That is old. Later the actor said he’s going to be in Turkey waiting for Putin
Posted by: rk | May 11 2025 17:55 utc | 99
You are absolutely correct, and that’s further confirmation that Z is terrified.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | May 11 2025 18:00 utc | 104

Actually, he said that he expects a complete ceasefire starting tomorrow AND that he’ll be waiting for Putin in Turkey. So he might not be in Turkey if the other does not happen.
RIA asked Turkey and they don’t know anything about these new plans.

Posted by: rk | May 11 2025 18:01 utc | 106

Posted by: bored | May 11 2025 17:58 utc | 101
Only in your dreams, yankee troll!
Trump is fucked, his approval rate is falling everywhere. Ceasefire will not happen. At least not before denazification and demilitarisation of Ukraine.

Posted by: Naive | May 11 2025 18:05 utc | 108

I mentioned China has agreed to a trade agreement with the US and now Putin seems willing to grovel to Trump for a ceasefire deal.
Posted by: bored | May 11 2025 17:58 utc | 101
then why they have not made public the details of this “deal”?
Let’s see what the deal is about first. I suspect Camacho will censor most information to simulate victory but in reality he’ll cancel most of his own tariffs or compensate them by other means. The real Art of the Deal is to make local idiots buy your memecoins like religious fanatics, pump and dump

Posted by: rk | May 11 2025 18:12 utc | 110

I see the fleas have arrived, while others go off topic.
Again, no Western “leader” has told Zelensky publicly he must rescind his no negotiations edict. Some have said if Zelensky does that he’s a dead man. But the act would be done, and no president will be there to repeat the edict. And if Zelensky’s killed because of that, I’d expect the Nazis to fully takeover and the conflict to continue since they will not negotiate as they exist to kill Russians.

Posted by: karlof1 | May 11 2025 18:16 utc | 112

Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 11 2025 18:05 utc
The SMO will go on. Even after an unconditional surrender there is the task of denazification, and the terrorism linked to it.
As the seasons change, there will be no more skiing accidents, but climbing accidents…
As the Russian MoD announces the liberation of towns and villages in Sumy/Kharkov, I’m looking forward for votes in liberated oblasts to join Russia.

Posted by: MorePain4Cakes | May 11 2025 18:19 utc | 114

@Ghost of Zanon | May 11 2025 18:20 utc | 115
Well true, Trump speaks a lot. But it’s also on the White House website:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/05/u-s-announces-china-trade-deal-in-geneva/

Posted by: NoName | May 11 2025 18:22 utc | 116

Posted by: karlof1 | May 11 2025 18:16 utc | 112
###########
Friend, nothing has changed. This will have to be won on the battlefield.
The entire West remains “agreement incapable”.
All of these Western announcements, like the announcement of an American trade deal with China, are just noise for media consumption.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 11 2025 18:35 utc | 118

Looks like China has crushed the US….I mentioned US has agreed to a trade agreement with China and now Trump seems willing to grovel to Putin for a ceasefire deal.
Posted by: bored | May 11 2025 17:58 utc | 101
The correct perspective.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | May 11 2025 18:39 utc | 120

I think Putin should just talk to the guys and continue hammering Ukraine.
If he falls for their trickery, he only has himself to blame.
Fool me once, fool me twice.

Posted by: g wiltek | May 11 2025 18:48 utc | 122

https://www.turkiyetoday.com/world/russia-alleges-macron-merz-and-starmer-had-cocaine-party-in-kyiv-in-a-veiled-statemen-3201276
Did Zacharova refer to this cocaine story ????? If so, wow.

Posted by: Eighthman | May 11 2025 18:54 utc | 124

Putin’s “call out” backfired.
What a waste of time.
Putin’s “negotiations” with Zelensky are as bad as Nuttyahoo’s and Hamas, a go nowhere optics game.
All it does is confuse military on the ground.
Should we fire? Should we advance? Will there be new orders today?
Let alone the Russian people.
Think all in all, Russian people will get sick of the floundering as the whole rest of the world already is.

Posted by: Trubind1 | May 11 2025 19:00 utc | 126

Ukraine I know it like the back of my hand playing back in the USSR backwards to expose the beatles as communinst. The people that wrote the tax men song where socialists. If you contrast them with the Rolling Stones they are. No beatles album tops Exile on Main Street recorded in France due to taxes.
So dont Nixon me with a puppy.

Posted by: steve | May 11 2025 19:12 utc | 128

Does PM Goldman Sachs Know Anything About The Iraq War?
https://x.com/dimitrilascaris/status/1921500199618228440
“Only a fool would think that ‘coalition of the willing’ – a term coined by George Bush for the armies that waged a criminal war of aggression on Iraq – is a clever way to describe the pro-Ukraine coalition…”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 11 2025 19:16 utc | 130

’Zelensky Challenges Putin for Direct Talks’
Dutch National Media already put a spin on the developments of this weekend …
WARNING DISINFO or just PLAIN LIES by NATO ALLIES
Zelensky challenges Putin and wants to meet him in Istanbul | NOS – 1 hr ago |
Losing the plot once again …
Ludicrous and so damn stupid folks.

Posted by: Oui | May 11 2025 19:20 utc | 132

Do you have any idea how trivial it is to post something on a website?
The White House website has published thousands of lies. It’s not an “authority”. As soon as the administration changes, hundreds of webpages get deleted.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 11 2025 18:37 utc | 119
I see a difference between “Trump says something” and an official website (which isn’t run by Trump himself).
If it was just Trump who said “there is a deal” I would have taken that message with a huge grain of salt. But when it is on the White house website I take it a little bit more seriously. That’s all.

Posted by: NoName | May 11 2025 19:24 utc | 134

– Russia has crossed the Dnipre river near Burgunka (near Kherson) in the very south of the Ukraine (????????)
Source: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZyXkNFhVHS4 (length: 53 seconds) Is this a credible source ?
Daniel Davis (Daniel’s Deep Dive) also mentioned that “Russia has crossed the Dnipre river” in thhis video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e-AljL-AZM (length: 6 minutes)
Mrs. Von der Leyen certainly looks worried/tired at the start of the video. Is she aware of the REAL situation in the Ukraine and is not willing to tell us ? Is the news that bad for the EU ?)
Daniel Davis notes that the Ukraine has spread its forces thin and in some places there are hardly any ukrainian troops. The Ukraine has no troops in a number of places on the frontline. I assume that Russia is very well aware where those “weak spots” with no or hardly any ukrainian troops. When in some places russian troops have a break through the last defensive lines then the Ukraine has no defensive lines any more.
When I combine this with the fact that Russia has established a “Northefn Command” (NC) then I think that that NC will / could make a push towards the city of Kiev (this is why there is a separate “Northern Command” to execute independently military operations in the north (towards Kiev ???) Also from Belarus ?????
These (upcoming (????)) russian offensives could be the reason why that one russian source (https://eng.mil.ru/en/special_operation.htm ) has disappeared from the internet. I assume that Russia wanted/wants to provide as little information as possible to the enemy. Was this an independent source or was it always controlled by Russia ? The disappearance of this website seems to suggest that Russia took it down.
(as always LOTS OF questions / speculations and very few good answers)
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Quote from another thread / topic here on this blog (in bold talics):
Does anyone else have problems reaching https://eng.mil.ru/en/special_operation.htm?
I can’t get eng.mil.ru or even mil.ru even though I tried through a bunch of international proxies. Anyone else has the problem or solved it?
Posted by: b | May 8 2025 13:33 utc | 1

Posted by: WMG | May 11 2025 19:29 utc | 136

Putin Proposes Unconditional Peace Talks With Ukraine
https://www.rt.com/russia/617381-putin-ukraine-peace-talks/
“Full speech.”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 11 2025 19:52 utc | 138

Posted by: rk | May 11 2025 18:12 utc | 110
For once we’re in complete agreement!
Hit the mute button on the “Great Prevaricator” and your life will improve.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | May 11 2025 20:04 utc | 140

zelenskiyjji says he is going to face putin directly in turkey if a ceasefire comes first.
way to chicken out. petty and pathetic.

Posted by: Justpassinby | May 11 2025 20:13 utc | 142

The west has just won.

Posted by: vsrgas | May 11 2025 20:16 utc | 144

Looking for confirmation but that’s what being reported now
Posted by: Night Tripper | May 11 2025 20:14 utc | 143

you may be right, at least thats how yermak is now putting it?

🇺🇦 Ukrainian Channel RezidentUA writes:
According to a source within the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak has devised a new diplomatic maneuver aimed at regaining control over the stalled negotiation process.
Zelensky is expected to travel to Turkey this Thursday, regardless of whether Moscow agrees to the proposed ceasefire on May 12. The strategy appears to be more about optics than substance: Zelensky will reportedly refuse to engage in direct talks with the Russian delegation unless Vladimir Putin himself attends the discussions in Istanbul.

Posted by: Justpassinby | May 11 2025 20:17 utc | 146

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/11/bessent-productive-talks-china-00340872
There is no agreement – just “agreement to have a platform for further talks.”
MORE TRUMP BS! LYING IS HIS M.O.

Posted by: ChrisFromGA | May 11 2025 20:25 utc | 148

Macron and Merz are only acting diligently, snorting a good line from Comedy Hitler’s personal stash. It is after all very important to find out what this man is thinking, no?
For the sake of truth, I’m sure most here would do the same without much hesitation.
Btw I saw the news while on a train, and immediately got out my bag of A to very publicly snort up all the rest, but no one got the joke.

Posted by: persiflo | May 11 2025 20:47 utc | 150

RE: “Unless the AFU is seriously depleted/collapsing in Ukraine I doubt they will show up. The act of negotiating with the Russians will set off an internal shit storm in Ukraine.”
Posted by: silverfoxes | May 11 2025 20:16 utc | 145
This might help everyone determine whether they are depleted or not:
https://www.rt.com/news/617382-weapon-decoy-ukraine-times/
11 May, 2025 15:34
HomeWorld News
UK sending ‘Ikea-style’ weapon decoys to Ukraine – Times
“London wants to make Russia believe it has supplied Kiev with more weapons than it has in reality, a report says”
“The British military is supplying Ukraine with flat-pack decoys designed to mimic real military hardware, The Times reported on Saturday, citing sources. The effort is aimed at deceiving Russian forces and exaggerating the amount of modern equipment on the front line.”
“At the heart of the effort are so-called “Ikea-style” kits resembling British-supplied tanks, artillery, and air defense systems that are designed to stretch Russia’s surveillance and strike capacity. “We haven’t gifted a huge amount of these, so anything we can do to make the quantities look greater on the front line is advantageous to us,” RAF Squadron Leader Lowri Simner told the paper.”
“Complete de-militarization” is a stone throw away, yet Putin f**ks around and gets in the way of his military finishing the goal. So, maybe it is he that doesn’t want it to end, the “West” I mean.

Posted by: Trubind1 | May 11 2025 21:08 utc | 152

“The British military is supplying Ukraine with flat-pack decoys designed to mimic real military hardware, The Times reported on Saturday, citing sources. The effort is aimed at deceiving Russian forces and exaggerating the amount of modern equipment on the front line.”
“At the heart of the effort are so-called “Ikea-style” kits resembling British-supplied tanks, artillery, and air defense systems that are designed to stretch Russia’s surveillance and strike capacity. “We haven’t gifted a huge amount of these, so anything we can do to make the quantities look greater on the front line is advantageous to us,” RAF Squadron Leader Lowri Simner told the paper.”
“Complete de-militarization” is a stone throw away, yet Putin f**ks around and gets in the way of his military finishing the goal. So, maybe it is he that doesn’t want it to end, the “West” I mean.
Posted by: Trubind1 | May 11 2025 21:08 utc | 152
——————————————————–
The Brits for some strange reason believe in decoys. The relied on them in WWII and well before that AFAIK.
Imaginary stuff, it is still with them, just listen to their ‘leaders’.

Posted by: Acco Hengst | May 11 2025 21:46 utc | 154

How NATO politicians and their media lap dogs take defeat is hilarious. First they denounced the Ukraine minerals deal but when forced to sign it they hail it as a good deal (without giving reasons). Until now they advocated war, war and more war for Ukraine. After it was clear their comedian in Kiev is losing even more they now sing peace. How sad!

Posted by: Jason | May 11 2025 22:04 utc | 156

The real problem with this war: Ukraine is a ruthless dictatorship, while Russia, unfortunately, is a liberal democracy.
Ukraine forcibly drafts men off the streets; Russia offers money to volunteers. Zelensky bans Russian culture and language; Putin promotes minority cultures. Ukraine kills Russian generals through terrorist attacks, and the FSB is forbidden from responding.
If the roles were reversed, this war would’ve ended 11 years ago.

Posted by: RWA | May 11 2025 22:08 utc | 158

Putins Humanitarianism for Ukraine is paid for by the blood of Russian Servicemen. You can still have Russian Civilians Live Normal Lives while actually taking the war seriously like fully knocking out energy/heating, telecoms, water, and actually killing AFU Generals

Posted by: Wandering Russki | May 11 2025 22:10 utc | 160

100% agreed. Putin’s consistent show of softness towards Ukraine, while Russian soldiers are being butchered on a daily basis, makes me sick to my stomach. Showing empathy to your enemy only means showing lack of empathy for your own people.

Posted by: Uke Meat Mincer | May 11 2025 22:17 utc | 162

The high-class debauchery is on full display. Anyone who has dealt w/ addicts knows that addiction respects no socio-economic parameters.
Addiction *is* addiction *is* addiction.
One can wear a $20,000 suit & douse oneself in Sauvage and still be an addict. The behavior and mind=set are not different.
It is not a stretch, therefore, to predict the outcome of Project Ukraine. Those who are addicts will lose to those who are not.
Was Merz an addict *before* he boarded the Cocaine Train to Kiev-? Perhaps so. Maybe that is how he was fit to be elected-?
I mean, we are seeing an “Eyes Wide Shut,” if you’re familiar w/ the Kubrick film, dimension of Project Ukraine–the drug use, the sexual anomalies, the compulsions.
The U.S. cotillion, as fronted by DJT’s team has not had the chance to *catch up* on the debauchery, however, so it seems like the U.S. side is not governed by the same weaknesses (read: addictions) as the Euro-side—but it is not *beneath* the U.S. side to ally, of course, with the frailties of their Euro-partners. Neocons in Congress demand as much.
Remember: for DJT, as for other U.S. presidents, The Directive is to curb-stomp Russia, to regime-change Russia and to dismember Russia. Addictions or not, nothing has changed in this objective.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 11 2025 22:25 utc | 164

“Control is melting before our eyes”: Ukrainian resources confirm the advance of Russian troops in Bogatyr in the former Kurakhovsky direction
Ukrainian units are losing control over the village of Bogatyr, Russian troops are breaking through the defense of the most powerful fortified area created by the enemy in this settlement. Ukrainian resources admit this.
Ukrainian experts are ringing the alarm bells, Russian attack aircraft are driving the Ukrainian Armed Forces out of Bogatyr in the former Kurakhovsky direction, which the Ukrainian Armed Forces have turned into a powerful fortified area. According to available information, not only the southern outskirts of the village, but also the center have come under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. However, Ukrainian sources claim that half of the village is in the “gray zone”, which means that our forces already control this territory.
According to our resources, the stormtroopers of the Vostok group are trying to encircle the Ukrainian garrison, attacking from the western direction and cutting off the Ukrainian troops from the highway to Komar. The Ukrainian Armed Forces control only the northwestern part of the village, as stated by the Ukrainian military themselves. As one of the Ukrainian experts stated, the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are “melting before our eyes.”
In case of loss of Bogatyr, pressure on Otradnoye will be increased and movement to the west will be resumed, above the lower reaches of the Volchya River towards the villages of Yalta and Zaporozhye. The task is to cover the southern flank for convenient movement towards the Dnepropetrovsk region, said a media militant with the call sign “Flour”, who is fighting in this direction.
The loss of Bogatyr opens the way for Russian troops to enter the Dnipropetrovsk region, which Kyiv is trying to prevent. According to Ukrainian sources, Zelensky ordered Syrsky to prevent Russian troops from breaking through to another region.
Our news channels

Posted by: HERMIUS | May 11 2025 23:00 utc | 166

HERMIUS | May 11 2025 23:00 utc | 166
…Zelensky ordered Syrsky to prevent Russian troops from breaking through to another region.
Syrsky: Sure, BigZ, Steiner’s on it, no worries.

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 11 2025 23:13 utc | 168

I suggest all the pukes dissing Putin work on their Russian, move there and run for President in 2030, or Duma elections before then, and see just how far you get with your own singular brand of Russophobia. Yes, I know most are fleas, but there are a few here who think they know better than the Russian government and its General Staff.

Posted by: karlof1 | May 11 2025 23:23 utc | 170

Something he has begged for for 3 years..
Posted by: Trubind1 | May 11 2025 19:35 utc | 137
Putin’s never “begged” for anything, and you’re repeating such nonsense will never make it so.
The only begging that’s been going on continues in the West… Z begging everyone for money, arms, sanctions, ceasefire, etc. The EU begging Trump to stay in the game. Trump begging Putin to stop winning.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | May 11 2025 23:43 utc | 172

Oh, no-!
Witkoff plans a 5th trip to Moscow-?
In which Witkoff will present to VVP Gen Kellogg’s 22-point armistice plan-?
“See, President Putin, look: your troops move back 15 kilometers and then the Ukrainian troops will move back 15 kilometers. Do you see the demilitarized zone-? Can you live with that, President Putin-?”
Have we had enough of Witkoff-?
Have we not had it *up to here* w/ Witkoff-?
A Witkoff dressed up as Gen Kellogg is not a useful Witkoff.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 11 2025 23:50 utc | 174

Putin:
There is a war going on now, and we are proposing negotiations, what’s wrong with that?
I leave you with God, goodbye

Posted by: Suresh | May 11 2025 23:59 utc | 176

Putin has presumably known that USA has been at war with Russia for at least a decade. His goal has to be the utter defeat of the empire. It can’t merely be to drive the empire out of Ukraine. I think, if he is who I want him to be, he has to want to topple the US government. Nothing less should be his goal. It’s what happened to the losers in both world wars.
I wonder what Russia will do once the enemy is gone from Ukraine. I don’t think his stated goals for the SMO are the same as his goals within the larger context of the WW3 going on.

Posted by: HB Brian | May 12 2025 0:05 utc | 178

@ steel_porcupine | May 11 2025 23:50 utc | 174 spaming the bar about a potential Witkoff trip to Moscow presenting the Kellog plan
I usually skim by your screeds but went to check your claim and the only posting I found said the meeting you posit will happen hasn’t been scheduled…..sounds like worthless propaganda to me
Thanks for keeping the noise to signal level of the bar high…/s

Posted by: psychohistorian | May 12 2025 0:19 utc | 180

RE: Posted by: TJandTheBear | May 11 2025 23:43 utc | 172
I was referring to Zelensky. Not Putin.
Zelensky wants headlines, photos of him face-to-face with Putin.
It will all never happen. Putin simply wasted his and his staffs time even bringing it up.
A simple “No” to the ceasefire, hard and fast would have done the trick, but no, he had to run amuck cuz if “optics” and think he outplayed Zelensky.
You can never “outplay” folks that hate you to the core and want to destroy you.
You simply have to destroy them or be destroyed by them . That’s Russia’s choice.
There is no other. And all the “optic” and 3D horse shit won’t change that equation.

Posted by: Trubind1 | May 12 2025 0:26 utc | 182

Russia is baking the cake, it has all the ingredients, baking skills, the oven, and the recipe in place to continue doing it in the same manner it has always done since the beginning. It will also make the icing and do the decoration of the cake in the end. It’s been baking the same cake since day one. It knows it cannot rely on the US or Ukraine or NATO to help or even do the washing up after the cake is made.
Trump, Zelensky, and NATO continue to pretend they are cake decorators, they couldn’t even imagine how to bake a cake.

Posted by: George | May 12 2025 0:32 utc | 184

#179, Trubind1 “No matter what Putin does, says, the West has no intention of doing anything but war…ever.”
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sure, this is ongoing since around 1998, and the patriotic core often nicknamed siviloki, ie. the ones in charge with Putin as front figure,and a newer generation of the same in the queue, know more than very well about it. The weakness of NATO is that we are not in 1914 or 1940: huge armies can’t be send to fight. In 1853-56 France and UK sent big armies to Crimea. This is not possible nowadays. Ukraine has been providing cannon fodder and it is not working. At some point there will be full exhaustion.
Putin will not show in Stambul, for sure, but there could be a Russian team, like in April 2022. USA ie. the puppet master will of course not agree to Russian proposals.
Trump people and generally Americans are idiots. They are so much used by natural education and environment to confidence tricks that they believe blindly in their capacity to lure anyone. Quite amazing, because on the Russian side this doesn’t work since 1998, or even since 1242.
USA tries without success to buy time in order to regroup, but as this is not working, they will send in more ballistic firepower from the remaining NATO stock in Europe. Which will in turn increase the destruction of Ukraine.

Posted by: Timur | May 12 2025 0:35 utc | 186

Something he has begged for for 3 years..
Posted by: Trubind1 | May 11 2025 19:35 utc | 137

Ah hah. A propagandist or just a liar? Putin has done no such thing.
It’s clear someone has spit out his dummy. Do you need your diaper changed, trubind? Poor baby.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | May 12 2025 0:41 utc | 188

Wow trubind, tell us more of your startgic genius. The binary of Russia or Ukraine getting destroyed, those are the ONLY OPTIONS. Totally not the false choice presented to them by the imbeciles who think they’re ‘masters of the universe’. I can’t tell if you’re actually this stupid or just pretending.
Just kidding. I can tell.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | May 12 2025 0:45 utc | 190

RE: Posted by: Doctor Eleven | May 12 2025 0:45 utc | 190
Fine Doc, you want to go for the personal insults, fine.
You neither have to be an imbecile or a “Master of the Universe” to see the writing on this wall for the last 30 years.
But sure, make like there are other choices if it makes you “smart”. They’ll be no NATO threatening Russia.

Posted by: Trubind1 | May 12 2025 0:58 utc | 192

@ bored | May 11 2025 17:58 utc | 101
You’re consistently wrong about, well, everything, and your doomer shtik is getting old. I guess that’s why “guest from franconia” and even “vsrgas” have suddenly reappeared?

Posted by: malenkov | May 12 2025 1:24 utc | 194

RE: “ Russia’s taking on the bullies of the collective west in such a way to gain the respect and admiration of the rest of the world. Contrast that to say Israel’s behavior…”
Posted by: TJandTheBear | May 12 2025 1:14 utc | 193
I suppose even I was impressed for years by the “civil” Putin vs the “bombastic bully West”…(including Nuttyahoo).
But this latest “civility” of “going along” with Trumps delusions of being a “mediator” between the Russian and Ukraine “hatred”, and Putin suddenly deciding the “collective West” was only the EU, not the U.S. anymore, was a “civility bridge” too far. This isn’t 3D chess, it’s blatant dishonesty. To everyone.
And in the global respect and admiration scale, certainly relegated Putin down the scale a few notches. He’s beginning to resemble a wind chime.

Posted by: Trubind1 | May 12 2025 2:04 utc | 196

Posted by: Trubind1 | May 12 2025 0:43 utc | 189
Well, obviously something is going to get destroyed.
Russia has a choice, them or Ukraine. That’s the only choice there ever was.
Yeah, but I note that his Z’nes has challenged VVP to meet him ( and capitulate??) in Istanbul on Thursday.
As Karlof 1 pointed out this must mean that Z has rescinded his own holy vow to never negotiate with the despicable Vlad, although I cannot recall any public announcement o this effect.
Clearly in the light of western inspired arrest warrants on Vlad it would be stupid for Putin to attend these talks in person. However, the despicable Vlad could delegate a high level team to stand in for him, and I suggest Lavrov and M. Zakharova should be chosen, with Maria taking the lead in the dealings. Z man could have Yermac as second.
I suggest to b that the full proceedings be available to MoA patrons through the big screen TV on the bar, and that sufficient popcorn and grog be available for the duration of this event.
After Maria has publicly flogged Z man, the idiot will wish he was back in the White house being told a few uncomfortable home-truths by DJT and JD Vance who are far less savage.
I can dream of this spectacle, but it would be classic for the historical record.

Posted by: Barrel Brown | May 12 2025 2:30 utc | 198

You can never “outplay” folks that hate you to the core and want to destroy you.
You simply have to destroy them or be destroyed by them . That’s Russia’s choice.
There is no other. And all the “optic” and 3D horse shit won’t change that equation.
Posted by: Trubind1 | May 12 2025 0:26 utc | 182
You are right and it is happening in the currency field. That is the real war which will decide the fate of nations and alliances.These are little battles. Exile gives excellent updates of that war and expected timelines.

Posted by: Michael J | May 12 2025 2:58 utc | 200