It looks like Putin and his close advisors are trying to run a war on neoliberal lines. That relies on extreme parsimony, a just-enough just-in-time approach to logistics, reliance on managerial magic, a contempt for the enemy that works in the enemy's favour, and an indifference to the wellbeing of the people doing the heavy lifting (not to mention the people abandoned in the withdrawals). It's a corporate mentality, based on fantasies crafted by crackpot intellectuals.
I like and agree with your post with the exception of this particular Russian "special military operation." Ukraine is practicing Russian "cancel culture". Russian culture, heritage, and language are being canceled by the Ukrainian government. The regions engaged in conflict were part of the Russian empire prior to 1917. In my opinion, Russia is simply protecting the people's ethnicity in those regions.
Also in my opinion, the military industrial complex profits much more than the banks because of the steady flow of weapons to Ukraine.
How can western banks fund both conflicting sides when western banks will be sanctioned if money flows back to Russia? Also how does Russia's central bank profit when half of their monetary funds of $350 billion held OUTSIDE Russia are frozen?
Also Russia banking funds operating OUTSIDE of Russia are also frozen due to USA/EU sanctions. Hence the reason Russia demanded that the EU pay for natural gas in euros to be exchanged for Russian rubles at Russian banks INSIDE Russia. Also the USA/EU/UK forbids their banks from doing investment business with Russia banks.
In conclusion, the USA/EU/UK banks are profiting MUCH MORE than Russian banks. USA/EU/UK banks want to prolong this conflict for years with steady funding to the western military industrial complex for the steady flow of manufacturing weapons. While Russia wants and needs to end this "special military operation" as soon as possible in order to unfreeze Russian monetary funds held in USA/EU/UK.
I don't think they'll get their money back. This looks like a permanent state of affairs to me. I think Russia writes off the 350B, in fact I think they left the money there as bait. It had to be a large enough amount to make an impression on the rest of the world, which it has. Now no one will trust US banks and will be looking for an alternative to the US dollar for international trade, which is what this whole affair is ultimately about - breaking US dollar hegemony. Russia loses 350B, but the value of the assets and opportunities western banks and corporations walked away from far exceeds what they lost. Russian companies now have a clear field in their domestic markets, and Russian investors will keep their money at home.
All wars are bankers wars has become a bit of a cliche. You hear it repeated anytime the subject of war comes up. It may have been true in Smedley Butler's time, which I think is the source of the quote, but like all truisms, there are always exceptions.
It ain't "their money". It is money they create out of thin air. It is power & control they seek. USD means zip. The Western World is now being run by the Davos bunch, BIS, International Bankster club. They can create all the money they want with a keyboard. They want Russia in their club of fiefdoms like Western nations now are. And they want the populace in those same fiefdoms firmly under their control so we won't entertain forbidden thoughts like: Freedom, Democracy, Independence, Self-Determination, Human Rights, Equality, Fair Taxation, The Rule of Law, Equality under the Law. Nations that do not comply are targeted for CIA Regime Change Operations.
97% Owned: How is Money Created | Documentary Film:
The globalist predator class is just as excited about "multipolarity" and the elimination of the US dollar's status as the world's sole reserve currency as those statesmen who currently claim to be fighting globalism.
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"The main advantage of a multipolar IMFS is diversification. Multiple reserve currencies would increase the supply of safe assets, alleviating the downward pressures on the global equilibrium interest rate that an asymmetric system can exert. And with many countries issuing global safe assets in competition with each other, the safety premium they receive should fall." [ ... ]
"While the likelihood of a multipolar IMFS might seem distant at present, technological developments provide the potential for such a world to emerge. Such a platform would be based on the virtual rather than the physical." [ ... ]
"Let’s end the malign neglect of the IMFS and build a system worthy of the
diverse, multipolar global economy that is emerging."
"This is Riley's substack, NOT your substack that pushes your own claim to someone."
What are you, his agent? If he's upset with me he can tell me himself and I'll move on. I'm not here to cause any grief. I was directed here as a place where I'd find people whose views differed from my own. I'm not interested in echo chambers. Don't you do that? Engage with people who hold differing views? Or do you just want to be around people you agree with? Anyway, I've seen enough to satisfy my curiosity. I'll be moving on now. See how easy that was?
The problem with Butler is he commits the logical fallacy of extracting a general principle from a specific instance. For most of human history banks didn't exist in the form they take today, so how could ALL wars be banker's wars? It's a catchy notion as seen by the number of people repeating it, but it isn't actually true as a general principle or aphorism. It's similar to the statement "all swans are white." It seems logical based on empirical observation, but a single exception is all that's required to refute it.
Let me frame my objection as Socrates would by asking a leading question: If banks are in the business of making a profit, how does one profit from the complete destruction of the collateral held against loans to people who are now dead and have no way of repaying them? Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, all reduced to rubble, and a significant part of the population dead. Did the profit from the bombs and aircraft used to destroy them exceed the value of what was destroyed, including the future earnings of the people killed?
Speaking of the present, do the banks control the Chinese Communist Party? Does a coalition of banks control both sides of the conflict in Ukraine? You'd have a difficult time making either case I'd say. Banks may make temporary profits from specific aspects of a conflict, but on a net basis, they lose more than they gain when you take into account the entire scope of their present and future activities.
We have to be cautious when assuming that truisms are representative of actual truth. This, BTW, also applies to Hegelian dialectics, refuted by both Popper and Russell many years ago.
Their power of these Central Bankers comes from the fact that they create and control the Western World's money supply. Notice Libyan leader, Qaddafi, was trying to create an independent Pan-African bank to finance development of Africa. He had to be taken down by the European banker families. Notice that the First Act of the ragtag gang of Islamic barbarian rebels was to create The Central Bank of Libya. That was their priority?!?
Those guys can drop a $trillion as easily as the avg person can spend $1000. That's where their power comes from, unlimited wealth. Long ago, going back to even Jefferson, the battle raged over public vs private money creation. Presidents were assassinated over that. The private money creation gang won. And the implications of that loss have coalesced to this crisis that has been thrust upon us. The final battle. They seek now to consolidate their power into a World Totalitarian Techno-Feudal Malthusian society.
Debt = money creation. Without debt there is no money. You cannot expand an economy as China has by 8-15% per yr since 1984 without massive money creation, which they do by making zero to low interest loans from public banks which like all private banks, create the money out of thin air. Sounds horrid, all that debt, but in fact it is meaningless, since the money is owed to public banks that really don't care about loan repayment or even interest. It all really a sham, the RATIONAL thing to do is give up on the charade, create money exclusively by a Publicly owned, publicly controlled Central Bank, as a credit - NO DEBT NEEDED! But that sends the International Bankster criminals into a wild frenzy of rage & violence and will start a war if necessary to prevent that. They cannot allow debt-free money. So China obeys the rules and creates money as a debt, though it is all really so absurd and crazy.
Lincoln figured that out long ago with his Greenbacks, for which he was assassinated, by the London based Bankster criminals.
"...The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of Government, but it is the Government's greatest creative opportunity. By the adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts and exchanges. The financing of all public enterprises, the maintenance of stable government and ordered progress, and the conduct of the Treasury will become matters of practical administration. The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own government. Money will cease to be the master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power...."
Abraham Lincoln
"...If this mischievous financial policy which has its origin in North American during the late [Civil] war in that country, shall become endurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off debts and be without debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous without precedent in the history of the world. The brains, and wealth of all countries will go to North America. That country must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe..."
Hazard Circular, inserted in 1865 London Times, speaking of Lincoln's 'Greenbacks'
Watch the Youtube video: " 97% Owned: How is Money Created | Documentary Film"
"The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented ... Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with a flick of the pen they will create enough money to buy it back again ... if you want to continue to be slaves of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit."
Sir Josiah Stamp, Head Of The Bank of England, 1781
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and money system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company.
"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."
ebear, I imagine Anri_Jonis talks about contemporary wars, after 1694 (bank of england to help financing war with Spain). If the banks did exist earlier, world wars would have start earlier. If casus belli are invented, there is a reason for that. There are convergent interests between industrials and bankers (cf: Bagdad Bahn). BAE systems shares rise up since the beginning of the war, and I would like to know how possess BAE shares.
"how does one profit from the complete destruction of the collateral held against loans to people who are now dead and have no way of repaying them?"
Maybe you already heard about death insurance. It enables the bank to get paid and refund after the death of the borrower.
In case there is no such insurance, inheritance duty is reconsidered. The heir must pay for the credit.
And not only the residences , the houses are destroyed, but also infrastructures, schools, etc. The state loans are risk free debts, guaranteed by the governments.
You are pointlessly nitpicking. Of course not every single war is a banker war. You want to nitpick you can easily debunk virtually every simple slogan people have ever made. That's not the meaning of those phrases. Do you really thing you can make a popular phrase or slogan by writing 10 paragraphs describing all the nuances and exceptions? It is a fair statement that in general: "All Wars are Banker Wars".
You confuse Banks with Bankers. And Bankers with the gang of International Bankers who control the Western World. What Kennedy called the Gnomes of Zurich. They are playing the Great Game, far, far beyond the mickey mouse profit/loss argument you are using. They create our money supply out of thin air, profit/loss doesn't really enter into the picture. It is all about power & control. Creating and controlling the Money Supply is the ultimate power.
Questions that are ignored> However I will answer these questions.
1) ONLY an evil Ukraine has a "mirotvorets" website that publishes photos, names, addresses of over 300 children and over 300 journalists on a hit list. Who does that???? ONLY Evil Ukraine is the answer to that question. https://www.rt.com/russia/562521-mirotvorets-list-ukrainian-extremists/
2) ONLY an evil Ukraine fires weapons at it's own nuclear power plant that would create a hazardous ionizing radiation cloud that would carry across many countries. Who does that???? Only Evil Ukraine does that to bring a public outcry for NATO to get involved. https://www.rt.com/russia/562741-zaporozhye-nuclear-catastrophe-volodin/
5) ONLY an evil Ukraine ignored the Minsk agreements for peace in Donbass. Who ignored the Minsk agreements? Only an Evil Ukraine ignored the Minsk agreements in order to settle their own civil war by force. Former Ukrainian president Pyotr Poroshenko has admitted that Kiev’s main goal for 8 YEARS was to use the MInsk agreements to buy time and “create powerful ARMED forces.” Ukraine was planning to launch an all out "anti-terrorist operation" in March 2022. Russia tried last minute diplomacy by talking to USA Secretary of State, Germany's Schotz, and France's Macron in January 2022 that ended in a stalemate. Russia per-empted Ukraine's "anti-terrorist operation" in Feb 2022 with a DEFENSIVE chess move for THE SOLE PURPOSE OF PROTECTING language, culture, and heritage in the Donbass.
I agree with the first four points, they are just facts, and I partially agree with the point number five. It is true that Ukraine with the full support of the Western allies did everything possible to completely sabotage Minsk agreements for 7 years, but the motives of Putin and those closest to him to start the SMO, yet to conduct it in a half hearted way, are not entirely clear. What do we see now as the result of this military campaign? Russian population of Ukraine in the East and the South, that Putin promised to defend and to protect, endures the greatest suffering. Cities, towns and settlements are literally destroyed, FUBARed (fucked-up beyond repair), even the latest attacks targeting power plants and electrical grid are targeted at the Russian speaking cities of Kharkov and Krivoy Rog, while Kiev, Lvov and everything in between lives largely a normal life. These facts put into question for me the real objectives of the SMO.
This is a "special military operation" and NOT a war and that explains your description of the "half hearted way". Also Ukraine uses small and difficult to see "petal mines" against everyday people in Donestsk and target civilian homes and infrastructure every day and that is the main reason why people are suffering. Russia under-estimated Ukraine's evil use of civilians as human shields and Ukraine using public infrastructure as firing positions as documented by Amnesty International. The Russian objective is perfectly clear. Russia wants to STOP as much as possible Ukraine's government policy of ethnic genocide of hatred directed at Russian ethnicity.
Cities and towns are leveled, soldiers perish in hundreds of thousands, ammo use exceeds that of 1943 battle of Stalingrad by a factor of 2.5. Now, in three attempts let's figure out a difference between a war and a special military operation. Do you work for RT or RIA, by any chance?
I do not work and have NOT worked for RT. I simply read RT articles and watch RT news every day in order to hear the Russian side of the story. I hear both sides and make up my OWN mind. I have been following Ukraine's "anti terrorist operation" launched in Feb 2014 for over 8 YEARS. Who were the snipers on the rooftops in Kiev that shot at both police and protesters in Feb 2014 that immediately led to overthrow of Ukrainian government? The new Ukraine government NEVER opened an investigation. Why?
The diabolical plan to break up the Russian empire started in 1917. Vladimir Lenin was given safe harbor in Switzerland and safe transport in Germany and Sweden to overthrow the Russian government. Lenin then "created" Ukraine to weaken Russia and "created" Latvia with the treaty of Riga in 1922. Then nearly ALL Soviet leaders had Ukrainian roots and weakened Russia ON PURPOSE!!!!!!!! https://www.rt.com/russia/562523-ukranians-led-ussr/
We shouldn't simplify the matters. Perhaps Lenin was used as a tool in German hands to weaken Russia and to get it out of the war, but he wasn't a German spy, there just isn't evidence to support that. Lenin was an internationalist and given the strong internationalist ideology that Bolsheviks espoused creation of the Soviet Union as a union of semi-independent republics, especially taking into account already successful existence of USA as a federation of the States, this was for them certainly a natural way to re-unify a very diverse former empire. Gifting to the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine of huge territories to the East and South not populated by malorussians (now called Ukrainians) was certainly a huge mistake by Bolsheviks and is at the root of today's conflict. By far not all leaders of USSR had Ukrainian roots.
- Lenin was mostly Russian, 1/4 Kalmyk (Asian) through his father, and 1/8 Jewish through a great-grandfather on his mother's side. Her maiden name was Blanc, but Lenin wasn't aware of his Jewish roots. He was an interesting "hybrid". We know him as a bald middle aged man with a goatie beard and big forehead, but in his younger years when he was just starting his revolutionary career his nickname was "Angel" - tan olive skin, stark blue eyes and curly hair of reddish dark blond color. This was the description left for us by tsarist police department upon his first detention.
- Stalin was half Georgian (his mother), half Osetian (his father), his last name, Dzhugashvili, is a Georgianized version of Osetian family name Dzhugaev.
- Krushev was ethnic Russian but certainly a big Ukrainophile
- Brezhnev was 50/50 Russian/Ukrainian
- Chernenko was ethnic Ukrainian born and raised in Russia
- Andropov was Russian
- Gorbachev was Russian but grew-up in a Russian region of Kuban where many Ukrainians lived too
Yes, 1/8, but perhaps even 1/4 - this is not entirely clear. What is known is that his great-grandfather was born Moshe Blanc and was later baptized as Dmitry. His grandfather was born as Jew, named Israel Blanc and later in life baptized as Alexander. Alexander did an outstanding career as a doctor and was granted nobility status in Russian Empire because of his achievements. What is even more interesting is that Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) was also 1/4 German. His grandmother on the mother side was an ethnic German from Riga - Anna Grosschopf. To add this all up - 1/4 Jewish, 1/4 Kalmykian, 1/4 German, 1/4 Russian. In one word - a dynamite mixture! )))
Did you read the RT article written by Alexander Nepogodin, аn Odessa-born political journalist that I posted above? Alexander Nepogodin documents that the Bolsheviks and many Soviet leaders had Ukrainian nationalist ideals in order to weaken Russia. The Soviet Union was created with a PURPOSE to weaken the Russian Empire.
Neither I nor the article stated that Lenin was a German spy. Lenin was given western monetary funding to fight Russia's "white army". Lenin was most definitely a tool used by the west to exit WWI in exchange for weakening the Russian Empire. Lenin decided with a decree to create the Ukraine Socialist Republic from the Russian Empire. Stalin ceded more territory to Ukraine. And Khrushchev ceded Crimea to Ukraine in 1954 as a gift.
No I didn't read this particular article by Nepogodin but I'm very aware about discussion that goes on in Russian society in this regard. What's coming from the very top of the modern day Russia is disrespect for the Soviet legacy and that is reflected in the articles of the subservient media. Putin likened creation of the Soviet republics to putting an explosive nuclear charge under the country's structure. He also mocked Soviet industry saying all they could manufacture was caloshy (rubber shoes) and so forth. Now it is coming to the people's understanding that Soviets did some things wrong, but most things right. Regardless of the opinion of Putin and his surrounding that made their super riches on Soviet legacy and natural resources of the land, Russia will have to revert to a more just economic and social model, perhaps to something more like we see today in Belarus. Current socioeconomic arrangement is simply not sustainable long term and less than stellar performance during the SMO clearly shows that.
That is the problem that I encountered during my travels to USA and EU. They do NOT want to read a short article like RT article written by Alexander Nepogodin, аn Odessa-born political journalist. They do NOT want to know about FACTS either as they block another viewpoint based on FACTS from their mind.
The FACT is the Soviet Union collective communism set back the now Russian Federation territories by over 60 years in lost ingenuity! Only now that President Putin took charge, the Russian Federation is catching up and proclaiming their sovereignty.
The FACTS are the Soviet Union leadership were dominated by Ukrainian nationalists and subtracted Russian Empire territory and added the territory to Ukraine.
This "special military operation" would end tomorrow IF Ukraine government HONESTLY agreed to STOP persecuting Russian ethnicity.
and it is worth noting that "Latvians" were amongst the contingents who massacred the Romanov family, including and especially their very innocent and pious daughters OTMA and teenage son Alexei. This is recorded in the various diaries translated by Helen Azar et al
Edward, thanks for bringing this topic to the forefront. Judging by the number of comments this is something of great interest to the subscribers to your blog. Topwar.ru is certainly a respectable resource, I wasn't reading them much lately, as the place to go for the latest on the Russo-Ukrainian conflict seem to be the Tg channels but your recap of their materials show how they continue with critical and thoughtful coverage of the events as they did during the first stage of this conflict back in 2014.
As I have written a number of times in my comments to your blog posts we have to watch the hands and not listen to the words by analogy of playing a game of shells with the street crooks. So what does "hand watching" tell us this time around?
There are many signs that current nearly complete retreat from Kharkov region by Allied troops is an intentional action by the Russian top political leadership. There are reports that Russian military was ordered to quietly withdraw (leaving behind great quantities of ammo too, btw) before Ukrainians started their advance. As a matter of fact withdrawal of the regular Russian army ahead of Ukrainian offensive was so quiet, so fast and so secretive that they didn't communicate this to the troops of the Ministry of the Interior (SOBR, OMON, Rosguardia) that were stationed in Balaklea, Izium and other places, so that these units became surrounded or semi-surrounded by the advancing Ukrainian troops and had to engage in a direct combat with the enemy, something that they are not equipped or trained to do. Most of them managed to eventually get out with support of Russian artillery and aviation that slowed down Ukrainian advance, but they did suffer heavy casualties.
Just ahead of the events, on September 7th, Ukrainian and Russian oligarchs Kolomoiskiy and Abramovich were noticed to be present in Istanbul. As Ukrainian advance near Kharkov was coming to an end Putin received two phone calls, one from Emmanuel Macron on Saturday and one from Olaf Scholz on Sunday. Putin spoke to Scholz for over 90 minutes and this is very strange as they don't have with Scholz a "special connection" that despite all of their disagreements Putin had with Angela Merkel.
I can't say that this withdrawal came as part of the agreement were Russia decided to provide another concession expecting something else in return, but it looks like the plans to withdraw were communicated to the other side and this was probably presented to Scholz and Macron as another goodwill gesture and the willingness by Russia to re-engage in negotiations and to slowly de-escalate the conflict.
I think this is the last political concession of this kind that we have seen from Russia, unless the war situation will turn really grave for them. In a way this is a consolidation game by giving away non-strategic assets that Russia managed to capture during the initial phase of the conflict and now they decided to stick only to the core strategic acquisitions. Those are:
- LPR - now completely under LPR's people's militia and Russia Army control
- DPR - only about 60% of the DPR's territory (administrative Donetsk oblast border) was recaptured so ahead are fights to dislodge fortified and entrenched Ukrainian troops in this region that keep shelling and killing people in Donetsk and other cities every day
- Land bridge to Crimea that goes along the shores of the Azov Sea
- City of Kherson and Kherson region
- Ideally Russia would love to separate Ukraine from the Black Sea coast all together and solve the Transnistria problem by getting up to unrecognized republic's border, but this may be too big of a task for them at this moment.
The reason for this plan minimum is as follows:
- republics are going to get defended and taken under control, in this case I can say liberated as most people there want Russians to come, for political reasons. Not accomplishing this task takes away the entire foundation of starting the SMO in a first place
- creating a land bridge to Crimea and making Azov Sea a Russian internal sea again is of huge geopolitical importance for them
- Finally, the city of Kherson and water intake facilities on river Dniepr near Kherson to continue supplying Crimean peninsula with plentiful water is of great importance for the development of the peninsula that is Russia's favorite summer vacation spot where population bulges by couple of million every summer.
So, if I'm right in my reading of the situation, we won't be seeing anymore "goodwill gestures" from the Russian side. If we'll see massive retreats like what we saw under Kharkov where 3000 km2 were handed over to the enemy in a span of three days - those would be the signs of the real military defeat and not a political 5d play of the Russian commander-in-chief in his infinite Byzantine wisdom. ;)
Please note, this review of the recent events is done at the tactical and operational level. Strategically this war remains to be what it was intended to be from the very beginning: to play into the Great Reset game and to up the bets in the "seat at the table with the Western nations" game that Putin kept losing since 2012. See my other comments. I probably should start reposting my longer, article like posts under my own blog so it would be easier for readers to find them.
Do you have any evidence proof that President Putin is playing "Great Reset" game?
In my opinion, Russia ALREADY had their great reset in 1992 when all Soviet money became worthless.
In my opinion, this is all about George Orwell's vision of >Oceania (USA/EU/UK/Australia/ New Zealand), >Eurasia (Russia) and >East Asia (China) in a mutual agreement to CONTROL their own sphere of influence. The reason NATO is surrounding Russia is just in case the Russian Federation falls apart so NATO can swoop in. The Russian Federation is united right now. It does NOT make sense to me that President Putin wants to sabotage his own sphere of influence with a "special military operation". This "special military operation's was envisioned to strengthen the Russian Federation and NOT weaken especially AFTER an armistice is signed like North/South Korea. Although unilateral, illegal western sanctions will initially weaken the Russian Federation by the illegal confiscation of Russian funds, the SOVEREIGNTY that Russia obtains will ensure a slow steady strength from 2022 to the future.
By the way, are you willing to be a guest via streamyard that would be posted on my future bitchute channel? (Target date Dec 2022)
Putin is not an ideologue of the "Great Reset". He just wants to play along with other big boys and if they play "Great Reset", he'll play "Great Reset" too. Not sure if you had a chance to read my other lengthy piece on the reasons why Putin was installed to power back in 1999 (I really should start re-posting my longer comments under my own blog), but the bottom line is - he was put in charge to oversee Russia's integration into the "civilizational mainstream" whatever forms it may be taking in its own development.
The "civilizational mainstream" a.k.a. the "Great Western Civilization" played with the idea of greater world socioeconomic zones as the next step from the current model of liberal globalization, that while being damaged is still alive. However, what the COVID campaign conducted uniformly all over the world has shown us - they (the globalist elites) decided to opt for one global government and one set of rules applied to all. For the elites the world will continue being their oyster with very little barriers preventing them to roam as they please, while for the rest of us the world is going to get compartmentalized in increasingly more subdivided fashion going from making state borders more difficult to cross, then to states and provinces. Eventually coming down to isolation by compound, as they are playing with today in China.
In my opinion Putin's rule was and continues to be detrimental for Russia, especially because this detriment wasn't so obvious to either internal or external observers. He is extremely good at playing a patriot in front of the masses, while doing and allowing to happen less than patriotic things in the background. Just one example is pension reform about which so many complain, but this is really just a tip of the iceberg. What Putin did after Yeltsin, he took Russia off the steep crash trajectory that was supposed to hit the ground by 2003, into a much gentler slope of regress, but this is still a regress! Projected ground touchdown is going to happen in late 2023, early 2024. As a result we are either going to see Russia subdivided into 15 - 20 "regular size" subjugated states or emerging as phoenix stronger and with greater sphere of influence.
I appreciate your offer to come to your future video channel, but for this I'll need to decide to come out of my closet, and I haven't decided to do it yet. Check in later!
"(I really should start re-posting my longer comments under my own blog)"
C'mon Stanley, c'est une bonne idée!
An interview with Perception Deception could be very interesting if the good man be careful, breath, not to be to emotional. The big letters are not necessary.... We're not looking for consensus but for intelligent reasoning and "civilized" exchange of ideas.
The maturity required to accept new set of data is another thing and invite patience
Ok, I promise to go through my comments and take some more important ones in my view to my own blog here at Substack. As for Perception Deception, despite the occasional ALL CAPS he seems to be a cultured man (I assume he is a man), that's why I don't ignore his comments, but provide my extensive replies. Thanks for your, now customary, support, Bugey Libre!
I use CAPS on words and phases for emphasis and that is MY personal trademark. Sometimes there is a battle of opinions between us. Riley will permit that since we are respectful. I prove my point when people can NOT bear to read a RT article just because it is a RT article. At least I listen to both sides including Ukrainska Pravda and the New Voice of Ukraine and make up my OWN mind.
I do NOT boost and I merely state the FACT that I have been to over 30 countries including Africa. And I talk to people in their country (as long as they speak English) because I really like talking to people. I find it comical for people to post about Russia and Africa when they have NOT been there like I have. They read everything on the internet and form their own entitled opinion.
All Riley has to do is send me a private post to stop posting here and I will stop with NO questions asked. I post to educate people and to tell another side of the story that people do NOT get to hear because I am NOT an echo chamber.
How many people on this posting board know that Poland had a "concentration camp" in the 1930s? Hitler thought it was a brilliant idea and copied it. How many people know that Poland had VERY little seacoast and MOST of their seacoast used to belong to present day Germany?
I COMPLETELY RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE with you on your above post about President Putin. That post is SIMPLY your OPINION and you are entitled to it. There is NOT ONE FACT in your post IN MY OPINION. The diaspora (that includes you I believe since you indicated that you have Russian descendants that moved from Russia) are OVER and ABOVE critically harsh on President Putin without any FACTS to back your claims. On my travels on Aeroflot, I had MANY conversations with Russian diaspora people and ALL of them (diaspora) are against President Putin because they are systematically unwittingly brainwashed. When I mean ALL, I mean ALL the diaspora I talked to.
They live in their ivory tower residences in Miami, NYC, LA, DC,NJ, etc. and blame President Putin for everything.
However, when I talk to Russians in Russia, I engage in realistic conversations of how USA/EU/UK have systematically kept ALL technology computer chips away from Russia, sold Lenovo computers (formally IBM) to China for Chinese advancement against Russia (that will eventually haunt the USA like a ghost) while selling Orbit chewing gum and Lays potato chips to Russia.
Hmm, did I mention diaspora somewhere? I think we had a discussion of how people in Russia see the Soviet past and how their view on that part of the history varies from Putin and Russia's ruling class that view tsarist Russia as a model worth copying. They want a class society in which they'll become a new nobility able to pass on not only their money, but the status to their kids, grandkids and so on. This is why the positive view of the Soviet past, largely egalitarian, by majority of the population is so abhorrent to them.
You are switching the topic and then use plain, but unrelated facts to attempt to prove your points.
- Is Russian diaspora in US, Canada, Israel or anywhere else in the West mostly anti-Putin? Absolutely they are.
- Do Russian people in their majority approve of Putin despite some disagreements like the one I have mentioned about the assessment of the Soviet past? Yes, they do.
- Did Poland benefit from the outcomes of the WWII by gaining German territories to the west and a lot of Baltic Sea coast that it didn't have before the war and a lot of this happened because USSR through Stalin advocated a special generosity toward Poland hoping they would come to senses after their russophobic past? Yes, they did, yet today Poland, and not just the government, but the people, were indoctrinated to be the most Russia hating country in Eastern Europe. History repeats itself.
These are the facts, and I just took a sampling of the ones you mentioned that are well known to anyone who pays attention to what's going on in Russia and at its neighbors, but how does it contribute to the main threads of our dialogue?
A. Putin's rule is detrimental for Russia.
B. Most people in Russia respect their Soviet past but don't necessarily want to come back to it.
With all due respect, I believe your A. opinion is COMPLETELY backwards. The Soviet Union's past rule was MUCH MORE detrimental for Russia in my opinion. The fact is western investment in the Soviet Union during the ENTIRE cold war was VERY limited. Western investment in Russia during President Putin's leadership reached it's peak.
I ask a simple yes or no question> Are you willing to bet $1000 on your keyboard opinion that President Putin is detrimental for Russia? Since we both trust Riley's integrity, I suggest Riley poll 100 random people when he gets back to Russia and ask, "Is President Putin leadership detrimental for Russia?"
Whoever has more votes will win the $1000 sent via moneygram. Please answer yes or no. And THEN we will ask Riley if he is willing to conduct the poll in RUSSIA. I will pay Riley $100 for his time polling as I will still be $900 in the green. If you answer, "No", then there is NO point in asking Riley. If you answer, "Yes", then I will ask Riley and pay him $100 via moneygram if he accepts the offer to conduct the question poll in RUSSIA upon his return.
By the way, California's governor is just like the Moscow mayor. Both are Certificate of Vaccination ID LIBERAL freaks and are BOTH detrimental in my opinion.
In favor of my analysis of the situation in Kharkov region where Russian troops were withdrawn even from the towns in the north, near Russian border, where they were not attacked by Ukrainian forces. This was a "consolidation of strategic assets" game that I suspected was the key reason for a rapid and secretive withdrawal without much fight by Russian troops. Now events are are starting to develop rapidly and we can note three main themes:
1. In Russian parliament they have just voted in the new law amendments that address the war time measures by making punishments harsher and introducing new types of punishable offenses during war time. This law was voted in in one session without much debate or corrections.
2. Belarus is elevating conflict readiness level by conducting mobilization drills
3. Referendums with a question whether to join Russia are going to be conducted in LPR, DPR, occupied (liberated) parts of Zaporozhye region and in entire Kherson region. Here is the summary of referendum plans from the Russian military analyst Colonel Cassad
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Summing up by referendums.
1. Referendums will be held from September 23 to 27 in the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
2. Referendums will be held both in person and in absentia (with house visits) for security reasons.
3. After the referendums, all territories will apply for membership in the Russian Federation, which will be considered as a matter of priority.
4. After consideration of applications, all territories will become part of the Russian Federation - de facto, 4 new subjects of the Russian Federation.
5. The DPR and LPR retain their names and flags. It is still unclear about the regions. Zaporozhye is proposed to be called the "Zaporozhskiy Krai".
6. According to opinion polls, you can count on 70-85% for joining the Russian Federation, with turnout in the region of 65-75% on average.
7. The United States, NATO and Germany have stated that they do not recognize the results of the referendums. In Ukraine, they immediately became hysterical that holding referendums would negate the slightest chance of negotiations.
8. Of course, the war in Ukraine will not stop, but now it will have a qualitatively different context. We are waiting for the announcement of specific measures to optimize how SMO is conducted.
The russians have spared civilians and russians life , if i could come up with a war plan that saves civilians better i would critizais. Lets consider all wars before was barbarian and romanian. It's minibrain to talk about russian is not doing what it should. Russia is defeting the west , tell me one country that hade the economics after the aplied chock doctrine (cia). Couldn't these keyboard warriors give russia at least 1 or to 2 years to accomplish denasification , if usa got 20 years in Afganistan?
It all fits into Putin being a Satrap. The goal is to enslave us all. Fake plagues, fake wars, fake climate change, fake money, fake media. Let's face it. It's not difficult to work out what is going on.
So, it's hopeless then? If so, why are you here? To help the rest of us abandon hope like you have? I see this position expressed a lot on various message boards. The opinion itself is fairly common, but I wonder what the point is of broadcasting it. Is it propaganda? Frustration? Where does it come from? Have you asked yourself why you should believe what you believe, or you do just assume that your sources are reliable and proceed on that basis?
The war is an excuse to plunder and impoverish people here in the West. If it wasn't happen in Ukraine, they would make war in another place. So why take any of this seriously?
We should discuss how to stop their enslavement agenda and identify the persons and families responsible for all of that by name instead of cheering for either side in this made up conflict. We should identify our true enemies, understand their power and find ways to neutralize it.
"We should discuss how to stop their enslavement agenda..."
Looks to me like Russia is doing exactly that, at least as far as their situation is concerned. Ours we have to deal with ourselves of course, but that's no reason to not recognize their attempt and support it where possible. More to the point, I think Russia is doing a lot of heavy lifting for us. Russia, China and others are establishing a new monetary order based on resources and productive capacity, whereas ours is based on unsupportable debt with nothing behind it. That won't last much longer, and at that point we have an opportunity to change the system. Not a guarantee of course, but better than nothing at all.
If you read this blog you already know the same game is going on in Russia. China? Yeah, *thats* the free world, right?
I know people living in Hong Kong, oh sorry, I mean not any more. They were expelled from there. People are fleeing in troves from the Chinese Happy Panda world.
On either side we are only useless eaters or in the best case cattle for them.
Many years ago (more than I care to remember) I was part of a military exercise pitting the cadet corp of our regiment (Canadian AF) against the regular militia. With about 40 to 50 combatants on either side, the militia held high ground with trenches which we were expected to take. We were poised to attack on a line which involved a frontal assault over open ground, which we all though was insane. There was forest on either side and to the rear of the enemy position, so why didn't we flank them, using the trees as cover?
As the moment to attack approached, a Cessna 172 appeared at low altitude and crossed our line, heading directly towards the enemy's position. They were all standing around pointing at it when a series of sandwich bags containing flour were ejected from the plane and landed right on top of them, covering everyone with white powder. At that moment we advanced, and since everyone defending was technically dead, we took the hill with no casualties. Having captured and secured the position, we then took stock of their defences and noticed that half their fire positions were directed towards the forest on either side, which would have made flanking very costly. They had also set mines along their flanks which would have made assault from that direction even more of a slaughter.
Valuable lessons were learned on that day about three basic elements of warfare: surprise, deception, and security. Our enemy was surprised by the appearance of a civilian aircraft and assumed it had either strayed into military airspace, which is prohibited, or was in difficulty and looking for a place to land. It never occurred to them that it was part of the exercise, for which they paid a heavy price. Surprise and deception. As for security, none of us had any idea that our commander, who owned the Cessna, had obtained permission to use his plane as part of the exercise. The base commander thought it was a brilliant idea that would teach his people a valuable lesson, and it worked.
The point I'm trying to make is that no one on the ground has any knowledge of anything involving tactics or strategy up until the moment they need to know. This avoids revealing one's plans if captured. It also means that anything anyone tells you at that level knows no more than you do, so you can safely ignore all those Telegram posts and Tweets and other nonsense. They are just uninformed noise. Likewise, no Ministry of Defence is going to give you any operational information before or after the fact if it compromises strategic objectives. Anything they do say can therefore be taken as either propaganda, or misdirection. So seriously, stop complaining about mixed messages or lack of information coming from the Ru MoD. The people who need to know will know, but it's not their job to keep us informed, much less entertained.
I never joined the regular forces, which was a disappointment to my father, as our family has a long history of military service, but those two years I was in the cadet corp. taught me valuable lessons. We were treated just like the regular forces, and trained by the same personnel, including special ops. guys who taught us unarmed combat. I could strip and assemble the NATO field weapon of the day, operate an APC, fight on snowshoes in winter terrain, and we even took parachute training using a vintage WWII training tower. You don't forget something like that! All this before my 18th birthday.
I watched a YT video a while ago of the same type of combat training I received. It involved capturing a village where the enemy was using houses and outbuildings as cover. The exercise was very well executed including mobile operations using BMPs. The entire exercise, including command, was done by young Russian women in their late teens and early 20's. I can honestly say, I would not like to go up against those women, and if they're an example of the kind of training the RAF receives, same goes for any of their units, be they militia, contract or reserves.
Imagine you're taking a bus to somewhere. Do you sit in the front looking over the driver's shoulder to see how fast he's going, what gear he's in, and whether he has both hands on the wheel? Or do you read a book, watch the scenery, or chat up that cute chick sitting next to you? The answer's obvious, right? Relax and let the driver do his job.
Point is, why didn't the Russians apply the same tactics against the trenched positions?
Just using armed drones? I mean, satellites tell you where the trenches are. Fly over and bomb them back to Ukraine. Russians had 8 years to practice and plan.
Can you explain?
My explanation would be that "war" is a show, but nothing else. It is planned to go back and forth to occupy us plebs and be a explanation to rob us blind. No one actually wants to win.
Smart military doesn't use its more new and advanced weapons unless necessary. It saves them for when it is. So far it isn't. Newsflash: Russia is winning; Ukraine is losing.
I agree. The longer it goes, the bigger bucks for the instigators. Everyone else gets fucked, especially Ukranians and Russians. After Ukraine is completely destroyed and the populace thinned out, look for the Usual Suspects to swoop in and ''rebuild'' in their own image. Putin's as big a puppet as Zelensky the Clown Actor.
They told you the mission at the outset. Demilitarization and denazification. Proceeding as planned with only minor glitches. Where all the impatience is coming from I don't know. Must just be human nature because they never gave you a timetable. That was something the media cooked up so they could claim failure when the job wasn't finished in a couple of weeks, or whatever their "experts" told them it should take. Nobody in Russia or the Donbass told you that. All I've heard from that side is that it will take as long as it takes.
LOL. They (the US Gov't) ''told us the mission'' in Iraq was to get the WMDs. Afghanistan, get Bin Laden. So, Putin, or his designees, ''told you the mission.'' Doesn't mean jack shit what they tell you, or how it's proceeding, or not. ''They'' are all fucking liars. ''All Wars are Bankers' Wars, '' USMC Gen. Smedley Butler, circa 1935. NOTHING has changed, in that regard. Wakeee, wakeee.
"Surely, you jest" No, actually I mock. Talk down to me and that's what you get. Insult me, and I'll just ignore you, although that won't be necessary as I'm moving on. Like some other substacks I've looked at, this is a small club, and I'm not in it.
"if the Armed Forces of Ukraine are left without equipment, if the soldiers do not want to fight and scatter, then who, excuse me, captures the cities? Are necromancers raising the dead?"
One thing I noticed about the few Ukrainians who didn't have face coverings is they suspiciously did not look Ukrainian. We already know there are American, British, French, Swedish, German and Israeli 'mercenaries' there, and it makes me wonder if the sudden appearance of the masked Ukrainian army isn't just a very large NATO merc force 'incognito' making up for the shortfall.
As for the heavy weapons, it isn't surprising - the US keeps announcing billions more dollars in weapons shipments to the point they're reporting shortages in their own stockpile:
It is a *lot* of weapons to send from the US - the world's largest military budget (still bigger if you add up second, third and fourth place together). Think how many weapons they must be throwing at Ukraine. It probably explains why every other Intel Slava Z post in the earlier period was just more reports of abandoned equipment.
There was also an interesting media shot of Zelensky being in Lyman recently I noticed, with a guy in the background who... looked very much like Zelensky also? Body doubles aren't uncommon, but for there to be one right next to the original(?) seemed off to me. Attack of the clones?
Ukraine must be a wonderful opportunity for civilian and ex-military contractors to get their war fix. These are the same people who profited from the U.S. government's outsourcing of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Those are minor points, the major point, the Elephant in the Room is how PERFECTLY this war fit into the broader "Great Reset", "Green Agenda", "Build Back Better", "New World Order" paradigm that began with their bioweapon release. All Wars are Banker Wars.
Thank you Edward. Brilliant. And a new source: military review 'topwar.ru'. I just checked, I can get it no trouble.
This post smacks of the real. I'm a bit bemused and perhaps lost after months of wading through the fog of war analysis and reportage. This clears the mind a bit.
I have recently settled on a small group of outlets which I thought were pretty objective. And knowledgeable. But they haven't told me these things.
I'll bring your post to their attention if I can. At least post it in their comment sections.
I use Youtube channels: military summary, the new atlas, defence politics asia, alexander mercouris, scott ritter and the moonofalabama.org site. Those are my main ones.
Seems like I'm missing out on a broad view. And perhaps I"m swallowing propaganda, would you say, looking at that list?
Strelkov has been lambasting the SMO almost from the start, even recommending (tongue-in-cheek) the Politburo be shot. He states the frontal attacks on the heavily fortified AFU positions before the Donbass are madness. Sufficient forces were not deployed to conduct encircling maneuvers (Murz https://kenigtiger.livejournal.com/ posted that before it was erased by the Russian authorities.)
On the strategic level it appears a Vietnam like scenario was planned. Lots of meatgrinding and profits for the arms manufacturers on both sides.
Apparently many Russians are starting to suspect that the Kremlin is not making an honest attempt. The Kremlin has a serious PR job on its hands. Most likely it will have to resort to repression or face the pitchforks.
The Rand plan to dismember the Russian Federation together with bioweapons specifically designed to target the Russian people would have to be the mother of all casus belli . That is more than enough to go positively medieval (as Marsellus Wallace said in Pulp Fiction) on the Ukies and indeed the West And yet we have a half-hearted SMO instead of all-out war.
You've heard the expression "revenge is a dish best served cold" right? The collective west is depleting its military and financial resources in Ukraine. Why not keep that up as long as possible when you have the greater capacity to sustain the conflict? Meantime, you get to capture their equipment (or buy it off the Ukrainians) and study it to your heart's content.
Chances are, with winter coming and energy in short supply it won't be necessary to engage the west in open warfare which carries all kinds of risks. The path we're on now has the potential to end the EU and the subordination of European interests to US hegemony without actually firing a shot. That to me seems like the better path.
Strange situation. Maybe the leadership of Russia (who they are?!) have to decide if in Ukraine is a transhumanist suicidal ballet, an act of faith to protect Mother Russia in a multipolar world or both (what is impossible). When somebody want to be in two boats in the same time is in a dangerous situation.
Is it September already? That’s finals month and the Demons are already out of the (AFL) race – that’s a good omen!
Hell’s Bells!. Germany’s SMO into German Danzig on 1 September 1939 (to restore democratic self-determination, to suppress the terrorism and genocide of displaced German citizens and thereby negate the Diktat of Versailles abomination) lasted only 18 (that’s EIGHTEEN) days. The parallels are ACUTE!! And despite giving Poland unlimited and unhindered corridor access to the seaport (no not Mariupol, the other, Baltic one), the handlers of the drunkard Churchill (international warmongers, usurers and profiteers) decided it would be better to have a world war.
I'm still suspicious that they are planning a nuclear weapon detonation in NYC just as they did the 9/11 building demolitions. Very peculiar the PSA's in NYC regarding preparing for a nuclear explosion and everyone getting a Go-Bag or a Get-Out-Of-Town-Quick bag. Of course the blast will be blamed on Putin as 9/11 was blamed on Afghanistan & Iraq. And likely lead to martial law in the USA and cancelling of elections.
I assumed everyone knew this was leading to at very best a nuclear standoff.
Euromerican military is brain-dead and increasingly bullet-less but determined to start something. Russia has clearly defined what it will do every step of the way in terms of Shit Up With Which We Shall Not Put.
But it's always Russia's fault for not fighting a Perfect War. Heaven forbid they just focus on diminishing regional threats while trying to avert nuclear Armageddon. We want Peace in Donbass and we want it NOW!!!! sounds like a Pussy Riot B-side.
Fer chrissake, people: it's a WAR. Things go boom. Bloody guts. Die screaming. Screaming while wishing you were dead.
Internet Phenomenon. This is arguably the first internet war, at least the first with wide coverage, near-real time reporting, and of course happening in the heart of Europe, which gets more attention than say the Middle East or Africa. I have a fairly good understanding of the military situation, so I don't really follow the day to day activity. I'm studying the phenomenon itself - the effect of universal communication media on people's thoughts, expectations and fears. I approach the pandemic in the same way. People's behaviour is of more interest to me than the specifics of the virus or vaccine, which are already well covered by people who know more than I do.
Since I have understood that you understand French as some other do, you might be interested in listening to above video, which is an interview of a French Général, Vincent Desportes (not active as such but as military scholar).
It looks like Putin and his close advisors are trying to run a war on neoliberal lines. That relies on extreme parsimony, a just-enough just-in-time approach to logistics, reliance on managerial magic, a contempt for the enemy that works in the enemy's favour, and an indifference to the wellbeing of the people doing the heavy lifting (not to mention the people abandoned in the withdrawals). It's a corporate mentality, based on fantasies crafted by crackpot intellectuals.
Well said, and totally true.
I like and agree with your post with the exception of this particular Russian "special military operation." Ukraine is practicing Russian "cancel culture". Russian culture, heritage, and language are being canceled by the Ukrainian government. The regions engaged in conflict were part of the Russian empire prior to 1917. In my opinion, Russia is simply protecting the people's ethnicity in those regions.
Also in my opinion, the military industrial complex profits much more than the banks because of the steady flow of weapons to Ukraine.
How can western banks fund both conflicting sides when western banks will be sanctioned if money flows back to Russia? Also how does Russia's central bank profit when half of their monetary funds of $350 billion held OUTSIDE Russia are frozen?
Also Russia banking funds operating OUTSIDE of Russia are also frozen due to USA/EU sanctions. Hence the reason Russia demanded that the EU pay for natural gas in euros to be exchanged for Russian rubles at Russian banks INSIDE Russia. Also the USA/EU/UK forbids their banks from doing investment business with Russia banks.
In conclusion, the USA/EU/UK banks are profiting MUCH MORE than Russian banks. USA/EU/UK banks want to prolong this conflict for years with steady funding to the western military industrial complex for the steady flow of manufacturing weapons. While Russia wants and needs to end this "special military operation" as soon as possible in order to unfreeze Russian monetary funds held in USA/EU/UK.
I don't think they'll get their money back. This looks like a permanent state of affairs to me. I think Russia writes off the 350B, in fact I think they left the money there as bait. It had to be a large enough amount to make an impression on the rest of the world, which it has. Now no one will trust US banks and will be looking for an alternative to the US dollar for international trade, which is what this whole affair is ultimately about - breaking US dollar hegemony. Russia loses 350B, but the value of the assets and opportunities western banks and corporations walked away from far exceeds what they lost. Russian companies now have a clear field in their domestic markets, and Russian investors will keep their money at home.
All wars are bankers wars has become a bit of a cliche. You hear it repeated anytime the subject of war comes up. It may have been true in Smedley Butler's time, which I think is the source of the quote, but like all truisms, there are always exceptions.
It ain't "their money". It is money they create out of thin air. It is power & control they seek. USD means zip. The Western World is now being run by the Davos bunch, BIS, International Bankster club. They can create all the money they want with a keyboard. They want Russia in their club of fiefdoms like Western nations now are. And they want the populace in those same fiefdoms firmly under their control so we won't entertain forbidden thoughts like: Freedom, Democracy, Independence, Self-Determination, Human Rights, Equality, Fair Taxation, The Rule of Law, Equality under the Law. Nations that do not comply are targeted for CIA Regime Change Operations.
97% Owned: How is Money Created | Documentary Film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcGh1Dex4Yo
The globalist predator class is just as excited about "multipolarity" and the elimination of the US dollar's status as the world's sole reserve currency as those statesmen who currently claim to be fighting globalism.
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"The main advantage of a multipolar IMFS is diversification. Multiple reserve currencies would increase the supply of safe assets, alleviating the downward pressures on the global equilibrium interest rate that an asymmetric system can exert. And with many countries issuing global safe assets in competition with each other, the safety premium they receive should fall." [ ... ]
"While the likelihood of a multipolar IMFS might seem distant at present, technological developments provide the potential for such a world to emerge. Such a platform would be based on the virtual rather than the physical." [ ... ]
"Let’s end the malign neglect of the IMFS and build a system worthy of the
diverse, multipolar global economy that is emerging."
— Mark Carney, August 2019
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https://web.archive.org/web/20191031053952/https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/speech/2019/the-growing-challenges-for-monetary-policy-speech-by-mark-carney.pdf?la=en&hash=01A18270247C456901D4043F59D4B79F09B6BFBC
"This is Riley's substack, NOT your substack that pushes your own claim to someone."
What are you, his agent? If he's upset with me he can tell me himself and I'll move on. I'm not here to cause any grief. I was directed here as a place where I'd find people whose views differed from my own. I'm not interested in echo chambers. Don't you do that? Engage with people who hold differing views? Or do you just want to be around people you agree with? Anyway, I've seen enough to satisfy my curiosity. I'll be moving on now. See how easy that was?
Great comments Anri! nice to read that you are feeling much better, sounds like a lioness...
I think you will enjoy that old woman's message and energy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OutYNwpbKw
Force et honneur
The problem with Butler is he commits the logical fallacy of extracting a general principle from a specific instance. For most of human history banks didn't exist in the form they take today, so how could ALL wars be banker's wars? It's a catchy notion as seen by the number of people repeating it, but it isn't actually true as a general principle or aphorism. It's similar to the statement "all swans are white." It seems logical based on empirical observation, but a single exception is all that's required to refute it.
Let me frame my objection as Socrates would by asking a leading question: If banks are in the business of making a profit, how does one profit from the complete destruction of the collateral held against loans to people who are now dead and have no way of repaying them? Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, all reduced to rubble, and a significant part of the population dead. Did the profit from the bombs and aircraft used to destroy them exceed the value of what was destroyed, including the future earnings of the people killed?
Speaking of the present, do the banks control the Chinese Communist Party? Does a coalition of banks control both sides of the conflict in Ukraine? You'd have a difficult time making either case I'd say. Banks may make temporary profits from specific aspects of a conflict, but on a net basis, they lose more than they gain when you take into account the entire scope of their present and future activities.
We have to be cautious when assuming that truisms are representative of actual truth. This, BTW, also applies to Hegelian dialectics, refuted by both Popper and Russell many years ago.
Their power of these Central Bankers comes from the fact that they create and control the Western World's money supply. Notice Libyan leader, Qaddafi, was trying to create an independent Pan-African bank to finance development of Africa. He had to be taken down by the European banker families. Notice that the First Act of the ragtag gang of Islamic barbarian rebels was to create The Central Bank of Libya. That was their priority?!?
Those guys can drop a $trillion as easily as the avg person can spend $1000. That's where their power comes from, unlimited wealth. Long ago, going back to even Jefferson, the battle raged over public vs private money creation. Presidents were assassinated over that. The private money creation gang won. And the implications of that loss have coalesced to this crisis that has been thrust upon us. The final battle. They seek now to consolidate their power into a World Totalitarian Techno-Feudal Malthusian society.
Debt = money creation. Without debt there is no money. You cannot expand an economy as China has by 8-15% per yr since 1984 without massive money creation, which they do by making zero to low interest loans from public banks which like all private banks, create the money out of thin air. Sounds horrid, all that debt, but in fact it is meaningless, since the money is owed to public banks that really don't care about loan repayment or even interest. It all really a sham, the RATIONAL thing to do is give up on the charade, create money exclusively by a Publicly owned, publicly controlled Central Bank, as a credit - NO DEBT NEEDED! But that sends the International Bankster criminals into a wild frenzy of rage & violence and will start a war if necessary to prevent that. They cannot allow debt-free money. So China obeys the rules and creates money as a debt, though it is all really so absurd and crazy.
Lincoln figured that out long ago with his Greenbacks, for which he was assassinated, by the London based Bankster criminals.
"...The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of Government, but it is the Government's greatest creative opportunity. By the adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts and exchanges. The financing of all public enterprises, the maintenance of stable government and ordered progress, and the conduct of the Treasury will become matters of practical administration. The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own government. Money will cease to be the master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power...."
Abraham Lincoln
"...If this mischievous financial policy which has its origin in North American during the late [Civil] war in that country, shall become endurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off debts and be without debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous without precedent in the history of the world. The brains, and wealth of all countries will go to North America. That country must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe..."
Hazard Circular, inserted in 1865 London Times, speaking of Lincoln's 'Greenbacks'
Watch the Youtube video: " 97% Owned: How is Money Created | Documentary Film"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcGh1Dex4Yo
"The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented ... Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with a flick of the pen they will create enough money to buy it back again ... if you want to continue to be slaves of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit."
Sir Josiah Stamp, Head Of The Bank of England, 1781
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and money system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company.
"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."
Mayer Amschel Rothschild, International Banker
ebear, I imagine Anri_Jonis talks about contemporary wars, after 1694 (bank of england to help financing war with Spain). If the banks did exist earlier, world wars would have start earlier. If casus belli are invented, there is a reason for that. There are convergent interests between industrials and bankers (cf: Bagdad Bahn). BAE systems shares rise up since the beginning of the war, and I would like to know how possess BAE shares.
"how does one profit from the complete destruction of the collateral held against loans to people who are now dead and have no way of repaying them?"
Maybe you already heard about death insurance. It enables the bank to get paid and refund after the death of the borrower.
In case there is no such insurance, inheritance duty is reconsidered. The heir must pay for the credit.
And not only the residences , the houses are destroyed, but also infrastructures, schools, etc. The state loans are risk free debts, guaranteed by the governments.
You are pointlessly nitpicking. Of course not every single war is a banker war. You want to nitpick you can easily debunk virtually every simple slogan people have ever made. That's not the meaning of those phrases. Do you really thing you can make a popular phrase or slogan by writing 10 paragraphs describing all the nuances and exceptions? It is a fair statement that in general: "All Wars are Banker Wars".
You confuse Banks with Bankers. And Bankers with the gang of International Bankers who control the Western World. What Kennedy called the Gnomes of Zurich. They are playing the Great Game, far, far beyond the mickey mouse profit/loss argument you are using. They create our money supply out of thin air, profit/loss doesn't really enter into the picture. It is all about power & control. Creating and controlling the Money Supply is the ultimate power.
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Questions that are ignored> However I will answer these questions.
1) ONLY an evil Ukraine has a "mirotvorets" website that publishes photos, names, addresses of over 300 children and over 300 journalists on a hit list. Who does that???? ONLY Evil Ukraine is the answer to that question. https://www.rt.com/russia/562521-mirotvorets-list-ukrainian-extremists/
2) ONLY an evil Ukraine fires weapons at it's own nuclear power plant that would create a hazardous ionizing radiation cloud that would carry across many countries. Who does that???? Only Evil Ukraine does that to bring a public outcry for NATO to get involved. https://www.rt.com/russia/562741-zaporozhye-nuclear-catastrophe-volodin/
3) ONLY an evil Ukraine has filtration for it's own citizens. Ukraine uses "security services" to go door to door to check phones and laptops for anything Russian. Who does that???? ONLY Evil Ukraine does that. https://www.rt.com/russia/562663-ukraine-russian-teachers-criminal-charges/
4) Who lets USA Frankenstein biolabs in their country? Evil Ukraine (and Georgia too). What is the purpose of these 30 USA biolabs in Ukraine? https://www.rt.com/russia/557041-biolabs-us-russia-ukraine/
5) ONLY an evil Ukraine ignored the Minsk agreements for peace in Donbass. Who ignored the Minsk agreements? Only an Evil Ukraine ignored the Minsk agreements in order to settle their own civil war by force. Former Ukrainian president Pyotr Poroshenko has admitted that Kiev’s main goal for 8 YEARS was to use the MInsk agreements to buy time and “create powerful ARMED forces.” Ukraine was planning to launch an all out "anti-terrorist operation" in March 2022. Russia tried last minute diplomacy by talking to USA Secretary of State, Germany's Schotz, and France's Macron in January 2022 that ended in a stalemate. Russia per-empted Ukraine's "anti-terrorist operation" in Feb 2022 with a DEFENSIVE chess move for THE SOLE PURPOSE OF PROTECTING language, culture, and heritage in the Donbass.
I agree with the first four points, they are just facts, and I partially agree with the point number five. It is true that Ukraine with the full support of the Western allies did everything possible to completely sabotage Minsk agreements for 7 years, but the motives of Putin and those closest to him to start the SMO, yet to conduct it in a half hearted way, are not entirely clear. What do we see now as the result of this military campaign? Russian population of Ukraine in the East and the South, that Putin promised to defend and to protect, endures the greatest suffering. Cities, towns and settlements are literally destroyed, FUBARed (fucked-up beyond repair), even the latest attacks targeting power plants and electrical grid are targeted at the Russian speaking cities of Kharkov and Krivoy Rog, while Kiev, Lvov and everything in between lives largely a normal life. These facts put into question for me the real objectives of the SMO.
This is a "special military operation" and NOT a war and that explains your description of the "half hearted way". Also Ukraine uses small and difficult to see "petal mines" against everyday people in Donestsk and target civilian homes and infrastructure every day and that is the main reason why people are suffering. Russia under-estimated Ukraine's evil use of civilians as human shields and Ukraine using public infrastructure as firing positions as documented by Amnesty International. The Russian objective is perfectly clear. Russia wants to STOP as much as possible Ukraine's government policy of ethnic genocide of hatred directed at Russian ethnicity.
Cities and towns are leveled, soldiers perish in hundreds of thousands, ammo use exceeds that of 1943 battle of Stalingrad by a factor of 2.5. Now, in three attempts let's figure out a difference between a war and a special military operation. Do you work for RT or RIA, by any chance?
I do not work and have NOT worked for RT. I simply read RT articles and watch RT news every day in order to hear the Russian side of the story. I hear both sides and make up my OWN mind. I have been following Ukraine's "anti terrorist operation" launched in Feb 2014 for over 8 YEARS. Who were the snipers on the rooftops in Kiev that shot at both police and protesters in Feb 2014 that immediately led to overthrow of Ukrainian government? The new Ukraine government NEVER opened an investigation. Why?
A "special military operation" targets ONLY Ukraine military and military equipment only. If Russia launched a "war", then Russia would mobilize most of the military units and use collateral damage calculations involving civilian infrastructure. It is Ukraine that resorts to aggressive war, civilian shields and terrorist tactics by assassination. https://www.rt.com/russia/562919-blast-rocks-prosecutors-office-lugansk/ and https://www.rt.com/russia/562921-ukrainian-missiles-hit-kherson/ and https://www.rt.com/russia/562957-putin-serious-response-ukraine/
• John McCain addresses Ukrainian protesters in Kiev
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93eyhO8VTdg
• GOP Senators McCain and Lindsey Graham foment war with Russia! (2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7u0y-iU82w
The diabolical plan to break up the Russian empire started in 1917. Vladimir Lenin was given safe harbor in Switzerland and safe transport in Germany and Sweden to overthrow the Russian government. Lenin then "created" Ukraine to weaken Russia and "created" Latvia with the treaty of Riga in 1922. Then nearly ALL Soviet leaders had Ukrainian roots and weakened Russia ON PURPOSE!!!!!!!! https://www.rt.com/russia/562523-ukranians-led-ussr/
We shouldn't simplify the matters. Perhaps Lenin was used as a tool in German hands to weaken Russia and to get it out of the war, but he wasn't a German spy, there just isn't evidence to support that. Lenin was an internationalist and given the strong internationalist ideology that Bolsheviks espoused creation of the Soviet Union as a union of semi-independent republics, especially taking into account already successful existence of USA as a federation of the States, this was for them certainly a natural way to re-unify a very diverse former empire. Gifting to the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine of huge territories to the East and South not populated by malorussians (now called Ukrainians) was certainly a huge mistake by Bolsheviks and is at the root of today's conflict. By far not all leaders of USSR had Ukrainian roots.
- Lenin was mostly Russian, 1/4 Kalmyk (Asian) through his father, and 1/8 Jewish through a great-grandfather on his mother's side. Her maiden name was Blanc, but Lenin wasn't aware of his Jewish roots. He was an interesting "hybrid". We know him as a bald middle aged man with a goatie beard and big forehead, but in his younger years when he was just starting his revolutionary career his nickname was "Angel" - tan olive skin, stark blue eyes and curly hair of reddish dark blond color. This was the description left for us by tsarist police department upon his first detention.
- Stalin was half Georgian (his mother), half Osetian (his father), his last name, Dzhugashvili, is a Georgianized version of Osetian family name Dzhugaev.
- Krushev was ethnic Russian but certainly a big Ukrainophile
- Brezhnev was 50/50 Russian/Ukrainian
- Chernenko was ethnic Ukrainian born and raised in Russia
- Andropov was Russian
- Gorbachev was Russian but grew-up in a Russian region of Kuban where many Ukrainians lived too
1/8 on his mother's side?
interesting, really really interesting.
I've heard E Michael Jones, talk about this on few occasions on his bitchute channel.
Yes, 1/8, but perhaps even 1/4 - this is not entirely clear. What is known is that his great-grandfather was born Moshe Blanc and was later baptized as Dmitry. His grandfather was born as Jew, named Israel Blanc and later in life baptized as Alexander. Alexander did an outstanding career as a doctor and was granted nobility status in Russian Empire because of his achievements. What is even more interesting is that Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) was also 1/4 German. His grandmother on the mother side was an ethnic German from Riga - Anna Grosschopf. To add this all up - 1/4 Jewish, 1/4 Kalmykian, 1/4 German, 1/4 Russian. In one word - a dynamite mixture! )))
Did you read the RT article written by Alexander Nepogodin, аn Odessa-born political journalist that I posted above? Alexander Nepogodin documents that the Bolsheviks and many Soviet leaders had Ukrainian nationalist ideals in order to weaken Russia. The Soviet Union was created with a PURPOSE to weaken the Russian Empire.
Neither I nor the article stated that Lenin was a German spy. Lenin was given western monetary funding to fight Russia's "white army". Lenin was most definitely a tool used by the west to exit WWI in exchange for weakening the Russian Empire. Lenin decided with a decree to create the Ukraine Socialist Republic from the Russian Empire. Stalin ceded more territory to Ukraine. And Khrushchev ceded Crimea to Ukraine in 1954 as a gift.
No I didn't read this particular article by Nepogodin but I'm very aware about discussion that goes on in Russian society in this regard. What's coming from the very top of the modern day Russia is disrespect for the Soviet legacy and that is reflected in the articles of the subservient media. Putin likened creation of the Soviet republics to putting an explosive nuclear charge under the country's structure. He also mocked Soviet industry saying all they could manufacture was caloshy (rubber shoes) and so forth. Now it is coming to the people's understanding that Soviets did some things wrong, but most things right. Regardless of the opinion of Putin and his surrounding that made their super riches on Soviet legacy and natural resources of the land, Russia will have to revert to a more just economic and social model, perhaps to something more like we see today in Belarus. Current socioeconomic arrangement is simply not sustainable long term and less than stellar performance during the SMO clearly shows that.
That is the problem that I encountered during my travels to USA and EU. They do NOT want to read a short article like RT article written by Alexander Nepogodin, аn Odessa-born political journalist. They do NOT want to know about FACTS either as they block another viewpoint based on FACTS from their mind.
The FACT is the Soviet Union collective communism set back the now Russian Federation territories by over 60 years in lost ingenuity! Only now that President Putin took charge, the Russian Federation is catching up and proclaiming their sovereignty.
The FACTS are the Soviet Union leadership were dominated by Ukrainian nationalists and subtracted Russian Empire territory and added the territory to Ukraine.
This "special military operation" would end tomorrow IF Ukraine government HONESTLY agreed to STOP persecuting Russian ethnicity.
and it is worth noting that "Latvians" were amongst the contingents who massacred the Romanov family, including and especially their very innocent and pious daughters OTMA and teenage son Alexei. This is recorded in the various diaries translated by Helen Azar et al
I appreciate Riley letting me post my alternative points of views. Thank you Riley!
This whole thing is sounding like a mobile game and less like "chess".
It seems that Ukraine went into the loot store and bought credits for extra stats...
The key of these games is to keep people playing, while the owners profit.
Edward, thanks for bringing this topic to the forefront. Judging by the number of comments this is something of great interest to the subscribers to your blog. Topwar.ru is certainly a respectable resource, I wasn't reading them much lately, as the place to go for the latest on the Russo-Ukrainian conflict seem to be the Tg channels but your recap of their materials show how they continue with critical and thoughtful coverage of the events as they did during the first stage of this conflict back in 2014.
As I have written a number of times in my comments to your blog posts we have to watch the hands and not listen to the words by analogy of playing a game of shells with the street crooks. So what does "hand watching" tell us this time around?
There are many signs that current nearly complete retreat from Kharkov region by Allied troops is an intentional action by the Russian top political leadership. There are reports that Russian military was ordered to quietly withdraw (leaving behind great quantities of ammo too, btw) before Ukrainians started their advance. As a matter of fact withdrawal of the regular Russian army ahead of Ukrainian offensive was so quiet, so fast and so secretive that they didn't communicate this to the troops of the Ministry of the Interior (SOBR, OMON, Rosguardia) that were stationed in Balaklea, Izium and other places, so that these units became surrounded or semi-surrounded by the advancing Ukrainian troops and had to engage in a direct combat with the enemy, something that they are not equipped or trained to do. Most of them managed to eventually get out with support of Russian artillery and aviation that slowed down Ukrainian advance, but they did suffer heavy casualties.
Just ahead of the events, on September 7th, Ukrainian and Russian oligarchs Kolomoiskiy and Abramovich were noticed to be present in Istanbul. As Ukrainian advance near Kharkov was coming to an end Putin received two phone calls, one from Emmanuel Macron on Saturday and one from Olaf Scholz on Sunday. Putin spoke to Scholz for over 90 minutes and this is very strange as they don't have with Scholz a "special connection" that despite all of their disagreements Putin had with Angela Merkel.
I can't say that this withdrawal came as part of the agreement were Russia decided to provide another concession expecting something else in return, but it looks like the plans to withdraw were communicated to the other side and this was probably presented to Scholz and Macron as another goodwill gesture and the willingness by Russia to re-engage in negotiations and to slowly de-escalate the conflict.
I think this is the last political concession of this kind that we have seen from Russia, unless the war situation will turn really grave for them. In a way this is a consolidation game by giving away non-strategic assets that Russia managed to capture during the initial phase of the conflict and now they decided to stick only to the core strategic acquisitions. Those are:
- LPR - now completely under LPR's people's militia and Russia Army control
- DPR - only about 60% of the DPR's territory (administrative Donetsk oblast border) was recaptured so ahead are fights to dislodge fortified and entrenched Ukrainian troops in this region that keep shelling and killing people in Donetsk and other cities every day
- Land bridge to Crimea that goes along the shores of the Azov Sea
- City of Kherson and Kherson region
- Ideally Russia would love to separate Ukraine from the Black Sea coast all together and solve the Transnistria problem by getting up to unrecognized republic's border, but this may be too big of a task for them at this moment.
The reason for this plan minimum is as follows:
- republics are going to get defended and taken under control, in this case I can say liberated as most people there want Russians to come, for political reasons. Not accomplishing this task takes away the entire foundation of starting the SMO in a first place
- creating a land bridge to Crimea and making Azov Sea a Russian internal sea again is of huge geopolitical importance for them
- Finally, the city of Kherson and water intake facilities on river Dniepr near Kherson to continue supplying Crimean peninsula with plentiful water is of great importance for the development of the peninsula that is Russia's favorite summer vacation spot where population bulges by couple of million every summer.
So, if I'm right in my reading of the situation, we won't be seeing anymore "goodwill gestures" from the Russian side. If we'll see massive retreats like what we saw under Kharkov where 3000 km2 were handed over to the enemy in a span of three days - those would be the signs of the real military defeat and not a political 5d play of the Russian commander-in-chief in his infinite Byzantine wisdom. ;)
Please note, this review of the recent events is done at the tactical and operational level. Strategically this war remains to be what it was intended to be from the very beginning: to play into the Great Reset game and to up the bets in the "seat at the table with the Western nations" game that Putin kept losing since 2012. See my other comments. I probably should start reposting my longer, article like posts under my own blog so it would be easier for readers to find them.
Do you have any evidence proof that President Putin is playing "Great Reset" game?
In my opinion, Russia ALREADY had their great reset in 1992 when all Soviet money became worthless.
In my opinion, this is all about George Orwell's vision of >Oceania (USA/EU/UK/Australia/ New Zealand), >Eurasia (Russia) and >East Asia (China) in a mutual agreement to CONTROL their own sphere of influence. The reason NATO is surrounding Russia is just in case the Russian Federation falls apart so NATO can swoop in. The Russian Federation is united right now. It does NOT make sense to me that President Putin wants to sabotage his own sphere of influence with a "special military operation". This "special military operation's was envisioned to strengthen the Russian Federation and NOT weaken especially AFTER an armistice is signed like North/South Korea. Although unilateral, illegal western sanctions will initially weaken the Russian Federation by the illegal confiscation of Russian funds, the SOVEREIGNTY that Russia obtains will ensure a slow steady strength from 2022 to the future.
By the way, are you willing to be a guest via streamyard that would be posted on my future bitchute channel? (Target date Dec 2022)
Putin is not an ideologue of the "Great Reset". He just wants to play along with other big boys and if they play "Great Reset", he'll play "Great Reset" too. Not sure if you had a chance to read my other lengthy piece on the reasons why Putin was installed to power back in 1999 (I really should start re-posting my longer comments under my own blog), but the bottom line is - he was put in charge to oversee Russia's integration into the "civilizational mainstream" whatever forms it may be taking in its own development.
The "civilizational mainstream" a.k.a. the "Great Western Civilization" played with the idea of greater world socioeconomic zones as the next step from the current model of liberal globalization, that while being damaged is still alive. However, what the COVID campaign conducted uniformly all over the world has shown us - they (the globalist elites) decided to opt for one global government and one set of rules applied to all. For the elites the world will continue being their oyster with very little barriers preventing them to roam as they please, while for the rest of us the world is going to get compartmentalized in increasingly more subdivided fashion going from making state borders more difficult to cross, then to states and provinces. Eventually coming down to isolation by compound, as they are playing with today in China.
In my opinion Putin's rule was and continues to be detrimental for Russia, especially because this detriment wasn't so obvious to either internal or external observers. He is extremely good at playing a patriot in front of the masses, while doing and allowing to happen less than patriotic things in the background. Just one example is pension reform about which so many complain, but this is really just a tip of the iceberg. What Putin did after Yeltsin, he took Russia off the steep crash trajectory that was supposed to hit the ground by 2003, into a much gentler slope of regress, but this is still a regress! Projected ground touchdown is going to happen in late 2023, early 2024. As a result we are either going to see Russia subdivided into 15 - 20 "regular size" subjugated states or emerging as phoenix stronger and with greater sphere of influence.
I appreciate your offer to come to your future video channel, but for this I'll need to decide to come out of my closet, and I haven't decided to do it yet. Check in later!
"(I really should start re-posting my longer comments under my own blog)"
C'mon Stanley, c'est une bonne idée!
An interview with Perception Deception could be very interesting if the good man be careful, breath, not to be to emotional. The big letters are not necessary.... We're not looking for consensus but for intelligent reasoning and "civilized" exchange of ideas.
The maturity required to accept new set of data is another thing and invite patience
Ok, I promise to go through my comments and take some more important ones in my view to my own blog here at Substack. As for Perception Deception, despite the occasional ALL CAPS he seems to be a cultured man (I assume he is a man), that's why I don't ignore his comments, but provide my extensive replies. Thanks for your, now customary, support, Bugey Libre!
Hello,
Jeff Childers writes about the current situation, Putin (interesting take) and a "Trump" train to a 'holy' butchery. You might like it, or not:
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/coffee-and-covid-saturday-september-4d4
Take care
I use CAPS on words and phases for emphasis and that is MY personal trademark. Sometimes there is a battle of opinions between us. Riley will permit that since we are respectful. I prove my point when people can NOT bear to read a RT article just because it is a RT article. At least I listen to both sides including Ukrainska Pravda and the New Voice of Ukraine and make up my OWN mind.
I do NOT boost and I merely state the FACT that I have been to over 30 countries including Africa. And I talk to people in their country (as long as they speak English) because I really like talking to people. I find it comical for people to post about Russia and Africa when they have NOT been there like I have. They read everything on the internet and form their own entitled opinion.
All Riley has to do is send me a private post to stop posting here and I will stop with NO questions asked. I post to educate people and to tell another side of the story that people do NOT get to hear because I am NOT an echo chamber.
How many people on this posting board know that Poland had a "concentration camp" in the 1930s? Hitler thought it was a brilliant idea and copied it. How many people know that Poland had VERY little seacoast and MOST of their seacoast used to belong to present day Germany?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bereza_Kartuska_Prison
I study history and draw my conclusions (along with my opinions) from historical facts and talking to Russians in Russia.
TAKE CARE MAN.
I COMPLETELY RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE with you on your above post about President Putin. That post is SIMPLY your OPINION and you are entitled to it. There is NOT ONE FACT in your post IN MY OPINION. The diaspora (that includes you I believe since you indicated that you have Russian descendants that moved from Russia) are OVER and ABOVE critically harsh on President Putin without any FACTS to back your claims. On my travels on Aeroflot, I had MANY conversations with Russian diaspora people and ALL of them (diaspora) are against President Putin because they are systematically unwittingly brainwashed. When I mean ALL, I mean ALL the diaspora I talked to.
They live in their ivory tower residences in Miami, NYC, LA, DC,NJ, etc. and blame President Putin for everything.
However, when I talk to Russians in Russia, I engage in realistic conversations of how USA/EU/UK have systematically kept ALL technology computer chips away from Russia, sold Lenovo computers (formally IBM) to China for Chinese advancement against Russia (that will eventually haunt the USA like a ghost) while selling Orbit chewing gum and Lays potato chips to Russia.
Hmm, did I mention diaspora somewhere? I think we had a discussion of how people in Russia see the Soviet past and how their view on that part of the history varies from Putin and Russia's ruling class that view tsarist Russia as a model worth copying. They want a class society in which they'll become a new nobility able to pass on not only their money, but the status to their kids, grandkids and so on. This is why the positive view of the Soviet past, largely egalitarian, by majority of the population is so abhorrent to them.
You are switching the topic and then use plain, but unrelated facts to attempt to prove your points.
- Is Russian diaspora in US, Canada, Israel or anywhere else in the West mostly anti-Putin? Absolutely they are.
- Do Russian people in their majority approve of Putin despite some disagreements like the one I have mentioned about the assessment of the Soviet past? Yes, they do.
- Did Poland benefit from the outcomes of the WWII by gaining German territories to the west and a lot of Baltic Sea coast that it didn't have before the war and a lot of this happened because USSR through Stalin advocated a special generosity toward Poland hoping they would come to senses after their russophobic past? Yes, they did, yet today Poland, and not just the government, but the people, were indoctrinated to be the most Russia hating country in Eastern Europe. History repeats itself.
These are the facts, and I just took a sampling of the ones you mentioned that are well known to anyone who pays attention to what's going on in Russia and at its neighbors, but how does it contribute to the main threads of our dialogue?
A. Putin's rule is detrimental for Russia.
B. Most people in Russia respect their Soviet past but don't necessarily want to come back to it.
With all due respect, I believe your A. opinion is COMPLETELY backwards. The Soviet Union's past rule was MUCH MORE detrimental for Russia in my opinion. The fact is western investment in the Soviet Union during the ENTIRE cold war was VERY limited. Western investment in Russia during President Putin's leadership reached it's peak.
I ask a simple yes or no question> Are you willing to bet $1000 on your keyboard opinion that President Putin is detrimental for Russia? Since we both trust Riley's integrity, I suggest Riley poll 100 random people when he gets back to Russia and ask, "Is President Putin leadership detrimental for Russia?"
Whoever has more votes will win the $1000 sent via moneygram. Please answer yes or no. And THEN we will ask Riley if he is willing to conduct the poll in RUSSIA. I will pay Riley $100 for his time polling as I will still be $900 in the green. If you answer, "No", then there is NO point in asking Riley. If you answer, "Yes", then I will ask Riley and pay him $100 via moneygram if he accepts the offer to conduct the question poll in RUSSIA upon his return.
By the way, California's governor is just like the Moscow mayor. Both are Certificate of Vaccination ID LIBERAL freaks and are BOTH detrimental in my opinion.
In favor of my analysis of the situation in Kharkov region where Russian troops were withdrawn even from the towns in the north, near Russian border, where they were not attacked by Ukrainian forces. This was a "consolidation of strategic assets" game that I suspected was the key reason for a rapid and secretive withdrawal without much fight by Russian troops. Now events are are starting to develop rapidly and we can note three main themes:
1. In Russian parliament they have just voted in the new law amendments that address the war time measures by making punishments harsher and introducing new types of punishable offenses during war time. This law was voted in in one session without much debate or corrections.
2. Belarus is elevating conflict readiness level by conducting mobilization drills
3. Referendums with a question whether to join Russia are going to be conducted in LPR, DPR, occupied (liberated) parts of Zaporozhye region and in entire Kherson region. Here is the summary of referendum plans from the Russian military analyst Colonel Cassad
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Summing up by referendums.
1. Referendums will be held from September 23 to 27 in the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
2. Referendums will be held both in person and in absentia (with house visits) for security reasons.
3. After the referendums, all territories will apply for membership in the Russian Federation, which will be considered as a matter of priority.
4. After consideration of applications, all territories will become part of the Russian Federation - de facto, 4 new subjects of the Russian Federation.
5. The DPR and LPR retain their names and flags. It is still unclear about the regions. Zaporozhye is proposed to be called the "Zaporozhskiy Krai".
6. According to opinion polls, you can count on 70-85% for joining the Russian Federation, with turnout in the region of 65-75% on average.
7. The United States, NATO and Germany have stated that they do not recognize the results of the referendums. In Ukraine, they immediately became hysterical that holding referendums would negate the slightest chance of negotiations.
8. Of course, the war in Ukraine will not stop, but now it will have a qualitatively different context. We are waiting for the announcement of specific measures to optimize how SMO is conducted.
Thank you, Riley. An outstanding article supported by equally outstanding comments. We're in uncharted waters when it comes to the misinformation war.
The russians have spared civilians and russians life , if i could come up with a war plan that saves civilians better i would critizais. Lets consider all wars before was barbarian and romanian. It's minibrain to talk about russian is not doing what it should. Russia is defeting the west , tell me one country that hade the economics after the aplied chock doctrine (cia). Couldn't these keyboard warriors give russia at least 1 or to 2 years to accomplish denasification , if usa got 20 years in Afganistan?
It all fits into Putin being a Satrap. The goal is to enslave us all. Fake plagues, fake wars, fake climate change, fake money, fake media. Let's face it. It's not difficult to work out what is going on.
So, it's hopeless then? If so, why are you here? To help the rest of us abandon hope like you have? I see this position expressed a lot on various message boards. The opinion itself is fairly common, but I wonder what the point is of broadcasting it. Is it propaganda? Frustration? Where does it come from? Have you asked yourself why you should believe what you believe, or you do just assume that your sources are reliable and proceed on that basis?
The point is, why care who wins?
The war is an excuse to plunder and impoverish people here in the West. If it wasn't happen in Ukraine, they would make war in another place. So why take any of this seriously?
We should discuss how to stop their enslavement agenda and identify the persons and families responsible for all of that by name instead of cheering for either side in this made up conflict. We should identify our true enemies, understand their power and find ways to neutralize it.
We should discuss how people can come into power.
"We should discuss how to stop their enslavement agenda..."
Looks to me like Russia is doing exactly that, at least as far as their situation is concerned. Ours we have to deal with ourselves of course, but that's no reason to not recognize their attempt and support it where possible. More to the point, I think Russia is doing a lot of heavy lifting for us. Russia, China and others are establishing a new monetary order based on resources and productive capacity, whereas ours is based on unsupportable debt with nothing behind it. That won't last much longer, and at that point we have an opportunity to change the system. Not a guarantee of course, but better than nothing at all.
If you read this blog you already know the same game is going on in Russia. China? Yeah, *thats* the free world, right?
I know people living in Hong Kong, oh sorry, I mean not any more. They were expelled from there. People are fleeing in troves from the Chinese Happy Panda world.
On either side we are only useless eaters or in the best case cattle for them.
You are deluded.
It is called the truth. Look it up sometime.
Many years ago (more than I care to remember) I was part of a military exercise pitting the cadet corp of our regiment (Canadian AF) against the regular militia. With about 40 to 50 combatants on either side, the militia held high ground with trenches which we were expected to take. We were poised to attack on a line which involved a frontal assault over open ground, which we all though was insane. There was forest on either side and to the rear of the enemy position, so why didn't we flank them, using the trees as cover?
As the moment to attack approached, a Cessna 172 appeared at low altitude and crossed our line, heading directly towards the enemy's position. They were all standing around pointing at it when a series of sandwich bags containing flour were ejected from the plane and landed right on top of them, covering everyone with white powder. At that moment we advanced, and since everyone defending was technically dead, we took the hill with no casualties. Having captured and secured the position, we then took stock of their defences and noticed that half their fire positions were directed towards the forest on either side, which would have made flanking very costly. They had also set mines along their flanks which would have made assault from that direction even more of a slaughter.
Valuable lessons were learned on that day about three basic elements of warfare: surprise, deception, and security. Our enemy was surprised by the appearance of a civilian aircraft and assumed it had either strayed into military airspace, which is prohibited, or was in difficulty and looking for a place to land. It never occurred to them that it was part of the exercise, for which they paid a heavy price. Surprise and deception. As for security, none of us had any idea that our commander, who owned the Cessna, had obtained permission to use his plane as part of the exercise. The base commander thought it was a brilliant idea that would teach his people a valuable lesson, and it worked.
The point I'm trying to make is that no one on the ground has any knowledge of anything involving tactics or strategy up until the moment they need to know. This avoids revealing one's plans if captured. It also means that anything anyone tells you at that level knows no more than you do, so you can safely ignore all those Telegram posts and Tweets and other nonsense. They are just uninformed noise. Likewise, no Ministry of Defence is going to give you any operational information before or after the fact if it compromises strategic objectives. Anything they do say can therefore be taken as either propaganda, or misdirection. So seriously, stop complaining about mixed messages or lack of information coming from the Ru MoD. The people who need to know will know, but it's not their job to keep us informed, much less entertained.
I never joined the regular forces, which was a disappointment to my father, as our family has a long history of military service, but those two years I was in the cadet corp. taught me valuable lessons. We were treated just like the regular forces, and trained by the same personnel, including special ops. guys who taught us unarmed combat. I could strip and assemble the NATO field weapon of the day, operate an APC, fight on snowshoes in winter terrain, and we even took parachute training using a vintage WWII training tower. You don't forget something like that! All this before my 18th birthday.
I watched a YT video a while ago of the same type of combat training I received. It involved capturing a village where the enemy was using houses and outbuildings as cover. The exercise was very well executed including mobile operations using BMPs. The entire exercise, including command, was done by young Russian women in their late teens and early 20's. I can honestly say, I would not like to go up against those women, and if they're an example of the kind of training the RAF receives, same goes for any of their units, be they militia, contract or reserves.
Imagine you're taking a bus to somewhere. Do you sit in the front looking over the driver's shoulder to see how fast he's going, what gear he's in, and whether he has both hands on the wheel? Or do you read a book, watch the scenery, or chat up that cute chick sitting next to you? The answer's obvious, right? Relax and let the driver do his job.
Point is, why didn't the Russians apply the same tactics against the trenched positions?
Just using armed drones? I mean, satellites tell you where the trenches are. Fly over and bomb them back to Ukraine. Russians had 8 years to practice and plan.
Can you explain?
My explanation would be that "war" is a show, but nothing else. It is planned to go back and forth to occupy us plebs and be a explanation to rob us blind. No one actually wants to win.
Smart military doesn't use its more new and advanced weapons unless necessary. It saves them for when it is. So far it isn't. Newsflash: Russia is winning; Ukraine is losing.
You mean, armed drones are the newest thing? Not so.
But ok, take your old helis from the Afghan war. Afaik these things are even armored against ground attacks.
Just fly along the trench and hold the trigger.
'New and advanced' doesn't mean "the newest thing", fwiw. But maybe this applies:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/29/iran-drones-russia-ukraine-war/\\I do recall those helis being neutralized with ancient Stinger missiles. There's probably a good reason not to risk valuable expensive air weapons when good old artillery will grind the job to a satisfactory blend.
Again, anything less than a perfect war (imagine such a horrible thing) and Russia is said to be losing. Man, it sucks to be The Enemy.
I agree. The longer it goes, the bigger bucks for the instigators. Everyone else gets fucked, especially Ukranians and Russians. After Ukraine is completely destroyed and the populace thinned out, look for the Usual Suspects to swoop in and ''rebuild'' in their own image. Putin's as big a puppet as Zelensky the Clown Actor.
What's the driver's job here? That's the point.
They told you the mission at the outset. Demilitarization and denazification. Proceeding as planned with only minor glitches. Where all the impatience is coming from I don't know. Must just be human nature because they never gave you a timetable. That was something the media cooked up so they could claim failure when the job wasn't finished in a couple of weeks, or whatever their "experts" told them it should take. Nobody in Russia or the Donbass told you that. All I've heard from that side is that it will take as long as it takes.
LOL. They (the US Gov't) ''told us the mission'' in Iraq was to get the WMDs. Afghanistan, get Bin Laden. So, Putin, or his designees, ''told you the mission.'' Doesn't mean jack shit what they tell you, or how it's proceeding, or not. ''They'' are all fucking liars. ''All Wars are Bankers' Wars, '' USMC Gen. Smedley Butler, circa 1935. NOTHING has changed, in that regard. Wakeee, wakeee.
OK, next time I'm at my bank I'll ask the manager if they're at war with Russia.
"Wakeee, wakeee" <-- what's this, some kind of Hawaiian war chant?
Not that banker. The big bankers. Surely, you jest. Wakee....that's a polite way of saying wake the fuck up. Now do you get it?
"Surely, you jest" No, actually I mock. Talk down to me and that's what you get. Insult me, and I'll just ignore you, although that won't be necessary as I'm moving on. Like some other substacks I've looked at, this is a small club, and I'm not in it.
"if the Armed Forces of Ukraine are left without equipment, if the soldiers do not want to fight and scatter, then who, excuse me, captures the cities? Are necromancers raising the dead?"
One thing I noticed about the few Ukrainians who didn't have face coverings is they suspiciously did not look Ukrainian. We already know there are American, British, French, Swedish, German and Israeli 'mercenaries' there, and it makes me wonder if the sudden appearance of the masked Ukrainian army isn't just a very large NATO merc force 'incognito' making up for the shortfall.
As for the heavy weapons, it isn't surprising - the US keeps announcing billions more dollars in weapons shipments to the point they're reporting shortages in their own stockpile:
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/ukraine-pentagon-ammunition-shortage/
It is a *lot* of weapons to send from the US - the world's largest military budget (still bigger if you add up second, third and fourth place together). Think how many weapons they must be throwing at Ukraine. It probably explains why every other Intel Slava Z post in the earlier period was just more reports of abandoned equipment.
There was also an interesting media shot of Zelensky being in Lyman recently I noticed, with a guy in the background who... looked very much like Zelensky also? Body doubles aren't uncommon, but for there to be one right next to the original(?) seemed off to me. Attack of the clones?
Ukraine must be a wonderful opportunity for civilian and ex-military contractors to get their war fix. These are the same people who profited from the U.S. government's outsourcing of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Those are minor points, the major point, the Elephant in the Room is how PERFECTLY this war fit into the broader "Great Reset", "Green Agenda", "Build Back Better", "New World Order" paradigm that began with their bioweapon release. All Wars are Banker Wars.
Thank you Edward. Brilliant. And a new source: military review 'topwar.ru'. I just checked, I can get it no trouble.
This post smacks of the real. I'm a bit bemused and perhaps lost after months of wading through the fog of war analysis and reportage. This clears the mind a bit.
I have recently settled on a small group of outlets which I thought were pretty objective. And knowledgeable. But they haven't told me these things.
I'll bring your post to their attention if I can. At least post it in their comment sections.
I use Youtube channels: military summary, the new atlas, defence politics asia, alexander mercouris, scott ritter and the moonofalabama.org site. Those are my main ones.
Seems like I'm missing out on a broad view. And perhaps I"m swallowing propaganda, would you say, looking at that list?
thanks for this. Great.
moon of a Alabama went 100% full Covidian, Saker & Caitlin Johnstone as well, so that is a warning sign.
Good point. I think it's likely they were catering (pandering) to sponsors who are also Covidian. They all rely on donations.
Strelkov has been lambasting the SMO almost from the start, even recommending (tongue-in-cheek) the Politburo be shot. He states the frontal attacks on the heavily fortified AFU positions before the Donbass are madness. Sufficient forces were not deployed to conduct encircling maneuvers (Murz https://kenigtiger.livejournal.com/ posted that before it was erased by the Russian authorities.)
On the strategic level it appears a Vietnam like scenario was planned. Lots of meatgrinding and profits for the arms manufacturers on both sides.
Apparently many Russians are starting to suspect that the Kremlin is not making an honest attempt. The Kremlin has a serious PR job on its hands. Most likely it will have to resort to repression or face the pitchforks.
The Rand plan to dismember the Russian Federation together with bioweapons specifically designed to target the Russian people would have to be the mother of all casus belli . That is more than enough to go positively medieval (as Marsellus Wallace said in Pulp Fiction) on the Ukies and indeed the West And yet we have a half-hearted SMO instead of all-out war.
You've heard the expression "revenge is a dish best served cold" right? The collective west is depleting its military and financial resources in Ukraine. Why not keep that up as long as possible when you have the greater capacity to sustain the conflict? Meantime, you get to capture their equipment (or buy it off the Ukrainians) and study it to your heart's content.
Chances are, with winter coming and energy in short supply it won't be necessary to engage the west in open warfare which carries all kinds of risks. The path we're on now has the potential to end the EU and the subordination of European interests to US hegemony without actually firing a shot. That to me seems like the better path.
Strange situation. Maybe the leadership of Russia (who they are?!) have to decide if in Ukraine is a transhumanist suicidal ballet, an act of faith to protect Mother Russia in a multipolar world or both (what is impossible). When somebody want to be in two boats in the same time is in a dangerous situation.
Is it September already? That’s finals month and the Demons are already out of the (AFL) race – that’s a good omen!
Hell’s Bells!. Germany’s SMO into German Danzig on 1 September 1939 (to restore democratic self-determination, to suppress the terrorism and genocide of displaced German citizens and thereby negate the Diktat of Versailles abomination) lasted only 18 (that’s EIGHTEEN) days. The parallels are ACUTE!! And despite giving Poland unlimited and unhindered corridor access to the seaport (no not Mariupol, the other, Baltic one), the handlers of the drunkard Churchill (international warmongers, usurers and profiteers) decided it would be better to have a world war.
https://nseuropa.blogspot.com/2019/09/adolf-hitler-speech-in-danzig-19091939.html
https://nseuropa.blogspot.com/2019/10/adolf-hitler-speech-before-reichstag.html
I'm still suspicious that they are planning a nuclear weapon detonation in NYC just as they did the 9/11 building demolitions. Very peculiar the PSA's in NYC regarding preparing for a nuclear explosion and everyone getting a Go-Bag or a Get-Out-Of-Town-Quick bag. Of course the blast will be blamed on Putin as 9/11 was blamed on Afghanistan & Iraq. And likely lead to martial law in the USA and cancelling of elections.
https://wholistic.substack.com/p/nycs-new-nuclear-preparedness-psa
Something Strange is Happening in New York City:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBbdkdKiYXE
In cathe anyone miffed it - thith ith theriourth - weally
Nuclear Preparedness PSA (with captions)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-5d7V4Sbqk
but of course you know this already ...
• 9/11 And Israel’s Great Game
https://www.bitchute.com/video/PkdKqo8PKVA1/
I assumed everyone knew this was leading to at very best a nuclear standoff.
Euromerican military is brain-dead and increasingly bullet-less but determined to start something. Russia has clearly defined what it will do every step of the way in terms of Shit Up With Which We Shall Not Put.
But it's always Russia's fault for not fighting a Perfect War. Heaven forbid they just focus on diminishing regional threats while trying to avert nuclear Armageddon. We want Peace in Donbass and we want it NOW!!!! sounds like a Pussy Riot B-side.
Fer chrissake, people: it's a WAR. Things go boom. Bloody guts. Die screaming. Screaming while wishing you were dead.
https://youtu.be/reUstMn4bM8
It gets weird reading all this military analysis via public pronouncement and questionable statistics.
Internet Phenomenon. This is arguably the first internet war, at least the first with wide coverage, near-real time reporting, and of course happening in the heart of Europe, which gets more attention than say the Middle East or Africa. I have a fairly good understanding of the military situation, so I don't really follow the day to day activity. I'm studying the phenomenon itself - the effect of universal communication media on people's thoughts, expectations and fears. I approach the pandemic in the same way. People's behaviour is of more interest to me than the specifics of the virus or vaccine, which are already well covered by people who know more than I do.
Ebear,
Since I have understood that you understand French as some other do, you might be interested in listening to above video, which is an interview of a French Général, Vincent Desportes (not active as such but as military scholar).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNgtlTWcmDw
This is the guy's CV from the official French Military (worth considering):
https://www.dems.defense.gouv.fr/ecole-de-guerre/directeur/general-de-division-vincent-desportes
" Né le 24 février 1953, le général de division Vincent DESPORTES est marié
et père de deux enfants, Pierre-Henri, né en 1978, et Marie, née en 1981.
Date du rang : 1er juillet 2007
Arme d’origine : Arme blindée cavalerie
Origine : Ecole Spéciale Militaire de Saint Cyr (72.74)
Déroulement de carrière :
1981 - 1983 Commandant d’escadron de cavalerie légère blindée (1er régiment de spahis)
1983 - 1984 Officier supérieur adjoint d’un régiment de chars (2ème régiment de dragons)
1984 - 1986 Instructeur à l’école nationale des sous-officiers d’active
1986 - 1988 Officier renseignement à l’état-major du 1er corps d’armée
1988 - 1990 Stagiaire à l’école supérieure de guerre
1990 - 1992 Chef du bureau opérations-instruction d’un régiment de chars
1992 - 1996 Officier traitant à la Direction du personnel militaire de l’armée de terre (bureau études générales)
1996 - 1998 Commandant du 501/503e régiment de chars de combat
1998 - 1999 Stagiaire de l’US Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvanie, EU
1999 - 2000 Chef du Détachement de liaison terre à Fort Monroe, Virginie, EU
2000 - 2003 Attaché des forces terrestres prés l’ambassade de France à Washington, EU
2003 - 2004 CDES – chef du centre de réalisation et d’études doctrinales
2004 - 2005 SGDN – conseiller défense du Secrétaire général
01-09-2005 Nommé commandant du centre de doctrine d’emploi des Forces (CDEF)
01-09-2008 Directeur du Collège interarmées de défense (CID) Paris.
Autre qualification :
Brevet parachutiste
Décorations :
Officier de la Légion d’Honneur
Officier de l’Ordre National du Mérite
Chevalier des arts et des lettres