Rand Paul …. telling it as it is ….
BREAKING NEWS: Rand Paul Issues Issues Stark Warning To Biden, Senate, & House About Ukraine Funding [11 mins – well worth listening to …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu0EcL-NK9U

Posted by: Don Firineach | Sep 20 2023 18:56 utc | 203

RE: Posted by: tesla | Sep 20 2023 18:34 utc | 96
The exercise did what Turkey, Iran & Russia wanted it to do.
Cause the population to rise up, even camping now, calling for Pashinyan’s resignation. He only had a 17% approval rating b4 this. He starts screaming “coup” when the population rages, but really did himself in calling for “US Help”… he’s another flaming US/EU stooge idiot. All Azerbaijani has to do is pin prick now & then. None of them want US there, so they’ll be hand in hand working it together to remove him.
I also thought timing clever, as Biden meets with the other 5 “stan’s”… as they look on that & think: “That could be me and my populas calling for my ouster after this meeting…”
All well done really…

Posted by: Trubind1 | Sep 20 2023 18:59 utc | 205

Vladimir Zhirinovsky in 1999 at the Council of Europe:
“>https://t.me/inessas1992/4700

This is a must see. It is scary how correct he was.
One of the quotes: “I must say in advance that the war will be on the territory of Ukraine for the Crimea. In the Caucasus, the West will support the Armenians against Baku (Azerbaijan) and support Tbilisi (Georgia) against Abkhazia.”

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 20 2023 19:04 utc | 207

Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), has stated her party’s intention to massively expand voting rights for foreigners. This includes a plan for refugees who have lived in Germany for more than six months to be allowed to vote, according to the German daily BILD.
Posted by: rk | Sep 20 2023 18:40 utc | 100
Sorry but that’s fake news. It’d be 6 years (not 6 Months) and then only for the municipal elections. The constitution would have to be changed too so that’s a non-starter anyway…
https://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/analyse-von-ulrich-reitz-faeser-korrigiert-wahlrechts-versprechen-und-macht-dann-alles-noch-viel-schlimmer_id_209489902.html

Posted by: Zet | Sep 20 2023 19:20 utc | 209

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 20 2023 19:04 utc | 105
The strategic understanding is there and he can’t have been the only one to see almost exactly what was coming.
He died suddenly of covid soon after start of SMO.

Posted by: anon2020 | Sep 20 2023 19:28 utc | 211

Posted by: Zet | Sep 20 2023 19:20 utc |
Sorry little troll, NOT fake news. Read the link you posted. They said 6 months and now, hours later, they say it was a simple mistake, “let’s do 6 years”
Let’s see the original and comments: tvpworld.com/72823993/german-interior-minister-eyes-granting-refugees-voting-rights
Let’s translate your link:
“Faeser is the chairwoman of the Hessian state association. And the association reacted. With the admission of an extremely embarrassing mistake (…) And according to the Hesse SPD, six years became six months. The error was corrected. Now the Hesse SPD is calling for foreigners to be granted the right to vote after six years of residence in Germany”

Posted by: rk | Sep 20 2023 19:42 utc | 213

@Dr. George W Oprisko | Sep 20 2023 16:19 utc | 56
The Russians have their geranium drone which has a range from 970km up till 2500km, apparently. They have used them at distances over 1000km before. But these drones are only good for hitting fixed targets, so they are sent off with a specific stationary infrastructure target in mind. The lancets are operator controlled or pattern recognition controlled (tank, ifv, etc) on search and destroy ops or both, but their range is limited. However there is nothing preventing the Russians from adapting the geraniums from accepting fixed target co-ords whilst in flight, or having the pattern recognition option implemented, or having a cluster munitions payload, or those munitions spreading conducting wires over powerlines which short out everything. Even operator controlled geranium drones would work because the Ukies don’t have the technology to block satellite comms across the whole of Ukraine.
So the only thing stopping Russia from drone-ing the entire territory of Ukraine senseless is the strategy which Russia is employing in Ukraine. They want the Ukies to travel across the whole territory of Ukraine to get bombed once within like 50km of the front lines. Its the Russian strategy, its their business, they want to expose the West as being nothing but a paper tiger more than they want to end this war or kill the Ukies. Massive drone operations certainly doesn’t involve lots of Russian casualties.

Posted by: gT | Sep 20 2023 19:44 utc | 215

Posted by: gT | Sep 20 2023 19:44 utc | 109
The Geraniums are often made to take very wide and loopy detours on the way to target. The purpose is to deplete and/or expose air defense systems.
When Surovikin was in charge last Fall, he organized the attacks in a way where they were always in position to quickly hit valuable and exposed long range air defense systems. There probably aren’t that many, and Ukraine actually used up a lot of their long range A/D during the course of the summer offensive by deploying them closer to the front.
Recently, Ukraine has gotten some hits of their own, especially in Crimea and Kherson region of A/D systems. But this will most likely be limited as a temporary success and Russians will fix it gradually.
Russia also managed to hit several of AFU remaining missile carrying aircraft over last days, putting significant dents on AFU ability to lob Storm Shadow or SCALPs.

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 20 2023 19:55 utc | 217

Posted by: ld | Sep 20 2023 15:51 utc | 44
“It isn’t bots and trolls that are destroying the best blog on the internet … it is the owner himself.”
Judging by all the attention given to this blog, it appears most seem to think that b is doing a fine job.
But if you feel so strongly, perhaps it might be time for a change in your browser favorites.
In other words, be a Debbie Downer elsewhere.

Posted by: Morongobill | Sep 20 2023 19:59 utc | 219

Ukraine’s change in tactics from heavy armour assaults to infantry on foot is probably due to the fact that the donated armour was being manned by sheep dipped NATO forces who have now realised that the Russians can and will destroy their tanks and APCs, along with their occupants.
The UK was obviously not willing to put Challenger tanks in the hands of Ukrainians who had received no useful training whatever.
In addition to that, being forced to participate in Nazi atrocities is having a serious effect on the mental health of the Western military fighting in Ukraine.
It should be politicians who suffer from their warmongering, not the poor bloody infantry.

Posted by: CitizenSmith | Sep 20 2023 20:09 utc | 221

@ Don Firineach | Sep 20 2023 18:56 utc | 103
Thanks for tke link to Rand Paul.

Posted by: Weimar | Sep 20 2023 20:12 utc | 223

Breaking:
Polish PM Morawieczki said Poland has ceased forwarding weapons to Ukraine, because it needs to arm itself.
https://t.me/CyberspecNews/42715

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 20 2023 20:16 utc | 225

Just my humble opinion.
First the Russians will clean up the battle field to the starting lines in the south to get the relics and possible technology, furthermore, sooner than later. Clean up is also training and battlefield analysis. By the end of February, Donetsk and Lugansk will be full Russian.. as said by Russian MoD. The summer campaign will be to the Dnieper with the grand crescendo, being the shelling of major cities on that river, Kiev included.
-Influence the USA general Elections-..

Posted by: T S | Sep 20 2023 20:25 utc | 227

Polish PM Morawieczki said Poland has ceased forwarding weapons to Ukraine, because it needs to arm itself.
https://t.me/CyberspecNews/42715
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 20 2023 20:16 utc | 114
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Enough chutzpah and bombast to go around, just between the two of them. So, they will not perform through shipping of Western weapons, in effect putting a hold on them?
Why did they accept the shipments coming in if they can put on embargo on them after arrival? Poland just another banana republic? We certainly would expect the US to be able to pull that one off with a straight face.

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Sep 20 2023 20:28 utc | 229

@Down South – please cut back on your Telegram reposting.
Posted by: b | Sep 20 2023 13:01 utc | 1

I can’t access Telegram. I do appreciate the contributions from Down South as extreemly usefull. Please continue.
bm

Posted by: bm | Sep 20 2023 20:32 utc | 231

sheep dipped NATO forces accepting stupid orders to self destruct?
Posted by: CitizenSmith | Sep 20 2023 20:09 utc | 112
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Could be. It all depends on who is in charge of what passes for maneuver warfare in Ukraine. The tank drivers follow orders.
I take my reading from the epistles according to Big Serge when it comes to maneuver tank warfare. He beats all hands I have ever read.
Big Serge thinks that the Command (as we say in the US) might not be up to snuff. Having said that and a different vein, Z certainly is a sniffer.

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Sep 20 2023 20:35 utc | 233

Posted by: S | Sep 20 2023 16:10 utc | 52
Better use yandex translate: https://translate.yandex.com/
1 – Better translation
2 – Not being followed by gUrgle

Posted by: Greg Galloway | Sep 20 2023 20:36 utc | 235

According to Military summary, the drama with Poland may also be a show to hide the poor results of the aid meetings in Ramstein, namely, Ukraine has got commitments on merely 45 tanks (30 Leopard 1 tanks and 15 T-72 tanks purchased by Denmark) and some Norwegian AFVs.
It’s most likely Ukraine is on track to receive less stuff from US in 2024 than they receive this year. Also, some investigation of MSM talking points reveal that EU economies are seriously going into the shredder now, and everyone needs to spend huge amounts of money to order new weapons from the US.
These weapons order by EU/Nato states will be competing with needs of Ukraine, and US isn’t able to deliver anything very fast. So the chance Ukraine will hit something larger than a dip for deliveries is substantial. Of course, this will also be detrimental to the “long war” narrative by talking heads in US and Nato. Mercouris has talked about this long war narrative many times and thinks Ukraine simply won’t hold in shape to deliver a very long war, at all.

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 20 2023 20:39 utc | 237

After having lost the access to Strategic Culture Foundation for the last two or three weeks, I regain with the help of Pepe Escobar. It suffices to change ‘.com’ for ‘.su’
https://strategic-culture.com/ Does not work
https://strategic-culture.su/ Will work
Hope it helps

Posted by: António Ferrão | Sep 20 2023 20:42 utc | 239

Surely this indicates the degree of support for this source of information, no?
Posted by: Joe B | Sep 20 2023 16:04 utc | 51
##############
You’re confusing a private website with a democracy. Posters are NOT stakeholders. We’re all here because B allows us to be here. And when he decides otherwise, that is just how it will be.
If he asks someone nicely to do something, it would be wise to respect that.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Sep 20 2023 20:45 utc | 241

https://t.me/s/DDGeopolitics
…
Posted by: S | Sep 20 2023 16:45 utc | 67
These links https://t.me/s/… don’t always work.
Try https://tgstat.com/.
Just enter the Telegram channel you want to view, like DDGeopolitics, and it will send you to https://tgstat.ru/en/channel/@DDGeopolitics.
There you can always read the latest posts. No videos, though.

Posted by: Martina | Sep 20 2023 20:45 utc | 243

“Cirillo as VP for Kamala. I try not to succumb to the lure of decadence but it would be exquisite. If dystopia had limits it wouldn’t be dystopia.”
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Sep 20 2023 18:34 utc | 95
I was hoping to see Cirillo having a face off with Maria Zakharova.

Posted by: dh | Sep 20 2023 20:46 utc | 245

Finally some good news for Zelensky:

The White House confirms that Ukraine has received all the requested support from the USA for its counter-offensive. https://t.me/Slavyangrad/63963

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 20 2023 20:52 utc | 247

Sorry little troll, NOT fake news. Read the link you posted. They said 6 months and now, hours later, they say it was a simple mistake, “let’s do 6 years”
Posted by: rk | Sep 20 2023 19:42 utc | 108
Yes, they reported on it to stir up those reactions… if you still fall for these media stunts then I feel sorry for you and have a bridge to sell you…

Posted by: Zet | Sep 20 2023 21:12 utc | 249

@ Don Firineach | Sep 20 2023 18:56 utc | 103
Thanks for tke link to Rand Paul.
Posted by: Weimar | Sep 20 2023 20:12 utc | 113
Rand Paul wouldn’t know the difference between his own arse and his elbow. Certainly doesn’t understand money still m bed in a gold standard fixed exchange rate world.

Posted by: Echo Chamber | Sep 20 2023 21:20 utc | 251

I understand the Down South TG posts here have been useful to some, but they have been overdone. Just keep the volume moderate and there should be no problem. If you begin to dominate a thread it is time to get your own blog.
Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 20 2023 16:16 utc | 55
Yes, moderate is the key. b has his point.
When I travel in China, like right now, and not using VPNs, literally Down South’s curated summaries are my only way to follow current TG info. So I really appreciate MoB and DS ‘s information updates.

Posted by: KitaySupporter | Sep 20 2023 21:22 utc | 253

This would make Rand Paul cross eyed and his own head would explode. He simply can’t grasp it.
https://new-wayland.com/blog/mmt-money-story-print-edition/
Thousands of the brainwashed listen to him. Trapped in a lifetime of myths. Sheep being herded by the shepherd. A very sad state of affairs.

Posted by: Echo Chamber | Sep 20 2023 21:26 utc | 255

@Weimar | Sep 20 2023 20:12 utc | 113
You’re welcome
@ Echo Chamber | Sep 20 2023 21:20 utc | 127
Do you agree with the content of what Rand Paul stated in the US Senate, or not?

Posted by: Don Firineach | Sep 20 2023 21:29 utc | 257

@António Ferrão | Sep 20 2023 20:42 utc | 121
It helps! Ta.

Posted by: Don Firineach | Sep 20 2023 21:40 utc | 259

Do you agree with the content of what Rand Paul stated in the US Senate, or not?
Posted by: Don Firineach | Sep 20 2023 21:29 utc | 130
Irrelevant buddy, he believes the tax payer money myth. So you can take anything he says With a pinch of salt. My rule is don’t cherry pick a liars statements. He is ideologically driven and wants to lead you down a garden path.
The hook is he rubs your confirmation bias so he has your attention. Then leads you into a world of fiction after that.
It is how ALL ideologues operate.
He doesn’t understand money so everything after that will be wrong. Really, really and I mean really wrong.

Posted by: Echo Chamber | Sep 20 2023 21:40 utc | 261

@Martina | Sep 20 2023 20:45 utc | 123
Thanks for the URL https://tgstat.com/

Posted by: cirsium | Sep 20 2023 21:41 utc | 263

Lots of explosions in Crimea right now : Sevastopol, Simferopol, Dzhankoi, Novofyodorovka…
Had the kievite forces received MGM-140 ATACMS ?

Posted by: Nerdanel | Sep 20 2023 21:48 utc | 265

Posted by: Don Firineach | Sep 20 2023 21:29 utc | 130
Rand Paul greatest achievement in his life was to get thousands of people to believe this shite below.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pCrn4lfwQLc&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fneweconomicperspectives.org%2F&source_ve_path=OTY3MTQ&feature=emb_imp_woyt
All he did was create a lost generation.

Posted by: Echo Chamber | Sep 20 2023 22:00 utc | 267

Posted by: Trubind1 @ 104
Hope so, Turkiye, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Israel, Russia, USA, way more treacherous lot than even the Maltese Falcon, though Russia would be Sam Spade here.
If you’re right, I’m buying you a beer and a shot of top-shelf. We will see if it calms down or all hell breaks lose. It’ll take a while, unlike what most here think Empire of Chaos is subtle and patient.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Sep 20 2023 22:01 utc | 269

Posted by: Nerdanel | Sep 20 2023 21:48 utc | 134
Nope. Nothing on Telegram. You must be getting your news from Elensky.

Posted by: Surferket | Sep 20 2023 22:28 utc | 271

Re Down South posts, I really enjoy these, and the signal is high relative to a lot of the “your mother wears army boots” type of posts.
That said, this is B’s show, and that should be respected. Mr. Down South, maybe there’s an easy way to start your own blog? I’d read it.

Posted by: Boris Badenov | Sep 20 2023 22:30 utc | 273

Please keep Down Souths posts. I dont do telegram or twitter or anything like that. Hers the only place I see his/her posts.
Thank you”!
Drinks are on me tonight folks!

Posted by: HERMIUS | Sep 20 2023 22:31 utc | 275

Posted by: bm | Sep 20 2023 20:32 utc | 117
For those who say they can’t access Telegram from their home country the solution is to get a VPN.
I use StarVPN and it’s not expensive at all.

Posted by: Surferket | Sep 20 2023 22:33 utc | 277

Posted by: b | Sep 20 2023 13:01 utc | 1
Will do.
Posted by: Down South | Sep 20 2023 16:30 utc | 62
Down South, please stop posting under the names of so many other members of the bar and instead persist in your interesting reposts, thanks in advance.

Posted by: Tak-Tik | Sep 20 2023 22:38 utc | 279

Lots of explosions in Crimea right now : Sevastopol, Simferopol, Dzhankoi, Novofyodorovka…
Had the kievite forces received MGM-140 ATACMS ?
Posted by: Nerdanel | Sep 20 2023 21:48 utc | 134
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Posted by: Nerdanel | Sep 20 2023 21:48 utc | 134
Nope. Nothing on Telegram. You must be getting your news from Elensky.
Posted by: Surferket | Sep 20 2023 22:28 utc | 137
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At about midday on September 20, the Ukrainian military launched another missile attack on Crimea. The peninsula was reportedly targeted with eight Storm Shadow missiles.
https://southfront.press/storm-shadow-missiles-targeted-crimea-for-the-second-day-in-a-row/

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Sep 20 2023 22:39 utc | 281

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Sep 20 2023 22:39 utc | 142
Launched an attack is not the same as hitting their targets.
Context please.
“Lots of explosions in Crimea right now : Sevastopol, Simferopol, Dzhankoi, Novofyodorovka…”
That’s clearly exaggeration.
Btw, a cargo ship from Turkiye to Ukraine was hit.
https://southfront.press/explosion-damaged-bulk-carrier-in-the-black-sea/

Posted by: Surferket | Sep 20 2023 23:03 utc | 283

In other words, be a Debbie Downer elsewhere.
Posted by: Morongobill | Sep 20 2023 19:59 utc | 111

It takes more than one complaint to be a “downer”. The downers on the website are the guys who consistently complain about anyone that challenges the notion that things are going very well for Russia or points out things than went or are going unfavorably for Russia. But people seem to like their complaints as they are never called downers. They are apparently viewed as helpful censors.

Posted by: Simon | Sep 20 2023 23:03 utc | 285

Surferket @ 137

Nope. Nothing on Telegram. You must be getting your news from Elensky.

There are posts on TG, most just regurgitating Rybar easier to just check that. The fact that there is so little info is worrisome though supposedly all is going well, of course RF is shooting everything down, we will know in the morning. All this stuff is trials from NATO, ever bigger, the escalation escalator. The big strikes are yet to come once they find the soft spots. I assume RF knows that.
Judging by the intensity of air defense work in different parts of Crimea, including Yevpatoria, Sevastopol, Novofedorovka, Ukrainian formations are conducting one of the mass drone raids. Units of the 31st Air Force and Air Defense Division, together with the Black Sea Fleet, repulse the attack.
Previously, Russian air defense units in the west and center of Crimea, as well as in Sevastopol, worked “excellently”. No hits were recorded, all targets were successfully destroyed. However, there is information about a possible second wave of drones, apparently from the Kherson and Dnepropetrovsk regions.
Colleagues from the Triangle report another wave of drones approaching Dzhankoy. Air defense also worked west of Sevastopol, and several more targets are approaching the western regions of Crimea.
The drone attack carried out by the Ukrainian Armed Forces is similar to an attempt to overload the peninsula’s air defense with a large number of drones. If the assumptions turn out to be correct, then this will be one of the most massive raids of all time. Moreover, after an attack by a UAV, attempts to strike with other weapons, including cruise missiles, are quite possible. And the drone raid is preparation for it.
Over the last 15 minutes, seven drones were shot down over Yevpatoriya, Mikhailovka and Ivanovka by Pantsir-S1 air defense missile systems and rifle detachments. Judging by the geography of the raids, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to hit the airfield near Novofedorovka. At least three more UAVs were destroyed by units of the 31st Air Force and Air Defense Division near Sevastopol.
https://t.me/rybar/52175

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Sep 20 2023 23:04 utc | 287

https://southfront.press/storm-shadow-missiles-targeted-crimea-for-the-second-day-in-a-row/
Together with Storm Shadow missiles, Ukrainian forces reportedly fired three AGM-160 MALD decoy missiles to mislead Russian air defense systems.
What’s the point of decoy missiles? The warhead is probably the cheapest part.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Sep 20 2023 23:10 utc | 289

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Rand Paul wouldn’t know the difference between his own arse and his elbow. Certainly doesn’t understand money still m bed in a gold standard fixed exchange rate world.
Posted by: Echo Chamber | Sep 20 2023 21:20 utc | 127

We get it, you want countries to be able to inflate their currency. Disagreement on one issue does not mean you can handwave away any other positions of a person.

Posted by: Simon | Sep 20 2023 23:12 utc | 291

Thousands of the brainwashed listen to him. Trapped in a lifetime of myths. Sheep being herded by the shepherd. A very sad state of affairs.
Posted by: Echo Chamber | Sep 20 2023 21:26 utc | 129
What’s with you and Rand Paul? He’s a member of the imperial government and a capitalist so I wouldn’t endorse him, but he certainly seems like a small fish compared to the real monsters.
It seems he’s at least stating opposition to the war on Russia in Ukraine. I think he said the same on Iraq too.
You’re all fired up about him because of his ideas about the gold standard? Bigger fish to fry, echo.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Sep 20 2023 23:13 utc | 293

According to the UK Daily Express, Russian troops “have only shovels to fight with” as “they have run out of weapons.”
They are being “slaughtered” as they have run out of ammunition. “Three Russian brigades” were wiped out in the fight for Andriivka. The artillery has run out of shells.
All this has been confirmed by wholly reliable and objective CIA funded media like Radio Liberty, and Kagan’s Institute for the Study of War.
Putin is at his wit’s end, and can’t decide whether to throw himself under a bus or flee to North Korea in his private jet. Zelensky is about to ride into Moscow un triumph on his white horse at the head of his million man army, with the Ghost of Kiev and the Heroes of Snake Island in the van. Complete victory is at hand.

Posted by: anon | Sep 20 2023 23:16 utc | 295

How ironic. Here we are, discussing whether Down South is posting too much 404-related news on a 404 thread, and Derek Henry’s echo chamber waltzes in with a quartet of off-topic comments.

Posted by: malenkov | Sep 20 2023 23:16 utc | 297

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Sep 20 2023 22:39 utc | 142
Launched an attack is not the same as hitting their targets.
Context please.
Btw, a cargo ship from Turkiye to Ukraine was hit.
https://southfront.press/explosion-damaged-bulk-carrier-in-the-black-sea/
Posted by: Surferket | Sep 20 2023 23:03 utc | 143
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Detail to be obtained by clicking on the link. That is why I put it there.
BTW, that cement carrier was likely ‘attacked’ by an Ukrainian mine which flooded the engine room. The floating mines are causing a lot of damage to Ukrainian beaches and their occupants.

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Sep 20 2023 23:22 utc | 299