Gordon Hahn On Europe's Role And A Possible Coup In Kiev
Two interesting thoughts from Gordon Hahn's latest piece:
The World Order’s Restructuring Intensifies as the Ukrainian War Implodes the West and Kiev
One question the piece tackles is a split between the U.S. and Europe. The core question:
The international level of the Ukrainian conflict is shifting from a bilateral confrontation between the West and Russia to a trilateral confrontation involving Russia, the U.S., and a new European-Ukrainian axis, with each riven by divisions generated by the intra-Atlantic cold civil war. This begs the question: Will Europe become a separate pole in the international system’s new multipolar stucture, adding to the U.S, and Sin-Russian pole?
Hard to tell, but I doubt it. Europe (which I understand to mean the European Union) does not have sufficient unity to become a real actor in a multipolar structure. The core project of the 'ever closer union' has failed politically and economically. It is bureaucratic laggardness, no intellectual heft, that is still driving it.
Europe's resistance to America’s rapprochement with Russia and peace efforts for Ukraine means stagnation which will only hinder its development towards a more autonomous structure.
Another point of Hahn's piece is made in his discussion about the future configuration of the government in Kiev. It is a warning to those who want to remove Zelenski:
Despite Zelenskiy’s weakened position domestically and internationally, this at least partially illegitimate president may be the last or next to last surviving pillar of the Maidan regime and the Ukrainian state. For all his narcissism, egoism, corruption, and mounting authoritarianism, Zelenskiy currently holds the Ukrainian elite together and is the face of Ukraine abroad, still well-liked in Europe. He remains a figure that minimally satisfies all the various factions in Ukrainian politics and is able to hold off opposition elements, many of which he has emasculated by banning parties and media and by either forcing their leaders into exile or arresting them (e.g., former President Petro Poroshenko and Viktor Medvedchuk).For these reasons and perhaps others, Russian Vladimir Putin himself has been very careful not to seek Zelenskiy’s removal or reject him firmly and finally as a potential negotiating partner.
Currently there are only two potential replacements for Zelenski. Ukraine’s ambassador to London and former commander of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, General Valery Zaluzny. His deep relations with the radical (fascist) right in Ukraine would make him reluctant to look for peace. The other candidate, less popular, is the Director of the Military Intelligence Administration (HRU) General Kyryll Budanov. He has his own relations with the fascist right which is the power behind the throne in Kiev.
Zaluzny is Britain's man while Budanov is a CIA seeding. Both could be used to interrupt Trump's plan to replace Zelenski with a more pliant politician willing to make peace with Russia:
[This] could be seized upon by those who run secret operations. Not only could any order [Trump] issues be implemented by the CIA so as to achieve the Deep State’s alternative goals, but the CIA could pre-empt the White House by organizing its own coup operation, perhaps one led by Budanov and including the forces he has at his disposal as HRU chief but also the many disenchanted military units suffering at the hands of Zelenskiy and his use of the war for personal political and political-propaganda goals. If the CIA ushers in a truly neofascist Ukrainian regime replacing the partially neofascist Maidan regime, then the war could be dragged out by these extremist elements for quite a while, particularly if anti-Trump Europe supplies them with weapons, not to mention troops. Such a development would also sow distrust between Trump and Putin, perhaps helping to scuttle the US-Russian rapprochement. This is precisely what the globalist-wokist faction in the West wants.
Hahn only mentions the CIA and Budanov in the scheme of a 'deep-state' coup in Kiev sabotaging Trump's policies.
I regard a combination of the British MI6 and Zaluzny as the more likely initiators to install a forever-war regime in Kiev.
Posted by b on March 10, 2025 at 15:48 UTC | Permalink
next page »All they are talking to is Victoria Nuland cut outs b.
Brian Berletic is right ...
" All theatre - Continuity of Agenda.
The Americans are playing for time.
Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Mar 10 2025 16:01 utc | 2
And where is the money to go the war on? The EU is awaiting some sort of current regime change in the US or a Democrat control of Houses in the middle run. I doubt they can resist that long. On the other hand, Democrats will not dismantle Trump policies, exactly like Biden did about Iran and JCPOA. These are changes of course, they start this way but once started, don't go back.
Plus, the current EU minions will be changed one by one. In two years from now none of them will be in charge.
It is a slow process, but with huge consequences.
Posted by: Groucho | Mar 10 2025 16:02 utc | 3
So as Russia just rolls over the Ukrainian army at every turn now, the political west is continues to throw hail marys hoping some kind of miracle will reverse the momentum. Russia has very well defined goals and the SMO will continue until those goals are met. I'm sure Russia will listen to what the west has to say but won't seriously consider any of it. They'll just keep pushing forward until everything is achieved. The EU will bark and bark but is toothless and won't dare try and bite.
Posted by: Watzov | Mar 10 2025 16:04 utc | 4
Installing a "forever-war regime" in Kiev, means at current casualty rates, the last combat effective Ukrainian soldier will die sometime in February 2026 and all of Ukraine will be liberated by Russia. then you will have Russia on the boarder of Poland with a massive battle hardened army with huge reserves of equipment, while the EU is completely stripe of all weapons, needing at least 5-8 years to rebuild equipment reserves for even a small defensive force
Posted by: Kadath | Mar 10 2025 16:09 utc | 5
I believe "forever war" means until the total annihilation of Ukraine. Well, with how things are going now "the forever" is around the corner. I think the train of future is leaving and the EU is still standing on the kerb wondering whether to get on it or be left behind.
Posted by: Steve | Mar 10 2025 16:10 utc | 6
There is another alternative I think, which is that the fascists (whether a more political figure or a uniformed one like Zaluzhnyi) take power, then temporarily settle for a genuinely pure Ukraine, shorn of Novorossiya. To be sure, likely that would require purging Ukraine to make what's left all Galician, politically speaking. That would likely be a savage, violent process but that's not an issue for fascists I think. Nor do I think they wouldn't be planning their comeback, to launch wars of conquest later, from day one of a treaty. I think that would constitute a defeat for Putin's announced goal of de-Nazification...but Putin didn't have a problem at all with fascists taking power in 2014. It's not impossible he would accept such a peace? As to whether the EU or US would have a problem with more obvious fascists in power, it's not like they didn't support fascists for years. On the trivial detail of Zelensky's personal fate, it is really useful to exclaim, Zelensky is Jewish! Ukraine can't be fascist!
Posted by: steven t johnson | Mar 10 2025 16:12 utc | 7
b)
They could have stopped the war on 20th January by cutting star link , stopped funding and stopped supplying Ukraine.
They didn't...
Now the facts on the ground are they are using the cutting star link , stopped funding and stopped supplying Ukraine. Not to stop the war, but to force Europe to double and triple their NATO spending.
Europeans are now falling over themselves to follow Hegseths message that he gave to Brussels. Follow the demands in that message to the letter.
They are playing for time b.
They want a freeze and still keep the majority of Ukraine while doubling the size of NATO. The dagger always pointed at Russia as they pivot and continue to circle China.
While increasing the Israelis power in the Middle East.
Brian has laid it all out as clear as day for people to see. Using direct actions and quotes coming out of Trumps team.
Now they are talking with Victoria Nuland cut outs in Ukraine.
Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Mar 10 2025 16:14 utc | 8
On the trivial detail of Zelensky's personal fate, it is really useful to exclaim, Zelensky is Jewish! Ukraine can't be fascist!
Posted by: steven t johnson | Mar 10 2025 16:12 utc | 7
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That trope doesn't work anymore.
Posted by: too scents | Mar 10 2025 16:15 utc | 9
No talks over Ukraine are important.
Putin for 20 years has demanded a direct security deal with the west.
Trump has recognised a Russia - US deal is a) necessary, b) admits past aggression against Russia has brought about a defeat, c) can be spun as a US victory and European loss. Dishonestly spun, but who cares.
So a US-Russia security deal first, Euro - Russia deal on poor terms for Europe next, then maybe get around to Ukraine.
In the mean time Europe will put in some big orders to US MIC and Trump can pretend he is now free to take on China and has split Russia from China (both poor jokes but play well with US voters).
Posted by: Michael Droy | Mar 10 2025 16:20 utc | 10
The EU is an artificial construct, a conglomeration without significant cultural bondedness amongst that potpourri of nations. Those administrative bureaucraps in Brussels have absolutely NO agency. They are mere tools, primarily subservient to the bank$ter trillionaires in City of London.
It could be that the WEF has shot it's wad with those current administrative prostiticians in various European capitals. Already Olaf Schultz in Germany is a spent force. His replacement Mertz, has a very tenuous coalition behind him. Macaroni in France, the little Rottenchild stooge, is holding his regime together by intel assassination squads. The French people are most volatile. Italians as a people got their lessons decades ago with Mussolini's imperialist schemes. The Greeks are livid. Hungary, Slovakia and to a degree, even Austria, are off the Reservation.
Meanwhile, Ukraine is rapidly running out of cannon-fodder. The Kursk invasion has degenerated into a total fiasco. After the finale of the spring mud season, Russian armor, supported by masses of drones, may be given their orders.
Disintegration, from the Dnieper to the North Sea, is in the air.
Posted by: aristodemos | Mar 10 2025 16:24 utc | 11
Steven t johnson@ 1612 March 10
Are you for real or merely some AI bot? Seriously. What you write is a concatenation of confusion. Seek assistance if you do happen to be human.
Posted by: aristodemos | Mar 10 2025 16:27 utc | 12
Col Larry Wilkerson & Amb Chas Freeman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yawRhqOdp_s
"Trump's plan to end the Ukraine war and NATO's future."
Explores similar territory.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 10 2025 16:29 utc | 13
Watzov@4....."well defined goals" can you post those as published by the Russian Federation not the "if wishes were fishes" type one finds here at MOA.
Nothing about the SMO has been well defined except the amount of graft grift and treason found at all levels on both sides of the LOCC. Oh, and the death..... horrendous from all accounts.
Tiny Dancer picked up a bank, a bank! lock, stocks and barrels of kaaaaash! The $ quote I heard was $1.1 billion. Cha ching, bring the bling, naughty boy Nazi Zionist almost deserves a jolly good spanking. He'd like that.
Cheers M
....the SlogMow ends shortly after Russia reclaims the bits of Russia proper lost to 404.....just a hunch.
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Mar 10 2025 16:29 utc | 14
@Steve | 6
I think the train of future is leaving and the EU is still standing on the kerb wondering whether to get on it or be left behind.
The train left a while ago, and these people, although currupt to the core, are no fools. They know it's too late already. They know they have a short window of time during which they might derail the train. That's their only hope. To pull an "HTS" on Trump and Putin in the way Erdogan and Nutsandyahoo did to Assad. But their spin doctors must already be working overtime to spin their absolute humaliation and irrelevance as some sort of victory.
Posted by: Shahmaran | Mar 10 2025 16:30 utc | 15
I believe the general Euro position of Macron, Starmer, VDL, and so on will continue. We have to understand the European media, still trusted by "the people" is in full Orwellian mode so the people, despite some rumblings, will vote for the status-quo as they have in recent elections.
Some commentators are saying that these leaders believe their stagnant economies can recover if they go heavy on deficit spending and kill two birds with one stone by using re-armament to stimulate re-industrialization. I think this is both rational and realistic and why not? With a citizenry of sheep who just want stability and some enemies to bring most of the peoples of Europe together this plan could work even if it takes ten years to do it.
One of the things the people of Western Europe lack is a sense of meaning in their lives that go beyond consumerism--neither religion, spirituality (much more a trend in the US), art in all its forms, or philosophy seem to be thriving. This leaves the field to the true fascism represented, not by the nationalist right, but by the radical center of people like Starmer/Macron and both the centrist German parties all of who favor central control, censorship and jailing dissidents which all appeal to many if not most Europeans who seem to be following a period of real degeneracy which I've noticed in Western European culture as a whole.
This could change if the US remains committed to peace but peace, love, and understanding is definitely not something Europeans both East and West seem interested in.
Posted by: Chris Cosmos | Mar 10 2025 16:32 utc | 16
Mr. Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy (VOZ) set to stick around for much longer than previously anticipated by his enemies.
To wit:
The ‘coalition of the willing’ and their secret plan will be discussed remotely ‘virtual meeting format using Zoom’ this coming weekend. Once again, Sir Keir Starmer (one of the chosen Lords of the City of London) will be chairing the meeting but this time more than twenty willing European countries will be drafting, planning and brainstorming a legally binding contract with multiple clauses and the implications of such actions for the future of Ukraine and the war against the Russian Federation without the US of A participation going forward and its withdrawal from Europe or the relocation of its army within the block to eastern Europe [the Republic of Poland and the Baltic States].
Replacing the ‘killer-switch’ jets manufactured by the US of A with jets from the French Republic will take precedence during the discussions as well as the speedy allocation of parts of the €150 billion recently agreed by the EU for new weaponry. It is envisaged that the Republic of Türkiye, the Republic of India and even the United Arab Emirates (UAE) could be asked to attend a tender of a bid for a contract for the provision of such weaponry.
Interesting times.
Posted by: pepe | Mar 10 2025 16:32 utc | 17
According to Chas and John at abc.net.au/PlanetAmerica, the US has only provided US$30.21 Billion in direct financial aid to Ukraine since 2022.
Europe has spent $139 Billion in the same period and says that US has spent a total of $119.7 Billion. Congress has approved $123.86 Billion in appropriations to the DOD of which 45.78 B was spent on replacing the redundant junk, which US sent to Ukraine, with nice new junk.
Trump says US has spent $350 B.
Considering that USA installed and OWNS the Ukie govt, half-assed doesn't begin to describe AmeriKKKa's "support" for Ukraine.
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Mar 10 2025 16:34 utc | 18
Posted by: aristodemos | Mar 10 2025 16:24 utc | 11
As an Italian I must say that Italians, or a large part of them, didn't learn the fascist lesson.
For what I can tell even Germans didn't learn the Nazis lesson.
Curiously maybe the eastern Europe countries, those that experienced the Soviet domination seems, to me, to have learned something.
Posted by: Mario | Mar 10 2025 16:34 utc | 19
Putin on Zelensky: "He's illegitimate." What more needs to be said since Russia has also stated it will only negotiate with someone deemed legitimate, meaning elections as per the Ukraine constitution. Only the EU Dictators like Zelensky; he's the bane for the masses. Zelensky's likely replacement will be someone with deep Nazi connections since no one else will be allowed on the ballot.
Lavrov held a short interview today, "Lavrov: Outlaw US Empire Relations Still Tenuous", where the most important message is stated in my headline:
"I repeat: it is premature to draw any profound conclusions on this basis. By and large, we have not even begun to work on overcoming the accumulated problems and contradictions in our relations with the Americans."
So, don't anticipate any fast resolution to the SMO. The first step is stated above, while another step could be accomplished at the same time--getting a legitimate negotiator. Then perhaps by July actual negotiations might commence.
As for the EU hyenas:
"As for coexistence with Western neighbors, much will depend on their behavior, readiness to admit and correct the mistakes made, including the rejection of the maniacal desire to inflict a strategic defeat on our country."
IMO, none of that will happen in 2025.
We are one step closer to the prediction Gonzalo Lira made.
Posted by: chunga | Mar 10 2025 16:38 utc | 21
Sun of Alabama@1614 March 10
Pete Hegseth is an ambulatory desecration on the Norwegian nation. His Christian Crusader mindset, together with his elite Princeton/Harvard/Wall $treet background, signals a combination of fanaticism, ego and wild-eyed fanaticism, which appears to indicate that he may be on the verge of clinical insanity.
You Tube has run a deeply researched take on him by Ben Norton. At the least, Heggy is a born again Calvinist, harkening back to the mass-murderer by burning at the stake, all those he considered "heretics" by John Calvin/Cohen himself. The $ecretary of Defen$e for the U$$A is extremely ambitious. His inner hard-drive quests for the status of the Crusader Fuhrer.
Does the American Quisling have Puritan matrilineal DNA? Maybe Connecticut Nutmegs? Trump may need to watch his back.
Posted by: aristodemos | Mar 10 2025 16:40 utc | 22
Posted by: Groucho | Mar 10 2025 16:02 utc | 3
The Europeans believe, as I said above, that borrowing the money will both build up the European military and stimulate industrial growth and insure a better economy in the future that will continue to bring the EU nations together in common purpose--it may work though I think it will more likely end badly.
Posted by: Chris Cosmos | Mar 10 2025 16:44 utc | 23
Posted by: too scents | Mar 10 2025 16:15 utc | 9 Never worked on me, sure, but the people who say TDS whenever someone uses an understanding of fascism that doesn't boil down to cosplaying Nazis? Plus, as Trump has proven so masterfully, saying falsehoods shamelessly works well enough.
Posted by: aristodemos | Mar 10 2025 16:27 utc | 12 UK is not in the EU, so the charge the City of London runs the EU needs a little explaining. You want to see "concatenation of confusion," look in the mirror. Consult a plastic surgeon.
Posted by: steven t johnson | Mar 10 2025 16:46 utc | 24
Michael Droy@1620 March 10
I'm not so sure about American voters. Yes, there is the MAGA faction. However, he did receive a whale of votes from disenchanted working class folks, particularly men and even including a significant proportion of Black and Hispanic males.
A whiff of disenchantment may be in the air.
IMHO we could be looking at a hot, dry summer of discontent. Cultural bonds have been shattered. Even in Minneapolis, the Blacks and the Hamitic Somalis have developed a very tense standoff. Imagine the cultural chasms in NYC, Chi-Town and in LalaLand.
Long Hot Summer, perhaps? Mad Max scenario? Not out of the picture. We may expect internal migrations, refugees in this ruptured republic.
Posted by: aristodemos | Mar 10 2025 16:51 utc | 25
ChrisCosmos@1632 March 10
The ruling elite behind the EU governments do NOT have ten YEARS to pull it off. A sub-current of volatility lurks within the general European polity.
"What rough Beast slouches towards Bethlehem to be born"? Even the most placid of Europeans, the Danes, may see their social benefits decline precipitously if the WarDefense Industry grabs Europe by the vitals.
Complacency may soon be on life-support.
Posted by: aristodemos | Mar 10 2025 16:59 utc | 26
That trope doesn't work anymore.
Posted by: too scents | Mar 10 2025 16:15 utc | 9
Steven was joking.
Zelenski is a Zionist jew.
Zionist jews fulfill the textbook definition of fascist.
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Mar 10 2025 16:59 utc | 27
Pepe@1632 March 10
In Euro/Europe the fringe on top appear to be going through a fit of nerves. Their masters in City of London are not pleased by current developments. Their premiere fear is....
OUT OF CONTROL.
Posted by: aristodemos | Mar 10 2025 17:03 utc | 28
As for the EU hyenas:
"As for coexistence with Western neighbors, much will depend on their behavior, readiness to admit and correct the mistakes made, including the rejection of the maniacal desire to inflict a strategic defeat on our country."
IMO, none of that will happen in 2025.
Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 10 2025 16:36 utc | 20
If during the first months of WW2 there was the Phoney War/Drôle de guerre, it's been a while that this all thing stinks of Phoney peace/Drôle de paix.
Under most normal conditions the phrase " a state of war exists between RF and...." would have been heard.
Worse, phrases close enough to that one have been said by european leaders.
Troubling is too mild a word to define what I have been feeling about the levity with which this situation has been handled.
Meanwhile a portuguese flag, but german owned, cargo ship rammed a critical to US security vessel of the Department of Transportations Tanker Security Programme (TSP).
They were at anchor when hit and 18,000 tonnes of jet fuel - about 142,000 barrels - went up in flames.
Curious if this is just a coincidence or a warning, I remember threats to the RF shadow fleet...
Posted by: Newbie | Mar 10 2025 17:07 utc | 29
I will start by reposting a comment that I made a month ago, but fits with the idea of a 'trilateral confrontation involving Russia, the U.S., and a new European-Ukrainian axis':
"Very good blog B.
What it highlights is that there are three main forces competing for geo-political dominance. They are:
1. Authoritarian - Globalists:
What we, on MOA, call the 'Globalists' and I like to call the 'British Empire Elites'. At the core of this group are the descendants of the elites who ran the British Empire two centuries ago, and whose goal is to rebuild a global colonial system, not based in Britain, but rather based in global institutions. They have been trying over the past 30 years to create a system of global centralized control, modelled on the European Union. To do this they have tried to suppress national sovereignty (mass immigration), to implement social repression strategies (pandemic lock-downs), to usurp economic power (Euro, central bank digital currencies) and to destroy all opposition (Iraq, Syria, Russia, Trump, etc).
2. Authoritarian - Sovereigntists:
These are, what in the West are called, the right-wing populists. Their goal is to revitalize their own countries, after the destruction wreaked on them by the 'Globalists'. Their objectives are primarily to reverse everything that the 'Globalists' have done since 1990. However, they are primarily authoritarian in nature, and believe that in international relations 'might makes right'.
3. Collaborative Sovereigntists:
These are countries who believe in national identities, national soverignity and collaboration as a model for international relations.
Russia and China belong to group 3. The Trumpian U.S. belongs to group 2, the subject of B's blog. The 'Globalist' led Britain, the EU, the Biden U.S. and other WEF puppet governments form group 1. I believe that to understand today's geo-political landscape, one must look at it through the prism of a three-way fight for dominance among these actors.
Who will win this 3-way fight? I don't know. The game is existential for all three. However, I think that the fight between the first two groups, which is primarily an internal fight within the West, will need to be resolved first. Only after that can the struggle between a declining West and an emerging multi-polar world be decided.
Posted by: dh-mtl | Feb 4 2025 20:11 utc | 48 "
As to the question about whether the EU/UK will become an independent pole, I agree with b., I doubt it, but for economic reasons. The EU/UK doesn't have resources and it has de-industrialized. At best I see it as an independent medium power arbitraging between the U.S. and China.
Posted by: dh-mtl | Mar 10 2025 17:08 utc | 30
Mario@1634 March 10
Perhaps, as an Italian, you can inform the house as to the relative demographics of Italians who have NOT learned the lesson of Mussolini.
My perception is that there might be somewhat of a gap between the relatively comfortable people from northwards of Rome...most particularly the Po valley...as against those folks kicking the football and Sicilianos themselves. My take is that the people of the South are far more cynical in their perspectives.
Posted by: aristodemos | Mar 10 2025 17:10 utc | 31
Zaluzhny or Budanov, it makes no difference; if installed via a coup of some kind then Russia won’t see either of them as any more legitimate than Zelensky.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 10 2025 17:13 utc | 32
Newbie@1707 March 10
The underlying question is the destination for those thousand plus tonnes of jet fuel? Could it be that the voyage was in the general direction of the Eastern Mediterranean? If so, that would explain a lot.
Posted by: aristodemos | Mar 10 2025 17:16 utc | 33
dh-mtl@1708 March 10
Well considered and thought out. Good probability factor on your analyses. Well worth a second read for most of us.
The only conceivable wild-card in this scenario is the relative complaisance amongst those national populations. The elites may not sense that, but they may be skating on thin ice.
Posted by: aristodemos | Mar 10 2025 17:24 utc | 34
Hellensky will not be killed right now, the usual suspects might still have a use of him and will prevent it.
EU is doing as they are told, they are paying the bills... with money they don't have and will be forced to find some. Where are they gonna look for it ? The Europeans savings. Hello meinen alten Germans retired friends, kiss your pensions goodby (you voted for it after all).
As "There can be no democratic choice against the European treaties." guess how it will end ? Yep : the RAF with pensioners.
That would make a good film-pitch : 3 impoverished pensioner from Neustadt find an abandoned RPG7 after a failed bank robbery , remembering their old days in the Communist Yungend , they decide to change the world. Follow our 3 anti-hero on a road trip across Europe, from Sarajevo to Bruxelles :).
Posted by: Savonarole | Mar 10 2025 17:25 utc | 35
Not liking how it looks 80-years after the fact, the Euro-elites have taken the forever-completed 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle of WWII, jumbled all the pieces and then tossed them up into the air. It's like a crazy sideways reenactment of WWII w/ 21st Century troops & live-fire. The piece that used to complete Arnhem is now over there in Kursk. The piece that used to *start* the D-Day landing @ Normandy is now over here in Krynky.
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The puppetmaster has slipped the puppet from his hand. Delusional would-be-puppetmasters see the puppet lying there, not recognizing a baited trap, and snatch it up. Whose hand does the puppet fit-? Or will they take turns working the puppet-?
When Danish prime minister Mette Frederisken, said “Peace in Ukraine is more dangerous than the ongoing war,” she meant that the war in Ukraine can't end, because “Putin might attack someone else.”
By that logic, Denmark & Europe must stay @ war in perpetuity.
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Euro-elites are more adamant about destroying Russia than they are about maintaining a relationship w/ the DJT-led U.S. Obviously, if the U.S. & NATO could not 'destroy Russia' before now, the Euro-elites will be hard-pressed to do so as the U.S. vacates.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 10 2025 17:29 utc | 36
Posted by: aristodemos | Mar 10 2025 17:16 utc | 33
The BBC are reporting the jet fuel carrier was “destined for Hull”, which is typically lazy, Southern-oriented “journalism”. The port of Immingham, on the south side of the estuary, has several oil and petrochemical terminals, owned by the likes of Texaco, Conoco, and TotalFina.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 10 2025 17:31 utc | 37
Even more reason for Trump to go for Russia's desire to eliminate the rump of Ukraine by dividing it up to other countries.
The longer the SMO goes on the likelier that will happen....if not a done deal now.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 10 2025 17:33 utc | 38
Zelensky isn't going to last, not least because the US needs a deal with Russia and the Kremlin have made it clear that they do not regard him as legitimate. Z himself has been too much of an unreliable interlocutor to be acceptable to the Russians.
JB
Posted by: Judge Barbier | Mar 10 2025 17:37 utc | 39
Mass surrenders in the Kursk bulge!
https://x.com/ug_chelsea/status/1899136776121221236
Russia develops system to detect Baba Yaga drones, sea drones and StarLink terminals.
https://x.com/AlternatNews/status/1899090999273459739
Posted by: unimperator | Mar 10 2025 17:45 utc | 40
Ah, yes...(tenting one's fingers and tapping the tips lightly against each other while lost in revelry.) The old pipeline caper.
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The proxy is being de-proxied.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 10 2025 17:48 utc | 41
Newbie@1707 March 10
The underlying question is the destination for those thousand plus tonnes of jet fuel? Could it be that the voyage was in the general direction of the Eastern Mediterranean? If so, that would explain a lot.
Posted by: aristodemos | Mar 10 2025 17:16 utc | 33
Would not, it came from greece, not the other way round.
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The BBC are reporting the jet fuel carrier was “destined for Hull”, which is typically lazy, Southern-oriented “journalism”. The port of Immingham, on the south side of the estuary, has several oil and petrochemical terminals, owned by the likes of Texaco, Conoco, and TotalFina.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 10 2025 17:31 utc | 37
Yes, probably Immingham West Jetty for petrochemical handling, but then the question is why the UK would need almost 20 million tons of jet fuel. Let's say 4.000 flight hours for a typhoon Eurofighter.
Let's say 6+ hours for a ukraine mission? Some 600 sorties? 100 half squad (6 planes) missions?
Could be, if that's the case someone just pt a huge hole in starmer's plans
Posted by: Newbie | Mar 10 2025 17:49 utc | 42
Long story short, this Crimean-War-2.0 has always been a project enacted by the upper-most-class of English/French/German. Yes, them again, they've always had an ambition to dismember and devour Russia, it is in their DNA. And with all their inbreeding, this recessive DNA has now become strongly dominate.
The American body politic, for it's part, has been parasitically infected with these leeches, what I refer to as the anglophilic-schoolboy-types [see Hillary/Cheney/Obama/Biden/Blinken/Sullivan-et al]. That's Americans roll in all of this, to serve as an unwitting host to these social parasites.
And that's the present underlying conflict, that's the virulent objection to Trump, he wants to rid our body politic of these parasites. And for their part, the upper-most-class and their mindless-minions, those legions of TDS-infected-drones want America to be cremated and thrown the ash-heap-of history without regard as to what happens next. Fortunately, both Trump and Putin want better for the world than an enslavement without hope, the end of history.
Posted by: S Brennan | Mar 10 2025 17:51 utc | 43
Posted by: aristodemos | Mar 10 2025 17:10 utc | 31
Looking at the results of the last national political elections and European elections there are not very relevant differences between the Italian voting zones Nw, Ne, Center, South, Isles (Sicily and Sardinia).
Differences are most in the distribution of votes between different parties of the same political area ( left or right).
Not that it would make a lot of difference, right and left wing are an uniparty in the end.
Posted by: Mario | Mar 10 2025 17:52 utc | 44
Do to Kievan SSR/ Maidan kluge what Clinton did to Yugoslavia.
That was no country before Lenin
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Peace keepers from China can keep a lid on banderists in the counties.
Posted by: paddy | Mar 10 2025 18:06 utc | 45
Installing a "forever-war regime" in Kiev, means at current casualty rates, the last combat effective Ukrainian soldier will die sometime in February 2026 and all of Ukraine will be liberated by Russia. then you will have Russia on the boarder of Poland with a massive battle hardened army with huge reserves of equipment, while the EU is completely stripe of all weapons, needing at least 5-8 years to rebuild equipment reserves for even a small defensive force
Posted by: Kadath | Mar 10 2025 16:09 utc | 5
I would like to point out:
Don't forget one thing... Putin's declared goals still include!!
NATO's withdrawal to the 1992 borders and that includes Poland, as mentioned above!
That includes the Baltic states, which have only recently joined, 100%. That may be the reason why they were NOT invited to London, perhaps because THEY will be the victims when push comes to shove and the whole of Ukraine is lost to the West. Because woe betide them if they surrender before Trump has his ceasefire... and that is the only reason Trump is stalling... he has to achieve the ceasefire before everything collapses. Side effect... all investments worth billions of dollars sunk!
But as described, in this case the best trained, most combat-experienced army in Europe is standing directly in front of the NATO border... facing an enemy that has no arguments because of empty camps. Inexperienced remaining armies are technologically about 25 years behind... with remaining weapons that are good for advertising videos! And Trump... will not trade Warsaw or Berlin or Bucharest for Boston or New York, not even for an aircraft carrier.
Posted by: berthold | Mar 10 2025 18:10 utc | 46
Just as I thought: the Ukraine War will be over when the Ukrainians run out. It is up to Trump to end it earlier but in any case the war will stop if the supply of Ukrainians ends.
Posted by: xblob | Mar 10 2025 18:14 utc | 47
Total nonsense from that fellow. Europe is finished political and militarily. They are totally irrelevant to anyone now on any topic of the above. The consumer market and productive economic capacity (or whatever is left) is all they got. The only thing holding it together.
Posted by: Sal | Mar 10 2025 18:19 utc | 48
Some know that Judge Napolitano and Larry Johnson are in Moscow for the purpose of meeting Sergey Lavrov, which took place today. The Judge has reported the meeting on his channel, but refrained from being specific because of the agreement to wait until the official transcript is posted at the MFA's website, which has yet to occur. I highly suggest watching his chat with Alastair Crooke from earlier today as the EU angle was deeply discussed.
The BBC are reporting the jet fuel carrier was “destined for Hull”, which is typically lazy, Southern-oriented “journalism”. The port of Immingham, on the south side of the estuary, has several oil and petrochemical terminals, owned by the likes of Texaco, Conoco, and TotalFina.Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 10 2025 17:31 utc | 37
A major missed opportunity for the Brits to blame the incident on commercial fleet sabotage by Russia. Too many witnesses that close to shore I guess.
Posted by: Fool Me Twice | Mar 10 2025 18:23 utc | 50
Have we been counting the succession of World Wars all wrong-?
The Crimean War was in many ways the first World War, as it involved an alliance of France, the UK, the Ottomans and Sardinia-Piedmont facing off against the Russian Empire. Should have started w/ the Crimean War as WWI. Following that logic, we’re already embroiled in WWIII.
For as brief as the Crimean War was, it robustly reshaped geopolitics, not just in the Catholic/Orthodox/Islamic sphere, including important tokens—churches, cathedrals, mosques—in the Holy Land, but also in the fortunes of Count Cavour and Vittorio Emanuelle II, newly empowered to spark the Risorgimento, the unification of Italy.
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Wondering if similar mountain-building tectonics will be unleashed as a result of this current conflict.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 10 2025 18:30 utc | 51
A critical historical observation was made today: Silk Road 1.0 ended in Venice. It did not penetrate to Germany, France or UK. They remained unimportant parts of the European Peninsula of Eurasia. EU policy toward China after initially benefitting from BRI has followed the 180 of Anti-Russian policy and now promotes an Anti-China policy. Thus, the Europeans are cutting themselves off as they now talk of cold war with the Outlaw US Empire. Stupendously stupid doesn't seem strong enough to describe the EU's actions.
# On Europe as a major geopolitical power? No. Headless chickens in a panic at the mo without Cock.
# On change of Ukrainian leadership? Will it matter to the end? Maybe. Maybe not.
# Back to the goals of the SMO. These have not changed one iota. Battle on ....
Posted by: Don Firineach | Mar 10 2025 18:35 utc | 53
Stupendously stupid doesn't seem strong enough to describe the EU's actions.
Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 10 2025 18:33 utc | 52
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The European Union is born of stupid ideas (ref: Treaty of Lisbon). How can you expect its actions not to be stupid?
Posted by: too scents | Mar 10 2025 18:41 utc | 54
Europe will never be an actor so long as there is no concept of 'Europa' as there was in previous incarnations, for better or worse. The EU represents the vacuum of any spirit of European tradition. If Europe fancies itself as a crusader entity it had better begin recalling its past and asking itself what it truly believes in. Figures like Kallas and Baerbock with their liberal nihilism seek the opposite of cultural and political renewal.
Why can't Europe be proud of its culture, like Russia, Iran, China, even the USA (such as its culture is)? Wokism (in the broadest sense) will one day be seen as an ideology as corrosive, perhaps more so, than fascism, for the simple reason that, as the vanguard ideology of global capitalism, woke is cultural battery acid.
Posted by: Patroklos | Mar 10 2025 18:44 utc | 55
...] Stupendously stupid doesn't seem strong enough to describe the EU's actions.
Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 10 2025 18:33 utc | 52
Fully agree. Crooke today is useful on the Euro leadership.
Posted by: Don Firineach | Mar 10 2025 18:46 utc | 56
Posted by: Patroklos | Mar 10 2025 18:44 utc | 55
Nothing to me sums this up more than the image of Baerbock meeting al-Jolani in Damascus. The contradictions around these people pile up like dogshit so high you need angel's wings—the wings of Benjamin's Angel of History—to stop from drowning in it. Europe is run by dead-eyed sociopath careerists. And where is the Church I would ask? Where is Rome? To whom does one look now to rediscover the lost Europa-Geist?
Posted by: Patroklos | Mar 10 2025 18:50 utc | 57
Quite long discussion here:
https://novaramedia.com/2025/02/23/europes-political-elite-are-completely-finished/
but the verdict seems to be that Starmer, Von derided* Leyen, Baerbock and all the rest of the Atlanticist compradors will be driving taxis in ten years time.
* spell check intervention - are the AI's taking against them too?
Posted by: Jams O'Donnell | Mar 10 2025 19:01 utc | 58
Arestovich pipes up:
Zelensky will go into exile after fulfilling the will of the United States — Arestovich***https://eadaily.com/en/news/2025/03/10/zelensky-will-go-into-exile-after-fulfilling-the-will-of-the-united-states-arestovichRepresentatives of the administration of US President Donald Trump will certainly force the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, to sign a peace treaty and an agreement on rare earth metals.
This forecast was expressed in an interview with Ukrainian propagandist Alexander Shelest ** former adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Alexei Arestovich ** *, reports "Other Ukraine".
At the same time, he expressed confidence that after that Zelensky would be forced to leave his post, since "illegitimate" is not included in the future plans of the White House. Arestovich *** believes that Trump has already decided to replace Zelya "with a strong oppositionist."
After that, the former comedian himself will go into exile — to pass the century in a certain autonomous country. And the regime he built will immediately fall apart.
According to the ex-adviser, the Servant of the People party will run away together with the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk. Prime Minister Denis Shmygal will also leave his post.
Arestovich *** is convinced that these changes will come "very soon." And also that he personally has every chance to become the new president of Ukraine. In this regard, he began to explain to the somewhat taken aback presenter Shelest * * the points of his own election program.
At the same time, the "adviser Lucy" scolded the Bandera ideology, declaring the failure of the attempt to create from Ukraine's "UPA dugout"*, against the background of the absence of the idea of a sovereign state since independence in 1991.
"There has never been an idea, Ukraine is an idea-free project. It was created in the 91st year without an idea. And the idea of making a dugout of UPA * out of a huge diverse country turned out to be a failure," said Arestovich * **.
As reported by EADaily, earlier Alexey Arestovich *** promised to catch and arrest Zelensky and "all his shobla" if he becomes president of Ukraine.
*Extremist organization, banned in the territory of the Russian Federation
**An individual performing the functions of a foreign agent
***An individual included in the list of terrorists and extremists of ROSFINMONITORING
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 10 2025 19:02 utc | 59
Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 10 2025 18:22 utc | 49
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My understanding is that the meeting was off the record.
It was supposed to be Larry, the Judge, and that Russian blogger from Australia whose name I can never remember. He was very active on Twitter until the Australian government forced him offline. Great wit and super high energy.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 10 2025 19:06 utc | 60
Posted by: Patroklos | Mar 10 2025 18:50 utc | 57
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Western Christendom is as useless as tits on a bull.
It's no accident that Muslims and Russian Orthodox make up the most effective army in the world.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 10 2025 19:09 utc | 61
Why can't Europe be proud of its culture, like Russia, Iran, China...
Posted by: Patroklos | Mar 10 2025 18:44 utc | 55
What europe?
I can see, easily, half a dozen+ that have little to do (and no love lost) with the others.
I always found the common market a good thing. All the rest? a stupid mistake. And the timing was wrong for a proper empire.
Posted by: Newbie | Mar 10 2025 19:10 utc | 62
B, you're once again missing the biggest event taking place on earth which is of course the US revolution/civil war.
X under coordinated national attack; Tesla subject to domestic terrorism; every other day intruders interdicted in DC & FL; ...
Posted by: Markw | Mar 10 2025 19:10 utc | 63
> I regard ... Zaluzny as the more likely initiators
I wonder if he would want such a honor.
Surely, MI6 might try to coerce him, and even kill him like they killed Skripal and Berezovsky.
But still, what is there for Zaluzhny in Kiev?
He already stole all the money he could, there would hardly be that much more in Kiev for him.
He escaped in the sinking EuroUkraine into a much more stable and prosperous country, there might happen no second chance for him.
He did not chair the worst crimes Kiev regime did, because back then it felt assured, while in today despair Kiev crimes get more and more aggravated by day.
He has, for now, the obvious "only executed orders" defense for any crime charges pressed, being the first in the line would rob him of it.
He knows, or should know, the typical Europen pattern of selecting a scapegoat and then demonizing him and attributing all the sins to him alone, whitewashing others, more useful perpetrators.
I can not preclude Zaluzhny forced into Ukraine like Saakashvili was back then, but i think he would do all he can to miss the train
Posted by: Arioch | Mar 10 2025 19:11 utc | 64
Posted by: Newbie | Mar 10 2025 19:10 utc | 62
The fact you can say "what Europe?" proves my point. Noch Beethoven, Mozart and Wagner bleibt...
Posted by: Patroklos | Mar 10 2025 19:15 utc | 65
Every government is an abstraction. Europe as in the EU is an abstraction of abstractions.
The UK is involved in everything foreign policy and it left the EU.
Europe is not French, Italian, or German. It is like a box of unmatched socks.
Are Italians supposed to be proud of the French?
That's not how tribal identity works.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 10 2025 19:19 utc | 66
Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 10 2025 18:33 utc | 52
Stupendously brought to mind immaculate, immaculate fools at the helm.
The Silk Road logical end is Algeciras with Gibraltar finished as a laundromat of Albion's tricks and nuclear sub workshop, Xi would be happy to oblige with a tunnel to Africa.
Posted by: Paco | Mar 10 2025 19:20 utc | 67
Regardless of who is in charge of Western Ukraine - once it is rested and rearmed - it will be the tip-of-the-spear for aggression against Russia - Nato wants to defeat Russia in any field it can - be it economically or whatever - and it will not give up the fight - of course I'm pretty sure Putin knows this - and will plan for it - the same applies to China, Iran and NK.
The hostilities are not over - they are just close to entering a pause mode - so the West and regroup and rearm - and clean the blood away - from the bloody nose Russia just gave them.
The only way the hostilities will end, via Europe part at least - is for a civilian uprising in multiple countries to bring down those in power - and reset relations with Russia, China etc. If we're lucky - Romanian citizens will get the ball rolling - by rising up and removing their corrupt government, the hope is that this uprising would have a snowball effect around Europe and a great cleansing would occur.
Does it all sound a bit too radical for your liking? well sadly this is what it will take - only purges across Europe of the corrupt warhawks - and diehard Russophobes, Sinophobes, and ultra loyal Atlanticists can save Europe now from itself.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 10 2025 19:25 utc | 68
If we're lucky - Romanian citizens will get the ball rolling
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 10 2025 19:25 utc | 68
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Once upon a time I had hoped that Scotland would get the ball rolling.
Posted by: too scents | Mar 10 2025 19:31 utc | 69
EU was a bad joke from the beginning. They never defined “Europe” correctly and there wasn’t any genuine “Union”. Just a long wet dream for paper pushers and con artists.
Posted by: Rae | Mar 10 2025 19:34 utc | 70
@Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 10 2025 19:02 utc | 59
Political elites are simply courtiers of the capitalist oligarchy and can be changed as one would with a dinner jacket. That is what Trump is doing in the US, the new oligarch orientation requires a new state courtier group (with some who can change their colour like a salamander staying) as most of the previous one are the utterly indoctrinated and religious-like believers (e.g. the descendants of Ukrainian/Baltic Coast fascists). The senior political courtiers play the role of faking change, as one is removed from the oligarch hand and another placed in its place.
The currently planned future includes Bardella (National Rally, Franc), Alice Weidel (AfD, Germany) and Farage (Reform UK), with Meloni (Italy) already in place, as the "social democratic" and "socialist" oligarch courtier parties are rejected and need replacement with another ideology that makes oligarch domination invisible and/or fakes limitations upon it.
Novara Media is a classic Trotskyist organization that directs the public's attention to the superstructure and works to undermine and demonize any people/movements that would lead to some real change (e.g. Corbyn) or have carried out real change that limits/removes the political-economic power of the capitalist oligarchy (Xi Jinping and the CPC, Putin, Chavez).
Posted by: Roger Boyd | Mar 10 2025 19:40 utc | 71
The problem with b’s analysis is that Ukraine will fail without active US support.
It does not matter ultimately what the Ukrainian elites want; Trump’s options to Ukraine will be either settle with Russia at the negotiating table now with relatively equal footing or settle at the negotiating table later but under Russian guns.
All Trump really wants is for Ukraine to make it clear that it is they deciding to fight on, this relieving Trump and the US of responsibility (we tried but they would not listen).
This is what TDS fools like Berletic don’t understand and surrender now types like Christoforou do not understand. Yes, Trump can walk away now but it will be indelibly and correctly a US loss.
Instead what Trump is doing is forcing Ukraine to take responsibility by forcing it openly to break with the US or make peace with Russia, however painful.
I do agree with Mercouris and others who believe the neoNs would rather go out in a blaze of glory (lol) rather than face reality.
Posted by: c1ue | Mar 10 2025 19:41 utc | 72
Maria Zakharova:
“The Danish Foreign Minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, stated that the country is ready to send troops to Ukrainian territory.
Deepest apologies, but who will be guarding Greenland? Probably the Ukrainian refugees who have arrived in Denmark?”
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 10 2025 19:46 utc | 73
I think it might be instructive to consider what happened to the balance of world power after WW1 and WW2. The U.S. came into WW1 at the end and tipped the balance of power away from Germany but did not really strengthen the side of England and France. That left the traditional powers like England and France deeply indebted to the U.S. economically. When Hitler rose to power sentiment in the U.S. was isolationist because England especially had welched on its debts so any assistance came with massive strings attached. When WW2 ended, it was the end of any significant military power anywhere in Europe. There was only the U.S. and the U.S.S.R....all the rest of the countries in the European arena were militarily neutered.
Now, the situation has changed.....the U.S.S.R. no longer exists and there are three centers of power--Russia, China and the U.S. The European countries do not have the resources to have much of an effect on the outcome in Ukraine. The oligarchs in the E.U. have killed the economies of their member states and even if they were to go back to sane economic policies, the effects of E.U. economic and political policies will last for years if not decades. I doubt that Europe will reform and will thus go down into the dustbin of history as a set of cultures bent on self destruction. From what I've seen, the European oligarchs continue to cling to the insane policies that will insure that the member countries of the E.U. never recover.
Posted by: Giuseppe | Mar 10 2025 19:46 utc | 74
A fair point.
https://nitter.poast.org/Documark/status/1898998136577663371#m
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 10 2025 19:53 utc | 75
Re: European Community/Union ?
The EU has many advantages - freedom of movement for 450 million people, tariff free trade, etc. HOWEVER, trying to make the Brussels a all-powerful central gov't has been a grave error. It only leads to pushback from the citizenry.
Brussels needs to accept its role as a consensus building institution that is less powerful than the individual national gov'ts.
Posted by: exile | Mar 10 2025 19:57 utc | 76
Tesla shares have now given up all of their post election rally, with Musk's riches subject to a serious reduction as Tesla car sales continue to disappoint:
- China in February only 26,777 (down 11.2% y-o-y), and New Model Y order disappointing given the 2-4 week lead time. The stories about huge numbers of orders for the new Model Y are based on bullshit
- US in February 42,000 (down 5% y-o-y)
- Europe in February 15,978 (down 43.2% y-o-y)
- Australia in February 1,592 (down 70% y-o-y)
Last year's Q1 sales were impacted by the change over to the new Model 3, which only a year later has very much lost its lustre.
Musk's wealth is dependent upon the Tesla share price (its car sales) and SpaceX (where the "Moon" rocket just blew up for the eighth time and the inferred very small capital raise "price" is utterly disconnected from profit reality). This wealth is heavily leveraged as Musk has borrowed many 10s of billions of dollars with this wealth a collateral. At what point does Musk look more like a failed businessman/conman than a genius and DOGE goes down in flames with him?
The whole post-2020 Fed-induced bubble supports much of the wealth of the oligarchs that are at the centre of the Trump administration. If their wealth implodes Trump's legitimacy could very much go with it. Even the Zionist Adelosn is heavily dependant on a Macau casino that the CPC could do serious damage to.
Tesla now at US$220 vs. it post election high of US$488, Palantir (Thiel) also dropping fast, as is BTC and the related stocks (MicroStrategy down more than 50% from its post election high).
Posted by: Roger Boyd | Mar 10 2025 20:04 utc | 77
Brussels needs to accept its role as a consensus building institution that is less powerful than the individual national gov'ts.
Posted by: exile | Mar 10 2025 19:57 utc | 76
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Power is rarely surrendered. Member countries need to leave the EU, reflect on what went wrong and only then maybe form a new collation after learning from their mistakes.
It is noteworthy that this time around there are more and better choices than the model of Western imperialism.
Posted by: too scents | Mar 10 2025 20:06 utc | 78
Posted by: Newbie | Mar 10 2025 19:10 utc | 62
The fact you can say "what Europe?" proves my point. Noch Beethoven, Mozart and Wagner bleibt...
Posted by: Patroklos | Mar 10 2025 19:15 utc | 65
Every government is an abstraction. Europe as in the EU is an abstraction of abstractions.
The UK is involved in everything foreign policy and it left the EU.
Europe is not French, Italian, or German. It is like a box of unmatched socks.
Are Italians supposed to be proud of the French?
That's not how tribal identity works.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 10 2025 19:19 utc | 66
To all the comments, yes, the only dynamic parts for XXIst century would be a german/russian sustained europe (though I wouldn't want them lording over the rest)
Missed opportunity of the 1990's
Missed opportunity
Posted by: Newbie | Mar 10 2025 20:06 utc | 79
Posted by: exile | Mar 10 2025 19:57 utc | 76
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The EU is modeled on America. A better model would be the Russian Federation, or China, both of which include different and distinct ethnic groups.
A strong executive faction is necessary to hold it all together.
The Germans could do it if not for the two wars (maybe that is by design), the English aren't even on the continent, and the French lack leadership qualities.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 10 2025 20:07 utc | 80
Clare Daly: Europe is GAGGING For a War With Russia, Risks DEVASTATING Consequences
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3ocL2rFVPM half an hour with sane Irish woman
Posted by: Don Firineach | Mar 10 2025 20:09 utc | 81
The whole post-2020 Fed-induced bubble supports much of the wealth of the oligarchs that are at the centre of the Trump administration..
Posted by: Roger Boyd | Mar 10 2025 20:04 utc | 77
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The real estate bubble is going to explode. It is being propped up by a Biden post-Covid era FHA loan support that was continually extended. The details are in the linked video.
Government hiding foreclosures. Over 1,000,000 loans in default. ==> https://youtu.be/iKdtyDnGM-o
Once housing values start falling the game is over.
Posted by: too scents | Mar 10 2025 20:13 utc | 82
Posted by: Roger Boyd | Mar 10 2025 20:04 utc | 77
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Palantir is the US state. It's only a private company in name.
The tech and surveillance division of the Empire.
The share price, like the income statement of SpaceX, is irrelevant. The true owner is the USG. They will last until their political support fades, long past their unprofitability becomes terminal.
Palantir = NSA
SpaceX = NASA/DARPA
It's all just branding stuff outside of direct political control. Now Palantir can spy on Americans with none of the public record keeping or accountability of the NSA.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 10 2025 20:16 utc | 83
I'm still curious about the pipeline operation and if the troops (or a reasonable fraction of them) were able to hold territory or were eliminated. All the Russophile discussion either takes it for granted that they held territory (without discussing any details) or just talks about the planning that went into the operation. On the other hand, the Ukrops say they killed all the people emerging. But only have photos of small strikes on limited people.
Guessing, I would bet 2:1 that the Russians are right. For one thing, the collapse of the northern front seems rather coincidental to happen simultaneously, if the RFA had all gotten squelched after exit. On the gripping hand, some of those villages are pretty far away. How did events in Sudzha so rapidly affect the north?
But I'm still curious to learn what treelines and areas the RFA went into. IF they held them and are holding them still. And if there is sort of A Bridge Too Far connectivity with the main forces, now, or still an island of RFA inside UFA territory.
Posted by: Anonymous | Mar 10 2025 20:17 utc | 84
A strong executive faction is necessary to hold it all together.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 10 2025 20:07 utc | 80
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Why should the European countries be Federated at all? There are even limits to a desirable common trading block.
Posted by: too scents | Mar 10 2025 20:18 utc | 85
As most of knew they would - sanctions on Russia backfire in a spectacular fashion.
"Angell Paradox: Russia surpassed Germany to take 5th place for GDP PPP in 2023; surpassed Japan to take 4th place in 2024.
Those 6 rounds of 12,000 sanctions propelled Russia forward while Japan and Germany deindustrialise and destabilise."
https://nitter.poast.org/Kathleen_Tyson_/status/1899158697504330004#m
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 10 2025 20:19 utc | 86
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 10 2025 20:19 utc | 86
Failing of sanctions could and have been forecasted.
The whole west plan, economic, military, geopolitical appear to be doomed by incredible underestimate of RF strengths.
Posted by: Mario | Mar 10 2025 20:29 utc | 87
By Gordon Hahn: "then the war could be dragged out by these extremist elements for quite a while, particularly if anti-Trump Europe supplies them with weapons, not to mention troops."
If the US would stop supplying intel those weapons would be drips of water on a hot plate. However I'm not convinced the US will stall the supply of intel and weapons for a long time and it's only meant to pressure the EU and Brits to give more concessions to the US. The US regards it's piece of the shrinking Ukrainian pie too small and by holding back intel and weapons it forces the other NATO partners in crime to knowledge this.
"Brussels needs to accept its role as a consensus building institution that is less powerful than the individual national gov'ts."
Posted by: exile | Mar 10 2025 19:57 utc | 76
Or from the corrupting CIA and EU kleptocrat point of view, Brussels needs to consolidate more absolute unchecked dictatorial power. That push-back from the dozed off and distracted citizenry is almost unnoticeable and those that really go through are criminalized, de-platformed, jailed, and so on. Georgia is not in the EU. Moldavia laid that EU's dictatorial power bare. Hungary and Slovakia have been under siege for some time with the latter (Fico) surviving an assassination attempt. Romania will be the litmus test, I guess. When Nulland said "fuck the EU" she knew the US was screwing over the EU. The US succeeded in rallying people like Baerbock 360° and other Eurocrats into pushing the EU in a war against the RF to its own detriment. Now (for that brief moment) the US is letting loose its war effort, those Eurocrats insanely want to keep that war going at all cost that's driving them into the abyss, with stagflation, deindustrialisation, mounting debt and all but losses on the Ukrainian battlefield and with not a single sign of their enemy losing. The EU is the Titanic "manned" by the most incompetent feeble and weakest minds that can be found (Vdl & Kallas) that hit an iceberg because of their geostrategic illiteracy. Those kakistocrats will keep singing their song until they board their life boats and the EU ship sank to the bottom of the Atlantic ocean.
Posted by: xor | Mar 10 2025 20:40 utc | 88
Not believing in the 'forever war' scenario for a second.
The ukrainians don't have the manpower to last more than another year ... not at the rate they are losing men and material.
Further .. Russia will not permit yet another violent overthrow of ukraine's 'government' by the intelligence services of EITHER the USA or Britain --- I think that would be the trigger for Russia to go 'all in' ..... and make no mistake --- Russia isn't using more than a 1/4 of it's resources to conduct this police action. If Russia was to go 'all in', this police action would be over by the end of the year.
Posted by: karl | Mar 10 2025 20:42 utc | 89
Posted by: too scents | Mar 10 2025 20:18 utc | 85
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I am not personally invested, I am a schemer and a problem solver.
The current EU form doesn't work for any EU major country. If they want to compete with Russia, China, and America, they will need a new organization that buries the past and constructs a common future.
If they don't, I'm not fussed. I enjoy seeing aristocrats and colonizers struggle. The little people, I have sympathy for. Russia has offered everyone disenfranchised in the West with easy immigration.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 10 2025 20:52 utc | 90
Thanks for the replies. In "Guancha Interviews Alexei Gromyko", Alexei mentions the "double decoupling" of Europe from Russia and the Outlaw US Empire from Europe as policy that began under Obama, continued during Trump 1.0, was almost completed by Biden, and is now being finished by Trump 2.0. There're a few other interesting nuances that are added to Russia's known negotiating posture. I still await the publication of the third chat Lavrov had today--the Scientific Council under the Minister of Foreign Affairs. A Press release revealed some of the content far short of a full transcript:
On March 10, a meeting of the Scientific Council under the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation was held with the participation of invited experts.In his opening remarks, Sergey Lavrov outlined his assessment of the development of the international situation. In particular, the Minister noted that the consistent formation of a multipolar world order, which should be based on compliance by all states with the goals and principles of the UN Charter in their entirety and interconnection, has firmly established itself as the main long-term trend. In the context of high turbulence in the international environment and the Ukrainian crisis fueled by the anti-Russian circles of the West, the key areas of foreign policy are to provide reliable security guarantees for Russia against threats emanating from the West, and to further strengthen partnership, equal and mutually beneficial ties with the countries of the Global South and East, as well as with those countries of Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific region that are aware of the futility of attempts to contain Russia and advocate building relations based on a balance of interests. The priority importance of the task of implementing strategic initiatives for the comprehensive development of the Eurasian space, ensuring human rights guaranteed by the UN Charter and international conventions, including the rights of national minorities, and excluding vicious practices and forms of neocolonialism from world politics was emphasized.
During the interested discussion, special attention was paid to the implementation of foreign policy tasks in the new geopolitical conditions. Certain specific proposals were considered to increase the effectiveness of efforts to protect national interests in the international arena and promote the priorities of the Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian Federation. The importance of continuing close cooperation between the diplomatic department and the domestic expert and academic community in the interests of high-quality information and analytical support of the foreign policy course was noted.
That Trump's finishing the job speaks volumes and is one reason why Russia will go slowly, step-by-step, in its talks.
ZH has a posting up with the title
Turkey Offers Peacekeeping Troops As US-Zelensky Meeting Unfolds In Saudi Arabia
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Zelensky is meanwhile expected to present a ground and air ceasefire in the context of Saudi talks, but is unlikely to offer any territorial concessions at this point. Media headlines are describing that Zelensky is pushing for a partial truce with Russia. The White House is at the same time urging that new elections be held in war-ravaged Ukraine.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 10 2025 20:53 utc | 92
b says: "....I regard a combination of the British MI6 and Zaluzny as the more likely initiators to install a forever-war regime in Kiev."
I think you are correct here.
if the Brits are involved, anyhere in the world, they are up to no good; they are almost even worse neo-colonialists than their USA masters, and have done so many evil things behind the scenes that MI6 nearly rivals the CIA in world-wide perfidy since WWII.
Starmer is also a fanatic Russian hater and a monster to boot. So I put nothing past that scoundrel
but I also think that Trump and his Elites are much more 'on the ball' in this administration than the last time around, and will/could teach the Brits a damn good lesson if they go and do anything like this on their own. Of course, I could be wrong....
Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 10 2025 20:53 utc | 93
Probably nothing:
Open Society Institute (George Soros Foundation), Academic Fellowship, 2005 competition to serve as Non-Resident Academic Fellow, Smolny College, St. Petersburg State University (Russia), Program on International Relations, Comparative Politics, and Human Rights, September 2005 – June 2006. Responsibilities: Program and Curriculum Development and Lectures on Russian Politics.https://gordonhahn.com/about/
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 10 2025 20:54 utc | 94
Paco@1920 March 10
Gibralter for starters? Then the money-laundering islands such as the Caymans, Bahamas, Bermuda...next, the various Pacific and Indian Ocean holdings. Perhaps they could keep the Channel Isles. But no more for three of the Five Eyes; Down Under, the Kiwis and Canuckistan as DOMINIONS of the Crown. Perhaps the Falklands as a refuge for the Zionist crazies who would not prefer to reside in a re-established Palestine.
DOWN with the British Empire...basically the whole damned thing.
Posted by: aristodemos | Mar 10 2025 20:58 utc | 95
Not much of a stretch at to understand Russia knows where Ze is holed up--or knows the few secure spots where he may be. My bet is deep along the Green subway line. And when you think more Russia by far will profit most by his demise--his obstinate illegitimacy is a roadblock to ending the war. His disfavor by the U.S. compounds his dilemma: He's a goner every way you look. The current Ukraine regime? Zero love lost there as well.
And I haven't even talked about justice itself being served by his passing. Friendless and a proven Nazi both say his way out will be downward amid a chorus of Good Riddances from all sides and soon. Tick, tick tick.
Posted by: elmagnostic | Mar 10 2025 20:58 utc | 96
psychohistorian | Mar 10 2025 20:53 utc | 92--
What Russia wants to hear from Zelensky is an announcement of coming elections so someone legitimate can make suggestions and enter into talks, although those talks won't happen until relations with the Empire greatly improve. Trump wants to drive like Sammy Hager while Putin is quite happy going at Ms. Daisy's speed.
republic scotland@1925 March 10
Perhaps Russia, China and the U$ could come to an agreement that the Galician region would be disarmed, while protected by its neighbors...a zone of imposed peace. Period.
For Polish agreement, descendants of Poles who were either massacred or driven to Poland proper by the Banderites...would be guaranteed land in their old homelands.
Lvov, or Lviv as the Ukies prefer to call it, was a major Pale of Settlement for Ashkenazi Jews...could be they would be encouraged to leave the ultimately collapsing Zionist Entity to return to a prior home. Their presence would provide a bit of yeast for the pudding.
Think globally, act locally.
Posted by: aristodemos | Mar 10 2025 21:05 utc | 98
Perfidious Albion are advicing Zelinsky on tactics for him to conduct these negotiations
"British Prime Minister discussed with Trump the upcoming negotiations between the United States and Ukraine in Saudi Arabia
Starmer told Trump that "UK officials spoke with Ukrainian counterparts over the weekend and reaffirmed their support for a lasting peace."
The British Prime Minister said that he "hopes for a positive result of the negotiations, which will allow the resumption of American assistance and intelligence sharing."
British media write that these negotiations may be the last opportunity for Ukraine to restore relations with America and unblock military aid. Therefore, London is actively advising Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and has come up with tactics for him to conduct these negotiations."
Posted by: Paul from Norway | Mar 10 2025 21:05 utc | 99
Excellent timing to ruin Z
revealed that the cyberattack which took down his social media app X on Monday seemingly originated in Ukraine.
His bombshell revelation came during an interview with Fox Business Network on Monday afternoon following repeated glitches with his site, which has been down for much of the day.
'Well, we don't we're not sure exactly what happened,' Musk began in the interview.
'But there was a massive cyber attack to try to bring down the X system with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area,' he shockingly revealed.
Posted by: Jo | Mar 10 2025 21:08 utc | 100
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to install a forever-war regime in Kiev.
Posted by b on March 10, 2025 at 15:48 UTC | Permalink
Forever is very short time when AFU runs out of men.
My 2 cents
Posted by: Newbie | Mar 10 2025 15:57 utc | 1