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Why the United States Will Lose a War with Russia

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I never cease to be amazed by the pervasive belief that the US military is superior to any other on the planet. Upon what basis is this faith founded? The US has not engaged in a real war since Korea. No one in the US military has ANY experience with high-intensity conflict. Will Schryver, military analyst

If the United States launches a nuclear “decapitation” strike on Russia that kills President Putin and his Generals, Russia has a backup system in place that will automatically retaliate. The Dead Hand system is designed to collect data from sensors scattered across Russia on radiation, heat and seismic activity confirming a nuclear strike. If the system does not receive instructions from Moscow’s Command Center with a given period of time, the system will autonomously launch 4,000 tactical and strategic intercontinental ballistic missiles at the United States ensuring the complete destruction of the country and the incineration of hundreds of millions of Americans. Moscow’s message is simple: “Even if a preemptive strike takes out our leaders, our ‘dead hand’ will still kill you all.” Dead Hand, Planet Report

Most Americans continue to believe that the United States will prevail in a conventional war with Russia. But that is simply not the case. For starters, Russia’s state-of-the-art missile technology and missile defense systems are vastly superior to those produced by western weapons manufacturers. Secondly, Russia can field an army of more than 1 million battle-hardened combat troops who have experienced high-intensity warfare and are prepared to engage whatever enemy they may face in the future. Third, the United States no longer has the industrial capacity to match Russia’s impressive output of lethal weaponry, artillery shells, ammunition, and cutting-edge ballistic missiles. In short, Russian military capability far exceeds that of the US in the areas that really count: High-tech weaponry, military industrial capacity, and experienced manpower. In order to drive this overall point home, I’ve taken excerpts from the work of three military analysts who explain these matters in greater detail underscoring the dramatic shortcomings of the modern US military and the problems it is likely to encounter when faced with a more technologically advanced and formidable adversary. The first excerpt is from an article by Alex Vershinin titled The Return of Industrial Warfare:

The war in Ukraine has proven that the age of industrial warfare is still here. The massive consumption of equipment, vehicles and ammunition requires a large-scale industrial base for resupply – quantity still has a quality of its own…. The rate of ammunition and equipment consumption in Ukraine can only be sustained by a large-scale industrial base.

This reality should be a concrete warning to Western countries, who have scaled down military industrial capacity and sacrificed scale and effectiveness for efficiency. This strategy relies on flawed assumptions about the future of war, and has been influenced by both the bureaucratic culture in Western governments and the legacy of low-intensity conflicts. Currently, the West may not have the industrial capacity to fight a large-scale war….

The Capacity of the West’s Industrial Base

The winner in a prolonged war between two near-peer powers is still based on which side has the strongest industrial base. A country must either have the manufacturing capacity to build massive quantities of ammunition or have other manufacturing industries that can be rapidly converted to ammunition production. Unfortunately, the West no longer seems to have either…. In a recent war game involving US, UK and French forces, UK forces exhausted national stockpiles of critical ammunition after eight days....

Flawed Assumptions

The first key assumption about future of combat is that precision-guided weapons will reduce overall ammunition consumption by requiring only one round to destroy the target. The war in Ukraine is challenging this assumption….. The second crucial assumption is that industry can be turned on and off at will….. Unfortunately, this does not work for military purchases. There is only one customer in the US for artillery shells – the military. Once the orders drop off, the manufacturer must close production lines to cut costs to stay in business. Small businesses may close entirely. Generating new capacity is very challenging, especially as there is so little manufacturing capacity left to draw skilled workers from….. The supply chain issues are also problematic because subcomponents may be produced by a subcontractor who either goes out of business, with loss of orders or retools for other customers or who relies on parts from overseas, possibly from a hostile country….

Conclusion

The war in Ukraine demonstrates that war between peer or near-peer adversaries demands the existence of a technically advanced, mass scale, industrial-age production capability….. For the US to act as the arsenal of democracy in defence of Ukraine, there must be a major look at the manner and the scale at which the US organises its industrial base…. If competition between autocracies and democracies has really entered a military phase, then the arsenal of democracy must first radically improve its approach to the production of materiel in wartime. The Return of Industrial Warfare, Alex Vershinin, Rusi

Bottom line: The United States no longer has the industrial base or the requisite stockpiles to prevail in a prolonged war between two near-peer powers. Simply put, the US will not win an extended conventional war with Russia.

Here’s how analyst Lee Slusher summed it up in a recent post on Twitter:

…. . The US effectively had monopolies on many decisive capabilities, like precision-guided munitions, night-vision, global strike, etc. I think the absence of high-intensity conflict between the US and other nations had a lot to do with these asymmetries. There was no need for the US to apply mass when its advanced capabilities—or even just the threat of them—were sufficient to achieve political aims….. The list of nations with advanced capabilities continues to grow. At the same time, Western militaries and defense industrial bases continue to erode. The West exchanged its large standing armies for a reliance on boutique American capabilities that were once decisive but are now increasingly commonplace. This has left the West without its technological edge and without its previous military mass. Those who still believe in US military supremacy fail to realize these changes. Worse still, most of them entertain cartoonishly underrated notions about Russian military capabilities. They fail to realize Russia has both a technological edge and military mass. Th reputation the US military had was deserved for a time, but everything changes. Lee Slusher @LeeBTConsulting

Bottom Line: America’s adversaries—Russia, China, Iran—have either caught up to or surpassed the US in advanced missile technology, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAV), electronic warfare, cutting-edge missile defense systems etc—which is gradually increasing parity between the states while ending the period of US military supremacy. The American century is rapidly drawing to a close.

Let’s move on to military analyst Number 2, Will Schyver, who draws similar conclusions to those of Vershinin but from a slightly different angle. Check it out:

I am more convinced than ever that the US could NOT establish air superiority against Russia — not in a week; not in a year. Never. It simply could not be done. It would be a logistical power projection challenge well beyond the current capabilities of the United States military.

American air power would prove substantially inferior to the extremely potent and abundantly supplied air defenses fielded by the Russians.

Just as the majority of HIMARS-launched GMLRS rockets, HARMS missiles, ATACMS missiles, and British Storm Shadow missiles are now being shot down in Ukraine, the vast majority of US long-range precision-guided missiles would be shot down, and the US would very rapidly deplete its limited inventory of these munitions in a futile attempt to overwhelm the Russian capacity to keep shooting back.

American suppression of enemy air defenses would prove inadequate to the task of defeating extremely sophisticated, deeply layered, and highly mobile air defense radars and missiles….

the war in Ukraine has made perfectly clear that all manner of western air defense systems are inferior to even the decades-old Soviet S-300 and Buk systems that Ukraine originally deployed. And even if western systems were formidable, they simply don’t exist in anything approaching the numbers necessary to provide credible defense in broad scope and depth.

To complicate matters even further, scant US munitions inventory and insuperable production limitations would allow the US to prosecute an air war against Russia or China for only a few weeks at most.

Moreover, in a high-intensity combat scenario in either eastern Europe, the China seas, or the Persian Gulf, the maintenance demands for US aircraft would overwhelm its proximate supply. Mission-capable rates would plummet even lower than their notoriously abysmal peacetime standards.

The US would, quite literally after only a few days, see sub-10% mission-capable rates for the F-22 and F-35, and sub-25% rates for almost every other platform in the inventory. It would be a huge embarrassment for the Pentagon … but hardly a huge surprise…..

Simply put, US air power as a theater-wide undertaking could not be sustained in the context of a non-permissive regional and global battlefield against one or more peer adversaries.

In eastern Europe, Russia would savage NATO bases and supply routes. The Baltic and Black seas would effectively become Russian lakes where NATO shipping could not venture….

Many are convinced these are unfounded hysterical assertions. In my view, the simple military, mathematical, and geographic realities of the situation dictate these conclusions, and those who resist them are typically blinded by the myth of American exceptionalism and its attendant ills to such a degree that they are unable to discern things as they really are….

I am increasingly persuaded that, if the US chooses to make direct war against either Russia, China, or Iran, it will result in a war against all three simultaneously.

And that, amazingly enough, is just one of multiple hard truths that the #EmpireAtAllCosts cult, and those acquiescing to its delusional designs, ought to give more serious consideration as they continue staggering towards the abyss of a war they could never win…. Staggering Towards the Abyss, Will Schryver, Substack

There’s a lot to chew on here but, in essence, Schryver is weighing Russia’s impressive air defense capability against America’s “scant munitions inventory and insuperable production limitations”, the combination of which suggests that a US military offensive would likely peter-out before inflicting serious damage on the enemy. Once again, our military analyst infers that the United States will not win in a direct confrontation with Russia.

Finally, we’ve excerpted a longer blurb from Kit Klarenberg who is more of an investigative journalist than military analyst. In a piece titled Collapsing Empire: China and Russia Checkmate US Military, Klarenberg details, what he calls the “unrelentingly bleak analysis of every aspect of the Empire’s bloated, decaying global war machine.” If even half of what the author says is true, then we can be reasonably certain that the United States escalation with Russia is the fasttrack to a military catastrophe unlike anything the world has seen since the fall of Berlin in May, 1945. Take a look:

On July 29th, …. RAND Corporation published a landmark appraisal of the state of the Pentagon’s 2022 National Defense Strategy (NDS), and current US military readiness… Its findings are stark, an unrelentingly bleak analysis of every aspect of the Empire’s bloated, decaying global war machine. In brief, the US is “not prepared” in any meaningful way for serious “competition” with its major adversaries – and vulnerable or even significantly outmatched in every sphere of warfare…. the Empire’s worldwide dominance, are judged to be at best woefully inadequate, at worst outright delusional.

From the Rand Report:

“We believe the magnitude of the threats the US faces is understated and significantly worse…In many ways, China is outpacing the US…in defense production and growth in force size and, increasingly, in force capability and is almost certain to continue to do so…[Beijing] has largely negated the US military advantage in the Western Pacific through two decades of focused military investment. Without significant change by the US, the balance of power will continue to shift in China’s favor.”

“At minimum, the US should assume that if it enters a direct conflict involving Russia, China, Iran, or North Korea, that country will benefit from economic and military aid from the others…This new alignment of nations opposed to US interests creates a real risk, if not likelihood, that conflict anywhere could become a multi-theater or global war…As US adversaries are cooperating more closely together than before, the US and its allies must be prepared to confront an axis of multiple adversaries.” Commission on the National Defense, Rand

As the Commission report spells out in forensic detail, Washington would be almost completely defenceless in such a scenario, and likely defeated nigh on instantly…. It’s not just being spread too thinly across the Grand Chessboard that means the Empire’s military “lacks both the capabilities and the capacity required to be confident it can deter and prevail in combat.”…

The RAND Commission found Washington’s “defense industrial base” is completely “unable to meet the equipment, technology, and munitions needs” of the US, let alone its allies. “A protracted conflict, especially in multiple theaters, would require much greater capacity to produce, maintain, and replenish weapons and munitions” than is currently in place….

For decades, the US military “employed cutting-edge technology to its decisive advantage for decades.” This “assumption of uncontested technological superiority” on the Empire’s part meant Washington had “the luxury to build exquisite capabilities, with long acquisition cycles and little tolerance for failure or risk.” Those days are long over though, with China and Russia “incorporating technology at accelerating speed”….. America’s “defense industrial base” is today crumbling, riddled with a myriad of deleterious issues…

To address these problems, the Commission calls… to reindustrialise the US after years of outsourcing, offshoring and neglect. No timeframe is provided, although it would likely take decades…..

We have entered a strange, late-stage Empire era, comparable to the Soviet Union’s Glasnost, in which elements of the US imperial braintrust can see with blinding clarity Washington’s entire hegemonic global project is stumbling rapidly and irreversibly towards extinction… Collapsing Empire: China and Russia Checkmate US Military, Kit Klarenberg, Substack

Once again, we see the same criticisms reiterated over and over again : Insufficient industrial capacity, dwindling stockpiles, “insuperable production limitations”, and diminished technological superiority. When we add these to the myriad logistical problems of conducting a war in eastern Europe with an ad hoc army of inexperienced volunteers who have never seen combat, we can only conclude that the United States cannot and will not prevail in a prolonged conflict with Russia. Even so, Washington continues to fire ATACMS missiles into Russia (13 more were launched over the past two days) apparently believing that there will be no response to the provocation. Even so, NATO Command continues to entertain illusions of victory by pressing for preemptive “precision strikes” on Russian territory welcoming the prospect of a direct conflagration between NATO and Russia. And even though, both France and the UK threaten to deploy combat troops to Ukraine thinking the inexorable trajectory of the war can somehow be reversed. It’s madness.

Five centuries of primacy have produced a cadre of western elites so drunk with hubris that they are incapable of seeing what is painfully obvious to everyone else, that the imperial model of western exploitation (the ‘rules-based order’) is collapsing and that new centers of power are rapidly emerging. It appears now that these same elites are prepared to drag the world into a catastrophic Third World War to preserve their grip on power and to prevent other nations from achieving the independence and prosperity they’ve earned. Fortunately, Washington will fail in this effort just as it has failed in all its other interventions dating back to 1945. Because the United States no longer has the technology, manpower or industrial capacity needed to win a war with Russia.

It’s a whole new ballgame.

(Republished from Substack by permission of author or representative)
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  1. Notsofast says:

    the u.s. has developed an analog to the dead hand system, it’s known as the deadhead system and it’s installed in the oval office with the nuclear football. this is the problem with these idiots, they think this is just another thanksgiving football game, everything is a game to these people. it’s fourth down and 75, so now it’s time to throw the bomb💣. beltway joe drops back to pass and as he raises his arm to throw, kamala grabs the ball in a classic statue of liberty 🗽play. harris then laterals over blinken, who attempts to throw a hail mary but the ball 🏈 falls out of his hand, (as he throws like a girl) and his fumble is recovered in the end zone by the russians.

    betcha didn’t know joe biden was a deadhead💀, he named his son robert hunter biden, after robert hunter, jerry garcia’s writing partner, that explains so much. what a long strange trip it’s been.

  2. “it’s a whole new ballgame”

    wrong. Babyface Tsar’s wunderwaffen will do neither him nor Russia any good absent the will (never mind bogus, threatening “doctrine”) to strike first. or, at a minumum, retaliate in kind.

    and, as witness Putin’s lack of substantial response to the crossing of his latest “Red Line” – he needed to use his wunderwaffen to obliterate an actual NATO target in Europe proper, not blow up yettanother building in Ukraine – to the Uke’s day-after-day use of NATO missiles to strike Russia, it is now apparent that

    he still lacks that will.

    So: the Zionist International will continue to escalate.

    and BTW, Whitney and the Wunderwaffens, 23 minutes is plenty of warning time for Uncle Schmuel to launch sufficient nuclear megatonnage – from submarine, aerial, and land platforms – to turn most of European Russia into a slab of radioactive glass.

    the basic idea, of course, is to prevent all this from happening. And Vlad the Vacillator isn’t helping at all.

  3. How many casualties is the USA prepared to accept? The USSR suffered about 27 million dead in a population of 190 millions in WW2. The Germans sustained about 4.5 million casualties in the east by the time of the D-Day landings that supposedly won the war. America bailed from Vietnam after losing just 58,000 dead.

  4. If you can’t beat the Houthis, you can’t beat Russia. What more is there to discuss?

  5. An Islamic Eschatological Explanation

    Video Link

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  6. IronForge says:

    I’ve been saying this here for Years.

    Russia are the Only Nation-State who can defeat/destroy the Infrastructure of Any Other Nation-State in a Conventionals-Only War because of their Missile Technologies.

  7. cousin lucky says: •�Website

    Imho – at the end of a world wide nuclear war everybody loses because everyone will be dead.

    Our delusional neo-con leaders will gladly eliminate all of humanity, and this planet, to promote their agenda.

    Once the nuclear war starts there will never be any talking or discussions; only death and destruction.

    •�Agree: Z-man
  8. @anonymouseperson

    Probably all, they don’t give a shit about losing a lot of us.

  9. Priss Factor says: •�Website

    Can they blow up Warsaw and NY at least?

    •�Agree: RedPill Boomer
  10. @Haxo Angmark

    YOU R such an obvious Russian paid troll..!

  11. The U.S. Army is close to 21% black and 17% Hispanic. Also, 16% female. This is not some closely guarded secret. At some point in any war, infantry is needed. And that’s what America will fight with.

  12. The two best equipped armies in Europe were kitted out by USSR – both Ukraine and Russia

    No nation in Europe could match them for manpower or equipment

    •�Replies: @Commentator Mike
  13. @anonymouseperson

    How will US cities clear corpses ? Using lead-shielded bulldozers ? How will policing control breakdown of electricity and mobile phones and water ?

    •�Replies: @Felpudinho
  14. The following video I posted B4 . The main point at the end was that this missile could defeat ALL NATO airports, thus grounding and destroying them. For example in the video says that a war game where China attacks are large US Air force base in Japan which WOULD have taken 200 plus missiles to destroy, can now be accomplished by 4-5 Oreshnick. In all taken wargame scenarios whereby Russia fights NATO, it needs air superiority to prevail, and when this isn’t the case, NATO LOSES. So Russia can soon have a weapon in numbers that can take out all European NATO Military airports.

    Video Link
    I did also come across a Asian Times story that China could produce 1000 state of that arts missiles per day. WHEN ONE LOOKS AT THE CAR PLANT THAT TAKES ROUGHLY 3 MINUTES TO ASSEMBLE A CAR, the level of automation, China if pressed could produce large amounts of armaments., since they are the largest manufacturing base the world has seen thus.
    https://asiatimes.com/2024/03/america-has-no-ukraine-plan-b-except-more-war/

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    , @Poupon Marx
  15. Are we sure that nuclear weapons are even real? I’m beginning to have my doubts – like it’s one big psyop perpetrated by the Usual Suspects so that they can maintain control of Billions. And we know how the Tribe loves the nihilism and fiery Armageddon of their 3000yo Book of Jewish Fairy Tales.

  16. Missing here is the race factor. Even if the Russians didn’t have all the new toys, they have a toughened military and a population that doesn’t look anything like the west’s race- mixed swamps. How in Hell is America gonna fare with its shithole cities teeming with non-whites? After years of shafting the remaining white population, the elites now want them to go and fight the Russians? For what- to save this stinking, rotten system?

    •�Agree: Katrinka, BrooLidd
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    , @Katrinka
  17. Great story! And now the Good News:
    Russia doesn’t want to rule the world.
    Yes. Incredible as it may seem to the US, the UK, and France, who have all been trying real hard to rule the world, Russia doesn’t want to!
    Can the US please stop attacking Asia?

    •�Replies: @nognverra
  18. Teilhard says:

    Accepted, but suppose the point is not to win? Suppose Jack D. Ripper, as a collective psychopathic entity, has taken charge, and instead of protecting precious bodily fluids, the Ripperites seek annihilation as the culminating expiation of their historical bloodlust. “Our deepest motivations are occult.” That from anthropologist T.M. Luhrmann in Of Two Minds. We think we do things for one reason, we think we’re one kind of person, and we’re shocked to discover that other people don’t view us that way. They look at what we do without the self-validating constructs we have in our heads about what we do. Hence the department of “Defense” charging into Armageddon.

    These are not well people and they haven’t been for a long time. They have been interbreeding for millennia. They have historically been kept in check by superseding powers, save for twice when, at about the 80-year mark, their autonomous reigns were crushed. But now they are the superseding power and their bloodlust is national policy. They have little insight into this, which is a marker in itself. I have read many forensic psychiatric reports of persons gone NGRI — Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity — and that is a consistent finding: patient lacks insight into his condition, into what he did, into how it affected other people. A long-experienced worker in this field told me that a hallmark of the seriously disordered is a lack of understanding that other people are people too, just like them.

    And isn’t that a defining feature of the Ripperites? In human terms we don’t exist for them, because we’re not human. From the Hitler corpus: Not everyone with a human face is human. True statement, from Claudia Koons, The Nazi Conscience. The parallels between the Hitlerites and the Ripperites are astonishing: the obsession with race, the conviction of innate superiority, the utter lack of compassion for people not them, the causal acceptance of extreme violence against them, the obsession with clean and unclean, as if doctrines that way provide an exoskeleton for their deficits that way.

    I am not hopeful. I see doom and more doom. I hope I’m wrong, I think. I’m not sure.These people are wearing me out.

    •�Thanks: Druid
  19. Re: “How many casualties is the USA prepared to accept? The USSR suffered about 27 million dead in a population of 190 millions in WW2.”

    Whatever one thinks of the Russians, whether one hates them, loves them or falls someplace in between, it ought to be inarguable that one does not play games and conduct brinksmanship with a nation in possession of 2,000 nuclear warheads. Unless one has a death wish, that is…

    The U.S. lost somewhat fewer dead in WW2 than half a million confirmed military KIA. The USSR – which is to say Russia – lost that many dead in some battles and campaigns. The Siege of Leningrad for example, or the Battle for Berlin in 1945, or at Stalingrad.

    We are speaking of a nation and people who suffered on an almost unimaginable scale, but managed not only to survive but to prevail in the conflict. They had help, of course, but we ought to pause to ponder the strength and fortitude such an effort took. One should not trifle with such a people and nation.

    The Chinese also suffered enormously during that war, which was not the only conflict roiling China at the time: The Nationalists and communists fought throughout the 1930s pausing only to fight the external enemy in the Japanese long-enough to drive them out – to restart the revolution in 1945, concluding it only with the victory of communists and the establishment of the PRC in 1949.

    During the 1960s a series of talks were held between American and PRC parties, diplomats and soldiers and so forth. In one interview, discussing the nuclear advantage then held by the U.S., an American general boasted that with the push of a button, U.S. nukes could wipe out as many as two-hundred fifty million Chinese, a quarter of a billion people. The Chinese general shrugged and said his nation had always had people to spare and that such losses would not prove insurmountable.

    There is no question that the U.S. could inflict catastrophic damage on either or both nations; there is also no question that they could wipe our country off the map in return. Does it really make sense to boast and brag and act like a bully when such formidable opponents have allied themselves?

    Whether the foreign policy establishment in Washington wants to face it or not, the American century has ended, our era of geopolitical hegemony. A multipolar world is emerging, and times are changing. We’d better start swimming with the tides of history instead of against them, or we are apt to find ourselves drowning in the onrushing current. That starts by back off – way off – from the insane jingoism and sabre-rattling against Moscow. Make peace with them before it is too late.

  20. The difficulty, as always, is how to take action. Our political class are simply parasites that do NOT listen to us, do not obey the Constitution, and do not act in our best interests. The fact is, that our democracy is dead in substance (alive in form). We are ruled by puppet masters that have found the way to kidnap an entire country(s) by stealing/infiltrating/controlling the “corner office”. The “million dollar question” is what is their end-goal. Are they simply :
    -oligarchs who want to make more money,
    -are they technocrats vying to implement efficiency and eugenics,
    -are they craven idealogues who want more power, or
    -are they religious zealots who want to create the environment for the return of God and their misinterpreted role as the chosen people.
    In the meantime, they have proliferated within our bureacracy, NGO’s, universities, think tanks, agencies, educational systems, and, of course, within the financial industry and many businesses. At this point, with the rot so deep, there is no easy “turnaround”. Wokism has become “normalized” and god-fearing, hard working, honor driven middle class families have been made “abnormal”. What concrete steps can we take?

    •�Agree: Dragoslav, Robert Bruce, ld
    •�Disagree: One Nobody
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    , @Looger
    , @BertB
    , @Miro23
  21. chris says:
    @Notsofast

    LOL; great points Nsf!

    That Brandon is a dead-head is the only positive thing I’ve ever heard about him. And regarding this,

    … what a long strange trip it’s been.

    Boy, it sure couldn’t end a moment too soon.

    •�Thanks: Notsofast
  22. Biff says:
    @Haxo Angmark

    I’ve come to the conclusion that you are just simply “dumb” as you beg for attention.

  23. chris says:

    What I find a little disturbing about many of the quotes from the military analysts in this article is the spirit in which they’re written. It’s that of finding a solution; as in, what needs to be done to rectify the situation of the American empire?

    I suppose it’s the audiences they’re writing for. But for my money, the tone should not be how we can get this delusional, wheel-chair ridden psychopath, who’s terrorizing the world back on his feet, but how to take his gun and meds out of his hands and shove him down the stairs.

  24. Dumbo says:

    Who cares who “wins” or “loses” in such a conflict? We ALL lose.

    Why does the U.S. needs to keep bullying Russia, China, Europe, the Middle East, etc, why can’t it just take care of its people and leave everybody else alone? No one sane wants war.

    •�Agree: Bro43rd
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    , @George Taylor
    , @ld
  25. “America bailed from Vietnam after losing just 58,000 dead . . .”

    Ten years of warfare in which the US won. I

    As for the who, there are several responses, but first and foremost is this. Suppose it is accurate that Iran and China join Russia. It is doubtful that the US will be facing all three alone. And I am not that convinced that China is all that eager, as she made clear, Ukraine is a sovereign nation.

    As for the rest, even I find some areas suspect . . . the US did not need to invade Iraq and Iran doing so cost us in ways that are not tangibly measurable. And while we have failed to instill in our children the value of the US in which they live. I am not inclined to dismiss the ability of the US answer the call as she has demonstrated repeatedly.

    i am not a war monger, but the possibility always exists. And if we are going to have a country, caution is fine, but pure fear mongering as is pressed hear — requires push back.

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  26. @Haxo Angmark

    HA… where do you get this bs from. You are so obtuse it isn’t funny. You are so far from making any sense. You sound pitifully seeking attention. Here is WHY?

    The game of escalation has changed completely. The new Russian missile can make dissappear any target in Europe but is no threat to the US with it’s medium range and non nuclear threat.

    Russia has finally realized that the old Colonial Banksters need a WW3 reset and none need it more than the City of London. That is why the English are going all in to get it started because the Bank of England is broke. Myself and others fear a false flag on the UK population blamed on Russia. The British Elite calculate that Americans will rush into war on their side. The Russian have signaled to the US we got this and we are no threat to you with our new weapons. Drawing a border between Russia and Poland has been something I predicted since 2023 and now it looks like a Russian necessity. The Ukraine problem will not be resolved, rather Ukraine will be disolved. This will keep Blackrock and Monsanto out and result in the UK, the Ukraine war Bonds guarantors, becoming insolvent.

    I doubt the US Army command will agree to a nuclear Armagedon. So stop trolling for the English. A US war with Russia has been gamed many times and 100 million lucky Americans will die immediately. The survivors and the World population will face a slow death and a ten year nuclear winter. No one wins a nuclear war, silly.

  27. Anynomous says:

    American and british have always been total cowards running away from direct confrontation. Thats why they always prefer terrorism, theft, threats, blackmail, proxies, bribing etc. behind the curtains. They are afraid to contront openly.

    •�Replies: @One Nobody
  28. One thing we can learn from the war in Ukraine is to not underestimate the opposition. The West can be beaten, but I believe if they attack Russia in it’s home territory. I believe that includes eastern Ukraine and the Black Sea coast, up to Odessa, excluding the northwest of Ukraine.

    I don’t think Russia would seriously consider invading Europe for instance, and Russia is also weaker in the Middle East, hence it’s careful approach in Syria. People demanding Russia step in against Israel are asking too much, the Russian Federation would probably be better off using proxies and asymmetrical warfare to have a say there.

    Russian networkcentric warfare:


    Video Link

  29. Bert says:
    @anonymouseperson

    America has never fought and defeated a single serious opponent. The British did not commit sufficient troops to put down the 1775 rebellion, so it was not serious. Canada under the Brits easily fought off American attempts at conquest between 1812 and 1814. Spain in Florida, Mexico in 1845, the much smaller and weaker Confederate States, Spain in 1898, a weakened Germany in 1917, a weakened Germany and smaller Japan between 1942 and 1945, none of these were serious opponents. Since WWII, America has fought only weaker opponents, and it came out of those adventures with either draws, defeats, or victories for Israel and the banksters.

    The only American exceptionalism is that of being exceptionally lucky regarding its geographical location and the timing of its industrial development in relation to the general spread of technology.

    The luck ran out in 2022.

    •�Agree: Dr. Rock
    •�Replies: @Observator
  30. The “United States”–the traitors in charge of it, that is–will go forward with a preemptive, so called, nuclear strike against Russia. All the tea leaves are reading in this direction.

    They do not care if millions of Americans or Europeans die. In fact, they would welcome the de-population, as would the Globohomo Davos agenda, which wants net-zero mass death in some form or another.

    And Elon and Viva Las Vegas Vivek O’Rama Shamalamadingdong, whose twin duty it is to usher in the AI-ification of government, business and human life, will welcome robo-human as a convenient population filler, the greater replacement of le grand replacement. Wars from there on in will be fought with their video game fantasy land modules.

    I am sorry to see what has happened to America, my home once admired by the world. With the right minds in place, none of this needed to have happened. As I thought I would, I regret voting for Trump (again).

    •�Agree: Robert Bruce
  31. Jim H says:

    ‘In a recent war game involving US, UK and French forces, UK forces exhausted national stockpiles of critical ammunition after eight days.’ — Alex Vershinin

    Sounds about right. So why do belligerent little British bulldogs like Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer bark furiously at the Russian bear, which can upend them with one casual swipe of its big paw?

    Do Brits have a death wish? Do they still believe their own bullshit about being a second-rate power that still ‘punches above its weight’? Do they expect the brave French to come to their aid with General Gallieni’s fleet of taxis?

    All that sensible Americans [I know — oxymoron, right?] can do is pull the plug on NATO and the special relationship. Sauve qui peut. If little Britain gets flattened after biting the bear’s ankles, don’t ask us to help. Can pay; won’t pay.

  32. The answer would be that the impossibility of an easy victory and the fear of the possibility of defeat would be the only thing keeping the United States away from Russian borders; if there were any possibility of victory, they would already be killing Russians.

  33. John Dael says:
    @anonymouseperson

    Before the carnage that the war with Russia will bring about, know who’s behind the conflict.

    http://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/the-truth-about-the-conflict-with-russia/

  34. The key item which wasn’t discussed was the absolute physical weakness of much of US Military men.
    Most are overweight, and infected with LGBTQ hormones, and finally they are all too conditioned in the belief of their false superiority.

    A similar example can be seen in the ISRAEL soldiers who are mostly physically unfit, and too terrified to face death in the battle field. And even when they do survive many are committing suicide.

  35. What will/would it be like for the USA and World after the USA loses WWIII?
    We would be reduced to,and empowered by recognizing the proceedings as a sacred catastrophe,and a far better future.

    •�Agree: Arthur MacBride, MoT
  36. Gallatin says:

    Let’s pray for peace this Thanksgiving, and thank the Lord for the blessings that we have.

    Let us not be like the top Vanguard and Blackrock owners and COVET the minerals of Ukraine, the chipmaking manufactures of Taiwan, the natural gas and ores of the Russian Federation, or the manufacturing prowess of Guandong.
    Let us give THANKS that our own people are willing to reinvigorate manufacturing here with the blessings of new technologies, if simply given the chance. Make wealth not war Mr Trump.

    Let’s all join in Thanksgiving that January 20, less than 60 days from today, none of us will ever have to hear a speech mumbled through by Joe Biden ever again, nor will we have to witness him attempt to sniff some poor innocent girl’s hair. He will be busy dictating lies to his ghostwriter as they prepare his biography which will be full of more (self-aggrandizing Corn-Pop-style) lies than any book this side of the Talmud (oh well, nobody can beat the father of lies, sorry Scranton Joe).

    I’m sure Kamala is having a drink RIGHT NOW on behalf of all of us, as I’m sure we are on her mind.

    Happy Thanksgiving. Let’s have peace. Let’s be big enough to admit we made a mistake Generals.

  37. GMC says:

    Good article – I say again – Another very important reason these politicians and government employees think a war with Russia is feasible is because They Have a Super Underground Base to run to, while the American public is being destroyed – whether it’s from Russian bombs, or from the Politicians themselves and their instructions to take out old America. Those Mexican Cartels setting themselves up in the USA recently, isn’t a coincidence either. Why aren’t the Cartels designated the Terrorists they are ? Because the elites in the USG, the Lobbies and the Mexican Gov. – are in bed with the Cartels. Which means those Cartels can’t be taken out by the US military spec. ops. This has been discussed for decades now, and Russia doesn’t look like the ones that will destroy the US unless the US – wants Russia to do so. The Vortex of the Western Matrix is no place to be in.

    •�Replies: @Anon
  38. We all know, we who have paid attention, something doesn’t add up. Remember the The Saker and his minions, crowing that Russia would win in a matter of months with his famous ‘pockets’ and surroundings? And Big Serge and Scott Ritter, weren’t they saying a year ago that the winter offensive was coming and it was all over for Ukraine? And Will Schryver (an apparent Mormon religious nut, which certainly colors his analysis) quoted above repeatedly claiming ‘the purpose of war is not to take land but destroy the enemy army’, when any fool can see that Russia is trying, apparently, to take land daily all along the front. And Russia proper has been occupied in Kursk, for months. Oh but Ukraine is getting ready to collapse! Getting ready to collapse!

    Something doesn’t add up. Putin is killing fellow Russian speakers, slavic brothers, by the hundreds of thousands, Ukrainians and Russians. Rather than focused on winning he seems focused on keeping the bloodbath going. Why?

    Something doesn’t add up. Russia is selling uranium to the US, its biggest supplier. Odd, eh? The USA military industrial complex is making money hand over fist. They just put Trump in the White House, with appointments ready to shove the face of the USA working class in the dirt and divert even more tax dollars to weapons, for the forever future.

    If and when, finally, Putin has killed enough slavic brothers the USA will walk away protected by two oceans and claim victory and the USA elites will be making money hand over fist via ‘reindustrialization’. Maybe Trump will just take Venezuela, if the USA needs a victory and booty. Nuke Caracas. Who will stop him? Not Putin!

    Something doesn’t add up. These ‘military analysts’ who said Hezbollah would kick Israel’s ass now look at smouldering Beirut and a ‘cease fire’ whose key point is that Hezbollah no longer links its warfare to Israel’s attack on Gaza. And with a snap of fingers the Empire has reignited its Islamist mercenary force in Syria.

    Something doesn’t add up. Whitney has not found the key information. There are agreements among the elite we don’t know about. Frankly it’s looking to me like they want to scare all of us all the time. Covid, Climate Change, Nuclear War, Economic Collapse, mix and repeat. The goal, a world wide elite who will work together to create and international digital currency and biometric identity card, and no corner of the earth will be free from the world elite’s control. Then they will use the human cattle in order to do the bio research necessary to ensure that the elite live 200 years and even longer. Eternal life, here on earth, for elites. Is that it? I don’t know. But something doesn’t add up.

    •�Agree: Goldgettin, Haxo Angmark
    •�Thanks: Digital Samizdat
  39. anon548 says:

    I would say nuclear war is odds on, or at least 70% here`s why:-

    1. No one is in control, Biden is cognitively impaired, there are multiple groups with different agendas each contributing in their own way

    2. No control = no responsibility, there is a reason why they put blanks in 4 out of 5 rifles for firing executions, none of the soldiers involved need to feel responsible, the same is true here in the US gov, everyone is in part control, with no leadership allowing a herd mentality, so no one especially need feel responsible for any disaster that happens for the small individual actions taken by themselves.

    3. These people are mostly sociopaths, many with other serious high functioning mental health disorders that allow them to appear normal on the outside

    4. They have no patriotic values, people who love their country wouldn’t want it destroyed, these people have spent decades deliberately destroying the country and society with crazy lefty woke ideology, they have no care for US society or its destruction.

    5. They are globalists not sovereignists, if the US is destroyed, who cares they have the wealth to move somewhere else & continue

    6. Those on the left see advantage in destroying before re-building under their own terms which would likely be led by WEF policies rather than whats good for whats left of US people

    7. They see much of the population as useless eaters that will likely cause trouble when AI causes mass unemployment, for their perspective reducing or at least distracting has its advantages

    8. Its likely many of those in power now know they may be exposed in the near future as criminals & paedophiles, their time is nearly up and they know it, why not cause a major distraction to prevent that

    9. Many are driven by a hatred towards Russia, many like Nuland have Eastern European roots and ancient axes to grind, the thought of the US acting as a suicide bomber to destroy Russia may appeal to them

  40. @anonymouseperson

    27 million is Gorbachov and Yakovlev lies just as 100 million killed by Bolsheviks. True numbers are about 20 million as it was proven by archival researches. USSR lost 9 million military losses and 11 million civilians. Nazi Germany lost about same 9 million of military losses and not 4.5. You seem to follow Alexander Souvorov dictum”: Write down more of those damned dead Muslims. Why should we feel sorry for them”. USSR and Germany military losses were about same. More Soviet losses at the start and more Nazi losses at the end. You all here sound like true “Russophile” . You do not feel sorry for dying at war Russians. Just a fuel for your fantasies.Fight your own wars here and risk your own lives.

  41. Wow, what a dystopian future awaits for most americans and Russians, like the movie Blade Runner 2049. And the worst of the possibility of a Nuclear World War 3 with Russia is really that this apocalyptic event might catch most american families off-guard, because most people in USA are right now concentrated in the family traditonal celebrations of thanksgiving and christmas.

    Because the 80% of the population of America are hardworking people, oppressed by the 20% capitalist class, over-worked to death, taxed to death, billed to death and betrayed to death by both oligarchic parties of Israel, The Deep State, The Pentagon and the capitalist ruling class. Who only benefit about 20% of the population (upper classes and upper middle classes)

    How I wish that i was a member of the upper-middle classes who have benefited from the oligarchic-plutocratic dictatorship that has been in power since 4th of July of 1776. With the objective of just this: (Creating happiness and wealth for 20% and depression and pain and a lot of work for the 80%.

    If you think about most countries are like that, most countries are like 15%-85%. Even Haiti with the same system of USA, but the classes are happy in Haiti are smaller (like 1%-99%)

    The world has been like that for 5000 years. Even all the countries of Europe have a of poverty, even Sweeden, Norway, Finland. And they are portrayed by the US mainstream media as role models of democracy.

    The whole world is a hell, and all governments of the world (leftist, center-leftists and righists) are all evil and have been evil since the creation of the mafia-states

    Something has to give !!

    .

  42. @Monika92gti

    Whites had better make their voices heard then, tell them to go fuck themselves. Fight for a nation hates you? And tried to replace you? Come on.

    •�Replies: @A_Hand_Hidden
  43. anon[517] •�Disclaimer says:

    Hmm, I wonder if the elites, when they come up out of the bunkers after ww3, will start fractional reserve banking again?

    •�Replies: @Digital Samizdat
  44. Let’s move on to military analyst Number 2, Will Schryver….

    It would be more accurate to say, moderately attentive blogger and military enthusiast Will Schryver.

    There’s a lot to chew on here….

    No, there isn’t.

    Schryver is sober and probably happens to be more or less right, but he’s no authority as far as I can see. He’s just some random guy.

  45. AxeGryndr says:
    @Teilhard

    Interesting analysis. I think the Hilterites part company with the Ripperites at the juncture of world domination. Hitler wanted the jews gone, for a more criminal free society. The jews want to keep us as servants in the NWO…well, at least some of us.

  46. hyperbole says:

    Also available on line I think.

  47. @Bert

    Good points. What’s really astonishing is that at the conclusion of the French and Indian War in 1763, Americans were effusive in their praise of Parliament, which had spent so much in that war to safeguard the western borders of the American colonies. But subsequently the British government decides it is time to end its policy of “salutary neglect” in America and tax the colonies to pay their fair share of the huge cost of their own defense. Then by 1775 the benevolent mother country has become the most oppressive tyranny anyone has ever seen.

    In 1776 Britain dispatched to New York the largest war fleet it had ever assembled, to crush the rebellion, and by 1778 it had all but succeeded, until France, still chafing from its recent defeat, came in with the men and money that would eventually turn the tide. For a generation the British refused to call the war a revolution but instead officially termed it “The war in America with France, Spain, and the Netherlands.”

  48. AxeGryndr says:

    It’s our own fault. We set the bar high, and gave our competition something to strive for. They met the challenge, while we fell back. At the same time American “interests” fell continuously outside our borders; why is America no longer interested in itself? Rhetorical question, I know. America became the psychopathic asshole who wanted to rule the world, but now has lost weight, and cannot compete in the heavyweight division any longer; we apparently can’t go the distance according to the analysis. So, it’s also apparent that those who give the orders in government don’t see it that way, and continue to provoke war, until they get the fight that will finish them.

  49. nognverra says:
    @Badger Down

    Russia itself is the big fat natural resource prize eyed by the hunters.

  50. nognverra says:
    @WingsofaDove

    The only glimmer of hope is that Russia and China haven’t started an Africanization migration program.
    So long as large, coherent nation survive, the would-be world rulers cannot sleep at ease.

  51. Anonymous[358] •�Disclaimer says:

    It’s a lot simpler than all this.

    The US is Fag Nation.
    Russia still has Real Men(tm).

    …but, go ahead, indispensable TransAmerica, do your worst. I’d wager the nuclear strike capability is as rusted and flaccid as the typical US beta male.

  52. @Haxo Angmark

    Congrats on being too retarded to be able to comment on the topic of this article. I bet you think Putin and China are against the ZOG too, right?

  53. Godly49 says:
    @Just another serf

    Our black population is our secret weapon. The power of American BBC will dominate the battlefield
    *rap music starts playing*

  54. This is an impressive article, Whitney, piling enormous amount of evidence that the US would indeed lose a war against Russia, and I’m sure most of us would agree with that assessment. But… so what? Is that even the point? No, I don’t think it is. All we have to do is read the tea leaves and they all point to this: the US will continue to pour billions into Ukraine to “weaken” Russia in order to prepare for the coming conflict with an even more awesome adversary — China.

    And one of the most rotten tea leaves we are gazing at is Trump’s recent appointment of Gen. Keith Kellogg as “Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia,” who has come out with a bunch of statements pointing in exactly that direction. Here is a summary of a few X-tweets in the last couple of days:

    — Kellogg said the “end game” for the war is “evicting the Russians from Ukraine,” including the Donbas and Crimea, resulting in the downfall of Putin. “I don’t think there’s going to be any negotiations”, Kellog said.

    — Kellogg called for the US to impose a “No Fly Zone” in the Ukraine.

    — Kellog stated that Russia is committing a genocide in the Ukraine targeting civilians, and therefore the US should continue supplying equipment to Kiev which has a shot at winning.

    — Kellogg complimented Ukraine for invading the Kursk region of Russia, and said the US should give Ukraine long-range missiles. “Of course they should be given the weapons,” he said, arguing that the US policy should be: “We’re going to give you more”.

    — Kellogg explained that “America First” has nothing to do with isolationism, and includes the belief that backing Ukraine is a “vital national interest” of the US, because “you’re taking a strategic adversary, Russia, off the stage”.

    – Kellogg explains here why using Ukrainians to fight and weaken Russia as a strategic rival will enable the US to focus its resources on confronting China.

    So the US will avoid a direct confrontation with Russia — since it knows it can’t win a war against the big Bear — but it will continue to do everything it has been doing for years, which is pouring billions into this conflict to continue to “weaken” Russia (it’s obvious that the odious Jabba-the-Nuland was just a petty Jew player doing the dirty work of her Top Jew masters). That’s what we can predict from the statements coming out of the grotesque mouth of general Kellogg, who should have stayed home in his pajamas stuffing his face with Fruit Loops for breakfast, but who instead will now be a key puppet of the satanic Jews in their relentless drive to shove the whole world towards the brink of WWIII.

    •�Agree: Jim H
    •�Replies: @Common Time
    , @Eric135
  55. @Notsofast

    Never knew that. Well Bideadhead certainly put his Ship of Fools team together with the Pride of Cucamonga from Shakedown Street near the Mars Hotel using an Unbroken Chain of Money Money giving us all the US Blues. Time for him to pick Scarlet Begonias with Loose Lucy and a China Doll.

    •�LOL: Notsofast
  56. This article is titled ‘Why the U.S will lose a war with Russia’.

    Well, have a look at this 8 min video below titled ‘How Russia’s Izdeliye 305 Missile Remains Unjammed in Ukraine’, and that will give you some idea* why this is the case.

    (*Meanwhile, pretty much all the cutting edge U.S missiles given to the Judeo-Ukrainian regime in this proxy war orchestrated by the Anglo-Zionist empire, have had their guidance systems either jammed or disrupted, resulting in very few hitting their intended targets):


    Video Link

  57. Katrinka says:
    @Monika92gti

    I have a relative (White) serving as an officer in the U.S. Army. He is stationed in Kansas. I’ve never said one word, but he has to be some sort of pathetic loser to participate in “protecting” a country (((government))) that hates him and wants him dead. The draw must be the paycheck and the pension.

    •�Replies: @cool daddy jimbo
  58. BrooLidd says:
    @Just another serf

    The U.S. Army is close to 21% black and 17% Hispanic. Also, 16% female. This is not some closely guarded secret. At some point in any war, infantry is needed. And that’s what America will fight with.

    Whenever conversation turns to the US military that is probably what pops into most people’s mind.

    Does anyone draw a rosy conclusion from the current racial and sexual makeup of the army? Only the wokies surely, and, I suppose, a considerable swathe of Murkan womenfolk.

    Demographics is destiny.

    For two or three decades the US’s mantra was Our Strength Is Our Diversity. They seem to have dropped that down the memory hole… thank God!

  59. Regarding the meme at the beginning of the article:

    At least we kept the Russians out of the Russian Donbass. [While nuclear explosions vaporize cities.]

    We didn’t even do that, just slowed the Russian resovereignization of Russian Donbass … slightly.

    Will it have been worth it?

    Suggested new meme text:

    At least we slightly slowed Russian control of Russian Donbass.

  60. @WingsofaDove

    Dovey Wings writes:

    Remember the The Saker and his minions, crowing that Russia would win in a matter of months with his famous ‘pockets’ and surroundings?
    And Big Serge and Scott Ritter, weren’t they saying a year ago that the winter offensive was coming and it was all over for Ukraine?

    Well, they were dead right, weren’t they?
    Russia has long ago won. So what are you whining about?

    FACT: The professional army that the Judeo-Ukrainian regime began the war with in Feb. 2022, has long ago been decimated. Over 600,000 dead and countless more are amputees, cripples or had their spinal cords torn out by shrapnel.
    The actual ‘soldiers’ in the Ukrainian Armed Forces today are, for the most part, 14-16 year old school boys and elderly men that were forcibly conscripted.

    To the extent that the Ukies still have some combat capability remaining is due to the fact that the Anglo-Zionist empire has thrown countless billions towards hiring mercenaries from the U.S, Britain, Poland and the other NATO vassals.
    Of course most of those have already met their maker and those remaining will follow suit if they don’t wake the fuck up in a hurry and realise that their days are numbered.

    At any time of their choosing, the Russians could easily overrun the country and bring down the government, resulting in an old style capitulation.
    But the Russians don’t want to do that – they’ve learnt the lessons from debacles like the U.S invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan post 9/11.

    You see, if you overrun the country, THEN WHAT?
    That’s right, you need an occupying army that will be stationed there for an indeterminate amount of time.

    It’s easy enough for one of the major hegemons to be victorious in the initial battles against a relatively less capable opponent, and ‘seemingly’ win the war.
    But once you have an occupying army stationed there, the insurgents will pick off the troops using IED’s and such, resulting in DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS.

    Putin is too smart for that. He and his advisers know that the Anglo-Zionist empire would like to see the Russians take over the whole country.
    And, in that event, they almost certainly have caches of weapons/explosives stored all over Ukraine that insurgents will utilise as IED’s during the occupation and cause mayhem.

    Bottom Line: As always, the Russians are dozens of steps ahead of the ZOG miscreants that orchestrated this proxy war. Putin is more than prepared to let this war of attrition drag on, because ALL THE ATTRITION IS ON ONE SIDE (not the Russian side).
    What little armament manufacturing capability the U.S and its snivelling vassals possess, is being flushed down a rat hole in eastern Ukraine – with nothing to show for it.

    All the while the Russians, as they have throughout this proxy war, suffer negligible casualties in relative terms, whilst the combat capability of NATO and the U.S is severely depleted.

    •�Replies: @WingsofaDove
  61. Lots of Empires and statelets blundered into a war all overconfident, all overfed on testosterone-the Persians, the Athenians in Sicily, the Bohemian nobles at the start of a thirty year shinding, Boney, the Dixie Americans, the Germanians in both world wars, Americans in a country called Vietnam, the Israelis now? etc. etc. etc.-convinced of the right of their cause, their racial superiority, their tech superiority (we have Maxim guns they don’t), having their gods on their side etc. etc. etc. Nothing can go wrong, 100 percent success assured…and at the end; a big Whoopsie, looks like we kind of miscalculated-we didn’t take the weather into account, we misunderstood our popularity with the natives, our currency wasn’t as strong as we thought etc. etc. etc.. A thousand excuses after the fact.

    The modern West is like that now. Why do societies throughout history do that? What’s wrong with mankind? The Greeks had a name for it-they called it; HUBRIS. A while back, an American actually wrote a book that American liberal democracy is the final stage in the evolution of mankind-HUBRIS in thought and deed. Nobody can be on top forever-ask the Persians, the Athenians etc. etc. etc..

    •�Replies: @Truth Vigilante
  62. Miro23 says:

    Bottom line: The United States no longer has the industrial base or the requisite stockpiles to prevail in a prolonged war between two near-peer powers. Simply put, the US will not win an extended conventional war with Russia.

    Ukraine is a special case of a “proxy war” using conventional weaponry. It’s really irrelevant since there’s no prospect of a direct conventional US – Russia war. It would go straight to nuclear . And it would oblitérate both countries. Apparently the 90+ independently targetable nuclear warheads on only one nuclear submarine (each warhead far more powerful thatn Hiroshima/Nagasaki) would flatten most US or Russian cities.

  63. BrooLidd says:
    @Col from OZ

    I hear competent individuals, Col. Wilderson, for example, suggesting that the Oreshnik missile makes ‘nuclear war’ possible… without the nukes.

    The truth or falsity of that depends on the missile’s payload, doesn’t it? Russia has said nothing about newly developed, more powerful non-nuclear payloads, has it?

    Is the Oreshnik missile really a ‘gamechanger’? It delivers more payloads (evidently) more speedily, yes, but does that constitute making possible ‘nuclear war without nukes.’

  64. Millennium 7 did an update on his Oreshnik video, including some speculation about cost effectiveness, and some corrections. The story so far will likely change as new information becomes available:

    What we do know is that the West is unlikely to have a reliable defense against it, it is highly precise, and can be used as a non-nuclear escalation in response to NATO provocations. It may take a while to find out what the damage was, the Yuzhmash site is heavily guarded and satellite images appear to be unreliable so far.

  65. katesisco says:
    @anonymouseperson

    As for casualties, in as much as we continue to emphasize military armament, do you think we might just as well have prepared for the human component. 1,000 military bases overseas with the best and the brightest, all able to speak multiple languages and computer literate, safely stashed away from death’s door; with the repeat of McNamara’s warm bodies fleshing out the rank and file on the actual scene.
    Of course, an actual nuclear explosion or several on the homeland would end all this speculation.
    Then we can start over for the umpteenth time.
    Less hair, more fragility.

  66. ariadna says:
    @Haxo Angmark

    With every “Baby Face Tsar lacks the will” post your invariable litany looks more and more like wishful thinking and every “Zionism wins” pretend alarm sounds more like the deluded duper’s delight.
    The West does not in fact escalate, much like Israel has not suddenly become genocidal under Netanyahu. Both are only “coming out” about their true intentions about activities hey have been engaged in for years.
    The West thinks it can debilitate Russia to the point where the population would be vulnerable to a “color revolution.”
    They know Putin will do his utmost to avoid an outright war with the US and like you they cackle every time he doesn’t take the bait that he is “weak.”
    They also know that they could never defeat Russia in a war so they use their battered patsy, Ukraine, to keep doing hit and run operations, sabotage and assassinations. I don’t know if they realize time is not on their side, with the US sinking under the weight of its own insoluble internal problems and disastrous loss of international credibility.
    I think Putin knows that sooner or later Russia will have to fight the desperados in war NOT of its choice, and are prepared for it. So stop cackling. It is annoying.

    ]

  67. Anon[224] •�Disclaimer says:
    @GMC

    Which means those Cartels can’t be taken out by the US military spec. ops.

    Correct ! A friend of mine, Mercedes trained, exited the coffee shop with his morning brew and heard a beautiful Benz convertible that sounded like a jack hammer. In conversation with the owner he heard the car had been taken all over the city and no-one could figure out the problem. The owner was so fed up he told my Bro he was just going to trash the vehicle. Long story short it was just the injectors which my friend blew out. And the charge “nah, it was just a minor thing and in future use Super gas and not regular. Dont worry about the money”.

    Now it turns out my friend (because he did someone a solid) got an invitation to visit Colombia where he was set up with the owner’s family and had a very nice time for one month. What he discovered via casual conversation was as follows:

    The Gs are regular guys who look like regular guys who only become hogs when you mess with them. But to your point, the US public from the street junkie to the highest paying execs want their dope. As such, to the boys down south it is just a business, they fill a desire !

    The kicker though was that the massive amounts of dope entering the country have the collusion, implicit or explicit, of a lot of people. Some guard at the border earning $75K, will, for a $200K tax free fee, turn his eye to a particular truck crossing at a certain time on a certain date.

    The real eye opener though is that fully 85% of drug profits remain and are washed in the US and only 15% repatriated. Everyone has their hands in the cookie jar and anyone who thinks the trade is going to disappear is an ass.

    Only a fool is going to kill the golden goose because if every American stopped doping up, a lot of people would lose their livelihood, status and lifestyle. Besides, it seems that alcohol, tobacco and prescription drugs kill more users than the Cartels. Its all a game, a farce and a never done ice cream cone !

    •�Replies: @GMC
    , @orchardist
  68. @Notsofast

    “Ridin’ that train, high on cocaine, Casey Jones you better watch your speed”.

    •�LOL: Digital Samizdat
    •�Replies: @Notsofast
  69. @Haxo Angmark

    Amazing how many comments this confounded, palaver producing moron generates in response. People have a much easier time sinking to a lower level than rising to a higher one.

    •�Replies: @One Nobody
  70. @Col from OZ

    I believe several aimed at NATO Headquarters in Brussel Sprouts just might get their attention.

    “We are loading in the coordintates for the EU Pee Yew Hindquarters now. Wanna play some more?”

  71. Once again, we see the same criticisms reiterated over and over again : Insufficient industrial capacity, dwindling stockpiles, “insuperable production limitations”, and diminished technological superiority.

    Yes we see the same criticisms because you’re selecting similar opinions to try and idealize your favored totalitarian state that is currently using North Koreans to try and push Ukraine out of Kursk.

    What you’re leaving out is that Russia has been importing ammunition from North Korea.

    North Korea has sent Russia over 1 million artillery shells:
    https://www.ft.com/content/83ad844b-8ebd-45a9-9c12-9c4c8506e25b

    So they obviously don’t have unlimited capacity and already hit their limit in a war against a much smaller nation.

    They’re also currently using passenger vehicles and imported Chinese ATVs in combat so your romanticization of their production capacity might just be a tad exaggerated.

    Five centuries of primacy have produced a cadre of western elites so drunk with hubris that they are incapable of seeing what is painfully obvious to everyone else, that the imperial model of western exploitation (the ‘rules-based order’) is collapsing and that new centers of power are rapidly emerging.

    Who is suggesting war with Russia? Let’s see some quotes.

    There has been talk of French troops but not US. Russia uses North Korean troops so why shouldn’t Ukraine be able to use French volunteers?

    And even though, both France and the UK threaten to deploy combat troops to Ukraine thinking the inexorable trajectory of the war can somehow be reversed. It’s madness.

    Well Ukraine is still in Kursk. Would you have considered that as a possible trajectory last year?

    Funny how Putin’s defenders told us at the start of the war that Ukraine was about to collapse and will have to surrender. Now they take the position that Ukraine can’t win and needs to give up its Eastern regions. So they went from total collapse is inevitable to losing the Eastern oblasts is inevitable. Which means they would have lost more if they had listened to Putin’s defenders that pretend to be experts.

    It’s a whole new ballgame.

    It is a new ballgame. Ukraine blows up Russian tanks on a daily basis with cheap drones and the little dictator can do nothing but stomp his feet.

    •�Replies: @Commentator Mike
  72. @cousin lucky

    “Imho – at the end of a world wide nuclear war everybody loses because everyone will be dead.”

    FYI – at the end of a world wide nuclear war all will be DEAD, therefore, there will be no losers.

  73. When we read of the billions more that USA continues to pour into killing enemies of the Jews, incl activating more proxies currently in Syria, perhaps it losing a war with Russia will be a positive thing for the world, perhaps ceasing to exist at all would be best.
    This may sound dramatic on an American site, but it’s worth while pondering if the final end of the Criminal Cartel “country” isn’t overdue/welcome.
    Some news clips —

    🇺🇦The Biden administration is calling on Ukraine to quickly increase the size of its army by lowering the age limit for conscription from 25 to 18, the American press reports.

    🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺US President Joe Biden has secretly asked Congress for an additional $24 billion in military aid to Ukraine and to replenish weapons stockpiles, Politico has learned.

    — 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: The Biden administration is proceeding with a $680 million arms sale to Israel, which reportedly includes thousands of ‘JDAM’ kits and hundreds of ‘GBU-39’ small-diameter bombs.

    Ja ZionDon is going to stop the war.
    Before he takes breakfast. What American can doubt it ?

    🇺🇦Trump will reportedly appoint Keith Kellogg as special envoy to Ukraine.

    Kellogg’s plan to end the war involves freezing the front lines where they are and forcing Kiev and Moscow to sit down at the negotiating table.

    This is another (huge laughs on tg) example of totally out of touch US arrogant bombast about the gay disco army. Maybe he should stick to breakfast cereals.
    The USA is a poisonous threat to life and well-being on Earth.

    •�Agree: dimples, ariadna
    •�Replies: @Poupon Marx
  74. First of all you have to understand that this guy Putin is a front man for the same folks pulling the strings on the Trumpster.

    Putin is controlled opposition.

    In the past 20 years or so, while Americans were drugged up on free money and distracted by the Jewish Press

    Our fake Jewish friends have been busy using America’s bank account to buy blackmail or extort the leaders of most countries of the world to do their bidding.

    One easy way to tell if a leader is controlled opposition is by how long they’ve been in power.

    Putin, Xi, the Mullahs, North Korea, the list goes on of supposed mortal enemies of the West who have been in power for decades.

    If the above were truly mortal enemies of the fake Jews they would have gotten the German, Gadhafi and Saddam treatment.

    But they never do, Why?

    Because they are controlled opposition.

    Don’t believe me?

    Believe Lenin when his response to the question

    “But what will you do about the opposition?”

    Lenin’s response was;

    “We will control it, of course”

    Lenin from the grave is telling you right to your faces what is happening

    What does this mean?

    It means you would be a fool to follow Putin straight down to hell, if that’s where he led you.

    And that all this Hoo-ha over WW3 is fabricated by the Jewish Press so as to distract from the destruction and looting going on around us.

    •�Replies: @NoBodyImportant
  75. @Paul Greenwood

    Ukraine was doing better while it still had Soviet weapons and Soviet style trained soldiers. Now that they’re all replaced with NATO stuff all it can do is send drugged up recruits to a certain quick death.

  76. HT says:

    The USA won/lost record with wars lately is pretty bad. No reason to believe this would turn out any better especially with a citizenry that mostly has zero interest in it. Might be a good opportunity to get rid of the bloated, corrupt, immoral, unaccountable government monster that now controls us though.

    •�Replies: @Alexandros
  77. Clearly, part of the US strategy for dragging us all into WW3, is to convince the masses that nothing is going on and that Putin is not serious about taking the confrontation to the next level.

    Here are the exact words of the Russian spokesman at the United Nations who explicitly states that Russia is planning to retaliate for the missile strikes by hitting NATO targets in Europe: We believe it is our right to use our weapons against the military facilities of those countries who allow the use of weapons against our facilities. We’ve warned you about this, but you’ve made your choice. https://twitter.com/i/status/1861895552511668318

    At the same time, Reuters and the rest of the media have been ordered to downplay the issue in order to get the country embroiled in an unavoidable confrontation with Russia:

    Reuters– The U.S. decision to allow Ukraine to fire American weapons deeper into Russia has not increased the risk of a nuclear attack, which is unlikely, despite Russian President Vladimir Putin’s increasingly bellicose statements, five sources familiar with U.S. intelligence told Reuters.

    A series of intelligence assessments over the past seven months have concluded nuclear escalation was unlikely to result from a decision to loosen restrictions on Ukraine’s use of U.S. weapons. That view has not changed following President Joe Biden’s changed U.S. stance this month on weapons, said the sources, who were granted anonymity to speak freely about sensitive intelligence.

    “The assessments were consistent: The ATACMs weren’t going to change Russia’s nuclear calculus,” said one congressional aide briefed on the intelligence, referring to American missiles with a range of up to 190 miles (306 km).

    Russia’s launch of a new ballistic missile last week, which analysts say was meant as a warning to Washington and its European allies, has not changed that conclusion.

    We can see now that the media is directly involved in activities that pose a clear and present danger to the basic survival of the American people.

    •�Replies: @HT
    , @orchardist
  78. Rich says:

    US policy has been, since the Cold War, to go nuclear almost immediately after a Russian (Soviet) attack. It was always assumed the Russian land army would quickly overrun Nato troops. Tactical nukes, then ICBMs, then the nuke subs after the American mainland and Europe are destroyed. There won’t be a conventional conflict between Nato and Russia. There’s zero chance of such a war ending up with a victory for either side. Unless that old first strike wiping out the enemy tale that used to get whispered about is true.

    Sad that after the breakup of the Soviet Union we had a chance for a serious peace with Russia. They even asked to join Nato, instead we sent pirates over there to rape their natural resources and steal whatever they could. Real shame. Imagine what a Euro-American-Russian alliance could have accomplished? We’d probably be vacationing on Mars by now. Instead it will be a Rusdian-Chinese led alliance, if there’s no nuclear war.

    •�Agree: Flo
  79. @BrooLidd

    .Wasn’t he one of the guys who said that Hezbollah was going to kick the daylights out of Israel?

    If so, he was obviously very wrong there.

    •�Agree: BrooLidd
    •�Replies: @BrooLidd
    , @Truth Vigilante
  80. Anonymous[139] •�Disclaimer says:
    @Just another serf

    The US Army will need young White boys from Idaho to form any infantry worth a damn – all else will only work if you want to steal/strip a Walgreens drug store.

    •�Replies: @RestiveUs
  81. @Just another serf

    Very few of that 21 percent are on the tip of the spear and none of the 16 percent. So it will be the disposed White rural Southern and mid- western deplorables who will die, be maimed and surrender. Since only one in five military age persons are got to serve even if they wanted to the clear solution is make force much smaller and better. Reduce missions to essential, that is, protect integrity of US by controlling border. Close bulk of overseas bases, bring troops home, retain the best and discharge/retire the rest. The DOD budget is not only wasteful but even if efficient would be redundant. Then go after the mendicant social welfare complex that along with a superfluous education hierarchy that stiffeles freedom and initiative.

  82. @Notsofast

    Isn’t this a variation of the Dr. Strangelove Doomsday bomb?

    I am skeptical that this exists

    •�Replies: @follyofwar
  83. GMC says:
    @Anon

    Good Post – A — Key word – US Dollars – they say that the amount of drug and arms money is nothing to the amount of US Dollars that is being laundered out of Dubai from the African and Asian Gold market { mining and civilian operations }. So, its pretty obvious that the US Dept of Treasury has released Trillions of Dollars into the World Market, without Zero records, to as where all those Benjamins and C-Notes have gone. Imagine the kick back that the USG gets from all the dollars running around the World ! Would you want to start a Nuclear WW III and lose all the kick backs?

    Is the US Military in the M E to protect Israel and Dubai ? Most likely.

  84. @James of Africa

    Thanks, James.
    I’ve followed the news abt Oreshnik incl (lol) Russian couple naming their latest newborn after it … USA and west initial response to an apparently devastating new weapon was predictably dismissive. One really begins to honestly seriously question the sanity of western “leaders” in the face of this development and the very measured statements by Russian govt.
    Starmer-Micron dynamic duo send more Storm Shadows to Kiev, USA pumps more “aid” their way and to Israel. USUK ISIS-type proxies kick off a major attack after Israel reverses in Lebanon, apparently triggered by a verbal signal by Satanyahoo (as reported by a usually reliable tg channel).
    This fresh onslaught is being countered by Russia and SAA.

    I posted upthread that it might be a serious topic for debate/consideration if the USA ceased to exist. Ja, it’s “extreme”, but large/growing sections of the world are now apparently past the stage where USA might be negotiated with …

    Putin has stated that Russia has a stockpile of Oreshnik.
    An imho valid view of W. Europe —

    If we talk about Europe as a whole, it is incredible how many governments have collapsed, from Finland to the UK.
    That’s why all this talk of ‘going to war’ is just elite nonsense.
    Europeans are not tolerating rising prices, they are not going to tolerate dying.

  85. @2stateshmoostate

    First off, just because Xi and Kim have been leaders for a long time doesn’t mean the J’s own them. I highly doubt Kim or even Xi takes orders from these people at all.

    •�Replies: @2stateshmoostate
  86. cousin lucky says: •�Website

    Imho – by the end of January our neo-con idiots will have United States troops being killed in Lebanon for Israel as well as prolonging the Ukraine fiasco.

    Donald Trump might have 8 or more wars going when he becomes POTUS.

    Mr Satanyahoo wins once again.

  87. D.asmith says:

    It’s not all bad news. I very much doubt that Russia, China and Iran combined, could match the United States proud adherence to Diversity, Inclusivity and Equality.

  88. Lurker says:

    At least we stopped those Sudatenland Germans being German.

  89. Andrei Martyanov clears up some of the misconceptions around the Oreshnik debate in the comments section of his blog:

    I explained the difference between hypersonic and ICBMs so many times on this blog, that I am really tired repeating it, for the last time:
    1. ICBM MIRVs are in the atmosphere for a very short time–seconds really;
    2. Hypersonic weapons are weapons which are capable:
    a) of flying IN the atmosphere, maneuver in it and be controlled, all that is for many minutes.
    b) that is why Oreshnik, while being a ballistic missile (on the booster phase) delivers warheads (either inert, loaded with conventional explosives or 900 kT nuke) into their maneuver phase after which they maneuver at some atmospheric high elevation and then DIVE. Practically same routine as Kinzhal. Imagine 36 Kinzhals flying at you at once. The whole world saw it. Nobody in the world (except Russia) has a technology to intercept it. These weapons are called quasi ballistic weapons.
    c) Other hypersonic weapons, such as 3M22 Zircon conduct fully powered flight within atmosphere for minutes and arrive to the target under own propulsion.
    3. Russia already has MIRVs which are powered and also can maneuver for ICBMs such as RS-28 Sarmat. And then there are gliding maneuvering block such as Avangard which have unlimited range, fly with M=27+ and maneuver.

    When I say that the US is not even the same league with Russia–I mean it. It us not hyperbole, it is not a figure of speech. That is why I had it with Ted Postol’s BS and next week you all will know why. The US lost the arms race not by falling behind but by a knockout.

    https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-creator-of-oreshnik.html

    •�Thanks: Commentator Mike
  90. @anonymouseperson

    As long as it is dead white people, our western de facto Jewish governments won’t care one bit. Fact is they will be thrilled the “Romans” will be wiped out.

  91. HT says:
    @Mike Whitney

    Nothing new. The media has always been the offensive line blocking for our corrupt war mongering government going back to FDR propaganda about Hitler building bases in South America to strike us from, the Gulf of Tonkin, weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, etc. Of course the difference with this is the possibility of a direct attack on American soil by Russian missiles and an escalation to nuclear annihilation. All for nothing except to fulfill the insane wishes of the lunatics running our government.

    •�Replies: @cousin lucky
  92. @Arthur MacBride

    You are correct. Laughing so hard at the sheer, monumental ignorance of US political and elite classes can cause spasmodic heart attacks.

    Only two possibilities can account for this inanity. One, they have chips implanted in their heads. Two, they are hypnotized by MK Ultra techniques.

    Perhaps a third is that they are paid an absurd amount of money to act like elementary school children.

  93. Trump is fanning the fires of war in Ukraine and believes in Peace Through Strength by nominating Retired General Keith Kellogg as Special Envoy to Ukraine and Russia.

    Trump’s nominee for Counter Terrorism Chief, Sebastian Gorka, called President Putin “a murdering former KGB Colonel and a THUG.” In addition, Mike Waltz, the Trump nominee for National Security Advisor said that Trump and Biden are on the same page in the Ukrainian war and Trump agrees with everything that Biden is now doing in escalating the war in Ukraine.

    President Putin will not be disrespected by Trump, end of Ukraine negotiations.

    Trump’s nomination team is full of Zionists who believe in Jewish Superiority and Israel First, and Neocons who believe in never-ending wars.

    Nothing will change under Trump. He only has a few good cabinet nominations. The rest are the same-old deep state traitors.

    •�Replies: @Niebelheim
  94. The industrial base isn’t coming back. You don’t even have the the skilled workforce to build the needed infrastructure to support a new industrial base. Also where will you find the soldiers. I suspect the migrants will return home, and most of your potential domestic military was sent to a lab well before birth. Many of those who weren’t are on psych meds. Then of course there is the bathroom confused ones.

  95. Marcali says:
    @Сергей Гончаров

    The genocide and mass murder of the Soviet Communists (rolled):

    The Civil War period till 1922: 3,284,000
    The NEP period till 1928: 5,484,000
    The collectivization period till 1935: 16,924,000
    The Great Terror period till 1938: 21,269,000
    Pre-World War II period till June 1941:26,373,000
    World War II period till 1945: 39,426,000
    Postwar and Stalin’s twilight till 1953: 55,039,000
    Post-Stalin period till 1987: 61,911,000
    (R. J. Rummel: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder since 1917, Transaction Publisher, 1990.)
    It can be seen for instance, that before Hitler got into power at all in 1933, the Bolsheviks had murdered or otherwise eliminated about 12,000,000 human beings.

  96. @Arthur MacBride

    You’re welcome. Larry John has an update on his blog on info that suggests that the next Russian retaliation/warning could possibly be expected soon. There is apparently a warning in Russia that was issued to keep airspace clear in the same area that was crossed by the trajectory of the first Oreshnik attack, valid until the 30th:

    https://sonar21.com/us-uk-and-france-double-down-on-fafo-russia-preps-response/

    •�Replies: @Arthur MacBride
  97. @2stateshmoostate

    There’s one sure way to find out. As San Fran detective Harry Callahan said in “Dirty Harry:” “Do you feel lucky, punk.”

    •�Replies: @2stateshmoostate
  98. BrooLidd says:
    @I have Your 6

    What concrete steps can we take?

    Your three year old has a tick on his thigh. Removing the tick could leave a bleeding wound. What do you do?

    A boa constrictor is wrapped around your goat. Trying to free the goat could end in killing the goat. What do you do?

    Desperate times call for desperate measures.

    It takes a Hitler to rid a nation of Ripperites. [CF ‘Teilhard,’ comment no. 18.]

    •�Disagree: One Nobody
  99. @Truth Vigilante

    Well maybe you’re right, but we cannot know if you’re right, can we? We don’t know how many Russians have been maimed and killed. We don’t know that when the war ends there will NOT be the insurgency you mentioned as a possibility had Putin gone ‘all in’, do we?

    So you’re counting on the future. Which you cannot know, nor I. We also cannot know what would have happened had Putin gone all in from the beginning.

    So my point stands. Many big name analysts predicted in the past that the war would end and they’ve been proven wrong. We don’t know what Putin will take. We don’t know if the war will expand.

    What we know is that Russians are killing, essentially, other Russians, in the 100s of thousands. Kursk Russia has been occupied. The USA and France and UK and Germany are colluding to attack Russia, providing weapons and guidance and logistical support etc.

    And Russia is doing NOTHING against those countries.

    Those are the current facts. What’s the point of basing your analysis on what you IMAGINE ‘will happen’? It’s rather a ridiculous exercise in my opinion. We don’t have all the information, as I said. Putin may be colluding with Western elites. That’s what elites have done in the past. While the proles kill and die the elites hobnob in private and posture as enemies in public. We should certainly keep that open as a possibility until proven otherwise.

  100. @Сергей Гончаров

    Yeah, after 4 years of lopsided victories in the Germans favor, the official number is equal number of military dead.

    Sure!

  101. @HT

    Russian record is not very good either.

  102. @Anon

    A can of either Seafoam, and/or Chevron Techron Injector Cleaner every once in a while helps, too.

    Some even put one can per fillup, and claim ‘perfect engine interior’.

    Highest octane fuel only!

  103. Boll says:

    Nobody will have to fight to contain Russia. Russia entered a long-term deflation following its rise that ended with the USSR in 1991. Now they have reached the other side of this process and it goes downhill no matter what they do. In 50 years it might still exist by name but all East of Ural will practically be controlled by large Chinese, American and jewish operations that will start as partners of the local bigshots slowly pushing them aside.

  104. @Mike Whitney

    OK – let’s talk about Continuity of Government.

    How many are supposed to get passes to go under ground in the DUMB facilities?

    Is this why they think they are invincible?

    Who, why, how many?

    When?

    How do they get there from where they are?

    What response time-frame are they planning on?

    Etc.

    Thanks.

  105. @BrooLidd

    Not really. The damage it does is comparable to a micronuke. A typical strategic nuke can flatten a town, multiple can destroy even the largest cities. Some suspect that Israel blew up the ort of Beirut with a small nuke, that’s the kind of damage it could do.

    It can’t be intercepted and it can take out strategic targets, but nuclear war is usually understood to be whole countries being glassed in hours. That’s not something Oreshnik can do.

    •�Replies: @BrooLidd
  106. @John Johnson

    Russia uses North Korean troops so why shouldn’t Ukraine be able to use French volunteers?

    Surely anyone can invite anybody to help them in their war, materially and with personnel, regardless of any treaties. Ukraine could invite NATO troops into the country even though it is not in NATO. What’s stopping it? Maybe NATO troops don’t want to go and fight there. I don’t know why the West is making a big deal about any invited North Korean troops, especially since the West invaded many countries uninvited.

    •�Replies: @John Johnson
  107. @NoBodyImportant

    My question is

    Why would you ascribe any integrity to either Xi or who’s ever the front man in N Korea is presently?

    These guys do not rule by consent, they are dictators

    Remember

    Our fake Jewish Friends much prefer dealing with dictatorships than democracies

    Indeed the Israelis ingratiate themselves to dictators by providing them with the latest technology for keeping a population under a boot heal

    We have an international criminal status quo that includes the “leaders’ of all the great powers

    That doesn’t mean they are invincible

    Their Achilles heal is that they must rule by deception

    10/7 has forced them out into the open for the first time

    This is good.

    •�Replies: @NoBodyImportant
  108. @WingsofaDove

    It doesn’t add up because there’s always two sets of books, and we only get to see one of them. Troof Vigilance, after extolling Hitler as the shining light, would have us believe Putin is fighting ZOG, when Vlad has a central bank under the BIS umbrella. Who financed Hitler, and who’s financing all this recent carnage? Cromwell, the chosenites and the BoE? If you know their name they’re just a bag man. I commend you for not posting like the know it alls Troof or Bilious Bill, who are convinced they’ve peeled back all the curtains to find THE ANSWER. I just settle for minimizing the damage, staying out of the line of fire as much as that is still possible, and wishing no harm on anyone, lest I become the monster I wish to slay.

    •�Thanks: WingsofaDove
    •�Replies: @Truth Vigilante
  109. Corrupt says:
    @Just another serf

    Most front line troops are white. Blacks are disproportionately represented in support jobs.

  110. Great article!

    Should be front page at the New York Times and Washington Post but . . .

  111. The entire post-WWII US supremacist imperium and it’s arrogant, self-referential mythology was a tacky, stupid cult from the very beginning. The USSR won WWII with their sacrifice of tens of millions of lives, although the atom bombs in Japan and holohoax narratives made convincing enough propaganda to lull many into a deep trance ever since.

    A rude awakening for the Anglo-Zionist psychos beckons in the near future, with much wailing and gnashing of teeth. All of which will be a breath of fresh air and beautiful Spring morning to everyone else. ☮️

  112. @Arthur MacBride

    But they have tolerated being invaded, so Europeans are full of shit.

  113. @2stateshmoostate

    I wasn’t. I was just saying that I have my doubts that Xi or Kim is taking orders from them. That’s all.

  114. BrooLidd says:
    @2stateshmoostate

    Wasn’t he one of the guys who said that Hezbollah was going to kick the daylights out of Israel?

    You may be thinking of Col. MacGregor, who has frequently mispredicted events in the Ukraine, or Scott Ritter.

    Wilderson is a typo, by the way. It’s Col. Wilkerson, whom I consider one of the best guests on Judge Napolitano’s show.

    •�Replies: @2stateshmoostate
  115. BrooLidd says:
    @Anonymous534

    The missile is the delivery system. The amount of destruction depends on the payload. Is that not right?

    •�Replies: @Anonymous534
  116. Isn’t it obvious by now to all but the absolute most blinkered individuals that the leaders of the collective West are trying to get their people killed off? Once you allow that thought to sink in, nothing they do will ever again surprise you.

  117. The U.S. will lose any war it decides to wage – including one against its own citizens.

    The U.S. military is not structured to fight serious wars, nor are its battle doctrines concerned with victory. Creating profit for the military-industrial-security complex is its one and only concern.

    I’ve read that there has been a surge in enlistment in the U.S. military since Trump’s electoral victory. If true it serves as confirmation of the assertion that his followers are nowhere near as smart as is claimed and that “Trump’s Chumps” is still a very apt name.

    •�Agree: NoBodyImportant, dimples
    •�Replies: @NoBodyImportant
  118. Russia will buck break the PATHETIC DEI USA MIC. Truly incredible fall from old heights.

    •�Agree: RedPill Boomer
  119. @cousin lucky

    Imho – at the end of a world wide nuclear war everybody loses because everyone will be dead.

    Our delusional neo-con leaders will gladly eliminate all of humanity, and this planet, to promote their agenda.

    Part of their delusional arrogance is based on their “Continuity of Government” plans that include hiding places for the Ruling Class in the event of nuclear Armageddon.

    Remove these hiding places as options, expose the overlords to the same lethal consequences the rest of us face in their war scenario, and that arrogance will vanish like a rain puddle in Death Valley in July.

    Render places like Greenbriar Valley, West Virginia inaccessible to the Washington crowd and they’ll think twice or thrice before committing us all to suicide.

  120. No disrespect to Mr. Whitney who obviously has an excellent grasp of weapons, geopolitical conflict and outcomes based on previous conflicts, that, he excellently extrapolates into scenarios we can all understand.

    It’s a “Stratego” conversation. This is the one I used to play as a kid.


    This rhetorical brouhaha has a faulty premise.

    If there is a coming conflict, it will be because China has been cut out of the ability to acquire Nvidia chips.

    https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/nvidia-unveils-blackwell-b200-the-worlds-most-powerful-chip-designed-for-ai/

    I think that most of the folks reading this blog are very bright, but, probably think China is making a lot of “chips”. They import in dollar amount, as many chips, as they do oil for the entire country. Think about that. Again, they spend the same amount of money, they spend for every gallon of gas to run every car in China, begging, BEGGING for chips to produce the phones, EVs etc. that they ship our of their ports everyday.

    The complexity of producing these chips is seriously astonishing and they are a “supply chain” dependent product that ends up being finalized for the most part in the Netherlands in devices that are bigger than houses, produce laser heat 40X that of the sun and are required to finish some of the surfaces in measurements of 5 atoms.

    Bezos, Zuck, Gates are all buying and building server farms that cover sq miles right next to nuclear reactors as I write this. They suck a ton of power.

    Russia is NOT a player and China is decades behind.

    The term “Singularity” is bandied about in reference to “Terminator” type scenarios, but it should also be used now, in conversations that will effect the next 5 years. NOT robots killing us, but indeed, the combination of Quantum Computing using AI produced algorithms that will change not just our ideas of war, but our literal existence and how we live.

    Concomitant with this tech, is the of course, purposeful intent to dominate Russia, China and the entire world by U.S. based forces/organizations etc.

    The U.S. and it’s allies are, again, decades in front of China/Russia and things are speeding up.

    The tech created to this point, creates better tech and is the definition of the word exponential.

    The Russians and the Chinese, might be considering using their superior missile tech to thwart our dramatic and increasing lead into a brave new world.

    The weapons this tech will create, will be of course drones, run by AI, run by Ai, run by ai, run by, at least for a while, people.

    This tech is close to writing it’s own code right now.

    No one in reinforced bunkers in Moscow, or, Beijing is really sweating the conversation we are all having today, this Thanksgiving on this blog, or what the idiot in the White House says before he wanders off into the jungle.

    They are sweating bullets over GPU chips and deciding whether or not to effect a preemptive launch and how to justify it.

    •�Replies: @chuck lowe
    , @Truth Vigilante
  121. @Independent Thinking

    Follow the bread crumbs. He was allowed to win for a reason. This election cycle, a sock puppet is needed to inspire the capable, naive deplorables to fight and die.

    •�Agree: Digital Samizdat
  122. Looger says:
    @I have Your 6

    The difficulty, as always, is how to take action.

    Leave the city, build small self sufficient communities, raise animals, mixed farms.

    Get off the grid and ignore all politics above local.

    Remove your energy from the stock market, from corporations.

    Until more of us do this, we’re at the mercy of the maniacs.

    The CIA knew the outcome back in the 1980s, when their game theorists wrote the “Twilight 2000” war timeline.

    The split government, “milgov” and “civgov”, both try and legitimize their tenuous positions by recruiting more troops to send into the meat grinder in Poland.

    The US civilians ignore them both.

    •�Replies: @One Nobody
    , @I have Your 6
  123. @Commentator Mike

    I don’t know why the West is making a big deal about any invited North Korean troops, especially since the West invaded many countries uninvited.

    I don’t see why there are double standards held by Putin defenders.

    Russia can hit any point of Ukraine with a cruise missile.

    If Ukraine does the same then it is escalation.

    Russia can bring in North Korean troops.

    Any talk of French volunteers is escalation.

    Why is Putin never accused of escalation?

    Seems fair to me for both sides to use standard military resources.

    Russia uses Iranian drones, Ukraine uses US missiles. Both sides have used mercenaries. I’m just not getting the outrage by anyone.

  124. @chris

    I suppose it’s the audiences they’re writing for.

    That’s it exactly. Never forget that these “military analysts” are almost all paid shills for the Military-Industrial-Security Complex.

    •�Agree: chris
  125. Madbadger says:

    The US lost this war when we shipped our industrial capacity to Japan and then what was left of it to China. I seem to remember not long ago the Dems were upset that a manufacturer of rifle ammo that had government contracts was also producing ammo for civilian use. They threatened to shut the company down if they didn’t stop selling ammo to civilians. The company said they couldn’t stay in business with only the government contracts. I also remember Remington selling ammo that was made in Korea. They couldn’t even keep up with civilian demand for ammo by producing it in the US. At the beginning of WWII many factories were converted to producing war material. We don’t even have factories to convert any more. I don’t think the elite care if we win or not. They just want war to increase their wealth.

  126. @BrooLidd

    A missile is a weapon. “Delivery system” and the payload are parts of a missile. The amount of destruction depends on the payload, yes. This new missile can either have multiple warheads with no explosive payload (as was the case when it was used by Russia, all damage came from kinetic energy of each warhead hitting the target at high velocity, like a meteor) or nuclear warheads (Russia already had such missiles designed for nuclear warheads for some time though, so nothing new in that regard).

    •�Thanks: BrooLidd
    •�Replies: @Jim H
  127. @Anynomous

    A small point, to an otherwise correct statement: There are Americans with alligence to the Brutish Crown and the City of Dragons, they are called Monarchists. They are afifth column. One tell tale sign is their indoctrination at Oxford U. Their policy is formulated at Chatham house.
    These people are human demonic spirits who believe they should rule the World by any means. Why? Because they say so. The only thing is, Britain isn’t great any longer, not even pitiful in comparison.

    They are the authentic terrorists by special appointment of the Brutish Clown.

    These people need to be put in their place once and for all and prosecuted for crimes against just about every country from the US (Civil War) , Russia (Russian Revolution), China (Opium) and on down.

  128. @chris

    Articles like the ones quoted by RAND are literally psyops designed to keep military spending high.

    If they wrote a report “we’d wipe the floor with Russia and have nothing to worry about” how could they justify the trillions being spent.

    That idiots don’t see this and genuinely think that Russia can defeat the US in a conventional war when they’re three years into not defeating Ukraine amazes me

    •�Disagree: chris, RadicalCenter
    •�Replies: @chris
  129. Notsofast says:
    @Poupon Marx

    switchman sleeping, train hundred and two, is on the wrong track and headed for you.

    •�LOL: chris
  130. @mocissepvis

    I’ve always thought his voting block was the most pro-ignorant voting block of all. Not even the far left would go to war for Kamala Harris or Biden. They would resist at all cost and if there was a draft they would come up with as many excuses as possible to dodge and avoid it.

  131. Our rulers are so arrogant they thought they could have their proverbial cake and eat it too. Loot our industrial base, demoralize American men, and promote a whiny, self-indulgent, degenerate ideology. Now they’re too clueless to realize they’ve also destroyed their chance at world domination via American blood and sacrifice.

    •�Replies: @One Nobody
  132. barracuda says:

    Most Americans continue to believe that the United States will prevail in a conventional war with Russia. But that is simply not the case.

    Mike Whitney with his crystal ball of baseless predictions strikes again. How very enlightening to read sweeping declarations without a shred of tangible evidence. He won’t let in pesky little things like facts get in the way of a grand narrative. No way! He uses the sheer force of empty forecasts alone.
    I dare you, Mr. Whitney. You might avoid a fight, but reality will deliver the knockout punch:

    The special utilisation of pro-Putin idiot masses (Spezutilizatziya) will end up in a scenario that has already been tried and tested: instead of Drang nach Westen, Putin and his henchmen will get Untergang. There is no doubt about it.

    •�Replies: @Wokechoke
  133. Rangewolf says:

    Whitney unfortunately is thinking like a child. He sees all the possibilities, but none of the very formidable obstacles. Just the same as children do.

    The coming World War will be different in every way from the past wars. When many thousands of missiles fly in all directions, the main targets will be factories, depots and ports. The industrial base on all sides will be mostly gone within days, including the Chinese industrial base, the largest in the history of the world.

    Who will be churning out weapons in large numbers when the grid is down? The grid WILL be down, on both sides.

    My opinion is that the ‘United States’ will descend into anarchy almost immediately. There actually is no more United States. It died during the Reagan years. The actual point of the coming war is to decide who are the successors. Will China dominate over there in the Pacific, or Japan, or Russia? Who will dominate the Islamic world, in Europe, in Africa?

    You go far off the tracks when you assume Russia and China are friends. They are mortal enemies and have been for 1,000 years. The biggest issue in the coming war, assuming the USA will disappear from the chessboard, is who will dominate Central Asia? Will it be Russia or China? That is the essence of the war. My money is on Russia.

  134. @anon

    No. They will instead roll out their Central Bank Digital Currency at last.

  135. When all else fails, the Empire uses false flag events. Perhaps a false flag is being staged in London to blame Putin…..sounds very plausible as London webcams are out of service and military planes have been flying around London frequently:

  136. Another grade nine piece of trash.Mike the US has now almost 3 times the population of Russia. Its GDP and industrial base swamps Russia. Throw in Canada and Great Britain and the Aussies and NZ and the Germans and the rest of Nato and you are rendered a clown.

    •�LOL: RadicalCenter
  137. @follyofwar

    That’s a good enough reason for me to start WW3

  138. @Poupon Marx

    PM… My! My! it seems like you are the one who has to sink everyone so you can feel afloat? just saying.

    HA, might be a real moron or appear as one on the surface in order to spread confusion. Think of my response to him as nothing more than a counter narrative, should he be a troll. However, he may be misguided and this is why I share what I have learned to be plausible.

    The more we respond to the false narrative the more they loose efficacy in their preparation for the WW3 psyop. Remember Syria’s Cheminal weapons drive to war?

    My response is never intended for a tower of knowledge and wisdom such as yourself, but for those who need some red pilling and dot connecting. Help us out here PM, the light of Humanity is dimming in case you haven’t noticed. Peace.

  139. @RedPill Boomer

    Don’t forget the blood and sacrifice of all those who never even threatened us.

  140. chris says:
    @Shitposter_in Chief

    Don’t mean to be rude but I actually don’t agree with your point here.

    The US and Russia have profiled their armed forces based on their respective areas of concern. The Russians to protect their country and the US to play world policeman and beat up on 3rd world nations.

    So regarding their relative strengths, who’s more powerful, a lion or a shark? Well, you can’t really compare them that way.

    Yeah, Russia is only slowly proceeding in Ukraine because they want to protect their own troops. Besides that, they’re fighting a war of attrition, meaning they want to annihilate the Ukrainian military as much as possible. They don’t want to have a quick victory, make peace, and have to release their captives so that they would have to deal with them again in a decade or so.

    It’s pretty amoral but not as amoral as the US sending the Ukrainians into the grinder to get killed in order to achieve its geo-strategic goals.

    •�Replies: @Wokechoke
  141. The coming nuclear war with Russia will be triggered by zionist Trump aka the ZUS Caligula and Netanyahu aka the Israeli Caligula , when these 2 insane zionists attack Iran and Russia comes in on the side of Iran, this attack is coming as soon as zionist Trump takes office. Trump is a Caligula clone as is Netanyahu and these 2 demons are going to take the world to nuclear war.

    Edgar Cayce predicted in 1932 that in the future Russia would return to its Christian roots and this has come true, present day Russia is a Christian nation , and it is for this reason that the messianic zionists have such a demonic hate for Russia, messianic zionists hate Christians and want to kill ever Christian and Muslim on earth, if anyone doubts this, read their Torah and Talmud and Kabbalah , it is all there , these demons do not even hide it, such is their control over the western regimes.

    This nuclear war is coming and there will be no winners even though the demonic zionist believe they will survive in their DUMBs aka deep underground military bases that they have throughout Israel and the ZUS and ZEU, but when they emerge it will be to a devastated world, and what they thought they wanted will not exist, it will be hell on earth.

    •�Replies: @Wokechoke
  142. @James of Africa

    That’s an interesting report.
    Simplicius concentrates firstly on the incredible barrage of bullshit, blatant lies etc by the western Lügenpresse (even ZeroHedge relayed some of it) and officials like Mr Anxiety John Kirby, the “WH Strategic Communications Coordinator”, then known results from ATACMs, expected ground outcomes from AFU Line-of-Contact Officers, reports at the target Yuzhmash in Dnepro (so far as may be gleaned), the current NOTAM etc.
    From an unverified report (Martyanov) —

    … Security around the perimeter and on the territory withdraws all means of photo and video recording, even pens and notebooks are taken away. People tell us that “officials” who speak English, Polish, and French constantly arrive at the plant’s territory in tightly tinted minibuses. They say that unknown ammunition hit just those underground production facilities that Vladimir Zelensky boasted about …

    https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/swell-of-wwiii-red-herrings-aims

    •�Thanks: James of Africa
    •�Replies: @Arthur MacBride
  143. @Looger

    First and foremost abolish Usury. Forbid the banks from loaning us our deposits, only to pay Rent for housing, health and education. Imagine if we don’t have to pay taxes, what a salary raise that will be, 25%?

    •�Agree: RadicalCenter
  144. Wokechoke says:
    @barracuda

    One way or another the large mass of Eurasia will be dominated by a city there. The 15-16 million around Moscow will rule the roost there. There’s no other way it can shake out.

  145. Wokechoke says:
    @Desert Fox

    Communist propagandist who, after his death, finds himself in hell, where he quickly convinces the guards to let him leave and go to heaven instead. When the Devil notices his absence, he quickly pays a visit to God, demanding that he return to hell what belongs to the Devil. However, immediately after the Devil starts to address God: “My Lord …” God interrupts him: “First, I am not Lord but a comrade. Second, are you crazy talking to a fictional being?—I don’t exist! And third, be short, otherwise, I’ll miss my party cell meeting!”

  146. RestiveUs says:
    @Anonymous

    I think you’re on to something…We’ll just project holographic images of Walgreens/Walmart store fronts across enemy lines and let our DEI troops loose!

  147. cousin lucky says: •�Website
    @HT

    Imho – wars leave holes in the hearts and memories of those that survive. The Russians did the bulk of the dying in world war II so they go to great lengths to avoid major wars.

    If and when nuclear weapons are dropped on the U.S.A. our neo-con idiots will finally get the justice that they deserve.

  148. MoT says:
    @Yehudi Arabia

    Sigh! Just what we needed… one sky worshippers explanation of yet another sky worshipper.

  149. @James of Africa

    I am not a fan of Kermit but this one is good perspective:

    •�Thanks: James of Africa
  150. @Paul Greenwood

    How will US cities clear corpses ? Using lead-shielded bulldozers ? How will policing control breakdown of electricity and mobile phones and water ?

    They won’t. For the survivors it’s going to be every man for himself. You’ll want to have a gun and plenty of ammo when the SHTF; strangers will try to kill you for your food, for your water, for anything of importance (including your gun and ammo) that you have and they don’t. It’ll quickly become the Law of the Jungle.

    •�Agree: Radicalcenter
    •�Replies: @Radicalcenter
    , @dimples
  151. @Arthur MacBride

    Report by VVP on production etc.
    Brief vdo report on time to strike US bases.
    eg. Djibouti USAFB (4,100 km) 20 mins.
    Also times to Guam, Pearl Harbor, mainland USA.

    Europe appears to be concerned about a new threat, from which it has no protection – this is the Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missile, which reaches the Western capitals of NATO countries in 15-17 minutes.

    https://sputnikglobe.com/20241128/oreshnik-missile-putin-unveils-new-details-of-its-destructive-power-1121031302.html

  152. Anon[233] •�Disclaimer says:

    The only possible explanation is that the DO cowards want the Pentagon to get their ass kicked, so they can get some mass hysteria going. They seem to think national humiliation and revanchism can help them sell their CIA shit: repression, surveillance, sneaky coward ratfucks, gun-running, germ warfare.

    More likely, though, somebody with a 3-digit IQ will point out that if we just hanged those CIA cunts we would be a perfectly peaceable nation and we wouldn’t need that beltway shit they sell.

  153. EL_Kabong says:
    @Dumbo

    Why? Because, like any meddlesome asshole, he won’t stop until someone finally busts his fuckin hole for him.

  154. julio besser says: •�Website

    Russia is Yugoslavia, Putin is Milosevic. Trump admin pressures the Russian state, Russian state collapses, Putin gets arrested and sent to the Hague. Russian non-jews and non-critical workers get vaxxed, same as Ukraine, Iran, North Korea, and ultimately, the US itself.

    Actually I’d be more concerned with getting vaxxed by the Trump admin than any threat of Russian military action.

  155. Wokechoke says:
    @chris

    They know that the Ukraine will switch sides.

    •�Replies: @Carney
    , @Miro23
  156. Kumbaresu says:
    @Christoph88

    Are we sure that nuclear weapons are even real?

    They are real, since we are going to pay for them, like we paid for the covid scam.
    I expect a lot of people will use face diapers, trying to protect themselves from the blast wave, debris, heat, fire, radiation and nuclear winter. Since it protected them against covid, they might get lucky one more time. Antidotes from Pfizer will be available as well for those who are most vulnerable, such as morons, cretins and imbeciles.

  157. Carney says:

    Re the “Russian Donbas”: the Donbas is not actually ethnically Russian.

    This is the Donbas, consisting of two entire oblasts (the rough equivalent of US states): Donetsk and Luhansk.

    And where ethnic Russians were the largest ethnicity (not even necessarily an actual majority; this is based in favor of ethnic Russians by including where they were a mere plurality but NOT a majority):

    As you can see, in the Donbas

    thus meaning not Crimea nor the one random raion (the rough equivalent of a US county) up in Sumy Oblast or the one city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

    … in the entity of the Donbas itself, ethnic Russians predominate only in two raions in the Luhansk Oblast and no raions at all in Donetsk Oblast. Not the countryside, and just a few cities in Luhansk and Donetsk (and not even all of those).

    So the area is at most mixed, not at all “Russian” as sweepingly claimed. And even if it WERE overwhelmingly ethnically Russian, that doesn’t prove the locals did or do want to be ruled by the KGB-mafia regime in the Kremlin. The American revolution war driven by ethnically English people who didn’t want to be ruled by London, and the US Civil War was driven by ethnically English people who didn’t want to be ruled by their co-ethnics from the North and in Washington D.C.

  158. @chris

    how to take his gun and meds out of his hands and shove him down the stairs.

    Wouldn’t solve much, if anything. The Deep State has an endless supply of puppets to replace him.

  159. Carney says:
    @Wokechoke

    It’s not “the Ukraine” – it’s not a region like “the Great Plains” – it’s a country, namely, Ukraine

    •�Troll: mulga mumblebrain
    •�Replies: @Wokechoke
  160. BertB says:
    @I have Your 6

    What concrete steps can we take?

    Who is ‘we’?

  161. @Сергей Гончаров

    The 27 million figure is the most accurate available. About 7.5 million Soviets were killed on the battlefield and close to 4 million soviet Pows died in captivity. German dead on the east front were about 2.5 million shortly before the war ended. See the book Stalin’s secret war for more on this. The writer attributes the huge disparity to the barbaric way the red army fought. Perhaps a million killed alone just from penal battalions. These began every Soviet assault and were used in solid marching blocks to clear minefields. Hitler frequently lied about casualties in the east. At the end of 1941 he told the German people in a radio broadcast that the east front had resulted in 500,000 German losses and 10,000,000 soviet ones. The true figures were 800,000 and 6 million respectively. See Albert Seaton’s book the Russo-German war. The figure of 4,500,000 German casualties by June 1944, (this is all casualties not just dead btw, comes from the Wehrmacht’s own sources). Had Germany sustained 9,000,000 military dead, the war would have ended years earlier.

  162. @Dumbo

    Why does the U.S. needs to keep bullying Russia, China, Europe, the Middle East, etc, why can’t it just take care of its people and leave everybody else alone? No one sane wants war

    Because when America deindustrialized we became a global financial empire, more accurately we became the world’s largest ponzi scheme. For a ponzi scheme to keep working you always need a new mark, we’ve run out of marks and the rest of the world is getting wise. The elite’s (insert Jews) are desperately trying to salvage it the only way they know how, more confrontation, escalation and war.

  163. @Felpudinho

    I clicked Agree, but isn’t a better option to at least get your children out of the USA?

    •�Replies: @Felpudinho
  164. Jim H says:
    @Anonymous534

    ‘all damage came from kinetic energy of each warhead hitting the target at high velocity, like a meteor’ — Anonymous534

    Kinetic energy is given by the formula (1/2)*mass*velocity² [squared]

    Thus, with the same inert payload mass, a missile impacting its target at Mach 10 delivers four times the kinetic energy of a missile impacting at Mach 5.

    This fourfold increase in kinetic energy is very material, in terms of destructive power. Also, witnessing a missile appear 3 kilometers away and then impact one second later — presumably followed by a ferocious sonic boom — is the very definition of shock, awe and demoralization.

  165. Miro23 says:
    @Wokechoke

    They know that the Ukraine will switch sides.

    It’s in the Ukrainians interest to do that.

    At the moment they know that their government is spectacularly corrupt and that their NATO “friends” are forcing Ukrainians into a losing meat grinder war (already about 1 million killed or wounded), with the latest US idea being the conscription of 18 year olds.

    What they don’t know is that Blackrock controlled companies own the country and that Ukrainians are actually giving their lives to protect Blackrock’s investment. Also that they’re going to be returned to serfdom in any remaining Western controlled part of Ukraine.

    So surrendering and letting the Russians rebuild the country has to be a better idea.

    •�Replies: @John Johnson
    , @Wokechoke
  166. @Christoph88

    Pictures certainly suggest that some type of new weapon was involved. This piece has a photo taken during the bombing of Hamburg:

    https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/operation-gomorrah-first-firestorms

    This is a photo of Nagasaki:

    Those two scenes look different enough that something new must have been developed between July 1943 and August 1945.

  167. @Miro23

    So you are saying they should surrender to Russia and hand over not just their wealth but Ukrainian identity?

    You Putin bootlickers are ridiculous.

    Ukraine is still in Kursk and you are talking about them completely surrendering.

    Maybe try reading outside pro-Putin sources. Russia is struggling to get Kursk back.

    Oh and the Ruble is about to hit a 10 year low.

    But keep cheering the 2.5 week special operation. It’s going so well.

    •�Replies: @Wokechoke
    , @Rus carapuz
  168. @BrooLidd

    You’re right

    I think I did mix him up with General McGregor.

    Ritter was another guy who said Hezbollah would clean Israel’s clock

    Their job was to build up Hezbollah as this great boogeyman to Israel and the West so as to scare the lumps.

    When all the while, the Hezbollah elite were in Israel’s pocket and the whole war in Lebanon was staged so as to accomplish a “mowing of the grass”.

    Mowing of the Grass meaning where Israel assassinates or maims (pagers) those who are threats to the corrupt Hezbollah elite and therefore to Israel.

    Remember it’s still the same corrupt Hezbollah elite running things today

  169. ebear says:

    If you’re going to fight Russia on the European continent you first have to get there, and how are you going to do that in the numbers required once hostilities begin?

  170. @Fin of a cobra

    ..how much is “ Sputnik”, “ Pravda”, “Russia Today”, paying YOU..?

  171. Miro23 says:
    @I have Your 6

    The “million dollar question” is what is their end-goal.

    What’s so complicated? They want absolute power and control of all assets + crush dissent. That seems obvious. It’s looks like the Neo Bolshevization of the United States – even run by the same people.

    The end result is the same “You will own nothing and be happy”.

    •�Agree: Robert Bruce
  172. @NoBodyImportant

    TBF most Whites are exceptionally stupid and easily cozened. They will serve, and they will be of service

    •�Agree: Robert Bruce
  173. Sgt.Based says:

    I think the biggest driver id the superiority myth is that since 1975 we’ve only tested ourselves against:

    A. Nations with technology 30+ years inferior to ours

    And B. Allies with technology that is identical at it’s base

    So we sit there thinking tech we invented in the 80s has no counter because the people we test it against aren’t *allowed* to build or research any.

    If anyone really thinks that any of the world doesn’t understand the stealth capabilities of an airplane that’s been flying for a quarter century at this point and hasn’t at least workshopped multiple types of counter they simply haven’t been able to test yet is living in a fantasy world.

    Just like in Ukraine where the vaunted Bradley and Abrams (both being specifically designed and marketed as unbeatable counters to Russian vehicles) are getting easily destroyed.

    Hell, a Russian APC went nose to nose with a Bradley and tore it apart with it’s chaingun. A drone even recorded it.

  174. @Radicalcenter

    When the SHTF it’ll be too late, and who’s got the money to send their kids to New Zealand now, on a prolonged holiday, just in case? There won’t be any heads up for us like the heads up the Jews got in Germany – giving Jews the time to get out. Once the missiles start flying the commercial airlines will be grounded, it’ll be too late to get as far south in the Southern Hemisphere as is possible.

    I don’t think we’ll need a nuclear war for American society to breakdown, we’re doing enough to bring on the collapse ourselves. The good news is that hyperinflation and the lack of food transport into large cities isn’t radioactive. Anything is better than a full-blown Nuclear War against Russia and/or China for the radiation factor alone.

    •�Replies: @RadicalCenter
  175. Anonymous[658] •�Disclaimer says:

    I guess they’ll need to update this.

    https://sgs.princeton.edu/the-lab/plan-a

  176. yud-vile says:

    True, when was the last BIG war won by the US?

    Big war: not a war at 100 against one like Iraq or Lybia and against an enemy of the same size.

    It was 1945 and they were 3 to 4 empires against two nations (USSR, US, Britain, China vs Germany and Japan), and it’s Russia who did the ahrdest as usual.

    NOW, arsenals:

    icanw.org

    /nuclear_arsenals
    armscontrol.org/factsheets/nuclear-weapons-who-has-what-glance

    https://fas.org/publication/nuclear-weapons-2024/

    The graphs show that the US had more nukes BUT they are decomitted or in destruction process.

    https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/us-nuclear-weapons-stockpile

    The Post-Cold War Stockpile

    The U.S. nuclear stockpile is the smallest it has been since 1960. As of 2023, the stockpile stood at 3,748 warheads—a roughly 88 percent reduction in size since its peak of 31,255 warheads in the late 1960s.

    Most weapons in the current stockpile were produced during the 1970s and 1980s. At the time they were built, these weapons were not designed or intended to last indefinitely.

    NEITHER THE US NOR RUSSIA WANTS A NUCLEAR WAR BUT THE WEST REALLY DOESN’T WANT IT AND CAN’T WIN IT, NOR IT CAN WIN A CONVENTIONAL ONE.

    BUT, THIS WW3 WON’T BE OR RATHER ISN’T A CONVENTIONAL WAR.

  177. Paul S says:
    @cousin lucky

    Nuclear war isn’t nearly as catastrophic as we’ve been led to believe

    Nuclear winter is a complete myth btw

    Which is good,bc the US has done almost nothing to help it’s plebs survive nuclear war,id argue so Israel can better threaten us with the possibility of them nuking us aka ” the samson option ”

    Russia and China have fallout shelters for roughly their entire population
    The US doesn’t,it’s only made plans for the rapacious billionaires and geriatric senators

    See ” Raven Rock ” and ” While the rest of us die ” for the copious receipts

    If you really want a crazy thesis that is somewhat plausible,seek out the book ” Death Object ”

    •�Troll: mulga mumblebrain
  178. @Marcali

    to tell the truth the stats this Rummel guy is giving are totally ridiculous-he’s basically pulling it outta his incompetent ass. Seriously if you list the total number of deaths in the USSR from 1917 to 1987 (including such common causes of USSR deaths like dying from a serious case of the Covid 19 (1919 that is), getting runover by a runaway troika, being the victim of a rabid seal attack while swimming nude with your sweetie in the Sea of Oshkosh, getting slaughtered by schizophrenic Cossack who thinks Trotskyites are communicating with him through his stainless steel dentures, crashing in an Antonov 2 while delivering the latest issue of Pravda to some Kamchatkan hamlet, being crushed head-on by a less rusted-out Moskvitch while Sunday driving your rusted-out Lada to your dacha, getting trampled underfoot by a classroom of Pioneers eager to get the best spot to raise Leonid Brezhnev posters at the Mayday parade up to having a bad re-entry while piloting Soyuz 1 and yes including Beria putting a bullet into your brain) you’ll get about 61 million dead people (maybe even less). That Rummel guy is probably not a medical doctor (obviously he’s not a statistician) so he is not aware of a condition called old age. It is often fatal in the long-term. People die of a lot of things but that old age thing (as Cockney harlots like to say) is a right proper killer. Don’t believe everything you read.

    •�Thanks: Felpudinho
    •�Replies: @Marcali
  179. dimples says:
    @Felpudinho

    Sounds like every red-blooded Fatmerican’s most cherished fantasy come true. Back to the Wild West! Bring it ON baby!

    •�LOL: Felpudinho
    •�Replies: @Felpudinho
  180. Megoy says:

    So the American taxpayers have been getting raped by a Jew created (see: “How the Jews Defeated Hitler” – Benjamin Ginsberg) military industrial complex that can’t account for $22 TRILLION while giving us overpriced JUNK.

    https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/2018/12/05/fact-check-21-trillion-in-lost-pentagon-spending-that-cant-be-right/985027007/

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/kotlikoff/2019/01/09/holding-u-s-treasuries-beware-uncle-sam-cant-account-for-21-trillion/

    https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2017/msu-scholars-find-21-trillion-in-unauthorized-government-spending-defense-department-to-conduct

    These lying Jews have made nothing but “mistakes” as our money and soldiers have been decimated. It is clear to see they are ripping us off, getting rich while the entire white world gets sucked dry and destroyed.

    So much for my “red line” of Russia striking the U.S. with a nuke for me to start mass murdering Jews. It will already be too late if they plan to launch all 4,000 at once.

    If Trump’s super Zionist administration isn’t going to stop the madness then we have to start seriously discussing our right to overthrow insane tyrants as the records clearly show.

  181. Salcio says:

    : … Russian military capability far exceeds that of the US in the areas that really count: High-tech weaponry, military industrial capacity, and experienced manpower …”
    Strangely, three years into Ukraine’s war and Russian army is stuck using Iranian drones and North Korean military. Reality sucks.

    •�Replies: @Daniel Rich
  182. @Carney

    The Bessarabians identifying as “Bulgarian” ten years after the illegal
    (((declaration of independence))) are a nice touch 😁

    The red parts are your “Ukrainians”; if you had just stated you couldn´t find the
    Ukraine on a map five years ago you´d have spared yourself a lot of work
    (Lyubavichi?! Of course you know where that is).

    •�Replies: @Carney
    , @Carney
  183. Odyssey says:

    The Iskanders eliminated the American and French mercenaries.

    In the morning of November 28, the Russian army carried out a combined attack on the facilities of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex and energy infrastructure in response to the Kiev regime’s strikes deep into Russian territory, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced.

    Foreign specialists, mainly from the United States, and French instructors and technicians in Odessa were killed in a rocket attack on the headquarters of the “Kraken” unit of the Main Intelligence Directorate in the city of Kharkiv.

  184. Wokechoke says:
    @Carney

    Let’s be pedantic for a moment here.

    It is “The Frontier”. In the Balkans the South Slavic variation on the word ukraine is Krajina. At least the Bosnians had to good sense not to call themselves Krajinians.

    Let us now rewind here, the word The Rus sounds much like the English term The Race.

    What we have in The Frontier is The Race vs The Jew King of Kiev.

    •�Replies: @Odyssey
  185. Wokechoke says:
    @John Johnson

    The Ukraine is was and will always be some kind of The Frontier. The clue in in the Slavic. Call it Krajina or ukraine as you wish.

    •�Replies: @John Johnson
    , @notbe mk 2
  186. I have witnessed the deliberate destruction of the UK electronics and defense industry since the 80s.
    Fight Refueling sold to the Americans and dismembered, IP taken back to the USA, the UK production facilities thrown into the dumpster. ditto Vospers, bought by Americans and destroyed. ditto Penny and GIles, sold off them destroyed the IP taken back to the USA as trophy.. Ditto Gardners Transformers (and Electronics).

    Various scion shareholders made a quick buck when the original founders died off. UK never gave a sh1tte about the evaporating technical industries, Margaret Thatcher and her cronies and successors got paid off very nicely by America to deindustrialize.

    •�Replies: @Wokechoke
  187. Wokechoke says:
    @Miro23

    Recall that in ww2 captured Ukie ethnics signed up for Wehrmacht and SS units.

    When stationed in France they murdered their officers and surrendered to the British.

    Slippery folks to lead.

    •�Replies: @Miro23
  188. @Sgt.Based

    Fifth generation jet fighters !
    Once only the West had the brains and the computing power to design fast fighter jets and airliners.
    The West trained a lot of second and third world scientists and engineers, since the 90s with mass production of cheap and very powerful computing, the ability to design and build and fly jets is the normal now. They have the industry we dismantled and shipped overseas. Britain did this wholesale from the sixties onwards.

  189. Anon[614] •�Disclaimer says:
    @Christoph88

    It’s a hoax. Japan (no country) was ever nuked. Unfeasible. The core just melts too early. Good for power generation and not much else. They will never show us above ground test in 4K. Not even N. Koreans did, only “underground”. It’s as you say.

    •�Troll: mulga mumblebrain
  190. I doubt it. On this planet, among our species, Evil triumphs almost all the time, therefore the greatest Evil in history, the USA and its puppet stooges, are odds on to ‘win’.

  191. @Carney

    If lies and bullshit were music, Carney the Judeonazi would be Papa Bach reborn. Where’d you get that shite map, troll? No attribution, of course. And what of inter-marriage between ‘Ukrainians’ and Russians, the same people, actually? Christ, I weary of the evil of Judeonazi trolls.

  192. @EliteCommInc.

    The ‘value’ of the USA lies in its ‘victory’ in Indochina. Four million dead, the calculus that the USA ALWAYS follows. The more we kill, the better we are. There’s your fucking ‘American Values’.

  193. The core just melts too early.

    Guess you’ve not read Los Alamos Primer, huh?

  194. Odyssey says:
    @Wokechoke

    At the time when the Serbs, with the Tsarina’s permission, created the first two colonies (Slavenoserbia and New Serbia) in 1751, and founded the cities of Luhansk, Bakhmut and others on the uninhabited territory of the Russian Empire, there were no Ukrainians and no Ukrainian language.

    These were the Serbs who for centuries protected Europe, who were a barrier to the penetration of Islam into Europe, and lived in the Military Krajina (‘borderland’) that stretched from the Carpathians to the Adriatic. From the Serbian name (Krajina=Borderland), the current name of Ukraine was born.

    It would be fair, after the end of the conflict, to return Ukraine its original name (New Serbia), in memory of the Serbs, former guardians of the Russian Empire from the Ottomans and prominent fighters against Napoleon, where Serbian generals stood out and who were assimilated over time.

  195. Carney says:
    @nokangaroos

    “Illegal” according to what?? The Soviets? The Soviet Union was itself a lawless state, imposed on Russia by a coup in 1917, and then on other countries by bloody invasion, maintained by ludicrous one-candidate “elections” and colossal repressiveness from one of the most murderous regimes that has ever existed. Regardless of the glittering guarantees of various freedoms in Soviet law, including the right to secede, the real power lay in the Soviet Communist Party, making that Constitution even more of a farce than its imposition by force had made it in the first place.

    And speaking of coups, the August 1991 coup attempt by the throwback Soviet Communists had so completely destroyed the credibility of remaining in the USSR that the Ukrainian Communist Party had no choice but to agree to independence.

    And you label that declaration of independence as “Jewish”? Are you totally oblivious to how moronically contradictory you Jew-hating paranoid crackpots are? Generations of portraying the Soviet Union as a Jewish conspiracy, decades of posturing as champions of the Ukrainian people against the “Judeo-Bolshevik” murder regime in Moscow, and now rather than hail Ukraine’s having achieved independence from the Kremlin Communist gang at long last and after millions of lives lost, you sneeringly denigrate the Ukrainian declaration of independence as some kind of Jewish sham?

    You’re no better than the Communists themselves, who devastated what little credibility they had with their flip-flop-flip on Hitler’s Germany: hysterical hatred for it until the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, then portraying the Western Allies’ war against it as aggression by plutocrats and war profiteers against a socialist state, then instantly hysterical hatred again after Operation Barbarossa started — utter and absolute shamelessness and total lack of intellectual and moral integrity.

  196. Carney says:
    @nokangaroos

    What’s the point of your posting that map anyway?

    It’s a map of the March 17 1991 referendum on sovereignty. In it, the voters voted “yes” to the question of whether to be in a newly-named, so-called “Union of Soviet Sovereign States”, specifically on the basis of the July 16 1990 Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine.

    That 1990 declaration had all but completely severed Ukraine’s connections to the USSR, declaring that Ukrainian law overruled Soviet law, and that Ukraine would have its own army, its own central bank, its own currency, and its own foreign policy.

    And you’re acting like THAT is some kind of declaration of irrevocable love for Moscow? That this was the Ukrainian people collectively renouncing and erasing their Ukrainian identity, insisting that they are Russians, and begging to be invaded and dominated by the Kremlin? Ludicrous!

    This was as pro-Kremlin as the Ukrainian people GOT; the western regions voted no (or boycotted) because they were even MORE hostile to Moscow and wanted to break with it 100%.

    And amid the highly fluid situation of the late 80s and early 90s, even THAT remaining ultra-tenuous connection to the Kremlin quickly became completely untenable within just months, by August 1991 after the Communist hardliners’ attempted coup. After that made clear there were still some forces in Russia that wanted to re-impose the hell of throwback Communist madness, the Ukrainians had had enough and cut the remaining ties.

    •�Replies: @nokangaroos
  197. Daniel Rich says: •�Website
    @Salcio

    Strangely, three years into Ukraine’s war and Russian army is stuck using Iranian drones and North Korean military. Reality sucks.

    Straight from the horse’s mouth itself [Ukraine] – LiveUAmap

    Military Summary

    Something sucks, but it ain’t Russian :o]

  198. ANON[146] •�Disclaimer says:

    Down with US, Down with the GENOCIDAL Biden, a war criminal. Shame on ICC that has ignored Biden, the main terrorist who is complicit in Gaza genocide. This idiot has just started the war in Syria again by supporting the terrorist attacks on Syrian army.
    There should be a strong FRONT including Arab states, Russia, Iran and China to kill every Biden’s terrorist and also target this genocidal war criminal, to make sure that he is arrested and send to ICC.

    @Asad Abukhalil writes:

    Biden would never have made it into the presidency if Obama had not picked him as his vice-president. Biden performed very poorly when he ran for president, and his plagiarism and cheating were exposed. Obama bears a big responsibility for the president-day world’s wars.

    With days left in his office, Biden has ignited bloody conflicts in Syria and Pakistan. By far, Biden has been the most dangerous US president for the whole world. And to think that “progressive Democrats” never broke with him.

    Down with GENOCIDAL war criminals including Biden and Netanyahu.

    In the News:

    Rebel forces have launched a major offensive in north-western Syria, The Syrian military said its forces were confronting a large-scale attack by terrorists and inflicting heavy losses on them.
    A UK-based monitoring group said more than 180 combatants had been killed in the fighting. At least 19 civilians had also been killed in Syrian and Russian air strikes on opposition-held areas.

  199. With an annual budget of over a trillion ($us) (not including black budgets, pharmaceutical murder, academic brain drain, corporate and entertainment DIE WOKE implementation, gender mythology, mass illegal migration replacement, to name a few, the us government have become its own worst enemy.

    The people have finally awakened, government will no longer get to wage endless wars, censor free speech, replace our citizens, over tax us, discriminate against whites, feed us poisons, allow blacks to burn loot murder rape with impunity, shove DIE WOKE GlobalHomo lifestyle in our face, allow Mexico and Canada or any other country to turn a blind eye against drug cartels, criminals and human traffickers, the age of lawlessness is over.

    The pushback is coming and with it will be the greatest return to law and order, peace, happiness, prosperity and human achievements the world has ever seen.

    •�Replies: @RadicalCenter
  200. cousin lucky says: •�Website

    Imho – while there is a lot of focus and attention being directed at a U.S. v Russia war my thoughts are about what Xi and China are doing and planning behind the scenes.

    Donald Trump is going to be ” Bibi’s Bitch ” and do everything he is told to do no matter the consequences to the U.S.A.

    Trump will be a hound dog herding humanity into the BRICS+ massive tent with every move he makes to appease Bibi and Israel.

    All China, or Russia, or North Korea, or anyone needs to do is to develop effective weapons to shoot down Israel’s planes and the whole situation changes completely.

    Without its planes to deliver United States bombs Israel ceases to be a military power even with its nuclear weapons.

    Joe Biden and the DNC are hoping and praying that Donald Trump never gets any proof from Ukraine about the money under the table changing hands.

    The Biden family criminal enterprise needs to be exposed.

    That would be the scoop of the century!

  201. Cuffy says:

    Havent they lost already?

  202. @Notsofast

    Joe Biden a deadhead?He didn’t mention that when he visited Ireland!

  203. @notbe mk 2

    Lots of Empires and statelets blundered into a war all overconfident, all overfed on testosterone-the Persians, the Athenians …… the Germanians in both world wars

    Mr ‘NotBe’, you obviously haven’t studied any REAL WWI & II history.
    Because if you did, you’d know that the Anglo Zionist empire orchestrated the conditions that made these world wars inevitable – with the intention of eliminating a rival hegemon (ie: the fast rising industrial colossus Germany).

    So Germany never ‘blundered’ into anything. War was forced on them by the Zionist Banking Cartel that controlled the entirety of the western financial (and political) systems.
    And, equipped with this knowledge that the ZOG misfits were planning war with Germany, Hitler had the brains to go on the offence first to make the most of ‘First Mover Advantage’, by launching his attacks on Poland and then the Soviet Union.

    As for WWI, Germany did everything humanly possible to avoid war. In the lead up to that conflagration Kaiser Wilhelm II went out of his way to reduce tensions between the major nations.
    He wasn’t called ‘The Peace Maker’ for nothing you know.

    That said, once war began, the Germans (esp. in WWII), had every reason to be confident with their armed forces. The German Wehrmacht in the second world war was far and away the greatest military machine of the last millennium – and arguably of all history.

    •�Replies: @Patrick McNally
    , @notbe mk 2
  204. Pablo says:

    There are a number of reasons why the Washington Warmongers are oblivious to the Reality the USA is NOT the World Hegemon anymore.. One is a supreme arrogance of their own abilities. Twenty one years in Afghanistan resulting in total failure does not register with US Warmongers. Rational people would start to question themselves asking, “What are we doing wrong?” after a catastrophe of that magnitude. Not the US Zio Neocons. They are hyper insulated from critics because the Warmongers have run most all of their critics out of Washington DC. And, the DC Warmongers have ZERO concern if their Wars kill a 100 million of Americans. And let’s not forget that War is profitable. Gotta feed The War Machine you know. The Warmongers might change if their favorite Country, Israel starts to feel some REAL pain from a War. Maybe if the Russians obliterate The Pentagon with some of their new Oreshnik missiles that might change the Warmongers POV.

  205. @2stateshmoostate

    Wasn’t he one of the guys who said that Hezbollah was going to kick the daylights out of Israel?
    If so, he was obviously very wrong there.

    Well, Hezbollah has been kicking the shit out of the IDF cowards.
    Have you been living under a rock to not be aware of this?

    Or, are you relying on the ZOG owned MSM for info as to who is or isn’t winning in that war?
    That would explain why you’re clueless.

    •�Agree: RadicalCenter
    •�Replies: @2stateshmoostate
  206. @Hank Stumper

    Stumpey Hank writes:

    Troof Vigilance, after extolling Hitler as the shining light, would have us believe Putin is fighting ZOG, when Vlad has a central bank under the BIS umbrella.
    Who financed Hitler, and who’s financing all this recent carnage?

    Anyone who’s studied read WWII history will acknowledge that Adolf Hitler was indeed a Shining Light. He is someone that provided a template for the rest of the world to follow by his decision to unshackle Germany from the orbit of the criminal Zionist International Banking Cartel – hence the stellar economic outcomes in Germany during the 1930’s, while the rest of the western world flailed about, mired in despair.
    This Vampire Squid exploits those within its tentacles with usurious exploitation.

    Of course you wouldn’t know this Stumpy, because what little you know about international banking comes courtesy of the ZOG owned MSM and the History Channel.
    No doubt you’re also a Big Gubmint Statist that advocates for a continuation of the Fiat Monetary experiment that enables ZOG to conjure scores of trillions out of thin air to dole out to itself and its Talmudic cronies – as opposed to a Sound Money standard, as Dr Ron Paul and the economically literate commentators are calling for.

    Yes, all manner of bankers/oligarchs (and Zionists among them), financed and invested in Germany in the 1930’s.
    Why wouldn’t they?

    After all, the German economic miracle provided them the best return on each dollar invested.
    Did you expect them to invest those dollars in FDR’s America – which was an economic basket case in the aftermath of the disastrous New Deal – which turned a severe recession into the Great Depression.

    And Hitler gladly accepted those invested funds, and pretended to go along with the agenda of those powerful foreign banking entities, because that was a MEANS TO AN END.
    ie: in the same way that JFK promised the Jews whatever they wanted to hear in the run up to the 1960 Presidential election (and gladly took all their millions in campaign contributions), although he had no intention of honouring any of those promises.

    Hitler wanted Germany to recover as fast as possible so he did what was necessary to get the Fatherland back on its feet – even of that meant accepting Jewish blood money.

    As for your mocking tone when you question whether ‘Putin is fighting ZOG’, anyone with two grey cells of brain matter can see that it’s OBVIOUS that there has been no individual that ZOG hated more in the post WWII era than V.V. Putin.

    How can anyone be so stupid to not see that Putin is WORKING IN OPPOSITION TO ZOG’s ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT AGENDA?
    Evidently Stumpey, you are that stupid.

    Summary: Posterity will judge Putin very kindly indeed. He is undoubtedly the greatest statesman of the modern era.
    Future history books will record him as being that single individual, more than any other, that contributed to the demise of ZOG.

    For that we should all be grateful.

  207. @chuck lowe

    The U.S. and it’s allies are, again, decades in front of China/Russia and things are speeding up.

    Yeah, right.

    We’re all observing how Murica’s lead in high tech is playing out in the killing field of eastern Ukraine in this proxy war.
    The U.S (and the snivelling NATO allies), have given the Ukies the best high tech gadgetry and weapons of death, which the Russians have swatted down with ease.

    The Russkies meanwhile, have sustained negligible casualties in relative terms, whilst literally dismembering the entirety of the Ukrainian professional armed forces and doing likewise to the countless thousands of U.S/NATO mercenaries who have meanwhile met their maker.

    Chucky, I don’t know what you’ve been smoking to make you say what you did, but it’s clearly some potent stuff.

    •�Replies: @chuck lowe
  208. @Truth Vigilante

    > As for WWI, Germany did everything humanly possible to avoid war.

    Except giving Austria a blank check for war on Serbia. It was that guarantee by Wilhelm II which guaranteed the outbreak of war.

    •�Replies: @Alexandros
    , @Truth Vigilante
  209. @Marcali

    You can write whatever lies , paper can take everything. I wonder if you are mentally challenged because this BS can be easily debunked. In 1922 USSR population was 130-140 million and in 1990 USSR population was around 300 million. were we f688ing rabbits to procreate like this while losing such numbers? You can stick those numbers you know where. Russians would laugh at you because all archives now opened and Perestroika times lies are proven to be lies told to confuse Soviet people and steal power and wealth form us.

    •�Replies: @Marcali
  210. @Carney

    One would think an 80+% vote against independence would amount to
    something (of course these were goyische votes so never mind).
    – The Molotow-Ribbentrop pact poses problems for Soviet and Yugoslav historians
    but for no one else – the communis hostis omnium, the enemy of humankind has
    always and everywhere been the Jew …
    Stepan spent and gave his life fighting the same Jews and Waterpolacks Khmelnitsky
    had fought against (hence -> the Ukraine; the Cossack Uprising of 1648 is the reason
    the Jews hate Ukrainians even more than Russians), the same Jews that murdered
    15 million Ukrainians 1919-1959, the same Jews now stealing and depopulating
    the Ukraine again; after Stalin´s death 1953 the Jews bailed on the Soviet Union
    and, after deposing the Good Senator from Wisconsin, settled on a new host;
    Stepan had outlived his usefulness to the Usual Suspects and was unceremoniously
    (((gotten rid of))).
    All that is trivial – and increasingly visible; the Romanians give every sign of pooping
    on you, the “Polish” and German “elites” have taken to lying their asses off to the
    goyim, and the Hohols may be proverbially stupider than the Polacks but what are you
    going to do when (not if) one of them Yehowah forbid! learns to read?

    •�Replies: @Carney
  211. @dimples

    There are a lot of Russell-Bentley Fatmericans who, like Russell, will find their fantasy turn into a nightmare. Russell’s words in the 2-minute video linked below, about him not knowing, as a 61-year-old, how much time he has left on this earth are a bit haunting; within two years he was dead. Russell was tortured and murdered last April by the very Russians he had wholeheartedly supported: they had fatally mistaken him for being an American spy. Russell’s death was not a pretty one.

    https://www.newsweek.com/russell-texas-bentley-interview-pro-russia-donbas-ukraine-1684450

  212. @ld

    He mentions 3 billion in his song, to think there are now over 5 billion MORE human beings to fry “when we go.”

  213. @Katrinka

    I have a relative (White) serving as an officer in the U.S. Army. He is stationed in Kansas. I’ve never said one word, but he has to be some sort of pathetic loser to participate in “protecting” a country (((government))) that hates him and wants him dead. The draw must be the paycheck and the pension.

    I’ll tell you why. The officer corps of the military is filled with smart, fit, aggressive, fun-loving men with a little money in their pockets. They’re up for almost anything. Example: If you walked into your office and said, “Hey guys, the weather is going to be nice this weekend. Let’s grab the motorcycles and go on a road trip,” two things would happen. First, they’d all look at you like you had two heads. Second, no one would go. Do that with a group of miliary officers, half would immediately start packing, but ALL of them would be thinking, “Man, that’s a good idea!” Whatever fun idea you might have, there are ten guys within a hundred feet of you that will be onboard. That part of the military is far superior to civilian life. It’s impossible to understand unless you’ve been there.

    •�Agree: GMC
    •�Replies: @RadicalCenter
  214. @Truth Vigilante

    Right this minute, your comment is valid in as far as we know what weapons the U.S. is actually providing in a conflict that now, even the retards at State Department know is lost.

    Out in front of this curve, is AI and AI will dramatically change not just the weapons of war, but the actual way it is “fought”.

    The coming post “conflict” configurations will be as tectonic as the post WWII and WWI allocations of resources and national boundaries only NOT specifically tied to borders, but, tied to finance and international organizations.

    With all due respect, I believe that we all underestimate the power of this tech and this is not a bug, but a feature.

    These GPU chips are the absolute key to national and international dominance in the next decade.

  215. @Alexandros

    You mean Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, Dnieper crossing. Korsun-Shevchenskaya operation,. Operation Bagration and many more and final cherry on the tart Berlin. ? I wonder what are smoking. What similar sized victories Allies have got? Al Alamein/ :))) LOL. You ar eover your head, just shut up and o not shame your mommy. Go go kid.

    •�Replies: @Alexandros
  216. @Felpudinho

    What’s with the excuses and false statements about nowhere to go? Willful ignorance and laziness are traits that really defines most Americans these days. You’re presumably more sensible, industrious and committed to learning than that.

    LEARN about the options and act now; don’t wait to act to protect your children.

    New Zealand is largely irrelevant. Dozens of other countries to settle in that are much more affordable.

    We didn’t even need to pay airfares to spend time in mexico and obtain permanent residence here. Next will be citizenship.

    Also is a good idea to get resident status and some savings in the local currency in a local bank, in some country whose economy is not as dependent on the USA as mexico’s. We’re working on that as well.

    Why are the kids unable to give birth in a Latin American country and obtain birthright citizenship for the baby and resident status for the parents and siblings (and sometimes the grandparents too)?

    Why are you unable to enroll your kids or grandkids in online school and live abroad? Or your kids enroll grandkids in the same.

    Why are kids or grandkids unable to become fluent in Spanish and/or another world language?

    Why can none of the kids or grandkids develop some online, location-independent income? What is everyone waiting for in that regard?

    For very young kids, why can’t they attend public school in another country and become native-fluent in that language?

    Are there no funds to be gotten from selling a home in the US, to use in buying a home or homes abroad?

    Don’t most families waste a ton of money on luxuries and vices, that could be used for airfares, foreign residence applications, savings in other currencies? I’m talking about the money that Americans spend on alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, lattes, lottery, sports merchandise / tickets, TV/streaming video subscriptions, etc. Buying new vehicles instead of used. Living in a bigger home rather than a cheaper home that leaves more money for other purposes, like preparing a life abroad.

    Is there no retired family member, a grandparent, who can live with school-age kids abroad, if parents must stay in the USA for their careers?

    PLEASE do not remain unaware of their options, and please do not wait to act.

    Our kids are dual citizens, on track to be citizens or permanent residents of four countries. We are not rich and we have given up a lot to scrape together the money to get this done.

    Our sons will be out of the country, living and studying abroad in a place where they can communicate and assimilate well, if there is even a vote scheduled on reinstituting the draft.

    Don’t let the kids go down with the ship, and don’t make excuses without knowing the many many options.

    •�Replies: @Felpudinho
  217. @CelestiaQuesta

    Please be aware that the US federal government’s on-the-books spending is SIX to SEVEN trillion dollars per year, more than $3 trillion of it borrowed this year.

    The bullshit about mexico being to blame for the cartels is truly classic arrogant Fatmerican brainwashing. You’re under the impression that the US governments and police don’t overlook or participate in / get big bribes from drug lords? And who is buying and consuming those drugs that the eeeeevil mexicans smuggle and sell and kill over? Mostly Americans.

    In any event, I cannot share your optimism at all.

    We have given up on the people living in the US — I hate to call them the American people — and started moving our lives and our little bit of savings abroad. Suggest you help your kids do the same.

    •�Replies: @CelestiaQuesta
  218. @cool daddy jimbo

    They’re civilian-murdering, invading scumbags. Glad they like to have fun, though.

  219. “Yes, all manner of bankers/oligarchs (and Zionists among them), financed and invested in Germany in the 1930’s. Why wouldn’t they?”

    There were lenty of reasons not. The German debt was well out the range of those investments — which by the way was th so called miracle. And Germany had no way to pay it back. The mass investments in Germany was spent one the factors in the economic collapse of 1929.

    But the miracle:

    1. ceased importing increased exports

    2. the invasion and looting of her neighbors

    3. and a central economy that would eventually wind down

    4. and the zero start of the reichmart

    5. massive government spending and control

    https://www.historytools.org/stories/the-nazi-economic-miracle-a-historians-perspective

    https://www.gale.com/binaries/content/assets/gale-us-en/primary-sources/archives-unbound/primary-sources_archives-unbound_economy-and-war-in-the-third-reich_1933-1944.pdf

    Now there is something to be said for the effect of some measures, but overall, te miracle was not so much a miracle as a short lived boom town — to bust.

    •�Replies: @HdC
  220. @Patrick McNally

    As usual “McNally” is giving a local war the blame for a world war. Germany is at fault for agreeing to a local war, while Russia, France and the UK are not to blame for agreeing to a world war.

    Paddie McNally!

    •�Replies: @Patrick McNally
  221. @Patrick McNally

    He just can’t help himself.

    Patrick ‘Mordechai’ McNally chimes in with his two shekels worth, in an effort to defend the murderous ways of the Anglo-Zionist empire.

    For readers not familiar with McNally (real name Mordechai Moshe Baruch Shlongstein – or something akin to that), Ron Unz has himself singled out this pest as an ADL operative.
    He has been assigned to this webzine to deflect attention away from the criminal acts of Malignant International Jewry.

    Needless to say, he has gained no traction. Most people just ignore him or do as I do (ie: occasionally stop what they’re doing to kick ‘McNally’ in the guts).
    Because everyone in the commentary forum is fully aware who he is and his role here as a sayan who has sworn his allegiance to the Apartheid Israeli state and the ZOG financiers that bankroll all the malfeasance.

    •�Troll: Patrick McNally
    •�Replies: @Pat Kittle
  222. @Сергей Гончаров

    With Uncle Sam and John Bull holding your hand in each and every one of those battles. I wonder how the Battle for Moscow would have went without thousands of tanks, planes, trucks, ammunition, medicine, rare earth minerals courtesy of the capitalist West. Hell, you even had advance intelligence on every German Battle plan!

    The only thing Russia has ever been good at is beating up on their small neighbors, incurring heavy casualties in the process. Now it seems you can no longer even do that. I mean, it’s quite obvious with how Putin is crying “NUKE” every 5 minutes.

    The famous Russian Will is now so depleted that you won’t even fire a single missile at the West. Iran has more balls than you.

    •�Replies: @Patrick McNally
  223. I never cease to be amazed by the pervasive belief that the US military is superior to any other on the planet. Upon what basis is this faith founded?

    The “sheer amount of money completely wasted” by the US military is far superior, most of which is plundered by Israel lobby war criminals.

  224. @Truth Vigilante

    @Patrick McNally
    He just can’t help himself.

    Patrick ‘Mordechai’ McNally chimes in with his two shekels worth, in an effort to defend the murderous ways of the Anglo-Zionist empire.

    For readers not familiar with McNally (real name Mordechai Moshe Baruch Shlongstein – or something akin to that), Ron Unz has himself singled out this pest as an ADL operative.
    He has been assigned to this webzine to deflect attention away from the criminal acts of Malignant International Jewry.

    Needless to say, he has gained no traction. Most people just ignore him or do as I do (ie: occasionally stop what they’re doing to kick ‘McNally’ in the guts).
    Because everyone in the commentary forum is fully aware who he is and his role here as a sayan who has sworn his allegiance to the Apartheid Israeli state and the ZOG financiers that bankroll all the malfeasance.

    The seemingly Gentile screen names (& avatars) these hasbara/sayan trolls assign themselves are good for a laugh.

    “Patrick McNally”?

    Consider adding Jewish suffixes to their screen names if you reply:

    “Patrickwitzbaum McNallybergstein”

    🙂

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  225. @RadicalCenter

    I should have clarified the trillion dollar+ part as being that of the MIC. By the way you’re way off with that six to seven trillion figure, US GDP for 2024 is on its way to surpass 30 trillion, around the same as national debt with 4+ trillion in interest payments annually alone.
    As for escaping to some imaginary “Safe Place”, let me know how you’re doing in ten years. I take my central coast of California paradise any time over future shitholes of America and the world.

    Been there, done that, won’t get fooled again. Buy gold, silver, and arms to protect them.

    And a boat

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  226. @RadicalCenter

    Sounds like you got it well under control if there’s an isolated American meltdown; I’m set for that too. But I’m talking about a full-on nuclear war – which is more possible now than it has been at any other time in my entire life – or other such calamity where there is no electricity, no internet, no food deliveries to the grocery stores, etc; a time when all law and order is gone and starvation has set in. One thing’s for sure: I wouldn’t want to be a “rich gringo” deep in Mexico when the Mexicans are dropping from starvation and desperate.

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  227. @Wokechoke

    The Ukraine is was and will always be some kind of The Frontier.

    Well the UN, Russia of 1991, 1994 and Putin of 2008 all recognized it as a country.

    Putin 2022’s claim of it actually being Russia is a fringe belief.

    Technically the Russian Empire ended in 1917 which means none of post-Soviet nations are that old.

    I agree with 2008 Putin that Ukraine is a country and Crimea belongs to them. Turkey held Crimea longer than Russia and also agrees.

    Putin in 2008 interview states that Crimea unequivocally belongs to Ukraine
    https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-crimea-ukraine/26942862.html

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  228. @John Johnson

    Hi John, I love your argument here but I just thought of a great compromise solution-call me either crazy or idealistic but I here’s my idea:

    you know what let’s ask the Crimeans what country they want to be a part of- the Ukraine, Russia, Turkey or be an independent state-I mean who are we (meaning you and me) to decide for someone, the democratic way is to ask the people to decide their own fate (I’m sure you will agree). I certainly can live with the fact that if the Crimeans don’t want to be Russian, Putin will have to suck it and suck it big time. There should some sort of a referendum, funny that you haven’t thought of that but I guess you always leave it to me to find solutions like always.

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  229. @Wokechoke

    Hi Wokechoke, just to remind you when you argue with Johnny boy you are arguing with a man that is
    capable of writing a big essay on Nov 17 why Trump is a bad candidate (remember the election happened to be almost two weeks before he published his homework assignment) and is also capable of sharing the interesting factoid that inner city stores lock up their butter when someone makes a comment that inner city stores have a lot of theft.

    Why does he do things like that?-who knows? It’s a weird behavioral pattern that might be indicative of something but I guess Johnny boy just doesn’t really live in the here and now, he’s more of a big picture guy (like most loveable eccentrics).

    Anyways dollars to doughnuts, Johnny boy is going to reply to this by unfairly saying I misunderstood him again whereas, in fact, I’m probably the only person who really understands him and respects him despite (indeed because of) his weird foibles. These things tend to go around in circles.

  230. @Truth Vigilante

    yup here we go, I was philosophizing in the general about the stupidity of mankind all gunning for war and then realizing it was a bad decision and someone replies about the Wehrmacht being the greatest military of the millennium-the Mongols could argue with this after all they were in this millennium and they never had the experience of enemy armies conducting a victory parade in Ulaan Bator after all was set and done.

  231. HdC says:
    @EliteCommInc.

    “…te miracle was not so much a miracle as a short lived boom town — to bust…”

    How do you know???

    My parents became adults and were married during those times in Germany. Talking with them and my numerous aunts and uncles gave me a reasonable and positive picture of those times.

    Their narrative was that good housing became available, good and sufficient food, international travel at reasonable cost to the working people, strong emphasis on healthy life styles and outdoor activities, seashore holidays, add scientific and engineering advances second to none, etc.

    So prove that the National Socialist regime became bust. That it was short lived is only due to the 10 to 1 advantage the envious allies had in population, and natural resources beyond compare.

    And still it took them almost 6 years to destroy that small European country.

  232. Miro23 says:
    @Wokechoke

    Recall that in ww2 captured Ukie ethnics signed up for Wehrmacht and SS units.

    When stationed in France they murdered their officers and surrendered to the British.

    Slippery folks to lead.

    There are a lot of crosscurrents here. They allied with the Wehrmacht against the Russians because of the Bolshevik Holodomor 1932-33. The Soviets were the Bolsheviks (but at that point actually Stalinist nationalist totalitarians).

    The Ukrainian massacre of the Poles in Ukraine, Volhynia 60-120.000 Poles 1943 was the removal of the Polish elite minority – but of course now (2024) with 900.000+ Ukrainian refugees in Poland they need to make friends. https://rmx.news/article/pis-candidate-for-polish-presidency-awaits-confirmation-from-ukraine-that-exhumations-of-volhynia-massacre-victims-can-begin/

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  233. @Teilhard

    Adolf Hitler opposed the very group you call the “Ripperites”. In addition to their bloodlust, they are known for lying and fraud, as evidenced by the fact most of the world’s biggest scams are committed by them even though they amount to much less than one percent of the global population. Keeping that in mind, are you sure what they say about him and National Socialist Germany is accurate?

  234. @Truth Vigilante

    Hezbollah has accomplished nothing

    The “war” in the north has been a disaster for Hezbollah.

    What happened in Lebanon is what the Israelis call “mowing the grass”

    Meaning killing off Hezbollah leaders and up and coming leaders as well as any threats to the Hezbollah elite.

    This the Israelis did with targeting information provided by traitors in the highest ranks of Hezbollah

    The war in the north was staged Kabuki Theater to distract from the main-event; Gaza

    The Hezbollah elite are in bed with the Israelis

    If the Hezbollah were on the up and up they would have stopped the squatters in their tracks by destroying all if Israel’s civilian and military infrastructure with their zillions of precision guided missiles

    But they never did.

    They just let the Israelis kill Hezbollah fighters with impunity

    Score
    Israelis killed by Hezbollah less than a hundred

    Arabs killed by Israelis more than 3 thousand

    How can you say that’s kicking the shit out of Israel

  235. Wokechoke says:
    @Miro23

    Lots of opportunistic double dealing chums ain’t they?

  236. Wokechoke says:
    @Beyond the pale and fedup

    The UK gave up space exploration and satellites for similar reasons. Just to share nuclear weapons designs. Completely fucking pointless.

  237. Incredibly courageous and heroic on the part of the owner of the “X” platform. And at about kindergarten level.

    If Musk were a man, he would write (in complete safety for him): “Mrs. Merkel has brought an infinite amount of suffering and misfortune to her country and the whole of Europe since 2015 with her willful opening of borders, which violates all the laws of her country and even of the EU itself.”

    But he doesn’t, and you have to seriously ask yourself why. Perhaps simply because he himself is part of the establishment that rules this world. It just has to “look” like opposition without ever really being opposition.

    These two videos are not based on any available source and should therefore be regarded as mere clickbait, if not deliberate misinformation.

    Rheinmetall’s shareholder structure presents a complex and somewhat opaque picture. According to recent data, approximately 85% of shareholders are classified as “Unknown,” which indicates a significant lack of transparency in the company’s ownership. The known major institutional investors hold relatively small portions of the company, with Capital Research & Management Co. (World Investors) owning 4.988%, Fidelity Management & Research Co. LLC at 2.991%, and Wellington Management Co. LLP holding 2.955%.

    However, it’s important to note that earlier reports have mentioned other significant shareholders that are not reflected in the most recent data. These include BlackRock (5.52%), Société Générale SA (5.33%), Capital Group Companies (4.99%), and Fidelity International (4.99%). The discrepancy between these figures and the more recent data could be due to changes in shareholding over time or differences in reporting methodologies.

    Geographically, the known shareholders are primarily concentrated in the United States (10.96%), followed by smaller holdings in the United Kingdom (1.08%), Germany (0.53%), France (0.39%), and Ireland (0.27%). This international spread of investors underscores Rheinmetall’s global financial significance.

    The lack of transparency in Rheinmetall’s ownership structure has historical precedents. In the 1950s, the company repurchased shares from an unnamed major shareholder, later revealed to be the Swiss-Spanish arms company Hispano-Suiza. There have also been unconfirmed reports of potential indirect shareholders from Saudi Arabia, including speculation about a businessman acting as a proxy for an influential prince.

    Despite these uncertainties, Rheinmetall remains a significant player in the defense industry. The company’s shareholder composition continues to be a topic of discussion and inquiry, raising questions about transparency in corporate ownership, especially for a company of such strategic importance in the defense sector.

  238. @notbe mk 2

    you know what let’s ask the Crimeans what country they want to be a part of- the Ukraine, Russia, Turkey or be an independent state-I mean who are we (meaning you and me) to decide for someone, the democratic way is to ask the people to decide their own fate (I’m sure you will agree)

    There should some sort of a referendum, funny that you haven’t thought of that but I guess you always leave it to me to find solutions like always.

    1. Referendums don’t decide sovereignty. If New Mexico voted to join Mexico that doesn’t mean it would be recognized by the US or the UN. The UN voted against Russia’s annexation of Crimea.

    2. No one believed the referendum as it was held by Russia. Crimean pro-Russian parties never had majority support but we are supposed to believe that even most ethnic Ukrainians voted to join? Is that right?

    About as believable as Cuba’s elections.

    Do you also believe that Zaporozhia oblast voted to join Russia? Even though they overwhelmingly voted for Zelensky? That is what Putin claimed. They didn’t have a Russian separatist movement like DPR/LPR but Putin claims they overwhelmingly voted in favor of being annexed by Russia. Do you believe him?

  239. @2stateshmoostate

    Israelis killed by Hezbollah less than a hundred
    Arabs killed by Israelis more than 3 thousand

    How can you say that’s kicking the shit out of Israel

    Truth_Dundee (He is an Aussie) is part of the Scott Ritter school of feel-good fantasy over reality.

    Even if you side against Israel he will call you a Jew for taking an honest appraisal of the situation.

    Posters like Dundee want Unz to be a micro-MSM but with bias towards where he feels it should belong. He gets very upset over contradictory information to where he will go on huge rants with a lot of caps. I honestly think he should get off the internet and have his blood pressure checked. He can’t handle dissenting opinion to where he seems genuinely unstable from have to process it.

  240. @John Johnson

    Oh why cite elections which we don’t really know much about in far off Cuba-we could cite elections closer to home say hmm a lot of US elections are not really on the up-and-up. Care to give a couple of examples? Who needs to cite Cuba, after all when was the last time you were in Cuba as compared when was the last time you were in the US? You live there but you get all emotionally wheezy about elections in Cuba. Shouldn’t you be more concerned about illegitimate elections in the place you call home? Since you are knowledgeable about electoral fakery please give me examples of illegitimate US elections. You know there are a lot so please cite some.

    It’s the old corundum about elections being illegitimate when you don’t really like the result. Like I say, let’s organize a referendum to have the Crimean people decide their fate.-it’ll save many lives. We could take the Crimean bridge-it quite impressive, being used a lot.

  241. @2stateshmoostate

    Before I speak about Hezbollah, let’s focus on the heroic exploits of the Hamas Freedom Fighters (HFF’s).

    Yes, the HFF’s have suffered disproportionate losses, no one is denying that.
    But what they’ve achieved, in relation to their limited resources, has been nothing short of Herculean.

    You see, just like the North Vietnamese in that war with the Great Satan over 50 years ago, the former can lose all the major battles but still end up winning the war.
    That’s because Freedom Fighters will fight to the end to defend their homelands.
    They’re totally committed, they’re willing to put their lives on the line.

    Not so the Khazarian illegal occupiers of Palestine. They’re lily livered cowards.

    The bulk of them are conscripts that will throw down their arms at the first sound of gunfire, and run back hysterically into the Negev Desert from whence they came (all the while sobbing like school girls).

    The first step in winning the war is BREAKING THE MORALE of the enemy forces.

    This is what the Nth Vietnamese and Vietcong did to U.S forces in Vietnam.
    And that is precisely what the Hamas Freedom Fighters did to the IDF in Gaza.

    Now, getting back to the matter of Hezbollah, you wrote:

    Score
    Israelis killed by Hezbollah less than a hundred

    Arabs killed by Israelis more than 3 thousand

    How can you say that’s kicking the shit out of Israel

    How the fuck do you know the ACTUAL score?

    Do you have a trusted individual on the ground that is accurately tallying the dead?
    Oh sorry, I forgot. You’re relying on the casualty stats furnished to you by mendacious Jews in the IDF/the ZOG owned western MSM.

    However, you can bet London to a brick that the IDF inflates the number of dead Arabs (the actual number of dead Arabs may be correct in nominal terms, but what they don’t tell you as that many of those are NON COMBATANTS. ie: they’re civilians that have been needlessly murdered).

    At the same time the small hats are MASSIVELY REDUCING the casualty figures of Shlomos killed/permanently incapacitated/missing limbs.
    Your figures are just B.S.

    Click on the link below to this article from a month ago titled ‘Defense Ministry reports 12,000 soldiers injured since start of Gaza war’ (the figures are worse still now after a catastrophic last month for the Shlomos):

    https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bkoho80gjg

    And of course these are just the figures that the IDF wishes to release.
    It’s not good for the morale of the citizenry of the Apartheid Israeli state to be force fed too much doom and gloom.
    FFS, they’re already departing in their hundreds and thousands and returning to Brooklyn NYC or whatever shit-hole shtetl/Jewish enclave they originally came from.
    If the Israeli citizens knew the real picture of the catastrophe, they’d all get the fuck out in a hurry.

    And bear in mind also that figures are always released with a time lag.
    In other words, what is reported in late October 2024 may just be confirmed deaths up to and including September (or even August?), and it won’t include bits of body parts of IDF soldiers that have been recovered from the front lines that may take several weeks to identify through DNA analysis.

    Nor will it include IDF personnel that are missing and presumed dead or captured.
    You can be certain that the real casualty rates are far higher.

    Now, getting back to the matter of morale, I suggest you click on the link below to a Veterans Today article headlined ‘“Mentally damaged” Israeli soldiers refusing orders to return…’:

    https://veteranstoday.news/2024-11-01-israeli-soldiers-refusing-orders-return-to-combat.html

    You see, various IDF units/battalions are sent to the front and might stay there for their ‘rotation at the front’ (a much shorter stint than a U.S Vietnam vet would’ve served – because the typical Israeli conscript has a short shelf life before PTSD sets in).

    After their stint (which may be as little as a month or so?), they’re relieved by replacements.
    Those on furlough enjoy some weeks of R & R before they’re called back to take the place of another formation, and so the cycle continues.

    HOWEVER, many of those that are supposed to return ARE NOT RETURNING.
    And we’re not just talking about a few stragglers here and there.
    In some formations there are more deserting than those reporting back for redeployment.

    Why would they return? They saw their pals Shlomo and Mordechai get their heads blown off.

    Many of them are complete mental basket cases and will NEVER BE COMBAT CAPABLE AGAIN.

    In a nutshell: For every IDF coward that’s been killed, crippled or lost a limb, THERE ARE MULTIPLES OF THAT NUMBER WHO ARE PTSD’ed and had a NERVOUS BREAKDOWN**.

    (*Entailing they will never again be able to serve in the IDF in any capacity).

    You also write:

    Hezbollah has accomplished nothing

    The “war” in the north has been a disaster for Hezbollah.

    What happened in Lebanon is what the Israelis call “mowing the grass”

    What I’ve written above in relation to the destruction of the morale of the IDF, was achieved by the Hamas Freedom Fighters ALONE (for the most part).
    Now, enter into the picture the infinitely more combat capable Hezbollah militia who:

    1) Are much better equipped than Hamas, with endless weaponry/food/logistical provisions (courtesy of the noble Iranians and the backing of the Lebanese nation).

    2) Have PROVEN combat experience (witness the way they demolished the IDF in 2006 – despite having only a small fraction of the sophisticated weaponry they now possess).

    Bottom Line: The IDF cowards can refer to ‘Mowing the Grass’ all they like.
    But the reality is that THEY are the ones getting mowed down.

    The truth is that the IDF forces on the ground, those that engage in hand-to-hand combat, are ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSE.
    Absent the overwhelming air superiority and weapons of death they deliver from the skies, THE IDF WOULD ALREADY HAVE COLLAPSED.

    That’s the main reason that ZOG allowed Donald J Chump to win the election.
    Because the Orange Baboon is ZOG’s man. They can trust him to squander more goyim blood and treasure in the vain hope that they can rescue the Apartheid Israeli state.

    But it WON’T work. It will just be a temporary stay of execution.
    The Apartheid Israeli state is going down for the count.

    Now, Mr Shmoo-State, that reality might not sit well with you. You no doubt have a (((tribal ))) allegiance here that prevents you from absorbing the precarious position that your fellow yids are in – hence your reliance on the ZOG media/IDF press releases on casualties etc.

    Well, that’s something you’ll have to deal with.
    Because the Khazarian* illegal occupiers of Palestine are in for a WORLD OF HURT.

    (*Yes, these Ash-ke-NASTI kin folk of yours, that converted to Judaism about 1300 years ago or so, the same Khazarians that have NO BLOODLINE RELATIONSHIP to the biblical Jews, will have to pack their bags and get the hell out).

    This land belongs to the actual Semites (proven by DNA analysis to be the descendants of the biblical Jews), none other than the Palestinians.

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  242. @John Johnson

    Yeah exactly, I totally agree with your opinion. I also don’t like people who;

    “get.. very upset over contradictory information to where he will go on huge rants with a lot of caps. I honestly think he should get off the internet and have his blood pressure checked. He can’t handle dissenting opinion to where he seems genuinely unstable from have to process it”

    I can give you an example of a nutcase like that-a while back there was this guy who posted that Trump was a bad candidate-he listed several reasons why (basically women, independents and Hispanics) which I guess is fair enough but get this-he posted it on Nov 17. I kid you not! November 17! Almost two weeks after Trump winning the election! (and taking a lot of Hispanic votes to boot) I mean really, who feels the inner need to post an analysis of why a candidate is a bad choice AFTER the candidate wins. Seriously is such a person normal?

    But I could go on, this person when contradicted goes off on rants basically saying he was right all-along. Just to given an example after that Nov 17 bruhaha, he AGAIN felt the need to post why Trump is a bad candidate because somebody basically pointed out; “dude, you know it’s Nov 17th?”

    A total example of what you said;…”He can’t handle dissenting opinion to where he seems genuinely unstable from hav(ing) to process it.”.

    Oh wait get this, you’ll shake your head at this one…when somebody said inner city stores have a problem with theft guess what he did? He actually wrote back with the stunning, earth-shaking, news that inner city stores lock up their butter!

    Seriously who does that? Why would anyone feel the need to share with the world that inner city stores lock up their butter when it’s kind of implied in the general problem of inner city stores? Are we better people now knowing that inner city stores lock up their butter? Did that person actually think he was shifting the paradigm? (thinking back the locking up of butter was so important to him that yes he actually thought sharing this info would lead to a paradigm-shift in human thought).

    Even so, I disagree with your opinion about these people needing to get off the internet. You see the world needs crazy crackpots like the butter guy-they’re always good for a laugh. After all, no-one really cares about their opinion so they are harmless and one always can have a bit of fun with them.

    The only annoying thing are their huge rants when they feel disrespected that go around in circles but anyways toodles, I’m all gitty awaiting your reply.

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  243. You wrote a book, but you didn’t answer my question

    Israel assassinated many if not all top Hezbollah military commanders as reported by Hezbollah

    The deaths of Arabs are reported by Arabs, regarding Israeli KIA, the Israelis report regularly on KIAs in Gaza as I’ve seen with my own eyes

    Hezbollah never got any blood for blood.

    The Hezbollah elite are in bed with the Israelis

    For how long?

    If I, on the other side of the world can see their perfidy

    There must be Hezbollah fighters have figured this out too.

    Meaning the Hezbollah elite are always under threat of assassination.

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  244. @John Johnson

    JJJ (Jewish John’s Johnson) writes:

    Truth_Dundee (He is an Aussie) is part of the Scott Ritter school of feel-good fantasy over reality…… [he] can’t handle dissenting opinion to where he seems genuinely unstable from have to process it.

    Oh dear, it seems I’ve really upset this particular Shlomo.

    Well, countless shellackings that I’ve handed out to him over the years (you need only look at the commentary archives to observe first hand all the times I, and many other UR contributors, have caught Jewish Johnson telling whoppers), will certainly do that.

    Yes UR readers, this is the same Shlomo that:

    1) During the Covid Psyop, said the toxic clot shots were safe and effective and that we should all top up on all the boosters.

    2) Said the hospitals were full of the unvaxxed, when the exact opposite was true

    3) Said that Covid-19 had killed over a million Americans (when in fact we knew, even in real time, that they were counting deaths WITH Covid, as opposed to deaths FROM Covid).
    In other words, people were dying of cancer, cardiac issues, strokes, other comorbidities, but because they had tested positive to Covid in the preceding month or so, they were classified as a Covid death.

    4) In mid 2022, said that Putin would be dead by the end of that year (because his Rabbi, who’s a personal friend of Larry Silver-Stain, assured him that they’d ‘Hugo Chavez’ Putin).

    5) Posted a video* of Ukrainians (likely situated in the western extremities of the country, near the Polish border), firing Stinger missiles into an EMPTY SKY, with not a single eff’n thing visible in the wild blue yonder, and claiming that two Russian Ka-52 helicopters were shot down.

    (*I have posted that video several times before, but for anyone who requests an encore, or is new to UR and is unfamiliar with JJJ’s lying ways, I’ll gladly post it again).

    Jewish John’s Johnson is so lacking in principles, so willing to stoop to the most egregious falsehoods, that when shown what JJJ was posting in UR, even Bibi Netanyahu blushed.
    Even he could not imagine someone so lacking in scruples.

    JJJ, it really irks you how Scott Ritter (and especially Col. Douglas Macgregor), have been consistently right on nearly everything.
    You and your precious Anglo-Zionist empire are seething with anger at how this proxy war has turned out, how it’s all gone pear shaped for you and your neocon Talmudic warmongering ilk.

    It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. Russia was supposed to collapse from a prolonged war of attrition, then been looted/raped/pillaged of its resources after being broken up into statelets and Balkanised.
    Instead, Russia today is FAR STRONGER MILITARILY today that when the ZOG orchestrated proxy war began.

    I can picture it now: You and your genitally mutilated ilk at that Judeo-Masonic lodge you’re a life member of, all of you in unison screaming: ‘TURN THOSE MACHINES BACK ON !!’ (11 sec clip):

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  245. @John Johnson

    the Scott Ritter school of feel-good fantasy over reality.

    “Fantasy”??

    We all remember when Israel lobby war criminals fantasized Iraqi WMD’s, requiring American goyim to start a war with Iraq.

    Scott Ritter officially & personally inspected Saddam Hussein’s fantasized WMD’s, and completely debunked the (((war propaganda))).

    Of course the Jew war criminals got their war for Israel anyway.

    Sound familiar?

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  246. @Pat Kittle

    the Scott Ritter school of feel-good fantasy over reality.

    “Fantasy”??

    We all remember when Israel lobby war criminals fantasized Iraqi WMD’s, requiring American goyim to start a war with Iraq.

    I am referring to Scott Ritter’s post-Iraq career where he makes youtube clickbait videos for his fans that just want feel-good fantasy on Ukraine and Israel. He has been saying that Ukraine is out of men every month for years.

    He went on numerous long rants about how Ukraine has lost and needs to surrender….in 2022.

    The self-described military expert also made over a dozen videos on how the IDF will face hell in Gaza as they fight highly skilled Hamas fighters popping out of tunnels and also Hezbollah. It just didn’t happen. Hamas wasn’t able to put up much of a fight due to limited weapons and leadership. Iran’s counter-attack was weak. He was wrong about practically everything.

    He makes Ukraine/Israel is doomed videos and then later scrubs them. I guess there is an audience for them but maybe he should try a cooking show or something.

    I side with the UN over Israel but that doesn’t mean I want feel-good fantasy reporting. I don’t want MSM bias but Scott Ritter represents the same type of one sided reporting but for a smaller audience. He isn’t interested in giving honest analysis of both sides but I suppose that everyone needs to make a living. The guy has taken payment from RT news so he was never an unbiased source.

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  247. @notbe mk 2

    Oh wait get this, you’ll shake your head at this one…when somebody said inner city stores have a problem with theft guess what he did? He actually wrote back with the stunning, earth-shaking, news that inner city stores lock up their butter!

    Inner city? As in American city?

    It was Russian stores that were having to lock up butter due to out of control inflation and it has been confirmed as true:
    https://www.10news.com/news/fact-or-fiction/fact-or-fiction-butter-being-locked-up-in-russia

    I think you mixed some stories up or something.

    It is possible that some US urban city has had locked up butter but I’ve never heard of it. Butter is cheap in the US and it’s really a staple to get you in the store.

    But I’m glad that you value the open exchange of ideas. You don’t seem mentally burdened by my presence like Truth_Dundee. He clearly spends a lot of time thinking about me and probably needs therapy over it. He keeps a list of aggressions in his head like a crazy ex-girlfriend.

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  248. anonymous[325] •�Disclaimer says:

    The US is weak and crumbling, the US government is full of rats that have eaten away the fabric that holds it all together. Many believe that Trump will somehow fix the mess, in reality, he’s like an exterminator with no traps, no poison, just BS to fight the rats with. Move forward to 2028, nothing substantial will have changed. The rats will just have eaten more of the fabric, Trump will be worn out and Israel will still be the parasite state it is today, but will have sucked out 4 more years of substance from the US.

    The whole western organism has to die before it can be rebuilt, once the western organism dies, the parasitical tumor Israel will go with it and the rebuilding process can begin.

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  249. @John Johnson

    Scott Ritter… was wrong about practically everything.

    You don’t deny Scott Ritter, as an internationally recognized weapons inspector, was 100% right — Iraq’s “WMD’s” did NOT exist — it was yet another Big Lie by Jew terrorists who successfully dragged the US into fighting endless wars for Israel.

    I repeat — if the US listened to him we would NOT still be fighting ever more deadly wars for genocidal Jew war criminals.

    Most of the world now realizes Israel is the ultimate terrorist state, and (despite using US taxpayers as its ATM) the Israeli military is only effective at bombing hospitals. The highly-touted IDF, the “Iron Dome,” & those oh-so-scary Merkava tanks have all been exposed as an international joke.

    So yes, Ritter is still a far more credible source than the likes of genocidal Israel lobby war criminals like Blinken.

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  250. TrumpWon says:

    Who knew that sending cutting edge integrated-battlefield-management technology to “allies” all over the world, and sourcing components and tech from globally distributed suppliers would lead to us losing our competitive advantage?

    Or that importing the intelligence officers of the CCP, masquerading as “students” into the nations top technical universities, with a direct conduit into the national defense industry, intelligence community, and the national laboratory advanced technology development system would result in massive theft of IP and national security secrets, helping our adversaries easily reverse engineer and replicate militarily classified weapons and advanced materials?

    Worse, having easy access to the latest generation of Western fighting and surveillance technology has allowed our global enemies to develop countermeasures, so that not only have they been able to leapfrog our current iteration, but they have rendered much of it tactically obsolete. As an example, our littoral combat surface fleet, which was supposed to be invulnerable to the conventional weapons expected in land-and-sea attacks in the coastal environment. Think the fast-attack boats common in the Gulf and African Horn regions, Iran’s diesel last-generation sub fleet, or China’s 150+ patrol boats and cutters. The LCS is nearly invulnerable to all of these threats. However, it has no defenses against hypersonics.

    The hypersonics program, for instance, that was just getting rolling about 20 years ago, was jam packed with FNs, and I know, because I worked with that program as a vendor. I saw how many contacts were of foreign origins (mostly Chinese and Indian) and realized that the program was hopelessly compromised at its highest levels, and that anything meaningful that we accomplished would soon be in enemy hands…because you can’t fight an enemy you refuse to acknowledge even exists.

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  251. TrumpWon says:
    @Truth Vigilante

    Find it amusing you’re calling out propaganda from Israel and then claim that the NVA lost all the major battles of the war in Vietnam.

    I can think of three right off the top of my head that were claimed by the US as a victory but either were a loss or a draw.

    Battle of Khe Sanh
    Battle of la Drang
    Battle of Hue

    In all of these, the US cited body counts of dead (purportedly) enemy combatants, without including accurate data of how many were in fact, bystanders.

    In Hue, for instance, while thousands of Vietnamese were killed, and the city was basically destroyed, the US considers the Vietnamese body count in claiming victory, compared to US KIA and casualties. However, many of the Viet dead were in fact US allies killed by the Viet Cong, whose mission to bring the fight to the untouched cities of South Vietnam was obviously a resounding success – with the entire political leadership of the city exterminated and most of the bureaucracy dead or scattered, and all of the residents of Hue displaced . If that’s not victory, then what is?

  252. arnieus says:

    In addition to the war-production, inferior technology and logistic problems is the state of mind of Americans who would be asked to participate. As I read various comment threads it seems to me there is far more awareness of the reasons wars happen. Why would Americans fight and die purposes that only benefit the one percent a.k.a Big Brother? We still have oceans east and west and no real threat across our north and south borders unless the millions of “migrants” include significant numbers of disguised foreign military. Bring the military home. Guard our borders. Eliminate predatory banking/taxes/mandates. Live peaceful lives.

  253. @John Johnson

    Hey butterball, thank you for supplying me with that news story- yup I’m sure KGTV San Diego has a Russian office which doesn’t provide pictures or video but just says “it’s true”. Unlike you, I generally don’t go to KGTV San Diego for my international news-in fact I don’t go to KGTV San Diego for any news period.

    You know who goes to a local tv station for international news? Well idi… I mean special people like you.

    Seriously, who in his right mind shares with the world hot news about Russian food shortages by sharing a printed piece from Michael Rozzen of KGTV San Diego saying “it’s true” (right beneath an actual video of San Diego food banks).

    Do you even realize that your defense consists of an 11 line San Diego TV station article with no photos or video but having the phrase “it’s true” with a video of a non-Russian food bank. What’s wrong with that picture?

    Here everyone take a look at Johnny’s investigative journalism:
    https://www.10news.com/news/fact-or-fiction/fact-or-fiction-butter-being-locked-up-in-russia

    AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!

    Holy crap! What was that sound?—oh it was just Nellie Bly (an actual journalist) turning around in her grave.

    Thank you, you just did a wonderful job of reinforcing everyone’s opinion of you. You really are the best….but just between you and me- answer me this; why do you keep falling into traps? You are making it way too simple.

    •�Replies: @John Johnson
  254. @TrumpWon

    In kind of a similar vein, I remember a proposal for a new RN (Royal Navy) structure about twenty-five years ago. Basically the corundum was that frigates are high in construction costs. The proposal thus was to contract out new RN frigates to Chinese shipyards with the secret equipment to be installed in the UK. The argument was that the RN can maintain an oceanic presence because the secret equipment and the trained personnel would overcome any reliance on a potential enemy state (Western-Chinese relations then were not as ice cold as now). The proposal, of course, did not go through but that a serving RN officer was retarded enough to actual think of a sheer head-bangingly stupid idea like that was just incredible.

  255. Drn200159 says:
    @Teilhard

    Yes, and the ‘Ripperites’ as you call them, were happy to slaughter 50,000,000 under the Bolshevik/Soviet labels, so what would be the problem of doing so again under whatever pseudonym they choose (USA?)?

  256. Dr. Rock says:

    Here is something that I only recently became fully aware of-

    The United States has NEVER actually been very good at fighting wars!!

    Shocking, I know, but when you look into it, it’s hard to argue. Even if you skip all the way back to before our first total loss in Vietnam, and our previous stalemate in Korea, our record is not all that impressive:

    WWII- we waited until the Soviets basically won the war, then invaded in mid 1944. We never achieved a kill ratio better than 1:1, even by using that strategy. We did kick the Japs asses in the Pacific, but most of them were abandoned on those islands, hungry and malnourished, diseased, short on water, and under armed with no chance for re-supply.

    WWI- again, we entered very late, when the Germans were pretty much finished, and our entry hastened their surrender, but only because they were already losing, and our addition made the overall numbers untenable.

    Like every nation, we’ve been fed a steady diet of jingoistic pro-America propaganda about how great we are, but MOST of that greatness was a result of our incredibly strong domestic economy, and the fact that we are so geographically isolated, and we have a wealth of domestic resources in oil, gas, minerals, water, farmland, etc. We are truly blessed!

    But pretty much all of our “big wins” came against either-

    Foreign powers that had to try to get here, and then fight us on our home turf, or

    Mexican bandits, pirates, uncivilized savages, etc.

    Our past 60+ years of attacking foreign countries on the other side of the globe, has gone poorly, for much of the same reasons that we have been successful here.

    In fact, if you remove our own Civil War, we’ve barely been in a straight up fair fight, in our entire existence. We didn’t even need to enter WWI or WWII, and if we hadn’t goaded the Japs into attacking us (one of our favorite ploys), we could have ignored the whole goddamned affair, as many wanted! (just like WWI)

    We basically inherited global hegemony from the British, after they pissed it away in two world wars, and after the fall of the Soviet Communism, we stumbled into being the sole global super power (for a while).

    People also forget that despite our head start against the Soviets, by getting the bomb first, not having our country wrecked by a German invasion, and not losing tens of millions of people in the Great Patriotic War, the Soviets actually got ahead of us in the space race, stayed even with us through many years of the Cold War (right up until their brand of communism led to their economic and overall collapse) and very nearly rolled over the entire land mass of Europe and Asia!

    Now, fast forward over 50+ years of losses, draws, and humiliations…. and now, in 2024, we once again think that we are “way better than the Russians”? There’s no proof of that, and in many ways, the facts say the opposite, especially when they spend 1/10 of what we do? Who’s getting the most bang for their buck!?

    And after that 50+ years, we have the balls to assert that we could once again, go the opposite side of the globe, and kick Russia’s ass, over their own land in their skies, or on the ground in their home turf? Best them at sea?

    Hell, we aren’t even certain that we can defeat Iran in that circumstance! Thinking we could beat the Russians?

    We need some drug testing at the highest levels of government, because those NeoCons are smoking too much weed!

    At present, we cannot beat the Russians, we can’t beat the Chinese, and we probably can’t actually defeat Iran… so maybe it’s time for some humility!

    Before it’s too late!

    •�Agree: antibeast
    •�Thanks: Truth Vigilante
  257. @TrumpWon

    “Battle of Khe Sanh
    Battle of la Drang
    Battle of Hue”

    La Drang was the first battle fought in Vietnam, your hat trick here is to focus on the fact that US lines were breached. However, the BN stayed in place and eventually pushed the Vietnamese back beyond their original position. They lost that battle. You might want to read beyond the lines breached narrative. The North Vietnamese totally failed.

    And in typical fashion of those that falsely claim the US lost the conflict in Vietnam.

    Battles Hue and Khe Sahn were part of a larger campaign by the North known as the TET offensive, a suprise attack against US force along a broad battle front. The attack was a suprise to US forces because it took place during the “Festival of Spring” (TET), generally practiced as a holiday in Vietnam.

    While it is accurate to note the destruction of Hue city, the fact remains at the end of the day in Hue, khe Sahn, the Vietnamese were routed and routed severely. Again, one might want to read more than the a sentence or two that talks about how the US was surprised and suffered initial serious losses because in every case you note the US fighting men did a monsters job and throughly routed the Vietnamese invading South Vietnam. Don’t like reading:

    We were Soldiers” does a fairly good job of telling the tale of La Drang.

    Because the TET offensive was viewed via television the live images brought home just how deadly war can be and served as a turning point for many citizens and politicians many who apparently unaware that war is a filthy nasty business — and in typical liberal fashion completely got everything upside down about our Vietnam operation. First and foremost the silly nonsense about how the US invaded Vietnam — entirely false. Second, that the North Vietnamese were innocents who just wanted their country —- uggghhh nonsense.

    List of endless incorrect assumptions, analysis and conclusions.

  258. @notbe mk 2

    Hey butterball, thank you for supplying me with that news story- yup I’m sure KGTV San Diego has a Russian office which doesn’t provide pictures or video but just says “it’s true”.

    Another Putin defender that desperately tries to live in a bubble. Yea it’s a made up story from a San Diego new outfit. That must be it. They must have had Russian butter shipped over so they could fabricate this story just to annoy Putin fans.

    The Bank of Russia admitted that inflation continues to exceed expectations but the story can’t be true. There are numerous articles on how certain items like butter continue to increase in price due to inflation and sanctions.

    All you had to do was search for “russian butter” on youtube and you could learn about how butter related crimes have actually happened and were not a creation of a San Diego news outlet. Please learn how to use the internet before responding to future posts, thank you.

    Here is the story from a Russian:

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  259. @John Johnson

    Hey Land of Lakes, I love your investigative journalism skills-oooh a story from a Russian (oooh the guy has a background of butter and gold bars) oooh and a video of a shoplifter and a store heist great. That never happens outside of Russia. I think we talked about this before-do you remember-how many Russians are there and how many Russians have an opinion? Nonetheless combine this with an hard news expose from KGTV San Diego and I am beginning to believe that their going to a string up Putin (probably next Tuesday) but you know what?….probably not. Please learn to think before responding to future posts, thank you-remember I gave you some advice before about this but you don’t remember. Con men love suckers like you. Hey but we are still friends are we not?

  260. @Truth Vigilante

    I kinda agree but I think that there is less malice to Johnny that you think. He’s basically an idiot and like most idiots he is rigid thus is limited in evaluating information-if a piece of information confirms his bias he’ll stick with it no matter how logical inconsistent or low order the info is. Seriously, one can just look at the videos or quotes he posts and see he is not much of an info evaluator. He especially has a problem in distinguishing low order info from quality info. One really is often stunned that he can actually provide such low order info as evidence for his arguments. Also, like you pointed out he basically falls into traps easily (one can almost feel sorry for him when he does that) which again points to a lack of higher order reasoning capacity. This is then combined by his somewhat bizarre complaining that people pick on him or are fixated on him which indicates he’s just not too bright (he’s a great example of Dunning-Kruger effect because he doesn’t understand his limits). Unfortunately, you can’t fix stupid.

  261. Carney says:
    @nokangaroos

    Your claim that the March 1991 vote was a rejection of full independence and reflected a desire to maintain or strengthen ties with Russia is a not just a lie, it’s a stupid and visibly false lie.

    There was no “pure independence vs. de facto independence” choice on offer on the ballot in March 1991. There was just a yes or no vote on whether to go from full association with the USSR to de facto independence. THAT is what 80% voted yes for, with nearly all “no” votes being “no” because they wanted to go even further.

  262. “Now, fast forward over 50+ years of losses, draws, and humiliations…. and now, in 2024, we once again think that we are “way better than the Russians”? There’s no proof of that, and in many ways, the facts say the opposite, especially when they spend 1/10 of what we do? Who’s getting the most bang for their buck!?”

    Your comment in bold is funny. The US has lost three conflicts: war of 1812, Iraq and Afghanistan, the last two because occupations simply did not work, basically because we had no real ethical duty to occupy those countries. I am not sure how you measure “very good”. But, at the end of the day, prevail repeatedly in fights, even when outnumbered.

    It matters not how effective we are, humility is always a good call. And I can’t predict the future. But I am thoroughly convinced that the US could check Russia’s advance and even push them back into Russia in pretty good measure. The US military whether operating alone or in conjuction with others has faired very effectively in battles even against odds of far greater numbers — the previous attempt time and time again in battles — the US wins. What is a more difficult problem occupation in which the opposition has been left standing, for a myriad of reasons.

    It is not an issue beating opponents. It’s what is to be done after.

  263. Major says:
    @EliteCommInc.

    Haha yeah what happened in Ia Drang, Khe Sahn, Tet doesn’t matter. All that matters is who achieved their objective.
    We survived Khe Sahn and the Tet offensive was a bust and basically heralded the end of the VC as a formidable adversary. We killed “enemy “ 20:1.
    And yet, we fled Vietnam with our tail between our legs as NVA flooded in.
    We did not achieve our objective. The communists undeniably did. We lost.
    Before you argue otherwise, find Saigon on a current world map. If you can’t, don’t bother.

    •�Replies: @EliteCommInc.
  264. @2stateshmoostate

    Shmuel State writes:

    You wrote a book, but you didn’t answer my question

    Oh sorry. I forgot that you get all you info from 30 second sound bytes, which you’ve absorbed through listening to Rachel Maddow and Jake Tapper on the ZOG owned MSM.
    You’re not much for reading books, seeing as you have primary school levels of literacy and comprehension skills.

    So Mr Shmuel State, I’ll try to respond with monosyllable wording in future so as to not overload you.
    Anyway, time you got a reality check.

    How’s this for an ‘answer’ that illustrates just what of sort of shellacking the IDF is receiving at the hands of Hezbollah.
    (Refer to the following video titled ‘Israel DEVASTATED: Iran & Hezbollah Crush IDF, Yemen DESTROYS US Navy’):

    •�Replies: @2stateshmoostate
  265. @TrumpWon

    Find it amusing you’re calling out propaganda from Israel and then claim that the NVA lost all the major battles of the war in Vietnam.

    My point was that even if, for the sake of argument, we accepted the claims of the U.S warmongers about those Vietnam War battles (which both sides claim as victories), if we were to be generous and say the U.S was victorious in all of them, it still does not compensate for the fact that:

    THE U.S EXITED VIETNAM IN DISGRACE WITH ITS TAIL BETWEEN ITS LEGS.

    Similarly, in the conflict involving the Hamas/Hezbollah Freedom Fighters Vs the Khazarian illegal occupiers of Palestine, even if we accepted that the IDF won most of the battles (and that’s a big IF indeed – because it appears that the latter have taken an almighty battering, as is evident from IDF conscripts deserting in droves), this does not detract from the ultimate outcome of this conflict.
    ie: the demise of the Apartheid Israeli state.

    Anyway TW, I appreciate you posting that information you did which, if one is to use objective sources, demonstrates that many of these battles were a long way from being categorised as U.S ‘victories’.

  266. @EliteCommInc.

    Thanks Elite Communist Incorporated.

    For the sake of balance, it’s important that we got the opinion of a warmongering slavish sycophant of the Anglo-Zionist empire like yourself on the Vietnam War.

    Sure, we could’ve also gotten the opinion of Jewish John’s Johnson, a rabid neocon and member of the (((tribe))), who would’ve said something similar.
    But it never hurts to get a second opinion from another sayan and chickenhawk*.

    (*ie: Someone that continually advocates for escalations in the endless wars, but who simultaneously is too much of a coward to serve himself in the Armed Forces and risk harm in a combat role).

    •�Replies: @EliteCommInc.
  267. @Alexandros

    Once Russian troops began to openly mobilize, then the move towards war was irreversible. But this could have been avoided if Austria had not been determined on going to war against Serbia for reasons which had nothing to do with the assassinations of Ferdinand and his wife (who were viewed with hostility by Austrian conservatives). Without German backing, Austria would never have dared to launch the war against Serbia.

    But once Russian troops began to mobilize, then the Schlieffen Plan already committed Germany not just to a war against Russia, but to a war against France. There did not exist any German military plans for a one-front war against Russia. The plan had always been that any Russo-German war would be a war by Germany against the Franco-German alliance and that the defeat of France would be the first objective, while Russia was held temporarily in the east. There was therefore no way for the French to avoid a Russo-German war. Furthermore, there were sound strategic reasons why no French government would have wanted to sit back while Germany triumphed in the east and then maybe a decade later became involved in a conflict with France, with Russian resources at its disposal, even if the French government had that option (which the Schlieffen Plan did not give them).

    The relevant thing at hand in July 1914 was to hold the Austrians back, so that nothing else would be triggered. The Balkans had already seen wars in 1912-3, so it should have been a priority to prevent a third such war. Austria could have exploited the Archduke’s assassination (a man whom Austrian conservatives despised) as an opportunity to press demands on Serbia with general sympathies from Europe. But the Austrian Right had been looking for a chance to make war on Serbia for a good while. It was a way of distracting away from all of the internal tensions within the Austro-Hungarian state.

    •�Replies: @Alexandros
  268. @Alexandros

    > I wonder how the Battle for Moscow would have went without thousands of tanks, planes, trucks,

    About 2.1% of Lend-Lease was delivered in 1941. The Battle for Moscow happened in late 1941 and there doesn’t seem to be much evidence that any vehicles like tanks or trucks would have gotten there in time to affect this battle. Most of the major equipment from the Allies was delivered in 1943-4.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease#U.S._deliveries_to_the_Soviet_Union

    •�Replies: @Alexandros
  269. @Major

    Oy and oy . . ,

    “And yet, we fled Vietnam with our tail between our legs as NVA flooded in.
    We did not achieve our objective. The communists undeniably did. We lost.
    Before you argue otherwise, find Saigon on a current world map. If you can’t, don’t bother.”

    It amazes that this kind of nonsense still inhabits the narrative. Unlike Iraq and Afghanistan, which fell or transitioned to an entity hostile to US presence while the US was in occupation. The final loss of Vietnam was due to the failure of the South Vietnamese to withstand the assault by the North Vietnamese, the Soviets, China and North Korea.

    The US did not leave at because of the forces in Vietnam. They departed because afdter ensurringa treaty – which included the right of both parties to unify and become whatever they wanted politically peacefully. The US military left because the political factions here at home, including Watergate simply consumed the narrative. Your incorrect assessment is predicated on a false assumption that the US military was in some manner chased out of Vietnam.

    The treaty that was signed in 1973 was the exact same treaty conditions of 1964, 1965, 1966 . . . in otherwords, peace could have been achieved more than ten years prior to 1973, when the US military and Australians exited Vietnam. With a less than hopeful agreement that the North Vietnamese would honor and for about two years South Vietnam held their own, but eventually lost.

    Now to determine the winner all one has to do is examine the conditions of our departure. The North Vietnamese, The Vietcong, North Korea, China ended where they came in — South Vietnam gave un nothing save according to some a small patch of land, which had been fought over by the Vietnamese for more than two or three centuries. They lost because they could not defeat the S. Vietnam, the US or the Australians. They lost and signed a treaty which they could have had years before. But as is always the case with communists and their similar counterparts, integrity is nothing to revolution and purging the old. So upon the departures of the US , the aforementioned parties from North invaded. And Pres Ford sadly, being fooled by the Watergate hoopla — another liberal drama queen facade in the name of “truth”. opted not to return to defend S. Vietnam.

    And the liberal anti-vietnam crowd sat silent as millions of Vietnamese died at the hand of the communist revolution. The so called peaceful N. Vietnamese rolled in and in usual communist blood letting made the country anew. Fortunately our presence diminished enough of their forces that the revolutionary war they launched in Cambodia was an utter failure. And the Chinese invaded Vietnam because the Vietnamese were . . . wait for it . . . .

    abusing ethinic chinese in Vietnam.

    And what now is a very very funny twist, the Vietnamese now look to the capitalist west to help them against modern communist China. Thy now want all that western decadence they claimed to have rejected.

    The US not only won the military victory but it appears we also one the overall struggle against Vietnamese communism.

    Note: I happen to like China. But if the matter should come to blows, there are no manner of countries in Asia that would be willing to take on China, for their own strategic reasons.

    The evidence is overwhelming, the US did not lose in Vietnam then or now.

  270. @Truth Vigilante

    “For the sake of balance, it’s important that we got the opinion of a warmongering slavish sycophant of the Anglo-Zionist empire like yourself on the Vietnam War.

    Sure, we could’ve also gotten the opinion of Jewish John’s Johnson, a rabid neocon and member of the (((tribe))), who would’ve said something similar.
    But it never hurts to get a second opinion from another sayan and chickenhawk*.

    (*ie: Someone that continually advocates for escalations in the endless wars, but who simultaneously is too much of a coward to serve himself in the Armed Forces and risk harm in a combat role).”

    ————————–

    EliteCommInc. in not and has never been affiliated with or an advocate for or with any communist or socialist, agenda, ideology or organization.

    I am not a warmonger, I did not advocate that Russia invade Ukraine.

    I do advocate that it should be resisted by the global community by force if necessary and it appears that force will be required — and that is very sad.

    I have read Jon Johnson’s posts on this issue and in my view, he is not an advocate for war, but simply recognizes that Russia’s unwarranted invasion is a threat to the peace. And she needs to depart Ukraine and return to her own borders.

    As for serving in the US Armed Forces, should the need arise and I am called, I will gladly dawn my uniform and stand to post.

    •�Replies: @John Johnson
  271. I applaud the Russians in their resistance of NeoCon efforts to dismember and loot their country.

  272. @Felpudinho

    Agree that we need options in countries not so economically dependent on the USA as Mexico. We have those underway.

    There are countries far from both the USA and Russia, with more economic reliance on China, Brazil and others than on the USA.

    As for Mexico supposedly being more dangerous for us than the USA, Mexico has about FIFTY MILLION FEWER Africans than the USA.

  273. Marcali says:
    @notbe mk 2

    Why are you trying to mislead people? You cannot mislead those who survived the facts:

    „Bolshevism cannot escape responsibility for the establishment of a dictatorship instilled with hatred for the individual. As a result of its criminal actions, more than sixty million people were exterminated.”
    (Alexander N. Yakovlev: A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia, Yale University Press, 2002, p. 236-7.)

    •�Replies: @notbe mk 2
  274. Marcali says:
    @Сергей Гончаров

    Don’t they teach reading statistical tables in communist countries?

    I bet they don’t. For they kill statisticians:

    “The 1937 census, for example, has never been released. Kraval, the director of TsUNChu (the Statistical Central Office, and the other top administrators responsible for the project were charged with treason. In the words of Pravda they have been caught plotting “to diminish the population of the USSR”. (January 19, 1939) They were shot.”
    Source: Iosif G. Dyadkin, Unnatural deaths in the USSR, 1928-1954, p. 6.

  275. Why should we want to do any of those things? We’re over here on the North American continent all by ourselves.

    “Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.”

    – Abraham Lincoln

  276. @Patrick McNally

    Surely the US aid to the USSR would grow to gargantuan amounts, but that does not mean the deliveries in 1941 were paltry.To illustrate how immense the US aid to Communist Russia was, in late June of 1941, a mere week after the invasion, the Soviet Government made their first pre order, just a taste of things to come, worth 40 billion dollars.

    Already in July, the Soviet toady Harry Hopkins could tell Stalin that 200 P-4 Tomahawks were on their way. 140 of those were rerouted from British delivery, so not only did the US government give Stalin a blank check, they pushed his orders ahead of everyone else in the que.

    But it doesn’t end there, in August 1941, Roosevelt intervened personally so that materiel could be drawn from the US Army’s own stocks, putting his own country’s war effort at second priority, and gifting it all to help Joseph Stalin defend democracy.

    1200 warplanes (of all types), 20,000 submachine guns, 2200 trucks, 1500 light and medium tanks, 1000 anti tank guns, 1100 mortars, 152 heavy 90mm guns, locomotives, steam engines, electric furnaces, machine tools, searchlights, sound locators, surgical and hospital supplies. The list goes on. 500 thousand pounds of toluol, 3 million pounds of leather boots, 2 million barrels of aviation fuel, 2200 tons of aluminium, 3 million pounds of copper wire, 10 million pounds of barbed wire, tungsten and molybdenum.

    And this was just the first shipment.

  277. @Patrick McNally

    Imagine writing a run up to WW1 without mentioning the Brits. I would expect more from a so called Irishman.

    Russia mobilized because they knew they could count on France and the UK. France ditto. Germany attempted to limit the war by asking the Brits to clarify their position. In typical British fashion they declared in the most roundabout way possible that the British would go to war.

    Giving Austria a blank cheque was a mistake. Not because Austria acted in an irrational way, but because the Germans could not believe their enemies would start a gigantic war over a Habsburg Prince killed in Serbia.

    There was nothing wrong with the alliance system. Europe had engaged in interlocking alliances for centuries without escalating minor conflicts into big wars. There was no Napoleon or Hitler in WW1.

    Brits had all the power to avoid war and they chose otherwise. Russia was a greedy accomplice, and France was a fearful, low self esteem accomplice. Germany’s mistake was not rolling over when faced with war on all fronts.

    •�Replies: @Patrick McNally
  278. @Marcali

    nice except Alexander Yakovlev was a high order communist, a true child of privilege trusted enough to be selected to study in the US in the fifties where it is possible he was entrapped by the CIA. His policies in the late eighties and nineties led to most of the wealth of his country being stolen up by a tiny minority of the population leading to an incredible povertization for the vast, vast majority and leading to early deaths for millions even tens of millions ( I am not exaggerating about this).
    He is truly a prototypical example of lying, dangerous, arrogant Bolshevik. His incredible incompetence at best or greedy malice at worst ( I am not exaggerating about this) lead to one of the greatest human disasters in human history-the extent of material losses, lost economic potential and direct human losses through early deaths and low child birth rates through the inability to finance children rivalled the losses of the USSR in WWII! ( I am not exaggerating about this). He, of course, needed to defend his action so he arrogantly cited the total number of deaths in the USSR prior to him. Really don’t trust him, he was a horrible human being. He had specific ulterior motives to create and cite such high numbers.
    Like I said-truly a prototypical example of lying, dangerous, arrogant Bolshevik..

    •�Replies: @Marcali
  279. Anonymous[377] •�Disclaimer says:

    The world would be a lot better place had Hitler won. I highly recommend the documentary Europa: The Last Battle to learn why.

  280. Eric135 says:
    @Fin of a cobra

    “And one of the most rotten tea leaves we are gazing at is Trump’s recent appointment of Gen. Keith Kellogg as ‘Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia’ … Here is a summary of a few X-tweets in the last couple of days: … ‘I don’t think there’s going to be any negotiations,’ said Kellogg. Kellogg called for the US to impose a No-Fly-Zone in the Ukraine … [Kellogg explains that the US] will continue to do everything it has been doing for years, which is pouring billions into this conflict to continue to ‘weaken’ Russia …”

    I checked Kellogg’s X tweets and not one of those statements was there.

    What was there? He said, “I wouldn’t make any pronouncements at all because that’s going to be up to Trump when he comes into office. … President Trump has always said you never put your options on the table.”

    Last June, Kellogg presented candidate Trump with a peace plan that fails to acknowledge that Ukraine cannot win and any further assistance to Ukraine would just mean more dead Ukrainians and Russians — as well as risking all-out war between Russia and the West.

    Contrary to what you say Kellogg said, the plan calls for negotiations. In addition, it calls for denying further aid to Ukraine if Zelensky refuses to negotiate.

    I don’t like Kellogg, but I think you’re exaggerating in some of your claims about him.

  281. @Alexandros

    Stalin is on record stating they would have lost in the early years without Lend-Lease so I don’t know why this is still debated.

    Both sides needed the other.

    The Soviets not only needed Lend-Lease at the beginning but Allied bombing campaigns massively reduced German production. If the British had made peace with Hitler then the Nazis would have fielded a much larger Luftwaffe in the East. Not just because of production but because Hitler had to prioritize the Luftwaffe to defend German cities.

    It should also be noted that the Soviets did the bulk of the fighting which isn’t reflected in Western movies or history.

    If the Soviet front had collapsed then I don’t think the Western invasion would have happened. I think Churchhill would have thrown in the cards and that of course is why Hitler opened two fronts to begin with. He correctly believed that Churchill would not recognize the new order in Europe if there was a chance of the Soviets attacking Germany. But his gamble of the two front war obviously didn’t work. Interestingly he had written that he would never repeat the WW1 mistake of the two front war.

  282. @EliteCommInc.

    I have read Jon Johnson’s posts on this issue and in my view, he is not an advocate for war, but simply recognizes that Russia’s unwarranted invasion is a threat to the peace. And she needs to depart Ukraine and return to her own borders.

    I’m not sure how someone could describe me as pro-war when I was against this war before it started. I didn’t buy Putin’s “training exercise” lie and the amount of equipment on the Belarusian border looked highly suspicious.

    I pointed out that Russia not only has a declining Slavic population but abandoned cities in the East. The Soviets built numerous cities that were basically abandoned after the USSR collapsed as the people were allowed to move closer to Western Europe. Instead of war Putin could have simply paid DPR/LPR separatists to reoccupy them. Paying them each 100k USD and giving them a dozen acres would have not only saved Russia billions of dollars but hundreds of thousands of Orthodox men on both sides would be alive for the upcoming Christmas. I’ve asked many times how killing Orthodox men on both sides will stick it to Jews/West/Whatever and the most common response at Unz is something along the lines of UM … UR A JEW. It’s really the epitome of irrationalism when we have Whites (or at least I assume) cheering the deaths of Slavs in an imaginary war against Jews……and if any Whites question the rationale of such cheering they are in turn called Jews. Some real solid circular logic that should be a Monty Python sketch. If you stick up for the witch then you clearly must be a witch and should also be burned.

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  283. @Alexandros

    > Germany attempted to limit the war by asking the Brits to clarify their position.

    There was never any doubt that a violation of the Belgian neutrality agreement would bring Britain into the war. Britain had supported such neutrality agreements in order to maintain its naval position. German naval bases in Belgium would have altered this, yet the Schlieffen Plan was made with the invasion of Belgium as part of the script. No sensible German leader would have needed to be told that would cross a British line.

    > the Germans could not believe their enemies would start a gigantic war over a Habsburg Prince killed in Serbia.

    Except no one did start a war over that. The Russian officers simply prevailed upon the weak-willed Nicholas II to mobilize the army, despite his expressing some initial doubts. Once the Russian mobilization was announced, the Schlieffen Plan the called for German forces to immediately move against France and be prepared to turn around against Russia before the Russian mobilization could be completed. But even the foolish Nicholas II did not think that he was starting a war when he accepted the advice to begin mobilization of Russian armed forces.

    > There was nothing wrong with the alliance system.

    While that can be argued about, the more immediate problem was the rigid nature of the Schlieffen Plan which dictated that a Russo-German conflict would have to involve a Franco-German war with an invasion of Belgium. No alternate plan existed for maintaining a defensive front in the west while carrying on a campaign against Russia. It was a commitment to a two-front war from the get-go. That in turn meant that any mobilization of Russian forces in the west, even if no Russian offensive was launched, was treated by German officers as the signal for starting the war against France before any Russian attack had even started.

  284. @Alexandros

    > 200 P-4 Tomahawks were on their way.

    Some Tomahawks did arrive in time for combat in late 1941, but not as many as you seem to think.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_P-40_Warhawk#Soviet_Union

    —–
    The Tomahawks were shipped from Great Britain and directly from the US, many of them arriving incomplete, lacking machine guns and even the lower half of the engine cowling. In late September 1941, the first 48 P-40s were assembled and checked in the USSR.[90][91] Test flights showed some manufacturing defects: generator and oil pump gears and generator shafts failed repeatedly, which led to emergency landings. The test report indicated that the Tomahawk was inferior to Soviet “M-105P-powered production fighters in speed and rate of climb. However, it had good short field performance, horizontal maneuverability, range, and endurance.”[92] Nevertheless, Tomahawks and Kittyhawks were used against the Germans. The 126th Fighter Aviation Regiment (IAP), fighting on the Western and Kalinin Fronts, were the first unit to receive the P-40. The regiment entered action on 12 October 1941. By 15 November 1941, the regiment had shot down 17 German aircraft. However, Lt (SG) Smirnov noted that the P-40 armament was sufficient for strafing enemy lines but rather ineffective in aerial combat. Another pilot, Stephan Ridny (a Hero of the Soviet Union), remarked that he had to shoot half the ammunition at 50–100 meters (165–340 ft) to shoot down an enemy aircraft.[92]
    —–

  285. @John Johnson

    “I’m not sure how someone could describe me as pro-war when I was against this war before it started. I didn’t buy Putin’s “training exercise”

    Short answer

    You get no arguments from me.

    Long answer

    The scenario we are now in is the direct result of Russia’s expansionist ambitions. And it seems that unless stopped by force, it will continue. Whatever, one mat think about Ukrainian internal politics, social or cultural existence, they have a right to it. And to that end they have a right to defend the,mselves, including attacking Russia proper.

    I suspect that the state run media which has permitted only voice on the issue id doing so because, if most Russians got other perspectives the Kremlin case would fall apart nationally and the general population wouldn’t get it.

    Nazis? Same relational dynamics, putting down rebellions inside Ukraine, NATO surrounding Russia as if they could —

    I am chagrined we are spending a dime anywhere else but here in the US. And up until the Russian invasion — that is generally where I stood.

    Good greif

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  286. @EliteCommInc.

    The scenario we are now in is the direct result of Russia’s expansionist ambitions. And it seems that unless stopped by force, it will continue.

    Ahhh, so you are one of the blind who cannot see that the deep state poked you in the eye.

    Good to know.

    At this juncture, it seems like Russia will win, especially since these two things have happened:

    China vows support for Syria

    China bans exports to US of gallium, germanium, antimony in response to chip sanctions

    Note that gallium is used in GalliumNitride, an important component of high performance phased array radars.

    Oh, and:

    It Seems North Korea Is Shipping Its Biggest Guns To Russia, So Russia Can Fire Them At Ukraine

    Sorry. Off by one.

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  287. “Note that gallium is used in GalliumNitride, an important component of high performance phased array radars.”

    oooh and Semiconductors.

    ——————-
    Well, you don’t say. I guess we will have to devlop our own and use other sources or use alternatives

    https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/international/2024/12/03/what-are-gallium-and-germanium-the-niche-metals-hit-by-chinas-export-ban/

    https://cybernews.com/editorial/gallium-germanium-semiconductor-alternatives/

    pressure breeds innovation

    https://www.psu.edu/news/engineering/story/search-replace-critical-semiconductor

    https://www.csis.org/analysis/de-risking-gallium-supply-chains-national-security-case-eroding-chinas-critical-mineral

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gallium-critical-minerals-us_n_65fb62fde4b07c954d54942c

    Antimony

    https://www.miningnewsnorth.com/story/2024/09/19/critical-minerals-alliances-2024/antimony-is-high-on-dod-mineral-concerns/8696.html

    https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/mineral-resource-month-antimony-0

    ——————–

    “It Seems North Korea Is Shipping Its Biggest Guns To Russia, So Russia Can Fire Them At Ukraine”

    Ah yes, that industrial giant North Korea, supplied by China no doubt. This data speaks volumes, but I don’t think you know in what direction the volumes are running against.

    I could rehash the details why Russia’s invasion is strategically unwise. But let me address the poking in the eye suggestion. The only county doing any poking is Russia. Her presence in Ukraine has aways been unwelcome since the end of the Soviet Union, and it continues to be to this day. And as long as she continues the invasion, her poking should be returned in full measure by the international community.

    gallium or no galium . . .

  288. @John Johnson

    I’m not sure how someone could describe me as pro-war when I was against this war before it started.

    Oh please, quit with the pretence. You’re fooling no one.

    Putin did everything possible to avoid war. And, had your precious Judeo-Ukrainian regime stuck to the Minsk Accord stipulations, no war would’ve eventuated.

    But the Anglo-Zionist controllers of that poisonous dwarf Zelensky insisted that the provocations continue. So he escalated the bombardment of innocent civilians (ethnic Russians) in the Donbas and murdered countless thousands.

    You’ve never once condemned this act of depravity.
    You’ve never once admitted that, absent this shelling of innocents, that no war would’ve started.

    This is proof that you’re pro-war, proof that you’re a warmongering neocon who’s ‘all-in’ with ZOG’s agenda to bring about the collapse of Russia and Balkanise it – so that it can be looted/raped/pillaged by your (((tribal))) ilk.

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  289. @Alexandros

    The USSR would have defeated Germany all by itself. Lendlease just made its victory quicker.

  290. “Russia’s state-of-the-art missile technology and missile defense systems are vastly superior to those produced by western weapons manufacturers.”

    Mike, show us the evidence how they are state of the art or vastly superior?

    Show us the evidence how Crypto-Jew Putin’s Russia is anything more than a paper tiger?

    Russia is a third world country with no industry & non existent talent.

    The best & brightest Russians were exterminated by Jewish Bolsheviks in gulags a 100 years ago.

    The Jews are still in charge in Russia & waging a war of Extermination on Ukrainian Aryans using ethnic Russians like cannon fodder.

  291. @John Johnson

    Listen, the Ukrainians couldn’t take Kursk. So, they occupied several border areas. More than half of the occupied territories and 40,000 soldiers have already been lost. A gorgeous ukrovermacht operation!

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  292. @Truth Vigilante

    This guy has an opinion that is based on “conventional wisdom”

    Conventional wisdom is created by the Jewish Press and is politically correct

    He spouts the same old line that Iran is the Maestro of the resistance against the squatters in the ME

    If so, why didn’t the Palestinian resistance give Iran a heads up before 10/7?

    Because they didn’t trust the Mullahs

    And the Mullahs proved their vile perfidy by allowing the Israelis to assassinate Ismail Haniyeh while under their protection in Tehran.

    I don’t understand the logic of outsiders having so much faith in unelected potentates like Assad, the Mullahs and the Hezbollah elite.

    Are you implying that these un-elected rulers are not corrupt through and through?

    Because if you’re not you are naïve to say the least.

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  293. @anonymouseperson

    Extremely unlikely. Barbarossa destroyed 90% of the Red Army and lowered production capacity by 50% or more in many cases. Huge populations fell under German control, eliminating the population advantage. Germany was actually outpacing the Soviets in armament production as the war went on. They were reaching parity in tank production, while destroying 3-4 times as many tanks as they lost. Population was about equal at this point, but the Germans were killing 5 times as many men.

    The USSR would have lost a war of attrition without trillions in allied help.

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  294. @Rus carapuz

    Listen, the Ukrainians couldn’t take Kursk. So, they occupied several border areas. More than half of the occupied territories and 40,000 soldiers have already been lost. A gorgeous ukrovermacht operation!

    The plan isn’t to take Kursk. Do you really think they just invaded on a whim with the intent to capture territory?

    This was a wargamed operation with the intent of drawing in Russian forces. Ukraine knows they are outnumbered. Since they haven’t left we can deduce that it wasn’t a hit and run. That means it is a bullet trap. It’s when you try to draw out the enemy into an area where you have the advantage. My guess is that they want to draw them into an area where they can’t use glide bombs. But we don’t know.

    We also don’t know the actual losses of either side. No one does.

  295. @anonymouseperson

    The USSR would have defeated Germany all by itself. Lendlease just made its victory quicker.

    Stalin said they would have starved in the early years without it.

    I will take the word of the Communist dictator who was in charge over a forum poster.

  296. @Alexandros

    > Germany was actually outpacing the Soviets in armament production as the war went on.

    Where on earth did you get that from?

    —–
    Against everyone’s reasonable expectation, the Soviet economy repaired the fractured web of industry, transport and resources and in 1942 produced more weapons than a year before, and more weapons than the enemy. Moreover, many of these weapons were of improved quality, reversing the uneven technical confrontation of 1941. It proved impossible to make good all the losses of coal, iron and steel, but Soviet factories were able to use the iron and steel that could be produced solely for the most urgent war production. In 1943 the gap between Soviet and German production widened further. In the middle years of the war Soviet factories produced three aircraft for every two German, and almost double the number of tanks. The balance of heavy artillery was almost three to one. The Soviet economy outproduced the German economy throughout the war from a resource base a good deal smaller and with a workforce far less skilled.
    —–
    — Richard Overy, Why the Allies Won, p. 183.

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    , @Alexandros
  297. @Patrick McNally

    Germany was actually outpacing the Soviets in armament production as the war went on.

    Where on earth did you get that from?

    German production did increase but it should be noted that Hitler actually had not put the economy on a war footing in 1941 prior to the invasion. As crazy as it sounds he actually planned on just storming in with what they had with the expectation that the USSR would collapse. And it all fairness it almost worked. But it was still Hitler being reckless.

    But you are correct that the Soviets outproduced the Germans from 1941-45. Here is some tank production data:
    https://ww2data.com/tank-production-by-nation-1940-to-1945/

    Much of that production was in secret and unbeknownst to even the Americans and British. The secret tank factories are what Hitler complained about in table talk. They didn’t think it was possible for the Soviets to create that many tanks.

  298. @Patrick McNally

    Outpace means to “improve faster”. Soviet production was running at max when the war started, German production did not peak until 1944. In the early 40s Germany could barely squeeze out 2000 tanks a year to the Soviet 20,000 a year. By 1944 Soviet production had decreased, while German production had increased to 10,000 tanks a year.

    This combined with a much higher kill rate means that the Germans were winning on the attrition level. Vast amounts of allied aid was needed to close the gap.

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  299. One has to remember when discussing Soviet production, one is not talking aout Rssia proper, but the production prodce by several countries under the cloak of Soviet contol.

  300. Marcali says:
    @notbe mk 2

    Speculation is not history only the joke of it. And a waste of time.

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  301. Except Bolsheviks have an interesting personality type-aside from immoral psychopathy typical of politicians in general, they are a mix of very rigid, self-centered thought. In short, they basically believe in their right to rule, that their policies are the only way, and that opposition to them is inherently evil. A so-called building of a so-called communist society in a specific historical period for such a self-centered personality is only a way to dominate, other historical periods would offer other ideologies.

    This goes beyond speculation, it’s more of a noticing of patterns.

    The world saw this personality type in Lenin in 1917 and saw it again in Yakovlev in 1987. Seriously one is struck how similar in thinking Vladimir Ilych and Alexander Nikolayevich were despite a superficial difference in time and dedication to quite opposite economic policies.

    Look Yakovlev’s later routine was how communism was a demographic disaster. Goody for him but we are dealing with a someone who actually was wounded in ’42 and was demobilized after that and spend the rest of the war studying (obviously he was well-connected-a Soviet officer after recovering would go to the front again), then he was selected to study in the US in the fifties (how many bright students were ever selected to go the West in the fifties? Perhaps a hundred-again extremely well-connected) and then comes back becomes one of the top men in the Agitprop Bureau of the CPSU.

    Incredible connections! A true child of privilege!

    His career advance is stifled in some sort of a God-knows-what power struggle so Brezhnev demotes him (the way he tells it, he was demoted for advocating democracy-one needs to be skeptical of this). Remember for such a personality type, a loss of power is a humiliating experience and the quest for revenge is paramount. But what was his demotion? He was named Ambassador to Canada! Incredible connections! A true child of privilege!

    Later he is associated with the incompetent Gorbachev and totally corrupt Yeltsin. Towards the end of his life Yeltsin realizes that he might badly remembered by the Russians for hundreds of years so he selects Putin to “put in” (hee hee a pun) normal policies to stabilize Russia. One of these normalization, stabilization policies was to sideline Yakovlev out of power. Yakovlev as a way to gain power back starts a party to fight the “backsliding of democracy” (he however had no problem with the corrupt elections of the Yeltsin era). Unfortunately his party gets 0.001 percent of the votes.

    If Yakovlev was so concerned about the disasters of communism he was free to move to a monastery and write books there-nah the number two and later number one of the Agitprop Bureau after getting sidelined wants to return to power so he basically cites stats of the total number of deaths in the USSR from 1917 to 1987 and he attributes all these deaths to communist repression, basically clutching at straws. How very moral, thank you Deputy Head of the Agitprop Bureau of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for setting me straight on this-a retreat to a monastery would be such a waste for a talented, moral person like you. You really need to get back to power.

    Look while in power Yakovlev’s policies led to deaths of millions. Why? Because Yakovlev’s personality was so typical Bolshevik- like I said, “they basically believe in their right to rule, that their policies are the only way, and that opposition to them is inherently evil”- he gets rightly sidelined so to him Putin is evil and he makes sure the world know it.

    Take a gander at these census stats-
    -The population of the Ukraine in 1932-32 mil (prior to the Stalinist famine)
    -The population of the Ukraine in 1933-30 mil (Stalin’s famine and repressions)
    -The population of the Ukraine in 1940-40 mil (after the famine, repressions still going on- BUT the population fully recovered and exceeded)
    -The population of the Ukraine in 1950-37 mil ( five years after a God-awful brutal war (direct stats for the years 1941-1950 are obviously hard to get but just as obviously they were awful)
    -The population of the Ukraine in 1975-49 mil (THIRTY YEARS after the war, BUT the population fully recovered and exceeded)
    -The population of the Ukraine in 1985-51 mil (Gorbachev and Yakovlev coming into power)
    -The population of the Ukraine in 2016-42 mil (prior to the secessions and the war, THIRTY YEARS after Yakovlev gets into power!)
    The Ukraine survived Stalin and Hitler and even thrived afterwards but it has never recovered from Yakovlev!

    If you look at historical censuses of Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Georgia, Armenia you get the same shocking facts-recovery from Stalinism and the war but a huge population reduction (of course no direct murders unlike Stalin and Hitler but people just giving up on life and not able to afford children) with no end in sight AFTER THIRTY YEARS AFTER YAKOVLEV! In the case of Georgia and Armenia, these countries never directly experienced WWII but the post Yakovlev losses indicates an apocalyptic war was fought there in the nineties!

    Thus anything coming from Yakovlev is immediately suspect. A true epitome of the always-right, my enemies are wrong, no compromise, I need to be in power Bolshevik, Putin is an evil dictator but with finance and support of the West I’ll save the situation.

    Unlike Yeltsin there was no Mea Culpa. A true power-crazed, murderous fanatic.

    But then again, we should have all known this-after all Alexander Yakovlev was Pierre Trudeau’s (Justin’s PM dad) best friend. Pierre’s other son Sasha was named after Alexander Yakovlev. If that doesn’t sum it up I don’t know what will.

    Thank you for a mutually informative debate.

  302. @Marcali

    Sorry, I replied to you but unfortunately I posted my reply as an independent comment number 310 (right below your reply). Sorry to keep going on this somewhat tasteless death debate but I would like to point out something that no-one really noticed before-

    Yakovlev lists 61 mil deaths in the USSR due to political repression-obviously I disagree thinking most of these deaths being from all causes which then Yakovlev just attributes all to political repressions due to his specific ulterior power-seeking motives. We can agree to disagree but there is a startling fact he puts out which kind of shows that he indeed had ulterior motives to fake.

    Basically he lists 7 million people as being politically murdered after Stalin. The period of political murders ceases in 1987. What was so special about 1987? That was the year he returned from being Ambassador to Canada to being the second-in-command of the USSR. Conveniently all political murders suddenly stop-even so that is not the startling fact.

    The startling fact is that over a twenty-five/thirty year period AFTER Stalin, 7 million people were politically murdered in the USSR-basically about 250, 000 people each and every year. Again I would disagree that this actually happened BUT let’s accept it’s true.

    If true who the f… bears responsibility for these mass murders? Well Brezhnev, of course. Let’s add Mikoyan, Gromyko, Kosygin et al. Of course, if we accept Yakovlev then this is a huge mass genocide but the question is why was this done? Because of communism.

    OK fair enough but what determines what is communism in the Soviet communist party? Well the….Agit Bureau! Who was the deputy head of the Agit Bureau at a time where 250, 000 people were political executed annually?

    ALEXANDER YAKOVLEV!

    The asshole basically admitted to participating in the murder of 250, 000 people annually! Yet he never protested or even leaked out this info! He was the Ambassador to Canada and he could have defected and informed the world 250, 000 people are being executed every year but nothing like that happened! (because very likely it didn’t happen).

    No, the startling fact of 250, 000 murders annually comes to life in 2002 where he was sidelined and out of power and wanting to get back to power so he pulls these stats out his ass!

    Look either he is bullsh..ing or he bears the partial responsibility for killing 250, 000 people every year for several years. Which is it?

    He was such a power-crazed idiot he basically made up a fact that leads to the conclusion that he was partially responsible for the murder of several million people and he didn’t (and the entire world) even notice this!

    If true, he was a mass murderer even PRIOR to his disastrous policies in the nineties!

    In 2002, when he yearns to get back to power he publishes that 7 million people died due to communism after Stalin. Ok then…if this true; shouldn’t the deputy head of the Agitprop bureau of the Soviet Communist party of the time be tried and executed for crimes against humanity? The power-crazed but unthinking asshole never thought of that!

    I guess that fact kind of slipped his mind that if you are one of the top hundred or fifty decisions makers in a government and then you accuse that government of mass murder you are directly responsible for those murders. Jeeezus he was one of the most important decision makers when a quarter of a million people were being executed yearly! But, hell’s bells, that’s what you get with a person who thought the road to Nirvana would be to give the worst psychopathic criminals total control of your country’s economy.

    A true ideological, fanatical sh..head who’s mentality Russia had to endure throughout the 20th century but kind of got rid of in the 21st century.

  303. @CelestiaQuesta

    I said 7 trillion fed budget, not economy.

    Enjoy california and good luck fighting with those guns. Yes, we’ll likely be abroad most of the time by then.

    As for “been there done that”, i’m curious to hear about your experiences living in other countries.
    Any recently?

  304. Anonymous[874] •�Disclaimer says:

    Reading the above article, it seems the best analogy for what faces the United States now is the situation (once) Great Britain found itself in on the eve of World War One.

    In the decades leading up to 1914, Britain maintained what amounted to a highly skilled, very elite military force. VERY ELITE.

    It’s main purpose, for which it served very well, was rapid deployment and quick victory in overseas imperial wars against rebellious foreign tributaries and tribes, or the odd imperial European (German, French), Russian, Japanese or American rivals in distant lands. Think 19th century Imperial Age warfare in far fling colonies.

    It was an deadly little force, and it was so small (6 divisions, in an era in which Russia, France, Japan, Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy maintained large armies, and able to mobilize on short notice). The British quality probably surpassed, man for man, that of say French or American troops, and was equal to the elite formations of Germany. Did I mention the force was TINY?

    Well, this superlative Imperial British force was sent to the Western Front, performed as expected (with excellence) – and in a real industrial war, even with competent and highly motivated French allies, against the German Army – was chewed up and spit out in three (3!) months of brutal warfare.

    From the start of Mons (Aug 23) to the end of Ypres (Nov. 22), the British Regular Army, famed for its prowess, was simply gone due to truly massive casualties. If not for the French, the Western allies would have lost then and there!

    And that is where the American military stands today. Unless the United States can find extremely committed allies who are themselves industrial powerhouses, we might as well stay at home.

    Problem today is that the industrial gap between the United States and say China is MUCH larger than that between the UK and Germany back then.

    And we do not have a France nor a United States as backstops. It’d be like Great Britain (America) fighting Germany (Russia) whose close ally was the United States (China)! It’s NOT DOABLE AND VERY STUPID.

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  305. @radicalcenter

    The US didn’t invade vietnam?

    Bear in mind that, according to the conscience-free individual that uses the handle ‘Elite Communist Incorporated’, the U.S never ‘invades’ any country.

    You see, in the neocon warmongering world in which he lives, in which ALL wars are good wars (because they massively enrich the ZOG owned Defence Contractors), the U.S merely engages in ‘Police Actions’.
    It does so altruistically (seeking no material gain), because of its empathy for the weak and downtrodden.

    According to Elite Communist, the U.S entered Vietnam to keep the peace, to protect the lives of the Vietnamese people and minimise human suffering*.
    (*That’s why the U.S, after it decided to massively escalate the war and undertake major combat operations on the orders of the first Jewish President LBJ, arrived with 20 million [U.S] gallons of Agent Orange.
    Because, as we all know, Agent Orange ‘cares’ for the environment and the Vietnamese people).

    The following 2 min video concisely summaries the legacy of Agent Orange and the U.S intervention into IndoChina:

    Needless to say, Elite Communist Incorporated is proud of America’s role in that war, he’s proud of those napalm strikes on innocent villagers and the My Lai massacre, because that’s the sort of thing he gets off on.

    Indeed, Mr Elite Communist is bursting with pride when he has recollections of every murderous foreign misadventure the U.S was involved in during the 2oth century and post 9/11.

    It goes without saying that, like his heroes John McCain and Lindsey Graham, he believes the U.S should increase the tempo of arms shipments to that poisonous dwarf Zelensky in the Ukraine proxy war and also to the Apartheid Israeli state, seeing as not enough soldiers and non-combatants have been killed for his liking.

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  306. @Truth Vigilante

    Now now . . . Laugh.

    In response:

    No war is “good”. Wars are not good even when justified. War is tragic, nasty, filthy, devastating recourse. There is nothing good about war. But on occasion it is justified. In Vietnam, the US defended the right of the S. Vietnam to chart their own destiny. A good cause prima facie and a beer cause given the outcome — more traic than the fight itself.

    At no time, in no comment, in no manner have I ever contended that the US has never invaded. And some of those invasions were unnecessary, unwarranted — even unethical.

    As for war profiteering, people have been developing weapons and selling them since the first person figured out how to make a better spear or rock. I cannot resolve that for you. The introduction of weapons systems that might have devastating impact on populations — is of course tragic. I cannot solve that for you either ad no one can — save God himself, if he chooses to remove human free will and set peace to the standard on demand to his will. Pres Nixon’s response to North Vietnam, North Korean, Chinese, and Soviet escalations is what brought North Vietnam to the table.

    I mourn the death of both innocents, friends and foes, War is a nasty filthy insane choice to resolve matters and when engaged, the consequences resulting from violence — unforgiving. I am very proud of the effort of the US service members in Vietnam. And every US citizen, Australian and S. Vietnamese should be. Despite the rare acts of war criminality, the US treatment of others friend or foe is fairly unmatched – almost naïve. Sadly, there are times when that is not the case, but the record here has been one of overwhelming positive report.

    I openly opposed the invasions after 9/11. And while, I did agree we needed to capture the actors of 9/11. Invading Afghanistan was not the best choice. And sadly, the effort failed.

    Ukraine: The US, the EU, NATO, Eurasian Asia, the globe should support Ukraine’s independence. and that suppor should include the same mechanisms used by Russia, if necessary. The threat to use nuclear weapons by Russia cleared th table of any doubt regarding Russia’s intentions and unwarranted conduct to force compliance to her dictates on the internal affairs of her neighbors. Tha simply cannot stand. And while before that invasion was set to course a way of less involvement in Europe. Russia’s invasion made that a moot issue. Instead of cowering as we did, we should have immediately moved the nation to a wartime posture – sadly and understandably gunshy after the middle east failures.

    Hmmmm . . . Isarel has a right to exist as does Palestine. Israel’s incursions into Palestine, building cities unless invited by Palestine is a cause of no small amount of justified anger and even resistance — her conduct is provacative to say the least. Bu palestine cannot use the tactics against the civilian population in Israel, that only undermines their case. I openly admit that my comments seem to ignore the unfairness. But it is because she is in an unfair disposition that she must avoid such tactics. The black citizen in the US cannot go around randomly punching white people in the face, despite how historically justifiable it might seem. The black person cannot jump on every white liberals bandwagon of “free love”, transwhatever . . . because at the end if the day all whites, will gain and then jettison whatever legitimate concerns pertain to them because blacks are simply not in a majority position. What Israel is doing in Palestine to civilian population is intended largely to drive them out so tha srael can claim lands she claims was bestowed to her —

    That behavior is typically called “ethnic cleansing” and is forbidden. But Hamas (even though Hamas is not as definive as its name) has given some coer and excuse to Israeli conduct. A massacre of civilians it allows Israeli to restart the conversation as though all of her untoward previous conduct simply did not occur. She gets to play victim. Isarel is not the victim n the regin. Her alliances with the west have her secure. Why she provokes enemies and then claims victimhood is a peculiar tactic but one that works, she she plays it. Until Palestine is secure and enabled to develop as a nation with he own economy, industry, government to the end of building her own security — Israel can pretend there are no borders.

    I don’t hate Jews, Israelis, or Israel. Quite the contrary.

    No, we did not invade Vietnam. We did not lose the Vietnam conflict. Yes we should push back against Russia’s conduct in Ukraine. And it might ery well have been none of our business but that threats from Russia to our stead, made it so. War is a tragic choice.

    EliteCommInc. has no affiliation with any communist agency, propaganda, ideolgy or agenda.

  307. ” . . . to that poisonous dwarf Zelensky in the Ukraine proxy war and also to the Apartheid Israeli state, seeing as not enough soldiers and non-combatants have been killed for his liking.”

    You don’t understand what s taking place. When Russia invaded and threatened the rest of the community, she set off alarm bells that set in motion those that opposed her on a course to consider the long term ramifications:

    strategically thinking not only about Russia but her allies: Iran, Syria, China to name a few and that put Israel squarely in the drivers seat in the Middle east. Because she would be the spear head in buffering those states if for no other reason to push back against Russia’s move. In the long term western strategy —- Palestine is not even a footnote in that game. Further giving room to Israel to do waht she pleases in Palestine.

    As for the comediane turned President, perhaps the most capable leader Ukraine has had in a moment in which history is turning his leadership. Russia made that happen. Russia made him a giant.

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  308. @Anonymous

    In the decades leading up to 1914, Britain maintained what amounted to a highly skilled, very elite military force. VERY ELITE.

    Well, this superlative Imperial British force was sent to the Western Front, performed as expected (with excellence)

    You obviously know very little about WWI history.
    The British Navy, being a meritocracy, was a formidable fighting force indeed, because those at the top earned their stripes. No one disputes that.
    But the British Army, whose leaders were invariably incompetent doddering old fools* chosen from the British aristocracy, were WORTHLESS Generals. They presided over one military debacle after another throughout the entirety of the war.

    (*There is no better example of this than Britain’s Field Marshal Douglas Haig – a completely useless idiot that squandered the lives of countless hundreds of thousands, whilst achieving nothing tangible in return).

    Of course, British Empire forces did indeed win many decisive battles during the war – too many to itemise.
    But these were battles where COMMONWEALTH TROOPS were the spearheads that made the crucial breakthroughs and did the hard fighting. They, almost single-handedly, (with only peripheral support from actual British army forces), were responsible for the major victories.

    That’s right, it was AUSTRALIAN*, CANADIAN and NEW ZEALAND soldiers that won ALL the decisive battles.

    (*Objective British war historians and the official British military archives admit that the Australians in particular were the STAND OUT soldiers on the Allied side during that war).
    And that trend of British army catastrophes continued throughout WWII as well.

    So my ignorant friend, stop posting the B.S. Learn some REAL HISTORY and quit with your falsehoods.

  309. @EliteCommInc.

    I openly opposed the invasions after 9/11. And while, I did agree we needed to capture the actors of 9/11. Invading Afghanistan was not the best choice. And sadly, the effort failed.

    Who would those actors be and how did you intend to capture them? Of course invading Afghanistan was not the best choice, or any choice at all for that matter, as those actors weren’t hiding there, in caves or elsewhere.

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  310. @Commentator Mike

    Actors: the men and or women who conducted teh 9/11 attacks. I am aware that many think it was an inside job or and act of terror by Israeli intelligence.

    Well, experience suggests that our law enforcement mechanisms, FBI and others have conducted said operations very effectively. And I would of course, as last resort use covert ops. In my view, we could have gotten the players suspected in less than a year.

    Clearly speculation on my part. But minus an operation by some official government body — those incidents were crimes and should have been treated as such. Note: Osama Bin Laden had openly stated the matter on film.

    https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/osama-bin-laden

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/bin-laden-claims-responsibility-for-9-11-1.513654

    invading was the least viable option, in my view and I think events have played out to make the case made by people far more qualified, intelligent and in the know than me. But it seemed rather obvious in my view.

  311. @EliteCommInc.

    The 9/11 False Flag was a Mossad operation, in conjunction with the assistance of traitors in the U.S government/Military/and Intel agencies.

    The fact that you don’t know this Mr Elite Communist Incorporated, is testament to what sort of a brain washed fool you are.
    You’re someone who gets all his information from the ZOG owned MSM.
    You are truly one monumental dumb f*ck if you believe OBL had anything to do with it, or that 19 Arabs hijacked any planes that day.

    FFS, there is no proof that a single one of those 19 Arabs boarded ANY of the four planes alleged to have crashed that day.

    Moreover, seven of those alleged hijackers were shown to be still alive* AFTER 9/11.
    (Most of these were Saudi nationals that were living in their homelands during the 9/11 attacks.
    All had one thing in common – they had reported their passports lost some months prior to 9/11.
    Evidently the Mossad got hold of those passports, yet another signature tactic of theirs, and used the passports for their nefarious purposes).

    Lastly, in relation to this assertion of yours from comment # 318,relating to the Ukraine proxy war:

    You don’t understand what’s taking place.
    When Russia invaded and threatened the rest of the community …..

    That is rich.
    You, of all people, one of the most geopolitically ignorant clowns in the entire UR commentariat, to be telling others that they ‘don’t understand’, brought uncontrolled laughter on my part.

    Watch the following 3 mins of the video below from 3:55-6:45, as Jeffrey Sachs concisely sums up who is really to blame for the orchestration of this war (Hint: It most certainly is not Russia and V.V. Putin – the greatest statesman and force for good in the modern era):

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  312. @Alexandros

    > In the early 40s Germany could barely squeeze out 2000 tanks a year to the Soviet 20,000 a year.

    Another bit of misdirection. Actually, the previous poster had just referenced a useful brief summary:

    https://ww2data.com/tank-production-by-nation-1940-to-1945/

    Soviet tank production for 1940 was 2,800; for 1941, 6,400; 1942, 24,700; 1943, 24,000; 1944, 29,000; 1945, 15,4000. That mark of 20,000 was only reached after huge swaths of territory had been lost to the Wehrmacht. This shows how a massive increase in Soviet arms production was carried out under conditions where one would expect that it might actually, just as Richard Overy was describing in the passage which I cited.

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  313. @Truth Vigilante

    Oyyyy and oy . . .

    I referenced that there are those that claim that 9/11 was an inside job. That I am not convined or that I did not get into details, does not mean I am unware of the claims and some of the details. While there are certainly some suspicious events/circumstances, I remain unconvinced. I certainly acknowledge that the manner in which the towers collapsed as a pancake as opposed to toppling over toward what would be the weakest side from the damage — definitely curious. However, suspicions and peculiar circumstances do not a case make.

    Certainly, if one use cold war thinking as Dr. Sachs does, then calculating “spheres of influence” makes sense. And the EU, NATO, and US conduct in or with Ukraine might be tallied as provocative. But Ukraine does not exist in a cold war environment. And while I might chagrin Sec Clinton’s push for heavy weapons and provocative rhetoric and Dir Nuland’s obvious presence as unhelpful. The bottom line is Ukraine gets to decide who she dances with and what her internal politics are. Whether Russia, Pres Putin, Inspector Ritter, Gen MacGregor or Dr. Sachs or anyone else like it or not. Ukraine is an independent state ad she gets to decide with whom she dances. Russia’s discomfit — is Russia’s problem, not Ukraine’s. And Russia as with all countries operating on the planet, just has to grow up — Ukraine is not part of the Soviet Union or the Russian Federation and she doesn’t want to be. When Russia began making moves into Mexico, the US was none to happy, but our unhappiness is ours, and not Mexico’s responsibility.

    Lot’s of people are angry with the establishment because of the heavy handed tactics used to silence and in some cases destroy career’s over opposing views. Rightfully so, but no one forced Russia to invade Ukraine. All the Victoria Nuland’s in the world forced Russia’s hand. And I think Pres Putin made a huge mistake, contrary to his previous performance that day. Again leapfrogging thousands of miles to blame the US for relations Russia has with those in Europe.

    It is my understanding that Syrian Pres Assaad lost the civil war today. How permanent that it is unknown. But if accurate that is one of Russia’s key allies no longer in the loop. Russia’s conduct is only going to intensify pressure on her other allies. Iran, North Korea, etc. China has to decide whether or not she really means it when she says she recognizes Ukrainian sovereignty. Russia as forced the question does she support nation’s rights to have their own internal affairs, societies, cultures, political make-up as she has repeatedly claimed. Does China have the courage to stand and say we cannot support this unprovoked invasion.

    I have great respect for Dr. Sachs, but he is wrong as he is wrong about our support in Vietnam, despite Dr. Elsberg’s revelations. The entirety of data contradicts the position.

    And absolutely people in the US matter more and should be given whatever assistance they need — no question.

  314. @EliteCommInc.

    Absolutely, Europe should be leading this matter, it’s in their backyard. Bravo Sweden and Poland.

    I am an advocate fo free speech.. I would appreciate avoinding the use of colorful language in responses. But as you will.

  315. Dr Kang says:

    Yes we would lose for the simple reason that, we have too many neegroes and their coddlers!!!

  316. @EliteCommInc.

    The sweaty rat a giant? Good God! Here’s a dope so foolish that he believes the Jew York Times and the BibiC.

  317. @EliteCommInc.

    What a POISONOUS fuckwit. The USA created ‘South’ Vietnam by reneging on promises to allow elections that it knew its death-squad stooges would lose, then murdered four million Indochinese trying to destroy Vietnamese nationalism and replace it with the stooge rule we see in Germany, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Austfailia etc.

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  318. @2stateshmoostate

    Hamas was created by the Zionazis. It was relatively tolerated while the PA was attacked, and it was actually financed by the Judenreich. Then, ‘mysteriously’, they broke out of the most closely guarded concentration camp in history, to allow the IDF to slaughter a couple of hundred Israelis with ‘friendly fire’ and in pursuit of the ‘Hannibal Directive’. And Hamas has just welcomed the fall of Syria to jihadist butchers. It makes a sort of sense, which one sees in the infamous ‘Oded Yinon Plan’ for the Middle East.

  319. Hamas was not created by the squatters

    It was nurtured and promoted by Israel to be a foil (divide and conquer) to the PA

    But Hamas’s first priority was always to rid Palestine of the European squatters

    How can you say that Hamas was an Israeli tool when the squatters murdered so many Hamas leaders and fighters over the years????

    That doesn’t add up

    You argument that the fake Jews are all knowing and infallible is just more chutzpah.

    Israel was always a long shot.

    There’s no way this squatter colony full of Arab hating Europeans can survive for long surrounded by hundreds of millions of fake Jew hating Arabs.

  320. @EliteCommInc.

    Elite Communist Incorporated writes:

    The bottom line is Ukraine gets to decide who she dances with and what her internal politics are.

    Only a FOOL of the MOST MENTALLY IMPAIRED VARIETY would assert that Ukraine gets to to decide who she dances with.
    Even Blind Freddie can see that the Ukrainian people and its elected officials have no say in the destiny of the country.
    Ukraine’s decision to go to war, to prolong the war (despite catastrophic consequences in dead/wounded/economic calamity), is entirely dictated by the Anglo-Zionist empire.

    How could someone be so pig-ignorant as to not be aware of that?

    I have great respect for Dr. Sachs, but he is wrong as he is wrong about our support in Vietnam, despite Dr. Elsberg’s revelations.
    The entirety of data contradicts the position

    We don’t doubt that the entirety of the data YOU source (from the likes of Bill Kristol, David Frum, Mike Pompeo, Victoria Nuland and the Military Industrial Security Surveillance State) would contradict what Sachs has to say.

    But let’s instead focus on the HONEST data, sourced from those entities with integrity.
    And of course those sources unanimously agree with Jeffrey Sachs.

    SUMMARY: Mr Elite Communist, you have demonstrated again and again that you’re a dyed-in-the-wool neocon, a slavish sycophant of the ZOG ruling elite.
    You have no critical thinking capabilities whatsoever. Instead you swallow whatever the corrupt MSM instructs you to believe on the geopolitical front.

    In a nutshell, you are dunce par excellence.

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  321. @EliteCommInc.

    Quote:

    “I referenced that there are those that claim that 9/11 was an inside job.”

    I am one of “those” who claim that 9/11 WAS an inside job.

    For starters, you can avail yourself of the research done by Christopher Bollyn and David Ray Griffin, Ph.D. (now deceased). You can also find a wealth of INFORMATION at this website –

    https://911research.wtc7.net/index.html

    Thank you.

  322. @mulga mumblebrain

    fairly old complaint. There was no way to ave eections while the Vuetcong were bombing and killing men in te surrounding countryside. It was entirely reasonable to fiure the intimidation would be a factor.

    Furthermore, the U did no create South Vietnam. The communist revolt was actually to overthrow the standing government — the royal family of Vietnam sided with western systems. The border along that established North and South fell along the lines that hae devided the country for more than 200 ears. A line of demarcation that the Vietnamese had been fighting for the sa two hundred years. The only time Vietnam was united has been during occupations by foreign powersm, until th communists : NVA, Vietcong aided by the Soviet Union, Korea and China.

    This has beeen discussed at legnth, with supporting material, numerous times in previous discussions. Your suggestion that the the S. Vietnamese were stooges, suggests that you don’t hae good grasp of th difficulties the US had with getting the S. Vietnamese to follow US advise.

    The US did not force the brave men and women of S. Vienam to fight the Northern invasion whose intentions were to overhaul the minds of their fellows by murder and mayem. Some million of more fought the North and dies doing so. Ad when they ;ost that fight, the millions yu are talking about , most died as the result of the communist re-eduation campaigns as has been employd by communists the worls over. And those that opposd the support for S. Vietnam were amazingly silent as millions of innocents dies at th hands of the “peace loving” Vietnamese communists. The sam communists now looking west to as communist China looms large in their region. All that they wanted they could have had in 1973. But in act of betrayal hey violated the peace accords — the peace treaty –nothing new there — and launched a new war. And after a brief sign of maybe — began their killing spree to purge the country of the very goodies they now seek.

    I find it odd that even after the N. Vietnamese have opened a small portion of their archives, people still defend the North Vietnamese, th Chinse, N. Kores and the Soviet Union.

    And Russa’s conduct now is simply a reflecion of exapansionist ambitins under a different cloak.

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  323. @Brad Anbro

    As I hae stated, I am unconvinced. If there is anything new in your reference, I will certainly consider it. But by and large, the circumsances don’t quite make the case for me.

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  324. @EliteCommInc.

    Mumbles prefers to ignore the simple fact that the Communists didn’t have a majority in any country…..ever. Not even Russia.

    As with the left he blames the US first and ignores how the Marxist system actually assumes they will never win a majority in elections.

    The Marxist plan is a violent takeover of the government and with zero regard for what the majority wants. Dissenters are to be executed.

    Marx even said they could never win through democracy. That is why he called for a violent takeover by a revolutionary proletariat minority and the subsequent installation of a dictatorship. The Marxist views most proles as sheep that have to be herded for their own good.

    Both North and South Vietnamese never would have voted for Communism.

    The same is true for every single USSR state. None of them would have joined by choice. It was rule by a Moscow mafia that didn’t even believe in Marxist economics.

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  325. @EliteCommInc.

    Well, then, you have a very closed mind, because after going through the various pages on that website which I have provided and after reading Mr. Griffin’s books, if you are STILL “unconvinced,” there is not much hope for you.

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  326. @Brad Anbro

    Well, if something new is presented I will consier it. Consider a lack of direct response as an indication of nothing new.

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  327. @Brad Anbro

    You do realize that there are counter narratives. And since 9/11 commeneters on this sight have repeatedly covered the issues.

  328. @John Johnson

    You can certainly exp-lain and provide data sets to that point regarding the very nature of marxist Communist” theory as pracgticed by the communist governments in question — but my experience, it will take second place to the agenda here.

    But I agree. Both Pres Putin and Pres Xi have resorted to squashing opposition and controlling the messaging of the press. It is very sad to see Russia reverting to a system of control they rejected. But given the years of repression —- I can understand.

  329. @Truth Vigilante

    1. Ukraine is entitled to self defense. And while physical warfare is always tragic, sometimes a people will fight because the alternative is more objectionable. I cannot fault them for that.

    2. Interestingly, I don’t think I ave ever used those references.

    3. as for my ignorance, being a dunce, etc. Opinons vary

    as for being under the intellectual thumb of the referenced

    “Bill Kristol, David Frum, Mike Pompeo, Victoria Nuland and the Military Industrial Security Surveillance State” . . . etc.

    apparentky you have not read my comments, because clearly many challenge the choices made by the referenced. And more, had I been there mouthpiece, my personal fortunes would have been markedly different than they are. Establishment does not reward opposing views. They were more than happy to see me silenced, assaulted, lied about and ousted.

    Laugh, you simply don’t know.

  330. @EliteCommInc.

    Not only are you ignorant; you are also BLIND. See my post #333 above.

    Good-bye!

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  331. @Brad Anbro

    I am not sure what it is you don’t think I saw.

    The position is not new and while interesting and provocative there is a counter narrative:

    https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/design/a3544/4278927/

    https://www.nist.gov/world-trade-center-investigation/study-faqs/wtc-7-investigation

    https://www.metabunk.org/threads/making-iron-microspheres-grinding-impacts-welding-burning.9533/

    https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2013/12/09/how-to-debunk-wtc-thermite/

    Just because one does not agree with a conclusion does not by definition mean they are ignoring something or denying the same. There are plenty of counter narratives.

    I remain as open as ever . . .

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  332. @Patrick McNally

    Soviet tank production was not running at full speed in 1940 as the succeeding years show. After the devastating attack in 1941 they still managed to produce more than 6000 vehicles, and in 1942 they are straight back to their real capacity of 20,000+ units.

    Unless you want us to believe that the Soviets quadrupled their production from 1941 to 1942 while under a massive military onslaught, which I don’t think is possible. The numbers for the rest of the war seem to support this idea as further gains are minimal, while the Germans are progressing rapidly. A 4 to 1 disadvantage in 1942 becomes 2 to 1 in 1943 and 3 to 2 in 1944. And they are destroying nearly 4 times as many tanks as they lose to Stalin.

  333. @EliteCommInc.

    Quote:

    “I remain as open as ever . . .”

    You might be as “open as ever” to conversation, but your mind is apparently CLOSED to facts. You seem to take mainstream media as gospel, and for that, I feel very sorry for you.

    If you would take the time to look over many web pages on the website that I listed and if you would have taken the time to read Mr. Griffin’s books, if you actually had an “open mind” then you would immediately unsubscribe to the government’s and the mainstream media’s “version” of WHAT REALLY HAPPENED on 9/11.

    Thank you.

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  334. @Brad Anbro

    Uhhh. No.

    I do believe that there are conspiracies. Absolutely. No doubt. History grand and small is chocker block full of conspiraciesin which organizations, people, individuals engage in to destroy the lives of others , including murder — no question. From small towns, to sheriff’s departments, law fimrs, state governments and the federal bureaucracy — no question.

    And as I have said, there are plenty of curious aspects of September 11, including the aftermath. However, and here is the issue with the r, which to me is very compelling, save the rebuttal in which the same compunds or similar compounds can be produced without explosives material. And that is why I posted the sites.

    You continue to contend that unless I agree with all of your posted sites and again, as I looked the issues are nt new nor is anything definitive – including the thermite.

    With respect to the government, up to its neck in conspiracies intended to get people or mislead public opinion, most of what the discrepancies in my view is government incompetency and error . The conspiracy lies in the direction of attempting to explain away the same. That they simply blew it.

    And there is this: Osama Bib Laden himself admits the matter and he stated that at or near the time, he was surprised they pulled it off.

    I make no claims to intelligence. No. I admit readily, not bright. In many ways that is a good disposition, because, I have to rely on hard data sets read and reread, mull ect. The more the complexity, the less likely, the more the explanation, the more dots have to connect.

    As you yourself state, you rely on one particular source. And while that is fine, when rebutted by multiple others, it is a tougher row to hoe. And the mainstream does have its issues. But that alone cannot be a reason to dismiss the positions on the table. There are plenty of reasons to be suspicious of the FBI, CIA, DIA, DEA, NSA, Congress, the White House . . . , heck the local police. But the information they provide still should be considered for its content, not just because they are part of the system.

    If there is a conspiracy, I would lean on, it is that the powers that should have known, knew and let i happen, but even that is a very very thin line stretched to a nano thread.

    In this instance, no tail has been pinned on this donkey.

    ——-

    There was volumes and volumes of information to justfied attacking Iraq and Afghanistan — I disagreed with those cases as well, and despite the price, I would make the assessment today as I did then based on the cases for invasion, made by my team.

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  335. @EliteCommInc.

    Quote:

    “here is the issue with the r,”

    What is “the R?”

    Quote:

    “You continue to contend that unless I agree with all of your posted sites and again, as I looked the issues are nt new nor is anything definitive – including the thermite.”

    My purpose for providing a link to that particular website is that it provides HUNDREDS of reasons as to why the “official conspiracy THEORY” is a fraud. I suggest that you avail yourself with information other than the mainstream media, in an effort to increase your awareness of 9/11. Don’t take my word for anything; do your own RESEARCH and see what you learn.

    Quote:

    “As you yourself state, you rely on one particular source”

    I NEVER said that I relied on one particular source. I base my opinions on many, many sources.

    The purpose of my post is NOT to argue with you, but to merely point out information with which you may be unfamiliar. One can NEVER change another individual’s way of thing by arguing with that person.

    I could EASILY list, just off the top of my head, 100 reasons as to why the government’s own conspiracy THEORY is a FRAUD.

    Thank you.

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  336. @Brad Anbro

    “My purpose for providing a link to that particular website is that it provides HUNDREDS of reasons as to why the “official conspiracy THEORY” is a fraud. I suggest that you avail yourself with information other than the mainstream media, in an effort to increase your awareness of 9/11. Don’t take my word for anything; do your own RESEARCH and see what you learn.”

    “r” probably just a typo.

    I am not sure how many times I can say this, these issues are not new. They have been discussed at length — you seem to think that the issues presented have never been presented. I am aware of the the arguments, heard and read the rationale and supporting aterial — goodness, I couldn’t even cite the volumes of material — I just remain unconvinced.

    In reference to source, I think you state the source is the Griffith material.

    Let’s take a look at this refernce again not new:

    https://www.911research.wtc7.net/planes/attack/flight11.html

    There is no evidence that th planes could nt have been hijacked. But a contend that x and y were strange: i.e. that the pilots did not hit their distress indicators — curious but not much of a case.

    https://www.911research.wtc7.net/sept11/foreknowledge.html

    The established set of coincidences are not indications of foreknowledge, but compiled to tel, a compelling story that the authorities new ahead of time. And i find it very odd that the those making the case rely on sources that are in fact part of the establishment: NTSB, really WSJ . . . business partners sellers and buyers arguing over insurance claims and purchasing agreements and controls . . . shocking. Only if you are unfamiliar with the conduct of people in business engaged in mergers and acquisitions. There is no evidence that thee are related to foreknowledge.

    Aha . . . the lynchpin, the players wanted to keep their transactions private.

    “One of several companies that won contracts for the upgrade was Securacom. The same company, with ties to George W. Bush and Marvin Bush, later won an $8.3 million contract for World Trade Center security. 3 ”

    Here’s a disconcerting fact, rich and connected people involved in any number of transactions have ties to one another. It is the consequence of our society of increasing concentrated wealth. And the ever so useful references — “has close ties” makes the case. It does not make a case for foreknowledge or a financial conspiracy to topple the towers.

    Here’s a perfect example of a narratives thaat points to the more likely reality that the narrative by the government was an atempt to diminish its choices that might be construed as choices or lack of choices that were mistakes.

    https://www.911research.wtc7.net/planes/defense/index.html

    As i say, there is nothing new in this material. Compelling, intersting, provocative — clear case — no. Though like any prosecutor overwhelming a jury with docu,ments and a limited cross examination of the data or access to counter analytical positions, you could certainly covince a jury. In short, a very weel put establishment tactic to conclusion based on circumstances and supposedly suspicious conduct.

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  337. @EliteCommInc.

    Quote(s):

    “As i say” “certainly covince a jury. In short, a very weel put establishment tactic to conclusion based on circumstances and supposedly suspicious conduct.”

    In addition to you apparently being a most learned individual on the events of September 11, 2001, you seem to be so busy typing (on your phone?) that you don’t know when to capitalize letters, how to spell common words or know how to construct sentences.

    There are hundreds of pages on that website that I provided and I am sure that I could learn a LOT more about the events of that day. And, I have studied a LOT on the subject.

    Concerning juries and prosecutors, there has NEVER been a REAL investigation undertaken concerning 9/11 – no grand jury convened, with complete subpoena powers. I am 73 years old and I doubt very much that I will live to see the day when there is a REAL INVESTIGATION.

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  338. @Brad Anbro

    my typing acmen cancertainly be improved.

    However, you certainly get the point. The case is circumstantial at best.

    “I am 73 years old and I doubt very much that I will live to see the day when there is a REAL INVESTIGATION.”

    Unfortunately the very public intense scrutiny of the events surrounding 9/11 did not yield enough evidence for a formal case against any party friendly to the US. And that is evident on its face. You accusatios have amounted to

    “agee with me or else.”

    Sir I appreciate your concerns. I have absolutely no problems with your suspicions regarding these matters. It is entirely understandable. But not everyone who disagrees is ignorant or are in on a cover-up. And there is certainly plenty the government could and should have done before and after.

    And I don’t make any claims to being educated, as I state, quite the contrary.

  339. Quote:

    “Unfortunately the very public intense scrutiny of the events surrounding 9/11 did not yield enough evidence for a formal case against any party friendly to the US. And that is evident on its face. You accusatios have amounted to “agee with me or else.””

    You, sir, are WRONG. There has been more than enough EVIDENCE to warrant a REAL INVESTIGATION, but there has been no investigation for the simple reason that judges and government attorneys DO NOT WANT TO DIE.

    Another thing – you are correct that there has been a tremendous amount of “public scrutiny” regarding 9/11. But there has been DAMN LITTLE (honest) government scrutiny.

    Thank you.

  340. @Brad Anbro

    Brad, you’ll notice that Elite Communist Incorporated wrote this in comment # 349:

    I am not sure how many times I can say this, these issues [about 9/11] are not new.
    They have been discussed at length ….. I am aware of the arguments, heard and read the rationale ….. I just remain unconvinced.

    In a nutshell, NO AMOUNT OF SUPPORTING EVIDENCE will ever convince Elite Communist that the Mossad orchestrated the 9/11 False Flag.
    You see, the Rabbi at the congregation he attends assured him that 19 Arabs (seven of whom turned up alive after 9/11), hijacked those planes.
    And, in the case of Hani Hanjour (the pilot of AA77 that allegedly crashed into the Pentagon), he performed aerial manoeuvres in his approach to the building that NO TOP GUN PILOT ON EARTH COULD PERFORM WITH A BOEING 757 COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT.

    But Elite Communist just bypasses information that does not fit in with his Talmudic world view.
    Additionally, his Rabbi told him not to listen to a word of any alternative explanation about 9/11 if it’s coming from the goyim.
    ‘The goyim will lead you astray’, said his Rabbi.

    SUMMARY: You may have noticed, I only engage with Elite Communist Inc to expose him as the dyed-in-the-wool neocon and apologist for Jewish malfeasance that he is.

    Brad, you can’t negotiate with a rabid dog. When I see Elite Communist’s B.S I immediately go into attack mode and expose him as the disinfo peddler and obfuscator that he is.

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  341. @Brad Anbro

    “There has been more than enough EVIDENCE to warrant a REAL INVESTIGATION, but there has been no investigation for the simple reason that judges and government attorneys DO NOT WANT TO DIE.”

    There is evidence that warrants or that raises suspicion. And while, O believe that government can and has engaged in nefarious conduct against her own citizens, in this case, the evidence does not point to conduct by the US as an actor or facilitate 9/11. There is not case against audi Arabia. It is not the record in which clearly actors of a court manufactured evidence, backdated material — that is easily traced. There is a lot of potential smoke but no potential gun.

    I listened to sections of a hearing yesterday in which a company made nearly two billion dollars from work with the US military ad Communist’s China’s military — a clear conflict of interest and and yet Congress simply whined about it. It was strange — bizarre. In the same breath these same members claimed that the conduct was not illegal becase there was no law. now it may be that there is no law and it ay be tat the Congress is refrain of retribution – ef=ven murdered, but it is more likely that memers of Congress benefit from corporations that have similar relations with China or others. Any inaction here, if there was a case would have more to do with the long line of failures by members of government agents ad agencies that could have prevented the matter. But there is probably more likelihood of members fear of drug cartels than a CIA assassination attempt. Several years ago, members of Congress took on the CIA, concerning CIA conduct directed against the same.

    There’s enough ambition, and even integrity in Congress and others, take Sen Rand Paul, he wanted to have the Bush admin brought up on charges. Take the case of Mr. Snowden, there are plent of men and women serving that would risk all to blow the whistle if the case was as clear as you claim. There are families still pursuing cases against the Saudi government and Royal families

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/11/us/9-11-families-saudi-arabia-lawsuit/index.html

    I am not sure of the sense in demanding that government, which you claim is corrupt or too afraid to take action launch an investigation of their own corrupt conduct regarding 9/11 or that they are so controlled by jews that they would conduct a series investigation into the same. But they actually have.

    https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/911-investigation

    https://www.nist.gov/world-trade-center-investigation

    https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/final-9-11-review-commission-report-unclassified.pdf/view

    https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/CRPT-107srpt351-5.pdf

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/magazine/9-11-saudi-arabia-fbi.html

    https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GPO-911REPORT/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Inquiry_into_Intelligence_Community_Activities_before_and_after_the_Terrorist_Attacks_of_September_11,_2001

    It is not that there have ben no investigations, it reall that you simply don’t buy the case they make and that is absolutely fine — no issues with me. Plenty of reasons to look “ascance” at the government. And feel angry.

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  342. @Truth Vigilante

    Well, I am not sure there is any exposure going on. A lot of accusations, name calling, etc. But very little if any accuracy,

    EliteCommInc. has no affiliation, connections to any agent, agency or ideology associated with communism.

    Oyy veh . . . would that I had jewish support. Laugh. I could certainly use an astute” shrewd “jewish” lawyer. Look, given my stated views, it is near impossible that i would abe jewish acquaintance, muchless support.

  343. @Truth Vigilante

    T-V,

    Thanks for the “heads up” on that bird; I kind of had that figured out on my own. I would get further talking to my CATS than I would to him (her?). Take care…

  344. @EliteCommInc.

    Talking to you, sir, is like talking to a BRICK WALL!

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  345. Looger says:
    @anonymouseperson

    The USSR would have defeated Germany all by itself. Lendlease just made its victory quicker.

    Their war plan required an entire new army every 8-12 months. Reserve system, training, rifles, and most importantly perhaps, trucks.

    They depended on the USA for trucks. By the end of the war German commanders were cursing the Yankee trucks that could not be destroyed fast enough. There were always thousands more.

    Without trucks, a smarter, more flexible defense by the Germans would have had a better chance against slow marching masses of troops. The trucks allowed constant forward progress as the 3rd Reich collapsed.

    Tough to say as by1943 the Germans high command wasn’t dealing with reality anymore.

  346. @Brad Anbro

    Only if you believe that not agreeing with you means ignorance or some manner of conspiracy.

    You don’t even define “mainstream” a term so broad as to discount nearly every media outlet or source that contradicts you. You want to make claims that the establishment you so distrust should only be trusted when they concur with your opinion. You demand a government investigation that has been conducted on several levels on the very material you present and when the government view challenges your perspective, you start decrying the government.

    When it is pointed out to you that alternative explainations fit the scenarios you’ve selected as “must believes”, you resort to name calling and character complaints. I take the time again, to reread, previous issues, respond to them specifically, noting why they contain no smoking gun . . . and your response is to well . . . spins a circle a circle.

    I would encourage you read not for the source, but to the content of material to material as opposed to whether you like who said it.

    But here’s a bone. Define “mainstream,” who is in it and who is not. What is mainstream content verses “nonmainstream”.

    You remind me of the woman who demanded bread with her sandwich and then rejected the sandwich because it was made with of bread.

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  347. @EliteCommInc.

    Quote:

    “When it is pointed out to you that alternative explainations fit the scenarios you’ve selected as “must believes”, you resort to name calling and character complaints.”

    I have NEVER once resorted to name calling. Not once. I did state that talking to you was like talking to a brick wall. I am DONE conversing with you. Good-bye.

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  348. @Brad Anbro

    Ignorance . . . blind .. . . you echoed another’s sentiments which was all name calling . . .

    in otherwords name calling, personal suggestions about my education or intelligence . . . but that aside . . .

    define “mainstream”

    define “real investigation”

    define “honest investigation”

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