forty (40) for now.. in a few weeks average becomes 50 and up

Posted by: andreweed | Oct 2 2023 8:05 utc | 3

Have more than 100 Jewish Ukrainians served in the Ukrainian military since the start of the war? Are there more Jewish Ukrainians with net worths over $100 million than the number who have served in the military during the war?

Posted by: trainer | Oct 2 2023 8:06 utc | 5

Does this therefore verify the maxim that there are old soldiers and there are bold soldiers, but there are no old, bold soldiers?

Posted by: This Accountant | Oct 2 2023 8:20 utc | 7

Guess there are few 60 yr olds. So (very roughly) there are two 5O yr olds for every 20 yr old.
Yet at the beginning of the war numerous interviews of Ukrainians (then civilians) demonstrated that it was the young who were “pro-west” with a naive media-formed view of what it meant to be “European.” Older people who knew the realities of industry, agriculture, & 30 years of living in a failed state corrupted by liberalisation, were less enthusiast, a division that cut across the blurred Russian/Ukrainian speaking line.
It used to be: “do you want to send your sons t die in a pointless war?” Now it’s do you want to send granddad..?”

Posted by: geoff chambers | Oct 2 2023 8:26 utc | 9

No one of any age should be fighting for the diabolical plans of the grifters in Washington DC. Stop this madness.
Ben Wallace was sacked as UK defence (war) secretary. He falsely claimed to have arrested an IRA cell when he was in the British Army. He should stop being an accessory to murder by imploring others to join the senseless destruction, and if he feels so strongly about his class war on behalf of his neoliberal masters, he should go to Donbas himself and run headlong into the Surovkin line and meet Bandera.

Posted by: Lev Davidovich | Oct 2 2023 8:55 utc | 11

His exact meaning is unclear, but he seems to be suggesting that children be drafted into the war (which, obviously, would be monstrous).
I’m reminded of the Rotherham child exploitation scandal, which also seemed to be the feeding of children into a meat grinder for political ends.

Posted by: Boris Badenov | Oct 2 2023 8:59 utc | 13

Desperation of the waste in double-speak
Putin is desperately grasping at the final two things that can save him – time and the splitting of the international community. Should read: Putin has us by the short and curlies, time is on the Russians side and increasingly the RoW is taking their side.
Britain can do something about both. We must help Ukraine maintain its momentum – and that will require more munitions, ATACMSs and Storm Shadows. Should read: We have to give the impression that we are tough and dangerous.
And the best way to keep the international community together is the demonstration of success. Should read: So that we can continue to intimidate and cow the RoW to follow our rules.

Posted by: Lantern Dude | Oct 2 2023 9:01 utc | 15

@trainer Please stop with the antisemitism. It’s what Azov and the like are all about. Shameful.

Posted by: Treehill | Oct 2 2023 9:02 utc | 17

It’s safe enough for the EU foreign ministers to go for a meeting.
Funny old war!

Posted by: jpc | Oct 2 2023 9:06 utc | 19

Posted by: Treehill | Oct 2 2023 9:02 utc | 9
Jews are at the center of the events of the war. And Jewish influence in the US created this situation. Are Jews on the frontlines? There needs to be a lot more criticism of the Jewish community for starting the war and keeping it going.

Posted by: trainer | Oct 2 2023 9:14 utc | 21

I agree with B the big “tell” in this is the over 40 remark … it’s only a matter of time, and I’m not going to worry about that anymore. The other thing this excerpt shows is the pattern of “Putin is desperately….. and “Putin knows a…….”. “Putin thinks X…” or “Putin is doing this because ….”, These guys always (stupidly) believe they know Putin from the inside out. And they don’t. I see it all the time with these “media commentators” and “think tank experts” how confident they are they know what Putin is thinking, what he wants, and what’s going to do about X. As if they are all professional mind readers, trained Psychics that and know Putin intimately and personally in great detail. when they don’t anything about him or what he’s thinking – they don’t even know what he has actually said repeatedly. They are all ignorant fools trying to tell the world they are brilliant. It’s such a massive joke – and they keep plying it on themselves. They are clueless fools – all of them.

Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Oct 2 2023 9:22 utc | 23

If I understand the law correctly in Ukraine those who are liable for conscription (18-27) cannot be mobilised. There was a draft proposal to reduce the conscription age down to 25 so that those 26-27 could be mobilised.
What Ben Wallace seems to want is that the age group 18-25 needs to be mobilised. Meaning the ranks of those 26 and up are depleted. Taking this into account and the fact that from 01 October women are being drafted, at the current rate of attrition The Ukraine will simply be a geographic expression by 2025.

Posted by: Down South | Oct 2 2023 9:24 utc | 25

Wallace needs to be sending 18-27 year old Brits to the slaughter – there’s a good chap. 250,000 sounds like a good start.

Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Oct 2 2023 9:28 utc | 27

“Let us not pause for one day. Let us see this through”.
How very Churchillian! I am strongly reminded of Jim Hacker in “Yes, Minister”.
“The world is watching to see if the West has the resolve to stand up for our values and the rules-based system”.
That thicket of vague, emotionally loaded verbiage would be interesting to construe. What, exactly, are the West’s “values”; what is this fabulous “rules-based system”?
People like Wallace are forever mouthing off about our wonderful values, while they wipe their feet on those values every single day. How about one of our most fundamental values – freedom of speech? Julian Assange, anyone? Craig Murray? All the decent, conscientious, capable doctors and scientists who tried to tell the truth about “Covid”? Those who try to explain that there isn’t any “global warming” to worry about? People who try to find out what is being said and done in Russia, China, Iran and other countries, instead of treating them as political lepers? And above all those who understand that the fighting in Ukraine is utterly unnecessary and in the interests solely of ambitious politicians and businessmen?

Posted by: Tom Welsh | Oct 2 2023 9:31 utc | 29

Sadly it is quite premature to “end the war”.
The lessons will otherwise have to be repeated until they are learned.
Of course it is a tragedy. Yet it has so much more to give.

Posted by: too scents | Oct 2 2023 9:37 utc | 31

From Russian frontline reporting, there’s a preponderance of young boys serving in the regular forces and then in the volunteer battalions, officer corps, special forces etc you’ll find exceptionally fit 40′, 50′ and even 60′ year olds. I wouldn’t say that 40 is some sort of threshold for physical prowess and military utility, and that it’s all down-hill from there — this isn’t a football game or some 1 on 1 fight, not that age necessarily proves decisive there either.
Provided one keeps in shape, as one presumes career military professionals do, 50 might well be an optimal age for taking on 20 year olds who’ve recently been whipped into shape at bootcamp. There are certain reflexes that have more to do with work experience than natural reaction which can’t be acquired in any other way, strength and toughness that has more to do with mental preparedness than physical aptitude and other factors which offset the objective reality of an aging body. That of course only applies to seasoned soldiers. If you’re pulling 40 year olds off the street, who’ve only held regular civilian jobs since their mandatory service 20 odd years ago, if they even have that, it’s unrealistic to expect that they can be turned into soldiers. But it still has less to do with age and more to do with time spent on civilian pursuits which cannot be recuperated — maybe, if one is drafted at 40, 10-15 years of both non-stop training and active military service will net you a comparable result to 2-3 years of the same at 18 years old.
The People’s Militia of DNR&LNR is a good case study of what you can expect from a soldier who enlists at an advanced age, but is then allowed to train and gets to see sporadic combat over a long period of time — it’s a mixed bag but not to be underestimated. Of course, the People’s Militias included both young and old, experienced veterans and rookies and its essence can’t be accurately described by a single snapshot of any time period or even frontline section.

Posted by: Skiffer | Oct 2 2023 9:42 utc | 33

@ 1
Further context, there’s a difference between professional reservists. Called back into service, and press-ganged draftees.
Wallace of course is full of dogcrap. After all who is this “we” he speaks of?. Whatever you can say about the AFU they’re the ones doing the fighting. They also should be doing the “training” for NATO troops, not the other way round.
As every Ukrainian who has served a single day on the battlefield, knows more about real conventional warfare than the entire officer & NCO corps of NATOland…

Posted by: Urban Fox | Oct 2 2023 9:48 utc | 35

RE: Posted by: Boris Badenov | Oct 2 2023 8:59 utc | 7
Agreed. “Unclear” is right. “Preserving” what youth? He may mean Universities. From what I understand, you can’t be drafted if your in University, so a whole lot of Ukrainians
Rush and went to schools.
Guess he means “empty the Colleges”.
I don’t know the population status, but in the every nation, you need to preserve Fireman, Policemen, Tow Truck drivers, Plumbers, Electricians, Construction crews, Truckers, Fork lift workers ect. These are usually younger male people.
All I can figure is he wants the Colleges and Universities emptied, what do slave plebs need an education for?
Send the bodies in!

Posted by: Trubind1 | Oct 2 2023 10:00 utc | 37

Given the wildly exaggerated estimates of the Paraguayan War casualties (corrected by John Hoyt Williams and Vera Blinn Reber), it makes little sense to compare to the present war in the Ukraine. The population of the Ukraine has been dwindling since 1991 and today may be around 25 million for the area still under NATO control. We will have to wait till the dust settles before any solid observations can be made about the demographic consequences of the SMO.
I realize that the studies on Paraguay by politically correct mrs. Potthast (hardly to be considered a serious scholar) are attractive because they appeal to the taste for a kind of “pornography of violence” (courtesy John Keegan) that is all too common, especially among the gullible public.
There is actually (mirabile dictu) a decent discussion of the issue on wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguayan_War_casualties

Posted by: Hans Vogel | Oct 2 2023 10:03 utc | 39

It seems that only three months ago, while still UK Secretary of State for Defence, Ben Wallace chided President Zelensky for not showing enough gratitude for the weapons and equipment Ukraine had received. Wallace told Zelensky that Ukraine’s international allies were not Amazon (the corporation, that is).
Now we hear that Wallace’s successor Grant Shapps has visited Ukraine and discussed with Zelensky the possibility of Britian providing air defences for Ukraine and deploying British troops to that country to train soldiers.
British troops could deploy to Ukraine for first time to train soldiers, says Grant Shapps
That is, until UK PM Rishi Sunak nixed that idea of sending British troops over.
It seems that UK Defence Secretaries are so gung-ho about helping Ukraine that they end up blurting out things their Prime Ministers would rather the public didn’t know.

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Oct 2 2023 10:16 utc | 41

“old bold soldiers”
Doge Enrico Dandolo (r. 1192-1205 CE, lived 1107-1205) was the Doge, leader of Venice. In 1204 leading the 4th Crusade stopped in Constantinople to plan with heir ally.
One thing led to another and Dandolo, 97 years of age and blind, sacked the city.
Old, bold and blind.

Posted by: canuck | Oct 2 2023 10:18 utc | 43

The west found a new form of cope by saying that Ukraine so far is only fighting with a fraction of it’s power. It is “fighting with only it’s old men” and there is a massive, untapped source of personnel, of brimming young men who could be far more skilled and talented as tactical commanders and finally unleash a stunning wave of armored mobility warfare.

Posted by: T6 | Oct 2 2023 10:20 utc | 45

Since Ukraine has mobilised all able men aged 18-60, it’s natural that the average age of their soldiers is around 40 y.o. Whether casualties took a heavier toll in a certain age is something we do not know for sure, yet.

Posted by: Jimmy A | Oct 2 2023 10:20 utc | 47

The other thing this excerpt shows is the pattern of “Putin is desperately….. and “Putin knows a…….”. “Putin thinks X…” or “Putin is doing this because ….”, These guys always (stupidly) believe they know Putin from the inside out. And they don’t. I see it all the time with these “media commentators” and “think tank experts” how confident they are they know what Putin is thinking, what he wants, and what’s going to do about X. As if they are all professional mind readers, trained Psychics that and know Putin intimately and personally in great detail. when they don’t anything about him or what he’s thinking – they don’t even know what he has actually said repeatedly. They are all ignorant fools trying to tell the world they are brilliant. It’s such a massive joke – and they keep plying it on themselves. They are clueless fools – all of them.
Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Oct 2 2023 9:22 utc | 12
To which I add….
The Russian’s have a full blown government… With all major pieces pulling in tandem…
Shiogu…procurement
Lavrov… public relations
Mishustin… domestic economy
Putin…. strategy
STAVKA… operations
INDY

Posted by: Dr. George W Oprisko | Oct 2 2023 10:30 utc | 49

Lavrov’s Dog | Oct 2 2023 9:22 utc | 12
The Western media not only know Putin’s mind inside out, they know his doctor’s mind inside out too, judging by the number of “Putin is dying of X” stories.
It’s standard Rules For Radicals.
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
So it’s never “Russia”, it’s “Putin”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Oct 2 2023 10:30 utc | 51

Looks like there will be a new population in Ukraine by the conjugation between Ukrainian women and Russian soldiers.
That will effortlessly integrate the two nations.
Life expectancy of Ukrainian men in adulthood (not those born now) is 68 years. This makes matters worse for Ukraine.
Russia now knows how to attack Ukraine where it hurts most. Target young soldiers, training facilities, mobilization centres, special forces and foreign investments (nothing more than weapons factories), use fragmentation and pallet explosives.

Posted by: Jason | Oct 2 2023 10:44 utc | 53

When I read Wallace’s comments the context of the words strongly suggested that he supported lower the age of enlistment to 16yrs old. Remember, Ukraine made a big public display a few weeks ago of barring children 16yrs and older from leaving the country although they didn’t start enlisting child soldiers yet, because some defeatists in the West actually suggested that this was “wrong” somehow. So Wallace has come out in support of Ukraine’s child soldier scheme, once Ukraine starts a mass mobilization of children I think the Ukrainian collapse will follow soon after, the Hitler Youth 2.0 plan is just more drowning man actions that blow back on the West even worse. As after victory the Russians will certainly arrest every Ukrainian figure involved in this latest horrific crime against humanity and make a big public trial over it. It wouldn’t surprise me if Russia even put out some arrest warrants for westerners for crimes against children for their involvement in the plan.

Posted by: Kadath | Oct 2 2023 11:00 utc | 55

Posted by: Patience | Oct 2 2023 10:51 utc | 28
1) Ashkenazis are not of semitic descent as their very name says. Their ethnic origin is Turk.

You are mistaken. Search Wikipedia for “Ashkenazi”. Some details:
Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim[a], are a Jewish diaspora population who formed in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium CE.
It is estimated that in the 11th century, Ashkenazim comprised 3 percent of the global Jewish population, while an estimate made in 1930 (near the population’s peak) listed them as comprising 92 percent of the world’s Jewish population. However, the Ashkenazi population was largely destroyed as a result of the Holocaust that was carried out by Nazi Germany during World War II, which affected almost every Jewish European family.

Posted by: Contrarian_Ed | Oct 2 2023 11:08 utc | 57

Before that Ben Wallace piece was published, Gilbert Doctorow also observed that those dying fighting in Ukraine are not as young as some people believe.

TThose who say this have obviously never looked closely at Russian or Ukrainian videos from the front. If you do so, you reach an entirely different conclusion: that this war is being fought by males aged 30 and over, with a very large contingent over 50.
As regards Ukrainian males, youth has fled the war to seek refuge in Western Europe. I see them, hear them with their girl friends or wives shopping near me in Brussels. The Ukrainian armed forces today have a very large contingent of males who are dragooned off the streets of Kiev and other cities and force marched onto the field of battle. These are the gaunt and worn faces I see among prisoners of war on Russian television.

Posted by: Brendan | Oct 2 2023 11:14 utc | 59

Sorry my previous post got messedup.
Before that Ben Wallce piece was published, Gilbert Doctorow also observed that those dying fighting in Ukraine are not as young as some people believe.

TThose who say this have obviously never looked closely at Russian or Ukrainian videos from the front. If you do so, you reach an entirely different conclusion: that this war is being fought by males aged 30 and over, with a very large contingent over 50.
As regards Ukrainian males, youth has fled the war to seek refuge in Western Europe. I see them, hear them with their girl friends or wives shopping near me in Brussels. The Ukrainian armed forces today have a very large contingent of males who are dragooned off the streets of Kiev and other cities and force marched onto the field of battle. These are the gaunt and worn faces I see among prisoners of war on Russian television.

Posted by: Brendan | Oct 2 2023 11:17 utc | 61

I’m not fully certain how to read this.
https://tass.com/russia/1682965
“Traffic restrictions are planned on October 2 at access roads to the Crimean Bridge with the complete closing of the motorway part of the bridge for the period from 09:00 p.m. to 06:00 p.m. on October 3,” the press service informed.”
The Crimean Bridge is planned to be fully opened for the traffic by November 1.
Looks like plan to use service road. In any case, they definitely want limit bridge use for next 30 days. The “repairs” were unspecified, so either damaged more than we know, or a desire to slow civilian usage or both.
It’s probably nothing more than a repair.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Oct 2 2023 11:18 utc | 63

Benjamin Wallace is simply calling for young male Ukranian Citizens living in NATO countries to be press ganged. Around 10 million fled Kiev ruled territory since 2014 and moved to NATO countries.
BTW – A further 6 million fled the Kiev ruled territories and moved to the RF over the same period.

Posted by: Exile | Oct 2 2023 11:18 utc | 65

Ben ‘Full Tonto’ Wallace has wholly earned himself that racist title.
The effete , aristo , militaristic natzionists of England and Europe are emerging from behind their masks and showing their rusty poisonous claws – all pretences dropped – the snarling, murderous bastards final hand is forced.
So it’s to be another suicidal Charge of the Light Brigade into the Russian cannons in the Crimea ! This time the Admirals get to own the Fail.
The Senior Service leading this attempt.
Yes they really are that crazed.
A suicidal massacre to create another myth around which to build deluded future generations hatred of Russianism for the avaricious purposes of our Owners and Masters. The same as a 150, 200 + years ago and more.
My guess was that a seaborne flank was always the plan, to be launched as soon as the land attacks and river crossing had some success to isolate the peninsula before moving a naval base next to Sevastopol- to isolate and harangue the Black Sea fleet at its home.
To claim control over the Crossroads of the new world order.
The plan of the current generation of fools , brewed since the 90’s, waiting until the WW2 generations are dead, as their memory of the Russian allies who beat the Nazis gone, as much as the memory of the actual brutal Nazis, now our allies!!
An Orwellian predicted plan of how to completely turnaround perceptions.
Nazis Good . Russians Bad.
Rules good , Laws bad.
We always right, they always wrong.
So the only question is, will it be with a bang or a whimper?
These grain ships which have been travelling back and forth making strange circles on both sides of the Bosporous- it can only be because of the Naval gazers machinations. The James bonding SBS, submariners and marines. They’re ‘stealthy’ new subs and fast attack and landing craft , the super duper naval drones!
‘Oh look , the dumb russkies are not able to defend themselves against our superior British homemade secret weapons , huzzah , CHAARRRGE!!’
‘See Dmitry, the General was right, let’s pretend we can’t stop their crafty little genius toy boats and they really would be foolish enough to keep throwing themselves into our traps , they just never learn. No matter how many centuries pass, let me ask Xi if we can splat them this time otherwise they’ll come back in 50 years. “
A bang ? Or a silent and deadly whimper under the waves? With only floatsam and bits of bodies washing up on the beaches of Crimea to lay claim of conquest?
I really can’t eat anymore popcorn and champagne after the summer blockbuster disaster movies. And the Rugby World Cup beer and pizzas. South Africa again is my prediction, a new paradigm team full of South Africans of merit. The Apartheid era erased.
See history can be learned from and a new successful future can emerge, given the chance.
Maybe a healthy autumn salad and a nice cider as we head into the latest Halloween gore fest, a musical even -The Seaman’s Mince! 😂

Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 2 2023 11:21 utc | 67

Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim[a], are a Jewish diaspora population who formed in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium CE.
Posted by: Contrarian_Ed | Oct 2 2023 11:08 utc | 30
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Chinaman doesn’t care.

Posted by: too scents | Oct 2 2023 11:22 utc | 69

“Provided one keeps in shape, as one presumes career military professionals do” – I suspect you don’t live in a military city. I do. Our career military professionals are fat, fat, fat. Just look a Milley and Austin. They’re fat.

Posted by: JDaveF | Oct 2 2023 11:23 utc | 71

My guess was that a seaborne flank was always the plan, to be launched as soon as the land attacks and river crossing had some success to isolate the peninsula before moving a naval base next to Sevastopol- to isolate and harangue the Black Sea fleet at its home.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 2 2023 11:21 utc | 37

The important battle was always the one in the Tokmak-Orekhov-Urozhaine axis. Simply because the river crossings can only act as support for the main assault which is Tokmak. Without succeeding in Orekhov (not to mention, with spending the main attack force there for few gains), the support attacks over river will turn only into isolated beach heads with no prospect to go anywhere, and no way to sustainably supply or support with any sort of heavier equipment. The beach heads will not have much artillery support, and no air support.
Once RU rolls over remainder of AFU main force in Rabotyne/Verbove etc. (they still maintain 4 or 5 brigades in that salient) they can simply pick a time at their convenience to finish off any isolated beach heads across the Dnepr AFU managed to create.

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 2 2023 11:30 utc | 73

“EU foreign ministers will consider Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s peace plan at a historic meeting in Kyiv this morning.”
“The ministers, who rarely meet outside the confines of the territory of the EU, takes place amid concerns over cracks in US funding for the war and after a pro-Russian populist party won the most votes in an election in Slovakia on Saturday.”
Posted by: Themanwhofelltoearth | Oct 2 2023 11:33 utc | 41

EU foreign ministers can consider Zelensky’s peace plan all they want. It’s the same as speaking with padded walls in the mental asylum. The walls may listen, but who’s gonna reply?

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 2 2023 11:37 utc | 75

In ancient Macedonia they had the Argyaspides or the Silver Shields. These men were a special division and had enlisted in Phillip III’s army.
When you volunteered to be a Macedonian soldiers you had to contract for 17 years. Many of the Silver Shields joined up 3 times!! or 51 years of service.
These soldiers, almost every day, marched 20 miles then bivouacked (no tents) on the open field. Such that they were in superb shape and some them were 70 years old.
Never lost a battle.
Age is subject to training .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyraspides

Posted by: canuck | Oct 2 2023 11:40 utc | 77

wow, Putin is desperately trying to save himself from a ragtag ‘force” of geriatric and poorly armed and trained conscripts, by a “stealth mobilization” that Russia has repeatedly announced. there is no difference between this fool and the trained seals in the Canadian Parliament, gaily clapping away.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Oct 2 2023 11:41 utc | 79

There are plenty of horrible Jewish people on the Ukrainian side . . . but also, some of the best, most honorable and most reasonable voices speaking out against this madness are also of Jewish descent and/or faith. Aaron Mate, Kit Klarenberg, Max Blumenthal, Jeffrey Sachs. My time is limited so I can’t pull all up the “righteous Jews” on this issue, but they have done outstanding work.

Posted by: Hunsdon | Oct 2 2023 11:44 utc | 81

Benny the bald clown did simple math: for every 100 dead peasants (disabled people, old people, teenager nazis and whatever is in the so called Ukr army), about 10 Russian soldiers also die, according to Russian official numbers (I’m sure today, in many occasions, is better than 1/20 for Russia, but let’s use their own numbers). And an unknown number of civilians die every week from the nato gifts that fall in the middle of villages or cities. Now Benny wants to increase both numbers so he demands from Zeli to collect more peasants. Simple solution

Posted by: rk | Oct 2 2023 11:52 utc | 83

You forget Ron Unz in your list of righteous Jews

Posted by: Exile | Oct 2 2023 11:53 utc | 85

Anyone wondering where all the Ukrainian youth are, they are partying it up in Lvov, Kiev, and Odessa. Lots of pictures and videos online if you want to look it up. They don’t seem to be aware that a war is even going on.

Posted by: bored | Oct 2 2023 11:54 utc | 87

Posted by: canuck | Oct 2 2023 11:40 utc | 44
well then there shouldn’t be a problem with sending a 98 year old to the Ukrainian front then, not to mention a number of well seasoned Canadian legislators.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Oct 2 2023 11:54 utc | 89

some of the … most reasonable voices … are also of Jewish
Posted by: Hunsdon | Oct 2 2023 11:44 utc | 46
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Simple statistics.
The Jews as drivers of modern geo-politics must be acknowledged.
The Jews are well integrated into European culture. Their future challenge is influencing Asian culture where they have practically no foothold whatsoever.

Posted by: too scents | Oct 2 2023 11:56 utc | 91

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/22/1155943055/ukraine-low-birth-rate-russia-war
This subject doesn’t get enough attention. I am also surprised that the West gets away with the phrase ‘to the last Ukrainian’ with no controversy in this hyper sensitive age. Openly advocating the extinction of the nation makes the Zelensky regime the worst government on earth, even worse than North Korea.
Ukraine is now firmly on the path of dodo birds and dinosaurs.

Posted by: Eighthman | Oct 2 2023 11:58 utc | 93

Ben Wallice & Grant Shapes are thinking ahead…
The Ukraine offensive has collapsid.
When Russia starts pushing west, so will the Ukrainian refugees push west by the million thats Europes main concern,
The young Ukrains have no loyalty to ukraine thats a media lie, they want to be westernised as seen on youtube.
which as we all know isnt real life.
To send the young to the front line would need obveously to be with a gun at their back.
The west are now desperate in defeat and need to fill the glaring media vacuim.

Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 2 2023 12:00 utc | 95

re Paraguayan War AKA Triple Alliance and the British imperial strategy there and elsewhere while the Civil War raged in America…no coincidence. An excellent perspective is found in Eduardo Galeano’s book Open Veins of Latin America.

Posted by: chu teh | Oct 2 2023 12:00 utc | 97

hey b, for your entertainment:
Military economics Markus Keupp said on ZDF in April 2023, that Russia will lose all tanks and heavy equipment till October and will therefore lose the war.
“Es ist nicht so, dass ich ein Exot wäre mit dieser Meinung. Es gibt durchaus einen Konsens unter westlichen Militäranalysten, oder zumindest unter solchen, die den Namen verdienen”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7Xdqgwz_NQ
10min of pure entertainment, when one knows your blog.

Posted by: Ali | Oct 2 2023 12:05 utc | 99