Two weeks ago, a NATO blockade of Kaliningrad, an outpost of Russia, was triggered when Lithuania blocked the transport of goods through Suwalki corridor. According to the Lithuanian justification they were following through on NATO sanctions against Russian goods. However, the escalation was very provocative toward Russia and discussions between Russia and NATO countries were tense.
Apparently, Germany was increasingly concerned the blockade was creating a scenario where Russian military were going to escort the transport of railroad goods to Kaliningrad, and that would lead to escalated military conflict with Russia. “German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is eager to avoid unnecessary provocations of Russia. He has repeatedly emphasized that he would do everything in his power to ensure that NATO does not become a party to the war between Russia and Ukraine. German soldiers are stationed in Lithuania and could become involved in a possible conflict.” {link}
The EU has now dropped the blockade and the transport of goods between Kaliningrad and Russia will resume. The EU decision was made before the NATO meeting in Madrid concluded; however, it looks like NATO postponed the announcement until after Biden left in order to save face on the reversal of position.
GERMANY – The European Commission plans to issue a clarification that will allow Russia to resume sending supplies to the exclave of Kaliningrad via Lithuania. Berlin supports the idea, but some in Vilnius are not pleased.
[…] The move will put an end to a disagreement that had not only been a significant source of tension between Russia and Brussels – but also exposed deep rifts within the EU regarding the correct approach to Moscow.
[…] The European Commission clarification expressly applies to all EU member states, but it mostly only affects the situation in Kaliningrad. According to the document, Russia will be allowed to transport sanctioned goods to Kaliningrad, but only in amounts comparable to pre-invasion deliveries.
The policy that has been adopted by the Commission largely reflects the position of the German government. Berlin had been critical of the approach taken by Lithuania.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is eager to avoid unnecessary provocations of Russia. He has repeatedly emphasized that he would do everything in his power to ensure that NATO does not become a party to the war between Russia and Ukraine. German soldiers are stationed in Lithuania and could become involved in a possible conflict.
The rules for the transit of goods, Scholz said at the conclusion of recent NATO summit in Madrid, “must of course be established in light of the fact that this is about shipments between two parts of Russia.” The comment made it clear that Berlin has a different interpretation of the legal situation than the government in Lithuania. (read more)
Good. It was a stupid decision in the first place. Shipping from Russia to Russia. Like shipping from Washington State to Alaska. It is, essentially, internal to Russia.
100% Agreed.
Sundance this isn’t you is it??
https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/politics/no-one-has-done-a-better-job-of-covering-the-investigations-than-sundance-and-his-team/74688855/page-4/
Not me.
I’m only here.
I could not agree more……in fact it was no more than a provocation……
The more I see how these novice politicians behave the more I realize they should not be in charge of a light switch. Do they not understand that Putin has been offended by our foolish grandstanding and he WILL cut the gas supply and you will all be sunk!
He was clear and gave plenty of time to just get a couple of assurances and the whole thing would have blown over in a day and all would have gone home happy…….. but instead we tried to bully him again and it backfired. Thousands dead because you want to see who has the biggest pecker!
Well guys you better learn how to back peddle……cos when it comes time for launch of those Hyper-sonic missiles this guy will not be asking………. and the first thing you will know about it is that split second of light…….. and AEGIS cant stop it.
Its a really good time to feed a solution into the computer Europe……..Personally mine would be to get rid of the US from the negotiating table and say please to Putin……… unfortunately you do not have a western leader with the smarts of Kennedy…in the EU or the USA!
“The more I see how these novice politicians behave the more I realize they should not be in charge of a light switch. “
Exactly!
That one was so good I put it on Facebook. I’m sure it has already been censored.
davewaybe, perfectly stated.
Try to take your AR-15 from Bellevue,Washington to Beaver Creek, Alaska. Tell the nice Canadian Mountie man that it is just like Russia-to-Russia transport.
Then when you get a chance, let us know how well prisoners are treated in British Columbia.
That is just a prevarication. Has nothing to do with the Russia Lithuania situation. This is not folks transporting firearms on the person. This is food, fuel and goods needed for living in the modern world. passing along a specific corridor and under a treaty obligation Lithuania et al may not interfere.
You miss his point. What would the U S do if Canada stopped our goverment from sending supplies to AK through Canadian territory and announced it with much chest thumping?
There is a Treaty signed by both Lithuania and Russia that allowed Russia to move goods through Lithuania via Suwalki rail corridor. Lithuania threatened to break the Treaty by telling Russia its supply trains were not allowed to use the corridor for resupplying Kaliningrad.
IF there were a Treaty between Canada and the US that allowed US citizens to move AK15 weapons from the US to Alaska through Canada and Canada reneged on the Treaty, it would be the same kind of issue that is between Lithuania and Russia. A Treaty is not to be broken. There is no such Treaty between the US and Canada.
It’s different.
Say you had a treaty to carry your AR15 from Washington State to Alaska… and you put it in a sealed box with all the agreed upon seals and carried the paperwork.
If your stuff got inspected in BC and the box was sealed they would not have to right to open it to inspect it. So long as the box was properly sealed and documented it would not be an “import” into Canada. It would be a box in transit through Canada based upon agreed on terms.
OTOH, if your box was found to be opened, then it would be an import, not a pass through and you would be held responsible for it per Canadian laws.
So, what is your opinion when driving from Washington State to Alaska with a AR-15?
The EU is still gonna play games even if it is via Lithuania. They’re going to keep biting Russia’s ankles.
For example, I believe the EU said they would let trade through providing the amounts are the same as before. Essentially they are establishing arbitrary limits that they then can later claim were violated.
Not so sure the Kaliningrad tussle is entirely over.
I think Putin had had enough and told the EU to open up the corridor or he would have helicopter gunships escort his trains through. The EU is done with Suwalki shenanigans.
I saw an article earlier today (Zerohedge?) pointing out that Gazprom is about to conduct annual line maintenance, which took Nordstream 1 offline for 10 days last year. Russia is claiming they are at 40% reduced capacity since parts were sent out for repairs and cannot be returned due to the boycott, and Germany is concerned that Gazprom may close down lines for repairs and leave them shut off entirely.
The EU is finding out that, if you bluff, then you’d better have a couple of aces in your hand in case it’s called.
“Like shipping from Washington State to Alaska.”
Conceivably the US could have Trump or deSantis as Pres and Canada have Trudeau or another Marxist. I could easily see the US and Canada having disputes that could threaten that land connection to Alaska. What we’re gonna see in the next decade is going to freak you out–if you’re still around. The enemy isn’t in Russia anymore, it’s literally on our doorstep and already inside the house.
As for Kaliningrad, it’s necessary for Russia’s Baltic fleet. Not sure the Russians would care so much about that disconnected enclave if not for that.
The blockade was beyond stupid….thankfully it ended
Good news. Maybe we can avert nuclear war. I’m hoping Europe decides it doesn’t want to go along with the plans of the US and UK.
Neither do I, or many other sane people.
World dodges bullet. Cooler heads prevailed over the hardliners. Let’s hope it continues.
Cooler heads? Do you mean the sneaky heads that didn’t say anything until Biden was back hiding behind his mama’s skirt tail?
I don’t care whether they are cooler or sneaky, they did the right thing by backing off.
Cooler heads had nothing to do with it.
Coming to the realization that they were going to freeze to death in the dark this winter cleared their thinking.
Which suggests WWIII is not inevitably going to break out.
But…we need a distraction from inflation, perils of the economy and lack of support for policy.
If not WWIII then what?
Monkey Pox. Or maybe another Covid variant.
Don’t count your chickens, or crickets. I’m sure these idiots will figure out another way to start the war.
I think you’re not giving the EU enough credit for this one. Meaning I am sure they can find a way to mess things up.
It’s a generation of wreckers and destroyers at the helm now.
We’re already in WW3. It’s a hybrid war, but WW3 all the same. Look how many countries have already joined and who are ‘fighting’ Russia.
WWIII ends with the destruction of the planet.
The fear porn at times is overwhelming around here.
I’m sure the state department will find a way to increase tensions there regardless. They’re willing to fight to the last Ukrainian.
Yes, the sociopaths are not easily thwarted and they are the folks who are in charge of the State Department.
And also willing to fight to the last 101st Airborne Ranger whom they can tag at Biden’s whims.
Now THAT is true!
It does seem like Biden puts the State Department in charge of the military. Both in Afghanistan and in Ukraine.
I believe you are 1000% right. State is running the show.
They (Ukrainians) are quickly running out, (of Ukrainians).
I’m betting that it was the State Department through its proxy NGO’s which yesterday promoted a huge protest of the government of Uzbekistan. They were protesting for regime change – surprise, surprise – to put in place a government that is more pro-western. Another color change revolution like they did in Kazakhstan earlier this year. Just like they did in Ukraine in 2014. Anything to put the US/western allies on the border of Russia from whence they can cause problems for Russia.
“Apparently, Germany was increasingly concerned the blockade was creating a scenario where Russian military were going to escort the transport of railroad goods to Kaliningrad, and that would lead to escalated military conflict with Russia.”
The United States seems to be the only country trying to escalate the conflict into a full blown World War.
Yes.
Agreed
You KNOW that Russia told Germany that the Nordstream 1 gas flow cutoff for annual maintenance (July 11-22) would remain shut down as long as Lithuania’s rail flow to Kaliningrad remained shut down. 😂
Shame they couldn’t see it coming somehow.
Read today they cannot find a wood stove in Germany till summer 2023.
Other problem is that the price of wood has doubled, even tripled from earlier this year.
Also wood burning stoves, I don’t think that they are being manufactured in Germany.
Does Germany HAVE any forests left? Or are they buying US trees, like the UK.
THAT is what I would do………If Putin.
WHEW!!!
Scott Ritter on the 300k NATO troop buildup in Europe discussed at last week’s NATO meeting in Madrid. In sum, it’s just a PowerPoint presentation, nothing more. And likely to not happen because no money.
I question the definition of “men”…
I have another name for the gender as it relates to the Occupant’s admin…
And it starts with P…
Thank you for this video. I loved the part in which Scott Ritter said that Lithuania has a Napoleon Complex. Also that the UK, in spite of all its bravado, cannot fight a land war in a remote corner of Europe. Never could. All this saber rattling might bring down the EU. The Europeans should not trust US.
Also, 4500 Nato troops is nowhere near enough to contest with Russia. What are the troop numbers for those 4 countries? Or at least Poland and Lithuania?
My guess would be that – at the most – 500 come from those 4 countries and the rest are US assets.
Just keep the nuclear football away from biden.
<Just keep the nuclear football away from biden.>
Yes! That plus little girls 🙂
Sorry about this weird thought, but does he grope and fondle and sniff the football too?
Only on third down 🙂
I seriously doubt bidet could recite the launch codes back to the military.
He has written them on a post-it note stuck inside the lid of the football.
This was another boneheaded JoBama provocation of Russia. Why do the democRats have such an animus for Russia (pretended?)
Obama was as chummy to Putin as possible without bringing his toothbrush over for the evening, Hilarity Clintoon made sure, with a proper donation of course, that Russia got extra Uranium.
rinoRepubRats as well as the nebulous NeoCons never saw a Defense Contract that didn’t have enough money, so that makes some sense unless insanely used in an actual war with Russia provoked by the USSA.
Why can’t Commies just get along? democRats are trying to be good Bolsheviks.
Cause the Russians are no longer Commies. They consider Lenin and Stalin and the Civil War of the 20s as plagues on the people of Russia. They understand the role that Stalin’s purges played in the huge losses in WWII. They remember when they had to wait in line for hours for necessities in the Eighties. They want none of that
…but the Obidens do.
yeah they never mention the bolshevics tho, why is that ?
Thé US is jealous of Russia.It occupies 1/6 of the land mass on the planet and is rich beyond imagination in many natural resources. It is not the backwater we Americans have been conditioned to think it is. Nor are its people Untermenschen which we have been indoctrinated to believe.
The Russians have a superior education system, a superior military, a superior MIC at a fraction of the cost of that in the US. The people are industrious, highly educated, with superior technology. Even the International Space Station was built 70% by the Russians. The leaders running the country are brilliant, logical, visionary and realistic.
Russia has the potential to become the world’s hegemon, and the US is going to fight tooth and nail to make sure it does not.
If I were 40 years younger, I would entertain the thought of moving there. Go back to the ancestral roots of only a few generations back.
We live in a super upscale neighborhood of Vancouver Washington. A couple days ago we woke up to a heroin junkie passed out in his car. The medical guy next door neighbor thought he was dead based on the empty tin foil.
They also have the lowest life expectancy of any Western or Asian nation because of their drinking and smoking habits. But all the rest is mostly true.
Like to know where you studied Russian history. It’s obvious you’re influenced by utopia. Old guard Russian communist control the Russian people with the same zeal as the communist regime here in the US. The only good one is a dead one. FJB
Great example of successful decades of unchangeable USSR indoctrination also held by our neocon US government and Joe Biden. Even Trump wanted to peruse a change in relations with Russia.
The short answer is ; loot.
The Derp State has lusted after that since the end of the Soviet Union.
Putin seems to be winning all over the place. Lysychansk and that entire eastern bulge has reportedly fallen, and Ukie forces are essentially retreating from a huge area. The EU major powers have to be freaking over the prospect of a very rough winter. Macron’s very public side conversation appealing to Biden was a big deal. I’m not cheering over any of it – but the people behind this idiotic fiasco need to be held to account.
Every step of the way when they are forced to blink, they will. But not until they are forced to.
Yes.. and we keep being told through social media and the “comic” that we need to keep giving in order to “save” Ukraine…to the tune of $200B….
Putin’s Central-Asia Checkmate Move, courtesy of the Duran:
Thanks for providing this video.
The flip side of this important Russian win is that the US/NATO are going to panic and do SOMETHING.
Ukraine is absolutely existential to the Russians, no question. But because Russia is winning all over the place, this battle for Ukraine has now become existential to the hegemony of the US and NATO which are both losing their shirts on the world stage. They can’t let this continue to happen, so we will see increased escalations on the part of the collective west very soon.
The West is a rabbit in the snare.
The more the West attempts to escalate, the faster the snare suffocates the rabbit.
The snare began as the Russian Response to overt provocation.
The West is triggering the SNARE to GROW into BRICS and BRICS+ and the EurAsian Economic Alliance.
They can’t retreat, they are caught in a caldron, aka surrounded.
They should be surrendering.
I believe President Putin will give all surrendered troops a chance to go home to rebuild and defend their country once the Ukrainonazis are dealt with. Of course under Russian control. He did say they are brothers and sisters of Russia.
He won’t make the same mistake ( or was it on purpose) that we disbanded the soldiers in Iraq only to raise the Taliban?
yes but Russia will sort through the prisoners to find the ne0-nazis, mercenaries and CIA / NATO operatives.
Yes of course.
Anyone looking for a lucrative new business opportunity should consider moving to the Ukraine and opening up a tattoo parlor. Just remember … two “Esses” can become an “88” in about a Moscow minute!
You’re now an Oldsmobile fan!
A swastika needs 4 straight little lines to become a Windows icon!
Now you’re a Microsoft fanatic!
Well eastern Ukraine has most of the heavy industry, resources etc.
Denazification is a major goal of Putin.
Your last statement, the troop disbandenment was intentional for feeding the Military Industrial Complex. (MIL). Along with all the Deep State members in good standing in the halls of government.
Some elderly realist will be here shortly to explain that the Ukie forces are not retreating but attacking westwards so as to end up 18,000 miles away, still traveling westward, and in position to attack Eastern Siberia.
Outstanding observation:) Well done!
Cooler heads are prevailing and the Alzheimer patient is still waitin’ for his puddin’.
It seems that the EU undemocratically elected imbecilic leadership has woken up to the fact of their geographical location relative to Russia.
I wonder if they’ve also become cognizant of their role as patsies and useful idiots which they’ve assumed through the Machiavellian manipulations by the Empire of Hate and Lies…which is the US administrative state, in particular the Fourth Branch.
I would very much love to be a fly on the wall behind the closed doors within the higher eschelon offices in Brussels.
Remember that most of the Globalists are from the old European Aristocracy .
It is not clear why Russia does not shut down all oil and gas to EU countries. The US and EU are clearly engaged in a hot war by proxy, it is a fully opened book. The turmoil would cause far greater damage to Europe than the weapon system, munitions, intelligence sharing and soldier of fortune personnel being provided to Ukraine is causing to Russia. In fact the capture and black market purchase from corrupt Ukrainian authorities of large quantities of these systems allows for reverse engineering. If the premise is true that the Russian Federation is a world threat on the move to conquer Europe, the US and EU needed to postpone the Green New Deal scheme, secure energy sourced from America, and ramp up industrial capacity to negotiate or fight from a position of strength years before 2/24/2022. What in fact was actually done is provoking the brown bear in his den, and then the equivalent to dropping trousers, bending over and grabbing ankles in the path of his charge. Remarkably stupid. Same people who lost a 20 year war with Pushtun goat herders and poppy cultivators are still in charge. What could possibly go wrong?
“What in fact was actually done is provoking the brown bear in his den, and then the equivalent to dropping trousers, bending over and grabbing ankles in the path of his charge. Remarkably stupid.”
So remarkably stupid that it could only be intentional? To me, this just bolsters Sundance’s thinking that this was intentional.
I’m aware to be cautious of manipulation from all directions. Sundance has the most balanced overview of a multitude of issues I’ve found to date. His research and analysis over time proves to be correct and cuts through the smoke, mirrors and just plain ignorance expressed so often.
The nonsense on Ukraine in American media is over the top. Obviously Russian sourced information disseminated in English must be treated carefully. What I find is reading social media posts in Russian and Ukrainian languages from the Ukraine are very informative, what common people are saying. Time will tell, my thought is once the oblasts containing majority ethnic Russians are liberated or invaded, whatever side slant you have, they will stop. Perhaps adjustments to facilitate natural features for defense in depth. The Russians are rebuilding regions they control and take pains not to damage infrastructure when possible. This is signs of permanent residence. Russia does not have the population to dedicate sufficient manpower to pacify regions with hostile populations. What’s the point? Take their money for energy and leave them to their green new deal hellholes for which EU countries are becoming.
Putin doesn’t need to turn off the faucet. The price of oil and gas in Europe is through the roof. In the UK, people are having to decide to spend money on food or electricity. Don’t interrupt your opponent while they are shooting themselves in both feet.
Putin may be gunning for an Orange Revolution across Europe and the collective west with the sanctions the West initiated that backfired on the people. If we throw the bastards out, we win!
What could possibly go wrong? Might not🤔
Leverage…winter is coming, when that leverage will be so much more useful.
And I suspect that Putin just wanted to give the Germans and the rest of Europe a taste of what he was capable of doing.
But it is clear! President Putin is exposing the US deep state little by little.
He won’t renig on Russia’s obligation to pay it’s debts or supply gas and oil it has contracted to do.
While the rest of the world watches as the Empire of Lies steals, lies and starts wars, President Putin is showing the rest of the world that Russia and the BRICS will keep it’s word.
The ” CLEAVING ” has begun!!
Yes, so far everything Putin has done has been allowed under international laws and treaties. From a legal standpoint the treaty-breaking west has no leg to stand on.
Basically he is following the model the west did with Kosovo.
Now if he decides to de-nazifiy the Ukrainian part of Ukraine, that would take some other type of justification I suppose.
The thing is, every time the west breaks a treaty or law, that gives Russia the justification to ignore the treaties and laws in response.
Your point concerning honoring contracts is likely correct. With open calls for regime change by the west, confiscating private property, encouraging violence against Russian people in foreign countries just because they are Russian and imposing sanctions designed to cripple their country, and conducting an actual war against them by proxy, no one could blame Russia to pull the energy plug on these western regimes. I just find the restraint remarkable. Yes, if your enemy is destroying himself, step aside and let him have at it. The serious aspect for our family, is we are their enemy without any say or ability to opt out of the unnecessary violence and destruction NATO arms and money are causing in the hands of a single party Ukrainian state, run by an overtly Nazi/Fascist regime and being financially destroyed by a government here at home whose legitimacy is in serious question. And there is no organized opposition political party or government agency that will effectually end the madness. Not one article I have found in English mentions the SBU, or Ukrainian secret police. Equivalent of old Soviet KGB or similar hybrid to the CIA/FBI here. This organization is evil, feared and conducts political assassinations openly throughout nationalist held territory. With the timeline and lack of logical decomposition state of the bodies, and the fact the victims were holding ration packages issued by Russian military, not the Ukrainian military ration packages, my gut says the SBU are the Bucha killers, weeding out opponents to the Zelenskyy regime.
I would bet on bidet shipping nearly all our available oil and natural gas to Europe this winter while whatever is left to us is rationed. He is that stupid.
Yup
Zero is that evil.
I believe Putin is allowing the EU to save a little face by backing off their bear baiting. I believe he is telling the EU that he’ll be reasonable if they will-stop with the provocations and gas will flow. Continue and it won’t.
Are the Germans actually showing some sense and leadership? Getting your energy supply shut off when your green sources suck can wake you up. Plus, having a demented US policy pushing to war in your neighborhood may make you think twice.
Do you remember President Trump’s warning the Europeans about relying on Russia totally for their fuels (not the unreliable, inefficient, expensive fantasy green ones). Remember the German contingent in the back of the room laughing their heads off in full view of the cameras? I do.
I bet that smug, superior contingent remembers. I bet they aren’t laughing now.
I remember that well and thought “He who laughs last . . . “
Actually, Lithuania has a treaty with Russia, that protects this corridor to Kaliningrad. I guess the EU/US felt ‘treaty/schmeaty’, who cares about a legally binding treaty, when we can arbitrarily enact sanctions? I suspect that perhaps Biden felt this was plausible, as he has been governing via mandates and executive orders, rather than laws. Perhaps he felt that Russia would succumb to these whims as well.
FJB is an organ grinders monkey who doesn’t know there is an organ grinder.
Another loss for the FJB regime! I doubt that anyone will tell Joe though.
GOOD DECISION BY THE EU. THE MAIN PLAYER JUST GOT SLAPPED DOWN.
But according the “Risk” game board that they use in the WH to plot out their strategic moves , Putin was surrounded by 6 countries ! They are stunned ! Meanwhile Biden , never mind ….
Lol.
Bidet is still reading the manual to find his ass using both hands. The game “Risk” is way, way over his head.
…the old Kamchatka Gambit!
Putin KNOWS the EU and NATO are paper tigers and now the people from countries in these organizations damn well better recognize it.
I suspect Putin knows who is actually running our sham government and deals with them directly. He also knows where the guard rails are that China has imposed on the US.
Freezing Famine and Inflation will become their wake-up call.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is eager to avoid unnecessary provocations of Russia. He has repeatedly emphasized that he would do everything in his power to ensure that NATO does not become a party to the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Dissolving NATO might be the best if not only way to do that.
The death of the dollar will have consequences.
Quite honestly, Scholz has been all over the map on this. One week he supports Ukraine, the next week he questions the fallout from Ukraine, and then back again. It’s not just him. Other European ‘leaders’ have flip-flopped each week on their support. It is almost like they are using the flip-flop playbook from the Covid game used by Fauci and the CDC, where they deliberately confuse the public with changed positions so no one knows what the heck is going on and keeps people deliberately confused.
Just watch the wind sock or the flag on the pole, seeing which way the wind blows.
Maybe they’re having flashes of lucidity as they realize, at the rate things are going, they’re going to have to clear-cut Germany’s trees for firewood like Haiti did. And then send the German fleet out to start whaling again for the whale oil.
the coming Black de-Forest
“Save the whales” org wouldn’t be very happy.
There’s not going to be a war with the rooskies.
This is all election year azz covering in the most sinister and dangerous of ways!
However if they don’t manage a steal in Nov they’ll have a ready fuse to imperil the new Congress.
Bad stuff, bad people!
Liz cheney will be heart broken.
GOPe douche
Oh marvelous, I guess my Baltic cruise is still a go, then. Do we still get to tour St Petersburg?
Nyet.
At some point the Russians will gain control of the contested eastern Ukrainian territory. Will Putin announce they have achieved their goal of securing the Russian areas of Eastern Ukraine, and that they will no longer seek further control of Ukrainian areas? He will then state that all shipping lanes are open for transport of wheat, grain, food, etc., and that Russia will not impede but help delivery. He can take the position that he is the good guy and that Biden and the west are the ones responsible for food shortages and worldly inflation. Make no mistake, Putin is bad and so are the players on the other side (Biden, Zelensky, Klaus, etc.). But if I were Putin…….that’s my plan.
The Russians demined the ports awhile ago and opened safe shipping lanes for all merchant ships including grain exports. The Ukrainians just burnt up a large stockpile of their own grain. People need to start following the unfiltered news on Telegram posted by actual citizens of Ukraine.
Video just posted with Ukraine helicopter launching rockets to burn Uke fields of wheat.
Link?
Nicely done Destashjan!
Unfortunately, not many people can get unfiltered news.
Yes this. Putin had control of eastern Ukraine for quite some time now.
He’s gone inland’s to prove he ain’t messing around. Meanwhile UK/NATO we’re give off-ramps 3-4 times now. Our media is history in the minds of many. They will never recover and there will be a new media to take its place after this war against Americans and our freedoms
I think Putin is going all the way to take the whole enchilada. Why do I think that? The Minsk Accords.
No one would implement Minsk, and they still won’t if he leaves a rump Ukraine. The Minsk accords are for full de-militarization and assure no NATO in all of Ukraine. The only way Putin can get the Minsk assurances is if he takes the whole country, because no one will ensure the Minsk agreement except himself. He will implement Minsk UNILATERALLY if he has to, which means he has to go all the way to the Polish border to achieve the Minsk objectives. He may have to get the Duma to vote on it to get permission, but I don’t see them working against these objectives.
If, and a BIG IF, Elensky flees the country before Putin gets to the Polish border, Putin will then be able to install a leader friendly to Russia that assures Minsk, and then he won’t have to go all the way to the west. But the bottom line is that he WILL implement Minsk.
De-militarize, de-Nazify and de-NATO is the end game. Essentially Minsk Accords.
IMO this is what NATO wants to sucker Putin into doing.
Instead, he’ll take the Russian-ethnicity Russian-friendly oblasts (East through South including the entire Black Sea corridor).
They’re just 1/3 of Ukraine’s territory but 85% of its GDP.
He’ll then saddle the EU with De-Nazifying and De-Militarizing the rest … withholding or surcharging Russia’s gas, oil and other exports to the EU until he certifies they’ve complied … continuing the surcharges to fund oversight of “compliance” and reconstruction of the oblasts allied with Russia.
If Russia went all the way, that would put NATO on their border. But a friendly pro-Russian regime…perhaps.
In any event, Putin has shown himself to be the reasonable grown-up at this shit-show.
He has already done more for my freedom than BidenReich ever has, by shutting down the Biden Bio-Labs and Plutonium Playlands.
Well put Gipper
No. Going to the Polish border is putting NATO on your border. I believe the rump of Ukrain will be the buffer for Russia, thus enforcing the Minsk agreement.
I get what you are saying. Not arguing with you, just setting forth a different hypothesis. The rump has to be Russian friendly to be the buffer. Putin can’t abandon the rump because Poland and Bulgaria will grab it, which are both NATO countries, then NATO will occupy the rump and then the buffer disintegrates.
Russia has to have a Russian friendly rump. How he achieves that will be interesting. Either he takes the whole country and installs someone friendly to manage the rump who is not friendly to NATO. Or Elensky departs before Russia gets too far west and Russia still installs someone friendly to manage the rump. Either way, Poland or any country in the west cannot occupy the rump. I suspect that is what is on Putin’s mind. He can’t ignore the rump and has to manage the end game. He will want the entire original Ukraine as the buffer as originally proposed in Minsk. My guess is the entire Ukraine that exists today will serve as the buffer as originally envisioned, whether parts of today’s Ukraine are integrated into Russia or not.
Elensky. heh.
Or, after victory, he can sanction Brandon by cutting off oil, fertilizer, and grain. But never fear, Bill Gates is in charge of our agriculture.
Now remember, we just supplied Ukraine with long range artillery rockets to knock out Russian command posts (stories already up). From what I understand, the units we sent are small in number, required special training, needed to relocate quickly after firing because of counter battery fire, and probably requires some precise intel to hit operational level target like a CP.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the battery commanders or “technical advisors” were American! Also wouldn’t be surprised if they were using our sat imagery or recon drones to target. A Ukranian might be pulling the trigger but we sure are giving him a lot of support.
I don’t know if lifting that blockade is as consequential as we might hope it is.
right. Uke fire control computations are provided by the Empire to minimize giving away their location
Is Putin tiured of winning yet?
These cucked western nation leaders are very stupid, ignorant, and petty
Once again, FJB and his bullsh*t walks.
Sounds like the Bank of Biden board members have the same problems as Twitter.
This has got to be a blow to Libtards.
One of the things worth pondering is all this warmongering rhetoric without mobilization.
Swapping out existing troops isn’t escalation. More troops become familiar with an area that way, but they each get to go back home and rest in turn.
It took us half a year to mobilize half a million troops to Saudi Arabia to kick Iraq out of Kuwait. (That was way too long for NATO defending Europe against the Soviet Union.)
And it took us almost three months to mobilize 160,000 troops to invade Iraq the second time.
We just don’t seem to be serious about mobilizing for a fight against Russia.
But mobilization is often seen as crossing the point of no return. Bringing that many troops to confront Russia would be seen as a commitment to go to war.
One of the oddities of 1984, was that the wars never really affected anyone in the story. They were always front and center in the propaganda, but they weren’t of real concern. Even with wars taking place somewhere else, there are always those who are affected by it. And that part was missing.
We have had 20 years of small wars, somewhere else, with a few suffering, but most unaffected, except by the news.
Is this confrontation with Russia more about controlling us than it is about actually fighting Russia? The opponent has greater heft. So far the involvement is very small. The propaganda is big. Much bigger than those smaller conflicts.
Even so, small involvements tend to require ever larger involvement, so we could be slow walking our way into full fighting like we did in Vietnam.
Or we could be desperate to force Putin to make the first move. Maybe with a rapid mobilization planned to kick off once that happens.
Well, it needs further information to know what we really are doing. At least we finally get some internal pushback against this relentless drive to war.
yeah, CIA instigates wars all over the planet, but it rarely interrupts our sportsball broadcasts
“NATO postponed the announcement until after Biden left in order to save face on the reversal of position.”
That’s because Europe would have to live with the consequences of the American Evil Empire’s Military Madness long after Biden is safely back in America screwing some new kid in the shower.
Can I take it that the WEF/BHO/Soros group has been thwarted on this front!
And hopefully the BRICS + Iran + Saudi Arabia will progress?
But IMO, Iran + Valerie Jarrett + BHO – makes me ponder!
No props.
Glad to hear they started to honor the treaty between Lithuania-Russia that these two signed ~ 25 years ago or so for free passage of goods.
Leave it to the EU to solve a problem badly, which they themselves created.
The kind of problem with a potential to trigger world war that is.
https://southfront.org/history-will-judge-the-united-states-and-its-allies-john-j-mearsheimer/
Mearsheimer speech on June 16th
(video and article form)
The guy was right about Ukraine 10 years ago, and continues to be.
It is yet to be determined if Lithuania will go along with this or just go with its western backers and Nato Article 5.
Currently, Norway is imposing a similar blockade of a Russian community on the Svalbard Islands.
Yet to be determined………..
I expect Biden to do what American presidents have done since WWII when getting in the middle of other peoples’ wars. Do just enough to lose some personnel and much material, but not enough to win a decisive victory.
The European Commission plans to issue a clarification that will allow Russia to resume sending supplies to the exclave of Kaliningrad via Lithuania.
This is would be like my neighbor parking in front of my driveway then finally “allowing” me to park my vehicle on my OWN driveway. Nothing new with Europeans, pretending to have power they really don’t have.
Sticks and Stones won’t kill them but whatever you do… Don’t call them names.
This is the back and forth the collective west does continuously. No decision is ever final. Constant flip-flop and thoroughly undependable and untrustworthy.
Good news, now we can just stop the destruction of food and food processors in the U.S., Ukraine, and EU.
Whewww!! Good sign of things cooling off. I’m so happy Olaf figured out that if we keep violating our terms he might get a nuclear tipped hypersonic missile shoved up his ass.
It’s good that the US and West are being revealed for the sniveling little p****** that they are. I wish Putin and the Russkies well in helping to dethrone the pathetic liberal dirtbags who run all the western countries because the weak and feckless need to disappear. But what comes next won’t be a return to traditional America but something far far worse. The time to save us has run out.
Agee Hail, it’s necessary at this point. I love the idea that is America but this ain’t it. This is a real hinderance to the technogulag vision of Globohomo’s. That was a certain future most likely the path we were on. That has been interrupted in the same manner of a train being ground to a halt. Not sure what the fallout looks like but we’re getting ready to find out.
NATO waiting until the White House illegitimate president left to announce it, is hilarious. The imbecile, is irrelevant on the world stage and even those in his illegitimate administration don’t tell him what’s going on.
Western idiots continue to show their idiocy. Putin continues to show wisdom. It’s just a fact.
This You tube video is an excellent account of Ukraine actions……
“Who runs Bartertown?”
THE EU/US HAS BEEN EXPOSED. THEY ARE WEAK. THEIR LOUDMOUTHED BLUSTER CAME TO NOTHING. THE ONLY ENCOURAGING THING IN THIS IS THAT IT IS NOW UNDERSTOOD THAT THEY UNDERSTAND THAT PUTIN ISN’T PLAYING.
THEIR CRITICAL THINKING ABILITIES HAVE FORTUNATELY LED THEM TO THE CONCLUSION THAT POSSIBLY STARTING WW3, OVER A FEW TRAINLOADS PER MONTH OF STEEL BEAMS AND CEMENT IS A NOT A GOOD CHOICE.
In 1940 just as Winston Churchill was sending the entire British Army to reinforce France the French Government surrendered in spite of Churchill’s pleas. The French Leaders were horrified that the German Army would destroy Paris just like the Germans leveled Rotterdam and Warsaw. There is no way that Macron is going to risk Paris being nuked over a Russian invasion of Ukraine because he couldn’t care less about what happens to Ukraine!
I don’t know, I think Macron has a pretty serious Man crush on Zelinsky (almost obsessive). He may not care about Ukraine itself but he’s pretty smitten with Macron. Well see how serious a crush it is soon.
should the second macron be a second zelinsky?
Yes, so sorry !!
It astounds me still that European leaders have denounced the Obama/Biden administration for staging the coup in 2014 which led to this chaos.
erm, with a President like “dumb as a stump” Joe Biden, Americans might start to consider that the west generally has fallen for the Globalist moron politicians, that political corruption is rife and victory in the competition for the weakest and most idiotic western politician is nothing to celebrate, we are all in this together.
VALDAMIR PUTIN had bigger ones than the pansies who are issuing these decrees about stopping Russia…ALL the EU is, is one great giant BLOWHARD!!!
These ministers KNOW that Ukraine is a failed country and still they persist in trying to “do something”…
“VALDAMIR PUTIN had bigger ones than the pansies who are issuing these decrees about stopping Russia”
Indeed he does; most our leaders are confused about what gender they are apparently, take trudeau for example… They are all to happy to attack unarmed citizens like Canadian truckers, but run like cowards when a determined man arrives on the scene. When things go kinetic at home, remember that…
Long before a WEF disciple like Trudeau gets some thug to come get me, he will fry at my doorstep with his buddies in the cattle truck.
Most of the world are failed states. Putin brought this proxy war on himself. The blowhards seem to have gelled around his discomforture and that is a good thing.
Putin didn’t bring this on….WE DID. We overthrew the democratically elected Ukraine government in 2014, installed the puppet Zelinski, and thru him, have established 41 bio weapons labs (in violation of multiple UN agreements), massive child trafficking tunnels/operation, drugs, money laundering (see Hunter Biden on the board of Burisma and Joe “the big guy” taking 10% of all the graft…take a deep breath….we’re lucky that
Putin didn’t respond by nuking us for sending bio weapons designed to kill Russians. We’re lucky our woke military didn’t have to shine their red high heels to face a now battle tested Russian military. All of NATO is lucky that they are still alive and Putin is a patient man.
Well said
Indeed.
Russia is being condemned for standing up to the US and NATO just as Kennedy did in 62 when the nation was being surrounded. The globalist controlled US govt are such hypocrites.
The situation was forced to this outcome when the Minsk agreement was ignored and shelling of Russian speaking people in eastern Ukraine was intensified by Ukrainian government to force this “war.” Putin invoked Article 51 of the UN Charter and went to Ukraine in defense of those getting killed by their own government. The “west” is 100% responsible for this action.
#WellSaid.!
#Indeed.! The #ChildTrafficking, drug running, gun running, not to mention adrenachrome harvesting with its accompanying child “disposal” after they have served the purpose, are CIA moneymakers to fund its illicit Install-a-Puppet, #KillRussia operations. Putin CRUSHED them in Kazakhstan.
I found the BioLab contractual solicitation records on SAM.gov. In one RFP Q&A document, a contractor inquired the number of anticipated pathogens. The USG’s answer = “Unknown”.
#EagleDriver,
#DirtyDozen #EagleKeeper here. ~ SMSgt, 35 years total, A/B/C/D/E, from washing jets to wings-on, wings-off @ depot. Active duty, contractor, and USCS in that order. WhoDaThunk meeting up here.? Thank you for your service and your sacrifices. Always GREAT to meet #EagleDrivers.!
Best,
–> Rick
USAF Veteran, MBA (Aviation)
Happy #IndependenceDay BTW.!
Joe BRANDON and his regime, are only drawing out the Ukraine war and postponing the inevitable. Despite the BILLIONS in eqwuip[ment and CASH Joe BRANDON has sent to the corrupt Ulariane government, the Russians continue to win. This will not stop until the Russians meet all of their original objectives in Ukraine and the AFU throws in the towel.
Ever hear of a Pyrrhic victory…look it up. Putin’s Russian adventurism is quickly coming to an end as the West is tired of his BS.
I bet you, Russian control over Crimea and Donbas will last longer than US occupation of Afghanistan.
Your point about “Russian adventurism” is laughable too, given all the pain and needless suffering that is caused by useless US military adventures, such as Afghanistan, Lybia, Syria and on and on…
The West’s 2014 funded and supported coup in Ukraine is another such (though not direct military) adventure that needlessly (but purposely!) pushed NATOs frontier into Putin’s realm. The West crossed Putin’s red line, and unlike Obama, Putin’s threats are to be taken serious! Olaf Scholz of Germany recognizes that… who blames him, the Germans still have a hard time sitting down, after the ass kicking they got from the Russkies at their last dance…
Hardly.
How so, like all the ‘planned’ retreats. or 1000 dead a day?
Putin was a cry baby and they actually listened. There was no blockade, the air and sea routes were available to them to use. There is nothing that says any country has to allow any other country to freely ship war materials overland through their country. Putin cannot afford WW3 and with his military’s performance in Ukraine the rest of the world does too. I’ll nuke you will get old and useless over time, he has a very weak hand and is playing it poorly. Maybe he should keep his mouth shut for a while.
Maybe you should a bit of research. There has been a contract in place for over 30 years granting access to Russia. Blocking is an act of war. Also the airspace is blocked to Russia.
Did you know that “the west” only rules over 12% of the world’s population and not all of them agree with you or the other z’s in spite of the zio talking heads on tv. On the other hand 88% of the population of earth is on the side of Russia who is determined to not allow “the great reset” or the NWO. Russia must succeed or we are all doomed.
I don’t think that we have even seen Russia flex her muscles yet. They could have wiped out the Ukraine in a day, if that had been their objective, but it would have laid waste to a territory that that they would like to reabsorb, and that level of shock and awe would have demanded a stronger answer from the rest of the world. I get the feeling that Putin is a master strategist and I have to assume, as an ignorant onlooker, that they probably played the scenario just the way they wanted to. As for them not being able to afford WWIII, I believe that may be incorrect. I’ve heard of at least one factory in China that has been supplying Russia with military equipment, and those two countries have been secret military allies for at least two decades (probably longer, but my awareness of it only goes back so far). China has wanted to invade and conquer the US for several decades (again, at least), and now this Ukraine war has drained the US of much of her military hardware and resources. It might even have been planned out that way, as a feint. So China could very well be financing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Furthermore, Russia announced a couple months back that they were taking their economy back to the gold standard, and since that announcement other countries have begun investing in rubles. So Russia is headed toward greater stability and prosperity while the US is in the beginning of a complete collapse. I don’t have sympathies for any side in this, except for the innocent victims who have the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, I just think it’s important to to make a sober and realistic assessment of the world in order to plan wisely and make good decisions.