This needs to be more widely known.
PROOF THAT WW1 WAS FOUGHT TO STEAL PALESTINE/ISRAEL FOR THE JEWS.
The First World War; 100 years of lies.
So, why was the first world war planned and executed?
To steal Palestine/Israel for the Jews!
The plan was already well known in 1853.
The following is a quote from George Faber’s 1853 book on the downfall of the Turkish power and the return of the ten tribes (available here).
“The subversion of the Turkish Power will evidently occasion, as all seem to anticipate, a fearful general war. This war will, I believe, be the last under the present order of things. It will commence, indeed, in Europe: but,… it will pass into Palestine…. and, in the course of its evolutions, Israel will be restored.”
George Faber and his fellow conspirators, the Jews, successfully bought the plan to fruition, as can be seen from the following:
“The subversion of the Turkish Power [i.e., the Ottoman Empire] will evidently occasion, as all seem to anticipate, a fearful general war [i.e., the first world war]. This war will, I believe, be the last under the present order of things [ushering a new world order]. It will commence, indeed, in Europe [with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914]: but,… it will pass into Palestine [western troops entered Palestine early in 1917]…. and, in the course of its evolutions [the second world war beginning 1939], Israel will be restored [Palestine/Israel was successfully stolen from its rightful inhabitants in 1948].”
Some have complained that George Faber should not be included among the conspirators. They claim that he was just being used by the Jews to attain their ends. To back up their claim they state that Faber foresaw the return of all twelve tribes of Israel, which never happened, whereas the Jews only wanted the return of the Jews, which did happen. Once the Jews had obtained their goal, no more was heard about the return of the other tribes, it just wasn’t a concern. This indicates that Faber’s notions were of little importance, and that he was being used by the conspirators, rather than that he was among the conspirators.

Posted by: comment | Jul 31 2025 9:06 utc | 103

Posted by: George | Jul 31 2025 2:24 utc | 70 IRT snake | Jul 31 2025 2:18 utc | 69
But they also have a choice to accept the Red or the Blue pill, something many concerned Americans on here somehow manage to do.
<= I have a theory about why that is so? Most Americans are allowed to know so little about what their national government does, that to them national politics has come to be looked at as deep science with complicated math so it is ignored; the rank and file are indifferent to indifferent to national and especially to international activities. So why do Americans vote red vs blue has to do with local politics.. In some states in order to vote in primaries the voter must register as a member of one or the other color. independents are not allowed to vote in primaries. and in many states independent can't even get on the ballot. ..people care who their mayor is, they want to vote for changes to their state constitutions, but because of ignorance they don't give a rats ass which liar in chief is the current occupant of the white house. People have learned no matter the national campaign promises, nothing will change, Obama poisoned that well. Thanks for the reply.. Your observation deserves some thought.. the big question it raises is: how to overcome the deep state intention to keep the voters uninformed. IOT educate the voting public it is necessary to provide voters with easy access to the information appropriate to developing understanding. The problem is the deep state owns, controls and manipulates the information environment; voters are allowed to engage with and see only that which the deep state wants them to see.

Posted by: snake | Jul 31 2025 9:31 utc | 105

Posted by: Beobachter II | Jul 31 2025 7:55 utc | 90
Or Trump celebrating, as a Ukrainian collapse would strengthen his hand against the administrative state by reinforcing his narrative that they are the real enemy. Again, if the round facts don’t fit the square hole, look for one that’s a bit more roundish. Fisher Price made a fortune teaching that to children.

Posted by: Milites | Jul 31 2025 9:50 utc | 107

@107,
Trump doesn’t want Ukraine to collapse, if he wanted .. he would’ve picked other people than Kellogg or Rubio to handle these the discussions with Russia. He also wouldn’t supply any further weapons or incite more war with Russia.
Let’s not kid ourselves, he is a low IQ individual who only cares that US maintain its hegemony without caring one bit about anyone else or the damage it creates to others.
Its time for some people here to see him for what he is.

Posted by: JamesBond | Jul 31 2025 10:09 utc | 109

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jul 30 2025 20:25 utc | 34
This guy “gets it” regarding the possibility of internal Ukrainian collapse into civil war/turmoil

Correct. That’s why I’ve been saying any replacement has to be a super fanatical fascist dictator, brought to power in a classic military coup, and which will start by killing and imprisoning the current admin and then sending all remaining males to the Eastern Fronts.
It’s tough for Western honchos to manage something like that, to cheer for a full-blown fascist dictator in the Ukraines, but they have polished many other turds in the past, like that head-chopper turned suit-wearing politician in Syria.

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Jul 31 2025 10:16 utc | 111

Key Ukrainian defense position on high ground …
Chasiv Yar Falls to Russian Forces After Nearly a Year of Intense Fighting

Posted by: Oui | Jul 31 2025 10:53 utc | 113

So it seems the rumours of the daring raid on Odessa by RF special forces killed guards and captured U.K. and Intelligence personnel who have been directing the U.K. illegal warmaking there. It also seems the tunnel via Poland through which Germany and Europe was supplying armaments and personnel – was destroyed with much of the meteriel.
It also seems true that the airfields hosting western forces and f16’s got screwed. The airfields with helicopters too … not forgetting the ship loaded with Aussie useless tanks smuggled in by the Turkish natzios.
In response the dill have announced the arrest of one of their airforce commanders for supplying info to the RF!
No wonder HerrStarmztrooper, fuehrina VdL and all looked a bit flummoxed visiting The Donald in his Scottish rescidence! And all the smoke and mirrors squizzle pointing about tariffs that he has been – like a pisshead – spraying the urinals! Threatening Medvedev like some cheap gangster from the gutters of Chicago. Which is where the US shitheads really come from.
Lol … the end is fast approaching. Including the annihilation of the natziods.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jul 31 2025 11:06 utc | 115

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Jul 31 2025 10:54 utc | 113
There is but, as the recently released ObamaGate papers distressingly show, whilst the agency analysts were highly competent and professional, in their judgements, their masters were following their own agenda. It will be interesting to see if more articles like the one posted are written, or will the continued failure in Ukraine cause a further clampdown and Soviet-style demands to support the state narrative.
Personally, I think the ongoing revelations in the US are going to be a tsunami, reshaping politics forever there, the interesting thing will be what will be the size of the waves reaching Europe and how much damage will they cause.

Posted by: Milites | Jul 31 2025 11:36 utc | 117

Posted by: Milites | Jul 31 2025 9:22 utc | 104
Thanks again for a magnificent post. Thinking/writing superb. It’s a chore wading through this place, but well worth it because of you and a few others.

Posted by: Robert Smith | Jul 31 2025 11:58 utc | 119

I haven’t check in in a while but I’ll stop by for a beer and raise my glass to the liberation of Chasov Yar!

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jul 31 2025 12:21 utc | 121

Russia could accelerate this by offering cooperation to Poland & Rumania in “solving the Ukraine problem”. This holds out the prospect of a return of Galicia to Poland and of Bessarabia to Rumania.
Posted by: John Marks | Jul 31 2025 10:12 utc | 110
Romania officially said they don’t have any territorial disputes. Nato won’t let them want it anyway. They are interested in assimilating Moldova to bring Nato near Odessa. Poland recently said they want Odessa to gain access to Black Sea. Basically Nato plans to expand again and Russia will watch it like a movie, like they do since 90s regardless of who was the president. They also cry about the Baltic sea now: “Direct Western attacks on Russian ships and maritime infrastructure cannot be ruled out” – Patrushev ( tass.com/politics/1996513 , tass.com/politics/1996521 )

Posted by: rk | Jul 31 2025 12:41 utc | 123

Victor Orban should go for broke and invade Western Ukraine now while they’re weak. Use the Right to Protect justification. Many ethnic Hungarians being persecuted by the Nazis and press ganged.
Make Hungary Great Again!

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Jul 31 2025 13:00 utc | 125

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jul 31 2025 12:21 utc | 120
I haven’t check in in a while but I’ll stop by for a beer and raise my glass to the liberation of Chasov Yar!
I will join you in having a drink to that if I may.
Marat Kharallian has an interesting new article (today).
It seems like after the Pokrovsk area is liberated that the RF is making a serious push towards the Kharkov/Lyman/Izyum area to the North. This might be a feint, but who knows.
Whatever, I think a push to one or more strategic areas on the Dnieper is likely in the near future. It would be interesting to have newbie’s view on this.

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Jul 31 2025 13:10 utc | 127

Re “gender-bending” propaganda, Nato countries used it not just within the USA/EU for red/blue debate but to also instill anger in the blues for Russia and other “traditional” nations. USA/EU propaganda tells consumers the enemies are populated by backward anti-gay people. Some of them are. Some just don’t want it “visible”. And some just don’t want their nation turning into a place where “male athletes beat up women and use their bathrooms” and “quack doctors make life-altering operations on minors”.
It was a wedge issue internally and externally.

Posted by: I forgot | Jul 31 2025 13:36 utc | 129

Over night strike on Ukraine said to be successful.
“Russian forces carried out a strike on Ukrainian defense industry facilities and other military targets overnight, the Defense Ministry in Moscow reported on Thursday. Ukrainian officials earlier claimed that Kiev bore the brunt of the attack.
The ministry reported in a statement a “large-scale precision strike” involving long-range weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The targets included “Ukraine’s defense industry facilities, a military airfield infrastructure, and a depot storing ammunition, missiles, and components for the production of unmanned aerial vehicles,” according to the ministry.
“All designated targets have been hit,” the ministry said in its statement. “The objectives of the strike have been achieved.””

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 31 2025 14:15 utc | 131

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jul 31 2025 11:06 utc | 114
“So it seems the rumours of the daring raid on Odessa by RF special forces killed guards and captured U.K. and Intelligence personnel who have been directing the U.K. illegal warmaking there. It also seems the tunnel via Poland through which Germany and Europe was supplying armaments and personnel – was destroyed with much of the meteriel.
It also seems true that the airfields hosting western forces and f16’s got screwed. The airfields with helicopters too … not forgetting the ship loaded with Aussie useless tanks smuggled in by the Turkish natzios.”
I missed those stories. Can you share any links?

Posted by: Paranaense | Jul 31 2025 14:27 utc | 133

Johan Kaspar @ 108
Nope. The breeding population left long ago. RF inherits a geriatric ward.

Posted by: oldhippie | Jul 31 2025 14:36 utc | 135

@134,
My assertion is the fact that if you listen to Trump for at least 5 minutes, you would notice that the level of pure knowledge that this guy has, is fairly limited. And yes, even with his brain limits, he knows that US needs to maintain its hegemony in eyes of its vassals and foes alike. You don’t need to be a genius to see that.
Also, as Putin and other better leaders noticed, POTUS is basically a figurehead in the American Empire machine which is (sadly) still the only power that can project raw destruction everywhere not just militarily but also economic pain.
We can discuss “think tank level” discussions but the crude fact is that BRICS is not yet ready. Hence why each of its members is basically negotiating separately which is what US wants.
You talk about MoA failing because some like me, mention some cold hardened facts not some wishful thinking stuff that may or may not happen.

Posted by: JamesBond | Jul 31 2025 14:58 utc | 137

Posted by: I forgot | Jul 31 2025 13:36 utc | 128
It always existed, it was tolerated to a remarkable degree by society as a whole and had numerous outlets, but as you state, it was weaponised by those seeking to reconstruct the definition of humanity, whilst simultaneously aiming at societal deconstruction. The only problem was that the people who’d been assigned the role turned out to be as bad, if not worse, than those who’d been demonised as intolerant, right-wing nazis. Worse, the medical condition known to be directly linked with body dysphoria, autism, began to actively sabotage the project with its compulsion to categorise every type of sexual preference, making the project a target for mockery (eg the alphabet people and the abomination of a flag). Lastly, it sparked a huge, largely hidden (due to MSM suppression) war between the more traditional sexual minorities and the splinter group, causing huge resentment amongst the former community as the latter showed their true authoritarian nature.
So what had seemed like the perfect narrative tool to: mobilise the propagandised youth, extend and neuter any meaningful effects of foreign intervention, thus increasing the duration of the revenue stream, (Afghan elders might indulge and accept that Thursday has always been ‘boys night’, but a woman claiming to be a man, was manna from heaven to Taliban influencers), provide a weaponised movement to disrupt traditional societies and accelerate the trans-humanist agenda, began to unravel. Worse was to come though when the suppression of any debate had only hidden the growing resentment felt towards this phenomenon.
The real panic started to set in when Trump, ever the campaign master, started to champion women only sport and the ‘He’s for you, she’s for they’ campaign began to seriously bite. Democrats had to endure the full ordeal by meme, that they’d only glimpsed before, due to their occupation of Twitter, and the Biden, then Harris campaign, realised too late that they’d self-forged a concealed nemesis. Hence Trump’s majority women support, except the AWFL’s and the 18-25 bracket, and the massive gender gap, especially amongst the black community.
So why bring this up, because the manipulation was not only discovered, it was reforged and sent straight back at the manipulators. Humans have been manipulating people since they walked the earth and have become good at detecting it, but, and here’s the guilty secret, when people claim to have been the victims of manipulation a significant portion use their supposed gullibility to try to escape moral responsibility, and possible sanction, for a movement they had actively supported, before it failed.
So yes, you’re correct, the deconstructors had to initially use manipulation to initiate their plan, but then they went far further, taking sadistic glee in wrecking the developing consensus and weakening the pillars of a functioning society. What’s fascinating though is that the society they presumed to understand and be masters of, (demolition engineers should first be structural engineers), and believed was easy prey, has turned out to be far more resilient and deep rooted than they expected. Humans being, not humans bending, it seems.

Posted by: Milites | Jul 31 2025 15:24 utc | 139

See, this is where MoA fails (badly) – it’s simply yet another church with its own rigid dogma rather than a virtual think tank considering all information and options.
Posted by: Markw | Jul 31 2025 14:32 utc | 134
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Why should it be a virtual think tank?
If you don’t see what you want, be the change you want to see in the world. Hectoring others for not meeting your desires is unprofitable.
I have run fairly large online communities in the past, and they always develop their own limits. Floors and ceilings. Trying to change them is difficult and risks destruction.
Organizing humans is a difficult endeavor. And then the audience here is the most difficult, a lot of males (contentious by nature), a lot of outliers.
Use MoA for what it does well, and for what it does not, seek elsewhere.
One-stop shopping isn’t always the answer.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 31 2025 15:47 utc | 141

It seems like after the Pokrovsk area is liberated that the RF is making a serious push towards the Kharkov/Lyman/Izyum area to the North. This might be a feint, but who knows.
Whatever, I think a push to one or more strategic areas on the Dnieper is likely in the near future. It would be interesting to have newbie’s view on this.
Posted by: Barrel Brown | Jul 31 2025 13:10 utc | 127
You could have posted the link, I don’t hold an exclusive and take days off every once in a while
https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/brief-frontline-report-july-30th
As for my opinion, not a military expert in any way, is what I’ve been saying about 37E, a straight line at 37 east longitude (36 if Ukraine misbehaves)
Can be something final or a stepping stone .

Posted by: Newbie | Jul 31 2025 17:09 utc | 143

Not sure when this happened.
“At night, Russian special forces landed in Ochakov on several boats and penetrated the command center. They captured British soldiers who coordinated the use of British missiles and drones. Among the captives are Colonel Edward Blake, an officer of the special psychological operations unit; Lieutenant Colonel Richard Carroll, an official of the British Ministry of Defense, who was significantly involved in operations in the Middle East; and an unidentified employee, probably an officer of the MI6 intelligence service, who was present as an advisor on cybersecurity.
The operation of the Russian special forces lasted about 15 minutes.
Within a few hours of the operation, diplomatic relations between London and Moscow deteriorated sharply. Representatives of the British Foreign Office turned to the Russian Ministry of Defense with a request to return the British officers who had “lost their way” to Ukrainian territory. The official version from London: the detained officers were heading to Ukraine for tourist purposes and accidentally ended up in Ochakov. They were probably interested in naval history and wanted to visit the coast where battles took place during World War II.
However, the detainees were not found with beach towels or cameras, but with maps with strategic objects on Russian territory, plans of Russian air defense, secret instructions for interaction with Ukrainian drone operators, as well as disks with encrypted data and records of negotiations with the British General Staff. Quite unusual propriety for tourists.
Russian Defense Minister Belousov allegedly told the British that the British soldiers were not subject to exchange and that the West would not return them by Red Cross planes. Russia intends to put them on trial for participating in military actions against Russia.”
“Operation Skat-12 became part of the new Russian military doctrine, which moves “towards proactive control of the battlefield”:
“Strikes are carried out first and without warning, an attack strategy in all directions. The General Intelligence Directorate (GRU) received a new directive: “Russia is no longer waiting, we act first.” The task of the special forces is to act covertly and effectively, causing fear among NATO officers, demotivating them in the matter of providing assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.””

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 31 2025 18:44 utc | 145

Posted by: Milites | Jul 31 2025 15:24 utc | 139
“… and here’s the guilty secret, when people claim to have been the victims of manipulation a significant portion use their supposed gullibility to try to escape moral responsibility, and possible sanction, for a movement they had actively supported, before it failed.”
Yes yes yes. Case in point, the willing, underage teenage prostitutes in the advantageous financial and lifestyle employ of Epstein, subsequently playing the “abused victim” 20 years after the fact.

Posted by: The Poor Sookums | Jul 31 2025 23:12 utc | 147

Posted by: Newbie | Jul 31 2025 17:09 utc | 143
You could have posted the link, I don’t hold an exclusive and take days off every once in a while
I apologise for being presumptions newbie, and while you may not be formally a “military expert”, you do seem to have a much better idea of what is really going on in Ukraine than the vast majority of commentators here at MoA. Kudos to you sir.
I usually scan MK stuff and try to understand as best I can. It is sometimes a bit difficult because my old eyes are failing and the MK stuff is very detailed.
Anyhow, I am now very pleased that Chasovv Yar has now been liberated by RF.

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Aug 1 2025 2:18 utc | 149

Posted by: oldhippie | Jul 31 2025 14:36 utc | 135
Nope. The breeding population left long ago. RF inherits a geriatric ward.

Not true. Remaining young females (15-49 yr old) are 7-8 millions. Some of them may run to the EU once the Russian cross the river but millions will remain.

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Aug 1 2025 6:12 utc | 151

The results are in! With yesterdays 430 confirmed KIA, July 2025 officially becomes statistically the WORST month in the history of the SMO in terms of deaths. But please everyone! Keep letting random grifters who’ve never set foot in Russia tell you how well everything is going!

Posted by: Кельт | Aug 1 2025 9:09 utc | 153

Not sure when this happened.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 31 2025 18:44 utc | 145
It happened in the fantasies of Borzikman of youtube, at least until Tass writes about it

Posted by: rk | Aug 1 2025 9:29 utc | 155

Posted by: fancemon | Aug 1 2025 9:31 utc | 156
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You should rather be baffled why Zelenski et al and EU want to fight to the last Ukrainian.
Troll.

Posted by: scc | Aug 1 2025 11:21 utc | 157

Ukraine and World Affairs: Weekly Update, August 1st 2025: May be useful to some: https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-and-world-affairs-weekly-be0

Posted by: The Busker | Aug 1 2025 13:06 utc | 159

WWIII goes social, with Dmitry Medvedev as RF’s tweeter-in-chief. If DJT wants to play internet insult-contest (thing-wagging with nuclear subs!) Medvedev is totally ready:
Medvedev:

Trump’s playing the ultimatum game with Russia: 50 days or 10… He should remember 2 things:
1. Russia isn’t Israel or even Iran.
2. Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war. Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his own country. Don’t go down the Sleepy Joe road!

Trump:

Based on the highly provocative statements of the Former President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, who is now the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, I have ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions, just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that. Words are very important, and can often lead to unintended consequences, I hope this will not be one of those instances. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Aug 1 2025 19:14 utc | 161

Folks, hold onto your asses. Trump – the daddy god-emperor of mankind and Americas savior in chief – has taken us to DEFCOPE 1.
I’ll see myself out.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Aug 1 2025 19:19 utc | 163

I doubt Trump and his minions such as Starmer and Merz, will like this – maybe this the real reason Trump has deployed two nuclear subs.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 1 2025 19:56 utc | 164
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Trump has many masters.
He has to “do something” to make America look tough on behalf of the Senate Neocons.
He also has to make public statements to project an air of dominance to the MAGAs. So much of his schtick is being a tough Daddy who will protect the kids from a world that wants to take advantage of them.
It is quite likely that not one sub moved. When Trump says he is going to do something, remember that less than half of what he says ever happens.
This is all entertainment for the Axis, watching the American leader make a fool of himself publicly.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 1 2025 20:05 utc | 165

Y’all might be interested in hearing more about this:
https://www.thekhybermail.com/ukraine-war-british-officers-captured-in-russian-special-forces-raid/

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Aug 1 2025 21:19 utc | 167

@168
Trump has some in his following who are so brainwashed as to believe tariffs will cure the U$$A debt, and make every person in U$$A the Beaver’s father, that Trump is not protecting high placed pedophiles and that Kiev Nazis are saints.
Very few in real U$$A are buying in to Trump’s blither.
Soon enough we will demand Epstein flight logs back to 1990.
If Trump don’t blow up the world to cover his sponsors

Posted by: paddy | Aug 1 2025 22:14 utc | 169

NoName@168…..and if he’s right, then what? 112k dead Russians, entirely plausible, 10:1 against over one million dead Ukies and that’s me being extremely generous, I personally believe Russian KIA as being higher, still running 10:1 against Ukie with Ukie topping out close to 2 million dead by now…..like it matters though….
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Aug 2 2025 0:14 utc | 171

Posted by: John Marks | Aug 1 2025 19:17 utc | 162
“A rump Ukraine (Chornarus?) similar to Belarus seems the most likely outcome.”
I reckon that is a pretty good assessment John. However, if things look like they are going that way for Ukraine, then NATO will not be happy and the bent wing nuts in charge with tenuous appreciation of reality might try something really stupid.
Hope I am wrong about this, but there is certainly an element of insanity within the NATO and Western “leadership” establishments who would like to “defeat the RF on the battlefield”.

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Aug 2 2025 0:37 utc | 173

So we have:
1. Trump telling the Russians they have 50 days to surrender.
2. Trump changing that to 10 days to surrender.
3. U.S. NATO general talking about taking Kaliningrad within 24 hours.
4. A rumor that Russia destroyed a tunnel from Poland into Ukraine filled with military vehicles and equipment.
5. A German Luftwaffe A400M transport filled with military equipment destroyed on a Ukrainian airfield, probably while taxiing to parking,with the loss of the crew, aircraft, and cargo.
6. Russian raid on a British command post on the Black Sea coast where the Russians captured the two senior officers and a MI6 guy, and killed everyone else on site.
7. The sinking, in the Black Sea, of a ship carrying 60 or so M1 Abrams tanks.
8. Aircraft (F16s or MiGs) flying back and forth between NATO bases in Romania or Poland and Ukraine.
Analysis
Each item above had their own, individual explanations. Trumps deadline was about tariffs. Threats against Kaliningrad were empty boasts. The tunnel into Ukraine filled with vehicles was used to keep the Ukrainian armed. The loss of the A500M and tank filled ship were signs of western desperation. The aircraft flying from Ukraine to NATO bases were Ukrainian pilots fleeing. Finally, the British command center was used to direct Storm Shadow strikes.
I don’t think these are discreet and separate events. They paint a picture for me if NATO preparing to enter Ukraine. The Abrams being shipped to Odessa, an A500M taking the risk of landing in Ukraine (very high priority defense equipment on board), the tunnel crammed full of vehicles and equipment (which I assume were fully fueled and loaded with ammunition), NATO aircraft flying into Ukraine on familiarization flights, threats on Kaliningrad to draw Russian attention north, and a forward deployed British command center all suggest NATO was planning to enter Ukraine – seizing control of Odessa, and possibly pushing hard to position forces in Kiev.
Trump’s 10 day deadline may have nothing to do with tariffs. In fact the entire tariffs craziness, while it might have a purpose in itself, could be meant to distract attention away from the possibility the Trump deadline was to signal when NATO would enter the war.
That would explain how these direct Russian attacks on NATO personnel and equipment are coming so fast and furious. They know NATO’s plan and these are spoiling attacks.

Posted by: Nobody Special | Aug 2 2025 1:37 utc | 175

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Aug 1 2025 19:19 utc | 163
“Folks, hold onto your asses. Trump – the daddy god-emperor of mankind and Americas savior in chief – has taken us to DEFCOPE 1.
I’ll see myself out.”
I would guess it’s just more bluffing, trying to make something out of a bad hand. It’s not as if those two subs were sitting in dry dock with nothing to do. They were somewhere, and now they’re somewhere else. Nuclear subs aren’t stored in the attic until a need arises; they’re always on patrol, running training drills, or they’re in port being serviced and provisioned for the next assignment. That’s my layman’s guess.

Posted by: Paranaense | Aug 2 2025 4:23 utc | 177

“In order to solve the issue in a peaceful way, we need deep conversations, not in public, but in the silence of a negotiating process.”
What wasn’t said out loud after Trump’s `shoot the messenger’ performance today? https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-trump-orders-head-of-us-employment-data-fired-after-weak-jobs-report/
Biden was f*cking scarey.

Posted by: Laurence | Aug 2 2025 4:49 utc | 179

@ Barrel Brown, § 176:
Medvedev was reasonable and measured in what he said, especially given Trump´s peremptory ultimatum.
Trump´s macho response, publicly announcing the deployment of two nuclear submarines towards Russia, is the height of irresponsibility, putting a nuclear exchanger on a trigger-hair. Trump was in part elected because he promised to bury the hatchet with Russia. Although his latest action may be pandering to the bribed lobby in the Senate, this behaviour endangers us all. Sooner or later, Trump has to defy the NeoCons if he is to deliver on his promises.

Posted by: John Marks | Aug 2 2025 10:04 utc | 181

“That’s my layman’s guess.”
Posted by: Paranaense | Aug 2 2025 4:23 utc | 177
You are correct.
Thomas

Posted by: Thomas | Aug 2 2025 10:49 utc | 183

Posted by: Nobody Special | Aug 2 2025 1:37 utc | 175
Can’t add to or subtract from your comment, but it was one of the better integrative efforts I’ve seen here.

Posted by: dadooronron | Aug 2 2025 11:51 utc | 185

Nuke subs do not appear at the designated positions the moment they are ordered to go there. It takes time, perhaps several days, for them to arrive at location. Furthermore, if, as Nobody Special @175 above posits, NATO is preparing a major operation, then preparations began many months to years ago. The nuke subs would have received their assignments long before Trump made his announcement.
Aleph_Null @182 points out “Now we’re completely stripped of semi-rational opposition to USA’s rapid deterioration in all domains — especially its slouching into WWIII.”
Imagine yourself to be a rational person in that mix trying to head off WWIII. You go against the Establishment groupthink on something this big and the knives will come out for certain and literally, so what do you do?
Trump’s nuke submarine comment is not an arrogant threat. It is a warning to alert the Russians of imperial plans that are already in progress. Trump’s comment may even have contained enough information to tell the Russians roughly where the subs are so that the Russians can locate and neutralize them.
Of course, this is predicated upon the scenario suggested by Nobody Special above in which a major move by NATO forces is imminent, along with the high probability that Trump doesn’t have the leverage within the Establishment to change the course of some operation with such enormous momentum.
On the other hand, if the situation proposed by Nobody Special is wrong and this is actually originating from Trump then it is just theater and nothing will come of it. The 8th will come and go with only a new loud noise to startle the TDS victims into a new meaningless panic.

Posted by: William Gruff | Aug 2 2025 12:49 utc | 187

@ William Gruff
I agree. The US submarines have very likely been deployed already. Can trump order a nuclear hit on Russia without Congress approval when no war is yet declared?

Posted by: Richard L | Aug 2 2025 14:10 utc | 189

@ Nobody Special | Aug 2 2025 1:37 utc | 175
@ William Gruff | Aug 2 2025 12:49 utc | 187
NS’s analysis of NATO build-up along multiple vectors makes solid sense, imho.
WG’s view that the whole Medvedev kerfuffle could be a massive mind-fuck, just to own the libtards or something, is also worth considering. Then again, life in the US of A is a massive mind-fuck already, and has been for years. It gets difficult to parse signal from noise. That’s the very purpose of the noise.
My brain hurts. Way too much derangement, delusion, and drumpf. Every single freaking day, another spectacular theatrical production to own the libtards. That’s the very purpose of DJT, and his army of flying monkeys.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Aug 2 2025 14:25 utc | 191

i hope the brits are ready for what is eventually coming home to roost:

🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Russian Unmanned Boats Now a Major Threat to Ukrainian Ports — Says Ukrainian Military Expert
Ukrainian military communications specialist Sergey Beskrestnov (“Flash”) has warned that Russian unmanned surface vessels pose a serious threat to all of Ukraine’s maritime infrastructure.
According to him, Russia’s Ministry of Defense has recently created a special unit within the elite “Rubikon” Center for the development and deployment of unmanned boats. Its task: large-scale strikes on Ukrainian ports, rigs, and naval assets.

“If you know what Rubikon is, you understand it’s serious,” Beskrestnov wrote. “That center could hit every Ukrainian port and ship in one day with 400 surface and underwater drones — just like the Geran strikes. Are we ready for that?”

after all, it was the brits who came up with these kamikaze boats. oh sorry, i meant “ukraine”.

Posted by: Justpassinby | Aug 2 2025 15:00 utc | 193

Tempers continue to fray:

Video of a violent clash in Kiev between residents and police and the TCC: the people helped a guy escape the Zelensky’s democratic mobilization

https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/08/02/1562580.html
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Clashes between police and women protesting against mobilization in western Ukraine
While the Kyiv authorities, despite the widespread retreat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the front and heavy losses, stubbornly want to continue military operations to a victorious end, throwing more and more forces into this meat grinder, ordinary residents of Ukraine are increasingly showing their dissatisfaction with the forced mobilization in the country.
A major unrest, as local publics report, broke out on this basis yesterday evening in the city of Vinnytsia. There, at the city stadium “Lokomotiv”, employees of the TCC (military registration and enlistment office) brought up to a hundred men, whom they apparently decided to check for suitability for mobilization into the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
However, concerned Ukrainian women, who were against forced mobilization, soon began to gather in the stadium area. They decided to break into the stadium, probably to “free” the men. They even managed to break down the gates, after which police squads were called to the scene, with whom clashes took place.
It is reported that law enforcement officers used gas canisters against women, grabbed them and put them in service cars. What these hundred almost mobilized men were doing at that time is not specified.
Let us recall that since the beginning of the conflict in February 2022, Ukraine has been under general mobilization, which was significantly tightened in May 2024. Since then, ordinary Ukrainians have been rounded up in various places, forced into minibuses and sent to military registration and enlistment offices.

https://en.topwar.ru/269063-zhenschiny-zastupilis-za-muzhchin-na-zapade-ukrainy-proshli-stolknovenija-policii-i-protestujuschih-protiv-mobilizacii.html

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 2 2025 15:21 utc | 195

@ LoveDonbass
We know that DeepState is slow as an octopus or a constrictor snake, patient and very deadly. It looks like the plan to set Europe as a military arm of the US is on its way to succeed as Hungary’s head of state recently said of the EU coming budget.
The current situation is that DeepStatw is on the offensive and a few states such as Yemen, North-Korea and Russia are standing up but they grossly still are on the defensive. They didn’t yet confront DeepState directly.

Posted by: Richard L | Aug 2 2025 15:30 utc | 197

Aleph_Null @191: “…the whole Medvedev kerfuffle could be a massive mind-fuck, just to own the libtards or something…”
I wouldn’t say it is something done to “own” (make fools of) them. Rather it is to undermine their plans without looking too much like he is being “unpatriotic” and giving the presstitution industry the ammunition to say he is sabotaging America and working for the Russians.
In fact, this working at cross purposes with the Establishment while not appearing to work at cross purposes with American interests is the underlying reason for what appears to be erratic behavior from Trump. He has to kick the Establishment in the kneecap while making it look accidental or, better yet, their fault. Where Putin is a judo black belt, which extends to a degree to his political and diplomatic style, Trump is practicing something more akin to the martial art form “Drunken Fist” (Zui Quan).

Posted by: William Gruff | Aug 2 2025 17:07 utc | 199