I’ve got a question for AP: Does the collapse of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia indicate that Austria-Hungary was more likely than not to eventually fail even without World War I? I mean, you could say that Communism played a large role in the collapse of the former countries mentioned here, but the schisms that existed within them often existed even before Communism came along there. Lothrop Stoddard, for instance, already predicted an eventual Slovak secessionist push to achieve full independence back in his 1924 book Racial realities in Europe. Likewise, Slovenes and Croats resented the fact that they were politically dominated by the less civilized and less cultured Serbs in the interwar era.

Would the main thing that have ensured that Austria-Hungary would not have collapsed or broken up in the absence of World War I have been German military force and German willingness to prop up its main and biggest ally by force by any means necessary? Along with, of course, continued German unwillingness to incorporate Austria’s Catholic Germans into the German Reich for fear for too heavily distorting the religious balance in the German Empire in favor of Catholics?

As a side note, the Bolsheviks were truly evil little shits: They refused to allow or tolerate any dissent outside of the party, even when this dissent was “revolutionary”, as with the Kronstadt sailors back in 1921, and Stalin ultimately decided to take this logic to the next level by refusing to tolerate any dissent within the party either. The Bolsheviks would have been much better off creating a multiparty system back in the early 1920s in exchange for them getting immunity for committing the Red Terror in the past (not committing the Red Terror would have, of course, been even better, but you can’t ask the Bolsheviks to be too nice, unfortunately) even if this would have meant that the Bolsheviks would have lost the next elections and been consigned to the opposition benches. After all, even life in the political opposition would have been much, much better than being brutally and gruesomely purged and killed by Stalin, a fellow comrade.

Revolutions truly do sometimes devour their own children.

Russia using original Maxim machine gun from 1884:

“Russia has the most advanced military in the world. They cannot be defeated on the battlefield.”

– Scott Ritter after the invasion started.

That was after his long rant about how Russia will never invade. Last I checked it is still on RT.news. Russian media was too lazy to remove it.

No discussion of the new mobilisation law in the Ukraine? They really are trying to kill every last Ukrainian, thankfully most have fled abroad, not least of all to Russia.

Do you know how difficult it is today for a draft age Ukrainian male to leave Ukraine? Last that I saw (on a documentary on the subject) the favorite route was through Romania. How about crossing the Polish, Slovak or Hungarian borders? Direct attempts from Boryspil through to Germany or France would seem futile at this point?

Hard to believe…incredible! 🙂

In a war people don’t normally just give up and accept defeat. If Britain invaded Ireland I’m sure you’d support them in fighting to the death rather than just accept being part of the UK so they don’t die.

People like you are always anti-British, yet if someone else gets invaded by a foreign occupier, you say “Just surrender, stop being so bigoted”.

If a government came to power in the UK that decided to end the Northern Ireland problem by making the whole of Ireland part of the UK, the entire world would be screaming for the UK to be nuked and I’m sure you’d be screaming with them. Russia gets off light by comparison.

It looks like the guys who made the video used a black powder grenade. Maybe they promised not to damage the museum piece.

A wiki reference from 2022 says the Ukies are still using these. If they are doing spray and pray I guess it doesn’t matter.

…Do you know how difficult it is today for a draft age Ukrainian male to leave Ukraine?

Maybe the problem is that the draft age is incredibly long, 18 to 60 or something like that, basically every man. Given the normal distribution of views on fighting to death for a questionable cause that means that millions of Ukies will try to escape.

The main problem we hear about is that the priviledged people are exempted: kids and relatives of the most fanatical Kiev politicians are abroad, artists who cheered “kill the Russkies” on Maidan, and almost all oligarchs and petty local chieftains…

It is a classical war that kills a huge number of ordinary, unconnected men – in addition to the fanatic dead-enders who were craving this for some bizarre psycho reason. I can’t wait for the look-back. How will anyone justify the massive destruction of a nation for the strange desire to be in Nato? What does that even mean to most Ukie people to be “in Nato”?

You are really bad with analogies. Both Crimea and Donbass are ethnically Russian. So it would be more like Ireland invading Ulster to suppress the British-leaning population. Then Britain invades to protect them from being expelled and killed. And Ireland would argue with the inviolability of Ireland’s ‘natural’ borders…

But this war is not even about that – the ethnic issues would have been resolved if it wasn’t for the plan to move Nato to Ukraine. Something “Europe” is desperately trying not to mention…it is the elephant in the room, the casus belli…

The main question in every war: is the cause worth dying for? Is it an existential issue? Nobody with a 3-digit IQ would argue that Ukraine in Nato is worth it. Maybe for the Nuland-Blinken gang and a few unrepentant latter-day Nazis like Baerbock, BoJo, Sholz, Poles-Balts…but not for normal people. So you hide the truth. That doesn’t help anyone.

No discussion of the new mobilisation law in the Ukraine? They really are trying to kill every last Ukrainian, thankfully most have fled abroad, not least of all to Russia.

Real population of Ukraine before SMO was 25-27 million. By EU stats, ~4 million ran away there. More than 5 million ran away to Russia. That still leaves 16-18 million on the territory remaining under Kiev regime control.

The clown and his accomplices would willingly sacrifice them all to benefit the empire. However, looks like those who remain are not as stupid as the empire and its servants in Kiev would like them to be. There are videos on the web showing empty streets in various Ukrainian townships. Men and women do not step out of their homes because they do not want to risk being caught by ruthless Ukie “recruiters” and become expandable cannon fodder.

The main question in every war: is the cause worth dying for? Is it an existential issue? Nobody with a 3-digit IQ would argue that Ukraine in Nato is worth it.

I concur.

If the fight was about the now failed dream of NATO expansion, concessions would have been made to end the engagement. So, think a few steps further. Why it is still going?

What *is* existential for European elites:
    • Breaking up Eastern unity against Brussels?
    • Maximizing migration?
It certainly looks like the EU achieved a win in the Poland elections.

Much like GW in Iraq, I am not sure that Merkel/Scholz and Macron have thought this through. Can the EU survive:
    ‣ Admitting Ukraine?
    ‣ Or, giving them a special, non-member deal?
The consequences of closer ties with a reduced, but still physically large, Ukraine will be destabilizing.

PEACE 😇

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Is this a one-off? Or, is the threat of a hostile takeover bringing Bob Iger to reality? Sadly, it is most likely the former.

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It looks like the guys who made the video used a black powder grenade. Maybe they promised not to damage the museum piece.

Of course Comrade. Everything is going as planned. It must be Western propaganda. The 2.5 week special operation will be a success and Putin will be revered as a great warlord. Now let us run into the trenches and die for his greatness!

A wiki reference from 2022 says the Ukies are still using these. If they are doing spray and pray I guess it doesn’t matter.

Ukraine has used them but the difference is that they don’t claim to be the second largest military in the world.

More evidence that Russia is short on small arms:

Who would have guessed that they would run low on AK-47s. Seems they sold too many to Arab and African states.

You are really bad with analogies. Both Crimea and Donbass are ethnically Russian.

You mean Crimea is majority Russian speaking. That actually isn’t a measurement of whether or not they want to join Russia. Are you saying the Crimean vote was legitimate?

So it would be more like Ireland invading Ulster to suppress the British-leaning population.

So you then believe that Russia’s invasion of Zapozorista Oblast is unjust and they are right to fight back since they are overwhelmingly Ukrainian and never supported pro-Russian parties?

You do acknowledge that Russia tried invading Kiev? Was that justified?

If the Israelis think that Netanyahu is trying to “save them” then they should think again.

Did Hitler save the Germans? Look what a pathetic nation they are now.

No, narcissist like Netanyahu and Hitler never saved anything in their lives…they only destroy, either for twisted ideologies or lust, corruption and greed.

Taliban kicked out the US “invincible” military by Russian AK-47, old but very effective. It is not the hardware but the soldiers fighting purpose. Where do you think US unemployed or homeless go…defending/dying for the sinister Washington parasites, to get some veterans’ crumbs.

So, if Ukraine would have committed to not joining NATO but would have also eventually done an Operation Storm against the Donbass, or at least tried to do so, Russia would have done absolutely nothing?

Taliban kicked out the US

ROTFL — The description “kicked out” is ludicrous.

Trump accurately realized that the U.S. had no national interest at stake in Afghanistan. It was clear that departure was the correct choice. He was working out the details of a deal to gracefully leave, handing over the reins to local actors including some elements of the Taliban.

Personal blame for the failed withdrawal falls on Gen. SJW Milley, Not-The-President Biden, and their associates. Those unelected individuals took what should have been an orderly wrap up and turned it into an unnecessary fiasco.

It is not the hardware but the soldiers fighting purpose

I concur with this.

It explains why indigenous Palestinian Jews are winning ~20:1 versus Hamas. Israel is in a fight for survival, and thus has soldiers with “fighting purpose”. The Iranian proxy troops on the ground are realizing that Hamas leadership in Qatar and Iran is expending them with no viable plan.

PEACE 😇

The Iranian proxy troops on the ground are realizing that Hamas leadership in Qatar and Iran is expending them with no viable plan.

The plan is for each of them to get 72 virgins–oops, I meant 72 raisins!–in Paradise!

BTW, I’ve got another question for AP: Do you think that Silesia would have fared better under the Hapsburgs from the 1740s to the early 20th century (before the 1930s-1940s) than it fared under the Hohenzollerns in real life, had the Hapsburgs actually managed to keep it or, alternatively, quickly reconquer it from the Hohenzollerns?

Haven’t watched the entire thing, but this is a very interesting video documentary of a years long feud between two related Irish Traveler families. Every now and again they settle things between themselves with bare knuckle fights. At 18:30 the local Gardaí (armed with Uzis and with helicopters) stop one of their fights from taking place. [Though referred to as ‘Gypsies’, they’re not really, but full blooded Irish.]

To be sure, it’s unfortunate they don’t spend all that energy on more positive pursuits, nevertheless it’s fascinating.

He’s really a waste of time. Kiev regime counter-offensive clearly failed. Now they’re trying desperately to get their nationals abroad to fight, in addition to the press gangs they have within their domain.

…if Ukraine would have committed to not joining NATO but would have also eventually done an Operation Storm against the Donbass

A hypothetical we don’t know the answer to. If Kiev made a commitment to neutrality and gave Donbas Russians autonomy (Minsk) it would be hard for Kremlin to sell the war at home. If Kiev tried an Operation Storm with big Russian civilian casualties, Russia would intervene to stop it – as they did in Ossetia-Georgia 2008 and in Donbas 2014-15. Whether that would expand to an all-out war is impossible to know.

What has made the bloody escalation possible is the EU not stepping in and asking Kiev to observe basic modern human rights – attacking and bombing your own citizens because they want “autonomy” and Russian-language schools is on its face criminal. EU would never allow it in Catalonia, Belgium…

This is at the core a failure of Europe to live by its own loudly proclaimed “values”. It will have very bad consequences – Europe went back 2-3 generations “because Russia“…

Are you saying the Crimean vote was legitimate?

As legitimate as any voting in a conflict zone. But yes, it reflected the will of the majority in Crimea. If you redo it, you will get the same pro-Russia result.

Russia’s invasion of Zapozorista Oblast is unjust and they are right to fight back since they are overwhelmingly Ukrainian and never supported pro-Russian parties?

We are in the total war so now it is not about justice or what you claim about pre-war support. It is now about two sides with diametrically opposing goals and the stronger one will win. The time to talk about justice was in 2014-20 when Kiev was bombing its own Donbas civilians, arming with Nato for a war on Russia, banning Russians language.

That train has left the station, now it is about who wins. They will decide what is “just”, it is always like that. Nato did it in Serbia, Iraq, Libya, etc…what planet do you live on? (Go easy on the Walmart fluffy bread….:)

Russia tried invading Kiev? Was that justified?

To objective observers it looked like Russia was trying to pressure Kiev into making a deal. The deal was very simple: no Nato and autonomy-independence for Donbas. Kiev refused. Now we have an all-out war and Ukraine is losing. That deal, or any version of Minsk would have been much better for the Ukies. It is too late for that.

Remember the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Some people publishing in NYT (of all places!) apparently have reached the stage of acceptance (at least partial). The piece is titled “Ukraine Doesn’t Need All Its Territory to Defeat Putin”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/opinion/ukraine-military-aid.html

Is it an interesting sign, or what? Some bright spark might eventually come to the idea that Ukraine does not even need to defeat Putin. That would be the final acceptance of reality.

I think Russia would have pressed for concessions which Kiev would be unlikely to give voluntarily. NATO had been training and arming Ukraine for a long time. Western power brokers were woven into the Ukrainian leadership fabric (Nuland, Burisma, etc.). Serious anti-Russia military activities were afoot in places like Azovstal and maybe the US-funded bioweapons laboratories. I doubt Russia would believe that these sorts of activities and connections can be unwound voluntarily. Don’t forget that the Ukraine project by the West fits into the middle of NATO expansion, USA dropping out of nuclear arms control treaties and emplacing missiles in Eastern Europe. Ukraine is not an isolated concern in a vacuum, it is just the most visible part of a long standing anti-Russia program.

That deal, or any version of Minsk would have been much better for the Ukies. It is too late for that.

Putin always goes from a better offer to a worse one for his opponents (if the first offer is not accepted). His first offer to Ukies was Minsk agreements. His second offer was made at the negotiations in 2022, which the masters of Ukies told them to reject. His third offer is usually unconditional capitulation.

What has made the bloody escalation possible is the EU not stepping in and asking Kiev to observe basic modern human rights – attacking and bombing your own citizens because they want “autonomy” and Russian-language schools is on its face criminal. EU would never allow it in Catalonia, Belgium…

It allows it in France and the Baltics.

Taliban kicked out the US “invincible” military by Russian AK-47, old but very effective.

The Taliban never kicked out the US military. That is a myth.

US casualties in the last few years were below peacetime. Meaning you were more likely to be killed on vacation in Florida.

The main problem was the cost. You have to fly practically everything into the country. It really is a logistical nightmare. I didn’t support Biden’s embarrassing exit but we couldn’t fund Kabul indefinitely. The Afghan security forces would only fight with US air support and it’s expensive to fly jets all over a large country.

It’s a myth propagated by the media that it was a Vietnam. The Taliban lost nearly all of their territory in one year. The US to Taliban kill ratio was something like 100 to 1.

As for the Maxim machine gun I’m not saying it is ineffective. I am pointing out that the Russian military obviously has shortages if they are using them.

The Russian Maxim is from 1910 and is really just the 1887 design:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_M1910

An MG34 would be a massive upgrade.

I would take an AK-47 over an M1910. A Maxim could be used for covering fire but then everyone would start shooting at you. They probably don’t have much ammo for it. I’d rather take an AK with the concealment advantage. Finns however made great use of the 1910 in the Winter War. They would use them against Russians that couldn’t move quickly in deep snow.

It is not the hardware but the soldiers fighting purpose.

Well then Russia is in trouble since very few of the Russian POWs can explain why the war exists.

I don’t think purpose is that important if the population is willing to die for the dictator and not ask questions. Unless you mean their purpose is to die in a state of confusion and hopelessness.

Russians seems bred for serving the empire. That is why the USSR lasted for so long. It just isn’t in their nature to rebel or question the government. Marx even wrote about how Russia would be the ideal first Soviet state since they had so many poor rural laborers that were used to serving the Tsar. He also correctly predicted that the Germans, British and Americans would be difficult to convert. Lenin envisioned a Communist Europe led by German that would compete against America. Both Marx and Lenin expected continental European Communism to be led by the Germans.

There are Russian language schools in the Baltics. But they’ll have to go bilingual.

Primary schools, no? I was talking about secondary schools here.

And good for the Balts for pushing bilingualism in schools after 2022.

The US could have theoretically stayed in Afghanistan for 100+ years, like the Brits in India, if it was actually willing to handle the financial and other costs of this, in the spirit of an old-school colonial/imperial power. It wasn’t. The US didn’t quite so much lose as simply give up and leave when it could have theoretically continued fighting indefinitely. But it had other, bigger priorities, thankfully.

Russians seems bred for serving the empire. That is why the USSR lasted for so long. It just isn’t in their nature to rebel or question the government. Marx even wrote about how Russia would be the ideal first Soviet state since they had so many poor rural laborers that were used to serving the Tsar. He also correctly predicted that the Germans, British and Americans would be difficult to convert. Lenin envisioned a Communist Europe led by German that would compete against America. Both Marx and Lenin expected continental European Communism to be led by the Germans.

I thought that Marx believed that a Communist revolution was more likely in the industrialized West than in agrarian Russia?

As for Russians, they were quite rebellious until the Bolshevik coup and even for some time afterwards, but Stalin stuffed all of their rebelliousness out for an extremely long time in his efforts to create the new Soviet man.

Putin always goes from a better offer to a worse one for his opponents (if the first offer is not accepted). His first offer to Ukies was Minsk agreements. His second offer was made at the negotiations in 2022, which the masters of Ukies told them to reject.

You’re talking about his offer where Ukraine agrees to de-militarize and not join NATO.

And what exactly would stop Russia from invading Ukraine after handing over their weapons?

Putin’s word? The same Putin that promised to make LPR/DPR independent states and then threw their flags in the trash?

The 2022 offer was just a trap. Putin must be used to the company of idiots if he thought it would work.

Furthermore the offer was never made to Zelensky. Putin has had a bounty on his head since the start of the war. Does that sound like someone trying to negotiate in good faith?

The US could have theoretically stayed in Afghanistan for 100+ years, like the Brits in India, if it was actually willing to handle the financial and other costs of this, in the spirit of an old-school colonial/imperial power. It wasn’t. The US didn’t quite so much lose as simply give up and leave when it could have theoretically continued fighting indefinitely. But it had other, bigger priorities, thankfully.

The real problem is that both right and left in America have too much faith in the ability of democracy to change the third world. They should have setup a monarchy with a limited democracy. The US politicians expected too much change from the Afghans. I still can’t believe they actually flew a rainbow flag for a day. Total cringe.

Iraq is at least doing pretty well as a democracy. But I was of the opinion that we should actually keep the Muslim state open for a few more years as a honey trap for flies. It was attracting all the Muslim extremists in Western countries. Some of the most ruthless ISIS leaders were actually British born. Basically incels that flew to Iraq to live out their bloodlust fantasies.

I thought that Marx believed that a Communist revolution was more likely in the industrialized West than in agrarian Russia?

Originally that was correct but then after witnessing revolutionary actions against the Tsar in the 1870s they moved to the idea of Russia being fertile ground for Communism. Amusingly both Marx and Engles had disdain for the Russians. So did Lenin and yet the Russian people built massive statues of them. It’s a myth that Marx viewed all groups equally. Weirdly he thought Europeans as individuals were equal in capability but also accepted character differences among European nationalities. He also didn’t think Africans were capable of adopting Communism. Of course you won’t learn that in a Sociology class. But who knows what Marx really thought. A total asshole who f-cked his maid while married and never associated with the proletariat that he claimed to be saving.

…bombing your own citizens because they want “autonomy” and Russian-language schools is on its face criminal. EU would never allow it in Catalonia, Belgium…

It allows it in France and the Baltics.

I wasn’t aware that France has been bombing its Bretons and Acquitans…my bad, I need to pay more attention…:)

Of course, you are correct that the Balts have been on a fascist mono-culture drive for decades, but they are so tiny and so cute that nobody pays attention. Not yet.

Ukraine would not have been bombing the Donbass either had Russia either not sponsored a separatist rebellion there starting from 2014 or, alternatively, annexed the Donbass into the Russian Reich back in 2014 (or even in February 2022) just like it did with Crimea. Ukraine wasn’t bombing Crimea, after all.

As a side note, I’ve concluded that in general it’s a good idea to be conciliatory when faced with more powerful rivals. This is a general rule, but of course there are exceptions. Serbia would have been better off being more conciliatory towards Austria-Hungary in 1914 and the pre-WWI years. Poland would have been better off being more conciliatory towards Nazi Germany in 1939, as both Czechia and pre-1944 Hungary can attest to. Russia would have been better off consenting to NATO’s expansion into both Ukraine and Georgia back in 2008, however unfair Russia might have deemed it, and avoiding the current 2022-2023 clusterfuck later on. France would have been better off withdrawing from Algeria in 1954 than in 1962, if actually politically feasible (unfortunately, it wasn’t). It would have been the same outcome at worst but with much fewer lives lost. At best, maybe the pieds-noirs could have actually been allowed to stay in Algeria without so much Muslim Algerian anger at having so much of their own blood spilled by the French.

You are all over the map…Zelko is insignificant, just a face, the deal would be between two states, Russia and Ukraine, not Zelko and Putin. You are quite infantile.

what exactly would stop Russia from invading Ukraine after handing over their weapons?

Because it would be a bad idea. Unlike the Western adventures, Russia seems to understand what works and what doesn’t.

Russia has kept all its treaties, they manipulate and retaliate but the kind of open disregard for agreements is the Western thing: ABM treaty, attacking countries out-of-the-blue, Minsk, etc…it is actually historically the Anglo specialty not to observe what they sign. You live in a lala-land of self-worship you don’t get this.

Pasteur and Roux put us on the wrong track, and the world is still suffering, as a result.

The solution to the rabies epidemic was never vaccination, but for dogs to carry small fleets of opposum interceptors on their backs:

Maybe the problem is that the draft age is incredibly long, 18 to 60 or something like that, basically every man.

The youngest was 27, recently changed to 25.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/26/ukraine-proposes-lowering-age-for-military-conscription-from-27-to-25#:~:text=An%20explanatory%20note%20signed%20by,from%2027%20to%2025%20years%E2%80%9D.

They are trying to avoid drafting young people for demographic reasons (many people under 25 have not yet had a chance to produce children).

Of course, people younger than 25 have voluntereed and are not turned away.

massive destruction of a nation for the strange desire to be in Nato

This is the Russian, not Ukrainian, excuse for it. Ukrainians fight to keep out Russian invaders.

If this were World War II you would be claiming that all those Poles died for the strange desire to hold onto the Danzig corridor and to repress Germans in Poland. And not because they fought invaders.

You are really bad with analogies. Both Crimea and Donbass are ethnically Russian.

Crimea wasn’t touched by Ukraine until after 2022. Donbas is mixed, like Northern Ireland

So it would be more like Ireland invading Ulster to suppress the British-leaning population.

It would be like if Ulster became part of Ireland when Ireland gained independence, but after 24 years of independence Britain took it back by arming a rebellion and sending it troops to help the rebels, in the process driving out Ulster’s Catholic minority. And 8 years after that invading Ireland proper in order to install a pro-British government with the excuse of protecting the English and Protestant minority in Ireland.

You are all over the map…Zelko is insignificant, just a face, the deal would be between two states, Russia and Ukraine, not Zelko and Putin. You are quite infantile.

Putin is the dictator of Russia and started the war without even running it by the Duma. Some of the highest level generals were not told until 48 hours before the war started. Putin has absolute power and I can repost 1420 videos where Russians acknowledge he is a dictator.

Any offer would be from Putin and not the people of Russia or any politician representing them. Journalists have been given 20 years for going against Putin. No one is going to make an offer without his express permission.

Zelensky is the president of Ukraine. You are suggesting it is infantile to assume he should be involved in a negotiation?

Russia has kept all its treaties, they manipulate and retaliate but the kind of open disregard for agreements is the Western thin

Did Putin keep his word to make LPR/DPR independent Republics?

Putin signs decrees recognizing DPR, LPR as independent states
https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/73940/

I’ve got a question for AP: Does the collapse of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia indicate that Austria-Hungary was more likely than not to eventually fail even without World War I?

Who knows? It collapsed due to World War I and the idiotic and malevolent Wilson pushing for it. Under different conditions it could have evolved into a sort of giant Switzerland.

For Poles, Austria was a sanctuary compared to the Russian and German Empires. For Ukrainians, it was the same vis a vis Russia. As long as those existed there was no real separatism. Croats and Slovenes seems to have been loyal. Slovaks don’t rebel, they serve. Czechs hadn’t rebelled in centuries, and they lived well and had a healthy cultural life, Masaryk originally wanted to reform A-H into a federation. Hungarians were potential troublemakers, they didn’t want their Slovak slaves taken away.

LOL… They have been deceived by the SatanoAllah and the Anti-Christ Muhammad. It is more like this…

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Another project that I would like to see undertaken is some sort of regimen to put a complete stop to the woke sensitization of tastebuds in children.

I want steadily increasing concentrations of strong tastes added to babyfood and processed foods, until kids aged 8 can eat stuff that would make a Japanese billygoat throw up.

No more seeing kids eat “chicken nuggets” on feast days – I want them to be fighting over the giblets.

Still can’t believe the Democrats elected this union thug who insists on wearing a hoody:
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4378877-fetterman-on-carvilles-biden-criticisms-shut-the-f-up/

…Did Putin keep his word to make LPR/DPR independent Republics?

Statements are not treaties. Putin can argue that things have changed – Kiev militarily attacked LPR/DPR so they need the protection. You are mixing up words with treaties and that is nonsense – all politicians change what they say over time.

US-UK-Nato openly broke treaties and they are usually proud of it. They always find a ‘reason’.

Journalists have been given 20 years for going against Putin.

Who? Can you name a single journalist charged with “going against Putin“? I asked before and nobody provided a single example. Try again – and no generalities: give us a specific case. (And remember Assange and the 1,000 jailed in Washington for Jan 6.)

Putin has absolute power and I can repost 1420 videos where Russians acknowledge he is a dictator.

Anyone can post 10,000 videos where people say all kinds of things: US is an oligarchy, Israel is doing a genocide, EU politicians were paid off by Pfizer… It means nothing, why would videos in a country of 150 million be significant? Putin has 60-80% approval, Macron 25%, Biden 40%…who is the dictator? Maybe you don’t understand what the term “governing with people majority support” means. (Hint: that is democracy.)

Nobody in the modern state can have ‘absolute power’. You are spouting shallow childish nonsense.

…sponsored a separatist rebellion there starting from 2014 or annexed the Donbass into the Russian Reich back in 2014

There had to be a separatist movement in Donbas for Russia to sponsor it. It started after the illegal overthrow – Maidan revolution – of an elected President. Maidan was openly sponsored by EU and US, why can they sponsor and Russia can’t?

Using “Reich” on Russia is in bad taste – for a guy who says we should be more conciliatory that sounds awkward.

I agree about the benefits of conciliation. In most of the cases you listed that was true. But why not add post-Maidan Kiev? They would be much better off if they were reasonable and conciliatory. They probably now regret their own militancy in 2014-22.

Russia would have been better off consenting to NATO’s expansion into both Ukraine and Georgia back in 2008, however unfair

That will only be true if they lose the war and Nato expands to Ukraine-Georgia. If they win and prevent it, it will be a huge win. The problem is that Russia sees Nato in Ukraine as an existential issue – they made it clear they would fight (“red line”). It is different than the other examples you listed where I agree with you.

No more seeing kids eat “chicken nuggets” on feast days – I want them to be fighting over the giblets.

LOL

Organ meats are nutritious (and, in fact, we’re missing out by not eating them more, in hunter-gatherer times they were eaten regularly). Of course, it might be hard to make kids eat them, since kids can already be rather picky. But they might eat beef tongue if it’s prepared right and if it’s cut in small, more appetizing looking pieces. Same goes for gelatin, that’s needed, too, and probably even some cartilage. Mmm, a cup of tasty broth on a winter night…

https://chriskresser.com/how-to-eat-more-organ-meats/

https://twitter.com/sarbloharts/media

What do you guys think of this art style?

Just sarbloharts ones.

There had to be a separatist movement in Donbas for Russia to sponsor it. It started after the illegal overthrow – Maidan revolution – of an elected President. Maidan was openly sponsored by EU and US, why can they sponsor and Russia can’t?

Sure, Russia can sponsor it, but then it shouldn’t complain about the deaths. Maidan itself was virtually bloodless, IIRC.

Using “Reich” on Russia is in bad taste – for a guy who says we should be more conciliatory that sounds awkward.

By “Reich”, I mean ethnic homeland in general. So, any ethnic nation-state can be a Reich. As I suppose a non-ethnic nation-state, such as India, which is now becoming more and more of a Hindu nation-state.

“Reich” is not meant to be offensive. Rather, it’s simply meant to describe the feeling of belonging to a national community with its own nation-state. Sometimes Reichs seek to expand in order to include more of their national kinsmen within its borders.

I agree about the benefits of conciliation. In most of the cases you listed that was true. But why not add post-Maidan Kiev? They would be much better off if they were reasonable and conciliatory. They probably now regret their own militancy in 2014-22.

Sure, if Russia could provide 100% ironclad legal guarantees that Ukraine would be allowed EU membership and the EU would actually provide a real pathway to this before the war, then this might be viable. Assuming, of course, that Russia won’t subsequently use its Donbass proxies to do things such as stall anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine in order to make EU membership unachievable in practice for Ukraine even if a membership perspective to Ukraine is already technically offered by the EU.

I think that it is highly regretful that the EU waited until after Ukraine got invaded by Russia to offer a membership perspective to it. This should have been done back in 2014, IMHO. At least could have encouraged more aggressive anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine, maybe. Ukrainians would have had a clearer picture of the end-goal earlier.

I have no problem with a South Tyrol-style arrangement for the Donbass and never did.

That will only be true if they lose the war and Nato expands to Ukraine-Georgia. If they win and prevent it, it will be a huge win. The problem is that Russia sees Nato in Ukraine as an existential issue – they made it clear they would fight (“red line”). It is different than the other examples you listed where I agree with you.

Even if Russia prevents NATO in Ukraine, it will still have a very well-armed and hostile Ukraine right next door. A very partial victory at best, and at an extremely high cost. Not worth it. Akin to the Central Powers winning WWI after a long war. Sure, Serbia would no longer be pro-Russian and Russian military power would be effectively destroyed, possibly for a while, but the cost for the CPs would nevertheless be absolutely enormous.

Russia can view Ukraine in NATO as an existential issue. That’s its own prerogative. Whether it’s wise to do so is, of course, a separate question. And FWIW, while I do think that pushing for the removal of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba was a good move on the part of the US, I’m unsure that a quarantine/blockade of Cuba was the best way to achieve this goal. Much, much better than a full-on US invasion of Cuba, but still an extremely serious risk of nuclear war. Maybe putting much more US missiles in Turkey and Italy and not doing a quarantine/blockade on Cuba would have been better, and then offering to withdraw all US missiles in Turkey and Italy in exchange for a withdrawal of all Soviet missiles from Cuba? I don’t think that Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba were worth a nuclear war by any means, even if the US would have still won a nuclear war back then, albeit at an extraordinarily massive cost.

Sure, Russia can sponsor it, but then it shouldn’t complain about the deaths. Maidan itself was virtually bloodless, IIRC.

Not the situation with the snipers as detailed by Kachanovski. Crimea was much more virtually bloodless.

Ukraine would not have been bombing the Donbass either had Russia either not sponsored a separatist rebellion there starting from 2014 or, alternatively, annexed the Donbass into the Russian Reich back in 2014 (or even in February 2022) just like it did with Crimea. Ukraine wasn’t bombing Crimea, after all.

Kiev became more of a Banderite Reich following the coup against Yaukovych, which prompted opposition to the neo-Nazi influenced entity that usurped power in that capital city.

The Taliban never kicked out the US military. That is a myth.

As depicted in pro-svido circles, the Kiev regime victories in Kharkov, Kherson City and just outside Kiev are myths. The limited presence just outside Kiev was enough to get the Kiev regime to negotiate at Istanbul as intended, but wasn’t enough to take the city which wasn’t intended. The aforementioned Kharkov and Kherson City situations saw a relatively small Russian presence withdraw with limited casualties as the Kiev regime took many more casualties in advancing.

Once again, this is a war of attrition which the NATO supported Kiev regime is definitely losing.

The US presence in Afghanistan ended in failure as exhibited in how Biden said the propped American Afghan could fight on its own. The immediately melted, much unlike the Soviet propped Afghan government which remained for a good deal more time after the Soviet withdrawal.

You’re like a neocon minus your bigoted outbursts concerning blacks.

and the 1,000 jailed in Washington for Jan 6.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/samuel-lazar-jan-6-riotetr-cooperation-government-rcna131333

More than 1,200 people have been charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack, and more than 450 have been sentenced to periods of incarceration

Putin has had a bounty on his (Zelensky) head

Your knowledge of the situation is amazingly dismal. If this was Russians objective Zelensky would have been history. It is cat and mouse game for Russia they are involved at the 25% of military capacity. Their objective is to bleed the West to the extent of EU dogs disintegration whose economies are shrinking and Russian is growing at the 5.5%. Russians are waiting for the Zelensky exit a la Ceausescu.

The collapse of the Soviets, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia coincide with the collapse of the communist tyranny that kept it together by force.

The EU project is awaiting the same fate…it cannot survive the impossible task of getting away with taking away sovereignty of individual highly nationalistic countries. It cannot survive for “polluting” ethnically homogeneous countries by the visible minorities of the former colonizing countries.

Dima of Military Summary discussed this the other day, his friend there said it is 10,000 USD so was reluctant, he advised him to do it as the price is likely to go up.

Tongue is a muscle rather than an organ though.

I once ate seal – it tastes like liver.

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/breaking-down-thinktank-lands-latest

https://blog.reaction.la/war/the-enemy-are-afraid/

To deter and defend against a renewed Russian threat following a full Russian victory in Ukraine the United States will have to deploy to Eastern Europe a sizable portion of its ground forces. The United States will have to station in Europe a large number of stealth aircraft. Building and maintaining those aircraft is intrinsically expensive, but challenges in manufacturing them rapidly will likely force the United States to make a terrible choice between keeping enough in Asia to defend Taiwan and its other Asian allies and deterring or defeating a Russian attack on a NATO ally. The entire undertaking will cost a fortune, and the cost will last as long as the Russian threat continues—potentially indefinitely.

Extremely hard to believe, and literally incredible.

“It explains why indigenous Palestinian Jews are winning ~20:1 versus Hamas.”

In women and children killed, it might be 30 or 40 to one.

It’s obviously the soldiers fighting purpose that makes their bombing aircraft so effective…

What was really impressive in Crimea was when they asked the military garrisons if they wanted to join Russia or stay in the Ukrainian forces and leave Crimea. I forget the exact figures, but something like 12,000 chose to go to Ukraine and 30,000-plus chose to stay.

I just got through reading Escobar’s latest. Guys like Karlin with his newly embraced political ideology, must be chomping at the bit and already be packing and polishing up their resumes and applying for their Phd scholarships to study/work in Harbin.

The idea is to turn it into an economic, scientific development and national defense mega-hub, centered on the provincial capital Harbin, complete with a new, sprawling Special Economic Zone (SEZ). The key vector is that this mega-hub would also coordinate the development of the immense Russian Far East. This was discussed in detail at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok last September. In a unique, startling arrangement, the Chinese may be allowed to manage selected latitudes of the Russian Far East for the next 100 years.

Although Pepe is a little bit too blithe in having Putler handing over Ukrainian ethnographic territories to Nato countries, moving them closer to Moscow?

Putin even allowed himself, half in jest, to offer Russian support for the potential “re-annexation” of country 404 border regions once annexed by Stalin, eventually to be returned to former owners Poland, Hungary & Romania. He added that he is 100% certain this is what residents of those still Ukrainian borders want.

https://www.unz.com/pescobar/russia-china-are-on-a-roll/

Karlin though may need to rearrange his urban hipster lifestyle, maybe not?… 🙂

It might be great to read an Iranian or Chinese spy unit briefing on what those guys are thinking now. The memories are probably all over the place and conclusions are probably tenuous but I am guessing there are some great stories.

Do you know how difficult it is today for a draft age Ukrainian male to leave Ukraine?

From what I’ve heard it’s about a year’s annual average wag in Ukraine ($7,500) or more. A middle class or rich person can do it, but a poor person cannot.

It’s comparable to the price of hiring a smuggler to get oneself from Central America to the USA. But the trip to Romania is a lot easier than the trip across the Mexican desert.

What was really impressive in Crimea was when they asked the military garrisons if they wanted to join Russia or stay in the Ukrainian forces and leave Crimea. I forget the exact figures, but something like 12,000 chose to go to Ukraine and 30,000-plus chose to stay.

Since most were locals that is understandable (Ukraine was more humane and allowed military servicemen to be stationed near their home towns). Why be exiled from one’s home? Plus most locals were ethnic Russians anyways.

What is stupid is when some pro-Russians assumed the same phenomenon would be repeated elsewhere in Ukraine and that war with Russia would involve mass desertions by Ukrainians all over the place.

What kind of fur coat do they use in Harbin this time of year is what I want to know and wikipedia didn’t even give the climate table. According to accuweather it is now 6 degrees F (that is 14 degrees C for you godless Europeans) and the air quality is very unhealthy.

David R. Francis US ambassador to Russia sent a dispatch to Washington in Jan. 1918:

“The Bolshevik leaders here, most of whom are Jews and 90% of whom are returned exiles, care little for Russia or any other country but are internationalists and they are trying to start a worldwide social revolution.”

Movie sucks but this scene is kind of great.

(from prior thread)

Looks like Netanyahu and his government really were serious about that “expulsion to Sinai” proposal

If it really were going to end up there that I’d ultimately find that acceptable myself. I think the entire world is well and true sick of the endless Israel-Palestine Conflict and if the Palestinian Arabs began being mass deported, public opinion (outside the Muslim world) would secretly breathe a sigh relief that this tedious and bloody quagmire was finally over.

A disorderly expulsion is not in the cards. An involuntary move simply relocates the problem, it does not resolve it. Also, Egypt and Israel cooperate on a number of issues.

70+ years of failure has made the point that none of the options previously discussed, such as the deranged One Genocide State solution, are viable. The problem simply cannot be addressed exclusively inside the 23% of the original Palestinian Mandate. Various nations, including many Muslim ones, want the situation wrapped up so they can move on to other pressing issues.

More promising and orderly ideas are finally beginning to gain traction; Jordanian citizenship; VOLUNTARY (100% non-genocidal) “Right of Islamic Return” to assimilate in various Muslim nations; Establishing a New Muslim Palestine on existing Muslim lands. All of these are worth talking about, and additional concepts could be brought to the table.

But the problem is, the US and Europe is largely paying the bill for for Israel’s war (in both money and reputation),

That is an ongoing misconception. U.S. and European support for Palestinian Jews was large in the early in the early days. However, in 2023 Israel received 1-2% of what Kiev obtained. Current deals are more about geopolitical strategy. And, in America’s case, funding our domestic MIC.

The problem is that Europe and the UN/NWO are paying the bill for Muslim aggression (in both money and reputation). Look at how many illegal land grabs in Judea and Samaria bear EU flags. Islamists surviving on the international dole creates an exploitable population. Hamas has thoroughly infiltrated & corrupted UNRWA.

they’ll probably receive the brunt of refugees later as well.

Fortunately for America, that idea is effectively a non-starter over here. It is so inflammatory that the Veggie-In-Chief’s handlers will block it for the 2024 Presidential race. Then, the door will be firmly nailed shut by Trump’s 2nd term.

Letting them into European nations would be a disastrous error. However, you may be correct that specific countries are so dysfunctional that they may admit these undesirables.

PEACE 😇

Everyone notices that you refuse to answer the critical question about Hamas using Muslim women & children as human shields:

How else is the IDF supposed to fight such a degenerate foe?

Palestinian Jews are not going into tunnels — other than for rare high risk, high reward missions such as hostage rescue. Where flooding them with seawater is not an option, that leaves shattering them above. 100% of the blame & responsibility falls on Hamas for placing civilians in and on top of valid military targets.

PEACE 😇

If the Palestinians move to Sinai then ten years from now Israel will have to bomb them to smithereens all over again. Stupid.

WAR

specific countries are so dysfunctional that they may admit these undesirables

Honest description of putinist RF, which is naturalising them atm;)

Did Putin keep his word to make LPR/DPR independent Republics?

Statements are not treaties. Putin can argue that things have changed – Kiev militarily attacked LPR/DPR so they need the protection.

So Putin will break his own signed decree on the autonomy of a proposed state but you can trust him on a treaty involving a state he invaded? Is that what you are saying?

He signed the decree after invading Ukraine. What prevents him from protecting LPR/DPR as autonomous states? Explain that for us.

Who? Can you name a single journalist charged with “going against Putin“? I asked before and nobody provided a single example. Try again – and no generalities: give us a specific case.

Maria Ponomarenko
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64647267

6 years in prison for posting on social media about the war.

Maybe you don’t understand what the term “governing with people majority support” means. (Hint: that is democracy.)

Popular support is not a democracy.

Hitler had popular support for many years. Was that a democracy?

If you can’t remove the leader then you don’t have a democracy. You also can’t have a democracy if the people aren’t allowed to criticize the government. That would be a state where the government has complete power over the people. Not a democracy.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64647267

Yes, but I don’t think that Romania is the ultimate destination. Once in Romania, then what? Most probably don’t speak Romanian so they must try to blend in and stay aloof…how about the other countries that I mentioned (Poland, Hungary Slovakia)? Somebody, occasionally, must try to just board a plane and make their escape?

Airport personnel have traditionally been known to be very accommodating for the right price. I was once stopped at the Lviv airport for carrying, unsuspected by me, contraband. The guards were threatening to arrest me and take me to Lviv for further prosecution, that didn’t really appeal to me for I had to be at work in two days. After inspecting everything more carefully including my wallet, they returned everything (including the contraband item!), however my wallet was $200 lighter. They left me with $400 for which I thought that I got off at bargain prices. 🙂

A disorderly expulsion is not in the cards. An involuntary move simply relocates the problem, it does not resolve it. Also, Egypt and Israel cooperate on a number of issues.

If the Palestinians move to Sinai then ten years from now Israel will have to bomb them to smithereens all over again. Stupid.

I concur.

A disorderly & involuntary move would simply extend the problem. That is why it will not happen.

PEACE 😇

The US presence in Afghanistan ended in failure as exhibited in how Biden said the propped American Afghan could fight on its own.

Biden knew that the Afghan state would collapse. It was already predicted by military and political analysts. Biden was lying when he said they had a chance at fighting on their own.

That would still not mean that the US was kicked out of Afghanistan by the Taliban with AK-47s as the previous poster implied.

Have a look at US fatalities for the final years:

2019 1 0 2 3 1 3 3 3 2 0 2 1 23
2020 4 3 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 11
2021 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 – – – – 13

13 total for 2021 which is lower than peacetime. It’s a myth that Afghanistan was another Vietnam.

The main problem was the cost. They are a landlocked country in the mountains which makes maintaining a military base expensive.

You’re like a neocon minus your bigoted outbursts concerning blacks.

You clearly don’t know what that word means. The neocons supported “democracy building” in Afghanistan which meant trying to duplicate the US system. I have never supported that position. The neocons also believed in lying to the public about race and religion. I also don’t support those positions. Strauss was a dark philosopher who believed the public needs to be told “noble lies” as Plato proposed. I am completely against that philosophy and it simply doesn’t work in the age of the internet. Strauss promoted that philosophy in a time when harsh realities like racial differences could be kept from the public. Neocons never had a plan for the internet just like liberals. Their ideology is based on the assumption that intellectuals in the colleges can keep the public on what is basically a state religion. Strauss in fact argued that managers of the state need to pick a religion for the public and then unify around it. Nothing I have written at Unz suggests I support a state that knowingly lies to the people. I have in fact written about the destructive side of egalitarian lies. I turned heavily anti-leftist after being shown what happens in the schools. There is a concerted effort to not only lie but cheat in favor of race denial. It ends up working against the very kids that liberals are trying to protect.

The neocon movement in DC is mostly dead. Its leaders are rarely interviewed by anyone and their organization collapsed before Trump took office. The term is incorrectly used here by posters that mean American globalist or Jew.

it is now 6 degrees F (that is 14 degrees C for you godless Europeans)

No, it’s -14 degrees C. A big difference. Whenever the temperature is below freezing it’s minus something in Celsius.

Thanks for your Comanches book recommendation. I started reading it and looks very interesting.

Yes, but I don’t think that Romania is the ultimate destination. Once in Romania, then what?

Then they can go anywhere. A friend was recently on vacation in Portugal, he saw Ukrainians even there. Mostly women refugees, but a few draft-age males.

To be clear, most are not trying to avoid the draft. There is this weird idea that Ukrainians either volunteer to go to the front, or are willing to evade the draft. So if the number of volunteers has been exhausted there will be no soldiers because everyone else wants to dodge the draft. This assumes there are no people in-between. People who won’t sign up to fight but instead will live their lives but will join if called.

But even if only 30% of potential draftees try to avoid, that is still a lot of people in a nation of 30+ million before the war.

Ponomarenko was found guilty of spreading “fake news” about war crimes committed by the Russian army (from BBC)

I disagree with it, I am against controls on speech. But she was not charged with “going against Putin“, the case was not about Putin. You are propagandizing.

Journalist during war claimed that her army intentionally killed hundreds of civilians in the Mariupol theatre. It wasn’t true and couldn’t be proven in court. The law protects the army from unfounded public accusations and she accused her own army of intentional mass murder without proof. Laws like that exist all over the world, in wars people are touchy.

Imagine a journalist in France during the war on Serbia reporting that French army intentionally killed few hundred Serbs – it would turn that something else happened and no “intention to kill” could be shown…I suspect in France they would find a way to hold her accountable. Wars bring out the ugly stuff in all countries.

You made up the part about “going against Putin“. Anyone else? Or were you just blowing steam?

Hitler had popular support for many years.

I suspect till the end. Bringing up “Hitler” shows your desperation – it is the Ukie side that is linked and admires the Nazis. Read what the deranged Nazis write here about the “Asiatic” Russians…

If you can’t remove the leader then you don’t have a democracy…and people aren’t allowed to criticize the government. That would be a state where the government has complete power over the people.

Russia has held free open elections for 30 years, about as free as most Western versions where media power, who is allowed to compete and money plays similar role. Putin is by far the most popular candidate – the reality that all Western analysts agree with. He has 60-80% approval even in Western managed polls.

People in Russia criticise the government all the time – on TV and in the media, on the streets, to Putin’s face… There are “videos” everywhere, even your previous “videos” deny what you are claiming now. Your issue is that the majority supports the current government. That is an issue all over the world and in all democracies. Not everyone can win – this is not US-like competition to raise self-esteem…:)

Putin will break his own signed decree on the autonomy of a proposed state but you can trust him…

Your nonsense about treaties vs. “decrees” is pathetic. You are trying to deceive or you don’t understand it: a decree is not a treaty…ok? So you are barking up the wrong tree, try something real. How about US-Nato breaking actual treaties at will?

Russia would have been better off consenting to NATO’s expansion into both Ukraine and Georgia back in 2008, however unfair Russia might have deemed it,

1. Poland were Nazi Germany’s best allies you retarded dumbfuck. 2 gangsters in alliance, then went against eachother not because of “lack of conciliatory action”…….but because Polish retards were even more greedy for power and land/conquest than the Germans.

2. Comparing Poland giving access to Danzig for the Nazis, or the USSR perfectly reasonable demand to the Baltic freaks &Finland………with NATO expansion into Ukraine and Gruzia, is stupid beyond what was thought possible for the human brain.
NATO expansion into Romania & Hungary, Croatia and Slovenia at least has calming effects on territorial disputes. NATO expansion into 404 or Gruzia has zero practical benefits to anyone you idiot. A NATO controlled Black Sea ( access to the sea that Banderastan or Gruzia would never have had if not for Russia fighting for it, and then donating it to them) is completely unnecessary ( Russia doesn’t control Bosphorus Strait, of course) and unfeasible….unless a retard like you thinks its “conciliatory ” and not ridiculous to ask Russia to abolish our own navy.

Plus like the dumbshit you are, you fail to recognise that it is Russia via USSR that was the one being reasonable and conciliatory – removing our troops from ex USSR, extortion with Sevastopol base lease , debt eliminated etc. 404 with American backing was able to con itself into getting Crimea . You compare the ridiculous situation where American scum have about a 100 year lease on land in an enemy country (Guantanamo Bay), but Russia have extortionate lease on our own Naval base in Sevastopol

3. We were fighting against terrorism in the North Caucasus , how would it have been feasible for us to allow Gruzia to go into NATO then, when its border was freely the escape and re-entry point for most of the terrorist during the second Chechen war you deranged prick?

4.

Serbia would have been better off being more conciliatory towards Austria-Hungary in 1914 and the pre-WWI years

Errr….Serbia , a great country and people, were the victims in WW1 you stupid idiot and cannot be blamed. Serbia became the centre of a Yugoslavian state not too long after………and the reaction of the other world powers, and the fact that no Austria-Hungary Empire exists on the map now, should indicate everything you moron on who should have been reconciliatory to who.
Compare them to Polish scum who lost their state for 200 years, LOL.

5.

Ukraine would not have been bombing the Donbass either had Russia either not sponsored a separatist rebellion there starting from 2014 or, alternatively, annexed the Donbass

The Heroes of Donbass are not the lazy, parasitic, hopeless scum that is the standard part of the ukronazi mindset you pathetic projecting dipshit. The Donbass is the most populated and important economic region of 404. These great and proud people who didn’t need coercion, money , extra weapons or another country into making them resist the freakshow dictatorship imposed on them. Even then their demands were very mild you scumbag. If you knew or had talked to any people from the Donbass from 2013-22 (which of course you haven’t) you would know that a LACK of Russia “sponsoring” them has been a frustration for them.

They are the complete opposite of ukronazis who have no mind or willing of their own and rely completely on coercion, money and foreign country to dictate them into doing anything. Naturally , there is nothing more “Ukrainian” then wanting to destroy and eliminate the most important and most intensely populated with “Ukrainians” part of the country.
The only rebellions foreign sponsored are those like the Maidan and 2004

Its as lazy and dumb as saying Abkhazia and South Ossetiya are Russian projects to say Donbass is you ignorant clown.

More than 1,200 people have been charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack

A huge number. Embarrassing for a “democracy” you idiot.

more than 450 have been sentenced to periods of incarceration

Again, a huge number. Not clear at all that far from all of the cases have completed the court process. Number is more than 450 anyway. Plus practically all of the 1200 were jailed for some period ( at least a few days) as part of the pre-trial proceedings or investigation stage.
I would guess that all those who aren’t in the huge number who have been sent to jail, but are on probation ….would immediately get sent to jail if they did say Trump had the election stolen , or there were provocateurs paid by the Democrats in the building etc.

Also……….2 years for dressing up in an amusing costume ( shaman) and 4 to 5 years for placing foot on the table of a Pindostan politician. LMAO.

Also, even though our own prison population is larger than we would like, American prison population is on another scale – extremely embarrassing and pathetic.

You actually described it correctly, but you left out the key fact that Ukie males are barred from leaving Ukraine – they have to bribe someone to leave. There are also the “VIP” exemptions: male relatives of the elite avoiding service. If the war is as existential as they claim why don’t they put their own lives on the line?

Numbers vary over time – in Central Europe Ukie women are a huge majority, 80-90%. Men are kept back, not everyone has $10k and wants to pay it, or is in the oligarchic elite. It is clear that by now large numbers of conscripted men don’t want to fight.

This is a slow downward spiral – the quality of draftees is going down, the ones who left will not be returned (impossible), women are not good fighters (too many needs)…the numbers are just not there.

Tymoshenko (remember her?) just proposed that police and security personnel be sent to the front. She questioned why these well-trained men have been kept back…She may not understand the role that “police” plays in keeping the people cowed and quiet. Or she does and is signaling that she knows the gig is up…

That would still not mean that the US was kicked out of Afghanistan by the Taliban with AK-47s as the previous poster implied.

But it was, for all intents and purposes.

20 years after the US invaded Afghanistan to remove the Taliban from power, the Taliban controlled more than half of the country and no US soldier would set foot in those parts, except for maybe a hit and run operation. It wasn’t another Vietnam because the US (rationally enough) wasn’t willing to sustain that sort of casualties.

If you took part in that adventure the reality is that your superiors decided that too many of you would die trying to defeat the AK-47 wielding and sandal-wearing Taliban. In fact, far too many Americans died for nothing. The end result (return of the Taliban to power) could have been achieved with many less casualties and much less waste of money for America.

…Sure, Russia can sponsor it, but then it shouldn’t complain about the deaths.

Why? They are there to protect the Russian people from being killed why shouldn’t they? That’s all the West and Ukies do. People today like to play the victim…:)

“Reich” is not meant to be offensive

It is offensive in CE: the game of replacing “government” with “regime”, etc…why do it?

if Russia could provide 100% ironclad legal guarantees that Ukraine would be allowed EU membership and the EU would actually provide a real pathway to this before the war

EU has no intention to allow in Ukraine. It would destroy it like accepting Turkey – officially “invited” candidate since 1960, or Algeria-Tunis – proposed by France in the 2010’s. The numbers can’t work. The subsidies would be astronomically high and Europe is now quite poor.

Russia doesn’t have to provide any guarantees – it is not their role. They only said that if Kiev goes to EU they can’t simultaneously free trade with Russia. It can’t be done – like trying to turn a menage-a-trois into a marriage…:)

Even if Russia prevents NATO in Ukraine, it will still have a very well-armed and hostile Ukraine right next door. A very partial victory at best, and at an extremely high cost.

If they do, they win. Period. Evaluating the cost is up to them. It is also obvious that if Russia wins there will not be a well-armed Ukraine on their border. When you lose a big war you don’t come out well-armed and ready to fight again. Whether they are “hostile” is up to each individual: some will be, others won’t, with most we will not be able to tell.

20 years after the US invaded Afghanistan to remove the Taliban from power,

That was never really the goal.

GW ordered the 2001 entry into Afghanistan primarily to look for Osama bin Laden and his close ISIS cohorts. While he bleated about the Taliban, there was never a strategy to fully displace them.

The definable ISIS tasks were effectively completed by 2011-2012. Obama should have removed the American presence then. Alas, the DNC was already succeeding the GOP as the definitive War Party. Obama ordered the particularly pointless Surge.

Trump realized the deployment had no mission, but he was not a “God Emperor” with unlimited authority. He had to work with establishment droogs Mitch McConnell foisted on his administration. Even with that impediment, the fight was effectively parked. Trump’s team was hammering out the details of an orderly withdrawal before the stolen election in 2020.

PEACE 😇

Wrong. Just like Obama, Trump was duped by the generals into further US involvement. Far from the withdrawal promises of his campaign, Mad Dog Matis convinced him to send an additional 3,000 troops. It wasn’t Trump who ended the pointless and costly intervention. It was in fact interventionist Biden who had enough of it and put an end to the misadventure, confronting all the people that Trump had been unable to resist. Under Trump several dozen more Americans died for nothing in that hellhole.

Remember (my comment #26) the NYT piece that Ukraine does not need all its territory:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/opinion/ukraine-military-aid.html

Boris Rozhin (calls himself colonelcassad on the web, even though he is not a colonel) loves to troll Ukies. Here is his latest trolling in response to this piece.

Stages in Western MSM:
1. Ukraine has already won.
2. Ukraine is winning.
3. Ukraine will win.
4. Ukraine can win.
5. Maybe Ukraine will be able to win.
6. Ukraine will defeat Putin’s troops on some territories.
7. Ukraine will win in defense.
8. Ukraine needs its territory to beat Putin.
9. Ukraine does not need all its territory to beat Putin.
(YOU ARE HERE)
10. Ukraine does not need all that much territory to beat Putin.
11. Ukraine does not need territory.
12. Ukraine is not needed.

EU has no intention to allow in Ukraine. It would destroy it like accepting Turkey – officially “invited” candidate since 1960

A ridiculous comparison.

Turkey has over 85 million people. Ukraine only has 30 or so million.

Turkey is Muslim and has a large population of fecund Kurds who do things like honor killing. Ukrainians are Christians and Slavs.

No one really wants Turkey in. Several EU members very much want Ukraine to be a member.

Ukraine is much closer to core EU territory than is Turkey.

Ukraine’s path would not be easy, it would be a bit like Romania+Bulgaria back in the 90s, but not impossible and no comparison to Turkey.

It is also obvious that if Russia wins there will not be a well-armed Ukraine on their border

So if a peace deal is reached (even at current lines of control) and Ukraine remains armed to the teeth as it is now – you will consider it a Russian loss?

You actually described it correctly, but you left out the key fact that Ukie males are barred from leaving Ukraine – they have to bribe someone to leave

This is what the $7500 or $8000 pays for in many cases.

There are also the “VIP” exemptions: male relatives of the elite avoiding service.

There are other exemptions, for example one of my cousins runs the Ukrainian operations of a Western firm and he is permitted to leave for meetings at the main office. He comes back, indeed he was abroad when the war started and rushed back to Ukraine.

If the war is as existential as they claim why don’t they put their own lives on the line

If they were really prominent they would have to serve under fake names because they would make their units into special targets. Supposedly Poroshenko’s oldest son fought during the ATO under a fake name. He is now a lawmaker. Poroshenko’s younger son is below draft age. Yatseniuk only has daughters.

BTW any of Russian elites fighting? You claim this war was vitally necessary for Russia, that it would be an existential threat if Ukraine joined NATO.

For Ukraine, the war is not at the phase where full mobilisation of all men to the front is necessary; the Russians are being held back with the military Ukraine currently has. Ukraine still needs workers to run its businesses and farms.

This is a slow downward spiral – the quality of draftees is going down

This is generally true and also true of Russia, which has squandered many of its elite forces and replaced them with mobiks. The attrition of earlier forces is somewhat compensated with battle experience of new ones.

BTW any of Russian elites fighting?

The Russian pop culture “elites” are too busy attending “half naked parties” where they show off $250K worth of diamonds on their rear ends.

While the pro-war “elites” are busy blaming these types for the sinking of the ships…

The Russian pop culture “elites” are too busy attending “half naked parties” where they show off $250K worth of diamonds on their rear ends.

Now perhaps this one is over my head, but I’m gonna ask.

Isn’t this the worst time of year for half naked?

What is this butt jewelry?

Just noticed today that there are Masonic license plates, which I find really fascinating.

Almost feel like if it didn’t serve a purpose, they wouldn’t do it, as it would be too much trouble to agitate schizos on the road.

Now perhaps this one is over my head, but I’m gonna ask.

Ehem… ok, I’ll post about this. I apologize in advance if some will find this “content” objectionable.

Isn’t this the worst time of year for half naked?

For these Moscow types who live by the day to show off seasons do not exist – every day is good enough for vanity, no matter what time of the year.

Anyway, the last several days, there’s a huge scandal raging on Russian media – this chick who has 18M followers on Instagram (I don’t get how she can still use it, I thought it was banned in Russia), I’m not sure what to exactly call her, “a social lioness”, I suspect she is some “high end” madame (who has herself previously had sugar daddies) since she is the editor of the Russian Playboy (they left), decided to throw a party for Russian celebrities called “Half way Naked” (or “Almost naked”). So a bunch of celebrities arrived, of all age groups, in sheer outfits. There was a very high entrance fee.

What is this butt jewelry?

This chick herself wore an outfit with an ornament on her backside, you can see it in this video below under More starting at about 3:05 (do not get scared by the beginning of the video, those mature crazy people are Kirkorov who is a famous gay singer and some older chick who ran off to Russia from Odessa after the invasion).

She goes: “Have you ever seen $250K on a butt?” And then turns around to demonstrate it.

All the Z patriots went crazy. Solovyov blamed them for the ship disasters. In the end, these “artists” and socialites had to make sobby public apologies.

Just noticed today that there are Masonic license plates,

For example..?

The win-loss mostly depends on how NATO and the West position themselves with respect to Russia in terms of long-term peaceful coexistence. After the SMO there may be some political turnover in the West which will reduce anti-Russia sentiment. Will it be enough?

If not, we can expect resumption of nuclear testing, possibly even with space or above ground tests. Russian advances in nuclear weapons will either lead to Western diplomacy or very aggressive Western developments. The people running Western governments are much stupider and more impractical than when the Cold War ended in 1990 so it is not a bright future. Considering the West may become somewhat of a rabid dog after not having their way in Ukraine, we may see economic warfare to bring down the dollar. Not the ongoing gradual wind down, but a controlled demolition. It may be reminiscent of what happened to the USSR, except that nowadays many Americans are not able to take care of themselves with even minor disruptions.

On the other hand, if NATO gets wise and decides to back away from the aggressive anti-Russia stance things may work out fine.

Yes. The level of anti-patriotic, pro-enemy, pro-terrorist reporting allowed by Russian authorities for the Second Chechen war was insanely high. Infinitely more than ANY western state would ever allow.

Forgetting about the fact their english-speaking media (France and Germany at least appear to have been partially independent states then) nurtured their plankton locals into supporting the war in Iraq and Afghanistan completely ……. there was no real criticism ( i.e supporting the Taliban or Saddam in power, supporting their militaries actions against Western militaries etc) but in Russia for Chechen war it was total support for the enemy & slander of our military allowed from numerous liberast scum journalists…….in addition to heavy criticism of the peace deals reached ( from the Chechen terrorist side, not Russian nationalist) . Vague criticisms about the Iraq war to make western dickheads feel less guilty is not the same as true criticism.

I think France with Algerian terrorists and Britain with Northern Ireland terrorists banned their media from even listing or mentioning any of the terrorists names, and were even putting up black silhouette images of their faces as they were banned from showing that also! Gave him a names like “Mr X” even if more a political individual than actual militant.

Its all about the conductor. Must be the same on this Israel-Palestine thing. Different to the outright lies supporting the ukronazi regime, there does appear to be the mirage of objectivity given…..this must solely be about the conductor ordering the “journalists ” to get the oil-rich Arab states on their side

OK so Russia has Kardashians. Do the Muscovite Kardashians appreciate the greatness of negro dick?

The butt pendant is pretty stupid. The best Kardashian story is Kim getting her million dollar diamond taken in an armed robbery inside her Paris hotel penthouse. Inside job and maybe somebody who was getting paid a lot of money to keep tabs was executed for incompetence by French big man. The full details were never published.

And, btw, I don’t blame this chick who organized this party and has that kind of a lifestyle – she is only 32 and the glorification of this kind of a lifestyle was “taught” to her by the previous generation. This is what is valued by many people in Moscow.

But what is important about this episode, is that Russia has really changed – these kinds of parties used to be numerous and ignored, but now that the country is at war and is becoming more authoritarian, these “artists” will feel it, too. They cannot live separately from the rest of society and even the likes of Sobchak and Kirkorov are no longer untouchable.

What’s the matter? Doesn’t your Google work?

Owner of Harbin Fur Factory holding fur coat made from endangered animal skin, Heliongjiang Province,…

https://www.bridgemanimages.com/en-US/alain-le-garsmeur/owner-of-harbin-fur-factory-holding-fur-coat-made-from-endangered-animal-skin-heliongjiang-province/photograph/asset/3468579

Masons have always done discreet advertisement. You have to ask a Mason in person if you want to join. You can’t google up a membership application. Bumper stickers and window decals have been around longer than I have. I haven’t seen a custom license plate yet but there are scads of vanity artwork available in many states.

People who have it in for Masons on average are not as well armed as Masons. They are good to know if you want to get a deal on a gun or ammo purchase. : )

Trump had to pick his battles. The Afghanistan mess was ridiculous and terrible but not too important in my opinion.

The FUBAR USA withdrawal from Afghanistan was the least bad thing about the whole stupid fiasco.

I have forgotten the officially sanctioned reason the USA/West went in to Afghanistan, so here is my list of options.

1) Annoy and pressure Russia and Iran.

2) Part of the PNAC.

3) Lucrative heroin and human trafficking.

4) Or was it something about capturing Saudis who were patsies in a false-flag operation which was soaked in lies from top to bottom? Did anyone notice the Saudis have their own country which is not Afghanistan or Iraq?

5) Make Israeli power brokers happy for unidentified reasons? This might just be 1,2,3,4 added together….

And for what it’s worth, minerals were always a big draw in Afghanistan. The Bush, Obama, and Trump admins tried to get international mining concerns to set up shop in Afghanistan but the lack infrastructure and territorial instability made it a non-starter. Trump definitely had interest in staying in Afghanistan and the best that can be said was that he waffled on it.

Afghanistan has perhaps the world’s largest supply of Lithium Carbonate which is the primary raw material of Lithium Ion batteries, plus a bunch of other worthwhile minerals. I read a mining trade journal article in 2019 or so that was very interesting on that score. A lot of articles came out after the US departure with the same points though.

For years the Masons advertised for new members on hard-rock/metal radio stations in Boston. I guess they needed to fill out the bottom levels of the pyramid.

Is Russian city after city being transformed into a ‘hellscape’?

They went into Afghanistan because a demonstration was required that if the United States is attacked a bunch of people are going to die even if they don’t even get close to hitting the actual offenders. Have you heard of the that book Don’t Make the Negro Angry?

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dont-make-the-black-kids-angry-mr-colin-flaherty/1121279324

The process was identical to disrespecting some hood gangster and he whips out his pistol and empties his clip at anybody.

What I mean is my state specifically makes plates for Freemasons. With the square and compass symbol on one side, followed by MM (which I think might mean ‘Mark Master’) and then what I assume are a few less significant digits.

Or perhaps it would have the opposite effect and people would drive more carefully around them, not tailgate or honk their horn.

Here’s the page:
https://massfreemasonry.org/community-programs/masonic-license-plate-program-2/

I guess anyone can get one, and it is some sort of fundraising tool.

I thought that the Turkish Kurds are socialists? Don’t socialists frown on things like honor killings due to their inherent misogyny? Or are Muslim socialists an exception to the rule in regards to this?

Turkey is fairly secular for a Muslim country, along with Kazakhstan:

https://www.unz.com/akarlin/map-death-for-apostasy/

But there’s still a large religious undercurrent in Turkey (look at Erdogan’s success–though ironically he is better for Syrian refugees than the more liberal and Western-oriented Turkish opposition is!) even if most religious Turks thankfully don’t support hardcore crazy shit like killing people for apostasy.

Turkey has relatively high human capital by global standards, comparable to Greece, and thus could be a nice addition to the EU, but it also has severe problems with authoritarianism, corruption, and killings of journalists. Ukraine has some of these problems too, but to a lesser extent.

Ultimately whether Ukraine will ultimately end up joining the EU will depend on just how reformed and wealthy it will become in the meantime and on just how much Ukraine would be willing to shed its Soviet legacy. As a result of the current war, Ukrainians appear to be more willing to do the last part, or at least the Ukrainian people are. It’s a very sad spectacle when the alt-right points out that the Russo-Ukrainian War is essentially a war between the two most corrupt countries in the white Christian world. Ukraine is still better, of course, but it shows just how much the Soviet legacy still corrupts Ukraine.

Ukraine’s human capital is a factor in favor of having Ukraine join the EU, and as you said, it is more culturally compatible than Turkey’s human capital is.

Really, the raison d’etre of Ukrainian independence was and still is eventual Ukrainian EU membership. Take that way, and there was no point in Ukraine voting to secede from the USSR back in 1991. Way too much suffering and not worth it at all unless it is accompanied by eventual EU membership.

Also shows just how much Russia’s elites actually care about the Russian regime’s post-2010 anti-LGBTQ+ push. A party full of almost naked men and women can be viewed as very homoerotic, after all. Certainly a lot of tastiness there for everyone!

The end result (return of the Taliban to power) could have been achieved with many less casualties and much less waste of money for America.

Yeah, probably, and Afghans could have begun emigrating en masse much earlier to continue getting their taste of freedom.

I’m wondering who will be at this year’s New Year’s show, given that some of the regulars have been cancelled due to this party.

I’m wondering who will be at this year’s New Year’s show, given that some of the regulars have been cancelled due to this party.

Well, some of them apologized so profusely that they might be forgiven. 🙂 These Kremlin nightingales are “bottoms” and they fully deserve to be treated as such.

They had a “social contract” type of thing where these celebrities (one is reluctant to use the word “elite” when addressing them) would accept whatever was expected of them (a few concerts in Crimea, etc), and pretend that everything is ok, as long as they can do what they want (live freely, buy Louis Vuitton, enjoy being the center of attention at “half naked” parties, etc). This shows that that’s over.

This might be one of the first signs of Moscow starting to feel the war.

…Ukraine only has 30 or so million.

You have a point there. Ukraine started with 50 million in 1991 – that ‘independence’ has really worked out well for them. I suppose if they are down to 10-15 million EU could absorb most of them. But EU won’t, you don’t understand the EU dynamic, how it works.

if a peace deal is reached (even at current lines of control) and Ukraine remains armed to the teeth as it is now – you will consider it a Russian loss?

No, just a smaller win. Russia has already won: they will keep the territories and there will not be Nato in Ukraine. The maximalist objectives can be reached or not – like the level of demilitarization or who rules in Kiev. If they are reached it will be a massive win for Russia and a catastrophic defeat for Kiev. But smaller win is also a win. You are playing games with semantics – by your definition of war victory as being only if all maximal goals are reached there would be very few “victories”.

This brief clip of Chomsky is very relevant. I don’t know the context, nor am I a fan of his work in general. It is very relevant to NATO pressuring Russia.

No, just a smaller win. Russia has already won: they will keep the territories and there will not be Nato in Ukraine. The maximalist objectives can be reached or not – like the level of demilitarization or who rules in Kiev. If they are reached it will be a massive win for Russia and a catastrophic defeat for Kiev. But smaller win is also a win. You are playing games with semantics – by your definition of war victory as being only if all maximal goals are reached there would be very few “victories”.

You think that 100,000+ dead Russians is a price worth paying for all of this? I certainly don’t.

Pretty crazy how the last image we got from the surface of Venus is from 1982 and that only one probe ever has done a fly-by of Uranus or Neptune. (Voyager 2)

…price worth paying for

That’s for Russia to decide. I am not sure where you get the 100k number, Russians claim less than half of that. The Ukie casualties are estimated in the West at 225-300k, but that includes wounded. Was the war worth paying the price for the Ukies?

We don’t know, wars are a circus of lies and exaggerations. But whatever the number, is any number worth it? Would 20k be ok? Can you think of any war – including the recent Nato wars – that was worth it? We need to be consistent.

The public space missions may not be the only activity. : )

Any word yet on Eric Davis at the Sol Foundation Stanford meeting? I still have not seen even a mention of his name except the original announcement where is on the agenda.

Well, at least this war secured an EU membership perspective for Ukraine, which is worth a lot (as well as reinvigorating the EU in general). It also opened the West’s doors to millions of Ukrainians. Not small achievements.

The Iraq War might have been worth it. Barely. At least Iraqis have democracy right now, albeit a very flawed and very corrupt form of democracy (unfortunately widespread in much of the developing world). Also possibly greater free speech, freedom of assembly, et cetera rights. I’d probably prefer to deal with Shi’a militias than with Saddam Hussein’s extremely brutal regime, though obviously both are extremely unpleasant to deal with.

The Libya War could potentially be worth it in the future if Libyans will actually succeed in building a functioning, democratic, and prosperous state. They certainly have a lot of oil going for them. As of right now, though, unfortunately this war was not worth it. Obama was right. NATO needed a “day after” plan in Libya after overthrowing Gaddafi if it was going to do it.

I can’t comment on Ivan K.’s claims since I’m not an expert in regards to the evidence. If truly a false flag, though, it was one hell of an epic false flag as well as a really stupid one in the event of an extraordinarily massive backlash in the event that the truth would have ever come out. I’m not convinced that it actually was a false flag, but I’m not ruling out the hypothesis at this point in time either.

The Donbass could have been as bloodless as Crimea, or almost so, had Russia quickly annexed it back in 2014. It could have subsequently proceeded to give the Donbass much more autonomy within Russia than Ukraine was willing to give it within Ukraine.

Makes one wonder whether Tajikistan should support Massoud’s rebels in an attempt to secure some of that Afghan gold near Tajikistan’s borders, as a part of a deal with Massoud in exchange for huge military assistance from Tajikistan?

But Massoud’s National Resistance Front is probably way too weak to conquer this area by itself, which the Taliban will likely defend to the hilt.

Is Russia planning on becoming buddy-buddies with the Taliban? Does Russia have any value for these natural resources, or does Russia already have enough of its own ones?

Trump had to pick his battles. The Afghanistan mess was ridiculous and terrible but not too important in my opinion.

I concur.

Trump did not repeat Obama’s Surge error. He reduced scope of activity to the area around Kabul thus sharply reducing casualties. And, Trump actively pursued an exit strategy.

I am not sure why Mikel keeps refusing to understand that the establishment, especially Mitch McConnell, inserted people into the administration. Trump did what he could to curb the Afghanistan and Syria mistakes that were active before 2017.

Insisting on 100% of absolutely everything! Instantly! is unreasonable in a system that has multiple branches. It closes the door to meaningful negotiations and almost always results in walking away with nothing.

I have forgotten the officially sanctioned reason the USA/West went in to Afghanistan

The primary reason was chasing Osama bin Laden and his ISIS associates. This roughly aligns with the AUMF. Establishing a “democracy” was never a serious goal or viable strategy.

If you want to allocate some blame to prior Saudi rulers, their current leader MbS would quietly agree. He, like Trump, inherited some fearsome errors from his predecessors and is trying to unwind them.

PEACE 😇

You have a point there. Ukraine started with 50 million in 1991 – that ‘independence’ has really worked out well for them.

Losing ethnic Russians hostile to Ukraine is a plus. Algeria was once part of France – it is good that France lost it, too.

Russia has already won: they will keep the territories and there will not be Nato in Ukraine.

Which wasn’t in NATO anyways. Although Ukraine now has far more NATO weapons than it ever did or would have if not for the Russian invasion. And there will now be Americans in NATO bases in Finland.

Russia also won because Ukraine does not aircraft carriers and won’t.

Russia has also won because Ukraine does not have space lasers and won’t.

You are playing games with semantics

You are conveniently considering a win, something that did not exist before the war. Playing games with unlikely possibilities.

by your definition of war victory as being only if all maximal goals are reached

Victory would be if most (not necessarily all) goals are reached, and/or the country ends up stronger than before.

I wonder if Ukraine’s accession to the EU will be a Trojan Horse which breaks up NATO?

Ukraine has one of the largest lithium deposits in Europe (a reason why EU might be interested in Ukraine).* Two of Ukraine’s lithium fields have been captured by Russia but the other two remain in Ukraine, in Kirovohrad province.

https://tamarindo.global/articles/ukrainian-conflict-the-first-lithium-war/#:~:text=The%20Ukrainian%20Geological%20Survey%20has,in%20the%20Donetsk%20and%20Zaporizhzhia

Russian oligarchs getting their hands on Ukrainian resources was probably a more important reason for this invasion than was hypothetical NATO membership.

* “…For the European Union, these deposits could represent an opportunity to reduce its dependence on foreign oil. At present, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Chile (known as the “lithium triangle”) and China hold most of the world’s “white gold”, so the Ukrainian deposits would help reduce lithium imports, which already account for 87% of total demand.

By 2050, Europe’s need for rare earths is expected to increase tenfold, and according to the World Bank, in this scenario, production of minerals such as lithium graphite should exceed 2018 production by more than 450%. ”

https://www.atalayar.com/en/articulo/economy-and-business/ukrainian-lithium-another-cause-russian-invasion/20220322182435155647.html

Russian oligarchs getting their hands on Ukrainian resources was probably a more important reason for this invasion than was hypothetical NATO membership.

Possibly, along with having Russia secure as much hopefully-pliable human capital from Ukraine as possible in order to regain its lost superpower status. Ukraine’s human capital is also a part of its value for the West, along with its lithium and agricultural land. The Western hive mind benefits from growing even more, after all.

FWIW, I do believe that Russia’s leadership drank its own Kool-Aid in regards to NATO, but Yes, you’re obviously right that there was very likely more to it than just that.

I wonder if preventing Russia’s ally China from securing Ukrainian lithium deposits would be a more attractive way of framing Western/US support of Ukraine in such a way that appeals to anti-China right-wingers, such as US Republicans. I suspect that it would be, at least marginally.

Are there any other important natural resources in Ukraine besides lithium?

As a side note, I suspect that even if Ukraine were to retake the Crimean Corridor, Russia and China would not suffer from a lithium shortage too badly ‘coz they could always rely on the Taliban in Afghanistan to sell them lithium at discount prices, no? I mean, it’s not like the West will be making investments in Taliban-run Afghanistan anytime soon.

Also, I wonder if Afghanistan’s natural resources would make federalization a difficult sell for Afghans even in the event that the Taliban will ever get ousted from power there again and replaced with a better government (unlikely in the near-term, but who knows about the long-term, right?). Federalization is harder when different groups compete over natural resources. This is also why I don’t think that federalization would work for Iraq very well in terms of splitting Iraq into three federal states (Sunni Arab, Shi’a Arab, and Kurd). The Sunni Arab federal state within Iraq in such a scenario wouldn’t have many natural resources, after all.

Why would it? Finland’s accession to the EU long before it joined NATO did not threaten NATO in any meaningful way. Ditto for Sweden’s EU accession. And Austria’s EU accession as well.

Losing ethnic Russians hostile to Ukraine is a plus. Algeria was once part of France – it is good that France lost it, too.

Losing these ethnic Russians was definitely a plus before the start of the war. Nowadays the rest of Ukraine is so hostile towards Russia that it makes no difference whether or not Crimea and the Donbass will ever rejoin Ukraine.

Agreed that France losing Algeria was a huge plus. Ditto for India losing Pakistan and Bangladesh in 1947. Ditto for Serbia losing Kosovo, probably. Though maybe it would have been nice for Serbia to keep Serb-majority northern Kosovo. Israel losing most of the West Bank could also be a plus if Israel will actually install and keep in place a friendly satellite regime there. Similarly, Poland losing the Kresy has done wonders for Polish-Ukrainian relations decades later and beyond, though it would have been very nice if the Volhynian Massacres, et cetera could have been completely avoided back in the 1940s. Russia losing Chechnya would be a plus (less of a money drain in the Caucasus), though then pro-Western liberals couldn’t impose the LGBTQ+ ideology and agenda onto Chechnya, something which frankly Chechens REALLY deserve to get imposed upon them so that their extremely brutal and violent homophobia and toxic masculinity will finally end.

So, Yeah, sometimes smaller really is better.

Curious, as crows are carrion feeders, so one would think that would go against their genetic intincts. Maybe, it was mad that traffic was being held up, and not actually killing anything.

Crows do sometimes enjoy to harass animals, like pull the tails of cats or dogs.

People sometimes say, “Where are all the aliens?”. Because we don’t see a growing area of stars dimming across the galaxy.

But I wonder if anyone has done the calculations on how many aliens could reasonably be hiding within our solar system, without us noticing, just for the sake of argument. Like, if you tunnelled out the bigger asteroids, that would easily be more surface area than the Earth. How many places have we really gotten a close look at? Would we notice some ten mile long ship that was in orbit around Neptune? Probably not.

As long as they weren’t wokes, or too aggressive, I’d think they would want to study us from afar.

Well, at least this war secured an EU membership perspective for Ukraine, which is worth a lot

LOL – the same nothing “EU membership perspective” they have had since 1991, 2004, 2014 and Turkey ( an actual decently run country) has had for decades you POS? It is beyond evil and gives a very bad precedent to use not democratic/economic/legal reforms but war ( and with it embarrassingly high kamikaze deaths of the ukronazis), the extinction of “Ukrainians” to entice the fake perspective ( or even a real perspective) of membership……..particularly when the same fundamental problems of hopeless governance, inability to do reforms and mass corruption have never shown ANY progress, and the conditions for them to get even worse are there now.

as well as reinvigorating the EU in general

A completely nothing, irrelevant statement. All it did is emphasise how interconnected NATO &EU issue is ( one of Russia’s main points you cretin).

It also opened the West’s doors to millions of Ukrainians

Am I reading this stupid nonsense correct? Millions of ukrops were ALREADY in the EU working as toilet cleaners and prostitutes you idiot. Just like millions of Turks have been in Germany for over 50 years, million plus Moldovans, millions of Albanians, Serbs wanting to work high quality jobs in Germany or Czech Republic are easily doing so, millions of Syrians in Germany, about a billion Iranians in every single EU country. Africans. Indians.
For sure, Poland isn’t the west – and you are talking about countries like France, UK, Germany ,Holland, Spain etc but the point is still correct.

As has been proven numerous time, opening doors to people from hopelessly corrupt, failed shithole countries like Ukraine – where every effort has been made ( and failed hopelessly) to make them more “western” in democracy, finance, court system , governance etc (including western foreigners directly controlling government positions)…….it does not and will not make them more western when they go back to the 404.

The Iraq War might have been worth it. Barely. At least Iraqis have democracy right now, albeit a very flawed and very corrupt form of democracy

And the Holocaust was “worth it” because of the creation of Israel, World Trade Centre attack was “worth it” because with the new building the skyline of New York was improved……..
Any dipshit can wait 30,50,100 years as the world advances and can say any bad event was “good” for it you idiot.

Were you two alarmed by the standoff in the 1980s between NATO and the Warsaw pact? Were you concerned by the state of nuclear weapons on both sides and rumors of near-misses? Were you glad when things cooled off and the alert status of nuclear forces was reduced and treaties led to a massive reduction in the number of nuclear weapons?

It seems you weight these type of concerns as they relate to Ukraine and the SMO very lightly . On the other hand I think any Russian military leader or military industrial leader or defense bureaucrat born before 1980 will weight them very seriously (age 43 and up). The Russian military weighting of these factors is probably higher even than their American equivalents, mostly due to the disastrous impact of WW2 on the Russian people.

This is why the expansion of NATO and USA emplacement of missiles in Eastern Europe is viewed as existential by Russian military leaders. These actions by the West move us directly back to the Cold War with its Mutually Assured Destruction status. Western leaders know these moves are aggressive and simply believe they can pull it off. This mindset makes things even worse for Russia because it simply emphasizes how foolishly aggressive these Western moves really are.

In the West most of the military officers who understood these issues retired after 1990. Additionally, the caliber of people inducted into the US military started a steep decline in 1973 (end of the draft), so the US leadership has very few “steely-eyed missile men” who understand the tradeoffs between a nuclear armed standoff and diplomacy.

You think that 100,000+ dead Russians is a price worth paying for all of this? I certainly don’t.

LMAO. Of course it makes a pathetic loser like you feel better by saying “100000+ Russians dead” nonsense to try and self-justify your presence here……but of course it has zero connection to reality

This has been one of the most one-sided wars in history, with embarrassingly high kill ratios in Russia’s favour as the denazification is going very well you idiot. Another positive addition to our proud and succesful military history.

With one of the smallest forces ever (less than 100000 +LDNR) in relation to opposition ukrop/NATO forces ….we were able to capture enormous section of Ukraine, and key infrastructure and incinerate enormous numbers of “Ukrainians”. Key goals achieved of Lugansk basically liberated, Azov coast control, landbridge to Crimea, key cities liberated , Zaporizhzhia NPP taken over, Black Sea Coast control. Defeated what billions of NATO money and man-hours of work had tried to stop.

Russia hasn’t even got forced into a full mobilisation in all this time. The partial mobilisation had NOTHING to do with casualties you braindead prick , because our casualties have been very low. Very sad but very low. With that same, very small number of forces from February 2022, we had a long frontline overextended by numbers required for administration, engineering, security needed deep past line of contact . Frontline was static before announcement of partial mobilisation( sitting duck territory with everybody evacuated does not count) , and it was static AFTER mobilisation complete and implemented – even though the lag-time is about 3-4 months between the 2 stages.

It’s self-explanatory why Russian military was not in anyway vulnerable to Ukrop attacks during the lag-period of the 3-4 months you idiot. Or was there ANY talk from the pussy ukronazis of using this time to make gains on the frontline.
Ukrop soldiers get paid 3 times more each day for operations in attack , compared to operations in defence I should add. Or to be more accurate – their widows are owed that money.

Since then , the vast majority of those in the partial mobilisation of Russia have not fired a single thing in the SMO. Russia very busy rebuilding cities and building federal road to Crimea through landbridge territory, water canal to Donbass ( already complete), Surovikin line and many infrastrucure projects you dumb prick. A side suffering “heavy casualties” does not do things like that you idiot ( particularly when there is also clear threat of long and medium range weapons given to 404 by NATO)

Since then it has been the same – outnumbered (but not to the same level as in 2022) Russian forces inflicting castrophic numbers of ukronazi deaths. Frontline not dynamic but less static than before ( again in Russia’s favour as there is a long list of places liberated this year with 1000’s of ukronazi deaths in each of them). Multiples waves of mobilisation and multiple waves of disaster for 404 against zero for Russia.

Any common sense, anecdotal, video evidence etc proves what I am saying to be correct, and your claims to be deluded BS.

Russia gets millions of new citizens also , so the embarrassingly stupid “loss of 100000+, in addition to being total BS, does not take the millions of citizens gained into perspective. This war must have the lowest percentage of gunshot deaths/injuries in relation to those caused by heavy weaponry, deaths are going to be there, but ours are admirably low – but it is only showing itself in the vast number of ukronazi deaths you imbecile.

Are you seriously comparing Finland to Ukraine? Finland may be the first country to leave NATO.

Ukraine joining will cause no end of problems for the EU which will taint the overall relationship between the member states. The expiration date for NATO was about 20 years ago and through this painful process that point will become obvious to more people.

All the Z patriots went crazy. Solovyov blamed them for the ship disasters. In the end, these “artists” and socialites had to make sobby public apologies.

Apologies? You mean that they didn’t obtain a license to have their party from the kremlin or from the good Patriarch Kirill?

Lots of stuff on the internet about “almost naked animals”:

Makes one wonder whether there’s any difference between these Russian patriots and animals?…

Do you think that it would be presumptuous to expect that our local branch of kremlin stooges (Beckow, QCIC, Professor Jannissar, Averko, Geraldina) will host their own similar party to rival the festivities going on in Moscow? New Year’s Eve is only two days away? 🙂

I forgot to mention Putler’s #1 cheerleader at this website, my apologies kremlinstoogeA123, your efforts on his behalf have not gone unnoticed.

Considering the numbers of performing artists who have got banned from performing in Latvia, even though guaranteed big crowds…you would think a stupid POS like LatW would keep quiet on the issue of outrage at entertainment things.

I want our soldiers to have an enjoyable New Year celebration also – and I am sure most of them will.

Its a standard story you idiot Mr Hack anyway. People are going to enjoy themselves, some normally, some too degenerate. Some people are not going be bothered, and others are going to massively react – sometimes genuine, sometimes hypocritically. A lot of the same people involved do the same things every year it appears to me

Anyway, compare the New Year in Moscow, Kazan, SP……anywhere in Russia to the curfew one in Kiev, LMAO. Maybe these hopeless dipshits in Banderastan will just change the clock in 404 into GMT or one of the American timezones to honour their western masters and avoid curfew to witness the New Year, as these prostitutes have done with the Christmas Day.

whether Tajikistan should support Massoud’s rebels in an attempt to secure some of that Afghan gold near Tajikistan’s borders

I think that would be very unlikely. Any kind of reasonable scale mining requires too high a degree of infrastructure and stability which a weak resistance group would be unable to deliver. If the US can’t make it happen than Tajikistan certainly won’t be likely to.
Plus, the Taliban are quite aware that mineral resources are their only path to any kind of economic stability and would not tolerate it.
It seems like Afghanistan will be dominated by Chinese mining concerns for any foreseeable future, and as AP points out, there are plenty of sources of mineral wealth much closer to home for Russia.

In good times, it seems to work well. People like me, who prefer to downplay their specific ethnic identity (not ignore it or pretend it doesn’t exist) and get along with those who are similar to them (while preferring to keep a distance from those who are ‘too’ different) are happy. But when times get hard, ethnicities become highly problematic fault lines along which societies are constantly at risk of breaking up. Nothing is guaranteed though, so some formula might have been (might still be) found. Latin America seems well past the point that anyone would dream up ‘ethnic histories’ to divide people with, so the risk that any of them would break up along ethnic lines is probably quite small (perhaps non-existent).

…at least this war secured an EU membership perspective for Ukraine, which is worth a lot (as well as reinvigorating the EU in general).

EU is today a dead-man walking – you haven’t noticed? EU peaked in 2005-15, then Brexit, migrants, covid and the disastrous Ukie war dramatically weakened it. That is not my opinion, it is officially discussed in Brussels. There are attempts to reinvigorate EU: centralise taxes-budgets with common EU bonds, abolish ‘veto’, expansion, but also shrinkage -many would like smaller, richer original EU.

In the meantime all else is on hold – only hot air promises. Ukraine’s chance is actually less than in 2014 or 2010. The zeitgeist has changed and nobody is joining. It is too expensive and the rules can’t be negotiated.

If EU expands – Serbia, Bosnia, Albania, Ukraine, Moldova…it would have to be all of them – the financial balance would literally collapse. UK was the second largest contributor, now it is all on Germany-Holland-Austria-Nordics (France has a deal to “break even”). And Italy is slipping into a country needing heavy subsidies. The expansion simply can’t work – do you understand numbers? The speeches for the Ukies and others are just that: empty political promises – in 1990’s-2000’s the same game was played with Turkey for political gain, then Erdogan got elected.

Kiev made a fatal strategic error: the attraction of Ukraine was for EU business to get back-door access to the huge Russian market: set-up in Ukraine with cheaper labor, close access, language – use it to sell EU products to Russia. That was the plan, that’s what people discussed behind the scene, how to convince Russia to allow it, to buy them. Then the stupid Ukie nationalists and the neo-cons with their Nato obsession blew it.

That’s the story – all else is bloody nonsense by irrational dreamers….”perspective?”, what the f..k is that? Go outside and look at the sky if all you want is “perspective”. It is about as real.

You are conveniently considering a win, something that did not exist before the war. Playing games with unlikely possibilities.

What? In 2021 Kiev controlled Azov sea and land access to Crimea, today Russia does. Nato from highest levels was declaring that “Ukraine will be in Nato”, and so was Zelko.

Now you are down to “but we got Nato arms, blabla…” – temporary situation that is of no long-term consequence. When was the last time a Nato leader said that “Ukraine will be in Nato, shut-up Russia! it is none of your business!“…in 2014-21 they were literally saying it all the time, Bush even said it in 2008.

It is a climb-down of enormous proportions and consequences. You refuse to see it because it hurts to acknowledge it. But people running it know. It has been a catastrophic mistake. None of it had to happen if Kiev acted rationally – no banning of the Russian language and bombing of civilians in Donbas. No “kill the Moskali” and Odessa massacre – the undisciplined local idiocy that got out of hand.

It’s too late, there is no way back. Ukraine that could have been is gone – it will be a smaller, poorer, less attractive country to business and EU, with tragic losses. In 5 years you will accept it, now you are in the anger-denial phase.

You still hope for a miracle…you believe in Zelko-the-shaman who was supposed to bring the rain. Do you know what they do to a shaman when the rains don’t come?

Afghanistan was allegedly known in antiquity as “tin mountains”, tin being in demand for bronze.

Kiev made a fatal strategic error: the attraction of Ukraine was for EU business to get back-door access to the huge Russian market: set-up in Ukraine with cheaper labor, close access, language – use it to sell EU products to Russia. That was the plan, that’s what people discussed behind the scene, how to convince Russia to allow it, to buy them. Then the stupid Ukie nationalists and the neo-cons with their Nato obsession blew it

Magnificent point.

Its difficult to see what EU positively gets out of its actions with Ukraine against Russia. Maybe they view Ukrainian land itself ( and some of the Soviet infrastructure) as such a major prize that could bring great rewards if managed by them and not the Ukrainians. Cheap labour is another of course. But even that vast source of labour is easier to find from other sources than replacement of Russian oil and gas is.

Russia a mass market for European goods and services – from fruits to high tech machines and luxury goods. Ukraine is non-of those. Several of the major international companies have large operations, factories in Russia employing masses of Russians…………..404 had non of that.
Russia has companies that are well run and generating significant share profits/dividends for western shareholders……Ukraine has none.

John Von Neumann said that nuclear tech leads to subsequent extinction in short time inevitably; hence no little green men. Mr. Spock is not logical to exist. Johnny probably didn’t believe in fairies either.

Its difficult to see what EU positively gets out of its actions with Ukraine against Russia.

There are two obvious “wins” for EU Elites.

-1- It breaks up Eastern European unity standing against Brussels extremism. The Visegrád 4 had been solid. Now Poland and Hungary spend effort working against each other. It also disturbed the Polish internal politics to the point where pro-EU Tusk won.

-2- It facilitates migration. Forged Ukrainian identity documents are readily available. Over 1/3 of “Ukrainian refugees” are actually MENA and Sub-Saharan Muslims. Thus it serves a key goal of diluting native European, Christian values and identity.
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Beckow is correct that the EU is in decline. Letting in non-productive Islamists is an unaffordable burden. Also, admitting Ukraine would blow up financing of the Common Agricultural Policy [CAP].

The only way to save the EU is extensive Muslim Decolonization. Will Germany & France wake up in time? Elite establishment rule is strong and they are suppressing Christian natives advocating meaningful change.

PEACE 😇

I do remember that no one got killed as a result of Russia-Crimea unification, probably the first time that has happened since the Belgian Revolution of 1830. But I don’t recall the story about the Crimean garrison being given a free choice as to which side they wanted to pick, with the “Ukrainians” being permitted to depart peacefully from Crimea. Was the story suppressed by the Western MSM ? I would not be at all surprised. I would be very grateful if you could supply a source for this intriguing story.

This is to your previous cretinous on the other thread:

Ukraine “on level of Zimbabwe” has managed to wrest control of the western Black Sea from Russia and remains standing after almost 2 years of Russian invasion despite Russia having about 4.5. times more people.

1. That is total BS about the Black Sea.
2. Any actions in the Black Sea against Russia has been done entirely with western plans, western technology, western orders, western intelligence ( suspect mostly British), western testing . I suppose a fraud like you can try to mimic being Ukrainian by attaching yourself to this – parasiting off and serving foreign powers, claiming their work as your own

3. Zimbabwe’s Tank program is equal (maybe even better) to the Ukrop “Oplot” tank program , which have of course been invisible in the SMO, lol.
I suspect a bimbo as yourself would have cluelessly endlessly promoted the Oplot program before 2022 like the useless wakjob you are. Just WTF did these clowns do in the 8 year period on this ? Any its not just the T-84…….its everything.

4. DOCTOR Mugabe managed to defeat the Europeans out of Zimbabwe. The “4.5 times population” is just you being an aimless bimbo idiot again. If Doctor Mugabe had cuckolded himself with 4 different groups and been kicked out of Harare 4 different times (after about 2 seconds each time) from 4 failed invasions ..then the great man would have been viewed as a joke, a failure…………in Banderastan that catastrophe would get him viewed as “Ukrainian National hero” like that Petliura wakjob serial failure. Zimbabwe is standing, Ukraine failure is not -its a complete disaster.

Kiev made a fatal strategic error: the attraction of Ukraine was for EU business to get back-door access to the huge Russian market: set-up in Ukraine with cheaper labor, close access, language – use it to sell EU products to Russia. That was the plan,

I don’t remember that that was the plan that was discussed “behind closed doors” although it makes sense and quite possibly was. I do remember reading about a similar reverse scenario where those that were promoting the idea of EU integration were touting that Ukraine could become a huge transfer buffer zone for Russia where its own goods could be exported into Europe somehow legally getting around European tariffs and taxes. I believe the plan also included the possibility of using Russian owned businesses and factories in Ukraine. Yeah, it could have been good for everybody involved, but the overgrown neanderthal to the north decided to “rid Ukraine of Nazis” and we now have, as the saying goes, what we have. 🙁

I’m glad to read that you approve of my idea of having your own”stooges for Putler almost naked party of support” somewhere in the West. Most of the stooges that flood this website live in the US, so trying to get them all to show up to that North British shanty town where you now live may prove to be difficult. Just saying…(I still can’t believe that you left Mother Russia behind, your beautiful grand piano, the vegetable garden and dacha too…why, oh why Geraldina?). Are you one of those Russian drat dodgers thatI read so much about?

There are other exemptions, for example one of my cousins runs the Ukrainian operations of a Western firm and he is permitted to leave for meetings at the main office. He comes back, indeed he was abroad when the war started and rushed back to Ukraine.

Wow. I suppose its the same thinking of a paedophile wanting to be a School caretaker – the mindset of this dilapidated, fantasist scumtroll and proven liar “AP” to come up with such a ludicrous fake of a story. Which one is the biggest , most amusing lie of this f*cktard AP anyone? The cousin in Bucha? Speaking Russian or Ukrainian? Visiting Russia or Ukaine? The fixation with pretending to be a medic? Why does the internet produce such wakjob POS’s? It’s a disgrace, I wish the blog had rules against such scumbag fake behaviour……..and I suspect zero people on here, including the Baltic freaks believe his claims to be true.

BTW any of Russian elites fighting? You claim this war was vitally necessary for Russia, that it would be an existential threat if Ukraine joined NATO.

Peskov’s son, Aksenov’s son (Crimea head). Several GosDuma MP’s mobilised (including World Champion boxer Valuev, Gosduma MP whilst the homo Klitschko junior is nowhere near the battlefield), Kadyrov involved. Rogozin got significantly injured carrying out work there you deranged retard. Practically all the Russian governors have visited the Donbass since 2022. Even the liberal potential 5th columnist Shuvalov’s son did serve in the VMF Spetsnaz a few years ago is something I mention in comparison to the lowlifes in charge of 404. Vice-governor of one of, maybe our richest region had one of her sons killed in the SMO you scumbag.

Now compare that 404 , where absolutely mass numbers of ukrops have been annihilated and not ONE of these elites has a son serving in the military. Not one death or injury.

But its a fake comparison, because anyone if free to leave and re-enter Russia. Khokholstan prison is not in that situation. One side is being annihilated……..the other is not.

Unlike the running like cowards ukrop elite, Russian political elites have nothing to prove in comparison you useless fu*kwit because during the frequent hostage taking incidents in the 1990’/2000 several Russian politicians showed selfless courage in directly going into the places people were held and negotiating with the terrorists, often even offering themselves in exchange for woman or child hostage. Senators, regional government ministers, Kobson, Petrenko etc. There is Chechen war veterans in their too.

Russian High ranking military officials serve at or near the frontline with immense bravery and courage. Ukronazi failure officer-class are of course sitting in Germany or Lvov, recycling orders from their US,UK,German masters sending astronomical amounts of central and Eastern Ukrainians to die like lemmings

also true of Russia, which has squandered many of its elite forces and replaced them with mobiks.

A laughably idiotic . bimbo lie. Only a fraction of these forces have suffered you inept scumbag.

For Ukraine, the war is not at the phase where full mobilisation of all men to the front is necessary; the Russians are being held back with the military Ukraine currently has. Ukraine still needs workers to run its businesses and farms.

ROFLMAO !!!One of the most bimbo things you have ever written. On so many levels. Its clear your not even understanding of what full mobilisation is when you write this paragraph of nonsense. More instantaneous BS.

Supposedly Poroshenko’s oldest son fought during the ATO under a fake name.

Which is of course nonsense. You have though managed to upgrade the number of ukrop politicians you know from 1 to 3 during the week, judging from your ineptitude shown in the list I gave on very high number of Russians and non-ukrops in charge of 404.

Lose a ship or lose a country?

Most of the stooges that flood this website live in the US, so trying to get them all to show up to that North British shanty town where you now live may prove to be difficult.

My good friend Mr Hack/Elephant man…..I know you and that freak AP WANT that to be true as part of your joint “Axis of excrement” efforts ……….but of course it isn’t , just you clowns trying to provoke me.
My job, very wonderfully allows me to contribute to the SMO to the point I could maybe technically get charged for War Crimes!! Some technical war crime shit related to construction in “occupied areas” ( hopefully the dream is me, or at least the company owner can get charged with war crimes for nothing things like these retards managed hilariously do to the mother of 7, deeply religious Lvova).

So I am not required to be mobilised because of my job in engineering, but happy to be contributing in a small way to the SMO. I have, unlike you, done national service. I am unlike you, not representing a fake country where the only “fight for national independence” in 1000 years involves zero battlefield achievement and raping women, children and animals in the 1940’s when the Nazi’s weren’t looking. There is no such thing as “draft dodgers” here either because the volunteer numbers are huge and the professional army is doing a great job. If legal required then I will do it of course. If legally not required – then we know US Banderites will not save a family in 404 they claim are being “genocided” by allowing them to live with them .

It is an upright piano that I have though Mr Hack you dummy. 2 pedals.

Curious, as crows are carrion feeders, so one would think that would go against their genetic intincts.

The reality might be more sad than it appears – some readers after watching this video suggested that the crow is in fact trying to peck and eat the hedgehog, instead of helping it. Normally, the hedgehog would roll up in a ball to protect himself in this kind of a situation. Funny video. Nasty crows should not pick on hedgehogs – there is so much other food out there (especially in the city). Poor hedgehog. We sometimes bring them milk.

The first nation to do so (and it could be Canada), may unlock a powerful new weapon.

Well, along with the deadly mosquitos and battle dolphins (but I think those are fairy tales). 🙂 That’s just normal behavior for Canada geese, that’s how they treat people – just another day for them, nothing to see here. 🙂 Maybe they misbehave because of the Canadian liberal approach. 🙂

Do you think that it would be presumptuous to expect that our local branch of kremlin stooges (Beckow, QCIC, Professor Jannissar, Averko, Geraldina) will host their own similar party to rival the festivities going on in Moscow?

Are you sure you want to picture a half-naked Geraldina playing the piano? Oh, no, what has been seen, cannot be unseen.

But I don’t recall the story about the Crimean garrison being given a free choice as to which side they wanted to pick, with the “Ukrainians” being permitted to depart peacefully from Crimea. Was the story suppressed by the Western MSM ?

Of course it was, as it is “politically incorrect” in two ways.

One, it would go against demonization of Russia and Putin, which is obligatory for the bought and paid for Western MSM.

Two, ~90% of “Ukrainian” servicemen and women in Crimea chose to switch sides and serve in the RF military. That fact would kill the fairy tale of Western media about the feelings of Ukraine residents.

So, you must see for yourself that this story could not have been reported by Western presstitutes.

So hopefully last night’s savage attack on the Ukrainian civilians will serve as a great reason to finally extract the money and send some serious weapons. We are dealing with psychopathic murderers.

How many Russian speakers did they kill last night and how many children were maimed?

🙏❤️

Ukraine (and to a lesser extent Georgia) mined all the USSRs titanium. Russia processed it. Now Russia has to pay China, who needs it themselves, top dollar plus for the titanium. In terms of processed product Ukraine did better steel forging, for example.

There are other shortages. Eggs we know of.

https://www.vzsar.ru/news/2023/12/22/na-teatralnoy-ploschadi-proydet-yarmarka-informacii-o-deshevyh-yaycah-net.html

Chicken meat and pork will be problems next then milk and vegetables.

Russia built a huge new factory farming industry after the self imposed sanctions of 2014. It was built with the latest EU gear and has been very productive providing 70%+ of consumption. However, the equipment companies keep their revenues flowing by providing the breeding stock and formulations for young animals. The exact breed of animal is important. Farms are sized according to their reproduction and maturation rates and things like age of transition from one feed to another. The wrong feed to young animals can affect this. So, Russia continued to buy 3 day old chicks or hatching eggs from the Netherlands and the feedstuff. Since sanctions, this has not been possible. The pharmaceuticals haven’t been available either.

Without new genetics for laying hens, broilers, pigs and cows, not to mention seeds for glasshouses (and then all the commercial sugar beet seeds in the world come from Northern Italy/Southern France) Russian agricultural output is in inevitable decline. This was masked by imports of eggs from China. However the bombinb of the tunnel, although it didn’t go to China, disrupted the railway system and eggs lost priority. Hence the current shortage. Russia is now negotiating with Iran and Turkey for eggs.

It is an upright piano that I have though Mr Hack you dummy. 2 pedals.

Sorry, the photo that I was looking at wasn’t real clear regarding the type of piano:

He might have an exceptional physique…working his vegetable garden all summer at his dacha in Putlerstan and then going off to Northern Britain somewhere after the harvest, working on SMO projects (most likely working within some coal mine). He looks rather handsome in his concert photos don’t you think?

some readers after watching this video suggested that the crow is in fact trying to peck and eat the hedgehog,

No question that they associate roads with food and hunt living rats. What I’ve noticed is they aren’t as road-wary as other animals but almost seem like they can read the driver’s intention. Sometimes they will feed quite close to traffic.

Here is a crow not being helpful to a hedgehog:

You stupid cow, how can you seriously believe that your braindead atrocity propaganda (“Putin is killing children”, as if this was the defining feature of this war, not primarily conventional battles in which huge numbers of soldiers are fed into the meat grinder) still has any credibility at a time when the collective West is not just ignoring (which might be ok), but actively supporting Israel killing at least 15 000 to 20 000 civilians in two months? Apart from the totally propagandized nobody can take that seriously anymore.
As for “to finally extract the money and send some serious weapons”, Ukraine has been given unprecedented support already. But even if they were given everything on their fantasy wishlist (which won’t happen), it wouldn’t solve Ukraine’s manpower issues or magically make Ukraine’s armed forces capable of conducting the sort of offensive that could defeat Russia on the battlefield. There is no prospect at all of Ukraine winning this war in the sense of restoring the 1991 borders. It was always a fantasy, and one which has been decisively refuted by the total failure of Ukraine’s offensive last summer. The only thing left to do now is adopt realistic war goals, attempt to stave off a Ukrainian collapse (and yes, continued Western support for that is necessary) and open negotiations for a ceasefire, which by necessity will entail extremely painful concessions on the part of Ukraine. Otherwise this is likely to end in something even worse for Ukraine, with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands more men killed and maimed at the front and Russia possibly even grabbing additional territory like the entire Black Sea Coast.
But I suppose exactly that is going to happen, not least because hysterical dumbfucks like you have created a mental climate where it’s become impossible to acknowledge such realities. Then you will clamour for direct NATO intervention (which is unlikely to happen, unless Western “elites” have lost all elementary sense of self-preservation) and spend the rest of your life cultivating some idiotic stab-in-the-back mythology how Ukraine’s heroes were betrayed because just not enough weapons were sent and how a big chance was missed to permanently cripple Russia. Absolutely predictable, and absolutely idiotic.

Do not bother responding to my posts – I won’t be talking to you until you take care of your mental issues (or ever).

IIRC, Freeman Dyson seemed to think nuclear bombs dropping would be no big deal, if there were underground shelters.

Me, I’d be worried that, in such a situation, we wouldn’t get that 30-35min warning from intercontinental ballistics launching, but they would have submersible delivery drones right off the coast, nearly crawling on the beaches, or bombs in a container ship in harbor. And that, if it could be planned for, in theory, to store the necessary supplies and equipment, the government is way too incompetent to do so.

You stupid cow, how can you seriously believe that your braindead atrocity propaganda (“Putin is killing children”, as if this was the defining feature of this war, not primarily conventional battles in which huge numbers of soldiers are fed into the meat grinder)

So bringing up the deaths of innocent children, needs to elicit your psychotic rant here, because it isn’t at the very top of your “defining features” war list?

You do realize that it’s Russian troops that are in large measure fed into the meat grinder, especially in battle ground sites like Avdiivka? Why aren’t you on your pulpit screaming “bloody murder” against Putler and his lackadaisical supporters within Russia? It’s always Ukraine’s fault for defending itself against the frankenstein of the north, right, Mr. Objective “I don’t have a dog in this fight” Mr. German_Reader?

P.s. And by the way – a while back, I suggested to you – let’s try to work towards a situation where we have neither the US nor Russia in our faces, yet you immediately dismissed that as completely unrealistic, even though there is a hypothetical scenario (a historical window) where both of those could be weakened, and Europe strengthened, yet you didn’t even want to exercise this possibility. That shows how “valuable” you are. And you were never neutral or objective.

And, yes, the murder of civilians, including children, has very much been one of the defining features of the Russian invasion, from the very beginning. That doesn’t mean that killing the Gaza children should be overlooked, but neither should the Ukrainian children be overlooked.

I won’t bother responding to your posts, because there is literally nothing worth addressing there on any substantial level, it’s all inane drivel, unconnected from any reality, nothing but moralistic hysteria and demented, romantic fantasies about some military miracle that can’t possibly happen. In the end the mindset of people like you will have done its fair share of contributing to an even bigger disaster, but of course you will never admit your own responsibility or admit that you were wrong in any way (which should already be obvious btw, going by your comments in 2022 Ukraine by now should already have conquered Crimea, established some buffer zone on the Russian side of the border and toppled Putin’s government. But I suppose that just didn’t happen, because not enough weapons were sent, lol).