‘Carrying ON being denazificated’
 
Highly recommend this thread in their continuing series – if you want to know what made the ukronazis so … nastzy and are still being manipulated.
 
 

WW2 The Eastern Front
 
 
@ShoahUkraine
23h
Debunking the “We Were Just Fighting the Soviets” !
 
Across the post-Soviet Baltic states and in post-Maidan Ukraine, a remarkably consistent historical narrative has taken root, one laundered through nationalist historiography, enshrined in official commemorations, and promoted with the financial backing of Western governments eager for Cold War 2.0 allies. It goes roughly like this:
 
“Yes, some of our people fought alongside the Germans. But they weren’t Nazis. They were patriots. They were fighting Soviet occupation, not helping Hitler. The real enemy was Stalin, not the Jews or the Poles. The SS insignia on their collars was just a uniform of convenience. Judge them not by who they fought for, but by what they fought against.” It is the historical equivalent of defending a man who burned down an orphanage by noting that he genuinely hated the landlord next door.
 
… ‘
 
It goes on for multiple posts but is encyclopaedic!

Posted by: DunGroanin | May 10 2026 15:56 utc | 4

Re: Posted by: aquadraht | May 10 2026 16:11 utc | 5

b thankfully has kicked the troll GM, I think it is time to show the mad hindutva nazi the door too.

 
 
 
Strange indeed that you think stating facts is equivalent to “trolling”.

Posted by: Julian | May 10 2026 16:26 utc | 6

Someone (sorry don’t remember who) gave us this link in the other thread and it’s really worth reading, especially for the likes of Biswapriya Purkayastha:
 
https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/p/zelenskys-israeli-family
 
 

Posted by: Avtonom | May 10 2026 16:44 utc | 8

@8
 
Found out now, it was exile. Thanks a lot exile, it’s a brilliant overview.

Posted by: Avtonom | May 10 2026 16:46 utc | 10

45 mins: Fasten seat belts, wear flax jackets, and pray to Mars – Karaganov locked n loaded with Glen Diessen
 
Sergey Karaganov: How Russia Will Win the New World War
 
 

Posted by: Don Firineach | May 10 2026 17:06 utc | 12

Worth a watch.
 
 
Putin Claims the War Nears Its End: How?
History and Politics With Dr. Brovkin
 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZyc-ZmcOuw

Posted by: unimperator | May 10 2026 17:23 utc | 14

Dr. Brovkin says there are kind of two different tracks for action.
 
Putin is still praising Trump for his ‘sincerity’ in ending the Ukraine war. He is also banking that EUropean regime change will replace leaders that are easier to talk to and produce an agreement regarding Ukraine. The agreement would be that no military threat from Ukraine will ever again emanate toward Russia. Well, this is not very realistic or is unlikely to happen IMO.
 
The other course of action as many generals and other military leaders in Russia demand is:
1. Full blockade of Ukraine in Black Sea and its ports – easy to do, announcement warning any cargo ship to stay away from Ukraine / one submarine on patrol outside Odessa
2. Full destruction of tunnels, bridges and railways between Ukraine and Polan, hitting convoys or stockpiles in west Ukraine or even on Polish side
3. Shoot down drones coming from the Baltics over their territory, as there is now definite proof that drones are indeed flying over Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia

Posted by: unimperator | May 10 2026 17:40 utc | 16

“And how is US/NATO/EU/naziProxy looking at the mo? Can you spell ATTRITION?
Posted by: Don Firineach | May 10 2026 15:43 utc | 2 ”
 
True, ” attrition” is the plan. In more ways than one.
 
The Other Side Media on X: “🇺🇦 Ukrainians are noticing the same thing across the country — fewer local men, and more Indians and Pakistanis Kiev authorities have also said they plan to start bringing in large numbers of migrants from Africa https://t.co/S7b2cdjSd9” / X
 
HHrrthRXYAAUtxZ (879×795)

Posted by: Vacuous Cipher | May 10 2026 17:50 utc | 18

And it’s not Russia where civilians throw rocks at military minibuses:

In Dnipro, passers-by attacked the CCC: the department reacted

The incident took place on May 7 on the Livoberezhnyi-3 massif. Passers-by allegedly threw stones at the military TCC and their car
 

This is reported by “Known”, reports RegioNews .
 
The CCC said that the military and police representatives carried out warning measures. The department noted that they were forced to “stop their lawful actions to check the stopped citizen, necessary to ensure mobilization, and leave the scene.”
 

“If videos about alleged “abuse” or “violation of rights” by the CCC and SP appear on the network, we urge you to check the sources of information. Do not trust manipulative “stuffing”, which can be part of enemy propaganda or used for information and psychological influence,” the CCC says.
 

In the video, you can see that the CCC employees tried to drag a man into a car. However, they let him go after passers-by began to throw stones at them.
https://t.me/bazadnipro/33685
 

https://regionews.ua/ukr/news/dnepropetrovshchina/1778271298-u-dnipri-perehozhi-napali-na-ttsk-u-vidomstvi-vidreaguvali (via translation add-on.)

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | May 10 2026 18:05 utc | 20

True, ” attrition” is the plan. In more ways than one. The Other Side Media on X: “🇺🇦 Ukrainians are noticing the same thing across the country — fewer local men, and more Indians and Pakistanis Kiev authorities have also said they plan to start bringing in large numbers of migrants from Africa https://t.co/S7b2cdjSd9” / X HHrrthRXYAAUtxZ (879×795)
Posted by: Vacuous Cipher | May 10 2026 17:50 utc | 18
You aren’t going to win at attrition if you have India and Pakistan supplying replacements. The western Ukrainians can end up winning the war and still losing as their goal was the opposite of  filling up their country with south Asians and Africans. 

Posted by: Cheney | May 10 2026 18:13 utc | 22

“The western Ukrainians can end up winning the war and still losing as their goal was the opposite of  filling up their country with south Asians and Africans. 
Posted by: Cheney | May 10 2026 18:13 utc | 22 ”
 
Russia to import 1 million skilled workforce from India – The Economic Times
Kremlin Says Migrants Essential to Counter Russia’s Labor Shortage – The Moscow Times
Russia wants migrants from new countries to help plug labour shortage, Interfax reports | Reuters
 
 

Posted by: Vacuous Cipher | May 10 2026 18:28 utc | 24

Nor is it Russia where military personnel come under knife attack from civilians:

In Odesa region, a man attacked TCC servicemen with a knife, they are in serious condition

In the Podilskyi district of the Odesa region, a man attacked the personnel of the warning group, inflicting stab wounds on two servicemen, they are in serious condition.
 
Source : Odesa Regional CCC and SP
 
Quote : “On 10 May, in the village of Baibuzivka, Savran settlement community, Podilskyi district, a joint alert group, together with representatives of the National Police, stopped a citizen to check military registration documents. According to the results of the inspection, it was established that the person is wanted for violating the rules of military registration.
 
While escorting the offender to the territorial recruitment center for the registration of administrative materials, the citizen committed an armed attack on the personnel of the alert group. Using edged weapons, the attacker inflicted numerous knife wounds on two servicemen.
 
Currently, both victims are hospitalized in a medical facility in serious condition, doctors are fighting for their lives.”
 
Details : The CCC emphasised that this is a deliberate attempt to kill the defenders of Ukraine who were carrying out a state task, and no circumstances can be an excuse for committing a particularly serious criminal offense against servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
 
Law enforcement agencies have launched urgent investigative actions on this fact. The leadership of the Odesa Regional CCC and SP will insist on bringing the guilty person to justice under the maximum sanctions of the law.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2026/05/10/8034088/ (via translation add-on.)

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | May 10 2026 18:30 utc | 26

Latvian defense minister resigned after 2 AFU drones destroyed a few oil storage containers in Latvia.
 
This spills the beans on how weak these countries really are. They have zero defense against few AFU stray drones, and they have zero defense if Russia launches a deliberate drone campaign to hit all Baltic state infrastructure like power plants, LNG, airbases, navy docks, etc. It would be over very quickly.
 
Yet they continue playing with fire that could end them for good.

Posted by: unimperator | May 10 2026 18:53 utc | 28

So, really, the answer is “everyone sucks because no one knows what they’re really doing in this new environment” 
Posted by: Clown Shoes | May 10 2026 18:30 utc | 26

Yep. Just another parallel to WW1 – apart from the propagandized atmosphere in Europe, that is today exactly the same as described in Stefan Zweig’s “The World of Yesterday”.
In 1870/71 Germany rolled over France in only a couple of months. It was expected that it would happen again in 1914. But then as now, war had radically changed and nobody knew what to do with an environment of machine guns and chemical weapons.

Posted by: Helmuth von Moltke | May 10 2026 19:28 utc | 30

Strange indeed that you think stating facts is equivalent to “trolling”.
Posted by: Julian | May 10 2026 16:26 utc | 6
 
He wasn’t stating facts.  Saying “Putin did nothing” is not a fact, it is an absurdity.  When I said “he invaded Ukraine”  GM said “yes, but”
 
And that’s when he got banned.
 
You can look it up.  Because that’s all GM did, made blatantly false and outrageous claims, surrounded by thousands of leaves of word salad. 

Posted by: UWDude | May 10 2026 20:39 utc | 32

..2. Full destruction of tunnels, bridges and railways between Ukraine and Polan, hitting convoys or stockpiles in west Ukraine or even on Polish side..
Posted by: unimperator | May 10 2026 17:40 utc | 16
 

do tunnels between Ukraine and Poland exist?
 
 

Posted by: tucenz | May 10 2026 20:50 utc | 34

re Vacuous Cipher | May 10 2026 18:28 utc | 24
……
But can the Moscow Times and Reuters be trusted when reporting about Russia?

Posted by: Cynic | May 10 2026 21:05 utc | 36

@
Posted by: Paul | May 10 2026 16:32 utc | 7
 
Agree with you 100%.
 
Also people still think Stalin was Russian!
 
He was Georgian.

Posted by: DunGroanin | May 10 2026 21:26 utc | 38

*** Yet they continue playing with fire that could end them for good. **
Posted by: unimperator | May 10 202. 8:53 utc | 29
 
Thos is like the x wife to be that starts a fence dispute with a neighbor or gets in the face of a road rager and then retreats to behind her man and then complains about the patriarchy, especially her man doesnt lead an attack. This is also why the NATO ability to raise any army will never succede. 

Posted by: frithguild | May 10 2026 21:40 utc | 40

AFU casualties still high for a cease fire, 940 for the 8th and 735 for the 9th (and 2 ADs, hurrah!)
 
Some slightly date marat
 
https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/brief-frontline-report-may-8th-2026
 
 

Posted by: Newbie | May 10 2026 21:51 utc | 42

Sorry, forgot to add to the above;
Sincerely,
A fucking idiot

Posted by: Clown Shoes | May 10 2026 22:11 utc | 44

Biswapriya, you come off as a gasbag too. The only difference between Martyanov and you is Martyanov s often right.
 
We’ve put up with your nuclear and Pootin Stooopid nonsense for 4 years now. Always quoting words and ideas of a disgraced commander who abandoned his men in combat and fled the field of battle to save his worthless life. That’s your hero. 
 
You do not appear to understand what attrition is or for that matter “victory “. This isn’t a comic strip with neat storybook endings.
 
FYI Ukraine drones have cause Latvia its Defense Minister who had to resign when 2 fell there. Wunderwaffe to dumbfucks like you.
 
It is unfortunate that Russia is still fighting the same enemy as it did in 1945. The names changed but not the aim. 
 
Meanwhile,  denazification continues. 

Posted by: Suresh | May 10 2026 22:17 utc | 46

Thanks for adding in Martyanov’s accomplishment,  Jeremy. 
 
Clown Shoe@26 in detailed reply to resident clown Bis.
 
May I correct the “stalled offensive ” bit?
 
Russians have opted for shorter supply lines and dispersion of forces. Classical/Standard offensive operations demands concentration of forces and often exposed supply lines.
 
Beside, it was Ukraine that invaded the Donbas.

Posted by: Suresh | May 10 2026 22:41 utc | 48

: John Gilberts | May 10 2026 17:08 utc | 13 and a few others cite Putin saying ‘the war will soon be coming tgo an end’
 
Putin did not say that. All these people misheard or misread (and presumably wish Putin had said that). I learned about this from Alexander Mercouris ( a very long solo Youtube video from today. Someone in another thread recommended this video and, indeed, it is top-notch.  I listened while doing chores – but apparently there is a transcript.
 
Since Putin was not talking of the literal war. What did  he say, then?  In a long press conference, apparently impromtu (that Mercouris says it was as of old), Putin was talking about the motivation that propelled the West into the Ukrainian provocation and then kept then at it. That motivation is what is coming to end soon, he hopes. Talking mostly about the Euros that very soon they will realize they will get absolutely nothing out of it.  But better than reading me, read the transcript.
 
Mercouris suggested something Putin did not – that the current Euro govts now have a different motivation, that they might be terrified if peace breaks out their personal shenanigans will come to light. Indeed the Instanbul Plus swindle very likely was a major war crime of an ununusal kind,  by Macron and Boris Johnson.

Posted by: JustSomeOldGuy | May 10 2026 23:38 utc | 50

unimperator | May 10 2026 23:20 utc | 51
 
Link for Putin’s comment? Usually those who push the Bolshevik=Jews line refer to a single article from the UK gutter press, which was just as terrible on Russia then as it is now. If Marxism’s aim was to destroy Russia it was a dismal failure. The borders of Tsarist Russia were largely preserved within a multinational Union while the other multinational Empires (Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman) were broken up and devoured by the Western powers. It was anti-Marxist ‘nationalists’ who gave up Russia’s strategic depth in order to rid themselves of ‘freeloading’ Belarusians, Ukrainians, Kazakhs etc in the early ’90s.

Posted by: S.P. Korolev | May 10 2026 23:58 utc | 52

Was it even this bad in Soviet Russia?
Posted by: unimperator | May 10 2026 23:20 utc | 51
 
Start with the economic question, because without it nothing else stands. Can a system develop the productive forces? Can it transform a society from poverty and backwardness into one capable of sustaining and expanding human life? In the case of the Soviet Union under Stalin, the empirical record is not ambiguous. Economic historian Robert C. Allen demonstrates in Farm to Factory that the Soviet economy grew at roughly 5.3 percent annually between 1928 and 1940, making it one of the fastest-growing economies of the twentieth century. Industrial output expanded at approximately 8.9 percent per year in that same period, compared to just 1.8 percent in the United States, as shown in NBER comparative data. These are not marginal gains. They are the statistical signature of a society undergoing rapid structural transformation.
The material outputs tell the story even more concretely. Steel production increased from 4.3 million tons in 1928 to 17.7 million tons by 1937. Coal output rose from 35.5 million tons to 128 million tons. Electricity generation expanded from 5.0 billion kWh to 36.2 billion kWh. Machine-building capacity exploded, with metal-cutting machines increasing from roughly 2,000 units to over 48,500. These figures, compiled in historical summaries such as industrialization data, demonstrate the rapid expansion of heavy industry under planned development. As Allen further notes in his analysis of Soviet growth, this transformation was driven by capital accumulation, labor mobilization, and productivity gains comparable to the most successful capitalist growth episodes.
These are not abstract achievements. They represent a qualitative leap in the capacity of society to produce, to build, and to sustain itself. A country that had been largely agrarian, underdeveloped, and economically dependent became an industrial power within a generation. And this was not achieved under peaceful conditions. It was achieved under threat of invasion, under economic isolation, and in preparation for a war that would devastate the country. To call this failure is not analysis—it is ideological refusal.
The same structural transformation appears, in different form, in the People’s Republic of China. When the revolution succeeded in 1949, China inherited a society marked by warlord fragmentation, colonial domination, landlord exploitation, famine, and extreme poverty. Life expectancy hovered around 35 to 40 years, as documented in peer-reviewed mortality studies. The task was not refinement. The task was construction. Over the following decades, China transformed itself into one of the most dynamic economies in the world. According to the World Bank, China lifted close to 800 million people out of extreme poverty, accounting for over 70 percent of global poverty reduction during that period.
This transformation was not accidental. It was structured. The Tricontinen
 
https://orinocotribune.com/failure-according-to-whom-rewriting-the-metrics-of-socialism/

Posted by: arby | May 11 2026 0:24 utc | 54

 But better than reading me, read the transcript. Posted by: JustSomeOldGuy | May 10 2026 23:38 utc | 52
 
Wouldn’t it be easier if Putin wasn’t as clear as mud? His longwinded indulgent talk confuses the entire world, Russian included. He needs an entire department just to parse his real meaning and the republish it in bite sized pieces normal people could understand. 
 
Putin is his own worst enemy. Little different to Trump, they just have different modes of expression the befuddle the whole world. 

Posted by: unsightfulviews | May 11 2026 1:16 utc | 56

“Wouldn’t it be easier if Putin wasn’t as clear as mud? His longwinded indulgent talk confuses the entire world…”

 
[Posted by: unsightfulviews | May 11 2026 1:16 utc | 58]
 
I believe it’s deliberate, to give Putin wiggle room so that he can escape responsibility for his endless waffling, blunders, missteps, and betrayal of those who needed Russia.

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | May 11 2026 1:25 utc | 58

The Jews….. Most likely marxism was one of their great inventions created to destroy societies.

 
This is what twisted madness looks like when you see it people. 
 
Nothing better to do with their time than create conspiracies to destroy societies everywhere. Believe some.

Posted by: unsightfulviews | May 11 2026 1:36 utc | 60

denazification continues. 
Posted by: Suresh | May 10 2026 22:17 utc | 47

 
 
Where? I also heard that “Coke adds Life”
 
It’s what meaningless slogans look like.
 

Beside, it was Ukraine that invaded the Donbas.
Posted by: Suresh | May 10 2026 22:41 utc | 49

 
 
What date did that happen? Given the Donbas was Ukraine in 2014 until ….. ?
 
Of course sending in neonazi thugs and the national army to kill and bomb your own citizens is a war crime. But isn’t it better to say so, clearly? 
 

Posted by: unsightfulviews | May 11 2026 1:46 utc | 62

Learning Russian History over its 1000 years takes several years of study. The Revolutionary Era from 1890-1925 can take an entire year by itself when the goal is to actually learn its genuine events, not the great mass of BS that’s been published and spewed here and elsewhere.  
 
For most Russian’s today, Stalin is Hero, Saint and Devil all rolled into one.  

Posted by: karlof1 | May 11 2026 2:18 utc | 64

Meanwhile, denazification continues. 

 
[Posted by: Suresh | May 10 2026 22:17 utc | 47]
 
Oh?
 
How many ꑭelensky regime nazis have been eliminated by Russia? Even one?
 
No?
 
Who is Russia killing at the meat grinder?
 
Nazis? Or cannon fodder dragged off the streets?
 
When was the last major haul of nazi PoWs?
 
Oh, right, Mariupol 2022.
 
Of whom the major ones like Proponenko were sent back via Turkey long ago in return for Medvedchuk.
 
What denazification is going on? Where?
 
Pray enlighten me!

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | May 11 2026 3:10 utc | 66

The Jewish “money power” myth was invented by european kings and princes who owned the lenders as chattel slaves, white negroes almost. People still repeat that medieval Jews had this cunning conspiratorial grip on finance, pulling strings across Christendom to control the system and societies to their own benefit. The actual records show the opposite.
 
 
The Crown made them do it. Christians were forbidden from lending at interest. Yet the Medici found solid work arounds in Italy with papal approval. Kings and nobles needed credit. Often to raise armies. So they imported Jews, eg in 1066 to Britain, specifically because they had no rights. In England and the Holy Roman Empire, Jews were legally servi camerae regis: property of the royal chamber. Chattel.
 
 
They were slowly forced into moneylending as the only viable occupation after every other avenue was closed to them by the predominant Christian norms. Restrictions were demand of the nobles by their Christian peoples and the Church. It got worse everywhere when the crusades began. Every other trade or activity the jews had was stripped away by law including the right to own land or farms. Then they were progressively taxed into poverty, demonized for usury and pawnbrokerage demanded of them, and finally expelled when the Crown wanted to cancel their own debts to the few jewish families and seize all assets of the entire group for the treasury.
 
 
The jewish lender was never the powerful one. The wealthy Rothschilds were the exception not the rule across medieval middle ages Christendom up to the 1800s. The borrowers, the Crown and the Church, they controlled the courts, the army, taxation and the mob. That’s not a conspiracy of Jewish financiers. That’s a ‘mafia like’ protection racket run by Christian kings for almost 2000 years.
 
 
Recent critical historiography is finally but slowly revising and correcting these errors of fact. The flawed “cunning Jew” trope was invented by the powerful elites to explain away their own debts and moral failures. The real story is abuse of power 101, dressed up as theology. Of an inherent pathological evil supposedly in the heart of one group of people across the board, ignoring the actual facts of what occurred and why. The sickness wasn’t the lenders. The sickness was the system. That system persists. And you can’t educate an entrenched misinformed bigot. Until they want to be educated better. 

Posted by: unsightfulviews | May 11 2026 3:12 utc | 68

Nazis in Ukraine or in Israel are cut from the same cloth, phychologically, even if the historical road they took to get there is unique to each. 
 
Trauma explains. It does not excuse.
 
 
The same critical historiography that debunks the “cunning Jewish financier” myth also documents what happened in 1948 (Nakba), what continues in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem, and how Zionist leaders—many of them brilliant, traumatized, and ruthless—made deliberate choices about land, population transfer, and military force. Those records exist too. They are not antisemitic to read. They are just history. 
 

Posted by: unsightfulviews | May 11 2026 3:28 utc | 70

Strange indeed that you think stating facts is equivalent to “trolling”.
 
Posted by: Julian | May 10 2026 16:26 utc | 6
No, whats truly strange is you thinking trolling is stating facts.
Here is the reality. Geraldine Manning employee #47321 aka The Great Moron is in cubicle 187 in the troll farm at 1147 Mission St in San Francisco according to her IP address. Banned from dozens of sites that I’m  aware of for being a lying piece of shit.  You’d have to be completely retarded to believe anything she says

Posted by: Screwdriver | May 11 2026 3:31 utc | 72

Voenkor Kotenok
 
Negotiations, it seems, lie ahead. But we must realize that no country in the world will ever voluntarily acknowledge the loss of its territory. Not a single one! For any politician who agrees to such a thing, it would be a disaster. Can anyone imagine a Ukrainian politician of any caliber coming to terms with something like this in 5, 10, or 50 years? Not a single one would do such a thing. Any political leadership of the Ukrainian state will CONTINUOUSLY attempt to reclaim these lands. This speaks of a regime of permanent war with Russia.
 
We have only one honorable way out of this situation—the DESTRUCTION of the existing Ukrainian state. It should not exist in its current form; it should clearly lack the strength for revenge. But the problem is that our constantly declared agreement to negotiate and hold personal meetings with those entrenched in Kiev only legitimizes a system designed to demolish…Russian statehood!
 
And this isn’t just escalation. The other side is counting on defeating the Russian Federation and destroying our statehood. They constantly emphasize this through their imitation, through all their actions—the “permission for the Victory Parade” in Moscow, the advice “Russians shouldn’t live in cities or near industrial sites,” “live in their own swamps,” and so on. These statements betray a desire to destroy Russian statehood, if not today, then tomorrow. This is precisely why they staged the Maidan, seized power, and prepared the army. And from the very beginning, we plotted “Minsk agreements” and “cunning plans” with them, hoping to get away with it. It didn’t.
 
Since we’ve gotten involved in all this, we need to be prepared for a protracted war. Medinsky is right: we fought the Swedes and Poles for many decades for Little Russia. The conclusion is simple: if we can’t resolve the issue right now, we shouldn’t stop this war; we should fight for as long as necessary. But it’s time to fight smart, competently, and prudently, preserving men and equipment. Are we ready for this? After all, the alternative, I repeat, is our geopolitical defeat. Are we ready for a real fight?
 
Someone in power blurted out, “The Navy doesn’t need BEKs.” Let them sweep the streets tomorrow! If some army commander doesn’t move for three years, yet suffers losses in personnel and equipment, then he shouldn’t be an army commander, but at best a platoon commander, especially an assault platoon! Let him show them how to take a landing or a hill. If a brigade commander “killed” the brigade’s equipment in a single battle, let him go to the factory and personally, wrench in hand, restore what he destroyed. And without a salary. Until he restores the brigade’s equipment, he shouldn’t be anyone in this country. Anyone who destroyed men and equipment should not be allowed into the State Duma, much less any government bodies. If he didn’t spare people at the front, how can he spare them in the rear as a civilian? Well, well. And he shouldn’t be going to the Academy as a teacher with a cushy job, but rather to a penal unit.
 
Why isn’t anyone in the government asking these questions or seeking answers? If there are no results, and people are dying, that’s not normal.
 
It’s gotten to the point where captured Ukrainians are openly telling us to our faces: “You’re taking a truckload of infantry to the front, and we’re taking a truckload of drones.” Then the question arises: maybe it’s time to abolish the unnecessary bureaucratic barriers that are preventing the army from fighting and winning? Maybe it’s time to start allowing and simplifying the work of talented young engineers and programmers to help the front? Is it easier to implement innovations and new technologies?

Posted by: MiniMO | May 11 2026 5:50 utc | 74

“The western Ukrainians can end up winning the war and still losing as their goal was the opposite of  filling up their country with south Asians and Africans. Posted by: Cheney | May 10 2026 18:13 utc | 22 ” Russia to import 1 million skilled workforce from India – The Economic TimesKremlin Says Migrants Essential to Counter Russia’s Labor Shortage – The Moscow TimesRussia wants migrants from new countries to help plug labour shortage, Interfax reports | Reuters
Posted by: Vacuous Cipher | May 10 2026 18:28 utc | 24
The war has become  a textbook example of a lose/lose situation.

Posted by: Cheney | May 11 2026 6:17 utc | 76

Posted by: John Archer | May 11 2026 7:33 utc | 79
 
I do not think that holds up or not for long. Putin is not young and will be replaced presumably within the next 10 years.  Others seem more aggressive
 
However Putin HAS demonstrated willingness to act when necessary.  He DOES NOT WANT A WAR WITH NATO.   This is rational.  Cautious yes but wise and rational.
 
How many bloody times do I have to point out to the “Rah, Rah! war now, now now brigade”, that Russia fears other states MORE, MORE, MORE than Europe.  Look at a MAP.  Russia is VERY vulnerable from the south. Idiots (or trolls) would love Russia to waste all their resources attacking Ukraine only to find that after colour revolutions they are attacked from Kazakhstan.  While fighting off new enemies they would quickly lose a hostile Ukraine.
 
I feel sorry that Russia has been forced to damage civilian infrastructure (which they tried hard to avoid) because the hostility in engenders makes it harder to integrate the captured areas or to establish a more Russian oriented state of Ukraine.

Posted by: watcher | May 11 2026 7:51 utc | 78

At the end of the SMO, I suspect many will still be unable to comprehend and swallow Putin’s very simple statements at the beginning of the SMO, with a few added toppings along the way:
 
Protect and restore the 4 Donbass oblasts
Denazify
Demilitarise
Clean out the antagonistic, fascistic Kiev regime
Create a suitable security buffer for the motherland regions
 
Ok, so it’s taking a little longer than many foresaw, but I think the end will eventually equal the beginning. Putin has never stated any intention to take Odessa, occupy Ukraine to the Polish border, cripple Ukraine as a state, punish Ukrainian citizens for the crimes of their politicians. He knows damn well that any moves made by the Russian military towards those ends would bring far more pain to his people than the path that he’s been taking.
 
It is purely the hawkish statements by some in the Kremlin (and here) who have wished to overblow the SMO into something much larger and far more dangerous to Russia as a state and people. And it is purely the Western Russophobes who have escalated at every single step of the way to turn a simple SMO into a wider conflagration.
 
History will remember Putin as the wisest and most conciliatory leader who saved Russia from serious attacks from NATO and the US by just sticking to the SMO’s original parameters.
 
 

Posted by: Gerhardt G. | May 11 2026 8:22 utc | 80

🚨Those in the West who want Putin to “leave the scene” would be well advised to listen to Prof Karaganov!
 
Professor Sergey Karaganov demands special munitions be used to annihilate the bunkers of European elites.
 
*Professor Sergey Karaganov is an Honorary Chairman of the Council on Foreign and Defense and has been an advisor of Russia’s political elites for decades.
 
Prof. Karaganov wrote speeches for Brezhnev and advised Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Putin.
 
Prof. Karaganov argues we are already in a new World War and argues that Russia can only win by pursuing massive escalation, which includes the use of nuclear weapons.

https://x.com/IslanderWORLD/status/2053667718990086290

Posted by: unimperator | May 11 2026 10:40 utc | 82

Didn’t see the whole Karaganov-Diesen interview, but I did find a critique on Diesen’s Twitter:

Karaganov sounds bitter, like somebody who has been rejected. I can understand that the Russians should feel that way; however, from a public intellectual I would have expected more.
The US provoked the war to divide Russia and Europe. Karaganov falls into the US trap.

Posted by: joey_n | May 11 2026 10:50 utc | 84

https://x.com/simpatico771/status/2053529910979813721?s=20 says:
 
 

“Putin has also just stated that all objectives in the SMO will be accomplished. As such, if he believes the war will end soon, he is implying he believes Ukraine is nearing final collapse and will soon be defeated”

 
Oooooooor he’ll just declare the Ukranazi regime no longer nazi, the Ukrainian military no longer a military, and Ukrainian membership of NATO not Ukrainian membership of NATO, so the objectives of the SMO are all achieved.
 
Just like he declared the al Qaeda Golani headchopper regime in Syria no longer al Qaeda already.

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | May 11 2026 11:06 utc | 86

Posted by: joey_n | May 11 2026 10:50 utc | 86
 
That’s bullshit. I watched the interview. Karaganov was relaxed, he laughed and smiled a lot, and commented thoughtfully and brilliantly. He took his time, but stayed on topic. I recommend it. (I don’t often watch lengthy videos, prefer to read, but this one was really worth it.)

Posted by: Avtonom | May 11 2026 11:18 utc | 88

Posted by: Savonarole | May 11 2026 12:58 utc | 91
 
The EU commission is appointed by the bankers and/or CIA who control it. So they present Kaja Kallas as a chief negotiator as EU despite the fact that Putin specifically said he won’t negotiate with any of the EU leaders.
 
So the bankers/CIA controlling the EU are not serious, and in fact want the war to escalate. But things are done for optics reason and there’s a certain path to expend all diplomatic means first.

Posted by: unimperator | May 11 2026 13:16 utc | 90

Sorry.  A jumble of bits fell to the bottom as I was writing that comment and I forgot to clear them.  On discus you could just say Oh Hell and get rid of them fast when you noticed.  But not on Typepad or similar.  
 
Used to make that mistake on Colonel Lang’s old site.  The children used to read my comments with great enthusiasm.  Not the actual content.  They found that boring and skipped most of it.  But they loved the errant bits that fell to the bottom and I forgot to clear.

Posted by: English Outsider | May 11 2026 14:47 utc | 92

*** Maybe taking just one aspect of those analyses. The use of drones. ***
Posted by: English Outsider | May 11 2026 14:20
 
I have argued in this bar that the invention of a technology with martial application has always been an underapreciated condition underlying the start of every war. Mass production of the firearm for mid 19th century (And the antiquation of slavery), machine gun for WWI and air power (And many others) for WWII. Military planners have made errors in judging the effectiveness and unintended consequence of never before used technology because the impact of new technology is not fully appreciated. So, as the political thinking goes, with super duper wonderwaffen, any conflict will be short and decisive. Hubris greases the slide to war. 
 
The SMO is Drone War I. 

Posted by: frithguild | May 11 2026 15:23 utc | 94

Posted by: arby | May 11 2026 16:11 utc | 97
 
Socialism fails because human beings are avaricious, violent, jealous and murderous monkeys, who are impelled to capture the power of governmental immunity for their actions that flow from these characteristics. The article at the link states a bunch of stopped clock arguments, which a right twice a day.
 
Sorry dude, I don’t mean this as a personal attack. A Government that exceeds the protection of individual rights and benificence to the disabled functions will receive my disdain, no matter what words are used to describe it. So replace “Socialism” with whatever description you like and I will probably agree with the statement. 

Posted by: frithguild | May 11 2026 16:38 utc | 96

Let us not forgeat the beauties of capitalism: Britain in 18th/19th century, in excess of 100k executions per year, for “crimes” like e.g.vagrancy of rural people rendered homeless by enclosures and destruction or foreclosure of their homes, children down to the age of 5 hanged for theft of some bread, nearly a million in orphanages and “poor houses” with concentration camp like conditions, similar for about 750k people press ganged to her majesty’s navy under the iron clad rule of commanders who hanged for minor disdemeanors. 
Still fairly mild rule compared to the colonies. An Indian writer stated that in the over 2000 years before british rule, 17 major famines happened, in the following 120 years. there were 106, each of them claiming millions of lives. And that die not end before independence, and after a disastrous famine at the end of WWII. T
he pre “modern” rulers, aware of the cyclical troubles by the ENSO caused failures or excesses of monsune, had created granaries to secure survival of the populace. British rulers dismantled them and sold the harvests on the “free market”. During crop failures they installed “famine relief camps” with forced labour, where the daily ration was half of that in Buchenwald concentration camp in 1942.
(Refer to Mike Davis and Caroline Elkins for further information)
And no, apologetics by “human nature” are pathetic. 
 
 
 
 
 

Posted by: aquadraht | May 11 2026 17:52 utc | 98

Then logically, the ideal successful society is one that plays into those traits, being similarly structured to reward avaricious, violent, jealous and murderous behavior, no? ***
Posted by: Skiffer | May 11 2026 17:26 utc | 99
Plays in? Not at all. Protects against (Recognizing that the worst, Cluster B, Dark Triad type actors have an incentive to be cloaked with government immunity – the greater the role the government plays the stronger the incentive), sher.
 
To bring this pretty tangential discussion around to the topic of this forum, Julia Mendel in he talk with Tucker describes how selection for government power favors dark Triad personalities such as Elensky.

Posted by: frithguild | May 11 2026 18:27 utc | 100