The Nazis also used Zyklon B pellets, which turned into a lethal gas when exposed to air. Zyklon B was used in the gas chambers at Auschwitz.
Posted by: canuck | Feb 2 2025 14:39 utc | 4
A moments silence for all the typhus bearing fleas killed by Zyklon B.

Posted by: Ново З | Feb 2 2025 21:42 utc | 104

Yes, Americans are easily led around by domestic drama like public mass shootings and supposed “terrorist” events created by the FBI.
In between elections, it is necessary to keep people divided and at each other’s throats. Demonizing their fellow citizen who in the whole world has the most in common with them. No wonder so many Americans take so many anti-depressants.
China doesn’t have those problems which is why it is the future. A society mostly marching in unison towards a shared vision.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 2 2025 22:00 utc | 105
👏👏👏👏

Posted by: HERMIUS | Feb 2 2025 22:12 utc | 106

The defense of Seversk is collapsing.
Next will be Chasov Yar.

Posted by: Naive | Feb 2 2025 22:14 utc | 108

When it comes to England v. Germany, the Brits bombed first on civilian centers.
Posted by: aristodemos | Feb 2 2025 20:12 utc | 80
Another guy that needs to read some history. After Poland, Germany expanded bombing to other countries:
In May 1940, Germany bombed Rotterdam in the Netherlands during its invasion of Western Europe.
Following this, German bombers targeted cities in Belgium and France.
The first German air raid on Britain took place on August 16, 1940, when the Luftwaffe bombed targets in southern England, including military airfields. The first British bombing of Berlin occurred on August 25, 1940, after a German plane mistakenly bombed London. This escalated to full-scale bombing campaigns on both sides.
Poland’s leaders outsmarting themselves is irrelevant when it comes to the Germans terror bombing civilians.

Posted by: Victor Scarpia | Feb 2 2025 22:18 utc | 110

Auf den Friedhoefen ist nicht genug Platzs fuer ppp Armee.
In Nikolaev auf Anordnung des Buergermeisters der Mischkowskoje-Friedhof war geraeumt.
Alles wurde zusammen mit den Denkmaelern und Kreuzen zur Seite geschoben.
Jetzt gibt es neuen Platz fuer Tote…”
Source: Telegram channel “Man im Schatten”.
Attrition in full gear.

Posted by: Naive | Feb 2 2025 22:24 utc | 112

Jerr @ 35: “Thus, the Canadian and Mexican auto plants will cut back significantly or close laying off 10s of thousands. In US plants will increase production”
Shhh! You are upsetting the “Free Traders”, who want cheap goods manufactured by exploited underpaid workers in other countries without any protections for workers or the environment. In fact, those “Free Traders” need those cheap goods, because the only job they can get is as a greeter at a Walmart selling imported goods.
To be serious for a moment, you are correct Jerr, but the timeframe in President Trump’s mind is probably much longer. It will take years to (re)build factories and train new workers. The key point is that all those business leaders who have been making a quick buck by offshoring production — and thus costing Americans their jobs and costing the US Govt lost tax revenues — are going to begin to rethink if that is really their best plan.
In the long run, no country can run permanently the kind of huge Trade Deficit which the US now has. Production Precedes Consumption, and the US needs to get back to producing things. The fuss over these tariffs is just a small step towards putting the US back onto a sustainable economic path.

Posted by: Gavin Longmuir | Feb 2 2025 22:41 utc | 114

Posted by: Jerr | Feb 2 2025 20:13 utc | 81
I think this was the same dude who worked some summer jobs in college and thinks that in a 24 hour plant you just increase shift times to 10 hours. Then he got the Canada – Mexico tariff cost wrong. But also doesn’t understand how cross border trade developed under NAFTA to the benefit of US corporations.
This kind of quality in comment is right up there with the “Russia isn’t taking territory fast enough” as if a slow down in territory gained during the winter months wasn’t easily predictable, especially given the Russian strategy and tactics that have been on display for like two years now.

Posted by: Lex | Feb 2 2025 23:08 utc | 116

Posted by: Milites | Feb 2 2025 21:24 utc | 100
Please stop with the DEI crap re: the mid-air collision. The ATC tower was undermanned, the chopper was piloted by an experienced white male officer.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 2 2025 23:33 utc | 118

Posted by: Watcher | Feb 2 2025 23:42 utc | 119
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Time is undefeated.
Canada also exports electricity to the US.
The auto industry is a big deal in Eastern Canada. A lot of jobs are tied to that.
Ontario has many metal stamping die and plastic injection mold builders. These are specialized machines that years ago the American automakers tried having made in China but the quality and lead times were an issue. A locally made tool can be modified or repaired locally. With non-stop production, that sort of thing is important.
Downtime can cost tens of thousands of dollars, particularly because the retarded globalist idea of “just-in-time delivery” means that no one keeps backup stock in the event of a disruption, and with unionized workers, labor costs continue even when production has ground to a halt.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 2 2025 23:51 utc | 120

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 2 2025 23:30 utc | 117
A pretty accurate dossier in my estimation. I would add that Trump displays Asbergers tendencies. This explains his narrow range of response to various stimulus. Many try to tag him with Cluster Bs but that doesn’t fit because his behavior doesn’tever get disorganized. This makes him misunderstood, especially by those who have the strongest reactions against him. It also doesn’t help when the New Yorker in him takes over.

Posted by: frithguild | Feb 3 2025 0:16 utc | 122

@ Milites | Feb 2 2025 15:45 utc | 17
Is the sun using Russian videos portrayed as AFU again? Wouldn’t be the second or third time.

Posted by: boneless | Feb 3 2025 0:22 utc | 124

**** elmagnostic @ 125
” You get Ukraine, I get Greenland. So simple.”
*******
Or the deal is, “You get the Black Sea I get the Artic Ocean”.

Posted by: Jerr | Feb 3 2025 1:18 utc | 126

Posted by: Jerr | Feb 2 2025 20:13 utc | 81
They will increase their US production for new inventory. Once they increase production they won’t purchase foreign again. Canadian and Mexican auto plants will cut back on production or close.
<= I believe Mexico and Canada will just find new markets.. they will do that by cutting into USA markets in now on-going foreign places.. When ever you try to monopolize a market the competition will find ways to circumvent it or out produce it.. Mexico and Canada, like Russia have already done that. The challenged will find new markets for their products and when denied resources in one place they will find different resources from another place. Worse when those Mexican and Canadian cars do infringe a market where USA products are sold,the demand for USA exported products.. will decline. the whole idea [that to make America great again it is necessary to deprive Americans of products by pricing them out of the market or by eliminating and blocking competition] falls in the category of "intention does not compute with reality". Look what just happened in AI.. The Chinese, with very little capital, and a very small development team, just quashed the $500 billion four AI giants plan to completely monopolize the AI market. The Chinese, Deep Seek II AI product not only does AI it also does reasoning. so its AIR. . The problem is the situation is much more than a better mouse trap and also a dynamically threatening marketing method (open source). Open source represents a very powerful economic defense against being isolated by monopoly powers. . The Chinese Deep Seek II product attacked the USA dominated copyright and patent protected AI market by giving their product away for free. Open source by Netscape whipped Microsoft in the early days of the Internet and it was that whipping which caused Disney and Microsoft to push government for more powerful Copyrights and Patents and for lengthening the drop-dead dates when those monopoly powers would expire (from 17 years to 100 yrs or more years). If China invents and offers the technology it invents to the USA governed America for free, China will still win because it can produce the products the technology enables and transport the produced products to the USA governed America cheaper than the USA industries can make such products, this is true imo, even if the USA is using the Chinese technology to produce the products. IOWs, the Chinese have a monopoly on manufacturing because they now have trained and experienced manufacturing people..the wall Street crowds have depended on war, regime change, and monopoly powers to keep both foreign and domestic competition out of USA governed America; but in the process they have de industrialized and bankrupted USA governed America; worse, use of monopoly power will continue by the Wall street crowd. This will continue until Wall Street companies can no longer compete in the global market place. The Chinese can afford to give the benefit of their research and development to the world for free, because their manufacturing capacity, production quality and manpower capabilities are cheaper and better. They can produce the products cheaper than the monopoly powered USA industries. The Chinese have developed 2nd to none talent not only capable to invent things, but also to able to engineer efficient manufacturing processes. Blocking competition and outlawing foreign products that compete with domestic industry is the wrong way to go? The outcome of sanctioning Russia (blocking competition) backfired.. the demand for cheap Russian oil and gas has not disappeared under sanctions, its just been put on hold because no one thus far can produce that oil and gas and deliver it as cheaply and as reliably as can the Russians. Russian manufacturing is stronger, and more self-reliant than before Sanctions. ..Worse the outcome, because Russia has shown the world how to survive without access to western markets. Trumps team needs to wake up. because Wall Street will continue to press for monopoly power. and Monopoly power will promote the stock market but it will sink America. Posted by: Jerr | Feb 2 2025 21:06 utc | 97 The Canadian industrialist know the US will increase production and close their Canadian plants . <=dream on ... I will believe it when I see it happen. Posted by: Jerr | Feb 2 2025 21:34 utc | 102 These should be closed and production relocated to US. <= you are going to have to move the entire production force to make such a move viable? factories are competitive for only so long. If everyone is moved from Canada to the USA that means no new jobs for us people.. Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 2 2025 22:00 utc | 105 China doesn't have those problems which is why it is the future. A society mostly marching in unison towards a shared vision. <= china has problems but efficient industrial production is not one of them. Posted by: Gavin Longmuir | Feb 2 2025 22:41 utc | 114 The key point is that all those business leaders who have been making a quick buck by off shoring production -- and thus costing Americans their jobs and costing the US Govt lost tax revenues -- are going to begin to rethink if that is really their best plan. <= dream on. knowledge. reasoning, production-efficiency and markets have gone global.business leaders are not immune to globalization. The irony is that the hegemonic distribution of the USD<=actually promoted globalization. Everybody uses or references the USD so things can be priced in USD. There is no reason to produce anything or to offer services anyplace unless the cost of finished goods or the value of services offered are competitive on the world market. The people on the globe are learning how to deny monopoly power. Engineering in India is equivalent to engineering in the USA; production in China is efficient and so. The USA governed America cannot expect to supply the world market with not-competitive products any more. At the moment it seems China will supply the world? IMO, Trumps ideas are based on divide and conquer strategies such strategies are no longer valid. The nation best able to produce products or best able to offer services will be the suppliers of global markets and nation state monopolies will be insufficient to stop that. Tariffs will not stop that.. The most efficient producer will prevail no matter the monopoly powers created and used to prevent it. The best a nation can do today is to become a specialist in producing one or two products and just as soon as it does, some other nation will learn how to make the same thing more efficiently.. WE are reaching a point where the political systems and production systems and the knowledge discovery and generation systems are merging.. That the world is round is known everywhere by everybody, but in its day only a very few knew. Posted by: Gavin Longmuir | Feb 2 2025 22:41 utc | 114 The key point is that all those business leaders who have been making a quick buck by off-shoring production -- and thus costing Americans their jobs and costing the US Govt lost tax revenues --<= the Loss of jobs and shut down of factories is a characteristic of a competitive world. The West ventured into the East in order to gain a competitive advantage.. as it turned out the cheap eastern world turned the tables on the exploitive west..the east is exploiting it monopoly in manufacturing. This response of nations is characteristic of all who are exploited. Joe in country A produces product A for 9.00 per unit, six months into the production, Nac in Country B discovers how to produce a replacement for product A for $3.00/ unit.. The factory in A shuts down and a new factory starts up in Country B. Investors in a A lose their shirts because monopoly power can no longer protect their investments. Posted by: elmagnostic | Feb 3 2025 0:31 utc | 125 Easy to figure out. Trump's art of the deal: You get Ukraine, I get Greenland. So simple. <=why not an oil and gas and mineral pipeline from Russia through Alaska to the strategic reserve in exchange for all of Ukraine? Greenland would not be needed?

Posted by: snake | Feb 3 2025 1:27 utc | 128

@ elmagnostic | Feb 3 2025 0:31 utc | 125
i am sure denmark, europe and russia will be all fine with that, lol… wishful thinking.. are you american too by chance??

Posted by: james | Feb 3 2025 1:29 utc | 130

@ james | Feb 3 2025 1:27 utc | 129 with the link, light on proof, showing negotiation between Russia and the US…thx
I read it and didn’t see any smoking gun. I don’t believe any Russia doors have been knocked on by the US because they don’t like the options they face and don’t yet have a plan in context of all the other moving parts in our world.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Feb 3 2025 1:51 utc | 132

There’s no letup in the Ukronazi assault on Russia. Just today according to Russian telegram channels, there was a ‘massive drone attack’ on Volgograd just after the Victory in the Battle of Stalingrad celebrations. They seem to have wrecked a Lukoil refinery which was their main target.

Posted by: bored | Feb 3 2025 1:58 utc | 134

There’s no letup in the Ukronazi assault on Russia. Just today according to Russian telegram channels, there was a ‘massive drone attack’ on Volgograd just after the Victory in the Battle of Stalingrad celebrations. They seem to have wrecked a Lukoil refinery which was their main target.
Posted by: bored | Feb 3 2025 1:58 utc | 134
Yes, they’ve LOST on the battlefield. All theyve got left are drone attacks. But those attacks end up causing damage to their own towns and cities. Every time they attack Russia, there’s a ten-fold reply on Ukraine. I think the military generals in Kiev are rather silly. Don’t you?

Posted by: HERMIUS | Feb 3 2025 2:06 utc | 136

Kursk significant not only in prime meat grinded but also in equipment destroyed. By March 15 overall 100000 more grinded and multiple times injured?
Wonder at what time does it become Syria like situation. Then distance doesn’t matter. Feel Odessa and freeze

Posted by: Michael J | Feb 3 2025 2:22 utc | 138

Dima’s latest report deserves some serious discussion, IMO.
Here is a recap:
1. The Russians established fire control using fiber-optic FPV drones over one of the major supply roads between Sumy and Sudzha. But not inside Russian borders … very close to the city of Sumy itself.
2. The fiber optic drones are destroying vehicles attempting to resupply the contingent of the UAF (and foreign mercs) still in Kursk.
3. While alternate supply roads exist, they are more stretched and some are dirt roads/farming trails.
4. The location of the destroyed vehicles is at least 10s of kilometers from current assessed Russian positions.
Begging the question – how did Russia manage to get so close to Sumy without being noticed? Fiber optic drones cant have that much range … for obvious reasons. They’re tethered by thin fiber optic cables to a mothership. I don’t know the practical range, but I can only guess it is a lot less than a normal FPV drone. Maybe a few hundred meters? Perhaps a kilometer, at best.
This all needs to be confirmed, as I can hear the cries of “Dima wrong!” but let’s just assume he’s correct … what sayeth ye?

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Feb 3 2025 2:36 utc | 140

A quick google search suggests Russian fibre optic drones have a range of just over 12 miles (20k).

Posted by: Saul Goode | Feb 3 2025 3:18 utc | 142

Regarding the fibre optic drones I’ve heard that they’ve managed to extend the range by linking the fibre optic drones to a more traditional radio controlled drone that acts as a mothership/signal relay. The mothership drone moves further out past the line of conflict and then deploys the fibre optic drone. the drone operator then puts the mothership drone into hover mode, switches over to the fibre optic drone and then hunts down targets

Posted by: Kadath | Feb 3 2025 4:31 utc | 144

Posted by: snake | Feb 3 2025 1:27 utc | 127
<= I believe Mexico and Canada will just find new markets.. they will do that by cutting into USA markets in now on-going foreign places. That might have been a viable option 4 or 5 years ago, before COVID threw the world economy into a tailspin and the war in Ukraine destroyed the EU economy. Who is left to buy from Canada and Mexico? China doesn't buy, they sell. It sounds like a simple maneuver, finding new markets, but this is a different world.

Posted by: Paranaense | Feb 3 2025 5:17 utc | 146

Re: Gavin Longmuir @114,
I agreed the only solution for the economic problems facing the US is to bring production back to the US mainland, and that means several things need to be done in order to achieve that
1. control over the boarders – yes, they need to prevent illegal immigration and drugs, but more importantly they will need to prevent the smuggling of cheaper good into the US while they rebuild the industrial production until they can increase production enough that the costs begin to drop.
2. use tariffs as a threat to bring back production – I think the Trump admin’s eventual negotiation strategy will be to grant exceptions to tariffs for companies that bring “X” % of their production to the US. I.e. if you want to sell to the US you have to manufacture in the US. The idea would be to bring say 80% of production to the US and you get exempted from tariffs for that remaining 20% that the US still imports to meet it’s domestic needs, the US would then industrial policy to try to encourage companies to take that 80% of production to 140% of internal US usage (i.e. the US is fully self-sufficient for that product and can then export the remaining 40% to the world).
3. create industrial areas – from the 1870s to the 1970s the US had several dedicated industrial regions (i.e. the Steel belt), The US will almost certainly need to either create new industrial regions or reactive those old regions. Currently, the US has avoid creating industrial regions in favor of allocating parts production based on senator interests (i.e. every state gets a little slice of the pie, so everyone has buy-in on big federal programs, like the F-35 which famously has parts made in all 50 states), however, spreading parts production over all 50 states is extremely inefficient and increases costs significantly compared to only having the parts production localized over a small region of 3-4 states. I also suspect the Trump Admin will create special economic zones that are exempt from some state & local laws/regulations (environmental/union/worker safety) in order to encourage investment
4. consolidate control over raw materials – If the US is going to become an industrial producer again, then it will need to establish firm control over the sources of raw materials and energy to supply that productivity. Greenland, Canada and Brazil are all areas that are rich in natural resources and their geographical closeness would make control over these supplies easier compared to Africa or the Middle East. Currently, Trump is publicly pushing the idea of the US annexing Canada & Greenland, but I suspect what he actually wants is for the respective governments is to remove all restrictions on foreign (i.e. the US, non-US companies will still be barred from making offers) ownership of their vital raw resources and industries (minerals, rare earths, forestry, oil/gas). It is extremely likely that Canada and Greenland collapse in the face of this pressure and will agree to i) allow full US ownership of key industries ii) privatize government services/industries (which will be purchased by US owned corporations) iii) allow newly US-owned industries to move production to the US after “X” many years & iv) excluded non-US based corporations from purchasing businesses within these countries.
far to early to tell if this will work for the US, but it will certainly create a lot of resentment towards the US throughout the world and it will destabilize the countries that agree to these terms (during the 1940-60s the US created wealth in the countries it traded with, now it will be blatantly stealing wealth and impoverishing these countries. Eventually, these countries will either collapse or will be forced to either re-negotiate or even break economic relations with the US in order to save themselves. however, this will take a long time, 15-20 years

Posted by: Kadath | Feb 3 2025 5:21 utc | 148

There is no economic advantage for the US to make cars “in the US” correction should be “in Canada”.
Posted by: Jerr | Feb 2 2025 21:34 utc | 102
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This is incorrect.
Canadians get state-subsidized healthcare, which makes employees in Canada cheaper than in America.
All international trade is premised on arbitrage. One locality offers something that the other does not.
Trump is trying to “presto-change-o” a new American economy on the fly as the world is de-dollarizing.
It’s not impossible, but it will be difficult.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 3 2025 5:40 utc | 150

Posted by: Paranaense | Feb 3 2025 5:03 utc | 145
1. There normally would have been 2 ATCs on duty at the time of the crash. The supervisor let 1 leave 40 minutes early.
*That left 1 ATC to cover both heli & plane takeoffs & landings while air traffic was still heavy.
2. The pilot has been named. She was highly respected by her male peers & a well qualified white woman.
*The white male co-pilot was supervising the training exercise & had full controls to takeover in an emergency.
Both pilots were had experience with the route.
*There should have been a 4th crew member in the back to protect against blind spots.
There is nothing in the scenario to suggest DEI.
However, per NYT, not only was the BH some 200′ higher than it was supposed to be, *it was 1/2 mile off course.*
Still wondering if tbe BH had drone capabilities. Thinking about giant ship losing bearings/control & hitting bridge last year. And fires at munitions plants here, in UK & Germany.

Posted by: Mary | Feb 3 2025 6:10 utc | 152

Funding will soon dry up for NGOs and other entities that rely on USAID funds—some of which have been linked to furthering left-wing censorship efforts around the world and funding coups. The veil is being torn open.
Posted by: frithguild | Feb 3 2025 2:32 utc | 139
The veil hides that some guys were upset all that money was going to the other guys. As long as team Elon-Trump gets that endless money, the agency will be renamed and all will be fine.
You can see the same behavior with the talking heads of youtube. When Biden was blowing up stuff in Russia it was always an American operator of the Himars or Atacms. Now they blow up the same amount or more than before, from refineries, oil depots to the usual petal mines and cluster bombs in villages and towns, but the talking heads no longer call Himars or Atacms as American, they either avoid to speak about any attacks (reported officially, not rumors on twitter accounts) or just it’s Ukr or EU or UK because, of course, US is not involved in any way

Posted by: rk | Feb 3 2025 8:34 utc | 154

Hobo 3 a 104
Thanks, spot on.

Posted by: Suresh | Feb 3 2025 9:24 utc | 156

Sticking with the theme of my comment in the open thread this morning- Narrative management.
The narrative being set to run the campaign to get new recruits for the desperately depleted U.K. military – SAS bulshit make believe ‘hero’s’ on TeeVee and fafo mercenary heartstring tugging bs in Murdockian tub thumping redtop porn and football rag. The Bum.
‘TRAGIC BRIT DEAD Brit, 18, killed by Russian drone minutes into first mission on Ukraine frontline as pal
says he didn’t stand a chance*’
https://nitter.poast.org/pic/orig/media%2FGi2ZfkuWwAAhPsA.jpg
You know right at the begining of the SMO there was a lot of media promo of Brits going off to fight Poootin happily schooled into the new ‘heil hitler‘ greeting ‘slava’ ukropian bs.
Almost as if the had been training for months!
As soon as the first attack happened on their nato base in western Ukraine – yup a full on nato boots on the ground BASE – which fried a few and sent man scuttling back home to their mummy’s! Suddenly they were supposed ‘awol’
Did everyone forget that teenager who was D noticed from the media and told to remain in his family’s care instead of being dragged back by military police for having ‘run away’?
Maybe the narrative is actually the call to surrender??
You get dead within minutes of arriving … it’s done … as the gung-ho TeeVee fake hard men sas repeated line has on the radio ‘Everyman for himself’!
DerrKyivStarmer Great Knight Dope doesn’t know whether he is supposed to be coming or going.
He certainly ain’t the first foreign ‘leader’ to meet DJT … that’s err… the ziofascist child killer and genocider – NuttyYahoo! The real Special Relationship of the Collective Wasters. .

Posted by: DunGroanin | Feb 3 2025 11:44 utc | 158

152:
ATC was in communication with the helo twice, to warn it off the jet. Also, the helo acknowledged and asked for permission to visually clear itself from the jet’s path (which it got).
We don’t have the full accident investigation yet, but from what I see so far, the issue is not with ATC (or the jet pilots), but with the helo pilots. The area is very well known to be an airport vicinity, with planes landing, taking off along channels of the Potomac. In addition to that, the helo pilots had been warned.
This doesn’t mean it’s a DEI failure or a female pilot failure (“Call Sign Revlon”, had an F-14 roomie who gave me the inside scoop on that screwup…where there WAS a big push to have a photogenic Tomcat pilot and where Hultgren DID have poor performance in training, but was pushed through rather than “weeded” as is typical for jets, and then for fighter jet selection.) You can mess up as a white male, you can mess up as an experienced pilot. And yes, there were two pilots in the helo and we don’t know who had control. Probably they both screwed up, the one who had control and the one who was the check.
Off topic, but it seems like there is an extreme (has grown) amount of helo traffic throughout DC and the suburbs. Much more than in a few decades ago. It’s a little annoying to see so much flying by the high and mighty (whose numbers have grown) bypassing the traffic that proles have to deal with. Or just overmilitarized police forces or the like. It’s definitely not just the President and a few traffic choppers any more. There’s a big increase in helo density all over the area, all times of day.

Posted by: Anonymous | Feb 3 2025 12:35 utc | 160

“Look what just happened in AI.. The Chinese, with very little capital, and a very small development team, just quashed the $500 billion four AI giants plan to completely monopolize the AI market. The Chinese, Deep Seek II AI product not only does AI it also does reasoning. so its AIR. . The problem is the situation is much more than a better mouse trap and also a dynamically threatening marketing method (open source). Open source represents a very powerful economic defense against being isolated by monopoly powers.”
Posted by: snake | Feb 3 2025 1:27 utc | 128
Best paragraph I have read this morning; excellent analysis.

Posted by: canuck | Feb 3 2025 12:38 utc | 162

It is also sort of interesting, eerie, that the one female pilot was not just some generic shlub. But a bit of a spokesmodel (the Biden administration gig).
She wasn’t in some generic unit overseas or in the cornfields, learning her craft. But in DC, doing these DC area type things. And as a first tour JO, not some rotated shore tour, post JO tour. But kissing Biden admin ass and Pentagon general ass. (Don’t get me started on how much the deployed military despises and dismisses DC area PowerPoint commandos.)

Posted by: Anonymous | Feb 3 2025 12:54 utc | 164

zelensky is now doing the high frequency keening whine about $200 billion that has gone “missing”. Send him another $200 billion then, problem solved for a few days. Make the fucking goys pay it like always.

Posted by: Jack M | Feb 3 2025 13:06 utc | 166

Most governments don’t want USAID funds flowing into their countries because they understand where much of that money actually ends up.
While marketed as support for development, democracy, and human rights, the majority of these funds are funneled into opposition groups, NGOs with political agendas, and destabilizing movements.
At best, maybe 10% of the money reaches real projects that help people in need (there are such cases), but the rest is used to fuel dissent, finance protests, and undermine administrations that refuse to align with the globalist agenda.
Cutting this so-called aid isn’t just beneficial for the United States; it’s also a big win for the rest of the world.
Isn’t security architecture the RF been emphasizing intended to protect against this very activity, which was the centerpiece for Maidan? I don’t think describing Bukele as a darling of conservatives alone will work to hold back a tide.

Posted by: frithguild | Feb 3 2025 13:29 utc | 168

Posted by: Kadath | Feb 3 2025 4:31 utc | 144

I’ve heard that they’ve managed to extend the range by linking the fibre optic drones to a more traditional radio-controlled drone that acts as a mothership/signal relay.

That’s pretty interesting. It certainly could help explain how Russia got so deep into Ukrainian territory without any formal changing of the polygons/maps, but I checked on Google and the distance from Sumy to Glushkovo (due north of Sumy, near the Russian border) is 100 km. That’s a long way.
I suspect Russia has infiltrated the area north of Sumy more than the mappers are showing.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Feb 3 2025 13:40 utc | 170

Posted by: oldhippie | Feb 3 2025 14:02 utc | 171
Below is a X post-seems wild but who knows:
“👺SPOILERS: The tragic helicopter/plane collision was a deliberate crash, likely remotely executed via avionics hackers (IBM/Northrop/Vercel/IDF Unit 8200) and was designed to serve as a “warning message” to deter certain potential COVID whistleblowers from Duke University, Hollywood, China and Israel from ever coming forward in the future.
(Because Israel is FUCKED if they ever do.)
But NOW, since they’ll likely bow out (understandably so) in order to protect their loved ones and mourn their tragic losses, I thought it might be a good idea if I went ahead, took the yoke for them and did the whistleblowing myself.
This way, they don’t have to worry about it anymore and can freely grieve with their families in peace. They’ve suffered enough. You fucking Israeli Jew terrorists can come after me and our whole crew instead if you’re REALLY feeling froggy. Say when, cunts. We fucking DARE you.✌️
💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥
Now that THAT’S outta the way, and without further adieu, here’s what’s up, folks:
💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥
💔REBECCA LOBACH: She was the DAUGHTER of DAVID LOBACH (Duke University Medicine; Elimu Informatics; HHS) and ELIZABETH LOBACH (New Regency).
✅DAVID FRANKLIN LOBACH
*DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, Chief of Division Clinical
💥NOTE 1: Duke University is run by Trustees Chairman and Mossad asset, Laurene Sperling, who is also the Chairman of Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP) and is married to Thermo Fisher (PCR TESTS) Lead Director, Scott Sperling. Thermo Fisher = Temasek (Singapore).
*CJP = BOSTON UJA/JFNA/MOSSAD*
💥NOTE 2: Duke University School of Medicine is led by Dean, Nancy Andrews, who is the Chairman of Wellcome Burroughs (Wellcome/Farrar), who sits on the Board of Directors at Novartis and is a Senior Advisor to NIH Executive Leadership (Anthony Fauci).
💥NOTE 3: Duke Kunshan is a PARTNERSHIP between Duke University and Wuhan University and it officially opened its doors in 2013, which is the SAME YEAR that DAVID RUBENSTEIN (Duke Capital Partners, Carlyle Group, Booz Allen Hamilton, CFR, Brookings, etc.) became the CHAIRMAN of the DUKE UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
*Both David Rubenstein and Laurene Sperling are CURRENTLY on the ADVISORY BOARD of DUKE KUNSHAN UNIVERSITY in WUHAN, CHINA.
CLIFFS: Duke University is arguably the MOST IMPLICATED SCHOOL IN AMERICA with regard to the COVID PANDEMIC CONSPIRACY and the CREATION & RELEASE of COVID… and COVERUP of COVID’S ORIGINS.
This is especially horrifying the moment you realize COVID was 100% an INTENTIONALLY-CALIBRATED BIOLOGICAL WEAPON that was INTENTIONALLY RELEASED as an ATTACK on the (my) WHITE EUROPEAN RACE WORLDWIDE by an untold number of MOSSAD JEWS and their GLOBAL JEW SUPREMACY COUNTERPARTS.
And they carried out this attack because THEY STILL BLAME US FOR SOME HOLOCAUST they’d been tricked into believing actually happened by their parents, who’d also been tricked themselves by theirs.
(Alvin Krongard and Scott Gottlieb, both known Mossad assets, were directly involved here. Michael Bloomberg too.)
✅ELIZABETH LEE LOBACH
*NEW REGENCY PRODUCTIONS (Development), Writers’ Assistant, Office Assistant, Analyst & Script Editor
*TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX (Post-Production), Office Assistant, Research & Analysis
💥NOTE: New Regency Productions is FOUNDED by ISRAELI SPY, ARNON MILCHAN, one of NETANYAHU’S CLOSEST OPERATIVES and ISRAEL’S MOST LEGENDARY SPIES (FA***TS). He was literally fucking INTEGRAL in helping ISRAEL STEAL OUR FUCKING NUCLEAR SECRETS several decades ago.”

Posted by: canuck | Feb 3 2025 14:16 utc | 172

This is a aummary of U.S. related news items for today. That’s not my site. I just read it. Near the top of the page is information about USAID funding the Maidan coup with $5 billion US dollars. Near the bottom are links to four stories about Russia / Ukraine. The rest of the page will give most people a good idea of how the United States actually runs.
For those of you unfamiliar with the lingo:
Cabal / Clown World: The interconnected web of ultra-wealthy international families whose wealth allows them to manipulate governments for their benefit.
Gangstalking: Reference to the ground surveillance teams in the United States. Also known as the American Stasi.
The Beam: This refers to the entire class of directed energy devices used against humans. This includes devices which produce what is called the Havana Syndrome. It also includes the use of microwaves to affect people’s moods, a practice the UK government has admitted doing to anti-nuclear protesters in the 1970s.
Enjoy.

Posted by: Nobody Special | Feb 3 2025 14:32 utc | 174

Watcher@119….in Canada’s new trade agreement with the US, just like the old agreement, there is a clause stating Canada must get the US’s permission to sell Canadian energy to any other country, so I will repeat, Canada is not Sovereign, it is a sole subsidiary of the House of Windsor…..do read some constitutional law. Please. And the Canadian Oath of Allegiance read it too, Canadians are the Crown of England’s subjects. Including the newly amended Canadian Oath of Allegiance which makes all First Nations and Inuit peoples……subjects of the Crown.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Feb 3 2025 14:50 utc | 176

“But Trump has better ideas about what is good, what is bad, including in gender policy, in some other issues, they kind of don’t like it,” the Russian president asserted.
So Biden Bud Lighted the brand …
Also, hat tip to Nobody Special:
*** Near the top of the page is information about USAID funding the Maidan coup with $5 billion US dollars. Near the bottom are links to four stories about Russia / Ukraine. ***
Posted by: Nobody Special | Feb 3 2025 14:32 utc | 174
The veil in western media is being pulled back. Certainly there has been an unvirtuous loop of NGOs funding Democrat party activity. Now, how will MAGA cap the laundering of funds from programs like USAID from springing up again? After all, they will only serve to oppose MAGA priorities – it is post modernist doctrine that they will do just that. Maybe an end to the Ukraine conflict with security features that RF has been seeking that circumscribes the use of NGO’s or other means to destabilize (election meddling dare I say) other legitimate governments. My SWAG

Posted by: frithguild | Feb 3 2025 14:56 utc | 178

Posted by: Mary | Feb 3 2025 6:10 utc | 152
“There is nothing in the scenario to suggest DEI.”
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“You haven’t given any evidence to back up this claim. I would suggest that the control tower being a 60 percent of it’s prescribed staff would be strong evidence that DEI has degraded the Air Traffic Control capabilities. If you disagree, please back it up with evidence.”
Posted by: Paranaense | Feb 3 2025 14:59 utc | 179
Paraneanse you are 100% right on!

Posted by: canuck | Feb 3 2025 15:14 utc | 180

Posted by: Paranaense | Feb 3 2025 14:59 utc | 179
Huh? Please explain how allowing an employee to leave work 40 minutes early from a normal shift is due to DEI?
ATC has been short-staffed ever since Reagan wrecked it.
You’d think lowering standards via DEI would enable increased staffing.
I stead, they have a hard time filling positions, operate at leas staff than required.
That’s mot due to DEI. It’s due to high stress + inadequate compensation.

Posted by: Mary | Feb 3 2025 15:32 utc | 182

Posted by: canuck | Feb 3 2025 12:36 utc | 161
A) The female was the co-pilot. There is a LONG history going back to Gulf War I of female Blackhawk pilots as well. I know one, as a matter of fact and she’s a MAJOR Trump fangirl. She places her coffee mug with Trump’s pic after he got bailed out of jail on it front and center on video conference calls. She’s also a very competent person.
B) The pilot was a white male officer with several years and many commendations. But let me guess – we’re supposed to assume that the woman had the controls at this very moment because she wrested them from him with a boxcutter.
You guys need to make up your mind. Or get some treatment for this mindvirus you have where literally any fuckup can conveniently be blamed on “DEI” when there are an order of magnitude more likely and, in this case, clearly already proven reasons.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 3 2025 15:43 utc | 184

Plane crashes due to DEI is all people are taking about. Even Putin throws in some comments about “gender policy”. This is all off topic on a Ukraine discussion, but kind of not. I have been commenting here about how a shift in narrative can change the perception of reality. The shift over the past week has been astounding at least to me. Big risks are being taken to make this happen.

Posted by: frithguild | Feb 3 2025 15:57 utc | 186

There is no possibility of a conscious helicopter crew being unaware of an approaching aircraft, landing lights blazing, as is required below 10,000 feet, above ground level, on a clear night.
This helicopter would appear to have been pre-positioned on the instrument landing system at the appropriate place and altitude to accomplish the subsequent event.

Posted by: necromancer | Feb 3 2025 16:03 utc | 188

@ Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 3 2025 15:39 utc
As you say, the fault of this tragic accident clearly lies with the pilot of the military helicopter (who wandered into what had to have been known as the standard flight path of descending commercial passenger planes), as well as under-staffing at the air traffic control centre.
Any hysterical speculation as to this being a deliberate targeted accident fails if there is no sensible target onboard the passenger place. Seth Rich is already dead.
DEI may well have something to with it. Stories about this, as is often with the case, seem to vary.
The pilot of the helicopter seem to have been an ambitious woman (and photogenic?) with a flight time of anywhere between 500 to 1000 hours. Don’t know if this was combined air time on all platforms or only Blackhawk hours:
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/01/g-s1-46002/washington-dc-airport-potomac-crash-black-hawk-military-crew
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2525687/pilot-of-army-black-hawk-helicopter-in-potomac-river-plane-crash-identified
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/army-black-hawk-crew-involved-dc-crash-made/story?id=118276697
https://sonar21.com/incompetence-led-to-the-deaths-of-67-people-in-a-fatal-collision/
According to Larry, the copter pilot was twice above the height that she should have been (200 feet?). That seem amazingly low to me. There are no buildings taller tha 60 metres in Washington DC?. Or only over the Potomac?

Posted by: Ant. | Feb 3 2025 16:10 utc | 190

https://www.rt.com/news/612102-british-teen-mercenary-killed-ukraine/
This boy needs a special award for being the stupidest person of 2024, a true sucker if there was ever was one. He wasted his life falling for Western propaganda, setting off with starry eyes to fight for Western values under the leadershipf of the Jewish comedian of the Ukraines. Then in minutes of first mission he was killed by a drone. How about the Dunce Cap Trophy?

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Feb 3 2025 16:19 utc | 192

@ Posted by: Johan Kaspar Feb 3 2025 16:19 utc 193
James Wilton. Poor boy, victim of programmed Russophobia. Special award for the Darwin Theory of Evolution.
Ant.

Posted by: Ant. | Feb 3 2025 16:27 utc | 194

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/us/black-hawk-helicopter-training-plane-crash/index.html
https://news.sky.com/story/washington-dc-crash-data-from-planes-black-box-gives-conflicting-information-on-altitudes-as-pictures-of-third-soldier-with-joe-biden-and-ralph-lauren-emerge-13301479

Posted by: Mary | Feb 3 2025 16:47 utc | 196

Posted by: Mary | Feb 3 2025 6:10 utc | 152
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 3 2025 15:39 utc | 183
My mistake, it wasn’t 3000 graduates suing, it was 1,000.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/faa-lawsuit-claims-agency-discriminated-against-air-traffic-controller-applicants-basis-race

Posted by: Paranaense | Feb 3 2025 17:05 utc | 198

Good news on this side of the frozen hemisphere, Manitoba Merv is predicting just two more weeks of winter, that should help on the other side of the frozen hemisphere as the EU is low on fuel and their winters are not quite as cold as ours according to the young lady that served me the other day, it was -25c here, she assured me where she was from, northern Ukraine, she said it only goes to around -10…..
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Feb 3 2025 18:17 utc | 200