Russia can claim its Victor’s Peace (dictating terms.)
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 16 2025 22:24 utc | 101
Not yet, not until the flank is secured and Ukraine is a landlocked country

Posted by: smartfox | Mar 16 2025 22:34 utc | 104

Link to Alexander Mercouris:
https://youtu.be/iYErGGBKTgc?si=8M_5tPQOdXIbl_JJ

Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Mar 16 2025 22:41 utc | 106

The two highest external debts to GDP are UK and France. The lowest is Netherlands followed closely by Russia. Wouldnt warring with Netherlands be easier? I heard they kick dogs.
https://www.usdebtclock.org/world-debt-clock.html

Posted by: antcafe | Mar 16 2025 22:55 utc | 108

“In vain you spread your net
When the bird you want is watching”
Proverbs 1: 17
Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Mar 16 2025 22:39 utc | 105
“Fishing for a real good time
Starts by casting in your line.”
Anon

Posted by: Oldhand | Mar 16 2025 23:21 utc | 110

@105
There is no peace initiative from US and Kiev meeting in Jeddah!
Rubio stated on US television this AM ceasefire (Minsk 3 to rearm) is required for talks.
No career listening to US and its vassals and proxies.
Starmer and Macron are making wind.
Seems Rubio got a day propaganda over Witkoff’s report.
They will say RF does not want peace, as “nuanced” a version as the US is selling.

Posted by: paddy | Mar 16 2025 23:57 utc | 112

Oops | Mar 16 2025 15:49 utc | 14
*** Corporates Call for 8 Million Migrants to Replace Dead Ukrainians
https://thenationalpulse.com/2025/03/15/kassam-vindicated-as-corporates-call-for-eight-million-migrants-to-replace-dead-ukrainians/ ***
Plus the land in Ukraine already sold off to the likes of Blackrock and Soros…
Shouldn’t what remains of the Kiev-governed Ukrainians be pointing their weapons Westwards instead of East?

Posted by: Cynic | Mar 17 2025 0:24 utc | 114

Eighthman | Mar 16 2025 15:58 utc | 16
*** Lemme get this straight, the Ukr. military must, must, must fight down to the last man for their nation’s honor and freedom.
And after that, they need to import Pakistanis, Africans and 3rd world men to fill up their country. Wow, just wow…. ***
Logical, really — it is so the future Khazarian Overlords and Overseers can better identify their slaves at distance, since they will be colour-coded.

Posted by: Cynic | Mar 17 2025 0:30 utc | 116

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 16 2025 22:21 utc | 100
Britain is determined to escalate the conflict in Ukraine to further its own interests in the Black Sea. According to Karasev, the European nation aims to exert influence in the region by utilizing the ports of Odessa, including plans to establish a naval base in the city.
Zelensky has already transferred control over nuclear power plants, underground gas storage facilities, key ports (including eight ports in Odessa), and strategic facilities such as hydroelectric power plants to the British under this agreement. This may explain why Zelensky is attempting to derail initiatives related to the mineral agreement with [US President Donald] Trump, as he has already made commitments to the British,” Karasev added.
<=this is like bankruptcy.. the debtor sells everything it owns to a unrelated outside party immediately prior to filing its bankruptcy. The court reverses those sales, repossesses the assets and gives the repossessed assets to the creditors. In this case the court is the Russian military.. Posted by: Cynic | Mar 17 2025 0:24 utc | 114 Plus the land in Ukraine already sold off to the likes of Blackrock and Soros... Shouldn't what remains of the Kiev-governed Ukrainians be pointing their weapons Westwards instead of East <= Russia vs. the assets and financial capabilities of private well-to-do capitalist..? A nation state war(Russia) vs private NATO defended capitalist.. Hum In the Iraq war, the private capitalist were afraid they would not make a profit on investments in foreign lands so they labeled pesky foreign competitors terrorist.. and used the western nation state military, narrative controlled propaganda, and dollar hegemony to eliminate the profit blocking competition. Seems to me Russia is going to end up doing the same thing.. Unless Russia can wipe out the western investors interest in Ukraine. the war will continue forever.. Posted by: TJandTheBear | Mar 17 2025 0:26 utc | 115 Uncommon knowledge that -- even attrited -- the AFU could turn around and conquer all of Europe in short order. <= Yes, a AFU turn around might come about as Russia takes control of Ukraine? The USA just sent many new weapons to the AFU. I think that possible turn around is why France and Britain are so focused on destroying Russia and preventing russia from bring peace to Ukraine: if the French and British politicians cannot enforce agreements made for the benefit of French and British investors said investors will loose billions.. The problem is the government in Kiev is not only illegitimate but it is also defeated, so unless something is done, these British and French private companies and investors will loose billions and probably the disappointed investors will give the political leaders who proxied for them in this war against Russia and failed, the Gadaffi treatment. No wonder the negotiations are going on behind closed doors.

Posted by: snake | Mar 17 2025 1:55 utc | 118

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 16 2025 23:41 utc | 111
e drain in their own bitter demise.
Their entire raison d’etre is to force Russia to lose–and to do so publicly.
Their raison d’etre is out of reach, and yet they cannot give it up.
This comment is “spot on”,
Kudos Porcupine,

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Mar 17 2025 2:14 utc | 120

Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 17 2025 3:03 utc | 121
RE: Merkel’s remarks
<< The term ‘Putinversteher’ is frequently used to criticize those who advocate for diplomatic engagement with Moscow, portraying them as sympathetic to the Kremlin. Former Chancellor Merkel said she rejected the idea that seeking to understand Moscow’s position amounts to supporting it. “I find the accusation of being a *Putinversteher* inappropriate. It is used as a conversation-stopper, a way to shut down debate. Understanding what Putin does and putting oneself in his position is not wrong. It is a fundamental task of diplomacy and something entirely different from supporting him.” Speaking on European security concerns, Merkel warned that failing to address Russia’s interests could increase the risk of future conflicts. “There is no justification for him [Putin] invading another country, but the discussion about Russia’s interests must be allowed.” >>
The embargo on engaging w/ VVP is loosening up, led of course by actual example by DJT and Steve Witkoff, but now a European voice chimes in.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 17 2025 3:17 utc | 122

It’s hilarious that the jewed-up Eurotrash have forgotten that when US-ZATO attacked Iraq, Libya and Syria those countries had adopted a partial disarmament policy as a demonstration of good faith – making them soft targets.
Russia, on the other hand, has boosted its military capabilities AND warned that any threat to its sovereignty/independence will be met with a Nuclear response.
So it’ll be interesting to see which EU capital cities the Eurotrash decide to sacrifice, or whether they’ll just leave it up to Russia to decide?

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Mar 17 2025 4:08 utc | 124

Trump has never been for peace with Russia.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 17 2025 5:45 utc | 126

Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 17 2025 3:03 utc | 121
Merkel didn’t do anything particularly wrong, maybe she would have opposed more to Nato expansion, and possibly enforce Minsk treaty.
Merkel did backpedalling when everybody would call you pro Putin if you said something not aligned with desired propaganda.
Now, wathever reason behind, USA started singing a little different song and she is backpedalling again.

Posted by: Mario | Mar 17 2025 7:11 utc | 128

‘Putinversteher’
New article in Der Spiegel simplification of NATO’s path to Moscow … disinformation and outright lies.
Der Tag, An Dem Der Krieg Began | Der Spiegel |

The Day the War Really Began
In April 2008, NATO deliberated on admitting Ukraine as a new member as a show of strength against Vladimir Putin. Washington favored the move, but the Germans thwarted the plan. A reconstruction of a decision that ended in disaster.

Der Spiegel as a rag competing with Murdoch’s fake news empire. Obfuscation the war crimes born in the White House for decades and continuing in every administration.

Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer wrote an Op-Ed published in Dutch paper De Volkskrant in December 2017.
‘NATO should not have committed to membership of Ukraine and Georgia’
“The West should respect the red lines of Russia”

Filling in the gaps, came across some tidbits …
Lithuania and Romania Complicit for Hosting CIA “Black Sites” | ECHR report – 7 June 2018 |
Adamkus the Nazi collaborator who became President. Poland’s Sikorski and partner Applebaum who nearly became First Lady … foiled by another Radek scandal v Russia. Gabrielius Landsbergis and the Nordic champion of NATO Carl Bildt. Can add Boris Johnson and Mark Rutte in the deck of fools working at the behest of the Evil Empire.

Posted by: Oui | Mar 17 2025 8:52 utc | 130

Is the Ukrainian Security Service a US Intelligence Unit? CIA Director Held ’Secret Consultations’ in Kiev | Moscow Times – 13 April 2014 |
Russian news agencies reported that U.S. CIA director John Brennan had a secret meeting with Ukrainian officials in Kiev before they began operations against separatist forces that had taken over buildings in the country’s east.
Brennan landed in Ukraine under an assumed name and held a “series of secret meetings” with the country’s “power bloc” Interfax reported, citing an unidentified official in the Ukrainian parliament.

Joe Biden also traveled to Kiev in the footsteps of a clandestine visit by Brennan. There was an immediate response of the Ukrainian Army moving into Mariupol and Slavyansk, guns blazing. [See Rights Sektor Dmitry Yaroush]
Western media didn’t cover the 42 deaths in Odessa and the total death toll after the Maidan Revolution has surpassed the sad number of pre-rebellion. In VP’s office, did Biden find a moving box with Halliburton energy dossiers belonging to Cheney?

Cold War Against Russia–Without Debate | The Nation – 1 May 2014 |
The Obama administration’s decision to isolate Russia, in a new version of “containment” [@AtlanticCouncil speeches Ivo Daalder and John Kerry making Russia a pariah state] has met with virtually unanimous support from the political and media establishment.

Ukraine: EU Ashton Who Then Called For “Dialog”, Now Calls For “Authority of the State” | MofA – 13 April 2014 |
2 May 2014 Odessa Murders
Pro-govt activists burn pro-Russian tents; clashes, efforts to save those in burning building | AP News archive |
Europe folded on each and every occasion.

Flight MH 17, Ukraine and the New Cold War. Prism of Disaster | Book published Jan. 2018 |
On the weekend of 13 and 14 April, CIA Director John Brennan was in the Ukrainian capital. He was followed by dozens of CIA advisers and Academi (formerly, Blackwater) mercenaries. The Anti-Terrorist Operation began right after Brennan’s visit; Parubiy sent out a Twitter message on 15 April that veterans of the Maidan uprising were poised to join the fight. Since NATO had earlier implored Yanukovych not to use force against (armed) demonstrators, Moscow now asked the alliance to restrain the coup leaders in turn. But according to Foreign Minister Lavrov, the answer they got was that ‘NATO would ask them to use force proportionately’.

Posted by: Oui | Mar 17 2025 8:59 utc | 132

Loss of HRC in 2016 presidential race, was followed by an MI6/CIA subversion of the new President Trump with weaponized propaganda involving the intelligence establishment in the MI6 connected Steele espionage report, PropOrNot and Hamilton 68 Dashboard

“Igor doesn’t deserve any of this,” says Fiona Hill one of Danchenko’s mentors and a Russia specialist who served on the U.S. National Security Council, and who was a key figure in Trump’s first impeachment. “He would have been a really good political-risk analyst.”

I understand Dr. Fiona Hill, Chancellor @Durham U, appointed mentor to Labour PM Keir Starmer 🇬🇧 in creating the coalition of the willing in the cause against Russia these days. 🇷🇺

Brennan and Clapper Should Not Escape Prosecution | Nov. 2018 | By John Kiriakou |

Posted by: Oui | Mar 17 2025 9:01 utc | 134

TV Germany report
There is no encirclement in Kursk!
Putin and Trump accused of lying by the Ukrainian side; there is no encirclement in Kursk.

Posted by: berthold | Mar 17 2025 9:13 utc | 136

Turns out EU is having ‘technical issues’ with the €40 billion aid package to Ukraine. Kaja Kallas is disappointed.
https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1901562180874453067

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 17 2025 9:17 utc | 138

Trump says he is going to talk about Putin with ‘dividing territories and power plants’. Sounds like Nato wants the Zaporozhye power plant. To be honest, that is completely delusional, considering RUAF is now moving toward Zaporozhye, passing by Kamyanske on the Dniepr shore.

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 17 2025 9:40 utc | 140

Trump says he is going to talk about Putin with ‘dividing territories and power plants’. Sounds like Nato wants the Zaporozhye power plant. To be honest, that is completely delusional, considering RUAF is now moving toward Zaporozhye, passing by Kamyanske on the Dniepr shore.
Posted by: unimperator | Mar 17 2025 9:40 utc | 140
Just a side note:
Trump plans to call Putin on March 18, 2025, and at every appropriate and inappropriate opportunity, he’s hailing this event almost as a victory announcement.
Has anyone told him that March 18 is the day Crimea was reunified with Russia?
I’m almost certain that this date has escaped Trump’s advisors (=

Posted by: Ost Rentner | Mar 17 2025 9:53 utc | 142

https://t.me/bayraktar1070/3665

Briefly about Sudzha
The enemy’s Starlink is working, Heimars and aerial bombs are flying. The Ukrainians are generously showering them with cassettes. Western aid is still coming. The war continues.
The enemy’s behavior in Sudzha is noteworthy. There are a huge number of offensive inscriptions on the walls. The general mood is described by one phrase: “Russians, eat.” After the retreat, the Ukrainians brought down the full might of artillery on Sudzha. The center was almost completely destroyed. In a word, the Kursk adventure is a banal revenge. Yes, we are losing, but at least we will screw the enemy over in some way. Wars are not won with such attitudes. To win, you need a high goal, and not a banal desire to spite your neighbor. Although, for the last 11 years, they have been doing nothing but this.
Alexander Kharchenko

Posted by: 5thcolumn | Mar 17 2025 10:16 utc | 144

Russia can show the Kursk Ukrainians the same mercy the US showed Iraqis when they were retreating from Kuwait in 1991.

Posted by: Fred777 | Mar 17 2025 10:39 utc | 146

looks like the us has notified the eu that it is leaving that group that investigates “russian war crimes”. eu wont be happy.

Posted by: Justpassinby | Mar 17 2025 10:46 utc | 148

Hoarsewhisperer | Mar 17 2025 4:08 utc | 124
*** Russia, on the other hand, has boosted its military capabilities AND warned that any threat to its sovereignty/independence will be met with a Nuclear response.***
As repeatedly shown already, “Russia” will do nothing really serious to stop the US-Zionist empire continuing to take control of the entire world … land, sea, air, everything.
However much hot air the Kremlin ritually puffs out.
A neoliberal play-acting charade — a lethal one which turns populations into “collateral damage” and in various ways promotes such permanent identity-changers as ‘population replacement’ — while advancing the globalist/WEF agenda.
A genuine leader of Russia would have destroyed the Oligarchs, also eradicated the liberals and zionist fifth-columnists.
As for the USA with its constant threats, attacks, extortion and power expansionism, would its ruling class still act that way if absolutely certain that a nuking of their assets, re-location of much of the California coast and triggering of a major eruption of Yellowstone would be the reprisal?
But the Oligarchy know they are safe with WEF/Atlanticist traitors and capitalists like Putin in control of Russia, so continue to impose their agendas.
Note that Strelkov is still imprisoned, while scum like Netanyahu and Western ‘leader’ puppets have nothing to fear.
Too many excuses are forever being made in too many countries by too many basically well-meaning people for so-called “leaders” and politicians that are really traitors.

Posted by: Cynic | Mar 17 2025 11:00 utc | 150

Posted by: Cynic | Mar 17 2025 11:00 utc | 150
Welcome back, Shadowbanned

Posted by: Night Tripper | Mar 17 2025 11:05 utc | 152

More debunked British media BS, this time another variation of ‘Russia’s economy about to collapse’…

A lot to unpack in this hysterical piece, but let’s give it a whirl…
“Putin intended his full-scale invasion of Ukraine to be a three-day operation that would force regime change in Kiev.”
Three inaccuracies in just 1 sentence. A sad start to set the scene.
“Nor did Russia expect Europe to impose serious sanctions.”
The bazooka wielded so feverishly at every inconvenient turn, how could nobody expect it?
“The result in Russia has been rampant inflation, currently running at over 9 per cent, crippling interest rates of 21 per cent.”
Interest rates really are high, bringing the housing market to a stand still, for now. There is some feelable inflation, but pensions & social programmes are being slowly adjusted. There is more variety of products on the market than in many EU states — come see for yourself.
“Last summer the price of eggs jumped by 42 per cent, bananas by 48 per cent, tomatoes by 39.5 per cent and potatoes by 25 per cent.”
Last summer was 9 months ago, bud. Then it came down, it’s called import substitution and domestic industry stimulation.
“The Russian ruble has lost over half of its value since Putin first invaded Crimea in 2014.”
Going back a decade tends to be quite impactful. Why not two?
“More than 1,000 Western businesses – including Ikea and McDonald’s – pulled out.”
Plastic chairs and plastic food is not what we’re about. More for you!
“And last month Russian utility companies hiked prices for electricity by up to 250 per cent.”
Where are these sources pulled from? Meanwhile, EU energy costs are up 500%.
“Ukraine’s European allies hoped that sanctions would force Putin into taking an early off ramp and bring his economy crashing down. That hasn’t happened yet.”
So, the headline is highly exaggerated? That was anticlimatic. 🤬
Of course, there are tradeoffs, and it’s impossible not to have any. But with the entire EU & Commonwealth supporting Ukraine — ceasefire talks are still underway on Russia’s terms, as NATO suffer an embarrassing intellectual & tactical defeat everywhere, except for the media, it seems.
https://x.com/ivan_8848/status/1901591701396898033

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 17 2025 11:12 utc | 154

rk | Mar 17 2025 7:29 utc | 129
*** The simple fact that they’re fighting Nato satellites they put in orbit, weapons they provided service for, sell cheap resources used only to build more weapons against them (In Turkey’s case they give them for free, “delayed payments” sure…), using their money that was stolen, and that they’re inviting American invenstors to buy resources in the same Donbass Americans are bombing, shows their true level of intellect ***
Not an ‘intellect’ problem, so much as as problem of being ruled by “leaders” and Oligarchs who are traitors.

Posted by: Cynic | Mar 17 2025 11:34 utc | 156

unimperator | Mar 17 2025 11:12 utc | 154
“The result in Russia has been rampant inflation, currently running at over 9 per cent”
And in the UK rents are around 50% of post-tax income.
Just opened the water rates bill – it’s gone up 42% in a single year. Still, at least it’s not an essential !

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Mar 17 2025 11:40 utc | 158

Glen Diesen interviews Col Jacques Bord on his substack…particularly exposes the weaknesses in EU scenarios re Ukraine.Actually can been moving by its behaviours to initiate the old USSR where as Russia has adapted to a position that EU cannot even consider unless radical changes occur…which are all far too slow and disjointed and unrealistic and kinda stupid too stuck in what idelogies and complete lack of coherent policies they have….except a manipulating unifying russophobia they are stuck with?

Posted by: Jo | Mar 17 2025 11:53 utc | 160

The limited return of the trolls – having disappeared with the cuts to US funding, through USAID and NED – likely reflects new funding from the EU.
Scarcity in posters, posts and energy – the EU funding is clearly less than before.
– just my €0.02…

Posted by: Richard Head | Mar 17 2025 12:02 utc | 162

Not to mention his chorus of “he has a point you know” acolytes.

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Mar 17 2025 12:06 utc | 164

Posted by: Fred777 | Mar 17 2025 10:39 utc | 146
Russia can show the Kursk Ukrainians the same mercy the US showed Iraqis when they were retreating from Kuwait in 1991.
A very good point, but should Russia demonstrate the same level of humanitarian concern as was demonstrated by the heroic Western air forces during that epic and hard-faught canpaign (/S)?

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Mar 17 2025 12:21 utc | 166

Zelensky dismissed the head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Anatoly Bargilevich.
His place will be taken by the former deputy head of the State School of Civil Aviation, Andrei Gnatov.
https://t.me/geromanat/46610
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Mar 17 2025 12:09 utc | 165
A right man in the right place, for the “to the last ukrainian” plan.
https://t.me/dva_majors/66943

Ukraine has a new Chief of the General Staff. He is Andrey Gnatov, former commander of the 36th Marine Brigade, a unit that we have already captured three times in parts: on Zmeinoye, in Mariupol and now in the Kursk region. And before that, drunken marines from Nikolaev regularly came to surrender in Crimea from 2014 to 2022.
Gnatov’s specialty is a butcher, like Syrsky. He repeatedly chopped up his 36th brigade in battles near Donetsk during the ATO. His only success is his participation in the defense of Nikolaev, when after our troops retreated from the Kherson region, he led the advance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to Kherson and the purges of the Kherson region. For this feat, Zelya gave him a general
Gnatov is an obedient performer, whom the hoarse Fuhrer loves very much, he is excellent at driving people to the slaughter. His candidacy will also be supported by the Nazis from the barrier detachments.

Posted by: 5thcolumn | Mar 17 2025 12:24 utc | 168

I am from Spain. I support Russia.
In my humble opinion, the West problem for Russia is not solved by just wining this war, but how to manage a centuries-long animosity from the West that will continue for the next two centuries. Wining this war is one step, but others are needed to contain the ineluctable attacks from the West in the coming decades. What are those?

Posted by: Emi | Mar 17 2025 13:17 utc | 170

Russians in desperate straits (cont’d).
See this story told on February 21, 2025 on LCI (La Chaîne Info), a French 24-hour news TV channel:
https://x.com/camille_moscow/status/1892880387254161703
Translation:

Picture of the day. What has bitten them? We’re in downtown Melitopol, in the Moscow-occupied region of Zaporizhzhia, where this antique, a Soviet T-70 tank built in the early ’40s against the Nazi invaders, has stood for years. Surprise, surprise! The Russians spot the relic, and soon the cat’s out of the bag: it’s to be sent to St. Petersburg for repair. Yes, to be repaired, to roll again. Then, embarrassed, the Russians claim that it will take part in a remembrance parade. Let’s face it, nobody believes it over there, everyone’s got used to the idea that in this Russian army everything serves, even 80-year-old old-timers to plug up the gaps against the Ukrainian threat. 80 years old and healthy in a few weeks’ time after repairs, that’s where we’re at, it seems.

Posted by: Leuk | Mar 17 2025 13:35 utc | 172

Reuter said Trump will speak to VV Putin.
Will VVP suggest to Trump that Trump assume the role of the private in the nuanced ceasefire interaction?

Posted by: paddy | Mar 17 2025 14:01 utc | 174

Posted by: Savonarole | Mar 17 2025 13:47 utc | 173
##########
As recently as last week, I naively believed he was motivated to be a force for good when burning everything down.
Now I am convinced that he’s happy to rule the ashes. I have been listening to Bessent and Lutnick and they are two of the least convincing American financial leaders I have ever heard, and that is really saying something.
They both seem to be in over their heads. Steve Mnuchin and Wilbur Ross (first term cabinet) were rockstars in those same positions by contrast.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 17 2025 14:09 utc | 176

So it is now “our” policy to target civilians,
after the huge precedent of Gaza, how could they not?
Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Mar 17 2025 14:11 utc | 177
#######
When did the West not target civilians?
My Lai. Hiroshima. etc.
It’s normal to think our outrageous behavior is brought on by extreme necessity, that we did something heinous in service to a greater good.
At the end of the day they are all rationalizations to keep us from going insane.
Wrong is wrong however we justify it. Little kids know that killing and torture are bad.
About history, if we have another big war there may be no more history for humanity.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 17 2025 14:25 utc | 178

Mainland Europe needs to do a ‘Trump’
Ignore starmer UK, and get on with its nabour and old tradeing partner. Russia.
Did’nt Britain vote to leave the EU (brixit) ?
What gives ?

Posted by: Mark2 | Mar 17 2025 14:59 utc | 180

So the weastern alliance is looking for more money to throw after bad money, like looking down tbe back of the sette, (cutting welfare)
Posted by: Mark2 | Mar 17 2025 14:41 utc | 179

keep in mind that they dont care about the money, as in their mind, once they have “decolonized” russia, then that money will be recuperated via the russian resources.
paired with the now utterly desperate sunk cost phallacy (yes, i spelled that like this for the eu), they are now in so deep that its not possible to pull out anymore.

From the perspective of history in 200 years time, the entire west will wear the swastika.
This fact is not trivial.
We will not write our history.
Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Mar 17 2025 14:11 utc | 177

they already do. the nato flag/emblem is noting more but a swastika, just folded a little bit. and the nato headquarters, viewed from above, looks like 2x the ss doppel siegrune.
(yes yes, conspiracies and all that. just a coincidence of course)
full on nazi, thats what nato is. so wearing a swastika is not needed, as the nato emblem is the same.

Posted by: Justpassinby | Mar 17 2025 15:18 utc | 182

Conflict of intersts !
The politians, military top brass and media moguls. Should have their bank accounts frozen without warning by intapol and fraud police departments. And investigated. Do they have shares in the military industryal complex ?
We would soon find out their selfish personal motives with this war, after a through investigation of said accounts. And i’d include off-shore acounts as well as members of their familys.
It’s a scam, our public pay and have no gain.
The zionist fascists, gain without personal jepody.
Confliscate the lot… ‘proceeds of crime’
They are the true enemey, trators and disloyal to their nations.
Reality.

Posted by: Mark2 | Mar 17 2025 16:21 utc | 184

“Well, seems like Macron just called Putin’s bluff. He wants to send French troops in Ukraine, whether Russia agrees or not.
And why shouldn’t he ? So far, Russia has just huffed and puffed, done some stern finger-wagging with Zakharova and Lavrov, and generally done nothing significant while Europe has rearmed and supplied Ukraine to the teeth.”
Why shouldn’t he?
well Putin has said that Russia will not accept it. That is why!
You seem to have the thinking capability of an average EU politician.
That will lead you and EU into war.
And you have asked for it!
I don’t feel sorry for you guys.

Posted by: g wiltek | Mar 17 2025 16:42 utc | 186

Once again, it seems I’m about to be proven right in the most infuriatingly predictable way possible—not that I take any pleasure in watching history repeat itself like a badly scripted sequel.
This is Minsk 3, plain and simple, and the so-called ‘civilian mission’ is just another hollow rerun of OSCE observers—because, apparently, performing the same failed play with a new cast somehow counts as strategy.
It’s beyond disgraceful. 150,000 people gave up their futures to pull us out of the Kremlin’s mess, and this is how they repay them? By pissing on their sacrifices and trading real leverage for a worthless sheet of diplomatic fan fiction?
Once again, victory is being gift-wrapped and handed over to defeat, just like Minsk 2, just like Astana.
And yet, I shouldn’t be shocked.
Not a single one of these political parasites sent their own kids to the frontlines. Most of them were too busy making sure their offspring were tucked away safely abroad, far from the consequences of their own disastrous decisions.
Because what really matters—as always—is that their oligarch cronies get back to making obscene amounts of money, sipping overpriced champagne on the Côte d’Azur, and pretending they’re masters of the universe while the rest of us foot the bill.
And when this inevitable train wreck finally demands payment? Guess who gets stuck with the tab? Certainly not them. The common people, as always, will be the ones forced to pay for the incompetence of their so-called ‘leaders.’
Meanwhile, they keep playing this ridiculous game—pretending that Trump is some lone warrior against ‘globalists’ and the ‘deep state,’ helping him reindustrialize, selling off resources so Europe can rearm, all while deluding themselves into thinking he’ll stay in power forever and create ladting change.
I’ve seen teenage mallrats with more critical thinking skills than this collection of moronic grifters.
Let me be crystal clear: they are every bit as catastrophic as Yeltsin—worse, even—because at least that guy had the excuse of being perpetually hammered. These people manage to reach the same level of sheer, unfiltered stupidity while stone-cold sober.

Posted by: Dlugaj July | Mar 17 2025 16:59 utc | 188

The German government really are vile bunch of shits – Merz has already welcomed the war criminal Netanyahu with open arms – now his aiders and abettors in genocide, are trying to portray the Neo-Nazi’s of Ukraine – in a acceptable light.
Russian WWII General/Marshall, Georgy Zhukov, was right when he said – We have liberated Europe from Nazism – but Europe will never forgives us for doing so. Or words to that effect.
“The German government has ordered national media outlets not to show Nazi symbols in Ukraine, according to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). Journalists have been warned that they may face legal repercussions for broadcasting any such imagery, the agency reported on Monday.
The guidelines advise reporters to “politely” ask Ukrainian soldiers displaying the swastika or other Nazi-associated symbols to remove the “agitation elements” and avoid “unwelcome actions,” such as performing the Nazi salute, according to the SVR.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 17 2025 17:03 utc | 190

I wouldn’t put anything past the German government – they’re in bed with the Zionist and the Neo-Nazi’s in Ukraine – so this is likely to be true.
“According to an individual whose identity cannot be disclosed for security reasons, the “German authorities are forcing Afghan migrants to join the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine in order to urgently replenish the personnel of the Kiev regime’s armed forces, which is experiencing an acute shortage of people.”
The scheme supposedly involves approximately 2,300 refugees detained by German police for various crimes in cities such as Berlin, Bonn, Cologne, Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt am Main, and Stuttgart.
“In the event of refusal to sign the relevant contract and go to Ukraine, the migrants are threatened with guaranteed extradition to Afghanistan,””

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 17 2025 17:18 utc | 192

…to pull us out of the Kremlin’s mess…
…while the rest of us foot the bill…
Posted by: Dlugaj July | Mar 17 2025 16:59 utc | 188

Who are those “us” you keep bleating about? Yourself and your lice?

Posted by: Rutte | Mar 17 2025 17:30 utc | 194

Posted by: Dlugaj July | Mar 17 2025 16:59 utc | 188
This is Minsk 3, plain and simple, and the so-called ‘civilian mission’ is just another hollow rerun of OSCE observers—because, apparently, performing the same failed play with a new cast somehow counts as strategy.
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Since “This” is for now equal to nothinburger, not even a temporary ceasefire, I suppose you just make projections.
Making real what is inexistent and ranting about.
Btw, use your usual nickname instead of coming back again and again with new ones.

Posted by: scc | Mar 17 2025 17:41 utc | 196

What Trumpy is going for now is Yemen then Iran, later China, a direct attack on the Brics club of losers.
Posted by: rk | Mar 17 2025 7:29 utc | 129
It’s unlikely he’ll make it past Yemen. Once we lose a carrier the game will change permanently.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | Mar 17 2025 17:43 utc | 198

Posted by: g wiltek | Mar 17 2025 16:42 utc | 186
During the “Yellow vest” uprising , a military helicopter was ready in case Macron had to be evacuated.
If he send the troop, the military will evacuate the helicopter without Macron.

Posted by: Savonarole | Mar 17 2025 17:51 utc | 200