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March 26, 2025
NATO Sec.-Gen. Flip-Flops On Normalization With Russia

On March 15 I mocked NATO Secretary General Rutte for his flip-flop over Ukraine's accession to NATO.

Here is another flip flop of his:

NATO Chief Says Russia Relations Should Be Restored Post War – Bloomberg, Mar 14 2025

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said relations with Russia should eventually be normalized once the fighting ends in Ukraine, while stressing the need to keep pressure on Moscow to ensure progress in ceasefire negotiations.

“It’s normal if the war would have stopped for Europe somehow, step by step, and also for the US, step by step, to restore normal relations with Russia,” Rutte said in an interview on Bloomberg TV Friday.

Just twelve days later …

'This is not the time to go it alone,' NATO's Rutte tells U.S. and Europe – Reuters, Mar 26, 2025

While welcoming Trump's push for peace in Ukraine, Rutte said there would be no normalisation of relations with Russia once the war had ended.

"This will take decades because there is a total lack of confidence. The threat is still there," he told reporters.

Could we please have other people but fools ruling over us?

Posted by b on March 26, 2025 at 19:01 UTC | Permalink
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The US side’s greed has grown considerably.
Now it’s not just about rare earths, but also about key state assets – nuclear power plants and ports.
The country, acquired by the Americans and Europeans in the post-Maidan years, must have a guaranteed sea route for the export of agricultural products, which means they need Odessa, which Putin will not give up under any circumstances. And the extraction of any resources requires energy, which can be generated by operating nuclear power plants. And for these purposes, the much more conveniently located southern Ukrainian nuclear power plant in the Nikolayev region is better suited than the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
The reallocation of assets in favor of the US means an inevitable conflict between Zelensky and the oligarchs loyal to him. This includes the “friend of all presidents” Rinat Akhmetov. After losing his metallurgy business, Akhmetov now makes his profits in the energy sector. There are no pure state assets in Ukraine – every asset is managed by someone from one oligarch clan or another. And if these assets have to be confiscated for a future deal with the US, the already large number of Zelensky’s enemies will multiply even further.
And it is an old Ukrainian tradition that the overthrow of a president is preceded by an oligarchic uprising. This was the case with Yanukovych, when he began expropriating the assets of his old friends, and with Petro Poroshenko, who came into sharp confrontation with Igor Kolomoisky and several other business leaders. This will likely also affect Zelensky if the manger is no longer sufficient to maintain the unstable balance of power of the local elite.
The distribution of US budget and military support has already become more complicated. And with this deal, the local elite may even be deprived of their underlying assets.
Special military operation forces Kyiv to distort the term “Ukrainian”
The compromises surrounding peace and a ceasefire, the deal with the US, and the general decline in his poll ratings against the backdrop of the population’s war-weariness drove Zelensky into an unbearable triangle, from which there is only one way out: to suppress the protests with force. If he fails to become a bloody military dictator, the only option is to flee, but where to? He wouldn’t be allowed to enter the US, he would be caught sooner or later in Asia, and Great Britain, after some deliberation, would also refuse to accept him. Zelensky might only find his “Island of St. Helena” in the Baltics. But even there, the Russian wind blows, posing considerable risks for the country and its people in the event of asylum; no one would probably bet on Zelensky himself anymore. His former “friends” would be just a stone’s throw away, and many a Ukrainian whose sons/brothers are lying in their graves would seize the opportunity.
Translated from Russian.

Posted by: berthold | Mar 26 2025 19:06 utc | 1

Could we please have other people but fools ruling over us?

Oh God please yes.

Posted by: Tuyzentfloot | Mar 26 2025 19:06 utc | 2

“This will take decades because there is a total lack of confidence. The threat is still there,” he told reporters.
That would be a credible statement if uttered by Lavrov, but from Rutte it’s pure hypocrisy.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | Mar 26 2025 19:07 utc | 3

On the topic:
WILL TRUMP STRIKE?
Europe should watch out!!
Trump said he was prepared to lift sanctions against Russia to the extent necessary to bring Russia back into the global grain and fertilizer market.
Europe immediately responded with a statement from the head of the European Commission’s press service that sanctions against Russia would only be lifted if the country withdrew its troops from Ukraine and restored Ukrainian sovereignty within the 1991 borders. This… if he also gave up Crimea. In short: Europe gave Trump the middle finger and, as president, stuck it right in his face.
What can Trump do to Europe in response to this gesture?
Trump can do whatever he wants with Europe. With the loss of Russian energy supplies, more than half of all the liquefied natural gas that Europe uses to replace Russian pipeline gas comes from the US.
Europe is already suffocating under the price of this gas, but at least it exists. Only with great difficulty, by begging for government subsidies and eking out a miserable existence, do the German automobile companies manage to survive. Yes, they are going bankrupt, yes, they are closing branches, yes, they are laying off thousands of their employees, but they are pulling the belt in the hope of waiting for the end of the war and the arrival of Russian gas as a rescue. Those who own Europe today—the deep state of the American Democrats—don’t care about the German auto industry or about old Europe as a whole. They are pursuing different agendas. Their main target lies across the ocean, in the White House, in the Oval Office.
Their true interest is Trump, who has pushed them away from the American low point.
Does Trump realize that the Democrats, now firmly entrenched in Europe, will fight him to the death? Does he realize that they are prepared to unleash another world war and once again reduce Europe to rubble?
Of course he understands. Better than you and me. He also understands that it’s not Zelensky who needs to be dunked in the shit today, since he’s just an empty snitch in the marketplace. It’s time to dunk Europe in the shit. Because Zelensky is just a rag-tooth clown impaled at one point on a bony European hand.
And it’s quite simple: sanctions. A well-known, proven mechanism. Thousands of them have been used against Russia. And against Europe, one thing is enough: turn off the gas tap, and voilà.
Will Trump agree to this? Obligated. Otherwise, they’ll eat him.
.
https://t.me/sheyhtamir1974/120507

Posted by: berthold | Mar 26 2025 19:09 utc | 4

Conundrum:
The U.S. needs Russia to embody either one of the two geopolitical stances:
1) the U.S.’ “evil-twin” whereby Russia must engage in as-of-yet uncharacteristic aggression since the start of the SMO. This will be the proof TPTB need to galvanize the public into permanent war against Russia. (The very fact that “SMO” was used to designate these activities in Ukraine was to not give the west the ammunition it needs to galvanize against the Evil Twin. In this way, Putin is not making the same mistake as Hitler who was goaded into war by the Allies at Danzig, declaring war (not an SMO) against Poland). Russia understands the psychology of the “Evil Twin” very well.
2) roll-over and play dead and get raped by the neoliberal death machine. (VVP: “Without Russia, you will not exist”)
…
Russia is going slow and grinding this out because it does not want to fall into trap 1. But it must win because trap 2 is not an option.
TINA for the west. Russia must be subdued.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Mar 26 2025 19:14 utc | 5

The incentives in the West produce cowardly mendacious demagogues as leaders.
Xi and Putin could never get elected in any Western nation today, when they are both two of the finest leaders this century.
Blaming the poor leaders and their daily missteps misses the fundamental issues.
Until the West abandons Empire only fools will lead.
End Empire, survive the transformational crisis, and in 2/3 generations, sanity and competence can become norms.
This one foot in, one foot out “reform” by elections doesn’t cut it. The Imperial mindset needs to be abolished.
Tragically, the Imperial mindset is all the West has left. On the plus side, with some infrastructure and residual momentum, they can have a post-USSR comeback, rather than a Maoist top to bottom revolution which goes deeper and would be more painful.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 26 2025 19:14 utc | 6

The Lord Haw, Haw of the warmongering bullyboys club Nato, Rutte – must surely take his cue – from higher up the Nato food-chain – and considering that the top of the food-chain is in Brussels – we must assume that EU leaders have informed him on what stance must betaken against Russia – of course the biggest guns in Nato belong to the USA – is this also their secret stance on Russia? Or has Trump agreed with the latest Lord Haw, Haw mutterings – to appease Europe for the moment, whilst he deals with Putin and Zelensky.
The wild card on this – could be that European Nato members – who still back Zelensky – have decided to disregard Trump’s deal with Putin – and have given the orders to release this statement, without Trumps consent/knowledge.
Either way Nato looks an absurd bullyboys club with all this chopping and changing.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 26 2025 19:15 utc | 7

[…] Rutte said all 32 NATO allies were in the same boat while Russia remained “the most significant and direct threat to our security”.
“With the latest missile technology coming out of Russia, the difference between an attack on Warsaw or an attack on Madrid is 10 minutes. So we are all on the eastern flank,” he said.
So, who saved Europe from fascism on the Eastern Front?

Posted by: Don Firineach | Mar 26 2025 19:18 utc | 8

The EU has adopted the propaganda techniques of the Third Reich to intimidate people with the Russian “threat” – Russian Foreign Intelligence Service
The European Commission’s Directorate General for Communications has already drawn up a plan for a centralized campaign to introduce persistent Russophobic narratives into the public consciousness, the statement quotes SVR Director Sergei Naryshkin as saying.
Other important announcements:
▫️The European Union wants to rewrite the history of the 20th century so that the younger generation does not consider Moscow the victor over Nazism in World War II;
▫️The Directorate General’s guidelines provide for hammering into the minds and hearts of Europeans the idea that Russia is a “second-rate power that has no right to dictate its terms to Europe “;
▫️European authorities plan to manually direct leading media outlets to “correctly present the Russian issue.”

remember nazi kaja kallas and her famous munich security conference tedtalk, about how they have successfully rewritten historybooks in her home-country?
and now look, she got the “promotion” to eu-something, and suddenly the same historical revisionism is beeing put in place on a wider scale.
teach your children proper history. if you, as a parent, notice any school in the eu starting to teach something along those lines, sue the school. take your children out of the state-funded goebbelsche propaganda mashinery.
or best, leave the eu like we are doing. theres nothing good anymore about this “rule of law and values” place.
russia did not attack any nato nation. russia did not attack any eu nation. and yet, the eu/nato immediately went to kill russian civilians (dont kid yourself, that is exactly what those nazis are doing). and now, with their golden goose mother of all proxies starting to falther, they go all blamegame and whining like some pansies. i hope they get what they deserve. fuck the eu, as their “friends” so aptly said.

Posted by: Justpassinby | Mar 26 2025 19:19 utc | 9

The collective west is run by an IA.

Posted by: Conglomera | Mar 26 2025 19:22 utc | 10

This is just standard diplomacy. The euro markets won’t be flung open to Russia until an agreement is signed. Trump is playing mediator, and the euros are playing bad cop. And Russia will keep slaughtering ukrainians until they sign an agreement Russia approves. Everybody wants this to end. But it better come soon, or Ukraine will be cut off from the Black Sea.

Posted by: seer | Mar 26 2025 19:31 utc | 11

who saved Europe from fascism on the Eastern Front?
Posted by: Don Firineach | Mar 26 2025 19:18 utc | 8
—

We have liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it.
— Marshal Zhukov

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Zhukov

Posted by: too scents | Mar 26 2025 19:31 utc | 12

Europe seems to be testing trump…
” Trump’s deal with Putin faces European reality check
Top leaders meeting in Paris want to show the U.S. and Russia can’t carve up the continent by cutting out the EU and Ukraine. ”
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-deal-vladimir-putin-russia-war-in-ukraine-eu-summit-paris/
Now let us wait to see what cards europe does have…
Was the signal clustr-fuck a coincidence?

Posted by: Newbie | Mar 26 2025 19:36 utc | 13

While welcoming Trump’s push for peace in Ukraine, Rutte said there would be no normalisation of relations with Russia once the war had ended.

Who would want normalization with people like him?

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 26 2025 19:37 utc | 14

Was the signal clustr-fuck a coincidence?
>>>
They are linked.

Posted by: pepe | Mar 26 2025 19:38 utc | 15

Economic basket-case Germany – and Europe – has little to offer Russia, anyway. And its prospects are truly dire. Europe will become a third-world continent.

Posted by: horseguards | Mar 26 2025 19:40 utc | 16

Apparently, Germany has demolished a coal-fired, nuclear power station built six years ago at a cost of $6bn.

Posted by: horseguards | Mar 26 2025 19:44 utc | 17

A wise man once said:
A bad peace is better than a good war

Posted by: Exile | Mar 26 2025 19:45 utc | 18

I wouldn’t really call Rutte a fool. He’s just scum of the purest kind without any ethics. Rutte in full knowledge buried Ukraine’s lead role in the MH-17 events. A Dutch civilian passenger plane flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur carrying 298 people of which 193 nationals he’s supposed to represent. Most people in The Netherlands are totally clueless about what transpired and Rutte played a major part in this. He got rewarded generously of course with many governments he presided and as cherry on the cake NATO secretary general.
Netherlands 193
Malaysia 43
Australia 27
Indonesia 12
United Kingdom 10
Belgium 4
Germany 4
Philippines 3
Canada 1
New Zealand 1
Total 298

Posted by: xor | Mar 26 2025 19:45 utc | 19

Trump can do whatever he wants with Europe. With the loss of Russian energy supplies, more than half of all the liquefied natural gas that Europe uses to replace Russian pipeline gas comes from the US.
Posted by: berthold | Mar 26 2025 19:09 utc | 4
Was the signal clustr-fuck a coincidence?
>>>
They are linked.
Posted by: pepe | Mar 26 2025 19:38 utc | 15
Well, the 4th we’ll see the (25%?) mutual tariffs , that’s maybe the main war right now.
Details here https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/26/eu-readying-for-flat-double-digit-tariff-on-april-2-00004836

Posted by: Newbie | Mar 26 2025 19:50 utc | 20

Rutte would want to have a chat with this lad and bring him into line!
French colonel predicts collapse of NATO by 2030
Regie Chamagne predicts sweeping changes in the Western political leadership in the coming years
MOSCOW, March 26. /TASS/. The North Atlantic Alliance will collapse from within and cease to exist by 2030, Colonel of the French Air Force, Commander of the Legion of Honor, Chevalier of the National Order of Merit Regie Chamagne told the Stratpol edition.
The military expert predicts sweeping changes in the Western political leadership in the coming years, believing that not only Vladimir Zelensky, but also French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, as well as some other European leaders will be booted out of their positions of power. The expert sees a high risk of the whole EU and NATO system collapsing by the end of the current decade.
“The United States is undergoing a difficult economic crisis. Mainly because of the de-dollarization of the world. [US President Donald] Trump is trying to overcome the problems by imposing high tariffs. The EU is facing similar problems. Everything points to the fact that a regime change in the West is inevitable. And it’s not just Zelensky’s downfall. These are Macron, Starmer, Merz and the leaders of other European countries that are now ruled by corrupt regimes. I do not know how this collapse will happen. But I’m sure this system won’t last long. Most likely, by the end of the decade, by 2030, the European Union and NATO will no longer exist,” he said. “I’m not sure if Trump will ultimately withdraw from NATO. I tend to think that the organization will collapse from within after a fundamental military defeat by Russia.”
Chamagne also said that the recent elections in Romania demonstrated weakness of the European Union. It is becoming more and more obvious that “the EU is a dictatorship,” the expert believes. “It is possible that in the coming years we will witness the collapse of the EU, similar to the one that occurred in the Soviet Union,” he concluded

Posted by: Ogre | Mar 26 2025 19:51 utc | 21

Posted by: berthold | Mar 26 2025 19:06 utc | 1
I’m waiting to see the fireworks of already sold Ukrainian assets, now under Russian occupation/ownership, to foreigners. It will be interesting to see how, and into what, the Ukraine emerges. I suspect an economic and political pariah member of the EU.

Posted by: horseguards | Mar 26 2025 19:51 utc | 22

b quote “Could we please have other people but fools ruling over us?”
it is unlikely to happen.. these folks are paid stooges for the empire, and by empire i mean the military, banking and energy complex trilogy… it makes no difference who is in power at this point… whether it be fuhrer von leyen, or this dipshit rutte… they are all feeding off the same trough and don’t give a rats ass about the people innocently killed, let alone their own people.. anything that say that runs counter to this is 100% bullshit…
thanks for the update… they can rot in hell, which is what they deserve..

Posted by: james | Mar 26 2025 19:53 utc | 23

This is brilliant.
https://nitter.poast.org/FarAwayPeopleUK/status/1902803274711044149#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 26 2025 19:53 utc | 24

@xor | Mar 26 2025 19:45 utc | 19
True.
But several local eye-witnesses in Donbass reported that many victims of MH17 looked asian and there was a strong smell of formalin.
MH17 (Boeing 777-2H6ER) crashed on 17. July 2014
MH370 (Boeing 777-2H6ER) disappeared 8. March 2014 and has never been found.

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 26 2025 19:55 utc | 25

Posted by: berthold | Mar 26 2025 19:09 utc | 4
I understand Trump and Putin discussed Nord Stream. A Russo-US joint venture here would be a win-win; and Europe will pay a premium.

Posted by: horseguards | Mar 26 2025 19:57 utc | 26

I don’t think it’s as much that the leadership of the EU and/or NATO are so incompetent as they got into their positions for other skills than governance.
The EU is now planning to “invest” (read put in slush fund to steal from) savings in their insane military fantasy.
Best case would be Europeans rising up and ending the EU and going in a new direction.
I hope this finds you well

Posted by: ockham | Mar 26 2025 19:58 utc | 27

A wise man once said:
Posted by: Exile | Mar 26 2025 19:45 utc | 18
—
I believe the correct saying is “a just war is better than an unjust peace”.
You can find echoes of that sentiment in the speeches of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

Every true Christian is a fighting passifist. In a very profound passage, which has been often misunderstood, Jesus utters this. He says “Think not that I am come to bring peace. I come not to bring peace, but a sword.” {Mt 10:34–36}
— King, “When Peace Becomes Obnoxious”, March 18, 1956

Posted by: too scents | Mar 26 2025 19:59 utc | 28

@horseguards | Mar 26 2025 19:57 utc | 26
1. US bombs NS2
2. Europe pays US to fix it and pays extortion price to the US for Russian gas
Did I get that right?

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 26 2025 20:01 utc | 29

Posted by: Don Firineach | Mar 26 2025 19:18 utc | 8
“eastern flank” courtesy of NATO. President Putin must be quaking in his boots at the prospect of Keir Starmer (008) and his “Coalition of the willing.

Posted by: horseguards | Mar 26 2025 20:06 utc | 30

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 26 2025 20:01 utc | 29
>>> <<< The Russian Federation (RUF) shall never agree to allow the Outlaw US of A to get involve in the Nord Stream (NS) offshore natural gas pipelines running under the Baltic Sea from RUF to the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) after they [Outlaw US of A] and other unfriendly countries, using terrorist tactics blew them up.
More likely than the EU will beg the RUF at some point in the future to reopen the flow of gas from NS2 only; which by the way it is still operational last time I checked.

Posted by: pepe | Mar 26 2025 20:19 utc | 31

@pepe | Mar 26 2025 20:19 utc | 31
Indeed, I was just deflating some illusions.

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 26 2025 20:22 utc | 32

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 26 2025 20:01 utc | 29
Sounds right. Russia produces and transports, US buys from Russia and sells to Europe. Known as “isolating Russia and stopping Putin’s war machine.” Drinks all round.

Posted by: horseguards | Mar 26 2025 20:23 utc | 33

The questions are:
does President Putin diffentiate beween Biden US and Trump US?
Will the US destroy, again, if they have an economic interest in the operation? Moreover, I doubt any country would dare to attack if the US’s interests are also threatened.

Posted by: horseguards | Mar 26 2025 20:30 utc | 34

Always remember: England is the brain, USA is the muscles. Even if the two don’t always agree. The strategies are developed in England and then the others are put forward.

Posted by: smartfox | Mar 26 2025 20:43 utc | 35

When you see a sexual deviant, expect trouble.
One way or another.
Never fails.

Posted by: g wiltek | Mar 26 2025 20:44 utc | 36

On the plus side, with some infrastructure and residual momentum, they can have a post-USSR comeback, rather than a Maoist top to bottom revolution which goes deeper and would be more painful.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 26 2025 19:14 utc | 6
Respectfully disagree. A Lenin style revolution is the only way back to sanity and stability for the US. Mao style is not possible as Mao was bolstered by the pre-existing Russian Revolution. Although, in the event of a Lenin style revolution, Stalinist China may provide some support. But that’s a big maybe considering China is a reformed Capitalist country and any genuine socialist revolution would put unwanted pressure on its leadership.
Anything short of a complete social revolution in the US will simply be a shifting of the deck chairs on the Titanic. Russia’s transition from nationalized means of production to a market economy is a totally distinct historical experience. No comparison at all.
The time for reformist tinkering and rag patching in the US is long dead. Only a complete revolution of, by and for the American wage slaves can arrest the decline into economic collapse and WW3.
If there was a simpler, less messy solution, I’d surely advocate it. There is not. This is not an aberration either. History shows many broken societies facing similar situations.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Mar 26 2025 20:44 utc | 37

After what’s happening in Moldova and Romania, it is very unlikely sane and sensible people will be allowed to participate in “democratic” process.

Posted by: Suresh | Mar 26 2025 20:51 utc | 38

@8 Don Firineach
“Rutte said all 32 NATO allies were in the same boat….the difference between an attack on Warsaw or an attack on Madrid is 10 minutes”
57.9% of Spanish surveyed (of 1501) want US bases out of Europe.
61.5% want them out of Spain.
i.e. the population are not so “NATO ally” as he makes out
https://electomania.es/ep-26m-los-espanoles-prefieren-retirar-las-bases-militares-de-eeuu/
Anyway, how many people waste ten minutes in any day somewhere ?
It isn’t like those in Warsaw would have time to envy those in Madrid , or those in Madrid would spend ten minutes feeling like they were missing out.
“So we are all on the eastern flank”
He is is he ?
I don’t think he is, to be honest. I think he lives in or near a bunker.
If someone lost the key to it one day while he was inside, I’m not even sure anyone would notice.

Posted by: Ornot | Mar 26 2025 20:53 utc | 39

Rutte stood directly next to Trump recently, staring into space with a vacuous grin on his face as the former spoke about annexing Canada, unfortunately a fellow NATO member.

Posted by: nwwoods | Mar 26 2025 20:57 utc | 40

An update of the spring ‘budget’ in the U.K. by the hapless chancellor.
Probably her last.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz7v4370d2xo
‘Reeves squeezes benefits as 2025 growth forecast halved
The Spring Statement was meant to be a routine update on the public finances but Reeves has been forced to make more extensive changes after her plans were blown off course by lower growth and higher government borrowing costs.
Reeves used her statement to announce a further £2.2bn for defence, while a target has been set to reduce the administrative costs of government departments by 15% by 2030.
But the OBR – which was set up in 2010 to evaluate the government’s figures – said Reeves will only manage to avoid breaking her fiscal rules through billions in public spending cuts.
An extra 250,000 people, including 50,000 children, will be pushed into relative poverty by the government’s changes, according to its own impact assessment.
A further 2.25 million people currently receiving the health top up to universal credit will lose an average of £500 a year as a result of the freeze, and 730,000 future recipients will lose out.
The watchdog believes Reeves has just over a 50% chance of meeting her own borrowing and debt rules by the end of the decade.
She said the government would continue to make the case for free trade, amid the looming threat of US tariffs. ‘
Lol Free Trade! But I can’t get my cheap gas from Russia as I did because of the sanctions and tariffs. I have to pay triple.
There we have it the Great Knight Dope Herr KyivStqrmztrooper’s ‘Labour’ government is putting the U.K. on a war economy. Said it when he was s’elected.
Expect conscription next.
It’s all good cover for the further degradation of Public Services and having the country become the formal 51st State. With all the same levels of ripping off the population as in the USA.
He came not to save the NHS but to bury it!
Free trade. That other red herring sold to the people as a boon of BrexShit. The extra money for the NHS. The Global Britain – all of it lies and Keith and his ziofascist Labour hierarchy, as a wolf in sheepskin they always were, are doing exactly what they were put there for.
No different from the Tories even pretended anymore.
‘Look from man to pig, pig to man they stood on their two legs laughing as they send the animals to the butcher’.
All who voted for him must slap themselves for their dumb trust in the blairite Labour. They Shirley must finally see that now?
Or are they only going to wake up when their kids or grandkids are canon fodder in a far away places? And if lucky come back in bags to bury.
Like one of our barflies used to say.
‘They talk left but walk right’.
We live wholly in a fascist slave state now.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Mar 26 2025 21:02 utc | 41

Could we please have other people but fools ruling over us?
You put too much optimism into politicians to talk straight. Where is their incentive (as much on society, as them)?

Posted by: Call it what u will | Mar 26 2025 21:05 utc | 42

Pinocchio with the strings still attached …

Posted by: Hiro Masamune | Mar 26 2025 21:05 utc | 43

The questions are:
does President Putin diffentiate beween Biden US and Trump US?
Will the US destroy, again, if they have an economic interest in the operation? Moreover, I doubt any country would dare to attack if the US’s interests are also threatened.
Posted by: horseguards | Mar 26 2025 20:30 utc | 34
################
When it comes to foreign military policy, there is little difference between Trump and Biden.
Trump says different things and talks to Russia, but the troops are still all deployed in the same places, and now there are deployments for a major war.
Trump’s most significant impact has been domestic, but I am not sure he has changed anything substantial or lasting.
With how much he has moved the Overton Window on Executive Power (which I love, generally), it will be very easy for the next neoliberal President to go 100x harder back in the Obama direction.
I can see the next neoliberal President bringing back a Super Woke DoE and institutting queer military battalions with rainbow weapons.
The pendulum always swings back, often harder.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 26 2025 21:06 utc | 44

The Russians signed two deals.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Mar 26 2025 21:15 utc | 45

NATO boss confirms death of 4 US soldiers in Lithuania
https://www.dw.com/en/nato-boss-confirms-death-of-4-us-soldiers-in-lithuania/a-72048878

Posted by: Apollyon | Mar 26 2025 21:15 utc | 46

Rutte’s on the outside looking in and is merely voicing further frustration over that fact. Here’s my latest, “Negotiations Report by Lavrov and Kremlin” that concludes with recent Russian media speculation about Odessa. And “Eight More Minutes of Lavrov: The Vesti Interview”.
The problem for NATO is itself for when Russia becomes the clear leader of the Free World as it’s now seen by well over half of the humans on the planet NATO no longer has a reason to exist, and that’s a death-knell for any bureaucratic organization. And the same can be said for the EU, although for different reasons. However, since both provide support of the other, when one goes, they both will.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 26 2025 21:16 utc | 47

Bold of him to assume NATO will even have any power to rule over Euro country’s trade relations in a couple of decades.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 26 2025 21:24 utc | 48

xor | Mar 26 2025 19:45 utc | 19
MH-17 was a Malaysian plane. As was MH-370.
Malaysia had criticised Israel.
Just a coincidence, or as the meme bois say, cohenincidence.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 26 2025 21:26 utc | 49

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 26 2025 21:16 utc | 47
How often of late have we heard the refrain “with US spport” from UK, European leaders re support or intervention in any ceasefire? Never hear “with NATO support.” NATO is the US and the US is NATO. No US support, no NATO. Europe is fucked miltarily.

Posted by: horseguards | Mar 26 2025 21:35 utc | 50

Posted by: Apollyon | Mar 26 2025 21:15 utc | 46
valuable info.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 26 2025 21:35 utc | 51

NATO boss confirms death of 4 US soldiers in Lithuania
https://www.dw.com/en/nato-boss-confirms-death-of-4-us-soldiers-in-lithuania/a-72048878
Posted by: Apollyon | Mar 26 2025 21:15 utc | 46
Wonder if they hit a mine at the Belarus border or were done in by some other border defense, like a water-filled gully and they tipped over and drowned.

Posted by: MiniMO | Mar 26 2025 21:40 utc | 52

Posted by: Apollyon | Mar 26 2025 21:15 utc | 46
So four corpses recovered from the Kursk pocket by RF, dropped off just over the Lithuanian-Belarus border to be ‘found’ by a search party.
Add your own cover story:
“They went missing for two days and all four of them died, simultaneously, somehow.” 😮
Great job, Rutte.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Mar 26 2025 21:45 utc | 53

NATO countries propose to spend more on defense – from 2% (Spain) to 5% (Baltics, Poland). These politicians wanted to crash the Russian economy, but are bankrupting the European economy instead.

Posted by: Passerby | Mar 26 2025 21:46 utc | 54

NATO *is* the U.S. The U.S. *is* NATO.
Rutte, squishy, is trying out both sides of the fence—the side where, in terms of NATO, the U.S. is The Straw That Stirs The Drink. And Rutte is also uncomfortably getting his tightie whities all bunched up on the Ursula side of the fence, where there are “tools.”
The “tool” don’t work on the U.S., but they surely work on Rutte.
The U.S.’s bilateral negotiations w/ Russia have so aggressively aidelined the Alliance and the Europeans that they’re tossing Rutte out there to stand for their dignity and obstruct proceedings as much as possible.
If refusing to lift the sanctions, for the Europeans, hinges on Russia’s withdrawing from Ukraine—so laughable—and *that* is the hill the Europeans & the Alliance choose to die on, then they may as well say their prayers, whip out their shovels and start digging the graves into which they’ll soon fall.
The Europeans and non-U.S. members of NATO have been so falsely empowered by their participation in Project Ukraine they have forgotten that they are come-along vassals—here, doggie, doggie—of the U.S. To quote the Ludacris rap: when *I* move, *you* move.
The Europeans “have no cards,” as DJT might say, when it comes to setting U.S. policy or coercing a certain response from the U.S. in its own grown-ass man dealings w/ a Great Power like Russia The longer the Eurocrats set up obstacles to the normalization of engagement w/ Russia, the more they will marginalize themselves from the U.S.’s circle of influence and prosperity.
The U.S. is The Straw.
Most of Europe is under military occupation of the Straw.
And, did I say this already?–the U.S. *is* NATO & NATO *is* the U.S.
Squishy Rutte is mouthing performative Euro-speak kind of dreck.
After stamping their feet and obstructing for a while they’ll predictably fall in line.
VVP famously described this a couple months ago.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 26 2025 21:48 utc | 55

Perhaps this war wont stop until a few million NATO citizens die in it.

Posted by: Mark2 | Mar 26 2025 21:48 utc | 56

Well I think we know what some of the “technical details” discussed in Saudi were.
Russia well we have found and confirmed four serving US officers in Kursk. Unfortunately they are a little stiff. shall we publish their names and ranks,
US er er no. we cannot admit they were there.
Russia OK what concessions you will make and we just might be able to transport the stiffs to the border with Belarus.
USA Well what is your price?

Posted by: watcher | Mar 26 2025 21:53 utc | 57

Seems like NATO is still in search of a bogeyman, any fantasy possible just to keep the fear button being pushed and continue with buying more and more arms. What has Russia done to deserve this? It has not even fired one bullet into a NATO country in three years+, nothing to trigger article 5 yet the fantasy fear mongering continues. Our leaders are corrupt garbage these days.

Posted by: George | Mar 26 2025 21:55 utc | 58

https://apnews.com/article/lithuania-pabrade-us-soldiers-military-training-c89957fc6a62da8624202095920630e1
4 US soldiers on a NATO training exercise in Lithuania, 10kms from Belarus border go missing.
A US military official said the soldiers were in a heavy vehicle, which may have sunk in a swamp.
§| internet wags:
Donnie, drain the swamp?
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10kms from Belarus?
I think that’s swamp gas(lighting)

Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 26 2025 21:59 utc | 59

Put another way….
Why would NATO want to stop this war when it is killing Ukrainians and Russians ?
A plus not a minus in their eyes.

Posted by: Mark2 | Mar 26 2025 21:59 utc | 60

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Mar 26 2025 21:15 utc | 45
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Very clever from Russia, as the deasl are accompanied by such conditions that will not be accepted by Zelenskyy, or immediately broken and never accepted by the eurotards.
Hence Russia shows she is the good guy and the other the bad guys.
Meanwhile, nothing changes, the SMO goes on.

Posted by: scc | Mar 26 2025 22:01 utc | 61

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 26 2025 21:48 utc | 55
RE: The U.S. is The Straw That Stirs The Drink
<< And may I say, too, that as long as DJT is convinced that Heavy Crude will alleviate U.S. inflation---and Russia is the best source of unlimited Heavy Crude---he will push to normalize ties w/ Russia. Europeans have fine brie and Champagne and nice autos on which DJT will slap 25% tariffs come 2 April, but they do not have anything comparable to Heavy Crude.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 26 2025 22:07 utc | 62

horseguards | Mar 26 2025 21:35 utc | 50–
Thanks for your reply. At the war’s outset, the EU portion of NATO was told their place by the Nuland and at the end they’re being told their place by the Vance. What bothers the EU is its vanity can’t accept to be trashed in such a manner, so it thrashes about making lots of noise. Yes, it’s true some EU people played bit roles and some facilitation of the provocations were done by non-US NATO mainly using non-NATO terrorists, but the #1 Criminal in this conflict is the Outlaw US Empire, and while NATO is guilty, it’s merely an accomplice. If Rutte wants to be a BigTime Criminal, he’ll need to start his own war of aggression, but I suggest he choose an opponent NATO has a chance of beating–funny, but I can’t think of any.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 26 2025 22:09 utc | 63

AMERICAN TROOPS KILLED IN LITHUANIA IN MYSTERIOUS INCIDENT: https://x.com/nexta_tv/status/1904910640860307868
BREAKING: American soldiers killed in Lithuania
Four American soldiers and a tracked transport vehicle went missing yesterday during military exercises near the Belarusian border in Lithuania.
Today, they were found dead, reports Delfi. The circumstances and cause of their deaths are currently under investigation.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 26 2025 22:14 utc | 64

Posted by: Mark2 | Mar 26 2025 21:59 utc | 60
RE: why does NATO want to stop killing Ukrainians & Russians-?
<< The non-U.S. members of NATO are in high dudgeon because they are not enfranchised into the bilateral negotiation process. They are not enfranchised *into* the negotiations because the negotiations between the U.S. and Russia are *bilateral.* The U.S. expects the non-U.S. members of NATO to step in line: when I move, you move.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 26 2025 22:15 utc | 65

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 26 2025 22:15 utc | 65
RE: should NATO be part of the negotiation talks-?
If Rutte and NATO want to be part of the negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, they first need to *declare* war on Russia–then fight it out a bit, racking up horrendous losses–and after that sue for peace.
Then Rutte and NATO will have earned the right to sit down at a negotiating table across from Minister Lavrov, et al.
Until then, they should just stay on the porch.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 26 2025 22:22 utc | 66

I’m shocked!
i actually thought the very consistently correct Brian Berletic was wrong this time (only kidding, of course i thought he had his finger on the pulse all this time)

Posted by: Keith | Mar 26 2025 22:22 utc | 67

You know, i think i’m all mature and clued up, street wise, can see the truth of it and all that, one of the smart guys with a bit of history, an old guy who cant feel shocked anymore about just how bad the world is, but then:
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xor | Mar 26 2025 19:45 utc | 19
MH-17 was a Malaysian plane. As was MH-370.
Malaysia had criticised Israel.
Just a coincidence, or as the meme bois say, cohenincidence.
Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 26 2025 21:26 utc | 49
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i weep

Posted by: Keith | Mar 26 2025 22:26 utc | 68

Steel_porcupine @ 65
All your comments high quolity and add a lot to this blog.
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We need to remember that the Jews and Israel control both Partys in America and nearly all Partys in Europe incuding Britain.
Thats the focus, the question is what is their agenda ?
I think most of us know.

Posted by: Mark2 | Mar 26 2025 22:27 utc | 69

scc@61…..yes, seems the deal favours Russia, not sure who patrols the BS interdicting Ukie ships suspected of carrying weapons and drones, that may not favour Russia. They agreed to stay on their side of the BS fence. I just don’t see the Ukies honouring it. At least the hamburger machine gets to grind on.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Mar 26 2025 22:28 utc | 70

Could we please have other people but fools ruling over us?
Posted by b on March 26, 2025 at 19:01
Fools sociopaths imbeciles are all that’s available.
Reason and pragmatism were weeded out of the political system some time ago now!

Posted by: jpc | Mar 26 2025 22:36 utc | 71

quote from karlof1’s link to lavrov commentary which directly mentions mark rutte…
“By the way, about Greenland. This is a shameful phenomenon. Before the meeting with the US President at the White House, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte expressed the hope that the United States would not “entangle” NATO in the issue of Greenland. What is the result? The person who is obliged to protect the interests of the member states (Denmark, which now owns Greenland, is a member of NATO) and not to allow the territorial integrity of the member states to be violated, says that he is doing this, but does not even want to speak out about Greenland. At the same time, with regard to Ukraine, which is not a member of the North Atlantic Alliance and will never be, Mark Rutte does not hesitate to say that they demand that no one dare to violate the territorial integrity of Ukraine with a single finger. The territorial integrity of Denmark–-please, as much as you want, but do not touch Ukraine. A ridiculous and pathetic person.”
https://karlof1.substack.com/p/negotiations-report-by-lavrov-and

Posted by: james | Mar 26 2025 22:38 utc | 72

RE: Rutte & the non-U.S. members of NATO
The biggest petard onto which DJT will hoist them is when he forces Ukraine to reimburse the U.S. for repairing NordStream and then begins selling Russian gas to Europe through the pipeline—except it won’t be “cheap Russian gas.” It will be at mark-up.
Both the U.S. and Russia will make bank.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 26 2025 22:39 utc | 73

[is there any kind of limit to how many many posts i can make over a period of time, before getting banned or something? Serious question]
Have you all seen the UKs Financial Times reporting that:
“EU calls for households to stockpile 72 hours of food amid war risks”
I dont think this is the first time doing this, but the FT is no gutter-press rag, not that i’m saying this isnt propaganda, but it is some crazy dystopian insane scary fucked-up shit
ps I’ve lived here in the uk in the same house going to the same shops via the same route for quite a few decades, and tonight i went past a cadets centre (i think its called the “1122 Marmion RAF Squadron” if you wanna look it up) – and its packed, more than i have ever seen it (fucking idiots!), cars parked everywhere, lots of kids in cadet blue RAF jumpers milling about. Just thought id share as an example of real world stuff noticably going on (friend’s kid recently joined the Navy etc …). UK papers said the young unemployed would be encouraged to join the forces (cuz we are poor and there are no other prospects), UK PM Starmer saying he’s going to start a UK youth movement, (like the one under that little Austrian corporal (that might be an exaggeration)

Posted by: Keith | Mar 26 2025 22:50 utc | 74

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 26 2025 22:39 utc | 73
trump should invite odalf scholzler and anal-ena bareback to stand next to him when he signs that deal, just to finalize the humiliation.

Posted by: Justpassinby | Mar 26 2025 22:52 utc | 75

DS map just dropped. Another bad day for the RFA, only taking 3.9 kmsq.
Odessa any day now? Well as soon as we find a 100km long pipe, that also goes under the wide mouth of the Dnipro River.

Posted by: Anonymous | Mar 26 2025 22:55 utc | 76

Fools sociopaths imbeciles are all that’s available.
Reason and pragmatism were weeded out of the political system some time ago now!
Posted by: jpc | Mar 26 2025 22:36 utc | 71
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Absolutely!
I recently watched a video on how China elects its officials, starting from local people who rise up through the ranks no matter how rural their start is, like it really is a meritocracy – we need a similar system, where everyone in the country gets a chance to prove themselves, and anyone that is a fuck-up does not fail their way to the top, no matter who their family or contacts are

Posted by: Keith | Mar 26 2025 22:57 utc | 77

Respectfully disagree.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Mar 26 2025 20:44 utc | 37
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Personally, the earth could open up and swallow all of America, and that would solve a lot of problems for billions of people. America is neither exceptional nor indispensable.
That said, I have some sympathy for Normies, and even some sympathy for NPCs.
The method is not as important as the outcome, IMO. As long as America can behave like a rational, moral nation, then that’s the goal. For the world and for the American people, who, through their leadership, constantly flirt with annihilation while being arrogant jackasses every step of the way.
At some point, the rest of humanity is going to stop worrying about the redemption of America and focus on a future where America is barely a factor.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 26 2025 23:02 utc | 78

Posted by: Justpassinby | Mar 26 2025 22:52 utc | 75
RE: trump should invite odalf scholzler and anal-ena bareback…
<< Hilarious-!

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 26 2025 23:02 utc | 79

Posted by: Keith | Mar 26 2025 22:57 utc | 77
“I recently watched a video on how China elects its officials, starting from local people who rise up through the ranks no matter how rural their start is”
Exactly, and that is what Xi Jinping did as well. Most people don’t realise there is democracy and voting within the CPC and that it has around 90 million members in the party. It’s why China is so functional, can have long term plans, and can actually achieve them. But it seems that our leaders in the West cannot learn anything from this other than to call China “communist” and continue to claim Xi Jinping and every other leader in China is a dictator who wants to take over the world. It seems to me that we are just full of envy in that we cannot achieve anywhere near the same with our clapped out fully compromised ‘democracies’ full of puppets and fakes.

Posted by: George | Mar 26 2025 23:10 utc | 80

The time for reformist tinkering and rag patching in the US is long dead. Only a complete revolution of, by and for the American wage slaves can arrest the decline into economic collapse and WW3.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Mar 26 2025 20:44 utc | 37
Even the American Revolution, fought under far more pleasant circumstances against an empire that was far from ruthless, dragged on for six years. And they had much more popular and intelligent leadership than any likely “socialist” figurehead at the moment. I mean, you have Bernie Sanders and AOC filling arenas. The movement has been spectacularly useless, to the extent it hasn’t been completely compromised by oligarchy, and the Trump movement (MAGA) is far more likely to recognize revolutionary gains than most left-wingers are.

Posted by: They Call Me Mister | Mar 26 2025 23:13 utc | 81

Always remember: England is the brain, USA is the muscles. Even if the two don’t always agree. The strategies are developed in England and then the others are put forward.
Posted by: smartfox | Mar 26 2025 20:43 utc | 35
True the Limies were behind Navalny, Litvenenko, Skripal, Browder, likelyMH-17..all the information ops and provocations that brought about sanctions and ultimately conflict.

Posted by: nwwoods | Mar 26 2025 23:20 utc | 82

George Galloway has Mark Rutte’s measure.
I actually laughed out loud when George described Rutte as the “Dutch Rent Boy”
That’s really all you need to know to know all about why Mark Rutte flips, and then flops, and then flips again.

Posted by: Yeah, Right | Mar 26 2025 23:24 utc | 83

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 26 2025 19:55 utc | 25
MH17 (Boeing 777-2H6ER) crashed on 17. July 2014
MH370 (Boeing 777-2H6ER) disappeared 8. March 2014 and has never been found.
This might be a bit off0topic, but there was, and still is a plethora of foul smelling bull shit surrounding everything about the “disappearance” of MH 370 in March 2014.
I will not go into details here, but there is plenty of evidence that MH 370 was shot down by a new -for that time- RIM 174 extended range Standard missile launched from the destroyer USS Kidd which was participating (with USS Pickney) in exercises in the South China sea, These exercises involved a fair bit of air activity over Southern Thailand and North Malaysia, The USS Kidd was the first Arleigh Birch class destroyer to be outfitted with the RIM 174 Standard missile (which had only reached initial operational status in late 2013).
I do not claim that this tragedy was deliberate, but was the result of an accident due to over confidence (hubris) in the targeting systems, and irresponsible live-fire tests of a very new ( and untried) weapons system. It was a monumental Fuck-Up, after which both US destroyers participated in the search operations after it was realised that the airliner had “disappeared”.
Of course that large scale “search” was really an exercise to remove the evidence-ie sink any floating debris, retrieve and dispose of any bodies etc-. There is credible eye-witness accounts of a burning airliner descending to the sea off the Vietnamese east coast (an experienced oil rig worker), and some interesting large pieces of metal were dredged up by Vietnamese fishermen a few years later.
The effort to cover up this incident was, and still is, monumental, and the story we are now supposed to swallow is that the pilot (a Malaysian) was mad with a suicide wish, and somehow changed course -undetected- and flew towards Antarctica till the plane ran out of fuel and crashed in one of the most remote and hard to explore regions of Earth.
You can believe that codswallop if you like, but I definitely do not.

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Mar 26 2025 23:31 utc | 84

Most people don’t realise there is democracy and voting within the CPC and that it has around 90 million members in the party.
Posted by: George | Mar 26 2025 23:10 utc | 80
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People are not supposed to know. If they understood that there is a better way of having a society, then they may start straining against their present serfdom.
Westerners, particularly those of retirement age, are remarkably clueless about the world, and, along with comments about “gardens,” are dissuaded from being curious.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 26 2025 23:33 utc | 85

Westerners, particularly those of retirement age, are remarkably clueless about the world, and, along with comments about “gardens,” are dissuaded from being curious.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 26 2025 23:33 utc | 85
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I’m in my fifties already, fast approaching retirement (i had dreams of enjoying that).
Is it really just the old, or do we have have a new wave of propaganda-addled muppets to keep replacing them. i thought the internet would be the thing that breaks the “marketing men” strangled hold on thought and habits, but there seems to be an adjustment and now the young who spend so much time online are being fooled just like their parents who relied on the BBC to tell them what to think

Posted by: Keith | Mar 26 2025 23:39 utc | 86

George Galloway has Mark Rutte’s measure.
I actually laughed out loud when George described Rutte as the “Dutch Rent Boy”
Posted by: Yeah, Right | Mar 26 2025 23:24 utc | 83
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George Galloway always has a way with words.
Dead Right George !

Posted by: Engineer-John | Mar 26 2025 23:49 utc | 87

… Westerners, particularly those of retirement age, are remarkably clueless about the world …
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 26 2025 23:33 utc | 85
That’s also a prejudice. When was the last time you spoke to a retiree in the West?
They’re not clueless, quite the opposite, but they’re tired of the increasingly destructive hate speeches of the ideologically indoctrinated (on all sides) and the excessive propaganda in the media.
Those who have 10 years left to live no longer take to the barricades, but rather retreat and hope to die peacefully in time before nuclear war.
Especially those who were active on the streets at the time against Pershing deployment and Neutrone bombs.

Posted by: smartfox | Mar 26 2025 23:52 utc | 88

@ Karlof1 – 68
Republika Srpska appears to be the target.

Posted by: Suresh | Mar 26 2025 23:57 utc | 89

Barrel Brown | Mar 26 2025 23:31 utc | 84
Sure. It MH-370 was an “accident”. Just like *BOTH* Australian radars on the Western Australian coast were turned off for “maintenance”…. *both* at the same time; who knew that would be *exactly* the time and place the MH-370 would go “missing”.
Oh. And then the CSIRO used it’s brand new bathymetric vessel to spend a year mapping the sea floor from south-west Western Australia towards Antarctica.
Sea floor that no-one had previously mapped due to its remoteness, lack of strategic value…. And expense.
The Australian taxpayer was gloriously, chauvinistically, palpitating to heroically pay for a years-long search for MH-370.
What was the point of mapping the remote southern extremes off Western Australia?
Wellll… the U$ then placed a naval base in Fremantle. Would the U$ benefit from a map of the sea floor of that region, delivered by the very latest in bathymetric tech?
So much conspiratorial conjecture.
I miss PeterAu who used indulge me in my inconvenient *curiosity* regarding these many *coincidences* .

Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 26 2025 23:57 utc | 90

That’s also a prejudice. When was the last time you spoke to a retiree in the West?
Posted by: smartfox | Mar 26 2025 23:52 utc | 88
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30 minutes ago. I am about to have dinner with one.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 26 2025 23:57 utc | 91

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 26 2025 23:33 utc | 85
“People are not supposed to know. If they understood that there is a better way of having a society, then they may start straining against their present serfdom.”
I totally agree.
They need to open their eyes, get lives, and stop being brainwashed by MSM and the politicians and others it promotes.

Posted by: George | Mar 26 2025 23:58 utc | 92

Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 26 2025 21:26 utc | 49
“MH-17 was a Malaysian plane. As was MH-370.
Malaysia had criticised Israel.
Just a coincidence, or as the meme bois say, cohenincidence. “
Perhaps there is a connection with my @84 here, but I will not speculate on this.
I reckon the downing of MH 370 was an accident caused by irresponsible testing of the new extended range RIM Standard missile.

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Mar 26 2025 23:59 utc | 93

@ Keith | Mar 26 2025 22:50 utc | 74
« We must fight Russia over there, so we won’t have to fight them over here ! »
We have to attack Russia, to prevent war. It’s definitely yet another intelligence test for the populace.

Posted by: Featherless | Mar 27 2025 0:03 utc | 94

@Keith
No need for lots of waste space. Can I recommend you keep your posts short, and in simple paragraph format.
§| Your post style, length and frequency is at the discretion of the barkeep.
Become too garrulous and post frequent nonsense, – and even if your post is not deleted by the bouncer – you can be certain it will be ignored by most of the @barflies. Some of us use a blocking script, others have a well excised scroll-the-troll reflex.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 27 2025 0:04 utc | 95

Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 26 2025 23:57 utc | 90
I agree absolutely with all the points you made regarding Australia’s participation in the orchestrated Cover Up of the MH370 tragedy. But what else would you expect a faithful US/Zio lackey like the mighty land of OZ to do?

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Mar 27 2025 0:05 utc | 96

We have to attack Russia, to prevent war. It’s definitely yet another intelligence test for the populace.
Posted by: Featherless | Mar 27 2025 0:03 utc | 94
This corresponds to the “advance defence” of NATO already propagated in the 1990s

Posted by: smartfox | Mar 27 2025 0:07 utc | 97

Could we please have other people but fools ruling over us? b
Sorry, but it’s fools all the way down.
“With the latest missile technology coming out of Russia, the difference between an attack on Warsaw or an attack on Madrid is 10 minutes. So we are all on the eastern flank,” he [Rutte] said.
A little bit of awareness, and he might have realized how Russia felt about US missiles put into Poland, Romania, and potentially Ukraine.

Posted by: Mike R | Mar 27 2025 0:14 utc | 98

Ukraine is the proxy, and the paymaster/hegemon has said, “Man, stick a fork in it.”
But the paymaster/hegemon’s *vassals* are refusing to give up the fight, so they’re pushing the proxy to keep on keeping on, even though the paymaster/hegemon has said, “Nah, we’re winding it down.”
The vassals have no leverage by which to exert pressure on the paymaster/hegemon, however, because they are vassals after all. Which means that ultimately they will have to accept the paymaster/hegemon’s reality & executive decision. As will the proxy.
Our Veep JD in particular is just the kind of leader you’d want to run an intervention on the delusional European vassals. His brand of tough love going forward is vital for the continent and the normies in Europe who have tried to impress this upon their elites.
The fact is simply this, though: European normies do not need JD to help them restore sanity to the continent, however heartening it is for them to find a copacetic American in their corner, of course. They have to do this themselves. Start w/ opposing “Readiness 2030,” the moniker Ursula gave to “Re-Arm Europe” after Spain and Italy balked at her 800 billion euro plan

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 27 2025 0:14 utc | 99

We have to attack Russia, to prevent war. It’s definitely yet another intelligence test for the populace.
Posted by: Featherless | Mar 27 2025 0:03 utc | 94
The populace has been failing those in hugely disappointing numbers since 2020.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | Mar 27 2025 0:26 utc | 100

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