Sun Tzu was correct and has been proven so on many basis, why indeed run a flag up the pole bringing attention to yourself whilst your enemy threshes and flails..
Trump has it can be said allowed himself to be boxed in by the deep state, however I believe \\if you join all of what would appear superfluous machinations that when all added together they form a cord strong enough i believe to enable Trump to untangle himself from the mess he inherited, that is U.S overreach in that corrupted shitzen hole Ukraine.
This bi-lateral meet I believe will result in terms very close to the terms sought and enunciated by Russia namely in Istanbul to be agreed between the U.S and Russia, terms that the lunatics in the E.U will decry and refute… further, Elinsky, he who made illegal in that Nazi den of corruption the use of the letter “Z” … go figure, speaks volumes whilst underscoring a distinct lack of intellect not to mention his understanding of the spelling of his own surname…
Elinsky will not in any likelihood accept any proposal in the process providing trump if he’s astute enough to the opportunity to exit the conflagration, by doing so thankfully ensuring Ukraine will cease to exist, a mercy we should all be praying is acheive, the world has tired of the lies, obfuscation, fraud, dictatorship, press ganging, terrorist attacks, the killing of civilians throughout the regions involved in the conflict not to mention many foreign nationals the Ukrainian government has determined is to simply have their life ended… RIP Gonzalo Lira being but just one exemplar.. thankfully it will soon be over given Russia’s present progress the front virtually collapsing , more than 500,000 Ukrainian military ranging in ages from 19 - 60+ as well as many females fraudulently enlisted being AWOL from their units, not to mention the high rate of those simply surrendering to RUSSIAN FORCES WITH MANY amongst them joining willingly the Russian Army to fight against Elinsky and his gang of rapacious thieves and charlatans…
Thus it can be considered a sort of win/win for both sides Friday, neither having to give to the other whilst each assuming the U.S via Trump makes the correct call to walk, will each end up with what they each require, Trump freed from the Ukrainian Nazi gordian note the U.S has become entangled in and Russia freed to fight on, to take Odessa, to take all of the Oblasts up to the Dneiper THENST to de-nazify that corrupt sh.thole Ukraine, thereafter establishing a Russian friendly government in kIEV delivering Ukrainians from the nightmare they find themselves to be embroiled in… finally Russia will have the neutral neighbor it has sought on its immediate border halting NATO’s encroachment and compromise of this nuclear superpowers borders… it wont be long that Russia will have to endure NATO… itself, in its own self destruct mode which this Friday’s outcome will only serve to exacerbate, another win for humanity as the globalists enforcement arm is finally broken having been all but literally destroyed on the Ukrainian steppe, another objective of the SMO Russia can lay claim unto… pray they, Russia keep ticking those boxes in the end the final victory, freeing the Western populace from the tyranny of the globalist New World Order long touted as the panacea by those deluded and demented fools to resolving, ours, yours, mine, your dearest and nearest’s life problems… as if we had asked them to, well just as they the Davo globalists imposed or rasrther tried to imposes their will upon us, Putin and Russia will ensure they impose on our behalf their will upon that globalist agenda… cant wait, multi polarity a new paradigm long awaited, much wanted, bring it on… research it, educate yourselves, its a new world and truly positive… peace at last .. just saying
Kia Kaha (stay strong) from New Zealand presently wintering in Dubai
Trump did not inherit this mess. When Trump says, "It's not my war. It's Biden's war," he's telling a lie. Trump was already arming and training the Ukrainian armed forces during his first term, eg, in 2017, Trump sent Javelin fire-and-forget anti-tank missile systems to Ukraine.
Since his attack on Iran, I don't believe a word that comes out of Trump's mouth any more. I don't think Putin does either. We have both learned the hard way.
Hopefully, Trump will surrender in Alaska on Friday (and sell it to us a the biggest, best, most beautiful deal ever!). Otherwise the war will continue until Ukraine has been de-militarized and de-NAZIfied.
Yes, RIP Gonzalo Lira. I used to follow him. He was a courageous writer and journalist. The failure of the Biden administration to protect him was yet another disgrace :(
Thank you, though the recounting of the wonderful Gonzalo Lira saddened me recounting like yourself his many great casts.. laced with humour and straight talk as wasGonzalo’s want.. I found your reply an enjoyable refresh on BIC, bloviator in chief, Trumps predilection for stretching it, telling porkies, huuuuuge porkies, in other words, bull shitzen, you have and possess a unique style of writing, telling it like it is whilst affording humour to be imbued the same, keep at it, we need such in these dark times… best to you .. always and thank you again..
Gonzalo was a good friend of mine and I'll never forget him and his straight thinking and even straighter talking ....which as we all know sealed his fate at the hands of the CIA and State Department courtesy of their Neo-Nazi Puppets .
I would say "Colleagues" rather than "Puppets." They're all the same people wearing different disguises. You must feel his tragic loss even more keenly than the rest of us. You have my heartfelt condolences (his family, too). Lira's last video, made as he was about to try to cross the border exemplified the straight thinking to which you refer. I will never forget that video:
How very kind. Thank you very much. Yes, we must all keep on keeping on in search of truth - including honest markets. Sunlight is a great disinfectant.
This whole scenario pre-dates ' Trump 1 ' and Obama ..etc- and in fact has it's main roots back when the dissolution of ' Soviet Russia ' and the ' Warsaw Pact ' came about
in the late 80's - early 90's and has been ramping up continually every year since culminating in the situation as it stands today .....COMPLETE RUSSIAN VICTORY
Trump is not a war-hawk. He wants peace, but he's surrounded by neocons who work for the psychopath cabal death cult who are either possessed by demons or so inbred protecting the bloodlines that they can see nothing except thru a crimson veil.
You bring up Gaza. Evangelicals and indeed many of the Christian faith are steadfast in "blessing" anything that Israel's leadership does, I think out of fear and obedience to God's Word (Genesis 12). However, I personally feel the genocide deeply, and it hurts this Christian's heart to hear of it, causes confusion. I'm not sure what God meant when He told Abram "I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you", and I believe it's caused a silent divide among Christians bc if the Holy Spirit that indwells in us tells us something is wrong, yet we follow accepted (but perhaps incorrect interpretation of scripture), that's a dilemma of conscience that I won't defend until I've had more time to study/compare concordances and scripture. God commands the destruction of certain peoples in Deuteronomy. In the Book of Revelation, in which time I believe we are living, Jesus returns as a warrior on a white horse with a sword, not as the Lamb of God. So I won't debate you or anyone on Trump's choices in support of the Israeli government bc I don't understand the truth of God's will yet, but I am working on it and that's my shame to bear. At present time, based soley on what I feel, I agree with you on that one point.
Hosea 4:6 "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge."
Ukraine is running out of men. NATO is running out of arms and ammunition. Putin, meanwhile, is just getting into his stride.
Putin has learned from bitter experience that NATO is "not agreement capable;" so he will achieve peace on his terms, on the battlefield. There can be no other way for Russia to achieve its war aims, which are non-negotiable, in what Russia sees as an existential matter.
Yeah, like bringing back manufacturing from overseas, where Bill Clinton sent it, shutting down the massive invasion of our country from the third world, cancelling the oppressive government regulation brought on by the "climate change" hoax, and other things like that, right?
Alasdair, I consider your opinion with regard to Ukraine to be insular (British Insular, that is), condescending and wrong. Linking Nuland and Trump? No way.
I am satisfied to be a subscriber even though I disagree on this and that. Agree on gold and silver, inclined to wait and see with regard to Bitcoin. More in the Chris Irons camp.
Please enjoy speaking your piece. One of my greatest concerns at the moment is governments such as yours that would deny it.
You young whippersnappers need to study your history. Unless you think government is the solution to all your problems, at some point you are going to have to take responsibility for your own lives. Socialist governments aren't going to do that, no matter what they promise. As Maggie Thatcher once said, "The problem with Socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money."
Instead of mouthing the ignorant left, you should study history so you don't repeat it.
1. In general terms I think that all governments of what ever colour or stripe are a curse - especially Socialist ones , which appear to encompass pretty much all of them these days - no matter what's written on the tin .
2. I have always ( and will continue ) to take responsibility for my own life .
Never a truer saying than that from the late President Reagan , which was
to run away at speed at the first utterance of - " I'm from the Government
and I'm here to help " . Governments are a blight on humanity - least ways they are as currently constiuted .
3. I don't know how my comment consisting of 4 x Question marks
could have possibly led you to construe this as some form of cheer-leasding for the " Ignorant Left " , as I roundly loathe and despise them every bit as much as you do + entirely agree with Maggie's statement that the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money ..!! .
Never a truer word said - as evinced by the ' Global Shit Show ' we're all witnessing and giving a running commentary right now .
Sorry if you got the wrong impression as to where I stand .
I apologize, Simon, I know you are an intelligent human being. My comments were more directed to Gordon above. From his comments I take him to be a pimple-faced 16 year old who never had to balance a checkbook or take responsibility for a family. Such people should shut up until they learn how hard it is to survive on this planet with no safety net. I've had to do that all my life, and when I hear people espouse the ideas of systems that have proven themselves abject failures (Socialism, Communism, Crony Capitalism) I am dismayed at the level of ignorance and stupidity that our young, idealistic people have. God help us all.
Great comment Graham. I too find Alasdair to be a bit heavy on the side of cynicism but I'm capable of critical thinking and can find my way past some of his darkest views. That said I read his missives to hear his thoughts on gold, silver, monetary systems and such. I think he has a way to go to fully appreciate BTC and the emerging world of digital assets, decentralized settlement systems, etc.
So you like ' Graham ' are another inhabitant of ' Planet Moron ' + despite what you've noted - you're way adrift in the critical thinking stakes , least ways where such as Ukraine and Geo-Politics in general is concerned . Go and stand in the corner with your face to the wall and the biggest possible ' Dunce's Hat ' on - you've earned it .
Don't you really just mean that the 'neocon group' is not clearly defined?
It's hard to say Nuland and Trump aren't somehow connected, like Blair and Starmer are if we want a 'British insular' comparison, as ripe with rotting euphemisms as a mouldy piece of bread.
The interesting thing about imprecise words like 'neocon' is what they cover up or stand for can vary at different times and in different uses. We have not been having a clear political debate in the West for a long time. I'd want to agree with you Graham, as we both do with Alasdair... except for all that missing discussion.
All this will be abruptly dragged into a very different world through the meeting in Alaska.
Let me try something here. My post on the Alaska meeting is scheduled to appear in four hours. Let's see if I can get away with posting this link beforehand.
Ridiculous piece. Someone who cannot see the link between tight-pizza-loving Trump and his bosses like Nuland et al is certainly either not too bright or in denial.
Rather think Uber short sighted and ' Thick as a Brick ' can be applied to all of these people who will remain blissfully ignorant and sound asleep as the Neocon Juggernaut grinds forward crushing them in its path .
There is nothing " Insular or British Insular " viz Alasdair's thoughts on Ukraine but there there is a all too apparent severe deficiency in historical fact and critical thinking on such matters that has led you to make such a mega-twatish comment .
Time to wind your neck in and do a lot more homework before you make another
so ill-judged and ill-informed comment . Back to school for you & Pronto .
"Delusional" - unfortunately, Glenn, I don't think so. Like many wandering these Comments - skeptics and cynics reign here. Alasdair happens to be a "cynic" that excels at articulating thought without offending too many of the Trump Devotion Sydrome ("TDS") crowd. Reading through his missives he provides a different perspective of what is happening and what may be coming ahead. Frankly, it is hard to understand why Putin would meet?
" It is hard to understand why Putin would meet " ....?? . Here you have the master strategist of the world accompanied by the finest statesman in the world ( Lavrov ) agreeing to meet with ' Mr Bullshit and Bluster ' and his puerile team of inexperienced amateur hour misfits to discuss matters which none of the US contingent have any grasp or knowledge of .......Wonder Why ..?? .
1. " Never interupt an enemy when he's in the process of self destruction " - Sun Tzu
2. " Give them just enough rope with which to hang themselves " . unattributed .
3. Did you see Putin speak first after the meeting and for 7 - 8 minutes followed by
' DJT ' who barely managed 2 x minutes & said nothing of consequence + did you see all of those ashen-face / tongue tied members of the US delegation ( Caroline Levitt especially ) who came out giving every impression of a bunch of headless chickens ..??.
Could be that they've just been woken up by a timely lecture from ' Brere Fox ' and
his colleagues who most assuredly comprised - " The Only Adults in The Room " .
4 . And now we're going to have to endure the spectacle of Zelensky and his back up team of coke sniffing bum-bandits and grade ' A ' perverts winging their way to meet with Trump in order to whinge on and attempt to blackmail him into shifting from the un-tenable position ( Epstein & more ) which his big thicko gob has placed him in .
Should be entertaining & completely disasterous at one and the same time ..!!
Simon, can't disagree with you at all. Seriously, from your perspective, what did this do for Russia and subsequently the BRICS? It is fully understood the BRICS must stick together instead of letting the U.S. and the West pick them off one by one. They have finally figured that out - strength in numbers. All I can see it did was to absolutely confirm to Trump and his delusional minions what Russia demands were and they weren't negotiable or to be bullied out of them. The EU and Britain are a horrific mess......don't know how long they can continue to hold it together. They are coming apart at an accelerating pace. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see where this is all heading - just hope they don't resort to mushroom clouds.
Hello Again ' Ole' LSO ' ( What is an Ole' LSO anyway ..?? - please advise ) ,
Many thanks for your comment & if you'd like an interesting read and pointers as to how rapidly the UK economy is circling the drain toward financial oblivion / societal collapse - and Civil War ( wouldn't surprise me ) ,
then go on line ( they're n You Tube ) and look up 2 x videos from the ever excellent & supremely accurate ...ALEX KRAINER .
Entitled : " THE COLLAPSE Of BRITAIN " - ( MTP019 & MTP020 ) Parts 1 & 2
In fact if you aren't already a follower of ' ALEX KRAINER ' - then humbly suggest that you become one sonest as his research and analysis on all topics is absoloutley peerless + he breaks a lot of news well ahead of most anyone else .
An "Ol' LSO" - well, "ol'" means old. As in to my 8th decade (meaning my late 70s) and a LSO is a Landing Signal Officer. In my day thrashing around the Pacific on the USS Oriskany a few pilots were trained to be responsible for the safe landing of aircraft during day, night, and ugly weather conditions (all flight operations). LSO are both trained carrier aviators and essentially "helpers" to pilots as they made their carrier landings. Currently, the Oriskany sits at the bottom of the Gulf of America off of Pensacola. As to Alex - I read him frequently and I do watch as the EU and Britain sink down the drain. If it was just financially - one thing, but there are so many issues it makes one's head spin. Not sure they'll be another "storming of the Bastille" but it is going to be truly ugly for lengthy period of time while it all gets sorted out. Frankly, one huge problem is too many immigrants that have no interest in integrating into the cultures. Just want their own little worlds. Best - Ol' LSO
Do yourself a favour and avoid ' Chat GPT ' and most all other ' AI platforms ' like the plague - do your own proper research and think critically for yourself rather than be reliant on what gets spewed out from yet another " Wonder Technology " .
What's the term in computing - " Feed Shit in - Get Shit Out the other end " albeit quickly of course ...how very convenient . It is the fact of not questioning anything and taking as gospel every utterance of Government / Media & Social Media that could easilly lead to the destruction of us all ....starting with the billions of the dumbed down and brainwashed who have stood in line meekly to have the toxic filth of the Jabs & Boosters foisted upon therm ....they're all dropping like like fly's at an ever increasing rate ( strokes / turbo cancers / myocarditis / pericarditis / blood clots ... the list goes on ands is endless ) .
" Follow the Science - the Science is settled " ......NO IT ISN'T ..!! .
The absoloute over-arching desire for " Speed & Convenience " will do for us all .
NWO info - have you looked at the symbol? I knew the very first time it came out what was going down. Even putting such stuff aside - it spills out bullshit. It is there to collect your information Glenn and to get more intelligent - because it is real dumbfuck!
For me, perhaps the main question is to what extent Putin is acting as a representative of a competitive power vs just as another skilled actor controlled by the same powers-that-be that control Trump?
Putin is no ' Actor ' in any shape or form - he's the real deal & in spades and is on no account also controlled by the arch-villians / banksters & rabid Zionists who are pulling the Donald's many strings . This will become ever more apparent to you as ' Events ' progress
I don’t know how you can be so sure. For example, Putin continued to support Central Bank chief Elvira Nabiullina despite her support for the dollar based fiat currencies and her continued exposure of Russian foreign held assets, including large amounts of physical gold, that were eventually seized. Putin supported Covid vaccinations despite the lack of evidence of any efficacy and widespread serious harm caused by them. Putin seems to express admiration and support for Trump. That hardly fits with what you seem to be saying. I’ve watched many hours of videos of Putin in his Valdai broadcasts and others and, while I admire his depth of political and economic issues I find it impossible to reconcile with the above and other issues.
The person / people with the " Upper Hand " in all of this are unequivocally Messrs Putin & Lavrov . Here you have a ' Class Act ' beyond compare - with they and their team comprising the only adults in the room . I , like you can't see anything that could be termed as ground breaking coming out of this with the most that can be expected being that another follow up meeting will be scheduled by which time the Russian army could easilly be 20 - 30 x miles down the road from Kiev with every western leader's ' Best Friend ' ( Zelensky ) either having flown the nest or having been strung up Mussolini style by his countrymen as he attempts to exit stage left .
For the most part this ongoing ' Kabuki Theatre ' that's being acted out by ' The Orange Man '
and his cabal of Financiers come bit part actors will serve up another peerless example of a particularly grotesque form of amateur hour - via which ' Donald the Gobshite ' will once again
waffle on endlessly and pointlessly as he tries in vain to convince one and all that he's got every base covered ( all by himself ) - and which is the very least that one should expect of a person who in his own tiny mind thinks he represents the 2nd coming of the Messiah ...In your dreams Donald .
Your quotation from Sun Tzu , " Never interfere with an enemy whilst he is in the process of destroying himself " as noted - perfectly encapsulates why the big brained master strategists
involved in this ' Show ' have agreed to and enabled this platform to be made available to
Mr Trump so that he can once again demonstrate to the world community why nobody should ever again fall into the trap of believing anything he says he's going to do , with this applying equally to any future U.S. administrations of what ever colour or stripe . Words are cheap and it should soon be made ever clearer , and as has happened all too many times in the recent past that American's are generally very good at - " Talking the Talk " , but can't ever , " Walk the Walk " .
No one trusts the Americans. They are devious, snakes. Trump is the cherry on the cake. He’s a cunt. The Americans are in a 50/50 Genocide with the Jews. Their reputation is fucked. American make the bombs, Americans deliver them “finish the job”. DJ Trump. Add on child molesting, Mossad and it’s clear Trump is a scabby dog who will soon become a Lame Duck.
Mr. Simon Field, Sir - my goodness! Seems pretty harsh for one of your vintage. Apparently, you are not American. Nor fond of the Israeli government. And, Trump is a "lame duck" since he can't run again in 2028. Other than a few chosen color words - anything positive to say or thoughts of what might lay ahead.
There are voices out there warning this may be a trap and Putin should not attend. America has a history of assassinating its own Presidents. Why would the deep state not stage a false flag event to attempt to assassinate Putin.
Well, there are reports that a US special forces group shot dead a 42-year-old Ukrainian assassin, Stefan Orestovych (a resident of Kyiv and former employee of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense) in Alaska on Sunday:
Absoloutley spot on ...but please include the fantastic Mr Lavrov as one of the other of attendant adults in the room ( All Russian - needless to say )
Very interesting. I wasn’t aware that gold will only be exchanged for RMB on the Shanghai Gold Exchange. May I ask a very stupid question? Do you think it possible that gold could be sold at a higher price to BRICS members if their number were to rise significantly. Wouldn’t that be a magnet to join BRICS?
Cheeto Wants to Become the 21st Century Neville Chamberlain
Neville Chamberlain the right wing prime minister of England infamously made an appeasement deal with Hitler in September 1938 ceding the Sudentenland of Czechslovakia to Germany hoping that it would stop the madman dictator from invading other countries But one year later in September 1939 Hitler invaded Poland and was the beginning of WWII
Now Cheeto hoping for a Nobel Peace Prize is trying to negotiate with another Hitler, this time in the form of Putin in Alaska this Friday offering land swaps, maybe some kind of a mineral deal, all at a time when the fatigued war torn country they are talking about has no seat at the table The difference is that Cheeto, the man who wants to be Neville, is so much more flawed than his predecessor Cheeto will not only bankrupt the country but with his “Putin mistake” give Russia permission to begin an eventual European invasion, testing article 5 of the NATO agreement
History doesn’t repeat itself but it certainly rhymes
The whole Chamberlain/Appeasement trope is perhaps more accurate if stood on it's head. It was the Russians constant acquiescence to aggressive Nato expansion east that resulted in the outbreak of actual conflict in Ukraine.
Nato was determined to move further east into Ukraine. Using Ukraine as a platform for Nato missiles and troops and placing Russia in an impossible defense position. This is the Chamberlain reality with Russia fulfilling the role of Chamberlain and Russia setting a final redline as Chamberlain did in defense of Poland. Hitler crossed that redline triggering a declaration of war from French and British that caught Hitler by surprise.
Likewise after 15 years of retreat (appeasement) as Nato moved east, the Russians announced a red line which the previous 15 years of appeasement left Nato/US/UK incapable of recognizing.
The OSCE documented a stready increase in shelling of Donetz (culminating in 1 day with 1000 artillery rounds fired by the AFU) in the 3 or 4 days leading up to the Russian attack, the AFU was preparing for an attack into Donbass. The Donbass rebels has already mobilized days prior and much of Donetz city had been evacuated.
The Russia attack was aggression in the same sense as Israels preemptive attack during the 6 Day war was aggression.
Russia as the poor victim of NATO intrusion is at best a historical conspiracy theory and not supported by what Putin claims that Ukraine is sovereign Russian territory
' NO ' - " NATO intrusion is at best a historical conspiracy " is a statement that is just about as far removed from the true facts and historical background as possible .
What latterly became known / recognised as ' Ukraine ' during the 20th century after the Russian Revolution of 1917 was formerly ' owned ' - ruled and governed by the Imperial Russian Tsarist Emprire dating back to the 18th Century and the times of ' Catherine The Great ' . In real terms therefore when combining the years of imperial tsarist rule and that of the Soviet Union from 1917 through to its dissolution in the latter part of the 20th Century ( 1989 - 1992 ) - Ukraine in reallity ( factually ) had ' belonged ' to Russia for approaching 300 x years - a period of time longer than the USA has existed as an independant nation ..?? .
After the Russian Revolution ( 1917 ) - most of the Ukrainian region then became a republic of the Soviet Union ( though parts of Western Ukrainbian were at that time hived off and divided between Poland / Romania and what at that time was Czechoslovakia . until WWII when Hitler invaded and took over the region and held it until his defeat at the hands of the ' Red Army ' when the whole of Ukraine including the pre WWII hived off parts ) was taken back by the Soviet Union in its entirety .
It stayed this way until Nikita Kruschev succeeded Stalin in 1953 . Kruschev was born near the Ukrainian border in Kursk shortly after which his family moved to Donetsk . He was married to a Ukrainian wife , and following following one of his well known regular drunken nights came up with the idea in 1954 that it would be a good idea to again split off Ukraine from Soviet Russia proper and establish it as a form state within a state ( Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ) .
You can therefore clearly see that what you are thinking of as ' Ukraine ' the independant state only effectively came about 60 - 70 x years ago and even then only at the whim of an all powerful drunk . You then come to the dissolution of ' Soviet Russia ' and the ' Warsaw Pact ' per 1989 - 92 from which time and ongoing the USA / EU / UK / NATO have sought the division of asset stripping of the copious natural resources of the new ' Mother Russia ' by reneging on multiple international treaties and ignoring every attempt at mutually beneficial detente' that has been attempted by Vladimir Putin ... culminating in the Victoria Nuland / State ||Department / CIA / MI6 / MOSSAD planned and financed coup which overthrew the them properly elected Ukrainian government - supplanting it with a far right / Fascist / Banderite regime' where every key player was hand picked by Nuland / Hillary & the CIA .
This and the ongoing provocation and wholesale murder of the Russian speaking population of Donbass ( et al ) ultimately led to Putin / Russia being forced to launch their ' SMO ' which has morphed into the Proxy war you see today backed by the USA / EU / UK / NATO . This has thus far caused minimal losses ( killed in action ) for the Russians but over 1.8 x million deaths amongst the flower of the young manhood of Ukraine + the wholesale decimation and destruction of the bulk of the sub-standard / obsolete / useless arms and missile systems that get shipped in from the USA and elsewhere and then routinely blown to to smithereens by the finest military machine in existence ( Russia ) .
What Western hardware that doesn't get vapourised or sent to the scrap yard , often gets sent to museums so that the Russian citizenry can gawp at great piles of in-effective and obsolescent American crap - which like the American military as a whole ( Vietnam / Afghanistan / Iraq / Libya / Syria ....Iran ) has now proven over countless years that it is completely unfit for purpose and is essentially just a means by which the Establishment / Deep State / AIPAC / MIC / Wall Street
has been using the American Tax-Payer as their in house - ' MILCH COW ' from which to extract billions & trillions of dollars to develop and produce over-priced useless kit in order to fend off a non-existent foreign ' Bogey Man ' ( or Men ) .
Long overdue that you and your countrymen woke up and recognised the fact that your real enemy's are from within ( Capitol Hill / Congress / Senate / White House / Wall Street ) and not from without ( Russia / China / Iran ..etc..etc ) .
You've already swallowed all that bullshit about the ' Axis Of Evil ' per Johnny Foreigner and his pals when the real ' Axis Of Evil ' lays within your own borders and those of your ' Vassal States ' ( UK / EU / NATO ..et al ) .
Well - Your " Wake Up Call " has now well and truly been delivered - the culmination of events in Ukraine ( complete unconditional capitulation ) and
of myriad other US orchestrated Geo-Political conflicts world-wide will be solely on Russian ( & Chinese ) terms ......FACT .
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. I think president Putin will want to see action before any ceasefire. Its going to be interesting. But one thing for sure, the outcome will determine if its a Biden or Trump war.
This whole scenario will be settled entirely on Putin / Russia's terms and their terms alone .
Any ' Action ' will be instigated by him and him alone ...' DJT ' and his vassal / poodles will just have to suck it up as they get served their enema's
Sun Tzu was correct and has been proven so on many basis, why indeed run a flag up the pole bringing attention to yourself whilst your enemy threshes and flails..
Trump has it can be said allowed himself to be boxed in by the deep state, however I believe \\if you join all of what would appear superfluous machinations that when all added together they form a cord strong enough i believe to enable Trump to untangle himself from the mess he inherited, that is U.S overreach in that corrupted shitzen hole Ukraine.
This bi-lateral meet I believe will result in terms very close to the terms sought and enunciated by Russia namely in Istanbul to be agreed between the U.S and Russia, terms that the lunatics in the E.U will decry and refute… further, Elinsky, he who made illegal in that Nazi den of corruption the use of the letter “Z” … go figure, speaks volumes whilst underscoring a distinct lack of intellect not to mention his understanding of the spelling of his own surname…
Elinsky will not in any likelihood accept any proposal in the process providing trump if he’s astute enough to the opportunity to exit the conflagration, by doing so thankfully ensuring Ukraine will cease to exist, a mercy we should all be praying is acheive, the world has tired of the lies, obfuscation, fraud, dictatorship, press ganging, terrorist attacks, the killing of civilians throughout the regions involved in the conflict not to mention many foreign nationals the Ukrainian government has determined is to simply have their life ended… RIP Gonzalo Lira being but just one exemplar.. thankfully it will soon be over given Russia’s present progress the front virtually collapsing , more than 500,000 Ukrainian military ranging in ages from 19 - 60+ as well as many females fraudulently enlisted being AWOL from their units, not to mention the high rate of those simply surrendering to RUSSIAN FORCES WITH MANY amongst them joining willingly the Russian Army to fight against Elinsky and his gang of rapacious thieves and charlatans…
Thus it can be considered a sort of win/win for both sides Friday, neither having to give to the other whilst each assuming the U.S via Trump makes the correct call to walk, will each end up with what they each require, Trump freed from the Ukrainian Nazi gordian note the U.S has become entangled in and Russia freed to fight on, to take Odessa, to take all of the Oblasts up to the Dneiper THENST to de-nazify that corrupt sh.thole Ukraine, thereafter establishing a Russian friendly government in kIEV delivering Ukrainians from the nightmare they find themselves to be embroiled in… finally Russia will have the neutral neighbor it has sought on its immediate border halting NATO’s encroachment and compromise of this nuclear superpowers borders… it wont be long that Russia will have to endure NATO… itself, in its own self destruct mode which this Friday’s outcome will only serve to exacerbate, another win for humanity as the globalists enforcement arm is finally broken having been all but literally destroyed on the Ukrainian steppe, another objective of the SMO Russia can lay claim unto… pray they, Russia keep ticking those boxes in the end the final victory, freeing the Western populace from the tyranny of the globalist New World Order long touted as the panacea by those deluded and demented fools to resolving, ours, yours, mine, your dearest and nearest’s life problems… as if we had asked them to, well just as they the Davo globalists imposed or rasrther tried to imposes their will upon us, Putin and Russia will ensure they impose on our behalf their will upon that globalist agenda… cant wait, multi polarity a new paradigm long awaited, much wanted, bring it on… research it, educate yourselves, its a new world and truly positive… peace at last .. just saying
Kia Kaha (stay strong) from New Zealand presently wintering in Dubai
Is there anything you would like to add to that Peter?
No, you? Feel free
Trump did not inherit this mess. When Trump says, "It's not my war. It's Biden's war," he's telling a lie. Trump was already arming and training the Ukrainian armed forces during his first term, eg, in 2017, Trump sent Javelin fire-and-forget anti-tank missile systems to Ukraine.
Since his attack on Iran, I don't believe a word that comes out of Trump's mouth any more. I don't think Putin does either. We have both learned the hard way.
Hopefully, Trump will surrender in Alaska on Friday (and sell it to us a the biggest, best, most beautiful deal ever!). Otherwise the war will continue until Ukraine has been de-militarized and de-NAZIfied.
Yes, RIP Gonzalo Lira. I used to follow him. He was a courageous writer and journalist. The failure of the Biden administration to protect him was yet another disgrace :(
Thank you, though the recounting of the wonderful Gonzalo Lira saddened me recounting like yourself his many great casts.. laced with humour and straight talk as wasGonzalo’s want.. I found your reply an enjoyable refresh on BIC, bloviator in chief, Trumps predilection for stretching it, telling porkies, huuuuuge porkies, in other words, bull shitzen, you have and possess a unique style of writing, telling it like it is whilst affording humour to be imbued the same, keep at it, we need such in these dark times… best to you .. always and thank you again..
Gonzalo was a good friend of mine and I'll never forget him and his straight thinking and even straighter talking ....which as we all know sealed his fate at the hands of the CIA and State Department courtesy of their Neo-Nazi Puppets .
I would say "Colleagues" rather than "Puppets." They're all the same people wearing different disguises. You must feel his tragic loss even more keenly than the rest of us. You have my heartfelt condolences (his family, too). Lira's last video, made as he was about to try to cross the border exemplified the straight thinking to which you refer. I will never forget that video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jUa45UcOvE
How very kind. Thank you very much. Yes, we must all keep on keeping on in search of truth - including honest markets. Sunlight is a great disinfectant.
Best to you and yours also.
This whole scenario pre-dates ' Trump 1 ' and Obama ..etc- and in fact has it's main roots back when the dissolution of ' Soviet Russia ' and the ' Warsaw Pact ' came about
in the late 80's - early 90's and has been ramping up continually every year since culminating in the situation as it stands today .....COMPLETE RUSSIAN VICTORY
Trump is not a war-hawk. He wants peace, but he's surrounded by neocons who work for the psychopath cabal death cult who are either possessed by demons or so inbred protecting the bloodlines that they can see nothing except thru a crimson veil.
Trump says a lot of things; but he is currently enabling a genocide in Gaza. No excuses, thank you.
He's a war criminal.
It's all theater, all the time.
You bring up Gaza. Evangelicals and indeed many of the Christian faith are steadfast in "blessing" anything that Israel's leadership does, I think out of fear and obedience to God's Word (Genesis 12). However, I personally feel the genocide deeply, and it hurts this Christian's heart to hear of it, causes confusion. I'm not sure what God meant when He told Abram "I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you", and I believe it's caused a silent divide among Christians bc if the Holy Spirit that indwells in us tells us something is wrong, yet we follow accepted (but perhaps incorrect interpretation of scripture), that's a dilemma of conscience that I won't defend until I've had more time to study/compare concordances and scripture. God commands the destruction of certain peoples in Deuteronomy. In the Book of Revelation, in which time I believe we are living, Jesus returns as a warrior on a white horse with a sword, not as the Lamb of God. So I won't debate you or anyone on Trump's choices in support of the Israeli government bc I don't understand the truth of God's will yet, but I am working on it and that's my shame to bear. At present time, based soley on what I feel, I agree with you on that one point.
Hosea 4:6 "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge."
Commanded by "God" or anyone else, genocide is a heinous crime.
YES ...YES...YES...
Peace comes at a price!!
" No Shit Sherlock " ..!! - Twas it ever thus .
Ukraine is running out of men. NATO is running out of arms and ammunition. Putin, meanwhile, is just getting into his stride.
Putin has learned from bitter experience that NATO is "not agreement capable;" so he will achieve peace on his terms, on the battlefield. There can be no other way for Russia to achieve its war aims, which are non-negotiable, in what Russia sees as an existential matter.
Right Over the Target .......( A lot like the Russian Military Machine )
Shouldn't the question be " What is this meeting seeking to distract us from?"🤔
Good point. When everything from Trump is a lie, stupid short-term thinking, and self-serving greed meant to grind down America into the dirt.
Yes, no strategic thinking or depth at all. Trump is not yet a complete failure; but he is a big disappointment, to say the least.
" Big Disappointment " hardly covers it .
Lol, I must have been in a particularly charitable mood when I scribbled that! Not wanting to trigger the cult members, perhaps?!
CAF/Solari has - as usual - an interesting take on Trump:
"The Fast-Approaching Digital Control Grid"
https://solari.com/the-fast-approaching-digital-control-grid-a-checklist-of-trump-administration-actions-to-date/
Yeah, like bringing back manufacturing from overseas, where Bill Clinton sent it, shutting down the massive invasion of our country from the third world, cancelling the oppressive government regulation brought on by the "climate change" hoax, and other things like that, right?
Israel?
Almost certainly the ongoing collapse of the world economy or some turbo charged
genocidal act over in the Middle East .
Alasdair, I consider your opinion with regard to Ukraine to be insular (British Insular, that is), condescending and wrong. Linking Nuland and Trump? No way.
I am satisfied to be a subscriber even though I disagree on this and that. Agree on gold and silver, inclined to wait and see with regard to Bitcoin. More in the Chris Irons camp.
Please enjoy speaking your piece. One of my greatest concerns at the moment is governments such as yours that would deny it.
Trump is a rabid genocidal Zionist, which means he's a Neocon. Face reality.
Spot on & precisely so
Spoken like a true Nazi.
.......?????
You young whippersnappers need to study your history. Unless you think government is the solution to all your problems, at some point you are going to have to take responsibility for your own lives. Socialist governments aren't going to do that, no matter what they promise. As Maggie Thatcher once said, "The problem with Socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money."
Instead of mouthing the ignorant left, you should study history so you don't repeat it.
Don't quite understand this response ..?? .
1. In general terms I think that all governments of what ever colour or stripe are a curse - especially Socialist ones , which appear to encompass pretty much all of them these days - no matter what's written on the tin .
2. I have always ( and will continue ) to take responsibility for my own life .
Never a truer saying than that from the late President Reagan , which was
to run away at speed at the first utterance of - " I'm from the Government
and I'm here to help " . Governments are a blight on humanity - least ways they are as currently constiuted .
3. I don't know how my comment consisting of 4 x Question marks
could have possibly led you to construe this as some form of cheer-leasding for the " Ignorant Left " , as I roundly loathe and despise them every bit as much as you do + entirely agree with Maggie's statement that the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money ..!! .
Never a truer word said - as evinced by the ' Global Shit Show ' we're all witnessing and giving a running commentary right now .
Sorry if you got the wrong impression as to where I stand .
All the Best - Simon .
I apologize, Simon, I know you are an intelligent human being. My comments were more directed to Gordon above. From his comments I take him to be a pimple-faced 16 year old who never had to balance a checkbook or take responsibility for a family. Such people should shut up until they learn how hard it is to survive on this planet with no safety net. I've had to do that all my life, and when I hear people espouse the ideas of systems that have proven themselves abject failures (Socialism, Communism, Crony Capitalism) I am dismayed at the level of ignorance and stupidity that our young, idealistic people have. God help us all.
You realise that the NAZIs were/are an op/project of the Zionists, right?
Exactly ...Historical Fact going back to the late 1700's and ramping up
over every year that's passed
Great comment Graham. I too find Alasdair to be a bit heavy on the side of cynicism but I'm capable of critical thinking and can find my way past some of his darkest views. That said I read his missives to hear his thoughts on gold, silver, monetary systems and such. I think he has a way to go to fully appreciate BTC and the emerging world of digital assets, decentralized settlement systems, etc.
So you like ' Graham ' are another inhabitant of ' Planet Moron ' + despite what you've noted - you're way adrift in the critical thinking stakes , least ways where such as Ukraine and Geo-Politics in general is concerned . Go and stand in the corner with your face to the wall and the biggest possible ' Dunce's Hat ' on - you've earned it .
Nudelmann's friends are Trump's bosses, and Trump does their bidding - because he loves $$$$$ and tight little pizza.
Succinct and as ever perfectly put .
Don't you really just mean that the 'neocon group' is not clearly defined?
It's hard to say Nuland and Trump aren't somehow connected, like Blair and Starmer are if we want a 'British insular' comparison, as ripe with rotting euphemisms as a mouldy piece of bread.
The interesting thing about imprecise words like 'neocon' is what they cover up or stand for can vary at different times and in different uses. We have not been having a clear political debate in the West for a long time. I'd want to agree with you Graham, as we both do with Alasdair... except for all that missing discussion.
All this will be abruptly dragged into a very different world through the meeting in Alaska.
Let me try something here. My post on the Alaska meeting is scheduled to appear in four hours. Let's see if I can get away with posting this link beforehand.
https://open.substack.com/pub/grahamseibert/p/i-am-amused-by-the-speculation-about?r=16fp5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Ridiculous piece. Someone who cannot see the link between tight-pizza-loving Trump and his bosses like Nuland et al is certainly either not too bright or in denial.
Rather think Uber short sighted and ' Thick as a Brick ' can be applied to all of these people who will remain blissfully ignorant and sound asleep as the Neocon Juggernaut grinds forward crushing them in its path .
There is nothing " Insular or British Insular " viz Alasdair's thoughts on Ukraine but there there is a all too apparent severe deficiency in historical fact and critical thinking on such matters that has led you to make such a mega-twatish comment .
Time to wind your neck in and do a lot more homework before you make another
so ill-judged and ill-informed comment . Back to school for you & Pronto .
Chabad. Check Putins and Trumps connections to Chabad.
Also check a number of politicians reg Chabad like satanyao
Are they playing a game with us? Hopefully I am just lite delusional.
"Delusional" - unfortunately, Glenn, I don't think so. Like many wandering these Comments - skeptics and cynics reign here. Alasdair happens to be a "cynic" that excels at articulating thought without offending too many of the Trump Devotion Sydrome ("TDS") crowd. Reading through his missives he provides a different perspective of what is happening and what may be coming ahead. Frankly, it is hard to understand why Putin would meet?
" It is hard to understand why Putin would meet " ....?? . Here you have the master strategist of the world accompanied by the finest statesman in the world ( Lavrov ) agreeing to meet with ' Mr Bullshit and Bluster ' and his puerile team of inexperienced amateur hour misfits to discuss matters which none of the US contingent have any grasp or knowledge of .......Wonder Why ..?? .
1. " Never interupt an enemy when he's in the process of self destruction " - Sun Tzu
2. " Give them just enough rope with which to hang themselves " . unattributed .
3. Did you see Putin speak first after the meeting and for 7 - 8 minutes followed by
' DJT ' who barely managed 2 x minutes & said nothing of consequence + did you see all of those ashen-face / tongue tied members of the US delegation ( Caroline Levitt especially ) who came out giving every impression of a bunch of headless chickens ..??.
Could be that they've just been woken up by a timely lecture from ' Brere Fox ' and
his colleagues who most assuredly comprised - " The Only Adults in The Room " .
4 . And now we're going to have to endure the spectacle of Zelensky and his back up team of coke sniffing bum-bandits and grade ' A ' perverts winging their way to meet with Trump in order to whinge on and attempt to blackmail him into shifting from the un-tenable position ( Epstein & more ) which his big thicko gob has placed him in .
Should be entertaining & completely disasterous at one and the same time ..!!
Simon, can't disagree with you at all. Seriously, from your perspective, what did this do for Russia and subsequently the BRICS? It is fully understood the BRICS must stick together instead of letting the U.S. and the West pick them off one by one. They have finally figured that out - strength in numbers. All I can see it did was to absolutely confirm to Trump and his delusional minions what Russia demands were and they weren't negotiable or to be bullied out of them. The EU and Britain are a horrific mess......don't know how long they can continue to hold it together. They are coming apart at an accelerating pace. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see where this is all heading - just hope they don't resort to mushroom clouds.
Hello Again ' Ole' LSO ' ( What is an Ole' LSO anyway ..?? - please advise ) ,
Many thanks for your comment & if you'd like an interesting read and pointers as to how rapidly the UK economy is circling the drain toward financial oblivion / societal collapse - and Civil War ( wouldn't surprise me ) ,
then go on line ( they're n You Tube ) and look up 2 x videos from the ever excellent & supremely accurate ...ALEX KRAINER .
Entitled : " THE COLLAPSE Of BRITAIN " - ( MTP019 & MTP020 ) Parts 1 & 2
In fact if you aren't already a follower of ' ALEX KRAINER ' - then humbly suggest that you become one sonest as his research and analysis on all topics is absoloutley peerless + he breaks a lot of news well ahead of most anyone else .
Best _ Simon .
An "Ol' LSO" - well, "ol'" means old. As in to my 8th decade (meaning my late 70s) and a LSO is a Landing Signal Officer. In my day thrashing around the Pacific on the USS Oriskany a few pilots were trained to be responsible for the safe landing of aircraft during day, night, and ugly weather conditions (all flight operations). LSO are both trained carrier aviators and essentially "helpers" to pilots as they made their carrier landings. Currently, the Oriskany sits at the bottom of the Gulf of America off of Pensacola. As to Alex - I read him frequently and I do watch as the EU and Britain sink down the drain. If it was just financially - one thing, but there are so many issues it makes one's head spin. Not sure they'll be another "storming of the Bastille" but it is going to be truly ugly for lengthy period of time while it all gets sorted out. Frankly, one huge problem is too many immigrants that have no interest in integrating into the cultures. Just want their own little worlds. Best - Ol' LSO
Let Chatgpt inform you about Chabad. Put the right questions and you will be suprised of the answers, a player in the background.
Do yourself a favour and avoid ' Chat GPT ' and most all other ' AI platforms ' like the plague - do your own proper research and think critically for yourself rather than be reliant on what gets spewed out from yet another " Wonder Technology " .
What's the term in computing - " Feed Shit in - Get Shit Out the other end " albeit quickly of course ...how very convenient . It is the fact of not questioning anything and taking as gospel every utterance of Government / Media & Social Media that could easilly lead to the destruction of us all ....starting with the billions of the dumbed down and brainwashed who have stood in line meekly to have the toxic filth of the Jabs & Boosters foisted upon therm ....they're all dropping like like fly's at an ever increasing rate ( strokes / turbo cancers / myocarditis / pericarditis / blood clots ... the list goes on ands is endless ) .
" Follow the Science - the Science is settled " ......NO IT ISN'T ..!! .
The absoloute over-arching desire for " Speed & Convenience " will do for us all .
Chatgpt?. Yeah right - I'm sure they will tell you the truth LOL
Perfect response ....as per usual . None are as blind as those that can;'t , or don't want to see ..
An easy way to find information quickly. But you have a point.
YES - Mark is spot on again
NWO info - have you looked at the symbol? I knew the very first time it came out what was going down. Even putting such stuff aside - it spills out bullshit. It is there to collect your information Glenn and to get more intelligent - because it is real dumbfuck!
YES ....YES....YES....ONCE AGAIN
For me, perhaps the main question is to what extent Putin is acting as a representative of a competitive power vs just as another skilled actor controlled by the same powers-that-be that control Trump?
Putin is no ' Actor ' in any shape or form - he's the real deal & in spades and is on no account also controlled by the arch-villians / banksters & rabid Zionists who are pulling the Donald's many strings . This will become ever more apparent to you as ' Events ' progress
I don’t know how you can be so sure. For example, Putin continued to support Central Bank chief Elvira Nabiullina despite her support for the dollar based fiat currencies and her continued exposure of Russian foreign held assets, including large amounts of physical gold, that were eventually seized. Putin supported Covid vaccinations despite the lack of evidence of any efficacy and widespread serious harm caused by them. Putin seems to express admiration and support for Trump. That hardly fits with what you seem to be saying. I’ve watched many hours of videos of Putin in his Valdai broadcasts and others and, while I admire his depth of political and economic issues I find it impossible to reconcile with the above and other issues.
Thank you Alasdair.
Thank you Michael
"...a half baked Alaska..."
Classic Macleod humor!
The person / people with the " Upper Hand " in all of this are unequivocally Messrs Putin & Lavrov . Here you have a ' Class Act ' beyond compare - with they and their team comprising the only adults in the room . I , like you can't see anything that could be termed as ground breaking coming out of this with the most that can be expected being that another follow up meeting will be scheduled by which time the Russian army could easilly be 20 - 30 x miles down the road from Kiev with every western leader's ' Best Friend ' ( Zelensky ) either having flown the nest or having been strung up Mussolini style by his countrymen as he attempts to exit stage left .
For the most part this ongoing ' Kabuki Theatre ' that's being acted out by ' The Orange Man '
and his cabal of Financiers come bit part actors will serve up another peerless example of a particularly grotesque form of amateur hour - via which ' Donald the Gobshite ' will once again
waffle on endlessly and pointlessly as he tries in vain to convince one and all that he's got every base covered ( all by himself ) - and which is the very least that one should expect of a person who in his own tiny mind thinks he represents the 2nd coming of the Messiah ...In your dreams Donald .
Your quotation from Sun Tzu , " Never interfere with an enemy whilst he is in the process of destroying himself " as noted - perfectly encapsulates why the big brained master strategists
involved in this ' Show ' have agreed to and enabled this platform to be made available to
Mr Trump so that he can once again demonstrate to the world community why nobody should ever again fall into the trap of believing anything he says he's going to do , with this applying equally to any future U.S. administrations of what ever colour or stripe . Words are cheap and it should soon be made ever clearer , and as has happened all too many times in the recent past that American's are generally very good at - " Talking the Talk " , but can't ever , " Walk the Walk " .
No one trusts the Americans. They are devious, snakes. Trump is the cherry on the cake. He’s a cunt. The Americans are in a 50/50 Genocide with the Jews. Their reputation is fucked. American make the bombs, Americans deliver them “finish the job”. DJ Trump. Add on child molesting, Mossad and it’s clear Trump is a scabby dog who will soon become a Lame Duck.
Don't Hold Back will you Simon ...!! . Keep it up & tell it like it is .
" Scabby Duck to Lame Duck " in one fell swoop ...Love It & clearly already in progress and at pace .
Mr. Simon Field, Sir - my goodness! Seems pretty harsh for one of your vintage. Apparently, you are not American. Nor fond of the Israeli government. And, Trump is a "lame duck" since he can't run again in 2028. Other than a few chosen color words - anything positive to say or thoughts of what might lay ahead.
Funny . No. And I am being restrained.
Mr. Field, I think you should just "let it fly". Throw off the chains of restraint and say what you think! That is what the Comments are for.
Glad you got with the programme. I’ll spare you
Good Boy ..!!
YERS ....YES....YES.... WE ALL NEED tO LET IT RIP - BIG TIME
Yes - thought you were being overly calm and collected with this one .
I'm another Simon and fully on board with the other one .
What lay's ahead is a whole festering pile of shit and grief - which hopefully
will only partially delay our climb up to the uplands of much better times ahead .
There are voices out there warning this may be a trap and Putin should not attend. America has a history of assassinating its own Presidents. Why would the deep state not stage a false flag event to attempt to assassinate Putin.
Well, there are reports that a US special forces group shot dead a 42-year-old Ukrainian assassin, Stefan Orestovych (a resident of Kyiv and former employee of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense) in Alaska on Sunday:
https://realrawnews.com/2025/08/white-hats-kill-ukrainian-assassin-in-alaska-days-ahead-of-trump-putin-meeting/
However, I don't think the Americans would be so stupid as to assassinate Putin on American soil.
Agreed
Perfidious Albion. Putin the only adult in the room?
Absoloutley spot on ...but please include the fantastic Mr Lavrov as one of the other of attendant adults in the room ( All Russian - needless to say )
Very interesting. I wasn’t aware that gold will only be exchanged for RMB on the Shanghai Gold Exchange. May I ask a very stupid question? Do you think it possible that gold could be sold at a higher price to BRICS members if their number were to rise significantly. Wouldn’t that be a magnet to join BRICS?
Do we even own Alaska?
Legally....Probably Not
Cheeto Wants to Become the 21st Century Neville Chamberlain
Neville Chamberlain the right wing prime minister of England infamously made an appeasement deal with Hitler in September 1938 ceding the Sudentenland of Czechslovakia to Germany hoping that it would stop the madman dictator from invading other countries But one year later in September 1939 Hitler invaded Poland and was the beginning of WWII
Now Cheeto hoping for a Nobel Peace Prize is trying to negotiate with another Hitler, this time in the form of Putin in Alaska this Friday offering land swaps, maybe some kind of a mineral deal, all at a time when the fatigued war torn country they are talking about has no seat at the table The difference is that Cheeto, the man who wants to be Neville, is so much more flawed than his predecessor Cheeto will not only bankrupt the country but with his “Putin mistake” give Russia permission to begin an eventual European invasion, testing article 5 of the NATO agreement
History doesn’t repeat itself but it certainly rhymes
The whole Chamberlain/Appeasement trope is perhaps more accurate if stood on it's head. It was the Russians constant acquiescence to aggressive Nato expansion east that resulted in the outbreak of actual conflict in Ukraine.
Nato was determined to move further east into Ukraine. Using Ukraine as a platform for Nato missiles and troops and placing Russia in an impossible defense position. This is the Chamberlain reality with Russia fulfilling the role of Chamberlain and Russia setting a final redline as Chamberlain did in defense of Poland. Hitler crossed that redline triggering a declaration of war from French and British that caught Hitler by surprise.
Likewise after 15 years of retreat (appeasement) as Nato moved east, the Russians announced a red line which the previous 15 years of appeasement left Nato/US/UK incapable of recognizing.
The OSCE documented a stready increase in shelling of Donetz (culminating in 1 day with 1000 artillery rounds fired by the AFU) in the 3 or 4 days leading up to the Russian attack, the AFU was preparing for an attack into Donbass. The Donbass rebels has already mobilized days prior and much of Donetz city had been evacuated.
The Russia attack was aggression in the same sense as Israels preemptive attack during the 6 Day war was aggression.
Russia as the poor victim of NATO intrusion is at best a historical conspiracy theory and not supported by what Putin claims that Ukraine is sovereign Russian territory
' NO ' - " NATO intrusion is at best a historical conspiracy " is a statement that is just about as far removed from the true facts and historical background as possible .
What latterly became known / recognised as ' Ukraine ' during the 20th century after the Russian Revolution of 1917 was formerly ' owned ' - ruled and governed by the Imperial Russian Tsarist Emprire dating back to the 18th Century and the times of ' Catherine The Great ' . In real terms therefore when combining the years of imperial tsarist rule and that of the Soviet Union from 1917 through to its dissolution in the latter part of the 20th Century ( 1989 - 1992 ) - Ukraine in reallity ( factually ) had ' belonged ' to Russia for approaching 300 x years - a period of time longer than the USA has existed as an independant nation ..?? .
After the Russian Revolution ( 1917 ) - most of the Ukrainian region then became a republic of the Soviet Union ( though parts of Western Ukrainbian were at that time hived off and divided between Poland / Romania and what at that time was Czechoslovakia . until WWII when Hitler invaded and took over the region and held it until his defeat at the hands of the ' Red Army ' when the whole of Ukraine including the pre WWII hived off parts ) was taken back by the Soviet Union in its entirety .
It stayed this way until Nikita Kruschev succeeded Stalin in 1953 . Kruschev was born near the Ukrainian border in Kursk shortly after which his family moved to Donetsk . He was married to a Ukrainian wife , and following following one of his well known regular drunken nights came up with the idea in 1954 that it would be a good idea to again split off Ukraine from Soviet Russia proper and establish it as a form state within a state ( Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ) .
You can therefore clearly see that what you are thinking of as ' Ukraine ' the independant state only effectively came about 60 - 70 x years ago and even then only at the whim of an all powerful drunk . You then come to the dissolution of ' Soviet Russia ' and the ' Warsaw Pact ' per 1989 - 92 from which time and ongoing the USA / EU / UK / NATO have sought the division of asset stripping of the copious natural resources of the new ' Mother Russia ' by reneging on multiple international treaties and ignoring every attempt at mutually beneficial detente' that has been attempted by Vladimir Putin ... culminating in the Victoria Nuland / State ||Department / CIA / MI6 / MOSSAD planned and financed coup which overthrew the them properly elected Ukrainian government - supplanting it with a far right / Fascist / Banderite regime' where every key player was hand picked by Nuland / Hillary & the CIA .
This and the ongoing provocation and wholesale murder of the Russian speaking population of Donbass ( et al ) ultimately led to Putin / Russia being forced to launch their ' SMO ' which has morphed into the Proxy war you see today backed by the USA / EU / UK / NATO . This has thus far caused minimal losses ( killed in action ) for the Russians but over 1.8 x million deaths amongst the flower of the young manhood of Ukraine + the wholesale decimation and destruction of the bulk of the sub-standard / obsolete / useless arms and missile systems that get shipped in from the USA and elsewhere and then routinely blown to to smithereens by the finest military machine in existence ( Russia ) .
What Western hardware that doesn't get vapourised or sent to the scrap yard , often gets sent to museums so that the Russian citizenry can gawp at great piles of in-effective and obsolescent American crap - which like the American military as a whole ( Vietnam / Afghanistan / Iraq / Libya / Syria ....Iran ) has now proven over countless years that it is completely unfit for purpose and is essentially just a means by which the Establishment / Deep State / AIPAC / MIC / Wall Street
has been using the American Tax-Payer as their in house - ' MILCH COW ' from which to extract billions & trillions of dollars to develop and produce over-priced useless kit in order to fend off a non-existent foreign ' Bogey Man ' ( or Men ) .
Long overdue that you and your countrymen woke up and recognised the fact that your real enemy's are from within ( Capitol Hill / Congress / Senate / White House / Wall Street ) and not from without ( Russia / China / Iran ..etc..etc ) .
You've already swallowed all that bullshit about the ' Axis Of Evil ' per Johnny Foreigner and his pals when the real ' Axis Of Evil ' lays within your own borders and those of your ' Vassal States ' ( UK / EU / NATO ..et al ) .
Well - Your " Wake Up Call " has now well and truly been delivered - the culmination of events in Ukraine ( complete unconditional capitulation ) and
of myriad other US orchestrated Geo-Political conflicts world-wide will be solely on Russian ( & Chinese ) terms ......FACT .
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. I think president Putin will want to see action before any ceasefire. Its going to be interesting. But one thing for sure, the outcome will determine if its a Biden or Trump war.
This whole scenario will be settled entirely on Putin / Russia's terms and their terms alone .
Any ' Action ' will be instigated by him and him alone ...' DJT ' and his vassal / poodles will just have to suck it up as they get served their enema's