As we contemplate the massive $40 billion transfer of U.S. taxpayer funds to Ukraine, a few things need to be emphasized.
First, congress has decided to pay the salaries, benefits and pensions of Ukraine political officials and citizens. As U.S. citizens try and figure out how to afford housing, gasoline, food and basic goods, congress has decided to subsidize another country. That’s the first point.
Second, as to the pragmatic question of “to what end?” There was a critical point made last week by Defense Intel Agency (DIA) Director Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier, that not a single media outlet or politician discussed. During his briefing to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Berrier was asked “can Ukraine win” the conflict against Russia?
Lt. General Berrier replied: “That is a difficult predication to make. I think where the assessment is at, is a prolonged stalemate should no factor change on either side. In other words, the Russians continue to do what they’re doing, and we continue to do what we are doing for the Ukranians.” WATCH:
The Pentagon assessment is the best that can be achieved is a stalemate. Billions of billions of dollars being poured into Ukraine, and the most likely outcome is a stalemate. More people killed, an endless need for continued money to be poured into the ‘war’, and the best possible outcome is a stalemate.
So, riddle me this, why isn’t the U.S. policy position advocating for Zelenskyy and Putin to enter negotiations for a resolution?
What possible U.S. interest can be advanced, knowing the only outcome is a stalemate, where people are killed on either side and money spent on a proxy conflict that ends in loggerheads at some distant point months from now?
Also, why has no U.S. media outlet or pundit played the remarks and assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency, so that the American people can understand the intent of U.S. policy?
Yes luckily it’s not my wife but have 2 BILs who I thought were ‘smart’ and they live and die by what Colbert says. Luckily only see them rarely, next month is a visit, last was same time last year. My wife and I go into training on how to restrain ourselves for the 3/4 days. God help us.
isn’t it amazing that song is totally relevant so many decades after it came out ??
Listen to the Rolling Stone song “Sympathy for the Devil” as it is also still very relevant.
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Ozzy was the first Oz.
Where did his yellow brick road lead him?
Into the parlor to shoot up . . .?
our real enemy is in DC……
we know the enemy
lets see if the enemy knows it themselves?
that will be their downfall if they don’t
They know perfectly well but just don’t care. They are absolutely sure they can beat you.
Ding, Ding, Ding!!! Winner, winner, Chicken dinner!!
The MOST dangerous and destructive enemy this country has is in DC and the surrounding towns and counties housing its demonic, satanic orcs.
This is what they are.They sold their souls for but a fleeting moment in eternity and they will have hell to pay for the many lives they have destroyed and the massive amounts of the blood of innocents on their hands.They feel they are above reproach and beyond reach.The Almighty God has taught me thru His word that one thing I take comfort in Galatians 6:7
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.Its almost time for it to come to pass.
So true! I wish I could like this comment a thousand times.
Another Woke General that should be run out of the Army…..no balls, just like Millie
Dancing on the head of a pin seems to be the only qualification for promotion!
i think he has maybe at least some small balls. it takes some guts to say what he said rather than the baghdad bob drivel that’s coming out of the civilian leadership. he didn’t say victory. he didn’t say the ukes are naming their children after anti-tank weapons. he didn’t admit the truth though. that the russians are one hundred fifty kilometers from transnistria in moldova having started on the russian border six hundred kilometers away. so three quarters of the way in three months. so one, maybe two more months to make ukraine landlocked? when do the poles come “help” ukraine by moving troops into historically polish-controlled galicia, starting another front in the war against zelenskyy?
Didn’t these genius Generals just lose a protracted stalemate war to a bunch of goat herders in Afghanistan? Am I missing something?
It’s been a long time since the last WW. The power elite, fascists, WEF/NWO types are chomping on the bit. History tells us they will have their way.
takes two to tango. putin is against armageddon, as are the chinese and the rest of the eighty five percent of the world’s human population that didn’t support the u.s. sanctions against russia. they all smell victory and rather soon, in a multi-polar world brought much closer by the unbelievably clumsy and self-defeating moves “the west” has made in this showdown it is losing with russia and its allies.
And we play the role of the Austrian Hungarian Empire this time.
Secretary of Defense Allen called Russian Def Minister asking for a cease fire! Defense Department READOUT of one hour phone call is just one paragraph. Where is the rest of the READOUT?
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3030753/readout-of-secretary-of-defense-lloyd-j-austin-iiis-call-with-russian-minister/
you mean the pleading and the promising? the wishing and hoping? even the idle, vain threats?
note putin didn’t call him.
the west is losing, indeed has lost, and the shivery realization is chilling them to their warmonger bones.
If Ukraine ‘loses’… will they give us our 50 Billion $ back?
If Russia loses, will they be held accountable for war crimes?
Win or lose, will the Ukranians be held accountable for THEIR war crimes?
There are no good guys here which is just another reason we shouldn’t be involved. It’s actually one thing Obama got right.
“Win or lose, will the Ukranians be held accountable for THEIR war crimes?”
Winners do not go on trial, meaning that Ukrainians will walk free.
I’m out of words for this madness. The state department needs to be gutted. Pentagon officials fired. There us no stalemate. Russia is taking everything it said it would..methodically, patiently. It’s already started probing Odesa. The Ukraine lost this weeks ago. The Ukraine has not been able to mount a credible counter offensive to take back any credible territory. There will be no regime change in Russia. State department heads need to f##cking roll. I’m looking at you vindman. Enough!
They want the big number 3, inflation, crime, illegal immigration, everything will be forgotten, we will beg for the people in bunkers to save us. Wipe it all away.
not sure that the inflation can get wiped away. the petrodollar is not what it once was before the u.s. seized russia’s dollar reserves (putin’s queen sacrifice).
what do the “people in bunkers” say when russia says it wants rubles for its exports? or gold?
what when china says it wants yuan or gold?
cookie monster-Vicky N….. should be first !!!!!!!
“The Ukraine lost this weeks ago”
Is that you , Colonel Macgregor?
Feel free to direct me to any credible counter offensive mounted by the Ukraine. Kiev? It was never a target it was a feint to draw troops and a command and control goal. Both succeeded. Mariupol? All but finished. It looks Odesa is next.. Do you know why all the photo ops are in Kiev?
Its not a target.. Please feel free to correct me.
“It was never a target it was a feint to draw troops and a command and control goal. Both succeeded.”
And all it cost was the life of a Chechen General, the destruction of his hand-picked Special Forces group and 250 T-72s.
If Russia were to have many more such successes, this war would end in 30 days.
Please tell me a conflict where ‘no factor changes on either side’? Modern warfare is a constant dynamic that demands and imposes change, the side that does it more rapidly and more efficiently wins. They are either being disingenuous, dumb or a bit of both.
going with the former. it’s what they know.
The Pentagon is lying. The state department wants to keep this going for years and has got this crazy idea it can affect regime change in Russia. Russia has methodically taken more and more territory in the Russian supporting east and south. The Ukraine has been unable to stop it. Has Russia has some missteps? Yes an operation like will have some but the Ukraine been unable to stop it. They’re constantly begging for more weapons money and intervention. Does that sound like a winner to to you?
Big Pharma has been handsomely paid for 2 yrs.
Defense Industry needs their 2 years of bonus pay.
D.C. is not giving aid and comfort to a foreign enemy.
D.C. is stealing our money and enriching themselves.
D C. IS THE ENEMY!!
I thought Russia was pulling out of Puke-rain!
JD Rucker has an excellent piece on his Substack that explains all you need to know about the former male stripper/comedian who is now one of top corrupt world leaders.
It seems that the first loyalties of the Z-Man belong to Herr Schwab and the Davos elite New World Order / Reset crew.
Z-man is going to be the top honored speaker at their globalist convention this year.
The Beginning of the End: Why Volodymyr Zelensky’s Upcoming Virtual Appearance at Davos Is a Bigger Deal Than Most Realize
When news broke yesterday that the globalists at the World Economic Forum expected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to attend their annual Davos conference, most conservative news outlets pounced on the notion that he’s going to be wasting his time with his buddy, Klaus Schwab, instead of focusing on bringing peace to his nation and protecting his people.
This is a valid argument, though one that has been made every time Zelensky appears to be doing something other than focusing on the war efforts.
What seems to have gotten lost in all of this is that Zelensky is almost certainly going to be positioned as not just a victim, but also a potential leader to spearhead the stated purposes of this year’s meeting: Advancing the world toward The Great Reset, ending capitalism, and subverting Western domination over the world.
https://tinyurl.com/mtpepv2x
Z is a graduate of Schwab’s WEF Young Global Leaders program. Just like Merkel, Trudeau and Buttigieg and thousands more salted into leadership positions around the developed world.
That’s who we should be going to war against. They are no better than a cartel or other terrorist organization. Just a different facade. Same purpose in terms of acquisition of power and money for their members and same indifference to the consequences on the masses.
“Also, why has no U.S. media outlet or pundit played the remarks and assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency, so that the American people can understand the intent of U.S. policy?”
because they don’t want to increase the current nine point majority, for two months running, by which likely u.s. voters would prefer that their own commander in chief resign rather than that the head of the country the u.s. is “at war with” resign? (https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1606839/Shock-poll-Ukraine-Zelensky-Biden-lose-war-Russia-Putin-Democracy-Institute-news)
and that after all their avalanche of propaganda. can you imagine what that margin would be if the western media were telling its victims the truth?
Lt. Gen Scott Berrier is a politician, not a general. His answer to the question was a nonanswer based on the double talk.
Well they have to keep funding Ukraine to the tune of $Billions because the politicians (Biden family, Pelosi, Clintons, Schumer family, and on and on) have to skim as much as they can while they can. As most knows, after the election (and subsequent take over by the GOP) the sugar daddy days are over for a long while. And if Jordan gets the Speakership and not McCarthy then those halcyon days of graft are over for years to come.
Better get while the gettin’s good because the DOJ/FBI/IC isn’t going to do a thing to stop it or investigate it for the public.
While it would be nice to think a GOP takeover would cure the problems which have been quietly organized by the deep state over the past 30 or 40 years, that is dreaming. The GOP had both houses of Congress and the White House in 2017 and 2018 and they did nothing other than backstop impeachment efforts. We are living under the political domination of the right wing and the left wing of the same vulture.
And a GOP takeover, the ballyhooed ‘red wave’ assumes there will be no systemic vote fraud. But largely GOP state officials have done little in the past 18 months to correct mail-in voting, ballot stuffing, Dominion voting system corruption and the like.
We are hovering on the precipice of WWIII and economic ruin (runaway inflation, loss of the world reserve currency status, stockmarket crash).
Sorry to be a Cassandra but we all have to wake up.
I dread things will get worse. These psychopaths have no boundaries, none. It really is up to Us.
In 1940 on the eve of the Fall of France the British RAF was losing fighters in France at an alarming rate yet Winston Churchill promised the French Prime Minister that he would send more fighter planes into the meat grinder. Air Marshall Dowding objected pointing out that the Fall of France was imminent with or without the additional RAF Fighters and that Britain would need those aircraft once the Fall of France was finished. Not a difficult theory to comprehend but the Battle of Britain video clip explains it very clearly.
Taka taka taka taka taka taka taka
One of my all time favorite films. No CGI in those days.
It’s a great movie and all those Spitfires and JU-88 bombers.
Why is the DIA backing Nazis? Surely those who ‘stand with Ukraine’ need to understand that Ukrainians themselves are afraid of the Azov infiltration of Ukrainian government, media and society. When you ‘stand for Ukraine’, what exactly are you standing for? Their corrupt government, which the US is supporting? Or the Ukrainian civilian, that no one seems to care about?
When you ‘stand for Ukraine’, what exactly are you standing for?
I have your answer: nationalism, independence and self-determination.
Nationalism used to be MAGA cool at the Treehouse until the Ukrainians decided they would like some of that for themselves.
Maybe ask Ukrainian residents if your answer is correct. They have been bullied and slaughtered by operatives in their own government. Their government was enacting an ethnic cleansing in Donbass, which is why the Donbass militia is fighting on the side of Russia. The residents in Crimea voted to remove themselves from Ukraine, as have the residents in Donetsk and Lugantz. When you ‘stand for Ukraine’, assuming that you are standing for the Ukrainian government, you are standing for corruption and authoritarianism. When you stand for Russia, you are actually standing for Ukrainian civilians and their self determination.
“The residents in Crimea voted to remove themselves from Ukraine.”
How convenient that must be for Russia, seeing how they get the naval base at Sevastopol with this “one-vote, one-time election.
Whether you find it ‘convenient’ or not, that is exactly what the residents of Crimea did. They voted themselves OUT of Ukraine. Apparently you are unaware that the preponderance of people living in the east of Ukraine are actually of Russian heritage?? And are unaware that the Ukrainians (Azov, etc.) consider those of Russian heritage to be ‘sub human’?? Perhaps understand the purpose of the Minsk Accord…and then ask yourself why there were 8,000+ Ukrainian military troops at the border of the Donbass, ready to attack on March 1. Or why Ukraine never respected the Minsk Accord, and continued to shell the Donbass for 8 years.
“ Whether you find it ‘convenient’ or not, that is exactly what the residents of Crimea did.”
This is exactly what the residents of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Ukraine, Estonia, Lithuania and Moldova did, too.
Every time it came to “one-vote, one-time” the Communists always won the love and loyalty of the Warsaw Pact countries they wanted to annex.
Sorry, no Communists or USSR when Crimea voted to withdraw from Ukraine. Actually, no USSR or communists when Donetsk and Lugantz voted to withdraw from Ukraine at the beginning of 2022. I don’t know where you’re getting your info from, and sadly your bias sounds very like MSM….totally uninformed, and buying into the Russia bogeyman syndrome. It appears you are unaware of the genetic cleansing that has been going on in Ukraine….???
“Sorry, no Communists or USSR when Crimea voted to withdraw from Ukraine.”
But Putin is still using the Communist playbook of subversion, demoralization and annexation that the USSR faithfully followed.
It is a nominalistic fallacy to insist that a man must self-identify as Communist before he can be criticized for using Communist methodology.
I don’t know where you’re getting your info from, but you need to look elsewhere. Putin actually has a 83% favorability rating with Russian citizens. All this info that he was a KGB killer/spy is BS. He was an administrative lawyer for them. The Soviet Union disbanded in 1991, not because of the west’s influence, but because Russia wanted out. Their society is not communist now, nor is anyone using a ‘communist playbook’. You may not know that the governments of Donetsk and Lugantz actually ASKED Russia to intervene in the pending military action against them.
You never answer the points made by Inisfad but continue with your nominalistic fallacy about Ukraine. The Ukraine was a part of the Russian empire for millenia and Kyiv was the capital of Russia for a period of time. Blame Lenin for the breakup and balkanazation of Russia to cause dissent amongst the different ethnic groups. Sort of what is happening in the USA by white leftists, sowing racial and gender discord through CRT or LGBTQPeePee.
The laundry mat, in order to $tay open, needS funding. Lot$ of clothe$ to clean. Wa$h, rin$e and repeat.
Where is the $56 billion ‘to Ukraine’ actually going?
The making of a money laundering operation.
by Jordan Schachtel
If they gave the bill a more accurate title, it would be called the “Money For Raytheon And Friends” bill, as the majority of the funds from the latest $40 billion behemoth will be used to supply weapons purchase orders, and resupply weapons that were already sent to Ukraine, which arrived with a seeming back room deal to add to the deep pockets of the weapons manufacturers back home.
https://dossier.substack.com/p/where-is-the-56-billion-to-ukraine
More like: Money for nothing and chicks for free!
“One need only watch totalitarians at work to see that once men gain power over other men’s minds, that power is never used sparingly or wisely, but lavishly and brutally and with unspeakable results.”— E.B. White
1.) There is no “time of war”, Mr. Hoyer.
2.) There is no “we”.
3.) He’s not “our President”.
4.) Russia does have leverage–over the Bidens, including the bribery and films of them performing unspeakable acts.
5.) Russia is your enemy, not mine. The Real Enemy is here.
6.) You may be at war with Russia. I’m not.
When this Occupation Government stole my voice and my vote to install themselves in power, they declared me as less than a citizen. A non-person. A dis-American.
And now I declare them the same. They are Un-Americans, and by their own criminal choices. They went from being my political opponents to being my enemies. Not Putin. Not Russia. This stolen Concertina Crime Syndicate they call a government.
I love my country. But this criminal regime is not my country. I owe this Gangster Rebellion no loyalty, only “eternal hostility” as Jefferson put it.
There is no “we”. There is no “us”. There is no “president”. Just a retarded criminal, a decomposing puppet, a shell of a shell of a broken man. In fairness, though, everyone knows he runs nothing.
I’ve often called Acting President Obama a “Reagan-in-Reverse”. Actual President Ronald Reagan found a way to bring the Russians into the Sphere of Peace. Obama is finding a way to return us to the Cauldron of War.
We’re done, Steny. You had a choice and you threw your lot in with traitors, scumbags and tyrants. And they’re not from Russia.
If you were truly a “Leader”, you would lead us to Peace again, not make excuses for monsters. It’s been done before by better leaders than you.
What Could Have Been….
Rest in the Vine: There is No “We”, There is No “War” and There is No Way, Mr. Hoyer
I hope you sent this to Steny Hoyer, Gipper!
Stinky Hoyer and buddy Dinky Durban blow dead dogs. Nothing sucks like a Hoover unless they are politicians.
Mark Twain once said “There is no distinctly criminal class- except Congress”. He has been dead for 112 years and nothing has changed.
I would like to hear what that little kid thinks now.
The fact that they are openly laundering our dollars makes me wonder if the digital social credit currency is coming sooner than later. The rats are scrambling to get as much as possible before they enslave us with their digital monetary system. Just wondering about this.
Glenn Greenwald:
The Bizarre, Unanimous Dem Support for the $40b War Package to Raytheon and CIA: “For Ukraine”
“The US Anti-War Left is Dead. The Squad’s $40b War Vote Just Killed It.” Many Dems voting YES have long denounced exactly these sorts of bills. What happened?
Video & Transcript👇
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-bizarre-unanimous-dem-support-426
What happened? Orthodox Christian Ukrainians and Orthodox Christian Russians are killing each other and the Democrats are funding the slaughter!
“Orthodox Christian Ukrainians and Orthodox Christian Russians are killing each other…”
Nothing is so divisive as a common creed held with a difference.
Per the riddle, there are number of reasons why DC would prefer a long war, and national security is not one.
We can likely assess the reasons for a prolonged continuance by choosing from a list of what is actually occurring.
Choose any 6 of the following.
1) Money is being redirected
2) Current events are being ignored
3) The world has an energy and food shortage.
4) BRIC is establishing alternate economy not dependent on American dollars
5) Our national dept is going higher
6) Our standard of living is being lowered
Seems like the Uniparty is on top of this.
“[T]here are number of reasons why DC would prefer a long war.”
There is one urgent reason Kiev would prefer a quick victory. Duration is an essential element of power. The longer Russia occupies the Donbas, the greater the likelihood that its annexation will be be recognized as being legitimate.
You know the answer to all your questions, SD.
As to this cease fire proposition:
What better way to infiltrate all the arms just authorized by our govt
Than by calling for a ceasefire?
Wouldnt want all those shiny/used Javelins and 155’s to get taken out as they are moved.
Our media is owned and controlled by the very same organizations that own and control our government.
Prolonged stalemate is the cover story for now. Ukraine is a cleanup operation to hide the evidence of corruption and illegal bio-weapons programs. Russia has a great deal of evidence now. The only way to distract from that is to keep poking the Bear until Putin drops the hammer. ( All the subs have put out to sea from Sevastapol )
It’s false flag season.
Stalemates are good for the military industrial complex. Not sure there will be any fighting age Ukrainians left to carry out the mission, but enough of pesky details!
Ukraine has instituted mass mobilization. They should have one million soldiers available soon to protect their territory.
It’s what the Russians and Chinese did to us in Afghanistan — continue the resistance, continue to bleed out the invading/occupying force, and wait for an opportunity to initiate a collapse. It’s a strategy as old as time.
The Russian forces are being attritted at the rate of two battalions groups every three days.
At this rate, they will have lost one-half their invasion force in the next several days.
But they do not retain half their battle capabilities because the remaining forces have no leadership and are using second-tier equipment.
By contrast, Ukraine is being supplied with first-tier artillery equipment and loitering ammunition from the USA and Europe.
The mop-up operation has already begun, unbeknownst to the Russians.
Thanks for the on the ground report-I’m sure it’s accurate
I refer you to ISW’s home page.
Sarcasm?
If not you really have no idea..
Cheers!
Keep your cheers for yourself, Dekester. You will need some cheering up when the Russian invasion is thwarted.
Is that you, Mr. Blinken?
Putin will “blink” first.
dream on ….CW
Nope. It’s time to rise and shine. There is work to be done.
So many bad arguments and so little time to make my case before the Russian losses validate my claim.
Someone is pressing the world’s two largest Christian nations to war. Qui bono ?
Funny coincidence isn’t it and who is fanning the flames?
Cause the 20 year stalemate in Afghanistan ended and a new money laundering country presented a goldmine to Congressional members and their families.
A thought just crossed my mind. What if Hillary contacted Russia and said if you invade Ukraine, it will cover US creating fuss while you keep billions and we get rich.
Translation:
“For as long as it takes to pilfer the US treasury before we (The Military) let the NWO take over…..”
Disgraces to their oaths, the whole lot of them.
Well, for starters a peace treaty would mean no 10% for the big guy and all his little trained minions. That’s why they’re so mad at Rand Paul. He’s holding up the gravy train.
It’s because the Ukraine has always been about laundering money for Globalists, so a stalemate keeps that going. That and , of course, depopulation, and human trafficking is what the Ukraine’s always been the center country.
I think Milley’s call for a ceasefire is a far better indicator of how they assess the conflict is going, rather than this example mili-pol doublespeak. The failed strategy, like all failed strategies probably sounded like a winner. Provoke Russia to attack, use your NATO trained Ukrainian brigades, under US command, to hold the Russians and then watch and wait as the pre-planned sanctions force Putin into a humiliating retreat and quick removal from power. The DS get their desperately needed victory and any nay sayers can be painted as Russian stooges.
The Russians were not held, the economic sanctions did bite, but also mauled the Western economies and critically provoked effective Russian economic counter-moves. A stalemate is now their least worst option, but the Russians don’t normally accept stalemates, especially as they are weeks away from achieving their operational goals.
Yes–if they were winning, they would not call time-out.
soooo…now Austin wanna talk to Shoigu…he may when pResident/clown/comediant sign up capitulaton…problem is he wanna fight to the last ukrainian….
Why is the Pentagon suddenly concerned about maintaining lines of communication with the Russian MoD ? A few weeks ago they didn’t seem to care at all. Did they sense that Russia was about to do something?
What possible reason other than hatred of Russia can get the USA and the EU to behave in this irrational way which causes only destruction of Ukraine?
A: The Unchecked Ambition of the Power-Mad, seeking to build a One World Government in their own twisted image.
“We have met the enemy and he is us”– Pogo
According to Moon of Alabama, yesterday Lloyd Austin telephoned Sergei Shoigu, the MoD of Russia. The readout of the call said, “On May 13, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III spoke with Russian Minister of Defense Sergey Shoygu for the first time since February 18. Secretary Austin urged an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine and emphasized the importance of maintaining lines of communication.”
So, why is Austin urging Russia on anything? And why a ceasefire in Ukraine?
Sounds like Austin is trying to rescue our NAZI allies from annihilation and protect our arms shipments. If we were serious about Peace, it would be the Secretary of State calling, laughingstock that he is.
Let.’s see. Who is VERY rich, powerful & twisted? Who does he HATE with with lifetime rage? What political party in the USA does he literally own and control; yet they NEVER speak his name, but carry out his EVERY wish?
ONLY DONALD J TRUMP CAN MAKE GEORGE SOROS STAND DOWN! NOBODY in Washington DC can come close to that!
Kongress, Bidens & the Obama Cult are his servants.
We are funding & conducting a war against Russia (Putin) & destroying Ukraine because he directs Washington DC.
“ What possible U.S. interest can be advanced, knowing the only outcome is a stalemate”
Having a prolonged war in Ukraine will keep the tap open for for corrupt politicians , defense contractors and corporations feeding at an endless trough. Duh?
These wars are not fought to be won because that would end the war, the longer they go on the better it is for them.
“The Pentagon assessment is the best that can be achieved is a stalemate.”
They are asses and fools.
Russia failed to capture Kiev, Ukrainian’s largest city. They have been driven out of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city.
The Russians lost fifty-two T-72s in their panicked flight from Kharkiv.
This means that Ukrainian forces are free to advance against Russia’s border and utilize American supplied missile launchers against railway resupply efforts, forcing Russian logistics efforts farther East.
To forestall any attempt by the Russian army to advance against Ukrainian defenders, lightweight M777 howitzers can be swiftly deployed against the Russian army’s northern flank.
This war will end before autumn begins and Russia will have been handed a stinging defeat.
Sounds plausible….in a troll farm
…or on the Ukrainian steppes.
Is that you, Gen. Milley?
I prefer to be addressed as Your Serene Highness but “sir” will be okay, too.
Dream on as neocom/neolibs /warmongers….
I have a dream…that Putin’s arrest by the GRU will end Russian adventurism for the foreseeable future.
Every day we’re distracted by events in Ukraine, Biden’s allies in Beijing grow stronger.
Straight up money laundering. Senators and Congress critters don’t even care that we know it’s all flowing back into their coffers.
Abject, loathsome self-interest at the expense of the American taxpayer.
Sickening bastards all.
Ukraine is the new 20 year Afghanistan model. Aghan/US poppyfields equalled huge poppy field revenue. $$$ to Ukraine is not covering the people’s pensions, rather the gay actor ‘resident president’ and his bunch of ‘merry men/women’ pulling the strings aka Pelosi, Soros, Biden, WEF, the Pope etc etc. Meanwhile, in the US baby formula goes to the illegals at the border by the truckload, none for American babies and the US taxpayers pay for all this, while no money for them, only starvation. Planned Parenthood (Elites) will still get their baby body parts from all the babies thst starve to death without Formila!
THIS explanation may be the closest to the REAL reason this Ukraine- Russia insanity was started from way back up till the current provocation. Very much worth an examination:
https://tomluongo.me/2022/05/12/real-reason-behind-eu-embargo-russia-oil/
Fools think they are degrading their military capability (as you say, killing them). What in fact they are doing is creating a new class of warriors behind the current one. They are honing and burnishing through humiliation and defeat. Like Hitler and Germany the resentment will boil over then the fools will face a much harder foe.
This is exactly what happened to Ukraine after the 2014 war.
They trained a professional army that outclasses Putin’s conscripts by an order of magnitude.