You idiots who prattle on about Nazis.
As everyone knows,… the wages of the Nazi soldiers were paid by the Jew Kolomoisky till American Jew politicians began paying them with American taxpayer money (which is the current situation).
If the Jews stopped paying them, the Nazis would simply go away.
The Nazis/Banderites have almost no power in Jew run Ukraine.
All the main politicians, including Zelensky, are Jews.
There are zero neo-Nazi politicians.
Posted by: username | Dec 26 2024 8:28 utc | 172

neo-nazism is not a religion. they can be jews, muslims, or as the majority, catholic christians.
and those jewish politicians, well, whatever. theres a historical word for those: “Kapos”.
appointed by the “we are not nazis”-west. “jats is our man!”

Posted by: Justpassinby | Dec 26 2024 12:51 utc | 204

Posted by: username | Dec 26 2024 8:28 utc | 172
Of course they are all Jews…AND NAZIS…People have been so incredibly mentally manipulated over the last 90 years that it doesn’t occur to them to connect the two…95% of the neocons are Jews. 95% of the Neoliberals are Jews.. 90% of the global investment banksters are Jews and so on and so forth… Ever since the French were so insane as to give this pack civil rights, the world has been moving from one ever-worsening catastrophe to the next. Bonaparte briefly considered undoing this human error, but he preferred to play war in Egypt – who did he get the money from??? I think in Jaffa he regretted this human mistake (according to Kleber), but by then it was all too late.

Posted by: Larsbo | Dec 26 2024 12:59 utc | 206

Yo Ho Ho what did the bearded men bring shelenski this year?
The photo of him surrounded by the Talmudic Never Ending Story bearded geezers in black hats doing the rounds is Shirley a pisstake?
Or is a repeat of the ww2 failure to take Russia and annihilation of its many Peoples ( though 27 million was a substantial proportion!) – to seek escape hiding behind ‘antisemitism’ – that’s how the deranged ziofascists of the Collective Waste ended up invading the Levant with their crazies.
The impending repeat failure – the fourth in a century and a quarter (and the umpteenth in centuries) – now has the preparation of depopulating the remaing khazars and some delusional henchfolk bandera nazi minions under the Ziofascist Masters they incomprehensibly work for !
Lol – it’s gonna take a lot of Narrative construction for the confused Ukranian Slavs who always speak Russian and are related in many cases to believe they are now the new ‘Jews’ of the Ukraine that must seek a new land to live in away from the …err Nazis of Russia.
I know that my deluded Collective Wasters are beyond help as the Nazi Germans were after the superlative propaganda of Himmler and his Ziopsych mass media manipulators.
Shelenski has been as good as that master propagandist. And better trained in performance for the new media. He sits in his trade mark costume and appears to be comfortable and well received by the interlocutors and the audience in the studio.
But all that is a Lie.
The ‘Marathon of TeeVee’ has not quite run out of steam yet .
But the LED screen lights are not far from going out all over that neonazi nation with its allusions of grandeur having been fed for a whole generation and half now.
There are many selfies of young volunteers on the front lines going into meltdown talking to their friends abroad; who have avoided the brainwashed rush to kill every Russian.
It is hard to watch in fact, going from comical to tragic, as their mental breakdown and tears of confusion, having to witness the reality of war and their fellow idiot volunteers daily destruction by the neoantinazis Russian through and through soldiers marches towards and through them. History chimes as it repeats. The human waves dying are the collective wests neo Nazis this time.
We are approaching the last ditch Hitler youth and old guys, thinking they are greater than the Red Army that not only survived but destroyed most of the Nazis accumulated against them and are unstoppable, coming to collect their debts. Again.
There are going to be many tears and if Shelenski and co are dumb enough to be caught it will be a public death and display for all of them at the hands of very disappointed kokhol fairytale believers. Like that young soldier crying like a baby.
Only a matter of days and weeks before that collective ukropian delusion collapses like a sandcastle on the beach with the incoming tide.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Dec 26 2024 13:22 utc | 208

It’s just boring and repetitive: Putin should do this, Putin weak, Russia should do that, Russia weak, BRICS must do X, China must do Y, etc, ad nauseum. All of you trolls sing the same fucking song all the fucking time. Boring.
Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Dec 26 2024 8:44 utc | 176

Indeed. And without any concession to reality. The pattern is so obvious as to be florescent…visible from space. Their masters practically telegraph their thoughts here. We know this view, have heard it ad nauseum and have rejected it utterly as being detached from reality. Maybe try a new song and dance, to avoid the reality Ukraine is lost.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Dec 26 2024 13:44 utc | 210

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Dec 26 2024 13:44 utc | 210
Who the fuck cares if Ukraine ist lost…
Maybe the Putin trolls here should connect with reality…How many RUSSIANS have LOST THEIR LIVES since 2014 because the Jewish-Neoliberal Trojan Horse stubbornly fulfills his mission, which he received from his “good friend Klaus” a long time ago. ..Just say a number so we know whether you know what the Jewish-Neoliberal clown did or not…For those who want to see, the pattern of destruction is immediately apparent

Posted by: Larsbo | Dec 26 2024 14:28 utc | 212

@213
…the shrapnel showed on the plane is similar to MANPAD or SHORAD.

Posted by: unimperator | Dec 26 2024 14:30 utc | 214

@ Mango | Dec 26 2024 5:14 utc
I have enjoyed Cebu in my retirement but…
Philippines could easily be the Ukraine of South East Asia, given the current government support for USA and antipathy towards China.
If you go…
Never get married, rent, dont buy, property, keep our assets offshore, never declare said assets to anyone. never fall in love.
Have a look at Lombok, beside Bali, instead.
Sorry for OT

Posted by: necromancer | Dec 26 2024 14:35 utc | 216

Can anyone think of any crazed Nazi headchopper types that like blowing up civilians and would happily shoot down a plane with Russian friendlies on board who have lately been gifted large numbers of MANPADS? I’m having a hard time thinking of any…
/s

Posted by: William Gruff | Dec 26 2024 14:37 utc | 218

Today’s Russian drone attack looks like one meant to deplete the defender. A swath of cheapest of the cheap. That means that the real thing is about to come.

Posted by: Catilina | Dec 26 2024 14:39 utc | 220

So today’s news out of Azerbaijan is that Russian defense system was to blame for the airliner crash. This per an investigator speaking to the local media.
Both Russia and Azerbaijan are seeking to tamp down any speculation but are also not issuing denials.

Posted by: Culero | Dec 26 2024 15:03 utc | 222

Russian AD may have shot down an F-16 in Zaporozhye region. The information is still unconfirmed.
https://x.com/squatsons/status/1872299120561619125

Posted by: unimperator | Dec 26 2024 15:16 utc | 224

FSB has unveiled a SBU/FUKU$ plot of assassinating Russian top level officials. Agents from Ukraine had been sent to Russia via Moldova and Georgia under guise of deported persons.
https://x.com/BowesChay/status/1872290439652356227

Posted by: unimperator | Dec 26 2024 15:26 utc | 226

I will agree with Johan Kaspar, Trump might be a good thing for the USA … in the same way Gorbachev was a “good” thing for SSSR.
It will be lovely on the map : Californistan, Arizodjan, Texasistan, the 3 Chesapeake States, Reunified Dakota 🙂

Posted by: Savonarole | Dec 26 2024 15:41 utc | 228

Now Russia has shut down all 4 Moscow airports and fifth 100 miles away.
This is either more evidence that Russia cannot control its air defense systems or as the estimable Gruff assures the community, CIA and/or NAFO has seriously infiltrated Russia to the extent they can easily shoot down passenger planes.
Either way, not a good look for the 5th dimensional Chess Champion from St Petersburg

Posted by: Culero | Dec 26 2024 15:47 utc | 230

@ Culero | Dec 26 2024 15:47 utc | 230
Oh, I can beat that. The USA shut down all civil aviation after some guys with boxcutters hijacked a fee planes — guys, moreover, whose activities had already raised alarms in part of the “intelligence community”, which forwarded its concerns to Washington.

Posted by: malenkov | Dec 26 2024 16:02 utc | 232

Weeb Union’s latest video shows that the Russians are bypassing Pakrovsk and going straight for the Metinvest Coke plant west of the city. I hadn’t realized that it was so far west.
This is a smart move, IMO. There don’t appear to be any fortifications between the RF current positions to the SW of the city and that modernized plant. It could probably be taken intact and then Pokrovsk would be outflanked.
Of course, Blackrock would shit their pants!

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Dec 26 2024 16:03 utc | 234

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Dec 26 2024 16:03 utc | 234
RUAF controls everything south and far to SW/WSW of Pokrovsk. After that all Zelensky’s Hail Mary investments on Festung-Pokrovsk turn moot. RUAF can simply continue moving west, while blocking and bombing Pokrovsk without costly head-on assaults.
Eventually the chance of AFU choosing to leave or not defend Pokrovsk will go up as RUAF consolidates areas to the west of it and leaves the city into a more irrelevant position.

Posted by: unimperator | Dec 26 2024 16:06 utc | 236

Posted by: William Gruff | Dec 26 2024 14:37 utc | 218
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Trump was quite proud that he supplied Javelins to Ukraine back in 2018 but I do not know if they can be used on aircraft.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 26 2024 16:09 utc | 238

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 26 2024 16:17 utc | 239
There was a nice infographic a few months ago on all major US missile manufacturing companies relying on Chinese to produce components for US missiles and guided rockets. Almost every missile and rocket produced by the US, and every category from propulsion, guidance, fuses etc. rely 50 % or more on Chinese components.
China can easily bring the majority of US MIC to its knees if it wants to.

Posted by: unimperator | Dec 26 2024 16:20 utc | 240

Putin and Russia are failing.
Posted by: Culero | Dec 26 2024 16:08 utc | 237
Unless of course it isn’t failing. If so then every other conclusion you reach is false because they are all based on a false premise.

Posted by: Jmaas | Dec 26 2024 16:25 utc | 242

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 26 2024 16:04 utc | 235

Source?

Check out what “culo” means in Spanish and you will know from where the faggot (‘culero’) pulled off that info.

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Dec 26 2024 16:37 utc | 244

@245
Also forgot… Cargo ships and tankers are fair game nowadays after Ursa Major.
Most likely the FSB and RUAF have investigated most terror attacks in Russia and have a list of British crimes against Russia, and they have the potential to start publicly releasing British crimes and start retribution on one-by-one basis against British shipping and assets.

Posted by: unimperator | Dec 26 2024 16:40 utc | 246

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Dec 26 2024 16:37 utc | 244
Here is Brujeria serenading Sr. Culero. Brujeria – Culeros + Misas Negras (Live, July 2023)
Posted by: unimperator | Dec 26 2024 16:37 utc | 245
Whenever I try to explain my support for Russia in the Ukraine situation to those who only know the situation from MSM here in the USA, I always use the analogy of how would the USA respond if a foreign actor fomented a coup in Mexico or Canada, and then the new anti-USA coup government began militarily attacking the USA. They usually look at me with increased scorn. A few are able to entertain the thought before the Overton window slams down. I doubt we would react with the restraint that the RF has shown so far. I’m surprised the hybrid war unimperator describes hasn’t happened sooner.

Posted by: lex talionis | Dec 26 2024 16:56 utc | 248

@ g wiltek | Dec 26 2024 17:06 utc | 250
“There the F-16s are!”, exclaimed the AD operator. Probably.

Posted by: boneless | Dec 26 2024 17:13 utc | 250

I think Russia should hit missile manufacturing plants in UK. hit US missile storage facilities in Europe
Posted by: Sam | Dec 25 2024 15:35 utc | 11
Are you a troll, or just an idiot?
If you had more than 12 working neurons, you would recognize that Russia is already at war with US/UK/NATO. We are already 3 years into WW III, which is as different from WW II as the second war was from the first. Unlike in the past, both warring sides have nuclear weapons and neither side wants to use them. So the war progresses in a different way.
Because, well, even you can probably figure that out.

Posted by: Clever Dog | Dec 26 2024 17:21 utc | 252

I know you are supposed to let sleeping dogs be, even clever ones.
But I happen to agree, that Russia should bomb some Western factories.
If for nothing else, then to show that France and The UK, even the USA is not off limits.
As things stand, the West just piles it on, fearing nothing. As long as they can get Ukrainians to sacrifice their lives, fine!!
You don’t have to be clever to see where this can end.
And to give the West credit for thinking and sense, is obviously a waste of time.
Now it seems as if Russian ships and airplanes are not safe anywhere.
Where do you think the line should be drawn?

Posted by: g wiltek | Dec 26 2024 17:33 utc | 254

RE: Russia shot down an F16.
RT
Posted by: g wiltek | Dec 26 2024 17:06 utc | 250
Confirmation they are inside Ukraine, loaded with missiles & flying.
“One of the F-16 jets donated to Ukraine by NATO has reportedly been downed while attempting to launch missiles at Russia’s Zaporozhye Region.”
Still, changes nothing.
TASS JULY 2024 Article;
https://tass.com/world/1816959
“F-16 jets can hardly influence frontline situation in Ukraine”
“Aviation expert Cyrille de Lattre believes F-16 can be delivered in parts by trucks to Ukraine, as otherwise they will be immediately downed by Russia”
“They will change nothing. Young Ukrainian pilots without experience will pilot them and the talk now is about six aircraft,” he said.
The situation may change if Ukraine receives a big number of F16s with professional foreign pilots.
De Lattre recalled that the United States gave a greenlight to private military companies to operate in Ukraine. “They can help Ukraine engage Patriot (air defense systems) to protect F-16 bases, as well as service the aircraft and provide pilots, why not?” he said.“
Honestly looks like they are getting very small supplies of ground equipment, troop diminishing means more reliance on some sort of increased air assaults (having no air dominance)… just showing collapse.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Dec 26 2024 17:43 utc | 256

I always enjoy a dichotomy, and I am confronted with one here.
On the one hand, I am super annoyed when the trolls show up to yip. On the other hand, I kind of enjoy it, for it means that they are afraid.

Posted by: Hunsdon | Dec 26 2024 17:45 utc | 258

Posted by: Hunsdon | Dec 26 2024 17:45 utc | 259
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That is why the assassinations don’t bother me.
Assassination is like poisoning—a weapon of the weak.
If America was really what the trolls believe, they would mobilize millions of Americans and flood Europe as they deploy space-based weapons to shut down all electricity in Tehran and Moscow.
Meanwhile, they can’t even protect their Presidential candidates from being shot in public.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 26 2024 18:04 utc | 260

The situation may change if Ukraine receives a big number of F16s with professional foreign pilots.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Dec 26 2024 17:43 utc | 257
If you recall Ukraine started this war with a fleet of Mig-29’s and SU-27’s which were all lost by April 2022 … except the Ghost of Kiev” of course who is still out there somewhere.
They were then given every mig-29 the USA could scrounge up from all over the world and they were lost.
These aircraft are a similar vintage to a Mig-29 / SU-27 and have a similar radar signature. The Russians have missiles that can shoot down aircraft at distances of up to 400 km … what does the F-16 have that can outrange that?
At best an F-16 can launch storm shadow cruise missiles from standoff ranges but this missile only has a range of 550 km and the Russians have been taking them down with EW and missiles.
All they would achieve is giving Russian pilots and AD operators some practice against US aircraft.

Posted by: HB_Norica | Dec 26 2024 18:17 utc | 262

Now Russia has shut down all 4 Moscow airports and fifth 100 miles away.
Posted by: Culero | Dec 26 2024 15:47 utc | 230
https://www.flightradar24.com/SDM6703/387d3fa5
And now about “culero”:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/culero
I agree 200%.

Posted by: Naive | Dec 26 2024 18:20 utc | 264

Posted by: Culero | Dec 26 2024 18:15 utc | 262
So… we have the choice between an asshole, a coward, a homosexual, a drug mule, a sluggard or a diaper. That last very necessary considering his enuresis.
In fact not necessary to choose. When all fit.

Posted by: Naive | Dec 26 2024 18:26 utc | 266

Follow up on my previous comment, I neglected to mention the Ukrainian attack drone activity on Dec 25 which would indicate either that:
A) Russian Air defense mistakenly shot down the Azeri passenger plane
or
B) Ukraine cleverly timed the drone attacks with locally placed operators with MANPADS to make it appear Russia shot down the plane.
Both seem plausible.
I would only say that based on the Western Media reaction so far, there is a distinct lack of the typical chorus of a coordinated narrative of Russia bashing and immediate blaming that usually accompanies these type of false flag operations, leading me to lean towards the unfortunate likelihood of scenario A.
Onto the Ursa Major sinking..
There are murmurs of sabotage and terrorism among the usual simpers. Typically, they are heavy on speculation and innuendo, and devoid of evidence. The Ship’s owner has spoken out with such accusations too, though it is not clear how a Russian ship that sailed from a Russian port could realistically be easily sabotaged, particularly one that has strategic importance and is regularly contracted to the Russian MOD. Surely it would be a very well guarded ship in St Petersburg, where it was last docked. Any talk of torpedoes or drones out at sea seems far fetched given the level of escalation and likely invitation to retaliation, but anything is possible of course.
Someone who is attempting to provide an argument based on what appears to be evidence is this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N_eHRNpAPo&ab_channel=WhatisGoingonWithShipping%3F
Looking past the big caveat of him being a US citizen not hiding his Schadenfreude in reporting on another lost Russian ship, there is validity in his suggestion the sinking could be due to the ship not implementing any past maintenance recommendations and not visiting any certified ports in many years, thus falling victim to sub optimal workmanship, if any was conducted at all.
The fact 2 river tankers were sent out to sea and subsequently sunk supports the thesis that Russian ship operators are stretched, cutting corners or using vessels beyond their design limitations.
It would be great if any people accusing anyone of terrorism or sabotage could at least try to back their claims with some proof and logic, just as this guy did. BTW, he did not rule sabotage out either.

Posted by: Rubiconned | Dec 26 2024 18:26 utc | 268

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Posted by: boneless | Dec 26 2024 18:30 utc | 270
Sorry, what proof are you referring to exactly?
I am referring to the sinking of a ship. Please watch the video before commenting next time, so you can at least understand what this guy tries to provide as proof to back his argument, such as the ship’s records, tracking data, circumstance of other Russian ships sinking etc.
We know a ship sunk. Please refer us to whatever proof you have as to how this occurred.

Posted by: Rubiconned | Dec 26 2024 18:37 utc | 270

A yankee Boeing P-8A Poseidon is currently circling over Romania close to the Ukrainian border and the Black Sea coast.

Posted by: Naive | Dec 26 2024 18:43 utc | 272

It seems there’s a general agreement on MoA (at least among the non-trolls) that escalation beyond the borders of Ukraine is undesirable, but I would appreciate it if some of the regular Barflies would enlighten me on what they consider the downsides to be.
Posted by: Barton Bendish | Dec 26 2024 18:00 utc | 260
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Let’s start with first principles.
What is Russia seeking to accomplish with the SMO and 10 years after the SMO?
Would attacking somewhere outside of Ukraine be helpful to those goals?
I advise everyone who likes to follow geopolitics through the alt-perspective (which we at MoA are) to follow Karlof1’s Substack where he covers the thinking inside of Russia and China, particularly social policy, which tells us a lot about what these countries are seeking to achieve.
We already know the agenda in the West. For the politicians, it is serving donors and patrons, and accruing generational wealth to themselves. It is certainly not patriotism or care for the citizens whose safety and prosperity, are duties that they have asked to protect by seeking office in the first place.
In Russia, they are constantly rooting out corruption. China as well. The Chinese give the death penalty to those who steal from the people. Can you imagine the death penalty for a Big Pharma or MIC exec in America?
In America, no one runs for office to end corruption when everyone knows the entire enterprise is corrupt from top to bottom.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 26 2024 18:46 utc | 274

It seems there’s a general agreement on MoA (at least among the non-trolls) that escalation beyond the borders of Ukraine is undesirable, but I would appreciate it if some of the regular Barflies would enlighten me on what they consider the downsides to be.
Posted by: Barton Bendish | Dec 26 2024 18:00 utc | 260
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Good answer Donbass @ 275. Let me have a shot at it.
1. WW3 with a nuclear component.

Posted by: Ed | Dec 26 2024 18:58 utc | 276

@ Rubiconned | Dec 26 2024 18:37 utc | 271
The crew interview of the sinking ship reported explosions. But that doesn’t fall into the narrative those like you peddle here, does it. So you discard it, preemptively insult those with a legitimate conflicting argument, while generalizing and stretching hand picked data over an entire strategic fleet.
There is no value in retracing “Russian shadow fleet is doomed due to poor maintenance” claims back from two years ago resurfacing due to a headline opportunity. “We predicted their imminent downfall, and it barely took years for a ship to sink!”
None of this would be an issue had you not come in with a patronizing lecture peddling old narrative propaganda. It might even somehow be true, but you certainty have no clue. Proof he asks for now, how cute.

Posted by: boneless | Dec 26 2024 19:02 utc | 278

No one said it was shot down.
Posted by: Rubiconned | Dec 26 2024 18:58 utc | 276
A) Russian Air defense mistakenly shot down the Azeri passenger plane
Posted by: Rubiconned | Dec 26 2024 18:26 utc | 269

Posted by: Naive | Dec 26 2024 19:15 utc | 280

Democracyatwork.info
Posted by: Culero | Dec 26 2024 15:47 utc | 230
There are many ways Nato can arm people to shoot down passenger planes in Russia.
Likewise, with free and open western borders, it would be pretty easy to arm people to start shooting down passenger planes in EU and the US and make them come into a grinding halt.
Posted by: unimperator | Dec 26 2024 15:57 utc | 231
The situation as I understand it is that by reputation the United States is still the big dog in the fight, and also given to extracting revenge. As a result nobody really wants to take the US on. The Russian solution to this is to only respond in an aggressive way when they have proof that the United States, by proxy or otherwise, commits an aggressive action. When that happens the Russians take it as giving themselves the right to respond in kind. If they follow that behavior in the future, and ships and airplanes are indeed being taken out by acts of terrorism, then the Russians will respond when it becomes apparent that terrorism is the problem.
Some suppose this behavior is proof of Russian weakness. What that opinion overlooks is that aggressive behavior can be compensation for weakness, as it is now with certainty with Ukraine.

Posted by: Jmaas | Dec 26 2024 19:17 utc | 282

@
Posted by: boneless | Dec 26 2024 19:02 utc | 279
“The crew interview of the sinking ship reported explosions.”
1- AFAIK, an engine blowing up is also an explosion. Where were these crew at the time of the explosions?
2- Crew working for a ship owner that states the ship sunk due to ‘terrorism’ instead of his shoddy maintenance or cost cutting might be well motivated to support that narrative.
I think it’s perfectly possible there was an attack of sorts on the ship, but so far i have seen no evidence to support that theory. If you think it’s unreasonable of one to expect the same burden of proof on both sides of an argument, then perhaps it is not proof or truth that you are looking for.

Posted by: Rubiconned | Dec 26 2024 19:23 utc | 284

Posted by: Ed | Dec 26 2024 18:58 utc | 277

It seems there’s a general agreement on MoA (at least among the non-trolls) that escalation beyond the borders of Ukraine is undesirable, but I would appreciate it if some of the regular Barflies would enlighten me on what they consider the downsides to be.
Posted by: Barton Bendish | Dec 26 2024 18:00 utc | 260
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Good answer Donbass @ 275. Let me have a shot at it.
1. WW3 with a nuclear component.

Of course, the implication here is that Western deterrence is still intact even as we witness its gradual erosion on the Russian side. This development is a strategic loss for Russia.

Posted by: robin | Dec 26 2024 19:27 utc | 286

@ Posted by: Naive | Dec 26 2024 19:15 utc | 281
LOL. I meant in the sense in which you interpreted ‘shot down’, as a reasonable person could have deduced by the rest of my comment, but thank you for pointing out my error.

Posted by: Rubiconned | Dec 26 2024 19:32 utc | 288

Posted by: Culero | Dec 26 2024 16:08 utc | 237
This is actually a pretty funny handle. Culero is a Mexican slang for fag, or literally someone who deals in “culos” or asses.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Dec 26 2024 19:39 utc | 290

Lot of earnestly breathless speculation and counter-speculation about the aircraft crash and the ship sinking, all based on sometimes conflicting “information” leaks.
Compare and contrast with the complete clampdown on information following the Oreshnik strike on the Yuzhmash site.
Just sayin’…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Dec 26 2024 19:44 utc | 292

There is no favorable endgame for Putin and Russia with respect to the SMO. Russia is not weak per se, however the immediate as well as longer term consequences are guaranteed to be lackluster at best and tragic at worst.
Most significantly, the daily insults to Putin’s reputation are magnified by Russia’s growing inability to the control events within their own borders.

Posted by: Culero | Dec 26 2024 19:56 utc | 294

@260
In war the moral is to the material as three is to one.
NATO proxy attacks on Russia and sea assets are terrorism seeking headlines and looking for terror in response.
Russia has not stooped to respond in immoral kind.
Other than acting like the evil….
Russia has no career in occupying any aggressor state, its attacks would support no objects.
Russia staying on the moral high ground defending itself fromNATO

Posted by: paddy | Dec 26 2024 20:11 utc | 296

Now the Western press is going wild over the possible “shooting down” of an Azerbaijani passenger plane by a “Russian missile”. What they are deliberately failing to mention is that a Ukrainian drone attack took place at the same time as the passenger plane approached Grozny. This, of course, triggered the air defenses. If the plane was actually downed by an air defense missile, it would most likely have been caused by debris; if it had been a direct hit, there would have been no survivors. In this case, it looks more as if the Ukraine has cleverly directed the Russian air defense towards the passenger plane. The anti-aircraft gunners would have been faced with the difficult decision of doing nothing and risking fatalities on the ground or an attack by the drone on the plane, or trying to fend off the drones. But the press practitioners (they must be, given the low level of articles) deliberately fail to mention this.

Posted by: xblob | Dec 26 2024 20:14 utc | 298

In 2014 Putin said:
A coup has taken place in Ukraine.
This makes the coup government illegitimate.
Therefore their claim to Crimea is illegitimate.
Thus Russia hold a referendum to establish a legitimate government.
And then have a legal basis for keeping their bases (in Crimea).
In 2024 Putin said:
A coup took place in Syria,
This makes the coup government of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) totally legitimate and Russia will negotiate it to keep, or not keep, their bases in Syria.
Putin the totally flexible,….
What a difference ten years makes.

Posted by: username | Dec 26 2024 20:21 utc | 300