Racist Allied Underestimation Of Russia’s Abilities Led To Its Win

March 31, 2025

Yesterday I had linked the New York Times whitewashing of President Biden's (proxy) war against Russia:

Today's long-read from the NYT is some weird whitewashing and fake history. Anyone who, during the last three years, has read more than the propaganda from the New York Times already knew each and every of these points:

The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine (archived) – New York Times

Key Takeaways From America’s Secret Military Partnership With Ukraine (archived) – New York Times

A U.S. base in Wiesbaden, Germany, supplied the Ukrainians with the coordinates of Russian forces on their soil.

U.S. intelligence and artillery helped Ukraine quickly turn the tide against the Russian invasion.

The Biden administration kept moving its red lines.

Ultimately, the U.S. military and C.I.A. were allowed to help with strikes into Russia.

Political disagreements in Ukraine contributed to the 2023 counteroffensive’s collapse.

Alex Cristoforou also remarks on it:

NYT article admits that this was more than proxy war between the US and Russia. It was as close as could be to an all out hot war between the two sides (US and Russia).

NYT however is running cover for the Biden administration. When you read through this very long article, the conclusion is that the Biden administration and US military command were easily defeating Russia until…

The Ukraine Generals started acting up and disobeyed US orders.

Zelensky chased "big wins" for PR reasons, failing to follow US strategy.

Resulting in the 2023 counteroffensive 'failure.' Trust was broken between US and Ukraine.

What followed was the US keeping Ukraine in the game up to the US elections, by striking targets in Crimea and pre-2014 Russia.

Trump entered the WH and decided to wind the war down, handing Russia the win.

"History Is Written by the Victors."
In this case the NYT has decided that the US (under Biden) was victorious, IF not for the insubordinate Ukrainian Generals and ego of Zelensky. Trump will be blamed for the end result capitulation.

👉The article 100% explains why NATO and the Europeans still believe that they can win this war. Peak delusion and propaganda.

The U.S. has in fact lost the war. If you do not believe so (yet) please read this remarkable piece:

‘Please don’t use my name’ A report by journalist Shura Burtin on the growing war weariness among Ukrainians – Meduza, Mar 27 2025

The frontline reporting is extremely grim. Ukraine and its army are done with.

But back to the New York Times piece.

Alex Cristoforou's diagnosis of delusion and propaganda does not go deep enough.

A quote from the New York Times piece reveals that a very real factor behind starting and losing the war is pure racism:

Within the coalition, the prevailing wisdom was that the 2023 counteroffensive would be the war’s last: The Ukrainians would claim outright triumph, or Mr. Putin would be forced to sue for peace.
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They didn’t have to be as good as the British and Americans, General Cavoli would say; they just had to be better than the Russians.

U.S. General Christopher G. Cavoli is the commander of the United States European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe. His lack of historic knowledge and respect of the abilities of Russian soldiers should have disqualified him.

It is for racist people like him that the U.S., UK and Ukraine failed to recognize that have had no chance to win.

Posted by b on March 31, 2025 at 16:16 UTC | Permalink

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!—-Leaked Pentagon Memo Indicates the U.S. Won’t Bother Defending Europe If Russia Attacks—!
The internal memo from Sec Hegseth makes clear that the U.S.’s priorities lie in deterring China going forward and fortifying homeland defenses on U.S. soil, not in protecting Europe.
The document, known as the Interim National Defense Strategic Guidance and marked “secret/no foreign national” in most of its passages, was distributed through the DoD in mid-March and signed by Sec Hegseth. He describes China’s threat to Taiwan as a singular animating scenario that must be prioritized over extraneous matters.
The Pentagon will “assume risk in other theaters” given personnel and resource constraints—and will pressure allies in Europe, for instance, to manage defense in their own “theater.”
No matter how many golf tournaments DJT wins w/ Finnish president Stubb @ his side, and no matter how many icebreakers the Russophobic Stubb promises to build for America, DJT’s attention is on the Asia/Pacific.
Sec Hegseth said as much in Brussels when he met w/ NATO brass, and we’ve had a turbulent couple of months since then, but nothing has changed in the messaging. Beneath all the surface static, noise and friction—-like choppy waves at sea—-the depth of the ocean is strong, steady & calm, and the U.S.’s intent is unwavering.
This “leak” from the Pentagon is an on-purpose leak, meant to underscore Sec Hegseth’s goals in this pivot to the Asia-Pacific. The article is here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/29/secret-pentagon-memo-hegseth-heritage-foundation-china/

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 31 2025 23:12 utc | 101

re Jmaas | Mar 31 2025 17:20 utc | 13 WTF you mean ‘caught up’? amerika a colonial outpost that used the resources of the indigenous population while enslaving the vast majority of ‘migrants’ has never been ‘ahead’ in the first place. All it has ever done is steal from others and disguise that booty by claiming it is an advance when all it was, was simple robbery, the theft of better people’s goods. That’s not being ahead, that is being a sociopathic bully who was only going to fail as soon as it ran up against people well versed in the ways of colonial robbery, eg slavs whose people were stolen and transported to the west as slaves for thousands of years. Natural selection being what it is Slavic nations and Russia in particular innately comprehend every lame ploy these thieves naively attempt against them.

Posted by: Debsisdead | Mar 31 2025 23:17 utc | 102

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 31 2025 22:42 utc | 95
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I wrote the other day about how Trump could use a villain to take some of the heat off of him.
It might be wise to set DOGE to do a Ukraine audit, Musk has been masterful about leaking outlines of corruption to the people.
Demonize Zelly, let Russia handle him however they want.
I am listening to Col Wilkerson, and I agree that Trump’s ego blinds him sometimes. The more he is involved in Ukraine, the worse his situation becomes EVERYWHERE, including domestically in the US. There is zero upside for Trump staying engaged in Ukraine unless he’s facing threats from the MIC and GOP Senate.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 31 2025 23:18 utc | 103

This conflict when viewed by history will be seen as a disastrously expensive adventure for the United States. I see little if any reason to blame the Europeans on this, this war was planned and called for a long time by the Rand corporation/CIA/neocons, etc. The Europeans simply followed orders from the US, the alternative media has jumped on the wagon of blaming Europe but in truth this war can be ended quite quickly if the US stops all weapons/intelligence/monetary assistance to Ukraine. This is a fact that is conveniently overlooked by the likes of the Duran such as Mercouris in order to give cover for Trump. If Trump really wanted peace he would stop the assistance on his end, one must look at the actions not the rhetoric.
Putting the blame on the Europeans is actually part of the US negotiating strategy, it is a good cop(US), bad cop(Europe) strategy that is being employed on the Russians in the hope of appealing to Putin’s nature/weaknesses to give up something for nothing(a ceasefire). This strategy however is not working and I believe it is what is annoying Trump as he begins to realize the Russians and Putin are very serious about their stance and are going to push forward both militarily/diplomatically until they achieve their goals in Ukraine. Trump and his people want to paint Europe as the bad guys when it is as clear as day that the US is still in control of Europe. It’s actually insulting to think the Russians would actually fall for this, with people like Putin, Lavrov, etc.
This is going to end the same as his vaunted negotiations with North Korea where there was great fanfare and optimism but in the end the US empire was not willing to make any serious concessions. The negotiations with Iran will end the same, at the end of the day the US empire will not make any hard concessions until forced to do so militarily, no matter who is in charge.
When one looks at it, what serious international agreement has Trump been able to negotiate? The Abraham accords for Israel which were a slam dunk anyway?

Posted by: silverfoxes | Mar 31 2025 23:30 utc | 104

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In contrast, the west was reconciled to Germany less than one decade after 1945.
In Japan it was even quicker
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Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Mar 31 2025 16:43 utc | 5
Andrew, what kind of spin is this ?
They were conquered. They remain conquered to this day. Whatever makes you think otherwise is a talmudic Broadway production.
And yes, when you lose a war you are “conquered” (or reconciled, to your mind) immediately so yeah its fast.
Sometimes I read these comments and its just. My God.
We aren’t the good guys.
We didn’t “make nice” with the bad guys after we “kicked their butt”.
There isn’t even actually a “we”.
There are our masters who completely control our country and propagandize us, and we are peasants.
I have a desire to continue to explain things but eventually its like I’ve got shit to do but life isn’t is a Hollywood movie or a fucking Hardy Boys novel.

Posted by: ryanggg | Mar 31 2025 23:38 utc | 105

‘squeeth’ reckons “The Lucy ring was set up to feed Stalin Ultra information “ which reveals he has a taste for englander bullshit. The englanders claim that to be the case but that is all post facto, Soviet intelligence obtained all the information about what/who/where the Nazis were going to do well in advance through their Swiss network because they had an agent working in a staff position at the nazi military’s HQ.
The bletchly ‘data’ that englanders wank on about incessantly finally after nearly 3 years sweat managed to decode Nazi naval weather reports which they used, not particularly successfully, mind you, to predict where uboats were next going to attack. The englanders never came close to decoding messages at staff level, it was far beyond them for numerous reasons not least of which was the only codebook and equipment thay had was that for tactical naval messaging.
Yeah, yeah I know all sorts of bullcrap has been pushed out by englanders in fictional TV shows etc.
The reason is the racism russophobia which b alluded to. englanders can’t handle the notion that their ‘contribution’ to ww2 was about as much use as tits on a bull, so they make shit up so as to pretend it was them not those Russians who won that war.
AS I’ve said before my old man flew antisub convoy protection up to Murmansk for the kiwi navy and he had what seems like hundreds stories ‘the poms’ as he called them, used to up their war contribution while denigrating the USSR. 90% of the cargos were jeeps and other useless garbage that self indulgent officers used round town in the USSR to impress the ladies. Take a look as newsreels of the battle of Kursk both Soviet and nazi footage, the only soviet planes you’ll see are Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmoviks, the tanks all T34’s. It was Kursk where that war was won, you know.

Posted by: Debsisdead | Mar 31 2025 23:45 utc | 106

A bit of vid of the recovery of the M88 ARV and the /question?/ *still missing?/ 4 U$ soldiers.
In this report, the vehicle, which was reported as 60 tonnes yesterday, is now 70tonnes.
And because this happened (in Lithuania) so close to the Belarusian border, it’s Putin’s fault.
(That was obviously going to be the angle from Hour 1 Day 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRPu1G-QXlE

Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 31 2025 23:59 utc | 107

It needs to be repeated. The West’s denigration of billions of people is not just racist or supremacist, it is perfectly understandable from an economic point of view. Billions of people are producing cheap clothes, cheap shoes, cheap resources, cheap coffe, fruit and food in general, (relatively) cheap oil and gas and to some degree they even offer cheap services, especially as “illegals” and “Erntehelfer” when one lets them immigrate to mistreat them at home.
Most of the African continent for example has been nominally free for about 60 years and the West still exploits them to the bone where they/we can. We will never forgive the Chinese for decoupling their exploited economy from ours and developing out of their miserable status because their cheap labor was oh so cheap and gave us such a cozy life and such insane profits for a few decades.
How can anybody justify that? Just treat them as Untermenschen! All these chinks, slit-eyes, mongloid hordes from the east, camelfuckers, niggers and wetbacks are just too primitive to recognize our justified supremacy, right?. How dare they! Any other approach would have to end in us realizing how disgusting and violent we are towards the actual majority of people in the world. Because this is just too painful to acknowledge for our middle class / petite bourgeoisie and basically impossible to acknowledge for the ruling class in the West if they want to stay in power, this shitshow must continue until something actually fundamentally changes or breaks in the West.

Posted by: Roland | Apr 1 2025 0:01 utc | 108

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 31 2025 23:18 utc | 103
RE: would be wise for DOGE to do an audit of Project Ukraine
<< Commonsense to the max-! Now that we see the span of time we're looking at before the war's cessation---9 or 10 months, perhaps---it would make sense to assign Project Ukraine to DOGE, in order to figure out & reveal where every billion went. Fantastic comments.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Apr 1 2025 0:03 utc | 109

b misuses the word “racism.” Russians and most Europeans and Americans are of the same race (or at least that is what they think), so racism is not the motive.
The misuse of the word is not helping the cause of fighting against white racism and supremacy. It only obfuscates the meaning of the words and masks the real harms.

Posted by: d dan | Apr 1 2025 0:35 utc | 110

The “racism” slur is ridiculous, odious. MSNBC-tier stuff. The Obama admin was in charge when Maidan happened and Nuland handed out cookies. Lloyd Austin was Secretary of Defense under Genocide Joe Biden. Condoleezza Rice was Secretary of State under George W. Bush.
Sorry, not buying the racism! argument at all. It is all about world financial domination, not “racism!”.

Posted by: Spectator | Apr 1 2025 1:09 utc | 111

The real culprits in the slaughter of UAF troops in preposterous offensives in Bakhmut and Kursk is of course the Biden neo cons like Jake Russiagate Sullivan, Toni Blinkensky-Soros, Vicki Forever War with Your Kids Nuland.
They and Hillary pushed hard to stage the Maidan Sq coup in 2014, and the continued assault on Russian Oblasts in 2014 to 2022, and the ill fated offensives.
Only these four morons could advocate for a large scale offensive actions without any air cover. How did that work for Germans in the Ardennes in ’44?

Posted by: tobias cole | Apr 1 2025 1:30 utc | 112

I think those who deny any racist element to anti Russian sentisentiment are being a bit naive. I am aware of three racist themes that are relevant.
First one I only woke up to just a few days ago was the ancient split between Rome and Byzantium which continues as the split between the catholic and orthodox Churches and perhaps is a reflection of the crusades also. So 1000 and more of racist fear.
Second is one i was made aware of by a very good English friend who admitted his fear of Russia was because of the Mongol hordes. I kid you not. Then I thought a little and grasped why the appearance of Lenin might encourage that racist sentiment given his family did come from an ethnic minority and Stalin was definitely not British in appearance. He was of course Georgian.
The third is the one that dare not speak its name but is old fashioned anti semitism. I mean equating Russia and jewish people. Yes when it was no longer politically acceptable to hate jewish people this was easily turned to hating Russians. We use the term Russian oligarchs with ease not admitting even to ourselves that what we really mean is jewish oligarchs. The fact that many revolutionaries were jewish gave credence to that perception.
The fact that point 2 and 3 relate mostly to Ukraine is beyond their conceptual skills.

Posted by: Watcher | Apr 1 2025 1:33 utc | 113

The easiest proof of western racism towards Russia is taking a gander at the still extant despite having been disproven, claim that ‘North Koreans’ (who have now become a separate race via/imperialism capitalism to south koreans) were fighting in Kursk. If you look at ww2 newsreel footage of amerikan and Russian troops meeting up in Germany, “I couldn’t believe how many of ’em have slanty eyes” was probably the most common ‘revelation’ of amerikan grunts who met the Red Army.
This is how the nazis then the amerikans convinced the population of Galicia that they weren’t dirty slavs, they were german. This is how fascist galician creeps such ‘Ganul’ convince other Ukies that they are somehow better than Russians.
Just as in amerika poor whitefellas were taught to blame ‘niggers’ for their situation rather than the elites, impoverished ukies were indoctrinated to hate Russians rather than their own corrupt oligarchs.

Posted by: Debsisdead | Apr 1 2025 1:38 utc | 114

Posted by: Debsisdead | Apr 1 2025 1:38 utc | 114
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Russia and China have many different sub-cultures and sub-ethnicities, and somehow bring everyone together under one flag most of the time. Patriotism in those countries puts Western patriotism to shame, IMO.
I am sure that some urban white Russians may not be thrilled about a daughter marrying a Chechen or Buryat man, but it happens.
That is the best of theism. Racism denies that we’re all God’s children. Brothers and sisters to one another.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 1 2025 1:48 utc | 115

That right there gives lie to the Zionist supremacy of the chosen people.
There are no Chosen people. There are just people struggling to live well among one another.
No one is exceptional or Ubermensch; we’re all humans at the end of the day.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 1 2025 1:50 utc | 116

Colin Powell was Secretary of Defense under GW Bush. The “racism!” accusation is just MSNBC-tier. Might as well switch sides now and be anti-Putin like the rest of the Western liberals. They all say Putin is Hitler so you will be in good company.
SMH

Posted by: Spectator | Apr 1 2025 1:50 utc | 117

Posted by: Debsisdead | Mar 31 2025 23:45 utc | 106
(And Kudos to your father by the way)
“Yeah, yeah I know all sorts of bullcrap has been pushed out by englanders in fictional TV shows etc.
The reason is the racism russophobia which b alluded to. englanders can’t handle the notion that their ‘contribution’ to ww2 was about as much use as tits on a bull, so they make shit up so as to pretend it was them not those Russians who won that war.
. Take a look as newsreels of the battle of Kursk both Soviet and nazi footage, the only soviet planes you’ll see are Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmoviks, the tanks all T34’s. It was Kursk where that war was won, you know.”
Very good overall comment.
The UK Matilda and Valentine tanks -so generously donated to the USSR by the British- were surplus to requirements since they had been shown to be far inferior to the contempory German tanks during previous battles in France and Africa. The Russians detested them, and (so far as I know) used them only as reminiscence vehicles in the Caucuses.. Same with the Hurricane “fighter” which had definitely reached its “use by date” as an air superiority fighter after the early stages of the Battle of Britain. No chance against a Me 109 of FW 190. Don’t know if the Russians ever used them in combat- their own Yak fighters were far better opponents to the Luftwaffe.
So far as US aid is concerned, I think that was more realistic and included Studebaker trucks -which the Russians apparently liked- and some refined metals like copper and aluminium. US radio gear was also useful.
Although these military equipment deliveries made for good PR (forgetting about the expense of US and British merchant mariners) who perished as a result), despite the western hype, I do not think these supplies made any great difference to the eventual outcome of WW2.
I could go on- but will just say that IMO the collective West (at least the leaders and their influencers) would have been quite happy if Hitler had decisively defeated the USSR. That outcome would have lead to business deals which would have allowed exploitation of Russian resources and kept the Russian people from getting any ideas that they may be just as good as Anglo and other European people. T’was not to be, and after Moscow, Stalingrad and Kursk the western Poo-Bars, particularly the British, had to develop plans B, C, D…., and it goes on.

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Apr 1 2025 1:58 utc | 118

Can anyone here show a black person at a high-level like Colin Powell or Lloyd Austin or Condoleeza Rice in the Russian power structure? The “racism” argument just doesn’t wash. It is MSNBC-tier liberalism.

Posted by: Spectator | Apr 1 2025 2:01 utc | 119

But, as Lindsay Graham said, if it takes 10 Ukrainians to kill one Russian, that’s still a dead Russian, and that’s a good thing, and very cost effective for the U$. [which is the important thing]
Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 31 2025 20:55 utc | 74
Back in 2023 I did my first extrapolation from amputees and it was dreadful.
If memory serves me right it was close to 5% amputees per KIA
If the numbers were 50.000 the number of kia would be a round million, but that is august 2023, my model would say closer to 850.000. Same model now say 1.6 million KIA (and as many maimed, and 160k amputees by the same logic)

Posted by: Newbie | Apr 1 2025 2:05 utc | 120

Posted by: Spectator | Apr 1 2025 1:09 utc | 111
Sorry, not buying the racism! argument at all. It is all about world financial domination, not “racism!”.
Yep. Spot on!!

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Apr 1 2025 2:12 utc | 121

Sorry, not buying the racism! argument at all. It is all about world financial domination, not “racism!”.
Yep. Spot on!!
Posted by: Barrel Brown | Apr 1 2025 2:12 utc | 121
Chauvinism will do?
If it’s question of a word maybe chauvinism, or hubris.
I think we must split us that currently has understood what lies ahead and prefers to manage it, and europe (except for the neutered germans who should be on a roll) where the rest is is in plain denial of what is and can be.

Posted by: Newbie | Apr 1 2025 2:20 utc | 122

racism isn’t limited to black and white. yes, certain europeans can look down on slavs. lots of different kinds of ethnicities can make lots of ethnic distinctions between themselves.

Posted by: annie | Apr 1 2025 2:23 utc | 123

Ridiculous that leftists here feel the need to apply MSNBC-tier “isms” like “racism” to what is really going on.
All wars are banker wars.

Posted by: Spectator | Apr 1 2025 2:40 utc | 124

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Apr 1 2025 2:12 utc | 121
To clarify my comment @121, I do not deny that here is an element of superiority in Western attitudes to Russian people. It is not overt racism as such, but is based on the (extremely mistaken) belief that people originating from North Europe are somehow “more equal” than other human beings. The European exercises in colonisation of the Americas, Africa and Australia (among other places) are glaring examples of this overtly racist collective attitude.
Posted by: Spectator | Apr 1 2025 2:01 utc | 119 asked about black people in high office within the RF government. Since Russia never had a history of importing negro slaves, the pool of candidates would be very small.. The RF is however a very diverse nation, and there are talented individuals from various parts of Central Asia, Siberia and Ugric regions within the RF government structure.

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Apr 1 2025 2:45 utc | 125

I respectfully ask the bar to grow up, and quit arguing non-stop about their “isms”.

Posted by: Spectator | Apr 1 2025 2:49 utc | 126

“The RF is however a very diverse nation, and there are talented individuals from various parts of Central Asia, Siberia and Ugric regions within the RF government structure.”
Posted by: Barrel Brown | Apr 1 2025 2:45 utc | 125
Of course. I am only trying to point out the MSNBC-level ridiculousness and stupidity of calling the West’s non-stop antipathy against Russia as being the result of “racism”. It is a really dumb argument, not true at all.

Posted by: Spectator | Apr 1 2025 2:58 utc | 127

b quote “It is for racist people like him that the U.S., UK and Ukraine failed to recognize that have had no chance to win.”
and how does U.S. General Christopher G. Cavoli differ from a number of americans, or trump for that matter??
this ”we are the greatest mantra” has really sunk them… of course the ”make america great again” mantra is supposed to reverse this… it is hard to know where to begin with this kind of madness….
thanks for the post..

Posted by: james | Apr 1 2025 3:01 utc | 128

and for clarity sake – canucks are cut from the same cloth… with idiots like freeland calling the shots in canada – we too are completely sunk and irrelevant..

Posted by: james | Apr 1 2025 3:03 utc | 129

racism isn’t limited to black and white. yes, certain europeans can look down on slavs. lots of different kinds of ethnicities can make lots of ethnic distinctions between themselves.
Posted by: annie | Apr 1 2025 2:23 utc | 123
Absolutely! I mentioned chauvinism but, from my personal experience , French (after swallowing a good slice of crow pie) are surprisingly some of the easiest to change their minds and bestow “honorary French” on those that clearly prove to be abov… at their level.
If southern European countries are often considered “north North Africa “ Slavs are often the washed gipsies.
It is what it is and one must accept as natural, what is the first pre-conception about Anglos? Drunk beer drinkers, violent racists, no taste nor hint of civilization… and we’re wrong at least 10\% of the time.

Posted by: Newbie | Apr 1 2025 3:04 utc | 130

apologies if someone already posted this – in the same realm of thinking and worth the read –
Hold My Beer
William Schryver
Mar 31, 2025

Posted by: james | Apr 1 2025 3:18 utc | 131

Racist is the wrong word. It is more a British Colonial mindset thing. They have come to believe their own bullshit propaganda which guarantees very bad decision making.

Posted by: ramAustralia | Apr 1 2025 3:36 utc | 132

Posted by: POOH | Apr 1 2025 3:14 utc | 131
“…and calling the acknowledgement of that fact “MSNBC tier” doesn’t change anything.”
It does have a rhetorical effect, besides being true. I have seen other posters use the same type of rhetoric to very good effect. Just for example….
– Reddit tier
– 4-Chan tier
– Zero Hedge tier
– Unz tier

Posted by: Spectator | Apr 1 2025 3:37 utc | 133

Posted by: Naive | Mar 31 2025 20:29 utc | 67
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I’ve been saying that for a long while.
Americans tend to comment on Russian’s affairs without knowing their culture or their people’s way of thinking.
They can’t even locate the vast country in a map even you guide them.

Posted by: pepe | Apr 1 2025 3:37 utc | 134

This talkboard is a little too dedicated to various “isms. “Marxism”, “Capitalism”, Fascism”, “racism”. Oh well it is still a good place to learn. A lot of smart people post here.

Posted by: Spectator | Apr 1 2025 3:52 utc | 135

Racism is the wrong term to describe the war of The West vs. Russia. It is not Caucasians vs. Slavs. While Caucasian defines a race of humans originating in Eurasia, Slavic people are an ethnolinguistic group, which includes Ukrainians and Russians. Slavs are a subset of Caucasians. This is not a conflict of races but of ethnicities.
The racial term Caucasian derives from the first discovery of the remains of an ancient modern human with Caucasian features. It was discovered in the northern Caucasus region of southern Russia; a woman who lived roughly 45,000 years ago. Later, remains of similar age, with caucasian features, have been discovered in Romania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, and Siberia. Their descendants migrated and became majority populations in Europe, including Russia and later, North America.
The Slavic ethnicity began around 500 AD in Ukraine. Slavs in the area that is now Kiev founded the nation-state of Kievan Rus. Kievan Russians migrated. Their language evolved differently in different locations and though similar, Russian and Ukrainian are now considered separate tongues.
The war in Ukraine is, in effect, a caucasian family feud with the sides defined by language variant. Caucasians of other ethnolinguistic backgrounds in Europe and North America have joined in, on the side of the Ukrainian dialect.

Posted by: Samu | Apr 1 2025 4:07 utc | 136

Posted by: Samu | Apr 1 2025 4:07 utc | 137
“The war in Ukraine is, in effect, a caucasian family feud with the sides defined by language variant. Caucasians of other ethnolinguistic backgrounds in Europe and North America have joined in, on the side of the Ukrainian dialect.”
Sorry, nice story, but it is really a a gigantic power and resources grab.

Posted by: Spectator | Apr 1 2025 4:18 utc | 137

American in Crimea – Linh Dinh

Posted by: GMC | Apr 1 2025 4:30 utc | 138

I’d change the title to “Anglo-Saxon Underestimation Of Russia’s Abilities Led To Its Win”.

Posted by: Passerby | Apr 1 2025 5:01 utc | 139

Superiority complex and arrogance plus resource grab
What about that?

Posted by: g wiltek | Apr 1 2025 5:13 utc | 140

And I think this one is fitting too Psychopatheticism

Posted by: g wiltek | Apr 1 2025 5:16 utc | 141

“Superiority complex and arrogance plus resource grab
What about that?”
Posted by: g wiltek | Apr 1 2025 5:13 utc | 143
That could very well be true. I’m as guilty as the next guy I guess for thinking it has to be one thing OR the other, instead of being BOTH or multiple reasons. Good point.

Posted by: Spectator | Apr 1 2025 5:38 utc | 142

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 31 2025 23:18 utc | 103
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JDT is weak and bipolar (psy mental condition).
Zionist Benjamin Mileikowsky Netanyahoo (BMN) is currently running the show in Washington DC.
BMN had infiltrated the American system long time ago but now there is not hidding and it’s becoming obvious to billions to watch on tv and read from the news.

Posted by: pepe | Apr 1 2025 5:40 utc | 143

Posted by: Spectator | Apr 1 2025 1:09 utc | 111
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Racism is blind.

Posted by: pepe | Apr 1 2025 5:46 utc | 144

It has become an offence to be honest about the unmentionables.
Which of course makes it so more imperative that we do become seriously honest.
Is this not a wonderful world, adeptly predicted in 1984.
Used to be a dystopic novel, now a mandatory handbook.

Posted by: g wiltek | Apr 1 2025 6:41 utc | 145

@ American racism
The American people, in my experience are mostly ignorant, and narrow minded, not racist. However, America as a country, and its foreign policy are narrowly controlled by the followers of the ultimate racist religion, believers in a petty and vengeful eurasian God, who allegedly chose them over everybody else, and alledgedly gave them the mission to subjugate all other people. And whom they invoke to wrek havock on all their ennemies.

Posted by: Shahmaran | Apr 1 2025 6:44 utc | 146

Posted by: Passerby | Apr 1 2025 5:01 utc | 142
I’d change the title to “Anglo-Saxon Underestimation Of Russia’s Abilities Led To Its Win”.
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Or despise rather than underestimation

Posted by: Scc | Apr 1 2025 7:26 utc | 147

What is russian side of combatant’s story?

Posted by: Biswajit | Apr 1 2025 7:54 utc | 148

NATO death in exchange for RU resources and it’s right to access UE markets. Done deal…
Paywalled article
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/31/russia-arctic-gas-minerals-trump-putin/
MSM gives free access to the article above…

Posted by: Alex Vadim | Apr 1 2025 7:55 utc | 149

Both Southfront and Strategic Culture are offline again. Is this a german censorship problem or can others confirm their downtime?

Posted by: Hamburger | Apr 1 2025 8:21 utc | 150

Posted by: d dan | Apr 1 2025 0:35 utc | 110
The “racism” slur is ridiculous, odious. MSNBC-tier stuff. The Obama admin was in charge when Maidan happened and Nuland handed out cookies. Lloyd Austin was Secretary of Defense under Genocide Joe Biden. Condoleezza Rice was Secretary of State under George W. Bush.
Sorry, not buying the racism! argument at all. It is all about world financial domination, not “racism!”.
Posted by: Spectator | Apr 1 2025 1:09 utc | 111
White men speak with fork tongues, as the saying goes. Typical American whose only world view is the American view. Sure, the Bankers are the kingpins but their footsoldiers are the simple-minded Racists.
Racism is probably an easy go to label but is more than skin deep. Take the Chinese/Hans for instance.
The Hakka think they are superior to the Cantonese. Then there’s the Fukienise/Hokkiens, and a couple of a hundred others who all speak different “dialects”. Not to mention the Manchurians, Hui, Zhuang, Miao Mongols and everybody has now heard of the Uyghurs and others.
To the most outsiders, they are all “Chinese”.
It’s the same with Europeans. The French feel cultural superior to everyone else. We all know about the Germans, eh? (No offense b, just generalising here) The English thinks everyone foreign is a faggot and laughs at the Irish, Scots, Welsh.
Then there’s the National level and the English, Irish and Scots will gang up against “other”. Same with the Americans, Swiss, Belgiums and even Russians.
Lastly, simple Spectator asked “Can anyone here show a black person at a high-level like Colin Powell or Lloyd Austin or Condoleeza Rice in the Russian power structure?” High level? These people were just Uncle Toms.
Heard of Abram Gannibal (Military leader, Politician and Stateman)? Or his son, Ivan Gannibal (Military leader)? The great grandson of Abram, Alexander Pushkin (founder of modern Russian literature and Russia’s greatest poet)?
No, how racist of you!

Posted by: Suresh | Apr 1 2025 8:36 utc | 151

Not up to any of us to define the the particular toxic emotion, which is in the eye of the beholder.
All wars may be bankster’s war but leverage is required. In the case of Ukraine, that leverage is racism.
“Russians are asiatics and therefore subhuman”
Andrei Biletsky, The White Fuhrer
Or something like that.

Posted by: necromancer | Apr 1 2025 8:56 utc | 152

“High level? These people were just Uncle Toms.”
Posted by: Suresh | Apr 1 2025 8:36 utc | 154
Now THAT is truly racist. You must be a DNC Democrat. Any black person who has achieved success just MUST be an “Uncle Tom”, in your view. You must keep them down low and on the plantation.

Posted by: Spectator | Apr 1 2025 8:57 utc | 153

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Posted by: arthur brogard | Apr 1 2025 0:01 utc | 251

He says here that we can’t post links in the comments on MoA
Link to Karlof1

Since you have received an answer from Karl that you are satisfied with, you could at least “update” your post. !!!
–> see your “result” in Posted by: Spectator | Apr 1 2025 2:24 utc | 254
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– In one case, I was able to post a comment if I removed the prefix “https://”
– typepad use a “blocklist” ( Filled manually ) ; a spamfilter …. … and so on

Posted by: ghiwen | Apr 1 2025 9:10 utc | 154

CullenBaker | Mar 31 2025 17:13 utc | 11
Posted by: Markw | Mar 31 2025 18:34 utc | 32
Great comments both of you.
You may add that in the decade of the 60s humanity as a whole reached its peak in demographic growth rate. After the 60s, the rate of growth of the whole human population will only decrease until it reaches 0 close to the end of this century (logistic population growth past the inflection point), unless a major discovery unleashes a new revolution in food production. So, many large scale processes came together between the 40s and the 80s of the past century.

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Apr 1 2025 9:21 utc | 155

Racist Allied Underestimation Of Russia’s Abilities Led To Its Win

Yes, dear B. The remark by that consumate European diplomat, the great … whatever, that we live in a garden and the rest of the world (including the USA of course) is a jungle, reflects this deeply held assumption of Western euro elites and most of the Western euro populace, about our ‘racial superiority’. Only one other group hold this assumption about themselves but they are very small and live vicariously on European peoples’ achievements.

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Apr 1 2025 9:27 utc | 156

Racist is the wrong word. It is more a British Colonial mindset thing. They have come to believe their own bullshit propaganda which guarantees very bad decision making.
Posted by: ramAustralia | Apr 1 2025 3:36 utc | 133

Well there is hardly anything, anywhere, that is more racist than the British Colonial mindset.
I agree with those who detect racism here. Racism doesn’t apply to skin colour only. It applies to “otherness” when looked down upon. We all know how Russians have been despised since – well since it started to be important for the Western powers to despise everything Russian.
So much brainwashing…

Posted by: Avtonom | Apr 1 2025 9:27 utc | 157

@Andrew Sarchus
“Mark Rutte now says publically that there will be no reconciliation with Russia for “decades”.”
Rutte’s decomposing corpse will dangle from a lamppost in Brussels in the not too distant future.

Posted by: Apollyon | Apr 1 2025 10:08 utc | 158

Discussions with the US on rare-earth mineral projects in Russia are underway, a senior adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. According to Kirill Dmitriev – the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and a key member of Moscow’s delegation to talks aimed at normalizing relations with the US – several American companies have reportedly expressed interest in working in Russia.
Dmitriev confirmed the ongoing discussions on joint rare-earth projects in an interview with Izvestia published on Monday.
“It’s an important part of cooperation, so we have certainly started discussing various rare earth projects in Russia,” he stated. Any Western involvement in extraction would require a significant easing of the sanctions on Russia, Izvestia noted.

Isn’t that heartwarming? America goes and gets the rare earths! (fist pump with a bit of bad moulage on the ear)
It’s amazing what these intelligent “golden people” can do. And this time it took only a million deaths. Less than usual. Well, one country was wiped off the face of the earth and the remains enslaved, but let’s all forget that. Oh and Europe is destroyed, impoverished and militarised, but we all hate Europe don’t we? Isn’t it amazing when our hatred of “Europe” coincides with all the billionaire ethnocracy projects like the Kalergi plan?
“Significant easing of the sanctions on Russia”? Wow. That’s a lot! Just let a few more oligarchs through, that should do it. Give them visas to Europe and let them buy golden toilets from the arabs or something. Maybe slap McDonalds and Ikea back. Definitely don’t open SWIFT to Russians or let them back on Upwork or anything though. Keep them waiting for that a decade or two.
/s

Posted by: Jack M | Apr 1 2025 10:19 utc | 159

Posted by: Hamburger | Apr 1 2025 8:21 utc | 150
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Same for me, living in Belgium.
The sites are « illegal »

Posted by: scc | Apr 1 2025 10:27 utc | 160

« You have been redirected to this stop page because the website you are trying to visit offers content that is considered illegal according to Belgian legislation ».
Sputnik, Southfront, Strategic Culture.
Probably others.

Posted by: scc | Apr 1 2025 10:30 utc | 161

DS map update:
https://deepstatemap.live/en#6/49.4324126/32.0581055
Overall: Another slow day, for the RFA. Only 3.2 kmsq taken.
Specific advances, S to N:
1. Shows a consolidation of the separated blocks in Rozlyv. (Still an island, connected by gray zone salient.)
2. Another small section near Pantenolyivka (W of NY salient).
3. N of Kupiansk (W of Oskil River).

Posted by: Anonymous | Apr 1 2025 10:36 utc | 162

B – ethno-supremacist is possibly an improvement on racist.
After all, it was the Brits who preyed on the Irish for centuries.
But it is also more apt to use class within races, and between nations of the same race/ethnicity. Class analysis has been erased from higher education in the West since the purge of academics in the 90s.
I remember in 70s/80s UK, they had social unrest .. but it was occuring in poor white working class industrial districts mostly as unemployment skyrocketed. Demonisation & smashing of unions etc. it was called class warfare. Decades later, with black/brown people numerically dominating the poorer class, it becomes “race riots”.
In India, caste system conflicts, and in the Rwanda conflicts, the Tsutsi vs Hutu.. not even different tribes/ethnicities, but a class Division-of-Labour made worse under European colonisation. One group was given privileges by colonialists, over the other group.
In Australia, an aluminium mine set up in a remote area, where 4 separate indigenous tribal groups were located, and had long been hostile to each other, but maintained a modus vivendi type of arrangement. The mining company just rounded them all up (ie ethnically cleansed) and moved all of them several hundred kms farther north, and dumped them in a pre-fab housing “township” giving privileges to one group over the others. To this day, the town is a tragic tale of strife.
Russians/Slavs have always been seen by Western Europeans as “lower class”… even as their royal families intermarried. Don’t know why.. perhaps being a 1,000 yr old culture that still recognises its pre-christian peasant history, in song, folk dance, art etc. Russian palaces, architecture, music, art etc has never been quite ‘good enough’ for Westerners. Maybe Russian elites were just never forgiven for holding their heads high and arrogantly assuming equality with Western European elites. As one comedian I heard said ‘Slavs are the brown people of Europe’.
On the other hand, I was startled when travelling in Canada, at the frequency of overt hostility between English and French Canadians. I caught a public bus in Ottawa, and was whispered to that I was sitting on the wrong side? At first I thought they were joking, teasing me, or pulling my leg, as a tourist etc.. I even asked how can you tell a French from an English? Or an Irish Catholic vs Protestant?

Posted by: Rain | Apr 1 2025 10:41 utc | 163

Posted by: james | Apr 1 2025 3:18 utc | 131
Hold My Beer
William Schryver
Mar 31, 2025
Thank you for the link James. Interesting stuff, and seems fairly credible. I suppose we will all find out before too long.

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Apr 1 2025 10:41 utc | 164

I heard of an unconditional love.
I even heard of an unconditional surrender.
But man o man. Never heard of
A uncondontional Cis… oh, never mind.
‘– GEROMAN — time will tell – 👀 —
@GeromanAT
34m
There NEVER WAS and never WILL BE a thing called “unconditional ceasefire” – I don’t know how stupid this woman must be not knowing that.
And it was Europe and USA that delayed ANY peace progress for years.
Why does this brainless creature think RUssia would agree to another crap like Minsk 2?
She must go.
Apr 1, 2025 · 10:04 AM UTC ‘
Is this the April fool joke I been searching for all day?
If so – it’s very clever and funny.
😂

Posted by: DunGroanin | Apr 1 2025 10:41 utc | 165

“Derp! No negroes, so it can’t be racism!”
The stupidity hurts all humanity.

Posted by: William Gruff | Apr 1 2025 10:50 utc | 166

Now that we have a final mapping for MAR, we can calculate the daily average pace for the month:
end FEB
68,377 km
endMAR
68,511 km
delta
134 km
days
32
rate
4.2
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As you can see, the daily pace was poor in March. Not “accelerating collapse”. Consider that NOV2024 (not a blitzkrieg by any means, but the best recent month) was 23.5 kmsq/day. An order of magnitude higher.
Note: 32 days is used, not 31, because there was no 28FEB report, so I used 27FEB.
Note: This does not include recovery of formal RFA territory. (This is logical, because I did not count it against RFA in AUG or SEP. Also, allowing for recovery of own territory, would lead to illogical analysis, like RFA benefiting from UFA incursions–because they get to take them back, later.) Bottom line is RFA is supposed to be going after the “four oblasts”. Getting “clean slate” on their own territory is just expected. (Although interesting how long it has taken…I was a doomer for picking option “D”, late 2024 as expectation for when Kursk salient would be eliminated…and I wasn’t doomer enough! Meanwhile the hoper/coper, “give me news I want to hear” brigade here was predicting a few days/weeks.)
Note for the illogical anti-DS arguments from Hermius. All the maps are very similar, when looked at over a period of time. It is impossible for DS to be showing a rate ten times less than DPA, consistently. If so, the front would have moved into completely different oblasts on the other maps. Yet, all of them talk about the exact same areas of conflict, with maybe a day or two difference in reporting. Also, a bunch of things wrong with the DPA analysis…the biggest being he formally double counts RFA gains (both as claimed and as conceded) and he admits this.

Posted by: Anonymous | Apr 1 2025 10:56 utc | 167

Spectator, this is a strange but true statement, racism has very little to do with race or skin color. The Irish , Italians and Spanish were Niggers just 100 years ago. American exceptionalism is a supremacy doctrine. These supremacy doctrines must be pilloried and attacked. I’m a student of religion and like Unitarian notions, but they refuse to denounce supremacy making them unable to be relevant as they’re not able to harmonize the supremacists.
These attitudes were rooted in the ideas that Germany, the UK and US agreed on, that “white” people were infected by a Teutonic gene that made them uniquely capable of self governance. It was the white man’s burden to rule the world

Posted by: Scottindallas | Apr 1 2025 11:08 utc | 168

@161 scc

Probably others.

RT here in Germany.
Scary times!

Posted by: Hamburger | Apr 1 2025 11:23 utc | 169

No way racism this is. This is clear and obvious Nazism. The difference between Yanks and eurosojuz pink ponies is that common Joe and Mary are not nazis.
However, pink ponies in the streets of euroreich under their Leaders such as Vdr. Leyen, Kallas, Merz, Macaron….in my country under their darlgins pres. Pávek-Pavel, PM Fila,forgot the following
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VT-Tp78bm0
while they really are keen of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRmHOSnehTk
and again believe in Bernays-Goebbels-like propaganda.
Do not forget, Europe was full of russophobia, really nazi then too, even Spain and Sweden had their SS units on Ostfront to fight, voluntarily, jewish-russian hords of barbarians.
Crazy miniuk and euroland elites are just now planning their armies, incl. boots on the ground on the ground on UA even as combat units. Plus they have no problem with sending their missiles far to RU hinterland. All this without US support and US e-warfare, from air nor space.
What they and their stupid voters are expecting? Iskanders full of ru chocolates?

Posted by: Josef Schweik | Apr 1 2025 11:37 utc | 170

Posted by: Hamburger | Apr 1 2025 8:21 utc | 150
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Same for me, living in Belgium.
The sites are « illegal »
Posted by: scc | Apr 1 2025 10:27 utc | 160
Welcome to democracy and free speech garden. 😁
By the way southfront still works for me in Italy.

Posted by: Mario | Apr 1 2025 11:38 utc | 171

Imo. It’s not racism it’s anti HUMAN. Race is a human construct being used to divide HUMANS. What u are all trying to label racism is pure anti human behaviour. These people are lesser demons, they have given up their humanity for things they think they want. Hopefully in time they as well as the masses will see that they ain’t got what they think they got

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Apr 1 2025 12:32 utc | 172

Germany getting a bit nasty…trying to retake the centre stage in a not very nice way…jahwol meinherr
Berlin plans to “defend” the EU against “internal and external enemies” by calling for punitive action against member states that allegedly violate principles such as the rule of law. Proposed penalties include withholding EU funds and suspending voting rights.
“We will take even more consistent action against violations,” the document states. “Existing protective instruments, from infringement proceedings and the withholding of EU funds to the suspension [of] membership rights such as voting rights in the Council of the EU, must be applied much more consistently than before.”
The coalition has also proposed the creation of a “comprehensive sanction instrument” to rein in perceived dissenters, including replacing the EU’s foreign policy unanimity requirement with majority voting to prevent countries from blocking decisions such as sanctions.
“The consensus principle in the European Council must not become a brake on decision-making,” the document states.

Posted by: Jo | Apr 1 2025 12:41 utc | 173

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon can’t shout it loud enough: “within Russia’s top brass, the knives are out for Vladimir Putin.”
For a Daily Telegraph op-ed writer who has not been to Russia recently, if at all, de Bretton-Gordon receives his intel from Sky News, so of course he’s got the inside track on the place he dubs “a Potemkin superpower.”
For instance, “the Kremlin is nervous,” de Bretton-Gordon asserts, fearful of a targeted assassination: “Last week, footage showed servicemen being frisked by special protection officers. Those same officers were later seen opening up sewer hatches in a hunt for bombs near where the Russian leader was speaking,” the implication being that VVP’s enemy is stepping up from within Moscow. However, TASS reported on 14 March that VVP enjoys the trust of 83% of the Russian populace, with 79% of participants affirming their trust in him.
Moreover, de Bretton-Gordon knows that “250,000 soldiers have died,” because he works from the nytimes school of journalism, whose First Dictum is ‘It is true if I say it is true,’ and he claims “the feeling within Russian society at large” has turned against their president: “Grieving mothers have started writing to him, demanding explanation, with one telling Sky News, “It’s impossible to live like this.”
Pretending to be a weather forecaster, de Bretton-Gordon knows that “fighting season” is upon us, “a time when the temperature warms up and the ground hardens to allow tank warfare.” Meteorologist that he is, he sees this improvement benefiting Ukraine: “Clearer skies will make drones more useful in targeting Russian forces, and their untrained troops – with no experience of combined arms, tanks, artillery and airpower – will also struggle against Ukraine’s better trained defense.”
Notice that de Bretton-Gordon has such an inside track on Russia’s battlefield strategies he knows the MoD will pit conscripts against highly skilled Ukrainians in Donbass. Apparently de Bretton-Gordon does not realize that Russian law forbids the placement of new recruits in LPR or DPR; they can only join forces on pre-2014 Russia.
“What will worry Putin the most is the impatience of the man he considered his most loyal friend in the West”—-DJT—who is now “pissed off after weeks of negotiating a ceasefire to no avail. That marks a sharp change in tone from the time in 2015 when Trump described him as a strong leader.”
For de Bretton-Gordon, “there has been no time when the Russian premier’s vulnerability was as pivotal in altering the course of this war as now.” So de Bretton-Gordon sees the West actually turning the tide-!? Remember, he’s straight out of the nytimes J-School of how to report information.
Meanwhile, Russian Forces launched over 4000 drones against Ukrainian targets in the past month alone, more than in any other period during the past year.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Apr 1 2025 12:51 utc | 174

Exile @ 30
I posted my 41 before having seen your 30.
I live in the world’s largest Polish city, Chicago. I would say Eastern Europeans generally preen themselves endlessly, whether they are Slavic or Jewish. The inborn sense of superiority and chosenness is about the same.
In my time I have known only a few from the Pale of Settlement who were not total political idiots. One of those was a Latvian who came here in 1992 while only age 19. He stayed for 25 years and is now a Russian citizen living in St. Petersburg. The other were a Ukrainian Jewish couple – back then they were called Russian Jews – who passed through the Vienna resettlement camp, could not suffer living in Israel, back to Vienna, and finally here. They also turned their back on America and lived in Mexico last I heard. They were only Jewish on their Soviet passports.
Most of the Jews I know or have known have alternately self-identified as Russian Jews, Lithuanian Jews, Polish Jews, Ukrainian Jews depending on the political exigencies of the moment.
The rulers of this city are the Crown family. They are said to be Lithuanian Jews. They are the gangsters who operated Al Capone, Sam Giancana, Barack Obama. Almost everyone here believes they are philanthropists. Currently they are a main force behind the genocide in Israel. They are General Dynamics, who supplies all the bombs. I get so tired of people saying it is the bankers, it is the military-industrial complex, it is some definition of some elite. No, it is individuals with names.
And yes, they think of Russians as animals.

Posted by: oldhippie | Apr 1 2025 13:26 utc | 175

Posted by: Spectator | Apr 1 2025 2:01 utc | 119

If you..and fellow American traveller’s.. are so stupid and American centric that you cannot understand b was talking about rascist assumptions about Russians who are, you know, not black, you should perhaps find a forum more suited to your intellectual proclivities. Racism isn’t exclusively about skin color. This isn’t some woke bullshit like in America. It’s about assumptions about people, like that Chinese are too stupid to do anything but copy American designs. Seeing how that turned out, how’s them hypersonics…er..

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Apr 1 2025 13:28 utc | 176

Oh that’s right Real American Hero Trump the fucking clown prince of dipshittery has claimed Russia stole hypersonics from America who has never had them. America is run on a cult of personalities. It’s an insane country filled with people comfortable with and even deriving confidence from their ignorance.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Apr 1 2025 13:32 utc | 177

The AngloEuropean, russophobic animus, is a monster of the Id, created over a Millenia ago for the ancient global robber slave owners as I traced and posted on the open thread If you haven’t read yet, . All things are connected and why the Gazans are being exterminated not just genocided.
Link to posting in seven parts

Posted by: DunGroanin | Apr 1 2025 13:37 utc | 178

It’s been confirmed that NAMMO Raufoss and Kongsberg Gruppen – have been invited to participate in the EU’s mechanisms for the funding of defense procurement initiatives for UKraine’s NATO and they will be able to profit significantly from that.
This is contradictory to Norwegian export control laws that prohibit Norwegian companies from selling munitions to countries at war or conflict.
In the past IDF Israel and the US of A have a been a large beneficiary of these weapons contradicting the current legislature.

Posted by: pepe | Apr 1 2025 13:57 utc | 179

Imo. It’s not racism it’s anti HUMAN. Race is a human construct being used to divide HUMANS. What u are all trying to label racism is pure anti human behaviour.
Posted by: Tannenhouser | Apr 1 2025 12:32 utc | 172
I agree with that. So does Adolph Reed Jr.
“Racism is the belief that races exist” (@58:50)

Posted by: waynorinorway | Apr 1 2025 14:22 utc | 180

Concerning Russia.
Trump, before his 1st term communicated that he planned to ally w. Russia with presumably the (unstated) aim of splitting Russia – China. That was scotched by Russia Gate, rabid anti-Russia moves, his poor choice of advisors, his incapacity to stand up, lawfare against him, he went along to get along, implemented a Repub. agenda internally, etc.
Foreign policy changed little, he supported the ‘war’ in UKR, supported ISR while attempting to ‘normalise’ ME relations (Abraham Accords for ex.)
His 2nd term WAS set to be creative destruction, (build back better implies tear down first), gloves off, gunboat diplomacy (no more fakey softie power stuff), concentrate on National interests and Geography. > Greenland, Panama Canal, and EU / NATO can eff off.
Re-industrialise the US back to its past Glory Days, plus !, get revenge, diminish, disable, all those who opposed him, prevented him from acting in Term 1. So he collecrted around him radical, strong arm, etc. types. Some might call it a sign of the end of Empire.
This time round, the new USA – Russia partnership (not an alliance, just some collab) is apparently not being smartly negotiated as the US insists on its way of doing, while Russia endlessly trumpets (sic) its ‘existential’ demands to seemingly deaf ears.
Things Change..
Recall Tony Blair (Third Wayer) was a BF of Putin, they hugged all the time, Georgie Bush saw into Putin’s soul thru his eyes and really liked him, etc.
Trump is a BizMan, and he treats Int’l relations and negotiations as he would the establishment of a new Factory Abroad, a new Franchise for a Whole Country, etc.
“You are fired! We cut you off! You get taxed, we won’t buy!” etc. “We win this, listen! OK so now we do …”
How the US/EU was turned against Russia is a story that would take a slim book, and I’d have a hard time setting the chapter titles, but Racism is not an important part of the story.
With maybe one minor footnote. It seems like (from my narrow exp.) many ? US citizens consider Russians to be White and Chrisitian (Orthodox, hey, whatever) so sorta ‘tribal bothers’, heh.

Posted by: Noirette | Apr 1 2025 14:33 utc | 181

Don’t forget the other untermenschen. The Ukrainians.
The entire premise of the adventure, hatched by Soros in 1996, was to use 3rd class Europeans/Slavs/Russians as a battering ram.
The west considers Ukranians as Russians, ie disposable garbage.
It always amazes me when i encounter people in the west who think “we support Ukraine”. We don’t. We never did. And we want them to send ever younger men and women to die for us, because we consider them sub human.

Posted by: Glasshopper | Apr 1 2025 14:37 utc | 182

okay it isn’t racism.. we’ve established that… but give it a name, as it is something.. this superiority complex that exists and cultivates this attitude towards russia is crap.. it is very prevalent too.. is it russias attempt at communism, or a more socialistic framework for it’s people that drives the capitalists batty and to the point of hatred?? what is it then??

Posted by: james | Apr 1 2025 14:39 utc | 183

Thierry Meyssan (voltairenet) is known to most barflies. He had an interview at Matinale entitled “Trump agit rapidement car il doit affronter l’ inéluctable” (Trump acts rapidly because he has to face the unavoidable) around 20 March. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YWjBnESlqQ (from 50 minutes onwards).
For once he can speak out and is not interrupted as happens most of the time in French podcasts.
The inevitable refers to an unavoidable financial restructuring. The Trump administration did not see Von der Leyen yet, but they did see Lagarde from the ECB and other western central bankers. The Americans want them to convert their US bonds into zero intrest hundred year bonds and threaten that otherwise the whole western financial system will crash.
Meyssan then makes a valid point about World Wars. In fact it is the Second World War that has not ended yet rather than a Third one starting. We are ruled by people we thought we had vanquished in 1945. He points to the fascist philosophy that came to America in the thirties through the fascistic and atheistic German Jew Leo Strauss. He is the mentor of generations of neocons. Blinken is marked by that teaching.
Another fascist strain is the revisionist zionism of Jabotinsky. Netanyahu’ father was the secretary of that movement. Jabotinsky had his fascist militia in Mussolini’s Italy. He had negotiated with Petliura, the antisemite dictator of an ephemeral West Ukrainian German satellite republic (1918-1920). He bribed Petliura to deport Jews to the revisionist zionists’ Palestine colony.
With Netanyahu revisionist zionism has made a complete breakthrough in Israel during the last thirty years and focuses apart from ethnic cleansing and extending Eretz Israel on completely decapitating leaderships such as Hezbollah, Hamas, Ansar Allah but also the Iranian secular and spiritual leaders.
However the Israeli army is weakened and they do not have enough foot soldiers. Meyssan bets they might engage the Kurds, their ally in the Middle East. The Kurds have a record of massacring Armenians and Assyrian Christians in the early twentieth century.
Meyssan mentions the biolabs in Ukraine. This reminds us of nazi research. It is a long tradition. German and Japanese scientists working in that branch were exfiltrated in 1945 to work for the US. Apart from the US other western states such as Israel and apartheid South Africa have experimented in that field. Nevertheless it has proved to be impossible to design viruses that would only target some genetic groups (Russians, South AFrican blacks..) and not others.
Lots of western leaders are descendants of nazi families and families of Japanese war criminals. In that sense also the Second World War is still present with us.
Last but not least Meyssan mentions Dmitro Dontsov. He was a collaborator of Bandera. Bandera was the organizer of the pogroms and massacres of Poles until the Germans interned him. Dontsov was the ideologue, he was never interned but lived a quiet life in Prague during the war and was involved in the Heydrich Stiftung (Institute) that planned the holocaust. After the war he was exfiltrated to Canada… Some nazis involved in it were hanged, Dontsov escaped and spent his life as a university professor of literature in Canada and the US. The pre war writings of Dontsov about the necessary extermination of Russian, Jewish.. populations in Ukraine was never translated into English. That does not mean that these writings do not continue to circulate.
Valid points by Meyssan… It is complementary to a lot that has been written in these columns today and yesterday about racism, fascism and World Wars.

Posted by: Teraspol | Apr 1 2025 14:46 utc | 184

MEDVEDEV TOTALLY UNPLUGGED
He’s going mega-Highway to Hell:
“On Russomania (Russophobia)
A significant number of European politicians have succumbed to acute Russomania (also known as Russophobia)—a psychiatric disorder stemming from a bipolar affective exaggeration of Russia’s influence on the life of Europe and Europeans. The condition typically alternates between two distinct phases: manic and depressive.
The manic stage is characterized by motor agitation, aggressiveness, and a tendency to provoke and attack stronger opponents without assessing one’s actual capabilities against the target of the attack. Sometimes, it ends in uncontrolled urination and defecation. Examples of patients in the manic stage include Macron, Starmer, Stubb, and several other European politicians (see more at https://t.me/russophob_ru ).
The depressive phase is characterized by melancholy, emotional and physical fatigue, eating disorders, hypochondria, and self-harm. A patient in the depressive stage of Russomania may harm themselves, including self-sterilization (self-castration). At present, this stage is more commonly observed in women (Ursula von der Leyen, Kaja Kallas) or in hermaphrodites suffering from drug addiction (patients Zelensky, Saakashvili).
Treatment is symptomatic. Traditional medications are generally ineffective. The best therapeutic effect has been observed with the combined use of strong sedative drugs such as “Kalibr,” “Onyx,” “Iskander,” and the powerful multi-component tranquilizer “Oreshnik.” In particularly severe cases, nuclear neuroleptics such as “Yars” and “Sarmat” must be used.”

https://t.me/rocknrollgeopolitics/14960

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 1 2025 14:49 utc | 185

Posted by: james | Apr 1 2025 14:39 utc | 183
What is it?
Anti human behaviour. There’s only 1 race and we are it.

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Apr 1 2025 14:50 utc | 186

Posted by: Hamburger | Apr 1 2025 11:23 utc | 169
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RT, of course, but try this: https://swentr.site/news/
Works for me

Posted by: scc | Apr 1 2025 15:14 utc | 187

@112
Well Tobias, if it takes 9 Ukrainians to kill 1 Russian then that is 10 dead Slavs. The neocons are fine with that.

Posted by: Fred777 | Apr 1 2025 15:18 utc | 188

@ Tannenhouser | Apr 1 2025 14:50 utc | 186
thanks… what do you think of the idea that this is another form of class warfare – upper class and then all the rest of us? this ongoing attempt to continue with war on russia is working for the same upper class who run and control much of the financial world.. they want war as it generates more money…. this ignoramus U.S. General Christopher G. Cavoli – works for the upper class or financial mandarins who demand we continue in the direction we are going in here towards ww3… otherwise their system of finance breaks down or craps out… well that is my idea for this morning..

Posted by: james | Apr 1 2025 15:19 utc | 189

Speaking as a Slav, Slavs aren’t white to the rest of the world, where such arbitrary delineation matters. Within our own bubble, and in the context of imagined racial hierarchies, Slavs consider themselves white and are eternally surprised by the rejection of like-minded racists outside of it.

Posted by: Skiffer | Apr 1 2025 15:26 utc | 190

A quote from the New York Times piece reveals that a very real factor behind starting and losing the war is pure racism:
Within the coalition, the prevailing wisdom was that the 2023 counteroffensive would be the war’s last: The Ukrainians would claim outright triumph, or Mr. Putin would be forced to sue for peace.
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They didn’t have to be as good as the British and Americans, General Cavoli would say; they just had to be better than the Russians.
U.S. General Christopher G. Cavoli is the commander of the United States European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe. His lack of historic knowledge and respect of the abilities of Russian soldiers should have disqualified him.
It is for racist people like him that the U.S., UK and Ukraine failed to recognize that have had no chance to win.
Well, this American attitude just shows me they haven’t learned anything!
How did they always fight their wars of the last 80 years against sandal warriors or bomb them for days before they dared to enter with troops?
I always thought my two grandparents’ stories about the “bravery” and “cleverness” of the Americans in World War II were exaggerations, but apparently it’s the truth…entire companies turned back when they encountered counterfire, even if it was “only” two or three Hitler Youth soldiers.
The technology they’re developing, which is unsuitable for combat, shows how arrogant they are and what sandal armies they’re building.
Two hot meals a day, a shower after work, a quick drop-off of tanks at the factory for inspection, and enjoying the scenery during flying lessons. In the worst case, take cover in a trench (in modern drone warfare, even trenches or shelters don’t help anymore), but you’ll learn that the hard way in a war with the most combat-experienced army in the world, which is used to enduring temperatures of minus 30 degrees Celsius or, in autumn/spring, knee-deep trenches 24/7.
We in the NVA (East Germany) were already complaining when we were kept pointlessly busy for five weeks in October without a tent, without a shower, without hot food in Nochten (a sandy area in the GDR)… as I said, WITHOUT anything. Anyone who had Coke in their canteen just shaved with Coke… I doubt a Bundeswehr soldier ever trained for that. After five weeks, I saw the first field shower and the first warm soup, but I got inflammation in certain parts of my body! At least we could secretly boil water in the forest in our steel helmets…
A NATO helmet is probably not suitable for that (=

Posted by: berthold | Apr 1 2025 15:27 utc | 191

@steel_porcupine @Apr 1 2025 12:51 utc #174
I follow HBG on Twitter/X but mainly for the entertainment value. In US financial news a commentator, Jim Cramer, has become a punchline for giving bad advice you would do well to do the opposite of. HBG is in that circle WRT geopolitics/military issues.
WRT the OP and racism as a motivation: there is a phenomenon called the “Streisand” effect largely created by a series of high-visibility deranged posts from Barbara Streisand to Democrats. In the rants she couldn’t even spell Tom Daschle’s name correctly. The phenomenon refers to being surrounded by yes-people and losing all connection with reality. What we have today in US leadership are part of what is referred to as the “blob” – the families and related companies that hold themselves as a superior class. (the most famous quote WRT the blob is George Carlin – “It’s a big club and you ain’t in it” – a good example of blob in action would be Chelsea Clinton getting a job in “news” for >$200k with no qualifications other than her name)
When no one in your work and personal life dare gainsay you, you lose all sorts of social mechanisms for correction.
I hope this finds you well

Posted by: ockham | Apr 1 2025 15:28 utc | 192

Posted by: james | Apr 1 2025 15:19 utc | 190
I can agree w the class warfare idea much more readily than the race trope.
There seems to be a problem w this as well as, class can become burdened by the same problems we have w the race idea. There are really only 2 classes anymore rich and not rich. Plenty of anti human sentiment among both groups.

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Apr 1 2025 15:31 utc | 193

Norwegian | Apr 1 2025 14:49 utc | 185 MEDVEDEV TOTALLY UNPLUGGED
Good old Dimitri also getting in on the act. He knows full well – as does any leader in any position whether government, academia or business – about the Hubbert curve.
Like a cancer, all life forms mulitiply and destroy their habitats if given sufficient opportunity; it’s just the facts of life. The bald ape stumbled upon 200m years of stored solar energy that enabled us to literally live like “kangz” for 200 years +-. Worse, civilizations were built upon a financial mechanism that was predicated upon endless growth, never accounting for the inevitable peak and decline.
But here we are, and now what do we do about it? We do what all species do when faced with existential threats to their survival: we fight. And in our case, if survivors will have very little to enjoy much anyway in a world reset to traditional limits and hardships, perhaps death itself is a preferable outcome.
If you understand the world and current events in the context of this harsh reality, then what is happening is easily predicable. After all, the military/political powers not only understand, but have been busily prosecuting the very wars long underway.
No, the only interesting variable is the outcome – who will “win”? And this is where this constant unrelenting strain of anti-American butthurt really detracts from otherwise good insights from commenters. In many regards, it’s like someone who never outgrew a bulling experience from their youth, causing life long trauma.
The USA has no inside track, no predestined outcome towards claiming the prize. I’m still waiting for B to get smart and begin posting a regularly repeating USA thread covering the very real ongoing civil war. For, even if MAGA prevails on the domestic front, it hasn’t stopped either Russia or China from accelerating in certain technical fields. That is, they are both generations past their respective internal battles, 35 and 75 years respectively, and are building on their hard won unity and consensus.
Trump only has the bully pulpit and the exhibition of self to rally Americans, knowing full well that just as the iron duke commented “the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life”, it’s gonna be a very close call.

Posted by: markw | Apr 1 2025 15:32 utc | 194

I recall making comments in various places in 2022 that referring to the Russians as “orcs” and continually decrying their military capabilities was not going to end well, and was a mind set based on racist assumptions. Like others, I referred to the ex-Nazi generals who penned all sorts of reports that blamed Herr Hilter for the disaster on the Ostfront, passing the buck for OKH’s miscalculations. And we still seem to be there.
Well good job one of our guys is worth 20 of theirs as that is the sort of odds we will face. Can you imagine the situation where Russia acyually mobilises??
The Central Powers comprehensively beat Russia in 1917 and I believe the Mongols did c 1254. Somehow they came back stronger. And anyone remember April 1945? Or 1814 with the cosscks watering their horses by the Seine?
But heh, totally a god idea to remind the Russians that we fear and hate them, and regard them as untermensch. What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: marcjf | Apr 1 2025 15:33 utc | 195

Posted by: TRUTHHURTS | Apr 1 2025 15:01 utc | 187
You have trouble speculating here about the tolerance of ethnic groups and what kind of jokes they can tolerate… God oh God.
.As for Russians, yes, some of them are quite strong, which, by the way, applies to almost all Eastern Europeans.
This can even be seen between East and West Germany.
Tip: Try making a joke about Russians, about Russia, or even Russian women in the presence of a Russian…
Don’t forget to plan an escape route beforehand.
But apart from that…where is this discussion leading?
I’ve said many times before, YOU know nothing about the Russian mentality…absolutely nothing.

Posted by: Ost Rentner | Apr 1 2025 15:38 utc | 196

In all of this craziness, there is no mention of what would have happened if the West had been successful and had set foot in Russia proper.
Their dream of a soft coup bringing in the second coming of Yeltsin ready to sell Russia in bits and pieces is utter nonsense.
What would have emerged is just the reverse. A parallel to the extremist regime in Ukraine, ready for an all out war and if necessary for nuclear war.
In their stupid playing with fire, the West (and each of us) was lucky that the Russian government was led by rational and even keeled men and women. I say lucky as I do not believe this was an explicit, smart calculation. That their dumb guess of “Putin is bluffing” and “he won’t dare use nuclear bombs” appears correct ex post is only as convincing as a dead clock that is right twice a day. I have no doubt they would have been proven wrong if we’d been unlucky enough for the West to actually win on the ground, or if the West had managed to oust Putin.

Posted by: ColoradoFrench | Apr 1 2025 15:42 utc | 197

Post on X from Mollie Hemingway, editor of The Federalist:
“New York Times finally tells its readers on March 30, 2025, what was beyond obvious to the American people for years now—and a factor in their election of Donald Trump—the military industrial complex is in a proxy war with Russia, still without even a hint of strategy.”
Hemingway references Collective Biden’s “flurry of moves to stay the course” during their final weeks in office before DJT stepped in, attempting to “shore up the Ukraine project.”
It’s intriguing that Hemingway identifies the *MIC* specifically as the belligerent in a proxy war w/ Russia.
The MIC is the recipient naturally of the $124bn or the $300bn—whichever figures you accept—of public money, taxpayer money, sent by Congress *to Ukraine* but which actually ends up replenishing the boutique weaponry of Raytheon, General Dynamics, Collins Aerospace & others.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Apr 1 2025 15:49 utc | 198

I was puzzled by the many questions that the NY Times did not ask:
– In the course of the war Ukraine started to check all the targets selected by the US. It would have been logical to ask both Ukrainians and Americans whether they had a point and many recommendations were bad. If they were bad that would have shredded the image of American perfection that the Times likes to keep up.
– The Ukrainian army is criticized for diverting troops to Bakhmut instead of focusing everything on the south for its great 2023 counteroffensive. It would be interesting to see both Americans and Ukrainians speculate on whether the Bakhmut counterattacks could have worked. Were they doomed from the start or was there a chance?
– The article failed to go deeper into the fundamental difference of interest between the Ukrainians and the US. The US was content as long as Ukraine didn’t lose. Ukraine wanted a complete win and was prepared to take risky steps that could result in a complete loss.

Posted by: Wim | Apr 1 2025 15:52 utc | 199

This is now the fifth time the West has directly waged war against Russia in about 2 centuries, each time ending in failure.
1) Napoleonic war against Russia
2) Crimean war(s)
3) The (pretty much forgotten) post WW1 military support to the “White Russians” between 1918 and 1920 (with 13000 Americans fighting in Siberia, and some on the outskirts of Saint Petersburg together with Brits)
4) Germany in WW2
5) Ukrainian proxy war
Each time there was massive underestimation of the task…

Posted by: ColoradoFrench | Apr 1 2025 15:54 utc | 200

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