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WHEN IT COMES TO UKRAINE AND RUSSIA, THE UNITED STATES INTEL COMMUNITY IS CONFUSING PYRITE WITH GENUINE GOLD
Sonar21 ^ | 26 Feb 23 | Larry Johnson

Posted on 02/27/2023 4:39:17 PM PST by delta7

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Be sure to view the imbedded video of a Russian grocery store ( looks much like I saw when working in Moscow) and the Italian float during a demonstration ( yes, even the Italians get it).

Hey Joe, how’s them sanctions working out?

1 posted on 02/27/2023 4:39:17 PM PST by delta7
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To: delta7

Ukraine is a money laundering operation for the deep state. President Eisenhower warned of the military industrial complex. They are managing the war to try to extract the most money they can. They need to protect their bio labs and human trafficking operations.


2 posted on 02/27/2023 4:50:05 PM PST by mountainlion (Live well those that did not make it back.)
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To: delta7
it may be more instructive to track a dozen or so “soft indicators” such as alcohol sales, divorce rates, shoplifting, spending on food, opinion polls, bank customer sentiment or tax revenues.

Meanwhile the Russians have run their soft indicators on the U.S. such as opioid sales, divorce rates, single sex "family" formations, shoplifting, public looting and rioting, government published disinformation levels, deficit spending, energy deficit trends, and reached the conclusion that the US is crumbling and with one good push will fall hard.

3 posted on 02/27/2023 4:53:02 PM PST by AndyJackson (.)
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To: delta7
Rather mixed post - some misleading assumptions made... but something I found interesting (and totally true):

has revealed that the U.S. and Europe, not Russia, no longer have the ability to produce artillery shells, rockets and missiles on a scale that permits them to supply Ukraine while maintaining robust stocks at home:

Why is this? And it presents a huge "what if" scenario.

If the RF/Ukraine war is draining the US/Western allies' musicians - then what would happen if we got into a shooting/conventional war with pretty much any significant foe? Artillery shells, like loaded small arms ammo - are essential and fundamental supplies needed in war. If the defense of Ukraine is depleting our supply - we would be totally screwed if any number of possible enemies picked a fight...

4 posted on 02/27/2023 4:56:27 PM PST by TheBattman (Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists - redundant labels.)
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“who lost Ukraine.”

I'm guessing ... Trump?

5 posted on 02/27/2023 5:00:01 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it's the other way”)
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To: delta7
Larry Johnson.

'nuff said.


6 posted on 02/27/2023 5:06:47 PM PST by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: AndyJackson

militarily weak makes a nation a soft target for an enemy to engage in a war.


7 posted on 02/27/2023 5:13:51 PM PST by elpadre (nd )
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To: delta7

When has this guy been right about anything?


8 posted on 02/27/2023 5:18:45 PM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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Ah, Larry Johnson the genius who has been so correct in the past on the Ukrainian war

Larry C Johnson noted:"The Ukrainian Army has (already) been defeated. What's left is Mop-Up." March 21, 2022

Russia’s arrival in Kiev within three days of the invasion also caught my attention...Yet many so-called American military experts claimed that Russia was bogged down. ...The Ukrainians did not even mount a significant infantry ambush of the column with their newly supplied U.S. Javelins... The scale and scope of the Russian attack is remarkable. They captured territory in three weeks that is larger than the land mass of the United Kingdom

I would note that the U.S. had a tougher time capturing this much territory in Iraq in 2003 while fighting against a far inferior, less capable military force. If anything, this Russian operation should scare the hell out of U.S. military and political leaders.

https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/larry-c-johnson-the-ukrainian-army-has-been-defeated-whats-left-is-mop-up/

9 posted on 02/27/2023 5:19:19 PM PST by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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To: TheBattman

Funny that we projected that Russia ran out of all of these things by week 3 of the SMO, when it is we who never had enough to strat with and the Russians seem to have no problem blowing lots of stuff up on a dare.


10 posted on 02/27/2023 5:23:00 PM PST by AndyJackson (.)
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To: delta7

Excellent article. Of course the Uketards immediately attack the messenger who knows far more than they do.


11 posted on 02/27/2023 5:23:26 PM PST by dforest (All of America has derailed.)
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To: delta7

US intel ( and that of our allies) now serves the function of supporting a narrative, not objectively reporting facts to help decisionmakers.

The facts be the facts however, and the consequences roll on, no matter what Biden Austin and Blinken are being briefed.


12 posted on 02/27/2023 5:29:01 PM PST by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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Do be aware Lukashenko is flying to China, the war cheerleaders are going to explode when they find China is shipping weapons ( primarily drones) to Belarus, presumably for Belarus’s defense and not Russia, sure, wink, wink.

That said, if China is found to be solidly backing Russia ( they are economically, but not yet acknowledged militarily) we can expect the collective West to escalate and do something stupid.


13 posted on 02/27/2023 5:35:37 PM PST by delta7
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XiJinBiden, Cockwomble Castreau, Markie Rutte, UK PM Rishi Sumac, etc.; this bunch ‘do something stupid’?

You’re a real comedian! When have these jackasses NOT done something stupid? All they do, is do STUPID THINGS!


14 posted on 02/27/2023 5:54:02 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian ( Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: delta7
we can expect the collective West to escalate and do something stupid.

Maybe, but consider this. If any of the five eyes get too directly involved, Russia takes out US Satellites, poking out the eye on the sky that feeds data to the AFU Nettle (And maybe plugs a defenseless carrier with a Kintzal). US takes out Russian satellites. Both AFU and RF are satellite blind in Ukraine - advantage RF. Then whose satellites are left - China. So China will not come forward more than they have militarily.

15 posted on 02/27/2023 6:02:50 PM PST by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: dforest

Well, it’s that Larry C. Johnson has been so wrong for so long. He quite simply has no credibility.


16 posted on 02/27/2023 6:13:43 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: delta7

“Do be aware Lukashenko is flying to China...”

So what?

Zelensky is scheduled to meet with Xi, as well.


17 posted on 02/27/2023 6:16:18 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: frithguild
And maybe plugs a defenseless carrier with a Kintzal

more of your idiotic fantasizing, America-hater


18 posted on 02/27/2023 6:33:33 PM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - keeping Europe Russian-free for 75 years ... you're welcome)
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To: Timber Rattler

Wasn’t he the guy who wrote an article for the New York Times about how the terrorism threat against the US was declining, two months before September 11, 2001?

Reckon it was all downhill after that.


19 posted on 02/27/2023 6:43:52 PM PST by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim IgnatowskD)
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To: delta7

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20 posted on 02/27/2023 7:07:24 PM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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