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!
What an epic waste of dollars and lives.
The current occupants of our government leadership, across the board, are all a disgrace.
May they all get their respective just desserts.
Just watch what the EU has planned for the Middle East. Naturally they won’t be involved in the fighting.
The EU will be quick to volunteer the American military to protect the Palestinians.
Note that the UK prime minister’s in laws have signed a deal with Israel for the gas off Gaza, kinda gives some sunlight, right.
EPIC!!
So many lives……
Looks like everyone planning on sweeping this war hoax under the rug now and moving on to the next one.
The neocon scum in the UK recommended to the Ukanazi’s last week that they change the draft age, lower to 17 and raise to 70.
These are evil creatures.
This is a daily read for a no BS report on the BS that is spewed by the collective west.
Andrei Martyanov’s Blog
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
If they did the low end at 15, it would be going full Volkstrum. I guess the Nazis really did take London.
Some Nazis certainly stayed in Brussels…….
Biden regime is just doing what they are good at… Robbing the rest of us via the money printing.
A major fear for those behind this Ukraine war theater is probably how to save face while also avoiding any direct sunlight on the cash kickbacks and making sure there’s no audits of the billions flushed through there. Exposure of the bio-labs and 20 plus years of corruption involving US government actors and others has to be a major concern
Pentagon failed audits again.
Save face for whom. The world knows two big jerks stumbled into this and are now getting out of it. Putin has always been on record in the Minsk Accords and actually has been the most honorable of them all in this hubris fiasco. Eastern “Ukraine” has always been Russian.
Post Soviet Union lines drawn hastily have come asunder in other parts to the empire breakup too: Yugoslavia; Czechoslovakia. Get in line, Zelensky. Post-Soviet “Ukraine” was too unstable to last.
The well-informed readers of accurate news and information know that those behind the Ukraine War have no face left to save. They’ve been totally exposed. To hell with all of them.
10% for the Big Guy
Does anyone remember the Impeachment for Quid Pro Quo?
Biden tells CFR that he refused a billion dollars to drop the prosecutor going after Hunters Burisma buddies (and by extension his son)
how much of the Ukraine war money came directly back to Congress and donors?
Like all of it?
Zelensky and his wife took many millions of it!
And don’t forget the Ukrainian government employees have also been subsidized by our tax dollars.
Including their pension system while Social Security gets ever closer to the brink.
Sam Bankman Fried could tell you a lot about that. The DNC got a very nice chunk of change through his bank.
It wasn’t just a waste of money and lives all that… it was MORE, it could have potentially been the end of the World!
During Kosovo, General Weaselly Clark wanted to occupy Portina Airport which was held by Russian Peacekeepers. Had he gotten his way and drew blood, Yugoslavia would have been the origin of two World Wars, World War 1 and World War 3 – except it would have been a Nuclear War. Luckily calmer heads prevailed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/671495.stm
20 years later those calmer heads do not exist. We have fools that want to shed blood, some believe the Russia that ground down the German Army 80 years ago no longer exist, and some who believe depopulation is the only way to save Gaia. In any case those that want war want the destruction of Mankind. I believe in 20 years, history will show we were very close to Armageddon.
“I can haz stalemate?”
Noice.
Nim : Like that Kitty 🐈
I disagree. This chicken little false narrative that there was EVER any potential for this to spiral into WW3, or “go Nuclear” is without logical basis.
If you look at his actual words, Putin did not ‘threaten’ to use nukes.
He warned, quite sensibly that IF Russia was existentially threatened, that like ANY country it would do whatever it needed to, to defend/protect itself.
It was WESTERN “experts”, pundits and press that said that was a threat by Putin to go Nuclear; the same unnamed sources that said Putin had brain tumor, was unstable/deranged, was losing control of his military and in danger of being killed by his own people,…and ate babies and puppies for breakfast.
Reality is, he has PRECISION Hypersonic miissiles, that with CONVENTIONAL warheads are capable of “taking out” the Command and control and political leadership of Berlin, Paris, London, Rome etc. so rapidly and without warning that no defence, or evacuation would be possible.
And, those in those Western Govts KNOW he has that capability, and so were NEVER going to push it that far.
And btw, if you think about what PDJT has said, his main point is A) “this never would have happened on my watch” and B) to criticise THOSE WHO SAID THE WORD YOU NEVER, EVER SAY, which is NOT Putin, it is Westerners promoting this chicken little false narrative.
NO, it was NEVER at any point, a danger of WW, or “going Nuclear” which is not to say it wasn’t insanely STUPID adventurism on the part of Biden admin.
Putin, despite provocation, has acted responsibly thruout this “special operation”.
If we are speaking of the Portina Airport event, bare in mind Wesley Clark was and is blood thirsty and at the time Putin was not President of Russia… it was an ailing Boris Yeltsin, who only less than 8 year earlier faced down the Russian Coup.
If we are speaking of now, we are dealing with Biden’s “insanely STUPID adventurism” on all front. Biden or his handlers wants us dead, he wants the 500 million Human Population Cap.
This was a giant money-laundering scheme from day one, but it nicely dovetailed with the Left’s post-Soviet Union hatred for Russia.
Don’t overlook the fact that there’s always a risk of some loose cannon General or Generals thinking they have a strategic advantage to use a nuke or two without risking Putin’s wrath and payback. That’s how morons think and rationalize.
Remember how close the U.S. came to nuclear war in the late 50s thru mid 1963 before Kennedy shut them down. The generals found out that Russian ballistic missile technology wasn’t yet developed despite Russian claims that it was. The Pentagon wanted to nuke every communist country in the world and force them into submission to our superior style of government. Absolute Lunacy!!
If we were to nuke every communist country, unfortunately we’d have had to nuke a few of our own states, even back in 62-63.
Well now, I was never worried about Russia going nuclear. Instead I have been ‘somewhat’ concerned about Biden or NATO opening the ‘nuclear’ ball (false flag or not) and blaming it on Russia. It is the US, NATO, and the EU that as you say are ‘playing’ and “promoting this chicken little false narrative” after the “insanely stupid adventurism on the part of the Biden admin” and NATO, EU encroachment.
Russia at anytime could have quickly and easily annihilated the whole of Ukraine with conventional bombs, but has refrained from doing so because it would go against their stated and set goals.
All of this has been hard for this American Patriot to realize and admit, but there it is!
Don’t mention “just desserts” in earshot of Joe or you might be steam rollered as he rushes for the chocolate chip ice cream.
They will, most likely not in this life… but they will get those just desserts.
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.
You mean operation kill white Christian men while skimming billions is winding down? High fives all around. Great job.
Yes and now they want to send women and children en mass to the front. It is demonic.
“want to”?
sending woman is already happening and they are dying
Agree.
Already viral video of woman
captured …she said she was pregnant.
Sadly, video of women casualties
in trenches are out there . 😡
I don’t consider it a coincidence the utter catastrophic and demonic leadership of all the white nations, all at once, are in some way embroiled in wars, immigrations, financial collapses and lunatic causes! Some breaks have occured in Argentina and the Netherlands, but the World needs so much more leadership changes to survive.
It was always going to wind up this way… The “experts” are the only ones who didn’t see it coming.
^^^ 100% ^^^
I’m experiencing strong deja vu to the first few weeks of this when we were told Ukraine was ready to enter negotiations…
…until overnight the Xiden Regime shut it down.
Maybe they will designate Janet Yellen to do the heavy yellin’ this time…
Orrrrr……
Perhaps they can send in Hillary to push that “reset” button again….
LOL! Bite yer tongue…errr…keyboard. 🤣
Hillary is the most to blame for the decade or two of demonizing Russia for a whole host of false claims and accusations. Russia is not perfect, but we’ve outdone them in recent years of goading war, aiding and abetting crime.
Hillary had a lot of influence on leftist Russophobia but obviously not much on the Right. For that you have to look at the Bushie neocons.
Stalemate? Lol.
That’s entirely correct. The Russians are completely in control, and the Ukrainians, with European and US support, have simply been feeding their future into a meat grinder. Now, they are preparing to send their youth and women, ensuring a demographic nightmare.
Russia has been in complete control for months, if not the entire conflict, and she has no reason to submit to a ceasefire/stalemate just so that the Ukrainians can rearm and regroup. The idea of a stalemate is a fantasy, a way to try to make it look like Ukraine and her western pimps have something other than the disastrous failure that this whole escapade has been.
Totally agree. Russia has more areas to take before negotiations. Kharkov in the north, and Odessa in the south.
Pleased to have you back, Sundance, safe and sound and wise.
I m not sure Russia agrees with the western ‘stalemate’ narrative you are helping to disseminate.
It would appear that a ‘stalemate’ is the best that can be hoped for right now by NATO in a saving face way out.
Like the Leopard tanks, the Abrams would/will burn…..only now the Abrams would burn stuck in the mud after running out of fuel.
It sure looks like Russia will determine what happens next…….After everything that has happened, if you were Russia would you let NATO save some face?????? Only if it was in Russia’s interest to do so!
Yes, the Russians get a vote too. And theirs is bigger.
Do believe Sundance stated a “Designed” Stalemate”. Which, imho, infers it’s narrative. Russia prolly has that figured out, too.
Do agree… “It sure looks like Russia will determine what happens next…”
Tactically and politically I cannot see Russia allowing NATO in general, and Joe Biden in particular the opportunity to save face.
Why would they?
They are on the precipice of proving the weakness of NATO in general and Joe Biden in particular.
And proving it to the entire world who can and will recognize the weakness.
No matter HOW hard the media spins it.
It would be to Russia’s advantage to detail all of the labs funded by the US that we have denied, and that they have apparently proven.
China will now take Taiwan while Biden is president.
After all, our weakness has been proven and exploited, why would they NOT take it, especially before the possibility of Trump becoming president can occur.
The democrats and uniparty have royally messed up.
And there will be consequences.
What a shame.
TRUMP 2024.
Perhaps Russia will release proof that money laundering was rampant, the US was complicit, the Bidens were making bank, along with the CIA and others. Yeah, let’s talk about saving face. (here’s a roll of TP for ya)
“China will now take Taiwan”
????? 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
Taiwan – United States Department of State
☝️☝️☝️ to link
Three sentences. Last one is most important.
If the CCP do “take Taiwan” its because they have bought and paud for it, as Joe IS a “Manchurian Candidate” paid off by the CCP.
Taiwan IS part of China.
It is like saying US is
going to take over
Hawaii. 🫤
In fact, when you look
at Taiwan and China—
Taiwan is closer to China
than Hawaii is to US.
Sticking our nose once
again in matters that
have nothing to do with
us.
Another case of our
Government reneging
on a deal. And setting
up another proxy just
to Poke the Dragon.
A saying…..💁🤷♀️
Those who stir the
sh!tpot should have
to lick the spoon.
–“Tactically and politically I cannot see Russia allowing NATO in general, and Joe Biden in particular the opportunity to save face.
Why would they?”–
Oh, I think they would……but, only after they achieve all their set goals and the world understands the true ‘What, how, and why of the situation!
Yes. The Russians are playing rope-a-dope for the most part now and are in fact winning decisively. They have destroyed nearly all of the NATO equipment sent to the front lines and also killed and wounded more Ukrainian soldiers than anyone would like to contemplate. By next summer the Russians will have over one million highly trained troops to send to Ukraine. I suspect at some point they will start an offensive on a broad front and take out what is left of the Ukraine Army.
I read an article by a former congress lady who flew F-18s in Iraq or Afghanistan. She said that the U.S. could turn the tide with airpower. Ha! If that were true these people would have deployed F-35s by now and said that Ukrainian pilots were flying them. This “lady” flew bombing missions against goat herders in near perfect safety. Go ahead send the U.S. Airforce against the Russians. I am sure they could do some damage. Just understand that unlike goat herders the Russians have anti air capability and many of the planes will be shot down. Most likely more than NATO could stand for more than a matter of weeks.
Not to mention the response by the Russians on NATO assets that such an action would produce.
Our weapons systems have been a joke so far. Russian electronic warfare screws up a lot of our advanced targeting systems. The patriot missile system is garbage. Colonel MacGregor said he didn`t think they shot anything down in the gulf war. They misfire a lot too.
if one follows the news on the telegram channels, there was an observation that the state department has decided that letting ukraine surrender and end the war will open the way to undermine putin afterwards, later next year, with their color revolution push
without an actual war to fight, the CIA’s minions will be able to sow discord in russia. when a country is united in wartime this is difficult to accomplish.
I don’t think this will happen – the war has been an unmitigated success for russia. they’ve advanced their military tech two generations in two years and repatriated all their industrialists back home.
maybe if trump gets back in there can be a truce between USA and RF, but russia will never again trust europe – they’re toast
All the dead.
It’s absolutely disgusting what Nuland and Blinken and the rest of the CIA crowd has done. I have some Viking/Valhalla level anger for that entire crowd.
All we had to do is mind our own GD business at home, secure out own GD border, and follow the Minsk accords that were a done deal. Crimea was gone a long time ago, and they were never going to get it back.
:::spit:::
Never forget, these wars mean big money for the military industrial complex and rivers of dirty kickback cash for politicians.
Time CIA and State Department activates Ukrainians to Maidan Square to riot for peace deal. Oliver Stone can make sequel documentary Ukraine on Fire 2.
One of Zelensky high ranking
people who was involved in
the Ankara peace talks gave
a very interesting interview on
Ukraine state run media the other
day.
Highly unusual. Sanctioned/approved?
He spoke about a deal being
reached, but Boris Johnson
stepped in…blah..blah..blah
Not sure now if it was to place
blame on Britain- or to get the
Ukrainian people riled up🤷♀️💁🤷♀️
There is a Vietnam Memorial with around 58,000 names on it for the American KIA in a war which gained the United States nothing.
When this war ends, will there be a Memorial in Ukraine (or in the US or someplace, any place), for the Ukraine KIA in a war which gained (‘America’s vassal state’) Ukraine nothing?
Probably not. But if it were to come to pass, how many names would it have on it?
150,000 ?200,000? Or would it even be as high as the 400,000 as some have wildly tossed out?
Even 150,000 would be like America having 1,500,000 KIA which is more than we have lost in all our wars combined. And all this in Ukraine in less than 2 years.
I wouldn’t say the United States gained nothing from Vietnam.
To this day, I have a P-38 on my key ring that works as good as the day it was new back in ’68.
I always lost mine.
The P-38 can opener. Made in the USA.
Agree. The M16A1 platform introduced in the late 1960s a better lightweight design for a tactical rifle, of which a refined semiautomatic version has become what millions of civilians enjoy owning and using for sport shooting – and self defense- today.
The half a million killed plus the millions that have left the country. There is no country left.
The physical assets (land, natural resources) remain to be acquired by WEF at bargain-basement prices post-depopulation. Meanwhile, Schwab, Soros and their SDG 2030 minions violently protest colonizers in all civilized areas as a diversion.
land and natural resources contaiminated by depleted uranium and biolab waste / leakage?
ukraine is a wasteland
Russia already took all the industrial and mining areas.
Still heavy fighting going on
at the slag heap and Coke plant.
Another meat-grinder fire bag.
A lot of casualties.
I have no doubt Russia will prevail
and capture in the near future.
53, 54, 110 Brigades On The Verge Of Defeat | Another Mobilization Plan. Military Summary 2023.11.25
☝️☝️ above to watch
550,000 Uke dead at a minimum, and that is NOT a wild guess. It has been confirmed by Uke sources. The real number is probably around 600,000.
Spot on!
Confirmed by the good ‘ol “Anonymous sources”.
Well, you can take that to the bank.
600,000 dead Ukraine troops would be like 6 million dead American troops and in less than 2 years. The Ukraine army would have collapsed quit some time ago.
Even Baghdad Bob blushes.
Been reported by many ex military 500,000 KIA or more. Over 1 million casualties. There are obituaries in the papers. LOTS of new cemetaries. They are collapsing. Women in the trenches now. Zelensky
s gov
t is passing a new law this week. It`s expected to be men 17 to 70. More women, and easier to kidnap people legally off the streets.Over 500,000 KIA total of a million casualties altogether. Russia around 10% of that with an army that doubled, or tripled in size. We really “weakened” them.
I am sure Russia’s losses are far greater than 50,000. Putin has every incentive to suppress the actual number and the means to do so. I am sure the Russians saw what the effect on homefront morale the daily causality figures had in the US during Viet Nam and the effect informal news of casualties in Afghanistan had on Russian morale. What you are seeing is how deadly modern warfare is. The accuracy of weapons systems has vasily improved along with the rates of fire and the effectiveness of area weapons. I have always been of the opinion that if the USSR and NATO had ever decided to slug it out over the plains of Eastern Europe, even without going nuclear, when it was all over an independent observer would be hard pressed to tell the winner from the loser.
The same thing happened during the American Civil War with the invention of the rifled musket, paper cartridge and minie ball. The accuracy and rate of fire made the tactics of mass formations of infantry attacking positions obsolete but the generals continued to use them. Thus massive casualties occurred.
That
s what Colonel Douglas Macgregor has said. Same with Scott Ritter. They still have sources in military. Kill ratio was 8 -1, or 10 -1. Wouldn
t be surprised if it`s worse now. Rand Corporation informed the army about their study. If we go in 3600 casualties a day. The accuracy, and drones is amazing.Stalemate or lose?
The reality that Sundance describes is spreading through the DC foreign policy establishment. Richard Haass (former President of the Council on Foreign Relations) advocates freezing the conflict along current lines. Haass is a very influential voice inside that establishment.
In this case he is representing the views of many inside that establishment that Washington is overextended globally, Ukraine cannot defeat Russia, therefore a major course adjustment is needed.
During a recent interview on MSNBC, Haass recommended that Zelensky and the Ukrainians be told they need to focus on “reducing their emphasis on liberating land and put emphasis onto holding what they’ve got.” (link below)
Haass further advocated reaching an interim ceasefire with the Russians while maintaining sanctions long term. His underlying assumption is that Russia would be amenable to such an outcome.
Perhaps the Biden White House will soon adjust course as Haass recommends. Next year is an election year and the last thing Biden or the Democrats need is yet another foreign policy disaster.
But Putin also faces an election in April 2024, and there is no reason to think that he would ever try to justify a lame ceasefire deal while Russia was winning – especially after the sizable sacrifices in life and national treasure that have been made.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/11/21/richard_haass_we_need_to_lower_our_goals_in_ukraine_be_happy_with_protecting_80_of_the_country.html
Haass is aptly named… Ha & *ss
Agree.
He doesn’t have the cojones to
admit that it’s over.
Russia will require the Ukes demilitarize.
Russia (Putin) stated, at the outset of this Special operation, what their goals were, and he has absolutely no reason to compromise on any of those goals.
Basically, to have assurances, ‘security guarantees’ for Russia that are based on the situation rather than on any empty promises from the west.
As Russia is essentially winning, there is no incentive for Putin to compromise at all on any of those conditions he listed at the outset as neccesary prerequisites for a cessation of hostilities.
The west can call it a stalemate if they want, its yet another in a long list of losses.
Agree.
That was stated in the original
objectives stated at beginning
of SMO by Russia.
demilitarization and denazification💁🤷♀️
Lloyd Austin and Richard Haass Refuse to Admit Ukraine’s Defeat
☝️☝️ to read. Sonar21
Recommend this instead of RealClearpolitics.
lest we forget whatta maroon Austin is:
that last one, the creases in his mask make it look like he’s wearing a gorilla mask … or maybe that’s just his face
his best Idi Amin imitation
Picture of a fool that is scared of his shadow
Darth Vader called. Told Austin not to try so hard.
Good article and IMHO you’re correct that it’s likely an accurate representation of current strategic thinking among some Warhawk influencers of military strategy.
But Sundance doesn’t publish the above article without having knowledge of what is being discussed among other influential figures. IMHO the strategy planning is in flux.
It’s not a stalemate. Russia is slowly grinding Ukraine to pieces. At the end, the U.S. will be broken (good); NATO will be beaten and hopefully be disbanded (good). Putin is the only grown up in the room. Trump is the only possible grown up on our side who can speak to him. He will.
Should read “…the U.S. EMPIRE will be broken (good). This will be a wedge where America might become America again.
Well by now they’ve grifted many billions to return to American politicians & parties and so time to end it.
Tucker Carlson Tonight 11/25/23
Biden’s War in Ukraine Ends
Thank you Madam Dufarge.
I wonder how many get the reference, Marcia?
I get the reference, I dont get the connection.
Whatever BS they say about Climate, the Obama Syndicate hoped to seize Russia’s oil and install another Puppet Government there.
What’s with the knitting highlight at the end? I saw it on another Tucker Carlson video. I’m not craving a set of knitting needles fro Christmas.
Good ol’ YouTube censors are at it again.
someone with tech power trying to enrage us by not letting us hear/see the end of Tucker’s videos?
Video has been cutoff 2/3rds thru. Knitting video cuts off Greenwald while he’s making a critical point about what happens next, politically. Need to watch this on a different platform. YouTube is still interfering.
So they call it done with the current lines in place. Russia gets the regions it has already annexed. Ukraine gets a firmly delineated and fortified border on the East, with NATO countries (hello Sweden) now fully aware of the imperialist ambitions of the Putin government. And the West saves face by declaring that all of this was the outcome it desired in the first place. Victory!
And no more money for Ukraine. If Europe wants to rebuild it, they can have at it. America has our own problems.
There. Fixed it for ya.
Trump 2024
Are you aware that those so called “annexations” were voted upon by the citizens of the areas and the referendums were extensively reported on by Patrick Lancaster?
Are you aware that over 14000 Ukraine citizens of Russian ethnicity were killed by their own Government since the 2014 coup engineered by USA State Department ?
It is not Russia but the USA that has over 800 military bases in countries outside its home country.
The imperialist ambitions of the Putin government are a figment of the CIA and State Dept propaganda.
^^^This!^^^
Nope.
I’m aware of all of that. And just how did those ethnic Russians get there? They were settled there by Stalin after his genocide of millions of ethnic Ukrainians. When one devil is murdering your people, you turn to another devil for help to stop him. That’s not a new concept either.
Nothing there is simple. And anyone in the West who sides with Putin will eventually discover just how much he hates the West and how hot burns his passion to see the West destroyed and that includes you along with it. When Putin declares that the greatest tragedy of the 201h Century was the dismantling of the Soviet Empire he makes his intentions pretty clear.
Russian Civilizational Fascism. Aleksandr Dugin, known as “Putin’s brain.” Look them up and the fairy tale Russian “history” they embrace.
I disagree with the jist of the second paragraph. I think our current administration is doing a fine job at destroying ‘the West’. Russia had how much, 30 billion(?) into the Nordstream pipeline that Obiden blew up which crippled the efficiency of the German industries and economy. Bidenomics has done a stellar job here on the other side of the Atlantic. I read the transcripts of Putin’s speeches form last fall and winter. He doesn’t hate the common American, but I share his utter distain for the repugnant globalists/neo-libcons pulling the strings of DC, Brussels, and London.
“Imperialistic ambitions “
Where in the world did you
come up with that..baloney?
The initialed peace agreement
that was on the table in Ankara March 2022…
the agreement said nothing that would
indicate any “imperialist ambitions “.
it basically focused on Ukraine neutrality
and no NATO.
Then if you read the transcripts of
Putins speeches up to and before
the SMO nothing was said that gave
even a hint about expanding……
Since the SMO…..how many countries
have joined NATO/EU?
Projection….it is what EU/NATO wants….
expansion. Not Russia.
The old —-accuse the other of what
you are going to do💁🤷♀️💁
Kind of like the Russia is running
out of weapons and ammo BS that
was pushed and silly people even
still believe it 🤣🤣
Projection.
Imperialist ambitions. I read Putin’s speeches. He clearly desires to reassemble the Soviet empire. He says as much. Anyone who refers to the INVASION of Ukraine as a “SMO” is just a Putin parrot.
he doesnt articulate it, but he NEEDS warm water ports.
Russia has never declared War.
Never.
This is Special Military Operation.
Within the parameters of the
laws of Russia.
The saying has been for
a long time…Thank goodness
Russia never declared war.
🤷♀️💁🤷♀️
Actually I read a literal transcript of Putin’s two hour speech just prior to his incursion into eastern Ukraine. He made no such statements nor any veiled reference to such a move. His primary focus and concern was and still is the secure sovereignty of the Russian Federation. Just as the U.S. didn’t want Soviet missiles in Cuba, he doesn’t want NATO missiles in Ukraine. Nor does he want Russian speaking people whose ancestors have been living for at least five centuries in the Donbas region under continued shelling and harassment by Ukrainian Azov Nazis. He also wanted to keep secure his warm water port in Crimea, that Catherine the Great first annexed in 1783. Long history behind that.
However, following that speech, the propagandists at Langley immediately released a narrative into their favorite Mockingbird Media outlets that made that very claim. Of course when the principal Mockingbird Media outlets print it, the exact narrative is the picked up and repeated endlessly by the various echo chambers across the internet.
And since so few people are willing to sit through a two hour speech or read the lengthy transcript of it, they go to their usual MSM site or TV news show and get fed the IC’s preferred narrative that supposedly summarizes the speech… with “editorial license” guided by the IC experts’ superior ability to read Putin’s mind. ( /s )
Anyone who thinks Putin is going to roll over and agree to this nonsense is not paying attention. He will drive a very hard bargain……
And yes, Biden and the media will be smearing lip stick all over this dead pig….
Likely no one in the Biden crew (Obama crew) has the strength of will to make it happen. You’re probably right. However, the thought of having to deal with new President Trump in 2025 may have some motivational effect.
I honestly don not believe the majority of the American public has the intellect to get rid of Democrats and current Republicans to make changes necessary for a revived US Republic. It won’t happen! This mental sickness runs very very deep.
I think Sweden and everyone else are now fully aware of the expansionist ambitions of NATO and that they’re no longer gonna fly, that NATO can’t keep encroaching on Russia and thereby threatening its national security and sovereignty without blowback and failure
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Sweden applied to join NATO on May 17, 2022.
There are now tens of thousands of soldiers on that border now too. New bases coming too.
So basically Russia has gotten everything they wanted in terms of territory, destruction of the Ukrainian Nazis, proof of existence and destruction of the US biolabs, protection for the Russian Ukrainians who were being mercilessly attacked by the Nazis, essentially destruction of the Deep State worldwide money laundering center, demonstrating to the world that all of this existed….
well … yeah
Why do we think that Ukrainian Nazis are a thing of the past? They can grow all new Nazis and they can also utilize the war’s loss to prove that, once again like in 1918, the Jews stabbed them in the back. They have a Zelenskyy to parade front and center as evidence that it happened all over again. How convenient for the anti Semites ! I expect a military dictatorship to control the Ukraine in the future which might just be a continuation of the current sorry state of affairs. If I was a Jew in the Ukrainian controlled areas I would be seeking amnesty in Russia. If I was Russia, I’d be glad to have them!
Tom, you say that almost like it’s a bad thing …
and PLEASE let Putins coup de tat be revealing with receipts all of Biden et al corruption.
I follow this war very carefully from many different sources. This war is NOT a stalemate! Russia has militarily already won this war. The Ukrainians have been decimated. The proof is out there for anyone who wants to honestly look. Ukraine has really been reduced to a rump state. Putin is in the driver’s seat and in no hurry to settle anything. He knows he can’t trust the West when it comes to negotiating.
Describing this situation as a stalemate is pure nonsense. This is the United States’ way of putting lip stick on the pig. The Russian military has proven superior to the the West trained and supplied Ukraine army on almost every level. Russian ISR is second to “none”. A main reason for not sending F16s to Ukraine. They would not last very long.
Russian missile capability far exceeds anything we have provided the Ukrainians. The Kenzhal missiles are hyper sonic weapons the US has not yet developed. Super accurate and nuclear war head capable. On the other hand, HIMARS, Patriot systems, ATACMS, Bradley’s, Leopards, etc have proven ineffective.
Russia holds more than 20% of Ukraine’s prime real estate. Russia’s economy has done well in spite of useless US sanctions. Russia now has an army approaching 2 million. They have a thriving trade with most of the world’s largest countries.
Western political figures in the EU and the US have greatly toned down their rhetoric. A stalemate? Not hardly. It’s wishful thinking and propaganda.
Curt speaks the truth!! joe biden has lost the war in Ukraine. FJB
All that’s left to do is a Afghan style retreat, and FJB will be batting 1000.
But it’s not his fault. It’s the fault of the American people who aren’t willing to sacrifice another $100 B and endure more inflation. /sarc.
Agreed. All we had to do was honor our word in Minsk. But our word is shit. Instead, we paid the Dictator Zelensky to butcher his people.
Russia is fighting for home, but we’re only fighting to keep our 24-hr. Criminal Disneyland open.
Psalm 94:
Repent!
Yes, the real disaster was self imposed when the US sent their sock puppet, Boris Johnson, to Belarus to queer the peace agreement reached in April of 2022 between Zelensky and Putin. Had we stayed out of it, there would be ‘at least’ 500,000 dead Ukrainians still alive today. Had we stayed out of it, a country of approximately of 34 million population would not be down to the low twenty millions. Had we stayed out of it, the country of Ukraine would not be totally destroyed.
Make no mistake, The United States and the military industrial complex has been planning the destruction of Russia for many years. BlackRock, etc. were licking their chops ready to divvy up the bounty. They miscalculated. As it stands they had to lower their sights and are ready to take billions in tax payer funds to rebuild what ever is left of Western Ukraine.
I wonder if Putin will allow it?
People around the world are starting to see the United States for the massive treachery it has wrought on others. I feel the worm slowly turning. Get set for some bullshit propaganda coming from the media regarding our glorious victory in Ukraine. There are not words strong enough to describe the lies and duplicity the US government and their controlled media spew on a daily basis. It’s psychopathic.
Curt…
Agree!👏👏
I read a recent story in which it
is admitted that Russia is the
leader in cyber warfare also.
Ukrainian drones have little
effect on Russia. The majority
of the drones are jammed by
cyber and are ineffective.
Russia is developing some
pretty impressive weapons.
Our MIC focuses on
profit before product.
How expensive before
effective and efficient.
Gotta pay those shareholders 😡💁
Yes, Russian citizens are focused on the existential threat the United States poses to them and the rest of the world. Russia is an Orthodox Christian nation. The average citizen is well informed and knowledgeable. Americans generally don’t get it. You can believe the Russians are NOT going to support WOKE nonsense and a One World government. We, the United States and many of its citizens, have chosen to put ourselves on the wrong side of history. This will end badly……
Its not just that the sanctions didn’t work, its much more than that.
This war was never going to be won by bullets and bombs, recall.
The severest sanctions, even taking Russia out of the Swift system, was SUPPOSED to so devastate the Russian economy, that Putin would be ‘taken out by his own people”.
Instead, as you say Russias economy has actually improved, their manufacturing base built up, trade worldwide increased, new energy markets more than make up for losses,…
And it is Russias enemies, Western Europe and U.S. whose economies are suffering, and may well be looking at “regime change” as the citisenry are rejecting their current Governments.
This destroys the whole threat of “International sanctions” that the U.S. has used to bully nations for years, showing it, like NATO, to be paper tigers
“Western Europe and U.S. whose economies are suffering, and may well be looking at “regime change” as the citisenry are rejecting their current Governments.”
I respectfully disagree. The majority of the American public hasn’t got intellect or critical thinking skills to make the necessary quantum political changes needed to save this Republic. That’s the unfortunate and ugly truth!
Putin knows that Biden and NATO are weak. He knows Ukraine is losing support and armaments. There is no way he will back down. This war is over and Putin has won while everyone else is dithering.
Shame on the CIA and US DoS/CIA for creating this mess. Nuland, Blinken, Biden, Clinton, et al, are responsible for this. They diddled with the Ukraine elections and overthrew Yanukovich in 2014, and set the stage for this debacle. In 2022 UK Boris Johnson pledged “unwavering support” to Zelensky.
This whole war has been a proxy war by Obama surrogates to expand NATO and create a proxy war between Russia and Ukraine. None of the actors give a damn about the lives lost and chaos created. Poking the Bear has consequences that will be felt for decades.
Why would Putin want this farce to end? He’s been successful in bankrupting both the EU and the US while making major bank for his nation. The ignorance of the western sanctions along with the disastrous green new scam joke has made Russia very well off while expanding the market for Russian energy.
Spot on!
I hope they’re charged with war crimes.
Exactly!
It was never about Russia
wanting to take over other
countries….
But NATO expanding.
It was a propaganda projection
that was put out there…..
and some people still believe
the propaganda 🤷♀️💁
Russia has stuck to the objectives
it stated at the beginning of the SMO.
Meanwhile, look at the expansion
of NATO since then. And even EU
is talking about Ukraine becoming
a member 💁🤷♀️💁💁
Yep,
Now that everyone’s pockets are stuffed full of money from the American taxpayer, let’s call it a draw and move on to the next patsy!
That was the plan all along…. the same woman who Obama installed to run the Ukraine Slush fund also ran the Puerto Rico Slush fund. It’s all about the Democrats Robbing the American Taxpayer.
Not really. This was plan B, or C, or whatever of Agenda 2030, the globalist plan to takeover Ukraine (which Obama and Soros did in 2014), then bankrupt and defang Russia, breaking her up into multiple different sub-countries so that she would no longer be a threat to global government and her resources could be pilfered. Thank God that Putin was prepared and handed the neo-colonialists their asses on a platter.
The U.S. (State Dept./CIA) has been the leading player, acting for the WEF/U.N. in a war on oil, for many years.
Dominion and color revolution in Venezuela, Chavez Nationalised oil, and the whole infrastructure collapsed.
All of the various operations in the ME, from sending signals to Saddam to make him think invading Kuwait was o.k. and wouldn’t be opposed, to second invasion of Iraq, to funding ISIS, to Color revolutions all aimed at destabilising the major oil producing region.
And, steadily encroaching with NATO and EU membership, right up to Russias border, then the Euromaiden coup, etc pushing to, just as you say break up Russia and disrupt its oil production.
And ME countries and Russia are also countries with strong sense of Nationalism, unlikely to surrender soveriegnity to World Governments.
🎯
This war DOES appear to be nothing more than a mafioso shakedown operation …
Do we get to place bets?
Mine is on Taiwan.
They have been trying to
set that one up for awhile.
Ukraine 2.0
I pray Taiwan sees what
happened to Ukraine and
it can be avoided.
US doesn’t give a rats behind
about Taiwan or it’s people.
It just wants a chance to
Poke the Dragon.
It’s all about the chips
Now that everyone’s pockets are stuffed full of money from the American taxpayer, let’s call it a draw and move on to the next patsy!
nah — it’ll still be the same patsy, just a different grift that they’ll have to come up with
We led the Ukraine down the primrose path of their destruction. They are getting killed, not US so we don’t care. We blew up the Nordstresm gas pipelines so that now our German vassals have to buy our LNG. We kneecapped the EU economy and hopefully our Ukrainian adventure will bring about the end of NATO. The CIA, Nuland, Kagan, Krystol led America to yet another military defeat.
Perhaps Zelensky will finally be put in his place.
Also, usurper Biden said, “The United States and the nations of Europe do not seek to control or destroy Russia.” No, what Biden meant to say was that he (The Big Guy) and the EU and the Nazis that they support in Ukraine just wanted to control and destroy the Russians who live in Ukraine:
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2023/february/08/setting-the-record-straight-stuff-you-should-know-about-ukraine/
True.
And it was not just Biden who
has said it. Ms. Lindsey Graham,McConnell
and many others have said the same.
US, NATO,EU could care less
about the Ukrainian people and
country.
It is all about Poking the Bear
No War
Trump 2024
Sundance, you use language that indicates that Russia chose where to build a defensive line, and built it with the intent of forcing a stalemate on their terms.
“Russia has solidified the western frontlines in Ukraine in exactly the position originally intended.”
“from discussions with actual Russians who know the strategic intent of the front line (Russian) fortifications”
This language shows Russia in the driver’s seat controlling what happens. Everything is going according to their plan.
Would you please elaborate on Russia’s plans? Many of the responses tonight project other thoughts about what Russia is planning and deny your reporting.
Putin is doing exactly what he said in the very beginning, he wanted to free the eastern states of Ukraine that were heavy Russian and stop the abuse of these Russian people while also creating a buffer zone between Russia and Ukraine.
Nothing more, nothing less.
Also to denazify, and demilitarize.
I believe he also said a neutral (not hostile to Russia) Govt. in Western Ukraine, so bye bye to the piano player.
As he can not trust the West, he must have a situation which assures Russian Security, from a hostile Western Europe, not just now but going forward.
Agree.
When you look at the maps
of the fighting and frontlines,
especially on a daily basis it
is interesting 🧐
I don’t watch our media….
do they even show maps
of the fighting?
I am going to guess…Nope🤣
The maps are out there …
Just one source
53, 54, 110 Brigades On The Verge Of Defeat | Another Mobilization Plan. Military Summary 2023.11.25
☝️☝️ Rumble
The Fall | A Massive Drone Attack Is The Beginning Of Something Huge. Military Summary 2023.11.25
☝️☝️ Rumble
Ukraine has famously run out of fighting aged men.
Soon the West can move to the “Burn It All Down” stage and slink away while declaring victory.
They’ll blame the dead bodies and Vladimir Putin.
I doubt there will be a twinge of regret for the horrors inflicted upon others.
And they will try and find
some way to blame
President Trump…
💁🤷♀️💁
They’ll force Ukraine into a “ceasefire” (surrender) then claim victory. “We held off the Russians and forced them to capitulate” will be the spin.
We all know the thugs that control NATO, the State Department and the rest of the Western Globalist Cabal lost, and badly.
What a waste. Period. The whole bowl of goulash … rubbish. Rotten to the core. How dare America try to take out Putin by murdering half a million Ukrainians.
And PS … Zelenskyy should be denied admittance to the USA. Period.
My money is on Ukrainian Nazis reconstituting their ranks and claiming that a “Jew”, Zelenskyy, betrayed the Ukraine yada, yada, yada. 1918 all over again! There must be something mentally wrong for Zelenskyy thinking this charade would end any different than it did. Is there something we’re not seeing yet? Was Zelenskyy purposely chosen by the powers that be specifically because he is Jewish?
Oryx is a joke.
Not reputable at all.
Whatever number they throw
out regarding Ukraine…. I
would double it.💁
A lot of information being
thrown out there trying to
find an “off ramp” that will
allow NATO,EU and Biden to
save face.
The blaming and finger pointing
has already begun.
Now…..question is what is Russian
stand on it all. When they are doing
all their finger pointing and “talks “
it usually takes place without Russia
being part of it🤷♀️💁🤷♀️🤷♀️
Zelensky seems to be unaware also..
which is not unusual 😊.
His latest weekly address was about
his new plans for mobilization (draft).
Should be interesting……….seems like
something is going to happen before
the end of the year.
There is no stalemate. Russia is crushing the Ukrainian army. There are signs of collapse showing. There will be no frozen war. Russia will dictate terms when the final Ukrainian collapse occurs.
I suspect one on the concessions Germany and other EU member states will want from the US will be an easing of sanctions on Russian oil and LNG. Europe no longer wants to pay the high prices of shipping gas and oil from the US. when they can buy it from Russia and much less cost. This may not happen initially, but I believe it will happen in time. It is a matter of economics for the Europeans.
Top Ukraine MP Says What Anglin Says, by Andrew Anglin – The Unz Review
So the West is facing these same two options they’ve had this whole time.
I don’t know if these people in Washington are actually so stupid that they believed in the “counteroffensive” or they just wanted this war to keep going for other reasons. Certainly, the arm sales are something everyone in Washington appreciates, and further, they wanted more time to push for a NATO war.
The thinking is that Jake Sullivan and Antony Blinken (more importantly, the people they represent) wanted to kick the can down the road until after the 2024 election, when they could declare World War III against Russia. However, it seems that the situation in the Middle East has changed those plans.
https://www.unz.com/aanglin/top-ukraine-mp-says-what-anglin-says/
No, the plan NEVER included WW3 against Russia, IMHO.
The plan, delusional as it was,,was to bring about “regime change” in Russia,…THAT was the goal, all along.
Ukraine was just the tool, for achieving that goal.
It, provoking Russia into the SMO, then painting it as a bullying invasion of a “Democracy” was the EXCUSE to call for Worldwide condemnation and sanctions (and browbeat, coerce, and threaten all nations to join in) while bogging down Russia in the actual bullets and bombs in Ukraine, and the Russian people were supposed to hurt, badly under the sanctions, AND the battlefield losses, and so withdraw support from Putin and the War…
Kind of make Putin LBJ, and Ukraine Viet Nam.
It was another in a long line of stupid ideas, by overeducated idiots.
Biden used Ukraine so he could be a “wartime president”. Ukraine is no longer useful for Biden since his poll numbers now are even worse.
Draw up your truce papers Zelenskyy, and this time honor them.
Cash in those Panama accounts and find a nice safe harbor where you can spend them. It is over.
It
s worse than a stalemate. It
s been reported Ukraine lost 500,000 men with a million casualties altogether. Ukraine is out of men, and the Russians are advancing in many areas. Russia has hundreds of thousands still in reserve. They are going to likely take Kharkof, and Odessa before they sign anything. That`s a long ways off yet.So, the Ukraine misadventure continues to mirror the campaign of DeSantis; everyone knows bunches of $ was thrown away, and the “never back down” /”our support for Ukraine has no limit” sloganeering has painted them in a corner where they can’t admit what everybody knows.
Granted, Ukraine has meant 100,000 lives lost, and at least as many lives disrupted, and I don’t mean to disrespect that.
Just that the parrallels between the two ‘campaigns’ ARE striking, on so many levels.
Both were ersatz vs reality, both were based on propoganda and manipulation of public opinion, and with both the outcomes were entirely foreseeable.
Zelenski and DeSantis, loser shills for the Globullusts.
Dutchman…
Ukraine has lost close to 100k
since their last offensive started.
Total casualties…are probably
over 500k.
Last couple weeks they were losing
close to 1k…per day.
Sad
No War
Trump 2024
“Saving face is the priority.”
Uhh… That ship has sailed, and lately she’s taking on a lot of water.
Very good description – “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.”
I disagree that there is a stalemate. Calling it a stalemate is an attempt to put a better light on the actual situation. Ukraine has been defeated. Somewhere around 500,000 Ukrainian dead and another 900,000 wounded. Western weapons and armaments have been destroyed or are able to be countered. Western training has not been effective for victory. “Shock and awe” sanctions against Russia have not worked and the Russian economy is showing growth. Ukrainian refugees are wearing out their welcome in Europe. Western citizens are able to get accurate information on the progress of the war from many sources so the propaganda is no longer working well. NATO has run out of weapons and cannot produce enough to supply Ukraine.
The Russians are advancing on several fronts. Carefully – to preserve their soldiers. Avdeevka is slowly being encircled and this defensive redoubt (since 2014) and its garrison that have shelled Donetsk so heavily are little by little being taken. The Russians are advancing at Kupyansk. Their new advancements in weaponry have been taking out the last dozens of aircraft in the Ukrainian military in the last 3 weeks.
What people who call this a stalemate do not see is that the Russian goal was not primarily to gain territory. Russia’s goal was to destroy the Ukrainians’ fighting capability, to destroy the threat to Russia’s national security of NATO weapons on their border from a country steeped in anti-Russian and Nazi/Bandera philosophy. That is exactly what Russia has been doing – denazification and neutrality.
I agree that the EU, US, and NATO have come to the realization that Ukraine cannot “win”. I agree that their goal is now to try to save face. There are two reasons that I see.
The first is the 2024 election in the US. A peace agreement would give a boost to Biden. The Democrats are desperate because they have reason to be afraid of losing the election.
The second is my opinion. The controllers of western countries – the multinational corporations and banks – have seen their fantasies of enormous profits from plundering Russia implode. Are they pushing for an end to the conflict to keep lucrative contracts and potential profits a great as possible?
But #1. Germany and the US may “encourage” Zelensky to seek peace. But that would not be to his advantage. The militias will oppose any idea of giving up territory and they could put Zelensky’s life in danger. Peace would also reduce Zelensky’s status as the Churchill of Ukraine and possibly cause some destruction of his wealth, trial as a war criminal in Russia, etc.
But #2. Would Russia be willing to make peace with Zelensky, when the real power behind the puppet is the western countries which sought to destroy Russia, sent weapons worth billions against it, and refused to honor agreements such as the Minsk accords and laughed that they didn’t intend to enforce those? Western countries which trained and supplied the Ukrainian military? The US which worked to overthrow the elected leader of Ukraine? The US which destroyed the Russian pipeline for US profits selling LNG to Europe?
My guess is that Russia will continue the conflict and take Odessa to protect Sevastopol, Crimea, and Transnistria. I don’t think that Russia will be in a hurry to negotiate. They certainly have little motive to allow the west a chance to “save face”.
See Douglas McGregor here on “stalemate”:
My guess is that Russia will continue the conflict and take Odessa to protect Sevastopol, Crimea, and Transnistria.
This is the very reason I don’t see this conflict ending at the current lines.
Those areas are heavily Russian in heart, tongue and history, and would fare poorly under a humiliated Ukrainian regime.
Taking them would also landlock Ukraine, making the Black Sea safer for Russian navigation and less useful for schemes and provocations of the West.
I don’t see Russia moving to take Odessa or Kharkiv in the near future.
Where are the offensives driving towards these goals?
There are advances. Careful, gradual advances. But offensives?
I also don’t think Ukraine is collapsing. Staggering, but not collapsing. Kind of like the idiot boxer who can’t fight back but won’t go down and takes a beating for 13 rounds before the ref calls him a walking corpse. In this case, we are the ones preventing a collapse with our escalations, while Ukrainians keep dying.
Ukraine may collapse if Russia mounts a real offensive. Like one necessary to take Odessa.
But Ukraine still has much of the Western weapons and they may end up inflicting heavy losses on the attacking Russians. Like you said, Russia is advancing carefully to preserve their soldiers.
I also wonder about the calculus of avoiding WW3. Russia has been very concerned about escalation. So concerned that they refuse to escalate when Biden escalates. Going up to Kiev, i.e. going to the Dnieper, and taking Odessa, i.e. cutting off all port access, could be actions that would be seen as justifying NATO entering the war.
Also, there is no clean delineation between Ukrainian Nazis and Ukrainian Russians. There are regions where each dominates and gradual transitions between them. So yes, there are a lot of Ukrainian Russians between the front line and the Dnieper and in Odessa, but the further they go, the more Ukrainian Nazis they put under their control.
And I see no desire by Russia to babysit Nazi terrorists.
To some degree, this entire engagement, since 2008 when W was pushing to bring Ukraine into Nato, has been because we have tried to impose our will on Russia. Russia has had simple demands. No Nato on their border. Preserve their warm water port in Crimea. Stop killing ethnic Russians and discriminating against those with Russian contacts. And uphold your agreements.
I believe Russia has calculated what they needed to do to achieve their goals by other means. It is a calculation that keeps changing. They were getting it through Ukrainian politics, but we ran a coup. They were getting it in the Minsk agreements, but those were deceptions. They were getting it in the early negotiations that the SMO forced, but we put the stop to that. Now they have taken land and defended it, crushing Ukrainian attempts to advance with Western weapons.
But is this enough to put an end to this slaughter? Or will we force Russia to utterly destroy the Ukrainian military? Before we let this war come to an end, will we be fighting Russia, or can we accept Russian victory over our attempts to destroy Russia?
There is no stalemate. Russia is continuing to work the lines forward according to their schedule. Just read the reports and find out.
A year from now we will look back on the talk of russian retreats or stalemates or excessive casualties as a smh joke.
Tanks still don’t like mud or ice. And, given the new technology, obsolete like battleships at the start of WWII. I want to see peace between both sides.
“The Biden administration, specifically the Dept of State and CIA, are now managing the narrative.” And, they are doing such a wonderful job, too.
The zelensky $$$ laundromat and grifting center need to be shut down yesterday!
There is no stalemate, Ukr/NATO has been soundly defeated and the Rooskies wont want to discuss stalemate at all, the conflict will only end on Russia`s terms, much like WW2 ended on the Allies terms. Zelensky is in the same position as AH in 1945, Its reality get used to it.
It’s a stalemate, as it was for Germany in Jan 1945. Russia will dictate terms the way the Allies dictated terms to Germany and Japan
Stalemate? NATO prays that it might be that lucky, but its prayers are being heard.
…its prayers are not being heard…
Only that it is not a stalemate, Russia is winning and the sanctions war failed.
A stalemate is not when Ukraine loses 6 soldiers for every Russia’s 1 and that after 300 billion dollars in aid Ukraine troops have progressed exactly 10 miles where they met the first Russian defense line where all the Bradleys and Leopard 2’s then got blown to bits (the executive version)
Saying it is a stalemate is just the latest in false media narratives to safe face that the Ukraine which had THE best and largest trained European army with support of all of Nato’s 40 nation (? How many countries are in there?) was not able to defeat Russia.
500,000 Ukrainians dead and wounded. Population went from 44 million to 19 million. Country devastated.
Industrial output to zero. All Ukraine bureaucracy and pensions on US + EU life support.
Ukraine now resorting to full mobilization of women and 17 year olds to 60 year olds.
Ukraine has rebuilt its army three times, and Russia defeated it three times.
Ukraine now desperately trying to mobilize 4th army.
Russia as I understand has 500,000 military contractors (volunteers) starting soon, they are not even in the war yet.
Russian economy GDP growing faster than anything.
Yup, sounds like a stalemate to me.
“Winning is not the western/NATO objective.”
So what ARE the western/NATO objectives? (US Bloc)
The official answers are that pumping this conflict will somehow help to constrain US Bloc adversaries, but this is nebulous and unsubstantiated, and
“In every war, the first casualty is the truth.”
Seeking clues about the TRUE objectives, some observe that the following mainly affected the US Bloc:
-Depleted weapons.
-More deficit spending and runaway sovereign debt.
-Further energy constriction >
-More inflation >
-Further industrial economies contraction.
-Demoting the dollar by global backlash to sanctions.
-Further degraded image and standing (competency, moral).
Further suggesting the following associated with the debacle:
-Driving fear and anxiety.
-Impetus for increasing surveillance/police state power.
-Growing the Military-Industrial Complex (= de facto control).
Potential:
-Global war >
–Pretext to default on US sovereign debt.
-Pretext to “suspend” US Constitutional civil liberties >
-US Totalitarianism.
A goal of defaulting on the debt alone could suffice to drive these programs, but furthermore:
If the US Bloc becomes a self-weakened totalitarian Bloc, diminished to de facto vassals under BRICS+ risen to hegemony led by totalitarian China, what is this global totalitarian state? (See “how to win the war without fighting” in “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu.)
More: WHO is purported to be a China puppet, and see
https://brownstone.org/articles/pandemics-as-a-catalyst-for-a-new-world-order/
Does this help to bring things into focus?
Some suggest the long term objectives served by the Ukraine conflict, with multiple other “programs” including the plandemic/climate/DEI canards and associated WHO moves toward global control, are increasingly apparent.
Apparently it is no longer feasible to continue this particular money laundering venture, so on to greener pastures.
There really is no limit to the evil facing the 21st Century. Genghis Kahn would have been preferable.
An accurate map is indispensible to avoid being lost. How long until those pushing the pretend reality show the accurate map of the real state of Ukraine?
The issue with Ukraine goes back decades, even before 2014. Nevertheless, the people in the US government who planned this entire debacle, should be brought up on charges. Ukraine is another country in a growing list that US intervention has destroyed.
Our Elites can launder the “rebuild money” that is surely to come!
It’s unlikely that our ‘elites’ will be rebuilding the areas that Russia has annexed, which is the majority of where war damage has occurred. Much depends on what is left of Ukraine, frankly, which may end up being a rump state and totally useless for any plans that the elites may have had for it.
THE THREE AMIGOS PUSHING UKRAINE…..GLORIA,JAKE AND ANTHONY
FIRE THEIR ASS
Sadly for NATO and Kiev there is no stalemate.
The Russians are continuing with their ‘please come to us and die’ policy that minimises their and maximizes Ukrainian casualties that has proved so successful for them to date. It might not look as if there is much progress but a few hundred yards here and a mile or so there gradually mount up.
Following the US introduction of the generally banned cluster munitions a few months ago, when NATO’s ‘normal’ 155mm shell stocks were depleted, the Russians have finally responded on the basis of ‘you started it so we can too’ and are using them too with devastating results, an estimated 4,000 dead Ukrainians in the past week (Russian estimate).
If this is a stalemate God help the Ukrainians when the Russians start moving in earnest, perhaps when the ground freezes.
Whilst typical of the appalling conditions currently, I’m not sure whose self propelled gun that is in the photos but the old Chinook? in the background means that it is unlikely to be in Ukraine.
At some point, the nature of justice will demand accountability for this administration’s manufacturing an unnecessary hell on earth.
The war on the ground is the least important part of this unless you are Ukrainian. The big issue is the damage done to the international financial system done by the sanctions. While they have probably done more damage to the non-ruling class part of the West than to Russia, they have hurt Russia. I don’t see Russia agreeing to peace without movement there. If they ruling class in the West actually cared about regular citizens, this would be attractive to them too. But they don’t.
I see no indication whatsoever
that Russia has been hurt in
any way.
None.