Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

What about Molosivh et. Al in the Bosnian / Crotia war , was it . And some of those Germans involved in the Hitler extermination camps. ?

Crazy stuff from Vance. The Romanian election was cancelled because of a foreign power trying to subvert democracy. He is commenting on internal matters he knows very little about in foreign countries.

USA is quite possibly lost as an ally and is in serious danger of becoming a dictatorship. It may currently be an oligarchy.

US to provide equipment and air defences for peacekeeping force

Thats exponentially worse for Putin than having US troops on ground

The three global powers 🤣🤣🤣, so America China and i guess India are having a meeting

The originator of the "Pizzagate" nonsense/babies being drained of bodily fluids/… A leading light of MAGA, naturally.

Crime that he's anywhere anything serious, and that the US Taxpayer is paying it

it's more terrifying than funny for me anyway

If Putin accepts a comprehensive peace deal now, I think we have assume he doesn't intend to launch another push a few years down the road, so I don't think that really matters…

Putin doesn't want peace. He wants to fracture Europe, fracture defensive alliances, he wants to invade all of Ukraine, he wants more territory for Russia. He will never ever stop unless stopped.

It's his invasion, he started it, he can end it any time.

Switch on Russian TV, they talk of nothing else but invading Europe and nuking European cities. The entire regime hinges and operates on war and aggression.

Reading posts like yours is like reading someone who thinks that Hitler just wanted peace and why can't we talk peace with him.

Maybe Trump will do some sort of temporary "deal" with Putin, but it will be on Putin (Hitlers) terms. It's unthinkable but here we are.

Might be sooner than that. It won't take too long to strip a few thousand washing machines, produce a few million extra shovels, import a few hundred thousand donkeys and a couple of million of those stealthy North Koreans from Pyongyang to start up an offensive towards Lisbon.

SBU believes the Chernobyl drone hit was intentional due to the nature of the warhead used and was not an accident.

I think the horrified reactions by European and Ukrainian leaders to the news of negotiations are a better indication of who doesn't want peace.

As for the rest: George Orwell in his dystopian novel 1984 described the concept of doublethink, the ability of Party members to hold completely contradictory ideas and believe both of them to be true. Doublethink seems to be alive and well. We're expected to believe that Russia is poised to conquer all of Europe with its terrifying military might AND Russia's military is a laughable non-threat that is being slaughtered by the millions AND Russia is totally defeated in Ukraine AND Putin doesn't want peace.

I think we need a (weekly?) reminder of the book "The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia".

This book, written in 1997, is taught a various levels in the Russian educational system, and particularly, military academies.

This is a blueprint of Russia's global aspirations and how to manoeuvre Russia back into the greatness of the USSR.

It has notable entries which have actually been achieved (discredit democracy in the west, split UK from Europe)…

The Russian's put on a baby face internationally, when all you have to do is see what they teach in the likes of this book to see what they really think.

TLDR version: https://demokratizatsiya.pub/archives/Geopolitics.pdf

Wikipedia link with mappings of whats been achieved so far from the book… Foundations of Geopolitics - Wikipedia

I know there is a lot of chaos in the news at the moment but when you take a step back away from the mania, there are some shining lights out of all this.

Firstly the idea that the European military is essentially sitting around twiddling their thumbs for the last few years is nonsense, we know factories have been stood up, we know production of munitions have gone up, we know purchases from the states have occurred, we know joint military exercises have happened, we may have lost the US in NATO as a trustworthy ally but we gained Finland and Sweden who are much closer to home and far more invested. I know Ireland is lagging here in our commitment to defense, but I wouldn't take the lack of extravagant headlines about military dominance from the EU to mean that there hasn't been a lot of activity over the last few years to bolster an EU focused bloc. Yes it would have been nice to have the states with us, but there is a lot of capability in Europe also.

And this drives another point, the more Trump, Vance and the rest of cartoon characters from the states appear to be completely detached, the more opportunity we're seeing from Europe to step into a more independent role. Macron has shown quite a lot of determination to help Ukraine repeatedly but the chaos in the white house appears to have stiffened spines in a few EU leaders also. It's hard to discern from all the noise around Trump but there is enough to be optimistic about in Europe's ability to fend for itself.

The graph showing EU sending 3x the aid that US did is a marked contrast in how we differ from the states. We are getting stuff done and ignoring the need to blow trumpets about it all. The states have "sent" 60bn in aid, but we know a lot of that stayed in the US anyway. I guess this is where the difference in maturity is showing, Europe doesn't feel the need to be as pompous as the states, but perhaps we're focusing on them so much simply because we like watching a car crash in motion.

this post reminds me of the three things - as per that Finnish intelligence officer-that are critical to the continuation to the perpetual continuation of the Russian K’way of life’ especially in the upper echlions of it, namely:-

(1)There must be a powerful leader at the top and which exudes all kinds of strength - be it being deep sea diving, riding horse bareback, jumbo expert, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc
(2) the regime must have a religious dimension - we can see this with the head of the arc church having had ‘close contact’ with Putins security apparatus ,. Also Putin lighting candles on occasions in churches, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.

(3) Russia must be ALWAYS at war or/ and - from a public perception- being under pending attack from whoever. NATO /US is currently filling that roll

"There's a new sheriff in town" ~Vance

Sigh. These guys think world affairs are a cowboys and Indians game. They really do.