Posted on 09/25/2022 8:46:53 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Did you see the idiotic triumphalism from Anne Applebaum in the wake of Ukraine’s recent battlefield triumphs? “It’s Time To Prepare For A Ukrainian Victory” said the headline. She wrote in the Atlantic, in part:
But even though the fighting may still take many turns, the events of the past few days should force Ukraine’s allies to stop and think. A new reality has been created: The Ukrainians could win this war. Are we in the West really prepared for a Ukrainian victory? Do we know what other changes it could bring?
She goes on to fantasize about Putin’s fall.
Meanwhile, here’s Putin’s favorite Russian nationalist ideologue, Alexander Dugin, with some rather less sunny words. Remember, you don’t have to agree with Dugin — some of what he says is hysterical — but you do need to take seriously the fact that very many Russians in power believe it.
(Excerpt) Read more at theburningplatform.com ...
This war is a balancing act and it takes an immense amount of research to comb through the lies, propaganda, and deceit from both sides.
I believe we are not being told the truth for a variety of reasons.
Does this mean Washington DC gets toasted?
Let’s hope so. I’m getting tired of watching this communist takeover of the entire planet.
Why on earth would any one think that Putin’s fall would result in an improvement in Russian leadership? All these fools seem to be convinced that the next guy will be, what? A civil libertarian peacenik?
For sixty years nuclear war was too horrible to even contemplate. Now we see the talking head class in DC denigrating Russian nuclear capabilities and casually strategizing the waging of WWIII. Both wings of the Uniparty are fighting to lead on this road to Armageddon.
* On October 1, 2002, Applebaum wrote an article for Slate entitled, "You Can’t Assume a Nut Will Act Rationally," in which she argued that Saddam Hussein is not a rational agent in a manner comparable to Adolf Hitler.
She supported the Iraq War.
* Applebaum endorsed Hillary Clinton's campaign for president in July 2016 on the grounds that Trump is "a man who appears bent on destroying the alliances that preserve international peace and American power".
No comment needed.
* Applebaum has underlined the danger of a new "Nationalist International", a union of xenophobic, nationalist parties such as Law and Justice in Poland, the Northern League in Italy, and the Freedom Party in Austria.
* Opposes nationalism -- as least for the U.S. and Europe.
* In January 2022, Applebaum was invited to testify before the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee hearing entitled "Bolstering Democracy in the Age of Rising Authoritarianism".
Sticking a knife into the January 6the protestors.
* Applebaum is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is on the board of the National Endowment for Democracy and Renew Democracy Initiative. She was a member of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting's International Board of Directors. She was a Senior Adjunct Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) where she co-led a major initiative aimed at countering Russian disinformation in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). She was on the editorial board for The American Interest and the Journal of Democracy.
Respectable Neocon credentials. If you find Neocons respectable.
“This war is a balancing act and it takes an immense amount of research to comb through the lies, propaganda, and deceit from both sides.”
Of course, that’s war, and the truth is always the first casualty.
Everyone’s too far removed from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Everyone is the West are also Marxist nihilists. They hate themselves, hate humanity and want to end it all. Our so called leaders are leading us into a great catastrophe.
The first 2 started without the US. 45 years of post WW2 peace came only with US involvement. NATO disengagementwill do it more to start WW3 than if we give aid to Ukraine.
“NATO disengagementwill do it more to start WW3 than if we give aid to Ukraine.”
The US and NATO started wars. You need to study history and not just go by your recollection.
The writer enjoins us to ask ourselves what the west is defending. A very good question.
He will be replaced by someone else that we will be told to hate.
Clear and precise...
Damon Wilson, CEO/President of NED talking about a democratic Russia being the end goal.(regime change?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=424&v=kI4QDm5G-pE
Read all about Wilson. Been advising or working for NATO for 20 years. Atlantic Council as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon_Wilson
Wilson lives in DC with his husband but often visits his mom in SC. (Hey Graham lives there - some watery eyed good times going down in SC)
The NED finances the IRI (repubs like McCain(chair for 25 years), Graham, Dan Sullivan Kelly Ayotte, Romney, Rubio, Cotton, HR McMaster)
NED also funds the NDI (dems like Tom Daschle, Abrams, Brazille)
Guess who funds the NED? Congress. It’s a big f-in club and you ain’t in it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Republican_Institute#2009_Honduran_constitutional_crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Republican_Institute
https://www.ndi.org/board-directors
https://www.iri.org/who-we-are/
There's your American Foreign Policy right there.
This is an interesting post from an Ukrainian Telegram Channel I follow.
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#Layout #CaseUAV
Our source reports that the UAV invasion is now becoming a mega problem for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the same air defense, which will be calculated and destroyed.
The strategy is simple.
Several waves of raids by groups of small and relatively cheap UAVs will be used at once.
Their goal will be: reconnaissance and opening of the air defense system, jamming, the formation of decoys, fire destruction of objects.
Such a massive attack, or in other words, a “swarm”, can paralyze any air defense system built without taking into account UAV countermeasures. It should be understood that the Armed Forces of Ukraine, air defense installations have few left, and even more so they will not be able to withstand a massive raid. If the Russians still set the task of destroying all air defense, then in 10 days and 30 attacks in which dozens of Geraniums will be used at once, as well as using aviation, which will detect air defense and launch X-type missiles, while being at themselves in the rear, the Armed Forces of Ukraine has every chance of being left without cover.
At the same time, further development of the technology for the use of UAV groups will further complicate the conditions for the functioning of air defense systems. Of course, the Office of the President is advised by NATO advisers, but they will not be able to do anything if there are no air defense installations, electronic warfare and air defense systems themselves. Just to cover Odessa along the border line, you need air defense for billions of dollars, and hundreds of millions more for maintenance. There is no such money.
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This one is also interesting. Hard to believe how poor Ukrainians are.
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#rumors #layout
Colleagues, the hryvnia will continue to depreciate. Everyone has only one question, how much Zelensky will be able to postpone the fall and why are they postponing?
The maximum, as far as the authorities can delay the depreciation, is until the end of November. Until the end of the year, all experts predict the official rate at the level of 40 -44 hryvnia per $1, and not the official rate will be about 50 per $1.
So it turns out that if you have a salary of 10,000 hryvnia, then it will be only $200, under Yanukovych a student could go to work at night, working as a salesman 10 shifts a month and receive $250, and now the authorities are creating such conditions that you you have to go to war to feed your family, since there is no work in the country.
The pension will be generally ridiculous, from $35 to $55.
Here’s a hack. Therefore, the borders have been closed to everyone for 7 months now, no one is released to send everyone to fight. The office of the President does not care about the survival of people, it is important for them that there are enough soldiers.
I'm willing to put your theory to the test.
NATO had a role to play up until the collapse of the Soviet Union; it's currently a provocateur in need of a) a purpose and b) funding.
With the exception of Libya, this is false. From Korea to Iraq we were simply responding to ongoing conflicts, most of them promoted by the Soviet Union or the countries we attacked.
Amazing how many "conservatives" on FR have simply resorted to parroting anti-American leftist propaganda.
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