Rus Breakthrough Chasov Yar, Ukr Energy Crisis, Belgorod HIMARS Strike; Rus Economy Bigger Japan (My Notes on the first half hour of the video)

YOUTUBE ^ | June 2, 2024 | Alexander Mercouris

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ransomnote: the video at the link is 90 minutes in length. Below I've recorded my notes on the first half our of the video.

Rus Breakthrough Chasov Yar, Ukr Energy Crisis, Belgorod HIMARS Strike; Rus Economy Bigger Japan

June 2, 2024

Alexander Mercouris

The Ukraine bombed Belegorod with HIMAR missiles and this was cast as a powerful escalation of the war. As usual, this was apparently just optics (FAKE NEWS). It probably is fanned as NEW! IMPROVED! war to justify the most recent gift of taxpayer funds to the Ukrainian war effort.

Mercouris says the Ukraine has been using other armaments to bomb Belegorod for awhile, and it is likely attacks on Belegorod were already authorized by the US. Bombing this region does not escalate the war as the region has been under attack for awhile, and firing on it does not violate Putin's 'red line'

The Russians are already capable of jamming HIMAR missile targeting and have done so successfully for awhile, so the HIMARS are not expected to do much damage in Belegorod.

Alexander wonders if the reason the Ukraine demanded HIMARS to fire on Belegorod, despite the fact they know Russia will jam them again, given that the Ukrainians have been firing on that region with other weapons, might indicate the Ukrainians have run out of those other arms. He refers to their 'psychological need' to fire on the region despite the weapons not doing much if any harm now.

The Russians claim they interceped all the HIMARs fired on Belegorod in the latest attck. While we don't know for sure, Alexander said that is probably true because Russia has already demonstrated its capacity over time to intercept HIMARS.

He says the Russians have systematically and methodically destroyed Ukrainian air defense systems (AIR 300's and others) located around Kharkiv to the point that, for all intents and purposes, the region is without air defenses.

The only weapon the Ukraine current has that would help repel Russian attacks on this region, with their very damaging 'CAB' missiles, would be America's Patriot systems. However, Russia effectively destroys these expensive systems so there is no way to move Patriot systems into position effectively. For this reason he says sending the Patriots there would be 'suicide' and that they would be destroyed.

The media avoids discussion of Russia's mass destruction of numerous Patriot systems in various locations close to the contact line earlier this year.

These issues are known, and they are not new - previously Ukrainian General (Syrkovsky?) increased air defense by moving massive air defense systems (including Western hardware and Air 300's) which were quickly identified by the Russians and destroyed. Starting around January of 2024 over a period of several weeks, around 12 air defense systems were destroyed. According to the Russians, about 6 or 7  of them wre Patriot launchers, and 1 or perhaps 2 were complete Patriot systems.

ransomnote: while the Russians use propaganda too, I believe the destruction of Patriot systems is likely true because it explains why they aren't using them where they are most needed, and because Russia's air superiority continues to surface  as a problem for the Ukraine: high death rates as Ukrainians approach Russia's defensive lines, the threat of airfield and aircraft destruction if the Ukraine were to build runway and hangar for F-16's where they are needed near the line of contact, the destruction of tanks upon arrival to the Ukraine etc. Lack of adequate air defense costs the Ukraine military hardware at a rate the West struggles to replace. This is why Zelensky said last year that tanks are nice, but fighter jets are needed to actually win the war.

My notes above cover the  first 15 minutes of the video. I am running out of time and just began monitoring the video in a general way  at this point.

Alexander describes the interpretation of Macron's remarks to be 'authorization' for strikes within Russia's national boundaries as likely exaggerated or wishful thinking. So those saying Macron authorized strikes on Russian military assets within Russia's traditional boundaries are not supported by Macron's public statements. It appears Macron was urgining Western allies to authorize such strikes; he never made any formal statement authorizing them himself. Mercouris notes its possible, but feels it's unlikely, that Macron has given such authorization privately.

Alexander discusses an article analyzing the Biden administration's 'dangerous' silence on the national stage regarding its stance or intentions regarding strikes on Russia. 

ransomnote: I have to stop for the night at the half hour mark. An hour of the video remains. If I have time I will watch more of it and post any notes I make as a comment on this thread.

[Darksheare]

Chad, you just sit here and bloviate at us, berate and harass people for not supporting a laundromat.
How stunning and brave.
And bloodthirsty too!
Vicky Nuland is so proud of you.

[Darksheare]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29439743
https://www.cnn.com/2015/01/30/europe/ukraine-crisis/index.html
https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/07/24/ukraine-unguided-rockets-killing-civilians

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Vicky Nuland is so proud of you.

And I'm proud of her. Ultracrepidarians will of course never understand why, but that's OK. Flatworms cannot be expected to learn geopolitics, when Moscow is concerned.

[Darksheare]

Yeah, zeepers never learn.
They only want others to go fight for them.

[Darksheare]

https://www.sandboxx.us/news/military-affairs/this-is-how-you-can-join-the-ukraine-foreign-legion-and-who-can-join-it/

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/ukraine-distances-itself-russia-advancing-lgbtq-equality
You’ll fit right in, go.

[Kazan]

So, can we assume you voted for Hillary and Biden since Nuland served under Obama and Biden?

You obviously are more ideologically-aligned on foreign policy with both Obama and Biden than Trump.

I'd say you have some explaining to do.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

So, can we assume you voted for Hillary and Biden since Nuland served under Obama and Biden?No, you may not. I have never voted for a Democrat in my life. I'm a dreaded, despised NEOCON, remember? This isn't a matter of political party, it's a matter of defending western civilization against a deluded tyrant. If a Democrat administration does the right thing, I'll support it.

But, have you always voted for Putin? Insofar as you're allowed to at home?

[Kazan]

This isn't a matter of political party, it's a matter of defending western civilization against a deluded tyrant.

You are either completely clueless or lying.

There is REASON that Bill Clinton, Barrack Obama and George W. Bush are such wonderful friends -- they are all on the same side. They are part of the globalist elite.

The biggest battle in this country and in the West is between globalism and nationalism.

WEF-style globalism, not Russia or any other country, is the biggest threat the well-being of American and Western citizens.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

The biggest battle in this country and in the West is between globalism and nationalism.

See, there's why I'm convinced you're not only a Russian, but a Putinist. That's the Putin line, to nine decimal places.

Having eliminated any glimmer of popular sovereignty and human rights in Russia, Putin also failed to build a successful national economy, so he needs a unifying principle to justify his power. In classical authoritarian fashion this means inventing an external threat. Picking one that is in fact all but powerless (i.e. "the WEF") works best, because he can claim to be succeeding in his defense without expending much energy.

His biggest trouble now is that he believed his own propaganda, and thought he could knock over Ukraine "in three days". His failure there bit him in the.....ah, hinder. He's maneuvered himself into a box, because the way out is to break down the kleptocracy he built and restore popular sovereignty, along with a market economy. Which will get him murdered by his fellow kleptocrats. All he can do is double down until he dies or is removed. I'd pity him if he weren't such an evil man.

But you go right on believing in your anointed autocrat, like a good fascist. I enjoy fisking your posts.

[Kazan]

Having eliminated any glimmer of popular sovereignty and human rights in Russia,

And, a comment like that - WHEN ALL THAT HAPPENING HERE, INCLUDING THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY -- is the reason I'm you're either a Deep State operative or a retired one.

WE have political prisoners. The FBI and our political class set up the J6 protesters. Peaceful J6 protesters and disabled pro-life grandmothers are serving prison time while tens of thousands of violent George Floyd protesters either weren't charged or got slap on the wrist.

Now, Trump is facing prison time for laughable charges.

Never mind, ten million illegals, including drug and sex traffickers, violent criminal criminals, that Biden has allowed to freely flow over the border and ravage American citizens.

And, you've got your undies in a bunch OVER FREEPIN' RUSSIA. Are you freepin' kidding me?

Your obsession with Russia when all that is going on here IS WHAT ISN'T NORMAL.

BTW, Russia isn't behind an iron curtain. Anyone can see what life is like there by heading to YouTube and watching not only Russian vloggers by also American and Western expats that live there. Russia is FAR freer and safer than any Democrat-run city.

Nothing about your responses indicate you're anything but a Deep State operative, one totally out-of-touch with what the ordinary American is going through under Biden.

You're truly evil and sick SOB.

[Kazan]

His biggest trouble now is that he believed his own propaganda, and thought he could knock over Ukraine "in three days".

What in hell are you babbling about? I never thought the Russians were going to try to take Kiev, a city of three million, with 40,000 troops. I never claimed that.

You're a liar. You can't discuss the subject without lying because the narrative YOU keep peddling is a lie.

You're once again proving there is no difference in the tactics used by leftist and Democrats and Zeeper scum like yourself.

BTW, the entire attacks on Trump from the beginning have been because the globalist, uniparty establishment and Deep State knew he would never agree to fight a proxy war in Ukraine with Russia.

You and your ilk are the different side of the same coin as the Democrat establishment. You're all globalist pigs that only care about enriching yourselves and don't give a rat's behind about American citizens.

Burn in hell, Chad. You're evil personified.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

.....WHEN ALL THAT HAPPENING HERE.....

Boy, that tirade hit all the Unit 54777 talking points so perfectly that I might almost believe you're an American, if I didn't know your history of posting the Moscow line, accurate to nine decimal places.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

...I never thought the Russians were going to try to take Kiev, a city of three million, with 40,000 troops. I never claimed that.

I? First person singular? Did you slip and admit that you are actually the Russian military genius whose gambit failed and now you need to CYA? My, my.

[Kazan]

You can’t defend your position. You resorting to lying and character assassination. And, all you have is lame, Cold War-era insults.

[Kazan]

If we end up in a hot war and WW III, bitch, because of warmongering pigs like you and my nephews get drafted, you’re going to find out we live, apparently the same state (Ohio) because I’ll come and stick your golf clubs up your rectum, one by one.

[Kazan]

No one with a brain believes you’re a Trump supporter when you’re obsessed with Russia and couldn’t care less about the tyranny occurring here under Biden.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

You can’t defend your position. You resorting to lying and character assassination. And, all you have is lame, Cold War-era insults.

This from YOU?????

(Post 35) "....because I’ll come and stick your golf clubs up your rectum, one by one."

Given your perfectly congruent repetition of Moscow's propaganda, your claiming residence in Ohio is impossible to swallow. Why did you pick the name of an obscure Russian, (well Tatarstani) city for your FR moniker, anyway? An American wouldn't even know it, much less use it.

[Kazan]

You can't refute a point I've made so you have revert back to your talking point -- you're a Russian or you're Moscow's talking points.

You ARE repeating the Biden regime and Deep State's propaganda, which over and over again have proven to be lies.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

You can't refute a point I've made....

Which of your "points" have I failed to refute? Be specific.

[Kazan]

Which of your "points" have I failed to refute? Be specific.

That CIA (along with John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Victoria Nuland) were working to foment Maiden coup in 2014.

That war in Ukraine is all about being fought to enrich Western elite and has absolutely nothing to do with our national security.

That if Russia or China fomented an illegal coup, installed a puppet government, trained, funded and armed the Mexican military, we'd, justifiably, would invade.

That Russia has more national security concerns in Ukraine than we did in either Iraq war.

That saber rattling of idiots in the Biden regime and among moronic war hawks like Lindsey Graham has us closer to a hot war with Russia, WW III and nuclear war than we ever were during that Cold War. And, that IS the gravest external threat to American citizens.

But, you don't want to have a dialogue. You just want to accuse hundreds of Freepers here of being Russian trolls. It is proof of how intellectual weak both you and the narrative you're peddling are.