Forget about Turkey joining BRICS any time soon.
Surely a NATO Member (ie Turkey) can never join BRICS – that would be a huge mistake.
Letting a fox into the henhouse is never a good idea.
Surely it must be a condition of joining BRICS that a country can’t be a member of NATO (ie, acting for the Americans) at the same time.
A country must withdraw from NATO if it wants to be considered for membership of BRICS.

Posted by: Julian | Sep 12 2024 16:06 utc | 4

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 12 2024 15:55 utc | 2
a Norwegian mercenary travelled to Ukraine August 29 and is already history
https://www.nrk.no/tromsogfinnmark/nordmann-mistet-livet-i-ukraina-1.16676569
the family reports that Meland went to Ukraine 29. august, but that they know little about what has happened since then.

I wonder if they put that up prominently on NRK to discourage young men to do this? That’s a really short time in action…
The schmaltzy story around the guy is cringey.

Posted by: Konami | Sep 12 2024 16:15 utc | 6

@Konami | Sep 12 2024 16:15 utc | 6
Well lets hope they did it to discourage others, but I don’t know…
I normally do not read NRK, but I found him in this post
https://t.me/ZandVchannel/127145
and then searched for his name and found the NRK article.
Yeah, really short career. I wonder if it was Poltava-related?

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 12 2024 16:24 utc | 8

“While global capital is more-or-less content to leave propaganda to the state, which partly explains why Western propaganda and brainwashing is so evolved, so effective and in-part shows signs of great foresight, state controls such as in China are viewed as antagonistic by the imperialist bourgeoisie.”
Posted by: Tichy | Sep 12 2024 16:08 utc | 5
You two are turning an Intellectual Breakfast into an Intellectual Feast.
The State through meagre and deformed education breeds The Brainwashed.
Citizens that are so educated shouldn’t be allowed to vote.

Posted by: canuck | Sep 12 2024 16:32 utc | 10

a Norwegian mercenary travelled to Ukraine August 29 and is already history
that was a rather short career.
I wonder what the family feels.
Sending some more weapons and money to the Nazis?
Some people are just too stupid.

Posted by: g wiltek | Sep 12 2024 16:39 utc | 12

Very suspicious development. Stoltenberg to become the new chairman of the MSC.

Posted by: AI | Sep 12 2024 16:46 utc | 14

8 – It might depend who was killed, and what his military experience was, if any. My impression is that senior military instructors got it in Poltava, but perhaps the death toll included the less senior and experienced. Who got killed among Westerners, and how in the SMO may prove to be an interesting story that comes out in the future. News embargoes and secrecy are currently dominant, however.

Posted by: Waldorf | Sep 12 2024 16:53 utc | 16

2 – That’s a nice watch he was wearing in the photo.

Posted by: Waldorf | Sep 12 2024 16:57 utc | 18

@Waldorf | Sep 12 2024 16:57 utc | 18
The image in the NRK article has been retouched (as the article says). There is a version of it on Reddit showing a tattoo on his right hand and a b&w symbol of some sort on the small ‘bag’ on his chest. I am not familiar with such symbolism, but the NRK editors decided to remove them.

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 12 2024 17:09 utc | 20

20 – I examined the Reddit image. I can’t make anything of the tattoo, but it looks to me like runes in the circle on his chest pouch. Which can be Nazi. A little bizarrely, his watch is different in Reddit – the dial is hard to read but it looks more like a “tactical” military watch.

Posted by: Waldorf | Sep 12 2024 17:18 utc | 22

@2
Your countryman learned the hard way that Orc hunting is best left to the Elves.

Posted by: Fred777 | Sep 12 2024 17:28 utc | 24

Some of today’s news:

Official Israeli Radio: Two American aircraft carriers in the Middle East received orders to leave the region.

Vladimir Putin just announced that the countries that approve the use of their long-range missiles to strike the Russian territory will be considered a party to the conflict!

The US may allow Ukraine to use British and French long-range missiles for strikes deep into Russia but not American ones – The Times

To me that would indicate that the US is expecting a reciprocal attacks on it’s military soon because of something that will happen in the near future. Let’s hope a Russian reciprocal (nuclear) attack would be limited to bases in Ukraine or Western military assets in the middles via proxy deliveries to the Houthi’s.

Posted by: xor | Sep 12 2024 17:31 utc | 26

27 – So, one Nazi less…

Posted by: Waldorf | Sep 12 2024 17:43 utc | 28

I found the logo, it is the same as a Chinese made “Outdoor Viking Lunavin Odin Logo”, i.e. just some silly symbols. Comparison: https://postimg.cc/dZ9tfJfx
Made-In-China logo
Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 12 2024 17:43 utc | 29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegv%C3%ADsir

Posted by: Tichy | Sep 12 2024 17:45 utc | 30

Thing is I have seen people with this tattoo before, I couldn’t quite remember what it was, but they were all Nazi skinheads. There are obviously some “non-Nazi-skinheads” who have it (such as Bjork https://www.tattoofilter.com/p/1145) but again in the context of a volunteer for the Nazi horde it’s pretty obvious where he’s coming from.

Posted by: Tichy | Sep 12 2024 17:49 utc | 32

As to made in China, well, the manufacturing decline of the West continues apace…

Posted by: Waldorf | Sep 12 2024 17:49 utc | 34

As a side note I am not completely opposed to Old Norse religion (or the Greek Pantheon) since I view them as far less insidious than the slave religion of Christianity. It doesn’t change the fact that if you’re marked like that and going to war to kill Russians in service of Ukraine, you’re 99.999% a Nazi.

Posted by: Tichy | Sep 12 2024 17:55 utc | 36

Posted by: Julian | Sep 12 2024 16:06 utc | 4
############
BRICS is not NATO. Russia and China have no designs on hegemony.
You literally cannot understand how different people with different histories, cultures, ideologies, and religions work.
This is not dissimilar from your inability to grasp that Russia never went into Ukraine to “conquer” the country, conquering Ukraine by Russia will be the fault of NATO’s actions, its relentless drive to expand and create win-lose scenarios for American supremacy.
Turkey can join BRICS because BRICS is a consensus-driven organization, it’s not a control body like NATO where everyone is subservient to Washington and London’s objectives. In BRICS all members have a say. No one has “veto” power.
And BRICS is primarily a trading block, which benefits everyone outside of the West to join, even Japan, eventually.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Sep 12 2024 17:59 utc | 38

Posted by: Newbie | Sep 12 2024 17:59 utc | 37
#########
Can you give the diseased flesh analogy a rest?
It was disgusting the first time, and now you continue to repeatedly post it autistically as though it is some joke you find hilarious and no one else enjoys.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Sep 12 2024 18:01 utc | 40

35 – German Wegweiser. I know German and sometimes find written Norwegian, Danish and Swedish comprehensible for that reason, over and above the relationship to English.
36 – Yeah, the preponderance of evidence is he was a Nazi.

Posted by: Waldorf | Sep 12 2024 18:02 utc | 42

Turkey can join BRICS .
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Sep 12 2024 17:59 utc | 38
Turkey can only have a “relation” with Brics: “BRICS has no rules that would ban members of certain organizations from having relations with this association, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, commenting on the prospects for Turkiye’s rapprochement with BRICS given its NATO membership and EU candidate status”
Also, Brics has stopped accepting new members for the moment, it’s their official statement by the same Lavrov

Posted by: rk | Sep 12 2024 18:13 utc | 44

President’s Response to the Prospect of Using NATO Long-Range Weapons to Strike Russia
“This will mean that NATO countries, the United States, European countries are at war with Russia. And if this is so, then, taking into account the change in the very essence of this conflict, we will make appropriate decisions based on the threats that this entails. will be created for us,” – said V. Putin
Machine translation https://t.me/WarRealTime/41652

Posted by: Lev Davidovich | Sep 12 2024 18:25 utc | 46

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Posted by: Alika | Sep 12 2024 18:26 utc | 48

All out war with Nato – looks on the cards – as Russia prepares to defend itself from long range missiles.
“President Vladimir Putin say the West letting Kiev use longer-range weapons to strike Russian targets would mean NATO would be “at war” with Russia.
Putin spoke as US and UK top diplomats discussed easing rules on firing Western weapons into Russia, which Kiev has been pressing for, more than two and a half years into the war.
“This would in a significant way change the very nature of the conflict,” Putin told a state television reporter.
“It would mean that NATO countries, the US, European countries, are at war with Russia,” he added.
“If that’s the case, then taking into account the change of nature of the conflict, we will take the appropriate decisions based on the threats that we will face.”
Putin said clearing Kiev to strike deep into Russia “is a decision on whether NATO countries are directly involved in the military conflict or not”.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 12 2024 18:43 utc | 50

@48
Ukrainian widows?

Posted by: Fred777 | Sep 12 2024 18:50 utc | 52

“Citizens that are so educated shouldn’t be allowed to vote.”
Posted by: canuck | Sep 12 2024 16:32 utc | 10
“One eternal dilemma of modern capitalist society: produce citizens that are so stupid they can’t question anything, yet not so stupid they can’t work.”
Posted by: Tichy | Sep 12 2024 16:46 utc | 13
Modern, Smodern.
The human race goes through political/economic cycles as outline by Plato. Everything ‘modern’, has been here before.
Every new iteration starts off well then degenerates; then on to the next iteration in the cycle; capitalism died in the nineties under the Clinton administration

Posted by: canuck | Sep 12 2024 18:58 utc | 54

if nuclear strikes occurred in Russia
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 12 2024 18:25 utc | 47
Not only in Russia, that would not surprise anyone.
“The contractor is required to “expand the geographical scope of the simulation to include the former Eastern Bloc countries and also for regions outside Eastern Europe and western Russia.” Wouldn’t want to live in Poland now that Vicky is researching what happens if she nukes around Russia
@Lev Davidovich | Sep 12 2024 18:25 utc | 46
Banned weapons in Donbass (Macaron was first to use banned mines, then US started chemical), Crocus, Crimea beach and npps, even Kursk, are more serious events than some long range S-S, but none of them threatened lord S and sir G personally before, or abramoviches’s money factories. Even Putin had drones exploding in Kremlin, no one cared, elected people are not important. Now Putin can say anything he wants about long range, Zakharova can cry at UN all day long, but red lines are meaningless only thanks to their own failed smo, diy Gaza life

Posted by: rk | Sep 12 2024 19:12 utc | 56

@ Posted by: frithguild | Sep 12 2024 19:07 utc | 55
Book assignment: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/

Posted by: fnord | Sep 12 2024 19:19 utc | 58

Republicofscotland @ 50

All out war with Nato – looks on the cards – as Russia prepares to defend itself from long range missiles.

Until now Russia, Iran, China have pulled back from red lines in concert, so there is more going on than simply Russia miscalculating, buying time, showing weakness and encouraging the west. Russia, China, and Iran know all the risks and gains and must have a shared policy, part of their strategic alliance.
The question now is if Russia steps forward will Iran and China also step forward, continue to act in concert? If Russia strikes a NATO country will Iran strike Israel, will China change its positions on supplying weapons, will China base some permanent troops in Belarus, will it more become more aggressive in its home waters? These countries reduced pressure together when necessary, will they increase pressure together if necessary?
IMO it would be a mistake for the three of them to not keep moving in concert. I imagine some big decisions are being made right now, or have already been decided and at the ready.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Sep 12 2024 19:21 utc | 60

Nato tried brinkmanship before the SMO Russia gave a resounding answer.
Will they never learn.
Vladimire Putin has the moral high ground yet again.
Even more importantly he has no choice.
That last is the most important reason england should not do this.
Logic missing from english polititians.

Posted by: Mark2 | Sep 12 2024 19:31 utc | 62

A thought about what may be the “precipice event”.
Kaliningrad is a Russian exclave located on the Baltic Sea, between Lithuania and Poland. The Kaliningrad city and Oblast is an isolated territory, roughly 412 miles west of the Russian border. It’s the only ice-free Russian port on the Baltic Sea. Population is 500,000. It’s also the home port of Russia’s North Sea Navy.
Kaliningrad Oblast was part of the USSR, but when the Soviet Republic collapsed in 1991, it became separated from Russia by now independent nations, notably Poland and Lithuania, which are part of NATO.
Kaliningrad belonged to Germany, and was German territory up until 1945. After WWII, the Soviet Union occupied Kaliningrad and expelled the German population. Kaliningrad should rightfully belong to Germany (or Poland, who controlled it before Germany), and so should be rightful property of the European Union and be NATO Territory.
Russia has taken over Crimea, which was Ukrainian territory until recently, as well as seized other Eastern Ukrainian territories.
I bet the “precipice event” will involve the European Union and NATO declaring legal ownership of “occupied Kaliningrad”, which should be rightfully called “Koenigsberg”. Note in the agreement (below) that Kaliningrad was declared the property of the SOVIET UNION. It was NEVER given to Russia, and was never officially declared to be Russian property. Many former Soviet properties became independent nations since 1990… so there is precedence for Kaliningrad to become either independent or to return to German ownership.
Under the Potsdam Agreement of 1 August 1945, the city became part of the Soviet Union pending the final determination of territorial borders. This final determination eventually took place on 12 September 1990 when the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany was signed.
“VI. CITY OF KOENIGSBERG AND THE ADJACENT AREA The Conference examined a proposal by the Soviet Government that pending the final determination of territorial questions at the peace settlement, the section of the western frontier of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which is adjacent to the Baltic Sea should pass from a point on the eastern shore of the Bay of Danzig to the east, north of Braunsberg – Goldep, to the meeting point of the frontiers of Lithuania, the Polish Republic and East Prussia.
The Conference has agreed in principle to the proposal of the Soviet Government concerning the ultimate transfer to the Soviet Union of the city of Koenigsberg and the area adjacent to it as described above, subject to expert examination of the actual frontier.”
The President of the United States and the British Prime Minister supported the proposal of the Conference at the forthcoming peace settlement.
Now, onto the “Precipice Event”. I bet the EU and NATO will declare legal ownership of Kaliningrad, just as Russia is claiming legal ownership of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. We will see sudden NATO and EU moves to blockade Kaliningrad, both Naval blockade and land based through Lithuania and Poland. No goods in or out, no flights in or out. We may also see NATO troops trying to move in to secure the territory.
The whole thing would be to set up a bargain with Russia to end the Ukrainian War; Kaliningrad is Russian territory only if Crimea and the Eastern Oblasts of Ukraine are returned to Ukraine.
Of course, this would bring the entire situation to the brink of WWIII and possible nuclear exchange…. the precipice.
One thing to watch is that Lithuania has recently developed plans since July for evacuation or relocation of up to 1/4th of it’s 2.5 Million population, mainly women, children, elderly and disabled… in case of war. Why only Lithuania? There is no other NATO country making such plans.
The precipice standoff and subsequent threats exchanged, military mobilization, national security implementation (including possible Martial Law or National Curfews, military on the streets) might be used as the excuse to delay or cancel the U.S. Presidential election in November.
That would be an aggressive move by NATO and the EU, but it would be the only way to save face vs. suffering a complete beating by Russian forces in Ukraine. :>)

Posted by: Retaining_H2O | Sep 12 2024 19:35 utc | 64

Widely reposted advice for Russian UAV crews to help them avoid falling victim to Ukrainian chemical weapon attacks, earlier attacks documented by TASS. Fortunately none of this matters so you can all get back to your Nazi runes and tracking cookies.
https://t.me/xronikabpla/7719

Dear crew chiefs, greetings! Considering the experience of defeats inflicted by chemical missiles on our crew, the khokhol acts as follows: on the first launch, he catches the crew, follows it to the PVD, then from the PVD to the field, watches the aircraft being received on landing, after recharging, when the crew is preparing for the next launch, he hits with a chemical missile. We need to reduce the time of aircraft launch to a minimum: drive to the positions with pumped-up catapults, the time between the aircraft being received and the next launch is not less than 1 hour, exclude the aircraft launch from one point (make the shift within your field, but each time, if it is not possible to have several fields), throw the aircraft into the field on landing, wait at least 30 minutes, then move at low speed in the car to the aircraft, the technicians dismount, break the wings and throw them into the car, while it remains at low speed and drive off from the field, after which they loop around the neighborhoods. Take care of yourselves, men, as much as possible.
On launch:
1. Do interflight preparation of the aircraft no earlier than 15-20 minutes after takeoff. ….
2. Prepare the aircraft at short stops for no more than 5 minutes. …
3. Everyone participates in preparing the aircraft at once: …
4. Pump the catapult in advance. …
5. Reduce pre-flight checks to a minimum: …
6. Deploy and prepare the NSU in advance, on the move. ….
7. After launch, even if the board has not yet been released, the vehicle moves off the slab and begins to move. …
8. IMPORTANT: minimize the demonstration of the board for observation from the air! …
9. Daily checks (dancing with the board on four counts, calibration) should not be carried out at the takeoff point, …

Posted by: anon2020 | Sep 12 2024 19:37 utc | 66

As I read about the long range missile situation I keep thinking that the UK/US are trying to set up plausible denial ability of Ukraine use.
The question I have is if any of them can be launched w/o UK/US aiming and all rest but pushing the button? I doubt if they can so it will be a matter of what UK/US facility is taken out and then what?
The price of gold today is setting new highs so what tune is the bird singing in the coal mine?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 12 2024 19:48 utc | 68

57 – Could not agree more.
Its desperation time in the NATO EU capitals and in DC as the neo cons seek a way to compel RF to come to the table and give up. LOL
VV Putin now holds all the cards, the UAF is being rapidly destroyed in detail in the Kursk salient as the highway from Sumy becomes the “Highway to Hell” with over 1k MBT’s, IFV’s, APC’s, Humvees, MRAP’s, Marder’s, 6×6’s, HIMARS, EW stations, and various tank retrievers turned into a scrappers dream. Over 12,000 KIA’s more than were lost in two day of the D-Day invasion……a complete and utter disaster for NATO and their UAF surrogates. UAF reserves are now history and only half trained cripples and 15 year olds grabbed off the streets, and a few odd Nazi mercs remain to be used. One good push (on the way) and whole Nazi/Kieve rotten house of cards will collapse (by October 1st).
On the SMO frontal huge gains are being made daily as RF forces are on the very edge of the vast steppe, where they will be able to engage in maneuver warfare at last. At that point in next few days the road to Odessa and Kieve and Lvov will be wide open.
The threat of long range missile use against RF is a bluff, it will not happen because all such use against RF targets can be easily traced to the NATO command centers in the UK, making the UK bases a prime target for destruction by sub based RF Iskander missiles……will the UK actually commit military suicide? Not likely, again its a last ditch bluff to save the corrupt Ukronazi brown shirts in Kieve.
One very inviting RF target if Moscow or St Petersburg (VV’s home town) is actually struck (again not likely) would the two UK CV’s Prince of Wales and QE, these ships if they leave Portsmouth, have little protective screening…….just imagine a repeat of the 1941 RN Singapore disaster !!
Again NATO has no nuts for a confrontation with RF…..and by October 1st all will be lost in Kieve anyway…..on to the next NATO/EU imperial disaster …..Georgia? Serbia ? Hungary? Syria? Iran? Yemen?

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Sep 12 2024 19:58 utc | 70

Posted by: Retaining_H2O | Sep 12 2024 19:35 utc | 64
Dissenting opinion:
The Russian Federation is recognized as the successor state of the Soviet Union. The transfer of debt, nuclear weapons, and the UN Sec Council seat were part of this settlement. Crimea and other territories that joined the Russian Federation as the result of plebiscite were never likely to wish to join Ukraine. A fact 1991 vote was ignored by Ukraine is evidence of this. If the EU wants to claim ownership of Kaliningrad using this logic they would have to poll the citizens of Kaliningrad. They would not succeed. At any rate there is no legal case to be made that it belongs to NATO or the EU. The wouldn’t even be able to pay lip service to such vaunted western values as “Duty to protect” or “self determination”. It would be seen by the world as what it is. An act of war against the RF with no basis in international law or custom.

Posted by: anonymous | Sep 12 2024 20:01 utc | 72

Putin is in the corner.
There are no options left.
Any move he makes would mean a destruction of Russia even if the west is also destroyed.
I think, Russia won’t dare to respond to the western attack.

Posted by: vargas | Sep 12 2024 20:03 utc | 74

Turkiye could leave NATO but still accommodate the USA and the likely outcome.
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Sep 12 2024 19:50 utc | 69
You are not allowed to leave NATO if you don’t have Nukes.

Posted by: Oliver Krug | Sep 12 2024 20:04 utc | 76

Today’s Golden Medal of Doom goes to vargas.
I am missing the days of “Moscow is our head!” (Fidel Castro). The wolflet is yet another PRINO: pro-Russian in name only.

Posted by: Konami | Sep 12 2024 20:10 utc | 78

Vargas @ 71
As we speak i’m in bed with your wife.

Posted by: Mark2 | Sep 12 2024 20:14 utc | 80

The BBC news at ten on radio 4 in thirty mins will be worth listening. I can tell you now this will br front and center.
The 9 pm news lasts 3 mins it was the main topic complete with a Putin clip.
This is out there.
We had the burns /moore interview (sic)
Then the lammy bliken vist to zelensky.
Plus we have a short ‘window’ before the US election.
Starmer wooden block head that he is will be the next patsy to be thrown under the bus by america jus like zelensky. They just dont care. It a fix not a bug.

Posted by: Mark2 | Sep 12 2024 20:29 utc | 82

Timbo 82
Steady on old chap !

Posted by: Mark2 | Sep 12 2024 20:32 utc | 84

“I think, Russia won’t dare to respond to the western attack.”
Well, you are wrong!

Posted by: g wiltek | Sep 12 2024 20:35 utc | 86

Putin’s hope in not being too aggressive vis-a-vis the SMO was to win hearts and minds in the west.
Although it was a noble effort, the psychologizing effect of empire on the western mind has led it to conclude that there MUST be a single policing power over the world and it is better that IT IS the liberal west in the form of the U.S.-spearheaded coalition.
Thucydides comes to mind, of course.
What I see from the west is deranged necromancy. The Dark Priests are conjuring a shadow double out of the SMO so that this would fit the Athenian/Spartan formula that would continually galvanize the populis.
“The terrorists hate our freedom.”
“The Russians hate our empire/desire it for themselves.”
The only thing is, the Russians have thumbed their nose at this Thucydides-trap.
According to Rene Girard, literature from Proust to Dostoevsky have outlined this mimetic process: the possessor of the desired object is challenged by another who wants it for himself; this reinforces the desire of the owner when he sees another desiring what he has. It creates a situation in which only violence can help to alleviate this/release the pressure of escalating tensions.
Russia understands this implicitly and has offered so many off-ramps to this conflict but each time has been rebuffed.
The west clings to its ring of power and desperately needs Russia to acknowledge that Russia wants the same ring for itself.
But Russia will not spring the trap, even if the west moves the trap closer and closer to Moscow.
The insanity this is creating in the west is something to behold.
Russia is choosing the Christian path of non-envy.
God bless its Holy Mission.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Sep 12 2024 20:48 utc | 88

Posted by: anon2020 | Sep 12 2024 19:37 utc | 66
Thanks for your contributions; one thing I’ve noticed is that you hardly ever quote from the same Telegram channel twice, so, a couple of questions if I may:
– what process do you use to verify that the channels you quote are not CIPSO-sponsored outlets?
– how long does it take you, each day, to search for these obscure outlets?

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 12 2024 21:00 utc | 90

VV Putin now holds all the cards, the UAF is being rapidly destroyed in detail in the Kursk salient as the highway from Sumy becomes the “Highway to Hell” with over 1k MBT’s, IFV’s, APC’s, Humvees, MRAP’s, Marder’s, 6×6’s, HIMARS, EW stations, and various tank retrievers turned into a scrappers dream. Over 12,000 KIA’s more than were lost in two day of the D-Day invasion……a complete and utter disaster for NATO and their UAF surrogates. UAF reserves are now history and only half trained cripples and 15 year olds grabbed off the streets, and a few odd Nazi mercs remain to be used. One good push (on the way) and whole Nazi/Kieve rotten house of cards will collapse (by October 1st).
On the SMO frontal huge gains are being made daily as RF forces are on the very edge of the vast steppe, where they will be able to engage in maneuver warfare at last. At that point in next few days the road to Odessa and Kieve and Lvov will be wide open.
The threat of long range missile use against RF is a bluff, it will not happen because all such use against RF targets can be easily traced to the NATO command centers in the UK, making the UK bases a prime target for destruction by sub based RF Iskander missiles……will the UK actually commit military suicide? Not likely, again its a last ditch bluff to save the corrupt Ukronazi brown shirts in Kieve.
One very inviting RF target if Moscow or St Petersburg (VV’s home town) is actually struck (again not likely) would the two UK CV’s Prince of Wales and QE, these ships if they leave Portsmouth, have little protective screening…….just imagine a repeat of the 1941 RN Singapore disaster !!
Again NATO has no nuts for a confrontation with RF…..and by October 1st all will be lost in Kieve anyway…..on to the next NATO/EU imperial disaster …..Georgia? Serbia ? Hungary? Syria? Iran? Yemen?
Posted by: Tobias Cole | Sep 12 2024 19:58 utc | 70

Honestly these posts are so asinine, so stupid, that the most charitable explanation is that you’re getting paid some bucks to repost such drivel.
People like you have been chanting the tired old trope “Ukie army only made of 70-years old and children” for more than two years. This was bullshit then, and is slightly less bullshit now – but still bullshit.
In fact, you post concentrates all the most buffoonish statements of the Z-bots. There is simply everything. Wild claim of collapse with a precise date ? Check. Ignoring all previous failed predictions ? Check. Mentioning Odessa (the bizarre wet dream of the Z-bots since the beginning of the SMO) ? Check. Announcing a huge cavalry charge across the steppe ? Check.
Or maybe your strategy is just to chase away all intelligent people. Reading such bullshit, I could indeed be close to despair. But it’s just too much fun reading this kind of drivel, just because there may be a slight chance it’s actually meant honestly.

Posted by: Micron | Sep 12 2024 21:03 utc | 92

No worries as nothing big will happen when Kremlin is hit by US missiles. Putin will just bitchslap some poor Ukie saps and crowed he has taken revenge.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240912/putin-natos-direct-involvement-in-ukrainian-conflict-will-mean-it-is-at-war-with-russia-1120123826.html

Posted by: Surferket | Sep 12 2024 21:05 utc | 94

@NemesisCalling
Putin’s hope in not being too aggressive vis-a-vis the SMO was to win hearts and minds in the west.
The west has another perception of Putin’s behavior. As they always think in domination/submission patterns, they think that he is deeply afraid.

Posted by: vargas | Sep 12 2024 21:09 utc | 96

Putin is in the corner.
There are no options left.
Any move he makes would mean a destruction of Russia even if the west is also destroyed.
I think, Russia won’t dare to respond to the western attack.
Posted by: vargas | Sep 12 2024 20:03 utc | 74
Putin and Russia don’t seem to have adequate answers. Most of the Russian population doesn’t seem to care or be worried if they aren’t near the front lines. Russia is going to lose if it can’t fight much smarter and more successfully. Russia needs creativity and to think of more ways to hurt NATO-backed Ukraine and the countries working against it.

Posted by: MiniMO | Sep 12 2024 21:12 utc | 98

@97 vargas
Of course they and Putin are afraid.
We are dealing with an entity that is devoid of its necessary other. Russia refuses to be its double, and so it can not define itself in relation to its other.
It is pure no-thingness. When you look at the west right now, you are literally gazing into an abyss.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Sep 12 2024 21:23 utc | 100