Tom_Q_Collins | May 10 2023 4:03 utc | 152
Some way to the south of Bakhmut, Russian forces in a small section pulled back the a canal or water channel that is a natural defense line.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1V8NzjQkzMOhpuLhkktbiKgodOQ27X6IV&ll=48.52793361522355%2C37.89605790652536&z=14
Posted by: Peter AU1 | May 10 2023 7:04 utc | 167

Is that a dangerous development for Russia?

Posted by: srbin | May 10 2023 9:24 utc | 203

It looks more like Zaluzhny was excluded and they wanted this to be public info.

Posted by: rk | May 10 2023 8:46 utc | 191
The point of the TG is that the US is creating an image of Zaluzhny as a man of action fighting a war who doesn’t have time for fluff.
Unlike Zelensky who’s doing foreign travels, photoshoots etc. who’s full of bluster.
Meaning they’re cultivating Zaluzhny’s image so when the time comes to cash in Zelensky there will be no fuss when Zaluzhny takes charge.
That’s why there is heavy friction between Zaluzhny and Zelensky.

Posted by: Down South | May 10 2023 9:26 utc | 205

” Impoverishing the citizenry does have its limitations as a strategy LOL
Posted by: Exile | May 10 2023 8:52 utc | 192 ”
Thats why the US has been fractured into a giant, non-homogeneous, dung pile of competing groups and interests only held back ,from killing each other, by the massive stick of the US security apparatus. Once thats gone, the events in the US will make the Bolshevik revolution look like a kids show as the scores that need to be settled are numerous.

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | May 10 2023 9:30 utc | 207

After the attempted assasination of writer Zakar Prilepine, I think I am becoming a pseudo-Russo-hawk. I cannot understand why the Duma doesn’t label the current government terrorist (the man who placed the bomb admitted he was working for Ukraine – followed by Budannov’s call to kill all Russians everywhere). I cannot understand why Viktor Yanukovich doesn’t form a government in exile that could take over the rump Ukraine.And finally form under the auspices of the CIS an international war crimes tribunal (a real one)to press charges against the Zelenskyy clique. Multipolar means multipolar justice as well. I would add as a PS that China is also suffering from this “too polite” syndrome. After his lengthy
conversation with Xi Jinping, Zelenskyy tried to bomb the Kremlin and then was so scared that he disappeared. Seems he wasn’t very convinced by Xi.

Posted by: Stierlitz | May 10 2023 9:33 utc | 209

Down South | May 10 2023 9:26 utc | 204
Ok, I understand the idea now.

Posted by: rk | May 10 2023 9:41 utc | 211

srbin #9:24 utc | 202
“Is that a dangerous development for Russia?”
The Russian force on the south flank withdrew a little under pressure and it may even reverse in 24 hours or so. Who knows? If Ukraine terrorist forces continue to advance there then it could be a threat but only if that point was stormed by a considerable terrorist force. And then that advance would be a turkey shoot for RUAF.
The front line is pretty elastic most of the time so wait and see what the next day or two brings. Remember there is a large Chechen force moving into place there right now so either they or the relieved Wagners might level the line before they take a much needed R&R break.
Time will tell.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | May 10 2023 9:44 utc | 213

Is that a dangerous development for Russia?
Posted by: srbin | May 10 2023 9:24 utc | 202
Dangerous for Russia? How?

Posted by: Peter AU1 | May 10 2023 9:48 utc | 215

@DC #198
Being Latino does not rule out being a Nazi/Fascist white supremacist. There are plenty of Latinos who identify with Hitler, Franco, Pinochet and other fascist ideologues.

Posted by: Noam A. Larkey | May 10 2023 9:55 utc | 217

China and Russia are full dues paying members, who must / should have influence on its policies

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | May 10 2023 9:16 utc | 200
Voting rights for IMF members are not equal, as can be seen from the table here: https://www.imf.org/en/About/executive-board/members-quotas
When it comes to the 24-member Executive Board of the IMF things are even more skewed against Russia and China: https://www.imf.org/en/About/executive-board/eds-voting-power

Posted by: West of England Andy | May 10 2023 10:03 utc | 219

srbin #9:24 utc | 202
Weeb Union has a brief discussion and analysis here. Three hours old.
The Russian flanks are vulnerable and Prigozhin and many bloggers have been saying this for weeks.
Yes, it is a poor situation and potentially catastrophic for the local sector but that depends entirely what is in the Russian background for a rapid reinforcement or comprehensive maneuver.
I trust that helps.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | May 10 2023 10:22 utc | 221

Meaning they’re cultivating Zaluzhny’s image so when the time comes to cash in Zelensky there will be no fuss when Zaluzhny takes charge.

Posted by: Down South | May 10 2023 9:26 utc | 204
That’s exactly the vibe I’ve been picking up from your posts quoting the ‘Legitimny’ channel (thanks, btw, for your continuing efforts).
I suppose all that needs to be decided is how the US will instigate the change? Some sort of civilian unrest, giving Zelensky the chance to flee, with Zaluzhny ‘reluctantly’ stepping forward on an ‘interim basis? Or a military uprising leading to a coup (and an uncertain future for Zelensky), aggravated by lack of meaningful success in any offensive direction?

Posted by: West of England Andy | May 10 2023 10:32 utc | 223

@ anon2020 | May 10 2023 7:20 utc | 173
You’d think it wouldn’t be too difficult for Russian EW expert to fit out a cargo plane or two with directional jamming equipment and blinding lasers to counter NATO air surveillance assets. They wouldn’t be any use in a real fight but neither would NATO’s birds and they would fit the current pushing and shoving. Just run jammers in rotation while gradually turning up the power.
Those EW systems can be detected by NATO AWACS-ISR sensors.
So I do not think it is a good idea to act covertly mixed in between commercial airlines routes. This is what NATO does with their ISR missions, and then jump out of it for some time coming and scanning way too close to RF. Israeli combat missions attacking Syria are hiding behind civilian air traffic, too.
RF should act openly and direct, and they do have all kinds of various EW systems also some unknown ones as a part of their combat avionics packages.
To lessen the damage caused by NATO ISR, the first step should be to push them as far as it goes over the Black Sea and away from Crimea and the whole Russian Black Sea coast. Intercepts and aggressive patrol missions help there, but to neuter those that push their luck and crossing the perimeters set by RF Aerospace forces, RF should show no mercy there.
The amount of the damage that NATO caused to RF by flying their airborne ISR missions is huge. There are not many options on what to do there but deter using EW, intercept, scare it away and if that is not helping take it down.
The West will scream for a few hours, but so what?
What I see is that NATO ignores the “red lines” as they are not there, and RF’s reaction appears as a rather tame.
Right now, above Romanian Black Sea coast, Italian stratotanker and 1 AWACS are substituting US and RAF there. Surely some combat jets are also hidden, but flying about.
French Air Force Beech King Air 350ER is pushing its luck flying and sensing a way too close to the combat area. US AWACS are circling around Kaliningrad and Belorussian border with Poland is scanned by Polish Boarder Guards plane. There might be some hidden ISR drones flying around and above the Black Sea, too.
But again, what we know about the real happenings in the air or on the ground is just too little to make any valid analysis, but only approximation and a great deal of imagination.
But one thing is for sure – there is a great need to disable NATO’s airborne ISR.

Posted by: whirlX | May 10 2023 10:37 utc | 225

” Earlier, starting at this link one could see a long stream of images of the murderer apparently and clearly valorizing Nazi ideology. Now much seems to have already been disappeared: Twitter_Scott_Adams
Posted by: anon1 | May 10 2023 9:44 utc | 211 ”
With all the “on the fly ” A.I. image, audio, website, and written word manipulation software available you still believe what the US/ CIA media is feeding you. Like I said , he killed mainly Whites and Asians very ” White supremacist ” of him.
Logic must be going extinct where you live.

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | May 10 2023 10:43 utc | 227

Posted by: ForYouAndy | May 10 2023 10:58 utc | 227
oh christ not another of you cheap US shills, are they paying you a dime an hour?

Posted by: pretzelattack | May 10 2023 11:03 utc | 229

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayast | May 10 2023 0:34 utc | 114

Ukranazistan has recaptured 3 square km of Artëmovsk both according to …

The Ukrainian strategy is mindless.
What do they “recapture”?
They recapture a slaughterhouse floor, where the shelters have been levelled, the remains mined and booby trapped, the cratered hellscape mapped and observed.
They only recapture their own graves.

How’s that “operational cauldron” thing working out for the copium addicts?

Cauldron. Plate. Skillet. Whatever you call it is not working out well for the Ukrainians.
Even your level of doomerism needs to face that empirical fact.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 10 2023 11:05 utc | 231

@ Milites | May 9 2023 21:07 utc | 71
Excellent dynamite-fishing material.

Posted by: John Kennard | May 10 2023 11:13 utc | 233

William Gruff @ 225
Just can’t help ya self can ya gruffy.
Jekyll and Hyde.
At least he didn’t have mobile phones.
Another thread derailment.
You need psychiatryatric help.

Posted by: Mark2 | May 10 2023 11:17 utc | 235

unimperator | May 9 2023 18:27 utc | 23
IMHO there was no winter (Russian) offensive because the very mild winter which saved Western Europeans from freezing also stopped the ground freezing solid for any length of time.
That mud really has to be seen to be believed, and makes offensives very difficult for either side.
Btw, is it just me, or is Tim Garton Ash either a cretin, a paid NATO agent, or both?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/10/west-opportunity-risk-ukraine-counteroffensive
The next six months will be decisive. If, come next winter, Ukrainian forces are still bogged down halfway, the west may not deliver a comparable military boost for another offensive next spring… the alternative, perhaps unlikely but still possible, is a decisive Ukrainian victory.
Isn’t there at least another two alternatives?
a) Ukraine offensive crushed, front lines still static.
b) Russia in Odessa and headed for Transnistria?
I make no predictions. Sauron still wields great power. May God defend the right!

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | May 10 2023 11:22 utc | 237

From TASS: https://tass.com/world/1615231

Talks between Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, UN kick off in Istanbul on extending grain deal
ANKARA, May 10. /TASS/. Negotiations between Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the United Nations on extending the Black Sea grain deal, and fulfilling the Russian part of the agreement pertaining to grain and fertilizer deliveries, will kick off in Istanbul on Wednesday and are expected to last two days, the Turkish Defense Ministry said.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin will participate in the high-level talks on the grain deal. Additionally, it is possible that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will also take part. May 11 is expected to be the key day of the negotiations.
Russia’s legitimate demands
The talks are expected to focus mainly on the start of implementation of the Russian part of the agreement under the overall grain deal framework, which provides for exports of agricultural products and fertilizers from Russia. Previously, Moscow repeatedly noted that, if this part remains unfulfilled, the grain deal would not be extended. Ankara earlier said that Moscow’s demands are absolutely legitimate and should be fulfilled unquestionably.
Another important issue is reconnecting the Russian Agricultural Bank to SWIFT and lifting restrictions on banking and insurance guarantees. As Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu pointed out earlier, the extension of the grain deal would depend on taking these demands by Russia into consideration.
Additionally, a diplomatic source told TASS that the Istanbul meeting will also address the issue of drafting a plan for the safe evacuation of Turkish merchant vessels that are stuck in Ukrainian ports due to Russia’s special military operation. While most of these vessels have already returned home, about 10 Turkish ships still remain stranded in Ukraine.
Participation of Turkish banks
The Turkish Foreign Ministry earlier said that Guterres had suggested that Turkey’s state-owned Ziraat Bank process payments for Russian grain and fertilizer sales.
Ankara insists that it could support this proposal if guarantees are given that no threats to the Turkish bank would emerge. As an informed source told TASS, the technicalities of this issue will be discussed at the four-party talks in Istanbul.
That said, a high-ranking Turkish official told Reuters earlier that Ziraat Bank would serve as “an intermediary to [a given] transaction with the written approval and commissioning of the United States and the United Nations,” as was the case with US-based JP Morgan. This will not be implemented without written approval. If relevant agreements are reached, the US and the UN would have to approve each transaction.
About the grain deal
On July 22, 2022, a set of documents on supplies of food and fertilizers to the international market was signed in Istanbul. Initially, the agreements were concluded for 120 days and in November 2022, the deal was extended for the same number of days. On March 18, Russia announced the extension of the grain deal for 60 days, saying this would be enough time to assess the effectiveness of the memorandum signed with the UN.
The Russian Foreign Ministry pointed out that any decision on extending the deal would depend on reconnecting the Russian Agricultural Bank to SWIFT; resuming supplies of agricultural equipment, spare parts and maintenance service; lifting restrictions on insurance and re-insurance as well as the ban on port access; resuming the operation of the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline; and unblocking the foreign assets and accounts of Russian companies involved in producing and transporting food and fertilizers.

Posted by: West of England Andy | May 10 2023 11:29 utc | 239

Posted by: West of England Andy | May 10 2023 11:29 utc | 239
One wonders what the point of this grain deal is at all.
Not even the Europeans want the toxic Ukrainian grain.
I suppose the Russians themselves are just fishing for their own benefit here while the Ukrainians must slowly be realising they’re not going to get much out of the deal in the end.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 10 2023 11:35 utc | 241

[237]
Btw, is it just me, or is Tim Garton Ash either a cretin, a paid NATO agent, or both?
I have for several decades attempted to understand Timothy Garton Ash: I even read some of his books. I looked at his background. I wondered how he generated an income.
That he was/is at St Antony’s, Oxford suggested he was on the Spook payroll – it is after all connected to MI6. Hoover Institution at Stanford is of the same ilke.
I find myself diametrically opposed to views espoused by Timothy Garton Ash. I note he writes in the Guardian – another publication I find impossible to read or digest.
It is rare that I find myself in total revulsion but with both Guardian and Garton Ash that occurs individually and when combined. I really cannot see how he observes facts and gets a prism to distort quite so much.

Posted by: Paul Greenwood | May 10 2023 11:44 utc | 243

In response to Deplorable Commissar@226,
Why, what would prevent a white supremacist from killing whites and asians? Maybe they were race traitors and crypto-jews the lot of them.
As to him being Hispanic, thus presumably a descendant of West-European settlers, how would that prevent him from identifying as white or some other arbitrarily superior stock? Just look at East European white supremacists for comparison; not a white person among them.

Posted by: Skiffer | May 10 2023 11:44 utc | 245

” As to him being Hispanic, thus presumably a descendant of West-European settlers, how would that prevent him from identifying as white or some other arbitrarily superior stock?
Posted by: Skiffer | May 10 2023 11:44 utc | 245 ”
Please look at his photographs before spewing inanities. Its unbecoming.

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | May 10 2023 11:50 utc | 247

In response to Deplorable Commissar@247,
What am I supposed to learn from his photograph? That he can’t identify as white based on appearance? I’ve seen enough Ukrainian gypsies who identify as Aryan to immunize myself against such non-arguments.
Also, no response to my first point — an obvious concession on your part.

Posted by: Skiffer | May 10 2023 11:55 utc | 249

The so called left of today. The rainbow flag. Sewer that cannot differentiate between sewage and socialism. Ahh, I put a spoon of cajun spice in my broth.
But certainly those on the Australian left need to go back to Barcaldine
Now the left is all about faggotry and zero to do with the working man and providing for family.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | May 10 2023 12:02 utc | 251

Thats why the US has been fractured into a giant, non-homogeneous, dung pile of competing groups and interests only held back ,from killing each other, by the massive stick of the US security apparatus. Once thats gone, the events in the US will make the Bolshevik revolution look like a kids show as the scores that need to be settled are numerous.
Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | May 10 2023 9:30 utc | 20
———-
Indeed Excellent commentary…

Posted by: John2007 | May 10 2023 12:06 utc | 253

Francisco Franco doesn’t look very Aryan either. for that matter, neither did Hitler.

Posted by: pretzelattack | May 10 2023 12:18 utc | 255

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | May 10 2023 11:50 utc | 247
Check out Leo Felton, a Nazi who was gonna bomb the Holocaust memorial in Boston about 20 years ago. He got caught, went to prison. He renounced white supremacy in 2008. Leo Felton is a black man.

Posted by: Caveman | May 10 2023 12:32 utc | 257

@ anon2020 | May 10 2023 11:17 utc | 236
I was thinking of military aircraft flying within RF declared airspace to provide targeted airborne suppression of NATO surveillance flights.
Thanks for your clarification and a perspective. Agreed there.
I am sure they do fly something when there is crucial action happening to EW blind NATO’s ISR. But I doubt they do that 24/7. As cleverly, is evoked by:
@ LightYearsFromHome | May 10 2023 11:32 utc | 240 who says
“…totally off hand guess is that the Moskva tried something like this, to interfere with NATO AWACS and USA Global Hawks. From what I read the Moskva had been refitted as an EW ship. Maybe there was a tacit agreement that RF doesn’t interfere with the international air space over the Black Sea and the USA/UK won’t go after their ships. Maybe the Moskva over stepped that boundary? Russia doesn’t have any easy strategy against NATO air surveillance outside its legal air space at least not without serious escalation, which is exactly what the Pentagon wants and RF is trying to avoid.
True, some of it, sure.
‘Moskva’ was EW and a AD radar station covering good deal of 600km radius. We still do not know was it sunk or had a misfortune onboard.
Also the Snake Island was pretty much deterring to NATO’s ISR there.
But I doubt that there was any deal made, as NATO’s ISR effect is huge there. RF just lost very important positions in the Black Sea.
RF made a NOTAM no-fly zone outside its territorial waters, widening it up to, some say 40 miles, some claim 60 miles + 12 miles own territorial maritime borders.
Whatever it is, those are ‘soft rules’ and I think RF reacts accordingly to which AWACS capacity is used there and how far (close) it’ll go.
I think that RF must sometimes react as expected and show the teeth and not be afraid of an escalation, as one cannot run away from a head-on clash forever.
NATO is much easier scared off, than it is advertised around Combined Media. That has been confirmed when RF took down the drone. There were no ISR flights for a considerable time, and now they slowly creep to where they were before the incident.
Slowly, indeed, RF’s EW units are getting more new equipment and boosting their capacity day in day out.
Also let us not forget that a several RF war ships are hanging about in the North Sea – that is known and a that explains the high NATO activity there. So it is a tit for tat, but IMHO not enough where it matters.
Fyi, and OT – Air Force Two Boeing VC-32A (callsign SAM954) just landed in Hamburg, Germany.
Or Kamala, or dr Jill or Sullivan/Blinken combo or hunk of a Nuland has landed for furthering of spreading democracy and peace in Europe.

Posted by: whirlX | May 10 2023 12:33 utc | 259

https://t.me/NovichokRossiya/30327?single
The biggest bad joke about the current conflict is the assertion by Putin cultists and the gasbag armchair generals like the Faker, Larry Johnson, and Martyanov that Russia spent the 8 years from 2014-21 “preparing for war”. Fourteen months into the war that Russia spent 8 years allegedly preparing for, it can’t even coordinate activities between units positioned next to each other? Really?
Today I saw someone on Larry Johnson’s blog claim:
“Whatever problems the Russian army has, the Ukrainian army has twenty-fold.”
This is not a particularly useful remark. Comparing the Russian army which is supposed to have been preparing for war for 8 years (if one believes the armchair generals) with the Ukrainian army (which was, according to the same armchair generals in early February 2022, too drunk, demoralised, and incompetent to fight; and which according to the same armchair generals been destroyed twice over by now) should be unnecessary. The Russian army shouldn’t have had any problems and if there were any they should have been ironed out long before this.
Unless these totally self inflicted problems can be acknowledged, they can’t be fixed. If they are not fixed, the conflict cannot be won. It’s as simple as that.

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayast | May 10 2023 12:34 utc | 261

Ukraine’s delayed counteroffensive has just begun. Ukies are trying to cut off Russian troops’ water supply and fuel supply. Russia needs to deploy plenty of snipers to hunt Ukies crossing the Dniper river in small units.
As I said before, attack Kiev. That will get Ukie army units rush north to save it. Attack them in their chaotic retreat.
The bridge between Ukraine and Romania is still functional. It has to go.
Russia has accelerated shell, gunship and tank production. Why not give priority to mass producing Gerans and small drone copters.

Posted by: Jason | May 10 2023 12:49 utc | 263

Deplorable Commissar | May 10 2023 9:22 utc | 201

Its “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.”

It’s a shame you don’t take your own advice.

Posted by: Sarlat La Canède | May 10 2023 12:55 utc | 265

Posted by: Skiffer | May 10 2023 11:44 utc | 245

Why, what would prevent a white supremacist from killing whites and asians?

At least in the last two centuries the biggest killers of ‘whites’ have been actual “white” white supremacists …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 10 2023 13:02 utc | 267

@SwissArmyMan 37
yes, it could be better, but I thought at least pointing at a few issues.
(may be the bar is sometimes the wrong place to post these items, but on the other hand someone new could come by and regard it as helpful and new and perhaps build on that initial info.)
@Deplorable Commissar 41
yeah I was wondering too, how that will work out for them not knowing the material result.
But Norton (see Swiss Army Man) is mostly just guessing too. Its not a deep insider´s piece.
I would like to read THAT.

Posted by: AG | May 10 2023 13:03 utc | 269

@Steven Starr 116
met with Postol some time ago. There was so much to discuss I missed out on the hypersonic issue.
I´ll have to catch up on that some other time.
But looking into twitter thread by Pavel Podvig there seem to be a lot of “sientists” and “experts” who don´t live up to the reputation of what science and expertise happen to promise by popular believe (epecially not mixing up ideology.)
So I had to learn the unpleasant lesson, “scientist” in itself means nothing.

Posted by: AG | May 10 2023 13:16 utc | 271

Rumours that Zaluzhny was killed in one of the Russian strikes:
https://t.me/boris_rozhin/85338
Posted by: IvanTheNotSoTerrible | May 10 2023 13:08 utc | 271

I want to believe…

Posted by: shadowbanned | May 10 2023 13:23 utc | 273

” At least in the last two centuries the biggest killers of ‘whites’ have been actual “white” white supremacists …
Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 10 2023 13:02 utc | 267 ”
Your answer has no bearing on the topic on hand. BTW, most of the Bolsheviks or Stalin and his gang weren’t White.
Also, learn how to capitalize White. Thanks for your cooperation.

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | May 10 2023 13:31 utc | 275

” Without access to SWIFT African countries and places like Pakistan cannot PAY for grain imports or fertiliser imports.
Posted by: Paul Greenwood | May 10 2023 12:33 utc | 260 ”
Between them, China and Russia have some of the best computer programmers, engineers, scientists, and technicians in the world. China produces top of the line computer and networking hardware. Russia is master of electronics. Are we to believe that they are incapable of producing an alternative to SWIFT, especially since they have been working on one for years now ?
You folks must think the Russians and Chinese are incompetent. I dont.

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | May 10 2023 13:40 utc | 277

I love this forum! Someone please pour me another drink, lol

Posted by: John2007 | May 10 2023 13:43 utc | 279

Arch Bungle @ 241

One wonders what the point of this grain deal is at all.

Maybe it’s a big deal to Turkey, multi billions, they do a lot of the processing, probably well connected very lucrative private contacts tied to state influence and largesse. Both Russia and EU need Turkey’s good graces, Turkey doesn’t seem to have or want friends just interests, which, looking around, isn’t all that dumb.

Not even the Europeans want the toxic Ukrainian grain.

That’s probably Ruskie psyops, I’m sure it’s no more or less toxic than the rest of the big agra crap all us plebs around the world are sold and fed.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | May 10 2023 13:53 utc | 281

To all that are hot and bothered about the ” White Supremacist “, obviously, non-White shooter. My final thoughts on this topic:
If he truly considered himself White then he was extremely mentally sick, however, I dont buy that. This is due to the current climate in the US when, For at least the last couple of years, anytime a “person of color” committed a heinous crime or mass shooting, the US media went out of their way to insist that the perp was mentally ill, no matter what the circumstances. This isnt the case with our Latino friend, instead they are driving the NAZI angle to the max. Thats telling in its self. Additionally, go and truly research some of the previous mass shootings in the US, as many of them have many question marks and odd coincidences or occurrences ( I.E. the Las Vegas shooting ).
Like I stated earlier, photos can be altered, websites fabricated, search histories falsified and so forth. At its most innocent, the PTB is just trying to protect the narrative of ” only White men ” commit mass shootings, not the innocent, oppressed POC’s. At worst its another attempt at an agenda.

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | May 10 2023 14:00 utc | 283

@shadowbanned 275
well, I happened to believe that on matters such as disarmament and NPF, there would be more rationality reigning.
But sometimes Podvig is like the only sane person there. Even if he probably sticks to some political “narratives” out there, we refuse, but I am thankful for anyone who at least follows the chain of argumentative exchange and facts, not prejudiced insult. As seems to be the case among many who are on diplomatic missions. A fucking catastrophe of course.

Posted by: AG | May 10 2023 14:08 utc | 285

Deplorable Commissar @ 278

You folks must think the Russians and Chinese are incompetent. I dont.

It has very little to do with clever s/w engineers this stuff is very complex to make function properly, the interconnectedness and iron clad reliability are what matter, there can be no bugs – good luck selling people on the beta and transition.
I’ll bet a round that Swift runs on 50y/o proprietary s/w that anyone sane is scared to fuck with and update. Swift works because of the guarantees that come with decades and even a couple centuries of anglo-sphere plumbing behind the scenes that makes it go round smoothly all with insurance, timeliness, security. That’s what it really rests on not the s/w.
The alternative will happen but it will take time to establish a track record of iron clad reliability. What the alternative will guarantee is that it can’t be wantonly or rancorously fucked with by some dickhead country to it’s benefit – bugs or not that’s the pitch right there.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | May 10 2023 14:14 utc | 287

In response to Deplorable Commissar@284,
Nice, I’m sure you’ve managed to convince everyone that you’re not hot and bothered about the topic of white supremacy. These CIA planted stories about non-white origin white supremacists give real Slav-origin non-white white supremacists who capitalize White a bad name. What sort of actual white supremacist would shoot at another white person without first finding an arbitrary loophole for why they aren’t actually white? How stupid do the FBI think the public is? Do they think we’re all non-white or something?
Anyway, good job defending the natural order of white superiority over the lesser races on the internet. You’ve earned your temporary place in the hierarchy as an honorary white person, though make sure not to exceed your allowance.

Posted by: Skiffer | May 10 2023 14:22 utc | 289

too scents | May 10 2023 12:09 utc | 254

Decadence and overabundance have blinded the golden hoard.

That should be “horde”, unless it’s a pun, in which case I like it !

Posted by: Sarlat La Canède | May 10 2023 14:32 utc | 291

The ignorance gets worse with more comments, a level of drunk fools. Texas oil and Russia oil and Ukraine oil are one big happy family. Blind ignorance, or just not wanting to know. Humans are the worst creatures and deserve no remorse.
USA like ww2 will cry and whine until anybody, even imaginary attacks them, such an infantile nation needing attention. The country is a destroyed landscape of abandoned stripmalls where they blame the poor people for being poor! Nation that renames slavery and few decades with a Hollywood film. Trust me bar, it’s not worth saving, unless you evil as fuck

Posted by: Ignorant humans | May 10 2023 14:45 utc | 293

So far I have refrained from name calling or ad hominem, but Deplorable Commissar continues to push the boundaries of attention seeking behavior.
On the Allen shooter – Dude, I don’t know if you had a chance to view his profile at OK.ru while it was still up (seems to have been taken down in the past 12 hours), but I did a deep dive. THOUSANDS of pages of notebook scribbling in pictures posted on his diary-like page. LOTS of swastikas. Are you stupid or do you not understand that there are Latino Hitler lovers? Also are you dense or do you not understand that someone who thinks in loose terms of white supremacy on some matters might also kill white people for other reasons like mental health issues? And are you not aware that there is a “white” and/or “European” identity embraced by LOTS of Hispanics? The guy had relatively light skin and colored eyes, FFS. In any case I read a lot of his ramblings and it wasn’t a “psyop”, it was a deeply disturbed young fool who got sucked into the Qanon/Incel rabbit hole online and never could find his way back out.
On the IMF and Russia and China. Who fucking cares? A supermajority is required for any vote to pass and Russia and China have like a combined 8% of the vote. So again, who fucking cares if they are members? What’s your point?

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | May 10 2023 14:58 utc | 295

Posted by: Longhorn | May 10 2023 14:06 utc | 285
Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out….Aggy.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | May 10 2023 15:00 utc | 297

In response to LightYearsFromHome@295,
That’s just what the CIA wants you to think. In actual fact, anyone who kills a white person is by definition non-white. If they manage to look white while doing it, they are just white-looking non-whites. The latter may be true of the victims of such events also, which makes things even more confusing.
Now that I think about it, white supremacy may have been a trial balloon for gender fluidity.

Posted by: Skiffer | May 10 2023 15:03 utc | 299