Posted by: steel_porcupine | Apr 6 2025 16:54 utc | 10
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/starmer-trump-tariffs-trade-war-b2728924.html
Contradicting the above promise to help (the car) industry, “The prime minister will announce Labour’s plan to reinstate the 2030 ban on new petrol and diesel car sales on Monday.”

Posted by: horseguards | Apr 7 2025 23:11 utc | 203

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Apr 6 2025 17:01 utc | 12
Strange we haven’t heard calls for reperations from the European shareholders of Nordstream. Then again, perhaps they are too afraid to ask.

Posted by: horseguards | Apr 7 2025 23:18 utc | 205

The media is not talking about it. BFM and other media are not announcing this scoop.
A Russian ballistic missile just struck the Drujba Hotel, which housed the majority of French mercenaries, and it’s possible that important European figures were also present.

That hotel is in Kiev. I haven’t seen this “scoop” corroborated yet.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 8 2025 0:01 utc | 207

Posted by: NorwegianPawn | Apr 6 2025 20:07 utc | 47
If the US attacks Iran, no doubt with Israel’s support, Iran will let rip against Israel.

Posted by: horseguards | Apr 8 2025 0:06 utc | 209

LoveDonbass 208 – sounds like the mercs are having a very bad week………so more mercs killed in “road accidents” in Krog and Kieve…….how are the obits going read anyway……… ?

Posted by: tobias cole | Apr 8 2025 1:25 utc | 211

MiniMo – Russia’s huge left hook is about to arrive on target on the Ukronazis jaw…..the next four weeks will witness a massive offensive as the Ukronazis last real reserves are fully expended…….and the EU NATO’s will panic….
That will be when the real world realpolitik begins…….will London go all in……?

Posted by: tobias cole | Apr 8 2025 1:41 utc | 213

…anonymous just posts that, it’s (almost) useless and probably biased but it’s data nevertheless.
Posted by: Newbie | Apr 8 2025 1:27 utc | 213

The problem is not his data, he is alwsys precluding it with his agenda spin “another bad day for RUAF!” It shows his bias and its very tiresome.

Posted by: Rutte | Apr 8 2025 1:50 utc | 215

Posted by: James M. | Apr 8 2025 2:07 utc | 217
Because he uses one source I added S’s recap for the previous 17 months
And a link for the most RF map I know (and official casualties incurred by AFU as per RF MoD)
Not the first time I post a link or two that I think are worth reminding.
As for anonymous he’s barely worth discussing and we had worse trolls often enough
I always give a pass on whoever brings data and keeps a low complaint to data ratio
Speaking of which, think nobody posted yesterday’s results
https://tass.com/politics/1939791

Posted by: Newbie | Apr 8 2025 2:42 utc | 217

Posted by: James M. | Apr 8 2025 2:07 utc | 217
“And the fact he only uses one source – Deep State. It’s good to include other sources, especially if the only source you use is heavily biased in one direction, to at least show the counterarguments, or the baseline. But that’s Anonymous, he’ll never change.
What was that one town he was so hung up on like a year ago? Oh, the Russians haven’t taken it, the Russians haven’t taken it, on and on, until they did, and he stopped talking about it. That’s the crux of his “analysis” – irrelevant once the Russians advance, which they continue to do.”
In the past I have opined that Anonymous is strongly associated with the Institute for the Study of War (ISW)- a Washington DC based think tank. As such it is reasonable to conclude that anything posted by Anonymous has been “cleared” by the Washington based neocons and, of course, by Ukraine. In short, the reports by Anonymous should not be taken too seriously. I think the semi-regular contributions here by Unimperator and newbie are are very likely far more factual.
Related to this, Simplicius has a new posting which includes some very interesting observations regarding the actual situation (and possible future developments) on the Ukraine an front lines.

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Apr 8 2025 3:06 utc | 219

MILITARY OPERATION IN UKRAINE
7 APR, 06:45
“Three cities in DPR cut off from water supply due to Ukrainian shelling”
https://tass.com/politics/1939819
First, continuous hitting of power stations, during this 39 days… then due to no response…they go for the water supplies. Which will take 3 days or more to fix.
Cry me a river Russia… you keep allowing your citizens to take the blows when you could end it in 2-3 weeks and bury Ukraine. Frankly, no one cares about your uselessness in defending “the motherland” anymore. Your money grubbing envoy of your RFID is more interested in getting business deals with the U.S. than weather Russian citizens have power or water during this “SMO” thing.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Apr 8 2025 3:42 utc | 221

Here is a source, new to me, that seems very authentic and making out, to my mind, that all our alt-media assessments of the situation are completely wrong: https://open.substack.com/pub/xxtomcooperxx/p/dons-weekly-7-april-2025-part-3-equipment?r=b7hw3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Posted by: abrogard | Apr 8 2025 4:27 utc | 223

When not bashing VVP as an authoritarian thug, cooler-headed commentators have over the years described VVP’s style of rule in more pragmatic terns: as that of a fund manager, in which ambitious officials pitch rival plans to the boss in the hope he will buy in. Oligarchs and industrialists, for instance, often take responsibility for various Kremlin-aligned projects, whether bankrolling infrastructure or overseeing initiatives in the regions.
Alexandr Kolyandr, formerly of the WSJ’s Moscow office, said, “We tend to think that Putin directs people. But it is still very much possible that the initiative is moving upwards rather than downwards.” In describing how Kirill Dmitriev, the manager of RDIF, the state-run international investment repository, moved into the Kremlin’s orbit, Kolyandr said, “I wouldn’t be surprised if Dmitriev reached for his phone, spoke to people, managed to set things up, and then came to Putin saying ‘look, I’ve got this option’.”
Dmitriev’s close ties with the Gulf might explain why he was picked for the first delegation to Saudi Arabia. In fact, it might explain why VVP agreed to hold the talks in the Kingdom.
As the Kremlin’s emissary to TrumpWorld, Dmitriev’s mission is to persuade the DJT White House that Moscow and Washington can be friends; that Ukraine and liberal Europe are their common enemies; that getting to Mars together beats confrontation.
Without doubt, it is a task he is well equipped for given his command of English, an insider’s understanding of American business culture, close ties to the Gulf monarchies, and a business-like taciturnity. He is also, by all accounts, as intelligent and hard working as anyone on the Kremlin payroll.
Wrapping up his trip to Washington this week, Dmitriev said, “Opponents of the rapprochement are afraid that Russia and the United States will find common ground, begin to understand each other better and build cooperation both in international affairs and in the economy.”
Dmitriev spoke of a “positive dynamic” in relations between Moscow and Washington, and said that more meetings were required to iron out remaining differences. “But each meeting, each frank conversation allows us to move forward.”
Nota Bene: I have adapted this material from a bio Roland Oliphant published in the Daily Telegraph on 7 April.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Apr 8 2025 7:41 utc | 225

Posted by: abrogard | Apr 8 2025 4:27 utc | 224
It started with graph making 98 % drone shoot-down claims. It was that moment I should have known to stop reading.
By quick skimming it looks like the author might be attempting to analyze something but the analysis are based on (dis)information circulated in the western propaganda bubble. There are signs of strong belief in western weapon superiority (related marketing departments say “thank you” for echo-chambering their message) though there is observations about benefits of local arms industry for which I do have to tip my fedora for the author.
Then I noticed name used, Sarcastosaurus. Maybe it all was just some clever satire about western propaganda bubble I just missed.

Posted by: Sekava Seppo | Apr 8 2025 11:25 utc | 227

Z announcing as if it hugely important the seizure of two “Chinese soldiers fighting for Russia..there maybe more!!!!!! Nevermind all the Polish and Columbian mercs that are present he has and foreign legion stuff.
UK is convinced russian super yachts are hosting mini subs and means of preparation to sabotage undersea cables etc,—could be false flag by these UK hysterical alarmists.
EU is definitely ramping up military support for Ukraine ,EU is definitely heading up a European Defence Mechanism and EU Defence Ministers are to meet this week to discuss a new defence procurement 800, billion and leasing mechanism(strange so far stating that the Russian held funds are untouchable?) can include Ukraine UK and Norway to avoid spending is ok to avoid rules re debt restrictions…Germany is thinking of hundreds thousands for its own defence.stil predicting Russian attack in 4-6 years…well I am not sure the money is available for all this during a tariff crisis maybe resulting in stagflation at best and or worst depression ever.
Meanwhile UK press still advising everyone get there 3 day emergency survival kit together.
Meanwhile
Zaluzhny, former head of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, confirmed U.S. involvement in the development of operations against Russia from the very beginning of the SMO:
After the start of full-scale aggression, military assistance from our partners increased significantly – we received a variety of weapons and equipment, and with that, new challenges related to their delivery and repair.
That is why in April 2022 we established a center to coordinate the delivery of military aid to Ukraine. It was based at the U.S. European Command headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany. After some time, this headquarters continued its work in Wiesbaden.
That’s when we had the idea to create an operational headquarters on the basis of the logistic headquarters, which would analyze the planned operations of the AFU and, in accordance with NATO standards, form the need for them. Thanks to the support of Great Britain this idea was realized.
@Slavyangrad

Posted by: Jo | Apr 8 2025 13:30 utc | 229

🇪🇺🤡NATO Secretary General Rutte – on the fact that “a ceasefire agreement can be long-term only if Ukraine wins”:
It is difficult for me to answer your question because it depends on a peaceful ceasefire agreement. It doesn’t exist yet. And when it does, we have to figure out what is the best way to ensure that Ukraine wins in the future, that the peace agreement, the ceasefire is long-term. So it’s very difficult to make an assessment right now. We have a couple of initiatives.
The French and the British are working on one possible way forward after a peace agreement, a cease-fire. But the problem is that there is no peace or ceasefire at the moment. So it’s good that countries are thinking about the possibilities. But let me not comment now on the best way forward.
@Slavyangrad
That Ukraine will win through a ceasefire and peace agreement,?????..
Comedy.

Posted by: Jo | Apr 8 2025 13:35 utc | 231

Stripes
The U.S. Army announced April 7, 2025, that it is pulling forces out of Jasionka, a city near Poland’s border with Ukraine that has been instrumental in getting Western arms into the war-torn country.. .here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 8 2025 15:06 utc | 233

Jo@233…..regardless of what Rutte says, Russia will continue to kill Ukie hamburger, not sure how many Ukie armies Russia has destroyed to date, and all the NATO armies, gone now, smashed to bits by Russia….mind you Rutte is perfectly safe, like Tiny Dancer, some things just can’t be denazified no matter what Russia says…..
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Apr 8 2025 15:56 utc | 235

G4S employs more than 620,000 people, which makes it the third biggest employer in the private sector globally. In 2012 G4S turned over well over $12 billion
Posted by: DunGroanin | Apr 8 2025 16:23 utc | 238
19.000 usd per person per year seems awfully low for whatever business, let alone mercs.
From there you have to pay taxes and other obligations, wages, interests, profits, etc.
Mighty low unless a big part of those 620.000 work only a very limited time per year…

Posted by: Newbie | Apr 8 2025 17:53 utc | 237

The budget again does not have enough money for the war: under threat of military salaries at the end of the year

https://epravda.com.ua/finances/zarplati-viyskovih-chomu-u-byudzheti-znovu-ne-vistachaye-koshtiv-805251/
A lengthy piece which will need a translation add-on, here’s some snips:

Once again, the state does not have enough money for the war. The authorities must increase defense spending by more than UAH 200 billion, otherwise military personnel may be left without cash support at the end of the year. Where will the funds be collected?
Since the beginning of 2025, the Ministry of Defense has exceeded its spending plan. The main reason is the purchase of ammunition, which began to use the funding provided for the payment of monetary support to the military.

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According to the source in the government, the state has already used expenses for payments to the military in the last quarter of the year. Another source familiar with the state of financial support for the Defense Ministry noted that the state has already started using money for payments to the military in September.

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The situation with approaching expenditures in the Ministry of Defense creates a risk that in the last three to four months of the year, the state will not be able to pay monetary support to military personnel, because the corresponding limit on these expenditures at that time will already be exhausted.

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In recent years, the state has repeatedly “burned” on the purchase of shells. For example, in 2022, she paid one company one and a half billion hryvnias for shells that she did not receive.
Interlocutors of the EP in the government note that the volume of bad accounts receivable of the Ministry of Defense exceeds UAH 50 billion. these are overdue contracts for the purchase of weapons and ammunition, the fulfillment of which even in the military department itself is considered unlikely.
To minimize corruption risks in the purchase of weapons in Ukraine, the Defense Procurement Agency was created. Its operations will be supervised by independent experts and a supervisory board.
However, it does not cope with this task very successfully. In 2024, AOZ signed scandalous contracts for the supply of 120-millimeter mines with one state-owned enterprise. The contract turned out to be problematic, and some of the shells were defective.

Plenty more in a similar vein at the link.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Apr 8 2025 18:50 utc | 239

Colombians Settled in Belogorsky Monastery
The Ukrainian Armed Forces Command is trying to hold on to at least a patch of Russian land at any cost, transferring reserves and not counting the losses in the Kursk region. It is known that an assault company of Colombian mercenaries from the 47th separate mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was brought to the area of ​​the Glubokoe tract on the border of the Kursk and Sumy regions.
This tract, where the Colombians entered, is located northwest of the ancient Gornalsky St. Nicholas Belogorsky Monastery, near which the main battles took place. Colombians were also seen in the monastery itself, which the Nazis turned into a powerful stronghold.
It is scary to imagine what the occupiers, for whom nothing is sacred, are doing in the monastery. Today, the inhabitants of the ancient monastery are prayerfully awaiting the liberation of the shrine from the militants who have entrenched themselves there, but during the assault, the lives of Russian servicemen are a priority.
Read more on the Segodnya.ru website.

Posted by: MiniMO | Apr 8 2025 20:55 utc | 241

Lt Col Karen Kwiatkowski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV3PWFVIvh8
“Who to blame for Ukraine failure?”
Ukraine captures ‘Chinese citizens’? @ 18:45

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 8 2025 22:16 utc | 243

^ The video showing the “Chinese”.

Posted by: boneless | Apr 8 2025 22:36 utc | 245

RE: Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 8 2025 21:43 utc | 244
Getting confused, last I heard Trump himself touting it was Iran, well, first Ukraine, then Iran and now back to Ukraine?
How about the ear ketchup garbage got him appointed tax payer extra security he was screaming for on the campaign trail, and no doubt, many actors would be happy if he were not around.
The drama of it all… turns out, quite boring.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Apr 8 2025 22:45 utc | 247

Posted by: berthold | Apr 7 2025 6:13 utc | 133
Hilarious. I’ve seen your claimed age change here several times. Sometimes 74, sometimes 76, sometimes 78. Once (IIRC) you claimed to be 80.
I never said Ahenobarbous claimed to be a card-carrying member of the Communist Party of the USSR or the DDR or any of that. He just often expresses quite persuasively the original better ideas that lead many people to embrace that kind of class-based economic thought. One type of socialism.

Posted by: Spectator | Apr 9 2025 1:00 utc | 249

The Ukraine link in a plot to kill Trump
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3374686/the-ukraine-link-in-a-plot-to-kill-trump/

By
Byron York
April 8, 2025 11:11 pm
It is remarkable how little we know about the two 2024 attempts on President Donald Trump’s life. We don’t know much about Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old who shot Trump in the ear during a July 13 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Nor do we know much about Ryan Routh, the 59-year-old former construction worker who lay in wait allegedly hoping to shoot Trump at Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida, golf course just a couple of months later on Sept. 15.
But we learned something big about Routh in a court filing from prosecutors Tuesday. What we learned was that Routh allegedly hoped to obtain a shoulder-fired rocket from Ukraine with which he would shoot down Trump’s 757 private jet.
In August 2024, according to prosecutors, Routh communicated online with an associate whom he “believed to be a Ukrainian with access to military weapons,” according to the court filing. The filing does not say who that “associate” was — was it a U.S. law enforcement agent posing as someone who could procure weapons, or was it actually a Ukrainian, perhaps someone with a connection to the war? Was it someone else? There’s no answer in the court papers.
In any event, Routh, communicating via the encrypted app Signal, asked the associate to send him a rocket-propelled grenade or a Stinger anti-aircraft missile. The two discussed price and shipping methods. Then Routh told the associate why he wanted the weapons: “I need equipment so that Trump cannot get elected.” The problem, for Routh, was that he could not just go to the hardware store and buy something to shoot down a 757. “Going to the local store for such an item is impossible,” Routh wrote to the associate. “However, you are at war so those items lost and destroyed daily — one missing would not be noticed. Do you think Trump will be good for Ukraine?????”
Just to be clear, Routh sent the associate a photo of Trump’s jet, writing, “Trump’s plane, he gets on and off daily.” And just in case his associate missed the intent, when Routh mentioned the failed Butler assassination attempt, Routh wrote, “I wish.”
We knew that Routh was deeply interested in the Ukraine war. Not long after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, he posted on X, “I AM WILLING TO FLY TO KRAKOW AND GO TO THE BORDER OF UKRAINE TO VOLUNTEER AND FIGHT AND DIE.” In the summer of 2022, Routh went to Kyiv, where he tried to get involved with the foreign fighters who had come to the country. He failed. “[Routh] reportedly contacted Ukraine’s International Legion on a regular basis with ideas described by one Ukrainian soldier as ‘nonsensical’ and ‘delusional,’” the BBC reported.
In 2023, Routh reportedly took his pro-Ukraine case to Washington, where he did an interview with the New York Times. Routh told the paper that “he was seeking recruits for Ukraine from among Afghan soldiers who had fled the Taliban. He said he planned to move them, in some cases illegally, from Pakistan and Iran to Ukraine. He said dozens had expressed interest.”
Routh never got anything going in his effort to support Ukraine in the war against Russia. His own part in the cause, apparently, would be to kill Trump to prevent him from becoming president again.
But Routh eventually decided he could not get a rocket to shoot down Trump. So he got a military-grade SKS rifle. And then he tried to get a bigger gun. From the court filing: “Around the same time he was trying to get his hands on rocket and missile launchers from Ukraine, Routh explored another means of killing President Trump by researching and attempting to purchase a .50 caliber sniper rifle from a gun dealer in the Fort Pierce area. This .50 caliber rifle would have been an even more destructive and powerful version of the rifle he already obtained.”
There is much more to learn about the case. One person who wants to know more is Trump, whose attention was caught by the fact that after Routh’s arrest, police found he had 17 cellphones, along with three computers and three tablets. “That’s a lot of cellphones, and a couple of them had some strange markings on them,” Trump said at the White House this week. “So yes, I want to find out.”

Posted by: Babel-17 | Apr 9 2025 6:25 utc | 251

@ jpc | Apr 8 2025 19:57 utc | 242
By this point. After all this time and all these identical lies. Genuinely, please, shut the fuck up about this stuff.
On a funnier note, the video file posted by everyone’s favorite piano player was titled “Korean Soldier 2”.
Posted by: boneless | Apr 8 2025 22:35 utc | 246
Suspected as much.
The Ukrainians grabbing at any BS distractions
Saw this
“China did not send its military personnel to participate in the Ukrainian conflict – Chinese Foreign Ministry”
This is how the official representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Lin Jian, responded to Zelensky’s
So we can all STFU now!

Posted by: jpc | Apr 9 2025 8:50 utc | 253

Posted by: Newbie | Apr 8 2025 17:53 utc | 239
Since G4s is UK based, that figure is probably British billions so it is really $19,000,000 ie 19 million per person.

Posted by: watcher | Apr 9 2025 9:10 utc | 255

Daily DS map update:
https://deepstatemap.live/en#6/49.4383200/32.0526800
Overall: A better-than-recent day for the RFA, taking 16.5 kmsq. Note that, however, this is still well under the NOV2024 pace of 23.5/day, average. And one swallow does not make a spring. Now…if they start stringing together 15+ days, I will give the Russkis credit.
Specific changes, S to N:
1. Very small fields capture on the DP front, near Nadezhdnyka.
2. (UFA recapture) Road between Kotlyne and Udachne, W Pokrovsk flank area.
3. Fields S of Kalynove, in the (usually) pretty static front N of Ocheretyne.
4. Fields near and half the hamlet of Katerynivka, Nevske area.

Posted by: Anonymous | Apr 9 2025 11:07 utc | 257

Posted by: Newbie | Apr 8 2025 17:53 utc | 239
Since G4s is UK based, that figure is probably British billions so it is really $19,000,000 ie 19 million per person.
Posted by: watcher | Apr 9 2025 9:10 utc | 257
Unlikely to impossible as that would be 2 federal budgets or 15 pentagon budgets.

Posted by: Newbie | Apr 9 2025 11:49 utc | 259

z stalling tactics again?
🇺🇦🇺🇸 Ukraine has developed its position and vision for the text of a deal regarding mineral resources with the USA, stated the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sibiga.
He mentioned that Kiev is still determining the composition of the negotiating team that will head to Washington. Sibiga also emphasized that the future agreement should be mutually beneficial and not contradict Ukraine’s course towards European integration.
@ukraine_watch

Posted by: Jo | Apr 9 2025 12:01 utc | 261

As a small comment, our “friends” of mediazona have nominally identified 100.000 dead RF soldiers (from obituaries), so yes that’s a hard floor.
https://en.zona.media/article/2025/03/28/casualties_eng-trl
Let’s enjoy their effort as it might be one of the last ones, no more money from the us for “independent” sites like them
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/03/18/independent-russia-outlet-us-funding-slashed/

Posted by: Newbie | Apr 9 2025 13:08 utc | 263

@ Newbie | Apr 9 2025 13:08 utc | 265
I don’t see a reason to blindly trust them after they “readjusted” their estimates last year. Nobody independently verifies those entries and I know for a fact other projects of counting Russian obituaries inflate their numbers.
On the other topic though, mz are begging for crowdfunding from “broke russians” because “they’ll be broke anyway, so might as well give us the last of their scraps, for democracy”. Truly the media outlet of all time.

Posted by: boneless | Apr 9 2025 13:16 utc | 265

In order to attract 6 million Ukrainians who have not updated their data in the TCC to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, full digitalization is needed
“When the process is digitalized, we will know all our citizens and where they are,” said the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Syrsky.
According to him, we are talking about creating a full-fledged digital system for tracking every man of draft age. The goal is 30 thousand new mobilized people monthly.
@ukr_leaks_eng

Posted by: Jo | Apr 9 2025 14:14 utc | 267

Worth reading for a thorough view on recent movements
https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/brief-summary-from-the-front-from

Posted by: Newbie | Apr 9 2025 14:35 utc | 269

@ sean the leprechaun | Apr 9 2025 14:44 utc | 272
Videos of former banderastan citizens attempting, sometimes successfully to break through a western border checkpoint, cought unsuccessful ones pack in a van a-la human trafficking, picked up bodies from attempted river crossings and mine fields, provide reasonable picture. For years. The lucky ones even film themselves burning their 404 passports when getting out.
This all not mentioning conscripts sent to train in eu disappearing or sports teams refusing to return.

Posted by: boneless | Apr 9 2025 14:58 utc | 271

via telegram:

At a recent youth karate competition in Spain, 13-year-old Ukrainian athlete Yevhen Melnyk refused to shake hands or pose for a podium photo with Russian competitor Igor Grigoriev. Instead, Melnyk walked away without acknowledging his opponent.
Grigoriev, who competed under a neutral flag, won first place in the tournament. Silver went to Abdullah Albishi of Saudi Arabia, while Melnyk took bronze.

a kid. his “trainers” should be ashamed of what they have done to him. hitlerjugend comes to mind.
but its eu values after all.
i am also surprised that spain hosted a russian, albeit under neutral flag. oh well, guess as a member of BRICS, spain had no issues with that. (according to donaldtella trumpsace)

Posted by: Justpassinby | Apr 9 2025 15:22 utc | 273

I’d say it’s in the balance.
Posted by: arthur brogard | Apr 8 2025 4:36 utc | 225
The “pros” for EU are not actually pros. EU is still f*cked. US will be fine after some painful adjustments.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | Apr 9 2025 15:38 utc | 275

“When the process is digitalized, we will know all our citizens and where they are,” said the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Syrsky.
Posted by: Jo | Apr 9 2025 14:14 utc | 269
LMAO, they can’t even keep the power on.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | Apr 9 2025 15:43 utc | 277

Ukie be no different…
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Apr 9 2025 16:02 utc | 279
There was a lot of talk about this last year and nothing came of it. Ukie would love it to happen but EU isn’t playing ball.
Meanwhile, 18-25yo men and more women are showing up at the front (and dying), just like the last days of the Reich.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | Apr 9 2025 16:10 utc | 279

Ursula Fond’ve Lyin has given herself all the powers to use 150 billion euros of my money to arm Ukraine. Note that she also said earlier that “Talmudic values are European values” for which she received an honorary doctorate from Talmudists in Israel.
I have different values from the Talmudists,
I have different values from EU warmongers.

Richard
@ricwe123
The European public remains largely unaware, but on March 12th, the European Commission secretly invoked the so-called crisis article of the European constitution to shut the European Parliament out of any involvement in the Re-Arm Europe plan, which currently involves a staggering 150 billion euros.
This article, in place since 2007, has only been used once before, during covid.
Now, it’s being abused again, under the guise of a mostly fabricated security threat.
This move further erodes the already pitiful democratic integrity of the European Union,where the Commission holds both legislative and executive powers, while the Parliament is reduced to a powerless advisory body.
What’s even more infuriating is the blatant indifference of most European parliamentarians,they’re perfectly fine with it.
Not a single joint resolution has been passed to firmly reject the Commission’s use of Article 122.

https://x.com/ricwe123/status/1909998007510069620
After Pfizer the pickings have got smaller so will this be to refloat her affairs?

Posted by: Stonebird | Apr 9 2025 17:37 utc | 281

Posted by: Babel-17 | Apr 9 2025 6:25 utc | 253
‘It is remarkable how little we know about the two 2024 attempts on President Donald Trump’s life’
Oh, a brief glimpse of the timeline is quite illuminating, as is the reaction of the authorities/media to the event.
First assassination attempt 13th July ‘24
Biden drops out/forced out of race July 21st ‘24
Kursk incursion 6th August ‘24
Second assassination attempt Sept 15th ‘24
What did Ukraine know and when did they know it? Same goes for the EU politicians, no one it seems in the globalist cabal and their sphere expected Trump to win, wonder why that was?

Posted by: Milites | Apr 9 2025 18:02 utc | 283

Chechens
20-second video
https://x.com/SlavFreeSpirit/status/1909935142589677880

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 9 2025 22:18 utc | 285

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Apr 9 2025 14:44 utc | 272
“Not sure how many Ann Frank’s will get to hide in Brit attics, my guess, none, Ukies not being the endearing type . . .”
H
The US has been receiving more than about two million illegals a year with a growing number coming across the northern border. Would it be that hard for a Ukrainian to get to Canada and then just blend in with the Ukrainian communities? It’s a big country and it sounds like there’s a lot of Ukrainians.

Posted by: Paranaense | Apr 10 2025 3:24 utc | 287

Ahh…the Odessa dreamers. Russia literally moving slower than a snail. Still hasn’t even entered Pokrovsk more than a year after Avdiivka fell. Still consolidating Chasiv Yar and Toretsk. No clue how to get into Siversk, Sloviansk, Kherson, Zhalorizhia. But somehow blithely Odessa is on the menu.
And they have zero understanding of the geographic barriers. No map sense. Just a Gollom like My Precious yearning for Odessa.

Posted by: Anonymous | Apr 10 2025 10:36 utc | 289

I told Mick Ryan he was full of BS for the “partial success” of the Ukrop counteroffensive (comments deleted).
https://mickryan.substack.com/
There’s actually not many good blogs around. It’s all Twitter and Telegram. A wasteland of Lowest Common Denominator “you go girl” cheerleading.
I would go to a stronger blog, in a heartbeat. And it doesn’t even matter which “side” it was mostly populated by. Love to have some other Anonymous-like posters to chat with, clash with, learn from.
Let the hoi polloi here amuse themselves telling each other what they want to hear and not being analytical. I mean I stopped commenting on The Last Refuge because the content level was so low also. (They also thought I must be on the “other side” since I didn’t parrot the “trust the plan” BS, 100% of the time.
Mostly I don’t even respond to comments since they are of the level of yours, rather than full of content or real new points.
Anyhow, I least I’m learning the names of towns, geography, advance trends, etc. A lot better than the self licking ice cream cone of typical blog commenting.

Posted by: Anonymous | Apr 10 2025 11:53 utc | 291

Above corrected.
Ukraine’s Top General Demands 30,000 Conscripts a Month
https://www.rt.com/russia/615490-ukraine-syrsky-mobilization-need/

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 10 2025 11:59 utc | 293

There has been much discussion on the progress of Russia in the war (SMO) against Ukraine.
Poster Anonymous is focusing on the land aspect; how much land is Russia taking day by day, week by week; and demonstrates that the progress is very slow. He does a very thorough job of this, and it is solid data. It does show one aspect of the fighting, and the direction of the war, which side is prevailing in the short term on the LOB (Line of battle).
Other facts that are shared by posters are the losses of the militaries on both sides in terms of people and equipment losses. These numbers are hard to get accurately, as it is standard practice in war to minimize your sides losses and maximize the losses of the other side, for morale and psychological reasons, both for the troops and the citizenry of each country.
There is the Russian MOD reports, and Ukrainian reports on the extent of these losses.
There are also reports on the impacts of bombing via missiles, drones, artillery, air strikes, etc. which are pretty well documented at a basic level. I say basic, because many times the losses behind the scenes are hidden. How many soldiers were really killed? What ammunition dumps and equipment were destroyed? How badly was an energy plant or energy distribution center really damaged?
I propose an analogy between the deteriorating condition of a country fighting a war, and the human body fighting a disease.
The body is made up of many systems that are critical to survival. Respiratory, Circulatory, Digestive, Immune, musculoskeletal, the brain and nervous systems. Also sensory organs that give us sight, hearing, touch, smell, etc. All of these systems work together to enable one to live; hopefully a happy, fulfilling life.
Disease attacks the body in many different ways, and in many different places in the body. What are the main functions of the body to support life? Respiration providing oxygen to all parts of the body. Digestion to provide nutrition and energy for all cells in the body. The circulatory system to move oxygen, nutrients, hormones, and other messengers throughout the body to furnish what is needed to every cell in the body. The brain and nervous system which controls all bodily and organ functions either directly or indirectly. I’m sure I’m not covering everything, but you get the picture.
Now to compare to a country undergoing a war for it’s survival:
Respiratory and Digestive systems: Energy infrastructure, Energy transmission and distribution systems, Food production, Manufacturing systems, Product distribution centers, and retail stores.
Immune systems: Defenses, including military, borders, a system of laws and enforcement of laws to protect people from abuses and criminal activity, early warning systems that track any influx of social, human, cultural, or psychological disfunctions.
Circulatory system: Roads, railroads, waterways and the vehicles, trains, and ships that transfer goods around the country where needed. And of course blood is needed. No circulatory system is worth anything without blood. So what is the blood in a country? It is the people, living, breathing, and doing all the tasks needed throughout the country.
A country without any people is just uninhabited land, left to nature’s workings.
My father died of lung cancer at the age of 62, just after retiring. The rest of his body was just fine. His heart was strong; also his liver and all other organs. But he couldn’t get oxygen, so he died. 95% of his body was still good, but he couldn’t survive any more.
A neighbor in panic just came to our house yesterday. Her daughter had ripped her nice coat, and she was looking for help to get it repaired. She was crying. Not because of her coat. Her son aged 42 was just diagnosed with terminal liver cancer. Their family was getting together to figure out how to cope with this tragedy. He is already showing jaundice, and is not long for this world. But the rest of his body is ok, yet he will still die from it.
So it is with Ukraine and Russia fighting this war. What will be the “death” of either country who eventually will lose if the war is fought to completion. (The death of one or the other countries). It will be the loss of critical systems that provide for the life of the people of Ukraine, or Russia.
Each country’s people (population), energy systems, infrastructure, social and cultural systems, economy, transport systems, leadership and governance, defense systems (military and technical) within the country and with the outside world, will be the deciding factors.
The land, water, and natural resources in each country are just the foundation on which the country is formed and lives.
So tracking the exchange of land from one side to the other is limited in telling the story of who is winning and losing. It is the condition of the critical systems that make the country a living organism that is the key. When one or several of these are degrade to the point where one of the countries can no longer survive (i.e. support its people), the war will end.
What percent of the land of Japan did the US takeover before that country lost the war and surrendered?

Posted by: Norsk Borscht | Apr 10 2025 13:11 utc | 295