i think it is a huge stretch to think trump is going to walk away from ukraine… he gave shit to biden for doing this in afganistan..

Posted by: james | Nov 26 2024 2:10 utc | 403

Not “nob”. Should be “job”.

Posted by: I forgot | Nov 26 2024 2:19 utc | 405

* Corbynites

Posted by: burak | Nov 26 2024 2:24 utc | 407

Posted by: james | Nov 26 2024 2:08 utc | 403
True, but the realm of complexity is often where people hide their lack of real understanding, or aids in their attempts at obfuscation. So, nothing wrong with simple, simplistic is the problem.
Posted by: james | Nov 26 2024 2:10 utc | 404
Apples to oranges comparison, Afghanistan was an overt deployment, Ukraine covert, with mainly financing and logistics support. He gave ‘shit’ to Biden because it was a clusterfuck from start to finish, there’s even a suggestion those responsible are held, shock-horror, accountable and be sent in front of a court-martial.
Posted by: burak | Nov 26 2024 2:20 utc | 407
They are all pinkish (to a lesser or greater degree) of authoritarians, who seek to impose their perfect world on people. G.K. Chesterton had it right about the worst tyrant not being evil, but thinking they are doing good. After all Sauron just wanted the world to be ordered!

Posted by: Milites | Nov 26 2024 2:37 utc | 409

@ Milites | Nov 26 2024 1:59 utc | 401
Why say Left and Right when you’re describing the behavior of specific parties? Those two camps of criminals pretend they represent a broad spectrum of people. But let’s not help them perpetuate that falsehood.

Posted by: I forgot | Nov 26 2024 2:44 utc | 411

Ritter is of the opinion that Trump played the american people…No CHANGE in Ukraine, none!

Posted by: Larsbo | Nov 26 2024 3:20 utc | 413

Ritter is of the opinion that Trump played the american people…No CHANGE in Ukraine, none!
Posted by: Larsbo | Nov 26 2024 3:20 utc | 414
##########
No surprise.
MAGA was designed for the gullible.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 26 2024 3:27 utc | 415

i think it is a huge stretch to think trump is going to walk away from ukraine… he gave shit to biden for doing this in afganistan..
Posted by: james | Nov 26 2024 2:10 utc | 404
It goes deeper than that I think. I am losing confidence Trump will make the right moves initially because Trump follows the culture, he does not bend it.
To illustrate culture I’m going to look at music. Asbury Park NJ always had a vibrant and diverse music scene all through the ’20s through the 60’s. It kind of hit a peak with Bruce Springsteen. For the next 40 years every kid musician wore black jeans and played a Telecaster. The culture was moribound and the art dissipated to nothing.
How does this relate to foreign relations? Churchill, as the anti Neville Chamberlain (and the Bruce Springsteen of foreign relations), singlehandedly defeated Hitler, because he was not weak. Every western diplomat, given all their edjumication, can only see one pattern. Every opponent is Hiltler, or as post modernist educated see it unjust power, and it must be dealt with by neocon toughness (Black jeans and a Telecaster). Diplomacy is culturally a dead art.
Now, the best path would be leave the neocon path entirely and to learn a new style of music. They kind of liked Enter Sandman in Moscow once upon a time.

Posted by: frithguild | Nov 26 2024 3:40 utc | 417

Posted by: james | Nov 25 2024 23:36 utc | 367
Actually it is good that someone of Anton’s status is commenting here. obviously he will have a biased perspective but i for one want to know what is actually going on in Russia and found his information interesting.
yes he should do Germany and of course Ukraine but it is nevertheless interesting. Putin et all have some problems to solve – possibly and i would be interested in knowledgeable replies

Posted by: watcher | Nov 26 2024 3:49 utc | 419

Completely unmentioned is the problem posed by rogue nuclear armed nations that refuse to abide by Humanity’s laws who are almost at the point of saying: Do as we say or we’ll blow up the planet.
Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 26 2024 4:04 utc | 421
Nice turn of a phrase. From the mouths of the War Vampires.

Posted by: frithguild | Nov 26 2024 4:14 utc | 421

*** my feeling is a lot of folks will be disappointed..
Posted by: james | Nov 26 2024 4:33 utc | 423
Thanks Jimmy Boy!
Politics is just entertainment for the ugly. I’m just calling attention to the fact that Trump’s entertainment presence was not in a creative or innovative role. He was a genius at getting attention but, like his personality, he worked in an established form in a narrow niche. He is thus at risk for being pigeon holed by neocon War Vampires.

Posted by: frithguild | Nov 26 2024 5:07 utc | 423

Borzzikman: “Putin is preparing to launch an Oreshnik with a nuclear a warhead”.@413
COMPLETE BOLLOX!

Posted by: HERMIUS | Nov 26 2024 5:19 utc | 425

Is the talk of direct troop injection by UK and France out of fear of loosing Odessa?

Posted by: Michael J | Nov 26 2024 5:27 utc | 427

Posted by: Newbie | Nov 26 2024 5:35 utc | 429
You better watch what you say or Anton might put you on Myrotvorets…

Posted by: lex talionis | Nov 26 2024 5:40 utc | 429

You better watch what you say or Anton might put you on Myrotvorets…
Posted by: lex talionis | Nov 26 2024 5:40 utc | 430
Sounds a lot like MOA but without the trolls 🙂

Posted by: Newbie | Nov 26 2024 5:45 utc | 431

Taking Odessa is the knockout blow to the west,cascading effect felt globally. Also the beginning of the end of empire

Posted by: Michael J | Nov 26 2024 6:11 utc | 433

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 26 2024 3:29 utc | 417
And he is old enough to remember Nixon pulling the exact same thing and did not see it.

Posted by: Badjoke | Nov 26 2024 6:38 utc | 435

Posted by: Newbie | Nov 26 2024 5:27 utc | 427
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I will never be honored or impressed by a bureaucrat.
I have self respect.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 26 2024 6:57 utc | 437

‼️ Bankruptcies, losses, and optimization of the largest and most important enterprises and banks are happening in Russia.
…
Posted by: Anton Gerashchenko | Nov 25 2024 23:28 utc | 364

LOL!
Anton Gerashchenko: Current official advisor and a former deputy minister at the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
you forgot the “winky” emojis and the “sarcasm” marker! 🤣

Posted by: retroflecks | Nov 26 2024 7:24 utc | 439

@HERMIUS | Nov 26 2024 5:19 utc | 426
Borzik had interesting videos in the past. I think it was sometime this year when he completely changed to copy the worst thing: the retarded Ukro propaganda videos. Even the thumbnails are in the same style.

Posted by: rk | Nov 26 2024 7:27 utc | 441

Learn a lesson from the banderites in ukraine, encoaraged and funded by the western warmonger’s to be violent zenathobic. exclusive and violent toward Russian language speakers, armed by the west, and sent to their death, on mass.
This is what we will now see in england,
(Reform Party, Farage)
This is what we will see in america, armend funded and frustraited trump supporters given an external enemy to use as a scapegoat.
This is what we witness right now in most of Euroupe.
Dont make the same mistake as the banderites, it’s a cristal clear comparison.
Dont die a rich mans fool or tool.
They are ‘right eing fascists.
They punch downward not upward.
Trumps actions already show that.
Starmer too.

Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 26 2024 7:33 utc | 443

Analyse RT
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On November 21, 2024, a new chapter in the history of Russian military strategy was opened. On this day, the Russian Federation deployed its Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) in a real combat mission for the first time. This move marks a historic escalation and puts the strategic importance of this special unit, known as the “Troops of the Apocalypse” since its formation in the Soviet Union, in the spotlight.
The RVSN, are a separate branch of the Russian Armed Forces, responsible for the intercontinental missile arsenal. These “Soldiers of the Apocalypse” are equipped with firepower theoretically capable of causing a global catastrophe. They were on high alert on several occasions during the Cold War, particularly during crises such as the Cuban Missile Crisis and the RYAN/Able Archer crisis in the fall of 1983. Until this November day in 2024, the RVSN had never been used in a real combat mission.
The context of the use of the “Oreshnik” (Hazelnut)
The Ukraine conflict had developed in the months before into one of the most dangerous security crises in modern history. The western Ukrainian side repeatedly ignored Russian warnings to stop long-range attacks on undisputed Russian territory such as Bryansk and Kursk. Provocations by NATO, which acted as Ukraine’s main backer, helped to further escalate tensions. In view of these developments, Moscow decided to use one of its most powerful weapons – but initially in a non-nuclear form.
The target of the attack was a huge Ukrainian arms factory in Dnipro (Dnepropetrovsk), where missiles had been manufactured since Soviet times, continuously until last week. The weapon used was the newly developed Russian hypersonic missile, codenamed “Oreshnik”. This missile had previously only been tested theoretically and has now proven to be extremely effective in a real combat scenario. In the final phase of the unpredictable trajectory, up to 36 warheads separate from the carrier rocket, which in turn head for their own targets independently of one another with their own rocket propulsion. The destructive power of the respective warheads is multiplied by the kinetic energy of the extremely high impact speed. Apparently, the “Oreshnik” had the effect of a small tactical nuclear weapon on the large and widely dispersed area of ​​the Ukrainian arms company, despite its only conventional armament.
With its impressive speed and destructive precision, the “Oreshnik” has also caused a stir as a conventional weapon in the previously blind and deaf government levels of the European NATO countries. The western warmongers must now reckon with the fact that these missiles with a range of 6000 km can reach any place in Western Europe – whether conventional or nuclear – in the shortest possible time using hypersonic technology, and at the same time there are no western weapons that can stop the “Oreshniks”.
From the Russian perspective, the use of the Oreshnik had two main goals. First, it served as a test to confirm the efficiency of this new technology under real conditions. Second, it was a “final warning” to Ukraine and its Western backers. Moscow wanted to demonstrate that it had the means and the will to respond adequately to the escalations, but without immediately resorting to the use of nuclear weapons.
The message to NATO was unmistakable: there is no existing military technology that could stop Russia’s intercontinental missiles. If nuclear options were chosen, the targets would certainly be hit – regardless of the Atlantic Alliance’s defense measures.
For Ukraine, the warning was even more direct. The attack was intended to make it clear that no one would protect the Kiev regime from the consequences of its actions. Washington, which had allegedly been warned by Moscow 30 minutes before the Oreshnik was launched that it was not a nuclear-armed missile, chose inaction.
Despite having thousands of experts trained to respond to nuclear crises, the US government did not take countermeasures. This reluctance may indicate fear of further escalation or the belief that the target would only be Ukrainian territory.
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Strategic and political implications
The US decision not to respond has also sent a clear message to Kyiv: Russia will not shy away from retaliation against Ukraine, and in the event of a nuclear attack, Ukraine would have to bear the consequences alone. This stance also raises questions about NATO’s collective defense strategy. If a member or close ally such as Ukraine is not protected by direct support, doubts about the unity and reliability of the alliance could arise.
Orbán warns: What Putin says is not just nonsense, but should be taken at face value
Orbán warns: What Putin says is not just nonsense, but should be taken at face value
However, on Monday, November 25, just days after the Oreshnik was used, the New York Times (NYT) reported that some of the neoconservative puppet masters in the White House have not learned anything. According to the NYT, several administration officials have even suggested that US President Biden has allegedly considered “giving nuclear weapons to Ukraine. That would be an immediate and enormous deterrent” against further Russian attacks, the officials said. These people are citing a senile president who can no longer even find his way to the bathroom on his own.
The situation in Washington is outrageous, because with the threat of nuclear war, no one knows who in the White House is supposedly making decisions on Biden’s behalf. Even the NYT, which has always advocated “Ukraine-above-all,” finds this uneasy, writing: “Such a step (nuclear weapons to Ukraine) would be complicated and would have serious consequences.”
Former Ukrainian Defense Minister and Zelensky advisor Andriy Zagorodnyuk, already known to RT-DE readers, is also drumming up support in the NYT for more firepower for Ukraine, because Ukraine and its allies must first reverse the dynamics on the front in order to create the conditions for talks on a successful ceasefire. At the same time, he called on the West to provide a sufficient arsenal of weapons with a longer range to cause immediate damage in Russia if the Kremlin resumes hostilities.
Obviously, many warmongers still have not understood and “Oreshnik” still has to teach more lessons. However, these seem to have already reached the mainstream in parts of the so-called “quality media”. We see that there are now increasing calls for diplomatic peace efforts and talks with the Russians, something that would have resulted in a shitstorm just a few days ago.
Russian military: Oreshnik can hit targets across Europe without hindrance
Russian military: Oreshnik can hit targets across Europe without hindrance
Conclusion
The deployment of the Oreshnik missile and the involvement of the Strategic Missile Forces in the Ukraine conflict demonstrate Moscow’s determination to defend its strategic interests while attempting to avoid nuclear escalation. November 21, 2024 will undoubtedly go down as a turning point in Russian military history. By deploying the RVSN in an active military operation, Russia set a precedent that could redefine the dynamics of modern conflicts. The decision to rely on conventional missiles initially demonstrates the Kremlin’s strategy: demonstrate strength without immediately risking the worst consequences of a nuclear conflict. But the deployment of this “final warning” also underscores the potentially catastrophic consequences should diplomatic efforts fail.
The future of the conflict in Ukraine remains uncertain. Decision-makers in Kyiv would do well to remember the motto of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces (RSF): “After us – silence.” This motto is a reminder of the devastating power these troops could unleash. These events underscore how fragile global security has become. The coming weeks and months will show whether it is possible to correct this dangerous course and create a basis for negotiations and long-term peace.

Posted by: ossii | Nov 26 2024 7:41 utc | 445

Sylenski is threatening Russia because of the attack on the missile plant.
He is threatening new attacks, with newer weapons.
Whatever that will be.
But one thing is certain: HE will continue to provoke at ANY cost… and he can only do that with civilian targets.
But let’s wait and see
Posted by: ossii | Nov 26 2024 7:51 utc | 447
Thanks for this short but strong analysis.
I agree 100 %.
There is not threshold for Ukrainians, no limit of western actions.
To drop nuclear bomb on Moscow, that is their dream.

Posted by: salmon | Nov 26 2024 8:15 utc | 447

@LoveDonbass | Nov 26 2024 6:01 utc | 433

Judge Nap’s interview with Ritter today. Is a must-listen, IMO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1mCWo9_hCU

I am sometimes critical of Scott Ritter, but I agree this is something you must listen to. Then read the comments on youtube. Every comment goes like this:
Russia is not our enemy. Greetings from [ insert country ].
And it is true, Russia is not our enemy. Our enemies are the insane ‘leaders’ in power in the west, they must simply be removed.

Posted by: Norwegian | Nov 26 2024 8:41 utc | 449

@Johan Kaspar | Nov 25 2024 14:46 utc | 224

Posted by: retroflecks | Nov 25 2024 7:53 utc | 173
missile research money has been going into bio-weapons research, and there is very little to laugh about, given advances in genetic engineering, CRISPR, and a proven inhumanity with regard to causing “excess statistics”.

I don’t believe it is feasible to create ethnic-specific bioweapons, regardless of biotechnological sophistication, bacause we’re just too similar at this point in human speciation.

All humans are very similar: admitted.
But what if some humans were genetically tagged? Say, by something marketed as a Covid “vaccine”?
We know that all Covid vaccines were/are not created equal:
https://principia-scientific.com/how-bad-is-my-covid-vaccine-batch/
So admit that some humans have been geo-tagged by a marker.
If you know how “gene-silencing” works, then round 2 (upcoming bio-weapon release) could be designed to passover those appropriately marked.
Granted this is all experimental stuff, so for now assume “excess mortality” was unfortunate “collateral damage”.
Dutch Health Minister recently spilled the beans: Operation Lock-Step for covid response was a NATO operation.
https://www.sott.net/article/496064-Dutch-Health-Minister-Defends-Governments-Covid-Measures-We-Were-Bound-by-NATO-Obligations
What makes you so certain that that particular NATO operation has run to completion?

What if the next one has extreme lethality? They’ve already floated that 7/8 of humanity needs to just “go”… for a more “sustainable” world fleet of private jets.

Let me clarify one thing: elites need large populations of consumers, followers, voters, administrators and workers. Elites are sitting on top of an inmense hierarchy. Elites don’t want a reduction in population. Period.

I’m sorry, but your ignorance at this point is laughable, just ask Yuval Noah Harari, or better yet, ask the Palestinians how that’s working out for them. THEY don’t need 8 billion humans, and they’ve been becoming increasingly vocal about it.
The 1% club are betting on AI, robotics, automated factories. Yes you will need some technicians still, and enough people to avoid a genetic population bottle-neck. They keep tossing around numbers between 500M and 1G for “their” ideal world population.

I read it [Lance’s argument] as: they are prodding Russia for response, as “justification” for something just awful.

The logic is faulty. If you have something big to throw at your enemy you don’t escalate timid bit by timid bit as Lance’s correctly describe the West has been doing to counter Russia in the Ukraines. The West is known for shock and awe against its enemies when it has the power to do that. Escalating timid bit by timid bit is the strategy of the fearful, of the careful, of those that hope a small escalation will suffice eventually.

shock and awe were 17000 sanctions against Russia. That was supposed to turn the “Ruble to Rubble”. Slow escalation after that was “just give the sanctions time to work”. “Anton Gerashchenko” himself (?) chimed in on MoA tonight to assert that FINALLY the sanctions were having an effect. Hallelujah! or LOL!
Then too, the goal was never for the Ukraine to win — the goal was for Slavs to die, for the Ukraine to be depopulated, and for Russia to be broken into manageable pieces. Hence, all weapons escalations to the Ukraine have been consistently a day late, and a dollar short. But if Russia were to win (survive), that will demand the bio-weapon escalation that I fear.

Posted by: retroflecks | Nov 26 2024 8:54 utc | 451

“Russia set a precedent that could redefine the dynamics of modern conflicts. The decision to rely on conventional missiles initially demonstrates the Kremlin’s strategy: demonstrate strength without immediately risking the worst consequences of a nuclear conflict”
Posted by: ossii | Nov 26 2024 7:41 utc | 446
RT weed smokers should focus more on what the others can do, not on a sad movie script. Not even old Soviet weapons were used against Nato’s happy men in Ukr, unless they were dancing in Donbass or Kursk, the only place where smo happens. Kremlin can try “demonstrate strength” all day long, they’ve already failed, no one cares. “Kremlin’s strategy” is completely irrelevant when they’ve already seen Nato couldn’t care less about the 6k nukes, which is more than rest of the world combined. Oreshnik, exactly like Kinzhal, does not change anything for smo. Unless it’s used against useful targets at least in Ukr if not somewhere else. But it’s not used even against Ukr, so who cares? They don’t even sell weapons outside Nato, to protect Nato from any harm, even from a third party. Is there any S400, any Mig outside Nato?

Posted by: rk | Nov 26 2024 9:20 utc | 453

Not even old Soviet weapons were used against Nato’s happy men in Ukr, unless they were dancing in Donbass or Kursk, the only place where smo happens (…) Unless it’s used against useful targets at least in Ukr if not somewhere else. But it’s not used even against Ukr (…)
Posted by: rk | Nov 26 2024 9:20 utc | 454
You should stop smoking too, it corrupts your memory or did you happen to memoryhole strikes on training centers and airports that have been happening since the start of the SMO in western ukraine on purpose?

Posted by: 5thcolumn | Nov 26 2024 9:44 utc | 455

Describing the very pro-big business and system-friendly Starmer as far left is probably a far right perspective. Nobody left of say, Oswald Mosley would think Starmer is far left.

Posted by: Waldorf | Nov 26 2024 10:49 utc | 457

osted by: Waldorf | Nov 26 2024 10:49 utc | 458
I think Oswald Mosely was to the left of Starmer, at least initially. He was recall originally a Labor man. Sure an upper class elite one but generally to the left.

Posted by: watcher | Nov 26 2024 11:00 utc | 459

But like for Trumpists in the USA who think the Dems are communists, the AfD fans here in Germany think everyone to the left of them are leftists and the Perussuomalaiset in Finland think everyone to their left is a leftist. These terms have, as others have said, completely lost their meanings today.
Posted by: jure | Nov 26 2024 8:25 utc | 449

Be thankful at least that the individual to whom you wrote the above reply did not trot out the line about the NSAPD being ‘left wing’ or socialist’ because it had ‘socialist’ and ‘worker’ in its title.
There is a long history of deliberate efforts to sow confusion about this.
On a related note, given that the name of this site is a reference to Bertolt Brecht, one really has to wonder what many individuals are doing here.

Posted by: Lengai | Nov 26 2024 11:14 utc | 461

Scotland and Russia have history – so this shouldn’t be a surprise.
“A former Tennent’s Brewery worker has been unmasked as the second Scots mercenary fighting for Vladimir Putin in Ukraine.
Jay Fraser, from Dunblane, Stirlingshire has told how he cut ties with family to join Russian forces on the frontline in Eastern Europe.”
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/ex-tennents-worker-unmasked-scots-34179883

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 26 2024 11:25 utc | 463

I think Oswald Mosely was to the left of Starmer, at least initially. He was recall originally a Labor man. Sure an upper class elite one but generally to the left.
Posted by: watcher | Nov 26 2024 11:00 utc | 460

So what? Before he became a blackshirted tool of the capitalist oligarchy, Mussolini started out as a member of the PSI, which was the Italian party affiliated with the Second International. If only PCI partisans could have hoisted him up a lamppost on a rope twice – once for being a turncoat and the second time for being a fascist..

Posted by: Lengai | Nov 26 2024 11:30 utc | 465

Waldorf | Nov 26 2024 10:58 utc | 459
*** Vzglyad online newspaper reporting that the “British mercenary” Anderson has been imprisoned under guard in Kursk. Personally I would move him to Moscow, to make rescue attempts less likely. I hope he does not benefit from some quick exchange which might just allow him to go back into service with Kiev, as has happened in other cases. ***
The alleged mercenary — complete with somewhat unlikely background story and accent — seems very fake. He ought to be moved to a more secure location than Moscow for destruction testing.

Posted by: Cynic | Nov 26 2024 11:36 utc | 467

Caracal, Aegis Ashore, might get lucky and avoid a visit.
Highly dependent on Romanian election results.
Slight possibility of non NATO/EU lackey election.

Posted by: necromancer | Nov 26 2024 11:37 utc | 469

NATO called for providing Ukraine
Posted by: 5thcolumn | Nov 26 2024 11:45 utc | 471
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As if Brussels isn’t a soft target.

Posted by: too scents | Nov 26 2024 11:54 utc | 471

Waldorf | Nov 26 2024 11:16 utc | 46
*** .. he [Mosley] was in Labour, then set up a “New Party” that went nowhere but showed some fascist characteristics. After that he established the BUF ***
The “New Party” was violently attacked by Labour Party heavies, which made it unviable.
Mosley originally changed parties partly in protest against the UK government’s actions in Ireland.
He had subsequently given up on Labour — of which if he was dishonest enough he might well have become leader — because it was even then a heap of rhetorically-disguised Establishment shit … as it, especially Snowden its bankerite-arselick Chancellor, proved beyond doubt during the Depression.
So however bad Mosley was, that paled to relative insignificance compared to Churchill, the Liberals or the so-called Labour Party. Constant demonisation of him has conveniently served to deflect attention from just how rotten these other politicians were.

Posted by: Cynic | Nov 26 2024 12:00 utc | 473

Posted by: Lengai | Nov 26 2024 11:14 utc | 462
“Be thankful at least that the individual to whom you wrote the above reply did not trot out the line about the NSAPD being ‘left wing’ or socialist’ because it had ‘socialist’ and ‘worker’ in its title.
There is a long history of deliberate efforts to sow confusion about this.”
It is Mr Lengai who is confused here.
The NSDAP was a socialist party, simply not of the Marxist internationalist flavour. It was a national socialist party, precisely like the name suggests.

Posted by: Jan Sobieski | Nov 26 2024 12:05 utc | 475

re: too scents | Nov 26 2024 12:18 utc | 477
Better stated as “partnering with the ownership of industry”.

Posted by: too scents | Nov 26 2024 12:20 utc | 477

Churchill in WW2 lamented “the trouble with our British lads is that they’re not natural killers”
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Nov 25 2024 20:32 utc | 327

The US has fixed that issue.
US troops are unthinking killers infused by their exceptionality and self perceived heroism warring against a world full of subhumans, ragheads, …
Fall out is e exposing “effective military killing” as unsuitable for solving problems. Hammer in hand ..

Posted by: MAKK | Nov 26 2024 13:03 utc | 479

https://t.me/mod_russia/46206

According to confirmed data, over the past three days, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have carried out two strikes with long-range Western weapons on targets in the Kursk region.
Thus, on November 23, the enemy launched a strike with five American-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles in the area of ​​the settlement of Lotaryovka (37 km northwest of Kursk) on the position of the S-400 anti-aircraft missile division.
During the anti-missile battle, the combat crew of the Pantsir air defense missile and gun system, which was providing cover for this division, destroyed three ATACMS missiles, and two reached their target.
As a result of the strike, the radar was damaged. There are casualties among the personnel.
On November 25, 2024, the Kiev regime launched another strike with eight ATACMS operational-tactical missiles on the Kursk-Vostochny airfield (settlement of Khalino). Seven missiles were shot down by combat crews of the S-400 air defense missile system and the Pantsir air defense missile and gun system, one reached its target. As a result of falling missile fragments, two servicemen were slightly injured, and infrastructure facilities were slightly damaged.
During the inspection of the places subjected to attacks, it was reliably confirmed that the Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out strikes with American-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles.
The Russian Ministry of Defense is monitoring the situation, and response actions are being prepared.

Posted by: ANON2022 | Nov 26 2024 13:16 utc | 481

Can’t help getting a Shadowbanned vibe from our Anon2022…
In more cheerful news, the Globalist is getting twitchy.
https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/11/24/ukraines-warriors-brace-for-a-kremlin-surge-in-the-south
Ukraine’s problems, meanwhile, are worsening mainly because of manpower issues. The army is long out of willing recruits, and its mobilisation campaign is falling short, recruiting barely two-thirds of its target. A senior Ukrainian official says he is worried the situation may become irretrievable by the spring. An even bigger problem is the quality of the new recruits. “Forest”, a battalion commander with the 65th brigade, says the men being sent from army headquarters are now mostly too old or unmotivated to be useful. All but a handful are over the age of 45. “I’m being sent guys, 50 plus, with doctors’ notes telling me they are too ill to serve,” he says. “At times it feels like I’m managing a day-care centre rather than a combat unit.”
The situation on the front lines is widely accepted to be as difficult as at any time since the early days of the war, with many fearing a significant Ukrainian retreat may soon be inevitable… Ukraine’s systemic weakness is clearly taking its toll on the morale of its front-line fighters. With no hope for rotation or demobilisation, some of the once most committed now wonder if a ceasefire might be the only way out. “Chechen”, the brigade officer leading the new soldiers’ training session, says he remains determined to fight to the end. “Giving away territories to these disgusting people is no guarantee it will stop.” But he admits that fewer soldiers than ever share his resolve. “It’s not even 50-50 any more, but 30-70.” Lemberg puts the situation in even starker terms. “In 2022 I was ready to tear the Russians apart with my teeth,” he says. “In 2023, I just needed rest. This year? I almost couldn’t give a fuck.”

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Nov 26 2024 13:27 utc | 483

> Shadowbanned vibe from our Anon2022…
Every other time, I disagree with barflies guessing about new names for long-time posters. In this case, I agree, because the perspective, reasoning, and writing style match perfectly AFAICT.
Welcome back, Shadowbanned. I appreciate your contributions.

Posted by: I forgot | Nov 26 2024 13:37 utc | 485

The NSDAP was a socialist party
Posted by: Jan Sobieski | Nov 26 2024 12:05 utc | 476
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Sure. Where Socialism can be interpreted as partnering with industry as in Fascism.
Posted by: too scents | Nov 26 2024 12:18 utc | 477
Partnering as imposing change. The original was, as mentioned before, socialist but not komintern, Rhom and his SA paid the price for not bending the knee to oligarchs.
Was hitler ever socialist? Possibly, but turned. Goering? Unlikely, but Rhom? Certainly, maybe with a distinct flavor but certainly. The night of the long knives was the purging of that line.
The third international was perhaps the trigger for much of the problem, by being more than an international and threatening an hegemony based in Moscow .
Maybe current parties like AfD are the same kind of answer to an American led “liberalism”, as many here remind, most are socio-economically right, but present themselves as not bound to dictates from the us.
But why discuss this on the Ukraine thread? Maybe because the third international was meant as a means, and effective one at that, to keep members within orthodoxy and minimize risks of defection. These last months, how often have we discussed about china dropping Russia or Russia being forgiven as a price of dropping china , or even both letting Iran to hang. Divide and conquer was/is always a nice card to play.

Posted by: Newbie | Nov 26 2024 13:47 utc | 487

I forgot | Nov 26 2024 13:37 utc | 486
What makes you welcome him is I assume the same things that cheese me off, namely his non-stop “If Putin were any good he’d do X. Or Y. Or Z.”
Russia are winning this strange hybrid war of a kind we’ve not seen, as much financial as military, after a thousand days, with NATO/US providing the weapons, the intelligence and the targeting. There will always be things in any war that could have been done better.
My only worry about Putin’s leadership is the succession.

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Nov 26 2024 13:55 utc | 489

My only worry about Putin’s leadership is the succession.
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Nov 26 2024 13:55 utc | 490
Why? Don’t you love Shoigu? That’s the succession prepared for years but the smo failures have damaged the votes for these elections. Putin’s high approval, which is real, does not translate to government or others. So Shoigu failed upwards, moved out of public view waiting for next elections. His buddy Gerasimov always fails upwards too. In only two years he took full control over both smo stuff and internal stuff, but can’t show even tiny results

Posted by: rk | Nov 26 2024 14:08 utc | 491

rk | Nov 26 2024 14:08 utc | 492
sb’s little brother?

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Nov 26 2024 14:32 utc | 493

It’s a titans’ fight about who gets to own/rape Europe as in the old myth.

Posted by: Tom | Nov 26 2024 14:52 utc | 495

Putin butthole-lickers
Posted by: Sane Voice | Nov 26 2024 14:55 utc | 497
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All I see here is an asshole that no one wants to lick…that’s you!!

Posted by: ossii | Nov 26 2024 14:59 utc | 497

sb’s little brother?
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Nov 26 2024 14:32 utc | 494
I don’t ask for nuclear strikes on Nato, just not a fake smo.
If you don’t like that, you can always move to Marty from Amerika’s blog. He’s on a denial tour these days, his “sources” deep inside MoD told him there was no Atacms attack on Kursk, it’s all internet fakes.
Here’s some more realism:
“Bloody Attack in Nova Kakhovka: Ukrainian Terrorist Regime Strikes a Bus, Killing 4 People and Wounding 13, Then Strike Emergency Vehicles Arriving to Help the Injured
Ukrainian drones targeted emergency vehicles that arrived to assist the wounded passengers of the bus in Nova Kakhovka, damaging 2 vehicles, the Governor of Kherson region told Zvezda.
“The strike was precise, meaning the location had been zeroed in. They were waiting for the bus to stop at the bus stop to carry out the attack in such an inhumane way,” added Vladimir Saldo.”

Posted by: rk | Nov 26 2024 15:08 utc | 499