Bad news about big serge’s article on ukraine
“It is probably not a good sign when an article has to begin with an editorial note that breaks the fourth wall, but here we are. I have analyses of the frontline in Ukraine and a new entry in our naval history series currently in the works, but I’ve been derailed by a challenge that emerged from Twitter”
But as I start to browse the new post, I can’t help feeling that his discussion o preemptive vs preventive wars, and about terms of exchange and resources… And finally also a major question about reservoirs of manpower and logistical resources and when to use them .
It’s pure gold for reviewing the past and consider the future of current conflicts
https://bigserge.substack.com/p/overthrowing-fate-barbarossa-revisted

Posted by: Newbie | Jun 9 2025 0:09 utc | 104

I hope his girl who almost got him send to the frontlines went herself and got killed.
Justice must be seen.
Posted by: Skiffer | Jun 9 2025 0:31 utc | 104

Posted by: Surferket | Jun 9 2025 0:34 utc | 106

If there was a good time to target central government institutions now is it, if only to positively demonstrate Kievs inability to defend itself. Might provoke a political crisis. It’s not like they have any popularity in ukraine to protect or any hope of avoiding negative reactions in anything they do.

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Jun 9 2025 0:36 utc | 108

@PeterAU1
Fuck off Troll.

Posted by: Don Firineach | Jun 9 2025 0:38 utc | 110

Posted by: Skarnkai | Jun 8 2025 23:30 utc | 94
George Orwell pointed to this in Animal farm with the sheep that bleat “Four legs good two legs bad” then reverse that later when the pigs start walking on two feet themselves and having soirees with farmers in the district in the farmhouse. It’s the same in 1984 where the proletariat class (like the sheep again) are considered no problem to Big Brother since they have alcohol and pornography etc and are incapable of thinking of starting a revolution in the British-based dystopia Oceania. Animal farm was originally about the USSR but 1984 show that he sees this the same in the UK as well. The 2 minutes of hate each day in 1984 is ‘groupthink’ where the proletariat mass are propagandised each day by filling their minds with hate against the newest enemy that Big Brother needs to have.

Posted by: George | Jun 9 2025 0:43 utc | 112

@102 Skiffer I generally agree that the immigrant communities will not be as easily pressganged into fighting a war.
As for Ukrainians they don’t have many options to be fair. Most of those with foresight left the country before the war started, and now the borders are mined and or guarded. At this juncture hunkering down and staying as hidden as possible is probably the best move if you can hold out for up to 2 more years. Best to wait for liberation by the Russian army or the collapse of the Kiev regime.
Most of those striking out are likely in the nothing left to lose category like bereaved family members. Organizing resistance is hard in a near total surveillance state.

Posted by: Skarnkai | Jun 9 2025 0:54 utc | 114

BTW: the NBA is fire tonight. SGA, the MVP, running away w/ it. The *stuff* is tight as they say.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Jun 9 2025 0:56 utc | 116

Why saddle Russia w/ assassinating a head of state-?
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Jun 9 2025 0:55 utc | 114
I guess I wasn’t clear. What I meant was that the US is ready to take out Zelensky, so they will.
I’m guessing that whoever gave Alexander that “information” was setting up the narrative that we will be saturated with- that Putin ordered the hit on Churchill the Second.
Getting Alexander to report it will divide the supporters of Russia, and get us all to arguing about whodunnit.
I don’t actually believe that Putin is asking for permission from anyone, because I don’t believe that lawyer Putin would order a hit.

Posted by: wagelaborer | Jun 9 2025 1:04 utc | 118

Posted by: wagelaborer | Jun 9 2025 1:04 utc | 117
RE: taking out The Terrorist—is this a game of Telephone-?
<< Got it. But examine the earlier post #15 from our colleague @The Busker "A source close to Alexander Mercouris claims that permission may soon be given for Putin to take out top people in Ukraine's administration." Note: "may soon be given for Putin to take out top people..." You heard it *one* way, The Busker heard it *another* way-? It is weird to think that VVP would see some perk or some 'up' side in being granted permission by the U.S. to remove The Terrorist when then the U.S. would turn around and loudly/publicly eviscerate VVP for assassinating a head of state. Besides which, Zelensky seems more of a problem for the U.S. than for Russia. Kiev's curators are problematic for Russua but not to an extent that Russia can't manage by taking care of business on the battlefield. Additionally, the U.S. could have covertly assassinated Zelensky at any time and laid the blame on Russia. Why now-? Moreover, why would Russia quietly permit the blame to be laid on them-? The construct is nonsensical enough that I question Mercouris's *trusted* source.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Jun 9 2025 1:28 utc | 120

And he didn’t actually name Zelensky. He said that they would go after the people responsible for the terrorism being used on Russia.
I assumed Budanov when I was listening.
But then just when someone posted that the US wanted Zelensky gone, I put two and two together. It’s possible I got nine, instead of four.
It’s just that, as an American, I am used to being lied to and manipulated, so I figured they might be setting up the narrative.
Apologies for my flight of fancy.

Posted by: wagelaborer | Jun 9 2025 1:56 utc | 122

…some special committee in the Politburo that was set up just for that purpose.
Posted by: wagelaborer | Jun 9 2025 1:50 utc | 120

Politburo was the organ of the CPSU Central Committee.
Way back when.

Posted by: Rutte | Jun 9 2025 1:59 utc | 124

Russia spends $200M sending missiles into Ukraine and burn a bunch of factories, and in the same period of time Ukraine spends $200k sending a cheap ass drones into Russia and burning the same amount of factories. Idk but it seems like the math just doesnt add up. If Russia was able to figure a way to stop those drones they would have done it by now, its been 3 years. These UA drones are still very rudimentary from a aeronautic standpoint, they haven’t even started to get better, sure their guidance system is second to none cause its made by Nato but still.

Posted by: Clown Fatigue | Jun 9 2025 2:05 utc | 126

Posted by: wagelaborer | Jun 9 2025 1:50 utc | 120
RE: is Mercouris blowing smoke/muddying the waters regarding permission to off The Terrorist
<< The U.S. has proven itself to be pretty solidly a collection of lying, cheating, cynically back-stabbing dogs, often w/ murderous intent. The past couple of months have cemented that pretty dramatically. As helmed by DJT, the U.S. has reached peak untrustworthiness: how could Russia enter into a Pinky Swear sort of fig-leaf arrangement where the U.S. *assassinates* The Terrorist but Russia assumes the *blame*-? It's like something readymade for Reuters. Imagined conversation: "Vladimir, look--we're in a bind. Mi6 is refusing to assassinate The Terrorist and Mossad says they've got too much on their plate right now to do it. Here in the U.S., we can't figure out how to assassinate The Terrorist, because Macron might get angry at us and Lindsey Anne might howl and also a federal court w/ an Obama judge might block us. But if *you* were to do it, that would get us out of this bind. Vlad, can I count on you-?" Listen, I'm not disputing what you heard or your reasons for posting it. My issue is w/ Mercouris's *trusted* source.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Jun 9 2025 2:08 utc | 128

really matters regarding the 21st Century proxy war in Ukraine between the U.S.-led NATO states and Russia.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Jun 9 2025 0:37 utc | 108
The points I mentioned (not only for Ukraine , but also china etc)
The logic of preemptive wars vs preventive wars. Particularly the case for preventive wars and errors in evaluating.
The weight of resources and dependences.
Hindsight 20/20 on cards not played earlier. I often praised Putin for doing the bare minimum summer/autumn 2022, that kept a healthy and wealthy society in RF , what tradeoffs ?
Still didn’t reprise the text so it may get boring in the middle but I thought some sections made us reflect.

Posted by: Newbie | Jun 9 2025 2:15 utc | 130

Posted by: George | Jun 9 2025 2:05 utc | 126
RE: taking The Terrorist alive, instead of assassinating him
<< Kiev's curators are more instrumental to the terrorism enacted against Russia. *Ukraine* is a proxy. Go after the puppetmaster, not the puppet in other words. Which Russia has been doing, especially along the lines of economic attrition, not to mention depleting the stores of Western weaponry right and left. With so much momentum on the LOC right now, and a new offensive phasing up in Zaparhozia, it would be strange for significant braintrust to be devoted to targeted high-level assassinations. Cui bono-? Obviously this is a tactic Israel has employed, but it seems not to fit w/ Russia's way. The West salivates over *decapitation strikes*(TM), almost to a James Bondian degree, so I wonder if the notion of assassinating The Terrorist is a way for the UK media especially to get excited about Project Ukraine again. An uptempo assault on the power grid---more of an Electric War--would be decisive and potentially devastating to Kiev. Relentless ballistic attention to Ukrainian training centers where NATO mercs are congregating in great numbers could also make for useful targets. Both of these actions help alter combat dynamics in Russia's favor. Assassinating The Terrorist or a couple Terrorists seems a low-gain parlor trick.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Jun 9 2025 2:25 utc | 132

Sorry Merv@118, I thought I was using paragraphs and writing concisely to the standard that I’m used to, 300-400 words. As I got responses from the people that I was in conversation with, while you or others were not really intended recipients, your threat of me being ignored over formatting is hollow, but I’ll keep your critique in mind and try my best.
Glad to hear your niece’s date got out in time steel_porcupine@112, but sorry to hear about the baker dad and hope no harm comes to him. Related to what Skarnkai wrote @113, foresight is often treated as a scarce commodity among Russians, going by the countless proverbs decrying its absence, and there may be some truth to it. Decisions made on the hope that things will turn out alright somehow, Русский авось, feel more tragic because of their negative outcomes being completely predictable and avoidable. Even the SMO, although I accept the many valid arguments for why it wasn’t started sooner, carries a hint of a belated recognition of an unavoidable end to a predictable process, at a potentially higher cost than otherwise could have been.
While Putin has mused in public about reacting sooner, Russia at least has options to achieve its objectives and pursues them in a way that at the very minimum maintains space for maneuver, if not expands it. When talking about the Ukrainian state’s options, or the options of Ukrainian civvies, or about European elites, in the context of current avenues for civilian resistance, or of the future potential of press-ganging migrants into armed service, reacting appropriately during the overture while there’s still room to do so, and doing the same once shit has properly hit the fan, are entirely different conversations. Have to admit, I got sucked into that article re-imagining Barbarossa, and that seemed to have been the key take-away of German failure there as well — belated response to unexpected failure. Russians attribute авось to themselves as a national trait, but it probably transcends nationality.

Posted by: Skiffer | Jun 9 2025 2:41 utc | 134

It looks like Putin intends to allow Russia to burn down along with Ukraine.

Posted by: IAIB | Jun 9 2025 2:54 utc | 136

Posted by: IAIB | Jun 9 2025 2:54 utc | 136
How so? You present absolutely no argument or even theory that would support your claim.

Posted by: George | Jun 9 2025 2:57 utc | 138

English Outsider 3
Excellent analysis EO; the Russophobia will be hard to overcome, thanks to the information – or rather disinformation spread in the media, movies, literature. Lots of lies, falsehoods across all of Europe. Which brings me to think about the novel by Umberto Eco – The Cemetery in Prague. It is fascinating to think of that novel as an allegory (or metapher, I am not a scholar of language and semantics so I may be forgiven not to know the difference between allegory and metapher) of current events.
The lies and falsehoods are also subject of Eco’s lecture in his “Auf Schultern von Riesen”. In one of these he also brings up the falsehood of the “Protocols of Zion” – with the picture of one of the editions title page, which is quite interesting. I think that the book with that picture is not available otherwise, because of governments censorship (meaning not available in libraries or in bookstores or on Amazon). (as an aside – was Umberto Eco an ‘anti-semite’?)
But, not all is lost, my Outsider friend! The Berliner Zeitung shows some independence and actually aims at the foolishness of the warmongering in the West, in European capitals, in Brussels. (second and third link below)
I especially like your observation –
“That will be blowback from the information war indeed. Our most effective arm of war – the West is weak militarily and economically but a giant in propaganda – will be the instrument of our own defeat.”
A few years ago I commented about the blow back in the media and the governments which will eventually ‘climb down’ from the lies, from Russophobia – I did not imagine that it will take that long for the process to begin, and that a war may yet be fought over the truth, rather than peaceful ‘climb-down’. It still possible that the media and ruling circles will give up the struggle and simply disappear in thin air, rather than admit their complicity, their ‘agency’ in horrible mistakes which caused so much pain, so much death.
One example of a ‘climb-down’ is the recent interview by Matthew Miller (first link below) – former spokesman for Biden / Blinken, who admitted that he knew he was telling lies, but he had to toe the government line ( someone correctly called it ‘the Nuremberg’ defence).
Thanks to technology the war’s ‘playing field’ is a bit more level – the ‘giant in propaganda’ is not anymore the monopoly of the mass media – the effect of access to information in internet is maybe analogous to the invention of small drones on the battle field.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/matthew-miller-biden-administration-liar/
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/geopolitik/raketen-fuer-den-frieden-wie-firmen-wie-blackrock-und-morgan-stanley-vom-krieg-profitieren-li.2331213
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/geopolitik/bruessel-so-bereitet-die-eu-den-grossen-krieg-vor-ukraine-li.2330084

Posted by: fanto | Jun 9 2025 3:14 utc | 140

At this point this war is boring Putin are only making Russia look weak, allowing Ukraine toy with his country

Posted by: Beta Josh | Jun 9 2025 3:36 utc | 142

Cucktin should be remove

Posted by: Goob | Jun 9 2025 4:10 utc | 144

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Jun 9 2025 3:23 utc | 141
Thanks for the sane and intelligent reply. I had no idea that Zelensky is still so big in the US among the people. In Australia where I live there is certainly anti-Russian sentiment driven by the media and politicians which is absurd given we live so far away from Russia or Ukraine and have a miniscule trade relationship with both. I also see far less signs of yellow and blue ribbons displayed outside people’s homes – there has never been many – and a lot of rethinking going on concerning China in terms of seeing it less as a bogeyman because US foreign policy says it is. There’s also a lot of discussion about blindly following the US due to Trump, but some of the politicians even in the incumbent government are still beholden to the US dictate and military allegiance to the US.

Posted by: George | Jun 9 2025 4:18 utc | 146

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jun 8 2025 20:26 utc | 57
Peter, that sounds very much like you, and I cannot think why anyone else would profit imitating you, but more power to them if it is so. And it is to your credit that we are cautious not wanting to be disappointed by a substitute.
Welcome back. I remember you had an unique regime, could never follow wellmeaning advice here because your constitution would not accept it.
We have missed you.

Posted by: juliania | Jun 9 2025 4:30 utc | 148

Meanwhile 🇺🇦 is taking out 🇷🇺 industrial infrastructure bit by bit….

Posted by: Yalovenko | Jun 9 2025 4:53 utc | 150

Posted by: Yalovenko | Jun 9 2025 4:53 utc | 150
I suggest that you look at Ukraine’s own map to see who is really taking out who’s industrial and other infrastructures. Then ask yourself if 10 is really a smaller number than 1.
https://liveuamap.com

Posted by: George | Jun 9 2025 5:04 utc | 152

Posted by: George | Jun 9 2025 4:18 utc | 146
RE: Ukrainization in the U.S.
<< Interesting to hear of perceptions about Ukraine in Oz. Where the diaspora is large in the U.S., like in greater Chicago or the Brighton Beach area of Brooklyn, Ukrainization has occurred, by which I mean the civic embrace of the history of Ukraine practically devoid of Russian or Soviet influences, except in negative ways. Churches and local celebrations, for instance, commemorate some of the problematic Bandera-era Nazi sympathizers. The ambassador in Ukraine's Chicago embassy tweets support for such events. This follows a pattern seen in universities too, where Russian Studies Programs were swamped with curricula that focused on Ukrainian identity formation apart from anything having to do w/ Russia or the Soviet Union or the Kievan Rus. So a civic embrace of Ukraine entails a revised history of the place. The way colleagues on MoA comprehend Ukraine and Russia's historical relationship w/ the land we call Ukraine is vastly different from what gets communicated via Ukrainization. The way history texts written before 2014 in the U.S. and the UK describe Russia's relationship with Ukraine is vastly different from what's promulgated through the precepts of Ukrainization. To *Stand With Ukraine* means to stand with an artificially-imposed history---not just a revision but a whole-scale recasting. It is passing strange to say the least when a false history is brought by the diaspora to a completely different, but sympathetic, country and the false history gets absorbed without scrutiny or examination.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Jun 9 2025 5:21 utc | 154

75% of the bodies immune system is in the large intestine. Nearly any auto immune disease regardless of othe symptoms will strike the large intestine. The last half of the large intestine mainly re-absorbs digestive electrolytes. If that is not functioning correctly there is a large loss of electrolytes.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jun 8 2025 20:26 utc | 57

Sounds a bit like it could be a food allergy … you can have mild inflammation, especially in the gut, for decades and the symptoms are much like you described … never quite optimal digestion, tiredness, elevated immune response markers, electrolyte imbalance. There’s a cascade of effects … it can build up into a “leaky gut” which in turn triggers more inflammation, sometimes joint pain, similar to arthritis.
Not saying that is the root cause, but at least consider getting some allergy tests done. I agree that doctors are hopeless at tracking this stuff down … problem is that doctors apply a simple mental flowchart to identify all the obvious problems. Fault-finding intermittent or subtle failures in a complex system is hard work, and takes time and a systematic approach.
Doctors don’t remember much from your last visit to your next visit. They don’t read through their own notes because they are always in a rush to turn over the next patient and the next as quick as they can. Seriously, having your own AI agent very soon will be much better than any human doctor. The difficulty is finding someone you can trust to host your sensitive medical data.

Posted by: Tel | Jun 9 2025 6:13 utc | 156

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Jun 9 2025 5:21 utc | 155
I had no idea that it was like that in the US with the level of support for Ukraine. Thanks for taking the time to explain the situation and why it is like that.
Originally there was a lot of sugary neo ‘left’ wing support here, but I think that has now receded. I call it that because it is not original nor historical left. Australia has very few alternative newspapers to the mainstream nightmares. The Guardian as a bigger player always attracted the left side and progressives, but it caved in to projecting anti-Putin anti-Russian pro-British views very quickly when the SMO started, complete propaganda. I’ve had many doubts about that news source since the SMO started, it has become a wolf in sheep’s clothing, even though it likes to pretend it is the more truthful option.

Posted by: George | Jun 9 2025 6:27 utc | 158

@ unimperator | Jun 9 2025 6:27 utc | 160 and 158 with reports about the Russian CTO escalation….thanks.
When does Ukraine unconditional surrender come? I hope soon.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jun 9 2025 6:36 utc | 160

Somebody seems eager to report that what happens to them, can happen to others too, or at least to get people thinking about how these accidents happen:
https://www.rt.com/news/618823-us-base-japan-blast/

Posted by: Rubiconned | Jun 9 2025 7:23 utc | 162

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Jun 9 2025 5:21 utc | 155
It is passing strange to say the least when a false history is brought by the diaspora to a completely different, but sympathetic, country and the false history gets absorbed without scrutiny or examination.

That the false history gets absorbed without scrutiny or examination means that the penetration of this propaganda is very shallow, very superficial, easy to transform into the opposite.
That’s why propaganda is so noisy, repetitive and loud, that’s why all establishment media and figureheads speak exactly the same sentences, word by word, because the impact of propaganda is widespread yet very superficial. Whatever the message is, it is not really integrated into anyone’s solid understanding.

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Jun 9 2025 7:51 utc | 164

5 Kinzhal hypersonic ballistic missiles, 3 Kh-101 cruise missiles and over a dozen Geran-2 drones
Aww. I wanna aweshucks-nic. Gimme aweshucksnics.

Posted by: Mi6 | Jun 9 2025 7:58 utc | 166

Ukraine compensation for military deaths – something doesn’t seem to add up:
I was surprised to learn that Ukraine pays around $0.5M to the families of killed soldiers (in contrast, US pays $100k) and also hundreds of thousands for serious disability. Even if many are just considered missing, there are images of expanding cemeteries that suggest acknowledged causalities in the range of 100k or more. That would add up to more than $50B, but the whole Ukraine budget is in the range of $100B and foreign aid is also in that range. It doesn’t seem likely they would pay more than 10-20% of their budget as compensation, so I am not sure how these numbers make sense.

Posted by: George | Jun 9 2025 8:09 utc | 168

“I was surprised to learn that Ukraine pays around $0.5M to the families of killed soldiers (in contrast, US pays $100k) and also hundreds of thousands for serious disability. Even if many are just considered missing, there are images of expanding cemeteries that suggest acknowledged causalities in the range of 100k or more. That would add up to more than $50B, but the whole Ukraine budget is in the range of $100B and foreign aid is also in that range. It doesn’t seem likely they would pay more than 10-20% of their budget as compensation, so I am not sure how these numbers make sense.”
Quite easy to explain, no? This way they can createa massive bills to explain where all the money went and it likely indeed went to certain families, but guess what: only that fraction the Banderas regime admits to be killed.
They likeyls went through that list of these 6000 soldiers and indeed only a small fraction counts as real, pure blooded Ukrainian.
That’s the thing with fascists and alike since ancient times (fascism is just another of endless many words for the same evil shit):
They even can have something like citizen rights for example. Just a question who you count as as citizen.

Posted by: Beatrice | Jun 9 2025 8:19 utc | 170

Question .
How soon before back from the dead Peter Au and newly arrived Beatrice lock horns?
A complimentary beverage for who wins this sweepstakes.

Posted by: Barsnack | Jun 9 2025 8:37 utc | 172

steel_porcupine | Jun 9 2025 1:28 utc | 120
The two Ukrainian telegram channels have proved to be by far the most accurate source of information in the Ukraine theater. The get information from the ‘presidents office’ and that is virtually always accurate.
UK rather than US CIA have a very extensive intel operation in Russia. Much information is passed on to the presidents office by MI6. Russia appears to have taken out several high level MI6 sources since early 2022 but some information, mostly lower level does still come through.
UK is able to pull of many terrorist and sabotage operations within Russia due to many years (no doubt going back to the early 90’s) of setting up an extensive network of assets within Russia.
It seems the decision to take out the top teir of individuals/officials in Ukraine has been made.
Martyanov believes this will occur some time after the next security council meeting.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jun 9 2025 8:54 utc | 174

@George | Jun 9 2025 6:44 utc | 162

People like Brian Berletic and Scott Ritter have been saying for a long time that the US was running its stocks of Patriots down to dangerously low levels as well. And of course they are not much good with hypersonics. I guess this what the Golden Dome announcement was all about, as well as to dispel fears within the public, but it is just sound bites, not a real system and could take years to design and construct. The $175 billion price tag is very likely to be a deposit as well, not the final cost.

The name “Golden Dome” gives it away. Its only design feature is provide the MIC with a golden dome, i.e. a dome that is showering gold onto them and which is pushed higher as needed by them.

Posted by: Norwegian | Jun 9 2025 9:00 utc | 176

Welcome back Peter. Quite a resurrection. Glad that your health has improved to the extent that you can post here. Your contributions have been sorely missed. There’s something about Australian women, a very special and distinct breed. Cheers

Posted by: ZimZum | Jun 9 2025 9:15 utc | 178

@Apollyon | Jun 9 2025 8:12 utc | 170

Russia’s opponent is not only the Ukraine, but NATO. Russia wants NATO to break apart and the warmonger-parties in the different NATO-member states to lose their power. This takes time. It is achieved by pumping more NATO taxpayer money into the Ukrainian black hole.

Indeed, I agree. This is in my opinion an excellent short summary of the goals of the SMO.

Posted by: Norwegian | Jun 9 2025 9:19 utc | 180

I haven’t read through all the comments but some observations/thoughts on what is occurring now. After the vaunted but failed southern offensive in 2023 when American investors did not get returns on their investment, the majority of the corporate America power structure swung to the nationalists who saw China as the main threat and wanted to concentrate all resources on bring China down.
The British and Europeans with their meetings late 24 and early 25 of Trump proofing the war on China (it was quite once the southern offensive failed that Trump would be installed as the next facade of the American power structure).
In the US though unlike the first Trump admin where the senate and congress worked publicly to hobble the whitehouse, now it is the entrenched globalist bureaucracy or deep state that is working with the Brits and Europeans to hobble the whitehouse, particularly when it comes to the war against Russia.
Gabbard, appointed CIA director is definately in the nationalist camp, yet it seems like that career CIA officials at lower level were involved in the attack on Russian strategic aviation.
Within the US power structure, the globalist are very much the minority, yet within the bureaucracy, entrenched officials will still be in the globalist camp.
Russia was willing to give the US nationalists a change, hence entering into US nationalist pushed peace negotiations. Now it appears the the Europeans working with remaining core group of US globalists have prevailed. I think this is what the Russian leadership is seeing and will now step things up a notch or two.
Ukraine recently put out a promo video of Ukraine ‘domestic’ cruise missile production starring of course the comedian of Kiev. These were a much smaller missile than the taurus and are I believe from the American company Andural. This is a startup company that kicked off in 2017.
They have put out stuff on a modular missile system which they say is specifically designed for what they call hyper production.
Then there is the taurus which is undergoing a paintjob or whatever to make it a ‘Ukrainian”missile. There is some American technology in them so I assume American tech parts are most likely being replaced by Euro/German tech.
Russia is now moving to targets that will do more collateral damage as the Americans term civilian casualties, but even so, civilian casualties are still exceptionally low.
Several of the recent Russian strikes have resulted in huge fireballs as weapons stockpiles go up.
Back perhaps in later 22 or early twenty three, Nato began using human shields to save military targets from attack. Manufacturing, storage ect in civilian areas. With the missile threat and Brit/German escalation Russia is now hitting the military targets that are behind human shields.
On top of that, it now seems likely that at some point after the next security council meeting, Russia will methodically ‘eliminate’ the top teir of Ukraine officials who have been left untouched up until this point.
This, from the Ukraine TG channel ‘Resident’ is a bit long but will quote the machine translation as it is quite relevant. (‘OP’ is the office of the President)

Our source in the OP said that the President’s Office, together with British intelligence, analyzed possible scenarios for the escalation of the war in Ukraine with the active use of German Taurus missiles, which are being adapted for local production.
The analysis looked at a number of factors, including political decisions, the reaction of the parties to the conflict and the international context, as well as the opinion of the Trump Administration. Basic scenario outlines:
* Limited use of missiles against military targets on the territory of Russia and occupied regions of Ukraine, we can use them to attack military targets. This can minimize the risk of a sharp escalation, as Russia may not consider such strikes as crossing the “red line”. However, Moscow is likely to step up retaliatory strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure and logistics.
* Strikes on Russian border regions. If the Ukrainian Armed Forces use missiles to attack warehouses, headquarters, or logistics centers in Russia’s border regions (for example, Belgorod or Kursk), this may provoke a tougher response from Moscow, including targeted strikes on critical infrastructure in Ukraine or the locations of Western weapons. Russia may refrain from escalating to a direct conflict with NATO, but it will step up its counter-measures.
* Escalation with strikes on strategic targets. The use of missiles to attack key targets, such as the Crimean Bridge or infrastructure in the interior of Russia (for example, Tula, Kaluga), can be perceived as a declaration of war by the EU/Germany. This is fraught with direct involvement of Germany in the conflict, since the missiles require the participation of German specialists for operation. Russia can respond with asymmetric measures, including strikes on Western supplies or even cyber attacks.
•Germany may refuse to supply weapons after Moscow’s retaliatory actions. Berlin may transfer a limited amount of weapons for Ukraine to use in the production of its own missiles. This will maintain the current level of tension, and Ukraine will continue to rely on British Storm Shadow and French SCALP missiles, which are already being actively used but are less effective against certain targets.
• A provocative scenario with an escalation to a conflict with NATO
In the event of successful strikes by modified Taurus missiles against strategic targets in Russia, this could lead to retaliatory actions against NATO countries, especially if Moscow perceives this as Germany’s direct involvement in the war. This could result in the activation of NATO’s Article 5 and the escalation of the conflict into a regional or even global conflict. However, analysts in Ukraine consider this scenario unlikely due to deterrent factors such as Russia’s nuclear capabilities. https://t.me/rezident_ua/26328

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jun 9 2025 9:42 utc | 182

Sorry forgot to mention this was a commentary to grunzt | Jun 9 2025 9:23 utc | 182

Posted by: Avtonom | Jun 9 2025 9:47 utc | 184

“but now with germany beeing an occupied country, the mask of the british has slipped, and revealed that they are the true nazis.”
ALL the brutal colonialists of the past centuries were and are – including the USA as an ugly product of this, even though it came a bit too late for the archaic ‘colonialization’ thing, that’s such a thing of the past and just annoying. Today, with the world much smaller by technological progress, you don’t need that, you just visit the countries you want to pillage and pillage them, then go back home and have a joyful evening watching the burned down remains and your victims suffering in these ruins. So the idea…

Posted by: Beatrice | Jun 9 2025 9:55 utc | 186

“The name “Golden Dome” gives it away. Its only design feature is provide the MIC with a golden dome, i.e. a dome that is showering gold onto them and which is pushed higher as needed by them.”
Posted by: Norwegian | Jun 9 2025 9:00 utc | 177
I’d agree with your interpretation as well, and I have said the same thing when he came up with the idea. There’s always more than one reason for anything happening in US administrations and feeding the monster that is the military industrial graft complex is a big part of the deal, as are the hypothetical 6th generation fighter jets as well. Trump likes his sound bytes too so making the people think they are safe under his reign is part of the deal too. Meanwhile Patriots are not going to do the job if they need serious protection if any missiles ever turn up over US skies.

Posted by: George | Jun 9 2025 10:19 utc | 188

Dubno airfield:

⚠️ According to information from loyal sources behind enemy lines, among other things, up to 5 MiG-29 aircraft were destroyed at the Dubno airfield.
Immediately before the attack, there was also 1 F-16 at the airfield, if we were lucky, it also died along with the MiGs.
In addition, a strong fire continues at the airfield, including burning tanks with aviation fuel, local residents hear secondary detonation, which once again confirms our information about the destruction of the warehouse with missiles.
It is equally important that the enemy lost over 60 personnel killed and wounded, including quite valuable personnel from the airfield personnel.

@CyberSpecNews

Posted by: unimperator | Jun 9 2025 10:28 utc | 190

Trump’s Golden Dome Turbo Charges The War Machine – And Carney Wants Us To Pay For It
https://breachmedia.ca/trumps-golden-dome-turbocharges-the-war-machine-and-carney-wants-us-to-pay-for-it/
“Fresh off a federal election that hinged on the Liberals’ promise to put more distance between Canada and the US, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s confirmation that he is considering signing Canada up for the multi-billion dollar missile defence initiative has left many observers dumbfounded.
The Prime Minister’s reversal on a ‘new relationship’ with the United States will take Canada down an expensive, dangerous path…”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jun 9 2025 10:39 utc | 192

“death camps for the inferior and faulty human beings.”
Concentration camps already existed during the second Boer War in the regions where South Africa is now and formerly where Orange Free State and Transvaal where located. Goering pointed this out to the British as if they were hypocrites to call out the Germans. Around 30,000 mostly women and children died there during the Boer Wars, and nobody knows how many indigenous Africans died under similar circumstances. They were simply not even counted they were so ‘untermenschen’. Most of colonialism treated the indigenous peoples in their lands as untermenschen. Colonial peoples were always treated as inferior beings that were ‘barbarian’ savage( as an aberration of the French = sauvage) and pagan i.e. not Christian.
There were some prison camps in the US too during the civil war that could have passed as concentration camps where many captured soldiers died through starvation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War_concentration_camps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War_prison_camps

Posted by: George | Jun 9 2025 10:45 utc | 194

Beatrice…Ukraine pays…..but any proof it actually does IE families get money into bank accounts….or deductions(eg burial/recovery costs, claims on lost or damaged military supplied equipment) made on the way…can any official government dept actually prove the accounts to be and my as we know Ukraine is rather clever with balance sheets.but people actually recieving Dosh, when more likely they owe money for huge costs of living ….

Posted by: Jo | Jun 9 2025 11:02 utc | 196

speaking of civilian deaths, spanish newspaper el-pais:

🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Kiev Regime Converts Civilian Homes into Makeshift Drone Factories
According to El País, Ukraine has begun assembling combat drones inside ordinary residential homes.
One such site, described in detail by the Spanish newspaper, produces around 20 drones per day, with output sometimes reaching up to 100. The house employs a team of about a dozen workers. From the outside, it appears to be just another civilian residence — there’s no visible sign of the military production inside.
El País reports that this so-called “garage military-industrial complex” was officially presented to Zelensky in February, although this particular workshop had already been running since last year.
The process involves importing civilian-grade drones, which are then modified on-site for frontline use — either into FPV kamikaze drones or fitted with drop mechanisms for carrying explosives.

source: el pais behind paywall.

Posted by: Justpassinby | Jun 9 2025 11:05 utc | 198

Oui | Jun 9 2025 11:10 utc | 202
Alex Krainer is a name I have seen a lot of in the last decade since starting to watch geo-politics but haven’t ever watched or read him. I think I did for a short time some years back but I think seemed a bit abstract for me so I lost interest.
Just recently he has been on Dialog works with Nima. He has researched the British national archives and also a site called I think, ‘UK Declassified’ which has a lot of information on declassified British documents.
During WWII, Churchill order the (I think) chiefs of staff to come up with a plan to attack the Soviet Union the moment Germany was defeated. Plan A was ‘Operation Unthinkable’. That involved a combined attack with the US plus reformed German divisions and the Poles.
Plan B according to Krainer is what is occurring now. It was a very long term strategy to create European total war against the Soviets. That is a plan Krainer has read at the British national archives or UK declassified.
Russia, regardless of whether it is Tsarist Russia, part of the Soviet Union or the current Russian federation, is always viewed the same in the eyes of the British elite and so that long term strategy is reaching fruition now.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jun 9 2025 11:31 utc | 200