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https://babylonbee.com/news/disaster-relief-plane-flies-over-hawaii-on-way-to-ukraine

https://sashastone.substack.com/p/tucker-carlson-episode-16-with-rfk

RFK Jr gives a clear explanation of the war in Ukraine starting just after 12 minutes in.

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1691550463076847635

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/livin-in-the-new-world-thursday-august

We still have a long way to go, but by their inherently unstable design, massive corrupt conspiracies must fail. They can only grow by adding people in two incompetent categories: (1) useful idiots — who are idiots after all, and (2) corrupt people, who are always ultimately ungovernable.

The Proxy War is a great metaphor for where we are in this global conflict.

This will trigger a few folks, but imagine the Russians represent the right-thinking masses. NATO represents the Leftist élite machine. NATO is throwing everything in its arsenal at the Russian underdog, but the Russians tenaciously hang on to their gains and, inch by bloody inch, between wins and losses, are slowly, inexorably, winning the war. Similarly, the Left is running everything in its human-skin-bound playbook at the World, but the World is hanging on and slowly, painfully, winning.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/08/20/david_sacks_sadly_ukraine_will_be_complete_destroyed_before_the_west_admits_we_need_a_diplomatic_solution.html

Patrick says

Come on Patrick, we're both nerds.

The liberals were the assholes always, and the people that suck up to them. Liberals are the sociopaths, and the toadies currying favor.

Zeihan on F-16 and long-range weapons: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cem-58_NKjA&feature=youtu.be

Patrick says

Yep, these American families could use some surplus M777 howitzers right now....

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/abyssal-tuesday-august-22-2023-c

Although the Russians were not prepared in February 2022 for this kind of war, they are now. And they’re continuing to prepare, which includes continuous mobilization. They’re up to 750,00 troops in and around Ukraine. That number is going to rise in the next year to 1.2 million.

Our intransigence, our demonstrated hatred and hostility toward Moscow and for Russia, has convinced the Russian people — as well as the leadership in Moscow — that they are going to have to fight us, and anyone allied with us.

So they’re preparing for that eventuality. That’s why it’s so important we wake up and understand that what we’ve done has backfired. Whatever we’ve set out to achieve has failed. ...

Listening to Macgregor’s confident, well-reasoned analysis, which smacked of commonsense expertise, it occurred to me that our strategy in Ukraine was perfect — perfect for the Russians, that is. If Biden had wanted to give Moscow a TED Talk on exactly how to beat NATO, he could never have dreamed up a better — worse — way. Biden has presented the Russians with a limited, slowly escalating engagement, against a corrupt, weak opponent, where NATO’s best weapons systems were gradually introduced, giving the Russians time to adjust, learn, and adapt, while continuously adding vast numbers soldiers — who are all becoming skilled battlefield veterans.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian soldiers are not becoming veterans, they are dying in droves. Even if we have a few thousand NATO troops stealthily involved, that’s nothing compared to the incalculable number of Russian troops gaining practical experience in fighting a modern, high-tech kinetic war. It’s a completely different kind of war than anything in human history. As Macgregor noted, in this new kind of war, all units are visible on the battlefield all the time. If something moves, it gets shot at and destroyed.

To fight the war this way was woke incompetence beyond imagination, sheer madness, badly misplaced hubris, possibly the worst and most reckless military strategy ever conceived in the Joint Chiefs’ transsexual, pride-flagged conference rooms — ever.

As I said, it was a jam-packed, tightly-edited, hour-long interview. There’s a lot there. Toward the end, Tucker showed Colonel Macgregor a clip of an American psyoperator who went to work for Ukraine, a man who dresses like a woman, in Ukrainian uniform, who explained how our war generals (and certain folks in the comments) see things:



As the two men watched, former Florida resident ‘Sarah’ Cirillo, now a Ukraine army spokesman, explained in the clip (in part):

CIRILLO: “If you look at Putin’s mouth, you’ll notice blood drips from it. He’s a vampire, carrying out genocide against both Ukraine and Russians alike. Vlad Putin bathes in the blood of innocent children and enjoys it. And this is why the dictator of the Russian Federation must be deposed.”
That over-the-top nonsense came from an official Ukrainian military announcement.

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1693761723230990509

Lol, this Colonel Douglas Macgregor guy is good. "Instead of consent of the governed, we have contempt for the governed." and "If the donor class were cannibals, the government would feed Americans to them."

He also makes the valid point that a lot of this war seems driven by the hatred of people like Nuland and Blinken and the entire donor class for Russia because their Jewish ancestors were oppressed by Russia. Sure, their ancestors (and some of my own) were oppressed by tsarist Russia, but it's wrong to make their ethnic hatred for Russians and Ukrainians into US policy.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/brief-struggles-wednesday-august

CNN had to admit that Establishment Media’s anti-Putin campaign just seems to be making the Russian leader more and more popular:

Countries’ wide interest in joining BRICS is also a boost for Putin – who remains welcome in the bloc despite being seen as a pariah and war criminal in the West. It also points to a widening gap between the priorities of those countries lining up for BRICS and the wealthy Western nations that have united against him in support of Ukraine, analysts say.

You’d think a real threat to replace the dollar would interest Americans, but the story has been embargoed by nearly all the major Establishment Media players. It’s almost like they’re terrified people will find out about this problem. ...

While CNN characterized the meeting as just some boring discussions about adding new members — twenty-two countries want to join — the meeting is really about the creation of the group’s new gold-backed currency, which is intended to dethrone the dollar. ...

For Portanders: the M1 graph shows the amount of dollars in circulation increased from a long-established, stable 4,000 billion in 2020 to over 20,000 billion in just 24 months. In other words, there is now FIVE TIMES AS MUCH CASH IN CIRCULATION as there was in January 2020. ...

So in other words, in one fell swoop, by devaluing the currency, we just gave ourselves a 75% discount on everything we’ve ever bought from Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, India, you name it. Everyone holding dollars watched their holdings be suddenly and unexpectedly miniaturized.

Honey, we shrunk the dollar!

Now — for some reason — Russia and China and a lot of other countries are like, hey, wait a minute. We need a stable world currency. A currency backed by gold, so that it can’t be shrunk whenever the issuing country doesn’t feel like paying its debts. And then, to add insult to injury, on top of shrinking the dollar, Biden also excreted a massively-complicated set of international sanctions rules, telling other countries what they can and can’t buy from each other, making their dollars even harder to use.

https://patrick.net/comment?comment_id=1980733

A SHOCKING development

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-state-media-says-mercenary-chief-prigozhin-was-in-plane-crash-north-of-moscow/ar-AA1fG4aq?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=ed8d86983b094756b16e1c546f14abf9&ei=49

Who coulda foreseen???????

https://babylonbee.com/news/confused-mike-pence-under-impression-hes-running-for-president-of-ukraine

This is so true. The neoCon/Globalist imbecility is breathtaking!

Patrick says

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/quid-pro-joe-saturday-august-26-2023

Russia’s Ministry of Defense published its updated report on Ukrainian materiel losses yesterday. Count the cost (to US taxpayers):

📊 In total, 464 airplanes, 246 helicopters, 6,122 unmanned aerial vehicles, 433 air defence missile systems, 11,513 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,144 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 6,062 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 12,441 special military motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.

Carpers will predictably wail that Russia’s MOD is a lake of pure propaganda, which is pretty rich, given the vast ocean of propaganda dished up by Ukrainian and NATO sources. Show me where the accurate figures are before you start whining.

Anyway, I’m not saying I have any idea whether those numbers are accurate or not. How could I? I’m just saying. I’m just saying that Russian information has been more reliable than anything from Western sources, so far. That’s all. Don’t be triggered.

Actually, I’m just saying we could’ve used some of those wasted billions that were literally burned to ashes in Ukraine to rebuild Lahaina, which was literally burned to ashes.

Good Question...



See https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1695164616731509222 24 Seconds

Self serving political crime family logic. Not what's best for the Republic. What's best for their criminal enterprises, and we should joyously embrace the slaughter of nations to those ends, so that Romney's kids can collect a laundered paycheck from Ukraine along with Hunter. There is no 'defense of our nation' in Ukraine, only the defense of the Globalist nexus of money laundering, trafficking, drug sales and arms sales. The megalomaniac criminals believe that what is good for them and their criminal enterprises is what our nation is all about.
What is most remarkable is that this fool Romney believes this is a convincing argument.

https://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=228324

https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1696651064810823704



Rest of the interview:

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1696643892253466712

The main Red Army Airborne (VDV) base in Pskov has just been de-nazified and de-militarized to the tune of several Il-76 cargo jets burned to the ground by drones. The Reds even admitted the loss of two, which means it's bad. This is roughly 400 miles from the border.

"What air defense doing?"

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/inevitability-thursday-august-31

The UK Telegraph ran another contrary Proxy War op-ed last week headlined, “Ukraine’s army is running out of men to recruit, and time to win.” The sub-headline even more controversially suggested, “Victory may be in sight for Vladimir Putin.”

A win for Vampire Putin! Say it isn’t so. How did that get past the censors?

After acknowledging some minor wins for Ukraine in last week’s fighting, the author described the vast difference between the dwindling number of potential soldiers available to Ukraine versus the relatively huge, steadily-increasing numbers available to Russia:

It’s a brutal but simple calculation: Kyiv is running out of men. US sources have calculated that armed forces have lost as many as 70,000 killed in action, with another 100,000 injured. While Russian casualties are higher still, the ratio nevertheless favours Moscow, as Ukraine struggles to replace soldiers in the face of a seemingly endless supply of conscripts.

Volunteers are no longer coming forward in numbers sufficient to keep the army at fighting strength: those most willing to fight signed up years ago. The latest recruitment slogan is “it’s OK to be afraid,” but there are still many attempting to dodge being drafted to fight on the front lines.

Not too good. But the vast mismatch between Ukraine’s available armed forces and what Russia can muster has been easily known from the very beginning of the conflict. So, why are op-eds appearing now citing how badly Ukraine is outnumbered? This tardy analysis mostly resembles a typical media narrative shift, where op-editors are recruited in the first wave to soften the blow and to provide some stuffing for a developing replacement narrative.

Here’s the Proxy War’s narrative timeline:

Stage 1: Russian victory is impossible.

Stage 2: Russian victory is unlikely.

Stage 3: Russia cannot be allowed to win.

Stage 4: Russia is winning, but at what cost?

Stage 5: Russian victory was inevitable.

Currently, we seem to have departed Narrative Stage 4 en route to Stage 5.

I'm starting to think that the primary US goal of provoking Russia to attack Ukraine was simply to kill as many young Ukrainian men as possible.

Ok, I caved to social media pressure!

I am now including Ukey colors in some of my posts.

Here they are:

https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/happenings-await/

Speaking of happenings this autumn, expect the war in Ukraine to come to an end. The news media might omit to inform you about this, but it awaits. Russia will not trumpet its victory, so as to avoid inflaming America’s crazed neo-cons. Rather it will just quietly take charge of its successfully neutralized neighbor, make provision for some sort of administration over what remains of the rump state — in a way that affords Russia a sense of permanent security — at the same time that Russia commences new negotiations separately with several European nations to reestablish realistic relations.

The US will be delicately hung out to dry on this. Short of resorting to nuclear World War Three, there is nothing the US can do about it — except for the Democratic Party to blame the whole sorry thing on “Joe Biden” as he is forced to resign from office pending that aforesaid impeachment threat. No other explanation for the end of our Ukraine project will be required. The party of chaos will flounder a while in the very chaos that it induced, trying laughably to switch out Kamala Harris for Gavin Newsom — or some other ploy to stay in business. But the party will be so badly damaged by then that it will have no other option except to let Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in to drive out the remaining demons and save the venerable old org from suicide.

If you think that these various momentous happenings won’t affect the financial markets and the banking system in the coming season, prepare to be amazed. This is how America truly gets to feel the pain, and this might be how the pitchforks finally come out for the people who wrecked our country.

In the past week:

- Ukrainians broke through the first (and strongest?) defense line past Robotyne which will soon put Ukraine's very accurate artillery close enough to cut off the major roads and railroads that Russia is using to supply Crimea and occupied areas south of Kherson.

- Putin had Prigozhin killed and basically disbanded Russia's major fighting force (Wagner)

- Ukraine conducted major drone attacks deep inside Russian territory eliminating many expensive jets and transport planes as well as weekly attacks on Moscow.

But yeah - Russia is somehow at the cusp of "victory" or something. At best, Russia is going to be bleeding people and material well into next year as they try to hang onto what's left of the land they stole and occupied last year.

socal2 says

But yeah - Russia is somehow at the cusp of "victory" or something. At best, Russia is going to be bleeding people and material well into next year as they try to hang onto what's left of the land they stole and occupied last year.

No. This is a proxy war between the United States and Russia. It will go on for YEARS. The US will fund this war forever, Russia will just kill all the men in the Ukrainian military over time.

Whatever US media is saying, whatever it is, it's a lie.

People treat this war like it's a football game. It's annoying. It doesn't matter ONE BIT who you support, and you are foolish to support either side. We are lied into EVERY FUCKING WAR, and our media intentionally misinforms people, but they still root and cheer. People have discovered they have supported MANY atrocities by doing this, and they still keep doing it.

Remember when the US attacked Libya "to prevent a humanitarian crisis" and people screamed at you what a bad person you were not to support that war, and they it was left in civil war with slavery markets? At the end of this current war, you're going to find you did the same fucking thing AGAIN because apparently people can't learn from the past, they just keep making the same stupid mistakes, over and over and over again.

Ukraine, EVEN IF IT COULD WIN THE WAR, is fucked.

Patrick says

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1693761723230990509

Lol, this guy is good. "Instead of consent of the governed, we have contempt for the governed." and "If the donor class were cannibals, the government would feed Americans to them."

He also makes the valid point that a lot of this war seems driven by the hatred of people like Nuland and Blinken and the entire donor class for Russia because their Jewish ancestors were oppressed by Russia. Sure, their ancestors (and some of my own) were oppressed by tsarist Russia, but it's wrong to make their ethnic hatred for Russians and Ukrainians into US policy.

I'm trying to find smokeless powder for shotgun reloading, but everyone is out. It's all being bought up by the gubment to be shipped to the Ukraine.