Putin will be remembered fondly by history far more than crime bill Joe. He has put up with so much imperial nonsense, the fact there are still living Ukrainians is a testament to his, well, desire to not be slaves to the US hegemony at least.
Dude's biggest internal issue was convincing his own people to not go full Braveheart on those baby burning nazis.
Get that thing out of the white house, toss him into the prison hospital he'll die in, and maybe we can all have an uncensored conversation about going forward.
The fundamental problem that Russia faces is that, short of nuclear war, there is little that Russia can do that will so much as mildly inconvenience the decisionmakers in the West. So they have every incentive to keep doubling down.
Surely feezing Europe to death won't cause any trouble. You are aware of the whole point of this right? The petrodollar? The fact Biden and money machine J did this deliberately? We blew up ordstream 2 and then hilariously lied to the world about it? Any of this ring a bell?
The People Who Matter in Europe will neither freeze nor starve.
And what has Europe done about Nordstream? Sholz scurried off to Biden for photo-ops while the European political class stared at its proverbial shoes. Even when you get a European to admit the obvious, that the United States blew up Nordstream, they counter that they are bad slaves who deserve to be beaten.
One effect of the war in Ukraine that goes unnoticed by most pundits is the comparison between Russian vs. US weapons systems. In every major category Russian systems have been proven superior.
Apart from the effect on the battlefield, this will have an effect on international arms sales of which Russia is the number two provider after the USA. Russian systems are more effective and cheaper than their US counterparts, but the key point is they are now capable of defending against attack by the US or NATO.
That's a game changer for smaller nations that don't want to be victims of US gunboat diplomacy. It's also the reason behind the hesitancy and weak excuses being offered on supplying F-16s to Ukraine. Apart from the fact they have no one to fly them, even with NATO pilots they'd be shot down as soon as they took to the air, which is very bad for future sales.
I try to look beyond the immediate political effects of the war to see the longer term economic impact, and this is a major one. In the coming years, more nations are going be buying not only Russia AD systems but also civilian aircraft. Russia has been on a drive in recent years to eliminate dependency on foreign supplied aviation technology and has largely achieved that goal, the recent replacement of Pratt & Whitney jet engines with a domestically produced engine being a major example.
Another factor that goes unnoticed is that Russia is a major world supplier of titanium and can cut off exports to the west if they so choose.
If you're an investor interested in a longer term short play, I'd be looking at Raytheon (makers of P&W jet engines) as well as Boeing and Airbus. Not only are the Russian engines in competition with P&W on new builds, they can also be used as replacements on existing fleets. If you need a good argument for why you might want to do that, here it is:
I wonder which country in the vicinity of the USA would like to be part of an attack on the USA? All they would need would be a shipload of Russian or Chinese made missiles.
What we need is a crowd-funding exercise from all the countries around the globe to support a similar scenario as has been approved of by Blinken and his Neocons positioned in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua or almost any of the South American countries who have been threatened, sanctioned and generally disadvantaged by the USA overtime.
It is time for a proxy AGAINST the USA. See how you like it, Blinken.
Can you imagine it? All the Israeli controlled Neocons living in Florida, which with New York City could be a likely target. Alternatively, a couple of well positioned submarines in international waters with a couple of big nuclear warheads just waiting for the word "Fire".
What a performance! You'd have Biden taking off for Alaska, Blinken heading home to Israel more than half the senior cabinet gracing the corridors of power in Washington chartering every EL Al flight to avoid the risk of what they are now suggesting is fully approved in Ukraine.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander
Might just be the trigger that the US needs to make them face the reality of their years of dirty deeds, worldwide. 20 million deaths and still counting
Blinken and his minion Nuland are clinically certifiable psychopaths and deserve the rope.
The sad news is that there is no operating justice system in the West that can deal with these criminals. They will both retire to corporate boards and think tanks and live the rest of their miserable lives in the lap of luxury.
Well NO--that's how it would have played out in the past, but now we are marching into an Armageddon, maybe the nuclear one this piece focuses on, or maybe the ecological breakdown ALL the leaders are rushing toward if we avert nuclear war. Either way, there will be no safe havens.
Mother Nature or human nature will get us in the end if we don't watch it! However, the world has many people who are perhaps better described as [temporarily] denatured/dumbed-down humans and they are a force to be reckoned with when sparked up with propaganda in National Hate Week. Truth bombs wrapped in humour appear to have a positive effect though. Every bit helps. Then we can throw the power switch to enable the people to choose a better system where power-drunk politicians cannot ever be given power over us ever again. Then we can consider remedies for the extensive eco-damage we humans have caused either wittingly or unwittingly, & whatever else.
The Russians are biding their time. The escalations of the US bespeak failure. Besides "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake", opportunities for serious countermoves may develop, I would imagine in the summer or fall of 2024.
Russia has two problems. One is that, short of nuclear war, there is little that Russia can do that so much as mildly inconveniences the decisionmakers in Washington, or even their local lackeys in Kiev. Pointing out the vast numbers of dead Ukrainians is irrelevant. They don't care. Pointing out the manifold terrorist acts of the Kiev regime is irrelevant. They don't care.
The other is that the Russian leadership has shown little appetite for escalation, and it remains to be seen whether they can sell the cost that escalation will require to the Russian people.
Russia drastically miscalculated by not using enough force at the beginning of this war, and wishes that this war would just go away. Of course, the West sees this as an opportunity.
I don't think the Russians wish to escalate the war; if they "won" they would be confronted with the tasks of occupation and fighting terrorism and guerrilla warfare. (It is said that this was the earlier plan of the US, but the Russians failed to take the bait.) Instead, I think they (the Russians) are looking to the native centrifugal and degenerative currents now active in the US and waiting to see how they turn out. Someone said that there was no people so willing to go to war as the Americans, and so unwilling to fight one. That principle was shown in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq at least and may be shown again in the approach to the upcoming election.
I would disagree with you on what more the Russian people can do. If this were the u.s. we would have carpet bombed Kyiv murdering a million or more. Fortunately the Russian people are far more human. That might not hold for much longer. Remember much of Ukraine is Russian. A war within family.
The only way the GAE MIL Pharma complex - the most powerful evil the world has ever seen - gets stopped is annihilating DC. Anything else would only provide pretext for them to go start another war on some other people.
The White House and State Department are certifiably insane. If these missiles are used on targets in Russia it seems quite possible that Russia might strike US military assets in Europe, or even Syria. Vessels, aircraft, missile stations, radar facilities, air bases, etc. This is American hubris beyond anything previously witnessed, imho.
oh, attack on Kyiv, that one which came from the Ukraine-controlled territory, conveniently during his visit? All to justify strikes on Russia? While he retreats to his safe haven in Washington, DC or Brussels?
The market place mentioned is in the Donbass region, as was targeted by Ukraine using western tech. Russia does not fire its expensive missiles indiscriminately into Ukraine.
Blinken, like all deep-state frontmen, is a liar. The Luciferian Anglo-American cabal that owns him would rather rule over a smouldering cinder than tolerate an alternative, fairer world.
Blinken is the wanton warmonger who aided and abetted Biden’s cheerleading for the invasion of Iraq when Biden was chairman of Senate Foreign Relations. Biden was rewarded for his cynical warmongering by getting the Dem nomination.
Warmonger, warmonger, warmonger. Fearmonger, then sell more arms. Pump up Northrop shares. Profit take.
Then autoloop kicks in.
So make the biggest foreign policy mistake in American history and they make you president. Or Sec Of State.
Currently, only the USA has the distinction of using WMDs on civilian populations.
The only thing that would wake the USA up is a nuclear strike on THEIR home territory. And we all saw how Bush used the previous false-flag on dumbfuck gullible Yanks and Westerners.
Rome had to "Expand or Die", due to its rapacious ethos. The USA is consciously built upon the same lines.
The Yanks are hoping that Putin is saner than they are.
But they already have all the headlines stored up for if for once he shows he isn't.
Yeps, for that 24hrs until we all die - or wished we had - Western Corporate MEdia will be FULL of stories about how the End of the World is actually all Russia's fault.
Because all that matters is NARRATIVE.
One day, there wil be a 3rd "President of America" in 1 year, two others having been removed by their own guard regiments, and the area of their 'power' will be as far as they can see - and only that.
Does Blinken understand that Russia is simply concerned about securing the Donbass and Crimea? If Ukraine escalates into long range attacks inside Russia, it will force Russia to escalate attacks in the rest of Ukraine. Russia has the capability of flattening Kiev in a single day. Russia could end the war in a day if the political will is strong enough to wipe out an entire city like the US did in Raqqa, Syria. Russia has far more at stake in its borders than the US had in Syria.
Time and time again, NATO has proven that it is strategically brain-dead. "Weakening Russia" is not a strategy; neither is this policy of escalatory incrementalism. Long-range missiles to Ukraine will be used by Kiev like the "buzz bomb" V-1 and V-2 rockets by the Nazis toward the desperate end of WW 2, i.e., as terror weapons. Project Ukraine appears to be a lost cause, but NATO refuses to bite the bullet (so to speak) are start negotiating.
One last dead Russian in a "desperate end" is all benefit and no cost to an empire that believes it can endlessly print currency to pay for it and have people continuing to accept it.
Its not just that these people are lunatics, so are the media over here that have been selling us their lies for ages, and conditioning the masses, into flag waving for Ukraine, while HIDING the fact that these nutcases in fact have a long term agenda to get into some sort of “glorious” battle with Russia.
Bear in mind, they all have well appointed nuclear shelters from themselves either private ones for the ultra wealthy war profiteers. and government ones for the mis-leaders. For you, they offer death and suffering.
"This is the daily life for Ukrainians. This is what they face every single day."
"Poisoned water, brutal police, feckless emergency services, rising food prices, dying soil, land-stealing elites dictating toxic food policies, lawless corporate sociopathic scum running roughshod over the rights and lives of the have-nots, a criminal criminal-justice (snicker) system. This is what a majority of Americans face every bloody day. Chew on that, Tony, you pezzo di merda; 'scusa, you montagna di merda.
These people are fucking lunatics.
You just noticed?
Stuff it starry, just because someone makes an observation doesn't mean they just noticed.
These people are lunatics!
🤣
Another Russian red line ignored.
Further proof that the West sees Russian dithering not as humanitarianism or reasonableness, but as contemptible weakness.
Putin will be remembered fondly by history far more than crime bill Joe. He has put up with so much imperial nonsense, the fact there are still living Ukrainians is a testament to his, well, desire to not be slaves to the US hegemony at least.
Dude's biggest internal issue was convincing his own people to not go full Braveheart on those baby burning nazis.
Get that thing out of the white house, toss him into the prison hospital he'll die in, and maybe we can all have an uncensored conversation about going forward.
Or nuke us all, see ya in hell I guess.
What makes you so sure?
The fundamental problem that Russia faces is that, short of nuclear war, there is little that Russia can do that will so much as mildly inconvenience the decisionmakers in the West. So they have every incentive to keep doubling down.
Surely feezing Europe to death won't cause any trouble. You are aware of the whole point of this right? The petrodollar? The fact Biden and money machine J did this deliberately? We blew up ordstream 2 and then hilariously lied to the world about it? Any of this ring a bell?
The People Who Matter in Europe will neither freeze nor starve.
And what has Europe done about Nordstream? Sholz scurried off to Biden for photo-ops while the European political class stared at its proverbial shoes. Even when you get a European to admit the obvious, that the United States blew up Nordstream, they counter that they are bad slaves who deserve to be beaten.
Of course we did all those things. But what will anyone do about it?
Russia could provide cruise missiles to Syria, ad have Syria blow away US bases on its territory. That could an escalation option for Russia.
WWIII also is an option, and if you think that the United States would stand idly by when that happens.
For that matter, Syria could attack US bases right now. There is a reason Syria has not done so.
One effect of the war in Ukraine that goes unnoticed by most pundits is the comparison between Russian vs. US weapons systems. In every major category Russian systems have been proven superior.
Apart from the effect on the battlefield, this will have an effect on international arms sales of which Russia is the number two provider after the USA. Russian systems are more effective and cheaper than their US counterparts, but the key point is they are now capable of defending against attack by the US or NATO.
That's a game changer for smaller nations that don't want to be victims of US gunboat diplomacy. It's also the reason behind the hesitancy and weak excuses being offered on supplying F-16s to Ukraine. Apart from the fact they have no one to fly them, even with NATO pilots they'd be shot down as soon as they took to the air, which is very bad for future sales.
I try to look beyond the immediate political effects of the war to see the longer term economic impact, and this is a major one. In the coming years, more nations are going be buying not only Russia AD systems but also civilian aircraft. Russia has been on a drive in recent years to eliminate dependency on foreign supplied aviation technology and has largely achieved that goal, the recent replacement of Pratt & Whitney jet engines with a domestically produced engine being a major example.
Another factor that goes unnoticed is that Russia is a major world supplier of titanium and can cut off exports to the west if they so choose.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/aerospace-firms-brace-turbulence-russian-titanium-supplies-2022-01-28/
If you're an investor interested in a longer term short play, I'd be looking at Raytheon (makers of P&W jet engines) as well as Boeing and Airbus. Not only are the Russian engines in competition with P&W on new builds, they can also be used as replacements on existing fleets. If you need a good argument for why you might want to do that, here it is:
https://www.investopedia.com/rtx-to-take-usd3-billion-charge-as-it-recalls-inspects-pratt-and-whitney-engines-7968137
Not arguing any of that. But if Russia cannot bring itself to do what it takes to win, it doesn't matter.
https://www.defensemirror.com/news/34969/Russia_s_UAC_Advances_MC_21__SJ_100_Aircraft_Deliveries_to_Aeroflot_from_2025_to_2024
That's good news, provided the Russians can keep the corruption down and the quality up.
Far as I can tell, that hasn't happened. What trade that isn't conducted in USD is conducted in EUR for the most part.
And if you look at rates on USTs, they are hardly signaling anything like "imminent distress".
Let's change geographies for a minute or two.
I wonder which country in the vicinity of the USA would like to be part of an attack on the USA? All they would need would be a shipload of Russian or Chinese made missiles.
What we need is a crowd-funding exercise from all the countries around the globe to support a similar scenario as has been approved of by Blinken and his Neocons positioned in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua or almost any of the South American countries who have been threatened, sanctioned and generally disadvantaged by the USA overtime.
It is time for a proxy AGAINST the USA. See how you like it, Blinken.
Can you imagine it? All the Israeli controlled Neocons living in Florida, which with New York City could be a likely target. Alternatively, a couple of well positioned submarines in international waters with a couple of big nuclear warheads just waiting for the word "Fire".
What a performance! You'd have Biden taking off for Alaska, Blinken heading home to Israel more than half the senior cabinet gracing the corridors of power in Washington chartering every EL Al flight to avoid the risk of what they are now suggesting is fully approved in Ukraine.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander
Might just be the trigger that the US needs to make them face the reality of their years of dirty deeds, worldwide. 20 million deaths and still counting
Crowd-funding? Cash or card. Your choice.
Einstein called this a 'thought experiment.' Good work! Keep on thinking!
Blinken and his minion Nuland are clinically certifiable psychopaths and deserve the rope.
The sad news is that there is no operating justice system in the West that can deal with these criminals. They will both retire to corporate boards and think tanks and live the rest of their miserable lives in the lap of luxury.
Well NO--that's how it would have played out in the past, but now we are marching into an Armageddon, maybe the nuclear one this piece focuses on, or maybe the ecological breakdown ALL the leaders are rushing toward if we avert nuclear war. Either way, there will be no safe havens.
Mother Nature or human nature will get us in the end if we don't watch it! However, the world has many people who are perhaps better described as [temporarily] denatured/dumbed-down humans and they are a force to be reckoned with when sparked up with propaganda in National Hate Week. Truth bombs wrapped in humour appear to have a positive effect though. Every bit helps. Then we can throw the power switch to enable the people to choose a better system where power-drunk politicians cannot ever be given power over us ever again. Then we can consider remedies for the extensive eco-damage we humans have caused either wittingly or unwittingly, & whatever else.
What does Russia propose to do about it?
The Russians are biding their time. The escalations of the US bespeak failure. Besides "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake", opportunities for serious countermoves may develop, I would imagine in the summer or fall of 2024.
Russia has two problems. One is that, short of nuclear war, there is little that Russia can do that so much as mildly inconveniences the decisionmakers in Washington, or even their local lackeys in Kiev. Pointing out the vast numbers of dead Ukrainians is irrelevant. They don't care. Pointing out the manifold terrorist acts of the Kiev regime is irrelevant. They don't care.
The other is that the Russian leadership has shown little appetite for escalation, and it remains to be seen whether they can sell the cost that escalation will require to the Russian people.
Russia drastically miscalculated by not using enough force at the beginning of this war, and wishes that this war would just go away. Of course, the West sees this as an opportunity.
I don't think the Russians wish to escalate the war; if they "won" they would be confronted with the tasks of occupation and fighting terrorism and guerrilla warfare. (It is said that this was the earlier plan of the US, but the Russians failed to take the bait.) Instead, I think they (the Russians) are looking to the native centrifugal and degenerative currents now active in the US and waiting to see how they turn out. Someone said that there was no people so willing to go to war as the Americans, and so unwilling to fight one. That principle was shown in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq at least and may be shown again in the approach to the upcoming election.
I would disagree with you on what more the Russian people can do. If this were the u.s. we would have carpet bombed Kyiv murdering a million or more. Fortunately the Russian people are far more human. That might not hold for much longer. Remember much of Ukraine is Russian. A war within family.
Not sure what they WILL do, but what they SHOULD do is nuke DC
IMO a better initial choice would be to level Al Tanf in Syria from which US crimes there are conducted
The only way the GAE MIL Pharma complex - the most powerful evil the world has ever seen - gets stopped is annihilating DC. Anything else would only provide pretext for them to go start another war on some other people.
The White House and State Department are certifiably insane. If these missiles are used on targets in Russia it seems quite possible that Russia might strike US military assets in Europe, or even Syria. Vessels, aircraft, missile stations, radar facilities, air bases, etc. This is American hubris beyond anything previously witnessed, imho.
oh, attack on Kyiv, that one which came from the Ukraine-controlled territory, conveniently during his visit? All to justify strikes on Russia? While he retreats to his safe haven in Washington, DC or Brussels?
Blinken will do what he wants to do, regardless of any pretext, rationale or justification.
Power is the only language that sociopaths understand.
Blinken probably bombed that market himself, if it even happened.
Notice that nobody would have dreamt of trying such a hard brained stunt when the USSR invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968.
The West did nothing other than the diplomatic equivalent of thoughts and prayers, because they genuinely feared the Soviet Union.
The market place mentioned is in the Donbass region, as was targeted by Ukraine using western tech. Russia does not fire its expensive missiles indiscriminately into Ukraine.
Blinken, like all deep-state frontmen, is a liar. The Luciferian Anglo-American cabal that owns him would rather rule over a smouldering cinder than tolerate an alternative, fairer world.
The fact this gleeful murderer isn't in prison right now is outrageous. The very definition of a traitor to the republic.
Most "great leaders" throughout history are but glorified sociopaths.
Blinken is the wanton warmonger who aided and abetted Biden’s cheerleading for the invasion of Iraq when Biden was chairman of Senate Foreign Relations. Biden was rewarded for his cynical warmongering by getting the Dem nomination.
Warmonger, warmonger, warmonger. Fearmonger, then sell more arms. Pump up Northrop shares. Profit take.
Then autoloop kicks in.
So make the biggest foreign policy mistake in American history and they make you president. Or Sec Of State.
It's looking more and more like a repeat of the sleepwalk into WWI.
It's looked like that this whole time. It's just progressing.
They want Russia to "Make the first move".
Currently, only the USA has the distinction of using WMDs on civilian populations.
The only thing that would wake the USA up is a nuclear strike on THEIR home territory. And we all saw how Bush used the previous false-flag on dumbfuck gullible Yanks and Westerners.
Rome had to "Expand or Die", due to its rapacious ethos. The USA is consciously built upon the same lines.
The Yanks are hoping that Putin is saner than they are.
But they already have all the headlines stored up for if for once he shows he isn't.
Yeps, for that 24hrs until we all die - or wished we had - Western Corporate MEdia will be FULL of stories about how the End of the World is actually all Russia's fault.
Because all that matters is NARRATIVE.
One day, there wil be a 3rd "President of America" in 1 year, two others having been removed by their own guard regiments, and the area of their 'power' will be as far as they can see - and only that.
What a shithole country. Trump was right on that.
Let’s hope vlad nukes DC first
Opinion polls across America might actually approve.
Does Blinken understand that Russia is simply concerned about securing the Donbass and Crimea? If Ukraine escalates into long range attacks inside Russia, it will force Russia to escalate attacks in the rest of Ukraine. Russia has the capability of flattening Kiev in a single day. Russia could end the war in a day if the political will is strong enough to wipe out an entire city like the US did in Raqqa, Syria. Russia has far more at stake in its borders than the US had in Syria.
Russia already strikes targets in Western Ukraine. The problem is that nobody in the West cares.
Incredible how brazenly moronic these monsters present themselves as they march us into an inferno.
Time and time again, NATO has proven that it is strategically brain-dead. "Weakening Russia" is not a strategy; neither is this policy of escalatory incrementalism. Long-range missiles to Ukraine will be used by Kiev like the "buzz bomb" V-1 and V-2 rockets by the Nazis toward the desperate end of WW 2, i.e., as terror weapons. Project Ukraine appears to be a lost cause, but NATO refuses to bite the bullet (so to speak) are start negotiating.
One last dead Russian in a "desperate end" is all benefit and no cost to an empire that believes it can endlessly print currency to pay for it and have people continuing to accept it.
Neurenberg trials for US terrorism and "unprovoked" war against capitalist Russia.
Its not just that these people are lunatics, so are the media over here that have been selling us their lies for ages, and conditioning the masses, into flag waving for Ukraine, while HIDING the fact that these nutcases in fact have a long term agenda to get into some sort of “glorious” battle with Russia.
Bear in mind, they all have well appointed nuclear shelters from themselves either private ones for the ultra wealthy war profiteers. and government ones for the mis-leaders. For you, they offer death and suffering.
"This is the daily life for Ukrainians. This is what they face every single day."
"Poisoned water, brutal police, feckless emergency services, rising food prices, dying soil, land-stealing elites dictating toxic food policies, lawless corporate sociopathic scum running roughshod over the rights and lives of the have-nots, a criminal criminal-justice (snicker) system. This is what a majority of Americans face every bloody day. Chew on that, Tony, you pezzo di merda; 'scusa, you montagna di merda.