Sincere congratulations of finding this Ivan Muromtsev…his simple but straight wording should wake up the not-so-smart Zanon believers…reading your very to the point but with-complex-wording articles requires quite some high-level smartness and therefore a lot of your readers become dark and demotivated but the Muromtsev’s simplicity is just great for them. Anyway, such a pity the Slavics still do not get together to stage a military coup on both sides to kill off their respective olicharchies for once and for all…maybe it is their karma to endure such suffering brought to them by the chosenites but I hope, for the sake of the good humans in this world, that this is not the case. Looking forward to your next high level article!
This is what 30+ years of capitalist restoration under a comprador, kleptocratic elite has wrought to Russia and the former fraternal republics of the USSR: De-population & demographic collapse, de-industrialization, subjugation by global capital, and a senseless fratricide.
Thank you. I say so ruefully since it saddens me deeply to see how far and how fast Russia has declined and devolved under the comprador, kleptocratic claque that seized power in 1991. Though I wasn't a fan of the late Yevgeny Prigozhin (he struck me as Russia's version of Erik Prince), he did speak truth to power regarding that tin soldier Sergei Shoigu s criminal mishandling of the military campaign in Ukraine. I wonder if Putin ever ponders whether or not it was a strategic mistake not to have recognized the LPR/DPR when they asked for Moscow's assistance back in 2014. Had Russia acted forcefully & resolutely then, when the UAF was still weak & poorly armed, Russia may very well have avoided the unenviable predicament it finds itself in presently. The same can also be said for Russia's failure to check repeated Azeri aggression against a now defunct Artsakh in the southern Caucasus.
"You started the war as degenerates, suffered the first serious losses and retreated from Kiev"
I chuckled but he is right, now we learned during the first days of the SMO the Russians wasted the elite vdv in Hostomel airport by landing right on top a Ukrainian brigade that was stationed there. Any student of history and airborne warfare knows that this is suicidal. So these lightly armed vdv troops got a foothold on the airbases but then the Ukrainians pulled back and started lobbing heavy artillery shells on the paratroopers. Who in turn suffered heavy losses because there was little cover on the open airway strips and hangar buildings. Then there were these deep advances by armored units who didnt stop untill they ran out of supplies and fuel and became sitting ducks. Which then was filmed by people and became a sort of parody as you have Russian tankers asking civillians for fuel and the way to the gas station. Meanwhile the supply convoys that were later send got ambushed and chewed up because they didnt bother to send in Infantry units which could secure the rear and towns they raced through. This military incompetence is what led the Pentagon to believe these military bumblers could be beaten or atleast fought to a standstill.
This is all very interesting. Can you steer me in the right direction where I may learn about the VDV Hostomel assault? I'm dubious when it comes to western interpretations.
I have come to the conclusion that the Zidiots on sites like LoonofAlabama, Simpleton76's site, and the Faker's have to be a bad Russian version of A.I. The constant repetition of tropes such as " Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. " to excuse Russian inaction, Putin is playing " 5d chess the US checkers "," Russia will deNazifi the world" , " Stalin did no wrong ", " multi- polar world ", and so forth seem like dead giveaways. The other alternative seems to be that they are all clinically insane.
Have you noticed how group-minded they are? The old barflies at MoA have a party-line, and anyone who differs is rabidly denounced as a troll (although 'b' himself is a moderate and shrewd observer).
Group minded or Bots ? I also have to disagree with you about "B", as he has banned me several times for asking logical questions while allowing the " regulars" to hurl insults against other commentators, which is against his own stated rules. Not to mention, many of his Geo-political analyses / predictions have fallen flat on their face yet he persist with new / updated ones like nothing happened. Just another gatekeeper, hope he gets paid well for his trouble.
Even if Vlad grabs his ankles he must realise he is heading to the same place as Saddam and Gaddafi - we came, we saw, he died! Such is the righteous West.
He may not be too keen on that idea.
If he had half a clue he would have formed an elite guard post-Prigozhin.
A nuke-tipped missile would suit the West just fine for a decapitation strike.
I don't think the Rooskies are stoopid.
Game theory indicates the optimal course of action and math is a Russian strongpoint.
Ok, I'll try to put it on here and I'll let you know how it goes...although I always get a bunch of insults from Zanon. They even ignore the Ukrainian invasion of Kursk. They are unbelievable, but ok, I'm going to try again....
on the other hand he doesn't state the whole truth of this war. All military actions of Russia are pre-approved and coordinated with USA. For eg.: price of wheat (cereals) on Chicago stock exchange is to low, call Russia to bomb a cargo ship in the Black Sea boom price goes up.
I always have a bit of a giggle when Russia protests that Ukraine has no right to attack it inside it's borders. The hubris of that is striking. That sort of delusion I expect from the US but not Russia. If you apply the reasoning that Ukraine can only use Ukrainian weapons to strike Russia , then what about the billions of Russian weapons sold all around the world , like to Turkey for example. Under the Russian view Turkey could not use any of the weapons it has acquired from Russia to strike another country. So ALL weapons sold by the US and Russian military industrial complexes can only be used for defensive purposes , they can never be transported or fired outside the border of the country that bought them? What about all the millions of Kalishnakovs floating around the world. It is an absurd idea to my way of thinking. The other side of this total war scenario is WHY exactly go to total war which will inevitably lead to nuclear war. What exactly does Russia or any other country gain from that? Is the situation in Russia so dire so close to total destruction that the Russian people have voted to all die in a nuclear holocaust? Tell me why again? At the start of the SMO Putler was being all nice and moral and was not going to damage Ukraine's infrastructure but now we expect him to destroy the entire globe for the same end? What happened in between the retreat from Kiev and now? Well the invasion failed and there is no longer any pretence that this is a small spat between brothers. Is it all worth it for Russia? If the border had never been breached and the status quo maintained what would be so bad about that for Russia? Is this a war to prevent a war? Which war is being prevented, the nuclear war? There is no logic to that. Has Russia taken the bait a second time , wasn't Afghanistan enough? This is 5D? After all they have secured Crimea and for quite a few years Putler was not concerned about the Donbass situation. It is inevitable that Ukraine will join the West. What has Russia got to offer Ukraine when compared to Europe? It is one country with limited opportunities compared with the opportunities that Europe offers . If the Uky's had come out and met the Russian columns with roses and hugs then that would be different, but they didn't , they voted for independence in 1990 . I understand this view will not be liked by our Rurick . Question for Rurick , what exactly do you expect Russia to gain by striking London and Frankfurt, Paris and Brussels and descending into a a nuclear conflagration ? What is the gain , respect? LOL ,Just sayin.
Martyanov has a strange video of Putin kissing the sarcophagus of Alexander Nevsky, which he implies is an implicit declaration of war - probably on Britain.
Is that actually a Russian tradition, or how Russians are likely to see it?
If Putin is to be compared with Nevsky - (please stop laughing!) that suggests an alternative interpretation of his in-actions and of the underlying nature of the geopolitical conflict in Ukraine and Russia.
According to Martyanov, who in one of his books stated that he got his knowledge of history from Soviet schoolbooks, Nevsky 'made contributions' to the Mongols. That's strange, all their other vassals 'paid tribute'. Apparently he persuaded the Mongols to spare the Orthodox church from their depredations. Maybe that's why the Church promoted Nevsky as such a great hero saint and Russian patriot. Otherwise it might be hard to see anything 'patriotic' about this loyal vassal of the Mongols, who even in the Stalinist propaganda film about him is shown happily ignoring the Mongols driving off columns of enslaved Russians as their captors invite him to join their campaign. Obviously the 'patriotic' attribution is applied because he beat the Teutonic Knights (and the Swedes) squabbling over small patches of territory near the Baltic (access to whose trade remained a Russian ambition.) Beating Germans was a big 'thing' for Stalin. This northern sideshow somehow obscures the fact that about that time the Mongols were making much greater conquests further west, inflicting a catastrophic defeat of the knighthood of Germany, Poland and Central Europe at Liegnitz in 1242, which would probably have led to the subjugation of much of the rest of Europe if the Khan had not died then.
Here we have a similarity between the two rulers of Russia; both turn out to be the sort of 'patriot' who collaborates with oriental invaders of his country engaging in ethnic displacement, pays them large tributes and grovels to them, while desultorily fighting weaker foes to the west - which merely
serves to distract attention from the 'ethnic cleansing' of his people, which also suits yid oligarchs and slave traders and their stooge (((Christian))) religious zealots who also have their fangs into the locals.
Here's something I did not suspect, but if we accept the investigations of Miles Mathis, 'Genghis Khan' was an alias for ...George Cohen!!! Who'dathunkit?
'No doubt Khan did come to mean ruler, but only later. It was originally Komnene or Cohen. A similar thing happened in Israel, of course, where Kohen came to mean “of the highest priestly class”. But that was because Komnenes/Kohens had always filled those positions. So where does Genghis come from? My guess is it is just a localization of “George”. Both probably come from Ge, meaning Earth. Which means Genghis Khan is just George Cohen. Bet you never thought of that. Once you realize this, you will find a lot of other obvious Jewish/Phoenician names in the “Mongolian” lists. Such as? Such as Naiman. We are told it is Mongolian for eight, and that the Naiman were a tribe of the Kazakh nation, being either Nestorian Christians or Buddhists. Right. Anyway, we know they were in the early bloodlines of the Khans, since the mainstream admits it. '
Those are the 'patriots' the beneficiaries of their patriotism promote. (Has anybody found out just what the Chinese give the Russians in exchange for all the resources that are sold to them very cheaply, and the advanced rocket technology? Lots of smiles! Not even much help in evading (((American))) sanctions. 'Contributions' not 'Tribute' of course.
Why are Central Asians encouraged to settle in Russia, but treated harshly in China? To turn them into 'Russians' and displace the locals of course! Isn't that the sort of 'patriotic' plan that is being implemented by our yiddish masters throughout the West as well?
By analogy with Nevsky we may infer that Emperor Xi has more influence over Putin than does Rabbi Lazar. Chabad Lubavitchers seem to exert predominant influence over the USA, the EU, Russia and presumably Ukraine. That would explain their common opposition to Putin's military adventure in Ukraine, and their hostility to China - which also has its oligarchs striving to create a 'belt and road' tying the economy of the rest of the world to Chinese dominance. Hence the (((American))) attempt to 'pivot to China', which will be rendered ineffective by Russian 'contributions' of military technology and hardware. Yids had a big influence over Mao and the early years of Communist dominance there, and the offspring of the very wealthy Party members have gravitated to America, as have those of the 'Russian' top stooges and oligarchs. However, it looks as if the main geopolitical conflict is now between the yids and the Chinese.
Ukraine has lots of resources which both the yids and the Chinese want, although the Chinese are more subtle about it. It looks as if Xi is using Putin as a catspaw there. Stories about saving Donetsk from shelling, 'denazifying' Ukraine and preventing it from joining NATO are just PR for the proles - as is proven by Putin's willingness to release Azov prisoners and to abandon Russian gains in the Istanbul agreement, sabotaged by Johnson at (((Washington's))) behest, because the neo-cohens want both Ukraine and Russia to bleed-out.
Zelensky has sold most of Ukraine's farmland to Blackrock - which is said to have recently complained that the new cemeteries to bury the Ukrainian army are taking up too much of their land! How's
that for chutzpah? Yids are free to leave Ukraine, but goyim must die for Zelesky and his associates, but when killed they can't even lie in the soil they were supposedly defending because that reduces yid profits!
The Chinese can afford to be patient and take a long term view. They can see that the yid-dominated world is imploding, assisted by their failure to defeat Russia through both military and financial means. They can smile benignly as their loyal vassal fends off the yids' desperate attempts to prop up the corpse of Ukraine and throw it against Russia. They can see that their economic dominance of the world is growing and in a few decades they will be in a position of overwhelming superiority, as the Middle Kingdom again, when the 'exceptional' Americans have been reduced to impotence by their (((own))) folly. Then whatever resources Ukraine and other places have will be readily available to them, and orientalised 'Russia' will be easier to slowly absorb.
In the meanwhile, shout 'Uraah' for those great Russian patriots Nevsky and Putin.
I wouldn't read too much into Stalin being obsessed with beating Hitler. Stalin was happy to keep the military cooperation with Germany going after Hitler took power and he only started becoming hostile once Germany pulled out first. Than comes the Molotov Ribbentrop pact and Stalin happily sent ((German)) communist who fled to the USSR back to Germany lol.
Basically Stalin would take friends absolutely anywhere he could find them and he had no qualms about back stabbing ((German)) communist to buy goodwill with Hitler.
As for Nevsky and the Mongols there is very popular conspiracy theory in Russia that actually the Mongols weren't even majority east asian. Sounds tinfoil retarded but im open to it. Check out what Kazan Tartars look like. Ive been there, you cant even tell them apart from Russians. Further east you have Buryats and Kalmucks but basically I think the conspiracy theory might have some truth to it and lost of Mongols were just pagan Slavs.
Also the Teutonic knights were force converting the pagan baltic people and orthodox slavs to Catholicsm. The Mongols never force converted anyone. So in the scheme of things pushing the Catholic Eastern frontier further West was probably not a bad trade off for placating the Mongols. If Catholicsm had spread farther east that would solidly translate into a bigger Poland today. Nobody needs that.
Winners tended to absorb losers, so it might be that Mongols absorbed the white steppe nomads descendants of Scythians. Mathis has a good point about portraits that were made much later, long after the death of anyone who knew the 'sitters', from which modern people get a wildly inaccurate notion of them and by extension, their people. I suppose scientists will be along waving results of their DNA tests soon. Probably they'll all turn out to have been African!
Do Russians still bear a grudge over the Polish occupation of Moscow 1610-12? Haven't they had enough revenge since then? A state with the Liberum Veto sounds anarchic and was weak, but more attractive than autocratic Tsardom or Communism. Semiogogue had a show a while ago devoted to the idea that some Poles still unrealistically want to revive the Intermarium. If the Russians retire in dudgeon, how long would it be before the Turks try to regain the region? Forced conversions coming up.
I can see that the Catholic/Orthodox schism is a sort of Coke/Pepsi thing, important to their respective managements, (although their salesmen would soon get used to selling the other product) but I don't understand the degree of hatred and fear the Orthodox laity have for the Catholics, unless it has been deeply inculcated into them by their priests defending their own vested interest. They'd rather 'turn Turk' than turn Catholic. "Splash! Splash! You're now whichever you weren't." Not so painful, and you won't need the small operation involved in converting to Judaism or Islam.
Regarding Stalin and Hitler, you've probably come across those books by that Russian using the pseudonym 'Suvorov' claiming that Stalin was a couple of weeks from attacking the Germans, but Hitler beat him to the punch because he knew of the Soviet buildup. Not good for that Russian posture of injured innocence. Poor lambs, always being attacked by those vicious Western wolves. Don't tell Martyanov, he won't accept anything that wasn't in his Soviet schoolbook, including the notion that Stalin privately acknowledged that American and British economic aid made the crucial difference for his survival. Without American trucks and petrol, those 'big red arrow offensives' that he loves so much as evidence of Russian military superiority would have been much less successful, to say nothing of the 'Enigma' revelations of German intentions. 'Icebreaker' was the book, and Stalin's nickname for Hitler, because he wanted Hitler to get bogged down in a European war, breaking a way into the west, before Stalin attacked with the intention of crushing right through Germany and on into the 'capitalist' countries.
History gets all the more interesting as we find out things 'orthodox' historians don't tell us.
The Polish Lithuanian commonwealth was the most Jewish state the world had ever seen since ancient Israel I guess. It was after Russia absorbed part of the commonwealth that Russias jew problems started in earnest. The Jews hated the Tsars but were as happy in the common wealth as they were in say Moorish Spain or the Ottoman Empire. Thats not an argument that the Tsars were based just that its good the commonwealth wasn't even more powerful due to expansion to the East made by the Teutonic Knights.
As for Suvorov his arguments have been pretty thoroughly shredded by Alexi Isaive who has done the most austistically detailed accounts of Soviet Military history in the 30s and 40s. Only one of his books is available in English to my knowledge unfortunately. He is by no means a Stalinist and the more Stalin sympathetic Russians tend to keep him at arms length because he is very critical of Stalins conduct in the run up to the war. However he shows that all Suvorovs proofs of an imminent Soviet invasion are straight amateurish and can be applied to like almost any Army at any time.
In his book about Suvorov he has a hilarious chapter were he uses a bunch of Suvorovs proofs that the Germans launched a preventive war against the USSR to prove the USSR launched a preventive war against Finland during the winter war.
Did the Finnish general staff have detailed plans for offensive war in the Leningrad district? Yes they did.
Did the Finns start a low key mobilization in the weeks leading up to the war? Yes they did.
Did the Finns have lots of military infrastructure right on the border with the USSR? Yes they did.
Were the Finnish border fortifications Potemkin villages? Yes they were.
(The Mannerheim line didnt exist in any significant way in reality, the reason the initial Soviet invasion flopped was because they did not actually have significant numerical superiority over the Finns until early February, when Moscow finally sent enough troops to do the job they bulldozed the Mannerheim line in a few days)
That really only leaves Suvorovs claim that the Soviets were in an offensive posture and thats why the Germans were so widely successful. But this is a pretty weak claim. The big kettles where the USSR lost hundreds of thousands of troops etc were well within the interior of Ukraine and Russia proper. Not right on the border where they were poised to strike. As a matter of fact the fiercest resistance the Germans met in the opening day or 2 of the war were from border troops, not regular Army just waiting for the call to get rolling.
Anyway Im certainly receptive to the idea that Stalin had plans to eventually invade Europe should an opportune time arise its just Suvorovs case is cold war CIA psy ops. You have to treat the Bezmonovs and Suvorovs as compromised because in the scheme of things running from the USSR to the US was like running from Tel Aviv to Manhattan because you hate jews. Even one is generally anti Stalin one ought to be able to understand that weaponized cold war anti Stalinism played a significant role in dismantling the USSR which was a CIA and ironically a KGB project.
Agree with you 150% about Martyanov of course. Without American trucks the USSR would probably have been about as horse dependent as the Weermacht. In all likelihood without US aid the USSR would have just totally lost Belarus, the Baltics, and large swaths of Ukraine.
I appreciate your bringing actual factual writing to the Suvorov question. I have heard about it. I'm OK in either case but I like knowing the truth. By the way, the equipment the US gave the USSR could be considered payback for the support Alexander II gave to the Union during the Civil War. He sent the Russian navy to New York and San Francisco as a warning to Great Britain to not intervene in the US Civil War on the side of the Confederacy.
How much influence did that have on the decisions of the British and French governments? Very little I suspect. This seems Northern propaganda. This was within a decade of the Russians losing the Crimean War to Britain and France. The British fleet was by far the strongest in the world, and the French fleet was second to it. Destroying the Russian fleets would just have been a warm-up for them, and I don't think the Russians would have been able to transport many troops, if any, to help the North or to threaten British or French interests anywhere else.
Non-intervention had a lot more to do with internal politics in Britain and France, and the knowledge that a war with the North would have involved a major commitment to defend Canada and mount a serious attack from there.
Alexander II gave his admiral a note telling him that a state of war would be declared if the British fleet intervened in the Civil War. I don't know if that was realistic or not, but apparently the Czar thought so.
Thanks for the information. I was not aware of the participation of the Russian Empire in the American Civil war. This makes me wonder if in 1905, the Japanese attack on the Russian fleet was made with UK's endorsement, probably in secret.
But it was with the overt endorsement and outright support of Britain.
In 1903 the British had invaded Tibet, then part of China, because Russia was negotiating the transfer of Tibet from China to Russia in order to establish a credible military threat to British India. Russia prepared a Chinese-Russian military force to, ideally, take Tibet from the British or, at least, to mire them in protracted fighting. The British army had only 100'000 soldiers so having a few tens of thousands mired in Tibet was a significant commitment.
The British countered by allying with Japan, quite officially, providing them weaponry and instructors, and prompting them to declare war on Russia. They also provided diplomatic support at the peace negotiations.
By the way, the Japanese-British alliance lasted until 1923, when the British walked out under American pressure. This prompted Japan to start supporting nationalist movements in Malaya, Indonesia, Indochina, and even India. That soured the English a great deal.
The (((bankers))) prevented the Russian government from raising foreign loans. The Russian government was attacked by the media for its alleged bad treatment of the wonderful you-know-whos. The Russian fleet on its way around the world to be sunk by the Japanese, almost got into a war with Britain by firing on a British fishing fleet in the North Sea, mistaking them for Japanese torpedo boats! The British government did not need to assist the Russian suicide.
Thanks for that. I had not heard of Isaive. I have read of the intense Jewish persecution of the common people in Eastern Europe, but wonder why Solzhenitsyn limited his discussion to '200 years together'. Did the Jews get the nobles into debt and marry into their families? Mathis points out that one of the famous queens, Elizabeth Jagiellon if I remember correctly, was most likely Jewish, and had many descendants in the Royal Houses of Europe. Rather as impoverished British nobility in the late 19th c. married rich (((American))) heiresses to restore their family fortunes - hence (((Churchill))).
On the other side of the world, it now seems that Columbus and his associates were all Jewish, as were the main Inquisitors and Jesuits. That book 'Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean' is quite revealing. It seems that most of the 'Portuguese' in the Spanish Empire were secret Jews - and they controlled the famous silver mines of Potosi - ensuring that about a third of the metal stuck to their fingers. (Were there major silver mines in Poland?) Naturally they were also the controllers of international trade and banking, based in Amsterdam before London. They had so much influence in the Dutch East Indies Company, that when some of them were expelled from Brazil they battened on Niew Amsterdam/New York and the governor was not able to get rid of them.
I don't know about Jewish profiteering in the Ottoman Empire, apart from the Duke of Naxos, but can assume it was considerable. There must have been extensive commerce in the Black Sea region, including the massive trade in Slavic slaves. What happened to all the wealth generated in that vast area? Greeks were involved in some of it. Maybe some connections between Orthodox of both religions? Did some of it find its way West and bankroll the rise of the Rothschilds?
The Portuguese and Spanish civil servants needed no Jewish blood to organise massive embezzlement from the gold and silver mines. Think it over : a controller watches every year over gold and silver shipments that are worth a thousand times his salary; 1% of that, an insignificant amount, is 10 times his annual salary; he grabs that. So do the captains of the precious metal stores and from the treasure fleet. So do other little people. What difference does it make if the king and his treasury lose 10% or 20% of the metals mined ? It is still an enormous income.
What happened with the money embezzled ? It was spent or invested in the Spanish colonies or in Spain. It had a positive impact overall.
It goes back to the Scythians, a nomadic steppe/horse people who were white and are the ancestors of the modern day Russians and Eastern Europeans. After the release from bondage of the ancient Isrealites, they escapes through the Caucasus mountains (its named after white people) into the Steppes and into eastern and western europe, fulfilly the prophecy that Jacob would become many nations and kings. The problem with the mongols is that they might have been mixed race as the later asiatic nomads pushed the other tribes back and into eastern Europe. There are rumours that Ghengis Khan had Red hair and looked white, it might be true as in the ages of antiquity they have found white people in China and the Himalayans (See the Tarim mummies). But it is hard tell if they really were of pure white stock, as there are also plenty of Arabs (which literally means mxied) with red beards. But thats another topic as before the arab conquests the majority of the middle east was still actually white.
While I disagree strenuously with your less than veiled bigotry, I do agree that it is the mandarins in Beijing that are biding their time, awaiting the inevitable implosion of the Russian Federation the longer this fool's errand labeled a "Special Military Operation" persists in order to swallow up choice pieces of Siberian real estate.
If Putin should be compared to a figure in Russian history, it should be with Tsar Nicholas II for his diffidence and military ineptitude against Russia's enemies.
Putin is already negotiating from a position of weakness and as a junior partner with countries like China and Turkey. The Russian army, like its soviet predecessor can be at best compared to a sledgehammer, wielded by a drunk giant. In other words it has a big army and alot of material and firepower but it suffers high losses ,corruption and morale/communications is very bad. Also its officer corps is severly lacking with trained NCO's. Even if Ukraine surrenders in 5 years the west will just activate Kazakhstan or Georgia 2.0 and start the whole thing over again.
What will Russia's Response to a US-authorized Deep Strike with a NATO Strategic Weapon Be?
I believe that regardless of Putin's personal inclination towards internationalism, members of his own government will force his hand and a strong, multitiered response will be unleashed.
Response 1: Heretofore unknown and unused strategic weapon in the Ukrainian theater. Statement: We are more powerful than you know.
Response 2: The elimination of one or more US/Nato/Israeli spies operating in the BRIC sphere. Statement: We know what you have been doing and are in control of your information flow.
Response 3: Economic sabotage of a specific, vital national US interest. Statement: Your economy is vulnerable.
Finally, Response 4: The exposure of kompromat of a sitting US Senator or even the POTUS that will expose an influence peddling scheme. Statement: Your own politicians have already sold you out.
I wouldn't count on it, I noticed Maria Z looked terrible about 6 weeks ago - heavy sh*t behind the scenes I'd say. Shortly afterwards she was saying insistently to listen to V Putin.
Nuclear annihilation of the human species is precisely what this planet needs. Sure, countless other species will be wiped out, but, honestly, these species are already going the way of the DoDo Bird. Human industry has seriously disrupted the food chain for all creatures great and small. The landscape is already being primed for barrenness. Some other biosphere will take root and develop in the ashes of the conflagration. I don't want any of these systemic failures of societies around the globe being arrested and rectified, just so I can continue to exist as a thrice daily raped tax slave. My awareness of what truly lies behind the machinations of The Masters Of The Universe would bring small comfort to me even if I were to finally crack The Enigma Code, so to speak. Who cares? Not I. Send in the Tigers. I'm too beat to even bother running.
It's one perspective of mine; among many. I explore many an option, each and every day, all day long. As do many others. I seek out the perspectives of others so as not to become blinded to possibilities my limited mind might not reach on its own. And, when I encounter a perspective of another whose expression I find to be unpalatable to my own way of thinking, I walk on by, without capitulating to any desire I might have to broadcast my disagreement with either the perspective or its author.
I do not see that Russia had the where with all to accomplish what he is suggesting at the time of each incident. With out a formal declaration of war the resources were not available to accomplish what he is suggesting as I inderstand it? Hence, calling it an SMO. Just trying to get the facts straight in my head.
As evidenced that a supposed military "superpower" has to beggar countries like Iran & the DPRK for drones & artillery shells & field rockets, ordnance that--40+ years ago (regarding shells & rockets)--the Soviet arms industry produced in quantity.
That appears to be only half the case. An article on the Intel Drop just today pointed out that the Putin Administration (it is never just one man) did favor nuclear as a less expensive deterent than coventional so that monies would be available for development. The administration has already cancelled one rail project due to the war expenses. And don't forget Putin offered to build the Bering Strait tunnel. The monies to do that are not available now. When evaluating actions and re-actions (or lack there of) we need to consider the enviroment within which they occur.
Sincere congratulations of finding this Ivan Muromtsev…his simple but straight wording should wake up the not-so-smart Zanon believers…reading your very to the point but with-complex-wording articles requires quite some high-level smartness and therefore a lot of your readers become dark and demotivated but the Muromtsev’s simplicity is just great for them. Anyway, such a pity the Slavics still do not get together to stage a military coup on both sides to kill off their respective olicharchies for once and for all…maybe it is their karma to endure such suffering brought to them by the chosenites but I hope, for the sake of the good humans in this world, that this is not the case. Looking forward to your next high level article!
Well his wording was not simple, I just made it simpler with my translation.
Excellent!
This is what 30+ years of capitalist restoration under a comprador, kleptocratic elite has wrought to Russia and the former fraternal republics of the USSR: De-population & demographic collapse, de-industrialization, subjugation by global capital, and a senseless fratricide.
Well put
Thank you. I say so ruefully since it saddens me deeply to see how far and how fast Russia has declined and devolved under the comprador, kleptocratic claque that seized power in 1991. Though I wasn't a fan of the late Yevgeny Prigozhin (he struck me as Russia's version of Erik Prince), he did speak truth to power regarding that tin soldier Sergei Shoigu s criminal mishandling of the military campaign in Ukraine. I wonder if Putin ever ponders whether or not it was a strategic mistake not to have recognized the LPR/DPR when they asked for Moscow's assistance back in 2014. Had Russia acted forcefully & resolutely then, when the UAF was still weak & poorly armed, Russia may very well have avoided the unenviable predicament it finds itself in presently. The same can also be said for Russia's failure to check repeated Azeri aggression against a now defunct Artsakh in the southern Caucasus.
"You started the war as degenerates, suffered the first serious losses and retreated from Kiev"
I chuckled but he is right, now we learned during the first days of the SMO the Russians wasted the elite vdv in Hostomel airport by landing right on top a Ukrainian brigade that was stationed there. Any student of history and airborne warfare knows that this is suicidal. So these lightly armed vdv troops got a foothold on the airbases but then the Ukrainians pulled back and started lobbing heavy artillery shells on the paratroopers. Who in turn suffered heavy losses because there was little cover on the open airway strips and hangar buildings. Then there were these deep advances by armored units who didnt stop untill they ran out of supplies and fuel and became sitting ducks. Which then was filmed by people and became a sort of parody as you have Russian tankers asking civillians for fuel and the way to the gas station. Meanwhile the supply convoys that were later send got ambushed and chewed up because they didnt bother to send in Infantry units which could secure the rear and towns they raced through. This military incompetence is what led the Pentagon to believe these military bumblers could be beaten or atleast fought to a standstill.
This is all very interesting. Can you steer me in the right direction where I may learn about the VDV Hostomel assault? I'm dubious when it comes to western interpretations.
I have come to the conclusion that the Zidiots on sites like LoonofAlabama, Simpleton76's site, and the Faker's have to be a bad Russian version of A.I. The constant repetition of tropes such as " Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. " to excuse Russian inaction, Putin is playing " 5d chess the US checkers "," Russia will deNazifi the world" , " Stalin did no wrong ", " multi- polar world ", and so forth seem like dead giveaways. The other alternative seems to be that they are all clinically insane.
Have you noticed how group-minded they are? The old barflies at MoA have a party-line, and anyone who differs is rabidly denounced as a troll (although 'b' himself is a moderate and shrewd observer).
Group minded or Bots ? I also have to disagree with you about "B", as he has banned me several times for asking logical questions while allowing the " regulars" to hurl insults against other commentators, which is against his own stated rules. Not to mention, many of his Geo-political analyses / predictions have fallen flat on their face yet he persist with new / updated ones like nothing happened. Just another gatekeeper, hope he gets paid well for his trouble.
if they don't name the J, they are gatekeepers being paid by someone.
golden rule.
We should get T-shirts with this saying
lol
Biden doesn't: https://x.com/KyivPost/status/1834826545665364194
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Biden dismisses Putin's most recent threats.
"I don't accept the idea that using Storm Shadow missiles to bomb targets in Russia would be tantamount to NATO starting a war with Moscow" - Biden.
We shall see.....
"We shall see..?" No - we already saw dozens of times. Russia bends over.
Even if Vlad grabs his ankles he must realise he is heading to the same place as Saddam and Gaddafi - we came, we saw, he died! Such is the righteous West.
He may not be too keen on that idea.
If he had half a clue he would have formed an elite guard post-Prigozhin.
A nuke-tipped missile would suit the West just fine for a decapitation strike.
I don't think the Rooskies are stoopid.
Game theory indicates the optimal course of action and math is a Russian strongpoint.
So Russia is just going to nuke London and Frankfurt , Brussels and Paris and there will be no response?
Nuclear winter
If he really said that it's time to invoke the 25th amendment.
Ok, I'll try to put it on here and I'll let you know how it goes...although I always get a bunch of insults from Zanon. They even ignore the Ukrainian invasion of Kursk. They are unbelievable, but ok, I'm going to try again....
on the other hand he doesn't state the whole truth of this war. All military actions of Russia are pre-approved and coordinated with USA. For eg.: price of wheat (cereals) on Chicago stock exchange is to low, call Russia to bomb a cargo ship in the Black Sea boom price goes up.
ppl arent ready to hear that
There is esteemed piece of shit hopium-spreading anal-yst Martyanon, and then there is this guy. Thank you, Rurik!
I always have a bit of a giggle when Russia protests that Ukraine has no right to attack it inside it's borders. The hubris of that is striking. That sort of delusion I expect from the US but not Russia. If you apply the reasoning that Ukraine can only use Ukrainian weapons to strike Russia , then what about the billions of Russian weapons sold all around the world , like to Turkey for example. Under the Russian view Turkey could not use any of the weapons it has acquired from Russia to strike another country. So ALL weapons sold by the US and Russian military industrial complexes can only be used for defensive purposes , they can never be transported or fired outside the border of the country that bought them? What about all the millions of Kalishnakovs floating around the world. It is an absurd idea to my way of thinking. The other side of this total war scenario is WHY exactly go to total war which will inevitably lead to nuclear war. What exactly does Russia or any other country gain from that? Is the situation in Russia so dire so close to total destruction that the Russian people have voted to all die in a nuclear holocaust? Tell me why again? At the start of the SMO Putler was being all nice and moral and was not going to damage Ukraine's infrastructure but now we expect him to destroy the entire globe for the same end? What happened in between the retreat from Kiev and now? Well the invasion failed and there is no longer any pretence that this is a small spat between brothers. Is it all worth it for Russia? If the border had never been breached and the status quo maintained what would be so bad about that for Russia? Is this a war to prevent a war? Which war is being prevented, the nuclear war? There is no logic to that. Has Russia taken the bait a second time , wasn't Afghanistan enough? This is 5D? After all they have secured Crimea and for quite a few years Putler was not concerned about the Donbass situation. It is inevitable that Ukraine will join the West. What has Russia got to offer Ukraine when compared to Europe? It is one country with limited opportunities compared with the opportunities that Europe offers . If the Uky's had come out and met the Russian columns with roses and hugs then that would be different, but they didn't , they voted for independence in 1990 . I understand this view will not be liked by our Rurick . Question for Rurick , what exactly do you expect Russia to gain by striking London and Frankfurt, Paris and Brussels and descending into a a nuclear conflagration ? What is the gain , respect? LOL ,Just sayin.
I want to live like a diesel-guzzling tech-barbarian in the future that’s what the gain is.
Martyanov has a strange video of Putin kissing the sarcophagus of Alexander Nevsky, which he implies is an implicit declaration of war - probably on Britain.
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2024/09/prince-alexandr-nevsky.html
Is that actually a Russian tradition, or how Russians are likely to see it?
If Putin is to be compared with Nevsky - (please stop laughing!) that suggests an alternative interpretation of his in-actions and of the underlying nature of the geopolitical conflict in Ukraine and Russia.
According to Martyanov, who in one of his books stated that he got his knowledge of history from Soviet schoolbooks, Nevsky 'made contributions' to the Mongols. That's strange, all their other vassals 'paid tribute'. Apparently he persuaded the Mongols to spare the Orthodox church from their depredations. Maybe that's why the Church promoted Nevsky as such a great hero saint and Russian patriot. Otherwise it might be hard to see anything 'patriotic' about this loyal vassal of the Mongols, who even in the Stalinist propaganda film about him is shown happily ignoring the Mongols driving off columns of enslaved Russians as their captors invite him to join their campaign. Obviously the 'patriotic' attribution is applied because he beat the Teutonic Knights (and the Swedes) squabbling over small patches of territory near the Baltic (access to whose trade remained a Russian ambition.) Beating Germans was a big 'thing' for Stalin. This northern sideshow somehow obscures the fact that about that time the Mongols were making much greater conquests further west, inflicting a catastrophic defeat of the knighthood of Germany, Poland and Central Europe at Liegnitz in 1242, which would probably have led to the subjugation of much of the rest of Europe if the Khan had not died then.
Here we have a similarity between the two rulers of Russia; both turn out to be the sort of 'patriot' who collaborates with oriental invaders of his country engaging in ethnic displacement, pays them large tributes and grovels to them, while desultorily fighting weaker foes to the west - which merely
serves to distract attention from the 'ethnic cleansing' of his people, which also suits yid oligarchs and slave traders and their stooge (((Christian))) religious zealots who also have their fangs into the locals.
Here's something I did not suspect, but if we accept the investigations of Miles Mathis, 'Genghis Khan' was an alias for ...George Cohen!!! Who'dathunkit?
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://mileswmathis.com/tartar.pdf
'No doubt Khan did come to mean ruler, but only later. It was originally Komnene or Cohen. A similar thing happened in Israel, of course, where Kohen came to mean “of the highest priestly class”. But that was because Komnenes/Kohens had always filled those positions. So where does Genghis come from? My guess is it is just a localization of “George”. Both probably come from Ge, meaning Earth. Which means Genghis Khan is just George Cohen. Bet you never thought of that. Once you realize this, you will find a lot of other obvious Jewish/Phoenician names in the “Mongolian” lists. Such as? Such as Naiman. We are told it is Mongolian for eight, and that the Naiman were a tribe of the Kazakh nation, being either Nestorian Christians or Buddhists. Right. Anyway, we know they were in the early bloodlines of the Khans, since the mainstream admits it. '
Those are the 'patriots' the beneficiaries of their patriotism promote. (Has anybody found out just what the Chinese give the Russians in exchange for all the resources that are sold to them very cheaply, and the advanced rocket technology? Lots of smiles! Not even much help in evading (((American))) sanctions. 'Contributions' not 'Tribute' of course.
Why are Central Asians encouraged to settle in Russia, but treated harshly in China? To turn them into 'Russians' and displace the locals of course! Isn't that the sort of 'patriotic' plan that is being implemented by our yiddish masters throughout the West as well?
By analogy with Nevsky we may infer that Emperor Xi has more influence over Putin than does Rabbi Lazar. Chabad Lubavitchers seem to exert predominant influence over the USA, the EU, Russia and presumably Ukraine. That would explain their common opposition to Putin's military adventure in Ukraine, and their hostility to China - which also has its oligarchs striving to create a 'belt and road' tying the economy of the rest of the world to Chinese dominance. Hence the (((American))) attempt to 'pivot to China', which will be rendered ineffective by Russian 'contributions' of military technology and hardware. Yids had a big influence over Mao and the early years of Communist dominance there, and the offspring of the very wealthy Party members have gravitated to America, as have those of the 'Russian' top stooges and oligarchs. However, it looks as if the main geopolitical conflict is now between the yids and the Chinese.
Ukraine has lots of resources which both the yids and the Chinese want, although the Chinese are more subtle about it. It looks as if Xi is using Putin as a catspaw there. Stories about saving Donetsk from shelling, 'denazifying' Ukraine and preventing it from joining NATO are just PR for the proles - as is proven by Putin's willingness to release Azov prisoners and to abandon Russian gains in the Istanbul agreement, sabotaged by Johnson at (((Washington's))) behest, because the neo-cohens want both Ukraine and Russia to bleed-out.
Zelensky has sold most of Ukraine's farmland to Blackrock - which is said to have recently complained that the new cemeteries to bury the Ukrainian army are taking up too much of their land! How's
that for chutzpah? Yids are free to leave Ukraine, but goyim must die for Zelesky and his associates, but when killed they can't even lie in the soil they were supposedly defending because that reduces yid profits!
The Chinese can afford to be patient and take a long term view. They can see that the yid-dominated world is imploding, assisted by their failure to defeat Russia through both military and financial means. They can smile benignly as their loyal vassal fends off the yids' desperate attempts to prop up the corpse of Ukraine and throw it against Russia. They can see that their economic dominance of the world is growing and in a few decades they will be in a position of overwhelming superiority, as the Middle Kingdom again, when the 'exceptional' Americans have been reduced to impotence by their (((own))) folly. Then whatever resources Ukraine and other places have will be readily available to them, and orientalised 'Russia' will be easier to slowly absorb.
In the meanwhile, shout 'Uraah' for those great Russian patriots Nevsky and Putin.
I wouldn't read too much into Stalin being obsessed with beating Hitler. Stalin was happy to keep the military cooperation with Germany going after Hitler took power and he only started becoming hostile once Germany pulled out first. Than comes the Molotov Ribbentrop pact and Stalin happily sent ((German)) communist who fled to the USSR back to Germany lol.
https://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article7284
Basically Stalin would take friends absolutely anywhere he could find them and he had no qualms about back stabbing ((German)) communist to buy goodwill with Hitler.
As for Nevsky and the Mongols there is very popular conspiracy theory in Russia that actually the Mongols weren't even majority east asian. Sounds tinfoil retarded but im open to it. Check out what Kazan Tartars look like. Ive been there, you cant even tell them apart from Russians. Further east you have Buryats and Kalmucks but basically I think the conspiracy theory might have some truth to it and lost of Mongols were just pagan Slavs.
Also the Teutonic knights were force converting the pagan baltic people and orthodox slavs to Catholicsm. The Mongols never force converted anyone. So in the scheme of things pushing the Catholic Eastern frontier further West was probably not a bad trade off for placating the Mongols. If Catholicsm had spread farther east that would solidly translate into a bigger Poland today. Nobody needs that.
Winners tended to absorb losers, so it might be that Mongols absorbed the white steppe nomads descendants of Scythians. Mathis has a good point about portraits that were made much later, long after the death of anyone who knew the 'sitters', from which modern people get a wildly inaccurate notion of them and by extension, their people. I suppose scientists will be along waving results of their DNA tests soon. Probably they'll all turn out to have been African!
Do Russians still bear a grudge over the Polish occupation of Moscow 1610-12? Haven't they had enough revenge since then? A state with the Liberum Veto sounds anarchic and was weak, but more attractive than autocratic Tsardom or Communism. Semiogogue had a show a while ago devoted to the idea that some Poles still unrealistically want to revive the Intermarium. If the Russians retire in dudgeon, how long would it be before the Turks try to regain the region? Forced conversions coming up.
I can see that the Catholic/Orthodox schism is a sort of Coke/Pepsi thing, important to their respective managements, (although their salesmen would soon get used to selling the other product) but I don't understand the degree of hatred and fear the Orthodox laity have for the Catholics, unless it has been deeply inculcated into them by their priests defending their own vested interest. They'd rather 'turn Turk' than turn Catholic. "Splash! Splash! You're now whichever you weren't." Not so painful, and you won't need the small operation involved in converting to Judaism or Islam.
Regarding Stalin and Hitler, you've probably come across those books by that Russian using the pseudonym 'Suvorov' claiming that Stalin was a couple of weeks from attacking the Germans, but Hitler beat him to the punch because he knew of the Soviet buildup. Not good for that Russian posture of injured innocence. Poor lambs, always being attacked by those vicious Western wolves. Don't tell Martyanov, he won't accept anything that wasn't in his Soviet schoolbook, including the notion that Stalin privately acknowledged that American and British economic aid made the crucial difference for his survival. Without American trucks and petrol, those 'big red arrow offensives' that he loves so much as evidence of Russian military superiority would have been much less successful, to say nothing of the 'Enigma' revelations of German intentions. 'Icebreaker' was the book, and Stalin's nickname for Hitler, because he wanted Hitler to get bogged down in a European war, breaking a way into the west, before Stalin attacked with the intention of crushing right through Germany and on into the 'capitalist' countries.
History gets all the more interesting as we find out things 'orthodox' historians don't tell us.
The Polish Lithuanian commonwealth was the most Jewish state the world had ever seen since ancient Israel I guess. It was after Russia absorbed part of the commonwealth that Russias jew problems started in earnest. The Jews hated the Tsars but were as happy in the common wealth as they were in say Moorish Spain or the Ottoman Empire. Thats not an argument that the Tsars were based just that its good the commonwealth wasn't even more powerful due to expansion to the East made by the Teutonic Knights.
As for Suvorov his arguments have been pretty thoroughly shredded by Alexi Isaive who has done the most austistically detailed accounts of Soviet Military history in the 30s and 40s. Only one of his books is available in English to my knowledge unfortunately. He is by no means a Stalinist and the more Stalin sympathetic Russians tend to keep him at arms length because he is very critical of Stalins conduct in the run up to the war. However he shows that all Suvorovs proofs of an imminent Soviet invasion are straight amateurish and can be applied to like almost any Army at any time.
In his book about Suvorov he has a hilarious chapter were he uses a bunch of Suvorovs proofs that the Germans launched a preventive war against the USSR to prove the USSR launched a preventive war against Finland during the winter war.
Did the Finnish general staff have detailed plans for offensive war in the Leningrad district? Yes they did.
Did the Finns start a low key mobilization in the weeks leading up to the war? Yes they did.
Did the Finns have lots of military infrastructure right on the border with the USSR? Yes they did.
Were the Finnish border fortifications Potemkin villages? Yes they were.
(The Mannerheim line didnt exist in any significant way in reality, the reason the initial Soviet invasion flopped was because they did not actually have significant numerical superiority over the Finns until early February, when Moscow finally sent enough troops to do the job they bulldozed the Mannerheim line in a few days)
That really only leaves Suvorovs claim that the Soviets were in an offensive posture and thats why the Germans were so widely successful. But this is a pretty weak claim. The big kettles where the USSR lost hundreds of thousands of troops etc were well within the interior of Ukraine and Russia proper. Not right on the border where they were poised to strike. As a matter of fact the fiercest resistance the Germans met in the opening day or 2 of the war were from border troops, not regular Army just waiting for the call to get rolling.
Anyway Im certainly receptive to the idea that Stalin had plans to eventually invade Europe should an opportune time arise its just Suvorovs case is cold war CIA psy ops. You have to treat the Bezmonovs and Suvorovs as compromised because in the scheme of things running from the USSR to the US was like running from Tel Aviv to Manhattan because you hate jews. Even one is generally anti Stalin one ought to be able to understand that weaponized cold war anti Stalinism played a significant role in dismantling the USSR which was a CIA and ironically a KGB project.
Agree with you 150% about Martyanov of course. Without American trucks the USSR would probably have been about as horse dependent as the Weermacht. In all likelihood without US aid the USSR would have just totally lost Belarus, the Baltics, and large swaths of Ukraine.
I appreciate your bringing actual factual writing to the Suvorov question. I have heard about it. I'm OK in either case but I like knowing the truth. By the way, the equipment the US gave the USSR could be considered payback for the support Alexander II gave to the Union during the Civil War. He sent the Russian navy to New York and San Francisco as a warning to Great Britain to not intervene in the US Civil War on the side of the Confederacy.
How much influence did that have on the decisions of the British and French governments? Very little I suspect. This seems Northern propaganda. This was within a decade of the Russians losing the Crimean War to Britain and France. The British fleet was by far the strongest in the world, and the French fleet was second to it. Destroying the Russian fleets would just have been a warm-up for them, and I don't think the Russians would have been able to transport many troops, if any, to help the North or to threaten British or French interests anywhere else.
Non-intervention had a lot more to do with internal politics in Britain and France, and the knowledge that a war with the North would have involved a major commitment to defend Canada and mount a serious attack from there.
Alexander II gave his admiral a note telling him that a state of war would be declared if the British fleet intervened in the Civil War. I don't know if that was realistic or not, but apparently the Czar thought so.
Thanks for the information. I was not aware of the participation of the Russian Empire in the American Civil war. This makes me wonder if in 1905, the Japanese attack on the Russian fleet was made with UK's endorsement, probably in secret.
But it was with the overt endorsement and outright support of Britain.
In 1903 the British had invaded Tibet, then part of China, because Russia was negotiating the transfer of Tibet from China to Russia in order to establish a credible military threat to British India. Russia prepared a Chinese-Russian military force to, ideally, take Tibet from the British or, at least, to mire them in protracted fighting. The British army had only 100'000 soldiers so having a few tens of thousands mired in Tibet was a significant commitment.
The British countered by allying with Japan, quite officially, providing them weaponry and instructors, and prompting them to declare war on Russia. They also provided diplomatic support at the peace negotiations.
By the way, the Japanese-British alliance lasted until 1923, when the British walked out under American pressure. This prompted Japan to start supporting nationalist movements in Malaya, Indonesia, Indochina, and even India. That soured the English a great deal.
The (((bankers))) prevented the Russian government from raising foreign loans. The Russian government was attacked by the media for its alleged bad treatment of the wonderful you-know-whos. The Russian fleet on its way around the world to be sunk by the Japanese, almost got into a war with Britain by firing on a British fishing fleet in the North Sea, mistaking them for Japanese torpedo boats! The British government did not need to assist the Russian suicide.
Thanks for that. I had not heard of Isaive. I have read of the intense Jewish persecution of the common people in Eastern Europe, but wonder why Solzhenitsyn limited his discussion to '200 years together'. Did the Jews get the nobles into debt and marry into their families? Mathis points out that one of the famous queens, Elizabeth Jagiellon if I remember correctly, was most likely Jewish, and had many descendants in the Royal Houses of Europe. Rather as impoverished British nobility in the late 19th c. married rich (((American))) heiresses to restore their family fortunes - hence (((Churchill))).
On the other side of the world, it now seems that Columbus and his associates were all Jewish, as were the main Inquisitors and Jesuits. That book 'Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean' is quite revealing. It seems that most of the 'Portuguese' in the Spanish Empire were secret Jews - and they controlled the famous silver mines of Potosi - ensuring that about a third of the metal stuck to their fingers. (Were there major silver mines in Poland?) Naturally they were also the controllers of international trade and banking, based in Amsterdam before London. They had so much influence in the Dutch East Indies Company, that when some of them were expelled from Brazil they battened on Niew Amsterdam/New York and the governor was not able to get rid of them.
I don't know about Jewish profiteering in the Ottoman Empire, apart from the Duke of Naxos, but can assume it was considerable. There must have been extensive commerce in the Black Sea region, including the massive trade in Slavic slaves. What happened to all the wealth generated in that vast area? Greeks were involved in some of it. Maybe some connections between Orthodox of both religions? Did some of it find its way West and bankroll the rise of the Rothschilds?
There's always more to be discovered.
The Portuguese and Spanish civil servants needed no Jewish blood to organise massive embezzlement from the gold and silver mines. Think it over : a controller watches every year over gold and silver shipments that are worth a thousand times his salary; 1% of that, an insignificant amount, is 10 times his annual salary; he grabs that. So do the captains of the precious metal stores and from the treasure fleet. So do other little people. What difference does it make if the king and his treasury lose 10% or 20% of the metals mined ? It is still an enormous income.
What happened with the money embezzled ? It was spent or invested in the Spanish colonies or in Spain. It had a positive impact overall.
It goes back to the Scythians, a nomadic steppe/horse people who were white and are the ancestors of the modern day Russians and Eastern Europeans. After the release from bondage of the ancient Isrealites, they escapes through the Caucasus mountains (its named after white people) into the Steppes and into eastern and western europe, fulfilly the prophecy that Jacob would become many nations and kings. The problem with the mongols is that they might have been mixed race as the later asiatic nomads pushed the other tribes back and into eastern Europe. There are rumours that Ghengis Khan had Red hair and looked white, it might be true as in the ages of antiquity they have found white people in China and the Himalayans (See the Tarim mummies). But it is hard tell if they really were of pure white stock, as there are also plenty of Arabs (which literally means mxied) with red beards. But thats another topic as before the arab conquests the majority of the middle east was still actually white.
While I disagree strenuously with your less than veiled bigotry, I do agree that it is the mandarins in Beijing that are biding their time, awaiting the inevitable implosion of the Russian Federation the longer this fool's errand labeled a "Special Military Operation" persists in order to swallow up choice pieces of Siberian real estate.
If Putin should be compared to a figure in Russian history, it should be with Tsar Nicholas II for his diffidence and military ineptitude against Russia's enemies.
Putin is already negotiating from a position of weakness and as a junior partner with countries like China and Turkey. The Russian army, like its soviet predecessor can be at best compared to a sledgehammer, wielded by a drunk giant. In other words it has a big army and alot of material and firepower but it suffers high losses ,corruption and morale/communications is very bad. Also its officer corps is severly lacking with trained NCO's. Even if Ukraine surrenders in 5 years the west will just activate Kazakhstan or Georgia 2.0 and start the whole thing over again.
Fantastic and in-depth comment. love it!!!
Interesting:
https://x.com/Royrogers551/status/1834416489648324760
Royrogers55
@Royrogers551
What will Russia's Response to a US-authorized Deep Strike with a NATO Strategic Weapon Be?
I believe that regardless of Putin's personal inclination towards internationalism, members of his own government will force his hand and a strong, multitiered response will be unleashed.
Response 1: Heretofore unknown and unused strategic weapon in the Ukrainian theater. Statement: We are more powerful than you know.
Response 2: The elimination of one or more US/Nato/Israeli spies operating in the BRIC sphere. Statement: We know what you have been doing and are in control of your information flow.
Response 3: Economic sabotage of a specific, vital national US interest. Statement: Your economy is vulnerable.
Finally, Response 4: The exposure of kompromat of a sitting US Senator or even the POTUS that will expose an influence peddling scheme. Statement: Your own politicians have already sold you out.
2:19 PM · Sep 13, 2024
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Dmitry Orlov thinks it will be purely economic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW6wZ0uVqZo
I wouldn't count on it, I noticed Maria Z looked terrible about 6 weeks ago - heavy sh*t behind the scenes I'd say. Shortly afterwards she was saying insistently to listen to V Putin.
Nuclear annihilation of the human species is precisely what this planet needs. Sure, countless other species will be wiped out, but, honestly, these species are already going the way of the DoDo Bird. Human industry has seriously disrupted the food chain for all creatures great and small. The landscape is already being primed for barrenness. Some other biosphere will take root and develop in the ashes of the conflagration. I don't want any of these systemic failures of societies around the globe being arrested and rectified, just so I can continue to exist as a thrice daily raped tax slave. My awareness of what truly lies behind the machinations of The Masters Of The Universe would bring small comfort to me even if I were to finally crack The Enigma Code, so to speak. Who cares? Not I. Send in the Tigers. I'm too beat to even bother running.
'Nuclear annihilation' ain't gonna happen. It's not good for business.
That is the conclusion I have come to. A man can dream, however.
The unmitigated madness of nihilism.
It's one perspective of mine; among many. I explore many an option, each and every day, all day long. As do many others. I seek out the perspectives of others so as not to become blinded to possibilities my limited mind might not reach on its own. And, when I encounter a perspective of another whose expression I find to be unpalatable to my own way of thinking, I walk on by, without capitulating to any desire I might have to broadcast my disagreement with either the perspective or its author.
I do not see that Russia had the where with all to accomplish what he is suggesting at the time of each incident. With out a formal declaration of war the resources were not available to accomplish what he is suggesting as I inderstand it? Hence, calling it an SMO. Just trying to get the facts straight in my head.
As evidenced that a supposed military "superpower" has to beggar countries like Iran & the DPRK for drones & artillery shells & field rockets, ordnance that--40+ years ago (regarding shells & rockets)--the Soviet arms industry produced in quantity.
That appears to be only half the case. An article on the Intel Drop just today pointed out that the Putin Administration (it is never just one man) did favor nuclear as a less expensive deterent than coventional so that monies would be available for development. The administration has already cancelled one rail project due to the war expenses. And don't forget Putin offered to build the Bering Strait tunnel. The monies to do that are not available now. When evaluating actions and re-actions (or lack there of) we need to consider the enviroment within which they occur.