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No Need To Waste Europe – by English Outsider
by English Outsider
Such a lot of nonsense being talked at the moment. Sorry, Gentlemen, (the Ladies, fortunately, are immune) but there’s any amount of it I’ve been reading here too.
I’d guess that a good half here are Ritter acolytes. Lay waste Europe. Bomb them to hell. Don’t let’s pussyfoot around any more.
On Martyanov’s site I saw the video of Ritter delivering that message in Russia. At the St Petersburg conference. Has Ritter lost his mind? I wrote in to reply to Larch on the subject. Many of “b’s” commenters will know Larch because he’s a fund of information on the ins and outs of the Ukrainian war since 2014. Great bloke.
Larch – Ritter’s way off in that video clip. Karaganov plus. They’ll be listening to him at SPIEF and thinking, is that sort of rabid nonsense all Ritter has to offer us? It’s Curtis LeMay thinking, make the rubble bounce, no use at all when working out how to defuse a confrontation the Russians aren’t looking to extend.
Ritter’s Intel and arms control background, plus his ability to marshal a whole lot of information he has at his fingertips and that most of us don’t, make him a valuable analyst – when he’s not going off the deep end which he does far too often. And for all his undoubted analytical ability he doesn’t seem to grasp the underlying reality.
That is, that the Americans, for all Trump’s increasingly lame PR, are still key players in the conflict in Ukraine. Those drone and missile attacks into Russia would not be possible but for American ISR and planning assistance to go with it. Same for the sabotage and assassination missions being run into Russia. Much of the supply of arms is also still down to the US. Indirectly, again in spite of Trump’s PR, financial support too. The logistics are still being run from Wiesbaden and we’re fools if we think that the Americans, whose expertise in logistics is far superior to the European’s, aren’t key in that too.
So the full scale attack Ritter is calling for would be an attack on American assets too. What’s Ritter up to, going to a big conference in St Petersburg and calling for that?
All Ritter’s doing is showing the Russians that the Americans, whether it’s hawks like Blumenthal and Lindsey Graham or dissidents like Ritter, are in an advanced state of hysteria all round and need to be handled very carefully if they’re not to harm themselves and others. But I think the Russians know that already.
I should add that there are plenty of good people in Europe who have the gravest reservations about EU foreign policy. Believe it or not, that goes for Britain too. Responsible voices in England are calling for our UK foreign policy to be changed. Ian Proud, Commodore Jermy, the late Lord Skidelsky, the invaluable Mercouris, Dr Rob Campbell, many others.
Far as I can see they’re not making much headway but they’re all in their various ways working at getting a more accurate and rational view of the Ukrainian conflict through to the public here and abroad. Ritter can do that when he’s not losing it but when he does lose it as he does in that video, he discredits all those attempts and his own too.
And I’m going to guess that many of the commenters on “b’s” site bellowing “nuke everything” are just shooting a line. They’re just thoroughly fed up with the mess their various countries have got themselves into and are expressing that dissatisfaction through hyperbole.
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b here:
I agree with the above. Ritter is talking nonsense (with Larry Johnson and Pepe Escobar not far behind).
The current ‘Ukraine is wining’ propaganda coming from all NATO channels seems to have influenced quite a few of these people. It is bullshit.
Professor Mearsheimer has studied at West Point and was an air-force officer for some ten years before becoming an academic expert in international relations. His assessments of military realities are sound and grounded in facts.
In his latest talk with Judge Napolitano just hours ago, he agrees with my view that the situation in Ukraine has not changed:
The Russians are winning on the battlefield. For sure. And not as quickly as I’m sure the Russian people and Russian leaders would like, but they are moving inexorably forward. And the Ukrainian military is in deep trouble.
They’re unable to raise large numbers of troops to replace those who are killed in battle. And furthermore, they have a huge problem with desertions. I would estimate that the Russians outnumber the Ukrainians in terms of in terms of combat forces on the front lines uh probably two to one.
The Russians have an abundance of equipment or weaponry to use against Ukraine because of their massive industrial base. And because the United States and a number of European countries are no longer able to provide as much weaponry to Ukraine as they have in the past, the Ukrainians are having real trouble uh matching the Russians in terms of weaponry available on the battlefield.
Yes, drones are helping uh the Ukrainians maintain the front lines, somewhat on the front lines, but only up to a limited extent. And I think as we move forward, what you’ll see is that the Russians will end up capturing all of the territory in those four Oblasts that they have formally annexed. […] So they’re in an excellent position and very importantly Ukraine is not in a position to ever join NATO which was the principal goal of Russia from the beginning of this campaign.
Lol. and you believe that crap? Poor devil. That is why for every 1000 corpses of Uke soldiers, 30 to under 50 Russian ones are returned. CSIS is a cesshole of lies and propaganda. NAFO trolls have a real hard time to reconcile their standard excuse “Russians march forward, so they can collect Uke corpses more often” with the “narrative” (post modern word for lie) that “the frontline has stalled with some Uke conqests”.Mediazone/BBC Russian, counting obituaries and private messages from Russia compiled by western intelligence services, scanning internet, newspapers, even private mails and social networks, reach about 230.000 killed Russian soldiers, and “estimate” it up to 360.000. Together with a double or three times larger figure of “estimated” severely wounded, they finally reach a million (sigh!).
Mere counting of fresh graves in Ukraine reaches approximately that figure of killed Uke soldiers, not to mention the daily reports by Russian MoD. Those report irretrievable losses (dead or severely wounded) of UAF of 35 to 45k per month, and about 17k deserters should not be forgotten.
Posted by: aquadraht | Jun 10 2026 13:05 utc | 238
I’m stating to warm to those mediazone estimates, 385k and 825k might be real , but many of those 825k are militarily incapable, but say 80-90% are back as very able , and hardened , civilians
So yes, RF might have lost half a million able men .
The counterpart is that AFU might just have some 600k of permanent WIA, but that’s because they have roughly 2.000.000 KIA, an average 5 to 1 kill ratio that for the last 2 or 3 years is closer to 7:1
Say 500k of the AFU permanent WIA are civilian fit, that still means 2.1M able men lost (and you can add 200k+ in deserters so far, haven’t checked lately, but long term they return to society once AFU is defeated), so in term of societal loss 4:1 and counting. (not even pointing to the obvious issue of those numbers as percentage of population, another 5 factor roughly, so 20:1?)
As for permanent losses the cumulative ratio is near 2:1, but last 2 or 3 years, closer to 3:1, that’s why RF had a peak of almost half a million new contracts per year but announced army size is stuck near 1.5m bayonets, roughly half a million above SMO start level….
Now to explain the so different ratios, 5X more artilery, hundreds of daily FABs… and something that explains both the bodies exchange ratio and very limited “recovered” soldiers back to front-line at AFU.
AFU has one huge problem, they cannot recover 3 soldiers, in any living state, that both inflates permanent losses, particularly KIA (died from untreated wounds, many recoverable, remember the tourniquet scandal) , and leave the field filled with bodies, as for bodies they are 8 times or more likely to just abandon them (not too bad if we see what they do to the living). And that’s how you get a 24 bodies exchange ratio….
in a nutshell, AFU presents anything they hit, roughly 40% recoverable (and even non recoverable mostly WIA, not KIA) , RF MoD reports permanent losses of drones and artillery (FAB excluded) and assume RF permanent losses/tables, not the carnage of those who died from lacking of medical aid under normal circunstances.
If B gets the tables working I’ll share them if anyone is interested.
Posted by: Newbie | Jun 10 2026 14:24 utc | 254
North Korea now has better infrastructure, especially in Pyongyang, than USA has in most of its territory, especially those “fly over” states.
Let that sink in.
North Korea is not only a friend and political ally of Russia and China. It is a military ally. It helped in the Kursk anti-terrorist (anti-nazi) operation, ot has ICBMs, it has nukes.
The USatan regime change machinery operated by incurable imperialist pigs doesn’t even dare to try to touch North Korea.
And, as even the western financial press now admits, North Korea is also an economic success, now fully intertwined with Russian and Chinese economies and their anti-sanctions measures.
North Korea is 100% sovereign. Despite all this friendship and alliances, Russia and China have ZERO interference inside their neighbour’s politics.
The way the political system works might not be an example, but North Korea is now showcased as an example of what this Eastern block can do.
Russia and China are teaching their other friends and even countries on the fence: ‘look, that’s how it is done. 100% sovereignty, win-win cooperation on all fields, anti-sanctions stance is dar better than sanctions vassalage, and everything that is necessary to deter the western stupidity is justified and logical and ICBM+nukes=peace.
This is what the world is witnessing.
Europe (EU is a dictatorship) is being sacrificed.
Gulf dictatorships are being sacrificed.
All countries suffering interference (from Armenia to Argentina) are sacrificed one eay or another.
And even “israel” is being sacrificed, because that Washington DC imperial machin6is leading the zionist lobby by the nose, while pretending that everything is Netanyahu’s fault (and the naive majority believes this bullsh*t).
On the contrary, Russia and China don’t sacrifice anyone. They don’t even interfere to save their buddies. On the contrary, Iran (now also a BRICS full member, on top of being a Russian INSTC key partner, and a Chinese BRI key partner) even goes as far as making its own negotiations depend on the peace/salvation of friendly countries like Lebanon.
This is how the Western (mainly Anglo-USAmerican since 1945) imperialism dies.
Under the weight of its own stupidity.
While the rest of the world witnesses how much better the Eastern approach to geopolitics is, leading by example and not imposing anything on others.
Soon, not only more countries will keep entering the BRICS, and even the SCO (perhaps one day even Turkey will leave NATO to enter this defensive alliance named after Shanghai), they will keep learning how to evade western sanctions and de-dollarize, increasingly using multipolar tools and institutions, and establishing real win-win partnerships ro also developed themselves and get rid of NeoColonial extractivist unsustainable models once and for all.
And those that make sure that they are 100% shielded from western interference, will also be helped by Russia and China to develop their own ICBM+nuclear deterrence.
Hopefully this will also happen in Iran soon, as they progressively change from the religious Khamenei fatwah (that forbids nuclear weapons) to the more pragmatic approach of the new generation of leaders.
In the meantime, I don’t know if you noticed, Oman took full control of its side of the Hormuz Straight, in full cooperation with Iran (that xontrols6its respective side). Oman is profiting from its sovereignty and win-win cooperation with a friendly neighbour.
While that happens, UAE/Dubai is being sacrificed by the USatan empire.
And in Yemen, the UAE proxies were completely defeated by the Saudi Arabia allies, while the Ansar Allah kept its full territory. A Yemen that was divided in war by 3 main factions (plus the ISIS/al-Qaeda terrorists pockets financed by CIA/Mossad/Mi6), is now back to stability with 2 factions living in actual peace.
In the meantime, China’s military friend Pakistan established a nuclear defense alliance with Saudi Arabia.
While Iran was bombarding USatan’s assets and military bases INSIDE Saudi Arabia, both Saudia and Pakistanis made it clear that their nuclear defense alliance was NOT applicable to that, because Iran is being attacked and fairly defending itself.
Later, Saudi Arabia humiliated USatan by forbidding an operation in the Straight of Hormuz. That op launched by the White House lasted 6 hours, from the moment it was secretly launched, to the moment the Saudis said no.
So, why did the Saudis said no to one thing, but don’t say no to USA using its bases and air space?
It’s all about the Eastern approach: deals and treaties matter. The word has meaning.
So, the Saudis rejected a NEW thing from USatan, but HAVE TO comply with old deals/treaties.
Another thing might have escaped the attention of most people: the “greater israel” plan is no longer possible inside a single square meter of Saudi territory, thanks to that nuclear deterrence loaned to the Saudis by Pakistan, China’s military friend.
Long story short, the West keeps escalating and interfering more and more shamelessly, and reached a point where it has to sacrifice a lot just to try to avoid losing even more and faster.
At the same time, the East keeps leading by example, avoiding escalation, cooperating under win-win logic, and making the western imperial machine (both military and monetary, political and financial) more and more irrelevant.
As I said before, Russia and Iran (and soon also China) no longer accept Western terms of (rotten) ceasefire.
Instead, full peace will come, inevitably, on Eastern terms.
Until then, USatan keeps sacrificing its peaces on the gropolical chessboard, keeps over-extending itself, showing its weaknesses (it can’t even seize a single Iranian tiny island, and instead is being expelled from Iraqi and Kuwaiti bases), and while the East keeps building and growing, the West is accumulating debt that will never be paid by its currencies.
For each trillion that USatan wastes in the Pentagon/CIA terrorist machinery, the East spends that money building stuff that actually matters. US citizens benefit zero with bombs used on other countries. The East benefits a lot with new bridges, ports, high speed railway, and unstoppable industrialization.
Mathematically speaking, the Collective West (USatan + vassals) already lost.
Again, I give the example of Nvidia. USatan had monopoly, didn’t allow its western vassals to even compete. Ot used the monopoly to try to control China, with tariffs and export bans. China spent that time building. Building its own alternative, its own industry, its own sovereignty. Now China has something that can already replace NVidia. China no longer wants to import, it even thanks USatan’s stupidity publicly. Soon, what now is flooding the Chinese market, will also flood the rest of the world. Nvidia will not be able to compete with Chinese prices. This is happening right now and this end-game will happen in this decade!
The same goes for Intel, AMD, Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc, especially since USatan’s oligarchy, used to monopoly, and addicted in growing profits, now uses enshittification everywhere:
– worse products, worse conditions of use, worse prices, excessive micro-monetization, incomplete products with essential features sold on the side, etc.
The West even dared to try this on the automobile market. *now you will buy only part of the car, and you have to pay us monthly for the use of the battery*
CRAZY! Or, as Marx has predicted, just unrestrained Capitalist pigs doing the only thing they know: trying to f*ck our lives, just to try to keep their profit.
Result? The Chinese BYD is the number one in Europe for electric cars. And that lead only increases when Musk/Tesla is associated with far-right and Trump and imperialism. That lead increases even more when USatan bombard Iran and destroys the oil market. And that lead increases also when China keeps building better and cheaper, while the West (mainly France and Germany and Italy in this case) keep burying themselves under the stupidity and treason os vassalage to USatan. Now they are even more indebted in Europe, stagflation (inflation and economic stagnation sprinkled with recessio from time to time) is a new “normal”, and energy is too expensive for the old steel factories, thanks to the anti-Russian sanctions, NordStream terrorism, and now also tanker piracy in international waters.
I.e. the total sacrifice of Europe, with European “leaders” with minimum approval ratings (+/- 15% in France, Germany, UK) doing what USA orders, because they are not leaders, they are traitors.
Example: Armenia has a traitor as Prime Minister. He obeys USatan orders, given to him by USatan’s vassals in the EU dictatorship. The interference and propaganda is so much, that he won elections after promising rainbows and unicorns as rhe result of politics that are sending Armenia on the course of 0% sovereignty, economic recession, and energy super inflation. And that’s not even the worse: he is trying to take Armenia out of the CSTO, and into a position that will make it easy for Azerbaijan (aided by Turkey) to completely annex the Armenia territory.
Still, almost 50% voted for him… because he is an anti-Russia “democrat”.
This is the difference between North Korea and Armenia. It’s the difference between day and night.
Eastern “dictatorship” is success.
Western “democracy” is fatal.
This even applies to North Korea!
Because, what is democracy?
Is it a place where you can be fooled and brainwashed, and then cast a vote that changea nothing, and have elected leaders that do not represent you, amd instead have an oligarchy in charge doing the dumbest things and violating human rights everywhere on the globe?
And in the case of Europe, having that leadership obeying Washington DC, and now whitewash8ng nazism?
Or is it a place where your government is patriot, sovereign, does what’s best for his country and his people, has enough years to implement that plan, and prefers facts and historical truth?
Democracy is not being able to vote for clow A or clown B, being able to be fooled by lies on channel A or channel B, nor debating if a bathroom should be for 2 or 69 genders.
Democracy is knowing the truth, debating real issues, and having a leader that does what guaranteea a better life for his fellow citizens, that can live without worries about having a house or even food at the end of the month.
From thay point of view, single party communism government, as in China, is FAR FAR MORE DEMOCRATIC than the collective west has ever been, especially the fascist oligarchy of USatan.
Some of Europe temporarily had democracy through Social-Democracy (what idiots in USA call “european communism” or “far left liberals in Europe”), but that democracy has been destroyed in the name of the non representative EU, the criminal NATO (= Pentagon’s branch in Europe), the genocidal “israel”, and the USatan’s warmonger imperialism.
And that’s why Russia will not escalate nor nuke Europe. The East does not want to win by being comparable to the West (i.e. the nukes in Japan).
The East will win by example, establishing a better and fairer world order.
That’s why China and Russia led the BRICS+ summit, that had so many guetss (beyond the full members and BRICS+ partners), and the world stopped to hear Xi and Putin, side by side, announcing a new, better, governance for international relations, with true respect and tru democracy betwen ao much different countries.
Because the Eastern (Global South) victory is so inevitable, that they are already preparing what will happen when the UN closes its building in New York, when the dollar no longer oppresses the world economy, and the security council is no longer controlled by 2 small European countries (UK and France) that have only as many people as merely 2 or 3 Chinese/Indian super cities.
Posted by: Carlos Marques | Jun 10 2026 18:14 utc | 296
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