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March 31, 2025
Racist Allied Underestimation Of Russia’s Abilities Led To Its Win

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:

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…

  1. The Ukraine Generals started acting up and disobeyed US orders.
  2. Zelensky chased "big wins" for PR reasons, failing to follow US strategy.
  3. Resulting in the 2023 counteroffensive 'failure.' Trust was broken between US and Ukraine.
  4. What followed was the US keeping Ukraine in the game up to the US elections, by striking targets in Crimea and pre-2014 Russia.
  5. 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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Two pieces of good news:
Serbia, Hungary are moving towards military alliance
The two countries signed a deal, paving the way for ‘a military alliance or union between Serbia and Hungary’. I hope Slovakia will join in.
and
Georgian parliament passes foreign agents law
This is a very tame, tepid version of the corresponding US law, but an important first step. Thousands of western NGOs have tried to turn Georgia into the next Ukraine. It now seems more likely than not that US/EU have failed and Georgia will remain safe.

Posted by: Hamburger | Apr 2 2025 12:55 utc | 301

This “racist” crap needs to stop.
Posted by: PamBlonde | Apr 2 2025 12:17 utc | 298
Cuts too close to the bone, huh?

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 2 2025 13:13 utc | 302

-USA wants ‘peace’ ASAP in Ukraine as war with Yemen and Iran looms
Posted by: unimperator | Apr 2 2025 10:27 utc | 294
A good time for Putin to squeeze the yanks for all they’re worth …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 2 2025 13:15 utc | 303

“In WW2 Churchill and Roosevelt expected Hitler to beat the USSR and wanted Hitler to beat the USSR.”
Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Mar 31 2025 16:43 utc | 5
Total hogwash.
If so why did the American do lease lease with Russia to supply it with weapons and transport and start another front in Africa, Sicily along with the British.
Too many posters here are rank amateurs.

Posted by: canuck | Apr 2 2025 13:15 utc | 304

Posted by: berthold | Apr 2 2025 5:59 utc | 278
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Posted by: TRUTHHURTS | Apr 2 2025 13:33 utc | 305

@ 304 canuck
Hitler and the NDSAP advertised themselves as ‘das antibolschewistische Bollwerk’ and was perceived as such in Britain and the USA. There was quite a bit of support and sympathy with the fascist ideology.
Of course once Germany had become too big and too cocky, it had to be put into place. Pitting others against each other (both allies and foes) has been standard imperial practice since the time of Hamurabi.
While it seems unsubstantiated that the US and UK wanted Germany to win, it is fair to say that they wanted communist Russia to lose. They wanted both sides to lose or at least to suffer so much that they would be easy to control.

Posted by: Hamburger | Apr 2 2025 13:50 utc | 306

Hamburger@306….OMG, OMG….are you saying Hammurabi was English….sorry, couldn’t resist….
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Apr 2 2025 14:22 utc | 307

I see the international crew is no different than the progressive pussies here. Or perhaps I repeat myself. Everything is racist. Everyone wants to be a victim and blame everything on someone else.
If you want to argue the neocon set is racist towards all of us “goyim”, sure there is some truth to that. But I can just tell you racism doesn’t enter into the average American’s mind about Russia. Like I said earlier, I can’t speak for Europe in that regard. As for Americans if you want to allege cultural arrogance, cultural ignorance, cultural chauvinism, and prejudices left over from the Cold War and ideas about Russia that haven’t been true since the early 2000s, then that would be accurate. But racism? No, not unless you want to redefine the term to include everything and use it to morally taint those you perceive to be your enemies. Which you probably do.

Posted by: CullenBaker | Apr 2 2025 14:35 utc | 308

Slightly off-topic, but worth wondering about. The Trump Administration has been trying to pull back the curtain on past conspiracies/misinformation. Releasing the JFK files is the biggest example so far. But not a word about the destruction of the NordStream pipelines. Interesting!
Is the Trump Administration right now compiling the information, gathering names, and sitting on the data until the optimum time to release it for maximum effect? Most likely that act of “international terrorism” was planned & implemented by the Biden Deep State, probably with support from England, Norway, the Ukraine, and even Germany (!). Throwing the facts into the public arena could create the right circumstances for the US to walk away from the proxy war. Just a speculation!

Posted by: Gavin Longmuir | Apr 2 2025 14:45 utc | 309

Occasional poster@279…..good post, likely as close to truth as one might surmise…..what you wrote ties in with DunnG’s post on the east/west trade routes established by said eastern wealth…..
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Apr 2 2025 14:46 utc | 310

Posted by: Occasional poster | Apr 2 2025 6:12 utc | 279
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Posted by: TRUTHHURTS | Apr 2 2025 14:51 utc | 311

🇫🇲 NATO countries have allocated around €20 billion for Ukraine’s security support in the first three months of 2025, NATO Secretary-General Rutte stated.
@ukraine_watch

Posted by: Jo | Apr 2 2025 15:16 utc | 312

Russian hate in England goes back to Royal family slights. It’s all so petty

Posted by: Scottindallas | Apr 2 2025 15:25 utc | 313

Posted by: canuck | Apr 2 2025 13:15 utc | 304
Or they don’t want to confront themselves with anything to challenge their simplistic view of the world, with its unified theory of history and attendant black and white bifurcation of morality.
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Apr 2 2025 14:22 utc | 307
No, he’s just stating the obvious, the practices that the evil Western Imperialists have been uniquely blamed for, by progressive revisionists, are simply the tactics used by the powerful for thousands of years. When Leftists moan about something they’re rarely commenting on the morality of the practice, just the fact the ‘wrong’ side is doing it and, as a corollary, why aren’t they personally benefiting from it.
Posted by: CullenBaker | Apr 2 2025 14:35 utc | 308
Don’t try, you’re arguing against a default post-modern Marxism setting, that everything ultimately boils down to racism when it comes to the side that beat their Communist heroes. As I say to all who spout this infantile garbage, about the unique perfidy of the West, if you view everything through the lens of race you might be the racist. Are there Western racists, off course, have they elevated themselves, on occasion, into powerful positions, yes, but did it drive policy no, not really. What so many willingly want to perceive as evidence of racism was, and is often now, simply contemporary observations of reality, however flawed the conclusions sometimes were/are. What is conveniently missed in this world view is that other cultures often behave far worse to those they regard as ‘inferior’ and in ways that often have bolstered Western attitudes of cultural superiority.

Posted by: Milites | Apr 2 2025 15:36 utc | 314

It’s germanic vs Slavic race war. Been a thing since the Germans west west against the Roman’s we can only assume the slavs took their historical lands after and that’s the scope of history.

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Apr 2 2025 16:07 utc | 315

Unless Trump brings the FY 2026 into balance; then it’s insolvency for the Federal Gov’t in 2027. Period.
Note: insolvency can mean many outcomes; all of which are painful. The good news is a insolvent Federal gov’t can’t fund the War Party.

Posted by: Exile | Apr 2 2025 16:23 utc | 316

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Posted by: TRUTHHURTS | Apr 2 2025 16:29 utc | 317

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Apr 1 2025 16:45 utc | 215
Thank you, Aleph. It is also demolition of those young people operating the drones. They are lost. Their lives are ruined. Perhaps a few of them can recover, but it will take a long time for that to happen. Probably the rest of their lives. That’s a hidden genocide for their nation. I know it is happening even for Russia as they send countering blows, but I hope the fact that it is defensively done ameliorates the damage to their own youth somewhat.
These are terrible weapons.

Posted by: juliania | Apr 2 2025 16:30 utc | 318

Posted by: Scottindallas | Apr 2 2025 15:25 utc | 313
I wouldn’t call murdering the Tsar and his family a ‘slight’ or ‘petty’, Communist Russia was from then on, in the sights of the British establishment, never the people of Russia. I’ve lived here for decades, worked closely with the military and with people who worked in Russia, there was rarely a bad word said about the people, quite the opposite, the scorn being largely directed at their Communist leaders, who they saw as little more than gangsters preying on and exploiting their populations.
Which is how many posters here like to portray the West, a stance that could be seen as a convenient elision of the truth, or a reflection of the truth. If the latter is true, and we were exploited at least we didn’t have to contend with empty shelves, two year waits for private cars, access to good medical care and our corruption was more subtlety practiced. Now, well now we have truly become a society run by similarly monstrous people as our CW enemies. Nietzsche was right again!

Posted by: Milites | Apr 2 2025 17:31 utc | 319

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Posted by: TRUTHHURTS | Apr 2 2025 19:14 utc | 320

Tannenhouser | Apr 1 2025 15:31 utc | 193
Racism is a highly effective tool for preventing classism.

Posted by: Doug Terpstra | Apr 2 2025 19:37 utc | 321

If you look at old photos of rural British men middle-aged or older and compare, [Stalin] doesn’t seem especially foreign in appearance.
Cynic | Apr 1 2025 18:13 utc | 227
Hair style may have revealed the difference, though the British may not have had such haute couture stylists in those days as Bojo does today.

Posted by: Doug Terpstra | Apr 2 2025 19:47 utc | 322

It’s funny watching those who scream “That’s racist!” about every human conflict, drawing themselves up in indignation at Americans looking at it in black and white terms.
It’s funny because “racism” is an invented American term, used to divide Americans into white and black, because that division is the most convenient for our overlords.
Of course humans are easily divided into tribal units, and easily propagandized to hate the Other. That’s a human trait, and it has been used for years to stir up war fever and pogroms.
Right now in the US, for instance, we have liberals out there destroying Tesla cars owned mostly by other liberals eager to do their part to stop climate change, as they were instructed right up until Musk and DOGE were turned loose to audit federal books.
Do you see how fast they did that? It’s only been a bit more than a month, and here you have a primo example of tribalism and hate leading to violence. And it’s the Stupidest tribal war, Ever. Non-Tesla-owning liberals attacking Tesla-owning liberals. It’s the Star-Bellied Sneetches (part of the post-war propaganda against prejudice) all over again.
As Goebbels pointed out, it’s easy to do, and they all do it.
In Ireland, Yugoslavia, and the Middle East they used religion. In Africa they use tribes. In Ukraine they have turned Slavs into Slav-hating assassins. In the US they use race.
From the late 40s to the mid-80s, Americans were propagandized to be tolerant and not “prejudiced”, which was the old word for what was changed to “racism”. But it covered all feelings of tribal discrimination, not just blacks, but Jews, Chinese, Catholics (JFK had to fight that one to get elected), Italians, or any other group.
This was because the USSR was using the apartheid system of the South to propagandize about the US Empire to third world countries.
That’s when we got the Star-Bellied Sneetches, and the “You have to carefully be taught hate”, and the West Side Story, and the black newscasters, etc. All part of an enormous propaganda campaign to make Americans tolerant, which most Americans are to this day (contrary to the new propaganda, which says that white Americans are born racist.)
But by the mid-80s that stimulus was gone, so our rulers switched to teaching what they termed “racism”, which was teaching all Americans that Whitey was the oppressor, and always benefited from “white privilege”, even if you compared Obama to some old veteran lying in a cardboard box on the sidewalk.
The most ridiculous example was when billionaire Oprah hosted rich and married-into-British-royalty Markle on one of her estates, where they had a TV special complaining about how oppressed and down-trodden they were.
That didn’t go over well.
Anyway, my point is that “racism” is an American word, made up to explain tribal differences and stir up hate, so it is not only not ridiculous to apply it to other human prejudices and conflicts, but it is beyond ridiculous to excoriate Americans for thinking it applies to that which we were taught.

Posted by: wagelaborer | Apr 2 2025 21:13 utc | 323

It’s funny because “racism” is an invented American term…
Posted by: wagelaborer | Apr 2 2025 21:13 utc | 323
What a stupid comment. Racism is as old as the bible. But yes, there is a lot of racist yankees.

Posted by: Naive | Apr 2 2025 23:39 utc | 324

Posted by: Milites | Apr 2 2025 15:36 utc | 314
“As I say to all who spout this infantile garbage, about the unique perfidy of the West, if you view everything through the lens of race you might be the racist.”
That is the essence of it, as I see it. I would only say replace the word “might” with “are”.

Posted by: Spectator | Apr 3 2025 1:09 utc | 325

“What a stupid comment. Racism is as old as the bible. But yes, there is a lot of racist yankees.”
Posted by: Naive | Apr 2 2025 23:39 utc | 324
Your posts are barely above the level of those by “Guest from Franconia” or even those by whats-his/her-name, you know, that one who everyone always makes fun of but is still here posting after many years (can’t think of the name right now). But you are a good cheerleader!

Posted by: Spectator | Apr 3 2025 2:00 utc | 326

Posted by: canuck | Apr 2 2025 13:15 utc | 304
“In WW2 Churchill and Roosevelt expected Hitler to beat the USSR and wanted Hitler to beat the USSR.”
Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Mar 31 2025 16:43 utc | 5
Total hogwash.
If so why did the American do lease lease with Russia to supply it with weapons and transport and start another front in Africa, Sicily along with the British.
Too many posters here are rank amateurs.
Nope, and Nope again Canuck,
In WW 2 a great number of British “grunts” (soldiers) were from the industrial working class and had some affinity with the socialist principles for which the USSR apparently stood. British and US military aid to Russia-such as it was – constituted a (limited) PR exercise to appease significant parts of their own populations-particularly within the British army.
Most-if not al- the British supplies were redundant and outclassed tanks (Valentine and Matilda) and Hurricane aircraft.. These were either despised by or r rarely used by the Soviet forces since they were completely outclassed by contemporary Soviet equipment, and certainly by the tanks and planes the Germans were using. I have remarked earlier @ Posted by: Barrel Brown | Apr 1 2025 1:58 utc | 118 that US equipment was much more realistic and useful to the Soviets- but did not greatly change the trajectory of the war.
Unfortunately this cynical PR exercise as I see it, also resulted in many dead merchant sailors from the US and Britain.
So far as the allied efforts in the African sphere are concerned, the strategic imperative was to stop the Germans getting access to Middle Eastern oil deposits, (including those in Persia) which had already been developed by British, European and US companies.
You (and others) may well take issue with my comments here, but I think they are factual.

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Apr 3 2025 4:17 utc | 327

RT: Russia mints 15 new billionaires
Heartwarming and surprising! Especially with names like “Kogan”. Maybe the first sanctions to be lifted, so that the US and Russia can be friends again, could be the sanctions that affect there billionaires?

Posted by: Jack M | Apr 3 2025 10:25 utc | 328

Deep State map update:
https://deepstatemap.live/en#6/49.4324126/32.0581055
Overall: Another modest day for the RFA, only taking 4.3 kmsq.
Specific changes, S to N:
1. Fields near Piatykhaty (Zhap front).
2. Fields near Andriivka. (Some old pockets closed, gray conversion, looks like catchup.)

Posted by: Anonymous | Apr 3 2025 11:42 utc | 329

For all the “everything is fine” copers:
Note that last JUN, you all were babbling about the incipient fall of Pokrovsk and thought Skruffy Talez was crazy for saying it would require massive flanking preparations and not start (proper, in the town) until summer 2025. Looks like he was right and those who only want to hear reassuring news (like the “Red Wave” believers of 2018 on TLF) were wrong.
Here we are in APR2025:
*Toretsk still has not been 100% cleaned out.
*And neither has Chasiv Yar.
*Pokrovsk has not yet even been entered…and the Ukrops have made counterattacks, driving RFA back, on the outskirts.
*RFA forces are not really threatening Kupiansk.
*And are far from Zhap.
*Or Sloviansk.
*Or Krematorsk.
*Oh…and have zero plan/threat/progress on crossing the Dnipro and attacking Kherson. (Let alone the crazy talk about “me wants Odessa, my precious, my precious!”)
*To your credit, RFA did take semi-important towns of Vuhledar, Khurakove, Velyka Novasilka. And in very early 2024, took Avdiivka.
But that’s it…for over a year of fighting. Still mired down in the Donetsk. Snail’s pace.

Posted by: Anonymous | Apr 3 2025 11:51 utc | 330

Oh…and it doesn’t matter what map you look at, to evaluate long periods. They all show the same thing. Is there some magic wormhole that the Divgen/Ayden/Rybar/Suriyak maps show that has RFA past Pokrovsk? No. We are talking the same basic front, with tiny (TINY) nuances of one having a field further or a hamlet in red versus gray zone. But it’s the same damned front.

Posted by: Anonymous | Apr 3 2025 12:23 utc | 331

Oh…but Kursk. Well…how is that a win to have lost Russian (really Russian, always Russian) territory in 2024 and gotten it back in 2025? Should they lose some more, so they can win it back? That is whack a mole.
They RFA needs to keep what they have and take what they don’t. Not trade territory back and forth!

Posted by: Anonymous | Apr 3 2025 12:26 utc | 332

so per NYT US generals have been planning targeting of Russian generals, killing many of them. And behind the lines sabotage of oil refineries, arms production factories and so on.
what has Putin done in response? Just “red line” warnings and more spell check of demarches to Western embassies where they are thrown into the dustbin without even reading.
A few “fishermen” need to find a manual on how to point and shoot a torpedo and sink a few NATO naval vessels (preferably an aircraft career) in the Red sea.

Posted by: cafe_con_leche9 | Apr 5 2025 14:27 utc | 333

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