s called directed evolution.

Posted by: Drapetomaniac | May 3 2023 20:05 utc | 132

I think the really imbecilic stuff that UKR does comes from the British, ergo, this Kremlin drone thing was concocted by the British.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | May 3 2023 20:07 utc | 134

Senior Russian lawmaker Vyacheslav Volodin has called on Moscow to use any weapons necessary to remove the “Nazi regime” in Kiev.
… that Russian lawmakers will “demand the use of weapons capable of stopping and destroying the Kiev terrorist regime.”
Posted by: karlof1 | May 3 2023 19:21 utc | 109
This will be presented as another piece of evidence when a false flag nuke attack will be registered by the new sensor network… then Russia will be depicted as the ultra pariah, the global south & China will be forced to separate themselves etc.

Posted by: Zet | May 3 2023 20:08 utc | 136

MiniMo @121
The link below will give you a look at the aerial assets, Ukraine/Europe, plus the logistics flow from the USA to Europe/Ukraine.
https://www.monkeywerxus.com/

Posted by: Ancient Times | May 3 2023 20:10 utc | 138

Posted by: Zet | May 3 2023 20:08 utc | 136
Zelensky and his cronies are absolutely expendable. They will be sacrificed if it serves the purpose of creating a narrative of an “unwarranted attack on diplomats and head of state”, even if it has only a slight chance of breaking up the East. Unfortunately this may come to occur, whether it’s a false flag or real is irrelevant.
Zelensky is being propped up again across MSM, which can seriously mean massive rage were something to happen. Although he might simply be framed to death and sent off to some Mansion in Tel-Aviv never to be heard of again.

Posted by: unimperator | May 3 2023 20:12 utc | 140

Posted by: Mark2 | May 3 2023 19:51 utc | 126
I’m sure there’s no truth in the rumour that King WingNut the 1st is going to be crowned with a tin foil hat!
It’s also a very good thing that I am not Russian target-planner, otherwise I would be looking at the gathering of the self-proclaimed ‘great and good’ at the weekend and be thinking to myself “That’s a target-rich environment…”

Posted by: West of England Andy | May 3 2023 20:16 utc | 142

Posted by: Hahaha | May 3 2023 20:12 utc | 139
More low effort stuff, but I’ll take you on anyway, I’ll have a bet with you that the USA becomes balkanised long before Russia does. What say you?

Posted by: West of England Andy | May 3 2023 20:24 utc | 144

West of England Andy @ 142
I take it you’re not going to be swearing allegiance to the King and his heirs? What’s that thing about neoliberalism equaling neo-feudalism? UK is putting it in stark, eye-popping, relief.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | May 3 2023 20:29 utc | 146

unimperator @ 147

Zelensky set to give speech tomorrow in The Hague titled “No Peace without Justice.”

For all those egging for retaliation, here’s your Kinzhal wet dream. Don’t touch that dial!

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | May 3 2023 20:33 utc | 148

And those people on the ground are very disappointed in Russia’s lack of help and success so far.
Posted by: MiniMo | May 3 2023 19:07 utc | 97
Let me guess! You are one of those people bon the ground, right?
But what is not clear: on which side are you?

Posted by: Quo Vadis | May 3 2023 20:37 utc | 150

Zet @136–
If Russia desired to eliminate the Kiev regime, it would use its non-nuclear forces, which have proven to be quite destructive and accurate enough to do the job without much collateral damage. If Russia were Neocon, the Kremlin attack would be labeled a “Pearl Harbor Moment” followed by waging a war of terror on NATO using its hypersonics. Many would like to see that, so why haven’t there been any postulations that the drone attack was a false flag? As I wrote earlier, such an attack was anticipated by Russia beginning 22 Feb 2022. Was the attack the long-vaunted Spring Offensive?
Furthermore, Russian lawmakers know well Russia’s nuclear doctrine doesn’t allow for the use of nuclear weapons in a case of this sort. And there’ve been no restrictions placed on Russia’s military as to the type of non-nuclear weapons they can employ or on dual-use targets such as the Ukie Rada (That’s an interesting question actually: It an enemy nation’s government a military target since the Chain of Command supposedly starts with the President in this case?).
On the previous thread, I said why Russia considers Ukraine a Terrorist State, and that was prior to the Moscow drone attack. As far as I know, Russia has yet to call the Outlaw US Empire a Terrorist State although it clearly is; although in her briefings, Maria Zakharova’s come very close on many occasions since the Empire is “leading from behind” to avoid such direct connections. IMO, most onlooking nations will shrug their shoulders because Moscow targets Kiev so the opposite must be expected to occur and has. That some Russian’s have knee-jerked reactions isn’t at all unusual. RT’s article on reactions by foreign experts goes thusly:

A Ukrainian drone attack on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s working residences in the Kremlin has shaken the status quo in the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kiev, a group of experts told RT following the incident. It could also lead to a dangerous escalation possibly involving the use of nuclear weapons, they warned, adding that Russia is bound to retaliate.
Thomas Roeper, a German author and war correspondent currently residing in St. Petersburg, said he was “quite surprised” to hear of the attack, since it clearly violated “an unofficial agreement not to bomb, not to attack places where the leading politicians are.”
“There is no doubt that Russia will have to retaliate,” said Ralph Niemeyer, the head of the German Opposition Group for German Sovereignty and Constitution. “There will be further escalation, even up to the threat of the use of nuclear [weapons], which I think is still possible,” he added.
A Turkish professor of international law and an expert on terrorism, Mesut Hakki Casin, suggested that an escalation may have been the goal of the people who planned the strike. The forces behind the attack might have sought to put the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine “at the center of European warfare” and potentially even provoke Moscow into launching a tactical nuclear strike, he told RT.
“It’s a very unacceptable and a very, very dirty game,” the Turkish analyst warned. Casin also said Kiev may not have been alone in planning and organizing the strike. “This is an organized international attack,” he said.
Ukraine’s Western backers will not be able to ignore the incident in any case, Niemeyer believes. The German opposition figure still anticipates that the US and its allies will try to downplay the incident and “say it was not the Kiev regime, it was not [President Vladimir] Zelensky’s people,” as they did with the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage.
According to Roeper, the attack could also affect relations between Kiev and Washington if the Ukrainians did not inform their backers about the planned attack in advance.
“Maybe Washington was not informed, and maybe it was. We will see by the reaction. If Washington was not informed, there will be some angry reaction because this is a quite big danger to attack the president of a nuclear power,” the journalist said.

Time will tell what the reaction is if one’s announced.

Posted by: karlof1 | May 3 2023 20:45 utc | 152

Had to go out for an hour, wow this thread is on fire, in a good way. alot of first rate comments massively out weighing the bellingcat boys plus the regulars naysayers, like a ticking clock I hardly notice them.
Gt Stroller @89 (I think)
Thanks for that link regarding weponized grouse! Was it one of ours or one of theirs ?
West of England Andy, good to see you back on here again.
Ha ha ole Charly in a tin foil hat that needs photo shopping.
Mmm metaphorically speaking yes there be a lot of flag poles at buck palace this weekend.
All of the flack on this thread of course is psychological projection.
Blaming Russia for the very failings the west posses.

Posted by: Mark2 | May 3 2023 20:48 utc | 154

I guess Pavlograd really stuck in the craw. The response? A firecracker commercial drone stunt. Laughable.
Doubly so since the West is a decade or more behind in air defense systems. I can’t be the only one to notice the f35 is a turkey.
The shit show continues until it can’t. How’s them banks?

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | May 3 2023 20:52 utc | 156

MiniMo writes:
“while the U.S. and European leaders recently went to China to make sure China wouldn’t aid Russia – and they got what they wanted: China agreed.”
They got China to agree not to do something that China had repeatedly said it never had any intention of doing? What an accomplishment!

Posted by: malenkov | May 3 2023 20:56 utc | 158

Breaker one-nine, any barflies got a copy?
Hal Turner is receiving unconfirmed reports of Russian strategic long range aviation being fitted with nuclear warheads. It appears as if we have reached the precipice and shit is about to hit the proverbial fan. 10-4
Over and out.

Posted by: LtGen_Breedluvv | May 3 2023 21:02 utc | 160

# 145
I saw, he is not due back in ukraine till the 13th of may.
maybe longer maybe never. after all, he is an entertainer
doing what he is told, like a child. he sold his free-will for
money and fifteen seconds of fame

Posted by: Dingo | May 3 2023 21:05 utc | 162

You can smell the stink of desperation from the Trollingcat types and the True Believers.
Tell us more about how Russia faces imminent collapse, as opposed to indebted, divided and deindustrialized America and vassals?
I’m truly interested in the pretzel logic that gets you to such a conclusion.
The only hope for the Ukrainian Reich is to draw NATO in…and we know NATO doesn’t want that.
Even if NATO does ..which I dont discount given the demonstratably insane nature of those at the helm, they still lose any conventional conflict in my estimatation..the war is on Russias doorstep, not in Mexico. And if it goes nuclear we are all fucked with a capital F anyway.
If there was anyone with any brains in the Western military inteliigence octopus left they would immediately reverse course. However that would mean losing face and climbing down and it seems certain highbred fucks don’t know how to do that.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | May 3 2023 21:06 utc | 164

A false flag assassination of Zelensky solves the problem of the delay of the great offensive and the stolen billions. There must be a desperate offensive, because Putin must pay, it will fail.
Killing him while he is making a speech in public in Den Hague on the remembrance day of the Nazi victims is an ironic but wicked plan. Zelensky must watch his back when he is hiding in west Europe, he is going to be sacrificed.

Posted by: gary mcAvelli | May 3 2023 21:10 utc | 166

Il y a urgence pour les américains de déclencher une guerre mondiale.
La First Republic Bank a fait faillite et à été reprise par JP Morgan Bank.
La dédollarisation s’accélère.
Un effondrement bancaire pourrait bien se produire.
La guerre… La solution et le mal nécessaire pour sauver les USA de l’implosion.

Posted by: JOUAN | May 3 2023 21:11 utc | 168

I saw, he is not due back in ukraine till the 13th of may.
maybe longer maybe never. after all, he is an entertainer
doing what he is told, like a child. he sold his free-will for
money and fifteen seconds of fame
Posted by: Dingo | May 3 2023 21:05 utc | 162
.
.
NO on 05/13/23 Silensky is in Germany where he should get a medal.
Ergo, HE won’t be back in the Ukraine before 05/14/23…
Good timeframe for what???

Posted by: mo3 | May 3 2023 21:15 utc | 170

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | May 3 2023 21:08 utc | 165
im not seeing a significant difference, here. i’d wager that both Biden and whoever his opponent is in 24 will at some point use “the American People” in a speech. they will also use the word “Americans”, probably more frequently.

Posted by: pretzelattack | May 3 2023 21:19 utc | 172

@malenkov 163
I get it, he is the n*gger people love to hate. As with Alex Jones, Hal Turner has been right, more than wrong. Roger.
Over and out.

Posted by: LtGen_Breedluvv | May 3 2023 21:22 utc | 174

Anyone else happen to catch this bit of nonsense?

BREAKING: Russia may launch missile strikes on Kyiv this night. Two nuclear warheads allegedly at the airfield but not armed on the planes at this time.
Osechkin’s source: “Orders have been sent to the air bases in Engels and Shaykovka to prepare a number of TU-22Ms for flight, missile strikes could be carried out on a number of administrative buildings in Kiev during the night.”
Osechkin: “The source also claimed that for the first time nuclear weapons may be used, at least two ‘items’ are already located directly at one of the aforementioned airfields.
P.S. Details will be provided later. It is important to understand that a long-range aviation source is risking his life, namely the risk of going to prison for life. And this is not a hype or a gimmick, today everything is very serious and it is not known how it will end. We are not talking about a monkey with a grenade, we are all dealing with (or rather confronting) a dictator with nuclear weapons. And if he decides to use nuclear weapons, we hope that the pilots and specialists of the ground services of the Air Force will not carry out this criminal order.”

Closest thing I can find to a source is UK tabloids.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | May 3 2023 21:25 utc | 176

“After today’s terrorist attack, there are no options left other than the physical elimination of Zelensky and his clique.”
Republicofscotland | May 3 2023 17:45 utc | 33
“Not so long ago, US Senator Lindsey Graham spoke about the elimination of Putin”
Norwegian | May 3 2023 18:48 utc | 85
“Biden’s cabinet is 70% Khazarian and multiple Israeli leaders are on record saying they pretty much control the US.”
Deplorable Commissar | May 3 2023 18:53 utc | 87
It would be fair to add to the list “Zelensky and his clique” the main American Nazifiers of Ukraine, whose activities assured the ongoing bloody conflict. Nuland-Kagan, Jake Sullivan, the whole warmongering Kagans’ clan, Anne Applebaum, and the numerous zionist stink-tanks dripping with Russophobia have put aside their “incomparable ethnic sufferings” because “nazi & hitler” and instead have established special relationships with self-proclaimed Nazis in Ukraine. The Straussians (neo-talmudists) have been treating Russia as “Amalek” and in their mad hatred of Russia and Russians have decided to weaponize, finance, and train followers of Stepan Bandera, a prominent Nazi collaborator, to turn Ukrainian youth into cannon fodder for bankers’ war against Russia.

Posted by: Cerena | May 3 2023 21:29 utc | 178

Time to cue Def Lepard’s Hysteria and chill.

Posted by: karlof1 | May 3 2023 21:32 utc | 180

Funny, most of you never say that ZioAmerica has to worry, when its patently obvious they are the instigators of all of this. Why is that ?
Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | May 3 2023 17:46 utc | 35
Because the neocons would respond with nukes. Putin is trying to limit that sort of escalation. The neocons don’t care enough about Stoltenberg enough to go nuclear.
Personally, I’d like to see Putin flatten Banksters Central, ie the City of London.
All wars are Bankster Wars. Time to take it to the Banksters.

Posted by: Mary | May 3 2023 21:33 utc | 182

Posted by: Milites | May 3 2023 21:20 utc | 173
Saluting your knowledge, I presume a similar issue with the tracks and mud would also apply to the Gepard anti-aircraft units supplied by Germany?

Posted by: West of England Andy | May 3 2023 21:46 utc | 184

All the russians need do is drop 500lb or 1000lb bombs on likely installations near the front that are housing petrol, food, ammo, trucks, guns, tanks. You can’t assault through big detonations like that.

Posted by: Wokechoke | May 3 2023 21:51 utc | 186

# 182
money makes the world go round
many say that
can you believe it?

Posted by: Dingo | May 3 2023 21:55 utc | 188

The only time the UK tabloids are accurate are when they talk about 36DD bust measurements! And even then, I’d want to check for myself…
Posted by: West of England Andy | May 3 2023 21:52 utc | 188
Pretty much!
Even that one looks staged, but what do I know.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | May 3 2023 21:58 utc | 190

Deplorable Commissar @ 157

Haven’t nations been switching to trading in their own currencies recently ? Cant China demand that the US pay it in Yuan ? Is that really so difficult ?

I’ll ask you the same thing. It’s a two way street, China also buys from the USA, the USA would say pay in dollars. China wants to buy from the USA, they aren’t macro-economically stupid enough to build up a huge trade surplus and beggar their trade partners like Germany does in the EU. Macro is about balance, imbalance is an ailing economy, extremes are ruin, surplus or deficit doesn’t matter. The USA since 1973 has demanded that everyone pays in dollars, how well did that work out, at home and abroad? And anyway bankrupting the USA won’t stop it from sailing off to war, at this point they are well broke already have been for the last 15 years, a 100% obscure war economy is their last hope, China would be doing them a favor.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | May 3 2023 22:06 utc | 192

” To quote Her Royal Hilaryness:
What difference does it make?
Why is it important? Turn your telescope around and look through the correct eyepiece.
Posted by: West of England Andy | May 3 2023 21:27 utc | 177 ”
Is that a riddle ? Because no one knows what you’re trying to say. Try again please.

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | May 3 2023 22:09 utc | 194

West of England Andy @ 188

The only time the UK tabloids are accurate are when they talk about 36DD bust measurements! And even then, I’d want to check for myself…

What if the measurements are real but the boobs are fake? Do you get to keep the Pulitzer?

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | May 3 2023 22:11 utc | 196

Posted by: karlof1 | May 3 2023 21:32 utc | 180
“Time to cue Def Lepard’s Hysteria and chill.”
I think this one may be more appropriate 🙂
Def Leppard – Foolin’

Posted by: Nathan in WA US | May 3 2023 22:14 utc | 198

Milites, #173
>>A Pz 2000 is not similar SPG to a Psion, but pedantics aside, it’s interesting that the comments about cleaning the mud buildup from the vehicles over-engineered running-gear could have been made by German crewmen on the Eastern Front. Will they ever learn?
That, and how many times are the Europeans going to invade Russia without being prepared for the cold weather? So far there was Napoleon’s disaster. This was followed by a British-French effort to take the naval base in the Crimea. Some British troops lost limbs owing to frostbite, and the French had it only a little bit better. And of course Hitler’s misadventure. Having done it three times, do they now know that Russia is seriously cold in the winter?

Posted by: Jmaas | May 3 2023 22:17 utc | 200