Attacks On Russia Related Ships Smell Of British / Ukrainian Cooperation
This now seems to happen with some regularity:
An explosion struck the Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker Vilamoura, carrying approximately one million barrels of crude, off Libya’s coast, according to its Greek operator, TMS Tankers. - Greek City Times, Jul 1 2025
The explosion flooded the engine room, disabling the vessel. TMS Tankers reported that the ship, which departed from Zueitina, Libya, en route to Gibraltar, will be towed to Greece on Tuesday or Wednesday. The cause of the explosion remains undisclosed.The possibility that the Vilamoura was hit by a mine was raised on Friday by security firm Vanguard, but it said that nothing had been confirmed by officials.
The operator distanced itself from speculation that the ship had been targeted by saboteurs.
According to the Financial Times this is at least the fifth tanker (archived) this year that had became casualty of some explosives:
A series of mysterious limpet mine attacks on oil tankers has shaken the shipping world, prompting speculation that the explosions were part of a state-backed sabotage campaign.Five vessels have been hit by deliberate blasts this year, with the latest incident flooding the engine room of the Greek-owned tanker the Vilamoura last week as it sailed off the coast of Libya.
All the vessels called at Russian ports within weeks of the attacks, prompting some security experts to suggest that Ukraine had a hand in the explosions.
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The FT account leaves out a Russian cargo ship that was attacked with explosives and sank in late 2024:
The Russian operator of a cargo ship that sank in the Mediterranean Sea between Spain and Algeria said Thursday that it had been hit by a series of explosions in an act of sabotage.Oboronlogistica, a state-controlled company that operated the Ursa Major freighter, said it was wrecked by three powerful explosions just above the water line in what it described as a “terrorist attack” that caused it to sink.
It said in a statement carried by Russia’s state RIA Novosti news agency that the explosions left a hole in the ship’s starboard and filled the engine room with acrid smoke, hampering the crew’s attempts to access it. The company added that the damage to the engine room made it impossible to activate pumps and keep the ship afloat.
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The company said the ship, one of Russia’s largest cargo ships, had sailed from St. Petersburg and was carrying two heavy cranes and other equipment to the port of Vladivostok on Russia’s far eastern coast.
All these attacks seem to have been made with magnetic limpet mines. These get attached to a ships hull while the ship is anchored or moored. They can be exploded by a timer or radio signal.
The campaign against Russian related ships may well be an Ukrainian operation. But I would be astonished to learn that the British are not involved in it.
Ukraine is not known for wide access to ports in the Mediterranean Sea and for the necessary qualified diving specialists. Britain's Special Boat Service is:
The SBS has a subunit dedicated to operating Swimmer Delivery Vehicles (SDVs) known as the SDV Troop.
Such vehicles, launched from submarines, are ideal for installing limpet mines to the hull of unsuspecting ships.
Britain has helped to plan the Ukrainian attack in Kursk. It has been involved in several sabotage operations by the Ukrainian Military Intelligence Service on Russian ground. British soldiers are dying on the battlefield in Ukraine.
When investigating the sabotage operations against those ships the Russian counter terrorism forces should look out for British, not for Ukrainian, actors.
Posted by b on July 2, 2025 at 14:26 UTC | Permalink
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Posted by: Perimetr | Jul 2 2025 14:37 utc | 2
ot related - alex krainer from today -
The destruction of wealth in Britain accelerates
Posted by: james | Jul 2 2025 14:48 utc | 4
just put some big limpet mines on the british isles.
Posted by: Justpassinby | Jul 2 2025 14:52 utc | 6
Of course it is The Masters of doubleplay, The British, with their
JamesBond-obsession, furnished by
"Q". But it seems a re-enacting of
The Ernst Wollweber group from 1938.
Posted by: Reader | Jul 2 2025 14:58 utc | 7
I'm surprised that Russia hasn't provided these ships with a portable SONAR device which can be tossed overboard to detect interlopers when the vessel is stationary.
If/when the SONAR alarm is triggered, a detailed search of the hull can be conducted.
China has small remote-control submersibles which look and "swim" like Manta Rays. One of these could be used for visual hull inspections.
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jul 2 2025 15:04 utc | 8
Perimetr | Jul 2 2025 14:37 utc | 2--
I posted this comment at Martyanov's yesterday and it applies to your comment with some small modifications:
Plunderers never cease their activities until they're made to stop. Look at what the UK continues to do despite its lack of military power. The lesson Russia must learn is its enemies will never stop until they're forced to stop, and that includes the Outlaw US Empire. Remember the song by The Undisputed Truth about smiling faces, etc., Macron's phone call being one example.
That sub-comment thread raised the issue of drone terrorist attacks being launched from Russia's near abroad areas as we've already seen happen from Kazakhstan and from within Russia. The ease and portability of smuggling drones opens another portion of Pandora's Box. IMO, Pantsir production needs to be increased and their deployment across Russia far more widespread as they're the best anti-drone AD along with EW. Yes, that will greatly complicate Russia's attempt to develop its own civilian drone delivery economy; but as Putin noted in a discussion about that, security comes first.
As for defending against limpet mines, an underwater drone made to look for such devices needs to be produced and put into operation ASAP. It should be deployed by vessels when in port with a major sweep done prior to going back to sea. Such drones could even continue to monitor the vessel while it's underway.
Iran IMO needs to buy the Pantsir systems to defend against drones as they appear to be a bigger threat than jet aircraft. Whatever system Russia employs to interdict NATO's stand-off guided bombs is what Iran also needs. Russian guided bombs now have a 100Km range, and that's not the likely limit.
Hey, you despicable dumbfuck Brits (I writhe in shame as I am one), did it ever occur to you that the war in Ukraine is lost, and that the Russians in their magnanimity one day might forgive, but they won't forget. Ever.
Posted by: pasha | Jul 2 2025 15:14 utc | 11
No doubt the Brits and their new MI6 Nazi chief are behind these attacks.....but two can play this game....London should be careful what they wish for.......
Posted by: tobias cole | Jul 2 2025 15:14 utc | 12
On the other hand, merely transmitting SONAR pings could be sufficient to cause the EvilDoers to have second thoughts, regardless of Nationality.
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jul 2 2025 15:21 utc | 13
It should clear to even the most casual of observers that the upper-most-class of England are [and always have been] nothing more than a cabal of thuggish terrorists who, through pretense and artifice have convinced much of the world into thinking they are a civilized nation.
Posted by: S Brennan | Jul 2 2025 15:21 utc | 14
@ S Brennan | Jul 2 2025 15:21 utc | 14
Might makes right and the Golden Rule: Those who have the gold make the rules.
It has been the truth ever since the beginning of "Humanity".
Posted by: maja | Jul 2 2025 15:31 utc | 15
Just wait until an LNG tanker is ignited while unloading its volatile gas in a major port somewhere in the world. It will be a game changer.
It's high time the British are taught a lesson. A painful one!
Posted by: Davide | Jul 2 2025 15:41 utc | 17
Posted by: Davide | Jul 2 2025 15:41 utc | 17
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The thing is, do you teach the muppet British people or do you find a way to target the Lords and their wealth?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 2 2025 15:42 utc | 18
Can you imagine the sputtering in the Square Mile and on the BBC if ships insured by Lloyds started sinking in various parts of the former British Empire?
Q: How does a Brit tell he is in the British Empire?
A: He dips a toe in the nearest water.
Posted by: Cato the Uncensored | Jul 2 2025 15:45 utc | 19
Sigh.
There go the alleged British again.
What happened to Shaun Pinner et al who were released and have doubled down on their killing talk and ways?
So.
Again.
Yeah all that 4dchess malarkey is all good....but at what point does Russia confront Britain or is it vice versa and at what point does Britain confront Russia?
What is Putin waiting for exactly?
Posted by: Skeletor | Jul 2 2025 15:45 utc | 20
The UK government has never been sensible, but these operations trigger something primal in my brain, some kind of racist instinct against Anglo-Saxons. "Perfidious albion" is putting it lightly. Is there any nation with a more genocidal history? Anglo-Saxon settlers perpetrated genocide against the American Indians and exploded demand for African slaves, putting the work of Barbary and Arab slavers to shame from the 16th century on. Starmer is consciously the inheritor of Anglo-Saxon barbarism.
Now of course there are good Anglo-Saxons. Jeremy Corbyn was one of them, but look what they did to him. His opposition to the genocide of brown people won him condemnations of "anti-Semitism", as it's white Jews aligned with the Anglo-Saxon aspiration of global domination who are perpetrating the genocide. Even diaspora Jews and dissident Israelis are not spared from these bizarre and sometimes career-ending accusations. Jews subject to censorship of their criticism of the "Jewish state"? What could be stranger than the inheritor of a political state which once expelled Jews sanctimoniously wielding accusations of anti-Semitism? Maybe the UK should invite all the Jews it expelled back. That might put less pressure on the Middle East.
Posted by: fnord | Jul 2 2025 15:46 utc | 21
The Brutish nation has always been a land of sniveling weasels fortified AND hyper-boosted in the late 1600's with "immigrants" of immense wealth and even more cunning and evil intentions. ((These)) malicious and dangerous interlopers then twisted the upper crust of society with blackmail, bribery and inter-marriage to turn all of society into a obscene facsimile of themselves. The nation of rich aristocrats had changed into a beastial, sickly sexual group with buggery as their choice of initiation into the Big Club that continues to this day.
Nothing is sacred except their intense desire to maim and destroy everything around them...
Posted by: bisfab | Jul 2 2025 15:48 utc | 22
@21
"Now of course there are good Anglo-Saxons. Jeremy Corbyn was one of them but look what they did to him"
Never forget.
The irony was that it was not any of the other usual suspects that made me fully and truly open my eyes.
It was the treatment of grandpa Corbyn that had me fully understanding and have taught my kids ever since.... Evil is real and they are playing for keeps. Nothing is fair so do what you have to do.
Posted by: Skeletor | Jul 2 2025 15:56 utc | 24
If true that the UK is involved in blowing up ships that happen not to be insured at Lloyds, then the UK has sunk to the level of Al Capone. "Nice ship you got here, it'd be a shame if something happened to it"
Posted by: Passerby | Jul 2 2025 15:56 utc | 25
Skeletor | Jul 2 2025 15:45 utc | 20
Make NO mistake, Putin is reading from a script the same as everyone else, possibly even Xi. Events WILL proceed just as the ((Masters)) have planned it. It's described as Kabuki Theatre by many.
Nothing will change until someone commits hari-kari and throws down the script and says fuck it!
And bomb to kingdom come someone/something that truly deserves it....
Posted by: bisfab | Jul 2 2025 15:58 utc | 26
It is amazing how brave and strong the English are.
Poor old Putin fears them terribly.
Posted by: vargas | Jul 2 2025 15:47 utc | 22
Well, the Brits are famous for having dozens of medals, awards and celebrations for dying in vain for Lost Causes.
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jul 2 2025 16:05 utc | 28
then the UK has sunk to the level of Al Capone. "Nice ship you got here, it'd be a shame if something happened to it"
Posted by: Passerby | Jul 2 2025 15:56 utc | 26
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When did the UK rise above gangster status?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 2 2025 16:05 utc | 29
@18
I doubt there is much to teach the British muppets. The London globalists making trouble with Russia are the very same globalists flooding the UK with migrants. Punishment enough for the muppets I suppose.
Posted by: Fred777 | Jul 2 2025 16:13 utc | 30
Talk to people from Hong Kong and India. They will tell you about the character of the British.
Don't talk to anyone from Zimbabwe. It will break your heart.
The Belgians celebrate the mutilation of the Congolese in their art and desserts.
There is barely any difference between the English and the Israelis.
The Belgians were just as vicious as the IDF, only you never heard about it. That was by design.
That is where the EU is centered.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 2 2025 16:14 utc | 31
Can you imagine the sputtering in the Square Mile and on the BBC if ships insured by Lloyds started sinking in various parts of the former British Empire?
Posted by: Cato the Uncensored | Jul 2 2025 15:45 utc | 19
The IRA had considerable success with a low death, high damage campaign against the UK. Despite the boasting of certain parties, Putin is not going to attack the United States- that would be absurd considering Russian diplomacy.
But once America withdraws from NATO after the current 5% program is revealed to be a scam- then it becomes very safe to sink lots of British vessels with Russian anti-ship missiles. The attacks must be overt to make it clear that the UK could never hope to match them in volume. Lloyds would basically collapse if Britain refused to seek peace with Russia.
Posted by: They Call Me Mister | Jul 2 2025 16:16 utc | 32
Perfidious Albion!
Posted by: Al Havermann | Jul 2 2025 14:37 utc | 3
Given these early days of the new stinking hot summer weather...
surely what we are all anticipating/ waiting for is the heroic, and let us not be unhindered with the matter: the glorious 21st century "Charge of the Light Starmar Brigade"
They might have been deluded, but let God help their souls,
Posted by: Andrew | Jul 2 2025 16:16 utc | 33
The Usual Suspects ARE the Nazis and were always the Nazis.
They are the heart of every Deep State in every western country to be sure. Their Plan is to suck the wealth from every G20 nation and target their operations Eastward. There is nothing we can do about it but here's hoping someone out there sets off a major destructive op of their own against a serious Usual Suspect asset to set THEM back a few months or years.
Raise a glass with me people on seeing this come to fruition!!
Posted by: bisfab | Jul 2 2025 16:22 utc | 34
Some time ago I mentioned here that Russia needs to go after NATO and the Ukraine and especially Elensky like the US gov and Eliot Ness and his Untouchables went after Capone. It is a very good asymmetric move. They wiretapped him and his pals , and then went after his pals one by one till there was noone who would work for him. This also allowed a case of tax evasion to be built against him.
It looks like the Brits and NATO are in-fact doing to Russia what the latter should be doing to them. If this keeps going no one will trade with Russia ,leading to economic ruin and a failed SMO. No country ,even China or India will trade with Russia then, because no shipowner will take the risk of having their investments lost. The shadow-fleet will disappear and China and Russia cannot build new ships quick enough even if they wanted to. Even if they do build ships the skilled crews will not work for them due to fear of being sunk on the High Seas.
Russia should have done this to all associates of Elensky… unless for some reason they like dealing with a live Elensky.
Posted by: Total | Jul 2 2025 16:23 utc | 35
Some time ago I mentioned here that...
Posted by: Total | Jul 2 2025 16:23 utc | 35
Weird thing for a "new" poster to write.
As always,no matter the moniker, you state hazy conjectures as "in fact", build hypotheticals, and then make absurd claims about future events that never happen, this time its "no one will trade with Russia"
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 2 2025 16:46 utc | 36
Uselessdude @36
Here we go again with one of the "longtime" egos here trying to dismantle serious conjecture as a way to belittle those not in the Big Club of Usual Fuckwits.
Just STOP dude. Leave it alone lest YOU get ridiculed and ganged up on...yet again.
Posted by: bisfab | Jul 2 2025 16:59 utc | 37
How new is new? I remember when you arrived here.
Are you presuming to know me, given your innuendo that I had a different moniker?
As for your critique, It means nothing , as you didn’t refute what I have said . All you did was emotionally go against it. Hardly a confident post from a person with presence.
Maybe keep to playing the ball …and not the man.
Posted by: Total | Jul 2 2025 17:00 utc | 38
Posted by: Total | Jul 2 2025 17:00 utc | 38
You refuted nothing what I said, and instead tried to make your point about me
Two can play this game, if I cared to.
And then there is "bisfab" / "bisfugged"... totally not sock names
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 2 2025 17:12 utc | 39
A case of good defence being offence.
At some point, Russia will have to shut down the shitty little pirates island. With no blowback, UK will only become worse. A related item to that tanker piracy is Germany. I posted it in the week in review thread yesterday. Germany joining the Brits in shutting down any Russia related shipping.
Merz and crew will also have to go.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jul 2 2025 17:12 utc | 40
This is the new world we live in. No international law, no treaties or agreements honored, no UN, no international organization not infiltrated by Western intel. Finally, to my relief any thinking person can figure out that this is a world ruled by violence or threat thereof.
The Russians, Chinese, and Iranians, try to abide by agreements and international law in order to look good but if the kinds of things indicated in this article continue then the East must strike and strike hard but they will be very, very reluctant to do so. They know that the Western ruling oligarchies are filled with fanatics and gangsters who have what they believe are shelters to help them survive any nuclear war and are willing to risk war both because they believe they and their families will survive but because their basic philosophy is nihilistic--even the average citizen has become handicapped by mental illness caused by the poison (both physical and cultural) the ruling elites are pumping out into the world.
I've spent decades puncturing predictions of disaster until this past few months--now, I'm seeing how profoundly evil the ruling elites are and how morally degenerate are all the population of the West who can see the genocide occurring in Gaza and the stunning war mongering of the entire Western Empire casually throwing out even the idea of international law. Meanwhile the average citizen doesn't care at all about national or personal morality.
Long-term, I'm still optimistic because many (not most) will find their way to understand that spirituality is the only way through all this mess. Nihilism and amorality is not sustainable for long.
Posted by: Chris Cosmos | Jul 2 2025 17:12 utc | 41
Operations Rough Rider, Spiderweb, Midnight Hammer - Russia Gauges Trump's Rationality in Warfighting At The Nuclear Edge
"President Trump has said he believes he can use nuclear weapons to destroy his enemy's forces for defending itself, including the enemy's capacity for deterrence by nuclear counter-attack.
This is Trump's new doctrine of 'total obliteration'. It is US shock and awe tipped over the nuclear threshold; it is American first-strike nuclear attack...
'Something is taking its course.' - 'Endgame' by Sam Beckett
Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jul 2 2025 17:13 utc | 42
Well, the most of the comments in this comment section are just weird.
Of course the condition of the UK is a matter of some concern. To me and my fellow Englishmen because we live here.
But those who don't have the wrong end of the stick. The UK is bust. We do have an expeditionary force still but it's far too small to do anything useful abroad. As "b" intimates above we do get up to some pretty squalid SF/Intel tricks - here's looking at you, Admiral Radakin - but merely as an annexe of Washington.
As Colonel Lang made clear, Washington keeps us around to do the stuff Langley's too grand to do. Also, though as far as I remember the Colonel didn't spell this out, Washington's so leaky, and Congressmen sometimes so inquisitive, that some ops are safer left to London. Russiagate, for instance, got exposed in the US. The UK had no trouble keeping their end of it under wraps.
The CIA and MI6 heads met in London and set out the deal at a press conference. Joined at the hip - that close - and working as a team. They select which member of the team does what on the "Best Athlete" principle. That is, whoever is most suitable for the job in hand gets that job.
That's it. Bust. Impotent militarily. Kept around for the squalid stuff. All the talk about the continuing "British Empire" or how Britain's at the heart of current problems is so much hot air.
Boris Johnson, and now Sir Keir Starmer, would like to be amongst the movers and shakers. Often they talk as if they are. But do please get up to date. From around the 1870's the industrial power on which British power was based was waning as the US, Germany, Japan and later Russia started to draw ahead technologically and industrially. And as said before, the obituary for the British Empire was written in the late 19th Century:-
God of our fathers, known of old,
Lord of our far-flung battle-line,
Beneath whose awful Hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine–
Lord God of Hosts be with us yet,
Lest we forget–lest we forget!
The tumult and the shouting dies;
The Captains and the Kings depart:
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite heart.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget–lest we forget!
Far-called, our navies melt away;
On dune and headland sinks the fire:
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!
Judge of the Nations, spare us yet,
Lest we forget–lest we forget!
If, drunk with sight of power, we loose
Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe,
Such boastings as the Gentiles use,
Or lesser breeds without the Law–
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget–lest we forget!
For heathen heart that puts her trust
In reeking tube and iron shard,
All valiant dust that builds on dust,
And guarding, calls not Thee to guard,
For frantic boast and foolish word–
Thy mercy on Thy People, Lord!
Good riddance too. It's often forgotten that Empire is as bad for the Imperial Power as for those who suffer under it. Good for neither the looters not the looted. What we're currently seeing in the West is the USA and Berlin/Brussels now learning that painful lesson as well. Kipling's obituary will do OK for those cases too.
Posted by: English Outsider | Jul 2 2025 17:15 utc | 43
English Outsider
The strange thing is Radakin is a surname also found in Russia. Another “Nazi” like Lady M16? Scion of White Russian refugees, or a Pale of Settlement Jew to Whitechapel in London?
Posted by: Total | Jul 2 2025 17:19 utc | 44
Wtff??
Shameless shapeshifter shits don’t even bother to show their hidden hands anymore. This is the new far away war.
Attacking the NS corridor. Inviting Xi to the dance.
‘Arya - آریا
@AryJeay
9h
🇦🇿🇺🇸| Yesterday Freemasons of the world gathered in Baku
They held the Grand Lodge of the Freemasons of the world in the “friendly and brotherly” country of Azerbaijan.
The content of the meeting is undisclosed. But it is certain that topics such as the expansion of NATO into the South Caucasus and Central Asia with the aim of weakening Iran and Russia, Israel’s recent attacks on Iran, and the creation of the fake Zangezur corridor alongside Baku’s recent provocations against Russia were discussed. ‘
Posted by: DunGroanin | Jul 2 2025 17:23 utc | 45
Russia needs to implement FAFO on a very individualized bases. I am sure that they can work out the individuals involved and arrange for deadly consequences. That's the only thing the British security services and British establishment will understand. They need to be put down like a rabid Rottweiler would be (I apologize for any insults to Rottweilers). The Iranians need to do the same with Mossad and the Israeli ruling class.
Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jul 2 2025 17:23 utc | 46
"It looks like... ..in-fact"
"If this keeps going"
There is no way to refute your internally conflicting starments. They are complete gobbledy-gook based on trying to make guesses appear as fact, and extrapolating worst case scenarios from current mild events, then claiming you warned long ago bad thing ate going to happen in the future if what you said needs to happen doesnt happen.
It's a complete pile of conjecture and self congratulating built upon nothing but alarmist vocabulary.
Every time, paragraph upon paragraph of fact-less rhetoric, wasting time with an overabundance of words,
Just like shadowbanned would do.
all penned through a litany of sock monilers, so your previous predictions can not be scrutinized.
just like shadowbanned would do when frustrated with his ineptness.
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 2 2025 17:24 utc | 47
Since the UK, along with Russia and the US guaranteed Ukrainian sovereignty within its 1991 borders why would this be a surprise. Some nations honor their treaty commitments, unlike the US or Russian.
Posted by: zargo | Jul 2 2025 17:26 utc | 48
@Posted by: Chris Cosmos | Jul 2 2025 17:12 utc | 41
They will fight until the very moment they are either gone of this Earth or forced to accept defeat, just like Hitler and his entourage. I am a realist about such things. They are utterly evil and selfish.
Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jul 2 2025 17:26 utc | 49
Try screenshotting to record peoples’ posts, so that you can “scrutinise their predictions” .
I’m done talking with you for a long time . Bye.
Posted by: Total | Jul 2 2025 17:29 utc | 50
@Posted by: zargo | Jul 2 2025 17:26 utc | 48
You mean like Britain made to Czechoslovakia? The UK is called perfidious Albion because you cannot trust a word that comes out of its ruling class mouth. The list of treaties and promises that it has broken are endless. It breaches the UN Conventions every single day.
Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jul 2 2025 17:30 utc | 51
The thing i find odd about this, it has no outcome on the price of oil. If the economy is booming, oil should be way up. Isn't it odd the price of oil crashed with the beginning of the "wests" troubles with Russia around 2014. The airliner that was shotdown by who knows who seemed to ignite a crash in oil we've never recovered from since. But the economy is booming eh?
Posted by: Mr. House | Jul 2 2025 17:35 utc | 53
We've been in a depression since 2008, and nobody admits it. People get more radical in their demands and the only response you get from our "betters" is more lies. Why is telling the truth so bad? Is power really worth it?
Posted by: Mr. House | Jul 2 2025 17:37 utc | 54
Try screenshotting to record peoples’ posts, so that you can “scrutinise their predictions” .
I’m done talking with you for a long time . Bye.
Posted by: Total | Jul 2 2025 17:29 utc | 50
No you arent. You'll resist for about 8 hours, Then bring in one of your other accounts. You live for this. It's your life.
You hate Putin.so much you have deficated your life to spending it online trying to get everyone else to hate him. You even have strategies about when to post, and even write to your computer first, to properly edit your long winded essays first, relishing the smell of your own farts, patting yourself on the back for writing such scholarly sounding essays. You have moniker strategies too, when building a new sock army, you give them names with a similar theme, so you can keep track of "who" wrote "what".
You haunt multiple geopolitical blogs, and spend hour upon hour upon day upon day of your life dying in your obsession of hate, imagining yourself a cassandra, vasting warning upon warning about all the horror to come because of .. him... completely unable to analyze your own predictions.
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 2 2025 17:42 utc | 55
Russians just don't get the concept of deterrence.
Take out a few UK Navy admirals and MI6 office-bound cowards in an appropriate and exemplary manner, ie, painfully cinematic, and I am quite certain most of those public (which in the UK means private aka priviliged toffs) school educated arrogant, privileged twats operating under their self presumed umbrella of impunity will quickly tone down their enthusiasm for hurting all things Russian.
The problem is, there is an equal number of equally priviliged twats running things in Russia, and for fear fo the same happening to them, they will happily take the hit and let private shipping companies and Russian prestige pay the price instead.
Presumably, what we are seeing is evidence both of one side's resolve and measure of the other's capabilties.
Oh to live in a world of principled heroes....
Posted by: Rubiconned | Jul 2 2025 17:54 utc | 56
Russia fully knows this is the UK at work with some Ukraine help that when need be can be used as the fall guy. But it's unlikely there will be public acknowledgement as it would necessitate a counter reaction thus escalation. So for now we see all these NATO attacks on Russia proper, the periphery and it's interests (maritime traffic, Sahel) and occasionally there is some seemingly unrelated plausible cause explosion at Russian adversaries that starts to form a pattern.
For example, after the Russian strategic bombers were hit, there was an explosion at a US base in Japan (https://www.reuters.com/world/report-explosion-injury-us-kadena-air-base-japans-okinawa-2025-06-09/). There were multiple earlier explosions in amongst others Germany (https://defenceredefined.com.cy/diehl-defense-explosion-at-a-factory-in-germany/) and the UK (https://en.mehrnews.com/news/214044/Explosion-at-major-BAE-Systems-weapons-factory-in-UK). As always, these kind of events are downplayed as accidents. Remember that after Soleimani was murdered with Trump happily taking credit for it, US soldiers only supposedly sustained "concussions" when Iran retaliated.
In the absence of serious escalations we can conclude this "but Putin is weak and doesn't respond" is because it wouldn't be in Russia's interest to have these far reaching escalations that amongst other could entail a complete naval blockage on all Russian maritime traffic.
Posted by: xor | Jul 2 2025 17:55 utc | 57
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 2 2025 17:42 utc | 55
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Pity them, what a profoundly and existentially unhappy person.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 2 2025 17:56 utc | 58
Posted by: Rubiconned | Jul 2 2025 17:54 utc | 56
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The presumption that you and many others make is that psychopaths can be scared into behaving morally.
I don't think that they can.
True believers will gender transition their children. They will engage in diets that destroy their health.
Don't underestimate the power of fanaticism.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 2 2025 17:58 utc | 59
The thing is, do you teach the muppet British people or do you find a way to target the Lords and their wealth?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 2 2025 15:42 utc | 18
This was the age old debate. Eg. among the early Christians.
And after 2,000 years even Jesus still hasn't won the debate.
And now you have the Hollywood/Wurlitzer complex to contend with forever.
Of course force makes a dent, but only a dent as the USSR--and every revolutionary project--shows.
The best metaphor for world political history is sumo. Fat slop trading space in a dirt ring for cash, tournament after tournament...forever.
Posted by: TG1 | Jul 2 2025 17:58 utc | 60
When Russia takes Ukraine, it will be "the lone superpower" in the world.
It will have a massive military. In history this happens time and time again. A cadte of hardened warriors is built, with nothing to do.
That All the NATO nations sent all their goodies to Ukraine means they are begging for what happens next, but, one at a time. In judo, timing is everything.
The three kingdoms period devolved into three families fighting for the supremacy of China, The Liu, The Sun, and the Cao.
And in the end, it was the Sima who united China.
Because Sima Yi was willing to suffer indignity and humiliation as many times as it took, while waiting for his time.
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 2 2025 17:59 utc | 61
@ Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 2 2025 17:58 utc | 59
I never referred to moral behaviour.
I alluded to the basic principle of self preservation.
IMHO, that is a fundamental factor that separates principled leaders vs profit driven sociopaths.
But in the broader geopolitical context, are we naive to even differentiate?
Posted by: Rubiconned | Jul 2 2025 18:07 utc | 62
Posted by: zargo | Jul 2 2025 17:26 utc | 48
we have a saying in germany. "wenn man keine ahnung hat, einfach mal die fresse halten."
since you refused to bring up the relevant documents, i am going to educate you. britain broke the guarantee on the sovereignity of the ukraine.
Posted by: Justpassinby | Jul 2 2025 18:08 utc | 63
In my view, the shipping attacks are essentially irrelevant, a rounding error. The UKraine has no way to ramp these attacks up to the point they become relevant, either. However it's another convenient spoke for the typically advanced arguments from the usual suspects and NAFO types on which to hang their hat.
The desperation of the Western financial conspiracy behind all these machinations grows more evident. 'Make chaos on the periphery' isnt a strategy, it's a rearguard action. Its clear they are not holding back…there is no consideration given to the day after. Im not sure if these idiots have realized that while they can make it more painful or less for humanity, you cant stop the inevitable.
Make NO mistake, Putin is reading from a script the same as everyone else, possibly even Xi. Events WILL proceed just as the ((Masters)) have planned it. It's described as Kabuki Theatre by many.
Utter slop. The conflict between public and private finance is real, and will end with public finance winning. Putin and Xi are driven by many factors but conspiring with the people who own America and her running dogs are not one of them.
Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Jul 2 2025 18:09 utc | 64
Roger Boyd | Jul 2 2025 17:26 utc | 49
These are the grandchildren of Hitler's nazi elements. Britain with the new MI6 head mistress, Merz the german chandelier, Kalla the callous, Ursula of no Loins, Freeland the bow legged, Starmer the boneless and of course (my personal favorite wanna be) Macron of gay Paree.
Posted by: Angelo | Jul 2 2025 18:10 utc | 65
Posted by: Total | Jul 2 2025 17:00 utc
How new is new? I remember when you arrived here.
Are you presuming to know me, given your innuendo that I had a different moniker?
………………………..
Glowie?
Posted by: Rich | Jul 2 2025 18:13 utc | 66
IMHO, that is a fundamental factor that separates principled leaders vs profit driven sociopaths.
Posted by: Rubiconned | Jul 2 2025 18:07 utc | 62
profit is power. Power is essential to holding power. Losing power is death on the geopolitical level.
All these people may appear as sociopaths from a laymans persoective, but they are stick in a trap of survival. This includes Putin.
And when it comes to survival, the most cunning win. "Morality" is abstract, only useful as a tool to keep power. If it helps, you abide by it, if it hurts, you do the "immoral".
Notice I say the most "cunning", not the most moral or immoral, not the strongest, smartest, or most charismatic. It is those who can hatch long term plots, and adapt them as necessary, and keep their intentions hidden to all, i cluding their own "trusted" advisors, who will win.
To seak power, is the path to "immorality" or death.
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 2 2025 18:15 utc | 67
I never referred to moral behaviour.
Posted by: Rubiconned | Jul 2 2025 18:07 utc | 62
I guess you are going to have to explain.the difference between a "principled leader" and a "moral leader", then, because you used the word "principled".
(It been about an hour now....)
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 2 2025 18:20 utc | 68
I wonder what the odds are that the Greeks, at the behest of the EU/NATO impound the ship once it puts into port, while the EU or US try to seize it and the cargo.
The empire has been doing piracy for many years. Syria, Venezuela, Iran, have all been targets of US directed piracy.
Posted by: Arkady Bogdanov | Jul 2 2025 18:25 utc | 69
@ Posted by: UWDude | Jul 2 2025 18:20 utc | 68
Values define what is important, while Principles define how those values are put into practice
Principles are fundamental truths or propositions that serve as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior, while Morals are personal rules that define right and wrong conduct.
Posted by: Rubiconned | Jul 2 2025 18:26 utc | 70
The more significant news overall is that the US is severely cutting military equipment & munitions to Ukraine. Not only are US stocks running below minimum levels for supporting our own military, new production hasn't improved significantly (per Simplicius).
The walls are closing in on Ukraine, and the UK's & EU's recent actions scream of desperation.
p.s.: Is there not a single subject that Vargas doesn't have a bad take on???
Posted by: TJandTheBear | Jul 2 2025 18:27 utc | 71
UK’s ruling class continues to lie to its population aided always by a compliant and wholly-owned media. The extent of popular dissatisfaction, with a government that supports the occupiers of Palestine and clandestinely provides fighting men to Ukraine (the financing is overt), is kept tightly suppressed but is real.
The obsessional drive to further austerity, at the same time as hugely increased military expenditure, will result in increased public debt. The response of printing more money leads to stagnation at best and hyperinflation at worst. The collapse of the once National Health Service and expensive private health provision and insurance (if available), has resulted in massive dissatisfaction by workers and patients both. The government and its puppet-masters will deflect public unhappiness with military adventurism, blaming immigration and the false bogeyman of LGBGT intolerance.
But the pressure cooker continues to boil and eventually the pot will explode. Becoming ever more reactionary and removing what few human rights we have left in this mendacious country will not be enough to prevent this. Political consciousness is increasing but there is still much to be done. The arrogant ruling class are themselves accelerating this development and their neck is being put into the noose by their own hand.
Can’t wait for the trap to open.
Posted by: Vragtes | Jul 2 2025 18:31 utc | 72
Principles are fundamental truths or propositions that serve as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior, while Morals are personal rules that define right and wrong conduct.
Posted by: Rubiconned | Jul 2 2025 18:26 utc | 70
so can a principled leader be an immoral leader, a leader that goes against his own morals to uphold his principles, is that what you mean when you say you said nothing of morality?
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 2 2025 18:31 utc | 73
****
Useless dude again putting his foot in his mouth.
I have NO sock puppet names- I made an Alert here saying I was editing my name cuz most here ignored many of my comments with a deserved handle disparaging b. Apparently b doesn't like truthful factoids of the prevalence of ((usual suspects)).
So stick a sock in it, chill and just let slide ANY comments that twist your little panties!!
Posted by: bisfab | Jul 2 2025 18:32 utc | 74
Posted by: bisfab | Jul 2 2025 18:32 utc | 74
No new person would come to this blog, and immediately decide to make their moniker "bisfugged". Thos is the action of somebody who has delusions of persecution... ...or did you announce you were changing your original moniker to "bisfugged', if so, who were you before you switched to "bisfugged"?
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 2 2025 18:37 utc | 75
All humans Value self preservation.
Most leaders have no Morals.
Smart Leaders adopt Principles which converge their own self preservation with that of those who empower them to act.
Wise leaders develop that skill with a Wisdom that transcends into benefits for future generations.
That would be my understanding so far...
Posted by: Rubiconned | Jul 2 2025 18:40 utc | 76
UWDude | Jul 2 2025 17:24 utc | 47
Where does this holier-than-thou attitude come from dude?
Are you thinking that you're smarter, more knowledgeable and more well-read then others?? WTF??
I'm sure you must have had the shit kicked out of you as a little boy... girl(?) and vowed that you weren't gonna be in that position again so you threw out your Carnegie's How to win friends and influence people book and you just doubled down on your weasel sarcasm and quick lip as a protection for your many other shortcomings.
As PeterGold would say- STFU and Fuck off!!
Posted by: bisfab | Jul 2 2025 18:46 utc | 77
There were some unconfirmed reports the Vilamoura was actually carrying oil from Kazakhstan, which has several “partnership” arrangements with Western oil companies.
Possible own goal? Wouldn’t be the first one...
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jul 2 2025 18:47 utc | 78
Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Jul 2 2025 18:09 utc | 64
In my view, the shipping attacks are essentially irrelevant, a rounding error. The UKraine has no way to ramp these attacks up to the point they become relevant, either. However it's another convenient spoke for the typically advanced arguments from the usual suspects and NAFO types on which to hang their hat...We are talking about five attacks on international shipping of Russian oil in the last year.
I'd be curious to hear what you consider as the threshold as to when these attacks start to become relevant. Do you have a number?
Posted by: robin | Jul 2 2025 18:49 utc | 79
Smart Leaders adopt Principles...
Posted by: Rubiconned | Jul 2 2025 18:40 utc | 76
How can you adopt "principles"? If you can adopt principles, then they arent principles, are they? How many times can you "adopt" principles, before they cease to be principles?
The "pri" in principles the same etymology as "primal", meaning "root" or "base', a singular.
You cant have multiple principles, you cant adopt principles based on corcumstance, as this goes against the meaning of "principle".
Like the Hagukare says,
"It is bad when one thing becomes two. One should not look for anything else in the Way of the Samurai. It is the same for anything that is called a Way. "
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 2 2025 18:50 utc | 80
UWDude | Jul 2 2025 18:37 utc | 75
Nobody you would know fuckwit, but I have been here reading and commenting for close to a decade but since you don't read or take into consideration anyone but your egoclique how would you even know??
Piss off
Enough, STOP with the bullshit!
Just try and formulate an intelligent observation if you can, enjoy other's commentary and move on.
Posted by: bisfab | Jul 2 2025 18:50 utc | 81
also, if principles have nothing to do with morality, then "only seeking profit", as given in your binary choice could be considered a principle.
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 2 2025 18:52 utc | 82
Perhaps you can advance the argument and associated logic as to why the ship losses are relevant or could ever be? According to Western sources Russia has between 600 and 1400 vessels in its so called shadow fleet.
Like I said, rounding error.
Its sour grapes for those who cannot strike more openly. The masters of the UKraine should give up already and work to negotiate peace, on Russian terms. They only get worse over time.
Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Jul 2 2025 18:53 utc | 83
but I have been here reading and commenting for close to a decade
Posted by: bisfab | Jul 2 2025 18:50 utc | 81
you have? or "bisfugged" has?
How many socks have you used in this near decade?
I always laugh at how hard you try to defend one of your sock accounts.
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 2 2025 18:58 utc | 84
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jul 2 2025 18:47 utc | 78
Was wondering how long it would take them to bomb their 'own' ships.
I hope they at least put a little Jolly Roger next to the Wolfsangel on their submersibles.
Posted by: kspr | Jul 2 2025 18:58 utc | 85
Note that those parroting western propaganda like to pontificate about Ukraine's "sovereignty".
It takes a lot of gall to ignore 35 years of US interference in the Ukraine's business, including spending $5 billion to influence their politics, as Cookies Nuland bragged about in late 2013, mere months before finalizing a violent coup in 2014 which overthrew the elected government of the Ukraine and put in hand-picked puppets of the US, including CIA officers with their own offices in Bankova.
You cannot call that a "sovereign country" unless you are a complete idiot, or if you listen to msm. But I repeat myself.
How stupid and/or ignorant do you have to be to channel the Official Narrative to people who are not stupid or ignorant?
They have to be paid for this, imo, because why would they spew nonsense on a blog dedicated to truth about global affairs?
If they were just stupid echoers of the Big Lies told to the gullible, they would be happier on CNN or Fox, snuggled comfortably in the den of their kind.
There must be money involved.
Posted by: wagelaborer | Jul 2 2025 18:58 utc | 86
Maybe off-topic, maybe related, but there’s a lot of speculation about deep Azerbaijan connections with the Ukrainian oil refineries and terminals that Russian missiles took out a couple of days ago.
Coupled with today’s mystery explosion at Zhytomyr, it’s probably worth remembering that there are lots of ‘wheels within wheels’ when it comes to international oil trading; so be cautious about overplaying any “concern” when discussing what looks like Russian losses, but have a rather more complicated back story.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jul 2 2025 18:58 utc | 87
@ Posted by: UWDude | Jul 2 2025 18:50 utc | 80
Hmmm, this scholarship awarded, state topping scholar in Latin and Greek will happily take Mark Twain's advice and let you beat me with me experience...
Principles refers to a 'principium', as in a 'foundation'. The ground shifts, you better come up with new plans. Nuff said. Ave atque...
Posted by: Rubiconned | Jul 2 2025 19:02 utc | 88
Rubiconned | Jul 2 2025 17:54 utc | 56
Excellent observation! This HAS to be the gist of the whole sorry situation. I'm sure there are those within the Russian govt that would LOVE to let loose some wanton destruction on ALL the nato chihuahuas but of course there are the wealthy and influential oligarchs in BOTH regimes that need to be appeased and assured that critical assets will NOT be destroyed.
So here we are.
But as I said earlier in this thread, I would love to see independent interests that are sick of the hit to the Russian reputation that take it on themselves to take out some juicy targets. Hence the random explosions we see at certain weapons manufacturing facilities.
Go Baby GO!!
Posted by: bisfab | Jul 2 2025 19:05 utc | 89
The English Parliament votes yes to proscribe Palestine Action.
Britain and democracy (via the right to free speech – and to take action against a genocide) has parted ways – the sooner Britain breaks up the better.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 2 2025 19:08 utc | 90
Speaking as a Brit ...
Ukraine and Palestine are wars supported by our elite and our media. Not the population generally, something which those of you urging a missile strike on us might like to bear in mind.
On a monthly basis 350,000 march against Israel in London, along with weekly local events around the country. Most of these go unreported by our MSM, unless they can factor in some criminal aspect (like if an opportunist pick-pocket targets the event and is apprehended by the law, the headline would refer to 'Arrest at Palestine demo' without supplying an context) .
But no-one marches in support of Ukraine. The majority of those supporting Palestine are sussed enough to know of the neo-nazi angle.
More tellingly, there are no protests against Russia. But there will be against Trump when he arrives on his next state visit - how the media is going to play that will be interesting.
The support for Israel and Ukraine exists almost totally within a bubble of Westminster and the media. Unfortunately, as they control the newsflow, the chances of the mass of the population getting both sides of the story are slim. Yes, there's no excuse for that with the opportunities offered by the internet, but this is Britain. We're the country that abolished our monarchy, then a few years later reinstated them. Too many of us still tug our forelocks and defer to our 'betters' - if our 'betters' tell us them Russians are bad men' or 'them Palestinians are terrorists' too many accept it, and dont ask 'where's the proof ? '
I feel I should point you again to the Grayzone article from last year :
Leaks expose secret British military cell plotting to ‘keep Ukraine fighting’
Leaked files show top UK military figures conspired to carry out the Kerch bridge bombing, covertly train “Gladio”-style stay-behind forces in Ukraine, and groom the British public for a drop in living standards caused by the proxy war against Russia.
Emails and internal documents reviewed by The Grayzone reveal details of a cabal of British military and intelligence veterans which plotted to escalate and prolong the Ukraine proxy war “at all costs.” Convened under the direction of the British Ministry of Defense in the immediate aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the cell referred to itself as Project Alchemy. As British leadership sabotaged peace talks between Kiev and Moscow, the cell put forward an array of plans “to keep Ukraine fighting” by imposing “strategic dilemmas, costs and frictions upon Russia.”
Full article : https://thegrayzone.com/2024/11/16/uk-plot-keep-ukraine-fighting/
Posted by: Red Star | Jul 2 2025 19:11 utc | 91
We are talking about five attacks on international shipping of Russian oil in the last year.
I'd be curious to hear what you consider as the threshold as to when these attacks start to become relevant. Do you have a number?
Posted by: robin | Jul 2 2025 18:49 utc | 79
thats really not much.
The Houthi have done far more to Western shipping this year, and , god bless them for trying, but it too is a roundung error and quite insignificant. And the west HAS tried to stop them with brute force, nothing has come of it.
Do, Russia starts WW III with NATO by blowing up British shit in a big surprise attack would help the situation how? Would this mean better oil trade for Russia somehow? A quick end to the war in Ukraine?
No, all this bluster and angry calls to war over this are just people trying to convince Russia to stop its cold, slow march to certain victory by having her make a potentially fatal blunder.
No mistakes will win the war. Not pride. Not brute force, not nuclear weapons. Only well considered movements, every single one with multi-faceted meaning and value.
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 2 2025 19:11 utc | 92
Posted by: Rubiconned | Jul 2 2025 18:07 utc | 62
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I have thought a lot about naivety. Naivety allows one to approach a subject without preconceptions, but if the naivety persists indefinitely, no learning can occur because perspective never evolves.
I think being naive about evil (we all instinctively know right from wrong) invites danger and tragedy.
These days, I am trying to work out in my head what the difference is between a human and an animal. The Zionists look like humans, but they behave like demons.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 2 2025 19:13 utc | 93
Kit Klarenberg on June 11 has a refresher article at The Grayzone the UK intentions and actions Project Alchemy re the Black Sea, destruction of Kerch Bridge Russian Fleet etc which included training divers for limpet mine work sabotage.
Posted by: Jo | Jul 2 2025 19:20 utc | 94
Doctor Eleven | Jul 2 2025 18:09 utc | 64
"utter slop" sounds like a brutish term to mean the shit that is sitting in front of me that I'm supposed to eat.
Obviously there is a growing battle between public and private finance but the underlying driver is geopolitics. Meaning that there is a concerted effort to degrade or even ruin key business nodes like the INTSC and BRI. It's happening with Iran (BRI) and currently Azerbaijan (INTSC). Who do you think is trying to destroy the Eastern solution to hegemonic unipolarity??
Obviously it's the deep thinkers in the City and Warshington DC that is driving this, and it's called a plan to destroy BRICS.
Putin is playing along. He has to cuz the oligarchs in his country get the Final Say. Obviously...
Posted by: bisfab | Jul 2 2025 19:23 utc | 95
It should clear to even the most casual of observers that the upper-most-class of England are [and always have been] nothing more than a cabal of thuggish terrorists who, through pretense and artifice have convinced much of the world into thinking they are a civilized nation.
Posted by: S Brennan | Jul 2 2025 15:21 utc | 14
This is the problem, though. Even more attentive observers tend to disregard the utter depravity and transgenerational evil of the British elites. If anything, the latter are worse than their US American equivalents.
This is further exacerbated by the inability of the British peope to grasp that. On the political level it is really bad. The leftists, with few bright exceptions, are in a sorry state (as expected of the western left) and the rightists/conservatives have nothing similar to their US counterparts. They are drven by the likes of scum like Piers Morgan Murray, Kisin etc. being worse Zionists and Russophobic racists than their Yankee co-ideologues.
Posted by: Constantine | Jul 2 2025 19:23 utc | 96
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Posted by: james | Jul 2 2025 19:28 utc | 97
Hmmm, this scholarship awarded, state topping scholar in Latin and Greek will happily take Mark Twain's advice and let you beat me with me experience...
Principles refers to a 'principium', as in a 'foundation'. The ground shifts, you better come up with new plans. Nuff said. Ave atque...
Posted by: Rubiconned | Jul 2 2025 19:02 utc | 88
cute. You counterimposed "principles" vs "sociopathic profit motives", but then tried to claim you said nothing of morality.
it diesnt take a scholar to note you ckearly did evoke morality, by using the term 'sociopathic" as a binary.
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 2 2025 19:29 utc | 98
English Outsider 43,
Normally a fan of your writing but...as your moniker suggests you might have a blind spot on matters related to the transplanted Jutes, Angles and Saxons of Britain. These were rough tribes who "cleansed" their respective areas on the British Isles of Celts and Romans, those who either couldn't afford the carriage to return or, those who had nothing to return to. These post-Roman immigrants made a pretty grim time for the British Isles, until they hit upon the jack-pot, pirating Spanish dabloons...and let's face it, England was pretty grim afterwords.
Piracy is, after all, the reason for the Empire's rise, a polity that terrorized the sea has been made to sound glamorous that is until the English got a dose of their own medicine at the hands of Germany's submarine fleet. As England was then, before it's rise, so it is today but, I think, this time they might well expire should they get a dose of their medicine. This idea they've hit upon, the sinking ships through terroristic means might seem a replay of the "good 'ol days" except this time they are applying it to a continental power who has every incentive to requite the malice in kind. Indeed, English have shown the Russians a technique that will harm both the US & England far more than they may harm Russia. It's as if London's MI-6 and DC's 3LAs got together to develop a training program to practice their friendly-fire techniques with live ammo.
Not to deny that what you say about the US doesn't have an element of truth to it but, it is misleading. The nation, the US, is more than that cabal of anglo/anglophilic-school-boys who rule DC. Those denizens of DC ape everything English and so too the Empire's morbid march into historical decline...with much of the trail guidance being offered up by those who reside at journey's end. For much of US history we stayed out of the continent's conflicts, often being at odds with England wishes. It was Woodrow Wilson that enfranchised America's anglo/anglophilic-school-boys while he disenfranchised Negroes throughout the nation by law and by pogrom. Wilson was a despicable man, even when being judged by the morality of the time, a big-big-big proponent of eugenics, he was the US President most admired Hitler.
It was Wilson who packed the Department of State with abject anglophiles, in particular, it's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) and subsequently those migrated to it's afterbirth, the CIA. Consider, those anglophiles felt entitled to murder a sitting president. Not exactly James Bond material. And that wasn't their first outing in such murderous matters, earlier they tried to overthrow FDR, something not commonly taught in schools. In the end, I strongly suspect INRs poisoned FDR with the then new concoction of radioactive isotopes. So yes, the US is, as you say, joined at the hip with merry old England but, like Israel, who leads and who follows isn't as you say.
Posted by: S Brennan | Jul 2 2025 19:32 utc | 99
Posted by: S Brennan | Jul 2 2025 19:32 utc | 99
worst president ever.
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 2 2025 19:33 utc | 100
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thanks b.. i saw this yesterday and was wondering about it.. that the uk would be involved is almost certain, so the media will have to blame russia.. that is how it works!! i still can't get over the reams of bs around the novichok incident from a few years ago.. the british sure know how to manufacture a lot of bullshit, lies and misdirection..
Posted by: james | Jul 2 2025 14:36 utc | 1