Thank you very much for the review. One correction: Nuland spoke of "nasty surprises", not "nice surprises". It was in a speech to the CSIS on 02/22/2024, her sentences were:
« With this money Ukraine will be able to fight back in the east, but it will also be able to accelerate the asymmetric warfare that has been most effective on the battlefield. And as i said in Kyiv three weeks ago this supplemental funding will ensure that Putin faces some nasty surprises on the battlefield this year. »
“and perhaps even engaging in direct attacks against civilians which they have not done to date. ” — ever heard of Mariupol, sir Esquire? Bucha? What about weekly Odesa attacks?
I think Bucha was faked to give Zelensky a pretext to torpedo Ukraine's peace talks with Russia and galvanize Western support behind a continuation of Bidens manufactured war in Ukraine.
Bucha was fake news . Putin has bent over backwards to accomadate the West but they are clearly looking for trouble with Russia ; it's like 1914 again when Germany gave Austria a ''blank cheque to deal with Serbia ''.and turned a regional Balkans war into WW1.. NATO gave Ukraine a blank cheque to face down Russia and is now heading towards WW3
Even Dr. John Mearsheimer is now saying the US cannot be trusted because it has broken all its promises to Russian leaders. Of course, if Trump were elected President, America's word could be trusted again as he has been calling for an immediate end to the war in Ukraine for two years now and has stated he wants to get out of NATO or at least pull all US troops out of Eastern Europe.
Trump would return to Russia the natural gas market share we have gained since Putin’s asinine invasion. Our LNG exports make us energy dominant and Trump would fritter that away to bail out Putin. Of course, Trump would never do that which is why if he were elected Lindsey Graham would win every argument with Trump just like he did in Trump’s first term. Trump is all talk, Lindsey Graham is all action.
That "export energy dominance" is penny-wise and pound-foolish. Europe's economies are cratering due to expensive US gas being forced on them. Germany's industrial base is especially hard hit. Voters there are losing jobs. There's a strong chance their US-lapdog leaders will be voted out of office in favor of parties calling for resumption of trade relations with Russia.
Lindsey Graham has been America Last for most of his career. He has been tilting away from that a bit of late with his vote against the Biden-Schumer Ukraine funding package.
Exactly right. The historical precedents are troubling. Great power alliances transformed two regional wars in Eastern Europe into unnecessary world wars that cost the lives of over 100 million people. Now, America's membership in the NATO alliance and Biden's blank cheque to Ukraine is threatening to transform this Russo-Ukrainian border dispute into an unnecessary third world war that could cost up to one billion lives.
The Ukrainian claim that Russia killed 60,000 at Mariupol was absurd. It casts their entire claim of Russian war crimes there in doubt. But I'm sure both Russia and Ukriane have committed low level war crimes and I've been saying so since the beginning of the war.
HRW is saying at least 8000 dead, 350,000 displaced. UN is saying the number is likely in thousands, all killed by russian airstrikes. Nobody was allowed to inspect the grave sites or even bury the dead properly. In what universe is this a “small war crime”?
Even 8,000 civilians dead in Mariupol sounds bogus to me. Certainly, we know there are 10 million Ukrainian refugees which is a humanitarian catastrophe. Of course, all of this was easily avoidable if Biden had merely accepted Putin's offer of issuing a written guarantee to Russia that Ukraine would never join NATO in exchange for which Putin offered on December 7, 2021 to send all Russian troops surged to the Ukrainian border back to bases. Biden deliberately chose this war and he is deliberately chosen to prolong it indefinitely. Accordingly, he bears ultimate blame for the 500,000 Ukrainians killed and wounded to date. This was a war Putin didn't even want and spent 15 years trying to avert through a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine in NATO crisis.
In 2014 or '15, shortly after the Maidan coup, neo-Nazi Azov types herded ethnic Russian Ukrainian protesters in Odessa into a building and torched it, burning them all alive. This conflict started then, not in 2022. And Lindsay Graham was there with Nuland and McCain egging it all on.
Russia blaming Ukraine for this smells like the “Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction” fiction that the US used to invade Iraq 20 years ago. The master of misinformation Putin invaded and murdered and claims to be the victim.
I disagree. Ukraine is the only country that has motives to conduct these attacks. The timing of the attacks also suggest Ukraine is likely responsible for recruiting and paying the terrorist attackers.
Jihadists have been striking at Russia and Moscow or St Petersburg's legitimacy every few months for 900 years. Certainly amped up after the CIA injected political islam with anti communist steroids.
You're assuming, wrongly, that only countries are capable of planning attacks like these. The 21st century's first lesson was non nation state actors have both agency and means to influence major and regional powers.
Your assumption denies 800 years of political islam agency, and ignores the material grievances of those who fought russia in syria.
I can not disrespect your opinion but staging CIA biolabs near Russian Border areas is a Declaration of war from The West so the territorial boundaries have no context in who is being invaded
There were 24 admitted US biolabs in Ukraine some of which have been captured by Russia but I think we can safely conclude that if the US or Ukraine actually planned to use biological weapons against Russia they would have done so alteady.
Please define what a "biolab" is? The US funded research at Russian universities when I was in fact an American student in Russia doing research funded by the US.
I've only seen "biolabs" (a vague and useless term) described in a Q-anon context.
Yep, if mexico had tried to join the warsaw pact in 1980 how would the US respond ? If NATO can bomb and invade Yugoslavia, then annex its southern province of Kosovo,under a UN mandate, then Russia can definitely invade and annex those eastern Ukrainian provinces
Putin is a true statesman who is showing admirable wise restraint when provoked by decadent, educated idiots and overgrown schoolboys from the west . If a more ''traditional'' Russian leader had been in charge they'd already have nuked us
Putin cannot let this go unpunished , he'll quickly organise something to happen to the nefarious WEst ..maybe a terrorist attack or an attack on western communications etc ..something is brewing now
I am hoping and praying you are wrong but I have to agree that Putin's strategic forbearance in response to numerous serious Western provocations has been remarkable. Virtually any US President would have started a war with Russia by now if Russia had done the same thing to the US that we have been doing to them during the past couple years.
Bush's invasion of Iraq on the basis of non-existant WND was just a pretext. Putin's invasion of Ukraine was not in response to the biolabs but to prevent the emergence of what Russia viewed as an existential threat of Ukraine's de facto NATO membership proven by the US reaction to the Russian invasion behaving exactly as it would have had Ukraine been a formal NATO member and the NATO military buildup that was occurring in Ukraine. The other reason Putin invaded in February 2022 was to pre-empt the Ukrainian invasion of the Donbass republics which Zelensky was preparing to launch to return them to Ukrainian control.
After questioning the suspects Putin has announced that Ukraine, the US and the UK are behind this and I believe him ; as such the Russians are not going to let this go unanswered . What's good for the goose is surely good for the gander and two can play this game . I'd wager the Russians sponsor a Muslim attack somewhere in the West , maybe in London , or even in the USA considering how open the border is ...it wont be difficult for them to do it
The West are playing with fire and are likely to get burnt !
David, why does the linked Politico.eu article ("It was recently revealed that these are exactly the type of attacks that Russian nuclear doctrine cites as justifying Russian nuclear escalation against Ukraine and NATO.") contain no reference to that doctrine, indeed doesn't contain the word "nuclear" at all? How are we to judge your credibility?
I don’t believe everything any government says and have no preconceived or yet determined view on who committed this atrocity.
I do know that the author is fond of quoting his prior posts in support of this one and had to begin this article with the admission he had mixed up the identity of a possible perpetrator with someone else.
It matters if the author confuses Jessie J with Jesse James and then claims to be an expert on outlaws.
You are right to be skeptical about the US claim that Ukraine had nothing to do with this terrorist attack mere minutes after the attack occurred. How would the US know that without conducting any investigation? I was citing a tweet by a reliable source but right after I posted the article, I checked it again and determined it was incorrect so I issued an immediate correction half an hour after I posted it. That is the first time I have gotten a material fact wrong after two years of posting on my substack.
they weren't die hard jihardists, just 4 muslim morons who were paid to attack and thought they could escape back to ukraine.. zelensky and his gang were responsible
As far as I know, Dimitri Peskov is not the Foreign Affairs spokesman, Maria Zakharovah has that role. Peskov is the Kremlin spokesman. He certainly did not 'declare' anything in this respect. A comment was made that because of the heavy NATO involvement it had become more of a war than a military operation. This has a huge connotation difference. In my opinion, escalation and twisting in wording is a serious mal practice. I would need to check if it was Peskov making that comment or some other government figure.
The European Union has become a dangerous joke that is moving like a steamroller. Those in charge of us here in Europe have long since made themselves safe in a distant, foreign country where they themselves are safe. They have learned nothing from the Yugoslavia war. They only care about their own name recognition and honor.
I think Israel should show the same amount of restraint dealing with Iran that the US showed when it dealt with Iraq after 911. So from this day forward follow the US lead on how to deal with an enemy that attacks you. You go to their country and completely demolish it. No food or water delivered. Cut out all electricity, cut off all communications and bomb all airports.
Thank you very much for the review. One correction: Nuland spoke of "nasty surprises", not "nice surprises". It was in a speech to the CSIS on 02/22/2024, her sentences were:
« With this money Ukraine will be able to fight back in the east, but it will also be able to accelerate the asymmetric warfare that has been most effective on the battlefield. And as i said in Kyiv three weeks ago this supplemental funding will ensure that Putin faces some nasty surprises on the battlefield this year. »
Do you have a link to her quote I could include in the article?
Here is the full verbatim together with a link to a video of the speech. Note that CSIS talks often deserve notice.
https://www.csis.org/analysis/under-secretary-state-victoria-nuland-two-year-anniversary-russias-full-scale-invasion
Thanks.
When the sky starts glowing and and the lights go out, borders will become meaningless.
“and perhaps even engaging in direct attacks against civilians which they have not done to date. ” — ever heard of Mariupol, sir Esquire? Bucha? What about weekly Odesa attacks?
It’s good that you have no argument against that.
I think Bucha was faked to give Zelensky a pretext to torpedo Ukraine's peace talks with Russia and galvanize Western support behind a continuation of Bidens manufactured war in Ukraine.
Bucha was fake news . Putin has bent over backwards to accomadate the West but they are clearly looking for trouble with Russia ; it's like 1914 again when Germany gave Austria a ''blank cheque to deal with Serbia ''.and turned a regional Balkans war into WW1.. NATO gave Ukraine a blank cheque to face down Russia and is now heading towards WW3
Even Dr. John Mearsheimer is now saying the US cannot be trusted because it has broken all its promises to Russian leaders. Of course, if Trump were elected President, America's word could be trusted again as he has been calling for an immediate end to the war in Ukraine for two years now and has stated he wants to get out of NATO or at least pull all US troops out of Eastern Europe.
Trump would return to Russia the natural gas market share we have gained since Putin’s asinine invasion. Our LNG exports make us energy dominant and Trump would fritter that away to bail out Putin. Of course, Trump would never do that which is why if he were elected Lindsey Graham would win every argument with Trump just like he did in Trump’s first term. Trump is all talk, Lindsey Graham is all action.
That "export energy dominance" is penny-wise and pound-foolish. Europe's economies are cratering due to expensive US gas being forced on them. Germany's industrial base is especially hard hit. Voters there are losing jobs. There's a strong chance their US-lapdog leaders will be voted out of office in favor of parties calling for resumption of trade relations with Russia.
Lindsey Graham has been America Last for most of his career. He has been tilting away from that a bit of late with his vote against the Biden-Schumer Ukraine funding package.
Lindsey Graham is nothing but a rino and a democrat butt kisser. He lines up more with obiden policies.
Exactly right. The historical precedents are troubling. Great power alliances transformed two regional wars in Eastern Europe into unnecessary world wars that cost the lives of over 100 million people. Now, America's membership in the NATO alliance and Biden's blank cheque to Ukraine is threatening to transform this Russo-Ukrainian border dispute into an unnecessary third world war that could cost up to one billion lives.
100%
Wrong. As proven many times over.
But at least you are not denying the massacre that russians committed in Mariupol and their ongoing attacks on Odesa.
The Ukrainian claim that Russia killed 60,000 at Mariupol was absurd. It casts their entire claim of Russian war crimes there in doubt. But I'm sure both Russia and Ukriane have committed low level war crimes and I've been saying so since the beginning of the war.
HRW is saying at least 8000 dead, 350,000 displaced. UN is saying the number is likely in thousands, all killed by russian airstrikes. Nobody was allowed to inspect the grave sites or even bury the dead properly. In what universe is this a “small war crime”?
Even 8,000 civilians dead in Mariupol sounds bogus to me. Certainly, we know there are 10 million Ukrainian refugees which is a humanitarian catastrophe. Of course, all of this was easily avoidable if Biden had merely accepted Putin's offer of issuing a written guarantee to Russia that Ukraine would never join NATO in exchange for which Putin offered on December 7, 2021 to send all Russian troops surged to the Ukrainian border back to bases. Biden deliberately chose this war and he is deliberately chosen to prolong it indefinitely. Accordingly, he bears ultimate blame for the 500,000 Ukrainians killed and wounded to date. This was a war Putin didn't even want and spent 15 years trying to avert through a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine in NATO crisis.
In 2014 or '15, shortly after the Maidan coup, neo-Nazi Azov types herded ethnic Russian Ukrainian protesters in Odessa into a building and torched it, burning them all alive. This conflict started then, not in 2022. And Lindsay Graham was there with Nuland and McCain egging it all on.
Wrong. Sick fantasy with not a word based in reality.
Deny away, friend. Don't believe your lying eyes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxcB0PI4ZLg&rco=1
What a farce!
Russia blaming Ukraine for this smells like the “Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction” fiction that the US used to invade Iraq 20 years ago. The master of misinformation Putin invaded and murdered and claims to be the victim.
I disagree. Ukraine is the only country that has motives to conduct these attacks. The timing of the attacks also suggest Ukraine is likely responsible for recruiting and paying the terrorist attackers.
"The timing of the attack"
Jihadists have been striking at Russia and Moscow or St Petersburg's legitimacy every few months for 900 years. Certainly amped up after the CIA injected political islam with anti communist steroids.
You're assuming, wrongly, that only countries are capable of planning attacks like these. The 21st century's first lesson was non nation state actors have both agency and means to influence major and regional powers.
Your assumption denies 800 years of political islam agency, and ignores the material grievances of those who fought russia in syria.
Very narrow minded.
Or you are a bloody fool
So The Great Patriotic War Has started Again
It would seem so.
No, it has not started again. Russia has not been invaded — Russia is invading.
I can not disrespect your opinion but staging CIA biolabs near Russian Border areas is a Declaration of war from The West so the territorial boundaries have no context in who is being invaded
There were 24 admitted US biolabs in Ukraine some of which have been captured by Russia but I think we can safely conclude that if the US or Ukraine actually planned to use biological weapons against Russia they would have done so alteady.
Please define what a "biolab" is? The US funded research at Russian universities when I was in fact an American student in Russia doing research funded by the US.
I've only seen "biolabs" (a vague and useless term) described in a Q-anon context.
Yep, if mexico had tried to join the warsaw pact in 1980 how would the US respond ? If NATO can bomb and invade Yugoslavia, then annex its southern province of Kosovo,under a UN mandate, then Russia can definitely invade and annex those eastern Ukrainian provinces
Putin is a true statesman who is showing admirable wise restraint when provoked by decadent, educated idiots and overgrown schoolboys from the west . If a more ''traditional'' Russian leader had been in charge they'd already have nuked us
Putin cannot let this go unpunished , he'll quickly organise something to happen to the nefarious WEst ..maybe a terrorist attack or an attack on western communications etc ..something is brewing now
I am hoping and praying you are wrong but I have to agree that Putin's strategic forbearance in response to numerous serious Western provocations has been remarkable. Virtually any US President would have started a war with Russia by now if Russia had done the same thing to the US that we have been doing to them during the past couple years.
There were never any CIA biolabs near russian borders. Your information is false.
It was Victoria Nuland, the very architect of the Ukraine War, who testified to the US Senate that we had 24 biolabs in Ukraine so it appears it is you who are mistaken. https://greenwald.substack.com/p/victoria-nuland-ukraine-has-biological?s=r
False and misleading.
CIA had nothing to do with these biolabs.
But EVEN If it did, it is not a valid reason to invade another country and raze its cities.
Bush's invasion of Iraq on the basis of non-existant WND was just a pretext. Putin's invasion of Ukraine was not in response to the biolabs but to prevent the emergence of what Russia viewed as an existential threat of Ukraine's de facto NATO membership proven by the US reaction to the Russian invasion behaving exactly as it would have had Ukraine been a formal NATO member and the NATO military buildup that was occurring in Ukraine. The other reason Putin invaded in February 2022 was to pre-empt the Ukrainian invasion of the Donbass republics which Zelensky was preparing to launch to return them to Ukrainian control.
Why did V Newland say there was ?
"Bells are ringing, lights are flashing, gates are down,but the train she ain't a coming".
After questioning the suspects Putin has announced that Ukraine, the US and the UK are behind this and I believe him ; as such the Russians are not going to let this go unanswered . What's good for the goose is surely good for the gander and two can play this game . I'd wager the Russians sponsor a Muslim attack somewhere in the West , maybe in London , or even in the USA considering how open the border is ...it wont be difficult for them to do it
The West are playing with fire and are likely to get burnt !
David, why does the linked Politico.eu article ("It was recently revealed that these are exactly the type of attacks that Russian nuclear doctrine cites as justifying Russian nuclear escalation against Ukraine and NATO.") contain no reference to that doctrine, indeed doesn't contain the word "nuclear" at all? How are we to judge your credibility?
Or is that precisely the point?
I don’t believe everything any government says and have no preconceived or yet determined view on who committed this atrocity.
I do know that the author is fond of quoting his prior posts in support of this one and had to begin this article with the admission he had mixed up the identity of a possible perpetrator with someone else.
It matters if the author confuses Jessie J with Jesse James and then claims to be an expert on outlaws.
You are right to be skeptical about the US claim that Ukraine had nothing to do with this terrorist attack mere minutes after the attack occurred. How would the US know that without conducting any investigation? I was citing a tweet by a reliable source but right after I posted the article, I checked it again and determined it was incorrect so I issued an immediate correction half an hour after I posted it. That is the first time I have gotten a material fact wrong after two years of posting on my substack.
they weren't die hard jihardists, just 4 muslim morons who were paid to attack and thought they could escape back to ukraine.. zelensky and his gang were responsible
Yes that is my assessment as well.
ISIS took repsonsibility ? Well they would even if they didn't do it as they want the notoriety and attention
As far as I know, Dimitri Peskov is not the Foreign Affairs spokesman, Maria Zakharovah has that role. Peskov is the Kremlin spokesman. He certainly did not 'declare' anything in this respect. A comment was made that because of the heavy NATO involvement it had become more of a war than a military operation. This has a huge connotation difference. In my opinion, escalation and twisting in wording is a serious mal practice. I would need to check if it was Peskov making that comment or some other government figure.
This is crazy talk.
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The European Union has become a dangerous joke that is moving like a steamroller. Those in charge of us here in Europe have long since made themselves safe in a distant, foreign country where they themselves are safe. They have learned nothing from the Yugoslavia war. They only care about their own name recognition and honor.
Unlike king Obooma Putin will protect his citizens from Oboomas JV team
hmm
I think Israel should show the same amount of restraint dealing with Iran that the US showed when it dealt with Iraq after 911. So from this day forward follow the US lead on how to deal with an enemy that attacks you. You go to their country and completely demolish it. No food or water delivered. Cut out all electricity, cut off all communications and bomb all airports.