The Associated Press [HERE] and more importantly the U.S. Intel Community outlet, the Washington Post [HERE], are beginning to change direction in their narration of the war in Ukraine.
Both sources of information are starting to position Eastern Ukraine as a lost cause, with the Washington Post giving specific examples of conscripted Ukraine fighters who are abandoning the effort in the donbas region. As noted, “after three months of war, this company of 120 men is down to 54 because of deaths, injuries and desertions. The volunteers were civilians before Russia invaded on Feb. 24, and they never expected to be dispatched to one of the most dangerous front lines in eastern Ukraine.”
The Ukraine commander, Serhi Lapko and one of his lieutenants, Vitaliy Khrus, “retreated with members of their company this week to a hotel away from the front. There, both men spoke to The Washington Post on the record, knowing they could face a court-martial and time in military prison.” Together, Lapko and Khrus describe the essential elements of a fragmented Ukraine fighting force up against a committed Russian military advance.
Even the Washington Post admits the Ukraine central government is desperate to push morale boosting propaganda which seems constructed from the efforts of the U.S. State Dept, specifically the intelligence community within it. “Videos of assaults on Russian tanks or positions are posted daily on social media. Artists are creating patriotic posters, billboards and T-shirts. The postal service even released stamps commemorating the sinking of a Russian warship in the Black Sea.”
These examples are targeted toward a western audience and likely not being carried out by independent Ukraine government operation in Kyiv. Promoting the image of Ukraine is a construct of the U.S. state dept and U.S. intelligence.
The global impression of Ukraine must remain elevated to continue the U.S. proxy war against Russia. However, as noted, the WaPo is starting to shift the goal posts and expectations away from a Russian defeat in the donbas region.
Most notably within paragraphs like this you can see the purposeful shift. “Lapko and Khrus’s concerns were echoed recently by a platoon of the 115th Brigade 3rd Battalion, based nearby in the besieged city of Severodonetsk. In a video uploaded to Telegram on May 24, and confirmed as authentic by an aide to Haidai, volunteers said they will no longer fight because they lacked proper weapons, rear support and military leadership.”
[…] Ukraine’s military rebutted the volunteers’ claims in their own video posted online, saying the “deserters” had everything they needed to fight: “They thought they came for a vacation,” one service member said. “That’s why they left their positions.”
Hours after The Post interviewed Lapko and Khrus, members of Ukraine’s military security service arrived at their hotel and detained some of their men, accusing them of desertion. The men contend that they were the ones who were deserted. (read more)
The Associated Press story flows in a similar line to the WaPo narrative; however, the AP must maintain the Western Government slant:
[…] Russia has intensified efforts to capture the cities of Sievierodonetsk and nearby Lysychansk, which are the last major areas under Ukrainian control in Luhansk.
Luhansk Gov. Serhii Haidai reported that Ukrainian fighters repelled an assault on Sievierodonetsk but Russian troops still pushed to encircle them. He later said Russian forces had seized a hotel on the city’s outskirts, damaged 14 high-rise buildings and were fighting in the streets with Ukrainian forces.
[…] Mariupol’s port has reportedly resumed operations after Russian forces finished clearing mines in the Azov Sea. Russian state news agency Tass reported that a vessel bound for Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia entered the port early Saturday.
In the call with Macron and Scholz, the Kremlin said, Putin emphasized that Russia was working to “establish a peaceful life in Mariupol and other liberated cities in the Donbas.”
[…] Ukrainian authorities have reported that Kremlin-installed officials in seized cities have started airing Russian news broadcasts, introduced Russian area codes, imported Russian school curriculum and taken other steps to annex the areas.
Russian-held areas of the southern Kherson region have shifted to Moscow time and “will no longer switch to daylight saving time, as is customary in Ukraine,” Russia’s state news agency RIA Novosti quoted Krill Stremousov, a Russian-installed local official, as saying Saturday. (read more)
So, are we NOT sending the $40B then? Or are we only getting back $20B since the other 50% is already “spent” as a “fee”?
Don’t forget the 10% for the big guy
And how much does his handler get?
5% standard.
And 10% for hunter.
That money is the Golden Parachute for the corrupt insiders to maintain their silence regarding; Money laundering, human trafficking and bio labs.
Bullseye!
NAILED!
Only about 6B is going to Ukrainian weapon purchases and training.
All the rest is payoffs and kickbacks. The money can and will be sent regardless of the military situation.
I read about that 6 billion dollar figure. It just blew my mind.
Hmmmm, if only I could put a finger on something Trump wanted 6b for in 2017….if I could only remember what that 6b was for then….6b that the same people who voted yes to 40b said we didn’t have…if only I could remember🤔.
At this point, knowing about the rampant corruptio the revelation from this should hardly be mind blowing.
What WOULD be mind blowing is discovering the entire 40 billion actually gets to Ukrainians who are in most need of it.
Refugees not made availabe for comment.
Not a chance.,, Biden installed and war to start up quid pro quo.. politicians always giddy over our tax money to 3rd world nations kickbacks to tax free foundations.
Pictures of Biden, Pelosi, Mitch and others with Zelenski cemented my view that kickbacks were the reason for the trip. That’s a long trip, even on their expensive private jets, to make for nothing.
It was all for in-kind exchange of blackmail documents/files to the traitor Americans for the $40B to Zelenski and his corrupt partners.
Some of the money will allow Z to get Orlando World World tickets.
By the time the 6 billion weapons arrive, and troops are trained, there will be no Ukrainian army left to support them.
The question in my mind, is Putin going to allow the US to start another war before settling this one?
The CIA can hire the troops as mercenaries for its next war.
Like they did with FARC and the Columbian rebels.
And ISIS.
^^^^ This. Not nearly enough people remember how ISIS was started and funded.
This is all one huge boondoggle of Virtue Signaling. It’s embarrasing to the West that Russia is winning the ground War AND Surviving Economically while the West gets hurt as well. All thats left it making fake stories about how Russia is losing, and keep us feeling good we are “Doing Something”
Russia with DoD budget $ 52 BILLIONS compare to overblown nearly US $800 billions….and Russia winning this war ….
No, Putin doesn’t have to. The Chi-Coms got that one covered.
Only 6 months until the American elections. No more shiny objects required, no matter the costs.
Most of the cash goes to the CIA to finance the next war they want to start
This is a pittance of cash for the CIA
It rakes in much more cash from drug sales to the point its self sufficent and doesnt even really require support from taxpayers.
Zelensky asked for $33B but Pelosi insisted on $40B. Then Pelosi, Biden, and McConnell went trapsing over there to ensure the extra $7B was kicked back through proper channels.
While we have no baby formula and inflation is out of control.
All part of the plan!
So is border…country who do not control border is not country and our politicians almost all act like that…
Getting the $40 billion approved was the short-term objective. Now that TPTB have their new slush fund, the media can start admitting what everyone has known all along. Russia will get what they want. and they will keep it.
The good new is that Ukraine will be soon be allowed to sue for peace. At least that will stop the needless slaughter.
Next up is the $300+ Billion “Biden Plan” for rebuilding Ukraine’s “infrastructure”. Bank on it.
Someone is still getting that 40 billion…..less commissions and fees.
Ukraine civil service must be paid and commitment to supply interested third parties with weapons must be honored.
/s
the MIC will get it all. and once it’s gone, the USG will.print more and find another excuse to feed it.
Continual running of the presses wont be so easy if the petro-dollar scam is ruined by the Russians.
They will ask for even more money…for bigger weapons.
Showing that Ukraine forces are being overwhelmed, they hope to garner support from countries to send more powerful weaponry to push back the Russians.
Keep that money-making war machine going…
10% for the big guy, and a pool reserved for funding Senators sons jobs in Ukraine. Most of the rest was already going to Raytheon.
https://askeptic.substack.com/p/daily-report-from-the-ukraine-field-371?s=w
Mission accomplished, $40 billion for ‘Ukraine’.
Magic money.
It’s the money I send to them in taxes. They just make themselves rich with it. It’s disgusting.
This isn’t a government of the people.
Actually, 50% of the 40 Mill is to REPLENISH US stocks of rockets, bullets and manpads (shoulder fired weapons)!!!
Can we get a military update from Col MacGregor ? And a $$$ update from President Z . , want to make sure he is satisfied or if he wants more ….
Col. MacGregor is missed by many.
He did mention needing $5B /month.
blackmail
yesterday
SCP88 – Interview: Col. Douglas Macgregor – The real Ukraine/Russia for political/military insiders (bitchute.com)
Douglas Macgregor, Ph.D.
Future Defense Visions
Thanks for the link.
Love listening to him.
Always informative.
Our military IQ jumps 100% with this intense interview with Col. Douglas Macgregor. He exposes the real current situation in Ukraine, we delve into the potential collapse of the UN and NATO power, how the US military has degraded, Russia/China/Western relations and important issues you need to know about global defense.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Bms5XCkaxFK0/
The problem is that the Ukrainian leaders made their people believe that they could beat Russia….. Together with our MSM the people of the West believed it too.
No one worried that Ukraine was a EU pariah 6 months ago doing the illegal bidding of the west…..with mass murders and a definite Nazi doctrine.
Then the labs that were being run for illegal experimentation with virus…….
All of this could have been avoided if they had just stuck to their agreements about Donbass and elections…promised not to join NATO and have nuclear weapons in the country…..and do you know?? that is not unreasonable demands….after all we demanded the same in the Cuban crisis.
Not many believed believed that. Except some on this board. How wrong they were.
If they would be so easy to beat then the Biden team would have been straight in there…….. yet the fact is they really are the major force…and with the new hyper-sonic weapons ( That the USA still cant build) it actually changes such a lot!
..Oldrealist- still believe glorious elensky army is on the way to Moscow……
Some actually do believe that!…LOL
the Hubris of the Uniparty and their globalist buddies is astonishing. They thought it was 1992 and the Russians were helpless. Thought they could do all kinds of scams and schemes on Russia’s doorstep.
But the Russians want those historic invasion routes locked down. So Russia locked it down.
Now the Uniparty/globalists/party of Davos scramble to CYA.
Maybe with the two months warning and getting all their kit out …they were just gonna go back home……. OBiden thought so I think!
They had to do it the hard way.
Two ways of looking at that picture and both are ok by me.
This lies squarely at the feet of JoeBama.
Without Hussein and Joes coup d’état in Kiev/Keev/Kweef? we would not be at this particularly violent juncture.
They have proven to be a destructive pestilence on civilisation.
Closely followed by Bush The Dumber.
Their mission is exactly that….to be a destructive pestilence on our civilization.
For them to bring hope and change through building back better!
So true……!
Mitch, Piglousi and the rest of the those that voted for supporting this State/CIA war and the $40B need to have their hearts ripped out and roasted on this holiday weekend, remembering Memorial Day 2022. Disgusting individuals.
Congress has tricked the taxpayers of looting to keep themselves in power. 40 billion for re election.
CNN…: That’s exactly what the $40 billion (plus) is for. Re-election.
Yep. Gotta pay the mules, the ballot stuffers, the community organizers, Antifa, BLM, all the officials who look the other way…..
Exactly. Especially since Zuckerberg is being watched closely.
For Re-election? you mean retirement.
You didn’t have to be a genius to see that Russia would take the Russian speaking areas of Ukraine. When Putin is finished Ukraine will be defanged and de-Nazified as he originally stated he would do.
And there will still be enough of Ukraine left remaining for our DeepState money laundering and other vile things and, if it becomes a member, suck up more of our financial support as a NATO leech.
Chicken-sh_t Leftist zombie media reports everything and anything with a cringe-worthy bias. They reported that a Ukrainian military unit: “retreated with members of their company this week to a hotel away from the front”. Human translation: Some cowards deserted their posts.
.
Hey! They needed a firm mattress to sleep on and wanted a hot shower, too . . .
“We’ll leave the light on for you….”
Actually…from reports I have seen on askeptic….
All that money we have already sent….Ukraine soldiers couldn’t even get boots.
Russia reportedly is treating the prisoners humanely….giving them boots, cigarettes, clean clothing, etc.
The first batch of power plant who surrendered..injured were priority. The hospital they were bussed to- there are photos of Russian soldiers sleeping on floor in hallways while the prisoners were given beds,etc.
I take everything with grain of salt…..
So far what I see is Russia treating them humanely….versus the top brass officer in Ukrainian military (bunch of Nazi)…who was taped saying Russian Pows should be castrated…oh…and let’s not forget the video of Ukrainian soldiers shooting some of the Russian POW in their custody in the kneecaps,etc.
Again…grain of salt…..
If this IS happening…..I can see Russia taking the treatment of their Ukraine prisoners vs treatment of Ukraine of the Russian prisoners……
And asking for UN…NATO…Geneva Convention Tribunal for War Crimes.
Which would of course be very ugly for US and EU..NATO.
The Bo Bergdahl / Obama approach to standing your ground.
“Human translation: Some cowards deserted their posts.”
No coward could have stood his ground against an unrelenting artillery barrage for these last few weeks.
Your duty is not to die for your country; it is to make the other poor bastard die for *his* country.
Retreat, regroup, re-engage, repeat until your ammo is exhausted or the advance is forced to stop.
So, it seems it is Russia 1, Globalists 0.
What ever the Globalists plan was, it probably did not include Russia taking over eastern Ukraine and stopping there.
The Globalists wanted to create a European wide war, escalating into a global war….IMHO
Maybe they just wanted to further financially destroy America, and enrich themselves. They’ve succeeded in that.
America is financially bankrupt already. This is but 1 last attempt to keep the US dollar as the petro dollar or the worlds reserve currency. If the dollar collapses they will be hunted down and well you know. Thanks to 2A we all have guns. If they can defeat Russia they get to plunder the resources and keep the petro dollar from collapse for a while.
$40 billion on the way out of robbing the bank is their way of thinking, I’m in soo much trouble now what’s another $40 billion.
But when “the BRICS hit the fan” and it’s coming, the petro dollar collapse will cause extreme unrest all over the yellow area map. Hence Sundance’s column on moving to a gray area where they ” don’t kill Americans there”. My words not his.
Think of all of the people that the 3 letter agency killed by trying to install a puppet regime. How many of those countries want some justice/payback? Ukraine is just the latest and President Putin called their bluff and is kicking ass on the battle field and has won a world of respect from the gray area map.
Someone finally stood up to the great satin. Imagine that a Christian country winning a war against a country founded on a God fearing populace who’s leaders have turned from God.
“Someone finally stood up to the great satin.”
It’s about time! Now when will someone standup to the great silk?
Just maybe, Putin is much more knowledgeable than many give him credit for and has complete respect for the history and cultures of Russia and Eastern European countries. But then along comes a brain-dead stooge of Barack Obama’s, Klaus Schwab, George Soros & anyone else with a billion + in their pocket, with a craving to “change the world” and the Kongress Kangaroos fall in their “train line” for some easy cash, while bilking the US taxpayers once again. Divide & conquer, played so well in the US, was their strategy in foreign lands that were trading & warring long before America was even discovered.
IMO, the “big thinkers” drawing federal paychecks that have caused or abetted this atrocity need to be found, made poor and shown the deportation boat.
Globalists aren’t stupid or they wouldn’t be this close to taking control. They likely knew Russia would win that territory from the very beginning. They needed an excuse to cut financial ties with Russia and the war was it. All part of their planned Great Reset, which is about fine digital control over every aspect of life in Western countries.
I suspect it was about unifying all of Europe against a common enemy. Much easier to rally authoritarian measures in the EU with the boogeyman of a war over natural gas looming on your borders. Most of the Globalists at the very head of the table reside in Europe, not in North America.
I hear that Joe blow has our people back in Somalia.
Yanovavitch was the ambassador to Somalia before she was ambassador to Ukraine.
Buraq was bringing that trash to the Midwest in large numbers, I guess we’ll be seeing more of the same.
Especially around election time for Ilhan Omar.
If that’s what the globalists thought they should’ve paid attention to what Putin said back on day one. He has done and only done what he said Russia would do….surprise!
But, but, but FJB and Europe are committed to a Hydrogen based energy economy, even if the price of Hydrogen exceeds the equivalent of $50/gallon of gasoline.
Are you enjoying the new Feudalism? Billionaires, Politicians and WEFies, tucked comfortably safe, well-fed and willfully ignorant of the plight of the rest of humanity.
The COVID scheme didn’t fully work out as planned, too many people were distrustful and rejected the vaxx. The WWIII scheme is failing, Russia has acted methodically and did not snap at baits or drop nukes. Globalists will probably pivot to the Green Agenda now and double down on that, and that is unlikely to work out as planned either…
I figured things had taken a turn for the worse when I saw Fox News trying to compare the Ukrainian President to Patton
WTF? How are they even close to being alike? Both in a war?
Both pee standing up.
I recall Patton peeing in the Rhine and then crossing to take a handful of German soil as a symbol of conquest.
Something similar we will never see from the Ukrainian president.
Better double check that.
I’m fine with assuming here and being wrong.
Believe Z pees sitting, because his wee, wee is a bit small.
Can’t splash the surrounding surfaces. Not fitting for El Presidente, actor.
So, who’ll be assigned blame for the Cabal’s failure in Ukraine?
Monkeypox?
Zelensky
With Trump gone, they cannot say “Trump’s fault.” Now they can say “Putin’s fault”.
I think we’re going to see the donks turn on Zelensky. The only eay he was going to be palatable ( knowing their secrets) was rich and victorious IN Ukraine. Loose and powerless in London or DC, not ok.
I think we’re going to see memes of “Zelenskyy didn’t hang himself” sometime soon.
Agree!
I keep thinking he is a walking dead man right now.
Made too many enemies within his own country
Zelensky just bought a mansion in Miami I believe. He won’t be safe living there. He needs a tattoo right quick that says I didn’t kill myself. Worked out great for McAfee.
Bamanicious: White supremacist monkeypox deniers with black rifles and internal combustion engines.
… probably also home-schooling church-goers that grow vegetable gardens in the back yard. (Against MI Gov. Whitmer’s edict)
Reglar Merican: Yup. Them home tomato growers is bad news ‘fer Democracy.
Our government cant have people self sufficient in raising their own food!
Home gardening must be banned!
I blame Amber Heard.
In the last year Western Interventionism, Inc has somersaulted out of the disaster in Afghanistan, into the Ukrainian frying pan, and is currently looking to handspring into a Taiwanese caldera.
Also expect maximum retaliation for Hungarian refusal to play sanction ball; the Hungarians are certainly preparing for it.
Yes, Victor Orban knows that the EU could be coming for him to try to oust him from office, like the US did in 2014 in Ukraine. Orban has assumed “Emergency Powers” in the last week.
A: Actual President.
Remember the k in monkeypox is silent.
It was funny the first time…
Remember, when you pronounce Monkeypox the “K” is silent!
…but it grew stale with the third telling.
Does anyone think that people like this can be negotiated with?
FIGHTING TALK Heroic Volodymyr Zelensky vows Ukraine will not give an inch to Russia in powerful speech
https://www.the-sun.com/news/5422670/volodymyr-zelensky-ukraine-russia/
25 May, 2022 22:31
HomeRussia & FSU
Ukrainian presidential adviser Alexey Arestovich
‘Go f**k yourselves’, Zelensky aide tells Western officials
The presidential adviser called Westerners urging concessions in the name of peace ‘dumb f**ks’
https://www.rt.com/russia/556103-arestovich-territories-concessions-response/
This was announced by the adviser to the head of the President’s Office Mykhailo Podoliak.
Podoliak stressed that Ukraine does not trade its citizens, territories or sovereignty. This is a clear red line.
“So that there is no ambiguity. Ukraine will not take part in this discussion. We are not trading our citizens, territories or sovereignty. This is a clear red line. Ukrainian society has paid a terrible price and will not allow anyone to even take a step in this direction – no government and no country. Any hint of this from any of the partners will receive a principled response, “he said.
https://news.storyua.com/news/20628.html
So these ukrainian leadership folks are naive enough to trust the democrats in the America.
Guess thet will get what they deserve.
Next time do a little research. 🙄
They are all actors. Production crew. Zelensky brought his movie buddies with him. The only people with the intelligence and understanding are the military commanders.
And according to the article–
All we need to do is send more munitions and money!
Really?!?
do not forget…pallets of $$$$$$$$$$$$$
Blessed are the peacemakers.
Poignant, Seneca.
You found one? LOL The peacemakers are the U.S. politicians refusing to send money to Ukraine. As soon as our money stops, Zelensky has to negotiate and the war ends. Hello? Anybody listening?
The .45 Colt single-action Army sold for $17 apiece in 1873.
Blessed Peacemakers would cost a total of $34.
Christoforau has been spot on since the war began….
Macron & Scholz call Putin. Turkey remains firm on NATO vote. Another game-changer. Update 1
He and his guests reach a lot of the same conclusions as the CTH team does on a number of issues.
1000% correct.
Another one bites the dust!
I’ve read this story twice already and still can’t figure out if I’m supposed to change my profile flag or not.
Since 2016 the decepticons in both political parties and the press have recklessly poked the eye of the Russian leadership . First with the Russia collusion hoax then with the ridiculous ukraine phone call bullshit and now the Ukraine war narrative they are proffering . They are utilizing propaganda tactics that would make a tenth grader proud.
Their efforts that have been so ineffective on the world stage are actually making Putin appear ,to many people with critical thinking skills, As a sympathetic figure.
Compared to the liars in the installed United States government by the time this fiasco is over Putin May very well be deserving of such consideration.
Only fools could engineer such a failed policy.
I’m shocked. From the AP article: “Germany and France brokered a 2015 peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia that would have given a large degree of autonomy to Moscow-backed rebel regions in eastern Ukraine. However, the agreement stalled long before Russia’s invasion in February.” This is an allusion to the Minsk Agreement, which was not adhered to by Ukrainian leadership and ignored by the West. Is it any wonder Russia went back into Ukraine?
Text of the Minsk Agreement: https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/comment-from-inside-ukraine-lack-of-peacemakers/
Our own leaders, including military and state dept who lied to Congress should all be held accountable for pushing a proxy war Americans never supported.
The peacekeepers and negotiators were almost totally absent from this process.
Zelensky should negotiate a peace deal and then expose the corrupt pressure from the US white house/government…..and name names. If he was n:t do it (he is corrupt, himself) then Ukrainian and US whistleblowers should step up.
Politicians who funded this proxy war need to explain themselves and be held accountable.
American policy needs to do a 180. Trump had foreign policy right.
Congress, who has the constitutional duty to declare war, needs to hang from the rafters.
Zelenskyy would never expose corrupt pressure from the US. He is an integral part of the corruption profiteering.
I suppose that is how he was able to pay cash for his getaway villa in Florida.
The $40B is actually $60B so far, and you can be confident that some of it will go into the pockets of corrupt politicians in Ukraine and on both sides of the aisle in the U.S. This whole “support the war in Ukraine” campaign stinks to high heaven, and I’m betting there is at least a dash or two of blackmail in the mix. i.e. “You American politicians who have your hand in the Ukraine cookie jar will support our war effort or we will expose your corruption to the world.”
Now that the $40 billion money laundering deal has been authorized by Congress, corporate media has obviously been given the green light to more accurately report the truth of what’s happening in Ukraine.
How much of that $40 billion will be spent against Trump in the 2024 presidential election? Mules don’t come cheap in Biden’s America.
first you CREATE a conflict that has no other trajectory than provoking a regional war (NATO expansion)
THEN you allow the conflict to float for a few years until it arrives to it’s rational registration (Russia goes to arms over disputes with Ukraine)
THEN you actively engage the “minority” against the evil tyraant Russia and spend about 700 Billion (lets just call it a trillion to round it off ..noting the cost of war is not tallied with just arms sales, but production, training, payoffs, transportation, logistics, fuel, start up costs, etc…every western EU and NATO country ramped up the war machine. I argue it is well in excess of 1 trillion…!)
noting: this proxy war never had a chance of ANY success. It’s just a reality in this conflict. No manner of indirect military support to UKR will EVER allow it to push back the inevitable.
Then when things can no longer be shpe shifter in the media and the bubble heads un DC and ELSEWHERE, the political bodies decide, time to play diplomacy.
why? Why go to ALL THE TROUBLE?
because there are MANY TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF ENERGY IN RUSSIA WAITING TO SUPPLY THE WORLD>
the US knows it…russia knows it…WE KNOW it. SA KNOWS it. China KNOWS it.
the world is being tested with militarism because the western allies have set themselves back 10 years or more with the green deal renewable nonsense.
Russia didn’t bite.
it is in effect the most effective way to punch the shit out of the ridiculous and insane agenda of this western states to abandon oil.
Russia THROUGH china is making the entire world forcing the rest of the world to understand FULLY the consequences of green renewable nonsense.
I give it 3 years before major corporations in the US will be moving production to russia and even more to china.
why wouldn’t you?
Considering Ukraine is at best a minor power and Russia a solid regional power. I would say they are doing pretty dam good fighting their a*s off. Personally I am pretty shocked the Russians have been contained to were they are. I figured they would be sitting pretty easily West of the Dinipor river grinding on a insurgence in the rear while threatening to push to the NATO border.
I don’t think the Ukrainians have the potential to push into Russia proper but it is looking more and more like they are going hold most of their country and bleed Russia white in the east. There industry is wrecked but if we keep them in weapons they can really grind down the Russians. The Russians have already lost more men equipment than Afghanistan when they were magnitudes stronger. Its debatable how long Russia can support a grinding war conquest.
A weakened Russia is definitely in US interest considering they are hip welded to China and thanks O the great we gave up our two front war doctrine. I support giving the Ukrainians as much weapons as they will use to bleed down the Russians. The 40 bil Obiden sent was a farce that if you look at doesn’t even have any weapons in it. Its stock and trade how our politicks both Dem and Repub roll just like Covid, just like Ukraine, just like Bank Bailouts, etc…… one for you two for me.
Even so if we let Russia and China run ruffshot over US interest while we fight to take back our country it will all be for naught. Russia success in Ukraine will move to the Blakans then Eastern Europe. China success in Taiwan will push the 2nd island chain. In that world even if we succeed in restoring America we will be looking at a real risk of foreign defeat then invasion.
You must be confused. This isn’t an America-last neocon site where commenters blindly support pointless foreign wars started by the uni-party. Anyone who isn’t brain dead can see that the establishment provoked this war in order to have a replacement for Afghanistan. The money flows to the political class while Americans suffer. Everything in the press is State Department propaganda so there’s no way for anyone to know if Ukraine is fending off Russia or not. What is clear is that the uni-party wants a multi-year war, and that it’s not in our interests to be involved in Ukraine (or Taiwan). Only the uni-party elites benefit; the American people are harmed, and the middle class will continue to erode like it has since the late 70s. Indeed, stunts like this are why Russia is getting closer to China. You go right ahead and send your kids or grandkids to die for Ukraine’s or Taiwan’s borders. No way in hell will I send mine.
Well said.
When watching Patrick Lancaster YouTube reporting.
He does point out the tanks destroyed he passes….Ukraine…Ukraine..Ukraine……
Since I don’t watch any MSM…fake news……
I guessing they aren’t reporting that…….chuckling
Neither Taiwan nor Ukraine expect to receive US foot soldiers. What they would like is advanced military weaponry.
Taiwan is affluent; Ukraine is poor. Taiwan is threatened; Ukraine has been invaded.
Consequently, Ukraine would quickly deploy any armaments they receive whereas the Taiwanese would rather use their military arms as a strategic reserve.
As was the case in the Spanish Civil War, a new generation of ordnance could be vetted on the battlefield. There, the communists lost because Franco had German-made equipment and clandestine aid from the Luftwaffe.
Does any of this begin to sound familiar?
We could gain valuable insight into the battle worthiness of the M777 howitzer and M270 missile platform when deployed against armored targets, something that could not be tested in Afghanistan.
Ghoulish? Yes, it is but wouldn’t you prefer to know your expensive artillery’s shortcomings before deploying it afield?
” Russia success in Ukraine will move to the Blakans then Eastern Europe. “
Then to Western Europe. Then they will take back Alaska. Then they will take over Canada.
We must fight them over there, so we don’t have to fight them over here.
Russia does not have aspirations of world conquest, even if the West does. They invaded portions of Ukraine because they had to. They tried diplomacy for many too-patient years. It didn’t work. Putin stated the game plan and they’re sticking to it. This is a legitimate Russian national security matter.
I would think Russia might be content to restore as much of its former empire as possible, be it Tsarist or Soviet and all the natural resources that come with it.
Their population base is too small to support such a grandiose scheme.
Hopefully, the Russians don’t forget to invade Washington DC!
It’s all moot. There will be no Russian success in Ukraine.
“Even so if we let Russia and China run ruffshot over US interest while we fight to take back our country it will all be for naught.”
Slipped up there, how is it in Kiev?
Heh, Kiev is vital to the continuing graft and corruption of the DC Uniparty and its cronies.
In fairness, I think the example that was used intends to compare and contrast foreign policy with domestic objectives.
Similarly, “What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world if he shall lose his soul?”
If Russia/China could impose their own foreign policy choices on us, what good would it do to strive for an independent republic? Our freedom of action would still be lost.
Russia is attached to China because the USA forced them into that camp.
Exactly, it wasn’t long ago that Putin asked President Bush if Russia could join NATO, too!
Their dictators are much better than our dictators.
It was the neocons who instigated the war. Putin’s action are a defensive action against the globalists.
Also, you got your ass kicked in Afghanistan by goat herders; you got your ass kicked in Ukraine by Putin.
And who is this “we” kimosabe? Bush drained that tank of goodwill long ago.
Americans would be insane to send their kith and kin to die for the neocons we dreams.
Ukraine had the best fighting force in NATO and they lost. It is not fair because Russia owns the airspace and can hypersonic destroy reinforcements as they arrive.
There is no need for Russia to hurry. No help is coming and it is stupid to take needless losses to hurry up. Monday’s, Russia pushes and cleanup is the rest of the week.
When done, Russia will control the area responsible for 70% of Ukraine’s GDP. Ukraine can never pay back money owed to the West. Ukraine will no longer have access to the sea.
The West still owes Russia for the cost of the war plus the billions stolen by sanctions. The West needs to pay up for being naughty.
“Ukraine had the best fighting force in NATO and they lost.”
UK has the best fighting force. Ukraine does not even have a navy!
I’ll allow that Ukrainian ground troops are of a very high quality. They rate with the Israeli Defense Force.
CNN is that you?
“A weakened Russia is definitely in US interest…”
If NATO can box in Russia, we could turn our attention to corralling Chinese expansion.
The world would be a safer place.
The ghost of Kiev?
Good thing we’ve got great leadership.
The House Speaker’s spouse, Paul Pelosi, was arrested just before midnight last night, Saturday May 28th, in Napa County, California. He was booked 4 hours later into jail on two counts. 1.) driving under the influence and 2.) driving with a blood alcohol content level of 0.08 or higher … both misdemeanors. He was then, of course, summarily released on $5,000 bail. At the age of 82, wonder what kind of car he was driving?
A: The Taxpayers.
I bet it was not YUGO….FERRARI ?????
Porsche.
Now that’s funny!
And they all knew it was a lost cause from the start – hoping for an endless war under the guise of fighting till the end. Willing for so many to die to keep up their facade. But they want to ignore the fact that Russia also came in to destroy and expose bio labs and other nefarious undertakings Ukraine is used for. This too is a success
Zelensky will bail before long and worth billions.
Better get em another 40 billion.
Looks like the last 40 didn’t do much good.
Well duh. Like Ukraine is a superpower.
Do we know yet just how many Ukrainian military personnel have perished? I’m just curious how many deaths will ultimately satisfy the cabal. Or is it simply a case of “the sky is the limit”?
I have heard that 10 million have fled Ukraine. It is not just how many have died. Homes have been destroyed by Ukrainian forces using human shields.
Everywhere you look it is a tragedy. That is before the world’s coming starvation.
Certainly. My question was specific to military in that troops are needed for the purpose of prolonging the war. I never believed that the Ukrainian military would or could defeat the Russian military. They were fed to the wolves. The civilian side carnage does not prolong war but it surely suffers as badly or worse.
Exactly, the Democrats and news media are going to fight Russia until the last drop of Ukrainian blood!
…but not before you squeeze the last drop of blood from that tired cliche.
Reports are that they are just abandoning their dead.
Zelensky doesn’t have to pay their family if no body?
Russian soldiers are burying them and documenting with ID found on bodies.
I take it all with a grain of salt.
Damn sad thing. Fed to the wolves by wolves.
So,…who’s doing the audit on where this money goes since Ukraine is as corrupt as xiden?
Don’t worry; Swiss bankers are keeping very good track of BidenReich’s looted funds, a service they also performed for the previous Reich in 1943.
Interestingly, Soros participated in both.
Heil B. Hussein!
“What do you mean you forgot the ATM password, Joe? Wait–is it ‘Ovaltine’ again?”
Audit?! They dont need no stinkin’ audit!!!
Putin pretty much said his intentions publically in February – and it hasnt changed much.
When the media talks about locations left of this line, as wins for Ukraine, its all bullshit propaganda to make Americans feel like we won something.
White, exactly. Putin said exactly what his goal was day 1. And hasn’t wavered since. Stuck to it and is coming out on top. Meanwhile idiots around us put up Ukrainian flags and keep them up over Memorial Day weekend over our own country’s flag. These idiot Americans are too far gone to help.
Sheep following sheep without any thought.
Baaaaaaaa!
Then the king of Israel replied, “Tell him, ‘Let not him who girds on his armor boast like him who takes it off.—1 Kings 2:11 NASB
King Benhadad did not live to make good on his boast and Putin may be equally unfortunate.
AZMilitary1 is reporting just now, “The Vice-Chancellor of Germany said that the unity of the European Union regarding sanctions against Russia ‘is beginning to crumble.'”
There was no unity in the EU, just a bunch nuts at the top trying to be monarchs over the plebs with Currency they printed for themselves. Same goes for the Democrat commies in the USA.
Nah….that can’t be——not possible…nope, uh uh…
This post was brought to you by the letter S. S for sarcasm.
Russia has cut off fuel from Russia and grain shipments from Ukraine.
Realizing you are going to spend next winter freezing your butt off in the dark with nothing to eat can be a bit sobering.
“in the dark with nothing to eat”
Quick! Someone google the cookbook “To Serve Mankind”, and the recipe for Soylent Green.
Stat!
“Merry Christmas from Stalingrad ! ” said the newsreels of Nazi Propaganda with skin-bared German soldiers frolicking in the snow. As German soldiers actually were being starved and frozen to death.
Europe and the U.S. Deep Cesspool have a plan to fight this privately profitable war against Russia down to the last Ukrainian.
In a previous time, when the U.S. wasn’t in such domestic turmoil and the Deep Cesspool had less leverage on American politicians, diplomacy would have been the appropriate tool to compromise with Russia on encircling them with NATO belligerents.
After all, the U.S. would not tolerate Russia setting up weapons in Mexico, so why should Russia embrace the dirty money-laundering Ukraine piggy-bank for American political Piggies?
That Sky News report is questionable in several points. The Russians have established a corridor that is open during daylight hours for any commercial vessels to move. This information is stated on shipping radio channels every 15 minutes during the day. This has been going on for some weeks. The Russians claim that the Ukrainians are preventing ships from leaving.
Yes, clearly mentioning that the Ukrainian Navy mined all the approaches to Odessa with old mines, many of which were rusty and broke away and are now somewhere in the Black Sea, was not on their cribsheet.
Also that Turkey are screaming blue murder at their 21 ships (out of an estimated 60 foreign ships) that are trapped in Odessa.
Also that even if ships could move no-one wants to insure them due to in part the aforementioned mine risk.
Well, there is the slight problem off the 400 Ukrainian mines that were emergency set when they thought Russia was going to do a sea invasion of Odessa and those mines are breaking free and floating around.
We (Treepers) shouldn’t be whining about where the 40B is going, or has gone, or who is going to get a kickback or a % of it.
We have NOT seen the worse of it yet.
Who do you think is going to REBUILD whatever is left of the Ukraine?
It will be the US Taxpayers or however few of us are left paying taxes.
The difference between the post World War Two Marshal plan and the upcoming McConnell-McCarthy plan is we’ll get screwed deaf, blind and silly this time…………..
“Who do you think is going to REBUILD whatever is left of the Ukraine?”
Not all of Ukraine. The Russians have already started to move reconstruction teams into parts of eastern Ukraine that they regard as safe.
Mind you we are probably still paying given the huge increases in profits that the Russians are making from energy, some of which will go on this task. No money printing without assets in Moscow!
I should have said the part of Ukraine the Russians don’t want!
Why doesn’t Zelensky just identify as the victor in the war and stop this nonsense.
It is so easy to change things in the libtard world.
A: Orders from D.C..
George Soros and Klaus Schwab must also confer their blessing.
Still more money to be made.
“Hours after The Post interviewed Lapko and Khrus, members of Ukraine’s military security service arrived at their hotel and detained some of their men, accusing them of desertion. The men contend that they were the ones who were deserted. “
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volley’d and thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro’ the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Errol Flynn and David Niven movie and absolutely spectacular!
Nulands proxy war to protect bioweapons labs, the $$$ laundromat, and pedo playground, while RINO rubio fed her softball questions. They dont even hide the corruption anymore.
Primary RHINO Rubio.
Zelenski is like the Neocons Kristol, Boot, Kagan Rubin, etc…willing to have everybody else fight to the death.
What is Ukrainian for “thank you for your service?”
Calling it now.
Putin will capture Zelenski and other criminals and put them on trial worldwide with evidence of the criminality and abject evil of the neocon grifters.
NURNBERG # 2…next month…hmmmmm
This parallels exactly the truth of Uvalde coming out so quickly despite initial comments. Too many people know the truth, see the video and they realize they look like complete idiots. They can’t keep the same MO and tell lies. Smart phones do have a silver lining. Yes, they track us, but we can record them.
We are slowly winning. We will k own the tide is truly turned when truth nuggets of 2020 election and 1/6 come out. Yes, maybe unicorn level probability, but it might happen.
So, how do you win at story telling unless you lie? Asking for the people who are going to pay for Biden’s war for the rest of their lives.
Never forget that Zelensky “The 21st century Churchill” (George Bush) is in fact, a TV comedian who plays the piano with his penis, and has mansions in Florida and the South of France. How many passports he has is unknown. He’s refused to negotiate, banned opposition parties, taken control of the media, and has been arresting anyone who doesn’t want to fight as a “Traitor”.
How many more Ukrainians need to die before this farce is ended, is unknown. As is who exactly is getting that $40 Billion.
$4 billion reportedly goes to state dept. IMO that means BLM, Antifa, bribes and kickbacks to US pols.
The rest seems to go to arms manufacturers and DOD. That means bribes and kickbacks to US pols.
https://www.csis.org/analysis/what-does-40-billion-aid-ukraine-buy
He hands out posthumous war citations to citizens in ceremonial fashion while attired in a green t-shirt.
One would think libs would go bonkers over such a Trumpian coarseness and flip to the Russian side.
Is the logic incorrect?
I love how Sky news has 2 chicks in high heels, one a Person of color, telling us all the war news.
Biden’s Foreign Policy Failure and Lost War – With Spoiler Final Map?
Caution: Contains Graphic War Footage
https://askeptic.substack.com/p/daily-report-from-the-ukraine-field-371?s=w
Lest we forget, Comrade Zelen$kyy said that Ukraine would be needing $7billion/month after the fighting stops to save the children and rebuild the nation.
That particular comrade will soon be filming from Miami or LA.
Just wait until Poland decides it is time to lay claim to Eastern Galicia (Lwòw). I can almost see vultures circling.
Hungary and Romania will also likely grab a piece. Not sure if Slovakia will get in on the action. Vestigial memories of pre-WWI borders awaken.
Yep. This war may end up with Ukraine being divided among neighboring countries. Which would be ironic after all this “slava ukraini” chest-beating.
Sundance can’t you use an updated map – not one 11 days old?
Things move slowly. Haven’t changed much.
And many map sources are biased.
Worse, I was just looking at Russian maps and I can’t make heads or tails of it. It would be nice if they’d bother to put English labels on towns. But such is the vagaries of Propaganda. Probably wouldn’t even be allowed to see such efforts with all the censorship.
The guy who runs this site operates out of Singapore. Pretty accurate with his mapping and commentary
https://www.youtube.com/c/DefensePoliticsAsia
Are you an invalid? Can’t you point your web browser to ISW’s website?
This was inevitable. This was was instigated by the West. It was time to get rid of Putin but so far that’s a bust. Sure some of that $40B was a slush but that’s not the lesson that was taught. That was pure panic. Completely horrible optics especially from the left. Most of us on this site are red pulled so it didn’t come as surprise to see the uniparty acting as one. I suspect that had to piss some of those lefties off. All their favs threw right in like AOC. Hopefully that will break some of them out of their false reality. Honestly I have never seen a red pill like that.
So why did they risk doing this? Like I said it was panic as Putin needs to be removed at all costs. Matters not what you think of him what you need to understand is he’s not playing by Globohomo’s rules. A victory by the Russians will encourage others to follow suit and move away from these assholes. This desperately threatens their grip on maintaining control. Now you see the panic.
As far as the politicians are concerned (mostly from the left) they don’t seem too concerned about winning elections. That is a bit concerning. They sent $40B to a country that by all honest accounts had no hope of winning. You know how many subgroups must be livid. It’s kind of ironic I have to say; usually they use the straight white male to scapegoat and keep the subgroups angry. Lol in the end those silly bastards sent money to literal Nazis. Now that’s hilarious!!
It’s good to laugh now and then. It’s hard to say what comes next. They have really turned up the intensity. Most of you can feel it I’m sure. Putin and the other BRICS nations have just turned the heat up on all of them. And they’re not going quietly. I’m certain of that.
See link below for the escalation point. They gave Russia no choice.
Not sure if Putin sees this as nationalists vs. globohomo nwo. Wish he did. Russia could do much good for the world at this time. Hasn’t he been shown pal-ing around with Herr Schwab?
But not expecting anything from him. The Russians had plenty of opportunity to expose the Clintons and Bidens and bio labs in Ukraine and the fake Trump-Russia collusion charges but they did nothing. Instead they continue to play footsie with countries like Iran.
It’s not just the Palestinians who never fail to miss an opportunity.
The Russians have been yelling for years about the bio-weapons labs in Ukraine. They were told that that is Russian disinformation, false, a conspiracy theory. The mainstream media laughed at the claim and failed miserably to even mention the Ukrainians bombing the Donbas, violating the Minsk Agreements, or killing 14,000 ethnic Russian Ukrainians.
Those Ukrainians (citizens soldiers) should turn the weapons around and run the corrupt government out of the country. Obviously they are not getting any of the weapons being sent in there. The weapons sit in warehouses looking for buyers on the black market.
The Russians wage war like they always have waged war. Make the war front look like its to spread out a ‘faint’, remember the focus back in march was around Kyiv Sumy and Chernihiv (Chernobyl area) but are really spreading out the enemy forces to cover all areas, then the Russians go about building up forces for there true objectives in the east.
The Russians are toying with Ukraine, right now. Odessa will be apart of Russia before its all over. The fact is Ukrainians need to remove their corrupt government and negotiate a deal with Russia.
We the people of the world are sick and tired of these pre planned wars to establish one world government.
Zelensky led them into a meat grinder didn’t he. Idk if he really had much say in the matter to be honest. lol he’ll probably run to Putin for political asylum before it’s all said and done. I know he’s got a place over here and plenty of cash. He’s a crook and a murderer so don’t really care too much about him.
Our government and oligarchs are the ones who’s really doing the killing. It’s kinda fun to watch them squirm. The cost is things will get pretty tough over here I suspect. They were going to anyway regardless of the outcome in Russia.
Our little fiat currency Ponzi scheme has almost run out of room to run. That too is inevitable. I think we are at the precipice of their plans for controlled demolition. Going to be interesting to see how they proceed going forward. I hope I am wrong but I don’t see any circumstance where they end up with a bunch of Marjorie Taylor Greens in office. Putin tying the Ruble to gold and also using Bitcoin really screws them up. I am highly dubious these banking cartels want anything to do with decentralized currency lol.
Either Ukraine is capable of shipping all that grain to Odessa, or it isn’t.
if Ukraine can’t ship it, then blockading or opening up Odessa is pointless.
If Ukraine can ship that grain, then it can ship it to Poland or any other place with major ports. So once again, blockading or opening up Odessa is pointless.
So why all the hype about Odessa and blaming Russia?
If transportation is down, you can still blame Russia.
If it is up, why aren’t alternatives being enabled?
BTW, the wheat harvest is between June and July.
Here is Reuters on some of my points. Black Sea ports still the best way to get Ukraine’s grain moving fast | Reuters
Sounds like propaganda to make sure whatever rump Ukraine emerges maintains a Black Sea port. If I was Vlad, not Vlod, I’d give that idea a big fat Nyet. Like you said, let the West buy the wheat crop and deliver through Poland.
They ARE shipping grain through Romania through the port of Constantia. The Ukrainians have been doing this since late March. They are shipping grain that was stored from last year’s harvest.
The fatal misjudgement of the West, which has doomed Ukraine, was the belief that a consumer led economy could effectively sanction a production based one. Once economic reality asserted itself the strategy fell apart and the priority became escalation by provocation and a propaganda campaign to allow billions to be laundered, before the inevitable collapse and recriminations.
LOL! Libs truly believe in Twitter war.
I must disagree Luke.
America is over mortgaged/bankrupt. This was forced to get to Russia’s vast resources to prop up the petro dollar.
It always comes down to money.
Money is the root of all evil. Jesus tried to tell us this when he turned over the money changers tables and whipped them.
President Putin will sink the petro dollar by flexing Russia’s vast resources and backing that with gold or rubles.
The verse is “The LOVE of money is the root of all evil”. We would do well to observe the Amish. The have a level and benevolent outlook on money.
“Money is the root of all evil. ”
Do the right thing, Mark. Give all your money to Sundance and you will purge yourself of all evil.
If the amount is sufficient, it will allow me to view this site without all the ad clutter.
What about the labs? The bio weapons labs if there were ones. Were any destroyed?
Maybe. But Russkies will probably continue running any that come under their control. Or did you think they were angels?
They were destroyed
Link was posted here yesterday or day before regarding additional info Russia just gave to UN on their findings.