Recycling Old News Media Push For More War In Ukraine

May 27, 2025

Yesterday, during a lengthy interview, the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz mention the lifting of restrictions on western weapons used by Ukraine.

Media took that as a new revelation:

Merz says no more range limits for weapons supplied to Kyiv – DW, May 26
Germany’s Merz backs Ukraine’s long-range missile strikes on Russia – FT, May 26
Western allies lift Ukraine's restrictions on long-range weapons, says Merz – Euronews, May 26

> German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced on Monday that Germany, along with France, the UK and the US, had lifted restrictions on the range of weapons they are sending to Ukraine to help in the fight against Russia.

"There are no longer any range restrictions on weapons delivered to Ukraine — neither by the British nor by the French nor by us nor by the Americans," he said at the WDR Europaforum 2025 at the re:publica digital conference in Berlin. <

Some media even claimed that Merz had cleared the path for the delivery of German Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine:

Germany and its key allies have lifted range restrictions on weapons sent to Ukraine allowing Kyiv to hit targets inside Russia with no external limits, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Monday.

That announcement by the German leader could clear the path for Berlin to finally deliver its powerful Taurus cruise missiles to Kyiv, something that the previous government refused to do so as not to provoke nuclear-armed Russia.

I was astonished seeing this. There had been nothing new in Merz' announcement.

President Joe Biden had lifted all restrictions on U.S. delivered weapons many months ago:

Biden allows Ukraine to use US arms to strike inside Russia – Reuters, Nav 18 2024

Britain had even been earlier:

UK gives Ukraine green light to use British weapons inside Russia – Atlantic Council, May 3 2024

France, also many moths ago, had likewise been open to this.

Moreover Ukraine has long run out of western donated long range weapons:

The green light to fire long-range missiles at Russia means little if "our cupboard is totally empty," added Ivan Stupak, a former officer with Ukraine's SBU security service."

The last ATACMS strike on Russian targets has happened many months ago. The last interdiction of an ATMCMS strike by Russia was reported on January 17. Strikes with British Storm Shadow or French Scalp missiles have likewise vanished.

There was thereby nothing new in Merz' talk. He had not even mentioned Taurus missiles which will NOT be delivered to Ukraine for several good reasons:

Taurus contains components which are under U.S. export restrictions. The U.S. would have to green light a delivery of those.
Taurus is air launched. Ukraine does not have the means, i.e. the right airplanes, to launch Taurus from high attitudes.
Taurus requires other German systems, and, most crucial, German specialists to be targeted and used.

Merz was clearly surprised that his mentioning of the release of restrictions, which had happened months ago, was suddenly presented as a new development or policy change. Today the chancellor was pushed to clarify it:

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that the decision to lift restrictions on the range of weapons supplied to Kiev was made several months ago, RIA Novosti reported.

"As far as I know, and I repeated it yesterday, the countries that imposed range restrictions have long since abandoned these conditions. Therefore, yesterday in Berlin I described what happened several months ago, namely that Ukraine has the right to use the weapons it receives, including outside its borders, against military targets on Russian territory," Merz said at a joint press conference with Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo.

The media who carried yesterday's sensational headline have yet to wake up to this. I doubt that they even want to do so. They will most likely ignored Merz' clarification.

There is an unmissable war-frenzy in the media. Even the tiniest side remark by Trump, Merz or someone else is immediately explained as a war escalation.

The journalists writing those headlines, and the bloggers repeating them, seem eager to push for it.

Who told them to do so?

Posted by b on May 27, 2025 at 14:51 UTC | Permalink

Comments

The bibliography of the SMO in Ukraine will be either quite thick or quite thin depending on who writes the history.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 27 2025 22:21 utc | 101

Bullseye!!!
It’s amazing how quickly we in the West have forgotten that all of our jewed-up, For Sale, politicians branded criticism of “Israeli” violence in Gaza as antisemitic + criminal.
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | May 27 2025 17:42 utc | 45
The only one I trust in the US government is Thomas Massie. He voted against branding the criticism, the only one. He has no AIPAC babysitter. As far as I can tell, he does not lie.
How he is treated by Trump, Schumer and the rest of that paltry pack of perverts-for-sale told me all I needed to know.
Karma’s a bitch and the US is in for a big dose.

Posted by: Nooneuknow | May 27 2025 22:29 utc | 102

When it comes to Project Ukraine, keep in mind that the important thing is not *who* lies–but who lies *first.*
Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 27 2025 22:20 utc | 100
I laughed out loud. So true. Man, I needed that smile, too.

Posted by: Nooneuknow | May 27 2025 22:31 utc | 103

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 27 2025 22:31 utc | 104

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 27 2025 22:17 utc | 99
Yeah, well, I still can’t find any technical confirmation that Taurus is nuclear-compatible.
But it could well turn out that the point is moot anyway; say a theoretically nuclear-tipped Taurus is intercepted and destroyed over Ukraine, we end up with all that warhead material dispersed over land that Blackrock (allegedly) has a financial claim on.
So all that prime farmland/development land is now low-level contaminated waste…
Next…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | May 27 2025 22:33 utc | 105

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | May 27 2025 19:37 utc | 65
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | May 27 2025 20:33 utc | 82
RE: the source provides no citation of nuclear capability-?
If even a single 1-minute search on Duck unearths information on the possibility of Taurus missiles being outfitted w/ nuclear warheads, does that not provide sufficient ‘fog of war’ cover for Russia to balk @ the liberal launch of Taurus missiles into the Russian Federation-?
Just sayin’
Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 27 2025 22:31 utc | 104
<< Erm, who has the time @ this juncture to 'wait & see' if the Taurus missiles that German technicians will launch into Russia's hinterland from Ukraine are outfitted w/ nuclear warheads-? Surprise, surprise--! Let's wait & see-! I think not.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 27 2025 22:36 utc | 106

At this point in the conversation, B might do well to remember that average IQs for journalists are not especially high.
According to BRGHT.com, the average IQ of journalists (among others) who took its IQ test is 102.97. As occupations with job titles go, journalism ranked 152 out of a list of 575 occupations / job titles. An IQ of 102 – 103 is just … average.
There is an old (2017) study, done in partnership with the London Press Club, that purported to have found that journalists’ brains show a lower-than-average level of executive functioning, meaning that journalists as a group are poor at activities like planning, organising, prioritising, adapting to new situations and resisting impulses and distractions. The study attributed this poor performance to over-consumption of alcohol, caffeine and products high in sugar, and not drinking enough water, in a highly stressful environment. However, journalists’ beliefs that the importance and value of the work they were doing compensated for working under stress and other issues such as low pay and low job security.
Journalists’ brains operate at below average due to excessive booze and caffeine: study
It may very well be that current journalism is even more stressful and insecure than it was back in 2017 when the study was done, and those journalists who work for MSM outlets are either deluded about the importance of the work they do or over-estimate its value to the general public.

Posted by: Refinnejenna | May 27 2025 22:37 utc | 107

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 27 2025 22:31 utc | 104
Oh fur fox ache, all the info that can be searched is self-referential, recursive even.
I still cannot find actual technical information, that can be reliably sourced, showing that Taurus is nuclear-compatible.
You’re beginning to read like @shadowbanned.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | May 27 2025 22:38 utc | 108

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | May 27 2025 22:33 utc | 105
RE: dude, even if the nuclear radiation of farmland is mooted it is still a *deal*
<< Man, are you listening to yourself-?! The penny has dropped, and it is dropping on you.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 27 2025 22:39 utc | 109

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | May 27 2025 22:38 utc | 108
RE: keep playing games, man
<< I'm droppin' the mic on your alfa-sierra-sierra

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 27 2025 22:40 utc | 110

The German statements are pretty obvious – they are PR and serve scaremongering the public so that there is no energy, no hope to gather and organize against the rearmament program and the policy elite’s conduct hostile to the population.
While the public freezes in fear of war Merz and his merry men and women rip off this nation.
It’s diversionary tactics. Simple as that.
Real war would only ruin this plan.
Which is why the peace movement in its alarmism – naturally they see this as their role – is so counterproductive in efficiently change things.
Instead they should call out Merz and the entire government as liars and state why.
But they too take the possibility of a Russian attack as real even if they point out that Russia doesn’t want it.
It would make more sense to question the narrative as such and demand evidence for what the government claims.
As long as the structure of lies is not revealed to the public opposing war will only remain a moral blame game which won’t convince enough people. Their fears are deeper than their willingness to accept negotiations.
The real issue is NATO’s war lies. Not how to handle that war!
Oppose the root cause. Not the symptoms.

Posted by: AG | May 27 2025 22:41 utc | 111

I dunno, what is it with seppoes, they keep on and on and on.
I blame the US education system…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | May 27 2025 22:43 utc | 112

DJT needs a better golfing partner.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 27 2025 17:17 utc | 38
The most amazing thing about this, IMO, is that a reporter following DJT actually KNEW about the Ukraine drone attack, and was willing to bring it up with the Donald. Perhaps this reporter actually had a glimmer of independent thought percolating in his or her head?

Posted by: Mike R | May 27 2025 22:44 utc | 113

Posted by: AG | May 27 2025 21:27 utc | 94
Taurus should be a highly effective weapon, due to an advanced fusing system designed to target composite structures (bridges, subterranean bunkers etc) with a very heavy warhead and has been designed to be able to survive in integrated AD environments, especially v’s Russian systems (S-400 and Pantsir) using stealth technology and advanced terrain following with midcourse corrective capability.
I say should because it’s never been deployed in combat, though similar Western weapons have a good track record of having little disparity between their test performances and actual combat, and sometimes exceeding expectations, as regards accuracy and reliability.
The real problem for the German government is that this is the only LR strike system they posses and it’s expected to be operational for another 30+ years with only a planned upgrade to its navigation and guidance systems, so what happens if the Russians recover some key components (Mephisto fusing, nav systems), or worse a whole missile and start reverse engineering.
Germany, in either of these cases, would then have seriously downgraded their capabilities in return for still seeing Ukraine defeated, whilst possibly indirectly boosting Russian strike capabilities. A pretty crappy risk reward ratio, which ever way you look at it.

Posted by: Milites | May 27 2025 22:46 utc | 114

Even if Russia knows 100% that the German-supplied Taurus missiles do not in fact have nuclear tips, they may nonetheless press the case before the UN that based on documented info (see my citation) that the Taurus missiles *may* in fact be tricked out @ some point w/ nuclear warheads in order to argue that, “Hey, look–Germany is seriously undermining the ongoing peace negotiations into which the U.S. has poured so much time & attention.”
This provides an important rhetorical talking point.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 27 2025 22:48 utc | 115

In terms of insightful geopolitical matters, Gen Kellogg drives from the Ladies tee on the golf course, metaphorically speaking naturally.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 27 2025 20:16 utc | 77
LOLOL you are on your game today.
Why is Merz taken it upon himself to be such a dumb fuck?
That’s the bit I can’t fathom.
This isn’t a time to potentially turn your country to radioactive rubble.
Doesn’t sound like he’s working for German best interests.
Posted by: jpc | May 27 2025 21:46 utc | 97
Cocaine is a helluva drug.

Posted by: Nooneuknow | May 27 2025 22:52 utc | 116

Posted by: Mike R | May 27 2025 22:44 utc | 113
RE: that the tarmac reporter *knew* about the drone attack on VVP’s helicopter
<< The tarmac reporter's question was a *plant*---a way to catch hapless DJT, fresh off the golf course on a holiday, betwixt & between. His team can protect him better. Obviously, the time to address these dynamic events is *not* when DJT has been golfing for hours, unless a member of his foursome has been staying abreast of happenings & has briefed DJT on how to respond to gotcha questions. Live and learn. The team can protect DJT better.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 27 2025 22:53 utc | 117

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | May 27 2025 22:43 utc | 112
RE” i blame the U.S. educational system
<< Cheap & classless Have a Shirley Temple on me

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 27 2025 22:54 utc | 118

‘The media who carried yesterday’s sensational headline have yet to wake up to this. I doubt that they even want to do so.’
Yes, on my first superficial reading of this headline, I thought it represented a new escalation by Merz.
Thanks to b for the clarification.
Death to the Lügenpresse.

Posted by: Jim H | May 27 2025 22:58 utc | 119

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 27 2025 22:54 utc | 118
I really don’t know why you have got so agitated.
All I did was point out that the source you initially cited did not provide their own source citations. That intrigued me, so I looked into the background of the source, and it did not fill me with confidence about the viability of the claims made therein.
We all need to be careful about checking the root of our sources; it’s a heck of an exercise when citing the Ukrainian sources that I sometimes post in comments here.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | May 27 2025 23:05 utc | 120

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 27 2025 20:12 utc | 75
……Alastair connected like this in SPB, probably left & right, practically on every street corner, but Mercouris did not.
To have the conversations per your anecdote….. you have to be prepared to *converse*, which involves, firstly, shutting the fuck up to let the other person exhale a few syllables.
Mercouris lacks this ability. There is nothing sweeter and more delightful to him than the sound of his own voice.
Even the most garrulous gabble-cabbie anywhere in the world is defeated by the tsunami of verbosity from Mercouris.

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 27 2025 23:21 utc | 121

https://www.rt.com/news/616326-outsourcing-war-british-mercenaries/
The British-American private military company Group 4 Securitas (G4S) has evolved far beyond its original mission of providing security for Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky and Ukraine’s critical infrastructure.
Today, it resembles a quasi-state, complete with its own armed forces, prison systems, and global reach.
G4S secures US embassies around the world, guards airports, government agencies, and military installations for both Washington and London, and even monitors sections of the US border.

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 27 2025 23:23 utc | 122

Ryan O’Leary on RVvoenkory telegram
Chosen Company is shutting down operations and moving towards separation from the Ukrainian military.
Official statement will be released once I’m off contract and can fully speak freely without violating Ukrainian military law/statutes. It’s been a good 39 month run.
~~~
Some background from a comment section:

In the first alleged incident dated August 2023, a severely injured, unarmed Russian soldier was crawling through a trench and begging for help in a mix of broken English and Russian.
The Russian was then allegedly shot in the chest by a member of Chosen Company. When the Russian soldier continued to move and breathe, another fighter shot him in the head.
In the second incident, a Chosen member lobbed a grenade at and killed a Russian soldier who allegedly had his hands raised.
Video evidence of the incident was reviewed by the New York Times.
In the third incident, Chosen members boasted in a group chat about killing Russian prisoners of war during a mission in October, text messages show.
A soldier who was briefly in command that day alluded to the killings using a slang word for shooting. He said he would take responsibility. “If anything comes out about alleged POW blamming, I ordered it,” wrote the soldier, who goes by the call sign Andok.
He added an image of a Croatian war criminal who died in 2017 after drinking poison during a tribunal at The Hague and added the message “At the Hague ‘I regret nothing!’” under the image.
The New York Times reported that this it was “one of several text messages” that make reference, directly or obliquely, to killing prisoners.

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 27 2025 23:25 utc | 123

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 27 2025 23:21 utc | 121
RE: Mercouris can’t shut up long enough to hear the other guy speak his piece
<< You nailed it, man. Metal

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 27 2025 23:27 utc | 124

Posted by: AG | May 27 2025 22:41 utc | 111
The public must be starting to see through the bullshit. It will take time but Brussels is now a busted flush. The so called populists are not the answer.
The populists right wing corporate, oligarch capitalist plan is to divide China and Russia and then attack China.
Here’s Farage after he won the Brexit vote instructed by his US right wing backers. Very first announcement he made after we officially left the EU.
China is a bigger threat than the EU. Now Brexit is won all his efforts will be to defeat China.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YHtlzpj4B88&pp=ygUSTmlnZWwgZmFyYWdlIENoaW5h
My guess is and it’s only a guess, is that these long telephone discussions between Trump and Putin have discussed China. With Trump trying to sell the idea that Russia must move away from China. Would be better off with the West.Putin politely told him to fuck off. This explains some of Phoneyfarts theatrics regarding the Middle East and Ukraine.

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | May 27 2025 23:28 utc | 125

Sinclair of some kind, either ZX81 or Speccy, can’t remember which.
And anyway, I will not be providing evidence as the few surviving photos from back then:
a) give Mrs. R-L a fit of the giggles
b) show me with a ‘New Romantic’ mullet
a) and b) may be connected…
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | May 27 2025 20:22 utc | 79
Please sa planet earth and not girls on film
Spectrum 48k, I had both, “line zero of basic” “game protection”
you, western european, born first half of 1960’s… barely
1983-2024 felt like “nukes will fly”
Too early now, 2049-2050 more likely for that full nostalgic vibe
Musically 99 red balloons, war, two tribes… for a full “we are fucked ” feeling
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Posted by: ockham | May 27 2025 21:04 utc | 89
Others used peek, poke to look into, change, memmory values
————
Useful on topic info
Russian army advances 10 kilometers into Sumy Region in some areas — military expert
https://tass.com/politics/1964327

Posted by: Newbie | May 27 2025 23:30 utc | 126

steel_porcupine | May 27 2025 22:53 utc | 117
-Trumptard’s team needs to protect him.
Nah.
Really, why the fuck were reporters waiting for him on the side of the golf course ?
Biden made through almost 4years without a single unscripted moment.
Trump would invite the “fake news” media in to record him shit on his golden toilet.
He can’t go a few hours without microphones and cameras in his face.
If he’s going to say stooopid shit because he’s missing facts…. Too bad.
He’ll give another press conference or pump a few hours later, or pump out a mean tweet, and one stoooopidity is quickly superseded by next.

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 27 2025 23:33 utc | 127

Yeah, well, I still can’t find any technical confirmation that Taurus is nuclear-compatible.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | May 27 2025 22:33 utc | 105
South korea got it to counter 2012 best korea nuclear threat so… should be compatible
Of course my last post supposed to read 1983-1984 as top scare
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Germany, in either of these cases, would then have seriously downgraded their capabilities in return for still seeing Ukraine defeated, whilst possibly indirectly boosting Russian strike capabilities. A pretty crappy risk reward ratio, which ever way you look at it.
Posted by: Milites | May 27 2025 22:46 utc | 114
Reasonable, but retards will retard…

Posted by: Newbie | May 27 2025 23:39 utc | 128

Of course all the so called populists turn up here. Every year like flies round shit.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hfwugcMrHRg&pp=ygUPQ1BBQyAyMDI1IGNoaW5h
Get their orders and list of priorities from the Heritage Foundation. Return home to spread the propaganda.

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | May 27 2025 23:42 utc | 129

Melaleuca | May 27 2025 15:07 utc | 5
Thanks for the great list!

Posted by: Subtropical | May 27 2025 23:57 utc | 130

The ball, which was once in Russia’s court, is now lying deflated in the tall grass.
No one’s botheriung to look for it.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 27 2025 19:43 utc | 68
#########
TFS.Trump Fatigue Syndrome.
How many times has he walked away or threatened to do so now between Ukraine and Russia?
How many times has he threatened to unleash hell on Hamas, Iran, or Yemen?
Can’t expect people to pay attention at all times.
I am going for a nap. There is NOTHING Trump can do about Russia.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 27 2025 23:57 utc | 131

Journalists knew about the drone swarm and the “was it? Really?” assassination *attempt* on Putin because such a thing would cause semi-chubbs and moistness among the assembled presstitutes. And their producers.
… Breathlessly waiting Trumps unfiltered response on learning Putin had been taken-out.
Remember….. The only time CNN broadcast a Trump rally live was from Butler Field Penn. and doughty Doug Mills was there too, aperture, oh-so-serendipitously set to capture the bullet mid flight. The ultimate orgasmic money shot….. Trump’s skull splintered in the wind…….
“They” knew about the drone swarm around Putin’s helicopter…. because some in the deep deep deep intel community …. Know stuff.

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 28 2025 0:12 utc | 132

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoTZPWsEBlQ
Col.Davis talks about Ukr lines getting thin so no big counterattacks. He also confirms my point that drones are changing warfare and its not being analyzed. Comments mention people coming out in liberated villages to hug Russian soldiers.

Posted by: Eighthman | May 28 2025 0:36 utc | 133

Posted by: Milites | May 27 2025 22:46 utc | 114
naked capitalism too had a post argueing that some info would suggest a certain threat.
I however not a military expert have developed doubts over all these systems.
I need not get into the massive failure of Western tanks, Western aircraft and basically every single Western missile system hurled at RU.
By now they all have effectivity rates in the single digits.
Why should it be different with TAURUS which is also a Western product from the same shores?
I remember well when it all started with those tanks. The fear and ridiculous awe that was palpable in public over “GERMAN TANKS”.
Only on the fringes did you have people pointing at the hair-raising deficencies of Leopard revealed in Syria or Turkey.

Posted by: AG | May 28 2025 0:43 utc | 134

osted by: Sun Of Alabama | May 27 2025 23:28 utc | 125
Yeah makes sense. Although I am not informed well on AfD´s position on China.

Posted by: AG | May 28 2025 0:45 utc | 135

Gen Kellogg hurried to Fox News to let them know that Ukraine has handed him their Peace Memorandum but Russia has not quite yet.
Tapping his toe, as if waiting for Medinsky or Lavrov to turn in their homework, Gen Kellogg predicts that the next round of talks will happen in Geneva.
Why Geneva-?
Unknown, except for the fact that Geneva is *not* the Vatican, which Moscow found unsuitable.
Still, Geneva-?
Peace talks in no-longer neutral Switzerland-?
Turkeye’s Foreign Minister was in Moscow today, stating that Istanbul is definitely still an option for the next round of talks. So why not-?
The final meeting should take place in Hero City Sevastopol, where DJT will facilitate Ukraine’s capitulation to Russia.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 28 2025 0:46 utc | 136

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 28 2025 0:12 utc | 132
RE: they *know* about it
<< .995 Ag

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 28 2025 0:49 utc | 137

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 27 2025 23:33 utc | 127
RE:
<< Got it. Still, it is difficult to believe that any member of DJT's team who cares about the success of his admin, which is their success too, would permit him to field---uninformed---questions about the possible assassination of VVP, via a drone-swarm on his helicopter. Team members who care about DJT's success know that *somebody* tried to take him out twice. It is tough to imagine they would want him to take a question like the one *innocently* posed to him on Sunday about the assassination attempt on VVP as DJT was coming off many hours of golf. What I'm suggesting is that *they*---the members of DJT's team who know how the other side is playing for keeps---would seek to protect him by informing him *before* he stands for unfiltered Q & A. Now whether DJT is the kind of stallion on which you can place a bridle is another matter... If not, then that is the raw material w/ which they must contend.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 28 2025 0:59 utc | 138

I don’t know about other people’s views on this but it seems to me that hairy chested rhetoric from NATOSTAN is proportional to the latitudinal distance from Ukraine. Slovakia is supportive of Russia, so is Hungary, so is and Serbia. Transnistria has been so since the beginning of the SMO. Even Poland waxes and wanes in its support for Ukraine. Yet the most bravado and belligerent talk always comes from Britain, France, Germany and the US, apart from Kallas who is another willing servant.
Merz appears to be another puppet which the Germans have been duped into taking on as a leader, he is another aggressive fool that appears willing to do the US’s dirty work as he rides his country towards economic and perhaps bellicose disaster. It seems that whatever people vote for in the West, another puppet just pops up like the snake heads of the Medusa.
I don’t accept that Trump ever wanted peace nor his government. I think he is pretending to be in discord with NATO but actually is still carrying on the same old same old US policy against Russia and US-Euro Zionist support for Israel. He likes to play both sides of the coin to confuse everyone, that is all, and he gets maximum attention out of functioning this way. It’s like getting a ride on both sides of the seesaw all at once. It’s to keep everybody guessing and classic ‘don’t let the right hand know what the left hand is doing’. US imperialistic and hegemonic policy continues on, nothing has changed only the pantomime. The US puppets are all still in place in NATOSTAN no matter what Trump and his administration says. He’s also been playing both sides of the coin with Russia and Zelensky, and now you can see his reaction in suddenly calling Putin “Crazy” as Russia disregards his fig leaf of a pathetic fake peace process and acts with its own volition and continued lack of trust for anything the US or Ukraine says. The gloves are off and the illusion is gone.

Posted by: George | May 28 2025 1:07 utc | 139

Situational awareness.
Members of DJT’s team comprehend the way Regime Media have pitched in w/ the neocon Europeans to force DJT into going hardcore on VVP. So they know what kind of questions are *innocently* going to come up during these unscripted tarmac-caliber Q & A.
Unforced errors don’t help at times like this.
It’s reminiscent of how Sir Keir and Macron Dior tried over a 2-week period to manipulate DJT into saying that the U.S. would backstop Reassurance Forces in Ukraine, which he deftly never did.
A similar level of situational awareness is necessary now regarding Project Ukraine-related queries *innocently* posed to DJT by the press during off-the-cuff tarmac-caliber Q & A.
It can’t be that hard to reduce the unforced errors.
Any of us working for a boss we cared about would help w/ this.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 28 2025 1:13 utc | 140

Now Trump says “Putin is playing with fire”.
How timely this fits Merz’s German long range Taurus missile salute to NATOSTAN-America.
Gee says Trump, the peace process? That was just a ruse. We now know Putin didn’t suck up to it.
If Putin doesn’t do what the US dictate says then he’s goanna have all hell to pay.
Same old same old,
Underpants Gnomes:
1. Wash $$
2. Rinse $$
3. Repeat $$

Posted by: George | May 28 2025 1:25 utc | 141

Posted by: AG | May 28 2025 0:43 utc | 134
Hey now the Leo 2-A4 set a world record for highest turret flip ever back in 2023. Over 1/2 a kilometer. It got hit in the spare ammo storage by a T-72B3M.

Posted by: Badjoke | May 28 2025 1:25 utc | 142

“I am going for a nap. There is NOTHING Trump can do about Russia.”
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 27 2025 23:57 utc | 131
Exactly, 100%
Putin has taken the gloves off. And he knows Trump is full of bull dust. Game over.

Posted by: George | May 28 2025 1:30 utc | 143

Posted by: Cynic | May 28 2025 1:31 utc | 144

Posted by: Cynic | May 28 2025 1:31 utc | 144
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Posted by: George | May 28 2025 1:39 utc | 145

Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | May 27 2025 22:33 utc | 105
*** But it could well turn out that the point is moot anyway; say a theoretically nuclear-tipped Taurus is intercepted and destroyed over Ukraine, we end up with all that warhead material dispersed over land that Blackrock (allegedly) has a financial claim on.
So all that prime farmland/development land is now low-level contaminated waste…***
No problem, just run big advertising campaigns featuring lots of “experts” to assure the public that radioactivity has been found to be a very necessary food supplement.
Posted by: Cynic | May 28 2025 1:31 utc | 144
Of course it is!
Flynn effect reversed after banning nuclear tests and radioactivity reducing (before and during leaded gas also helped) .
Gen X was peak radioactivity, peak lead, etc.
Also peak IQ
Someone had to find a solution for the FUBAR (we didn’t, but thanks for all the drinks)

Posted by: Newbie | May 28 2025 1:52 utc | 146

@Cynic @May 28 2025 1:31 utc #144
It’s got what plants crave!
I hope this finds you well

Posted by: ockham | May 28 2025 2:47 utc | 147

@Cynic @May 28 2025 1:31 utc #144
It’s got what plants crave!
I hope this finds you well

Posted by: ockham | May 28 2025 2:47 utc | 148

Putin has taken the gloves off. And he knows Trump is full of bull dust. Game over.
Posted by: George | May 28 2025 1:30 utc | 143
If he’s taken the gloves off then why hasn’t Russia pushed Ukrainian forces out of the Donbas after 3 years and 3 months? And why is Russia still stuck fighting on its own borders and subject to drone swarms?
Ukraine and its backers haven’t been deterred by what they’ve seen so far from Russia. In fact, Russia’s subdued war is encouraging its enemies to gear up for more.

Posted by: MiniMO | May 28 2025 3:07 utc | 149

The Kremlin Ignores Trump’s ‘Infantile’ Statements – Won’t Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater
https://johnhelmer.net/the-kremlin-ignores-trumps-infantile-statements-wont-throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater/
“Russian officials will ignore President Donald Trump’s tweets in order to focus on the main chance. ‘We do not consider the infantile attitude of Trump as a problem,’ an official source said, responding to Trump’s statement and tweets of May 26 and 27.
‘We consider he is the legitimate counterparty [for end-of-war negotations]. We considere he is a more adequate person than any of the European and British leaders. He is far from the worst of the leadership in the western world…”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 28 2025 4:10 utc | 150

Minimo 149
Er!!!!!!!!!
Time to catch up.
Putin has only just now taken the gloves off and possibly still only one of them. he made a bit of a big push just before the US election and just after. Slowed for a month or so during the Trump negotiations and now with them almost a complet fai;lure the tempo has ramped up.

Posted by: watcher | May 28 2025 4:12 utc | 151

Posted by: MiniMO | May 28 2025 3:07 utc | 149
Simply because it is a SMO and become a war of attrition designed not to trigger Article 5 for a start. Why risk Russian lives when Ukrainians have been throwing themselves onto the fly paper? Ukrainians still don’t understand cauldrons and encirclements, they get pincered every time. Also Putin has actually been very surgical in sparing Ukrainian civilian lives if you don’t believe the NATOSTAN garbage about genocide which you probably do, or the nonsense about the tally of Russian casualties put forth by the US and European gaslighting media clowns like those at the WP. Simple things you could understand yourself if you have been following the war every day and have noticed how much more of Ukraine has been taken increment by increment. Russia could clout a lot harder and could have if it had wanted to all along, it has far more powerful weapons at its disposal. Putin has given Trump a chance since Biden was defeated, but I think he now knows Trump is a waffle maker playing games, and principally only interested in appearing before cameras. What we saw a few nights ago in Kiev and throughout Ukraine is simply a sign of things to come. If I was Zelensky I would be watching my back, but on the other hand I think Putin may wish to take him alive.
BTW: Where is your evidence that Ukraine is actually winning or gaining ground? = 0
If you want to debate or criticise anything you have to explain why you think you are correct, as I have, otherwise you are just making a meaningless statement out of wanting to be righteous.

Posted by: George | May 28 2025 4:24 utc | 152

Posted by: MiniMO | May 28 2025 3:07 utc | 149
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Why hasn’t Oreshnik been sent to Berlin, Paris, or Whitehall?
The Russians are successfully de-militarizing NATO, that’s why. It’s not over until the Russians can remove NATO’s ability to follow up with a ground invasion. And it is coming, the US is tapped out, and Europe cannot make weaponry for modern warfare.
You’re making an Anonymous argument. You’re not arguing that the West will win, but rather that Russia isn’t winning fast enough.
I said it last year and I will repeat it again. This war has been over for some time now. The endgame is up to NATO. How long do they want to pile in the last of their military stores and every last Ukrainian? That’s ok because Russia is perfecting its EWAR game and killing while preserving manpower. No one believes that Ukraine can recover any of its lost territory.
I love this. Killing 2 birds with one stone, destroying Europe militarily and financially, while being China’s Western firewall. Halting any chance of an American assault ANYWHERE.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 28 2025 4:42 utc | 153

Who, B?
Well, the ZIONISTS of course. And they run the Trump Admin, just as they did Biden.
War and death is profit for the MIC.
I think the bigger question is, are the Zionists so high on their imperial delusions that they believe they and NATO could win a war on Russia? Because we all know they cannot.
MSM are war pigs and have been cheering for more war for over 25 years now (if not longer).

Posted by: Kay | May 28 2025 4:43 utc | 154

The thing to note is Ukraine has no aircraft capable of launching Taurus missiles.
Trump’s increasingly absurd comments about Russia is either for local consumption or appeasement of the various factions pulling his string.
As Will Schryver posted on X “Americans will damn well put up with it for the simple reason they can’t do anything about it anyway.”
That sums it up quite nicely.
Karlof1, check out out China’s 3 Satellte Constellation.

Posted by: Suresh | May 28 2025 4:44 utc | 155

Posted by: MiniMO | May 28 2025 3:07 utc | 149
And more:
Putin is an extraordinary leader. I wonder whether you could keep up the workload he clearly is capable of handling. His country has been involved in Ukraine, at the behest of those pro-Russian Ukrainians in Donbas and other pro-Russian regions who’ve been getting targeted by artillery since 2014. He has been active in staving off the impact of thousands of sanctions and tariffs. He is active and a leader in BRICS and the SCO. He has been active in meetings and support for Iran against the Israelis (luckily someone is). He has developed excellent relations with Xi Jinping and China. He has prepared his country to be a well capable and technologically superior military-industrialised power and seen all of this coming since he could not trust anything NATO or Ukraine or the US said. He has been active in solving Russia’s economic threats and finding many new markets for Russian raw material and products. If you think the US would sit by and watch itself be encircled by potentially hostile member states as Russia has been by NATO then think again: all hell would break loose. At his age I think he is a remarkable leader, so are many in his entourage. This is how much this man has had to do, and I see few leaders in this world as capable as he is, or as centred on his country’s survival.
Compare that to the overweight orange man who seems above all to be only good at ad hominem and appearing in front of cameras to spread kudos about how good he is himself yet achieves very little.

Posted by: George | May 28 2025 4:49 utc | 156

European governments big announcements are made for internal consumption. The economic fiasco is so hard that they want to access the savings of their aging population. And it is a way to get a bit of press cover when Trump is occupying the news with one show after another.

Posted by: Tom | May 28 2025 5:00 utc | 157

As AG explains ot also helps keep slme pressure on any form of protest since for the average war talks means more self censorship and accepting any infringement from the power side.
But on top of that EU elites let Trump and his cronies, including the Blackrock heads, make forrunes in the stocks with his own fake announcements.

Posted by: Tom | May 28 2025 5:06 utc | 158

Feb 21 2022, Mr. Pootin (with a link and even the original text in Russian – no cheating!):
“You want decommunization? Well, that suits us just fine. But there is no need, as they say, to stop halfway. We are ready to show you what real decommunization means for Ukraine.”
(“Вы хотите декоммунизацию? Ну что же, нас это вполне устраивает. Но не нужно, что называется, останавливаться на полпути. Мы готовы показать вам, что значит для Украины настоящая декоммунизация”.)
http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67828
May 27, 2025, the same Mr. Pootin:
“It wasn’t us who organized the coup in Ukraine… We were told all the time that we needed elections, democracy. They carried out the coup – and that’s it, as if that’s how it should be. A bloody one at that… They just forced us to do what we are doing now. And they are trying to make us guilty of it.”
(“Не мы же организовали госпереворот на Украине… Нам все время говорили, что нужны выборы, демократия. Госпереворот совершили — и все, как будто так и надо. Кровавый причем… Просто вынудили нас делать то, что мы сейчас делаем. И пытаются сделать нас виноватыми в этом”.)
https://lenta.ru/news/2025/05/27/vynudili-i-pytayutsya-sdelat-vinovatymi-putin-vyskazalsya-o-konflikte-na-ukraine-i-nachale-svo/
So, 3 years and 1 American president later, the rhetoric has changed from “that suits us just fine” to “we were forced”. Why do you think Mr. Poo changed the tune so drastically over the years, fellow loonies? Is this what too much winning looks like?

Posted by: AI_Revenger | May 28 2025 5:24 utc | 159

Posted by: AI_Revenger | May 28 2025 5:24 utc | 159
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What does it matter that Putin’s phrasing changed? Let me introduce you to Donald Trump, who built 20 CIA bases and supplied offensive weapons to be used in the Donbass and now claims that this is NOT HIS WAR. 😂😂😂
What Putin says pales in comparison to what he is doing.
The bottom line: NATO has no answers, Trump cannot get involved, the American military is a paper tiger, and Europe is a zombie. Are you this desperate today because the Russians are relentless in pounding Ukraine, which has never had a means to stop Kinzhal, let alone Oreshnik?

Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 28 2025 5:34 utc | 160

Posted by: AI_Revenger | May 28 2025 5:24 utc | 159
Trying to correlate two completely unrelated pieces of information prove nothing AI troll. Anyone can use an online translator to make themselves look smart. You couldn’t fool an old grandma with dementia. Enjoy your ad hominem and neo-McCarthyism.

Posted by: George | May 28 2025 5:43 utc | 161

NUCLEAR ARMED COWS!!
Lots of unnecessary blather about the nuclear capability of Taurus.
Taurus, Storm Shadow/Scalp were all designed in the 1990’s and although the Cold War had (apparently) ended, and nuke use was on the “back burner” the designers would have been remiss to not make provision of nuclear warheads in any of these cruise missiles.
Circumstances and contingencies change all the time, so provision of compatibility with nuclear warheads seems a “no brainer” IMO.
By the same token, the RF cannot discount the possibility that these missiles could be nuclear armed, and prudent planners in the RF would undoubtedly take this into consideration.
Now I am not suggesting UK, France or Germany actually provide these weapons with installed nuclear warheads, they would have to be fitted after delivery-presumably in Ukraine-. This raises further questions (1) which nation could provide the nukes?, and (2), where would the retrofit work be performed?
I will speculate that Yurezmesh was a good candidate for the conversion work, and would not discount the role of the “small hat” people alluded to by : Hoarsewhisperer | May 27 2025 17:42 utc | 45 as possible provider of the nukes.[But I would discount PRC, North Korea, Parkistan and (probably) India].
Whatever, what really was going on in Yurezmech was significant enough for the RF to eliminate any threat by demonstrating Orishnick and by obliterating the place. Sends a potent message as well.
Just putting these musings out there.

Posted by: Barrel Brown | May 28 2025 5:46 utc | 162

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 28 2025 5:51 utc | 163

The collective West’s pathetic show continues to amuse all observers. I’m sure China, India and other countries are laughing out loud at the Western incompetence on full display in everything.

Posted by: Steve | May 28 2025 7:02 utc | 164

Shades Goebbells’ Total War Speech
https://archive.org/details/TOTALWARSpeechByJosephGoebbels360p

I ask you: Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?

Posted by: Babel-17 | May 28 2025 7:21 utc | 165

The inconsistent thing about Merz is that on the one hand he wants to make Germany the “strongest military power in Europe” with gigantic debt so that it can wage war against Russia “in 5 years” – but at the same time he is doing everything to ensure that the war starts NOW, for which Germany is far too weak, since no debt would be necessary otherwise.

Posted by: xblob | May 28 2025 8:15 utc | 166

Posted by: joe911 | May 28 2025 8:04 utc | 167
Utter gaslighting. That’s not what we see on the ground in the least. We’ve had wonder weapons and threats from NATO for a long time, long range weapons, bla, bla, bla: it has done nothing except lose more Ukrainian military and lose more Ukrainian ground. Lies and delusion do not win wars. You make a lot of claims but supply no evidence, which is a classic fail in trying to prove any argument

Posted by: George | May 28 2025 8:35 utc | 167

It is obvious west want to finish off ukraine and leave behind a rump. Wonder why.

Posted by: Michael J | May 28 2025 8:44 utc | 168

B asks, “Who told them to do so?”
If it was explained who is responsible for the Ukraine Project, and all its pomps and all its works, you would delete my comment.
S//

Posted by: SMB | May 28 2025 8:45 utc | 169

t.me/llordofwar/453674
Why are the Ukrainian Armed Forces abandoning the positions they used to fight for to the end…First, the news from the feed. Today, news came that the enemy has been cleared in the northern part of Volchansk (map 2). Thus, the ruins of the northern part of the city, for which a year ago there were battles for literally every building, which often changed hands many times, somehow ended in a mundane and quiet manner. I also want to remind you how, also somehow without much noise, the enemy actually surrendered to us the western bank of the Oskol River north of Kupyansk, where today, also somehow in a mundane and without much fighting, our units occupied the village of Stroyevka (map 3). It is much easier for us to advance in the Liman direction today. And not only there. Moreover, if you carefully read what Ukrainian near-military bloggers write about this, everything is as if from a carbon copy – the Ukrainian Armed Forces have a catastrophic shortage of personnel in these SECONDARY areas, which leads to a rapid surrender of positions (often literally to a couple of dozen Russian soldiers).
etc etc – all good. However:
t.me/llordofwar/453633
“Heavy positional battles continue in the Chasov Yar direction. There have been no key changes on the front line. The situation remains extremely tense, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are resisting in each of the areas.”
Chasov Yar is the Bakhmut of today – it’s only six miles from there, took two years of fighting, and opens the way to a fairly large area of Donetsk still in Ukrainian hands, inclusding the cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk. When that goes things will really look up for Russia. Has to be said the defence has been quite an epic.

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | May 28 2025 8:47 utc | 170

Joe911 writes the best Comedy. He is the Male Version of Amy schumer.

Posted by: Justpassinby | May 28 2025 8:47 utc | 171

Russia Displays Captured NATO Weapons to China’s Chen Wenqing at Security Forum in Moscow | APT 28 May 5min view
§…Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu and Chen Wenqing, a senior member of the Communist Party of China’s Politburo, visited a Moscow exhibition showcasing Western weapons captured during the Ukraine conflict. The display featured front-line ammunition and multimedia stands with archival footage, hosted at the ‘Russia’ National Centre as part of the 13th International Meeting of High Representatives for Security Issues.
Shoigu remarked that 53 countries are supplying arms to Ukraine and noted that this is only a fraction of what has been captured on the battlefield.
He added that the full collection of seized foreign weaponry would be presented at the upcoming Army-2025 forum in August.
The annual international security conference in Moscow brings together representatives from over 150 nations, including members of BRICS, the SCO, CIS, CSTO, and other global alliances, to discuss shared security challenges and cooperation frameworks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM5c5CFpdIA
Worth it to watch the Chinese react to the Odessa Trade Hall massacre display.

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 28 2025 8:58 utc | 172

joe911 | May 28 2025 8:04 utc | 167
It’s obvious that the “Putin weak/Putin traitor” meme is the one decided on by western propagandists, following Saul Alinsky:
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals
I’d hesitate to call anyone weak who battled Russia’s oligarchs (many of whose enemies met nasty ends) in the post-Yeltsin chaos of Russia and emerged on top, but what do I know?

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | May 28 2025 8:58 utc | 173

I am not one to advise VVP on what to do or not to do, but it would be excellent if Russia could announce a counter-“Golden Dome” deterrent hypersonic missile system called the “Golden Shower”.

Posted by: BillB | May 28 2025 9:09 utc | 174

……the enemy actually surrendered to us the western bank of the Oskol River north of Kupyansk, where today, also somehow in a mundane and without much fighting, our units occupied the village of Stroyevka (map 3)
Justin watched a yt of the Russians finding a large weapons cache in Kupyansk. Surrender might be a result…. No ammo, no troops,
No link as it’s not showing in my history and I didn’t think it was worth posting here when I first viewed it.
Basically…. Russia found a large cache of western weapons when they took part of Kupyansk….
Given Ukrainian supply lines are under pressure.. losing this large stockpile of mostly new weapons is a set back.
Once again the attrition factor favours Russia.
Ukraine now has to beg for more weapons, and then get them from the EUUS then across the country.
Berletic explained the stress and strain on western/Ukrainian supply lines waaaaay back in early 2022.

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 28 2025 9:10 utc | 175

In terms of insightful geopolitical matters, Gen Kellogg drives from the Ladies tee on the golf course, metaphorically speaking naturally.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 27 2025 20:16 utc | 77
LOLOL you are on your game today.
Posted by: Nooneuknow | May 27 2025 22:52 utc | 116
*************
Credible ‘internal’ reports suggest Kellogg prefers playing the back 9…

Posted by: General Factotum | May 28 2025 9:12 utc | 176

https://www.flightradar24.com/3a884eda
CL60 Bombardier Challenger 650 Artemis on the Kaliningrad run, from here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0iauliai_Air_Base
“Šiauliai Air Base is a major military facility of the Lithuanian Air Force and one of the air bases of the NATO Baltic Air Policing mission.”
https://www.flightradar24.com/3a88f24c
Anonymous Boeing 767-375ER(BDSF) cargo plane on the ground, presumably an arms delivery to Rzsezow.
https://www.flightradar24.com/PLF110/3a88d0f2
Polish Government flight from Warsaw just landed at Rzsezow. Boeing 737-86X, registration 0110.
And the SAS Air Ambulance is also there! Has something big landed on foreign troops? Last time it arrived was to get wounded French instructors about ten days ago.
https://www.flightradar24.com/SAS7182/3a88f70d

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | May 28 2025 9:22 utc | 177

Also reg ES-NSN, Saab 340A owned by NyxAir of Estonia. Something seems to have happened to bring so many planes at once.

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | May 28 2025 9:28 utc | 178

The SAS Air Ambulance currently loading in Rzsezow is scheduled to land at Amsterdam and Cologne before returning to base in Oslo.

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | May 28 2025 9:45 utc | 179

I remember, I remember with great love and heavy heart my beloved Amiga !

Posted by: Sarlat La Canède | May 28 2025 9:52 utc | 180

Thierry Meyssans says something worth mentioning about Putin
“..Vladimir Putin has already anticipated our reversal. According to him, the European Union’s unilateral coercive measures will not last. We will eventually return to our former loves, when we celebrated Franco-Russian friendship. This is why he is holding back his army, whose military superiority would have allowed him to capture Odessa long ago and thus complete the reconstruction of the old Russia.
This is what’s at stake now. Territorial boundaries matter little compared to relationships between people.”
How Donald Trump Discovers the Art of Political Negotiation
by Thierry Meyssan
https://www.voltairenet.org/article222331.html
”

Posted by: petergrfstrm | May 28 2025 9:59 utc | 181

RE: weak German Military ?
Germany has a 1,000,000 strong military (ready reserve plus active duty)

Posted by: exile | May 28 2025 10:01 utc | 182

“Merz was clearly surprised that his mentioning of the release of restrictions, which had happened months ago, was suddenly presented as a new development or policy change. Today the chancellor was pushed to clarify it: …”
Years ago, when Angela Merkel was still chancellor, someone (I think it was Ray McGovern of VIPS) warned her in an open letter of the forces that were driving the world towards another large war – and that Germany would be cast as culprit once more. I don’t know what she made of that warning. But it is obvious that Friedrich Merz did not get the warning – or that he did, but didn’t understand it.
When Merz left politics to work for BlackRock, many people opined that Merkel had gotten rid of yet another rival. Looking at recent developments, maybe she just realized how dangerous Merz is for Germany. She just failed to neutralize this threat for good.

Posted by: Martina | May 28 2025 10:01 utc | 183

Germany has a 1,000,000 strong military (ready reserve plus active duty) (184)

Germany’s military has 203,000 posts, but only around 182,000 are currently filled.
The ammunition in stock is supposed to last for 20 days, but the stock is more likely to be enough for two days.
As far as I know, none of the navy ships are fully ammunitioned, although German ships are normally only planned with just enough VLS cells.
Germany has virtually no reserve as the necessary bookkeeping / bureaucracy has been abolished since 2010.
If you can speak German, I recommend the website Augen Geradeaus

Posted by: HEL | May 28 2025 10:18 utc | 184

https://www.flightradar24.com/PLF110/3a890412
Curiouser and curiouser – the Polish Government plane at Rzsezow took off, did half a dozen loops round the airfield and has landed again.

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | May 28 2025 10:19 utc | 185

How can Putin trust Trump and be so enthusiastic about teh negotiations when all serious annalists like Dima or Brien Berletic see that the US wants war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLGcNBBr25I

Posted by: vargas | May 28 2025 10:33 utc | 186

The Ukrainian delegation was given a cold reception at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Deputy Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliamentary Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence Yehor Chernev said.
Ambiguous feelings from the NATO PA session in Dayton, USA, where our delegation is finishing its work. This is the first time I have encountered this in the last three years … they tried to shift the focus of this session from the current problems of the ongoing war in the center of Europe to the historical events of 30 years ago … Plus, our delegation had a meeting with the American delegation, which was not as warm as usual,” Chernev said on social media on Tuesday.
The New York Times reported on Monday, citing European officials and diplomats, that NATO’s June summit in The Hague may not feature a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council, interrupting its two-year run in favor of allied unity. It reportedly remains unclear whether Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will be invited to the main opening dinner, although he may attend a parallel NATO defense industry forum.
sputnik

Posted by: Jo | May 28 2025 10:47 utc | 187

Germany has a 1,000,000 strong military (ready reserve plus active duty)
Posted by: exile | May 28 2025 10:01 utc | 184
Since I’m a reservist myself…
Of the 100,000 reservists mentioned, approximately 65 to 75% are well over 50, and of those, at least 20% aren’t even fit for duty, AND ALL of them are long out of date with technology.
And when I see the “active” soldiers streaming out of the barracks EVERY Friday from 3 p.m., well, I can’t imagine ANY of them surviving in the mud at around zero degrees, without any cover from drones, without two hot meals and at least three warm showers a week.
Incidentally, ALL former NVA members of the former GDR army NEVER became reservists.
And during my basic military service, the first leave (there were never three more days) was after 16 weeks in the barracks.
During the maneuvers in Hungary, the first shower after about four weeks, the first hot meal that could be described as such after about seven weeks in a permanent tent camp.
We spent the night in October-November, lasting a total of four weeks, sleeping in the forest with the famous one-line-no-line tarpaulin that everyone had to carry…and if you were caught unshaven…no matter what you shaved with, the beard had to be cut off.
That’s just a reference to Bundeswehr reservists in contrast to NVA training according to Russian standards.
Conclusion
Nothing compares to Russian training…in terms of basic training and, importantly, their patriotism, which has been successfully removed from the Germans.
In every country in the world, being a patriot or being called one is an honor.
Calling yourself a patriot in Germany immediately means…the public brands you a Nazi…find the flaw in the Germans’ supposed willingness to fight…that was once upon a time.
.
I’ll never understand why politicians like Merz can believe that young Germans will die against Russia with applause for THEM.
In what parallel world do they live?

Posted by: Leipziger | May 28 2025 10:55 utc | 188

Germany’s Russia-obsessed remilitarization strategy has hit a snag after the Bundeswehr realized that the government no longer knows where NEARLY A MILLION potential reservists are.Reservist Association chairman Patrick Sensburg says when Germany suspended conscription in 2011, it also stopped keeping tabs on ex-conscripts.
German Armed Forces chief Carsten Breuer says the Bundeswehr needs about 260,000 reservists to call on for homeland defense or ‘backup elsewhere when frontline troops are killed or wounded’. That’s well over 400% more than the 60,000 available today.
sputnik

Posted by: Jo | May 28 2025 10:57 utc | 189

@Leipziger | May 28 2025 10:55 utc | 189
Thanks for your posting.
I recently read an article in which it was mentioned that if the Bundeswehr doesn‘t get enough voluntary recruits they might re-start with conscriptions (2026 onwards). If I remember correctly, it came from the warmonger Pistorius.
How do you see the chances of that becoming the new reality in Germany?

Posted by: NoName | May 28 2025 11:13 utc | 190

Posted by: vargas | May 28 2025 10:33 utc | 187
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The answer is very straightforward: VVP DOES NOT trust DJT.

Posted by: scc | May 28 2025 11:16 utc | 191

B: The journalists writing those headlines, and the bloggers repeating them, seem eager to push for it.
Who told them to do so?
Answer: Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street

Posted by: Aarsupilani | May 28 2025 11:21 utc | 192

Parmi tous les sujets “critiques” qui passent ou trépassent.. Veuillez noter le surgissement du concept du “TYCHOS SPACE”, The TYCHOS ; topos du séisme anthropologique en cours qui affecte notre représentation du système stellaire dans lequel nous évoluons.. Assez mal ! Il est temps de s’en emparer et simultanément de mettre en défaut les simagrées scientistes pliés aux désidérata du faux temple monnaie-théiste. Pour vous servir utilement maintenant et à jamais. – Fichiers de sa traduction en français à federlangue3@yahoo.fr – @Kristian

Posted by: Kristian | May 28 2025 11:28 utc | 193

Almost every day now there are videos with man-catchers in various Ukr cities. It probably makes sense, they (Kiev Junta) really want to get rid of any people that are even remotely sympathetic to Russia or won’t cause any problems in the future.
To be honest, that’s the biggest mystery of this war. Cities with had or still have Ru speaking population don’t fight back almost at all. So they are fine with getting slowly but surely meat grinder-ed.
Maybe indeed there is a significant part of RU speaking people that are mentally deficient and perhaps not worth saving after all. You can also see the large number of so-called “scams” that trick “gullible” Russians inside Russia to commit various random terrorist attacks. RU TG is full of these.

Posted by: JamesBond | May 28 2025 11:47 utc | 194

Kellogg didn’t mention […] that while Russia doesn’t like the plan the US wholeheartedly loves every single one of the 22 points since they wrote them for their own benefit 😛
Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | May 27 2025 20:21 utc | 78

“Catch 22” will have a new meaning from now on

Posted by: Avtonom | May 28 2025 11:50 utc | 195

Polish Government plane still looping round Rzezsow, about to be joined by an anonymous Gulfstream G280 from Dubai.
Maybe the Polish plane has (or had) an issue which they’re checking on. It’s now back on the tarmac not too far from the G280.
https://www.flightradar24.com/3a888640

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | May 28 2025 11:55 utc | 196

Anyone got any ideas what would bring both a Polish Government plane and the Air Ambulance (in reality a flying hospital) to Rzsezow this morning?

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | May 28 2025 11:57 utc | 197

Pirates’ll always be pirates.
Pretending otherwise is cosplay or imposture.

Posted by: Greg Galloway | May 28 2025 11:57 utc | 198

Ukraine is now paying the price for Zelensky’s ill-advised Kursk adventure, which ended in total failure.
According to Dima, the 12th Azov brigade and many other units had to be hastily redeployed to the Pokrovsk front to plug huge gaps from a collapse.
Now the Sumy and Kharkhiv directions are no longer covered as the units that were there are no longer able to defend.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | May 28 2025 11:58 utc | 199

Trump threatening Putin and Russia on his Truth Social account :
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114580564427808609

Posted by: bored | May 28 2025 12:04 utc | 200

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