Speaking to our CTH audience following direct conversations in the EU, I can assure you that privately it is well known that the Russia-Ukraine conflict is at a designed stalemate. Russia has solidified the western frontlines in Ukraine in exactly the position originally intended. Additionally, the fortifications are of such strategic scale no one in the Western alliance would dare to propose any effort for direct confrontation.
This is the reality on the ground in Ukraine, and if you look carefully at western reporting, you will see indications of the unspoken truth.
Bild reported that inside the German govt, there are leaks about conversations between U.S and German officials. “While outwardly expressing full support for Ukraine, behind closed doors in Berlin and Washington plans are being hatched to force Ukraine into talks with Russia to freeze the war on its current front lines, German newspaper BILD said in a report published on Nov. 24.” {link}
The Biden administration, specifically the Dept of State and CIA are now managing the narrative. The Eastern EU bloc (NATO realists) well understand the dynamic, although you will see opaque indications from traditional western media. However, if you look carefully, you will note one of the indications of this dynamic can be found in the unwillingness of the U.S. to provide logistical support for advanced M1A2 tanks to engage the Russian lines {link}.
[…] Since receiving its first batch of Abrams in September, Ukraine has likely mixed them with the US-made M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, Cancian told BI.
Bradleys arrived sooner and have made their presence felt on the battlefield already. For now, because of winter conditions, sending small Bradley-and-Abrams groups would be “inefficient” and “hard to support” logistically, he said.
Sumlenny cited the July offensives by the 47th Mechanized Brigade in the Zaporizhzhia region, where he said Ukrainian troops suffered heavy losses of Bradley armored vehicles against Russian defenses. At the time, 34 of the 100 Bradley tanks the US had provided had been destroyed, according to Oryx, an open-source military research group. {link}
The Russian military have long ago positioned their strategic assets to take out any advanced armored columns. All of the primary routes for U.S. provided Ukrainian tank deployment have been field targeted by proactive artillery placement. Any advancing U.S/Ukraine armor would be walking directly into previously sighted positions. It is a literal stalemate with air combat as the only solution to break the hardened fortifications. The Russian air defenses are also positioned against this approach.
You cannot gather a comprehensive understanding of this dynamic without traveling to the epicenter of the discussion; so, that’s what I did. From those discussions, and from discussions with actual Russians who know the strategic intent of the front line (Russian) fortifications, you can easily see how the Western alliance is having to face the reality of a stalemate yet needing to save face given the nature of the prior expenditures.
Negotiations between Ukraine and Russia are not a matter of “if”, but “when”, and that means politics drives the decision making.
This is the reality of the situation.
The overwhelming majority of the Russian people stand in support of the efforts by Vladimir Putin. They do not necessarily align with the man, but they do align with the intention of national defense against western/NATO encroachment.
Winning is not the western/NATO objective. Saving face is the priority.
Everything else is World War Reddit!
It seems it was all an excuse to loot the US Treasury. Anything the Obama/Biden team does has the ultimate purpose of destroying America, not our enemies.
“Anything the Obama/Biden team does has the ultimate purpose of destroying America, not our enemies.”
Many signs seem to point to this.
But: WHY are they destroying America, while striving to impose authoritarianism leading to totalitarianism?
Who benefits? (cui bono)
What does the apparent convergence state of all trends look like on the horizon?
On the global scale?
That’s what folks need to be thinking about.
The goal is the destruction of all national identities. One world govt requires it.
They and only they benifit.
The Middle Kingdom and its ally Tehran through a wide array of dark money recipients, commercial interests and legions of moronic Americans fed WOKE/DEI propaganda through our own, deeply infested educational system.
Of course. Our mortal Iranian enemy. I knew it! CSOTITW!
In order for the Globalist Fascist Oligarchy to finally achieve their centuries old goal of a One-World Global Empire they must first accomplish two prerequisite goals:
1. The “Great Collapse of Society” using the methods propounded by the Frankfurt School.
2. The abolition of the US Constitution that legitimizes the USA as an independent sovereign nation-state, and that guarantees and protects citizen’s personal liberty, personal rights, and personal property ownership.
The only thing standing in the way of the Globalist Fascist Oligarchy achieving their goal of a NWO One-World Global Empire is the US Constitution that legitimizes the USA as an independent sovereign nation-state, and guarantees and protects each citizen’s personal liberty, personal rights, and personal property ownership. Donald Trump is the leader and standard bearer of the “America First MAGA Patriots” movement that holds the US Constitution in its fist and waves it in the faces of the Deep State RINO Establishment and the Globalist Fascist Oligarchy. This is why the Globalists have declared Donald Trump as their Enemy No. 1 who must be destroyed in any manner possible, legal or not, at all costs. Enemy No. 2 is anyone who supports Trump.
The “Great Collapse of Society”
“The Frankfurt School and “Critical Theory”
The “Frankfurt School,” or Institute for Social Research, was set up by a group of Marxist intellectuals in Germany in 1923, affiliated to the University of Frankfurt and independently of the Communist Party, which has been influential in the development of Marxist theory ever since.
The Frankfurt School believed that as long as an individual had the belief – or even the hope of belief – that his divine gift of reason could solve the problems facing society, then that society would never reach the state of hopelessness and alienation that they considered necessary to provoke socialist revolution. Their task, therefore, was as swiftly as possible to undermine the Judeo-Christian legacy. To do this they called for the most negative destructive criticism possible of every sphere of life which would be designed to de-stabilize society and bring down what they saw as the ‘oppressive’ order. Their policies, they hoped, would spread like a virus—‘continuing the work of the Western Marxists by other means’ as one of their members noted.
To further advance their ‘quiet’ incremental cultural revolution (Fabian Socialism) – but giving us no ideas about their plans for the future – the School recommended (among other things):
Divide and Conquer.
The oppressed and their oppressors.
1. The creation of racism offenses.
2. Continual change to create confusion.
3. The teaching of sex and homosexuality to children.
4. The undermining of schools’ and teachers’ authority.
5. Huge immigration to destroy identity.
6. The promotion of excessive drinking/drug abuse.
7. Emptying of churches.
8. An unreliable legal system with bias against victims of crime.
9. Dependency on the state or state benefits.
10. Control and dumbing down of media.
11. Encouraging the breakdown of the family.
One of the main ideas of the Frankfurt School was to exploit Freud’s idea of ‘pan-sexualism’ – the search for pleasure, the exploitation of the differences between the sexes, the overthrowing of traditional relationships between men and women. To further their aims they would:
• attack the authority of the father, deny the specific roles of father and mother, and wrest away from families their rights as primary educators of their children.
• abolish differences in the education of boys and girls
• abolish all forms of male dominance – hence the presence of women in the armed forces
• declare women to be an ‘oppressed class’ and men as ‘oppressors.’
https://open.substack.com/pub/william3n4z2/p/who-are-the-globalist-fascist-oligarchy?r=1kb28q&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I wish Oliver Stone would do a movie about the Frankfurt School, its outster from Nazi Germany (yes, even the Nazi’s didn’t trust these guys) and eventual migration to the US. Columbia Univerity and University of Chicago are two landing places. I’m pretty sure Hollywood was a third though I’ve never read that in text. Search “Columbia University celebrities” or “University of Chicago celebrites”. The results are interesting. BO is an alumnus of both.
Cui bono?
Satan.
What does the Convergence look like?
Hell on earth.
Who wins in the end?
Jesus!
It was all in the form of credits to be used with the US military-industrial complex.
You can bet that a huge percentage of that will come back in the form of money to the Democrat efforts to make sure 2024 conforms to their expectations.
These warmongering neocon buffoons goaded Russia into defending itself only to end up losing half a million Ukrainian young men, Ukrainian territory and billions of US dollars. Well done idiots!
It was a total success! Zelensky is still the CIA’s puppet, and the politicians had a nearly 2 year period to launder over $150 billion US tax dollars through Ukraine, the defense contractors will get new orders from the DoD and NATO to replenish their arms, the Ukrainian population has been greatly reduced (Bill Gates’ depopulation agenda was achieved in at least one country). Far from being idiots this was a well crafted and executed plan. And Americans are still flying Ukraine flags, and posting “I Stand With Ukraine” on their social media sites. It’s the American public who are idiots. They still believe they live in the great free USA, and football is still on tv-what could be wrong?
and they are planning to loot the treasury of anything left in the “rebuild Ukraine” project – which, of course, the Clinton’s are involved in.
The Clinton’s are the Kings of industrial scale grift, to be sure.
Not just depopulation. White men, in large numbers.
Never forget, it was ‘our’ congress that appropriated the money.
… and the corporate media and social media that ran interference for them, as they did for so many other fraudulent narratives.
Yes, the revered, hailed “Republican” form of government. Just as bad as democracy only far more costly.
Wow, 100%%%.
I believe all this while the Deep State pretended to support Ukraine knowing fully well from the outset that Ukraine would lose… They did it to launder money and profit from war as they always do
They are not idiots and don’t give a flying F about Ukraine sending hundreds of thousands of its young soldiers to a meat grinder as long as the Deep State profits from this war just like all the other wars that have been fought to enrich themselves
Actually, Ukraine killing off thousands of its young men was a bonus to the Globalists.
Like their master Satan, they hate human life.
They do not have to be dumb to appear stupid. Go read Bonhoeffer’s “Dumbheit”. Stupid wasn’t lack of intelligence. It was lack of moral fiber. It was wickedness.
Beginning to see them clearer?
1, 126,652 KIAs and MIAs for VSU. Somebody will have to answer for this atrocity and the main puppet masters sit in Washington and London and their names will be named at the Ukraine War Crimes Tribunal. Many will also be charged with crimes in absentia. In related news–this number is larger than US losses in all XIX, XX and XXI centuries wars combined. They are beyond comprehension of any US military, let alone, political figure.
Neocons are nothing if not idiots. And market shapers for the military industrial complex.
Those are the same people who said that Russia would capture Kiev in three days…
Just sayin…
Of course, capturing Kiev was NEVER Russia’s strategic objective. Putin essentially said as much in the long speech he made before he made any first moves into eastern Ukraine.
If Russia’s goal would’ve been Kiev, it would’ve been captured long ago.
just sayin’
Yeah, it would have been captured…….if the Ukrainian Army had vanished! Which it didn’t.
IF they wanted to, yes. But why try(!) to rule over people who have hated Russians for (literally…) “thousands of years?” What’s in it for Moscow? They don’t need to prove a point.
You take the territory that was historically yours. To stop the people who live there from being shelled every day, as they now [still …] are. THAT’s an objective.
Then, Poland quietly seizes territory that was historically theirs. Then, Ukraine will be back as the landlocked rump-country that it always was. Before USSR central planning meetings redrew those lines to improve the production of grain.
Putin stated the SPECIFIC objectives that February, and they have never changed.
And, the continuous bombardment of Ukranians in the East by Ukranians in the West hasn’t stopped either. Yet. (Most folks have no concept of “for how many centuries” this has been going on. WE would say: “So you want to speak Russian. So what?” Yeah.)
Russia never tried to take Kiev, they put pressure on Kiev and it almost worked until Boris decided otherwise.
Could not would.
That maneuver was a feint to draw resources away from the front so the Russian army could progress into the Donbas.
Additionally, they stopped and withdrew in a good faith effort when negotiations for a ceasefire was underway that Zelensky never intended to do (or his US masters), lest you forget or never knew.
Uh huh! Putin lets his generals conduct a “feint” that ends up costing Russia 20,000 casualties and billions for lost equipment and weapons. Yeah, right.
You seem to labor under the mistaken belief that Russia intended to capture Kiev.
General “Z” is busy thinking up a flag pattern for the 51st state of the US. Maybe he will hold a contest. We pay for everything already.
But, it’s not a “stalemate” position at all! Russia does not fight wars as “the West” does. They never did.
Russia said they were going to “demilitarize” Ukraine, and by extension NATO/EU/USA. And they are doing so. They’re not interested in “conquering Ukraine.” But the shelling of Russian speakers in the Donbass (e.g.), merely because they prefer to speak Russian – LONG story, ANCIENT story – *will* stop.
No, they’re not going to “freeze the battle in place” until the weather gets better and EU/USA/NATO can conscript more Ukrainians. Just ask the Germans if Russia knows how to fight in Winter …
They remember “Minsk, twice.” They won’t listen to you. Your only option is: “unconditional military surrender,” but on Russian terms. Every objective that they laid out in February of last year will be accomplished, and that fact will be unconditionally accepted by all.
And, despite all that money spent, “goodbye to NATO.” When subjected to a comparatively slight battle against their erstwhile enemy, they failed utterly. “It’s simply not there.” Suck it up, Buttercup. You’re not Rocky Balboa anymore.
It’s only failure if the real goals are not met.
What are the real goals of the Ukraine conflict?
Some suggest that those goals are actually being fulfilled.
Putin told the world in February of last year exactly what the objectives were … and, weren’t. These haven’t changed.
“Putin told the world in February of last year exactly what the objectives were … and, weren’t. These haven’t changed.”
Should we accept at face value what Putin or any other leader says about this? Keep in mind:
‘In every war, the first casualty is truth’.
Based on all signs including the global geopolitical results of the conflict so far, the REAL goals are likely MUCH greater than anything Putin or any other leader says, and veiled.
Let’s see: The global shifts being driven by this conflict evidently favor BRICS+led by China, while pushing the US Bloc further down. The bifurcation is quite clear.
Back out of the underbrush tangle, to behold the forest.
As the DC cabal stupidly weakens and destroys it’s fiat currency and the country. They idiots have put the US in a very fragile state.
“As the DC cabal stupidly weakens and destroys it’s fiat currency and the country. They idiots have put the US in a very fragile state.”
Is it stupid, and are they idiots, if they are actually succeeding with a veiled Plan?
Yes, they are destroying the country, with their fiat overspending and other destructive actions.
Yes, they have put the US into a very fragile state.
Nothing is slowing this train, let alone stopping it. It is ACCELERATING.
You may say: “That doesn’t mean they are doing this according to Plan.”
Look to what is coming, and who will be on top then in the global order. The details are not clear, but it seems that the US Bloc will be profoundly weakened in that end state, while the rising hegemony stands ready to rule.
Purely stupidity? Unlikely, although clearly that is one of the apparatchiks’ traits being exploited by others.
I base this largely upon observed behavior. Of the man and of his nation. I don’t think he wants “conquest.” In past times when they did, they acted very differently.
Do you have any eveidence or logical considerations that Putin has not done what he said and appears to be doing?
Putin has made war on the civilian economy, the infrastructure – especially hospitals and schools – and, of course, the Ukrainian population. The evidence is plain to all who would open their eyes to see what happened at Mariupol. Putin lied through his teeth from the get-go and continues selling lies to the world. He must go!
Well, Joe wanted his 10% and the other politicians couldn’t be left out.
Of course we can’t overlook the military/industrial complex!
Yeah, I think all of their goals have been met.
Time to look for the next opportunity.
P.S.: “And goodbye to Zelensky, too.” History books plainly teach us that that poor boy is “a dead man standing.” 💀 His own people will do the job. But maybe without the theatrical flair of the Italians …
He will be invited to teach public service at Harvard and will buy a beach House between Obama’s and Bernie Sanders’ places.
He’s as good as dead, one way or the other. Just another expendable Fool. Like I said, “history books” are full of ’em, and their short stories always end the same way.
Zelensky is a puppet for the CIA and the US administration. Whatever he does or say, it has been orchestrated by the US. Boris Johnson stopping the peace negotiations last February were as a shill for the US. The goal was to weaken Russia. Now these idiots are saying “Oh sh*t”, Russia is not weaker. Russia is getting stronger. Russia is becoming more respected internationally. Now we need an out. First let’s blame Boris Johnson for stopping the peace negotiations. He did it. It does not matter that Biden and the CIA told him to do it. Next, we will blame Zelensky for not entering the peace deal (after we told him not to). We now will talk to his military without Zelensky being part of it and generating tremendous unrest. Then we will use the New York time to blast the message that the Ukraine military is “done” with Zelensky. Then the US will have the State Department “push” Zelensky for a new negotiation. Zelensky has nothing to negotiate with. The US took it all away. So, Yes. The US, EU, NATO, CIA, MI6 are all saving face. The US and Europe might buy into the new story, but the world writ large does no As far as killing Zelensky, if it is done, it will be caused by the CIA and done by the Ukraine military. There is no way that I think Zelensky gets to enjoy a retirement of any kind. But at this moment, I do not see him being assassinated. But if he is, the CIA ordered it
And how will Biden, McConnell et al spin this to appear as a victory? Like Kissinger did with Viet Nam “peace”?
But lest I forget, democrat voters weigh these things at near zero in their priorities. If abortion is on the ballot, then there’s the real issue.
Well stated Mike Robinson …
It is interesting that … so far … Russia seems to be taking a neutral position with regard to Israel/Hamas.
Ukraine (backed by US/UK/NATO) is to Russia as Hamas is to Israel … an existential threat.
If there were any honest , intelligent and insightful journalists in the West (of which there seem to be none), you would thing someone in the media or blog space might compare the similarities.
Not if the journo wants to be employed.
All this killing just to impose Ukrainian which is merely a dialect of Russian.
It’s a little more than that, like maybe trying to suppress a separatist movement in operation since 2014 by relentlessly shelling ethnic Russian civilian population in eastern Ukraine the whole time. You know, that genocide thingy.
Believe it or not, this internecine bloodshed has been going on for THOUSANDS of years. No joke.
There are(now) a lot of terms such as, “freezing the conflict”, ceasefire, reconstruction being bandied about, by the Western political establishment, the same ones that tirelessly worked and schemed to goad Putin into a costly destructive war with the purpose of bleeding Russia out.
The nattering political puppet class are so busy feverishly pushing these ideas, failing to recognize that the losers don’t get to set terms, or make demands.
There wont be a Minsk III agreement, since the Russians now know with absolute certainty, that the promises of our lying globalist owned political overlords are worthless.
You seem to be suffering from the delusion that today’s Russian army is somehow as ominous and powerful as the old Red Army of the Soviet Union. It is not. The Soviets inculcated discipline within the armed forces through the presence of tens of thousands of Commissars who ensured everyone toed the Party line. That element has been missing from Russian society for a very long time – since before Putin’s accession.
At some point, even Russian soldiers will be completely tapped-out from fighting a pointless, losing war. They will fold and will revolt as they did in World War I – and that will be that for Mr. Putin.
Tucker Carlson on how Congress is controlled by the IC just what Sundance has told us all about.
Never discussed anywhere is the evolution of the modern peer-conflict battlefield. It is a more shockingly dangerous place than most can imagine. Artillery is achieving unprecedented levels of accuracy, drones provide genuine real-time battlefield status intel.
The Russians have reportedly been able to integrate this into their command and control, allowing changes on the ground in real time down to platoon level. This is historic and also unprecedented. What it means is the Russians have an accurate picture of the current battlefield, in three dimensions and real time, and are able to act on it. Take a moment to think about that.
Move a tank from cover? Boom. Try to launch an armored advance against a position? The advancing column is seen, targeted and remotely destroyed before it even reaches the line of contact. Infantry support for armor now nearly meaningless, as the armor is located by unmanned drones and destroyed by accurate missiles launched from many miles away
Ukraine’s / NATO’s response? Unable to grasp this new reality, they throw 50- and 60-year old men, women onto the front lines, knowing their life expectancy is literally measured in hours.
American generals are politicians and not military commanders. It’s disgusting, and doesn’t bode well for our future. Thanks, Obama!
Milley and Brown are the new woke Generals McArthur and Patton.
Zelenskyy is the new Winston Churchill, don’t let the T-shirt fool you.
Been saying for a while, it’s about 1913 now. Technology has out run tactics, leadership is flat footed. Slaughter to follow. Everything going as planned.
Regarding your first two paragraphs, Simplicius a few articles back, replayed a video of this exact scenario as Russian infantry were clearing a side hill of UAF dugouts using the real time video and missiles of drones to assist.
You have reversed the actual situation that exists on the ground in Ukraine:
In short, you are echoing senseless hyperbole that to obscure the true situation on the ground . One thing is clear……Ukrainians will not give up the fight until they have nothing left to fight with. That is where the Congress and the American people have a stake in this conflict. We pledged to support Ukraine against Russia “for as long as it takes”. I am appalled at the thousands of surrender-monkeys who have come out of the woodwork to demand a Ukrainian capitulation to some negotiated settlement with Putin. A blind man can see – it will NOT HAPPEN.
Lindsey will cry bigly. He thought this was all just so awesome that we could get some other country to fight his war, I mean a war.
Wonder if he was getting 10%, like Joe?
What you (and a LOT of your readers) miss, Sundance, is there is NO REASON for the “free” world to stop supporting Ukraine with treasure, but not blood.
So long as the US and allies can keep the Russian blood-letting going on, without expending the lives of their citizens, it will continue until Putin is gone. All the “experts” you speak of, Sundance, can’t postulate a plausible scenario whereby Ukraine lays down her arms. The West is fighting Russia ON THE CHEAP (no blood, just treasure). The weaponry donated so far is at or near its “sell-by-date” and needs replacement anyway. That said, the US should demand that monetary donations should be borne most heavily by the EU nations and that strict accounting must be made (profiteering is rampant).
It’s not “…supporting Ukraine with treasure…not blood…”.
It’s not treasure: It is substantial fiat debt added to US Bloc sovereign debt.
It is substantially depleting US Bloc weapons.
It is worsening energy constriction throttling US Bloc industry and economies.
It is hastening the fall of the petrodollar and global dollar reserve currency.
It is NOT “cheap”. On the contrary, it is accelerating the fall of the US Bloc while strengthening BRICS+ in multiple ways. THAT is the big picture.
What a pitiful answer to Norman Rogers! He makes a legitimate case for continuing Western support for Ukraine against Russian encroachment and you can do no better than mince words over the meaning of “treasure” and other financial gobbledygook. It is an unmanly, unworthy response. You are no “glassbreaker” – you’re an ass-bleeder.
Then why is the West pushing for negotiations. If you accept that … then your argument is refuted. The west wants to be out of this thing.
This war from a military perspective is far more beneficial to Russia than you may think.
Combat, and the valuable experience it brings, is modernizing the Russian armed forces.
Unlimited cheap energy, an industrial manufacturing base and an abundance of raw materials make the impact of sanctions a pipe dream.
You seem to be alluding to some erroneous, and quite frankly childish beliefs, in the vain hope Russia will collapse.
Getting rid of Putin will end the war.
Putin doesn’t enjoy the support of the vast majority of his countrymen.
Russia is running out of arms/munitions.
Russia is running out of personnel.
Russia doesn’t have the capacity learn(If only those dumb backward Russians learnt how to play chess…)
Russia doesn’t have access to the development and manufacturing of advanced tech.
Russia can be diplomatically isolated.
Hope is not plan.
The reality is that a protracted conflict suits the Russians a lot more that it does us.
Russia is not a significant industrial entity in the global economy. It accounts for just one percent of global manufactures. It cannot produce enough product for its own domestic consumption. It does extract oil & gas and other valuable commodities – but it does little refining or value-added service. Russian Urals oil was selling at $93/bbl in February 2022. Now it is trading at $63. That seems to me to put Russia at a clear disadvantage to the Europeans and Western societies who, together, can resupply Ukraine for decades with but a fraction of their own output – if necessary.
The greatest threat to Ukraine is not Russia – instead, it is the lily-livered, weak-kneed, ignorant, woke American pansies that have no understanding of what war is about.
“Ike Was Right.™”
This man wore five stars on his lapel back in the day when that meant something. He was “Supreme Commander” before he became “Commander-in-Chief.” So, he knew both the military and the political realities. He tried to warn us all what would happen when “war” became “a lucrative product.” He tried to warn us that we would lose the ability to fight a real one, when it finally came again.
He probably did not anticipate that we would actually “outsource” and dismantle our “Arsenal of Democracy.”
Please do not think that this is a stalemate. The Ukraine has lost a very significant percentage of their army. It was insane to try and conduct an offensive operation without air cover and very strong artillery support. They have unfortunately been slaughtered. Meanwhile Russia by conducting a totally defensive campaign has not suffered anywhere the number of KIA,WIA. It is only recently that the Russian Army has started an offensive and while costly it is no where as costly as what the Ukrainians have endured. The Russian population and economy is also doing quite well. We must realize that it may not be in their best interests to conduct a ceasefire. Additionally, as they were betrayed in 2014, what makes us think that they would trust us again? Truthfully, I wouldn’t and I am love the USA!
Please use the proper pronouns of “they” and “them” when referring to the action of the DC criminals. WE THE PEOPLE have no say in this crap-pile government. They do whatever they want without accountability and rub our faces in it.
The only fix is to abolish taxation as we know it.
You can abolish taxation about as much as you can command the sun to set.
What you can do is pay your taxes into escrow (so as not to become a tax-evader) and sue the government for whatever wrong you believe they have committed. Good luck!
Billions of dollars stolen in plain sight and they got away with it. Crap Weasels
It doesn’t sink in, no mattey how many times we hear it.
“There you have it. Another “conspiracy theory” proven true. This is from Zelensky’s man in the Ukrainian Rada (parliament), David Arakhamia.”
Somehow this comment was deleted …
What you (and a LOT of your readers) miss, Sundance, is there is no reason for the “free” world to stop supporting Ukraine with treasure, but not blood.
So long as the US and allies can keep the Russian blood-letting going on, without expending the lives of their citizens, it will continue until Putin is gone. All the “experts” you speak of, Sundance, can’t postulate a plausible scenario whereby Ukraine lays down her arms. The West is fighting Russia ON THE CHEAP (no blood, just treasure). The weaponry donated so far is at or near its “sell-by-date” and needs replacement anyway. That said, the US should demand that monetary donations should be borne most heavily by the EU nations and that strict accounting must be made (profiteering is rampant).
The problem for the U.S. NATO is that their Ukrainian proxy military is being destroyed not Russia’s. At this rate by next year Ukraine will basically have no real army left. At the start of this conflict the Russians had a relatively small military. That is not the case now. The West has created their own worst nightmare. Yes many have become rich because of the conflict but it has come at the expense of future capability.
Another big problem that the West has is that there seems to be no more proxy armies for them to use against Russia. At one time the Polish were advertised as being the next army to enter Ukraine against the Russians. The Poles no longer desire to be used as expendable meat against the Russians. If Poland will not play the game then it is hard to see any other European country that wants to do so.
Poland has territory in what is now called “Western Ukraine” which they lost after WW2. They want it back.
Remember that the present boundaries of “Ukraine” are entirely the consequence of USSR central planning meetings. They are neither historical nor cultural.
Once the Ukraine Government crumbles I suspect that Russia would take Kiev and the Odessa regions. If Poland wanted some of Western Ukraine I imagine they could work out a deal with the Russians. As long as the deal does not include NATO heavy weapons too far to the east.
You might as well say that the present boundaries of Poland are entirely the consequence of Josef Stalin’s whim. Poland’s lines of demarcation have not changed since the Second World War came to an end. How is it relevant to today’s geopolitical scene to revisit this issue in the context of Ukraine’s ongoing war with Russia? Would Poland adjust its southeastern border to compensate Ukraine for losing the Donbas to Russia? Hardly! It’s a non-issue.
How about mercs? There are a number of migrant agricultural workers who have had visas and worked without incident in the EU and UK. These are people who take instruction and work at a good clip in teams.
Have the Ukrainians maxed out recruitment efforts there?
Not sure. However I have read many articles concerning mercs that are leaving Ukraine. Maybe they can be replaced maybe not. I wouldn’t bet that many could be recruited at this point.
The mercenaries realized it was a real war. Lots left, WIA, KIA, or POW`s.
Your prior post is still up.
This guy is making perfect sense. Why should Ukraine give away anything that Putin has been unable to take?
While the globalists were busy conducting their Trump coup, Putin smartly took advantage and secured his piece of the Ukraine pie knowing that the west could do nothing to stop him. The coup cartel has one Biden term to throw as much of their global green chaos into the system as they can before the fight back gets serious. They just underestimated the support for President Trump from us deplorable little people.
Actually, this goes back literally thousands(!) of years. To a grandson of Genghis Kahn. (No joke.) BEFORE there were “Tsars.” The USA/EU/NATO did not exclusively “cause this.” They just tried to take advantage of hatred – truly ancient internecine hatred – that was already there. “We of the West” really cannot see this through their eyes.
While this Ukraine folly of Biden and the Atlanticists is nearly done, hope the Germans enjoy paying much higher energy costs forever.
It is all optic to cleanse and purge the Evil in Ukraine.
“Privately Everyone Admits Ukraine is at a Stalemate Position – Publicly Western Govt Must Retain Face”
LOL, really? You think Ukraine is a stalemate? Might want to look up what that word means, cause to me, looks like Russia is pretty much calling all the shots, and advancing at will.
Note, I’m not complaining about that, Ukraine is not worth our support. But stalemate? No, don’t think so.
Please explain where the Russian army is “advancing at will”.
I’m not optimistic that Putin will be open to negotiations.
Remember the Mar 29, 2022 Erdogan hosted Istanbul Agreement? Approved in principal. And Putin agreed to withdraw troops from Kiev and Kharkiv in a show of good faith.
Within weeks afterwards, NATO, UK and the US told Zelenskyy that the west was not ready to end the war and it escalated from there.
Putin no longer trusts the west, especially UK and US and who could blame him.
He will settle for exactly what he wants, nothing less.
They don’t recognize any names of the hundreds of thousands in the obituary so they don’t give a damn.
At some point, Ukraine/US/EU/MSM will declare victory for “turning back Russia from Kiev” (which Russia never wanted in the first place) whilst losing the 20% of Ukraine (not to mention Crimea) that all the tens of thousands of Ukrainian young and old men died for.
Zelensky flees the country with his hundred millions soon after.
All because Democrats stole the election in 2020.
Like I’ve been saying for fifty years, leftists ALWAYS get people killed, sometimes in the millions.
Seems the Republicans and Democrats are on the same page with the 2020 election results and their support of Ukraine.
Stalemate? Ukraine is LOSING. Their country is demolished, and the young men are DEAD!
Polly wanna cracker!
“You cannot gather a comprehensive understanding of this dynamic without TRAVELING TO THE EPICENTER of the discussion; so, THAT’S WHAT I DID.”
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Sundance, why do you delete comments that politely disagree with you? Please email me to explain.
How is it a stalemate? Russia won decisively. They will take Ukraine all the way to the polish border.
I don’t think they’re interested in -that- territory. However, Poland is interested in territory also.
At the end of WW2, many “Allies” lost access to territory which had been historically theirs. The boundaries of “Ukraine” are entirely artificial and unhistoric. The USSR invented them.
I think Russia said from the start what they wanted.
Why would Russia negotiate? If I was Putin I would simply play for time and, if the US made good their threat not to supply Ukraine, take more of the country.
Well that was a waste of a few hundred billion dollars.
We could’ve saved all that money and had the same outcome.
Stalemate my ass! Putin will never negotiate again with Ukraine after the Minsk agreement. He will continue the SMO until every last Azov nazi is either dead or in jail. Stalemate. LOL. Please. You wish.
Thanks Sundance, great to get tbt lowdown from actual on the ground reports
When do we the people sue the entire govt for the billions stolen and pocketed ?
I question characterizing the current situation as a “stalemate.” My understanding is Russia has killed or wounded so many Ukrainian soldiers they are now conscripting old men, boys, and women. Recall one of the documents leaked by the airmen (what happened to him?) stated bluntly there was a kill ratio in favor of Russia anywhere from 8 to 1 to 10 to 1. And that was before Ukraine was forced to embark on its suicidal counter-offense on Russia’s well-dug-in fortifications. I can’t imagine the kill ratio improved much if any in favor of Ukraine. I also understand that Russia is now on the move, albeit slowly and deliberately.
This hardly sounds like a stalemate to me. Be that as it may, I certainly believe it is long past time to negotiate peace and end the slaughter.
I should have read through all the comments saying the same thing.
I’m looking to see if Russia / Putin will use the negotiations to force concessions out of NATO. I’d be very circumspect today if I lived in a Baltic country. Maybe scratching my head if I was a Fin.
Stalemate my butt, Russia is getting stronger everyone else isn’t..
The west poked the bear and now wants to make nice. Too late. It is not what the west wants but what Russia agrees to…and right now the bear is not in an agreeable mood.
The blood of over 600 000 Ukranian soldiers in on the hands of the American President and supportive EU/UK leaders. If they had been honest they would have supplemented the Ukrainian soldiers 50/50 with their own soldiers to fight for Ukraine in the front lines and take half the casualites. There would, however, been a huge outcry in their home countries and soaring anti-war sentiment. Had they stepped in early and refused to supply any finances and arms this war would have ended quickly with a settlement and saved many lives on both sides.
Does feeding Ukrainian into a Russian woodchopper constitute a “stalemate”?
Watch what happens when the Ukrainians stop “attacking”.
The stalemate is due to Russia having no major advantage in renewing an assault on the remainder of Ukraine. The cost would be high, the world view would sour rapidly, and it would delay their restoration of claimed territory. They will seek to humiliate the US and NATO.
Such lunacy by the cabal and neocons to believe they could defeat Russia in a proxy war. The turtle and all the others truly believed it possible. Insanity.
Humiliation for FJB and I must say it was well deserved!!! Corrupt Assclown! 🤡
Winning was never the objective.
Making sure that The Big Guy, and all the other political and military/industrial complex elites got their 10%, was the true objective.
Looks like mission accomplished!
If the Duran is anything close to accurate, it’s not a stalemate at all. Instead Russia is winning a war of attrition and starting to punch holes in the Ukrainian positions.
A stalemate is what you get when neither side is able to prevail over the other. The war in Ukraine is not a stalemate. Russia is winning decisively.
There will be no stalemate. Ukraine is out of men as well as ammunition and equipment. The Russians are far stronger than they have ever been before due to Zelensky being told by the US and NATO that he had to cancel the peace agreement that they was just signed with Russia .
Boris Johnson flew to Kiev * * * AFTER * * * a peace treaty had already been signed between Ukraine and Russian. Johnson flew in and convinced Zelensky that the US and NATO had his back and that he could not lose the war. He convinced Zelensky to tear up the agreement.
Before the peace deal was cancelled, the Russians withdrew in good faith from a number of areas. Today, our corrupt, lying, POS faux government claims that the voluntary Russian withdrawel was part of some kind of a Ukrainian military victory where they had defeated the Russians.
The truth is that due to the super powerful US military industrial complex and the paid off Biden regime, the Ukrainians have suffered over five hundred thousand dead soldiers and well over a million who have been horribly wounded. So much for American military might in 2023.
The US both trained and equipped the Ukrainians as well as arranging the coup of 2014 to oust the elected president. Victoria Nuland and others are war criminals. I hope one day she and her accomplishes are arrested and tried in a court of law.
The Russians meanwhile have made short work of our state of the art military equipment, mainly due to it being mostly obsolete due to severe military cutbacks. The military budget was likely spent on LGBTQ123 rubbish and gender pronouns instead of weapons systems.
To highlight the horrors of US involvement in other countries, the Ukrainians have suffered almost ten times the Russian casualties. All of the young Ukrainian and Russian men who were in the prime of their lives would be alive today if the US 2020 presidential election had not been so obviously stolen from us. We in the US are being controlled by Marxist scumbags!!!!!
Russia isn’t going to freeze anything. They’ll keep grinding Ukraine down, killings its men (and now its women). The whole thing is sad and avoidable.
Stalemate? I don’t think so. The end is nearing for the neocon project.
Sundance reports that Ukraine is at a stalemate position in its war with Russia. I wonder, does SD really understand what a stalemate is.
Definition of STALEMATE:
: a drawing position in chess in which a player is not in checkmate but has no legal move to play: a drawn contest : DEADLOCKalso : the state of being stalemated
It would seem to me that Ukraine has managed to push the Russians away from major population centers and confronts the main Russian force stretched out in an arc from Kherson in the southwest to Kup’yansk in the southeast. Ukraine has bridgeheads across the lower Dniepr River. It has Russian forces hemmed-in to the south and east with the Black Sea and Sea of Azov at their backs. The Russians are not free to move aggressively without risking combat with Ukrainian forces.
In this scenario, can anyone say that the Ukrainian army is checkmated? No.Is the Ukrainian army deadlocked? No.Are there maneuvers against the Russians that are available to the Ukrainian army? Yes.
I don’t see what all the fuss is about. Ukraine is in a strong position vis a vis Russian forces. Ukraine continues to press the frontline to find places where it can exploit Russian weakness. It found a weak spot at Avdivka – where Russia has been goaded into bloody attacks for the last few weeks. The Ukrainians have essentially driven the Russian army to this point without themselves retreating or giving away anything of value. Yes, it’s an ugly war and far too many people have died on both sides. But that is the nature of war which begs the question: why would anyone seek a negotiation with a scumbag like Putin?
Ukraine is not in a Stalemate Position.
Ukraine has already lost the War.
Ukraine has already lost the war.
Many Ukrainian politicians have made cash purchases of
land and huge mansions in foreign countries.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is letting
the Ukrainian people get slaughtered for money.
Noticed that this article explains why the American Abrams tanks have not been used in combat by Ukraine. The US never sent the logistical support
necessary.
And noticed that the f-16s the US promised also are not yet ready to be deployed there.
The material from Germany, Britain, Slovakia, Sweden, and many other countries has already arrived and is being used by Ukraine.
I warned long ago that Biden did not want Ukraine to win. Biden works for chairman Xi and President Putin.