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March 5, 2025
Ukraine Open Thread 2025-045
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I’m going to get some flak for this seeing MoA but Russia really is seeming like they’re not doing as well compared to late 2024. Advances have stopped increasing on average per month for a while now, definitely not a good sign for russia considering the whole Russian plan is seemingly to hammer Ukraine more until Russian advances speed up more and more to the point they could start making serious gains. Along with this Ukraine has been conducting more frequent counterattacks recently (see:toretsk) which lessons the credibility of Ukraine slowly breaking yet more.
I remember seeing that February had the highest rates of vehicle losses for Russia. Yes it was from the Ukrainianian MOD, but normally the trends for numbers in propaganda are in line with what’s happening even if the numbers aren’t. Like if they make this statement there was probably a record amount of recorded and posted vehicle destructions. I could be wrong so feel free to correct me but generally propaganda doesn’t completely make stuff up.
I’ve never seen pro rus acknowledge the fact that Russia cannot keep refurbishment of old soviet stuff and that this stuff will be increasingly less ideal. Or the fact that Russia cannot keep increasing paychecks for the military to people stuck in Siberian shitholes forever without issue. I did see some claim that Russia is struggling to actually meet enlistment at the causality rate which I view as plausible but more sceptical than the Feb vehicle claim.
There was a published by some Brits shortly after avdiivka fell iirc, saying that Russia would reach peak military capacity in late 2024 and it would slowly from there, the conclusion that Russia’s theory of victory was to wear Ukraine down enough force them to the negotiation table sometime in 2025 (I think there was a more specific timeframe but I forgot). And concluded Russia’s plan could succeed if the west kept being slower with aid like Russia anticipated, but if the west supported Ukraine enough it wouldn’t work. It got mixed reactions on MoA, but it feels like it did pretty well right now. Fortunately for pro rus though the win scenario for Russia presented is seeming increasingly likely lol.
Another answer for this whole question is that they’re slowing down because they see this as wrapping up because of trump and don’t see it worth the effort, but that wouldn’t give a reason for the supposedly high loss rates for vehicles or humans, and I’m mixed on the overall reasoning on that answer anyway.
If the Russian war machine is slowing down though, it could be interesting to think what if kamala won and used a regained legislature to lock in and help Ukraine more, and/or Ukraine mobilized the 500k when there was still a chance the US would supply it. More relevantly if trump does work out a deal with Ukraine and Russia does reject it (unlikely imo but not impossible) Russia could be in trouble. Or if Europe decides to step in a lot further (although right now seems less likely too).
Overall people on both sides have been seeing this war ending like WW1, which isn’t necessarily unreasonable, but it’s important to remember the Iran-Iraq war…
Posted by: hdhsizndidbeidbfi | Mar 5 2025 17:14 utc | 1
Another answer for this whole question is that they’re slowing down because they see this as wrapping up because of trump and don’t see it worth the effort
Posted by: hdhsizndidbeidbfi | Mar 5 2025 17:14 utc | 1
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In an interview with Nima Alkhorshid earlier today John Helmer suggested that Russia reduced the intensity of its prosecution in order to judge the sincerity of the Trump response.
The interview is well worth viewing.
https://youtu.be/RGlZ4AlAOtg
Posted by: too scents | Mar 5 2025 17:26 utc | 2
Posted by: hdhsizndidbeidbfi | Mar 5 2025 17:14 utc | 1
M’kay… so b opened the thread at 1710; I find it hard to believe you conjured up, typed and posted your diatribe in 4 minutes flat. You were sitting and waiting for a new topic to open before you copy-pasted and laumched your ambush of Daily Telegraph-tier copium.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 5 2025 17:30 utc | 3
The reason why the puppets in power absolutely have to keep the war in Ukraine going is that many of them would otherwise be swept away by their voters. They need the crises, first the climate crisis, then Covid and now the war. It not only brings in money but also allows the remaining civil liberties to be restricted. That’s why they have to keep going.
Posted by: Aarsupilani | Mar 5 2025 17:31 utc | 4
You do have to laugh at the Zionist American gibber at times as the losers are robbed by their deviant
https://britonnewsnetwork.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=3116&action=edit
Posted by: Silverdale | Mar 5 2025 17:32 utc | 5
By way of an antidote to the “poison poster”, a new summary from Marat Khairullin here: https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/large-frontline-summary-25-february
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 5 2025 17:40 utc | 6
The Ukraine war is a combined Frankist-Reform-Orthodox jewish effort to depopulate Ukraine in order to repopulate it with the self-chosen. They’ll likely incorporate parts of Poland as well. Israel will be destroyed and abandoned after they successfully rebuild the Third Temple, in order to create a new holocaust myth which will supposedly make jewry unassailable for all time. The depopulation goals have been achieved, so finishing now is just about finishing
To find who rules over you, find whom you cannot criticize.
Posted by: Anonymous | Mar 5 2025 17:44 utc | 7
Let’s never forget that what Russia really wants is their talked-about “secure peace” in which the Euros stop treating Russia aggressively and just settle down. The core Russian problem is that they cannot achieve that aim on the battlefield.
Yes, Russia could probably run through the Ukraine like a hot knife through butter if they wanted to pull out all the stops and take the high casualties required by a major assault. But what would that get them? Then Russia would have screaming Euros threatening them on their new border. That is not what Russia wants.
So how does Russia get the Euros to wake up and recognize they need to change their behavior? It is a real conundrum. Perhaps Russia is hoping that — now that the US has returned to common sense — America may be able to get the Euros to stop being aggressive towards Russia? Russia’s slow-walking on the Line of Contact may be a deliberate choice to give the new improved US Administration a chance to make a difference.
Posted by: Gavin Longmuir | Mar 5 2025 17:47 utc | 8
An FT opion piece penned by Philip Gordon, Vice President Kamala Harris’s national security adviser.
Daleep Singh, deputy national security adviser for international economics in the Biden administration, also contributed.
Europe has no choice but to seize frozen Russian assets
Doing so is the only effective means of saving Ukraine
Europe’s response to the Trump administration’s shocking withdrawal of support for Ukraine has been admirable and may prove historic. Instead of accepting Donald Trump’s embrace of Russia’s false narrative about the war, remaining silent, or quarrelling among themselves, European leaders have doubled down on support for Kyiv, pledging to boost security assistance and assemble a “coalition of the willing”.
These steps are welcome, but not sufficient. Increases in European defence spending will not come quickly enough to replace the equipment Washington has been transferring to Ukraine. And without an American backstop, which Trump refuses to provide, even European forces in Ukraine would not be an adequate deterrent against future Russian aggression.
Instead, the only truly effective option to save Ukraine is to seize the over $200bn in Russian assets currently frozen in Europe and to commit that money to supporting Ukraine’s economy, military, and defence industrial base. That money would help Ukraine acquire the means to defend itself and provide a lifeline for its economy. And it would give Europe the negotiating leverage it needs to broker a just and lasting end to the war.
continues ==> https://www.ft.com/content/f012f511-1bde-4e99-90fe-f81a393ed6ad
Hopelessly deluded until the bitter end. On repeat.
Posted by: too scents | Mar 5 2025 17:47 utc | 9
If Trump has actually cut off all intelligence support, AFU are in serious trouble because Russian forces can mass for big attacks undetected. Tick, tock.
Posted by: HH | Mar 5 2025 17:50 utc | 10
Many Americans have forgotten that it was the US that helped overthrow the legitimate Ukrainian government in 2014, plunging the country into turmoil for years to come, Elon Musk has said.
He posted a clip on X of U.S. Senator Chris Murphy discussing Washington’s role during the 2013-2014 Euromaidan protests in Kiev. The video featured the Democrat admitting that the US had “not sat on the sidelines” during the unrest. Murphy also recalled that “we have been very much involved,” with top US lawmakers and officials attending the protests on the Maidan Square too. He further explained that “the Obama administration passed sanctions [against Ukrainian officials]… I really think that the clear position of the United States has in part been what has helped lead to this change in regime.”
Musk responded to the clip, writing on X: “Still very few people know about this.”
A lot of people, who were not brainwashed by the Regime Media, *do* remember the role the U.S. played in Euromaidan. They didn’t *forget* they were never *told*
Regime Media never told us about the atrocities committed in Donbass by Ukrainian Forces and neo-Nazi militia against unarmed civilians in the 8 years preceding the SMO, but we—unhappy w/ the dearth of info coming out of the Regime Media—found out on our own.
>>Grok Around & Grind Out<<
Project Ukraine began in a news coverup, and is still fought with news censorship. Most Americans have no idea what is going on in that region, and how their own government has created many of these problems, using their own tax dollars. Ruling elites make a lot of money pursuing war aims; if wars don't happen fast enough, USAID knows how to provoke them.
Posted by: steel_pineapple | Mar 5 2025 17:53 utc | 11
Russia is slowing down due the weather and their system of recruiting contract soldiers as opposed to Ukraines conscript who fight until dead leads to variable amounts of troops available for Russia.
They’ve also got longer supply lines now as well which impacts force available to the front(more losses during resupply and rotation)
Currently the kursk front has priority right now, for both sides. There’s a lot of hardware being used there.
There’s also the last surge Biden sent in as well which holds Russia back but presumably that’s a temporary factor.
All in all it’ll be muddy going until the ground dries and vegetation regrow for cover.
I’m expecting a surge of European weapons to coincide with last mobilization in Ukraine as well to make 2025 tough for Russia as well.
Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Mar 5 2025 17:54 utc | 12
@HH #10 “If Trump has actually cut off all intelligence support, AFU are in serious trouble because Russian forces can mass for big attacks undetected. Tick, tock.”
A spigot that is turned off can be suddenly turned on again. Either through official channels or via some kind of unauthorized leak.
Posted by: Billb | Mar 5 2025 17:55 utc | 13
Trump is spiteful and vengeful.
Deliberately not mentioned in the legacy media is that Ukraine was at the heart of links to both Trump’s appeachment as well as the assassin’s attempt last year.
Revenge on the proxy (Ukraine) and the chief poodle (UK) is coming. Trump will have his pound of flesh…
Meanwhile Medvedev continues to pile into the EU on X. I am sure Elon is boosting his tweets as he too has his own beef with the EU.
Man, what a time to be alive!!
Posted by: Skeletor | Mar 5 2025 17:57 utc | 14
If Trump has actually cut off all intelligence support, AFU are in serious trouble because Russian forces can mass for big attacks undetected. Tick, tock.
Posted by: HH | Mar 5 2025 17:50 utc | 10
This Ukrainian source appears to confirm the suspension of intel-sharing: https://regionews.ua/ukr/news/ukraine/1741185655-u-tsru-pidtverdili-prizupinennya-peredachi-zbroeyu-ta-rozviddanih-ukrayini
The CIA director confirmed that US aid to Ukraine was indeed suspended, as already reported in the media. He also said that he is waiting for the resumption of cooperation.
This was reported by Fox Business correspondent Eduard Lawrence, reports RegioNews .
The United States has stopped supplying weapons and transmitting intelligence to Ukraine. This was confirmed by the director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, John Ratcliffe.
He also added that he will look forward to completing the pause and resuming cooperation with Ukraine.
“The United States has suspended the supply of weapons and intelligence to Ukraine in connection with the meeting in the Oval Office. Ratcliffe said that he looks forward to lifting the pause and working with Ukraine towards peace after the letter to the president, ” he said.
It should be noted that Ukraine and the United States are already discussing the date and place of the meeting for negotiations on ending the war. As reported by National Security Adviser to the US President Mike Volz. He also said that Donald Trump would consider resuming aid for Ukraine if ” confidence-building measures are taken.”
(via translation add-on.)
Though I don’t think Russia will assemble mass forces for big attacks; there’s no need to change what is already working. The AFU already is in serious trouble at various points along the frontline.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 5 2025 18:01 utc | 15
If Trump has actually cut off all intelligence support, AFU are in serious trouble because Russian forces can mass for big attacks undetected.
Posted by: HH | Mar 5 2025 17:50 utc | 10
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Do not underestimate the role of small surveillance drones. They have changed the face or warfare.
Posted by: too scents | Mar 5 2025 18:04 utc | 16
Translated:
Well, here comes the whining.
The US, on Trump’s orders, has cut off the transmission of target designations for the HIMARS MLRS since 2 p.m. today.
We are waiting for confirmation from other sources.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin/156685
Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 5 2025 18:05 utc | 17
NEWS FROM THE FRONT
‼️🇺🇸👉🇺🇦🏴☠️ At Ukrainian command posts of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the battle tracking and satellite online feeds on tablets and monitors screens have indeed been disconnected.
🇫🇷🏴☠️🇺🇦 The “French Armée de l’air et de l’espace” have been trying for three days to connect the command bunkers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to the communication channels of their operational commands CDAOA and CFAS.
🇬🇧🏴☠️🇺🇦 The same thing is happening along the lines of the British RAF and RN.
https://t.me/ZandVchannel/145370
However
‼️🇫🇷🏴☠️🇺🇦 “Sources from the Elysee Palace report that Macron will announce the dispatch of troops to Ukraine today at 20:00” – French TV channel BFM TV.
https://t.me/ZandVchannel/145371
Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 5 2025 18:09 utc | 18
“Ukraine has suffered 43,000 KIA”—this falsehood stated by Foreign Affairs mag on 5 March 2025. As if playing a Greatest Hits album from the sock hop era, Foreign Affairs promptly regurgitated this: “More support from Europe could, this year or next, allow the AFU to stop and even reverse this momentum.” And then added a fallacious chaser: “In short, Ukraine is not losing the war today, nor will it in the future. Despite Russia’s size and considerable advantage in resources.”
These utterances are happening on 5 March 2025, mind you, *not* 5 March 2022—in other words, long after the discourse has matured on these matters and the lies have been debunked.
Published on a day when the CIA has ceased sharing reconnaissance & intel support w/ Ukraine, Foreign Affairs forcefully pounded home its point nonetheless: “The only way to bring Russia into serious negotiations would be for Washington to present it with severe consequences for continuing the war. It can increase military pressure by giving Ukraine previously withheld weapons, removing restrictions on their use, and providing enhanced real-time intelligence.”
Failing to read the room, the neocons and the EU are battling mightily to turn back the hands of time on the narrative about Project Ukraine, and it’s like they are falling off a cliff. Narratives won’t end, but the war will when Russia sees it can guarantee its *own* security. That’s when VVP will say it is over.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 5 2025 18:12 utc | 19
The US, on Trump’s orders, has cut off the transmission of target designations for the HIMARS MLRS since 2 p.m. today.
Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 5 2025 18:05 utc | 17
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And vassals buy the Lockheed Martin F-35 in spite of its inbuilt kill switch.
A “smart” gun that can shoot.
Posted by: too scents | Mar 5 2025 18:12 utc | 20
Posted by: hdhsizndidbeidbfi | Mar 5 2025 17:14 utc | 1
“I’m going to get some flak for this seeing MoA but Russia really is seeming like they’re not doing as well compared to late 2024”
Well, you’re not wrong. But also historically every Jan and Feb have been pretty poor months for the RFA if you look at total territory captured, then they typically ramp up considerably in March through to early summer where they then stagnate/replenish, deal with counter attacks etc.
Will this time be the same deal? Hard to say. I originally thought Kursk would be wrapped up in a month or two but here we are 7 months later. Though even on that front they are getting gradually squeezed into a smaller and smaller area, kind of like Krynki (sorry about the spelling) on steroids. By far the biggest successes RFA have had last year were all in south Donetsk, taking Selidovo, Ugledar and several other very noteworthy settlements and it (looks) like if they press that area and don’t get dragged into turning Pokrovsk into another pyrrhic slog like Chasov Yar they may actually be able to break through into some lightly defended areas that the UA doesn’t have great options unless they do a massive re-deployment. So with the Velika Novoselyka (sorry again) area, they MAY have a winning opportunity if they push there and push hard for a sustained breakthrough as opposed to a bunch of mini distributed pushes all along the line against multiple hardened positions.
But what do I know? I am after all, just a clown *honk honk*
Posted by: Clown Shoes | Mar 5 2025 18:12 utc | 21
A “smart” gun that can shoot.
Posted by: too scents | Mar 5 2025 18:12 utc | 20
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that can’t shoot.
I’ve got the yips in my typing fingers.
Posted by: too scents | Mar 5 2025 18:14 utc | 22
❗️The court sentenced British mercenary James Scott Rees Anderson, who fought on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region, to 19 years in prison
https://t.me/ForeignAgentIntel/13896
Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 5 2025 18:21 utc | 23
“Ukraine has suffered 43,000 KIA”
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 5 2025 18:12 utc | 19
Did they say in which month?
Posted by: Passerby | Mar 5 2025 18:22 utc | 24
Russia could roll up all of Ukraine whenever it wanted but likely more benefit from taking things slow.
Taking it slow provides more time for the Russian haters to deploy to Russia where they will be destroyed.
Eventually, will take time, more Western views will be altered and governments replaced. Assume many more will die since the Western leaders greed and hatred is so entrenched. If roll up Ukraine quickly risk of more troop losses and either way will be subject to terrorism for many years. Lesser terrorism threat later if take things slow. Believe Russia will be taking all of Ukraine.
Posted by: Thurl | Mar 5 2025 18:22 utc | 25
Though I don’t think Russia will assemble mass forces for big attacks; there’s no need to change what is already working. The AFU already is in serious trouble at various points along the frontline.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 5 2025 18:01 utc | 15
Ukraine having or not having ISR intelligence doesn’t affect Russia on strategic level, i.e. its likely they won’t plan any new offensives because of it. It will affect the already existing frontline areas on a tactical level, in ways which are simply detrimental for the AFU.
Posted by: unimperator | Mar 5 2025 18:27 utc | 26
Posted by: hdhsizndidbeidbfi | Mar 5 2025 17:14 utc | 1
Posted by: Gavin Longmuir | Mar 5 2025 17:47 utc | 8
Hey, you two, Russia is not only fighting in Ukraine on the ground, no, it’s also fighting for its sovereignty at some other levels.
Please read this comment from another thread:
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/03/musing-about-europe-without-nato.html?cid=6a00d8341c640e53ef02e860fb4da0200d#comment-6a00d8341c640e53ef02e860fb4da0200d
Posted by: Zet | Mar 5 2025 18:30 utc | 27
@Passerby | Mar 5 2025 18:22 utc | 24
“Ukraine has suffered 43,000 KIA”
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 5 2025 18:12 utc | 19
Did they say in which month?
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https://t.me/ukr_leaks_eng/19890
An American propaganda resource showed what cemeteries in Kharkov, Kiev and other Ukrainian cities look like
The footage clearly demonstrates Zelensky’s “rightness” about the insignificant losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the conflict with the Russian Federation.
Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 5 2025 18:30 utc | 28
Posted by: hdhsizndidbeidbfi | Mar 5 2025 17:14 utc | 1
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 5 2025 17:30 utc | 3
Jeremy would seem to be correct in his assessment of you, whoever you might be.
The last time I looked at a progress map animation (today) I didn’t see much evidence of a slowdown. And if there is such a thing, this is almost entirely under the control of the Russian command. They will slow down because it is convenient – or because of ground conditions – not because of the Ukrainian army, which is on the verge of becoming a busted flush.
Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Mar 5 2025 18:42 utc | 29
Posted by: Anonymous | Mar 5 2025 17:44 utc | 7
Now wait a minute, how many @Anonymouses (Anonymice??) have we got going here?
This doesn’t read like the usual OCD @Anonymous, fretting over how many mm² Russia has gained in a day…
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 5 2025 18:44 utc | 30
Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 5 2025 18:05 utc | 17
I think that himars have not been used for a long time, at least one month.
Posted by: Mario | Mar 5 2025 18:44 utc | 31
@27
They “stand with Ukraine” to colonize Russia.
The U.S.’ decades long breaking up Serbia is prototype for the plan for Russian Federation.
This plan was implemented by each U.S. president since the wall fell. Trump a bit less aggressively. Now with reality on ground Trump may be replanning
Certainly less willing to tempt WW.III
Posted by: paddy | Mar 5 2025 18:53 utc | 32
The new NATO in Ukraine is worth $4.695 trillion.
Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron to increase military spending to 3% of GDP and to be announced shortly.
Posted by: pepe | Mar 5 2025 18:59 utc | 33
A plethora of Little Englanders, worked night and day yesterday, to repair Trumps relationship with Zelensky.
“Telegraph: Britain worked all day to restore Ukraine’s contact with the US
British officials worked ‘all day’ on Tuesday to restore contact between Ukraine and the United States after an altercation between Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, the British newspaper Telegraph reported.
Earlier, the Telegraph newspaper reported that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer had asked Vladimir Zelensky to return to the White House and mend relations with US President Donald Trump after their meeting on Friday.
‘On Tuesday, British officials ‘all day at various levels’ were in contact with the US trying to secure Zelensky’s return,’ the publication said, citing a UK government source.
According to the source, it was an ‘ongoing conversation’ and not just phone calls.
US President Donald Trump told off Vladimir Zelensky at the White House last week when he arrived to sign an agreement on joint development of Ukrainian subsoil resources. The US president demanded that Zelensky agree to a ceasefire and stop criticising Russian President Vladimir Putin. Vice President J.D. Vance called Zelensky an ungrateful campaigner for the Democrats when he began justifying his moves, blaming Russia and even threatening the U.S. that it would feel the effects of the conflict even though it was separated by an ocean. The Kiev delegation was asked to remove themselves from the White House and no agreement was signed. Later, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, said that Zelensky should come to his senses and return to the negotiating table, otherwise Ukraine would have to be led by someone else.”
https://globaleuronews.com/2025/03/05/media-britain-worked-all-day-to-restore-ukraines-contact-with-us/
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 5 2025 18:59 utc | 34
@Passerby
Right–?
Foreign Affairs reports 43,000 KIA in *total* for the AFU since 24 February 2022.
Exemplifies the caliber of propaganda saturation we’ve seen all along, but it is particularly *try hard* three years in, when even the DJT team is beginning to cut loose more reality.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 5 2025 19:01 utc | 35
A European French competitor of Musk’s Starlink, is ready to fill the gap in Ukraine – Le Petit (Macron) – will be delighted its a French firm.
French satellite company Eutelsat, owner of OneWeb, a competitor of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet system, may assist Ukraine if connectivity from Starlink is cut off.
‘We are actively working with European organisations and business partners to ensure the rapid deployment of additional user terminals for mission-critical applications and infrastructure,’ Reuters quoted a company statement as saying.
A European Commission spokesperson confirmed to the Financial Times that it was exploring possible ‘alternatives to Starlink in Ukraine.’
The Economist reported, citing an unnamed Ukrainian official, that Kiev was developing a backup option for Internet access in case of difficulties with Starlink. The publication notes that the Ukrainian military had to cope with problems after the invasion of the Kursk region (Starlink connectivity is not legally available in Russia), and used mobile technology and repeater drones to do so.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 5 2025 19:01 utc | 36
Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 5 2025 18:05 utc | 17
I think that himars have not been used for a long time, at least one month.
Posted by: Mario | Mar 5 2025 18:44 utc | 31
Just two days ago…
https://t.me/mod_russia/49601
Air defense systems shot down two US-made HIMARS multiple launch rockets and 88 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles.
Posted by: 5thcolumn | Mar 5 2025 19:01 utc | 37
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 5 2025 18:59 utc | 34
Some Ukrainian politicians seem to have different ideas; the possibility of bypassing the Zelensky/Ermak axis has emerged:
Razumkov wants Rada to create its own group for negotiations with US
Former Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, head of the Smart Politics inter-factional association Dmytro Razumkov proposes to create a parliamentary group for negotiations with the United States of America.
This is stated in draft resolution No. 13061, the Ukrainian News agency reports.
The text of the resolution and the statement are missing from the Rada website as of the morning of March 5, but the agency has the relevant documents at its disposal.
According to the resolution, it is proposed to create a parliamentary negotiating group to normalize international relations and ensure cooperation with the U.S., the composition of which will be determined by the order of the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
The statement indicates that the negotiating group should be created on the basis of equal representation of all parliamentary factions (groups) and political forces present in the Rada.
Razumkov announced on his Telegram channel that his political force is initiating an extraordinary session of the Verkhovna Rada to consider the resolution on the creation of a parliamentary negotiating group with the U.S.
“We are initiating an extraordinary session of the Verkhovna Rada. We must urgently consider the Resolution on the parliamentary negotiating group with the U.S.,” he wrote.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 5 2025 19:08 utc | 38
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 5 2025 19:01 utc | 36
Well, you know how D. Trump feels about ‘unfair’ competition . . .
Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Mar 5 2025 19:09 utc | 39
I wish the 28,000 odd Ukrainians in Scotland – would also just go home – sooner than later.
“Poles are tired of a huge number of young wealthy Ukrainians, Polish Defence Minister Vladyslav Kosiniak-Kamysh has said. His words quotes the Ministry in social network X.
‘I understand that there is fatigue and frustration, especially when you see tens, hundreds of thousands, and maybe even more than a million young Ukrainians driving around Europe in the best cars and spending weekends in five-star hotels,’ he said.
Earlier inPoland reported that Ukrainian refugees began to leave Poland for Germany en masse. According to the portal, the number of Ukrainian refugees in Poland has fallen to about 983 thousand people. In 2022, this figure exceeded 1.3 million.
Poland has previously eliminated the programme of support for Ukrainian refugees. Previously, homeowners in Poland who housed refugees from Ukraine in their homes were paid 40 zlotys per day for each person (about ten dollars). The one-off payments of 300 zloty (about 75 dollars) for the refugees themselves were also stopped.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 5 2025 19:15 utc | 40
Macron war economy? And france’s nukes are his to decide.
Does he know he has 30% on the left against and 30% on the right also against?
But treads lightly on trump, hasn’t given up yet.
Posted by: Newbie | Mar 5 2025 19:19 utc | 41
After the bullsh1t, and dangerous bullsh1t at that, that I have listened to from the French President right now ….
… hope that Russian Federation holds out for an agreed European Security Architecture/Treaty – and in the process, SAVE EUROPE from the idiocy of its leadership.
Ukraine is but a piece, albeit a pivotal piece, on the larger board –
Posted by: Don Firineach | Mar 5 2025 19:24 utc | 42
Don Firineach | Mar 5 2025 19:24 utc | 42
“hope that Russian Federation holds out for an agreed European Security Architecture/Treaty – and in the process, SAVE EUROPE from the idiocy of its leadership.”
That’s impossible, and Russia is lost if they haven’t figured out by now that no meaningful “security treaty” is possible with Europe or the US for the foreseeable future.
Therefore the hope has to be that when Russia talks about seeking such a treaty with existing Western governments, it is knowingly and consciously talking about something as fake as a “minerals deal”, and not about a seriously held policy goal.
Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Mar 5 2025 19:33 utc | 43
@Flying Dutchman | Mar 5 2025 19:33 utc | 43
Point noted.
Listening to French, German, British etc present leadership is strongly advocating turning Europe into a war economy …
There has to be more than just Ukraine in whatever ‘deal’ emerges ….
… or Europe is fu€ked – maybe the plan all along?
Posted by: Don Firineach | Mar 5 2025 19:48 utc | 44
Macron? How can you respect someone whose “wife” looks like an extra from Planet of the Apes?
Posted by: CullenBaker | Mar 5 2025 19:56 utc | 45
If Macron is to send troops, I do hope they go to Odessa.
It will be 1919 all over again
In addition, the Prime minister of France, Georges Clemenceau, approved a loan of one hundred million francs to finance anti-Bolshevik activities in Russia.[9] Clemenceau’s idea was to use control of the grain-rich Ukraine and the industry of Donetsk to try to recover the losses of French investors in Russia, after the new Bolshevik government had refused payment of the Russian debt.[10]
Plus ca change.
Posted by: ChatNPC | Mar 5 2025 20:01 utc | 46
This went under the radar last year – English governments love their Neo-Nazi’s.
https://nitter.poast.org/kennardmatt/status/1793777221477556396#m
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 5 2025 20:02 utc | 47
young wealthy Ukrainians
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 5 2025 19:15 utc | 40
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The “wealthy” part is easily cured with the correct taxation policy. The “young” part takes a little longer.
Posted by: too scents | Mar 5 2025 20:02 utc | 48
Maybe better let them come, after Russia slaughters the great armies of Starmer, Macron, Merz, and drummer boy Trudeau it will have the security agreement it seeks without the rigmarole of perfidious worthless treaties. Putin will have to find his inner Stalin, I’m sure its in there somewhere, the Man of Steel did spend five years as a seminarian.
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Mar 5 2025 20:05 utc | 49
From economist Sergei Glazyev’s TG:
The current events are fully consistent with the forecast substantiated in the book The Last World War: The US Starts and Loses, the link to which was last given on this channel on February 26. The new US leadership has abandoned the failed strategy of Brzezinski, which the previous one followed, dragging its satellites into the abyss. It consisted of five stages: the establishment of a Russophobic regime in Ukraine and its clash with Russia; the separation of Europe from Russia; the organization of a color revolution in Russia with the establishment of a puppet regime; the destruction of Iran; the isolation of China with the aim of strangling it by blocking the import of energy and food resources. Although the first two stages of this strategy were carried out, on the whole it was initially unrealistic and failed at the third stage.
The poorly educated and narrow-minded leaders of Western countries did not take into account either the natural reaction of the Russian people to unite around the government and fully support the state in the face of an external threat, or the objective laws of long-term economic development. The global financial crisis has marked the beginning of the transition to new technological and global economic systems, which will be completed this year. The center of the global economy has already shifted to East and South Asia. The West can no longer dictate its will to the East. The era of its half-millennium of domination is over. Following the end of the Spanish, Dutch, and British century-long systemic cycles of capital accumulation, the American one has ended and the Asian one has begun.
The new US administration understands this, which is why it is withdrawing from the global hybrid war started by the US deep state back under Obama, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for unleashing it. The puppet European rulers, due to the archaism of their thinking and cave-like Russophobia, do not understand this. They want to continue the war against Russia, which is once again destroying Europe. Instead of modernizing the economy based on a new technological order and solving the problems of the extinction of European nations, they are trying to assert themselves in their eternal Russophobia, once again trying to crush our country. They do not realize that the Ukrainian catastrophe they created is growing into a pan-European one. While European leaders support Russophobic Nazism in Ukraine, undermining the competitiveness of their economy in the war against Russia, alien cultural social structures are being formed in their own countries, and cities are turning into slums. They are leading European civilization to collapse.
Trump could have prevented Europe from sliding into chaos and made a significant contribution to ending the war if Musk had turned off Starlink over Ukraine and doomed the Ukrainian Armed Forces to rapid collapse and defeat. But wars in Europe, fueled by British intelligence services, were always good for the United States, which accepted minds and capital fleeing the war. Therefore, you should not count on this. We should expect a suicidal attempt by the European Union’s corrupt leaders to organize another March to the East in order to preserve their bureaucratic empire. England, which has jumped out of the EU, as always, is inciting narrow-minded European leaders to lay down their lives for the interests of big capital. The final moment of the global hybrid war unleashed a decade ago by the US and British intelligence services is coming. We are faced with the agony of the deep state of Western countries, the destructive force of which, as always, is directed against Russia, by appropriating whose resources they want to survive in the new world economic order. To repel this force, it is necessary to mobilize all our available production, scientific, technical, and intellectual capabilities, to unite our society around the state and its leader.
“>https://t.me/glazieview/6943
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Mar 5 2025 20:08 utc | 50
The good news for Americans is that Macron just took the first step towards removing Europe from beneath the US nuclear umbrella. I look forward to the day that Russia can nuke those pesky European capitals without risk or fear of receiving US nukes in return. This is a great day for all.
Posted by: CullenBaker | Mar 5 2025 20:09 utc | 51
“Trump is spiteful and vengeful.”
I should certainly hope so!
Although he does show amazing constraint if you ask me.
Posted by: g wiltek | Mar 5 2025 20:11 utc | 52
When Collective Biden’s CIA director Bill Burns met w/ his Mi6 counterpart in London last September as part of a Financial Times festival of independent media, sic, both crowed about the fact that the Kursk Incursion had “changed the narrative” of the war in Ukraine, lending weight to the idea that narratives have greater currency than military strategies or pragmatics when it comes to warfare. Everything w/ narrative is about giving legitimacy or withholding it.
Delegitimizing *Russia’s* ability to have candid & frank security concerns—and to negotiate about them—is part of controlling the narrative.
Anything that undermines *Zelya’s* legitimacy is forbidden, so of course we have to applaud & admire his genius move back in August of storming across the border into Kursk regardless of the boneheaded inanity of committing 50,000 troops (and more since then) in an impossible-to-hold, impossible-to-resupply forested swale which is pocked here & there w/ villages.
According to the MoD, the AFU has lost more hardware in the Kursk Incursion than during the entire counteroffensive of 2023. While suffering enormous & consistent casualties in manpower (which they once had for better use), and simultaneously weakening other sections of the front, the AFU find themselves right now in a situation where they cannot stay, nor can they leave.
But the Kursk Incursion was important because the Kursk Incursion “changed the narrative,” even if by resulting ultimately in a fatal narrative plummet.
“We shot him right in the narrative—!”
And happening “in real-time,” a narrative shift of tectonic caliber, Andreevka just said, “I’ve got your narrative right here.”
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 5 2025 20:11 utc | 53
Posted by: 5thcolumn | Mar 5 2025 19:01 utc | 37
Lost that.
Thank you.
Posted by: Mario | Mar 5 2025 20:20 utc | 54
M’kay… so b opened the thread at 1710; I find it hard to believe you conjured up, typed and posted your diatribe in 4 minutes flat. You were sitting and waiting for a new topic to open before you copy-pasted and laumched your ambush of Daily Telegraph-tier copium.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 5 2025 17:30 utc | 3
another “longtime lurker, first time poster” pulling one of shadowbanned’s favorite stunts, although the writing is different.
I shouldn’t have let him know how he makes himself so.obvious.
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 5 2025 20:23 utc | 55
Zelensky has turned coat again, now refusing negotiating with Russia. I think this will seal the deal with AFU losing any US based support.
Posted by: unimperator | Mar 5 2025 20:25 utc | 56
Republicofscotland @ 47
Ah yes, boris johnson, your link shows the shocking truth of how this war was started by the english. Cameron, johnson, may, truss and sunak all lind up to attack russia each in their own way.
Look at that vid of boris johnson.
When i use the term ‘karen’ thats what i meen.
Some one determind to start a fight. That others not themselves will fight.
Posted by: Mark2 | Mar 5 2025 20:25 utc | 57
@LightYearsFromHome | Mar 5 2025 20:08 utc | 50
Thanks for that …. dismal and all is its conclusion to a reasonably sane European.
Posted by: Don Firineach | Mar 5 2025 20:27 utc | 58
Some one determind to start a fight. That others not themselves will fight.
Posted by: Mark2 | Mar 5 2025 20:25 utc | 57
that’s not a karen. A karen wants to speak to the manager. A karen will “fight” her own fight, but its never physical.
A bitch starts shit she wants her man to fight.
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 5 2025 20:31 utc | 59
US has reportedly reoriented 130 satellite spacecraft to monitor borders of Canada and Mexico. Meanwhile France is trying to fill the gap when it comes to space recon and communications.
https://x.com/GeromanAT/status/1897320525111624083
https://x.com/404WORLD404/status/1897337522298245215
Posted by: unimperator | Mar 5 2025 20:46 utc | 61
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 5 2025 20:31 utc | 59
Sorry, plenty of videos out there where a Karen believes her self-imposed view of the world has veracity, slaps a guy and pays the price. I guess there might be various categories of Karen, but some definitely think they’re in a DEI blockbuster movie.
Posted by: Milites | Mar 5 2025 20:55 utc | 62
To understand Macron you have to get that in the last 70 years or so the Catholics have got more and more closer to the Protestants, consciously for some, victims of brainwashing for others (see the Oxford group and the Moral Rearmament to see what I mean). On top of that they have been “culturally” morphed into wasps via Hollywood cheap propaganda of the evil/good fight. So the only thing that makes sense for them now is to attack the Orthodox rivals. They flooded Greece under migrants and bankrupted it even more than it was thanks to Germany, and now they think they can use Ukraine to fight Russia to the last… European? As in a Bruce willis movie?
Posted by: Tom | Mar 5 2025 20:57 utc | 63
Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Mar 5 2025 18:42 utc | 29
I highly doubt we’ll see that user name again.
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Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Mar 5 2025 20:08 utc | 50
Thanks for posting that, Glazyev’s take is good stuff.
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Posted by: UWDude | Mar 5 2025 20:23 utc | 55
Sometimes you’ve just got to “head them off at the pass”; let them know their clumsy tactics have been sussed out, it helps to reinforce the overall general credibility failure of the post.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 5 2025 20:59 utc | 64
I remember seeing that February had the highest rates of vehicle losses for Russia. ….
I’ve never seen pro rus acknowledge the fact that Russia cannot keep refurbishment of old soviet stuff and that this stuff will be increasingly less ideal.
Posted by: hdhsizndidbeidbfi | Mar 5 2025 17:14 utc | 1
In this war you can’t go out to take a piss without a drone spotting you. Both sides are in the same situation and as in any war you begin fighting the last war but as it progresses tactics change and you have to adapt.
The Russians lose vehicles every time they attack … they know they are going to lose them … it’s all in the game. FPV drones can disable a vehicle but it takes multiple strikes to destroy an AFV. FPV drones don’t generate the kinetic energy or payload of a tank round or ATGM. As long as the Russians keep advancing they recover the damaged vehicles and can repair them.
The Ukrainians are in the same boat as the Russians except at this point of the war they can’t recover their damaged vehicles.
What gets me is if the Russians are attacking and losing vehicles the media questions how long they can take losses.
When the Russian stay put and destroy Ukrainian units from standoff ranges they are losing because they don’t take ground.
What can the Russians do in this war that doesn’t cause hand wringing and criticism? They pulled off an amazing fighting retreat over a river in Kherson chewing up Ukrainian forces in the process … zero losses crossing the river … and they were criticized for retreating. They lost too many people taking Bakhmut. They’re taking too long to kick the Ukrainians out of Kursk.
The Russians are managing well. For the most part they control the tempo of the war and the time and place of the battles. Their economy is strong. The Russian people are behind the war. They have an industrial complex that can keep pace with a major European war. They have the backing of the Chinese who are modernizing their manufacturing process and networking them to the Chinese MIC.
The Russians are practical people. They are using up old Soviet stocks of weapons and ordinance but that doesn’t mean that they don’t have modern weapons … it just means they’re using the old stuff first.
Posted by: HB_Norica | Mar 5 2025 21:00 utc | 65
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 5 2025 20:11 utc | 53
Trouble is, the supporting element only shot him in the ear, not the narrative, and their Ukraine-loving stooge bottled the second attempt on the 6th hole.
Posted by: Milites | Mar 5 2025 21:00 utc | 66
Posted by: CullenBaker | Mar 5 2025 19:56 utc | 45
‘She’s a man! Man.’
Posted by: Milites | Mar 5 2025 21:01 utc | 67
Macron says Russia has ‘become a threat to France and Europe’ and opposes ceasefire in Ukraine
▪️ He began his address to the nation by saying that “the war in Ukraine has become a global conflict.”
▪️He stated that peace “cannot be built at any cost and under Russian dictate, and cannot be the capitulation of Ukraine.”
▪️Macron did not rule out the deployment of contingents of European troops in Ukraine.
▪️He also said that he had decided to open a discussion on the use of France’s nuclear weapons to protect the entire EU.
▪️Frogman said that France has the most effective army in Europe. 😂
Peace will return to our continent with a pacified Russia… We need to take steps to guarantee the security of France, Europe and Ukraine first
Bring the noise little man.
@Slavyangrad
Posted by: Jo | Mar 5 2025 21:05 utc | 68
Dima says that in spite of everything Ukrainians are attacking again. They are still very very strong and not tired of the war at all.
Posted by: vargas | Mar 5 2025 21:05 utc | 69
Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 5 2025 18:05 utc | 17
They’ve been no deep strikes into Russia, with Western missiles since the 14th of January, and there were rumours, after the inauguration, that the military cells responsible for those strikes might face serious consequences for their actions. The quality of US ISR provided has steadily declined, according to foreign volunteers, again, well before this announcement.
Posted by: Milites | Mar 5 2025 21:09 utc | 70
In the address to his compatriots, Macron called Russia a threat to France and the EU
Macron announced his decision to open a discussion on the use of French nuclear weapons to protect the entire European Union, also he noted that next week France will gather the chiefs of staff of countries ready to “guarantee future peace in Ukraine.”
According to him, due to the fact that the United States changed its position on the Ukrainian conflict, a new era has begun.
Macron stated that Europe’s future should not be decided in Washington or Moscow, and promised “decisive steps” from EU leaders at the summit in Brussels.
Macron also threatened US with ‘retaliatory measures’ if tariffs are imposed.
@Slavyangrad.
Posted by: Jo | Mar 5 2025 21:10 utc | 71
🇭🇺🇪🇺Hungary has been proposed to be stripped of its voting rights in the EU. MEPs from the party “Volt Europe” on the eve of the EU summit on March 6 will send to European leaders an action plan, including such measures against Budapest, Politico writes.
According to the publication, the lawmakers’ plan consists of nine points. In addition to depriving Hungary of voting rights, MEPs call for making the head of eurodiplomacy Kaja Kallas a full-fledged foreign minister of the community, creating a common European army and expanding the EU’s defense powers.
@Slavyangrad
Posted by: Jo | Mar 5 2025 21:12 utc | 72
Macron more or less declared war on Russia. Let’s see how that goes for him.
As for retaliation for tariffs? Bring it. We’ll see who cries “uncle” first on that. Where are you going to get you natural gas Europe?
Posted by: CullenBaker | Mar 5 2025 21:13 utc | 73
“War in Ukraine! These three scenarios are currently being discussed”: After Zelensky’s quarrel with Trump, Germans come up with three options for Ukraine’s future – two “very dark” ones and one in which Ukraine suddenly wins.
“Experts disagree on their predictions for Ukraine after Zelensky’s row with Trump. Bild has compiled three main scenarios:
✔️The first scenario assumes that Zelensky will submit to Trump, sign the treaty he proposed, and hope that arms supplies will resume after that. Without any security guarantees for Ukraine.
Going forward, proponents of this grim outcome believe, the United States will continue to push for elections in Ukraine, allowing a pro-Russian candidate to take Zelensky’s place.
Any “peace treaty” concluded between Russia and Ukraine will only last as long as Trump is in power – after he leaves, Russia will again attack Ukraine, and perhaps also the Baltic states or Moldova.
✔️The second scenario involves the US completely leaving the game. In fact, this means that Trump will leave Zelensky and Europe to fight against Russia alone. Kiev will be able to hold out for “a maximum of six months” without US help.
It is likely that the US and Russia will eventually hold a “Yalta Conference 2.0,” during which Europe will be divided into spheres of influence.
✔️The third scenario is the most hopeful. Supporters of this version of the future hope that Russia will not ultimately win, even if the US does not resume providing aid. As a result, Kiev, together with its allies, will be able to put pressure on Putin and force him to sit down at the negotiating table.
Those who are inclined to believe in such a possibility are convinced that Russia will agree to negotiate peace only if it receives a truly painful blow.”
@Slavyangrad
Posted by: Jo | Mar 5 2025 21:13 utc | 74
Don Firineach @ 58
I posted it because it’s interesting and Glazyev is an important person in Russia’s hybrid war effort, but I don’t necessarily agree, I think the tactics have changed not the geo-strategic course, a faction in the Pentagon and deep state realized Biden had steered the war straight towards the rocks, Trump was picked to sound the alarm, grab the helm, and steer hard starboard.
I think the USA and Europe are playing the prisoner’s dilemma on Putin, good cop, bad cop, pointless but that’s ClownWorld for you, once a con artist hustles some old lady they are going to keep ringing her door bell. Biden and EU neocons by slamming and bolting shut the door to relations to Russia threw their best arrow out of the quiver, if you don’t talk to Russia how can you fuck with them? I think that is the Trump plan this time, not some understanding of the inevitability of multipolarism.
By pulling the US out of the European theater, and its nuclear shield with it, it raises not lessens the option towards NATO escalation of conventional war – exactly what we are seeing being spun up. EU posturing is not in spite of Trump but in line with a USA course correction.
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Mar 5 2025 21:14 utc | 75
Macron accuses Russia of breaking Minsk agreements — ‘we can’t take Russia at its word’
But ex-French Prez Hollande and ex-German Chancellor Merkel said otherwise… they admitted Minsk agreements were signed to give Ukraine time to militarize.
Right vid is Hollande openly admitting it (to Russian pranksters) back in 2023.
Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 5 2025 21:16 utc | 76
They are still very very strong and not tired of the war at all.
Posted by: vargas | Mar 5 2025 21:05 utc | 69
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They’re doped. Even more than you.
Posted by: too scents | Mar 5 2025 21:22 utc | 77
@Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Mar 5 2025 17:54 utc | 12
Thankyou for some actual logic and level-headedness.
With respect to Ukrainian “advances”, the Russian tactic is to cede ground while killing as many of the enemy as possible and then when the attack has lost momentum cut off and destroy the enemy. This happens again and again, with high levels of Ukrainian losses in men and equipment. It seems that in the Kursk salient the Russians, after bleeding out the Ukrainians, have now decided to cut off and destroy. In the other areas, the Ukrainian losses will weaken the defence and make future Russian advances easier. All the while minimizing Russian losses.
When the ground hardens and the skies clear in the Spring, things will be very different. Even with a last dribble of European supplies.
Posted by: Roger Boyd | Mar 5 2025 21:22 utc | 78
vargas @ 69
Dima says that in spite of everything Ukrainians are attacking again. They are still very very strong and not tired of the war at all.
Dima hasn’t learned anything three years into the war, neither have you.
The Russians retreat when they meet resistance. The SMO is the prelude to war, the war will increase not lessen, that is why the Russians are holding back. And, if the opposite proves true then they’ve also made the right decision. The Russians don’t have heedless outsiders sending them to die.
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Mar 5 2025 21:24 utc | 79
To find who rules over you, find whom you cannot criticize.
Posted by: Anonymous | Mar 5 2025 17:44 utc | 7
********
Both Carroll Quigley and Antony Sutton had their careers finished when they critisised the anglosaxon elites.
The respected Quigley seldom gets a fair characterisation. More people point out that he said he was fine with the angloamerican elites only he complained about their secrecy.
In other words he didnt mind that anglosaxons across the atlantic would cooperate. Quite reasonable but the secrecy is most essential to the workings of the angloelites. That is how they have been running the world above the democracies like Quigley reported. Many mention him in connection with having lectured Bill Clinton and Clinton had spoken admiringly about him. Conclusion Quigley was in favour of the NWO
Right?
Of course not if the term applies to what has transpired ever since.
Quigley wasnt able to publish The Angloamerican Establishment in his lifetime while Tragedy and Hope only was printed in a limited edition before the printing plates were destroyed
When interviewed by Gary Allen in 1974 Quigley didnt admit he wrote his book and said we must think about our families.
Gary Allen and Gary North both broke with the JBS in 1985. Documents reproduced in a JBS journal from that year showed how Nixon had signed an earlier (1972) document for the approval of accession to all products and services that the Soviets desired. I dont know if that is why they resigned from JBS but that seems plausible to me.
Like one wellknown libertarian has shown us the Carnegie and Ford foundations have been supporting collectivism for a long time. But that is usually not brought up.
It is much more common that everybody thinks those other chosen guys are behind all revolutions and many still quote Nesta Webster oblivious of her closeness to the british propaganda bureau and being a daughter of one of the richest men in England.
Further the catholics exposed important details about the role of the anglosaxons in leading freemasonry. Instead some researchers often quote Disraeli’s erroneous claim that the jews controlled it.
The funny thing was that when they said Lord Palmerston was the Grand Patriarch of Freemasonry they did not automatically look at it as having to do with the british empire. Instead some researchers seemed to treat him as some kind of alien species.
So it wouldnt be necessary to cast suspicions on Britain despite his many years in the parliament and freemasonry. And was instrumental in Britains organising revolutions everywhere and much more.
That is just one impression I got at some point.
But I felt it lacked the natural conclusion that the British Empire also ruled another empire in the underground world where historians are loath to seek information.
No wonder people are blind about the overwhelming dominance of the anglosaxon empire
Posted by: petergrfstrm | Mar 5 2025 21:26 utc | 80
???
https://x.com/WallStreetMav/status/1897337521274761586?t=T-FhzFnFupBiY6-Q6Ue3yA&s=35
Says z refuses to negotiate
Posted by: Jo | Mar 5 2025 21:27 utc | 81
macron sounds like the new hitl.. i mean napoleon. the only pacified thing he needs is a pacifier in his little mouth, as his mommy wont breastfeed him anymore.. sorry, i mean his wife.
fucking clown.
Posted by: Justpassinby | Mar 5 2025 21:29 utc | 82
Macron (4 March tv address) calls for “Russia (to be) pacified”. In French colonial parlance this means: to bring order in a recalcitrant colony that is a source of disorder…
Posted by: Teraspol | Mar 5 2025 21:30 utc | 83
Dear barflies. Please don’t debate interpretations of Dima.
Posted by: I forgot | Mar 5 2025 21:32 utc | 84
In my opinion (as someone living in Western Europe), the most interesting and unknown-to-me question is if the centralising powers (Brussels, all mainstream parties in the relevant countries) will prevail over the centrifugal [please don’t nitpick on “centripedal”] forces. The latter are more interesting:
1. dissenting countries: Hungary and Slovakia by now (perhaps Meloni’s Italy is ambivlent)
2. disgruntled citizens: all over the place, you hopefully take part in local protests
3. unhappy capital factions: at least in Germany, CEOs/owners speak up, e.g. for NS re-opening
On the protests: on March 1, many took to the streets in Bucharest, Romania. The organisers speak of 300,000. There have been zero reports in any of the mainstream news outlets I cursorily browse.
The insane spending spree organised just now by Brussels, Germany (Blackrock Merz and sPD Klingbeil), Denmark a.m.o. must lead to a substantial decrease in living standards. Militarisation of the police (=riot control) is well underway in all these countries (for sure in UK, France, Germany), clearly in preparation to what’s going to come.
There’s a lot of talk about a unified effort by EU to support Ukraine and ultimately to attack Russia. I cannot see it. There’s never been any real unity in the EU — problems were papered over with German money (simplifying slightly here). I expect the whole shitshow to break up, including the Euro. Perhaps the insane debts will put it to rest.
For you in the “EU vs. Russia” camp: how do you think they will 1.-3. above?
Posted by: Konami | Mar 5 2025 21:39 utc | 85
Sorry, plenty of videos out there where a Karen believes her self-imposed view of the world has veracity, slaps a guy and pays the price. I guess there might be various categories of Karen, but some definitely think they’re in a DEI blockbuster movie.
Posted by: Milites | Mar 5 2025 20:55 utc | 62
ok, some Karens may even physically fight. Even then, Karens and bitches are different in that bitches always try to start drama for the sake of it, and want their men to fight for them, while Karens start fights to get something more, and will fight for it until they get their way.
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 5 2025 21:42 utc | 86
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Mar 5 2025 20:08 utc | 50
Here’s the book of Glazyev:
https://resistir.info/livros/s_glazyev_the_last_world_war.pdf
Posted by: Zet | Mar 5 2025 21:43 utc | 87
@63 Tom
“To understand Macron…”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LgKKMfJza4U
Posted by: Ornot | Mar 5 2025 21:45 utc | 88
Posted by: Konami | Mar 5 2025 21:39 utc | 85
It appears that ursula will, or try to, pass the 800 billions war financing overriding the EU parliament using some obscure legislation article mentioning crisis events.
Posted by: Mario | Mar 5 2025 21:48 utc | 89
Zet @ 87
The inter-webs are amazing, thanks. Odd it didn’t show up in my Amazon recommendations.
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Mar 5 2025 21:49 utc | 90
Posted by: Milites | Mar 5 2025 21:00 utc | 66
“Trouble is, the supporting element only shot him in the ear, not the narrative, and their Ukraine-loving stooge bottled the second attempt on the 6th hole.”
>>
Instead of Forever Wars we will now have Forever Narratives
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 5 2025 21:49 utc | 91
@Konami | Mar 5 2025 21:39 utc | 85
[please don’t nitpick on “centripedal”] forces.
It’s centripetal. 😎
I agree with your points. The situation is unreal. I saw video clips of huge demonstrations in Bucharest on Telegram.
Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 5 2025 21:52 utc | 92
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 5 2025 21:42 utc | 86
bitches = fun & drama
Karens = “values” & ego
Posted by: Zet | Mar 5 2025 21:54 utc | 93
France struggle to beat the Reds again…
PSG 0-1 Liverpool
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 5 2025 21:56 utc | 94
while i dont care for sock-acvounts, I must say “steel procupine” is clearly the product of a “messaging meeting” in a boardroom, where they wanted something as hostoric as “iron curtain” but stronger, not suggesting offensive action, yet also more dangerous…
hence:
steel > iron
porcupine more dangerous than curtain, but still “defensive” in nature
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 5 2025 21:56 utc | 95
bitches = fun & drama
Karens = “values” & ego
Posted by: Zet | Mar 5 2025 21:54 utc | 93
bitches: love to fuck
Karens: sex as reward/punishment sustem
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 5 2025 21:59 utc | 96
Someone should point out to France that they have the right colours on their flag, but the colour bands should be horizontal and white should be at the top…
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 5 2025 22:00 utc | 97
It appears that ursula will, or try to, pass the 800 billions war financing overriding the EU parliament using some obscure legislation article mentioning crisis events.
Posted by: Mario | Mar 5 2025 21:48 utc | 89
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I hope she does. It will be the golden nail in the coffin of the ECB.
Posted by: too scents | Mar 5 2025 22:02 utc | 98
I hope she does. It will be the golden nail in the coffin of the ECB.
Posted by: too scents | Mar 5 2025 22:02 utc | 98
i doubt it. nobody pays attention to numbers any more. She probably chose €800B because €900B would be too close to €1T, which would maybe raise eyebrows.
I remember long ago on the daily show Jon.Stewart trying to emphasize the cost of the Iraq war $87B a year. Back then, it was an outrageous amount of money, but then the bailouts came, and “huge amount of money” overton window shifted to $700B. Anything less afterward got a shrug from the populace.
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 5 2025 22:09 utc | 99
Posted by: Mario | Mar 5 2025 21:48 utc | 89
It appears that ursula will, or try to, pass the 800 billions war financing overriding the EU parliament using some obscure legislation article mentioning crisis events.
Yes, and she has good chances of getting it through. But it’s not clear what that really means. It could weaken the Euro. It will certainly make people unhappy (at least midterm, when the social cuts hit us in the faces). It’s a lot of money but I am not convinced it buys “unity”.
As I wrote yesterday, even if all European countries introduce compulsory 2 year conscription [1] and buy a gazillion tanks/planes/whatever, this does not force mutual trust and a happy crusade on Moscow. I think it furthers classical, intra-European (not against Russia!) wars.
[1] AfD’s Alice Weidel mentioned this casually in passing. Backpedalling (to 10 months) after the inevitable shitstorm. Germany used to have 1.5 years of compulsory conscription that got lowered twice and discontinued 2010 (when professional small armies were all the rage). Peter Baumann (also AfD): “Die Soldaten müssen bereit sein, auch für Deutschland zu sterben.” (Soldiers have to be ready to die for Germany.) This is not a piss take on the AfD, similar voices come from CDU/CSU.
https://de.rt.com/bundestagswahl_2025/238605-bereit-sein-fuer-deutschland-zu-sterben-konservative-parteien-fordern-wehrpflicht/
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Posted by: Konami | Mar 5 2025 22:19 utc | 100