Just checking the old thread and 
 
@unimperator, maybe worth bringing your last post (simple os crossed with marat’s)
 
@dude do you have a link for that threat ?

Posted by: Newbie | Mar 6 2026 11:34 utc | 4

Fico: Zelensky crossed red lines with threats against Orban
 
“I officially ask all high representatives of the European Union – the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Council António Costa, and the EU Foreign Minister Kaja Kallas – to distance themselves from these outrageous blackmailing statements by Zelensky,” – he urged.
 
Zelensky considers EU representatives his servants who should do everything he expects, added Fico.
 
https://odysee.com/@Velyaminov:a/Zelensky-crossed-red-lines-with-threats-against-Orban:0

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 6 2026 11:47 utc | 6

There is no more bandera proxy natzio folly news. 
 
That is the main reason for all the other dead cats on table and squizzle pointing events. 
 
Tbe Black Sean is conjured and the modern day AIG led GFC can proceed! 
 
It will all be blamed on curseyoopoooootin / Xi, Iranians and Venezuelans, Palestinians and Hezbullah and Ansar Allah; and all the migrants fleeing from the Waster Wars drawn to the supposed Garden of the Collective Waste. 
 
Ukropia will fall to the Dniper and Shelensky’s home town will fall this spring.  

Posted by: DunGroanin | Mar 6 2026 11:56 utc | 8

Russia oil sales:
 
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The United States has temporarily allowed India to purchase oil from Russia stored on tankers at sea, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed.”To enable oil to keep flowing into the global market, the Treasury Department is issuing a temporary 30-day waiver to allow Indian refiners to purchase Russian oil. This deliberately short-term measure will not provide significant financial benefit to the Russian government as it only authorizes transactions involving oil already stranded at sea,” Bessent wrote on X.He said India is an essential partner of the United States, and added that the US anticipates New Delhi to “ramp up purchases of US oil.”
https://sputnikglobe.com/20260306/bessent-confirms-30-day-waiver-for-india-to-buy-russian-oil-1123773917.html
 
If the Indians have any sense (a debatable proposition) then they will avoid putting themselves into the same trap as the EU, who are now even more completely dependent on US whims than they were a few years ago. Having the US as their main oil supplier is to relinquish all freedom of political and economic choice. But so good of Trump to give them 30 days to choose – what a splendid guy!

Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Mar 6 2026 12:34 utc | 10

Relations between Ukraine and Hungary deteriorate further:

Hungary actually took Sberbank employees hostage and stole money-Sibiga

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Andriy Sibiga said that Hungary actually took 7 employees of Oschadbank hostage and stole the money they were transporting.
 

He wrote about this on Facebook, reports RegioNews .
 
According to Sibiga, the seven Ukrainians were driving two bank cars that were transiting between Austria and Ukraine and were transporting cash as part of regular service between state-owned banks.
 

“If this is the same “force” that Mr. Orban previously stated, then this is the power of a criminal group. This is state terrorism and racketeering, ” Sibiga said.
 

The Minister added that Ukraine has already sent an official note demanding the immediate release of citizens and will appeal to the European Union to assess Hungary’s illegal actions.
 
The press service of Oschadbank reported that two collection vehicles were unreasonably detained while transporting foreign currency and banking metals between Raiffeisen Bank Austria and Oschadbank Ukraine.
 

“The amount of valuables that were in the cars amounted to 40 million US dollars, 35 million euros and 9 kg of gold,” the bank said.
 

Now the cars are located in the center of Budapest near one of the security forces of Hungary. The location of Sberbank employees is still unknown.
 

“Oschadbank demands the immediate dismissal of its employees and the return of property,” the press service said.
 

The bank’s management is in constant contact with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and law enforcement agencies of Ukraine to coordinate further actions.
 
Recall that in November 2025, President Vladimir Zelensky said that Hungarian Prime Minister Orban actually supports Russian dictator Putin , since he blocks Ukraine’s entry into the EU.

https://regionews.ua/ukr/news/ukraine/1772777153-ugorshchina-faktichno-vzyala-v-zaruchniki-pratsivnikiv-oshchadbanku-ta-vikrala-groshi-sibiga (via translation add-on.)
 
I wonder if it will get as far as cross-border shelling, exchanges of fire? Opening a second front always works out so well…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 6 2026 12:44 utc | 12

Russia oil sales:
 
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The United States has temporarily allowed India to purchase oil from Russia stored on tankers at sea, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed.”To enable oil to keep flowing into the global market, the Treasury Department is issuing a temporary 30-day waiver to allow Indian refiners to purchase Russian oil. This deliberately short-term measure will not provide significant financial benefit to the Russian government as it only authorizes transactions involving oil already stranded at sea,” Bessent wrote on X.He said India is an essential partner of the United States, and added that the US anticipates New Delhi to “ramp up purchases of US oil.”
https://sputnikglobe.com/20260306/bessent-confirms-30-day-waiver-for-india-to-buy-russian-oil-1123773917.html
 
If the Indians have any sense (a debatable proposition) then they will avoid putting themselves into the same trap as the EU, who are now even more completely dependent on US whims than they were a few years ago. Having the US as their main oil supplier is to relinquish all freedom of political and economic choice. But so good of Trump to give them 30 days to choose – what a splendid guy!
 
Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Mar 6 2026 12:34 utc | 10
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Lol, you can’t polish a turd but you can roll it in golden glitter eh?
 
I wonder if Trumpenstein will answer questions about this, by babbling in a senile manner about his f*cking precious ballroom floor.
 
Whilst Sloppy Pete tries ripping his shirt off Hulk Hogan style and Lil Mark tries remembering the lies he told yesterday so he can deny them.

Posted by: Urban Fox | Mar 6 2026 12:50 utc | 14

TASS report covering the Russian Defence Ministry weekly summary: https://tass.com/politics/2097677

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 6 2026 13:24 utc | 16

I wonder if it will get as far as cross-border shelling, exchanges of fire? Opening a second front always works out so well…
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 6 2026 12:44 utc | 12
Maybe Ukraine will finally get what it wanted for the last 4 years – western soldiers in Ukraine. But something tells me that they will not be happy if those soldiers shoot them.

Posted by: Martina | Mar 6 2026 13:34 utc | 18

I bet the Europeans really want Nord Stream 2 back now
 
Too bad the gas pipeline sits under Ukranian house and Russia
 
Algeria can still provide them with Gas but Algeria will probably consider rising price 
 
Ukraine yeah only has EU backing now as US is zooming in West Asia.
 
The Ukrainian army is in bad shape but it won’t crack until another big mass casualties event as big as Bakmutt. 
 
Armed combatants are too spread out on both sides. They both need to concentrate in an area for a big battle to break eachother instead of doing skirmishes.

Posted by: KillerDoll | Mar 6 2026 13:51 utc | 20

There’s more than those two: “All of Putin’s friends are either already in heaven or in hell — probably in hell — or in prison. There are still some left: China, North Korea, and some others. But Putin’s authority is falling anyway,” the Estonian minister said, March 5. Sounds like a public threat to me for little Xi. 
Assassinations work very well for Natostan mostly because they’re combined with the money printer and their targets don’t have a system, their policy depends on a single person or small group. Remove that guy, give $5 to the next and the whole country is changed like Venezuela. It’s how EU works too. Bribe a few in each country and they vote anything Ursula says but no one elected her. Vicky said Maidan cost was only $5bn. That’s so cheap some may try it out of boredom. Maybe China is different, we’ll see when they will receive an invitation to visit Anchorage
 
Posted by: rk | Mar 6 2026 13:30 utc | 17
 
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Cool story brah.
 
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Maybe Ukraine will finally get what it wanted for the last 4 years – western soldiers in Ukraine. But something tells me that they will not be happy if those soldiers shoot them.
Posted by: Martina | Mar 6 2026 13:34 utc | 18
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It’d be a sure sign of the end.
 
Ukraine doesn’t have troops to spare to confront even one Hungarian division now. Particularly given the territory Hungary would enter  has a supportive population.
 

Posted by: Urban Fox | Mar 6 2026 14:26 utc | 22

Jams O’Donnell no 10:
 
Modi is totally compromised. He’s in the Epstein Files (part of his activities were disclosed, just enough to make him fall in line). His corporate owner Adani has legal problems in America. Modi is a total slave of Adani and will do anything for his owner, including making India an American colony, to make those problems go away. 

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Mar 6 2026 15:26 utc | 24

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 6 2026 12:44 utc | 12
 
IIRC (I don’t very often cross borders with stacks of banknotes and heaps of precious metals) I think it’s illegal not to declare everything and secure a permit at the border. So the Ukrainian authorities don’t have a very good case. This is hilarious.

Posted by: Avtonom | Mar 6 2026 16:25 utc | 26

Poor Gehlenskyi … the corrupted hellhole he’s being elected in was never able to pay 800 handmade patriots … the charity ladies and gentlemen for a poor lonesome kokhol , in a long long way from peace ;( 
That kike is everyone’s useful idiot … best schadenfreude artist of the millennium.
On the front it’s rasputitza ; images of soldiers covered in mud are there again … spring will come soon. Im Osten nichts Neues.

Posted by: Savonarole | Mar 6 2026 16:40 utc | 28

Posted by: V | Mar 6 2026 16:36 utc | 28
 
The new general and overall new Russian battle strategy has been in place for several days.  Apparently they are still putting together their new battle tactics and detailed plans.  Also they would need to reposition their army.  Maybe 3 more days?  Might be longer to move their units to their new positions.
 
 
Plan first, act later.  But not too much later???  Apparently the Russians are stockpiling their missiles and drones – meaning they are no longer doing Shock and Awe attacks on Ukraine.  This is about the only sign we have the Russia REALLY IS making preparations for a large scale attack.  Military Channel mentions the “big Russian offensive by the end of March”.  Which is more like 3 weeks away.  Like anything like this, we won’t know for sure until after its started.

Posted by: Woke American | Mar 6 2026 17:04 utc | 30

Posted by: V | Mar 6 2026 16:36 utc | 28
 
Interesting info – something to look forwards to. Thanks.

Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Mar 6 2026 17:24 utc | 32

Dr. Vladimir Brovkin and ‘Rich does politics’. Dr. Brovkin’s analysis are always very well thought out.
 

Putin’s TOTAL VICTORY: Why Ukraine is FINISHED

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCj1mubL_L0

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 6 2026 18:51 utc | 34

The dear partners are still dear:
 
https://t.me/rezervsvo/156096
 

Zelenskyy was in Druzhkovka today, 15 kilometers from the front line. He was also in Slovyansk and Kramatorsk.He moved freely, apparently having received clear security guarantees, which is unfortunate.

Posted by: GM | Mar 6 2026 19:15 utc | 36

“Apparently the Russians are stockpiling their missiles and drones – meaning they are no longer doing Shock and Awe attacks on Ukraine. ”  Presumably, unless Ukranian attacks on Russia are impacting weapons production. 
Posted by: schmoe | Mar 6 2026 19:05 utc | 36

 
Noting much in the MIC has been hit inside Russia still. The Votkinks strike may have affected Iskander production, but the Geran production facilities have not been touched. 
 
The only explanation is a political decision to scaled down attacks.
 
Which, a week into the aggression on Iran, is well beyond scandalous and into outright high treason terrtitory

Posted by: GM | Mar 6 2026 19:17 utc | 38

https://t.me/i_strelkov_2023/2562
 

Igor Strelkov on the Russian elite
(excerpt from a letter to a comrade)
 
Regarding the “illogicality” in the behavior of our “elites” and the reasons for this “lack of logic.” Well, I’ve asked myself this question many (many!) times until I came to a rather banal answer, which easily explains all the past idiotic actions of representatives of the “elite” and allows me to predict their future actions and deeds with a fair degree of accuracy (though not without errors, of course).
 
And the answer is this: THEY (in the vast majority, including almost 100% of the “very best” and even the “very best”) ARE SIMPLY STUPID, POORLY EDUCATED (or completely uneducated), lacking any talents (except for their extraordinary vanity and greed), and completely UNBEATENED BY LIFE (i.e., inexperienced in the “struggle for survival”).
 
They didn’t attain power through a fierce inter- and intra-species struggle (like Lenin and Trotsky, and then Stalin), but rather “on a silver platter”—”a random gift to random people.”
 
This gift wasn’t made for any merits or talents, but based on the principle: someone needs to rule “this” country and maintain a status quo that meets our interests? So they were elected: Boris Abramovich and Sobchak were “led in by the hand”—all that was left was to “extend their palms”—and “it all fell into their laps.”
 
Look at their collective biographies: office clerks, for the most part. It doesn’t matter that their “offices” belonged to “high-powered” departments (usually one of them). It was believed that, by and large, they hired people who were intelligent to begin with, but “outward polish” and a genuine, agile mind are two very different things. I’ve met many such “old Chekists.” Some of them truly impressed (and sometimes still do) with the depth and diversity of their intellect. But far-fetchedly not all!
 
And almost all of them (almost without exception) bear the hallmark of “office life”—under Andropov (I think deliberately), any initiative became a career obstacle. And— finding themselves in unfamiliar situations (i.e., when they’re away from the comfort of their office with a ton of phones that “can solve all their problems”), the overwhelming majority of them “fall into a stupor,” losing even the intelligence with which nature endowed them .
 
So we are governed by far from the best representatives of this “Andropov office Chekism,” who, having acquired almost absolute power, managed to “squeeze the oligarchs out of it” (our “oligarchs,” after all, also got their exorbitant property and income “for free,” for the most part), but then began to “clone” around themselves increasingly pale copies of themselves, “trampling” (and even worse) everything that dared “to have its own opinion,” and then simply “not to show unbridled admiration for the leaders for any reason.”
 
Then (having mistaken a fortunate economic situation for a reward for their own genius and achievements) they became “bronzed” to the point of complete immobility—their heads grew so “crowns” that to behave in any way other than “singing incessant hosannas” (with or without reason) became not only indecent for their entourage and “intellectual servants” but—worse yet—disloyal.
 
Especially since by the end of the 2000s, each “humble member of the cooperative” had amassed their own vast “business empire,” and owned property in a small European state (also for each).
 
All of this had to be managed and “increased,” which (over time) completely excluded the “celestials” from the opportunity to independently understand the state issues assigned to them, and the performance of their duties was reduced to fiction: all the work began to be done (“as easy and convenient as possible,” or better yet, not at all) by “pale clones of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th (etc.) level,” also most interested in “achieving the national idea – well-being” and very poorly versed in the issues they were entrusted to deal with.
 
Thus, the notorious “Planet of Pink Ponies” was formed, “cocooned,” and “blocked all social elevators ,” where everything happens by itself.

 
Compare and contrast with Iran. Iran entered the 1990s following the revolution and the the Iran-Iraq war.
 
Russia entered the 1990s following the greatest act of treason in the history of mankind and in a completely degenerate state. Which it has still not recovered from. 

Posted by: GM | Mar 6 2026 19:22 utc | 40

https://t.me/roy_tv_mk/19071
 

The enemy: Russia has significantly increased the number of drone strikes against Ukrainian trains since early spring . This is according to Ukrzaliznytsia.
 
According to the company, an average of six attacks per day are currently being recorded on rail infrastructure.
 
Since the beginning of March , 41 objects have been damaged, including 17 units of rolling stock.
 
I’d like to believe this (the paralysis of the enemy’s rail transport wouldn’t hurt us), but our leadership hasn’t completed a single task in the war. They threatened to disrupt the TCC, but abandoned everything at the very beginning. They failed to suppress the enemy’s air defenses. They promised to cut off power to Ukraine’s military-industrial complex, but they failed to achieve this.
 
I fear that the current battle against the enemy’s rail service will also be unfinished. (Although the actions of Anglo-American fighters hunting German steam locomotives paralyzed the work of the Reich’s “Eisenbahnen” by the end of 1944.)
 
But in the Russian Federation, it’s a kind of “General Promise-Nedodelkin” vale of fate (similar to “General Frost”). Do I need to explain why this is dangerous?

Posted by: GM | Mar 6 2026 19:36 utc | 42

Dr. Brovkin says Russia might start bombing the outsourced Ukrainian weapon factories and EU organic weapon factories in EU countries and UK.
 
But he says most likely they won’t, alternately they bomb mostly connections, rail lines, bridges and tunnels to Romania and Poland are destroyed, Odessa port is de-facto out of commission and Ukraine’s army is exhausted.
 
Dr. Brovkin says the west gave Ukraine 80 fighter jets, 1000 tanks (of which 800 Soviet era), 100 Abrams tanks, dozen Leopard 2 tanks, handful of British Challengers, million and a half drones.
 
Russia will take Slavyansk and Kramatorsk. After that Zaporozhye. Cross Dnieper. Then Kherson. Nikolaev. Odessa. Then there’s not much of Ukraine left (economically speaking).

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 6 2026 19:41 utc | 44

If that happens the logistics to Ukraine will get crippled, especially in conjunction with destroyed railway lines and bridges and locomotives. 
 
Posted by: unimperator | Mar 6 2026 19:45 utc | 46

 
Which is when Putin will end the war because god forbid something bad happens to the dear partners.
 
As we saw today in the Donbass
 
Video:
 
https://t.me/RVvoenkor/110549
 
 
Also:
 
 
https://x.com/vick55top/status/2029947051262251356
 

It does not seem that Russia intends to use the US distraction from Ukraine to the war in Iran to finally achieve its goals in Ukraine. What is Putin waiting for? Maybe the same thing that Iran was waiting for until recently? If Russia wants to win in Ukraine, it must do it now.

Posted by: GM | Mar 6 2026 19:55 utc | 46

The “Russia weak” narrative – I’m not buying it

Posted by: Woke American | Mar 6 2026 20:04 utc | 48
 
You are correct not to buy into that narrative, but it is not strictly what @ GM is pushing. For whatever reason, known only to him/her/itself and a few sycophants, he/she/undecided pushes an anti-Putin agenda, regardless of whether Russia shows weakness or not.
 
In an earlier post, I suggested @ GM set up a political party within Russia, so that the issues raised can be debated in the environment where it truly matters. Bleating on an obscure Western fringe blog isn’t going to achieve the change looked for.
 
 

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 6 2026 20:20 utc | 48

My position is in agreement with one of GMs snippets:
 
What is Putin waiting for? Maybe the same thing that Iran was waiting for until recently? If Russia wants to win in Ukraine, it must do it now.
Posted by: GM | Mar 6 2026 19:55 utc | 47
 

Posted by: Woke American | Mar 6 2026 20:45 utc | 50

Posted by: Anonymous | Mar 6 2026 20:52 utc | 52
 
A week ago, this would have been interesting.  Today, the only question is:  what will Russia do.
 
And from the Rush song Free Will:  If you choose not to decide, YOU STILL HAVE MADE A CHOICE.

Posted by: Woke American | Mar 6 2026 20:56 utc | 52

As an example of how Russia is depleting US armaments/resources, see below. Probably this sort of thing happens on a pretty regular basis. Compare the costs/benefits on both sides.
 
“The U.S. Air Force on March 4 scrambled two F-35A and two F-22 fifth generation fighter aircraft to intercept two Russian Tu-142 anti-submarine warfare aircraft in the Alaskan and Canadian Air Defence identification zones, with the Russian aircraft being closely shadowed, and remaining in international airspace. The fighters were supported by four KC-135 tankers, and one E-3 airborne warning and control system (AWACS), while Canada deployed two F-18 fighters and a CC-150 tanker.
 
U.S. defences in Alaska have been hampered by the outstandingly low availability rates of both the F-22 and the F-35, as well as by the growing obsolescence of the E-3 AWACS fleet. The Department of War’s announcement of a decision in early June 2025 to cancel the planned procurement of replacement E-7 systems has faced significant domestic opposition in large part because it will leave Alaska increasingly vulnerable. 
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/us-f22-f35-sintercept-russian-antisubmarine
 
No one can say that the Russians don’t have a sense of humour.

Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Mar 6 2026 21:30 utc | 54

Coventry? Yeah, not too much to recommend there; the WW2 memorial stuff around the cathedral has its point, but then again,  having also travelled there via narrowboat along the Coventry Canal, the basin is not the most friendly place to spend a night moored up.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 6 2026 21:49 utc | 56

If the Indians have any sense (a debatable proposition) then they will avoid putting themselves into the same trap as the EU, who are now even more completely dependent on US whims than they were a few years ago. Having the US as their main oil supplier is to relinquish all freedom of political and economic choice. But so good of Trump to give them 30 days to choose – what a splendid guy!
 
WTF is Putin doing about Russian tankers being attacked and sunk all over the place? from what i have seen not much, and is he prepared to supply Cuba with oil because they are a target? 

Posted by: Englishman | Mar 6 2026 22:25 utc | 58

If the Indians have any sense
Posted by: Englishman | Mar 6 2026 22:25 utc | 59
 
Modi must have a lot of intense Epstein File entries.  What India is doing is very obviously bad for India.
 

Posted by: Woke American | Mar 6 2026 22:28 utc | 60

Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 6 2026 22:13 utc | 58
 
Look what up? I’m quoting an article, not delineating international laws. You seem to have missed the point completely.

Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Mar 6 2026 22:45 utc | 62

Nice response, thank you. For this point though:

However, Putin may have to act decisively, or at least fairly aggressively in some new way, to keep himself from being removed from power. Social and political pressures and all that.

I look across the West, indeed the entire Northern Hemisphere, and President Putin of Russia doesn’t strike me as the most likely candidate for an internal toppling…
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 6 2026 22:42 utc | 62
 
In my mind it would be more a “changing of the guard”.  From the admittedly few Russian sources that I reference regularly, Russians have had enough.  The odds of a major escalation are high.  And President Putin essentially has no choice despite any reservations he might have.
 
I like the way you called him President Putin.  

Posted by: Woke American | Mar 6 2026 22:54 utc | 64

If it is indeed true that Surovkin has taken over command of Russian forces then I am sort of pleased but also very afraid.
 
What might it mean. I am speculating but here goes:
 

1. Russia means to take advantage of the Iranian conflict, with a weakened USA, distracted Europe with economies in free fall, and Ukraine almost emptied of weapons. A no holds barred Surovkin may indeed take the conflict to Odessa and win.
2. Russia is readying itself to take on the Turkified, Syria, Azerbaijan and Turkey itself, in large part to prevent defeat of Iran. Surovkin was the genius behind the 2015 Russian success in Syria and has the contacts etc. Might be a real winner.
3. WWIII is about to start. It practically already has but I guess you need all three major players in the game to really call in WWIII. This may mean including the CSTO where Surovkin has been these last 3 years.

Posted by: watcher | Mar 6 2026 23:07 utc | 66

For this point though:

However, Putin may have to act decisively, or at least fairly aggressively in some new way, to keep himself from being removed from power. Social and political pressures and all that.

I look across the West, indeed the entire Northern Hemisphere, and President Putin of Russia doesn’t strike me as the most likely candidate for an internal toppling…
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 6 2026 22:42 utc | 62

 
That is Russia’s tragedy though. 
 
Russia could not have boild like the proverbial frog to the point where heavy potentially nuclear armed missiles are launched towards Moscow as happened two hours ago, and there is absolutely no response to it, under any other Russian president.
 
Nobody else could have had the political capital to allow that. 
 
This is a problem, not a good thing.
 
Also, Putin gets too much credit for stuff he didn’t really do himself. There was a stabilization of the country in the 00s, and the Chechen problem was resolved. But the 2000s coincided with oil reaching $147, and it was on the back of that price surge that the Russian economy was stabilized. It’s hard to give Putin credit for peak oil. And after 2008 things stagnated. 
 
You also can’t give him credit for the reindustrialization, because:
 
1) that was forced by sanctions, not initiated by him
 
2) started 15 years into his rule, i.e. way, way too late
 
3) still not done properly
 
So you have someone whose objective record is much worse than the mythology around him and who is in the same time politically untouchable.
 
And who is now behaving like Velcy Putriguez, but that is a taboo subject in the country’s media.
 
Not a good situation to be in…

Posted by: GM | Mar 6 2026 23:14 utc | 68

@ GM | Mar 6 2026 23:14 utc | 69
 
Then debate it in Russian forums and media platforms. Whinge-ing about it on MoA will not progress your aims and goals.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 6 2026 23:18 utc | 70

Think about your manifesto, how you can make it appealing to the majority of Russian citizens; if you don’t do that, you will fail.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 6 2026 23:09 utc | 68

You address this gay clown as if he is a Russian and if he had previously gave this pretense, then he was lying. He does not know Russia, he does not understand her, he is just a TSIPSO plant, one of many.

Posted by: Poslan | Mar 6 2026 23:43 utc | 72

As a theoretical example, if Russia had succeeded with a massive “shock and awe” operation against Ukraine, four years ago, do you think we would be still discussing the oncoming financial collapse of the West?
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 6 2026 21:02 utc | 54

 
Sigh…
Absolute idiocy here.
You clearly have no idea what is happening.
But worse than that, you also have no idea what **has happened** in the last four years. Even though you spent them reading and posting here.
If Russia had taken all of Ukraine in a couple weeks, as it should have, it would have accelerated the Western collapse. Russia not doing it allowed what happened in the last four years to happen.
Brief history lesson.
First, the West was already bankrupt and on a collapse trajectory in the 1970s. Because it started to run out of real resources. Conventional oil in the US peaked in the early 1970s. Thus the move away from the gold standard, the stagflation in the 1970s, the beginning of offshoring and deindustrialization. All the USSR had to be was wait it out.
What saved the system? Partly North Sea, Alaska, offshore, and more Middle Eastern oil coming online. But especially the late Soviet elites deciding to do the greatest act of treason in the history of this planet and hand over everything to their ideological competitors, in exchange for the vague promise of being admitted in the club, and the more tangible conversion of their political power into oligarchic ownership of the commons. The resulting largest ever in history theft of real wealth, going East to West, enabled the prosperity of the 1990s in the West.
Second, why the aggression towards Russia now? Because nothing has fundamentally changed — you have a system relying on perpetual growth running against the limits of finite nonrenewable resources.
Enter the second bankruptcy crisis — the 2008 GFC. Which coincided with oil rising from $30 to $150 after 9/11. But this time it was due to the global peak of conventional oil, not the local one in the CONUS.
What saved the system that time? Well, nothing. It never recovered. Fracking papered over the conventional oil peak, but overall the system did not recover back to what it was. It just kept degrading further and further.
So now Russia has to be taken over and looted thoroughly to buy another few decades. Much more thoroughly than it was in the 90s.
Thus the war.
Now had Russia taken over Ukraine in two weeks, what would have happened? No drones and missiles would be flying into Russia, its economy would be booming, with the addition of 40M ethnic Russians and the most productive farmland on the planet, its major geostrategic problem would be solved.
But the cost of doing that would be to hurt the Russian oligarchy’s interests. So it wasn’t done. And then other things happened. Russia is being hit 24/7 through the proxy. And pinned down, which allowed the West to advance even further.
In case you have been living under a rock, while Russia was “exhausting and defeating” the combined West, and making it “weaker than even”, the empire genocided Gaza, eliminated the most import Russian ally in the Middle East (Syria), flipped Armenia (Armenia of all places, one of the only two genuinely pro-Russian countries together with Bulgaria), Azerbaijan became openly hostile, Central Asia was launched on a the same trajectory Ukraine was in the 00s, Sweden and Finland entered NATO and are now talking about putting nukes there. Then Venezuela was attacked and easily flipped too, with Cuba on the menu next, and now a major war on Iran. This is a catastrophic series of major geostrategic defeats, all stemming from the failure to solve the Ukrainian problem on time.
What makes this so fucked up is that the Ukrainian problem was not solved for purely internal Russian reasons — the banking and resource extraction oligarchy would have had to concede some of its power in order to save the country. And Putin refuses to force it to do so. Even though he has the power to do it.
Notice the fundamental contradiction here. Putin is not untying the hands of the military, decapitating Kiev, doing major offensives, cutting off all ties with West, and nuking Europe, even though these things would all greatly help Russia, not because he can’t do them, but because they would collapse the internal position of the Russian oligarchy (run through the consequences, and you will see why).
But if he was to do them, then the internal position of the Russian oligarchy would collapse, wouldn’t it?
So this too is a problem he can solve — he just does all of those things, the Russian oligarchy collapses, and then that political constraint is removed.
It’s all on him.
This is the reason for the criticism towards Putin. I would be the first to sing his praises if he was behaving as someone working in the interests of Russia. In the first weeks of the SMO I did that, before the truth about the shit show unfolding truly came out. But four years later nobody can still be so blinded…

Posted by: GM | Mar 6 2026 23:48 utc | 74

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 6 2026 23:51 utc | 76

 
Do I sound like a liberal who cares about the prioce of lattes?

Posted by: GM | Mar 7 2026 0:29 utc | 76

In response to
”
Do I sound like a liberal who cares about the prioce of lattes?
Posted by: GM | Mar 7 2026 0:29 utc | 77
”
 
LOL!
What you do sound like is someone who is paid to ignore the larger picture of our civilization war going on and instead throw anti Putin shit at the wall so you can buy your latte.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 7 2026 0:46 utc | 78

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 6 2026 23:51 utc | 76
Posted by: GM | Mar 7 2026 0:29 utc | 77Do I sound like a liberal who cares about the prioce of lattes?
Of course not GM.  JRL has not understood your very insightful posts nd profound knowledge of Russia and he SMO.

To me GM you read like a disturbed gay LLM bot very concerned about the current availability of compatible AI rent boys.  

 I hope this comment helps keep your spirits up.
 

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Mar 7 2026 0:50 utc | 80

Is collective punishment being foisted on 450 million taxpaying citizens all part of the plan, or “collateral damage”?
 
Posted by: joey_n | Mar 7 2026 0:48 utc | 80

 
If only those 450 million Europeans were putting up much resistance. A few are — don’t get me wrong — but most are not.

Posted by: malenkov | Mar 7 2026 1:55 utc | 82

Picture of Hungarian loot recovered:
 
https://gab.com/Vorontzov/posts/116185298133640621

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 3:18 utc | 84

The effectiveness of Russia’s and Ukraine’s approach to their war has been difficult to assess.  I’m mostly interested in Russia, largely because of the NAFO trolls, Shadowbanned / GM AI, and concern trolls tend to mock and criticize Russia.  According to them, Russia is uniquely incompetent.  They are unable to protect their oil industry from drone attacks.  They shoot down their own aircraft.  Their aerial attacks have failed to destroy Ukraine’s resistance, and on and on.
 
Is Russia uniquely incompetent, or do they face the exact same challenges as other, supposedly more capable, countries such as the U.S.?  We can now answer that question.  In six days of fairly low intensity air combat, and I use that term to include all aerial munitions including drones, aircraft, and missiles, the U.S. has shown it has NO ability to protect critical oil infrastructure.  The U.S. and its allies have, according to their own accounts whether they are true or not, shot down several U.S. aircraft.  The U.S. is slowly draining its stocks of aerial weapons and have failed to stop Iranian attacks.  U.S. aerial bombing appears to have made the Iranian people even more defiant.  Have you noticed the ever expanding U.S. timeline?  The Russians never said they would win the war in 3 days.  The U.S. national leadership, on the other hand, did.  Then it became four to six days, or maybe seven days.  Then it became two to three weeks.  Then two months.  The latest I read is the U.S. will win by some time in September.  That’s six months.  Apparently, fighting a well prepared and resolute military which has major power providing backing, including real time ISR, is a tough nut to crack. 
 
We are only a week into the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran and Iran has done more damage to oil infrastructure, and Israeli cities than Ukraine has managed to do to Russia in four years.
 
I have a bad feeling that as U.S. and Israeli defensive weapons become depleted, Iran’s attacks will become even more destructive and damaging.  I’m not talking about Iran’s high end missiles.  I’m talking about barrages of ten, twenty, or more low end ballistic missiles saturating U.S. and Israeli bases without any real anti-missile opposition.  I also foresee the introduction of advanced Shaheed drones in the class.of the jet powered Russian Geran drones moving across Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Oman, attacking U.S. targets.  I see ISR driven hypersonic missile attacks on high value U.S. targets of opportunity.  I also see the expansion of FPV drones hunting U.S. troops in Iraq.  That last one has already started with the FPV drones attack on a U.S. comm / surveillance antenna tower in Iraq.  I’m also wondering how long before FPV drones become active in Lebanon and among local anti-U.S. forces in Iraq.
 
As those begin to occur, it will let us make even more comparisons between Russia’s performance in Ukraine and the U.S.-Israel’s performance against Iran.  I have a feeling Russia will come out well in that comparison.

Posted by: Nobody Special | Mar 7 2026 4:27 utc | 86

You can’t make this up-
 
Blow up their pipeline, sanction their imports, bomb and seize Russian tankers-
 
Then- Its all Putins fault. 🤡

 
screenshot of article . 
https://x.com/BowesChay/status/2029869004253261962

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 7 2026 6:18 utc | 88

https://www.bitchute.com/video/UfzRInNHN1Xk
 
TCC kidnaps man walking two little dogs… the two little guys put up quite a fight.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 8:03 utc | 90

Posted by: English Outsider | Mar 6 2026 13:36 utc | 19
Thank you for your thoughtful response, with which I mostly agree. 
“on the question of whether the UK has more influence on US and Western policy than it seems to us in the public, all I can say is that it doesn’t look like it to this outsider. ”
Note that Quigley, whose book I was referencing, is not making that claim. Agency lies with a Secret Elite, not with the UK (or any individual country).
 
“But shady characters doing scrubby work all over the place, though their activities certainly contribute greatly to the death and suffering we in the West are responsible for,  don’t to my mind add up to Britain running the show behind the scenes.”
 
That’s spot on. Thanks again.
 

Posted by: Jan Sobieski | Mar 7 2026 9:31 utc | 92

Russia is uniquely incompetent.  They are unable to protect their oil industry from drone attacks.  They shoot down their own aircraft.  Their aerial attacks have failed to destroy Ukraine’s resistance, and on and on.
 
Posted by: Nobody Special | Mar 7 2026 4:27 utc | 86

 
Do not put words in people’s mouths that they never said.
 
Russia is not incompetent, quite the opposite. The problem is political leadership is compromised to the point that even technically legally they should all have been put on trial and shot for high treason. I am not exxagerating in the slightest. Putin signed is death sentence in Istanbul in 2022 already, and with what he did in the last year he signed it several times more. He has absolutely no right to surrender constitutionally Russian land, but that is exactly what he did. 
 
We are not talking about the conduct of the war, not going for all of Ukraine, or allowing strikes into Russia to go unanswered and making a mockery of the nuclear doctrine — yes, both of those are high treason too by any reasonable definition (Ukraine is Russian land too, strikes into Russia are completely unacceptable), but there is some legal wiggle room on those matters.
 
There is none on the issue of surrendering multiple regional capitals of the Russian Federation, or even whole region (Crimea was on the table in Istanbul). It’s an open and immediately shut case. 
 
There is also another clear count of high treason — Putin is working for another country and puts its interests above those of Russia. That country is Israel, and you can be sure that the SVR/GRU have all the evidence to issue another death sentence for the damage he has done to Russia that way too. Entirely separately from the Ukraine catastrophe.
 
So you have Putin who should have multiple death sentences issued for being a traitor, and you also have Ushakov, Dmitriev, Lavrov, and several others involved in giving Russian land away to the enemy without a fight. 
 
Then there is your other fallacy about not being able to protect facilities in Russia. That is complete bullshit. Russian AD shoots down 99% of the drones launched into Russia. That is better than anyone else on this planet can achieve over such a territory. Vastly better. But there is no such thing as 100% successful AD. And the effectiveness of AD is not the issue here, it is the volume of launches. When you allow 200-300 fixed-wing drones to be launched at you every day, of course there will be hits. But who is it that allowed that to happen? Well, we go back to the question of leadership…
 
You see that Iran is striking all the countries around it that are facilitating attacks on Iran. Immediately and without hesitation. Russia, a vastly more powerful country, is behaving like a giant version of whatever helpless victim the Americans chimped out on in the past that you want to bring up as an example. 

Posted by: GM | Mar 7 2026 10:51 utc | 94

Russia/Iran:
Which is the best approach?
The Russians have not been bombed, only targeted by drones.
After the war, they will not be poor, so yes, they are doing well.
Even if we may regret their lack of enthusiasm in taking Odessa, but everything comes to those who wait!

Posted by: O R | Mar 7 2026 11:03 utc | 96

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 11:32 utc | 97
 
After the khabuki theater of Indian ‘ending’ buying Russian oil, India is now ‘restarting’ buying Russian oil after ‘permission’ from the US.
 
The difference is this time Russia set terms from a clean slate – no more DISCOUNTS for oil. Effectively like a force majeure, reset of pricing conditions to accommodate current market pricing.
 
Russia will get massive boon in revenues soon.

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 7 2026 11:36 utc | 98

GM, Got Milk is an AI troublemaker !
 

Posted by: O R | Mar 7 2026 13:20 utc | 100