As for comparisons with the U$@ withdrawal from Afghanistan, this fiasco is far & away worse, especially with the abandonment of remnant Russian military units during their pell mell retreatin the midst of a colossal rout!
"There are people in Russia who do have some amount of power, maybe a lot more than is thought, and now they have a few things to think about:
Russia can’t project force using boots on the ground beyond its national borders. They’re in a three-year-long stalemate in Ukraine, in which their largest advance has been 25 miles past the 2022 borders - and they still don’t control all of the oblasts they’ve claimed as Russian. They don’t control the airspace over Crimea, and they don’t control the Black Sea airspace or open water, effectively their Black Sea Fleet is bottled up in Novorossisk. Novorossiya may well revert back to Ukraine, and sooner rather than later.
Russia just lost its major sea and air base in Syria, which means they can no longer project force in the Mediterranean, or in the Red Sea, or in the Arabian Sea, or in the Indian Ocean, or in Africa. It’s a long way from Murmansk to those places, especially in winter. It’s an even longer way from Vladivostok. They need to move troops and logistics, and that’s going to be really hard and really expensive from here on out.
Unless Russia just didn’t have the troop strength and materiel to defend its ally in Syria - or at least its bases, sea and air - its failure to do so is inexplicable… so my conclusion is that they’ve significantly weakened their military forces and run through sufficient weapons, ammo, and materiel in their Ukranian misadventure so as to make it impossible to project sufficient force for an effective intervention to save those vital bases.
There are other parties who would probably take great interest in the fact of Putin’s failure to protect Russia’s vital national security interests in Syria - namely, the Chinese, who may have it on their mind to do a bit of intervention on their own, in Russia’s Far East and offshore islands, with all of those fossil fuel and mineral resources present. They tried it once in 1969, and got booted out by the Red Army. The Russian Army of today is a pale shadow of what the Red Army once was. My bet is that the Chinese will make a try pretty quick, before the Russian Army can recover - and the Russian government will be no longer able to do much of anything about it, especially if done quickly - perhaps by airborne invasion - and it becomes a fait accompli - and the Chinese already have 1.5 million of their nationals on the ground." https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/syria-and-the-end-of-the-putin-regime
And of course I link back to this piece, here - good work!
The Chinese don't need to settle for an aggressive takeover of part of Siberia when they can influence the whole Russian government to give them favourable deals. That would be more their style. They see that Russia is weak, so they can press quietly for more concessions and the puppet in the Kremlin will accept.
Quite true, but I wouldn't put it past them to try for a land grab. They've done it before, and with the great asymmetry of power between the PLA and the Russian Army, I'd bet they'd think they can get away with it now... After this non-response in Syria, Putin is really screwed, and it's very, very obvious. Russia is now in great danger.
Half a century ago when they nearly came to blows they had ideological differences motivating them. 'Different type of Communism' is no longer so emotive. The Chinese are 'big' on 'face'. If they can get what they want - cheap raw materials and superior Russian military technology - they are likely to avoid humiliating their opponent, which a blatant invasion would certainly do. It would also generate more patriotic opposition to them and cancel current deals. 'Slowly, slowly catchee monkey'.
Pay day is approaching fast and pepe shitscobar has to deliver so that goddess Zakharova is pleased. This seems to be the new coping line: yeah, they took Syria, but we will take Ukraine. Still winning big time, Z patriots, keep trusting the plan!
I don't worry about American bombers anytime soon. Immigration will be quickest way to destroy Russia. Like America has been (from consitutional WASP principality to anything goes ZOG since 1965 immigration act and illegal immigration opened the borders to a free for all) and Europe is being. . My great grandparents came to US in 1916 from Russia so Im about as Russian as any other european American, that is to say not much separated by over a century but it's as sad to see what's happening to Russia for me as Londonstan for a 4th generation anglo-american. The immigration needs to stop or RUssia will no longer be Russia.
Putin kissed the sultans ass, that is what happend. FSA is mainly backed by Turkey. The sultan probably promised Putin that Russia could keep his bases if his rebels won in that phone call they had a few days ago. Maybe he had to give that S400 radar system as a sort of bribe to his western partners for study.
"Putin betrayed Yanukovich in Ukraine in a similar fashion, threatening consequences if he clamped down on the Maidan protestors, and demanding that Yanukovich recognize the Euromaidan government." Do you have a link to an article you have done on this? It is a fascinating if true.
If you're wondering why the U.S. just toppled Syria.👇
Keep in mind I warned about Ukraine and Syria back in 2021.
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Financelot
@FinanceLancelot
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3 apr. 2021
Răspuns către @Cpt_RDubya and @FirstSquawk
The major oil & natural gas pipelines run through Syria. That's why the US was defending the territory, so that Russia wouldn't have power over supply to Europe & the West.
Well that didnt take long. The Zannon 5d brigade is at it again. Basically, the Syria debacle was a clever trap set by Putin, Assad, and Iran to lure the US, Turkey, and Israel into a war of , wait for it, ATTRITION ! You cant make this stuff up.
Russia's Syrian fleet is trapped. If stupid Putin doesn't make a deal they will be kicked out and forced through the Bosporus straight, at which point, they'll be sitting ducks for " Ukrainian" attacks. Checkmate. Putin can sacrifice the ships, but after what happened in Syria, that would be suicide.
- Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said it is too early to discuss the status of Moscow’s presence in the country after the fall of Bashar Assad’s government -
Anyway he does not have to worry , Trump will stab Zelensky in the back and kiss Putin on the cock , just watch. Trump admires Putin and sees him and Putin as big dog brothers in arms . Trump and Tulsi get their information from RT so what do you reckon.
Zog East and Zog West would be excellent replacements for the outdated East/West, FirstWorld/SecondWorld, Free World/Communist Bloc, etc. or the ridiculous proposed replacements, Rules Based Order and Axis of Resistance.
To me the geopolitical signs are there. Something will go down in Iran come the Trump presidency. I don't think they'll be real boots on the ground but just like in Ukraine they'll be "advisors" and then one resolved Trump will claim responsibility for single handedly bringing "peace to the middle East". Give it 10 years and the dismemberment of the Russian Federation seeds have already been well laid especially when Putin becomes more like Joe Biden with age. My only hope is the Russian nationalist spirit being too great to let such a catastrophe happen but come on history has shown the Russian Slavic people have been shat on for more than 100 years by other minders so the prognosis isn't looking good there children.
I wonder if Lord Miles will visit Syria now? Love that you turned off comments for freeloaders Rurik. I think you and Ian Davis should have a chat soon. He used to be on a show (UK Column) which also featured Vanessa Beeley.
Oh man did I kick up a storm over there with Frances. I got called a liar and was told I was full of shit all because I had a difference in opinion. Frances says she is band in so many places as part of her Substack description. Well I can certainly tell you it's not because she is spreading much truth there. Just hatred and rudeness mixed in with a level of immaturity a woman her age should have shrugged off by now. I told her to debate Rurik on a podcast. She was having none of it.
Someone - "Charlotte" - comments at Slavsquat -- linked Rurik's yesterday's post at the OFF- Guardian - lots of Zanons among the readership there .... I merely suggested that the Russian black sea fleet had been mostly neutralized by Nato naval drones and I got downvotes.
With Syria within the Zionist block, the ports will be needed to ship no longer necessary arms to the Ukraine. The message for "friends of the RF" will be clear: "who will be next for abandonment?". China might be first because it has the potential to outperform every other country re science and engineering, and the integration of traditional and modern social sciences won't be in the interest of "the gang".
If anything, the Beijing mandarin is licking his chops over exercising ever greater control over Russia's far eastern resources, if not seizing them outright given how weakened Russia is militarily and geo-strategically at the moment.
"Why Does Washington Kill the Puppet-Rulers That They Put Into Power in the First Place?"
IMO
Step one you need a strongman and his local buddies to enforce markets/capitalism/shock therapy- they know lay of land and are ethnically acceptable. They get fabulously wealthy above the law and kick back a small piece to Wall Street for the guns/support they got.
Step 2 - That's not good enough. ZOG/Wall Street wants it all. So they empower the people with "democracy" which is just another word for the oligarchs will present you a slate to ratify. So Democracy aka oligarchy it is.
Step 3 Wall Street ZoG doesnt like the native oligarchs in step 1 having a chance so they gotta go. When they don't go it's regime change.
It's no accident US stock market out performs all other by a huge margin let alone US hedge funds and we don't even make anything anymore. We live on world rents and regime changing is part of that equation. (along with forcing countries to hold and use dollars, running the intl orgs like SWIFT and IMB, petrol dollar exchange, etc) All for which the NATO/US military/CIA is the guarantor. Until the US military is defeated nothing will change. BRICS is a mosquito a nothing and is being delt with even so.
So dont be afraid to max out your 401k contribution or whatever
Putin is not the guy to defeat US. And no rival talks more shit than Xi.
As for comparisons with the U$@ withdrawal from Afghanistan, this fiasco is far & away worse, especially with the abandonment of remnant Russian military units during their pell mell retreatin the midst of a colossal rout!
The Afganistan evacuation wasn't really that bad, no Americans were left behind, only equipement,equipement that requires maintenance and spare parts.
"There are people in Russia who do have some amount of power, maybe a lot more than is thought, and now they have a few things to think about:
Russia can’t project force using boots on the ground beyond its national borders. They’re in a three-year-long stalemate in Ukraine, in which their largest advance has been 25 miles past the 2022 borders - and they still don’t control all of the oblasts they’ve claimed as Russian. They don’t control the airspace over Crimea, and they don’t control the Black Sea airspace or open water, effectively their Black Sea Fleet is bottled up in Novorossisk. Novorossiya may well revert back to Ukraine, and sooner rather than later.
Russia just lost its major sea and air base in Syria, which means they can no longer project force in the Mediterranean, or in the Red Sea, or in the Arabian Sea, or in the Indian Ocean, or in Africa. It’s a long way from Murmansk to those places, especially in winter. It’s an even longer way from Vladivostok. They need to move troops and logistics, and that’s going to be really hard and really expensive from here on out.
Unless Russia just didn’t have the troop strength and materiel to defend its ally in Syria - or at least its bases, sea and air - its failure to do so is inexplicable… so my conclusion is that they’ve significantly weakened their military forces and run through sufficient weapons, ammo, and materiel in their Ukranian misadventure so as to make it impossible to project sufficient force for an effective intervention to save those vital bases.
There are other parties who would probably take great interest in the fact of Putin’s failure to protect Russia’s vital national security interests in Syria - namely, the Chinese, who may have it on their mind to do a bit of intervention on their own, in Russia’s Far East and offshore islands, with all of those fossil fuel and mineral resources present. They tried it once in 1969, and got booted out by the Red Army. The Russian Army of today is a pale shadow of what the Red Army once was. My bet is that the Chinese will make a try pretty quick, before the Russian Army can recover - and the Russian government will be no longer able to do much of anything about it, especially if done quickly - perhaps by airborne invasion - and it becomes a fait accompli - and the Chinese already have 1.5 million of their nationals on the ground." https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/syria-and-the-end-of-the-putin-regime
And of course I link back to this piece, here - good work!
The Chinese don't need to settle for an aggressive takeover of part of Siberia when they can influence the whole Russian government to give them favourable deals. That would be more their style. They see that Russia is weak, so they can press quietly for more concessions and the puppet in the Kremlin will accept.
Quite true, but I wouldn't put it past them to try for a land grab. They've done it before, and with the great asymmetry of power between the PLA and the Russian Army, I'd bet they'd think they can get away with it now... After this non-response in Syria, Putin is really screwed, and it's very, very obvious. Russia is now in great danger.
Half a century ago when they nearly came to blows they had ideological differences motivating them. 'Different type of Communism' is no longer so emotive. The Chinese are 'big' on 'face'. If they can get what they want - cheap raw materials and superior Russian military technology - they are likely to avoid humiliating their opponent, which a blatant invasion would certainly do. It would also generate more patriotic opposition to them and cancel current deals. 'Slowly, slowly catchee monkey'.
Would the Chinese really want Russia as an implacable enemy when the US is so obviously spoiling for a fight against China over Taiwan?
Pay day is approaching fast and pepe shitscobar has to deliver so that goddess Zakharova is pleased. This seems to be the new coping line: yeah, they took Syria, but we will take Ukraine. Still winning big time, Z patriots, keep trusting the plan!
I don't worry about American bombers anytime soon. Immigration will be quickest way to destroy Russia. Like America has been (from consitutional WASP principality to anything goes ZOG since 1965 immigration act and illegal immigration opened the borders to a free for all) and Europe is being. . My great grandparents came to US in 1916 from Russia so Im about as Russian as any other european American, that is to say not much separated by over a century but it's as sad to see what's happening to Russia for me as Londonstan for a 4th generation anglo-american. The immigration needs to stop or RUssia will no longer be Russia.
Putin kissed the sultans ass, that is what happend. FSA is mainly backed by Turkey. The sultan probably promised Putin that Russia could keep his bases if his rebels won in that phone call they had a few days ago. Maybe he had to give that S400 radar system as a sort of bribe to his western partners for study.
You might be on the money there.
Thanx for the article , much food for thought .
"Putin betrayed Yanukovich in Ukraine in a similar fashion, threatening consequences if he clamped down on the Maidan protestors, and demanding that Yanukovich recognize the Euromaidan government." Do you have a link to an article you have done on this? It is a fascinating if true.
If you're wondering why the U.S. just toppled Syria.👇
Keep in mind I warned about Ukraine and Syria back in 2021.
Citat
Financelot
@FinanceLancelot
·
3 apr. 2021
Răspuns către @Cpt_RDubya and @FirstSquawk
The major oil & natural gas pipelines run through Syria. That's why the US was defending the territory, so that Russia wouldn't have power over supply to Europe & the West.
Ukraine also has major pipelines that's why Russia wants control of it. NATO forces are in Latvia. https://x.com/FinanceLancelot/status/1865919988303106486
Man, Pepe must really have become addicted to heroine back in his days jn Afghanisten. This post was beyond nutzos.
Well that didnt take long. The Zannon 5d brigade is at it again. Basically, the Syria debacle was a clever trap set by Putin, Assad, and Iran to lure the US, Turkey, and Israel into a war of , wait for it, ATTRITION ! You cant make this stuff up.
Russia's Syrian fleet is trapped. If stupid Putin doesn't make a deal they will be kicked out and forced through the Bosporus straight, at which point, they'll be sitting ducks for " Ukrainian" attacks. Checkmate. Putin can sacrifice the ships, but after what happened in Syria, that would be suicide.
- Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said it is too early to discuss the status of Moscow’s presence in the country after the fall of Bashar Assad’s government -
https://www.rt.com/russia/609062-syria-military-bases-fate/
Maybe Putler has made a deal to keep the bases?
How have all his other "deals" panned out ?
Anyway he does not have to worry , Trump will stab Zelensky in the back and kiss Putin on the cock , just watch. Trump admires Putin and sees him and Putin as big dog brothers in arms . Trump and Tulsi get their information from RT so what do you reckon.
I doubt it. First you have project Khazaria 2.0 and Zelensky is a happy merchant. Wont happen.
Zog East and Zog West would be excellent replacements for the outdated East/West, FirstWorld/SecondWorld, Free World/Communist Bloc, etc. or the ridiculous proposed replacements, Rules Based Order and Axis of Resistance.
Rurik I did share your work. To be precise here https://substack.com/inbox/post/152822071 in the comments section of this hopium article.
To me the geopolitical signs are there. Something will go down in Iran come the Trump presidency. I don't think they'll be real boots on the ground but just like in Ukraine they'll be "advisors" and then one resolved Trump will claim responsibility for single handedly bringing "peace to the middle East". Give it 10 years and the dismemberment of the Russian Federation seeds have already been well laid especially when Putin becomes more like Joe Biden with age. My only hope is the Russian nationalist spirit being too great to let such a catastrophe happen but come on history has shown the Russian Slavic people have been shat on for more than 100 years by other minders so the prognosis isn't looking good there children.
I wonder if Lord Miles will visit Syria now? Love that you turned off comments for freeloaders Rurik. I think you and Ian Davis should have a chat soon. He used to be on a show (UK Column) which also featured Vanessa Beeley.
I think he thinks im a fascist now sadly
Oh man did I kick up a storm over there with Frances. I got called a liar and was told I was full of shit all because I had a difference in opinion. Frances says she is band in so many places as part of her Substack description. Well I can certainly tell you it's not because she is spreading much truth there. Just hatred and rudeness mixed in with a level of immaturity a woman her age should have shrugged off by now. I told her to debate Rurik on a podcast. She was having none of it.
she's jumped at my throat before as well.
Someone - "Charlotte" - comments at Slavsquat -- linked Rurik's yesterday's post at the OFF- Guardian - lots of Zanons among the readership there .... I merely suggested that the Russian black sea fleet had been mostly neutralized by Nato naval drones and I got downvotes.
With Syria within the Zionist block, the ports will be needed to ship no longer necessary arms to the Ukraine. The message for "friends of the RF" will be clear: "who will be next for abandonment?". China might be first because it has the potential to outperform every other country re science and engineering, and the integration of traditional and modern social sciences won't be in the interest of "the gang".
I suspect Xi isn't at all surprised.
If anything, the Beijing mandarin is licking his chops over exercising ever greater control over Russia's far eastern resources, if not seizing them outright given how weakened Russia is militarily and geo-strategically at the moment.
"Why Does Washington Kill the Puppet-Rulers That They Put Into Power in the First Place?"
IMO
Step one you need a strongman and his local buddies to enforce markets/capitalism/shock therapy- they know lay of land and are ethnically acceptable. They get fabulously wealthy above the law and kick back a small piece to Wall Street for the guns/support they got.
Step 2 - That's not good enough. ZOG/Wall Street wants it all. So they empower the people with "democracy" which is just another word for the oligarchs will present you a slate to ratify. So Democracy aka oligarchy it is.
Step 3 Wall Street ZoG doesnt like the native oligarchs in step 1 having a chance so they gotta go. When they don't go it's regime change.
It's no accident US stock market out performs all other by a huge margin let alone US hedge funds and we don't even make anything anymore. We live on world rents and regime changing is part of that equation. (along with forcing countries to hold and use dollars, running the intl orgs like SWIFT and IMB, petrol dollar exchange, etc) All for which the NATO/US military/CIA is the guarantor. Until the US military is defeated nothing will change. BRICS is a mosquito a nothing and is being delt with even so.
So dont be afraid to max out your 401k contribution or whatever
Putin is not the guy to defeat US. And no rival talks more shit than Xi.
Additionally, I'd wager Bashar is dead as "The Russian lady doth protest too much, methinks"
If he isn't dead today, both he and his family are now firmly inside the proverbial lion's den.
Rumour has it Assad is living in Yanukovic's basement and Medvedevchuk has the top floor. (I know I butchered the names.)