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April 6, 2025
Ukraine Open Thread 2025-072
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Per Demetriev in an interview w/ Russia 1: “I was surprised that not only is American society being led to believe that it is Russia that is violating the limited ceasefire on energy infrastructure, but even several key people in the administration are unaware that it is actually Ukraine that is striking Russian energy infrastructure.”
A solution-?
China sells TikTok to Russia.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Apr 6 2025 14:43 utc | 1
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Apr 6 2025 14:43 utc | 1
Sources? Links?
Posted by: smartfox | Apr 6 2025 15:14 utc | 2
@ steel_porcupine | Apr 6 2025 14:43 utc | 1
OK, found it.
Rubio also seems to have this misinformation. If this is not intentional on his part, then it shows how much the CIA and Pentagon, i.e. his sources, are still working against Trump.
Posted by: smartfox | Apr 6 2025 15:25 utc | 3
I don’t know how many patrons at this bar paid attention to Cavoli’s testimony in front of the Senate.
No wonder America lost in Ukraine. Their perception of reality is dangerously skewed. Erik Prince has spoken about this.
An issue with propaganda is that when used too much, truth disappears. A crowding out sort of effect.
There is no more propagandized people than the Americans, and of those, the “intellectual” and political classes. See Victor Davis Hansen and 99% of the Congress.
Existing in la-la land, as their grip on hegemony slips away.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 6 2025 15:39 utc | 4
Ukraine and World Affairs: Weekly Update, 4th April 2025: May be useful to some: https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-and-world-affairs-weekly
Posted by: The Busker | Apr 6 2025 15:57 utc | 5
So… Before our faithful DS fan arrives.
Yes, taking a look at maps, and even more so on casualties (another day in high 1300s after a low 1400s) the AFU seems to be working well with a new tactic.
I call it the cockroach approach.
Small investment but always crawling back from where they were kicked out, so in fact slowing RF advance as a decision is not made to keep pushing and leave those behind to be handled by specialized teams for hunting those small left behind groups.
As per current numbers, attrition is too low to be interesting with this new approach ( saying that AFU has 39k causalties for 28k recruitment is too slow for anything) a new counter must be devised.
my 2 cents
Posted by: Newbie | Apr 6 2025 16:06 utc | 6
The war in Ukraine should continue because it’s eating away Outlaw US of A weaponry and resources fast…and Trump is eating away Outlaw US of A savings with his tariffs.
The Kremlin, People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) understand that.
Beautiful way to stretch and destroy the Outlaw US of A’s empire (also referred to in the Bible as Babylon the Great, the mother of all the harlots) without moving a finger or two.
The Oulaw US of A is in decline.
The world majority does not need or want chlorinated chicken the way the Outlaw US of A bottles it up and sells it.
Posted by: pepe | Apr 6 2025 16:27 utc | 7
Another Ukrainian ‘Maidan veteran’ was destroyed during SMO.
https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1908851237677666430
Posted by: unimperator | Apr 6 2025 16:47 utc | 8
Posted by: pepe | Apr 6 2025 16:27 utc | 7
I wish I could share your optimism about the tariffs weakening the US economy but that’s not the case. The tariffs are working, and many nations are negotiating with Washington to have them reduced or eliminated. This is what happens when countries take the easy way out instead of sticking together and facing the US as a united front. Oh well.
Posted by: bored | Apr 6 2025 16:49 utc | 9
Per the Sunday Times: globalists like UK’s Sir Keir plan to admit that globalization has failed.
On Monday Sir Keir will say that the economic upheaval from DJT’s tariffs reveals that the government must “move further and faster” to boost growth.
The UK is a gas station w/ nukes but the gas is nominal and the nukes are non-capitation caliber.
Is the UK naked-?
O, Britannia
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Apr 6 2025 16:54 utc | 10
Developments indicate to me that the Russian Federation has indeed long been following a plan to perform a The Great Gatsby style of bankrupting the abilities of the AFU, and the credibility of the Zelenskyy regime in Kiev. It’s happening a little bit at a time, and slowly enough and along a wide front, so that the West can’t excite its voters enough to get them to ask for a major intervention by NATO military forces. And then when the collapse happens, all at once, clean solutions to the conflict will seem obvious. Bye-bye Zelenskyy and Banderism, hello to the Russian Federation having claim to the formerly disputed regions and to whatever ground it forces occupy. The details can be negotiated.
Posted by: Babel-17 | Apr 6 2025 16:59 utc | 11
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Apr 6 2025 16:54 utc | 10
RE: death of globalism
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It took only 2 days, but DJT Nordstreamed Europe-!
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Apr 6 2025 17:01 utc | 12
Imo, a major problem for the AFU is that its new recruits are in general not suitable as replacements on the front lines for the only kind of warfare the AFU seems to be able to wage with a degree of competence. Small unit tactics requires the soldiers being used to be motivated to perform in an aggressive, high energy, manner while on the offensive, and with a near suicidal resolve when performing holding actions.
Those pulled in off the streets and into vans aren’t the target demographic for that, and unless they get heavily trained and placed in units with esprit de corps they will be thinking primarily of survival, and not defeating Russian Federation forces.
Posted by: Babel-17 | Apr 6 2025 17:09 utc | 13
perform in an aggressive, high energy, manner while on the offensive, and with a near suicidal resolve when performing holding actions.
Posted by: Babel-17 | Apr 6 2025 17:09 utc | 13
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We have no idea of the physco-pharmaceuticals in play. Hundreds of billions of MIC aid buys a lot of crazy stuff.
You can be sure the Ukrainians are doped with a near lethal dose.
Posted by: too scents | Apr 6 2025 17:15 utc | 14
Posted by: Babel-17 | Apr 6 2025 16:59 utc | 11
Wish is the father of your expressions. You underestimate the power of propaganda.
Scientifically proven wisdom, also taught in marketing and mass psychology: “If information is disseminated so regularly and so strongly for a long time that contrary information is suppressed, the information is internalized as true, and factual, opposing arguments are no longer mentally absorbed.” This is also true of religions and political ideologies. (Which is why ISIS was able to recruit its suicide bombers so easily.) This has nothing to do with intelligence, which doesn’t protect against such things.
Posted by: smartfox | Apr 6 2025 17:16 utc | 15
Posted by: Babel-17 | Apr 6 2025 17:09 utc | 13
RE: new recruits won’t have sufficient esprit de corps
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If the drugs are strong enough...
I'm thinking Captagon
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Apr 6 2025 17:24 utc | 16
Posted by: smartfox | Apr 6 2025 17:16 utc | 15
RE: the power of propaganda
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The power of propaganda plus industrial-grade psychotropics
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Apr 6 2025 17:27 utc | 17
LoveDonbass@1539 Apr 6
Truly, Americans have long been the most successfully propagandized people on planet earth. The process began in 1916 when J.P. Morgan and the rest of the usual suspects bought up the 20 most influential newspapers in the country. They hired their own stooges as publishers and editors…and the rest became history. In that decade movies had barely begun, while radio and television as public mediums were yet to exist.
So essentially, those with deepest connexions with the banksters in City of London had achieved near total control over international and national information sources. During THEIR engineered WWI a state tyranny over information was imposed by the blackmailed worst president we ever experienced…Thomas Woodrow Wilson. Many dissidents to the “war effort” were imprisoned…including the then still viable Socialist Party’s candidate, Eugene B. Debs. “Obey or else” was the message.
Nephew of Sigmund Freud, Edward Bernays, developed both the public relations and propagandistic advertising industries in the early 20’s…thought control on steroids.
In the early ’30’s, John D. Rottenfeller heavily subsidized Henry Luce with his Fortune, Time and Life magazines. All three of them were deeply engaged in advancing the pre-planned Great Depression…and then on setting the foundations for WWII.
Postwar, as the world hegemon, both financially and militarily, the U$$A embrarked on the “glory years” when working serfs came to enjoy more prosperity since decades prior to the Civil War. Eventually, employing such traitors as LBJ, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon (think Rottenfeller minion, Heinrich Kissinger), both the CIA-Bu$h and Bu$h the Le$$er, Ronnie Raygunz and ultimately the parade following Wee Willie Clinton; American industry became offshored, the Rust Belt collapsed and fentanyl crashed the scene.
All of these events and situations were plotted and planned decades in advance by the ruling Cabal.
Posted by: aristodemos | Apr 6 2025 17:28 utc | 18
Pepe @1627 Apr 6
Check out the production process, ingredients for Macdonald’s “child friendly” artificial chicken “treats”. Please hold a garbage bag close to your mouth when researching what the kiddies are getting hooked on.
Posted by: aristodemos | Apr 6 2025 17:33 utc | 19
Barflies, I see an atmosphere of suspense! I see that the great victory of the Bear was not the human aspect (because the Ukrainian workforce proved to be very good!), it was not the technological aspect (drones and Western ISR caused and continue to cause a lot of trouble!), it was not the tactical aspect (Kursk, for example, was not a cakewalk!)…
So, barflies, the great victory of the Bear was the economic aspect (the thousands and thousands of devastating sanctions only tickled and nothing more!). So, the West, through Uncle Sam, is now making the unexpected move of tariffs to destabilize the Dragon! And now, what are your bets!? From what I’ve seen, no one has the slightest idea of what will happen. Personally, I noticed that the Dragon was nervous, saying that he was not afraid; why say that? What are your bets?
Posted by: Elber | Apr 6 2025 18:06 utc | 20
Posted by: Elber | Apr 6 2025 18:06 utc | 20
Everyone can place their bets, but I would love to read a brilliant prediction from Sun of Alabama!
Posted by: Elber | Apr 6 2025 18:12 utc | 21
!–Ovechkin–!
Gretzky’s record from 1999 was long thought unbreakable, but Alex Ovechkin has just surpassed him, scoring goal #895 during a Sunday matinee game.
Nearly 900 goals for #8
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Apr 6 2025 18:16 utc | 22
Simple prediction:
1) Musk has already said that the US and Europe should set mutual tariffs at zero. So it’s just a shock element to force the Europeans to increase military spending, with the main part being 800 billion dollars in arms purchases in the US.
2) The pro-Ukraine propaganda is completely obscuring Trump; he says Russia doesn’t want to, and he sets the secondary tariffs on Russian oil at 50%. The result is a drastic increase in oil prices and unrest in the US because the quantities cannot be offset by other sources in the short term.
3) Since distraction through war is always the easiest way to discipline the population, Trump starts the war against Iran and simultaneously supplies and releases long-range weapons to Ukraine.
4) After the first ones explode in Moscow and the Crimean Bridge, Russia also has no more restraint and attacks the sources of the weapons with hazelnuts. 5) The leading idiots in Europe are sending aircraft and naval units, as well as long-range weapons, along with covert ground troops.
6) World War Is imminent; all that’s missing are nuclear weapons, but the destruction in Europe and Russia is considerable.
7) Trump is acting as a peacemaker; the US gets the profit he needs; Trump wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
8) Yalta II has no real winner other than the US.
Posted by: smartfox | Apr 6 2025 18:31 utc | 23
The critical factor in this war looks to be the Azov gangs. If they obey oligarchs, then peace can be achieved. If they are a law unto themselves, then negotiating is hopeless. Either Russia kills off several million male Ukrainians or plays whack a mole in a frustrating game of “Get The Nazi”. However, I repeat, that if they are self directed, then their disunity can be exploited by making them local warlords in a broken up Ukraine.
Posted by: Eighthman | Apr 6 2025 18:32 utc | 24
THE NEWS THAT WAS FIT TO PRINT YESTERDAY DOESN’T FIT TODAY
ON APRIL 4, 2025 BY PATRICK ARMSTRONG
(excerpt) One of the principal themes of my writings in this site is that Washington and the West generally have very poor knowledge of Russia (here I am in 2018). Most of it is based on unexamined assumptions complacently adhered to. And here we see it again. Let’s start a short, victorious war. And we know that it will be short and victorious because Russia’s economy is weak and sanctions will collapse it in a couple of months; Putin’s underbosses will whack him out if we can make them hurt; their weapons are ancient junk; their generals are unimaginative clods; their tactics are inept; their soldiers are poorly trained dregs. We. on the other hand, are the greatest warriors with the best generals and the best weapons ever.
My very favourite example of this ill-informed self-satisfied overconfidence all in one go from a British source from 2023 just before the big offensive:
As a former tank commander, I can say one thing for certain: Putin’s demoralised conscripts are utterly unprepared for the shock action now hitting their lines. Ukrainian armoured formations are beginning to meet Russian forces in battle, and they are going to pulverise Russia’s defensive lines.
I am confident for one simple reason: Ukraine will follow the Western ideology of manoeuvre warfare in a combined arms context, while the Russians will follow Soviet doctrine, relying on attrition and numbers. The Russians will find that the armour of Western tanks is far more resilient than flesh and bone, they will die in great numbers, and they will lose.
Posted by: Exile | Apr 6 2025 18:32 utc | 25
Glenn Diesen’s substack: “Negotiations Stall in Ukraine, Fighting Intensifies”
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/negotiations-stall-in-ukraine-fighting
WION talked with Glenn Diesen about the situation in the Ukraine. (Did Russia indeed increase its attacks on the Ukraine ???)
Posted by: WMG | Apr 6 2025 18:32 utc | 26
Posted by: too scents | Apr 6 2025 17:15 utc | 14
Yep, how else could you explain a grown man jumping into a ford transit and putting the boot down for the Russian border with the aim of defeating Putin.
Watching the endless videos of drones attacking and destroying these poor bastards, one can only assume that they’re totally out of it. LSD mixed with speed I’d say.
Posted by: Ogre | Apr 6 2025 18:40 utc | 27
Note to self. Dont drive a 80 ton vehicle into a peat bog. All peat bogs must be posted with neon signs that inform of the danger! It is this dangerous exclusion of safety signs that caused these tragic deaths.
No rural folk of any race would have made that rather catastrophic error. They were the mainstay of the army but they stay away now. They are allergic to peat bogs and woke armys.
Posted by: LosBanos | Apr 6 2025 18:45 utc | 28
Explosives Seized at Belarusian Border: 580 kg Attempted Smuggling from Poland to Russia
Authorities intercepted 580 kg of explosives attempting to enter Belarus, with plans to later transport it into Russia.
This is the largest seizure in the country’s history, according to local customs officials. The vehicle was carefully modified to evade detection during inspections, but the explosives were still discovered.
The driver has been arrested, and a criminal case has been opened.
The explosives are believed to have been manufactured in the United States.
with a video on telegram showing how neatly they packed the stuff into the car frame. another terrorist plot from nato.
Posted by: Justpassinby | Apr 6 2025 18:54 utc | 29
Im sure the SBU speedily and efficiently destroyed this. Id bet two dollars this came from recently refurbished Syria facilities. Never let a good war go to waste.
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-crime/3121021-sbu-seizes-750-kg-of-psychoactive-drugs-in-odesa.html
Posted by: LosBanos | Apr 6 2025 18:56 utc | 30
It took only 2 days, but DJT Nordstreamed Europe-!
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Apr 6 2025 17:01 utc | 12
Thanks. Not much to laugh about these days so this one saved my day.
Posted by: Avtonom | Apr 6 2025 18:59 utc | 31
They really hate Glenn Diesen. I hope he stays safe.
Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Apr 6 2025 19:05 utc | 32
6) World War Is imminent; all that’s missing are nuclear weapons, but the destruction in Europe and Russia is considerable.
Posted by: smartfox | Apr 6 2025 18:31 utc | 23
So the Russians lost the coordinates of US military and energy infrastructure?
No degradation of the Empire at home???
Strange- given that the US is the SOURCE of the antagonism….
Posted by: Original Newbie | Apr 6 2025 19:07 utc | 33
Posted by: smartfox | Apr 6 2025 18:31 utc | 23
Kudos to you too. You may well be right about all your predictions… lol especially the Peace Prize
Posted by: Avtonom | Apr 6 2025 19:07 utc | 34
There was a story on RT about the Belarusians intercepting a van that was basically all explosive under the floor and walls.
580 kg of explosive material.
Sounds British to me, but the explosives are probably American. Maybe to frustrate the negotiation process?
CIA, MI6, or both?
Twitter thread
https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1908954775682531445
I can’t imagine how many people could kill if placed in a dangerous spot.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 6 2025 19:17 utc | 35
Military Situation In Ukraine And Russia’s Kursk Region On April 6, 2025 (Maps Update)
https://southfront.press/military-situation-in-ukraine-and-russias-kursk-region-on-april-6-2025-maps-update/
Russian strikes destroyed targets in the Kiev region
Russian strikes destroyed targets in the Sumy region
Russian strikes destroyed targets in the Poltava region
Russian strikes destroyed targets in the Cherkassy region
Russian strikes destroyed targets in the Zhytomyr region
Russian strikes destroyed targets in the Kharkiv region
Russian strikes destroyed targets in the Vinnitsa region
Russian strikes destroyed targets in the Zaporizhzhya region
Russian strikes destroyed targets in the Mykolayiv region
Russian strikes destroyed targets in the Khmelnitsky region
Russian forces advanced in the Kursk direction
Russian forces advanced in the Сhasov Yar direction
Russian forces advanced in the Toretsk direction
Russian forces advanced in the Pokrovsk direction
Russian forces eliminated about 65 servicemen, four armoured vehicles, two motor vehicles, and four field artillery guns in the Kharkiv area
Russian forces eliminated about 230 servicemen, three MaxxPro armoured vehicles, four pickups, four artillery guns, one EW station in the Svatove area
Russian forces eliminated about 280 servicemen, two armoured vehicles, 17 motor vehicles, three artillery guns, one M777 howitzer in the Chasov Yar area
Russian forces eliminated about 430 servicemen, seven armoured vehicles, one pickup truck, and five artillery guns in Donetsk region
Russian forces eliminated up to 130 servicemen, one tank, four motor vehicles, three artillery guns in the Southern Donetsk area
Russian forces eliminated up to 65 servicemen, one infantry vehicle, three motor vehicles, four EW stations, one ammo depot in the Kherson region
Russian air defense forces shot down one U.S.-made JDAM aerial guided bomb and 100 UAVs over the past day
Military Situation In Ukraine And Russia’s Kursk Region On April 6, 2025 (Maps Update)
Russian forces advanced north of Razliv
Fighting is ongoing near Troitskoye
Fighting is ongoing near Kotlyne
Fighting is ongoing in Zvirove
Fighting is ongoing near Novooleksandrivka
Russian forces eliminated up to 430 servicemen, seven armoured vehicles, one pickup truck, and five artillery guns in the area
Russian forces advanced west of Alexandropol and cut the highway between Alexandropol and Arkhangelskoye
Fighting is ongoing in Tarasovka
Fighting is ongoing in northern and southern parts of Toretsk
Russian forces eliminated up to 430 servicemen, seven armoured vehicles, one pickup truck, and five artillery guns in the area
Russian forces took control of the Zapadniy neighborhood
Clashes are ongoing in the center of Chasov Yar
Up to 280 servicemen, two armoured vehicles, 17 motor vehicles, three artillery guns, one M777 howitzer were destroyed in the area
Russian forces advanced in Guevo
Clashes continued on the outskirts of Oleshnya
Fighting is ongoing in Volodymyrivka
Russian forces eliminated up to 170 servicemen, two armoured vehicles, 12 motor vehicles, three UAV command posts, one ammo depot in the area
Posted by: smartfox | Apr 6 2025 19:24 utc | 36
It is amazing jiw confident is the EU. They sr going to attack Russia very soon.
Posted by: vargas | Apr 6 2025 19:25 utc | 37
@ Avtonom | Apr 6 2025 19:07 utc | 34
No reson for a LOL, I’m hoping I’m wrong, but my experience says, I’m right. I’m a pessimist.
As Mr. Keuner (B. Brecht) says, “That’s why stupidity must be eradicated, because it makes those who encounter it stupid.”
Posted by: smartfox | Apr 6 2025 19:37 utc | 38
Posted by: smartfox | Apr 6 2025 19:24 utc | 36
Thanks!
And addressed to the ukronazi troll who is only able to count the cmsq.
Posted by: Naive | Apr 6 2025 19:38 utc | 39
Posted by: vargas | Apr 6 2025 19:25 utc | 37
But why are you not ashamed to show your stupidity comment after comment?
Posted by: Naive | Apr 6 2025 19:40 utc | 40
@ vargas | Apr 6 2025 19:25 utc | 37
289 / 5.000
No, the Europeans are loudmouths, and their propaganda is aimed at the population because they don’t yet have enough support. If the US doesn’t take a decisive step against Russia first, they’ll just cry. They’ll only take action when they think they can get away with it.
Posted by: smartfox | Apr 6 2025 19:40 utc | 41
Posted by: smartfox | Apr 6 2025 18:31 utc | 23
It is not about pessimism, it is about not understanding what is happening right now. T-o-t-a-l-l-y not understanding.
Or you are a trump troll.
Posted by: Naive | Apr 6 2025 19:44 utc | 42
Naive | Apr 6 2025 19:40 utc | 40
Why do you have to be insulting? Does your ego require it? Can’t you write objectively, without childish bickering? Anyone who posts insults instead of arguments disqualifies themselves.
Posted by: smartfox | Apr 6 2025 19:45 utc | 43
#12-steel-porcupine-Thank you Very Stable Genius President Donald John Trump(VSGPDJT) for destroying WEF whores in just -2days !!!!!!
Posted by: pepe | Apr 6 2025 16:27 utc | 7
Sorry but the U.S. is not Babylon the Great, the mother of all harlots.
Israel held that distinction in 70AD after it rejected Christ.
Posted by: David | Apr 6 2025 19:48 utc | 45
aristodemos@19…..so I’m in the Medical Supply Shop getting an ice machine for my shoulder, pre opp, it’s busy in there, six kiosks going, and the behind the counter staff are bantering about lunch, some how chicken McNuggets comes up in their conversation, several faces frowned, one gal say, do you even know what’s in them? There was silence from the group (mixed sex, and ethnicity, even a nice Ukie sales girl I’d met the week before)…..so I, leprechaun that I am, answered the question, “dog?” says I….. they’ll never forget that lunch conversation…..
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Apr 6 2025 19:48 utc | 46
It’s always challenging to predict, but I don’t think Trump will take on Iran.
The defense capabilitites of that nation is immense both in depth and ability. This is not some petty pebble or minor opponent.
I also sit with a feeling that Trump even envisions a possible dialogue and meeting with Iran. His idiotic murder of Soleimani is bond to complicate this, but if he can back out with a face-saving detente he can shove down the throat of Israel, I think he will do it.
Overall, USA getting out of Iran and Ukraine, while at least reaping a modest gain in the trade gambit, is going to set the Red team well up for mid-term gains.
For sure, the blue team will oppose all this with every ounce of strength they’ve got.
I feel most of the US adminstration has lost interest in Ukraine and if EU wants to take it over, the better.
Posted by: NorwegianPawn | Apr 6 2025 20:07 utc | 47
Posted by: smartfox | Apr 6 2025 19:45 utc | 43
Because he is a factually retarded troll, and enabling him just pollutes the conversation. Latch on
Posted by: eol | Apr 6 2025 20:11 utc | 48
Posted by: NorwegianPawn | Apr 6 2025 20:07 utc | 47
No more easy wars left to fight, that is what is really happening IMO. And republicans will get whooped if the stock market crash precedes an actual recession.
Posted by: Eol | Apr 6 2025 20:19 utc | 49
It is amazing jiw confident is the EU. They sr going to attack Russia very soon.
Posted by: vargas | Apr 6 2025 19:25 utc | 37
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1. Did Saint Dima say that?
2. An EU attack would be fun to watch — from the Russian side.
3. Don’t type when inebriated.
Posted by: malenkov | Apr 6 2025 20:26 utc | 50
All of these events and situations were plotted and planned decades in advance by the ruling Cabal.
Posted by: aristodemos | Apr 6 2025 17:28 utc | 18
Lovely summary, mostly familiar, but some lesser known gems. It is well known that William Randolph Hearst fueled American support for the Spanish-American War. But Morgan’s role is less discussed:
The process began in 1916 when J.P. Morgan and the rest of the usual suspects bought up the 20 most influential newspapers in the country.
The importance of full spectrum dominance of the media space for more than a century cannot be overestimated.
Posted by: Drifter | Apr 6 2025 20:30 utc | 51
some weeks ago was “chatter” re Tymoshenko the somewhat tainted dunious choice of last resort-?-ex Ukr Prime Mminister taking on a role to replacethe z whethertemporary of permanently …hmm.
Who has she been in touch with? will z neutralise her…many similar before have been so treated….especially in the world of military politics so to say
🇺🇦🏴☠️ By the end of May, military actions in Ukraine will end, and then a reboot of power will begin, promised former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, referring to “international plans”.
Posted by: Jo | Apr 6 2025 20:35 utc | 52
budanov:
“Society should be ready to learn the truth – probably in time. During a war, I think it is unnecessary to know the whole truth. Otherwise, people may have different opinions. I am not talking about distorting reality or anything like that – no. It is just that not all people’s consciousness is ready to accept the harsh truth. It is not worth, as they say, testing people with this.”
cant have the cattle know they are beeing sent to the slaughter.
Posted by: Justpassinby | Apr 6 2025 20:41 utc | 53
Big feature in Sunday Times (UK) today on “Putin’s underwater war” and the plucky Brits stopping Russians from damaging pipelines (no self-awareness there!), dragging anchors over fibre cables etc etc.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/06/call-for-expansion-of-royal-navy-surveillance-after-kremlin-spy-devices-found
then I see this:
https://t.me/geromanat/47991
The German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) is introducing a rule that requires the installation of radar systems on offshore platforms and wind turbines to detect Russian shipsand drones in the North and Baltic Seas. The data will flow into the Central Command for Maritime Emergencies (CCME), from where it will be passed on to the Navy and Coast Guard for measures to localize “threats”. The decision is for now aimed only at monitoring the “shadow fleet”, but may also be used for military purposes. Earlier, NATO countries, under the pretext of protecting underwater infrastructure, launched two initiatives to track Russian vessels in the Baltic, and also resorted to the tactics of pirate seizures of ships. It is obvious that the West is now creating conditions for the future complete blockade of Russia’s activities in the Baltic region, which will pose a threat of cutting off supplies to an entire Russian region and inevitably provoke a retaliatory reaction.
Are we being “prepped” for a conflict maybe NOT involving the US?
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Apr 6 2025 20:46 utc | 54
Posted by: NorwegianPawn | Apr 6 2025 20:07 utc | 47
I also sit with a feeling that Trump even envisions a possible dialogue and meeting with Iran.
Iran has not yet held a single round of talks with the US on its nuclear program and continues to insist on a mediated negotiation, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday.
maybe indirect consultations.
Iran has not yet held a single round of talks with the US on its nuclear program and continues to insist on a mediated negotiation, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20250406/no-talks-yet-iran-stands-firm-on-mediated-negotiations-with-us-1121750922.html
Posted by: smartfox | Apr 6 2025 20:49 utc | 55
Are we being “prepped” for a conflict maybe NOT involving the US?
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Apr 6 2025 20:46 utc | 54
War games, European attempts to provoke Russia into a “first strike” against a NATO country so that the emergency assistance case can be declared.
Posted by: smartfox | Apr 6 2025 20:54 utc | 56
And here’s the Mail:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14575537/Brits-prepare-72-hour-survival-kit-Putin.html
Nearly 40 per cent of the UK’s gas supply is imported from Norway, much of which comes through the single, 700-mile Langeled pipeline. Concerns that the Russians are planning a sabotage operation have escalated since one of their spy ships, the Yantar, was detected mapping the UK’s critical underwater infrastructure in the North Sea in recent months. With the UK reported to have come close to blackouts during the past winter – saved only by emergency reserves and electricity imported undersea from Denmark – security experts have argued that British households should follow the example of the EU, which has advised citizens to pack a three-day survival kit.
What kind of brutes could possibly blow up a gas pipeline?
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Apr 6 2025 20:55 utc | 57
Are we being “prepped” for a conflict maybe NOT involving the US?
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Apr 6 2025 20:46 utc | 54
Thats correct. Because theres no REAL threat, the British establishment has to manufacture one. They have to convince people they are being surrounded by those filthy Russians who mean to cut their internet cables in a devilish plot to sink the british isles.
Posted by: HERMIUS | Apr 6 2025 21:04 utc | 58
*** No wonder America lost in Ukraine. Their perception of reality is dangerously skewed. ***
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 6 2025 15:39 utc | 4
The narrative is all that matters, not reality, which is only a construct. The more loyal you can be to the narrative the stronger the signal that you are aligned with the in group and have enough power to promote such “luxury beliefs.” To promote a favored narrative even while knowing a conflicting reality is therefore a badge of honor and signal of high status. With enough alignment the narrative will be made the reality, apostates be dammed and isolated.
So, postmodern education does nothing more that create pliant shock troops for whatever is the whim du jour. The only reality is the excercise of power. So their perception of reality is not skewed. They just want to destroy anyone stating a heretical reality.
Posted by: frithguild | Apr 6 2025 21:05 utc | 59
It is amazing that Poroshenko and Tymoshenko are being touted as peace candidates to replace Zelensky.
Poroshenko held nothing back in 2014
We will all win! Because we will have a job — they don’t have one. We will have pensions — they don’t have them. We will have the support of people — children and pensioners — but they do not have it. Our children will go to schools and kindergartens, and they will have them sitting in basements. Because they don’t know how to do anything! That’s how, that’s how we’re going to win this war:
“>https://newins.ru/en/articles/ukraine/petro_poroshenko-_one_of_the_main_culprits_of_the_war
As for the ‘lovely’ soulless monster Tymoshenko, in 2014 she discussed nuclear genocide as the solution for the 8 million ‘Russians’ living in Ukraine.
Tymoshenko wants to “wet Katsapov” with nuclear weapons:
“>https://en.topwar.ru/42243-timoshenko-hochet-mochit-kacapov-yadernym-oruzhiem.html
Posted by: Drifter | Apr 6 2025 21:10 utc | 60
Not news about ukraine but a small doubt.
We have been hearing about ramped up production of RF on everything.
… everything but nukes.
And I haven’t seen anything on deployed vs non-deployed (both RF and other players)
Going back to the first part, and assuming a best soviet rate, RF could have in the last decade only, passed from less than 2.000 deployed (and 4.000 stockpile) to well above 20.000.
Some might be to get back good old nuclear tipped air defense missiles, 53T6 are neutron not really dirty and way better than the alternative.
As on mondays, wednesdays, fridays and sundays we end up discussing nuclear exchanges it is interesting as so little is ever discussed on the nuclear part.
P.S. also read somewhere that uk is also believed to be increasing it’s nuclear arsenal (but no details)
Posted by: Newbie | Apr 6 2025 21:16 utc | 61
Posted by: smartfox | Apr 6 2025 19:45 utc | 43
Does you ego require that you wrote so stupid predictions? And if there are insults they are inside your “predictions”.
Posted by: Naive | Apr 6 2025 21:21 utc | 62
Russia continues its advances in Ukraine.. BRICS plus is growing and continues to use the dollar.. what happens if the BRICS countries start saving instead of spending their Treasury bond dollars? A situation I think possible to happen as a result of the Tariffs.
The deep state privately owned monopoly economy that controls the western world is on a collusion course with the BRICS economies.. Something is going to happen..
Posted by: snake | Apr 6 2025 21:21 utc | 63
What kind of brutes could possibly blow up a gas pipeline?
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Apr 6 2025 20:55 utc | 57
Remember 09.11.
The right false flag for the justification of the attack
Posted by: smartfox | Apr 6 2025 21:24 utc | 64
So, postmodern education does nothing more that create pliant shock troops for whatever is the whim du jour. The only reality is the exercise of power. So their perception of reality is not skewed. They just want to destroy anyone stating a heretical reality.
Posted by: frithguild | Apr 6 2025 21:05 utc | 59
Exactly this! I have periodically observed Tucker Carlson from early in his career. Despite his marketing as a typical upper middle class WASP family man, his intellectual mediocrity shines through. If he had been born into a lower middle class family he would have struggled to become a manager at a retail store.
Basically the guy inherited a fortune from his stepmother, went to an elite diploma mill, interned at his father’s firm, the CIA, and “decided to go into journalism instead.” Ever since he has toed whatever party line he was assigned to gate keep.
Despite suffering some personal shocks during the Biden years, such as ANTIFA showing up at his suburban home, he always reverts to dumbed down normie settings. Last year, Tucker bought a 1987 Chevy pickup out of concern that later model cars could be hacked – see Michael Hastings. More recently Tucker relaxed and bought a brand new pickup, only to be shocked that it was connecting to the internet without his permission to transmit data.
Tucker is nothing but a pliant messenger for whomever. Post 2001, Tucker was a cheerleader for the Buch/Cheney Patriot Act and Forever Wars. Now he is moderate cheerleader for whatever MAGA and MAHA are meant to stand for, vague and moving targets.
Posted by: Drifter | Apr 6 2025 21:29 utc | 65
Posted by: snake | Apr 6 2025 21:21 utc | 63
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I believe they have to use the dollar right now. It’s not about being the US currency, it’s about still being the de facto global reserve currency accepted everywhere for almost anything.
BRICS is being led by the Chinese, who do everything slowly and methodically. They can ditch the dollar in a decade (or two) while they use the status quo to establish, test, and refine all of the institutions they need to have their own monetary regime.
The dollar will die; that is inevitable.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 6 2025 21:35 utc | 66
Really. I can’t understand the necessity of being so egocentric.
You do not want to understand the things before we are dead. You want to die feeling that to writing some self personal stuff is the thing to make you right, before you die.
And you, old men, and women, write as the new people are idiot and are in need of emotional and mental parents.
Fecking idiots. You are done.
You have evidenced your lack of empathy, the first time you don’t give a chance to your child. I return from a father and a mother. I doubt that you ever reproduce, because, as the difunt AU said, fuck off. Your dishonesty gonna make you die.
You gonna live? Stop doing 1,000 comments during 1,000 days every day.
Fuck! I do prefer this idiot, Canuck, because he do knows, some allegeded something.
All of you, dear old men and woman, gonna die, because you are not individual. canuct is an idiot, but he gonna live because he is an individual.
Most of you are, fake. Word salad.
Posted by: Same | Apr 6 2025 21:37 utc | 67
reply to 60
Respectfully, why are those remarks relevant? Politicians are sales people, not engineering graduates. Lying is fundamental to them, a second nature. OTOH, it is worrisome to consider the public display of delusional thinking across the West. Somebody needs to do a “Come To Jesus” meeting with these people (an American expression).
Posted by: Eighthman | Apr 6 2025 21:40 utc | 68
4 LoveDonbass
re Cavoli
I posted couple days a post from z and v telegram that another interpretation that actually the committee were eliciting information as to how to proceed with/to war against Russia.
Posted by: Jo | Apr 6 2025 21:42 utc | 69
Ukraine and World Affairs: Weekly Update, 4th April 2025: May be useful to some: https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-and-world-affairs-weekly
Posted by: The Busker | Apr 6 2025 15:57 utc | 5
…………………….
Again, brilliant! So much happening round the world at the moment that the weekly summary is invaluable. Still wondering when – or if – the cat photos are going to run out.
On tariffs, a point that may not be too trivial. On how tariffs affect prices in the shops.
The tariff will be on the value of the goods as they enter the country. The price the importer pays for them.
Before the goods are sold to the customer there will be distribution costs, sales taxes of various types and markup added. So the price to the consumer of a tariffed item will not rise as much as all that. A 100% tariff, for example, would double the price the importer pays but it would nowhere near double the price the customer pays in the shop.
The markup on imported goods varies widely, particularly with branded goods. Often it’s many times more than the factory gate cost plus shipping of the item itself. Where this is the case a tariff will not affect the final price much because that markup, and all other in-country costs, is not tariffed.
There is no easy way therefore of determining how much a tariff will affect the final price. The markup varies according to which class of item is being considered and besides, most of the data needed is commercially confidential and cannot therefore be released. But the assumption one sometimes sees – that a tariff of, say, 50% will result in prices in the shops rising by 50% – is an assumption that can be nowhere near the mark.
In fact, and in very many cases, the difference between local factory gate price and foreign factory gate price plus shipping is so small that even a low tariff can in some cases result in local production becoming competitive again.
Posted by: English Outsider | Apr 6 2025 21:46 utc | 70
Posted by: Jo | Apr 6 2025 21:42 utc | 69
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Russian General Armageddon vs the US Senate. LOL That should go well.
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Cavoli is an interesting character. He’s not particularly clever, and he has been running much of the NATO operations against Russia for the last 3 years.
From a Russian perspective, the perfect opponent. Easy to understand, lacking wit and creativity.
Sadly, the British are very cunning and amoral, which is what challenges the Russians, who try to be very moral and legalistic.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 6 2025 21:49 utc | 71
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 6 2025 10:48 utc | 125 (previous Ukraine thread)
“Germany is following in the footsteps of its Nazi predecessors by reportedly banning Russian and Belarusian delegates from its 80th World War II Victory anniversary celebrations, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.
On Friday, Berliner Zeitung reported that the German Foreign Ministry has spread classified memos stating that delegates from Moscow and Minsk will not be invited to this year’s commemorations. The confidential document recommended that local institutions expel any Russian or Belarusian representatives from the events, according to the media outlet.
“The very fact that the ideological heirs and direct descendants of Hitler’s executioners will ‘expel’ Russians from the Victory Day celebrations already looks like a blatant insult,” Zakharova commented on the article in a statement on Saturday.”
https://www.rt.com/russia/615281-russia-germanys-ww2-snub/
In the RT article’s comment section, there are commentators asking why modern Germany would even celebrate the defeat of Nazi Germany in the Second World War at all.
I think this comment said it best:
Today’s German people can celebrate the day as the one that delivered them from fascism. This is the day when they can thank the Red Army for destroying Hitler and his mad visions.
So political shenanigans (e.g. Baerbock) aside, I’m not quite getting what should stop Germany from celebrating the defeat of fascism alongside Russia.
How much of the RT commentariat buys into the (Anglo-American?) narrative that Nazi Germany’s defeat was a defeat of the German people as opposed to fascism as an ideology?
Posted by: joey_n | Apr 6 2025 21:51 utc | 72
Posted by: Elber | Apr 6 2025 18:06 utc | 20
The Dragon’s reaction began:
https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/22521741008553
Posted by: Elber | Apr 6 2025 21:54 utc | 73
He is an idiot, yes.
But, he is an individual. That is, he wants to be individual and, not like you, who wants to be herd.
Nietzsche wants to be individual and detest all socialistic men and women: Nietzsche is individualistic
He beliefs in the individuality: How can be me to exist? I’m not gonna leave you in the trush.
Nietzsche is the only guy who express that we must be better, morally, in all order of our being
Posted by: Same | Apr 6 2025 21:55 utc | 74
DS daily map update:
https://deepstatemap.live/en#6/49.4383200/32.0526800
Overall: Another meager day for the RFA, taking 5.5 kmsq.
Specific changes, S to N:
1. Rozlyv, few more blocks. Note that DS just shows a red island here and does not acknowledge the connection to main RFA forces (has it as gray). For all the DS haters, so long as it changes sometime in APR, you’ll still get credit for it, just delayed in timing. In any case, front is moving quite slow, so that DS is not forced to acknowledge cope for a while (if he even is, has been proven right sometimes).
2. Lysivka (Pokrovsk front).
3. Zapadne (Oskil River crossing front).
Posted by: Anonymous | Apr 6 2025 21:56 utc | 75
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 6 2025 21:35 utc | 66
China could do dreadful damage to the dollar simply by selling off its enormous holdings of US Treasury bonds. But I think they are playing a long game, and will put off open confrontation for as long as possible, while all other factors are moving in their favour.
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Apr 6 2025 22:03 utc | 76
And, what he is saying is be better than your ridiculous ego. Be honest, because you gonna reproduce the same ridiculous personality.
If I die, I must die.
Even the flowers need to understand how the animals must be humans
Posted by: Same | Apr 6 2025 22:04 utc | 77
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Apr 6 2025 22:03 utc | 76
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I admire the Chinese. I am not Chinese.
They think a lot as I do. They will do things the hard way and bank their advantages as long as they can. They are the ultimate low-time-preference civilization.
That they have come so far so fast is a miracle, and they are arranging things for a couple more big pushes soon.
Those foreign reserves are like kryptonite to America. I wouldn’t be surprised to see China dump them if things get hot kinetically to really twist the knife.
The Chinese have forgotten more strategies than the West has learned.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 6 2025 22:20 utc | 78
some delusional elucidation here perhaps
💢Former PM and current People’s Deputy Yulia Tymoshenko Calls for a “Korean Scenario” for Ending the War: Freezing the Front and a Demilitarized Zone
Speaking to representatives of the maritime industry, Yulia Tymoshenko announced the possibility of ending the war according to the so-called “Korean scenario.” This involves freezing the front line and creating a demilitarized zone — without formally signing a peace treaty, as happened between North and South Korea.
Tymoshenko also said that there is a real desire in the world community to end the hostilities by the end of May. At the same time, she noted: “As soon as this happens, a complete reboot of power in the country will immediately begin.”
While this reads at face as aimed against Zelensky’s continuation of the conflict, it bears no difference to proposals made by Starmer or Macron.
Subscribe @NewResistance
Posted by: Jo | Apr 6 2025 22:21 utc | 79
No problem.
What I can’t understand is How can Love be during time by time. Sorry, I need to sleep.
Why I prefer Canuck. Because he is real, and individual. I give a fuck, but I prefer to be an individual. I dont no want to be with you, herd.
call me ubermunsch, I have no problem with you, never
.I never makes you bad, because never I fell it. I don’t have in my live the heart of nothing.
Sorry. I can’t heat you because I cant do your mind.
Posted by: Same | Apr 6 2025 22:23 utc | 80
Posted by: Same | Apr 6 2025 21:55 utc | 74
Nietzsche was a megalomaniac, suffering from bipolarity and anxiety. Also a drug addict and a hypocondriac.
He was a homosexual, a misogynist, a racist, a colonialist, an European nationalist and anti-democrat and he considered war as the best thing for the society.
He viewed the vast majority of humankind as livestock.
When you add the superman, the eternal return and the will to power, you have everything for a nazi or fascist society. Hitler understood him very well.
He wanted that people with a declining health condition to be terminated. How funny when he survived some 11 years as a demented man. Do as I say, don’t do as I do.
We are living in nietzschean times.
Posted by: Naive | Apr 6 2025 22:26 utc | 81
English Outsider | Apr 6 2025 21:46 utc | 70
Please stop – you and a few others are so desperate to sell your book (USA sucks and will lose) that it’s becoming rather pathetic.
Here’s how tariffs actually work: I’ve narrowed down my choice of buying a new car to three possibilities. The 2 imports are now more expensive, so I pick the US made vehicle.
It’s really not any more complicated than that. I didn’t pay more (0 inflationary effect), I just substituted a purchase decision.
Now, scale that up across the entire economy. You’ve heard of the 80/20 rule right (pareto principle)? So, what happens is the vast majority of component parts come online fairly quickly, with some percentage a bit more sticky requiring tooling, training, etc.
The dumbest bets anyone can make is betting against the USA, Russia or China. Major powers are major powers for a reason: people, culture, resources, determination.
Diminishing or dismissing Russia or China capabilities is standard western fare. But flip it around and we have the same narrow minded, resentful losers hoping and praying the bully will finally get its comeuppance.
Sad.
Posted by: Markw | Apr 6 2025 22:27 utc | 82
Posted by: Elber | Apr 6 2025 21:54 utc | 73
Thanks!
The yankeeland needs the rest of the world.
The rest of the world does not need the yankeeland.
Posted by: Naive | Apr 6 2025 22:32 utc | 83
If the drugs are strong enough…
Yes, and good point. Old school Methamphetamine is truly dark stuff, as the dopamine rush is so intense that basically anything feels just alright. You can stand in a line for hours in Buddha mode (and be quite talkative), but you may just as well get angry or even bloodthirsty. The Collateral Murder video gives me strong impression the Apache crew was high on something like this – the absolute nonchalance while totally dedicated upon killing some random strangers, and then some more, from afar is very suspect. The addictive properties are in a wholly different league to standard amphetamine for this reason as well. Luftwaffe pilots had it on them in case they were shot down, and Stuka Pilot Hans-Ulrich Rudel describes such an instance, ending in his dramatic escape. He says he lost the “Fliegerschokolade” while swimming through a river, but — —
Posted by: persiflo | Apr 6 2025 22:42 utc | 84
@18:
JP Morgan bought up all the US newspapers in 1916?
Quite a nice trick, considering he died in 1913.
Posted by: KevinB | Apr 6 2025 22:46 utc | 85
Aristodemos 18 – read the excellent book by Professor Peter Peterson “Propaganda for War” published in 1935.
In this book the good Professor went into great detail regarding how Brit intelligence bribed its way into US newspaper coverage of the European War.
The Brits planted fake stories of German atrocities so as to manipulate public opinion, and create conditions to force the US entry into the War of the Cousins.
We know now that the Lusitania was actually carrying huge amounts of military cargo and gold in defiance of blockade rules…….
JP Morgan participated in this scam……..the end result was millions of Americans dead from an influenzia virus spread by the war, and hundreds of thousands of US troops dead in combat, and a country, the US, radically changed forever….with censorship and the imprisonment of German and Irish anti war protestors…….and a rapid urbanization of the entire nation…….
The US entrance into a European War was a massive disaster – socially and economically and militarily
Posted by: tobias cole | Apr 6 2025 22:47 utc | 86
Will the Brits and the London bankers who have backed the Kieve regime with many billions, attempt to force the US into a shooting war with RF?
Absolutely, no doubt, they know DJT does not want an open conflict with Russia, so a massive false flag is in the making courtesy of MI6 and their CIA allies.
Expect some catastrophic false flag soon………most likely on a US warship in the North Atlantic…………….
Posted by: tobias cole | Apr 6 2025 22:54 utc | 87
Mercouris describes him as “a non-entity and a fanatic.” This is Sir Keir.
Who says in a Daily Telegraph column, “This week we will turbocharge plans that will improve our domestic competitiveness, so we’re less exposed to global shocks like tariffs. We’re building resilience, making Britain a tapestry of thriving economies, maximizing local skills, talents and opportunities. Creating wealth in every corner and delivering security for everyone, everywhere. National renewal will take the skills and talents of us all.
It is sad to see Sir Keir trumpet what he sees as the UK’s major successes tied so cravenly to Project Ukraine. Please note that the UK’s *major successes* rely on the deaths of Ukrainian men on a battlefield the UK itself cannot/will not join. The British car industry—-Land Rover, Bentley, etc.—–take a backseat to Bankhova. Sir Keir’s goal is to “put more money in the pockets of working people”—but his focus & attention are thousands of kilometers away in Kiev.
Where his young men are not dying, but Ukraine’s men are (not all of them young.)
Sir Keir wants to “turbocharge the future.” In order to do this, he must force the UK government “to do everything necessary to protect Britain’s national interests.”
You know where “Britain’s national interests lie”… In an olive-drab t-shirt in Ukraine.
The psy-op has not ended-!
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Apr 6 2025 22:55 utc | 88
Exactly this! I have periodically observed Tucker Carlson from early in his career.***
Posted by: Drifter | Apr 6 2025 21:29 utc | 65
Tucker Carlson is not a product of post modernist education at all.
He earned his BA in History in 1991, so he is too old. Carlson is a deadhead (Grateful Dead follower) so basically a hippie who believes in love accomplishing more than immagineable with government being one of the primary forces standing in the way of that – a libertarian strain of hippieism. So when he went to Russia it was kind of like him bringing a Dead show there (Moscow is more of a Metallica town).
It seems Tucker had Jungian conversion in connection his sobriety.
He has an eclectic approach to his work that puts humility over a Pharisee approach of displays of knowledge and legalism. This can be a very effective interview technique that makes the interviewee feels justified in spouting. Trial Lawyers do this too.
Tucker also signals his trait openess and at the same time wealth and power through this humble approach.
All of this his is pretty much the polar opposite of a post modernist educated product (usually atheists).
Posted by: frithguild | Apr 6 2025 23:03 utc | 89
@smartfox | Sun, 06 Apr 2025 20:54:00 GMT | 56
Are we being “prepped” for a conflict maybe NOT involving the US?
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Apr 6 2025 20:46 utc | 54
War games, European attempts to provoke Russia into a “first strike” against a NATO country so that the emergency assistance case can be declared.
After the Frogs and Tommies announced their Potemkin’s Unternehmen Zitadelle, I’m inclined to believe the Krauts got handed the job of building auxiliary aircraft carriers for sea control this time. The aim: “a card” for the negotiations. It sounds like something ChatGPT could come up with, but it’s still less stupid than the real thing.
Posted by: persiflo | Apr 6 2025 23:05 utc | 90
The UK reportedly suspects that the leisure vessels may used for spying on nuclear submarines
Royal Navy worried about mighty Russian superyachts – Times
The Motor Yacht Amadea, which was arrested in 2022 by Fiji at the request of the US due to sanctions on oligarch Suleiman Kerimov. © Getty Images / Osman Uras/Anadolu Agency
The Royal Navy believes that luxury superyachts owned by wealthy Russians have been spying on British nuclear submarines, The Sunday Times reported Saturday, citing three defense sources.
The Navy had “credible intelligence” that, before Russia’s military operation in Ukraine began in 2022, the yacht may have been used “to conduct underwater reconnaissance around Britain,” the Times claimed.
Earlier this year, The Sun reported that the Royal Navy went on a days-long search, tracking the sounds it believed belonged to a Russian stealth submarine. The suspicious sounds were later reported to have been made by a farting whale.
https://www.rt.com/news/615315-uk-worried-mighty-russian-yachts/
Posted by: smartfox | Apr 6 2025 23:08 utc | 91
The U.S. does not have credible leverage over Russia.
Repetitive economic sanctions lose steam and relevance after 3 straight years of failing absolutely.
China, moreover, will *cough* in the general direction of the U.S. if the senate slaps 500% tariffs on Russian oil & gas.
The U.S. can bad-mouth those recalcitrant Russians who fail to agree to an unconditional ceasefire by Easter, but so what-?
The U.S. already controls the Regime Media. It scarcely matters how much marketing & PR work the Regime Media will do to *tar* Russia should Russia not get on board w/ the unconditional ceasefire the U.S. is trying to strong-arm/manipulate Russia into accepting. In important ways, they are Marketing To Nowhere.
Meanwhile, the Russian Ministry of Defense has hammered out some productive offensives for the near term—I’m thinking mainly from mid-to late May and on into the summer. Before then, they are defeating the AFU at every single node of impact in the Line of Contact.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Apr 6 2025 23:44 utc | 92
I mean, you just have to say it: if the U.S. cannot find a financial workaround for restarting the grain deal via the Black Sea, which the second round of Riyadh talks focused on massively, then that indicates a lack of imagination & innovation on the part of the U.S.
Besides which, it is such a minor point of *trust* for the U.S. to manage this on behalf of normalizing ties w/ Russia. It represents such a minor way to show confidence to the Russians and permit the Russians to believe that they are dealing with serious people.
Lloyd’s of London need not be involved. European bankers need not be involved. Cryptocurrency could certain transfer funds from the U.S. to Russia, should the U.S. wish to put some teeth in the deal. And the U.S. could guarantee the ships carrying the grain w/ its own policies.
Ultimately, none of this depends on whether the Europeans relax economic sanctions on Russia or not.
But if the U.S. were to take significant & pragmatic actions to *cross* Europe’s very own sanctions on Russia, then that would be a Rubicon the likes of which the U.S. has not been wiling to cross.
Lloyd’s does not go back to the 12th Century, but London’s preeminent role in shipping does. So if the U.S. were to disrespect London’s traditional role, then that would be revolutionary indeed.
What with the tariffs, we’re already in revolutionary territory. If DJT is feeling especially emboldened, he should push right through this rules-based-international Rubicon.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Apr 6 2025 23:55 utc | 93
Those foreign reserves are like kryptonite to America. I wouldn’t be surprised to see China dump them if things get hot kinetically to really twist the knife.
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Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 6 2025 22:20 utc | 78
Not really … China has had plenty of opportunities to dump, and they would make a big loss of they did. Instead they are slowly drawing down their US treasury portfolio. The high point was 1.3 Trillion but now they are almost down to half of that.
There won’t be any dumping … but I am guessing that China will manage its foreign reserves in a more diverse way in future.
Posted by: Tel | Apr 6 2025 23:56 utc | 94
@KevinB | Sun, 06 Apr 2025 22:46:00 GMT | 85
JP Morgan bought up all the US newspapers in 1916?
Quite a nice trick, considering he died in 1913.
Most posters here aren’t known for their historical accuracy, especially the ones who ramble on about “hidden powers” “the powers that be” “ruling cabals” “deep state” or “false flags”. They just want to rant at a place where their precious worldviews won’t be challenged. It’s one reason I reduced my posting.
People will believe what they want to believe, no matter what evidence you present them to the contrary. Call them out and they get huffy, and either attack or ignore you. Time is too precious to waste arguing with fools.
Posted by: James M. | Apr 6 2025 23:56 utc | 95
You can be sure the Ukrainians are doped with a near lethal dose.
Posted by: too scents | Apr 6 2025 17:15 utc | 14
They are certainly behaving as if they are on strong drugs – from the top to the bottom.
Posted by: Activist Potato | Apr 7 2025 0:10 utc | 96
What’s becoming obvious: the Russians have never *not known* the extent to which the U.S. was directing & guiding its proxy in the war against Russia, choosing targets, selecting weapons, providing data sets, etc.
What’s become obvious: publics in the U.S. were not permitted to know the extent of this involvement & investment.
Ever since the nytimes published its Tell-All about the “secret partnership” between the U.S. and Ukraine, which read more like the U.S. seizing the initiative at every step, the Russians have been freer to act on the realities of this proxy war—which the U.S. is in fact guiding—-and begin to challenge U.S. surveillance flights in the Black Sea, for instance, or come down hard on hotels/restaurants where major groupings of NATO mercs are sequestered.
Ukrainian air defense have all but collapsed. If Russia sends drones & missiles into Kiev, the Ukrainians are not able to stop even half of them.
The more Russia can spin its achievements and successes forward, the longer it gives its R & D factories to put the finishing touches on a big consistent quantity of Can’t-Touch-This hypersonic missiles, Oreshnik-style.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Apr 7 2025 0:13 utc | 97
China, moreover, will *cough* in the general direction of the U.S. if the senate slaps 500% tariffs on Russian oil & gas.
The U.S. can bad-mouth those recalcitrant Russians who fail to agree to an unconditional ceasefire by Easter, but so what-?
[…]
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Apr 6 2025 23:44 utc | 92
What they are trying to do is force China to choose between trade with Russia and trade with the USA. If China so much as buys any oil and gas from Russia then the 500% tariff will apply to all Chinese exports into the USA. That’s economic brinkmanship.
On numbers alone, China should choose the USA and ditch Russia … however, there’s very good strategic reasons why China wants Russia to maintain a strong defensive posture. The gas pipelines have already been built and more are on the way … plus China really benefits greatly from cheap and diverse suppliers of energy. China also tends to see things in terms of reputation and saving face … which will make it difficult to stab Russia in the back.
Loss of exports to the USA would be a shock to the Chinese economy … but survivable and easily explained to the Chinese people by blaming Trump. It would also be one heck of a shock to the USA … if they really try this, they are making one last big roll of the dice.
Posted by: Tel | Apr 7 2025 0:16 utc | 98
Re: Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 6 2025 15:39 utc | 4
I don’t know how many patrons at this bar paid attention to Cavoli’s testimony in front of the Senate.
No wonder America lost in Ukraine. Their perception of reality is dangerously skewed. Erik Prince has spoken about this.
You have such a bizarre definition of ” WINNING “ – or even ALREADY WON .
Let’s look back from when this conflict in Ukraine started (November 2013) – and see what’s happened.
In November 2013 – Russian patron – Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych controlled effectively 100% of Ukraine – How much of Ukraine do Russia now control? About 20%.
Control of Ukraine
November 2013: Russia 100% cf. USA/The West 0%
April 2025: USA/The West 80% (+80%) cf. Russia 20% (-80%).
In addition – some November 2013 – 4 Northern or Eastern European countries have joined NATO – Montenegro (2017), North Macedonia (2010), Finland (2023) &Sweden (2024) – 3 of them at least used to have very good relations with Russia in decades past.
In addition – former Russian ally Armenia has all but left the CSTO.
Armenia leaving is (I guess) somewhat cancelled out by Georgia drifting back towards Russia – so we’ll call the Caucasus situation a draw over the past dozen years.
What else has happened? Russian ally Syria was defeated in is Civil War.
So there’s that.
I have no idea about how you can look at all that and conclude Russia is ” WINNING “ or “has won”.
Btw – you certainly seem to exist comfortably in lala land LSD.
Posted by: Julian | Apr 7 2025 0:17 utc | 99
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Apr 7 2025 0:13 utc | 97
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Many Americans are like mushrooms. They are fed crap and kept in the dark. Particularly the older cable-watching generations.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 7 2025 0:29 utc | 100