Allen: It would be amusing If Putin said: “The west did the attacks themselves.”
Pseudo-Chrysostom: Someone blowing up critical underseas infrastructure for poorly defined geopolitical ambitions? For some reason, that seems to ring a bell…
Bob Sykes: America’s legacy white population is declining in number, and it will soon be a minority, albeit the largest minority. The US will then be a majority black/brown country with the politics, culture, and economics of Africa and Latin America. The only positive element in Future USA is that blacks and Hispanics hate each other, and will not tolerate each other in their neighborhoods. Blacks once ran LA, but the Mexicans drove them out by gang warfare. There’s a picture of a drug...
VXXC: Ukraine can launch an amphibious operation…. :) LOL Mein Furher Steiner…Steiner 230; This is Hitler 45, Hell it’s worse. He had a great army for a while. This is Luxembourg-conquers-Fran ce level narrative.
VXXC: Mike-SMO, Learn to read a map: where is Ukraine? Where is Russia? Where is America? You getting paid for this?
Pseudo-Chrysostom: USG beat Russia to the punch by occupying Ukraine first. State Department delivers another one of its Greatest Hits with the 2014 operation — the groundwork of course always being insinuated into place long before, and after. When Putin started his Special Military Operation on that day in February, 2022, he didn’t invade Ukraine, he invaded America.
Gavin Longmuir: Mike-SMO: “It is obviously a dangerous game.” On that, we are in total agreement. Our difference lies in who we think has been the initiator of this critical situation. There is the BBC/CNN/PBS propaganda that “Putin” is the sole source of the problem — a would-be new Ghengis Khan. There is the more supportable view that the evil lies in the US/NATO Political Class who responded to the collapse of the Warsaw Pact by expanding NATO to the borders of a Russia...
Mike-SMO: The “other guy” always has a different “rationality” ;. MAD: Mutually Assured Destruction. A nuclear launch would be suicidal for Russia. The U S has been very careful of what weapons and information it has provided to the Ukraine. Russia has never been threatened. Russia has lost wars and survived. The Russians know what they could be facing from the “air shows” in Syria. The “leadership” in Russia has been stealing anything that is not nailed...
Wang Wei Lin: If you don’t know enough about your business or don’t have the backbone to make hard standalone decisions and hire a consultant, you deserve to fail.
Jim: Consultocracy: rule by officially-unofficial cryptically-appointed regime-approved soothsayer-commissar.
Mike-SMO: Hit the sweet spot. Not too big, not too small. Small enough for drones and air craft that hadn’t been invented yet. Cheap enough to actually be used. Adaptable for many jobs with many warheads, or none. A James Bond Special. Must have been a mistake,
Gavin Longmuir: “Russia must keep a reserve of capability to threaten NATO” Let’s not kid ourselves — any open US/NATO attack on Russia would escalate to global nuclear war in a very short period of time. Same with any US/NATO attack on China — or even with any (unlikely) Chinese attack on Russia. No nuclear-armed country will accept defeat at the hands of foreign aggressors, making nuclear response inevitable. Our Betters in the DC Swamp do not seem to realize just how...
Mike-SMO: Russia lives in a special reality. Russia must keep a reserve of capability to threaten NATO as well as the capability to keep China “friendly”. Russia has a Dragon at its back. China and Russia have gone nose to nose not too long ago, China has ancient claims on Siberia, and more recently has an interest in the fuel, minerals, and food stuffs from eastern Russia. Russian action in the Ukraine can not be allowed to reduce the intimidation available for China and the European NATO....
Jim: For the first twelve months of the proxy war between the United State and the United State’s natural greatest ally, Russia, I benefited greatly in that the U.S. nomenklatura completely forgot its mad, frothing-at-the-mouth maskcraze and vaxlust as it pivoted in one clean, cool motion to its new grand program of swiftly, predatorily, and ostentatiously completely failing to exercise any kind of soft power whatsoever on Putinsland. For this I thank Mr. President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin...
McChuck: “We have the most wantonly reckless leadership in world history.” They’re not reckless. They know exactly what they are doing. You must understand that their real goal is the destruction of Western Civilization. Encouraging tens of millions of immigrants to invade our nations is part and parcel of this.
Bob Sykes: And, the US/NATO is losing the war. Its proxy army is being ground to hamburger. Ukraine, which reputedly had 40 to 45 million people in 1992, is now down to less than 20 million. The others, mostly young people and mostly male, left after independence and again after the US coup and yet again after the US led war began. The largest NATO air practice ever begins June 12th. This will entail some 220 aircraft (100 US) and 10,000 troops. There will be practice attacks on Russia all along its...
Roo_ster: The Narrative is STRONG in Business Insider.
Gavin Longmuir: The Ukraine is effectively now occupied by US/NATO. The US government in particular is even paying the pensions of retired Ukrainians. As some European politicians have noted, the Ukraine would (will?) collapse within weeks if (when?) US government support stops. Given that reality, would Russia respond to a NATO siege of Crimea by nuking Kiev or by nuking Washington DC? If Russia did choose to nuke the DC Swamp, would many US taxpayers object?
Bob Sykes: The continual escalation of NATO’s participation in the Russo-Ukrainian War can only end in an all-out nuclear exchange covering both all of Europe and all of North America. So, last week we had an attack on a Russian warship that was guarding the gas pipeline from Turkey to Hungary. Undoubtedly this was approved by Washington if not actually conducted by Washington. It is ultimately yet another attack on two of our NATO allies, after the attack on Germany. These attacks are intended to...
Pseudo-Chrysostom: Improvements in tendon strength may be a factor, but the number one thing wrt plyometrics is neural drive, conditioning motor engrams to move in more impulsive ways. This is also related to where ‘noob gains’ in novice lifters come from – greater muscle recruitment through higher neural drive in people who theretofore have never made lifting heavy a regular practice – before other factors (like hypertrophy, vascularization, or metabolic efficiency) start...
Isegoria, may you have a rational yet funny Christmas! ;-)
Thank you kindly, Borepatch. In fact, I’ll try to keep things rational yet funny into the New Year.
..and that’s why I come here often.
Happy coming New Year!
Happy New Year to you, too, Tatyana. (S Novim godom!)