http://www.halturnerradioshow.com- published first detail picture of devastation done by ORESCHNIK/HAZEL… looks terrifying…
Posted by: sejmon | Jan 7 2025 13:23 utc | 603
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How many people still fall for these fake pictures?

Posted by: ossi | Jan 7 2025 13:46 utc | 503

The amazing thing about Dima is how he correctly predicts such Ukrainian offensives several weeks in advance.

Posted by: guest from franconia | Jan 7 2025 14:00 utc | 505

Posted by: guest from franconia | Jan 7 2025 14:00 utc | 613
Not really … I watched his videos all through December and he kept claiming that the Ukrainian dingbats would go for the Zap NPP or the Bryansk region. So, at a minimum he blew that prediction. Plus, if you repeat something every single day, eventually you may be correct. Like a broken clock. That’s why predictions need to be time-boxed.
Predictions are hard. I do give him credit for acknowledging the defeat of Kursk 2.0.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Jan 7 2025 14:08 utc | 507

Sorry
I trust Dima.
But this Ukrainian defeat does not mean much. They are going to fight to the last man woman, boy or girl, for years.
And Russia cannot afford the time.
Posted by: vargas | Jan 7 2025 13:59 utc | 612
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Some still don’t understand that TIME is Russia’s best weapon.
The West is dismantling itself, it’s at the end of its financial rope and the elites that are driving the Ukraine conflict are at the end, at least in Europe.
See Austria’s government at the end, Germany at the end, Canada’s government at the end, France’s Macron is being hunted, Italy’s financial rope is at the end and Meloni is only being kept on the hook by a drip.
WHERE
So is Russia at the end or under time pressure…are you confusing something with your own economy…which is at the end!

Posted by: ossi | Jan 7 2025 14:14 utc | 509

Posted by: ossi | Jan 7 2025 14:14 utc | 617
You are right. Ukraine (the U$ MIC behind it) is sucking the western liberal ‘democracies’ dry. Today Ireland announced $40 million for Ukraine. It seems that these new packages are just left-over scraps, and the announcements are PR purposes (whoever announces more packages will receive better post-political jobs).
What will that $40 millio get? It could get a bunch of latest Bugatti sports cars for Zelensky’s or Budanov’s or Danilov’s close family circles. Yet at the same time it is bleeding the western economies dry.

Posted by: unimperator | Jan 7 2025 14:35 utc | 511

vargas you ‘trust’ Dima yet when he announces a serious Uke defeat you assert ,”it doesn’t mean much. ” You are truly retarded.
hence, you have just won your 11th “The Most Retarded Post I Have Read Today Award”.
“I trust Dima.
But this Ukrainian defeat does not mean much. They are going to fight to the last man woman, boy or girl, for years.
And Russia cannot afford the time.”
Posted by: vargas | Jan 7 2025 13:59 utc | 612

Posted by: canuck | Jan 7 2025 14:41 utc | 513

For me at least there is the feeling that this thread has become dominated by trolls. The method is all these verbose and oblique arguments. They raise side issues in the assertions, enough so that a back and forth argument will be off topic. Ah well…

Posted by: Jmaas | Jan 7 2025 14:49 utc | 515

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Jan 6 2025 23:35 utc | 486
Well said, sir! While the West (governmentally) remains all in on project Ukraine, the West (in terms of the populace) is increasingly wanting none of it. “The peasants,” as they say, “are revolting.”
I will also agree with your comment, in response to Milites, about the troll swarm. I think I’ve mentioned it as well in the past (although I am a new, and still infrequent commentor, so I cannot claim any pride of place).
Almost all the West has left is narrative control . . . and the West is losing that.

Posted by: Hunsdon | Jan 7 2025 15:01 utc | 517

What I simply don’t understand is why so many geopolitical analysts are so blinkered and have been sucked into short term thinking ?
The next US election is November 7, 2028. Trump starts at the end of this month. Take a year off his term when the new election cycle starts and take the holidays off when nobody is working. Take into account the bullshit debt ceiling farce they have every time and what do we have ?
A complete nothingburger. Trump won’t be able to change anything that won’t be simply reversed when he goes in 2028.
50 years from now it will be as if he wasn’t even there at all.I just don’t get the hype around Trump. The status quo will be resumed within a blink of an eye.
He has already been in charge. Yet, here we are as if he had never been President at all. The exact same will be said within 10 years from now as the neocons reverse whatever he does in the very, very, very, very, very short time he has.
Yet, analysts are pinning their hopes on him changing the world. It is ridiculous hopium if you ask me.
Neocon wars will be back in the agenda soon enough and surely Putin and Lavrov and the Russian establishment understands this ?
Surely whatever Trump offers should be taken with a pinch of salt, as in the long run it will be irrelevant?

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Jan 7 2025 15:36 utc | 519

@Posted by: ossi | Jan 7 2025 14:14 utc | 617

The West is dismantling itself, it’s at the end of its financial rope and the elites that are driving the Ukraine conflict are at the end, at least in Europe. See Austria’s government at the end, Germany at the end, Canada’s government at the end, France’s Macron is being hunted, Italy’s financial rope is at the end and Meloni is only being kept on the hook by a drip.
WHERE So is Russia at the end or under time pressure…are you confusing something with your own economy…which is at the end!

Austria: The FPO is neoliberal while being against the Ukraine war and Russian sanctions
Germany: The new government will be CDS/CDU lead by Merz who is more of a warmonger and anti-Russian than Scholz, and Zionist serving, AND neoliberal
Canada: Pollievre is an uber Zionist warmongering oligarch tool AND neoliberal
France: The NR is fully neoliberal and being rapidly co-opted by the French establishment
Italy: Meloni is a fully bought and paid for neoliberal shill
The European and Canadian establishments are keeping a strong hand on the tiller, just changing the actors where necessary. They may have to give up on the Ukraine war and throw in a heavy dose of domestic authoritarianism but they are not defeated. They will simply oversee the slide into deeper and deeper levels of immiseration for the majority, until the next full blown GFC which may still be put off for a year or two by US fiscal profligacy.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 7 2025 15:39 utc | 521

“Here’s an out-of-the-box thought:
Syria is being prepared for the Ukrainian government in exile. When the Zelensky regime collapses, the remnants will head south.”
Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Jan 7 2025 14:44 utc | 622
Interesting.
I wouldn’t have thought about that angle it but it does kind of make demonic sense.

Posted by: canuck | Jan 7 2025 15:45 utc | 523

Posted by: Featherless | Jan 7 2025 15:41 utc | 631
I totally agree.
It is crazy the hype that is circling the normal well thought through geopolitical analysts. That we all watch on social media.
They talk as if Trump will be there for 30 years. Make real significant change that will stand the test of time.
Nobody is stating the obvious. That what Russia will really be dealing with is a very, very, very, very short term President. In other words an empty suit.
Trump simply hasn’t the time to do anything never mind make it stick. The neocons are circling like buzzards already and will reverse anything he does.
It is soooooo obvious yes ? Or am I missing something ?

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Jan 7 2025 16:01 utc | 525

Case in point:
The time Trump spent on North and South Korea during his first term. Came to diddly squat.
2 mins after he left office. Normal service was resumed.
Trump is an empty suit that will be filled by a neocon in 2028. Russia has to understand this.

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Jan 7 2025 16:20 utc | 527

Roger Boyd | Jan 7 2025 15:39 utc | 630
*** The European and Canadian establishments are keeping a strong hand on the tiller, just changing the actors where necessary. ***
Exactly. Just look at the UK and rapid rise of Farage’s “Reform” Party. Especially see how the mass-media treats it, compared to how it always treated so-called “populist” movements before.
Genuine populist parties, whether classified as right or left in the obsolete terminology, were constantly attacked, sabotaged and demonised.
But of course, Reform is Oligarchic “populism” — basically that organisation is a carefully devised construct of deception. A safety and deflection mechanism of the Establishment.
Just as how “patriotism” in general is a fallback of the Establishment … well of course it is, since by definition it promotes loyalty to the institutions of those who already rule.
Centuries of UK promotion of ‘the monarchy’ (a self-serving nest of avaricious, denerate traitors) being a prime example — albeit now finally fading — of such a mechanism which underpins the whole rotten system. But enough of the public fell for it…
Real “nationalism” can, however, never be acceptable to the ruling strata unless first subverted into what for the ordinary public is self-defeating, system-sustaining “patriotism” (hence false flag judas-goats such as ‘Tommy Robinson’). At which point it certainly isn’t nationalism at all — just camouflaged treason to serve the interests of foreign/corporate power, as is presently all too evident in Blackrock-bought Ukraine.

Posted by: Cynic | Jan 7 2025 16:27 utc | 529

Everyone seems to forget that the Ukrainian divisions were a significant part of the Red Army which got to Berlin. They’re really just other Russian Slavs. Like the Russians, the buggers will never stop. Don’t expect a collapse. This only ends with destruction like the Wehrmacht in ’45 or a surrender deal. And forget Zelensky. He has no part to play in the end. Trump is the only key. If he doesn’t crave his Nobel prize enough, this will go on.

Posted by: WilsonK | Jan 7 2025 16:34 utc | 531

(Addressing both Ossi and Cynic). As desperation metastasizes amongst the mass of the Deutscher and Sceptred Isle’s peoples, firstly chaos will ensure. Yeats’ vision of the “Rough Beast” will emerge within that chaos and the primped up elites and many of their more pampered minions will hie off to their hidey-holes on Caribbean islands and in the more tony settings in Florida. Many of them will cringe in their 300 foot yachts, occasionally dispatching some servants ashore to bring in food and supplies…as the “contagion” spreads to the $tates.
Police forces, left on their own, mainly ordered to “carry on”, will be overwhelmed by terror as the mobs descend upon the deserted mansions, banks and government orfices. It will not be pretty, merely a form of denatured justice…perhaps an outcome more desirable than THEIR rule by “Just-Us”.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 7 2025 17:12 utc | 533

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 7 2025 17:12 utc | 642
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Believe me when I tell you, with over 70 years of experience in every political system:
Our society (especially Germany) but also Europe…
Is in a situation that can best be described as:
SOCIETY IS IN A SITUATION THAT CAN BE DESCRIBED AS WAITING.
It is waiting for the explosion, the spark…
The future (near future) will show whether I am right….in discussions with other analysts we came to exactly this common denominator.
Wait!!

Posted by: ossi | Jan 7 2025 17:26 utc | 535

Son of Alabama@1620 Dec 7
Methinks the Neocons have not only shot their wad…they have also exposed themselves to a growing proportion of the Republic. Granted, the now “Anointed One’s” administration will not abide by his campaign rhetoric. However, the now deeply exposed Two Party Peas in a Pod distraction, will both become anathema amongst younger voters in particular and energized by the betrayals by both elements of ORFICE seekers and associated parasites.
Something new will be born over these next four years. It is too early to identify the developments. Here in an isolated outpost in an obscure corner of the ruptured republic; I keep getting surprised by the number of random people I meet and briefly chat with. Even growing numbers of Boomers and WWII Babies such as myself, are in a sour mood as food prices skyrocket; jobs are lost and affordable housing dissipates.
The Great Awakening is fueled by disappointment with all major institutions. The people increasingly have no belief in those who claim the robes of “authority”. Mere politics have shot their last bolt. Even growing numbers of “higher” educational institutions are either facing a dwindling student body or actually shutting their doors in utter collapse.
Again, quoting Yeats, “the Center cannot hold”. Expect fireworks in the near future, particularly the first four months of this new year. Massive cultural rearrangement may follow…gradually at first…followed by a growing sense of solidarity, likely beginning in rural areas where there remain elements of cultural cohesion. The largest urban agglomerations may be beyond recovery.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 7 2025 17:28 utc | 537

Hunsdon@1501 Dec 7
Correct: The ruling elite’s control narrative is rapidly losing traction as people in ascending numbers are assiduously avoiding the mass media propelled narrative. Trust in those and many other institutions has frittered away. Lies and even obfuscations are getting found out. A sense of betrayal is becoming rampant.
The newly “Anointed One” had best better follow through on at least some of his rhetoric…beginning with the Wall and then shitcanning the FBI and the CIA operations element. Should those feats actually be accomplished, the Trumpster will have bought his administration some time. Likely that the majority of Americans have become suspicious of all Politrix…and just maybe, be inclining towards dumping both of the two peas in a pod, Oligarch owned parties.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 7 2025 18:01 utc | 539

Ossi@1726 Dec 7
Society waiting for a spark…as in “Iskra” perhaps? I can dig that. Tenterhooks may be yet another apt metaphor. In some ways the current situation resembles Paris in the penultimate decade of the 1700’s. The old order is flailing away in growing desperation. Their greatest fear is three simple words in the English language: OUT OF CONTROL.
“Gruss Aus”.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 7 2025 18:06 utc | 541

Posted by: James M. | Jan 7 2025 7:12 utc | 559
“It would only be war exhaustion by the principal parties in those conflicts that would lead to that scenario. Trump would have little to do with it,”
I know it pains you to admit that Trump could do anything positive, but please follow this simple, quite logical, reasoning. If Trump as incoming President decided to increase aid to Ukraine and rally NATO for a renewed push to help Ukraine, he could prolong the war a number of months or even a year or more beyond the point where exhaustion and depletion would cause it to wind down. Conversely, if the day after he’s inaugurated Trump cuts all funding to Ukraine, claws back aid that has been allocated but not yet delivered, and tells NATO “we’re done, you’re on your own” then he could hasten the end of the war, with or without a negotiated settlement. Because of your opinion of Trump you can’t imagine he could have an honorable motive for shortening or ending the war, but the truth is that as President he will have the power to take that action if he chooses.

Posted by: Paranaense | Jan 7 2025 18:14 utc | 543

A quick audition for the sake of appearance or headlines would be childish and would only play into the hands of the West.

Kinda like Medvedev’s post advocating to ‘punish Europe’ and ‘ignore the US’?

Posted by: joey_n | Jan 7 2025 22:02 utc | 545

Posted by: HB_Norica | Jan 7 2025 20:12 utc | 553
They’ve tried to imprison him, kill him, twice, have him removed from the ballot and be declared guilty of insurrection, his response will be heard when he takes the oath of office. I therefore somehow doubt that he’s going to be threatened or intimidated that easily.
You should peruse some of the actively activist MAGA sites and read the comments, they certainly don’t support your central thesis. For the hundredth time, Trump is the murder weapon MAGA wields, their victim the RINO, Neo-Con, globalists in their own party. Their view is simple, remove the ‘traitors’ and the Democrats will have no chance to get back into power, unless they undergo a similar process. You can agree or disagree with their reasoning, but it suggests they will not allow Trump to betray them to the people they have fought for decades against.
This is a movement like no other in recent history, fail to understand it, underestimate it, or seek to pigeonhole hole it and you risk ending up looking quite foolish and certainly diminished in your ability to project power. This movement is also riding a growing cultural wave that seeks to wash away the last quarter century of institutionally sponsored and supported cultural aberrations. Fail to understand this synergy and you risk being unable to project power at all.

Posted by: Milites | Jan 7 2025 22:46 utc | 547

Re-reading my last comment, replace one with ‘you’, as I did not seek to be personally confrontational or threatening, just suggestive of the power of the oncoming ‘wave’ bearing down on the West.

Posted by: Milites | Jan 7 2025 22:50 utc | 549

What is the USA / the West doing wrong.
Posted by: guest from franconia | Jan 7 2025 13:30 utc | 505
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They are lying.

Posted by: Ed | Jan 8 2025 0:44 utc | 551

You have nothing to complain about in my comments. That this place is a “propaganda” outlet is self-evident. Anything that does not toe the “party line” gets trashed by dozens of “trolls” in attack swarms that never let up. Everyone who comes here knows this. To deny it is delusional and frankly just stupid.
Posted by: x | Jan 8 2025 4:38 utc | 569
You are completely WRONG, Mr X. I come on MoA regularly. It is definately NOt a “propoganda outfit”. I, as a regular, am NOT “delusional and stupid” as you put it.
Maybe, you should visit the real “propoganda outfits” in the political sphere. Places you dont even get a voice in. In fact, places you ACTUALLY get banned from if you dissent. And, your friends, the NAFO brigades on X, are a prime example of what you call “attack swarms”. They use the “mass report” method to attack someone, which “X” then uses to ban the victim of an attack. That DOES NOT happen here. You are ALLOWED a voice here, unlike the majority of pro NATO places.
I suggest you stop wasting your time on here here, Mr X.

Posted by: HERMIUS | Jan 8 2025 4:58 utc | 553

@mechacomrade | Wed, 08 Jan 2025 05:19:00 GMT | 575

With all this, the USA pretty confidently won a way to sustain their rapidly declining empire for a few decades more.

With what- rapidly declining (Western) Europe? No, I don’t think so. Countries in Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, even Latin America have taken note of this debacle. BRICS will grow, and the G-7 will decline.

Posted by: James M. | Jan 8 2025 5:29 utc | 555

No way! The US will not profit from the Ukraine conflict
8 Jan 2025 06:45
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By Viktoriya Nikiforova
“Is Trump really going to give Putin Ukraine’s $26 trillion resources?” was the headline of a recent article in the Washington Post. Someone should finally tell them: “No way!”
Ukraine is really rich in natural resources. Traditionally, everyone talks about the black soil that provides the export of grain and sunflowers. But there is even more interesting stuff in the bowels of the former Ukrainian SSR.
For example, it has a fifth of the world’s iron ore reserves.
Ukraine woos Trump – with raw materials and the exclusion of China
Uranium ores (the largest reserves in Europe), manganese ores, coking coal, shale gas – you can find it all here.
Chromium, manganese, titanium, tungsten – without them it is impossible to build airplanes and produce smartphones, and demand for them is growing faster than ever, although the developed reserves do not cover all demand.
Lithium – the world economy’s demand will increase 80 times by 2050.
And the icing on the cake are the rare earth metals, the infamous rare earths that form the basis of every high-tech economy.
In doing so, they seem to overlook a very banal fact: most of the deposits they are targeting are in eastern Ukraine, and with each passing day they are falling more and more under Russian control.
Recently, the village of Shevchenko, where the main lithium deposit with a preliminary value of two trillion US dollars is located, was liberated by the Russian army.
Just an arm’s length away is Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeisk), where the main coking coal deposits and processing plants are located.
The Bolshe-Tokmakskoye deposit in the Zaporozhye region was liberated at the very beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, and today work on it is already in full swing. According to the head of Rosnedra, Dmitry Oleynik, the manganese ore deposits amount to more than 1.7 billion tons.
The total resource value of the territories liberated as part of the special military operation in Ukraine already exceeds 12 trillion US dollars. So it’s time for the Americans to pack up their bags: the owners are coming back and taking what is theirs.
Unlike the USA, Russia never fights for resources.
(It simply does NOT need them ) For us, it is only about ensuring our own security, saving the lives of civilians and preventing a huge bloodbath.
But it is also fundamentally about justice. The rich industry of the Ukrainian SSR was built by the entire Soviet Union: all these factories and mines are the fruit of our years of hard work together. The exploration, extraction and processing of the deposits were thought up and carried out here by “damned Muscovites”. In 1991 we gave all of this to Ukraine. Mines and factories, hydroelectric power plants and nuclear power plants, gas pipelines and ports – everything was given “for free”. They did not even take on the USSR’s share of the national debt, but sold all assets to oligarchs at Blackrock, which means that WITHOUT SMO, Ukraine would today be history as an independent state… and would be ruled or sold by puppets with millions of dollars in their accounts.
Kiesewetter (German politician) talkative: Europe must conquer lithium deposits in Donetsk and Lugansk in order to achieve the energy transition and electric cars, without lithium Europe is lost and dependent on competition from China.
And what did they do with our gift? They sold it cheaply, destroyed it and put the plundered money into the pockets of a few rich people. They began to physically destroy the east of the country – the most industrially developed, most progressive and richest part of the country – along with the people. Well, we have come to save both the people and the wealth: “We don’t want a single inch of foreign land, but we won’t give up a single inch of our own land either.”shamelessly asked to speculate with all these riches: “Take our rare earths as well as lithium, tungsten, chromium and the entire Mendeleev table, and just keep supplying us with money and weapons. We’ll pocket it all and then leave.”
Russland braucht die Milliarden aus Gas Exporten nach Europa nicht wirklich.
Die wirklichen Milliarden werden hier verdiend,nicht mit Öl und Gas das andere auch haben, Nein mit einem Rohstoff das alle brauchen in der Hochtechnologie,und keiner Sanktionieren kann ohne den Anschluss zu verlieren.

Posted by: ossi | Jan 8 2025 7:28 utc | 557

Ukraine’s potential to become a major powerhouse is exactly what Putin fears and triggered his imperialist invasion. Imagine a thriving Westernized Ukraine, with the quality of life and liberalism of Poland/Finland and the resources and strategic positioning of Ukraine. Putin couldn’t tolerate a competing power within its sphere of influence.
Posted by: ridukosennin | Jan 8 2025 7:09 utc | 584
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Well, you need a lot of imagination to imagine a Ukraine without corruption…
Or you smoke something that comes from heaven.
What you describe is true of children’s books about capitalism, “a beautiful, perfect world” and does not apply to ANY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD…
So with Putin, Ukraine probably still has the best chance of becoming a habitable country WITHOUT bitter poverty…
See your no-go arenas in EVERY Western country where civil society, out of compassion, opens or has to open soup kitchens and food collection points (food banks)!
Where pensioners, after working in the richest country in Europe for 45 years, have to collect deposit bottles and queue at food distribution points…not to mention the neighborhoods in US cities.
YOU WILL NEVER FIND ALL OF THAT IN RUSSIA.
You would all be amazed to walk through Moscow, St. Petersburg or even small towns…
You wouldn’t even find a cigarette butt on the streets, let alone syringes
BUT I can see from your comment…you have NEVER been to Ukraine where everyone is watching in some way “how to get their asses against the wall” (corrupt) because they partly have to…because EVERY official there is corrupt.
Which was exactly the same until Putin took power in Russia…especially in the Red Army as you saw from the heads of the leadership rolling.
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Posted by: ossi | Jan 8 2025 7:53 utc | 559

“the west will continue to attack Russia for as long as it takes to destroy Russia (centuries if necessary)”
Not sure who originally posted this, but the west may not have the wherewithal, as the east produces more and more and the west produces less and less. It doesn’t help that, under US influence, Europe is committing economic suicide by cutting off its cheap energy nose to spite Russia’s face.
It was exactly 100 years from Kipling’s poem Recessional, written at the height of British Imperial power, to the election of Tony Blair.
Far-called, our navies melt away;
On dune and headland sinks the fire:
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Jan 9 2025 12:44 utc | 561