Rostec on Friday announced the first delivery of a batch of Su-34 bombers to the Russian Air and Space Forces this year. The equipment has already been delivered to the customer upon completion of the entire set of factory tests.

Posted by: AI | Apr 5 2024 14:10 utc | 4

Is UK population psychologically ready for the conscription?
I think not.
Will they obey and join the army?
I think yes.

Posted by: vargas | Apr 5 2024 14:38 utc | 6

“Is UK population psychologically ready for the conscription?
I think not.
“Will they obey and join the army?
I think yes.”
I think you are right! After the adherence to the Covid stupidity, no assessment of the public can be too low!
One thing is for them to join, another is to get something useful out of them, and that!- I think – is going to be a problem.
The youth of today is not what they used to be, far from it!
Crying and phoning mommy will be the norm.

Posted by: g wiltek | Apr 5 2024 14:57 utc | 8

Posted by: Facekicker | Apr 5 2024 14:59 utc | 9
.
.
Well, stupid?
It’s definitely not you!
They are looking for stupid people to follow them!
YOU, just follow the plan…escalate at all costs!
It’s not just about NATO losing face, it’s also about how to sell it as a victory, and any means is acceptable!

Posted by: ossi | Apr 5 2024 15:09 utc | 10

re:Down South | Apr 5 2024 13:58 utc | 3
https://t.me/sitreports/25642
How much longer before Russia starts taking out US aerial reconnaissance that is required to hit all these targets?

Posted by: Perimetr | Apr 5 2024 15:25 utc | 12

The empire is unable to walk away from this conflict.
They are actually nestling Ukraine into an even larger conflict–across Europe and the Middle East, even Korea.
I do not see a bluff. Does anyone else?
Like the hegemon has done so many places, they appear willing to lose an obviously unwinnable conflict.
What am I missing from that side of the equation? Is there a strategy to win that doesn’t involve massive nuclear exchange? Is nuclear war really on the table?

Posted by: Talleyrand | Apr 5 2024 15:52 utc | 14

With the continuous firehose of yapping on sites like MoA and all the “blogs” and “substacks” and “podcasts” and mountains of rancid propaganda continually pouring forth from the corporate media, etc. etc, about Ukraine, the fundamental inevitability that has existed from the start has been buried in the maelstrom – Russia will not lose because Russia cannot lose. The days of Napoleon and the Crimean War are long gone. There is no force in the world capable of defeating Russia and surviving. If Russia goes, we all go.
That stupid lot in Washington and Brussels and London, etc, and everyone they ever knew will die that day or within a couple of months.
What’s left will survive huddled in caves, freezing, eating their own dead. End of story.
The obscenity which is this pernicious species will end itself. Only a bad thing if you believe there is any actual reason why it should survive. Like any other virus the planet won’t miss us.
That’s why Russia was never going to lose.
In the immortal words of Dirty Harry, “Do you feel lucky, Punk!”

Posted by: wilsonK | Apr 5 2024 16:02 utc | 16

Using terms like ‘the hegemon’ loosely leads to all kinds of problems. Who is ‘the hegemon’? Is it the whole mechanism of the American state? This is not a useful definition, because that mechanism is full of factions and competing interests, at every level. I think it is more useful to discuss ‘the Powers That Be,’ or PTB, as a reference to the active element of the Americentric global financial class. This is a group whose interests can be identified. First and foremost, they wish to survive. Next, they wish to retain as much power and wealth (two sides of the same coin in their system) as possible. Next, they wish to expand their power and wealth- ie, to profit.
The PTB therefor does not desire nuclear war, because it is antithetical to ALL of their primary goals. They have, however, a long history of employing useful idiots and psychopaths to do their bidding, and there are those among the minion class that, for a variety of reasons, do desire nuclear war. The question then is, does the PTB have enough functional power to stop them and remove the most dangerous, least controllable minions?
In the case of Nutty-yahoo, the answer may be ‘no.’ This is not only because he is surrounded and rabidly supported by True Believers, and his personal life depends on ‘victory,’ but also because the American political and military power structure is deeply penetrated by Zionists and others for whom bringing on The End Times is an attractive idea, so a coherent plan of action to remove the Israeli Zionists from power is not possible.
Regarding nuclear war arising out of the Ukraine conflict, however, the answer is clearly that there will be no nuclear war. THOSE minions are under control, the individual futures of those with their fingers on the buttons is aligned with the PTB, and nuclear war is simply suicidal for them. Only if the Eschatologists in the US gain full control of the apparatus will that kind of escalation occur, even in response to the Russians wiping out French expeditionary forces or cratering NATO airfields that launch aircraft against Russia. None of those actions threaten the core interests of the PTB, but nuclear war does.
For what it’s worth, my guess (and it is a guess) is that Trump’s interest in swamp drainage projects is likely to sweep a lot of the religious nut cases out of power. Obviously Biden will not, so a slim chance is better than none.

Posted by: Honzo | Apr 5 2024 16:18 utc | 18

Actually Britain was conquered by the Netherlands (helped by local nobles) in 1688, with a fleet larger then the Spanish Armada and 15.000 troops:
https://dutchreview.com/culture/dutch-conquered-britain/
Posted by: Ronald | Apr 5 2024 14:50 utc | 7

Actually Britain was conquered by the Bank of Amsterdam, the objective being the creation of a Bank of England with a puppet monarchy subordinate to the bank. The rest is history. Fixed it for you.

Posted by: Drifter | Apr 5 2024 16:28 utc | 20

Is UK population psychologically ready for the conscription?
I think not.
Will they obey and join the army?
I think yes.
Posted by: vargas | Apr 5 2024 14:38 utc | 6
This fish and chip eating, soap dodging nation of confused trans apologists and skull-fukt climate banshees isn’t doing anything. They are a lot less prepared physically than they are psychologically- and that is saying something.
There might be a couple of fat rich pricks in yachts down in Poole who might daydream about the days of Rule Britannia but that’s about it – dreams – these people are not fit to walk half a block.
Perhaps there is a possibility of raising a brigade or two made up of some illegal immigrants of questionable origin who might be persuaded into a of tour of duty in return for residence and a handy state pension. Most of these new arrivals won’t have taken the jab after arriving from fucknosewhere, and so less a chance of collapsing suddenly and baffling doctors than the docile local Brit. So some strong positives here.
Outside of that, Sick Britannia is here to stay I am afraid. What else can you expect of a people who voluntarily pay for a TV Licence in exchange for daily lies….? Not much.

Posted by: DrWho | Apr 5 2024 16:32 utc | 22

https://t.me/CyberspecNews/50140

In the phones of the terrorists who attacked “Crocus City Hall”, photos were found that suggest their connections with the Ukrainian special services.
According to the investigators, one of the accomplices said that the target of the attack was chosen on February 24, 2024, the anniversary of the start of the special military operation.

https://t.me/CyberspecNews/50120

🇷🇺The FSB reports that three new suspects have appeared in the case of the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack – a Russian citizen and two foreign citizens detained in Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Omsk.
Two new figures in the case transferred money for the purchase of weapons and vehicles used by terrorists. The third one was engaged in the recruitment of accomplices and the financing of the culprits.
All three detainees are known to be from the Central Asian region.

Posted by: anon2020 | Apr 5 2024 16:37 utc | 24

Towards an EU Garrison State?
Provoked by Russian advances in Ukraine, can the EU transform from a weak and flabby state of indulgence into a society capable of mass weapons production and powerful military projection?
https://www.beyondwasteland.net/p/towards-an-eu-garrison-state

Posted by: KevinB | Apr 5 2024 16:44 utc | 26

Posted by: g wiltek | Apr 5 2024 14:57 utc | 8
‘The youth of today is not what they used to be, far from it!
Crying and phoning mommy will be the norm.’
———-
Actually the Brits will be phoning Mumsy : )

Posted by: Áobh Ó’Sheachnasaigh | Apr 5 2024 16:49 utc | 28

LightYearsFromHome @ 27
Biden is Freddo at best …

Posted by: Adriatic Hillbilly | Apr 5 2024 17:00 utc | 30

Posted by: wilsonK | Apr 5 2024 16:02 utc | 16
With the continuous firehose of yapping on sites like MoA and all the “blogs” and “substacks” and “podcasts” and mountains of rancid propaganda continually pouring forth from the corporate media, etc. etc, about Ukraine, etc etc etc…
———
Thank god we have someone so enlightened such as yourself to tell us how it is? I mean what you are saying is, well… aWho could have guessed. We should stop yapping and just listen to the grand master of restating the obvious. You are so brainy. You should become an analyst for CNN.

Posted by: Áobh Ò’Sheachnasaigh | Apr 5 2024 17:07 utc | 32

Posted by: Facekicker | Apr 5 2024 14:59 utc | 9
It’s probably re-spinning the old record, but the empire realized they have (over) committed to Ukraine up to the point where they cannot survive Ukraine’s defeat.
They have bet trillions of dollars on Ukraine, massively bloated government deficits and debt, new normalized interest rates have gone up more than twice, they had the COVID Scamdemic which was already catastrophic to western ability in production capabilities in agriculture, minerals, energy (oil and gas). The west is completely reliant on the ‘rest’/non-west for supplying it all the stuff. Now the system has broken down, and consequentially 5 % inflation is going to be the norm of 2.5 % inflation.
Another issue of course is the so-called great reset which was supposed to involve the entire planet, not just the west. If west commits the great reset on its own, it will suddenly turn into a banana republic on the global yardstick and the west is quickly left to a footnote in the history book. So they need to subjugate the strongest members of the non-west (Russia and China) to get the non-west on board of the collective suicide boat. It is really serious for the empire, there isn’t much time to escape this event horizon.
The oligarchy rulers might be psychopathic enough to use nukes, thinking: ‘If we cannot have the world, no one can’.

Posted by: unimperator | Apr 5 2024 17:13 utc | 34

Rhere is a contradiction in EU. The educated elite would like to transform EU into militarized garrison fortress superstate.
But the same elite is the main promoter of the wokist liberal ideologies, consumerism and individualism.
Of course, superior, as they consider theselves, they thought that this would not have been necessary, as they had expected the colapse of Russian state and easy theft of the Russian resources.

Posted by: vargas | Apr 5 2024 17:25 utc | 36

These comment sections sink lower into common denominator fascism every day. I come here less and less once I realized that Bernard has managed to curate the world’s largest collection of stopped clocks, the comments sections aren’t places for serious discussions between well informed people
Posted by: Brautigan | Apr 5 2024 17:13 utc | 35
So why are you here?

Posted by: Bemildred | Apr 5 2024 17:31 utc | 38

Automatism of
The great war in Europe will probably be inevitable
Some NATO countries want to send troops to Ukraine. This is likely to set the stage for further escalation, which will also drag European countries into war – with all the consequences, including death and destruction in these countries.
from Anti-Spiegel
April 5, 2024 6:06 p.m
Ukraine lost the war and is now a bled dry country. It has a blatant shortage of soldiers, morale in the country is in the basement, as reports of resistance from the population against the brutal forced recruitment on the street by the military commissars’ grab squads show. The recruits who are forcibly drafted into the army are neither properly trained nor do they have good fighting morale. Added to this is the lack of ammunition that Kiev is complaining about.
The war rhetoric in Europe
But the US-led West is determined not to allow peace in Ukraine because that would be seen as a victory for Russia. But since the goal of the US-led West is to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia in Ukraine, Ukraine continues to be tormented and the US-led West continues its war against Russia down to the last Ukrainian. This formulation is no longer “Russian propaganda” but has become a bitter reality in view of the reports from Kiev.
The US vassals also join in the rhetoric. At the beginning of February 2024, Chancellor Scholz wrote sentences like:
“We should be clear about one thing: a Russian victory in Ukraine would not only mean the end of Ukraine as a free, democratic and independent state, but would also dramatically change the face of Europe. It would be a serious blow to the liberal world order. (…) Our message is clear: we must do everything in our power to prevent Russia from winning.”
French President Macron said on March 5 that Europeans “should not show cowardice” over the issue of sending troops to Ukraine. And on March 7, French media reported that Macron told French leaders behind closed doors that “there should be no limits” to the intervention of French troops. Russia should not win the war and when asked by someone present whether there were still red lines “that should not be crossed in order not to go to war with Russia,” Macron replied:
“No, there should be no more borders, the nature of the conflict has changed.”
These were just examples; many other European politicians also make similar statements and the German Defense Minister Pistorius announces almost every day that the Bundeswehr must be made “fit for war” again.
It doesn’t matter whether troops are for combat or for maintenance
Most European politicians seem to have lost their fear of being drawn into an open war with Russia. At the beginning of the conflict, everyone was afraid of sending even lethal weapons, but now they not only seem to no longer fear an open war with Russia, but actually want to provoke it, because according to everything that is known, France will soon Send ground troops to Ukraine.
Although Macron has previously said that he would have to intervene if Russia advances on Odessa or Kiev, France is now saying that it does not want to send fighting troops to the front, but that it is primarily about units and the like that are responsible for the maintenance of Weapons such as tanks and artillery would be taken over in order to free the Ukrainian soldiers who have previously been doing these jobs for deployment at the front.
However, the fact that France hastily began at the beginning of March to have the French army carry out maneuvers under realistic conditions, simulating a high-intensity conflict with an enemy that is not inferior in firepower, does not, however, indicate that the French troops are only at to be used for the maintenance of military equipment.
Basically, it doesn’t matter whether the French soldiers are fighting at the front or repairing tanks somewhere in the hinterland. For Russia, they become legitimate military targets when they arrive in Ukraine, because Russia also bombs the bases for maintaining tanks, artillery, and so on. It is therefore inevitable that regular French soldiers will lose their lives in Ukraine.
The fight to the very last Ukrainian
Even if the European soldiers are really only intended to be used to free up Ukrainian troops tied up in maintenance work and other non-combat activities for deployment at the front, it is obvious that the very last Ukrainian rese is already here rven should be thrown into battle. This is all an act of pure desperation that will have no effect on the battlefield. This also applies if France sends a few thousand soldiers to the front where hundreds of thousands of soldiers are fighting.
Nevertheless, both the rhetoric and the actions of Western states are becoming increasingly aggressive. This means that it is not to be expected that in a few months, when the newly sent Ukrainian soldiers have been burned to death, they will suddenly change their tone and say, “Sorry, I didn’t mean that, we’re pulling our soldiers back from Ukraine”.
The path to the European war
This will be even more true once a few hundred or even a few thousand regular European soldiers have died in Ukraine, although it doesn’t matter whether they die at the front or in a tank repair shop. It doesn’t take a genius to imagine how the European hawks and media will react to this. Some time ago, the German warmonger Kiesewetter openly called for the war to be brought to Russia and for ministries and authorities in Moscow to be bombarded with Taurus missiles. These demands will then increase and will probably be implemented at some point.
At that point at the latest, Russia’s long thread of patience is likely to break and Russia could respond with attacks on targets in the relevant countries. And once Russian hypersonic missiles, which cannot be intercepted by air defenses, hit ministries in Warsaw, Berlin or Paris, open war between the European states involved and Russia will become inevitable.
The automatism of escalation
By sending ground troops to Ukraine, the West begins an automatic process of escalation, because with their uncompromising rhetoric, the Western heads of government have managed to lure themselves into a trap. By constantly emphasizing that a Russian victory must be avoided at all costs, they are blocking their own way out of negotiations.
And once regular soldiers of European armies lose their lives in Ukraine or return mutilated, then they will be forced to further escalate their rhetoric and send even more soldiers, because the higher the stakes have become, the more difficult it will be for the population to explain that everything was in vain.
It remains to be seen when the time will come when this game of fire will develop into an open war between the relevant European countries and Russia. But in my opinion, the fact that this point in time must come becomes inevitable with the deployment of ground troops to Ukraine.
The USA is staying out of it…it wasn’t US…everyone knows who is afraid here

Posted by: ossi | Apr 5 2024 17:33 utc | 40

Funniest posts on telegram today were:
Medvedev telling Natzios they can’t pretend to be innocent bystanders with their boots on ukronazi soil – there will be bounties offered for those mercenaries and there won’t be anything left for their families to get back home.
And Stoltenberg waving his arms like a puppet without strings as he told Kuleba that yup for sure he was getting his $5b a month for two years and not to break his stringless arms.
And AnalAnie standing in a foyer next to Kuleba and smiling as he said he has been promised by her that he will get the money and EU membership. She smiled and agreed. No hug and kiss though.
Might be the last weekend of not the Lost one.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Apr 5 2024 17:46 utc | 42

what dam has collapsed?

Posted by: james | Apr 5 2024 17:55 utc | 44

thanks Ossi, unimperator. always good points.
bottom line, the US is looking for a way to back up, win the november election for the blue team and amp up a terror network against Russia. Macron’s efforts will turn to shit fast. Vicky–fuck the EU– Nuland encapsulates US opinion of Europe: they are colonies now with some having a higher rank than others as in field hands vs house niggers. UK is still channeling James Bond for the top rank, Ukie border countries will be expected to do the Mission Impossibles along with the denials. Meanwhile, we’re bleeding out at home here, in case anyone wants to know.

Posted by: migueljose | Apr 5 2024 18:09 utc | 46

Posted by: vargas | Apr 5 2024 17:25 utc | 36
###########
IMO, too many people associate political speech with honesty. So many folks are like children in this regard.
Judge politicians by what they do, not what they say. Power-hungry people will say anything for their own benefit.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 5 2024 18:21 utc | 48

There are no men left fit for service in Ukrainian villages
In Ukraine, the conscription age was lowered to 25 years, but in some villages there are no longer any men suitable for service, says France 2. About 400 people live in the village of Luzanovka, Cherkasy region, 50 of them went to the front, three died in the last six months. There are not enough able-bodied men even to dig graves.
This region in central Ukraine has sent the most soldiers to the army, according to local authorities. In the neighboring village of Kamenka, only women with children and old people are found on the streets. With a population of 20 thousand people, the Ukrainian Armed Forces took 1,300 people, 60 of them are already dead. The distribution of subpoenas continues: those who cannot fight will be sent to dig trenches.
Labor shortages are affecting the economy, and businesses are having to hire women to fill jobs that were traditionally occupied by men. However, in the forgotten regions there is a growing sense of injustice: many more recruits are sent to the front from here compared to large cities in Ukraine.

https://t.me/rezident_ua/22324

Posted by: Down South | Apr 5 2024 18:28 utc | 50

Russia supposedly has several hundred thousand troops in the rear in Ukraine alone which are not committed to any front activity. They are building 5 new artillery brigades for new offensive actions.
Posted by: unimperator | Apr 5 2024 17:47 utc | 43
Russia is taking the threat of Euro forces coming into the war seriously. I suspect Russia has built up a large reserve for that eventuality – re the several hundred thousand idle troops.
The seriousness I think can be seen in Putin’s warning to Europe some weeks ago about going nuclear.
From things Zelensky has said, new offensive and so forth, it seems some of the Euro twits have been making definite plans and so 404 is feeding every possible unit of cannon fodder into the gaps to try and hold out until then.
What actually eventuates is anybodies guess at the moment, but it seems fairly solid that the Euro’s are preparing to enter the fray.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 5 2024 18:31 utc | 52

What is the strategic importance of Chasov Yar, which Russian forces are closing in on?
The Russian Armed Forces have entered the suburbs of Chasov Yar and are less than a kilometer away from the city itself. Why is this city the scene of fierce fighting, and what makes it so important?
Geography
🔺Chasov Yar sits on a hill about 15 kilometers west of Artemovsk (Bakhmut) which was liberated by Russia in May 2023.
🔺Chasov Yar’s geographical position makes it important from a strategic standpoint, as it overlooks the surrounding area for many kilometers.
🔺Its boundaries are quite complex. From north to south, it is crossed by the Seversky Donets -Donbass Canal, and the O-0506 highway. There is also a railway line with a bridge over the canal.
🔺Chasov Yar has several industrial zones and large enterprises, such as the Chasov Yar refractory plant. Such areas could potentially be used to equip shelters or fortifications.
🔺On the other side of Chasov Yar are Kramatorsk, Slavyansk, and Konstantinovka. The latter is an important railway hub.
Fortifications
🔺The city has been turned by Ukrainian forces into a powerful fortified area reminiscent of those in the liberated city of Artemovsk.
🔺Construction of fortifications in the area of Chasov Yar reportedly began in July-August 2022. During the battle for Artemovsk, the city was used as a transport hub crucial for the entire logistics of the Ukrainian Armed Forces group in the Artemovsk-Soledar area.
Strategic Importance
🔺Liberating Chasov Yar would provide control of a logistics center that has been key for the Ukrainian Armed Forces since 2014.
🔺By taking control of the highway and railway hub, Russia could disrupt delivery of reinforcements and munitions to Ukrainian forces.
🔺Control of Chasov Yar would pave the way for advancing on the so-called Kramatorsk-Slavyansk agglomeration.
🔺Liberation of Chasov Yar is crucial for liberating the Donetsk People’s Republic from the forces of the neo-Nazi Kiev regime.

https://t.me/sitreports/25654

Posted by: Down South | Apr 5 2024 18:42 utc | 54

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 5 2024 18:21 utc | 48
How VERY appropriate to have this reminder right under Medvedevs latest 🙂
Because we all know what he has been doing lately, don’t we?
V O D K A!

Posted by: Membrum Virile | Apr 5 2024 18:45 utc | 56

Don’t agree. I was just watching an everyday kind of video about Russia’s fighter planes production, reflecting on what a senseless waste of money it all is. And a very simple but profound thought occured to me. The only reason that Russia is building all those planes, and in fact ANY defence equipment, is because the USA, unlike AND OTHER nation, wants to rule the world. Russia doesn’t want to run the world, nor China, nor India, the UK, the EU, or anybody else.
Posted by: Jake Blanchard | Apr 5 2024 17:03 utc | 31
You don’t agree with what? This is absolutely irrelevant to what I wrote.
H
And then your own phraseology contradicts itself, in that you call the PTB an active element of the *Amerocentric* global class. Take out the Amero bit and you have no self-appointed hegemon.
Posted by: Jake Blanchard | Apr 5 2024 17:03 utc | 31
But I don’t take out the Ameri- part, because the active core of the class identifies with the United States as its power base. The nation ‘the United States,’ however, HAS NO COHERENT INTEREST, because it is composed of different classes with antithetical goals. The interests of the working class, as an example, simply do not correlate with the interests of the PTB. The US national entity functions as a military headquarters for the PTB, but this has no correspondence to traditional concepts of ‘national interest.’ The interests of the government are the interests of the PTB, not the population at large.
H
There will always be a class of elitist rules through finance. But when its power rests predominantly on one national currency, the USD, you have hegemony from the ground upwards.
Posted by: Jake Blanchard | Apr 5 2024 17:03 utc | 31
The currency has no self-interest either. The point of the operation is to look at the motivations of the core actors. Currency is simply a tool of those actors. I don’t know if you read my entire post (apparently not), but it’s about identifying the likelihood of nuclear war emerging from the conflict in Ukraine. To do that, we have to understand the motivations and interests of the major actors. Those actors are ultimately individual human beings who make choices, individually or in concert. THOSE ACTORS ARE THE HEGEMON IN THE RELEVANT SENSE. Yeesh.
H
Previous to the rise of US Empire, we had British Empire … and others back through time.
Posted by: Jake Blanchard | Apr 5 2024 17:03 utc | 31
So? Every empire has been controlled by a class, often via the medium of a single individual to whom the class entrusts its collective power. Empires have a class logic, and individuals in power are more or less adept at applying that logic. Understand the class, you understand 90% of the motivations of the individuals in whom power has been vested.
H
The only and best cure for such cancers upon the world is eventual multipolarity — presently best achieved by weakening, to the point of extinguishing the current hegemonic power, and then subsequently holding at bay any urges and actions of any replacement empires. This, I believe, is Putin and Xi’s unified goal.
Posted by: Jake Blanchard | Apr 5 2024 17:03 utc | 31
One more time: the US, and via the US, the west, is ruled by a CLASS that invests power in individuals to carry out its program. It is not necessary to extinguish anything but that class. Hang them, shoot them, lock them up or simply ensure that they cannot leverage other people’s labor into power over the state or the economy. Putin and Xi are, at a minimum, educated in Marxism, and they understand this perfectly well.
H
Yes, the USA is highly factionalised, but there is below it a unified national consciousness of entitled superiority. It has infested and controls all the global factions OF ITSELF.
Posted by: Jake Blanchard | Apr 5 2024 17:03 utc | 31
This is just stupid. There is no unified national consciousness, there is a culture of vastly different individual consciousnesses, which is dominated by the media and other systems of the PTB. Individuals can change their minds, and often do, and we can see that process going on in the US at this very moment. Possibly not in directions of which you approve, but it shows that the PTB does not ‘control’ what people in the US think, let alone all the factions of the global empire.
The SMO and war in Gaza are altering global perceptions, and many are defecting from the western narrative- and some are separating themselves from the Empire, as for instance the nations of the Sahel. Each of these defections weaken the whole more than the defector directly contributed to the whole, because the Empire relies on synergy and economies of scale. These are lost as the Empire shrinks, and that shrinkage is accelerating rapidly.
H

Posted by: Honzo | Apr 5 2024 19:00 utc | 58

Posted by: Oliver Krug | Apr 5 2024 19:00 utc | 59
“What do you think is going on in France when 10,000 French people died in Ukraine, 105 Poles and three Germans?”
Nothing.
It’s an even trade 🙂

Posted by: Johnny Dollar | Apr 5 2024 19:12 utc | 60

So, EU wants this war, they have no fear of Russia, they are ready.
Why is the liberal order so important for EU elites?
So important that they are ready to sacrifice the humanity for that order.
“Liberal Order” is quite an abstraction, nothing palpable.
Why can they bet that Russia won’t use nuclear weapons?
Do they have some extra information?
Strange.
I feel some strange, sick secret in this development.
It seems that as Roger waters said, elites understand only fear.
No fear form Russia – no limits.

Posted by: vargas | Apr 5 2024 20:09 utc | 62

Situation according to Dima in Chasov Yar and other main areas:
-Russian troops managed to land on east part of ‘Kanal’, and advance in the forest north of ‘Kanal’
-Bogdanovka (north of Kanal) is encircled and under fire, most likely AFU will soon be kicked out of this settlement
-RUAF attempt to encircle Belogorovka land fill from the east and south-west, after the defeat of AFU brigade in this sector
-Another AFU counter-offensive attempt in the north of Pervomaiske was ended before it even started – AFVs which landed troops were pummeled with various weapons
-Most likely RUAF is aiming to connect and synchronize the south Donbass line between Novomikhalovka and Ugledar soon

Posted by: unimperator | Apr 5 2024 20:11 utc | 64

Whatever happened to that Indian commenter in here? He knew lot about Russia. He had his own comic strip, his comments were short and to the point.

Posted by: Calgary Guy | Apr 5 2024 20:30 utc | 66

Posted by: unimperator | Apr 5 2024 17:13 utc | 34 (also Ossi and others)
The evil dumbfucks that comprise the strategic braintrust of the West are going to sleepwalk us into the apocalypse in a desperate and ultimately vain attempt to save their precious paper. I can only sadly agree with these gloomy projections.
Meanwhile the mob watches Friends on rerun and got their understanding of recent history from Call of Duty, dont you dare break into those delusional bubbles with your unpleasant realities, no sir, thank you very much. Fucked with a capital F. It’s enough to drive a man to drink..

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Apr 5 2024 20:37 utc | 68

Secretary Antony J. Blinken at a Solo Press Availability (U.S. Department of State, April 4, 2024)

And as you look at it, we’re on a trajectory in the mid-to-long term where Ukraine will be able to stand very strongly on its own two feet militarily, economically, and democratically.

Let’s see.
Militarily: the Ukraine does not produce fighter jets, helicopters, tanks, IFVs, APCs, artillery, air defense systems, cruise missiles (with the exception of Soviet Kh-35–based Neptun), military satellites, warships.
Economically: half of Ukraine’s budget is covered by Western loans and grants (source), in March 2024, a whopping 72% of Ukraine’s budget was covered by Western loans and grants and domestic loans (source), Ukraine’s births have dropped by 45% since 2021 (source).
Democratically: all real opposition parties have been banned, all TV channels have been merged into a single United News Telemarathon, the Presidential elections, which, according to the Ukrainian Constitution, should have happened on March 31, didn’t happen.

Posted by: S | Apr 5 2024 21:20 utc | 70

unimperator | Apr 5 2024 17:47 utc | 43
NATO.. troops..airforce.. – think about their staging points, airports, logistics and a terrain.
How would that go? It is a flat lands behind the Budapest, Berlin, Vienna and to Moscow.
Or, from the dusted Cold War oracles, A Soviet Doctrine of dominance over The Great European Plain.
A pretty much open and a very weak defensive configuration terrain.
That is why NATO needed Balkan Mountains and canyons, or a very strategic takeover of impenetrable and pretty advanced and innovative Socialist Yugoslav army positions.

Posted by: whirlX | Apr 5 2024 21:23 utc | 72

Posted by: scorpion | Apr 5 2024 20:17 utc | 65
Because it is uniting a disparate coalition that threatens to upend the Democrat’s demographic advantage, as more and more communities and artificially divided groups are being impacted and awakened by ‘woke’ policies. Worse, the wielder of the murder weapon, that this rebellion is coalescing around, is not an effete fighter, bound by esoteric rules that conveniently hamstring him, but a mercenary, and the weapon he wields is not a wooden practice waster, but the real-deal steel variety. A weapon and wielder that has the capacity to, not just existentially threaten the Democrats but, threaten the people who control them and their labyrinthine control mechanisms, some of which have already been compromised.
As for the country being bought to its knees, it’s a combination of because it worked in 2020, because it was the inevitable result of their radical policies and because they hate and despise the vast majority of those they rule over, and yes, they do believe we are here for them, not vice-versa. In the end though, they are just sitting at the bottom table eating the remains of their elite masters trenchers. Masters, who are getting increasingly nervous about the growing clamour from outside, particularly the soft chiming of someone dressed in plate harness, that daily gets closer, despite the best efforts of their incompetent guards, used to tackling walk-overs and pre-paid opposition. Do not hesitate for a moment in thinking that these elites will not stab their psychotic, sycophantic clowns, when the door is kicked in, claiming they not only helped him rid the land of their toxic governance, but that they always supported him, all the while looking for an opportunity to disarm and remove their nemesis in waiting and his entourage.

Posted by: Milites | Apr 5 2024 21:42 utc | 74

@LoveDonbass #71:

All you need to do is positively mention Andrei Martyanov and it will be like you said, “Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice”

Rightly so.

Posted by: S | Apr 5 2024 21:45 utc | 76

LoveDonbass@73….the only armies I have are up my sleavies…..so any plan I may have is fanciful….that said, yep I have a list….
….as for attention, tis a pretty picture you paint….
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Apr 5 2024 21:53 utc | 78

*Sigh* people still getting their jollies predicting a NATO intervention, are now saying the Euro vassals will do it without the US.
It’s f**king laughable, NATO’s military power sans US forces is s joke, intentionally so.
They ain’t doing s**t against Russia directly, it’s all just loud verbal flatulance.

Posted by: Urban Fox | Apr 5 2024 22:03 utc | 80

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Apr 5 2024 20:37 utc | 68
Did you also believe, like most leftists, that nuclear Armageddon was just around the corner in the Cold-War? Self-interest and self-preservation drive these creatures, which is not only intensely frustrating when living under their rule, but also reassuring, given the vast power they wield.
They want to rule over us, in their perfect world, not be taking a dump in a chemical toilet, free to enjoy all the things they’ve banned the untermensch from participating in, not roaming the corridors of a bunker, however luxurious.
There is also reaction to the threat of annihilation, from a: self-absorbed, selfish, spiritually hollow, engineered pseudo-culture, to be factored in. I’m told mild-mannered children become highly aggressive when their electronic devices are taken away, just think of all the Karen’s and other assorted, self-obsessed, members of the ‘whataboutme’ tribe being told, no more tweeting, sexting, TikTocking, posting selfies, just an agonising death, with no consolation from any spiritual belief.

Posted by: Milites | Apr 5 2024 22:13 utc | 82

unimperator@79…. NATO is not coming to fight Russia in the Ukraine…. individual EU countries are. They have been given or are being paid off with areas of responsibility. Odds are odds, and unintended consequences being what they are it may or may not be a cake walk for Russia. The best NATO kit is being reserved for the EU countries and their troops.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Apr 5 2024 22:22 utc | 84

Posted by: Jake Blanchard | Apr 5 2024 17:03 utc | 31
“The only reason that Russia is building all those planes, and in fact ANY defence equipment, is because the USA, unlike AND OTHER nation, wants to rule the world. Russia doesn’t want to run the world, nor China, nor India, the UK, the EU, or anybody else.
There will always be a class of elitist rules through finance. But when its power rests predominantly on one national currency, the USD, you have hegemony from the ground upwards.
Previous to the rise of US Empire, we had British Empire … ”
No, its not the USA, they are the proxy of the Cult of The City. The elite in the City, the Jaw Elite, orders the USA to attack Irak to reduce their power in the Middel East, the attack on Serbia for their strategic position in the Medetheranian (Do not want a Russian an russian base there- let’s make Serbia a landlocked country),and on andd on.. This is the work of the City. Who are controlling the US administration, Wolfowich, kagan, nuland, blinken, humer, Mayorkas, Yellen…. and who is controlling the house and the senate?

Posted by: Paul from Norway | Apr 5 2024 22:27 utc | 86

This place used to be a rock solid base of knowledge and common sense.
Why so much wild irrational fantaisies lately ?
There won’t be no “european” army in Ukraine. No World War 3 and no flying nukes.
The SMO is almost over and 98% successful. Russia has won.
France military doctrine is : an expeditionary force of 15 000 soldiers (including non-fighters) to protect its “interests” (mainly in Africa), 1 aircraft carrier to assist this expeditionary force, and a nuclear Deterrence Force of 4 submarines, with only one operational at sea 24/24.
And that’s it ! French top brass have already calculated and publicly stated that France could hold a 80 km wide frontline for 15 days against the RF. End of story.
If Macron boasted about french troops in Ukraine, it’s because the coffins are already stacking up in some french warehouses and at some point they will need to come with an explanation. 2000 fighters to defend Odessa…? What a joke. And why this obsession with Odessa ? Macron is a puppet. Before being handed the french presidency on a silver plate by the globalists, he was employed by the Rothschild Bank. He had a dinner late december at the french AIPAC version with the Baron Rothschild.
Wow. That was an arduous investigation on Maron’s motives around Odessa…
There is no such thing as a “european” fighting force. NATO is a freaking “cooperation treaty”, not a country, not an army ! It doesnt exist but through the juciy MIC contracts and generous kickbacks. NATO “generals” are stupid puppets like Stoltenberg, with no genuine military experience. Lying buffoons. Pathetic LARPers.
German army is a joke. British are past their prime. There is no one to match the now experienced, upgraded and battle hardened RF in Europe.
All their hope was that a ukrainian lobotomized army of 600K would be able to beat the RF and topple the Putin “regime”.
It failed spectacularly. A huge disaster from which there is no plan B and no escape. They have made Putin even stronger and the RF even deadlier. The so called “cartoony” hypersonics have been proved genuine, and able to destroy the best of the Cold War bunkers.
They are now in face saving mode. Hot air, blatant lies, pathetic chest pounding. They will pretend to have won because Putin “will only get half of Ukraine”.
In the real world, the US Dems are just praying that the ukrainian affair doesn’t end up à la Afghanistan, with banderites clinging to flying aircraft wheels live on TV, before mid November, while the Macronites are already calling the russians on the phone to look for an exit and apologize for all this stupid noise they have made recently.

Posted by: Pierrot | Apr 5 2024 22:30 utc | 88

If someones Mr/Msr- USA like Nuland + Killary + BidenJr. + J.W-Bush + beside-helper’s brains would have worked/functioned in a sense of its USA-Folk voters ..
What’s then ? Think about – next polls .. Red-Indian thinking may coming back ?

Posted by: spare_truth_01 | Apr 5 2024 22:32 utc | 90

On April 4, the National Security Archive at George Washington University has published a set of previously secret Russian and U.S. documents on the high-level dialogue and hands-on engagement between Russia and the U.S. in 1992–1995. One of the documents is especially interesting:
Memorandum of Conversation between NATO Secretary General Manfred Woerner and Speaker of the Russian Supreme Soviet Ruslan Khasbulatov (February 25, 1992)

M. Woerner: […] We want to see close cooperation between states in a Europe composed of sovereign democratic states. How can this be achieved. We want to build a Europe that will inhabit a new security environment from [the Urals] to the Atlantic. It will be a unified Euro-Atlantic community built on three pillars. The first pillar is the Helsinki process, the second—the European Community, which will create the basis for a solid political future for our community, and the third pillar is NATO.
It is for these exact purposes that we have established the Council for Cooperation under NATO, in order to conduct close consultations, establish cooperation, and create interlocking institutions with our former adversaries, and now partners. This is our vision for the future.
We would like Russia and all other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States to join the Council for Cooperation. From what I hear—and you yourself talked about this—that some people still doubt our intentions. I would like to state here very clearly that we need stability, or a some kind of stabilizing element for peace. We are not going to interfere in Russia’s internal affairs, as well as the internal affairs of other sovereign member states of the CIS. We would like to establish most friendly relations with all the former Soviet republics. This will suit our common interests and as such we will be able to provide more lasting stability. We will all be better off as a result. We hope that all levels of both the political and military life of your countries will join this cooperation. […]

Posted by: S | Apr 5 2024 22:36 utc | 92

Posted by: Pierrot | Apr 5 2024 22:30 utc | 88
EXACTLY
They are now desperately trying to find a face-saving plan to make it appear they have “won” something and Putin “lost”. It’ll be a PR job rather than anything on the ground, of course. But they’re searching and searching for a position they can take. No doubt, that’s all they talked about at the 75th NATO meeting.

Posted by: HERMIUS | Apr 5 2024 22:59 utc | 94

Hi, You unemployed fathers of your family, as the latest “guard” guys here in Ukrain living down streets –
Just come on here ! Take part of a very highly important fighth against Your political rulers, like the P-Cock-Player Mr.Z. – or not?
Come on – think the truth as currently seems so to be a valid investigation what you’re ‘hearing’ day-by-day by UKR-Nazi’s shelling with Western-Style weapons (HI-MARs ever Cluster bombings on your head, etc.).
Ukranian people listen :
NOW – you still can leave “your country” wherever you like to go abroad – if can “.
Next days You have to hide in bunkers until -RF-Army is going to save you cilian Ukranians.
Mr. Dima may have his current daily reports via Internet acc.to this SMO (or TMO),
but reporting is good, living is better.
Cheers J.W. Bush – remember your 911 Plan’s staff ? ..

Posted by: spare_truth_01 | Apr 5 2024 23:11 utc | 96

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 5 2024 18:21 utc | 48
How VERY appropriate to have this reminder right under Medvedevs latest 🙂
Because we all know what he has been doing lately, don’t we?
V O D K A!
Posted by: Membrum Virile | Apr 5 2024 18:45 utc | 56
And Shirly (aka Membrum Virile) has been OD’ing on V I A G R A to counteract the Shirly effect.

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Apr 5 2024 23:11 utc | 98

Posted by: Milites | Apr 5 2024 17:32 utc | 39
There is a growing body of thought that the motives toward Ukraine resemble a Russian doll, with each doll designed to be harder and harder to pry apart. Example: were sanctions primarily directed toward Russia, or was the real target the captivating, quite literally, of the Western populations, behind a virtual barrier of higher energy costs, and a concomitant reduction in their standard of living.

I think this is getting closer to what is actually ongoing. This is not a popular view so its ramifications are rarely discussed but if true it means the Hegemon’s own PTB elites are deliberately reducing the standard of living of their own citizenry.
Secondly, how seriously can we take the proposition that an elite diminishing its own polity is a threat to large nations like Russia and China? What sense does it make that they are both reducing their own nations whilst simultaneously trying to conquer or damage other nations (and clearly failing in the latter?).
Third, are the diminishment of the West and the steady rise of the Eurasian-led RoW two wings of the same globalist bird? Globalist movements have been around for over a century and they doubtless enjoy influence in all developed nations. Exhibit 1: US-funded Covid biolab work in Wuhan, China.
Fourth, maybe there is a globalist faction trying to bring the US down working against a neocon-Zionationalist faction still trying to dominate the world? This echoes your Russian doll notion, aka ‘wheels within wheels’, or ‘layers and levels’.
For sure, the simple story that the US Hegemon is trying to break Russia into five pieces and then go on to knock out China somehow seems a tad implausible. It certainly ain’t working…

Posted by: scorpion | Apr 5 2024 23:33 utc | 100