First, I did not anticipate Russia going beyond their allied region in Eastern Ukraine. I was wrong. It appears Vladimir Putin is going for the whole enchilada as reports indicate his military operations are positioned to capture all of Ukraine, specifically the western Ukraine areas under control of the U.S. State Department.
Second, with all the prior Ukraine issues serving as a reference, it is important to remember that every media outlet in the U.S. machinery of information is untrustworthy.
U.S. intelligence manipulated information, some call misinformation and disinformation, is rampant as the U.S. has specific motives for everything that takes place in Ukraine.
In many ways Ukraine is a vassal state of U.S. leftist politics.
Ukraine has been a satellite operation for the U.S. State Department for approximately 15 to 20 years. The U.S. has held control over Ukraine, and manipulated every political outcome inside Ukraine, for well over a decade. This reality is the source of Vladimir Putin’s angst toward the west for the same amount of time, and it’s the same reason why the EU, specifically Germany, is tenuous in any collaborative response.
The EU, writ large (including NATO), are less interested in Ukraine, because they know Ukraine is the U.S. playground in Europe. This truism explains why we see a conflict when it comes to responses and sanctions from the U.S. compared to the European NATO allies.
The outcome is along the line of NATO countries telling us, Ukraine is our playground, the issues are our creation, therefore when it comes to responsive action – you do you and we will look out for ourselves, but we in the EU have to live with the reality of the outcome, so our interests will likely diverge from yours depending on what Putin intends.
Vladimir Putin seeking to take the entire country of Ukraine back under his control – highlights, at least to me, that when Joe Biden took office, the scale of U.S. manipulation and influence went back to maximum levels. This is in contrast to four years of President Trump not manipulating Ukraine or trying to use Ukraine as a vassal for U.S. foreign policy interests. Obviously, this puts the DC and Deep State (CIA and State Dept) attack on Trump, using Ukraine, into a specific context.
While there is no justification for President Putin to take all of Ukraine, an independent nation under Russian control, the Occam’s Razor geopolitical explanation would indicate Putin just reached a point where enough was enough. Taking all of Ukraine away from U.S. control puts a stop to our using the Russian border state for our own interests.
Again, the scale and scope of Putin’s commitment here shows a particular radically strong motive to cut out what he sees as the U.S. cancer completely. This is the aspect I did not anticipate. I expected Putin to throw a strong brush back pitch against the U.S. and retake control over eastern Ukraine, where he is appreciated. I did not expect Putin to throw multiple fast balls directly at the head of team U.S.A.
Now, we get to the part where information warfare begins. The same U.S. media who support the deepest part of the DC deep state, will be spinning the U.S. State Department position exclusively and with a massive amount of manipulation. We cannot trust the CNN, WaPo, NYT version of events, because they are in alignment with the globalist intents of the Dept of State.
Inside the dynamic is another layer of ideology around climate change and energy. The same U.S. interests who will clutch their pearls over the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, will not step up to increase energy development within the U.S. that could offset Russian influence in Europe.
It is difficult to blame Germany for not supporting the Biden demands of sanctions against Russia (SWIFT, Nordstream II, etc.), because energy dependent Germany can see the hypocrisy in the U.S. position toward energy development.
Stuck in the middle of this are the Ukraine people. The manipulative U.S. State Dept has held control over Ukraine politics for so long, most of the Ukraine people suffer Stockholm syndrome toward us. I doubt most of the western Ukrainian people can see how the U.S. involvement in their political affairs has put their country into this vulnerable position, in the same way most of the American people do not see the manipulation in the U.S. 2020 election.
In the big picture, China and Iran support Russia and are allies with Russia. Collectively China, Iran and Russia will have increased direct involvement as their alliance will now confront the U.S- western alliance. We can expect the cyber battleground (hacking etc) will be China and Russia working together, while the U.S. and western allies work together.
The bottom line is…. eventually physical power is what determines the outcome of war.
If Putin wants all of Ukraine, he will get all of Ukraine.
I think we also need to take into account that Russia is very very very experienced in disinformation from their time as openly communist. Communist allies have staged attacks between themselves to influence other countries, such as gaining military and technological assistance. This could be the case with Ukraine and Russia. I don’t know anything about the politics of Ukraine leadership, but I do know that Russia puts an extensive amount of time and effort into planting intel agents in other countries, subverting and converting others in those countries, and making use of those agents however they wish. I assume that with Ukraine being right next to Russia that Ukraine would be an even bigger target of Russian intel agents and that it has been for a long time.
We have to open ourselves up to the possibility that this is one big farce, with real attacks and real people being killed, but all in a coordinated and agreed upon effort between the two countries for a goal that benefits the both of them. Is it to drag us into a war? Is it to gain military aid and technology by other countries sympathetic to Ukraine? Is it to cover up stuff like others are commenting here? Is it to have Russia take over Ukraine by Ukrainian leadership half-heartedly deploying military assets so that Russia can begin building another Soviet Union? Is the WEF allied with Russia ideologically or with similar long-term goals of world domination and see themselves as allies for the time being?
I think we also need to open ourselves up to the possibility that Russia is as communist as they have ever been, are in strong agreement with other Communist nations/parties like China and the globalists (if there are those of you who think there are differences between the two), and their steady build up of power over time has come to the point that they are throwing off their camouflage in an all-out effort to suddenly use their control to destroy our economies as they prepare for the ultimate showdown against the free people of the world. Yes that was a long ass sentence, sorry.
Sure glad Bish*t depleted the SPR 6 weeks ago for a 2 day flattening of his falling approval ratings.
That was smart!
He did not release all of it but today I heard someone who wanted to discuss selling OUR Strategic Reserve to Europe. That is for our armed forces to fight a war.
Putin is actively demonstrating what lengths one must be willing to go, in order to get rid of this progressive cancer that’s attacking western civilization. If you think we can simply vote them out, you have another think coming.
True, but most Americans are too lazy and complacent to see it. Decades and decades of self-consumption and idolization made the people weak, mentally and physically. Always look for the “messiah/savior” character to do the hard work. It is over; the “GAE.” John Glubb is “wrong” with his prediction about 250 years for a surviving empire; the US is at its 245. Or can the US survive another five years? But, I would not count these globalist scumbags out yet. The briefcase is there. Let’s see if they want to use it. Probably when China starts to make its moves. When you see many of these scumbags start to move to all the isolated areas that they have bought, there is your signal.
Ding, ding, ding. Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
BAM……….nailed it
Why would Putin want Chernobyl..That place and the surrounding
area is a contaminated wasteland..I Doubt they could ever get the
power plant running again.. what purpose does it serve.
A stronghold that no one would shell…..
If you were a terrorist or another military you can get what you there to build a dirty bomb or use the material to poison a water supply.
Lots of military reasons
To prevent creating dirty bombs from radioactive waste at that site
Prevent a false flag nuclear accident?
Bombing practice
I agree that is highly suspect. As much as we are lied to, maybe Chernobyl wasn’t what we were told and they maintained the cover story because what better place to hide nuclear experiments/weapons than in a “nuclear wasteland” where radiation levels are already expected to be present?
Chernobyl is on the main road to Kyiv.
Actually, the surrounding area isn’t a ‘wasteland’ at all, teaming with wildlife apparently.
With 3 and 5 legs
I watched a documentary a few years ago about Chernobyl. The entire area affected by radiation has been monitored for years. Wildlife is returning, plant life returning. The health of wildlife is being monitored.
Yes, with the main reactor contained. It is proving a great case study for ecological recovery after nuclear attack. It scares me as it provides support for a winnable nuclear war.
Are you absolutely sure what is at Chernobyl. Who told us?
red herring-time
Zelensky threatened to create nuclear weapons. Can the Chernobyl reactors be reopened to create weapons grade plutonium.?
Other commenters with a physics and engineering backgrounds may be able to answer this question.
The site had multiple reactors, only one of which was responsible for the disaster decades ago. Last I knew at least one reactor was still in service in recent years.
Just a WAG here on some possibilities.
Could simply be to secure the site from others who might want to make some dirty bombs?
Might also be something to a rumor somewhere about Ukraine looking to develop nuclear weapons and you need a source of material for that. Keep in mind, even though reactor fuel rods are enriched U-235 to a degree, weapons grade U-235 is a significantly higher percentage. Plutonium is a whole other animal when it comes to processing.
Who knows?
What kind of Lab could go up there without raising concern?
Virology.
Putin is a bit of an animal lover.
Hate to see if there are Fauci dogs being tortured here.
Chernobyl fall out contamination if I can trust my memory was directed by winds and creating a wasteland on one side and somewhat untouched on the other. It seems like authorities turned a blind eye to those that went back to the area “un effected” after a few years.
Recently groups like national geographic have investigated the supposedly contaminated areas and found wildlife and ecosystem recovery that was remarkable. Nature is extremely resilient and projections by scientists and politicians are usually over hyped for what ever agenda is on the menu at the time.
I would expect that the area is basically safe at this point in time. But who knows and I sure aint going to meter it out.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden theme park to humiliate them.
That entire ordeal was overplayed to instill fear. It’s worked.
Maybe it wasn’t Putin.
Prison camps.
Did you know that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant remained open and continued to generate electric power until 2000? It’s not quite the wasteland of your imagination. Low level nuclear radiation isn’t particularly dangerous.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/biden-comes-under-fire-congress-after-waiving-sanctions-russian-gas-n1267975 May 19, 2021
FTA “The Biden administration has decided to waive sanctions against the company overseeing the construction of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany, despite bipartisan opposition in Congress and appeals from Eastern European governments.
Republican lawmakers immediately accused the administration of handing Russian President Vladimir Putin a major political victory. Democrats urged the White House to reconsider, and the Kremlin called the news a “positive signal.”
Secretary of State Antony Blinken opted to waive sanctions against the Russian-owned company behind the pipeline, Nord Stream 2 AG, as well as its German CEO, Matthias Warnig, and other corporate officers, because sanctions “would negatively impact U.S. relations with Germany, the EU and other European allies and partners,” said the State Department report, which was obtained by NBC News.”
ChiCom Joe Biden lifts President Trump’s sanctions by caving to Angela Merkel and handing Putin a geopolitical victory! This was the start of ChiCom Joe’s weakness in dealing with Putin which resulted in yesterday’s invasion!
I trust “Republican lawmakers” least of all. They are SO Dupliscious, two-faced and unprincipled, anything they say, and their motives for saying it, are automatically suspect.
At least with Dems, they come right out and SAY they want to load us all on cattlecars, the Republicans say they don’t, while gobbling up the stock in the company getting the contracts, to BUILD the cattlecars!
No question the Uniparty is up to their eyeballs in mischief and criminality.
Hang RINOS first
Joe Biden’s energy policy has funded this adventure.
“FinEst” Bay area (proposed Finland-Estonia project under development by the CCP’s Belt and Road Initiative) . . . the underwater train tunnel to go from Tallinn, Estonia (about 250 miles from St. Petersburg) to Helsinki, Finland.
I just can’t believe that is a welcome development to Putin to have the CCP operating virtually in his neck of the woods . . . and how does all that “work” with the NordStream pipeline?
Is it possible the Globalists & CCP think they are going to maneuver Putin into ultimately forfeiting NordStream?
I believe that the ChiComs have also have some business/influence in the Ukraine so Putin maybe sending them a warning as well! IMHO?
Still do not understand why the US does not now mirror Russia and take Cuba to get Russia out of our hemisphere. Maybe Venezuela too.
Look at who is pulling the levers of power in DC.
Indeed. Those places are allies now.
Kudos! I have been thinking about this for a while, but have not seen anybody write about it at all. If Russia takes Ukraine and China takes Taiwan, then the US should invade Cuba then free that country and make it a territory of the United States (like Puerto Rico).
right . . . then let the PRC control Guantanamo and use it for THEIR Caribbean container AND naval port . . . . and the Cuban people would still not be free!
More Democrat states used to welfare. Wow.
Take on another welfare state?
The USSR dumped them for a reason. A $$$$ pit.
yeah let’s send other americans to die over Cuba, right
are you volunteering to do that?
The United States has been fighting in some other country my whole life.
To take Cuba would require that the United States actually win a war.
How long has it been that we’ve really won War World II ?
free it then make it a territory…..ah…yeah, free it.
What a foolish idea, then we would have to support the worthless beggars forever, just like PR. You really must do something about your understanding. Plus last I looked, there were no separatist regions in either of those places.
Cuba is more likely to take over the United States.
And you really think Biden is capable of doing that? Or our military?
I don’t want Cuba or Venezuela. I want my freedom back. That is all.
Maybe we should get take Canada first.
sounds just like a video game.
If you want that, grab a gun and go do it. BUT NOT WITH MY SONS.
IMO Xiden et al caused this 100%. If you are a husband minding you own business yet your wife constantly accuses you of cheating you might decide if I’m getting the grief I may as well join the team.
Doesn’t surprise me Putin said enough already I’m pulling this thorn.
Next China takes Taiwan.
Does Iran move against Israel?
If we’re playing WW3, place your bets wherever you like!
It is also important to remember that the Ukranians elected their fresh-faced young President, overwhelmingly, on their version of a “drain the swamp” ticket. Zelenskyy’s government made good on their promises – investigating and prosecuting corruption cases that of course linked straight back to a “who’s who” of players in Washington, DC. Who were using their sons and daughters as proxies and have been doing so for decades. “The Swamp™” wants this man gone.
The left lost their minds when PDJT got rid of (Marie Yanonovitch), Buraq’s ambassador to Ukraine.
She even perjured herself at the impeachment hearing IMO. No big deal.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_XuhNVXoAwrSAW?format=jpg&name=large
Your hitting out of the park.
Look at this letter from Dr Debra Birx Scarf Lady to US Ambassador to the Ukraine Yovanovich on the in your face money laundering under the blanket of HIV funding.
Some folks got filthy rich off of this.
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Ukraine.pdf
Love how their spend was $10 million less than their funding. I wonder where the extra $10 mil went.
Here’s some pure BS playing on idiotic nuclear fears. The lingering contamination of the surrounding land is totally overblown and the only thing shelling or bombing would accomplish is slightly contaminating any Russian troops they missed blowing to bits. There are some hotspots, but military vehicle fires won’t spread that because they won’t be in those locations and dirt flying up from impacts in those areas won’t leave the immediate area. Foliage burns won’t do anything significant either. Missing the now totally deactivated nuclear reactors with modern weapons is easy.
Russian Forces Seize Chernobyl Nuclear Plant; Kremlin Willing To Talk Kiev’s “Terms Of Surrender”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putins-shock-awe-war-ukraine-unfolds-dark-day-europe-many-hundreds-killed
Ukraine’s government has confirmed that the Chernobyl power plant site has been seized by Russian forces. “The Prime Minister made the announcement in a televised briefing, saying Russian troops had taken control of the zone and the nuclear power plant,” Bloomberg confirms.
“The facility is located about 80 miles (129km) north of Kyiv, several miles south of the Belarus border. Holding Chernobyl would provide Russian troops a staging point that couldn’t be shelled,” the report adds, in reference to the potential for dangerous radioactive fallout given the permanent presence of nuclear waste there. Speculation remains that should the site come under direct shelling, there could be nuclear contamination released into the air, potentially impacting other areas in Europe.
Military commanders know how to secure an area without blasting a “containment” (sic) structure that is known to be full of nuclear waste.
something else going on here
Western Alliance that’s too funny.
How could we be in a worst position than having Biden stealing our freedom and turning this country into a genuine sh*thole.
Nothing was gonna stop Russia
There ain’t body scared of our commander in Chief and our woke sissy pants military.
Taiwan is next
And don’t be surprised if Rocketman doesn’t take this opportunity to go South of the border.
While America has Biden and Obama’s woke generals the world is fixin’ to get rearranged according to the WEF playbook.
Yep, I heard the term “allies” used on the radio earlier today.
As in “allied forces”, like it’s a good thing straight outta WW2.
Allied nations intent on ruining its own populations economies and freedoms, sure.
The whole idea of “allies” and “alliance” depends on putting emotion over logic.
Any alliance is a marriage of convenience, and attaching emotional significance to it is irrational.
Sure, during WW2, the U.S. “allied” with England, ‘free’ France, and the USSR to overcome the Axis powers.
We “fought along side each other” to overcome a common enemy”. But, even as it became obvious that Germany was losing, the US and USSR began manuevering for a post war conflict, so no emotional sentimentality.
And yet, with England and France, we maintained this illusion we had some shares experience and loyalty.
CCP CHINA has been “ripping off” America, for 30 years, thru I.P. theft, dumping, etc to the tune of 1/2billion $ / year.
The EU, thru trade barriers, consistently not meeting their NATO commitments, etc hss been ripping off America for,….?
1/2 Billion/year, SAME as EU.
So, why is one recognised, at least in some circles, as our avowed enemy, but the other is our “ally”?
WOW
Just seen the sactions…
Biden just threw the Ukraine under the bus.
He poked the Russians into a hot war, and now that Russia has invaded, he comes out and says: just kinding.
The is Kabul exponential…
Exactly
How so?
Obama: “Don’t underestimate Joe Biden’s ability to fcuk things up.”
Quote.
So then, Biden has dropped all the sanctions against Russia??
Are the sanctions weak?
.
Sundance, you weren’t wrong. It’s an evolving situation.
By the way. How would the U.S. like it if Russia or China were to build up arms just over the U.S.-Mexican border and start controlling Mexico…
China has. They get Mexicans to mix their filthy ingredients to invade us with deadly fentanyl.
US politicians are the ones to blame. Our govt is getting filthy rich off of drugs smuggled into the US by the cartels. Filthy rich off of human smuggling by the cartels, too.
They could fix both of these problems quite easily, but they want to maintain the status quo.
Why?
There is no longer a border.
I would agree Sundance was not wrong. Not only had things changed from last week, Sundance in no way shape or form knew then what Putin has known as reasoning to go in. What we all think we understand, even if good information, is never all of the information.
That’s a true State of the Union
Putin’s statement!
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67843
A well-written statement.
“Why is this happening? Where did this insolent manner of talking down from the height of their exceptionalism, infallibility and all-permissiveness come from? What is the explanation for this contemptuous and disdainful attitude to our interests and absolutely legitimate demands?
The answer is simple. Everything is clear and obvious. In the late 1980s, the Soviet Union grew weaker and subsequently broke apart. That experience should serve as a good lesson for us, because it has shown us that the paralysis of power and will is the first step towards complete degradation and oblivion. We lost confidence for only one moment, but it was enough to disrupt the balance of forces in the world.
As a result, the old treaties and agreements are no longer effective. Entreaties and requests do not help. Anything that does not suit the dominant state, the powers that be, is denounced as archaic, obsolete and useless. At the same time, everything it regards as useful is presented as the ultimate truth and forced on others regardless of the cost, abusively and by any means available. Those who refuse to comply are subjected to strong-arm tactics.
What I am saying now does not concerns only Russia, and Russia is not the only country that is worried about this.”
Would the United States have ever published such a statement or analysis? I know the answer.
This is an extremely painful paragraph for me to read – knowing that it is true:
Incidentally, US politicians, political scientists and journalists write and say that a veritable “empire of lies” has been created inside the United States in recent years. It is hard to disagree with this – it is really so. But one should not be modest about it: the United States is still a great country and a system-forming power. All its satellites not only humbly and obediently say yes to and parrot it at the slightest pretext but also imitate its behaviour and enthusiastically accept the rules it is offering them. Therefore, one can say with good reason and confidence that the whole so-called Western bloc formed by the United States in its own image and likeness is, in its entirety, the very same “empire of lies.”
Looks like Putin’s got his very own version of wordsmith Stephen Miller.
I took the liberty to edit and when the references to the USSR and Russia are removed, this says as much about OUR state of affairs as any:
“Why is this happening? Where did this insolent manner of talking down from the height of their exceptionalism, infallibility and all-permissiveness come from? What is the explanation for this contemptuous and disdainful attitude to our interests and absolutely legitimate demands?
The answer is simple. Everything is clear and obvious. We lost confidence for only one moment, but it was enough to disrupt the balance of forces in the world.
Entreaties and requests do not help. Anything that does not suit the dominant state, the powers that be, is denounced as archaic, obsolete and useless. At the same time, everything it regards as useful is presented as the ultimate truth and forced on others regardless of the cost, abusively and by any means available. Those who refuse to comply are subjected to strong-arm tactics.
I must admit this does bring somevbalance considering our lying State Department and it’s media propaganda machine.
I can’t argue with Putin’s assessment taken from his speech
“Incidentally, US politicians, political scientists and journalists write and say that a veritable “empire of lies” has been created inside the United States in recent years. It is hard to disagree with this – it is really so. But one should not be modest about it: the United States is still a great country and a system-forming power. All its satellites not only humbly and obediently say yes to and parrot it at the slightest pretext but also imitate its behaviour and enthusiastically accept the rules it is offering them. Therefore, one can say with good reason and confidence that the whole so-called Western bloc formed by the United States in its own image and likeness is, in its entirety, the very same “empire of lies.”
https://politicalmoonshine.com/2022/02/23/china-russia-and-ukraine-these-people-play-inside-of-a-box/
Gee….I wonder what they are destroying? Bio Labs, Ukraine corruption involving our uniparty???
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/just-ukrainian-security-forces-seen-scrambling-burn-documents-kyiv-russian-invasion-intensifies-video/
We have 15 bio labs in Ukraine
Hey! Wait a minute!
Nobody is allowed to invade a country, and establish a puppet regime but us!
Those damn Russians are evil, I tell ya.
“I was wrong.”
I love this statement! Confirmation (not that I needed any) that Sundance is a humble man, which indicates that he takes his faith seriously.
I come here for an honest and insightful reporting of the news, and am never disappointed. Of course, I don’t expect Sundance to be infallible, but his batting average is much better than any one else I have been able to find. Thanks to Sundance and everyone at “The Last Refuge” for all you do to keep us informed!
It is easy to be wrong about the politics of Russian, Ukraine, NATO, and the Biden regime, when they are constantly lying, and propagandizing. I followed the Duran report (Alex Christofouras and Alexander Mercouris) for several weeks now since the Kazakhstan revolt. Mercouris is a student of European foreign affairs and has a good understanding of the motives of the Europeans and Russians. Yet, he also predicted the wrong outcome. He thought that Putin would show restraint, and not move troops into Ukraine and attack on their airports, military bases, etc.
Putin will back NATO off and disarm Ukraine that was intention.
Agree absolutely Greg. This is a statement no one with power will ever admit to in our country-and many others.
Of course Putin will go as far into western Ukraine as he must to destroy the evidence of corruption Ukraine has on Biden.
I’m sorry, I disagree. He would love to have that Damacles Sword to hold over Biden.
However, it might well lead back to Uranium One.
Biden’s strings are pulled by Obama. I am not certain about which Marxist is pulling Obama’s strings. Hillary is several rungs down on the food chain. IMO
Biden and western Ukraine could have done it themselves, you know, like with a cloth.
Huh?
I can’t imagine Putin having any respect for Biden
Will he play Biden?
yes in a heartbeat.
Dicey thing to seize bio labs by bombing.
Heat hopefully kills all the agents, chemical and biological.
Thermobaric weapons might do the trick by literally incinerating everything in the blast radius.
Last I checked the U.S. made the Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) and Russia had developed their own variant.
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Thermobaric_weapon
The USA under Brandon is utterly weakened a uselessly globalist woke!!!
For sure both China and Russia saw how things went down with the withdrawal from Afghanistan and they took note of how Brandon totally botched it!!!!
We left behind weapons, equipment, installations/infrastructure and more. And what’s more, 13 American soldiers paid the ultimate price along with hundreds of American citizens and allies who were left behind. I haven ‘t heard of a plan to rescue them. Shameful! This is outside of the suffering of the Afghan people who are now under a blood thirsty totalitarian regime.
Not saying I applaud Putin’s tactics (I don’t think I know enough to justify him) but I certainly can understand that if he was contemplating any military move against Ukraine, then this is the time to do it.
Brandon is distracted with all the bad polls domestically. Inflation. Bad economy. Unemployment. Etc. Etc.
Brandon can’t handle this situation and all the crises he has created with his failed policies. And now he faces another issue: the People’s Convoy, which will add another layer of bad PR, deservedly so!
Brandon’s overwhelmed as is his Quemala!
His popularity has absolutely tanked
And nothing Biden can say or do is gonna help his numbers
Not when everyone is paying double at the checkouts, dining out and gasoline
And who is the person that cares about a totally electric car
You couldn’t give me one.
Biden wants NATO to border Russia and Putin is helping achieve that.
biden and Putin working hand in hand.
Another good read on why we are where we are today with Ukraine…
https://www.cato.org/commentary/ignored-warnings-how-nato-expansion-led-current-ukraine-tragedy
Here is 2:30 minute video of Putin addressing the Nationon the invasion eve.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/02/it-started-breaking-news.html
Unfortunately, it is all in Russian with no close captioning. Here is a translated transcript obtained from the Youtube video and translated by MS Word.
“00:03 Circumstance demands from us 00:05 decisive and immediate action 00:08 People’s Republics of Donbass appealed 00:10 to Russia with a request for help at 00:14 in accordance with this in accordance with Article 51 00:17 part 7 of the statute sanctions of the Federation Council 00:22 Russia and you the execution of ratified 00:25 by the Federal Assembly on February 22 of this year.
00:27 Treaties on friendship and mutual assistance [came] from 00:30 Donetsk People’s Republic and 00:32 Lugansk People’s Republics. 00:35 I made a decision on conducting 00:37 special military operation. 00:41 Its goal is to protect people who at 00:44 for eight years are subjected to 00:46 mockery of genocide by 00:48 Kiev regime and for this we will 00:52 strive for demilitarization and 00:54 denazification Ukraine as well as the trial 00:58 to the trial of the virgins who committed numerous 01:00 bloody crimes against civilians 01:03 residents including citizens of the Russian federation 01:05 federation.
01:07 At the same time our plans do not include 01:09 occupation of Ukrainian territory. 01:11 No one and nothing are going to impose 01:14 forces at the same time we hear that at 01:17 lately in the west more and more often 01:19 words are heard that the documents signed from 01:22 by the Soviet totalitarian regime 01:24 consolidating the results of the Second World War 01:27 should not be done and the implementation well, well, what 01:31 to answer this results of the Second World War 01:33 as well as the sacrifices made by our 01:36 people on the altar of victory over Nazism 01:38 is sacred 01:40 but this does not contradict the high values of 01:43 human rights and freedoms 01:44 based on the realities that have developed 01:47 today for all post-war 01:48 decades 01:50 also does not cancel the rights of nations to 01:53 self-determination enshrined in Article 1 01:55 of the UN Charter.
01:57 I remind you that not when creating the USSR not 02:00 after the Second World War people 02:02 living in certain territories 02:04 included in modern Ukraine no one 02:07 never asked about how they themselves 02:09 want us to work for those who don’t want 02:12 get up from time watch 60 minutes on 02:17 platform watch. 02:21 smartphone or tablet on QR code 02:25 watch 60 minutes when you are comfortable.”
Farewell and adieu to thee, Taiwanese ladies
Farewell and adieu to the country of Taiwan
For Biden’s incompetent
and the Chinese all know it
The Red’s will be invading soon, and we’ll never see you again
IDK. My gut tells me that Taiwan will put up a hell of a fight. The Viet Cong showed them how to fight the Chinese. Remember, they got their asses kicked over there too.
I hope you’re right, but the sheer numbers in terms of weaponry are so out of balance. The deterrence is foreseeing a Pyrrhic victory and not having the ROI to China. Yet, pride and the lust for power often does not take those into consideration.
Bungles Biden and his gang of misfits did it again.
‘We cannot trust the CNN, WaPo, NYT version of events because they are in alignment with the globalist intents of the Dept of State.’
Yeah, this part is not news. It has been the case for at least 3 decades now. I don’t even trust Fox News as far as I can throw them, aside from Tucker Carlson, who is public enemy #1 for the disgusting DNC and their pathetic media bootlickers. On the other hand, it will be interesting to see how Putin exploits whatever damaging information he can un cover about Washington politicians on both sides of the aisle. I’m pretty sure Mitt Romney is heavily involved in the US/Ukraine corruption too. To hell with every last one of the crooked establishment politicians.
Smart play by Putin.
He embarrasses Xiden and the US, intimidates Europe and NATO, reacquires the Ukraine, and makes the security assurances of the US not worth the paper it’s written on.
Oh, and most likely tees up Taiwan to the ChiComs.
One fly in the ointment; if Iran gets groggy with Israel WWIII-with nukes-is almost a given.
Operation Samson II.
Russia just became the Canadian Truckers. I’m so done with “the Western democracies” that I’m all but ready to root for Russia to take over Europe sans Poland and possibly England after the clearly same tactics used by Canada on its citizens is being used by the “West”, and I use quotes because clearly our captors have dropped their masks (EU, WEF, IMF, Biden, et al.) and are no longer pretending to be freedom loving on a world scale (dropping Russian bonds to zero, threatening to drop them from world markets, etc.). Why are people allowing the police to trample them (Canada) and contain them behind concrete barriers (New Zealand) when there is clearly more of us than the “peace keepers”?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/mark-it-zero-ubs-triggers-margin-calls-wealthy-clients-calling-russian-bond-collateral
I am not sure that his objective is the entire enchilada. So far, he is pursuing ‘shock and awe’ tactics to take out key elements (air defense, munition storage, C4ISR, logistics, etc.) that pose a direct threat to his armed forces. These are similar tactics we used to attack Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, etc. What I don’t see is a major build-up of forces & supplies to take over the country and occupy the entire region. Doing so presents a major risk financially/economically for Russia and flies in the face of their lessons learned from Afghanistan. Another supporting fact is the seemingly weak response from Germany, France, Italy, and other pre-2000 NATO countries. The US and UK appear to be the biggest saber rattlers. And the only NATO countries preparing appear to be Lithuania and Latvia.
The US *is* NATO.
All the others are deadbeats, freeloaders and goldbricks.
The US being the Deplorables who work jobs, pay taxes, volunteer for the military. The so-called “elites” are parasites.
NOT….over half of NATO nations DO their duty as stipulated in the charter expensing 2% of their own GDP for defense budgets…..GERMANY is the largest scofflaw with barely 1.1% of the largest GDP in Europe
On the plus side, it would appear that Putin has cured Covid and ended the global pandemic, based on US media coverage anyway.
With Corrupt Politicians and a Corrupt Media How Do We Know What Is Best for the US Concerning Ukraine?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/corrupt-politicians-corrupt-media-know-best-us-concerning-ukraine/?utm_source=Gab&utm_campaign=websitesharingbuttons
Question for ya. If Putin can get hands on WH occupant’s (and and many others’) incriminating documents and hand them to interested people, who would BSN (Bullsh!t News) be all up in arms with and demand retribution and impeachment….the usurper occupant and minions or 45?
Rhetorical question, I know.
It will be Trump’s and the white supremacist’s who don’t want a vax fault.
I’ll bet there’s a prosecutor in Ukraine that knows where all the evidence has been hidden. Have a feeling he’ll be quite cooperative since being fired due to biden’s meddling.
I still think he’ll withdraw just like in Georgia. They are country wide because the targets are countywide. I don’t see that as an indication he intends to take the whole county. However, the last time Russia hesitated when a threat built on its borders, they lost 22 million people. You can be sure they will not let that happen again.
“Elections have consequences stolen elections doubly so”
Classic swamp maneuver, don’t participate Just Say No!
B-B-B-Biden you want to go fight Russians, send those fierce BLM/Antifa goon squads I know the Russians will be quaking in their boots. Oh, then it can be a mostly peaceful war. Lets get all the war correspondents in quickly they can be right behind the BLM/Antifa shock troops.
I agree that Putin is taking it all to slap the Biden circus and doubly to clean out all of the western rats. I would add that he may be giving western Ukraine back in the near future after getting concessions and promises it stays free of NATO influence.
I think this is a fair prediction. Remove the corruption, recognize the east’s independence and help the people of the west be free once again. Putin would then be regarded as liberator.
Going to be tougher for the Communists to launder money now.
I am not sure that his objective is the entire enchilada. So far, he is pursuing ‘shock and awe’ tactics to take out key elements (air defense, munition storage, C4ISR, logistics, etc.) that pose a direct threat to his armed forces. These are similar tactics we used to attack Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, etc. What I don’t see is a major build-up of forces & supplies to take over the country and occupy the entire region. Doing so presents a major risk financially/economically for Russia and flies in the face of their lessons learned from Afghanistan. Another supporting fact is the seemingly weak response from Germany, France, Italy, and other pre-2000 NATO countries. The US and UK appear to be the biggest saber rattlers. And the only NATO countries preparing appear to be Lithuania and Latvia.
What documents might that be?
Ukrainian Security Forces Seen Scrambling to Burn Documents in Kyiv as Russian Invasion Intensifies (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/just-ukrainian-security-forces-seen-scrambling-burn-documents-kyiv-russian-invasion-intensifies-video/
China has been hoarding commodities — agricultural, metal, and other minerals. They advised their citizens to plan for possible disruptions in the flow of grocery store items, so stock up. They have hung onto fertilizer and bought US pork processors. They manufacture the bulk of our medications.
Now China is in a sweet position to barter with Russia if the two nations might find such an arrangement beneficial for both.
Bonus: What drug was used in a gaseous form by the Russians to end a hostage crisis in a crowded theater in Moscow in 2002?
Biden: Putin Wants to
Reestablish Former Soviet UnionDate Me.Here is another perspective on Ukraine.
https://stillnessinthestorm.com/2022/02/watch-russian-troops-seemingly-celebrating-with-ukrainian-locals-claims-of-russia-attacking-bioweapons-labs/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=name_heres_your_daily_stillness_in_the_storm_newsletter_for_2022_02_24&utm_term=2022-02-24
Message to the world: Don’t get in bed with US democrats.
actually the whole uniparty
I hope everyone heeded Sundance’s warning of stocking up? Russia, is the number one global producer of fertilizer. Our crops and farms could now be laid to waste with disease and nutrient deficiency .
Get your vit pills, store in fridge, and be good for 5 years.
Or until the electricity dies. Just Saying
Has anyone seen this info before? If so, what is your take on it? Thanks in advance:
https://www.newswars.com/russian-strikes-targeting-us-run-bio-labs-in-ukraine/
Biden responses by unfollowing Putin on Twitter
What comes next?
Here is a brilliant analysis of what is in store going forward…
I’ll be damned. Didn’t think Putin would do it.
Biden is a complete and utter failure.
All I really care about is the people of Ukraine (and people everywhere) who are abused by their governments.
I originally disagreed with our host and thought Russia would just take the eastern provinces. I disagree with our host now and still think Russia will only take the eastern provinces. They attacked command and control and air bases everywhere, but that’s to be expected. A few border incursions maybe around the perimeter, to destabilize any counters, but I bet they’re temporary. Russia wants no parts of the protracted insurgent war the Deep State would put on them. They’d probably have ISIS up there before long.
I’d say this will proceed like the festivities in Georgia a few years ago. Russia puts its foot down on the crooks that the globalists and McCain propped up, took some clay filled with allies, and called it good. And Germany will keep buying their energy.
I have no idea what’s inside Putin’s head, but I suspect you’re right. Putin probably doesn’t want to annex all of Ukraine because 1) he would have an Afghanistan problem on his hands trying to pacify a population of ~30 million Ukrainians who won’t want to be governed by Russia and 2) he will have moved Russia’s border right up to NATO, thereby creating the very situation he has been trying to avoid for years. My guess is that he’ll try to achieve what he’s said he wants Ukraine to be for years: a neutral buffer state. I wouldn’t be surprised if he does annex territory all the way up to the Dniepr though. Anyway, we’ll see soon enough.