June 28, 20232 yr How many U.S. mercenaries among the dead? How long can the Biden regime keep their deaths quiet?
June 28, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, Abracadabra said: ***Graphic*** Poor **** trapped in a minefield and losing limbs left and right. Would any other nation tolerate this kind of massacre of their soldiers in a hopeless effort to defeat an enemy? If this were Americans being slaughtered like this, there'd be hell to pay. But this is just Slavs being sacrificed for the Anglo-Saxon hegemony and killing as many Russians as possible. Wow, yeah can't find that anywhere..except apple news.
June 28, 20232 yr 3 hours ago, Alpha_TATEr said: if you're looking for something to do over 4th of july .... Ok but flip flops? he couldn't find a broomstick or something?
June 28, 20232 yr 2 minutes ago, Arthur Jackson said: Ok but flip flops? he couldn't find a broomstick or something? Seriously, somebody get these guys some duct tape or at least some waterproof boots.
June 29, 20232 yr 3 hours ago, Shepard Wong said: Seriously, somebody get these guys some duct tape or at least some waterproof boots. or you could just not put your bare foot within the the splash diameter of another man's urine in the first place. now... if it was Morwenna from Portwenn Surgery doing the tinkling, I might reconsider
June 29, 20232 yr 12 hours ago, Shepard Wong said: Seriously, somebody get these guys some duct tape or at least some waterproof boots. hey, nobody said fighting for democracy would be easy.
June 30, 20232 yr St Olga of Kiev. Her story is the ultimate revenge tale I highly recommend people looking her up but in short, her husband was killed by a neighbouring tribe and she sought vengeance. The neighbouring faction then sought to take over her own, seeing as she was a weak woman and ruling in her dead husbands place as her own son was too young. She invited them to her town as a show of honour. When the large party of messengers arrived, they were soon attacked and backed into a massive trench that Olgas people had dug the nights before. Standing over the trench she asked them "If they found the honor to their taste” and buried them alive. But she wasn’t even close to finished with her quest for vengeance. She sent message back to the enemy saying she would accept an allegiance by marriage. Painting herself as such a feeble woman, that she would gladly relinquish her power to her enemy. But she requested all high chieftains to visit her town, to socialise and garner favour. The chieftains came, she invited them into the bath house to relax before a feast. They were locked inside and burned to death. But she wasn’t done. Her next feat is her most incredible. After taking out most people of power from the other faction. She demanded tribute from their towns and villages… Not in gold, not in any material goods. But in the form of sparrows and pigeons. Thousands were delivered to her. The next night, she ordered her soldiers to tie a strip of sulfur to the birds legs, set it alight, and released the birds. The birds flew back to the houses and homes they had nested in. And burned every village to the ground. The sky was apparently a blaze of fire for days. Olga emerged victorious, and satiated. Don’t F with Olga of Kiev She is known, quite aptly, as the patron saint of vengeance and defiance.
July 2, 20232 yr America Has Just Destroyed A Great Empire Quote Herodotus (History, Book 1.53) tells the story of Croesus, king of Lydia c. 585-546 BC in what is now Western Turkey and the Ionian shore of the Mediterranean. Croesus conquered Ephesus, Miletus and neighboring Greek-speaking realms, obtaining tribute and booty that made him one of the richest rulers of his time. But these victories and wealth led to arrogance and hubris. Croesus turned his eyes eastward, ambitious to conquer Persia, ruled by Cyrus the Great. Having endowed the region’s cosmopolitan Temple of Delphi with substantial silver and gold, Croesus asked its Oracle whether he would be successful in the conquest that he had planned. The Pythia priestess answered: "If you go to war against Persia, you will destroy a great empire.” Croesus therefore set out to attack Persia c. 547 BC. Marching eastward, he attacked Persia’s vassal-state Phrygia. Cyrus mounted a Special Military Operation to drive Croesus back, defeating Croesus’s army, capturing him and taking the opportunity to seize Lydia’s gold to introduce his own Persian gold coinage. So Croesus did indeed destroy a great empire, but it was his own. Fast-forward to today’s drive by the Biden administration to extend American military power against Russia and, behind it, China. The president asked for advice from today’s analogue to antiquity’s Delphi oracle: the CIA and its allied think tanks. Instead of warning against hubris, they encouraged the neocon dream that attacking Russia and China would consolidate U.S. control of the world economy, achieving the End of History. Having organized a coup d’état in Ukraine in 2014, the United States sent its NATO proxy army eastward, giving weapons to Ukraine to fight an ethnic war against its Russian-speaking population and turn Russia’s Crimean naval base into a NATO fortress. This Croesus-level ambition aimed at drawing Russia into combat and depleting its ability to defend itself, wrecking its economy in the process and destroying its ability to provide military support to China and other countries targeted for seeking self-dependency as an alternative to U.S. hegemony. After eight years of provocation, a new military attack on Russian-speaking Ukrainians was conspicuously prepared, ready to drive toward the Russian border in February 2022. Russia protected its fellow Russian-speakers from further ethnic violence by mounting its own Special Military Operation. The United States and its NATO allies immediately seized Russia’s foreign-exchange reserves held in Europe and North America, and demanded that all countries impose sanctions against importing Russian energy and grain, hoping that this would crash the ruble’s exchange rate. The Delphic State Department expected that this would cause Russian consumers to revolt and overthrow Vladimir Putin’s government, enabling U.S. maneuvering to install a client oligarchy like the one it had nurtured in the 1990s under President Yeltsin. A byproduct of this confrontation with Russia has been to lock in America’s control over its Western European satellites. The aim of this intra-NATO jockeying was to foreclose Europe’s dream of profiting from closer trade and investment relations with Russia by exchanging its industrial manufactures for Russian raw materials. The United States derailed that prospect by blowing up the Nord Stream gas pipelines, cutting off Germany and other countries from access to low-priced Russian gas. That left Europe’s leading economy dependent on higher-cost U.S. Liquified Natural Gas (LNG). In addition to having to subsidize domestic European gas to prevent widespread insolvency, a large proportion of German Leopard tanks, U.S. Patriot missiles and other NATO "wonder weapons” are being destroyed in combat against the Russian army. It has become clear that the U.S. strategy is not simply to "fight to the last Ukrainian,” but to fight to the last tank, missile and other weapon being deleted from NATO stocks. This depletion of NATO’s arms was expected to create a vast replacement market to enrich America’s military-industrial complex. Its NATO customers are being told to increase their military spending to 3 or even 4 percent of GDP. But the weak performance of U.S. and German arms on the Ukrainian battlefield may have crashed this dream, while Europe’s economies are sinking into depression. And with Germany’s industrial economy deranged by the severing of its trade with Russia, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner told the Die Welt newspaper on June 16, 2023 that his country cannot afford to pay more money into the European Union budget, to which it has long been the largest contributor. Without German exports supporting the euro’s exchange rate, the currency will come under pressure against the dollar as Europe buys LNG and NATO replenishes its depleted weaponry stocks by buying new arms from America. A lower exchange rate will squeeze the purchasing power of European labor, while lowering social spending to pay for rearmament and provide gas subsidies is plunging the continent into a depression. A nationalist reaction against U.S. dominance is rising throughout European politics, and instead of America locking in its control over European policy, the United States may end up losing – not only in Europe but most crucially throughout the Global South. Instead of turning Russia’s "ruble to rubble” as President Biden promised, Russia’s balance of trade has soared and its gold supply has increased. So have the gold holdings of other countries whose governments are now aiming to de-dollarize their economies. It is American diplomacy that is driving Eurasia and the Global South out of the U.S. orbit. America’s hubristic drive for unipolar world dominance could only have been dismantled so rapidly from within. The Biden-Blinken-Nuland administration has done what neither Vladimir Putin nor Chinese President Xi could have hoped to achieve in so short a period. Neither was prepared to throw down the gauntlet and create an alternative to the U.S.-centered world order. But U.S. sanctions against Russia, Iran, Venezuela and China have had the effect of protective tariff barriers to force self-sufficiency in what EU diplomat Josep Borrell calls the world "jungle” outside of the US/NATO "garden.” Although the Global South and other countries have been complaining about U.S. dominance ever since the Bandung Conference of Non-Aligned Nations in 1955, they have lacked a critical mass to create a viable alternative. But their attention has now been focused by the U.S. confiscation of Russia’s official dollar reserves in NATO countries. That dispelled the thought of the dollar as a safe vehicle in which to hold international savings. The Bank of England’s earlier seizure of Venezuela’s gold reserves kept in London – promising to donate them to whatever unelected opponents of its socialist regime U.S. diplomats designate – shows how sterling and the euro as well as the dollar have been weaponized. And by the way, what ever happened to Libya’s gold reserves? American diplomats avoid thinking about this scenario. They rely to the one unique advantage the United States has to offer. It may refrain from bombing them, from staging a color revolution to "Pinochet” them by the National Endowment for Democracy, or install a new "Yeltsin” giving the economy away to a client oligarchy. But refraining from such behavior is all that America can offer. It has de-industrialized its own economy, and its idea of foreign investment is to carve out monopoly-rent seeking opportunities by concentrating technological monopolies and control of oil and grain trade in U.S. hands, as if this is economic efficiency, not rent-seeking. What has occurred is a change in consciousness. We are seeing the Global Majority trying to create an independent and peacefully negotiated choice as to just what kind of an international order they want. Their aim is not merely to create alternatives to the use of dollars, but an entire new set of institutional alternatives to the IMF and World Bank, the SWIFT bank clearing system, the International Criminal Court and the entire array of institutions that U.S. diplomats have hijacked from the United Nations. The upshot will be civilizational in scope. We are seeing not the End of History but a fresh alternative to U.S.-centered neoliberal finance capitalism and its junk economics of privatization, class war against labor, and the idea that money and credit should be privatized in the hands of a narrow financial class instead of being a public utility to finance economic needs and rising living standards. The irony is that America’s historical role has been that although it itself was not able to lead the world forward along these lines, its attempts to lock the world into an antithetical imperial system by conquering Russia on the plains of Ukraine and trying to isolate China’s technology from breaking the U.S. attempt at IT monopoly have been the great catalysts pushing the global majority along these lines. Yup.
July 2, 20232 yr 30 minutes ago, Abracadabra said: Yup You read all of that, bravo ! Such a trusted news site.
July 2, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, Talkingbirds said: You read all of that, bravo ! Such a trusted news site. It's basically everything I've been saying for months.
July 2, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, Abracadabra said: America Has Just Destroyed A Great Empire Yup. It appears that the Russian speaking Ukrainians don't consider themselves part of the Great Empire. But don't let your grad student "I just discovered Marxism and I'm going to vent my bourgeoise American guilt over beers for the thousandth time" thesis stop you. Hey, btw, cluster bombs and ATACMS should make life in the trenches interesting for your comrades.
July 3, 20232 yr 31 minutes ago, Next_Up said: It appears that the Russian speaking Ukrainians don't consider themselves part of the Great Empire. But don't let your grad student "I just discovered Marxism and I'm going to vent my bourgeoise American guilt over beers for the thousandth time" thesis stop you. Hey, btw, cluster bombs and ATACMS should make life in the trenches interesting for your comrades. Another wunderwaffe? Stop. The Russians will adjust to whatever the fascists throw at them, as usual. BTW, that beacon of democracy in smoldering France has just shut down the internet. Like I said, a backwater.
July 3, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, Abracadabra said: Another wunderwaffe? Stop. The Russians will adjust to whatever the fascists throw at them, as usual. BTW, that beacon of democracy in smoldering France has just shut down the internet. Like I said, a backwater. Democracy is messy, evolving and unstable. By design. You would need to have an understanding outside of the lens of your authoritarian ideal to understand that. You can try but don't hurt yourself. One more thing, dying isn't adjusting and to date, that's all the Russians have shown they can do with any consistency.
July 3, 20232 yr 9 hours ago, Procus said: Thanks Ivan, but we already have a Russian tart who will blow Putin posting here.
July 3, 20232 yr 12 hours ago, Abracadabra said: Another wunderwaffe? Stop. The Russians will adjust to whatever the fascists throw at them, as usual. BTW, that beacon of democracy in smoldering France has just shut down the internet. Like I said, a backwater. Could you even fathom the Russian people taking to the streets for over a week over a single 17 yr old girl's wrongful death? The thought of it is farcical.
July 3, 20232 yr 23 minutes ago, dawkins4prez said: Could you even fathom the Russian people taking to the streets for over a week over a single 17 yr old girl's wrongful death? The thought of it is farcical. Yet, this was apparently the west's strategy from the start. So, which is it- is Putin a strongman ruling Russia with an iron fist, or is Putin weak and subject to palace intrigue and a noose in red square? Rhetorical question. I know the answer depends on whichever narrative is active at the moment. Currently, with the backdrop of European disintergration, the brutal, omnipotent, dictator fits the bill. Last week it was:
July 3, 20232 yr 2 minutes ago, Abracadabra said: Yet, this was apparently the west's strategy from the start. So, which is it- is Putin a strongman ruling Russia with an iron fist, or is Putin weak and subject to palace intrigue and a noose in red square? Rhetorical question. I know the answer depends on whichever narrative is active at the moment. Currently, with the backdrop of European disintergration, the brutal, omnipotent, dictator fits the bill. Last week it was: Like you, Putin is a huge puss with the morals of a bowl of salted slugs.
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