Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): There’s a heartbreaking graphic going around right now showing the almost microscopic changes that have occurred to the frontline of the war in Ukraine this year despite nonstop death and destruction of unfathomable horror the entire time.
Ukraine is probably the biggest immoral money making sinkhole the world has ever seen. Hundreds of thousands of Ukraine soldiers, many very young and inexperienced in war, have been pressed into serving in the military, and summarily killed. This is foreseen and done with the objective of discrediting Russia, and making money in the process: that is the only option, because most of those in decision making roles know well that Russia cannot stop, and cannot lose, and had no other option. The hatred of Russia constitutes in some, a mental illness based on delusion. A recent and infamous example is Canada's public lauding of a former SS Waffen officer in parliament by ignoramuses who didn't even know that Russia fought as an ally of the West against Hitler in WW II.
What makes the conduct of western leaders so despicable is that they have known since late 2022 that defeat was inevitable for Ukraine. By then, the imbeciles knew that their 'bet the house' sanctions strategy had failed in spectacular fashion, and that their western weapons and military doctrine were exposed as hopeless.
In fact, had not Boris Johnson undermined the agreed ceasefire between Kiev and Moscow in April 2022, none of the slaughter would have been necessary.
Rather than end this war, they intentionally allowed what many now argue is 500,000 Ukrainian men to die, in a war Ukraine never had a chance of winning - a war that Washington DC could have stopped at any time with one phone call.
If that's not a war crime or a crime against humanity, God only knows what is.
These western 'leaders' have also intentionally lied and misrepresented the true situation to global audiences, in order to justify their despicable positions. One of their canards was that for Russia, this was an imperial war about 'territory', first within Ukraine and then on to Europe.
A total lie. In fact, the Russians were transparent from the very start that their objectives were very limited and political in nature - to 'liberate' (in their eyes) the 4 provinces in eastern Ukraine (the Donbass), to 'demilitarise' Ukraine's military and to 'denazify' Ukraine.
For the Russians, it has never been an imperial war based on the conquest of territory as framed by the West. Believe me, if the Russian plan had been about conquest and territory, this war would have ended a long time ago with Ukraine destroyed, a smoking ruin, and Russian troops at the Polish border.
Instead, inspired by Clausewitz (a major influence on Russian political thinking) the Russians chose classic attrition warfare to achieve their limited political objectives.
They have used Svechin's doctrine (a balance between attrition and annihilation, or defense and offense, shifting as a result of changing circumstances), along a line of incredible fortifications in the Donbass built according to Col General Romanchuk's thinking, see 'Prospects for Improving the Efficiency of Army Defensive Operations' (April 2023).
This has been extremely successful. Ukraine has experienced 70-80,000 KIA in 4 months. As a result, Ukraine's military is on the verge of (if not already) annihilated.
Western escalation and hubris may (likely has) required Moscow to re-think its objectives. To his great credit, Putin has shown incredible restraint in the face of non-stop provocation by DC, London and NATO. That may change, however.
The current thinking seems to be that the Russians may decide to advance to the western side of the Dnieper, taking Kharkov, Kiev and the landbridge to Transnistria in the south, encompassing Odessa and leaving what remains of western Ukraine a landlocked, broken rump 'state'. If that happens, the leaders of the West as well as corrupt Zelensky & his thugs, are 100% responsible.
Right now, the Russians are sitting pretty with time on their side, and at least 400,000 fresh troops ready to go. Just my 10 cents but I suspect they'd prefer to let Kiev implode before acting, but if necessary they'll take any military actions required to secure their objectives.
'The sooner this monstrous power structure can be brought to its knees, the better it will be for everyone.''
Good point this is the only discussion that should be doing the rounds.
With the exception of a certain well known Middle Eastern apartheid state - All Western governments have become US vassal states after the second world war while nations that are not US vassal states will be on Neocons bucket list to be passed down to the next generation Straussians.
A massive global strike will have an effect but we have to be willing to last for as long as it takes to reach our goal which ought to include prosecuting warcriminals warmongers such as Nuland - and no immunity for politicians.
This is no small task - we'll need the uniformed on our side like they did during the 1917 Russian Revolution when soldiers changed sides.
In the end the change that is desired by peace loving people won't arrive by remaining seated behind a computer screen - we need to call the bluff of these fascist bastards who've taken over our supposedly democratic institutions and push back like never before.
This war is for the benefit of the Elite, so that they can kill off the population of Ukraine and then move in to establlish a new country exclusively for themselves.
It's the neocons'/neolibs' whole point. Depopulate Ukraine for the benefit of Monsanto, Blackrock, Cargill, Exxon, and Wall Street/IMF linked banks. Fewer (actually none) Ukrainian male family heads around to stake ownership claims of land is a great thing for these fucks that only have to spend a few million on mine/cluster munition and depleted uranium sweeping equipment. Not that they care if there's uranium in their GMO crops once all's said and done. Criminal.
The only reason this is dragging on is that NATO has lost another war and cannot admit it. Russia could bring the force to bear and finish it off taking the rest of Ukraine but it has achieved its original objective and does not want to escalate.
The West is so foolish to think they can weaken Russia with impunity.
Wars are like sanctions--- they cut both ways and both sides pay. The dumb asses in Washington never considers how Pyrrhic wars can be and the moral and social liabilities they assume.
At risk of seeming to be callous about this diabolical situation, I believe that Russia is not at all interested in annexing or occupying any more territory.
In short, it would be a big economic loser. Russia can't afford it. They CAN afford to annex those areas because the residents were thrilled to be annexed.
So, what does Russia want? They want a neutral Ukraine. A heavily armed and hostile Ukraine is a dire threat to Russia's national security. It is much too close to Russia's main oil supply and the vital naval base and arms industries in Crimean. https://science1arts2and3politics.substack.com/p/why-ukraine-is-vital-to-russias-security. If NATO troops and missiles could base themselves there then Russia no longer has national security. They could be defeated in a war. They would have to rely on the nuclear deterrent. This is not acceptable to them.
Russia's path to a neutral Ukraine is to destroy the Ukrainian armed forces. Ukraine's best plan is to go into a defensive stance. But strategically this makes no sense for Ukraine. They would be better off negotiating a peace. It's worth mentioning that all of Ukraine's plans have made no sense. They never had a chance of retaking Crimea. Zero. Impossible. I find it amazing that they made this the centerpiece of national policy. Such people are basically irrational.
How did this peculiar situation come about, where a big chunk of the nation was governed against its will? It's because Ukraine was artificially created by the USSR with a Russian majority. In this way Russia could dominate a democratic Ukraine. Predictably the Ukrainians resented this. https://science1arts2and3politics.substack.com/p/why-in-1954-crimea-became-part-of. They could have given up the Russian areas and had a true Ukrainian state but they wanted the wealth of the Russian Ukrainians. Hence the mad plan to force said Russians to become Ukrainians.
Hence the invasion. This is an existential struggle for Russia. The US and the UK will not stop until Russia is partitioned and controlled by the West. Fortunately, Russia is well aware and the rest of the world is waking up to this and is fighting back against the Hegemony. Or routing around it, which amounts to the same thing.
Detente, nonintervention, neutrality, call it what you want, should be the goal for all international relations.
Reminds me of an interview shown on BBC during the Falklands war when the British Navy bought Exocet missiles ( anti surface missiles used against aircraft etc) and the French manufacturer said this would be great because the missiles hadn’t been tested in a “real- life” situation....
In the meantime we have the arms industry financing political campaigns where their latest favorite, Nimarata Randhawa, aka Nikki Haley, is embracing Cold War MAD (mutual assured destruction) as a desirable outcome, not a deterrence. Bloodlust not satiated with the meatgrinder battlefield for inches. Desirous of a global nuclear holocaust with body counts in the tens, hundreds of millions. They're saving their best champagne and crystal for that feat! Randhawa ideation that she's the Kamsa, an asura, a danava, all too happy to play the role she's been assigned.
You would think life ought to be the absolutely most precious thing we all have, not something you want to just give away for some oligarch's rich man's war. But I guess some people think giving away their lives is some how winning. But what if life itself (your life) is a one off (one in a trillion) affair, and once you're gone, you're gone forever? What did you gain by giving it all away in some mudhole trench in some nowhere field?
It's important to remember the reason for this war because it keeps the focus on who is responsible: the United States. This war is not and has never been about "those teeny, tiny little blips on the map." The reason for the invasion has always been to de-Nazify and de-militarize Ukraine. It has never been about territory. And the horror is that the only way for Russia to accomplish its dual aims is to kill hundreds of thousands of men. That's the only way to de-militarize or de-Nazify another country when the U.S. continues to train and arm it and refuses to allow peace negotiations. Losing that focus over the inches lost or gained doesn't strike me as helpful.
Ukraine is probably the biggest immoral money making sinkhole the world has ever seen. Hundreds of thousands of Ukraine soldiers, many very young and inexperienced in war, have been pressed into serving in the military, and summarily killed. This is foreseen and done with the objective of discrediting Russia, and making money in the process: that is the only option, because most of those in decision making roles know well that Russia cannot stop, and cannot lose, and had no other option. The hatred of Russia constitutes in some, a mental illness based on delusion. A recent and infamous example is Canada's public lauding of a former SS Waffen officer in parliament by ignoramuses who didn't even know that Russia fought as an ally of the West against Hitler in WW II.
We are gaining ground,,send more guns and money.
We are loosing ground, send more guns and money.
-signed MSM
What makes the conduct of western leaders so despicable is that they have known since late 2022 that defeat was inevitable for Ukraine. By then, the imbeciles knew that their 'bet the house' sanctions strategy had failed in spectacular fashion, and that their western weapons and military doctrine were exposed as hopeless.
In fact, had not Boris Johnson undermined the agreed ceasefire between Kiev and Moscow in April 2022, none of the slaughter would have been necessary.
Rather than end this war, they intentionally allowed what many now argue is 500,000 Ukrainian men to die, in a war Ukraine never had a chance of winning - a war that Washington DC could have stopped at any time with one phone call.
If that's not a war crime or a crime against humanity, God only knows what is.
These western 'leaders' have also intentionally lied and misrepresented the true situation to global audiences, in order to justify their despicable positions. One of their canards was that for Russia, this was an imperial war about 'territory', first within Ukraine and then on to Europe.
A total lie. In fact, the Russians were transparent from the very start that their objectives were very limited and political in nature - to 'liberate' (in their eyes) the 4 provinces in eastern Ukraine (the Donbass), to 'demilitarise' Ukraine's military and to 'denazify' Ukraine.
For the Russians, it has never been an imperial war based on the conquest of territory as framed by the West. Believe me, if the Russian plan had been about conquest and territory, this war would have ended a long time ago with Ukraine destroyed, a smoking ruin, and Russian troops at the Polish border.
Instead, inspired by Clausewitz (a major influence on Russian political thinking) the Russians chose classic attrition warfare to achieve their limited political objectives.
They have used Svechin's doctrine (a balance between attrition and annihilation, or defense and offense, shifting as a result of changing circumstances), along a line of incredible fortifications in the Donbass built according to Col General Romanchuk's thinking, see 'Prospects for Improving the Efficiency of Army Defensive Operations' (April 2023).
This has been extremely successful. Ukraine has experienced 70-80,000 KIA in 4 months. As a result, Ukraine's military is on the verge of (if not already) annihilated.
Western escalation and hubris may (likely has) required Moscow to re-think its objectives. To his great credit, Putin has shown incredible restraint in the face of non-stop provocation by DC, London and NATO. That may change, however.
The current thinking seems to be that the Russians may decide to advance to the western side of the Dnieper, taking Kharkov, Kiev and the landbridge to Transnistria in the south, encompassing Odessa and leaving what remains of western Ukraine a landlocked, broken rump 'state'. If that happens, the leaders of the West as well as corrupt Zelensky & his thugs, are 100% responsible.
Right now, the Russians are sitting pretty with time on their side, and at least 400,000 fresh troops ready to go. Just my 10 cents but I suspect they'd prefer to let Kiev implode before acting, but if necessary they'll take any military actions required to secure their objectives.
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'The sooner this monstrous power structure can be brought to its knees, the better it will be for everyone.''
Good point this is the only discussion that should be doing the rounds.
With the exception of a certain well known Middle Eastern apartheid state - All Western governments have become US vassal states after the second world war while nations that are not US vassal states will be on Neocons bucket list to be passed down to the next generation Straussians.
A massive global strike will have an effect but we have to be willing to last for as long as it takes to reach our goal which ought to include prosecuting warcriminals warmongers such as Nuland - and no immunity for politicians.
This is no small task - we'll need the uniformed on our side like they did during the 1917 Russian Revolution when soldiers changed sides.
In the end the change that is desired by peace loving people won't arrive by remaining seated behind a computer screen - we need to call the bluff of these fascist bastards who've taken over our supposedly democratic institutions and push back like never before.
Free Jullian Assange.
This war is for the benefit of the Elite, so that they can kill off the population of Ukraine and then move in to establlish a new country exclusively for themselves.
The military industrial complex is the most successful protection racket ever devised by man.
It's the neocons'/neolibs' whole point. Depopulate Ukraine for the benefit of Monsanto, Blackrock, Cargill, Exxon, and Wall Street/IMF linked banks. Fewer (actually none) Ukrainian male family heads around to stake ownership claims of land is a great thing for these fucks that only have to spend a few million on mine/cluster munition and depleted uranium sweeping equipment. Not that they care if there's uranium in their GMO crops once all's said and done. Criminal.
The only reason this is dragging on is that NATO has lost another war and cannot admit it. Russia could bring the force to bear and finish it off taking the rest of Ukraine but it has achieved its original objective and does not want to escalate.
The West is so foolish to think they can weaken Russia with impunity.
Wars are like sanctions--- they cut both ways and both sides pay. The dumb asses in Washington never considers how Pyrrhic wars can be and the moral and social liabilities they assume.
At risk of seeming to be callous about this diabolical situation, I believe that Russia is not at all interested in annexing or occupying any more territory.
https://science1arts2and3politics.substack.com/p/why-russia-doesnt-want-to-conquer
In short, it would be a big economic loser. Russia can't afford it. They CAN afford to annex those areas because the residents were thrilled to be annexed.
So, what does Russia want? They want a neutral Ukraine. A heavily armed and hostile Ukraine is a dire threat to Russia's national security. It is much too close to Russia's main oil supply and the vital naval base and arms industries in Crimean. https://science1arts2and3politics.substack.com/p/why-ukraine-is-vital-to-russias-security. If NATO troops and missiles could base themselves there then Russia no longer has national security. They could be defeated in a war. They would have to rely on the nuclear deterrent. This is not acceptable to them.
Russia's path to a neutral Ukraine is to destroy the Ukrainian armed forces. Ukraine's best plan is to go into a defensive stance. But strategically this makes no sense for Ukraine. They would be better off negotiating a peace. It's worth mentioning that all of Ukraine's plans have made no sense. They never had a chance of retaking Crimea. Zero. Impossible. I find it amazing that they made this the centerpiece of national policy. Such people are basically irrational.
How did this peculiar situation come about, where a big chunk of the nation was governed against its will? It's because Ukraine was artificially created by the USSR with a Russian majority. In this way Russia could dominate a democratic Ukraine. Predictably the Ukrainians resented this. https://science1arts2and3politics.substack.com/p/why-in-1954-crimea-became-part-of. They could have given up the Russian areas and had a true Ukrainian state but they wanted the wealth of the Russian Ukrainians. Hence the mad plan to force said Russians to become Ukrainians.
Hence the invasion. This is an existential struggle for Russia. The US and the UK will not stop until Russia is partitioned and controlled by the West. Fortunately, Russia is well aware and the rest of the world is waking up to this and is fighting back against the Hegemony. Or routing around it, which amounts to the same thing.
Detente, nonintervention, neutrality, call it what you want, should be the goal for all international relations.
Reminds me of an interview shown on BBC during the Falklands war when the British Navy bought Exocet missiles ( anti surface missiles used against aircraft etc) and the French manufacturer said this would be great because the missiles hadn’t been tested in a “real- life” situation....
In the meantime we have the arms industry financing political campaigns where their latest favorite, Nimarata Randhawa, aka Nikki Haley, is embracing Cold War MAD (mutual assured destruction) as a desirable outcome, not a deterrence. Bloodlust not satiated with the meatgrinder battlefield for inches. Desirous of a global nuclear holocaust with body counts in the tens, hundreds of millions. They're saving their best champagne and crystal for that feat! Randhawa ideation that she's the Kamsa, an asura, a danava, all too happy to play the role she's been assigned.
You would think life ought to be the absolutely most precious thing we all have, not something you want to just give away for some oligarch's rich man's war. But I guess some people think giving away their lives is some how winning. But what if life itself (your life) is a one off (one in a trillion) affair, and once you're gone, you're gone forever? What did you gain by giving it all away in some mudhole trench in some nowhere field?
I just don't get it.
It's important to remember the reason for this war because it keeps the focus on who is responsible: the United States. This war is not and has never been about "those teeny, tiny little blips on the map." The reason for the invasion has always been to de-Nazify and de-militarize Ukraine. It has never been about territory. And the horror is that the only way for Russia to accomplish its dual aims is to kill hundreds of thousands of men. That's the only way to de-militarize or de-Nazify another country when the U.S. continues to train and arm it and refuses to allow peace negotiations. Losing that focus over the inches lost or gained doesn't strike me as helpful.
Ain't it rich how Team D is for peace and Team R is against big government and government spending?
But only sometimes.
War should not be allowed. Such a crime against humanity, cluster bombs and all.