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January 5, 2025
Ukraine Open Thread 2025-002

News & views related to the war in Ukraine …

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My personal take is that it was the Kursk NPP for the same reason they’d love to have the Zap NPP back, but of course they bogged down well short of that. The second reason was simply narrative — “taking the fight to Russia!”.
The AFU with NATO assistance is throwing everything against the wall these days trying to make something stick.
Posted by: TJandTheBear | Jan 5 2025 20:02 utc | 92
Just today they tried hitting 2 nuclear power plants, the ZNPP and the one in Novovoronezhskaya
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The Zapad ‘21 exercises, that preceded the SMO featured a scenario that had Russian units launching a counter-attack, after stopping an assault and Russian doctrine emphasises that defense is not a permanent condition, and should be conducted actively.
I’d guess with the NATO Ramstein meeting looming and a change in US administrations they feel they have to show the project is in some sense viable. Or it could be the classic, buy time for soon to be retreating units. Either way, it’s bad timing as the weather front that temporarily grounded frontal aviation is clearing. Again, as in the Ardennes ‘44, the Ukrainians will find out the problems with offensives conducted under such conditions.
Posted by: Milites | Jan 5 2025 20:07 utc | 94
So I didn’t do too bad on 42 and 71

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 5 2025 20:48 utc | 101

Ukies are desperate for negotiations when Trump assumes office hoping to exchange Kursk for Ukie territory. That won’t be happening. Ukrainistan can’t fight without weekly US weapons which will run dry in 6 weeks. Then chicken Kiev must surrender everything or face annihilation. Wrong calculations by the comedian and his jesters. Pity!

Posted by: Jason | Jan 5 2025 21:00 utc | 102

Posted by: John Marks | Jan 5 2025 18:48 utc | 74 “Both the referendum in Kiev and the disposition of Galicia, Bessarabia & Transcarpathia will be contingent upon the dissolution of NATO and a further condition of no foreign troops allowed in Poland, Rumania or Slovakia.”
Your post makes no sense. If Ukraine falls why would Poland, for instance, go along with the dissolution of NATO? And how will Russia get this to happen? By threatening to invade Poland?
Poland been spending a fortune on arms over the past few years. I wonder if they have a stronger military than Ukraine did in 2022 by now….

Posted by: Ed4 | Jan 5 2025 21:02 utc | 103

Ironically, I’d see these new areas getting a lot more TLC from Russia than the West. A happy population is much more passive and unlikely to support any restive elements.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | Jan 5 2025 20:46 utc | 99
Yes, that would make things simpler all round. I’m going to quote from @aristodemos | Jan 5 2025 17:31 utc | 61 here, as I think this highlights an issue with some intractable elements –

Lvov is the epicenter of Neo-naxzi Banderism.
Because Galicia and parts of nearby oblasts were long under the Polaks and latterly by the Austro-Hungarian Empire; the once Russian Orthodox people there were “convinced” to become Uniates religiously. The Uniates follow Orthodox rituals but are effectually communicants with “Holy” Mother Church, the afterbirth of Constantine’s re-engineering of the Roman Empire.
Writ more simply, the denizens of that chunk of the westernmost elements of the Frankenstein Monster, the former Ukraine SSR…were mistakenly welded onto that SSR monster. Those nutcases are culturally indigestible by the Russian Orthodox peoples…including central Ukraine. Problem is, that the culturally re-engineered Uniates are historically deracinated.

These are the ones I see as being potentially problematic, and if not managed closely will provide new ground for Western agitation and friction-raising on Russia’s new borders. So, Russia will have a big say in the constitutional structure of whatever land these nutters eventually end up with, as part of any long-term settlement agreement.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jan 5 2025 21:10 utc | 104

If Ukraine falls why would Poland, for instance, go along with the dissolution of NATO?
Poland’s building up their own because in part because they don’t want to be dependent upon NATO; they probably see the writing on the wall. Their population’s already sick of the war and they may be done playing second fiddle to Germany, France & UK.
They’d love to be the new power in Europe supplanting Germany and with restored Russia relations (i.e., cheap energy) they easily could be. Obviously NATO going away would remove that roadblock. I spent over a month in Poland this summer and it’s really getting it’s act together. I was a bit taken a back when I saw Azov’s actively recruiting & fundraising but very few people were paying them any attention.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | Jan 5 2025 21:14 utc | 105

Posted by: Ben Trovata | Jan 5 2025 18:18 utc | 69
So, I guess you prefer Joe Biden over Trump.
Wow!
Posted by: canuck | Jan 5 2025 18:29 utc | 72
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Get over it canuck; half of the country already feels that way today, and when people start to see their SS and Medicare shrink (just as the Republicans and Trump always promised they would), Trump’s approval numbers will drop lower than Bidens did just before he pulled off the 2024 race.
A lot of former Democratic voters, myself included, either did not vote for Biden or Harris, or they voted for Trump as a protest of Biden’s support of the Genocide in Gaza and the Biden proxy war in Ukraine. As I have stated here before, the two-party capitalist political system in the US is not a democracy. However, personalities do matter, and some candidates are better than others.
I did not vote for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 race either because Bill and Hillery completely sold out the working class, and they were war-mongering neo-cons as well as neo-liberals; I was not alone.
America did not win a prize with Donald Trump; we just traded a particularly vicious capitalist pig for another one. But what can one expect from a two-party system where both parties are owned and controlled by the same ruling class?

Posted by: Ed | Jan 5 2025 21:29 utc | 106

Then their population would have chased them to hell for a long time…
And so they are doing it bit by bit…See Austria today.
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Posted by: ossi | Jan 5 2025 15:52 utc | 38
bedankt

Posted by: vargas | Jan 5 2025 21:35 utc | 107

Posted by: Stierlitz | Jan 5 2025 20:37 utc | 98
As a child of the late Cold War, and as a student of the Cold War, I have been just stunned by the casual indifference with which the West today seems to regard the prospects of a for real shooting fight with Russia.

Posted by: Hunsdon | Jan 5 2025 21:51 utc | 108

As a child of the late Cold War, and as a student of the Cold War, I have been just stunned by the casual indifference with which the West today seems to regard the prospects of a for real shooting fight with Russia.
Posted by: Hunsdon | Jan 5 2025 21:51 utc | 108
Doesn’t get much worse than this
https://tass.com/world/1896303
https://tass.com/world/1896301

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 5 2025 22:04 utc | 109

Posted by: Ed | Jan 5 2025 21:29 utc | 106
Do I get it right by saying that 2016 you couldn’t swallow hillary, in 2020 you couldn’t vote for biden regency and 2024 you couldn’t swallow word salad kamala?
Sucks to be a democrat 😀

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 5 2025 22:06 utc | 110

Now I’ve seen everything
Rotating the enemy… throw some grenades before 😀
“AFU serviceman Kirill Isinbayev told how under the pretext of rotation his unit was sent to launch an assault in the border area of Kursk region.
‘We were sent to rotate men in positions. We were told to throw a grenade on approach to the dugout. I didn’t understand why we had to do that. It was my first combat assignment and we were left behind. They didn’t say where we were going. Then men said that we were on the territory of Russia. I was shocked. I said, how?,’ he recalls.”

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 5 2025 22:11 utc | 111

Posted by: Ed | Jan 5 2025 21:29 utc | 106
What about the puppet spider at the centre of the web, you had two opportunities to be the person you’ve been waiting for, did you take it?

Posted by: Milites | Jan 5 2025 22:15 utc | 112

For Ukraine soldiers are expendable.

Not a controversial statement. A soldiers job is to kill or be killed. That is what it basically boils down to.
An High Command can certainly waste soldiers, however they will absolutely send them to achieve objectives that will cost soldiers their lives.
This is something that every potential army recruit should consider before they enlist. Lastly it matters not what your military occupation code is (MOC), you are a soldier first and a specialist second.
A soldier in any army is expendable.

Posted by: rgl | Jan 5 2025 22:16 utc | 113

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 5 2025 22:11 utc | 111
Sounds like the stories from some Russian conscripts caught up in the initial invasion, how the wheel turns.

Posted by: Milites | Jan 5 2025 22:17 utc | 114

I’ve got a weird suspicion that we’re all going to be disappointed in how Trump and his executive branch handle Ukraine. I can easily see the hawks getting their way over doves and those who favor negotiating, even though the Russians would be very short sighted to negotiate anything at this point at all, except possibly total surrender and disarmament. The neocon devils want Crimea back badly and IMHO one of the main reasons for this whole war has been its return, no matter that even us lowly anonymous netizens have known how ridiculous the proposition has always been.
We’ll see.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 5 2025 22:21 utc | 115

Posted by: Hunsdon | Jan 5 2025 21:51 utc | 108
That’s what’s known as a tell, when the person selling the story doesn’t themselves react as though the story is real. Even Blinken knows it’s a crock, if he even suspected they might start WW3 he’d be hovering at the door of his bunker. When certain people disappear from public view, and others vanish from social media, then start to worry. I believe the interval between their vanishing and the predicted vanishing of civilisation on earth is, IIRC, a couple of days.

Posted by: Milites | Jan 5 2025 22:26 utc | 116

Coming US president is a criminal, the one who is still hanging on with one leg in the grave is also a criminal, in a way, the whole of USA is criminal.

Posted by: ostrr | Jan 5 2025 22:26 utc | 117

They’d love to be the new power in Europe supplanting Germany and with restored Russia relations (i.e., cheap energy) they easily could be.
Posted by: TJandTheBear | Jan 5 2025 21:14 utc | 105
Poland is the last country in Europe that will restore relations with Russia. Russians hate the Poles and the Poles hate the Russians and so it has been since creation. Even more than Ukrainians hate the Russians.

Posted by: HB_Norica | Jan 5 2025 22:28 utc | 118

Trump’s approval numbers will drop lower than Bidens did just before he pulled off the 2024 race.
Posted by: Ed | Jan 5 2025 21:29 utc | 106
Forgive me for being superstitious and a bit of a worrier, but I agree that this is likely to happen and I get major whiffs of Shrub’s first year in office. He “won” a very close general election as well, and his numbers were in the tank just prior to 9/11. If, in fact, Trump sees similar mass disapproval – which will depend more on tariffs, deportations and other economy/job killing moves than the usual Rethug cutbacks to the social safety net (perhaps both in concert?) – something big may “happen” despite all the security theater and actual crackdowns on civil liberties happening “in response to” the recent assassination attempts and alleged terror attacks (also the student protest crackdowns). IOW, we’re being primed for a black swan / false flag big enough to “justify” fascistic policies at home and a new war with Iran.
As always, I hope I’m wrong.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 5 2025 22:30 utc | 119

Posted by: rgl | Jan 5 2025 22:16 utc | 114
British soldiers used to have to sign a ‘contract of unlimited liability’, as a condition of service, and make sure, that ‘letter home’ was regularly updated, especially when on active duty.

Posted by: Milites | Jan 5 2025 22:35 utc | 120

When certain people disappear from public view, and others vanish from social media, then start to worry. I believe the interval between their vanishing and the predicted vanishing of civilisation on earth is, IIRC, a couple of days.
Posted by: Milites | Jan 5 2025 22:26 utc | 117
That was the reason I got quite worried when the uk royals said they’d cancel their public duties (due to elections and not wanting to influence) back in june/july
I think we were real close back there

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 5 2025 22:36 utc | 121

Ghost of Zanon | Jan 5 2025 16:29 utc | 47
what kind of shit-fit will Sholz and Biden have? Will they beat their wives?
No. I think they fear their wives will continue to beat them.
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HB_Norica | Jan 5 2025 17:36 utc | 62
Just a pointless waste of men and machinery … some of which I paid for thanks to the generosity of the Canadian Australian government.
The @bar informed me recently that Australia had sent 49 Abrams to Ukraine. I didn’t know we had any Abrams, let alone 49. (Well I guess we have none now).
Ukraine chewed through the first 50 heroic, media chauvinist mighty aussie bushmasters in milliseconds, and by now probably has consumed the entire inventory. (Media no longer orgastically reports on the invincible bushmaster)
I thought we were in the master plan calculation to fight China.
My hope is that the more shit we are directed to send to Ukraine results in less shit in reserve to mosquito bite China.
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Posted by: Melaleuca | Jan 5 2025 22:36 utc | 122

Posted by: Ed4 | Jan 5 2025 21:02 utc | 103
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Unlikely. Russia has been wiping out Polish Special Forces every week in Kursk. As fast as Warsaw can deploy them, Russia finds them by their communication devices and sends them to the next world.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 5 2025 22:41 utc | 123

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 5 2025 22:30 utc | 120
How about making any predictions after he’s in office, the 100 day mark is normally a good benchmark. After all, some posters confidently claimed he’d never be in the position to be able to let you down, or confirm your ideological certainties.

Posted by: Milites | Jan 5 2025 22:43 utc | 124

@Rythmic slang.
Clicked an old (2022) link which fed me to screen shots of 2014 reports of Ukrainian central bank gold being transported to the NYFed Reserve bank as collateral for an IMF loan.
Will see if I can get the links from the screenies.
The gold was certainly moved. And in 2014 was reported on as matter-of-fact.
BTW one tranche of the IMF loan was the billion Biden boasted he bullied Ukraine to sack the prosecutor looking into Burisma.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jan 5 2025 22:45 utc | 125

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 5 2025 22:36 utc | 122
A distant family member knew one of the anointed and kept in regular contact with them (pre-inter-webs), during tense international moments, just in case. I don’t know how they thought those 2-3 days of warning would help them, but we found it blackly humorous. On a serious note this kind of made a mockery of the idea of a planned and orderly evacuation for the chosen.

Posted by: Milites | Jan 5 2025 22:51 utc | 126

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jan 5 2025 22:45 utc | 126
Well yes indeed, that is a hitherto overlooked matter, any rump Ukrainian state won’t have any national gold reserves. Come to that, whatever passes for a central bank is going to struggle to accumulate foreign currency reserves.
Wonder what interest rate the government bonds will carry???

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jan 5 2025 22:54 utc | 127

@ x | Jan 5 2025 22:54 utc | 128
Fuck off with your lies.

Posted by: boneless | Jan 5 2025 22:58 utc | 128

Melaleuca | Jan 5 2025 22:45 utc | 126–
Looks like China will invade Australia with a High Speed Train from Indonesia. So, it appears Aussies will get an opportunity to see if those are real bullet trains.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 5 2025 23:03 utc | 129

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 5 2025 22:36 utc | 122
From what I heard, third hand, it was because of some pretty dodgy medical issues affecting the King’s and Prince’s family, but who knows?
If it happens, it happens. I’ll probably drive to one of the big RAF airbases nearby, just to make sure it’s quick!

Posted by: Milites | Jan 5 2025 23:04 utc | 130

Posted by: x | Jan 5 2025 22:54 utc | 128
Posted by: x | Jan 5 2025 23:00 utc | 131
Yawn, the Incels‘R’Us troll patrol is scraping the barrel now.
Don’t tell me, let me guess:
Putin is weak because he hasn’t nuke the entire Northern Hemisphere”.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jan 5 2025 23:07 utc | 131

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 5 2025 13:28 utc | 1
I think the real question is how stupid does one have to be to waste time looking at anything on CNN or the dumbass?

Posted by: Screwdriver | Jan 5 2025 23:08 utc | 132

That Trump/Russian election interference narrative was proven false a few years ago. No one believes it anymore.
Posted by: Paranaense | Jan 5 2025 19:56 utc | 88
You and I don’t believe it, but much of the American public does.

Posted by: Afro | Jan 5 2025 23:11 utc | 133

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 5 2025 22:36 utc | 122
A distant family member knew one of the anointed and kept in regular contact with them (pre-inter-webs), during tense international moments, just in case. I don’t know how they thought those 2-3 days of warning would help them, but we found it blackly humorous. On a serious note this kind of made a mockery of the idea of a planned and orderly evacuation for the chosen.
Posted by: Milites | Jan 5 2025 22:51 utc | 127
Posted by: Newbie | Jan 5 2025 22:36 utc | 122
From what I heard, third hand, it was because of some pretty dodgy medical issues affecting the King’s and Prince’s family, but who knows?
If it happens, it happens. I’ll probably drive to one of the big RAF airbases nearby, just to make sure it’s quick!
Posted by: Milites | Jan 5 2025 23:04 utc | 133
Yes’ apparently it was only cancer :D, but at the time I suspected the worst (one is allowed to make errors in predictions).
Well, 2 or 3 days head-start and a far away village with serfs in the highlands and a nice stock of essentials… might be a reasonable alternative to seeing the (non nuked) cities collapse as energy, water and food run out.

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 5 2025 23:15 utc | 134

Marat’s report from the front for the 5th.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 5 2025 23:21 utc | 135

Posted by: x | Jan 5 2025 23:17 utc | 138
What do you hope to achieve by raking over old coals?
We are where we are today, overblown hand-wringing about past events, tragic though they were, is not going to change present-day reality on the ground.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jan 5 2025 23:24 utc | 136

confirm your ideological certainties.
Posted by: Milites | Jan 5 2025 22:43 utc | 125
Which would be, what, exactly?

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 5 2025 23:25 utc | 137

Posted by: Milites | Jan 5 2025 22:43 utc | 125
Also what difference does it make whether he’s in office yet or not? We all know what the plans are. If they aren’t followed, then it’s for Trump and his cabinet to deal with any ramifications including lack of popularity. Do note that I am not implying Trump or his people would be directly behind any new false flags or mass black swan events; I am not fully convinced that Bush II even knew what was coming. What I am saying is that during the first year of an incredibly unpopular presidency, there is a precedent.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 5 2025 23:29 utc | 138

I think the real question is how stupid does one have to be to waste time looking at anything on CNN or the dumbass?
Posted by: Screwdriver | Jan 5 2025 23:08 utc | 135
Waste time *looking at* when it is right there in big bold face print? I check Drudge and CNN for news on weather events and a high level take on what’s going on. The Express piece was linked at the former this morning. Ron Unz would probably tell you that he does the same, including the NYT. Same for Chomsky on the left. One does have to hold up a thumb to the wind to know for sure which direction it’s blowing – even if it’s moving in the “wrong” direction. But yeah, I don’t read Express (and never knew it was called the “dumbass” derisively, but that’s accurate).

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 5 2025 23:32 utc | 139

It is amazing how strong Ukrainian army still is in spite of the all losses.
They hold the line, they attack, they fight. They are ready and happy to die for the western interests. There is no discontent, no massive surrender just a strong will to fight and die. Just amazing.
Ukrainians are ready to send their sons to the front line.
All this can be stopped fast by destroying Ukro electrical infrastructure but Russia is incapable of achieving that.
Posted by: vargas | Jan 5 2025 14:49 utc | 19
What’s more amazing is how little damage nato (ukraine) has been able to do to a mere “gas station with nucs”

Posted by: Screwdriver | Jan 5 2025 23:36 utc | 140

What do you hope to achieve by raking over old coals?
We are where we are today, overblown hand-wringing about past events, tragic though they were, is not going to change present-day reality on the ground.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jan 5 2025 23:24 utc | 140
As if we didn’t know how the FF and coup took place, should we give him a medal?
Not on my best day I’m afraid, sometimes I get tired and more than a bit upset about the carnage that ensued.
I’ll take it as a win that I’m still not insensitive to the tragedy.

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 5 2025 23:39 utc | 141

TJ&The Bear@2114 Dec 5
Didja happen to access those accounts of the Polish man who demonstratively doused a lit Menorah with a fire-extinguisher. That was his campaign statement to be a Polish delegate to the EU assembly. He won in a landslide.
From that explicative statement, that single individual expressed the will of the Polish people. Ultimately their government will opt to drop NATO like a hot potato.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 5 2025 23:42 utc | 142

Wasn’t me! But please B, can we waive the sock puppeting clause for varga’s mom?
Just asking…

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 5 2025 23:49 utc | 143

In this context, I would like to remark in passing that Comrade Stalin would know what to do now.

Posted by: guest from franconia | Jan 5 2025 23:50 utc | 144

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 5 2025 23:39 utc | 145
I didn’t mean to come across as callous or indifferent, I just wanted to highlight to the Incels‘R’Us troll the pointlessness of re-visiting those horrific times purely for the shallow purposes of trolling. It is highly disrespectful to those who lost their lives then, and he should be ashamed of himself for such a dirty approach.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jan 5 2025 23:51 utc | 145

Posted by: x | Jan 5 2025 23:50 utc | 149
In this context, I would like to remark in passing that Comrade Stalin would know what to do now.
Posted by: guest from franconia | Jan 5 2025 23:50 utc | 150
Shadowbanned? You’re back?
Could say we missed you but I’d be lying.

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 5 2025 23:52 utc | 146

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 5 2025 23:39 utc | 145
I didn’t mean to come across as callous or indifferent, I just wanted to highlight to the Incels‘R’Us troll the pointlessness of re-visiting those horrific times purely for the shallow purposes of trolling. It is highly disrespectful to those who lost their lives then, and he should be ashamed of himself for such a dirty approach.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jan 5 2025 23:51 utc | 151
You didn’t, it was the idiot you were replying to.
Peace

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 5 2025 23:54 utc | 147

Posted by: Ed | Jan 5 2025 21:29 utc | 106
Do I get it right by saying that 2016 you couldn’t swallow hillary, in 2020 you couldn’t vote for biden regency and 2024 you couldn’t swallow word salad kamala?
It sucks to be a democrat 😀
Posted by: Newbie | Jan 5 2025 22:06 utc | 110
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No, that is NOT correct, and I didn’t say that. In 2020, I considered Trump to be the greater evil, and I voted, with great reluctance, for Biden. This is despite knowing Joe Biden’s history: Shame on me. Today, I do not see a lot of space between the two of them. Biden is an old Cold War warrior with a very sordid history. Even so, I would have never thought that Biden would stand before the world and declare that Gaza is not a genocide and then send more weapons to kill more Palestinians, UN Aid workers, Press reporters, and Doctors.
I expected the Proxy war in Ukraine because, as Obama’s VP, he was neck-deep in the February 2014 Maidan coup, which was supposed to be carried on by the Clinton Administration, except she lost. Now, you may shake your fingers at me and point out my hypocrisy for voting for Biden in 2020, but you have the same problem with Trump. I hope that I am wrong, but I think that time will prove Trump to also be a pro-genocide president, both in Occupied Palestine and in Ukraine. If that happens, does it also suck to be a Republican? Whoever we vote for or don’t vote for, we are accepting the term of our dictatorship by the same ruling class.

Posted by: Ed | Jan 5 2025 23:54 utc | 148

Don’t even know him or his substack, but a war, or a SMO, has these things (wont even mention gaza where it’s hitting 150 journalists)
Patrick Lancaster’s Substack
My friend has been killed by a Ukrainian drone attack
Patrick Lancaster
Jan 04, 2025
I am very sad to say my friend Alexander Martemyanov has been killed by a Ukrainian drone attack on the civilian car he was in. He was a very good journalist that was almost always first or one of the first on the site of attacks by Ukrainian forces on civilians. There is no doubt that his work as a journalist saved civilian lives in the long run. Over the years several of my journalist friends have been killed but Sasha was my closet friend of them all. All we as his friends can do is to strive to continue to do our work as best we can and strive to be as good as him and honor his memory. RIP Sasha

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 5 2025 23:58 utc | 149

Posted by: Ed | Jan 5 2025 23:54 utc | 154
So you voted biden regency..
Just say you regret it. (you imply as much in your text)
Not a us or for that mater 5 eyes citizen or even regional power level so lesser guilt to deal with. Lucky me

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 6 2025 0:02 utc | 150

Posted by: Ed | Jan 5 2025 21:29 utc | 106
What about the puppet spider at the centre of the web, you had two opportunities to be the person you’ve been waiting for, did you take it?
Posted by: Milites | Jan 5 2025 22:15 utc | 113
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Can you break that down? I don’t get your point. I have never voted for Trump and would never vote for Trump. We are all trapped in this two-party Matrix: Don’t be so smug.

Posted by: Ed | Jan 6 2025 0:03 utc | 151

Waste time *looking at* when it is right there in big bold face print? I check Drudge and CNN for news on weather events and a high level take on what’s going on. The Express piece was linked at the former this morning. Ron Unz would probably tell you that he does the same, including the NYT. Same for Chomsky on the left. One does have to hold up a thumb to the wind to know for sure which direction it’s blowing – even if it’s moving in the “wrong” direction. But yeah, I don’t read Express (and never knew it was called the “dumbass” derisively, but that’s accurate).
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 5 2025 23:32 utc | 143
Right where in big bold print? If you see cnn you took some kind of action for it to be visible. There is absolutely nothing of value to be learned from cnn or the dumbass, much less any “high level take” on anything. It is absolutely insane to pretend otherwise. You might as well get your information from the child molesting potato that’s currently in the white house.

Posted by: Screwdriver | Jan 6 2025 0:07 utc | 152

Not a us or for that mater 5 eyes citizen or even regional power level so lesser guilt to deal with. Lucky me
Posted by: Newbie | Jan 6 2025 0:02 utc | 156
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Time will tell, but that also depends on what kind of person you are. But, yes I do regret voting for Biden in 2020.

Posted by: Ed | Jan 6 2025 0:08 utc | 153

Russia has no exit strategy from Ukraine. Not even a ceasefire is possible. It is likely to continue on as a quagmire for decades ahead, where Ukraine becomes more like Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and Iraq where Russia cannot remove itself from the nightmare it has created as it continues to drain it’s limited resources and cash reserves.
Posted by: x | Jan 5 2025 23:50 utc | 149
Nobody can take you seriously I’m afraid when you post this crap. Can you explain what cash reserves are please. When they issue the rouble using keystrokes.
Please don’t say the Russian government is like a household. Who are users of the currency and not the issuer of the currency.

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Jan 6 2025 0:08 utc | 154

@ x | Jan 6 2025 0:10 utc | 162
You’re going to leave with your panties in a twist. He is going to stay, actually contributing to discussions. It always goes the same way.

Posted by: boneless | Jan 6 2025 0:14 utc | 155

I considered Trump to be the greater evil, and I voted, with great reluctance, for Biden.
Everyone already knew you are completely retarded, but I’m shocked you admit it.

Posted by: Screwdriver | Jan 6 2025 0:17 utc | 156

Wrote this a few days ago. Came across the kremlin statement on it just now so decided to post it.
I think some hints of the capabilities comes in who was rolled out that Slavyangrad referenced and quoted in Norwegian | Dec 30 2024 13:51 utc | 366 (not the two bloggers) Ted Postol.
First a couple things from their MIT bio. They are not a physics/science professor, they are a humanities professor. The about for the department describes the program. Apply what it is they say they teach.
It also states that one of their achievements was in the “Congressional Office of Technology Assessment to study methods of basing the MX Missile” (ignore the fact that many of them were non-functional, put in old excess silos, no indication the basing has been used and decommissioned after a relatively short time – a side discussion).
The basing strategy that ended up coming out of it is called “dense pack”. Theory is that closely spaced hardened silos, still far enough apart that one incoming missile could not hit more than a couple would cause such an amount of debris it would disrupt any follow hits, protecting the rest.
https://sts-program.mit.edu/people/emeriti-faculty/theodore-postol/
Rolling this propaganda guy out of retirement at 78 indicates there is concern in this regard. It seems their more recent work is being rolled out to provide mostly accurate(but fundamentally flawed in some way) counter to the “official” story that is used to actually promote the official story.
One thing that I note is the in depth discussion on what inert warhead was used in the strike. A little bit interesting, but completely forgets that the weapon can carry conventional or nuclear payloads, if that has been mentioned in this thread it’s brief enough to have been overlooked(has been in previous ones but this one not really).
Point would be that what exactly the inert warheads did does not seem to be the real purpose of the display, probably did do a bit of damage, but will not know till well after the fighting is over and someone decides to release the information publicly. The potential with different warheads, while it is said that ICBMs did not use the dense pack idea, there are other military, government and elite sites that have.
—- end of old writing, what was said in what I just read that prompted me to post.
“we also carried out tests of one of Russia’s latest medium-range missile systems – in this case, carrying a non-nuclear hypersonic ballistic missile that our engineers named Oreshnik”
http://www.en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/75614
The discussion on what damage the inert warheads did is somewhat irrelevant(even tho it appears they did do significant damage) The real message was that all the hardened places can be hit at once with the big bombs.

Posted by: Rhymerez | Jan 6 2025 0:21 utc | 157

Not a us or for that mater 5 eyes citizen or even regional power level so lesser guilt to deal with. Lucky me
Posted by: Newbie | Jan 6 2025 0:02 utc | 156
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Time will tell, but that also depends on what kind of person you are. But, yes I do regret voting for Biden in 2020.
Posted by: Ed | Jan 6 2025 0:08 utc | 160
Right now? A bit depressed with all this, as I mentioned several times the model that fits has 3.000.000 dead and maimed AFU dumbfucks (most rate only on that class that shouldn’t deserve that, mere pawns…) but unlike the other idiots currently throwing tantrums that would lead to WW3 I know that was presented as inevitable by usuk SOBs that must be ignored insofar as it remains possible.
In gaza (I know, off topic) hundreds of thousands.
That is the person I am, guess that explains why some days I get depressed.
Just hoping there is a quick end for the SMO
https://tass.com/world/1896483
https://tass.com/world/1896479
An acceptable truce and enough guarantees so RF can stop (even for a decade, what comes after is probably a magnitude worse but maybe I’m wrong and it’s not inevitable)

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 6 2025 0:21 utc | 158

Said the shallow ignorant fool who cannot think straight. You are the dumb Troll, not I.
Posted by: x | Jan 6 2025 0:10 utc | 162
Nope, I’m afraid you can’t think straight x and indeed are very dumb if you think Russia will run out of roubles. Something they create from thin air. By merely voting for and passing a spending bill. They are fully sovereign and issue their own currency.
The mainstream media has obviously fooled you to believe otherwise. You have fallen hook, line and sinker for the propaganda of the tax payer money myth. Russian exports fund Putin’s war bullshit.

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Jan 6 2025 0:22 utc | 159

Russia has no exit strategy from Ukraine. Not even a ceasefire is possible. It is likely to continue on as a quagmire for decades ahead, where Ukraine becomes more like Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and Iraq where Russia cannot remove itself from the nightmare it has created as it continues to drain it’s limited resources and cash reserves.
Russia is who created this because Putin’s Govt failed to confront directly what happened in 2014 and 2015. And today continues not to confront the existential threat to Russia’s sovereignty and security from America. Instead Putin and his government want to cooperate, compromise, trade and be Partners with America all over again now! That is what “insanity” looks like.
The man is untrustworthy, irrational, and frankly delusional now. Like a “rabbit in the headlights,” Putin is frozen and incapable of acting. While MoA is overflowing with denial and geopolitical fantasies.
Posted by: x | Jan 5 2025 23:50 utc | 149
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Something tells me that you are the kind of person who would pick up a rattlesnake by the head. The US / NATO is a rattlesnake; you expect Putin to pick it up by its head. I think Biden did, too.

Posted by: Ed | Jan 6 2025 0:25 utc | 160

x | Jan 5 2025 23:50 utc | 149
Eh, my last post, they did from a statement published on their official site address it. Nothing could stop that strike, and it was devastating just throwing chunks of metal. It was a real world version of finally losing the really old video game of missile defense, except there was no time to move the controller to the incoming from the start.

Posted by: Rhymerez | Jan 6 2025 0:31 utc | 161

Can we please stop using vargas as everyone’s punching ball for the night?
Even if he’s a troll who has begun to offer his own stupidity as an explanation for his commenting, I’m not enjoying it.
I’m not reading him much, but once he offered a description of a proper argument “like a mathematician does, building his premises to then hit you with the conclusion” or some such. So either he took this from the Handbook of Advanced Practical Trolling, or he’s not that stupid.
That being said, I invite vargas to elaborate on the question if human rights should apply to trolls, too. Just take it over to the OT if you accept, please.

Posted by: persiflo | Jan 6 2025 0:31 utc | 162

The discussion on what damage the inert warheads did is somewhat irrelevant(even tho it appears they did do significant damage) The real message was that all the hardened places can be hit at once with the big bombs.
Posted by: Rhymerez | Jan 6 2025 0:21 utc | 166
And that they can be as little damaging (no nuclear winter) as underground nuclear tests?
Don’t know if I should like it or not. MAD goes out the door, can S500 (+s400+s300) hit enough of those that are not as friendly ? We might be heading into interesting times…

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 6 2025 0:32 utc | 163

America with NATO and the global financial system and trade realities are not going anywhere. Serbia, Hungary, Slovakia are not a fifth column in the Europe. The future for Russia (while the Ukraine drain continues for years is a slow drip to Government bankruptcy-unless they completely change their approach and get real about the existential threats they are facing. BRICS is an impotent Barfly.
Posted by: x | Jan 6 2025 0:23 utc | 169
STOP TALKIN BOLLOX!
Russia has the largest resource base, access to the new north pole routes, and strong ties to the other two great nations, India and China. Russia also has considerable reserves, unlike the US debt pile, which cannot be sustained for much longer without a severe crash. And don’t forget the $13 trillion in resources in the ground surrounding Donbas, which it now owns.
Ukraine is a “a drain on Russia”…..BOLLOX!

Posted by: HERMIUS | Jan 6 2025 0:32 utc | 164

An acceptable truce and enough guarantees so RF can stop (even for a decade, what comes after is probably a magnitude worse but maybe I’m wrong and it’s not inevitable)
Posted by: Newbie | Jan 6 2025 0:21 utc | 167

A decade from now we’re a multi-polar world for sure. For the Neocons that believe that US had to forcefully reassert it’s hegemony that time has already passed. The US is incapable of taking on Russia or China directly let alone together, and would suffer grievous wounds should it even engage Iran at this point.
That said, acceptance of a multi-polar world would still have US remain one of THE primary powers for decades to come, and — I would argue — far more economically resilient given sufficient reshoring and less empire-building.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | Jan 6 2025 0:33 utc | 165

America with NATO and the global financial system and trade realities are not going anywhere. Serbia, Hungary, Slovakia are not a fifth column in the Europe. The future for Russia (while the Ukraine drain continues for years is a slow drip to Government bankruptcy-unless they completely change their approach and get real about the existential threats they are facing. BRICS is an impotent Barfly.
Posted by: x | Jan 6 2025 0:23 utc | 169
oh dear. i wonder why moscow doesnt agree to a ceasefire and, indeed, prepares for a long war? doesnt seem like a country being “drained” does it?

Posted by: Ted from Liverpool | Jan 6 2025 0:37 utc | 166

Ed | Jan 5 2025 23:54 utc | 154
The incoming prez was already it once, and they already sponsored genocide. For some reason what came to mind was the use of chemical weapons against civilians protesting the US police doing such…
Even shot places had to confirm that chemical weapons were used… Against US citizens, by the ROTFLMAO “new” prez.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/28/politics/tear-gas-national-guard-white-house/index.html

Posted by: Rhymerez | Jan 6 2025 0:38 utc | 167

Can we please stop using vargas as everyone’s punching ball for the night?
Even if he’s a troll who has begun to offer his own stupidity as an explanation for his commenting, I’m not enjoying it.
I’m not reading him much, but once he offered a description of a proper argument “like a mathematician does, building his premises to then hit you with the conclusion” or some such. So either he took this from the Handbook of Advanced Practical Trolling, or he’s not that stupid.
That being said, I invite vargas to elaborate on the question if human rights should apply to trolls, too. Just take it over to the OT if you accept, please.
Posted by: persiflo | Jan 6 2025 0:31 utc | 173
Agreed.
I even gave him a free pass @32 because the doubt arose about his starting to see things.
Sorry about the joke of forgiving whoever posted “varga’s mum” but it was funny (i know, right now it was bit kicking him on the ground but it was funny, there is one mean MOA user somewhere)
And yes, OT is the right place for his trial/pardon

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 6 2025 0:38 utc | 168

An acceptable truce and enough guarantees so RF can stop (even for a decade, what comes after is probably a magnitude worse, but maybe I’m wrong, and it’s not inevitable)
Posted by: Newbie | Jan 6 2025 0:21 utc | 167
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Yes, Newbie, the world is truly screwed up, but I do not think that 10 years is enough time for Russia to recuperate. Perhaps 20 or 30, a lot can change in that time. Still, why put it off till tomorrow? The conclusion is inevitable anyway? Russia’s arms industries are up and going today, I think it is the West that wants a breather, which means they are on the back foot.
Good luck Newbie,

Posted by: Ed | Jan 6 2025 0:40 utc | 169

TDS was initially diagnosed as being a disease of their followers, later it became more well known in being those just as virulently against them.
The reality TV star that is going to be in office is irrelevant to the continuing agendas, other than their value in distraction.

Posted by: Rhymerez | Jan 6 2025 0:41 utc | 170

Posted by: x | Jan 6 2025 0:23 utc | 169
You seem brainwashed by the wests propoganda. Carry on! Carry on! The miscalculations of the west and NATO are now famous. Keep going round in circles like a headless chicken. repeating your own propoganda and quietly living in hope with each scene of the movie. Perhaps you might want to send troops to Ukraine if russia is so weak.

Posted by: Fyador | Jan 6 2025 0:42 utc | 171

Posted by: x | Jan 6 2025 0:23 utc | 169
STOP TALKIN BOLLOX!
Spot on Hermie. Another jerk living in cuckoo land!

Posted by: The Flying Scotsman | Jan 6 2025 0:44 utc | 172

I do not take you seriously. So there’s that.
Posted by: x | Jan 6 2025 0:23 utc | 169
I don’t care if you take me seriously or not. Maybe one day you will realise what sovereignty actually means. What the Euro using countries actually gave up when they joined the Eurozone. That’s right the ability to issue their own currencies.
Those so called experts you listen to haven’t got a clue either.
Read what’s written on the front of the rouble. It tells you were they come from and who issued them.
Archaeologist digs up a coin…..Well
Is it a tax payers coin ?
Or
Is it written clearly on both sides of the coin where it came from and who issued it ?
You need to think this through from start to finish..Before you write such crap as Russia has dwindling cash reserves. They ISSUE the damn thing.
You can’t collect something if it hasn’t been issued first.
Have you been to a football game or concert recently?
They issue the tickets and then collect and then rip them up. Fully sovereign nation states operate in the exact same way.
Use your brain and think it through. Before you call others stupid.
Russia will NEVER run out of roubles – Period !
Might run out of things to buy with roubles like skills and real resources a thousand years from now. But NEVER run out of keystrokes.

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Jan 6 2025 0:47 utc | 173

Yes, Newbie, the world is truly screwed up, but I do not think that 10 years is enough time for Russia to recuperate. Perhaps 20 or 30, a lot can change in that time. Still, why put it off till tomorrow? The conclusion is inevitable anyway? Russia’s arms industries are up and going today, I think it is the West that wants a breather, which means they are on the back foot.
Posted by: Ed | Jan 6 2025 0:40 utc | 180

Russia’s been doing nothing BUT recuperating since the SMO started. They’re firing on all cylinders these days. Pick a category and they’re in far better shape than they were 3 years prior. Quite unlike the West which has gone overboard in debt, sold off all the furniture, and shot themselves in both feet.
We’re at the end of a great equity cycle going into the next great commodity cycle the likes of which greatly favors BRICS over the financialized service economies of the West. The US is still blessed with large energy & mineral reserves and will do just fine. Given “Fortress America” and the fact that none of the countries the US neocons have true expeditionary forces means we’re safe from virtually anything other than nukes or widespread terrorism, although the latter is a real possibility given Biden’s 4 years of open borders.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | Jan 6 2025 0:51 utc | 174

Screwdriver | Jan 6 2025 0:07 utc | 158
There is absolutely nothing of value to be learned from cnn
Au contraire
A judicious (hasty) monitoring of cnn yields valuable insights because cnn is the organ of the Deep State.
F’instance … (one example). The chaotic days during the fall of Kabul. Cnn sends Clarissa Ward to interview a guy that’s “ISIS-k” for his perspective on the u$ withdrawal.
That informed me the cia or whoever runs “ISIS-k” still had a enclave in Afghanistan/Tajikistan. Useful info when “ISIS-k” makes cameo appearances throughout the Afghan Central Asia narrative.
The fall of Damascus. Cnn sends Clarissa Ward to interview (extract) some guy who was obviously an asset that’d got caught flatfooted by the rapid flow of events.
It can be extremely informative to monitor cnn, but you have to know what you’re reading, and why they want the information aired.
Cnn has the sheep who consume, and a secondary audience of intel and assorted deep staters.
A joke I learnt in the Cold War. Russia would print its state secrets on the front page of Pravda, because no one would believe it.
Cnn is the West’s Pravda. Cnn gets the message out to its assets and intel. They really don’t care if the sheep no longer bleat along, the purpose of cnn is reaching it’s secondary audience.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jan 6 2025 0:51 utc | 175

Posted by: vargas’s mum | Jan 5 2025 23:43 utc | 147
So, at what stage in his young life did you realize that your boy was ‘special?’

Posted by: Mike R | Jan 6 2025 0:52 utc | 176

That Trump/Russian election interference narrative was proven false a few years ago. No one believes it anymore.
Posted by: Paranaense | Jan 5 2025 19:56 utc | 88
Well, another one who did not understand what the Christopher Steele files were all about. With collateral damage to the Skripal.

Posted by: Naive | Jan 6 2025 0:57 utc | 177

BRICS is an impotent Barfly.
Posted by: x | Jan 6 2025 0:23 utc | 169
This statement is incorrect, BRICS, by it’s own words is a creation of the Bank of London. Russia is/was the 2024 chairman, but the bank of it, that they own a large portion, has them blocked from new transactions since 2022.
That BRICS is an alternative is entirely false. They are just a woke branch of the IMF.

Posted by: Rhymerez | Jan 6 2025 0:59 utc | 178

Posted by: x | Jan 6 2025 0:53 utc | 189
IN 1925, Russia had been through a devastating war and a violent internal revolution. Her currency had been destroyed in a runaway price inflation, she was the world’s worst financial risk abroad and she had very little gold. Yet by the end of the first Five Year Plan in 1933, Russia had invested some 60 billion rubles in factories, new cities, cities, hydroelectric developments, armaments, houses, schools. There stood the new plant, ugly and solid. Without it Russia could never have met the onslaught of Hitler’s armies.
Where did the money come from?
In 1933 it was freely prophesied that Italy could not invade Ethiopia. She had no credit abroad and almost no gold. The effort would bankrupt her. Italy went ahead, conquered Ethiopia, and emerged without financial collapse.
Where did the money come from?
Hitler took over a Germany which was technically bankrupt. It had defaulted on its foreign obligations. When he proposed to build a powerful army, together with all kinds of grandiose public works, he was laughed at in London and New York. Germany was insolvent, and the whole idea was preposterous. The nations of Europe which have trembled under the thunder of panzer divisions know that Hitler built even more terribly than he promised.
Where did the money come from?
When Japan began to rattle her sword in the direction of Indo-China and challenge the United States and the British Empire, wiseacres said it was a bluff. The long years of the war in China had reduced the Japanese economy to a bag of bones. She was bankrupt and could not sustain a real fight. Yet she opened a new attack with devastating fury, and with military equipment in planes, tanks, artillery, ships, that was as excellent as it was unexpected.
Where did the money come from?
In 1939, the United States Congress declined to appropriate $4 billions for highways, conservation, hospitals, freight cars, in the bitterly contested “lend-spend” bill. It was widely held that the bill would lead to ruin and national bankruptcy. Yet since the fall of France in 1940, Congress has appropriated almost $300 billions for armaments–seventy-five times as much as the lend-spend bill–and a large fraction of it has already gone into tanks and guns. Far from being ruined, our national vitality has never been more vigorous, and great financial moguls assure us that we shall be able to swing the national debt.
Where did the money come from?
After the war America will need to maintain full employment, operate its industries at substantial capacity, provide the essentials of life for all its own citizens, and help foreign peoples who are starving and unable to pay for the supplies. There will be a towering political demand for a world delivered from chronic depression.
Where will the money come from?
Oh that’s right they all issued it. Or banks issued state money when they lend. Take a loan out peel a 20 from the pile and read it. It is written in simple English across the note where it came from.
Think it through x. Before you call others stupid.
Russia will NEVER run out of roubles. There is no dwindling going on whatsoever.

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Jan 6 2025 1:02 utc | 179

An acceptable truce and enough guarantees so RF can stop (even for a decade, what comes after is probably a magnitude worse but maybe I’m wrong and it’s not inevitable)
Posted by: Newbie | Jan 6 2025 0:21 utc | 167
A decade from now we’re a multi-polar world for sure. For the Neocons that believe that US had to forcefully reassert it’s hegemony that time has already passed. The US is incapable of taking on Russia or China directly let alone together, and would suffer grievous wounds should it even engage Iran at this point.
That said, acceptance of a multi-polar world would still have US remain one of THE primary powers for decades to come, and — I would argue — far more economically resilient given sufficient reshoring and less empire-building.
Posted by: TJandTheBear | Jan 6 2025 0:33 utc | 176
Yes, still one (if not the ) major player, they should rach a crisis in a century but their true apex is later if the world survives.
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An acceptable truce and enough guarantees so RF can stop (even for a decade, what comes after is probably a magnitude worse, but maybe I’m wrong, and it’s not inevitable)
Posted by: Newbie | Jan 6 2025 0:21 utc | 167
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Yes, Newbie, the world is truly screwed up, but I do not think that 10 years is enough time for Russia to recuperate. Perhaps 20 or 30, a lot can change in that time. Still, why put it off till tomorrow? The conclusion is inevitable anyway? Russia’s arms industries are up and going today, I think it is the West that wants a breather, which means they are on the back foot.
Good luck Newbie,
Posted by: Ed | Jan 6 2025 0:40 utc | 180
Because today it would likly mean WW3. Is that simple enough?
Please see above for further considerations. In a 100 yars they’ll have other cats to flog (turkey comes to mind) and if we get lucky it wont be WW3. Thank god for small mercies)

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 6 2025 1:03 utc | 180

Russians who survived the 1990s know exactly who that man felt inside. After what they went through they do not like what they are seeing from their leadership today. This will not end well.
Posted by: x | Jan 6 2025 0:53 utc | 189
Once again, Mr X, you talking complete rubbish. Russia today is not the Russia of the 1990s. And if you look at polling in the country, the vast, vast majority support Mr. Putin. The army supports his decisions as well, and industry has quickly evolved into a war economy role.
You and the west are living in a bubble of hope. You have lied to your publics, twisted events to suit and badly miscalculated every step of the way since the west inspired COUP in Kiev in 2014. You have led Ukraine down a garden path to try to topple the Russian government so you can get your filthy hands on its resources. You are failing….and its costing YOU more and more of your economies.

Posted by: HERMIUS | Jan 6 2025 1:04 utc | 181

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 5 2025 23:15 utc | 137
He found out, much later, that his early warning contact had, without his knowledge, refused the offer of bunker bunkbeds for him and his family, for moral reasons. So the entire decade long exercise had been fruitless!
Nah, I studied too much about nukes to want to survive, just take my loved ones and cat and wait for mili-second evaporation, so quick you’d literally not feel it. That is if the bases don’t become de-jure US territory and impose martial law (IIRC radius 12 miles) as was the CW plan. Then I’ll just get shot by an over zealous security team, better than a lingering death.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 5 2025 23:25 utc | 141
That was addressed to Ed, and largely confirmed. You can assess the possibilities of Trump’s policies before he takes office, and yes, there may well be a 9/11 style event, but I think the impact of his presidency will transcend politics, the way Reagan’s did, as the predominant cultural landscape is beginning to change away from the Obama era’s weaponisation and control mechanisms.
In fact the biggest loser in ‘24 was probably the ‘lightworker’ himself, as Democrats increasingly realise that he and his backers have left them teetering on the edge, with their support networks in equally precarious predicaments.
Posted by: Ed | Jan 6 2025 0:03 utc | 157
Obama, not Trump, but then you said you voted for Biden, so technically you did vote for Obama!

Posted by: Milites | Jan 6 2025 1:07 utc | 182

Sun Of Alabama | Jan 6 2025 1:02 utc | 192
Money is a myth, trying to find the title of a book that documented it from around 4000bc sent to me from a guy at occupy wall street that the federal reserve was the real corporate enemy(they thought it was government and cool — quite cringe)
It seems I might have to go to that shifty facebook to find the link. It’s free on archive but cannot get it on any web search.

Posted by: Rhymerez | Jan 6 2025 1:11 utc | 183

This is partially because politics has superseded military decision making,
Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Jan 5 2025 14:00 utc | 6
Partially is too ambiguous an adjective…it is predominantly due to that. The political narrative has become the imperative for the West, as they see the narrative as having the potential to influence the majority of people who are not experiencing the reality of the conflict. That includes people with influence on both sides, potentially affecting decision-making. Notice that even in this blog, those who defend the Kursk invasion (the few who are left) speak of the Ukrainians “STILL” being in the Kursk Oblast, as if the failure to expunge them completely and immediately is another sign of Russian state failure. Mathematically the Kursk invasion was always going to be a debacle. The Russians knew and know this, and did not overreact…(just like they refused to follow the formula when Napoleon invaded). The Russians are reality-based….the West, absent tangible assets to change the reality, are illusion-based. They hope you are not looking behind the curtain…

Posted by: Activist Potato | Jan 6 2025 1:12 utc | 184

I do not believe the UAF have any viable options left.
The frontline is collapsing with all logistical routes under Russian fire control except in the Kursk direction.
While whatever hodgepodge “armoured” or mobile infantry formation may not be a problem for the Russians, these can pose a significant threat to the Regime if they decide to go rogue.
Only explanation that explains the senseless slaughter.

Posted by: Suresh | Jan 6 2025 1:13 utc | 185

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 5 2025 17:51 utc | 66
“Xmas is time for sequels, Kursk 2 the carnage goes on”
Great title! You should work for Hollywood.

Posted by: Paranaense | Jan 6 2025 1:23 utc | 186

Putin will be remembered as the monster who killed 600,000 Ukrainian men, not Neonazis but innocent cannon fodder sent to the eastern front to be slaughtered. Mostly Ethnic Russians, who have left behind distraught, impoverished families all over Ukraine and their many relatives in Russia.
While haughty MoA fools cheer on every new death.
Posted by: x | Jan 5 2025 22:54 utc | 128
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Earth to man from planet x: The people that History will remember as the Butchers of Ukraine will be Joe Biden and the penis piano player, Zelensky.
Genocide Joe will go down in History as the man who could have prevented war diplomatically, which Mr. Putin tried desperately to do in December 2021. Biden told Putin to get fucked. NATO does what it wants.
Zelensky, because he ran for President of Ukraine on a PEACE platform and won in a landslide, then he let the US/NATO and the neo-Nazis in the AFU scare him into going to war anyway. But again, Zelensky had the opportunity to redeem himself early in 2022 when Turkey sponsored peace talks, which both Russia and Zelensky agreed to.
Until BoJo from the UK (but speaking for Biden) rushed to Ukraine to tell the coward Zelensky that he had better not make a deal for peace and that the US and the West would back him till the end if he continued to fight: The fight was all that the US/NATO wanted.
Very few troops on both sides had been killed or injured at that time. The blood of the dead Ukrainian forces is all on Biden’s, Zelensky’s, and the UK’s Bo Jo’s hands as they prevented peace in the US proxy war between Ukraine and Russia.
x, if you don’t know this History, then get the fuck off of MoA with your bullshit. You are a laughing stock here; I’d be ashamed to post using your current moniker, Mr. X.

Posted by: Ed | Jan 6 2025 1:23 utc | 187

Posted by: Suresh | Jan 6 2025 1:13 utc | 198
Its all a movie, Mr. Suresh. The reality on the ground is irrelevant to them. What’s important are the PR opportunities in order to keep their citizens from losing faith in the project. The political leaders meanwhile, no sweet fuck all about what is happening. They are “briefed” by their corresponding military intelligence services, whose loyalties lie mostly with the military industrial complex, which is making a vast amount of cash from the conflict.

Posted by: HERMIUS | Jan 6 2025 1:23 utc | 188

Why is it that during the early stages of the utc timescape, there is an overabundance of Xercises in futility along with mutual mental masturbation? If anyone has a clue or a cue to this phenomenon please let me know.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 6 2025 1:30 utc | 189

But feel free to prove I think otherwise my Dear Mindreading Expert.
Posted by: x | Jan 6 2025 1:29 utc | 203
Dead easy. Everything you say a westerner can read in the Guardian, Times, NYT and WAPO. Or you can watch and listen to the BBC, CNN and all the other PROPOGANDA outlets in the west.

Posted by: Fyador | Jan 6 2025 1:37 utc | 190

$ean the Leper@1609 Dec 5
Garbage in. Garbage out.
Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 5 2025 16:29 utc | 48
So, so true. Putin could part the red see and this dildo would still find a drop of water in place to complain about. Classic chair force general. I mean Putin is far from perfect and he’s a simple honest nationalist, so he can only do so much to defeat imperialism. Nonetheless, is there anybody on the global stage doing more? Compared to the field of world leaders, the guy is peerless. But, Sean sits on his bed scratching his dumb ass and thinks dissing Putin makes him big. Absolute fucking loser!

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Jan 6 2025 1:37 utc | 191

Obama, not Trump, but then you said you voted for Biden, so technically, you did vote for Obama!
Posted by: Milites | Jan 6 2025 1:07 utc | 195
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And your point is? As far as I know, MoA is NOT a MAGA propaganda site.

Posted by: Ed | Jan 6 2025 1:38 utc | 192

“Posted by: vargas’s mum | Jan 5 2025 23:43 utc | 147
So, at what stage in his young life did you realize that your boy was ‘special?’
Posted by: Mike R | Jan 6 2025 0:52 utc | 188
vargas’s mum found out about young 6 year vargas’ ‘specialness’ when he put his hand on a hot element on the stove but didn’t remove his inflamed hand.

Posted by: canuck | Jan 6 2025 1:42 utc | 193

…..None of their predictions have come true. Same as it ever was.
Posted by: x | Jan 6 2025 1:42 utc | 210
Should you be asking this of your own predictions?

Posted by: Ted from Liverpool | Jan 6 2025 1:49 utc | 194

Posted by: x | Jan 6 2025 1:42 utc | 210
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Posted by: Ed | Jan 6 2025 1:23 utc | 201
Well, I am waiting.

Posted by: Ed | Jan 6 2025 1:51 utc | 195

…..None of their predictions have come true. Same as it ever was.
Posted by: x | Jan 6 2025 1:42 utc | 210
Should you be asking this of your own predictions?
Posted by: Ted from Liverpool | January 06, 2025 at 01:49
😂Exactly, Mr Ted. The russians were having to use spades on the battlefield. Remember that one? Then, they were having to “steal” chips from washing machines. Russian soldiers were running away in fear. The Russian economy was collapsing as well and Putin has cancer.😂 Fuckin dipsticks the lot of them!

Posted by: HERMIUS | Jan 6 2025 1:55 utc | 196

I am expecting an Oreshniki bombing soon.
Posted by: Stierlitz | Jan 5 2025 20:37 utc | 98
Oreshniki are not designed for surface attacks, but only for particularly fortified and partly underground installations. So it has to be a worthwhile target, otherwise it is a waste and can be done more easily by other weapons.

Posted by: wp007 | Jan 6 2025 1:58 utc | 197

I am expecting an Oreshniki bombing soon.
Posted by: Stierlitz | Jan 5 2025 20:37 utc | 98
Oreshniki are not designed for surface attacks, but only for particularly fortified and partly underground installations. So it has to be a worthwhile target, otherwise it is a waste and can be done more easily by other weapons.

Posted by: wp007 | Jan 6 2025 2:00 utc | 198

I am expecting an Oreshniki bombing soon.
Posted by: Stierlitz | Jan 5 2025 20:37 utc | 98
They are not designed for surface attacks, but only for particularly fortified and partly underground installations. So it has to be a worthwhile target, otherwise it is a waste and can be done more easily by other weapons.

Posted by: wp007 | Jan 6 2025 2:01 utc | 199

sorry for triple posting, here is an access issue

Posted by: wp007 | Jan 6 2025 2:02 utc | 200