I watch this situation and follow it daily. I appreciate your valuable perspective. The fact that Russia could win this war tomorrow but chooses not to leads me to believe that there are other considerations being weighed. We can only guess at what they are, but I am betting on my man Putin.
We have some real fear porn being forwarded from a Chinese operative via Jeff Nyquist and Mike Adams stating that Russia is doing Ukraine to bleed the West of resources, but has its real troops at the other side of Russia ready to assist China if necessary on an invasion of Taiwan and then the Western United States.
There is no squeak from any other source I am aware of that anything so disastrous is planned, but if it were to happen, I would be in the target area, as I'm in California.
I am not that eager to play into Russia's game just because the West really deserves it. I don't want to be overrun by hostile forces from my own country, much less someone else's.
It’s not possible for China to attack the US. They don’t have the boats. If we stood there for 2 weeks while China sent assets across the ocean, they would arrive without food fuel water bullets or bombs, never mind defending a supply chain lol. Their threat to the US is only near their mainland or with nukes. One interesting thing is that US Defense spends 40% of it’s budget on fuel and they use 40% of that fuel just to move fuel around. And they can defend it. US strength comes from it’s ability to project, with 11 carrier groups and 9 special landing forces, far more than the rest of the world combined, which is outrageous. People don’t seem to understand that it’s truly a gigantic war machine. We lose a lot of advantage if China makes us fight them near their home. They really are succeeding at breaking us financially. I’m excited to hear more about this SCO, I think it’s going to kick NATO’s azz and all the other tyrants in our country.
This is not the full military might of Russia, and I have been asking myself looking just at a map, why haven't these bridges over the Dniepr river been destroyed in the initial phase? Its a broad and large river, what's gone is gone there, can't be rebuilt easily. So yes, I got the impression the Russian air force has been almost absent.
Does any reader know Alexej Fenenko? Is he part of the more patriotic faction?
He gave an excellent interview right before the plandemic psyop to RT German, which is being memory holed by RT.
If I look at Russian missiles, it seems these have a range advantage over western equivalents.
In order to destroy really only maybe 10 bridges, it would just take these old bear bombers loaded with missiles. They probably wouldn't even have to enter any Ukrainian air defense zone for that, fired from Russian controlled territory.
It all seems to be more a political mess, I wish the Fenenko interview was translated in english, and even left in original Russian. It is a very rare interview, which totally breaks with the Bernie Bros and cultural marxist, in short the small hat WWII narrative in the east and west.
He said, Russia wants this frozen Germany issue solved, for that matter Japan's too, its a shared fate.
In essence, Fenenko said, the US and Russia will clash over the frozen state of Germany, see UN enemy state clauses. It is the legalese the Kremlin speaks often.
The Ukraine seems to be the occasion, which would enable the undoing of Stalin's criminal drawing of borders., hence unfreeze the Germany issue.
I find it hard to believe that Russia has never achieved air superiority in this conflict but rather relied on making this an artillery war. Napalm works wonders on frontline enemy troops even if they are dug in.
I was just going to say "air" power - where is it?! People make comparisons to WWI; but seems to me at times more like Franco-Prussian - that is, no air force of any kind. US military successes - 91, 03 - both depended on total air dominance; Iraq tried a couple times to marshal armored counter offenses in 03 but got blown away - under cover of a sandstorm, no less. I had thought the Russians had established that sort of dominance by the end of February. Then their air force went home? I don't get it.
Another forgotten benefit to this incompetence is how much Russian neighbors are showing their true colors. If the Russian government is trying to showcase globohomo ideology is complete shit then they’re doing a marvellous job. Sorry guys, there is no multicultural utopia around the corner.
I recall - maybe March, Apr - that North Korea actually offered to send a half million troops to the theater (to be repaid in oil/gas) - I don't know how serious the offer was or the bonafides of who made it - or the logistical considerations. But there is some poetic appeal to the idea: wasn't it the hoards from the east that made the difference against the Wehrmacht almost 80 years ago?
Sorry - I was being facetious - not appropriate at this point. However, it is the case that Russia used its strategic depth in the east to marshal both equipment and troops which then surged westward and prevailed. Said troops tending to be more Asiatic (Russians or Soviets) than the initial formations the Germans rolled over early on in Barbarossa. And for sure lots of Ukrainians and other slavs as well, and I think, Latvians particularly assisted the Germans - what is "helpers" in German? that's what they were called - and indeed Ukrainians and Latvians took over much of the heavy lifting in the mass shooting of the Jews (circa 41, early 42) after German troops had tired of the task. Probably "hoards" is accurate there. I know of reports of early arriving Russian troops in Germany in 1945 warning civilian residents that the follow on invasion force was of an entirely different flavor than they and to run for their lives before they got there.
Maybe Russia can use air power to strike behind the lines instead of placing all their effort on the front line. Isn’t air power Ukraine’s weak suit? Putin and Medvedev have been warning of upping the ante and they’ve disabled that nuclear plant.
I personally am not interested in the day to day exchanges of a live war. Live war scares the piss out of me, and I want to know why it happened this time in Europe and why it continues with so few calls for peace. If they can cook up a live war between two nations that are so ethnically similar, what can they do in China or the Mideast, or maybe even here in the U.S? I have nightmares of armed men landing on my balcony and shooting up my house while I'm sleeping. Is this what the world has come to?
My teacher taught me something called the Third Party Law. It states, in a nutshell, that third parties cause wars. If third parties were not present and lying to both sides, both sides would prefer to settle their differences by conference. Looking at the propaganda being spewed in this war, assuming the opposing sides actually believe it, it is obvious that someone is lying to somebody about something!
I hate people who pontificate about why other people do the things they do. You can spot certain behavior patterns and make predictions based on those patterns, but if you want to detect motivation the first step is to directly ask the person you want to know about. And if you don't get an answer that makes sense, you have to find out where the irrationality is coming from. In a hot war, I don't expect the propaganda from either side to be truthful.
When the Ukrainians accuse the Russians of killing 400 civilians in cold blood, how do they know that? Was it really a fresh mass grave, or was it from WW2? In WW2 it was Nazis committing atrocities. Are Nazis no longer a problem in that region? Are there Ukrainians capable of killing their own people in order to advance some odd political agenda they have? The news outlets don't ask these questions or do anything to clarify the situation. So they act as Third Parties, too.
The only other data I have is from a couple of independent sources. One is an American reporter (Patrick Lancaster) reporting from the Russian side. He finds evidence that the Ukrainians are still shelling ethnic Russians in the Donbas region. Another is a remote viewing group (Farsight) that reports ET interference in the minds of Putin and some of his top advisors. So that would be evidence of an exotic Third Party influence in Russia. This is apparently commonplace among world leaders. Totally unreported and not even considered valid by most commentators. But it makes more sense to me than the propaganda lies I hear on the news every day.
He has changed a LOT since then. He trained several young people starting with his son Aziz and now they produce all of his material. He runs a subscription website to help pay for it all, but a lot of content remains free.
Yes, I go there. I believe that we are immortal spiritual beings and that "knowing" through techniques like remote viewing is possible, and that Farsight's process is sound.
There’s a better law called “War is a racket”. Not only war, but everything in this world is a racket, now. The outcome of this war is going to determine a lot of things for us. I do want to know what’s happening day to day. Russia just needs to make sure they don’t get their azz kicked, it’s not worth it. They are bringing the SCO on line with 8 countries, including China and India, and now Iran wants to join. Turkey (a NATO member lol) is an official “friend” or whatever of this Shanghai Cooperation Organization. They can displace the dollar as the global reserve currency and back it up with grain, strategic minerals, oil, and rate earth elements. I’d say move if you think someone is going to bomb you but this is a big chess game we all have to watch.
It's as if Ukrainians attack in spurts that are timed depending on the reception of new batches of Western weaponry. They looked almost in complete passivity around when Severodonetsk and Lisichansk exchanged hands. Now on the contrary they can muster successful offensives. Did they play possum when they gave up those cities, knowing they would counterattack once new shipments arrived? That right there is a cold-blooded, calculated 5D chess move.
The Russians on the main front, in the meanwhile, keep gnawing at Bakhmut, taking a village a week like nothing has happened on the sidelines.
If the Ukrainians can get renewed stashes of weaponry periodically it's impossible to make predictions based on the state of their army. I wonder what's going on with Putin, does he have a plan B and C? Or he simply doesn't know what to do? If the AFU is still in good shape this is going to be a Syrian level quagmire.
I don’t know…maybe real estate in Donbas is not that important. Maybe Russia is not 5D but they are playing chess and I think Kiev, EU, the US, and NATO are all flailing.
maybye the PUREST exemple of hardcore-leftist pro-russian account I have found. Cult of nature, pathologic anti-occidentalism, a strange mix between Greta Tunberg and Putinism !
I deeply think, der Rolo, one of your missions, is to DESTROY those false allies in the eyes of sincere prorussian people.
I watch this situation and follow it daily. I appreciate your valuable perspective. The fact that Russia could win this war tomorrow but chooses not to leads me to believe that there are other considerations being weighed. We can only guess at what they are, but I am betting on my man Putin.
Where are you getting your information for this?
We have some real fear porn being forwarded from a Chinese operative via Jeff Nyquist and Mike Adams stating that Russia is doing Ukraine to bleed the West of resources, but has its real troops at the other side of Russia ready to assist China if necessary on an invasion of Taiwan and then the Western United States.
There is no squeak from any other source I am aware of that anything so disastrous is planned, but if it were to happen, I would be in the target area, as I'm in California.
I am not that eager to play into Russia's game just because the West really deserves it. I don't want to be overrun by hostile forces from my own country, much less someone else's.
It’s not possible for China to attack the US. They don’t have the boats. If we stood there for 2 weeks while China sent assets across the ocean, they would arrive without food fuel water bullets or bombs, never mind defending a supply chain lol. Their threat to the US is only near their mainland or with nukes. One interesting thing is that US Defense spends 40% of it’s budget on fuel and they use 40% of that fuel just to move fuel around. And they can defend it. US strength comes from it’s ability to project, with 11 carrier groups and 9 special landing forces, far more than the rest of the world combined, which is outrageous. People don’t seem to understand that it’s truly a gigantic war machine. We lose a lot of advantage if China makes us fight them near their home. They really are succeeding at breaking us financially. I’m excited to hear more about this SCO, I think it’s going to kick NATO’s azz and all the other tyrants in our country.
The information being given is that the Chinese plan to use IBMs (nukes).
Oh, the information they got from mind reading? Thanks.
This was data from Nyquist, not Farsight.
Hello, new here, I have been wondering the same.
This is not the full military might of Russia, and I have been asking myself looking just at a map, why haven't these bridges over the Dniepr river been destroyed in the initial phase? Its a broad and large river, what's gone is gone there, can't be rebuilt easily. So yes, I got the impression the Russian air force has been almost absent.
Does any reader know Alexej Fenenko? Is he part of the more patriotic faction?
He gave an excellent interview right before the plandemic psyop to RT German, which is being memory holed by RT.
I think they’re going to start using their planes now, I believe Putin and Medvedev are not making idle threats.
If I look at Russian missiles, it seems these have a range advantage over western equivalents.
In order to destroy really only maybe 10 bridges, it would just take these old bear bombers loaded with missiles. They probably wouldn't even have to enter any Ukrainian air defense zone for that, fired from Russian controlled territory.
It all seems to be more a political mess, I wish the Fenenko interview was translated in english, and even left in original Russian. It is a very rare interview, which totally breaks with the Bernie Bros and cultural marxist, in short the small hat WWII narrative in the east and west.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnTX1dt-f7U
He said, Russia wants this frozen Germany issue solved, for that matter Japan's too, its a shared fate.
In essence, Fenenko said, the US and Russia will clash over the frozen state of Germany, see UN enemy state clauses. It is the legalese the Kremlin speaks often.
The Ukraine seems to be the occasion, which would enable the undoing of Stalin's criminal drawing of borders., hence unfreeze the Germany issue.
I find it hard to believe that Russia has never achieved air superiority in this conflict but rather relied on making this an artillery war. Napalm works wonders on frontline enemy troops even if they are dug in.
I was just going to say "air" power - where is it?! People make comparisons to WWI; but seems to me at times more like Franco-Prussian - that is, no air force of any kind. US military successes - 91, 03 - both depended on total air dominance; Iraq tried a couple times to marshal armored counter offenses in 03 but got blown away - under cover of a sandstorm, no less. I had thought the Russians had established that sort of dominance by the end of February. Then their air force went home? I don't get it.
Ukrainians have pretty good air defence?
The Russians were supposed to take out Ukrop air power and air defense on the first days. What happened?
MANPADS?
Another forgotten benefit to this incompetence is how much Russian neighbors are showing their true colors. If the Russian government is trying to showcase globohomo ideology is complete shit then they’re doing a marvellous job. Sorry guys, there is no multicultural utopia around the corner.
Soloviev is saying that Venezuela and African countries ought to be sending troops to the Donbass lol.
I recall - maybe March, Apr - that North Korea actually offered to send a half million troops to the theater (to be repaid in oil/gas) - I don't know how serious the offer was or the bonafides of who made it - or the logistical considerations. But there is some poetic appeal to the idea: wasn't it the hoards from the east that made the difference against the Wehrmacht almost 80 years ago?
Don't think so. It was almost all Russians. The hordes sided with the Germans by and large.
Sorry - I was being facetious - not appropriate at this point. However, it is the case that Russia used its strategic depth in the east to marshal both equipment and troops which then surged westward and prevailed. Said troops tending to be more Asiatic (Russians or Soviets) than the initial formations the Germans rolled over early on in Barbarossa. And for sure lots of Ukrainians and other slavs as well, and I think, Latvians particularly assisted the Germans - what is "helpers" in German? that's what they were called - and indeed Ukrainians and Latvians took over much of the heavy lifting in the mass shooting of the Jews (circa 41, early 42) after German troops had tired of the task. Probably "hoards" is accurate there. I know of reports of early arriving Russian troops in Germany in 1945 warning civilian residents that the follow on invasion force was of an entirely different flavor than they and to run for their lives before they got there.
Maybe Russia can use air power to strike behind the lines instead of placing all their effort on the front line. Isn’t air power Ukraine’s weak suit? Putin and Medvedev have been warning of upping the ante and they’ve disabled that nuclear plant.
I personally am not interested in the day to day exchanges of a live war. Live war scares the piss out of me, and I want to know why it happened this time in Europe and why it continues with so few calls for peace. If they can cook up a live war between two nations that are so ethnically similar, what can they do in China or the Mideast, or maybe even here in the U.S? I have nightmares of armed men landing on my balcony and shooting up my house while I'm sleeping. Is this what the world has come to?
My teacher taught me something called the Third Party Law. It states, in a nutshell, that third parties cause wars. If third parties were not present and lying to both sides, both sides would prefer to settle their differences by conference. Looking at the propaganda being spewed in this war, assuming the opposing sides actually believe it, it is obvious that someone is lying to somebody about something!
I hate people who pontificate about why other people do the things they do. You can spot certain behavior patterns and make predictions based on those patterns, but if you want to detect motivation the first step is to directly ask the person you want to know about. And if you don't get an answer that makes sense, you have to find out where the irrationality is coming from. In a hot war, I don't expect the propaganda from either side to be truthful.
When the Ukrainians accuse the Russians of killing 400 civilians in cold blood, how do they know that? Was it really a fresh mass grave, or was it from WW2? In WW2 it was Nazis committing atrocities. Are Nazis no longer a problem in that region? Are there Ukrainians capable of killing their own people in order to advance some odd political agenda they have? The news outlets don't ask these questions or do anything to clarify the situation. So they act as Third Parties, too.
The only other data I have is from a couple of independent sources. One is an American reporter (Patrick Lancaster) reporting from the Russian side. He finds evidence that the Ukrainians are still shelling ethnic Russians in the Donbas region. Another is a remote viewing group (Farsight) that reports ET interference in the minds of Putin and some of his top advisors. So that would be evidence of an exotic Third Party influence in Russia. This is apparently commonplace among world leaders. Totally unreported and not even considered valid by most commentators. But it makes more sense to me than the propaganda lies I hear on the news every day.
I remember Farsight back in the 1990s ....I think that was Courtney Brown's RV program.
He has changed a LOT since then. He trained several young people starting with his son Aziz and now they produce all of his material. He runs a subscription website to help pay for it all, but a lot of content remains free.
Wait, i just saw the part about remote viewing. Whaaat?
Yes, I go there. I believe that we are immortal spiritual beings and that "knowing" through techniques like remote viewing is possible, and that Farsight's process is sound.
Link to Farsight?
https://farsight.org/
There’s a better law called “War is a racket”. Not only war, but everything in this world is a racket, now. The outcome of this war is going to determine a lot of things for us. I do want to know what’s happening day to day. Russia just needs to make sure they don’t get their azz kicked, it’s not worth it. They are bringing the SCO on line with 8 countries, including China and India, and now Iran wants to join. Turkey (a NATO member lol) is an official “friend” or whatever of this Shanghai Cooperation Organization. They can displace the dollar as the global reserve currency and back it up with grain, strategic minerals, oil, and rate earth elements. I’d say move if you think someone is going to bomb you but this is a big chess game we all have to watch.
Profit is a valid motivation for any Third Party. However, most of them are sicker than that and enjoy watching destruction and human suffering.
It's as if Ukrainians attack in spurts that are timed depending on the reception of new batches of Western weaponry. They looked almost in complete passivity around when Severodonetsk and Lisichansk exchanged hands. Now on the contrary they can muster successful offensives. Did they play possum when they gave up those cities, knowing they would counterattack once new shipments arrived? That right there is a cold-blooded, calculated 5D chess move.
The Russians on the main front, in the meanwhile, keep gnawing at Bakhmut, taking a village a week like nothing has happened on the sidelines.
If the Ukrainians can get renewed stashes of weaponry periodically it's impossible to make predictions based on the state of their army. I wonder what's going on with Putin, does he have a plan B and C? Or he simply doesn't know what to do? If the AFU is still in good shape this is going to be a Syrian level quagmire.
Southfront did suggest a few days ago the next offensive may come at Ugledar, which has been positional skirmishing so far but a breakout there could lead to endangerment of Mariupol, or of the souther flank of Donetsk city. https://southfront.org/ukrainian-forces-prepare-new-large-scale-offensive-in-ugledar-region-reports/
I don’t know…maybe real estate in Donbas is not that important. Maybe Russia is not 5D but they are playing chess and I think Kiev, EU, the US, and NATO are all flailing.
https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/natural-born-killers-americans
maybye the PUREST exemple of hardcore-leftist pro-russian account I have found. Cult of nature, pathologic anti-occidentalism, a strange mix between Greta Tunberg and Putinism !
I deeply think, der Rolo, one of your missions, is to DESTROY those false allies in the eyes of sincere prorussian people.
A larger army is one possibility to prevent another Ukrainian breakthrough. Tactical nukes are another.
As you didn't write about that possibility, I assume that you think that Russia won't or can't use nukes anyway? Why?
Napoleon’s marching on Borodino.