Good points re the “goslow’” , but Russia may not have neutralised assets or key people ,as we would expect in this war scenario, because they were simply not allowed to ; either by China and/or Russo/Ukro oligarchs. Yes, China does still own a lot of infrastructure in the Ukraine , including I believe railways. Putin may be unwilling to destroy them because he is honestly being timid , or he is playing the long game. I still don’t know myself and likely never will.
Posted by: Mustee | Jun 9 2025 10:58 utc | 198
To the contrary, that is very much part of Putin. Russia ran an operation to save the former Ukraine president at the time of the US/UK coup and similar with Assad. Russia has not tried to use either as a ‘Government in exile’.
In the past, he has spoken about the killing of Tsar Nicholas and family and how he feels about that. Something along the lines of statesman or lawyer type mindset diplomatic courtesy. Something to do with the way Putin looks at things that I do not have a term for.
There is also another aspect. Putin has said that with the Americans, when they see a problem, they completely eliminate that problem but in doing so, many other problems arise. Putin believes in taking a problem down to the point it is manageable but not take it down to a point where other problems will arise.
Russia has prepared for the worst but at the same time tried for something better. Leaving the Ukraine leadership intact gave a chance of a negotiated ending to the conflict which would save the lives of many Ukrainians sent to the frontline, not to mention the Russian troop casualties.
Though a countering thought to that in my mind is that overall, Russia early on decided to turn the Ukraine bear trap into a Nato trap which would destroy Nato. This line of thought is due the Russia’s warning of use of Military technical means of securing its own security if US/Nato would not negotiate new mutual security agreements after having pulled out of all or most late cold war era mutual security agreements.
Casualty ratios are now off the charts as far as this type of conflict goes with Ukraine cannon fodder simply lambs for the slaughter.
The Ukraine telegram channels are now reporting a dire shortage of FPV drones on the frontlines. I had thought this may have been due to the US sanctioning itself out of Chinese drone parts, but it seems more likely that the Brits has diverted all western drone expenditure to the larger more expensive drones used for the recent large scale attacks into Russia.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jun 9 2025 12:01 utc | 203

205
You: get bent. The U$$A is and has been an abomination, which is why its ‘unchallenged worldwide empire’ will be in the dustbin of history, if the abomination don’t blow up the world rather than surrender.
I ignore anyone associated with U$$A in any capacity because of its stated goal to impose its idiotic ideology of serfdom on the rest of the world, at the point of risking blowing it all up.

Posted by: paddy | Jun 9 2025 12:24 utc | 205

@ Peter AU1
Would be interested in your comment if article is worthwhile.
Сценарии противостояния США и КНР: последствия для России
Also published on TACC … a Russian MoD briefing?

Posted by: Oui | Jun 9 2025 12:52 utc | 207

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. So in these Ukranian enclaves where theoretically the average person is more invested in the conflict and therefore might come closer to various truths are they still stupid as fuck ? I would imagine that a good proportion of people in Ukraine now absolutely despise the government, surely that would translate a bit to the expat community.

Posted by: natrat | Jun 9 2025 13:03 utc | 209

I’m with steel_porcupine on the whole assassinate-the-green-gimp thing. Zelenskiiyy is America’s problem, and as far as Russia is concerned the problem of Zelenskiiyy will solve itself as the conflict follows its natural course. The analysis by steel_porcupine of why the US cannot act on Zelenskiyiy is convincing, largely because with Trump at the helm (disconnected, like the steering wheel on a baby’s pram) a unified narrative from the Mockingbird mass media covering for the US is unlikely. Anyway, the gang that would be doing the assassinating are the CIA. They’re still rogue and enjoy nothing more than spiting Trump, even if it costs the Empire. The US taking out Zelenskyiyi before the next pres election is nil.
Now the Nazis, on the other hand… If the Ukraine continues wearing the big “L” like they are then the Nazis will do the deed themselves. And let’s face it, there is no conceivable way for the Ukraine to pull out of their 737MAX power dive into terrain.
I still maintain that the little green knob goblin’s best chance for a long life would be in the hands of the Russians. Even if he escapes to Miami or Tel Aviv before Kiev is liberated, he will only last until he falls out of the news cycle for a few months, maybe a year.

Posted by: William Gruff | Jun 9 2025 13:09 utc | 211

Brutal take down of incompetent DEI-hire lady leading the charade called EU foreign policy:
https://asiatimes.com/2025/06/the-rise-of-antidiplomacy-in-a-powerless-europe/

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Jun 9 2025 13:19 utc | 213

pasta @217: “Can someone explain to me the rationale for america’s unbridled hatred of any other country becoming a significant trader in the world?”
Any piece of the pie that someone else gets is a piece that the US doesn’t get. Zero-sum thinking.

Posted by: William Gruff | Jun 9 2025 13:29 utc | 215

Posted by: natrat | Jun 9 2025 13:03 utc | 212
I think that is the other way around. Ukraine expats are the most rabid warmongers. They really wont to fight to the last Ukrainian (still in Ukraine) while they are comfortably sitting on their asses far away from the frontline and their rotting country.

Posted by: Mario | Jun 9 2025 13:43 utc | 217

Politico: Russia has at least 40,000 more Ukrainian military bodies prepared to “attack the Ukrainian economy”. Just 6,000 Ukrainian soldiers waiting at the border will cost the Ukrainian economy more than $2 billion.
It was obvious that the Kiev regime was hiding its losses by profiting from the dead.

western values.

Posted by: Justpassinby | Jun 9 2025 13:53 utc | 219

*** Can someone explain to me the rationale for america’s unbridled hatred of any other country becoming a significant trader in the world? ***
Posted by: pasta | Jun 9 2025 13:19 utc | 217
First, I’m not posting to claim the ground of someone who knows anything. I’m just a other Bozo on the bus.
I dont think news and media can be used to accurately attribute conscious motive to any unitary entity. It just doesn’t work that way. Rather, the incentives in place cause a series of unknowing individuals to act in their own self interest. When they do, it may look like hatred when none of them individually hate.
The forces with the highest stakes are able to express themselves at the level of government policy and in these strange days through media. An effective narrative, for example one that increases engagement by stoking “hate”, can be used to further an undisclosed interest to “get the deal done.” The general public never really knows what just happened. They are important because their reaction to a certain stimulus (narrative) is predictable.
So are the riots in LA because those poor Mexicans there don’t want their family members to be deported? I don’t thinks so – this is another form of color revolution. Nobody has no idea who is really trying to accomplish what – it is big maybe something like military spending. The only thing that can be guaratneed is incentives are changing and as unintended consequences present there will be new opportunities for profit.
This is just how I see it. I could be wrong.

Posted by: frithguild | Jun 9 2025 13:57 utc | 221

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Jun 9 2025 7:51 utc | 165
RE: widely dispersed but shallow propaganda hand-delivered by the Ukrainian diaspora
<< Good points. Obviously a deeply ingrained Russophobia in the U.S. has turbo-charged the Russia-jettisoning diaspora which arrived from Ukraine. This phenomenon was mild, but present, *before* 2014, but got amplified once the SMO commenced. Greater Chicago received a major influx of new Ukrainian migrants, fleeing the war, as did Brooklyn, though both places already had a Ukrainian presence. A Ukrainian population inhabits the area of northern Virginia south of D.C., too, famously represented in Congress by Ret Col Vindman's twin brother. Community sympathy is strong for Ukrainians on account of "Russia's full-scale unprovoked brutal war of aggression"(TM), so there is especially a tendency to identify publicly which restaurants are Ukrainian-owned & operated: the Ukrainian cake shop; the Ukrainian street food truck, etc. It's interesting to note how the Ukrainian flag gets used on these businesses, as well as a blue-and-yellow color scheme. In 2018, when I returned from my first trip to Crimea, people who knew I'd been traveling quite a bit to Russia asked me what I thought. I spoke about the civil war which began on the heels of Euromaidan and mentioned that Russian is both a *language* of Ukrainian citizens and an *ethnicity*---and that my friends on the peninsula, former Ukrainian citizens who were now citizens of the Russian Federation as a result of the 2014 referendum had *returned* themselves to the Motherland in order to flee the violence & chaos of the government in Kiev. And the person to whom I said this told me, "That's not what Ukrainians in our town say." To which I responded, "Well, of course not. Ukraine is experiencing a civil war. But it's not as if Russian ethnics, caught up in the war, have no stance." I'll say, the person's perspective took me aback. This was 2018. A narrative had taken hold.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Jun 9 2025 14:01 utc | 223

Posted by: FrankDrakman | Jun 9 2025 12:01 utc | 205
You blame the Soviets for too much. So you think those long lines to buy nothing at the shops was solely due to the traits of Communism? You don’t blame the US-controlled and allied West for not trading with Russia via embargoes and other restrictions. You think China would have risen to its premier position without the US trading with them?
You didn’t notice the similar American-protected totalitarian govs and systems in Africa, Latin America or Asia during this time? What about Saudi Arabia even until now?You didn’t worry about those people there ?
In any case, I give you full credit for changing your mind. Too many people stubbornly stick to their opinions in the face of new and/or overwhelming evidence. Bravo.

Posted by: Mustee | Jun 9 2025 14:15 utc | 225

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Jun 9 2025 13:29 utc | 219
RE: he took the wrong turn in Albuquerque
<< there's a killer on the road his brain is twitching like a toad take a long holiday let your children play if you give this man a ride sweet family will die killer on the road

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Jun 9 2025 14:19 utc | 227

“The U$$A is and has been an abomination, which is why its ‘unchallenged worldwide empire’ will be in the dustbin of history, if the abomination don’t blow up the world rather than surrender. ”
US/western fascism (or whatever you want to call it, labels don’t matter in the end, especially when it comes to those of such evil, which changes it on purpose now and then*) will end the same way as all evil empires – rotting away destroyed by its own hubris and corruption, born from greed that eats up all sane thoughts, until it shatters against reality. Sadly this shattering happens rarely without many other victims.
That’s exactly what is already happening.
*reminds me of a song of a german musician, who also created musical stories for children, one with a child dragon on his adventure, discovering the world from that point of a child, for example to understand what “Love” is. The little dragon meets all kind of of beings, robots without motions, a lady of ice enchanging any visitor with her beauty just to eat up their heat to warm herself a little up, just runing them into ice and even death itself (a merry follow) and so on, but the most captivating part is, when HATE surprised him on his journey, ENVY in the form of a snake around his neck, singing this song “I am hate.”
(translated from german – just one parts):
I rob you of the light
Because I can’t shine on my own
But I’ll give you lies until your imagination shatters
I change my skin every day that’s why I’m so familiar to you”
Especially that last line stayed with me. It just adapts. It changes its skin, its names, the labels. That’s happening all the time.
When you look at human history, the evil, the hate, it did not change. Just the methods, the labels – the skin.
The short speech of the snake envy was also quite well done, really a good story for children with a lot to learn from:
‘I rarely come alone, very often in pairs. My friend [I bring along] is vanity.
I usually show a smiling face – never my real self.
I spur you on to great deeds and wait for you to fail
I… am envy.’ ending with “But what would I be without my master: hate.”
It’s just for children, but it hits quite deep and hard.
Sadly today we more throw superficial “power of friendship” nonsense and alike at our children (often used by pretty psychopathic protagonists) instead of lections of real moral. Gone the times, where even something like ‘He Man'(!) actually delivered a lesson with every episode.

Posted by: Beatrice | Jun 9 2025 14:35 utc | 229

Welcome back Cotter. I mean Peter AU1. If that’s really you.
The Sweat hogs have missed you.
Carrying on with my nature theme I give you the following:
A riff on a BBC Nature doc. Featuring Sir David Attenborough and a bear. (Don’t go all rule 34 on this.)
Scene: As usual, the bear is sitting in the shade of a tall tree. He has the beehive in his lap and is gorging on the sweet honey, bees, wax and all.
Sir David Attenborough: “Oh dear Mr bear! I’m afraid you’ve eaten some British, Canadian and Swedish bees! That won’t do at all!”
Bear: Looks at Sir David for half a second, then goes back to licking honey, bees and wax from his six inch claws.
In that half second the bear had a thought. That thought went something like this:
“I wonder what you’d look like without any skin?”
Apologies for my poor bear translation. Ursines are difficult and clever.

Posted by: Inevitabllity | Jun 9 2025 14:44 utc | 231

Inevitabllity | Jun 9 2025 14:44 utc | 234
Although not same, that made me think of the Russian childrens cartoon, Masha and the bear. Anther is Escobar’s “Mama bear and her baby bears” when it came to Russia and the donbass republics.
Closest though is what Putin said one or two months into the SMO. “You aint seen nothing yet”.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jun 9 2025 14:51 utc | 233

Posted by: William Gruff | Jun 9 2025 14:53 utc | 237
The stage of the game re. Ukraine is that the loss is inevitable (it’s just a matter of how long the western MSM and Ukro propaganda can keep up a smokescreen of not admitting it, tbh, they might not ever admit it). For Zelensky and gang, the main objective is to leach as much money as possible.
If 6000 dead Ukrainians require $1.8 billion in reparations for relatives and families, that’s directly out of Zelensky’s cash flow machine.
What do you think, would he give his money to some degenerate Ukrainians when the moment is now critical as money flow may go out at any moment, and he could use the money to buy more shares in Northam Platinum or some more villas in Italy or UAE?

Posted by: unimperator | Jun 9 2025 14:58 utc | 235

Mustee | Jun 9 2025 14:42 utc | 233
Russia in general has shown a very good understanding of western culture and mindset, but as Lavrov and I think Putin said, the level of insanity in the west surprised them, especially the EU willingness to destroy itself, destroy their own economies in the Attempt to take down Russia. Plus the long hidden very overt racism and Russophobia that suddenly surfaced across the board in the west.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jun 9 2025 15:00 utc | 237

William Gruff | Jun 9 2025 14:53 utc | 237
The 6000. Are they officers or a mix of ordinary soldiers and officers. One report, Russia used the word officers so I initially took it they were all officers. Ukraine/Nato lost 60 to 70,000 uniforms in Kursk. Generally the Ukraine dead are buried by Russia in mass graves on the battle fields.
If I work on one officer to every ten enlisted men, then 6000 is a pretty close figure for the number of dead officers. It made me think perhaps Russia had put the bodies of officers into cold storage for return to Ukraine while the ordinary soldiers mercs ect were buried on the battlefield.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jun 9 2025 15:08 utc | 239

Leaving the Ukraine leadership intact gave a chance of a negotiated ending to the conflict which would save the lives of many Ukrainians sent to the frontline, not to mention the Russian troop casualties.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jun 9 2025 12:01 utc | 206
At the beginning maybe, but since they cry every day that the leadership is not legitimate it means there must be other reasons, like Bubu-reasons, who has even sent more Patriots these days. I doubt the strategy of the smo has saved Russian troop casualties. If you send 5 to fight 5-10x more and when they die you send another 5, that isn’t high iq, it’s a very good plan to kill your own or suffer Kursk invasions. They’re so dumb they couldn’t give Kirillov an armored car and protection, the guy in charge of the only thing that matters, and that isn’t artillery duels on empty fields.
Mixed with the very slow speed which enables Nato to build new factories and send weapons by horse and still arrive in time.
The “retaliation” for airfield and bridges attacks has not happened yet, it’s the usual piss of a few drones and missiles for the internal public to remain quiet. They will be attacked again long before the committee decides what to do with the last attack.
“The Ukraine telegram channels are now reporting a dire shortage of FPV drones on the frontlines. “
You consider facts what Ukr TG channels write? They always say there is shortage of everything, what else can they say?

Posted by: rk | Jun 9 2025 15:09 utc | 241

oh wow…PBS America…documentary in two parts…A nation denied…Ukraine’s Battle for History history -1000 years of history starting from the vikings
anyoneto fact check the sources they used, date of prog…..
also been broadcasting re 1932-32 …

Posted by: Jp | Jun 9 2025 15:24 utc | 243

The 6000. Are they officers or a mix of ordinary soldiers and officers. One report, Russia used the word officers so I initially took it they were all officers. Ukraine/Nato lost 60 to 70,000 uniforms in Kursk. Generally the Ukraine dead are buried by Russia in mass graves on the battle fields.
If I work on one officer to every ten enlisted men, then 6000 is a pretty close figure for the number of dead officers. It made me think perhaps Russia had put the bodies of officers into cold storage for return to Ukraine while the ordinary soldiers mercs ect were buried on the battlefield.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jun 9 2025 15:08 utc | 242
Typically, officers die 1.6(6) times as often as non-officers, Typically, officers represent 3-5% of total.
So expected KIA officers should be in the 5-8% range (in the mediazona nominally id’ed RF losses it’s 4.6%)
If 70.000 was KIA (not total casualties), 6.000 would be just slightly above the upper range (8.5%)
But not typical operation, and I remember reading “mostly from kursk” so maybe a dash of belgorod saboteurs?
But that would mean that even advancing or holding, AFU left behind all corpses (or numbers much higher than 70k)
my 2 cents

Posted by: Newbie | Jun 9 2025 15:29 utc | 245

*** As has oft been said, all wars are bankers’ wars; ***
Posted by: markw | Jun 9 2025 15:01 utc | 241
Bankers adjust their ledgers. They are mechanics only.

Posted by: frithguild | Jun 9 2025 15:31 utc | 247

Posted by: Newbie | Jun 9 2025 0:09 utc | 104
Indeed perhaps Serge is hinting that just as he argues that slow mobilization lost Germany the war on the USSR, so slow mobilization crippled Russia against UA. Russia waited too long to begin serious mobilization, and so UA was able to outnumber the small Russian invasion force and recapture large regions. If Russia had begun serious mobilization immediately as the invasion began, that setback may have never occurred, and Ukraine would have been denied major morale victories. Russia’s relative size should have enabled massive mobilization and recruitment that would have overblown Ukraine’s own if only it had been taken more seriously early on.
I am curious if Serge is still a believer (if he ever was) in the “attrition strategy” against UA. He wrote an article a while ago about how Germany’s WW1 “meatgrinder” strategy to win the war failed. To me (with only the same “osint” crap information as the rest of the general public) it still doesn’t appear that UA has been meaningfully attrited. I would not expect a weak and weakening force to be able and willing to maintain exposed toehold salients for months or years, as UA is still doing in Toresk and Bilorovka.
Various sources, Pro-RU and Pro-UA, have announced that the “Russian Summer Offensive” started a few days ago, though so far nobody can agree on *where* it has started, and there have not been any notable territorial shifts on the big map.

Posted by: Catdog | Jun 9 2025 15:34 utc | 249

Posted by: Newbie | Jun 9 2025 0:09 utc | 104
Indeed perhaps Serge is hinting that just as he argues that slow mobilization lost Germany the war on the USSR, so slow mobilization crippled Russia against UA. Russia waited too long to begin serious mobilization, and so UA was able to outnumber the small Russian invasion force and recapture large regions. If Russia had begun serious mobilization immediately as the invasion began, that setback may have never occurred, and Ukraine would have been denied major morale victories. Russia’s relative size should have enabled massive mobilization and recruitment that would have overblown Ukraine’s own if only it had been taken more seriously early on.
I am curious if Serge is still a believer (if he ever was) in the “attrition strategy” against UA. He wrote an article a while ago about how Germany’s WW1 “meatgrinder” strategy to win the war failed. To me (with only the same “osint” crap information as the rest of the general public) it still doesn’t appear that UA has been meaningfully attrited. I would not expect a weak and weakening force to be able and willing to maintain exposed toehold salients for months or years, as UA is still doing in Toresk and Bilorovka.
Various sources, Pro-RU and Pro-UA, have announced that the “Russian Summer Offensive” started a few days ago, though so far nobody can agree on *where* it has started, and there have not been any notable territorial shifts on the big map.
Posted by: Catdog | Jun 9 2025 15:34 utc | 251
on the contrary, I’d say that the way RF is about to (by years end) double total, and increase 10X free, bayonets (in spite of losses), and the massive increase of military production just short of crippling society and economy is a contrast to nato’s inability to muster enough forces to stop RF.
The “summer” movement already started, very significant (still difficult) areas were won, and a wall is currently being built for 37E (+ sumy straightening buffer). Clearly the attrition is not a problem because there are no critical resources in ukraine, RF does not have a tight timetable for taking any particular target.
For the choices taken I’ll quote Dmitry Medvedev
“I don’t want to live in a militarised country behind an iron curtain.
It’s boring. Been there and seen the movie. I’ve done that. ”

Posted by: Newbie | Jun 9 2025 16:03 utc | 251

I wonder how long the Russian population will stay quiet. Putin is clearly failing to keep Russia safe, while telling the world there are no red lines when it comes to attacks on Russia proper.

Posted by: 8166 | Jun 9 2025 16:21 utc | 253

… certainly longer than the Ukrainian population.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 9 2025 16:32 utc | 255

“Posted by: William Gruff | Jun 9 2025 16:00 utc | 253”
I agree that the West’s small industrial capacity means Ukraine can’t win. And there is no way for the West to correct that deficiency, even if they had the will. However, the west still has ways to make Russia lose, which don’t rely on large-scale military production. The years-long attrition quagmire itself, the terrorist and drone attacks which can be maintained even after the war ends and blamed on Ukrainian nationalists, and the color revolution machine. The worst possible outcome would be a color revolution that has Belarus realign to the West.
“The “summer” movement already started, very significant (still difficult) areas were won,
Posted by: Newbie | Jun 9 2025 16:03 utc | 254″
Where? I have seen hardly any movement on the map except a bit north of Sumy and in the southern Donbass.

Posted by: Catdog | Jun 9 2025 16:44 utc | 257

OT: I find myself often looking at narratives and see significance in the time and place of their publication – with respect to Ukraine i find this an especially interesting excercise. Stylman resonates with me:

The most sophisticated manipulation doesn’t give you false information. It gives you real information filtered through a lens that makes you feel smart for seeing what others miss. It makes you feel special, part of the small group that truly understands. Your timeline feels true because it was designed to feel true to someone exactly like you.
We’re not living in an information war. We’re living in a perception war. And the battlefield is your mind.
The question isn’t which perspective is correct. The question is: who benefits from keeping us sorted into these predictable camps, arguing with each other instead of looking up at who’s pulling the strings?
You think you see the manipulation. But what if the manipulation is making you think you see the manipulation? What if your sophisticated analysis of the system is just another room in the maze?
Welcome to the hall of mirrors. The exit is marked “certainty.”
That’s how you know it’s a trap.
https://open.substack.com/pub/stylman/p/fractured-realities?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2zfp1k

Posted by: frithguild | Jun 9 2025 17:10 utc | 259

https://t.me/adinadesouzy/8947
We love the world.
We love peace.
And thus all anti-russian trolls are fucked. Especially sob and his followers.

Posted by: Naive | Jun 9 2025 17:46 utc | 261

Posted by: Catdog | Jun 9 2025 15:34 utc | 252
Fuck off anti-russian troll and liar.

Posted by: Naive | Jun 9 2025 17:54 utc | 263

Israeli Ambassador Admits Israel Sent Patriot Systems To Bolster Ukrainian Air Defences (& vid)
https://RT_com/status/1932089031594004661
“Israeli Ambassador to Kiev Michael Brodsky ADMITS that Israel sent Patriot systems to bolster Ukrainian air defenses. ‘When they say Israel did not help militarily, that’s not true.’ For years, the Israeli government insisted they only sent ‘humanitarian aid’ to Ukraine.”
‘Mossad Knew About Ukraine’s Assassination Attempt on Putin’ (& vid)
https://x.com/GUnderground_TV/status/1932032191132848499
“Mossad is everywhere today. Mossad is all over Ukraine, and Ukraine, for that matter, is in Syria with Mossad connivance…” Col Lawrence Wilkerson (ret), former Chief of Staff, US State Dept.

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jun 9 2025 20:03 utc | 265

Try this instead..’Israel sent Patriot Systems to Ukraine’ – Amb
https://x.com/RT_com/status/1932089031594004661

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jun 9 2025 20:14 utc | 267

JohnGilberts | Jun 9 2025 20:14 utc | 269
*** ‘Israel sent Patriot Systems to Ukraine’ ***
Khazars trying to recapture Khazaria.

Posted by: Cynic | Jun 9 2025 22:10 utc | 269

William Gruff 253 – the UK industrial capacity has by design nearly disappeared.
UK only has one active steel plant (owned by the Chinese and recently assumed by the government), one more in mothballs, and no coke plants, no active coal mines in Wales (several in mothballs), and are completely dependent on green energy and a the huge extension cord from France, all its coal and oil fired power stations have been shuttered. The Harland and Wolff shipyards are mothballed.
The UK uniparty long ago threw heavy industrial production overboard overboard, they have really no capacity to ramp up defense production……….

Posted by: tobias cole | Jun 10 2025 1:09 utc | 271

WATCH…
https://x.com/RickSanchezTV/status/1932162457172156750
“In an exclusive interview with Rick Sanchez, Russia’s top negotiator Vladimir Medinsky says his Ukrainian counterparts, whom he likes, are too afraid to cut a deal for fear of being killed…”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jun 10 2025 5:42 utc | 273

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Jun 10 2025 9:41 utc | 277
RE: White Russians/Red Russians as an analogy
<< White Russians who fled the country in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution experienced tension & conflict within expat communities that included Red Russians, whether in Paris or NYC. I'm surmising that Russian-ethnic/Russian-leaning Ukrainians who live in Brooklyn, Chicago and northern Virginia are going to clash massively with the predominantly Ukrainian-ethnic/EU-leaning Ukrainians there. They'll probably keep a low profile. Obviously it's tough to imagine *truths* emerging in a restrictive environment like that.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Jun 10 2025 9:48 utc | 275

Peeks 196 – If the UAF is knocking down 10% of drones and cruise missiles they are doing very well considering the depleted state of the AAD missile inventory, and the fact that RF is targeting Patriot missile batteries.
At this point RF has free rein over targets everywhere in Ukronaziland.
The huge uptick in RF air strikes is an indicator that the Big Arrow offensive, at some undisclosed part of the front, is about to begin……get your popcorn and legal beverages from the bar….the big show is about to start……

Posted by: tobias cole | Jun 10 2025 12:32 utc | 277

George 195 – Yes, the POW camps from the US Civil War exhibited concentration camp like conditions.
Andersonville (Confederate) POW Camp in Georgia is often cited by the Unionist propaganda sources, but Elmira, better known as Hellmira (Union) in Upstate New York, south of Rochester, and Fort Douglas (Union) near Chicago were just as awful.

Posted by: tobias cole | Jun 10 2025 12:53 utc | 279

Public figures have belittled the connection between Palestine today and Ireland in the 17th and 18th centuries. ******************************************************************************************************”Having once entered Connaught, the Catholics were penned there like sheep; they were forbidden under pain of death to pass the borders.” “In his travels in Ireland in the 1770s, the English agricultural expert Arthur Young found that Protestants exercised at will the right to knock down, cane, or horsewhip any Catholic whose conduct appeared to them disrespectful.” [G.de B. (1839)] “Three million human beings were reported at this time to be subject periodically to “absolute destitution”. “The period from 1815 to 1826 was one of extreme agrarian distress in Ireland, actual famine –as distinct from chronic semistarvation– appearing in 1815.” [A Hist of Mod. Ire.]

Posted by: Ben Trovata | Jun 10 2025 15:21 utc | 281

Ukraine and Russia are going to go through the shit even after the war, imagine all the PTSD on both sides and all the pardoned criminals on the loose in Russia.
Fucked. Fucked I say.

Posted by: Zonesy | Jun 10 2025 19:52 utc | 283

One of the key reasons why 90s are remembered as worst time in Russian history. Army men returned from Afghanistan and Chechnya, low employability, huge emotional luggage, but with guns and experience, some turned to work for the government, many turned to organized crime.
These pro-Russian western bloggers can’t even comprehend how fucked it will be after the war ends. Even if it magically get rid of autocracy, the sole post-war economy, demographic crisis consequences and PTSD discharged soldiers… no neo-liberal government can fix it in my lifetime.

Posted by: Comfortable Mud | Jun 11 2025 0:55 utc | 285

It’s Started…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6lM0C8qR5Y
DH:’Putin’s offensive breaks Ukraine’. Scott Ritter, Col Larry Wilkerson & Garland Nixon.

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jun 11 2025 2:33 utc | 287

Serious question about the current meme that the US has seriously depleted their own missile stores by giving them to Ukraine and by bombing the Houthis. Any chance this is misdirection, and US has plenty of missiles tucked away? How could the military let the stockpiles diminish drastically, orders or no orders?

Posted by: freedom fritos | Jun 11 2025 15:14 utc | 289

@ JohnGilberts, §290:
Yes, it´s bizarre how England, France & Germany cling to the straw that the Ukraine might yet win.
The dusting up with Kiev this last week would, I guess, be payback for the two trains the Spiv of Kiev destroyed.
But I agree with Scott Ritter that the attack on the Russian nuclear triad, violating all the nuke treaties, is a different ball-game. And MI6 was confirmed by the Russians as accessories at least.
I would not be surprised if one of those hyper-ballistic missiles hit GCHQ or MI6 – with pin-point accuracy.
That would tell the lunatic English leaders all they´d need to know.

Posted by: John Marks | Jun 11 2025 19:07 utc | 291