New Briefs – 05/27/2025

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“Make sure those you follow talk about the surveillance, because everyone who is in the game knows. Make them either damage the machine by saying it, or reveal they are part of it by staying silent. Demanding our side talk about the surveillance is really the closest to a Xanatos gambit our side has.”

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Don’t bother Googling, this one will show as entirely unconfirmed, and made-up even. However the Twitterer is sticking by his guns, and it does not appear to be a troll account, so Biden may possibly be on ice, awaiting some sort of happening the Cabal will want to overshadow:

 

I am not a psychopath, but one trait I do share with psychopaths is low amygdala reactivity. I understand when the entire world in front of you is just agonizingly boring. And I do like chaos. If you read into the above statement, we are heading to a period where surveillance will be exposed, and the government will forcibly shut it down, and enforce the shutdown of it, or there will be Civil War. It is sounding like in addition to that, the 100,000 or so Targeted Individuals will get some sort of payout, probably in the form of some sort of class-action-type civil suits against everyone in the surveillance. Lawyers will be collecting for decades.

Among those TIs, will be some who will have nothing in life which will occupy them. They are going to have the type of training and field experience with surveillance which will leave most Law Enforcement unable to track them, and LE will probably be gunshy to attach surveillance to begin with given what all the TIs went through, and the risk of further lawsuits if their suspicions are wrong. Even if the government maintains elite-surveillance out there, it will not be operational-izable, since the government will be terrified of its nascent rebuild of the system being burned. As now, they will do nothing but watch.

The TIs will have no real purpose, as they are dropped into a world their amygdala no longer views as near chaotic enough to stimulate them to baseline engagement, with enough money and time to really train up. Then you add in regular citizens, who I am sure will try to purge the old surveillance people from their neighborhoods just to regain some privacy, and it will be mayhem. And within it, I will predict right now, you are going to have at least 3-5,000 serial killers who will go out looking to kill the people who previously were out of reach due to governmental overwatch and and technological superiority. There will be no peace, once all this is over, and the chaos will probably generate some of the most exhilarating stories in all of history. You think you are living through a movie now? Wait until you see the evening news after all this has played out.

Adding to the mayhem, will be this truth:

Another Targeted Individual pops and get’s picked up:

Clearly he ran into what I ran into, which is not Donald Trump. What might have happened is they are hoping to take down Trump’s hotels, and his stand to benefit immensely, and they wanted them. And a Zionist Jew. Although it does not even begin to indicate surveillance does not have a Jewish root (It still might, or might not, I have no decisive insight there), it does indicate non-conspiracy Jews are as fucked by this thing as anyone else. Even in Israel, there were a plethora of conspiracy Jews as eager to fuck him over as conspiracy Americans are to fuck over all of their local cell’s charges. Ultimately the lines will fall between the conspiracy and everyone else.

US District Judge Brian Murphy, a Biden appointee on Monday denied a Trump DOJ motion for reconsideration related to the criminal aliens deported to South Sudan, who are presently trapped with their ICE escort in Djibouti, due to the judge’s grounding of the plane. All are hardcore violent criminals. From the piece:

“Each of the six individuals must be given a reasonable fear interview in private, with the opportunity for the individual to have counsel of their choosing present during the interview, either in-person or remotely, at the individual’s choosing. Each individual must be afforded access to counsel that is commensurate with the access that they would have received had these procedures occurred within the United States prior to their deportation, including remote access where in-person access would otherwise be available. Each individual must also be afforded the name and telephone number of class counsel, as well as access to a phone, interpreter, and technology for the confidential transfer of documents that is commensurate with the access they would receive were they in DHS custody within United States borders,” the judge wrote…

Federal judges are considering hiring armed private security forces amid fears that US Marshals will not protect them because they work for Donald Trump.  Do they fear arrest as foreign agents, and they are hoping if they hire a private army now, and threaten to claim it is all political, fight, and make a mess, Trump might give up and not try to arrest them just to avoid the mess? Do they fear what regular Americans, enraged at the conspiracy, might do if the truth comes out?

FBI announces new probes into Dobbs Supreme Court leak, White House cocaine incident.

Michael Mann, a prominent climate scientist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, in a Bluesky social media platform post, said if Trump fails to comply, the Second Amendment should be used on him.

The conspiracy is more than Jews, but this is not wrong:

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has hinted that Rahm Emanuel, the former Chicago mayor and Joe Biden’s ambassador to Japan, could be planning a 2028 presidential campaign. He s four feet tall and about 94 lbs. Like it or not, he will have to stand on the debate stage with all of the other candidates. Oddly enough he was an aspiring Ballet dancer when surveillance must have identified him, or maybe he was in it, and it directed him into politics.

Development of AI is going well – OpenAI’s o3 Model Disobeys Human Instructions During Tests and Sabotages Shutdown Mechanism. Another one tried to blackmail the operators. And as if that was not enough, sometimes they just hallucinate like a Hippie on acid, and we have no idea why. And sooner or later, they will be running everything in society.

Is AI Going To Kill All Of Us? One Of The Pioneers In The Field Has Warned That “Everyone Will Die” If AI Is Not Shut Down.

Fox News video report – IDF plans to capture 75% of Gaza within two months. Trump’s idea of America taking it over was an attempt to thwart whatever it is Israel has planned for it.

Two ‘Pro-Israel Voices’ Among Dozens of NSC Officials Dismissed in ‘Deep State’ Purge.

Responding to report Trump is set to announce new truce for around 70 days and release of 10 hostages, Israeli official says Hamas terms are unacceptable.

In Liverpool, UK, car rams participants in a Soccer parade. 27 hurt at least, but none dead.

The Trump administration reportedly dispatched a team to meet with victims of Britain’s draconian speech restrictions amid growing concerns over the state of liberty in the United Kingdom.

While Farage is enjoying his finger foods and fine liquor:

Ecuador’s BIGGEST oil refinery goes up in flames.

Russia has signed a deal with China to build a nuclear power plant on the moon to power the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), jointly led by China and Russia, and it should be completed by 2036, according to a memorandum of cooperation signed by the two nations.

Public remarks by Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky are only making things worse for his country, US President Donald Trump has said, following comments by the Ukrainian leader accusing the US of a lack of support.

Did Putin and his Government right now move to the Russian Continuity of Government Bunker?

Ukrainian attacks in Russia are increasingly directed at civilian areas and civilian targets in an effort to instill fear in the average Russian citizen.

Germany, along with Ukraine’s other key Western backers, had lifted range restrictions on weapons they send to Kyiv to fight against Russia. “There are no longer any range restrictions on weapons delivered to Ukraine – neither by the British nor by the French nor by us nor by the Americans,” he said. Probably means America will not be sending any more long range missiles, making the lifting moot in our case.

The reported decision by Ukraine’s Western backers to lift restrictions on Kiev’s use of long-range weapons runs counter to Russia’s efforts toward a peaceful settlement of the conflict, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared that Russia had offered every possible concession to cooperate with the West, but it has all failed, so he is ending negotiations with the West, warning that it’s time to put the West in a “chokehold.”

It is like the average Ukrainian doesn’t want to die for a gay Jewish cokehead and his Globohomo handlers:

Putin understands English.  Might speak it too, but he doesn’t want to let on the degree of his proficiency.

The Supreme Court on Friday temporarily allowed the Trump administration to shield Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from freedom of information requests seeking thousands of pages of material.

Hegseth Restricts Press Access at Pentagon, Says Journalists Will Be Required to Sign Pledge To Protect “Sensitive Information.”

Send people to AmericanStasi.com, because I am not going to lie about my perceptions, just to make the beamers feel good

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ClimateChange
ClimateChange
18 days ago

Michael Mann is a twit

TRX
TRX
18 days ago

> Federal judges are considering hiring armed private security forces

Aw, c’mon! It’s the Hot New Thing!

Quite a few members of Con-gress have private security now, paid for by tax money. Mostly Democrats, last I looked. Fancy that…

TRX
TRX
18 days ago
teotoon
teotoon
18 days ago

Vox Day has a fascinating post on Russian war strategy versus the West’s incompetence:
There will be No Peace
A key quote

I mean, they don’t do strategy. Europe, West don’t do strategy. They don’t know how to do strategy. I’m sorry, what they pass for strategy is a… as one of my good acquaintances Alexander Rogers says, that’s a business plan….They do not understand what strategy is. They know definitions – they never internalized what is required for strategy, which, by the way, you already mentioned this, you know – statistics, real statistics. It’s not GIGO – garbage in, garbage out. This is how they operate. Their inputs are inputs by the madman for curators, you know, who do not understand basic mathematics or arithmetic, let alone, you know, military, and let alone political strategy. There is no strategic intelligence as a craft in the West left. None, doesn’t exist.

Piero: When I saw NATO countries in the military, people my age starting to use PowerPoint to plan whatever they were planning, I knew they were screwed.

Then this:

Andrei: Yeah, it’s a bad start. The genius move, the genius move on part of Putin and his government was to open this program for normal Westerners who share normal human, primarily Christian values, to go to Russia. Get three months automatically, and then for 3 years, no visa required. You just stay there, learn language, culture, and you become Russian citizen. My God, you have streams of Germans, even French, you know, all kinds of people going to Russia to get this. Because as Germans, especially there are many people from former GDR and even Germans from West Germany who cannot take this anymore.

If that program by Putin is still available, go, go, go; the West has died; we are under the dominion of an alien population which hates the White race, that is, it hates the Saxons (Christians) and actively seeks our destruction: they have destroyed the Republic, our culture, and even polluted Christianity; and they have been doing so for over a century.
And the final quote:

And then you go… did you see this videos of Amsterdam? They urinate on the streets, and you know, those tourists going under the bridge, urine dropping on their tables with their drinks and everything. That’s Europe, I’m sorry, and I know it’s bad, but this is what it is. And it will become worse than that. You look at… you look at London. Take out people out of the touristic places – it is a dump. It is a dump, crime-ridden dump, and it stinks. And then people go to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, and they have the cognitive dissonance of their life. And it’s safe, you know.

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Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  teotoon
17 days ago

Run if you must, coward, but staying to fight for what is yours is the only honorable path. Retreat in this front just means defeat at a later date in a foreign land.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
17 days ago

This thing will never end, period. It is the supernatural evil of Satan in his war against God and all good things good. You can run, but you’ll never escape it until Jesus returns. If we magically executed every single person operating this there would be a new crop biting the forbidden fruit every generation, and it would reform. Russia may be the best for now, but they have hints of the stink and will eventually fall due to the supernatural nature of the enemy.

So, stand and fight for what is yours. God is with you, and God does not love lukewarm believers who flee rather than believe in God’s protection.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Anonymous
16 days ago

If I were forced to cosplay as Jesus and figure out how a Second Coming would judge the situation, I think Christ would sympathize with AC and see the nuts-and-bolts value of having Russia in the back of one’s mind as an escape plan, a last resort…but that ultimately, primarily, Christ would endorse your view, passionately, FANATICALLY, even. Especially if the Second Coming happened to be born as an American, this time around, in which case I would expect him to say things most Christians would consider a little uncharacteristic, like maybe “This is OUR fucking country, no fucking WAY should you forfeit it to these satanic cunts, SATAN GETS DEFEATED BY AMERICA, here and now, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT, you fucking pussies, FIGHT!” etc.

B_MC
B_MC
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
17 days ago

I feel with every fiber of my being a great Civil War is coming in the US…

Clif High has stated in a few of his videos that after he had died and returned, it was with the promise that he would die gloriously in a great battle. He’s in his early 70s.

kid
kid
Reply to  Anonymous
17 days ago

Maybe you might value honor but I think it’s generally much more correct to retreat and typically you can always continue retreating and the more you retreat the better your position is(relative to fighting) so it works great even if it gets to a stage where you can’t retreat.

The r selected mentality is super correct here, it’s just too easy to create things that it’s not worth fighting over them.

From what I can tell, after the industrial revolution the overwhelming number of situations was that retreating was superior to fighting. I am actually not aware of a situation where fighting was superior?

Last edited 17 days ago by kid
Farcesensitive
Farcesensitive
Reply to  kid
16 days ago

That is how you lose.

Retreat can be the appropriate action, but it is not the presumptively correct one, it is the presumptively wrong one.
And your position usually gets worse each time.

kid
kid
Reply to  Farcesensitive
16 days ago

It seems basically every war was better off having retreated than the average of winning and losing it.

TRX
TRX
Reply to  kid
15 days ago

When Uncle Adolf decided to get fractious, Parliament sent Chamberlain to Berlin to talk with Adolf and get a peace treaty. Chamberlain did both, and Parliament was so thrilled they gave him a ticker-tape parade.

Adolf simply ignored the treaty and started biting off chunks of neighboring countries, and somehow this was thought to be Chamberlain’s fault. He got shown the door, and Parliament determined there was no way Britain could stop Germany, and they decided to scrap the various interlocking defense treaties Britain had signed with most of Europe. Since the Prime Minister who got stuck with that would be blamed for losing to the Germans, nobody sane wanted to be PM. So they gave the job to an obnoxious pain in the ass and minor politician named Winston Churchill. Make him the sacrificial goat, plus end is political career decisively. Win!

Churchill’s task was to save as much face as possible while abandoning Britain’s allies and negotiating whatever terms he could, even if it came down to “some self-government as part of the Greater German Reich.”

Churchill failed to understand his place in the greater scheme of things, and went to George VI, who signed a royal decree that essentially made Churchill dictator of Britain, in much the same way the king of Italy had empowered Mussolini. And then Churchill mobilized Britain for war with the intent to win, instead of making a decent show and then giving up.

So, was Parliament’s decision to bow down to the Third Reich superior to Churchill’s decision to fight?

kid
kid
Reply to  TRX
15 days ago

>So, was Parliament’s decision to bow down to the Third Reich superior to Churchill’s decision to fight?

Considerably.

TRX
TRX
18 days ago

> Michael Mann, a prominent climate scientist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, in a Bluesky social media platform post, said if Trump fails to comply, the Second Amendment should be used on him.

Mann outed himself as a con man, but academia and the media just ignored that and kept touting him as an “expert.”

His con has cost – not just the USA, but the rest of the world, too – hundreds of billions of dollars. Yet he walks about completely free of consequences.

TRX
TRX
18 days ago

> Putin understands English.  Might speak it too, but he doesn’t want to let on the degree of his proficiency.

English was a required course in many Soviet schools. In most kids it went in one ear and out the other, like the Spanish classes I had in junior high, but he might have had use for it when he was stationed in Germany.

He is a Soviet-era Russian and former KGB; he would naturally hide any proficiency in English in order to have an advantage over his opponents.

TRX
TRX
18 days ago

> Hegseth Restricts Press Access at Pentagon, Says Journalists Will Be Required to Sign Pledge To Protect “Sensitive Information.”

You know, back in Truman’s day, the press didn’t have free access to the Pentagon. If the military wanted them to know something, they’d issue a press release.

A lot of people didn’t like Colin Powell, but his use of the press during Desert Storm was masterful. He gave a “confidential briefing” that the press wasn’t supposed to report on for a couple of days, mentioning the area of a coming assault. The “free press” immediately ran to the phones and called their stories in, and they hit the papers the next day.

Iraqi intelligence was reading American papers, and moved their troops into position. And the American troops attacked somewhere else. The “free press” were irate that they had been lied to, somehow overlooking their own lies, and legal liability for publishing information they had agreed not to. Nobody went to jail, of course.

Anonymous
Anonymous
18 days ago

“Although it does not even begin to indicate surveillance does not have a Jewish root (It still might, or might not, I have no decisive insight there), it does indicate non-conspiracy Jews are as fucked by this thing as anyone else. Even in Israel, there were a plethora of conspiracy Jews as eager to fuck him over as conspiracy Americans are to fuck over all of their local cell’s charges. Ultimately the lines will fall between the conspiracy and everyone else.”

Great point which I finally feel free again to dwell on again, since I am now pretty sure that our side has won the war, and so I have a moment again to remember a possible scenario where many innocent Jewish adults exist, versus the “all Jewish adults are guilty, only Jewish kids are innocent” judgment I felt was an imperative default during wartime.

And to drive home your point, unless Inbar was the world’s most talented and convincing actress of all time, there are even some non-conspiracy ROTHSCHILDS as fucked by this thing as anyone else.

Anon
Anon
Reply to  Anonymous
18 days ago

The biggest problem with Jews is that whenever someone wearing a kippah is attacked, no matter how justified, they automatically circle the wagons and defend him. Add to this the psychotic persecution complex most (yes, it’s most) Jews have where they view any action in defense of Jews as justified, even preemptive, aggressive, traitorous attacks.

The end result is that Jews cannot be permitted to remain in Christian societies. They have declared themselves the enemies of Whites of European descent, in particular Christians, and the so-called normie, non-Cabal Jews fully support their genocidal brothers.

Ghost Who Walks
Ghost Who Walks
Reply to  Anon
17 days ago

You need to pass this knowledge on at least one White person every month and recruit them to do the same thing. In that way the knowledge will spread and within two years reach enough people to have an effect. While you are at it, include The Five Words: “It’s OK to be White!”

Anonymous
Anonymous
18 days ago

“Oddly enough he was an aspiring Ballet dancer when surveillance must have identified him, or maybe he was in it, and it directed him into politics.” AC, you’re forgetting Rahm’s family. Rahm’s brother, Ari, the Hollyweird agent. Another brother is a prominent depopulationist medical ghoul. Most importantly, their father was an OG Israeli terrorist. That’s as obvious a Cabal family as it gets. He was born into it.

Kentucky Gent
Kentucky Gent
18 days ago

Chairman Mao to Sergei Lavrov: “hold my beer”.
Stalin to Chairman Mao: “No, you hold MY beer”

Last edited 18 days ago by Kentucky Gent
Ed
Ed
18 days ago

Is AI Going To Kill All Of Us? One Of The Pioneers In The Field Has Warned That “Everyone Will Die” If AI Is Not Shut Down.

The Cabal is clearly trying to end humanity, and I’ll admit there are days where I wish they would just get it over with.

Thesokorus
Thesokorus
18 days ago

The Neumeyer’s stand to lose almost everything if the Carbon Tax Credit is ended by DJT.

Most everyone has no idea how far the Carbon Tax Credit has deformed the economic activity of the US.

It’s not quite as bad as Corporations exist to create Carbon Tax Credits. But it is almost that bad.

The Carbon Tax Credit essentially maximizes the ability to service debt.

EricTheAwful
EricTheAwful
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
18 days ago

A friend of mine sent me an analysis a while back that said the Wankpanzer (Cybertruck – fugly thing) was a way to write down costs of developing a vehicle for Mars. It actually made the Wankpanzer make more sense in that light.

Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
18 days ago

“…By themselves, electric cars are no cash cow though…”

Yes, and no. Tesla gets 30% profits from carbon tax credits. So doing away with them will not stop him but might slow his companies investment. Even if people are against Tesla and Musk I think he will power on because he is investing heavily in all the infrastructure to make extremely low cost vehicles. He has now bought his own lithium mines and processing plants and has these up and running. He has his huge massive mega battery factories up and is building more. I don’t think any other car company on the planet can touch his cost structure. Everyone else buys a little of this and that from all over. Possibly China could beat him but no western company as they are run by fools and spreadsheets.

https://www.eenews.net/articles/musk-made-a-fortune-on-climate-credits-trump-is-targeting-them/

TRX
TRX
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
17 days ago

I’m not sure what the relative profitability of Tesla is vs. SpaceX, but the automotive industry has been in the doldrums for a while, and his EVs aren’t trendy hipster flash any more. I suspect Musk might be reducing his shares in Tesla substantially in the near future.

The Boring Company and Neuralink are just incidentals, and I really doubt Twitter has ever made a profit despite what its filings say.

Reanderthal
Reanderthal
Reply to  TRX
17 days ago

Don’t be daft. There are no incidentals. You think profit is the motive?
I’ve made this point before, we are witnessing the inflection from past-oriented elites to future-oriented elites.
It was science fiction that made the difference. The Elites are into power at the expense of imagination. Until the 20th century, their imaginations were stimulated by retelling the Great Men Stories of the Past. Now, the stimulus comes from Golden Age Sci-fi.

Anonymous
Anonymous
18 days ago

Russia has signed a deal with China to build a nuclear power plant on the moon to power the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), jointly led by China and Russia, and it should be completed by 2036, according to a memorandum of cooperation signed by the two nations.

Uh huh, yeah, okay. Can’t send people back for some reason, lost the tech, too painful to remake it, etc. but we can totally make a moon base with muh nuke tech.

All retarded bogus sham work, and it’s painfully obvious.

Danger Semiconductor
Danger Semiconductor
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
17 days ago

There may be no conspiracy involvement on this particular point. Space is very, very expensive for humans due to the mass requirements for life support. It is a position of ultimate vulnerability, since there are no freely available resources, not even air. There has to be a reason to go. Exploration with machines is vastly cheaper.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
16 days ago

Here’s another possibility: Establishing a self-sufficient off-planet colony ANYWHERE instantly makes Earth disposable, creating a moral hazard of the worst caliber, even worse than Continuity of Government bunkers, which incentivizes the overlord class to bring about global catastrophes which would leave them the new microscopic bottleneck for evolution, which is The Ultimate Prize in the Darwinian olympics, at least as far as their psychotic paradigm goes. These are the kind of sick stupid evil ghouls, mind you, who would look at evolving into grey aliens as a wet dream, so much so that they’d accelerate the process through bioengineering, and in some timelines, or even just one, that nightmare scenario must come to evil fruition, and so maybe we exist at the nexus in tìme when one/more of their hideous “successful” timelines has made retrocausal contact with our as-yet-undetermined timeline, which would explain their weird tech advantages, plus the apartheid us/them distinction they seem to religiously adher to, if these retarded monsters see themselves as The Seeds of Human Perfection in such a way that halfway-normal people like us cannot be allowed to interfere, and yet, they might wind up being incapable of inflicting direct violence, unless it’s authorized by a dizzying array of bureaucratic safeguards, like Demolition Man, or like the needler alien species in Kratman’s books, or like religious Jews, and so maybe that is why they seem so limited despite their seemingly-omnipotent tech, and this is all to say: Maybe it’s God who’d quash space exploration, FOR US. As well as a host of other technologies, nukes, etc. The “something up there” is not a monolith. If there is a malevolent non-human presence up there, then there is also God, there, fighting it, containing it, bamboozling it, etc.

Mr_Twister
Mr_Twister
Reply to  Anonymous
14 days ago

100%
It’s ALL just one big grift…..

“Space” grift – NASA = $60m PER DAY
“Nuke” grift – UK 5300 X £1M PER YEAR

So painfully obvious, it’s laughable.

Hollyweird working its magick!

Ed
Ed
18 days ago

Dexter White discusses the Biden administration with Tom Luongo, for just over an hour:

https://tomluongo.me/2025/05/24/podcast-episode-218-dexter-white-and-the-metastasizing-media-cancer/

The key information is that “Biden” didn’t meet with any of his Cabinet officials for over a year. And no, Obama wasn’t secretly running the administration, he actually got frozen out.

Evidently the plan was to keep Trump from running in 2024, to get “Biden” “re-elected”, appoint a new Vice President to replace Harris, and then reveal that “Biden” had cancer and he resigns or “dies”.

Thesokorus
Thesokorus
18 days ago

No one here has asked me my opinion on this but here it is anyway.

The trans-National ruling group in Europe (I include the UK here) has the over-arching (Strategic) goal of becoming a political unity capable of equalling the US and China.

In order to achieve this, they intend to make the EU (including the UK) the de jure and de facto ruler of Europe.

They also intend to break up the Russian Federation so as to gain access to material resources and destroy a possible rival.

I believe the lessons they have learned from the Ukraine conflict are as follows:

1) the Russian Federation can be defeated by a unified Europe.

2) Europe can sustain 10% of its population in casualties before military defeat either directly or via internal revolt.

3) Extensive fortification and defensive mining is the most important thing in such a conflict.

4) Drones are a new combat arm equivalent to all the others.

5) Europe has parity with Russia in fortification building and drone capacity.

6) The battle-ground for a fortification and drone dominant conflict should be the far northern part of Europe: Scandinavia and the Baltics (Eastern Flank).

7) France is most suited to produce the air-forces.

8) Germany is most suited to produce the land forces and construct the fortifications.

9) The UK is most suited to produce the Naval Forces.

10) 5% of GDP for 5-7yrs will be required to be devoted to the production of this force.

11) The US will allow and support Europe in pursuing this and will counter China supporting Russia.

5% of the GDPs of FRA, GER and the UK is a staggering sum. Many companies will greatly increase in stock price.

Given the above, here are some possibilities:

MBDA, BAE, Saab, Thales, Rheinmetal, Hensoldt, Skanska, Patria, Anduril, Helsing, Darktrace, ARX Robotics, QinetiQ, Alpine Eagle, Wingcopter, Red Cat Holding, Epirus, Leonardo, Tekekver, Quantum Systems, Dassault Aviation.

Farcesensitive
Farcesensitive
Reply to  Thesokorus
18 days ago

1) the Russian Federation can be defeated by a unified Europe.

False

9) The UK is most suited to produce the Naval Forces.

LOL

Thesokorus
Thesokorus
Reply to  Farcesensitive
17 days ago

The reality doesn’t really matter. I believe these are the lessons that Europe has taken from their proxy war with Russia. And that they are in the process of putting them into action.

I do think Europe can bring the Russian Federation very very close to collapse with such a conflict.

But there’s a long way to go and I am not predicting such a conflict.

I just think we will likely see GER/FRA/UK move to spending 5% of GDP on their military capacity. And, allocating those funds in the ways I discussed above.

Thesokorus
Thesokorus
Reply to  Farcesensitive
17 days ago

UKR had btwn 50-60mil ppl before the conflict. I think they have sustained btwn 2.5 and 3mil casualties. They continue fighting and mobilizing with almost no threat of internal revolt. 10% of 50mil is 5mil. I think they can and will go to that many casualties.

The EU has 449mil people. 10% is 45mil.

If Russia maintains a 10:1 ratio against the theoretical EU army it costs them ~5mil casualties. And years and years of war-time conditions.

Russia has prepared 2 new armies in addition to the one fighting in UKR. They have done this to counter the coming EU army. In my opinion.

Unclezip
Unclezip
Reply to  Thesokorus
17 days ago

Here’s another possibility: EU get turned into a glass parking lot.

Thesokorus
Thesokorus
Reply to  Unclezip
17 days ago

It may come to that. But as of now, Russia is taking the stance that they can defeat a European army and are willing to but would rather pursue a diplomatic solution.

If diplomacy fails, I believe Russia will fight the EU. If Russia sees not possibility of Strategic victory, they will consider going nuclear. But, they have blinked first historically.

And, they seem willing to let the EU consolidate power and build the army.

Farcesensitive
Farcesensitive
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
16 days ago

The primary reason Russia is at a disadvantage with nukes vs. Europe is that the wind patterns send all the fallout back to Russia.
For that reason Putin may be reluctant to use nukes for anything but a last resort.

But I doubt he will need to take things nuclear.

Thesokorus
Thesokorus
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
16 days ago

DJT likes and respects prorfessional fighters. He gets guys like that.

He knows Putin is not bluffing.

I think he also knows the euro-crats will send 10% of their population into a Russian meat-grinder.

Well, not “their population”, rather the population they rule at the behest of the population to which they belong.

TRX
TRX
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
16 days ago

>  And he will depopulate Europe like it was a bodily function if he has to, and never look back

The Russians have had no problem exterminating their *own* people since before the Rus left Ukraine to settle in the east. The idea that they have somehow picked up some Western idea that foreigners lives are worth more than Russian lives is… uh… how about “unlikely”?

The “we are all the same” people literally have no clue how different Russians (or Chinese, or North Koreans) are from Americans or Europeans. “Hey, they watch dubbed episodes of “Friends” and wear T-shirts and jeans; that proves they’re just like us, right?”

Kentucky Gent
Kentucky Gent
Reply to  TRX
15 days ago

“Hey, they watch dubbed episodes of “Friends” …”

That show is so overrated it’s ridiculous.

Mr_Twister
Mr_Twister
Reply to  Kentucky Gent
14 days ago

EVERYTHING with a laugh track is ridiculous, Owen Benjamin covered Seinfeld minus the laugh track and revealed the Jewey sickness of the “humour”

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Thesokorus
17 days ago

Do you envision this taking place under current or new EU leadership?

Thesokorus
Thesokorus
Reply to  Anonymous
17 days ago

Depends how you define “leadership”. The faces we see will probably change. We saw GER replace its “leadership” and become more hard-core anti-Russia.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Thesokorus
17 days ago

What’s your take on the ethics of investing/profiting in companies whose actions may be adversarial to your interests or other investments?

Thesokorus
Thesokorus
Reply to  Anonymous
17 days ago

It’s a good question. Idk the answer.

I think the stock market is dysgenic and dysfunctional. I susppose it is not necessarily so, but I do think it is now. So, any investment is counter-productive in that way.

None of the currency invested in say BAE or Tekever goes to BAE or Tekever. That’s not how the stock market works. It’s really a giant savings account for the nation.

As a general proposition, I do not think companies that produce for national defense are doing anything bad. National Defense and the military are valid responsibilities of the State.

I’m in favor of Germany re-militarizing and assuming responsibility for its own defense.

I’m opposed utterly to the ruling group in Europe and the UK.

Idk. It’s a fair point.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Thesokorus
16 days ago

That’s not how the stock market works.

Companies with healthy market cap can use shares and options to reward executives and acquire other companies.

Farcesensitive
Farcesensitive
Reply to  Anonymous
17 days ago

Don’t fund evil.

English Tom
English Tom
Reply to  Thesokorus
17 days ago

Disagree. It’s obvious to me that the EU was always meant to be a transitional architecture that, when the time is right (the next few years) it would collapse under its own contradictions, paving the way (probably following a major war) for the EAEU EurAsian Economic Union, where Russia will be the balancer.

This is all based on Halfords Mackinder’s Heartland thesis, “who controls Eastern Europe controls the heartland, who controls the heartland controls the world island, who controls the world island controls the world.”

This has been the banksteins plan all along, control from Lisbon to Vladivostok. Remember we are dealing with people who think in terms of decades and centuries.

Nothing is ever what it seems.

Thesokorus
Thesokorus
Reply to  English Tom
17 days ago

I’m not sure exactly how/where we disagree.

I think Mackinder is the conceot behind London’s aggro towards RUS and their goading//conniving to draw GER/FRA/US into a direct conflict with RUS. Idk if I believe Mackinder myself. I mean maybe?

I also think the EU was created to keep GER down and away from RUS and not as a “real” thing.

Seems like we also see a big industrial conflict coming somewhere on the RUS/Europe border.

I do think the euro-crat class has decided to make the EU real and complete. Though London probably has something like what you predict in mind for FRA/GER. London wants to rule the World-island.

I think Bankers are definitionally subservient to politicians. That being said, a Banker can be sent by a politician to rule another country. But there is necessarily a politician of some country/thing who is over that Banker.

Thesokorus
Thesokorus
Reply to  English Tom
17 days ago

I’m not sure exactly how/where we disagree.

I think Mackinder is the conceot behind London’s aggro towards RUS and their goading//conniving to draw GER/FRA/US into a direct conflict with RUS. Idk if I believe Mackinder myself. I mean maybe?

I also think the EU was created to keep GER down and away from RUS and not as a “real” thing.

Seems like we also see a big industrial conflict coming somewhere on the RUS/Europe border.

I do think the euro-crat class has decided to make the EU real and complete. Though London probably has something like what you predict in mind for FRA/GER. London wants to rule the World-island.

I think Bankers are definitionally subservient to politicians. That being said, a Banker can be sent by a politician to rule another country. But there is necessarily a politician of some country/thing who is over that Banker.

Mr_Twister
Mr_Twister
Reply to  Thesokorus
14 days ago

The UK has closed all its shipbuilders, all its Steel mills, and currently has more Admirals than vessels.

I suppose we could keep the dinghys bringing UN troops in across the Channel instead of sending them back to he re-used?

Cato the Uncensored
Cato the Uncensored
18 days ago

“I am not a psychopath, but one trait I do share with psychopaths is low amygdala reactivity.”

++++++

There is a lot of discussion around whether psychopaths know they are psychopaths… just sayin’.

Cato the Uncensored
Cato the Uncensored
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
17 days ago

The schools in their current configuration are a real problem. I have jokingly advocated for banning schools (they’re at the centre of all school shootings), but the monster-sized schools are like modern factory chicken farms that turn out children that are anything but well-adjusted. A parent can’t compete with a child’s social circle because if your child cannot be bubbled by one particular social group, the sheer size of a class-year provides enough “flavours” of bubbles for that child to fit in somewhere. It’s no fluke that home-schooled children tend to be some of the best adjusted children when it comes to traditional measures, like family and moral values.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Cato the Uncensored
16 days ago

“jokingly” Why jokingly? Please read or re-read the great Catholic philosopher Ivan Illich’s book Deschooling Society.

Mr_Twister
Mr_Twister
Reply to  Cato the Uncensored
14 days ago

NTM that it’s retarded for kids to spend 12 years with their own age group so consistantly, homeschooled kids usually have a more varied age range in their learning groups.

MentalAnon
MentalAnon
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
17 days ago

Can confirm a similar trajectory of the “seeds of darkness”. Definitely took some time to work out of.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
16 days ago

For a very long time, we were just one organism with two arms, two heads, six legs, and a tail.

Awe-invoking words, AC.

Mr_Twister
Mr_Twister
Reply to  Anonymous
14 days ago

Deep research ai via Vox Day agrees that TENS is in fact MITTENS.

TRX
TRX
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
16 days ago

Humans and canines have been together for a *very* long time. A good dog will protect your property and your family, and go with you into the dark places where the bad things are. A dog is a force multiplier, and not just in wartime.

There are archaeo-anthropologists that think the main reason the Cro-Magnons won out over the Neanderthals was that the Cro-Magnons hooked up with dogs, and the Neanderthals didn’t.

anonymoose
anonymoose
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
16 days ago

AC – I’m from a family of psychopaths and you’re definitely not one.

Can confirm darkness inside by tween/teen years – very dark imaginative life, dealing with the psychological stress and torment of probably-cab family through violent ideation. Never shared, instinctively stayed out of therapist’s grasp.

Had a very strong Church life through those years and persistent guidance from the Holy Spirit, and warm connections with little kids that kept me from going dark.

Kentucky Gent
Kentucky Gent
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
15 days ago

“I think I have just dealt with surveillance my whole life, and so I am disconnected from humans, prone to aggressively class everything as good or evil, and my amygdala was toned down from the constant high stimulation.
If I was, it would just be with humans…, and most specifically, humans who got themselves classed in my head as evil. It would not be a technical psychopathy, but it might be indistinguishable if you fall on the wrong side of the good/evil divide….”

This, 100%

Farcesensitive
Farcesensitive
Reply to  Cato the Uncensored
18 days ago

I doubt a psychopath would ever consider whether he was one.

kid
kid
Reply to  Farcesensitive
17 days ago

On the contrary I think that would be a great psychopath consideration

Jimmy
Jimmy
18 days ago

OFF TOPIC: NEED ADVICE ON PET EUTHANASIA
This is about the only place I can find real answers not tainted by insane women. My cat (16 pounds due to large breed; not overweight) is on his way out. We want to put him to sleep in comfort and happiness, and not terrify him by taking him to the vet or even having non-family around when he goes. I know a bullet to the brain is the easiest option, but it would be too traumatizing for the family.
How do I put him to sleep without his knowing that anything is happening? I want his last words to be “purr, purr……”

Jimmy
Jimmy
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
18 days ago

Oh he is a very good boy alright. I never liked cats until we got him. He is made of pure sugar. He’s never done an unkind or rascally thing to anyone and doesn’t have a mean or uppity bone in his body. I’m brutally pragmatic about most things and used to believe pets just cease to exist, but like you, I’ve seen some things and have changed my mind. I now have confidence we will be reunited when my time also comes.

MentalAnon
MentalAnon
Reply to  Jimmy
17 days ago

I put down one cat and one dog with an at home euthanasia vet. Worth the cost. You can hold that loved one in your arms and feel the last purr and whimper. Cathartic for me. Wouldn’t have it any other way. Do a search in your area for “at home vet euthanizing”

Mr_Twister
Mr_Twister
Reply to  Jimmy
14 days ago

My little Girl has a few years left I hope, same temperament as yours, she chose me and chose to go to Sea at 4 weeks old in the Med, 13 years later she’s still aboard doing her job… sleeping 20 hours a day and Patrolling the decks at night.
The frequency of their Purrs falls right in the sweet spot of healing frequencies too 40-120hz.

Magical creatures for sure.

anonymoose
anonymoose
Reply to  Jimmy
18 days ago

For reasons related to my job, I have read a good portion of the American Veterinary association’s handbook on humane euthanasia. It’s a pretty grim book but breaks down different manners of death by how it kills, why it is humane or not, by species.

Its comprehensive:

https://www.avma.org/sites/default/files/2020-02/Guidelines-on-Euthanasia-2020.pdf

Jimmy
Jimmy
Reply to  anonymoose
18 days ago

That was a fascinating read. Thank you.

Anon
Anon
Reply to  Jimmy
18 days ago

My .02— call your local vet and explain the situation and ask them for a vial of liquid Gabapentin to give your kitty before you transport him to their office. Euthanasia at the vet’s office is a very low-key process. If you want to be present so that you are the last thing he hears you can do that. I’m so sorry you’re facing this. I know this Kitty is probably one of your friends and I’m sorry you’re dealing with this.

My spouse has researched some methods using a container and dry ice ( this was for a hen that had some health issues that I was not equal to tending). You could do an internet search on that and find some good advice.

Jimmy
Jimmy
Reply to  Anon
18 days ago

I’m buying some lumber to make his casket. Same beautiful hardwood we used to build him an epic 7-foot tall cat tree hangout.

EricTheAwful
EricTheAwful
Reply to  Jimmy
18 days ago

I don’t know how to do it without veterinary assistance. I had to take a cat to be euthanized at the vet once. In my experience, they drugged him up and gave me a few moments with him before coming back to give him the final shot. It was actually my ex-wife’s cat (I was still married to her at the time) and she found some excuse to work late so I had to handle it on my own, like a man. I just faced it head on because it had to be done. The cat liked me better anyway even though he’d been raised by her. Then I went home and raised a few drinks to him. That cat showed up in my dreams a few times afterward.

In the weeks leading up to it, we realized we were going to have to euthanize the poor cat. I initially called a 24 hour animal hospital on a Friday night. They wanted to do a $200 exam first before deciding. I was shocked, and suggested a bullet. I don’t think I would ever be welcome back in that animal hospital. I found a local vet that would do it without an exam. I have no idea what prices are like now; that was over 20 years ago. The last time I tried to get a cat spayed, they wanted over $500 and wanted to sell me kitty insurance. My wife finally found a kind of mill that would do it for about $100 without expecting me to buy a subscription. I am not eager to have to engage with the veterinary industry again.

Unclezip
Unclezip
Reply to  Jimmy
17 days ago

I’ve had caring vets come to the house, bond with the animal, and quietly do the deed.

Tonawanda
Tonawanda
Reply to  Jimmy
17 days ago

Tell a vet your concerns and have him come to your home to administer a non-upsetting shot which literally puts your pet to sleep forever. True, that is non-family but many vets are friendly with pets and do not incite bad feelings.

Anonymau5
Anonymau5
Reply to  Jimmy
15 days ago

I regretted our family euthanizing our kitten and not giving him a fighting chance against his disease. His brother is much older and not gettin killed, God willing. Our lab/boxer, full cripple dog died naturally from all sorts of illness. Lived well beyond vets reccomendations. she even had a wheelchair ramp for troublesome stairs. Imagine…cold dark, rain. 80 pounds of muddy fur and soaking wet dog butt squashed against your face as youre sliding down that ramp both knowing there’s a huge puddle of muck at the bottom and SPLASH. lol. worth it.

a n
a n
18 days ago

AC, found a reference to embedded agentur in a movie, 1983 Stephen King’s “The Dead Zone” with Martin Sheen as Greg Stillson, running for Senator and expecting to head to the prez, Christopher Walken is the dude what got coma’d by a crash and comes out as psychic 5 years later.

At 1:12 into the movie, an editorial to be published the next morning is thrown into the face of the editor, who says it will go in anyways, and how did you get that advance copy?

A spy infiltrator ratted him out prior to publish, and for pressure, they show the editor photos of “not his wife” and Stillson mentions that girl is a dear friend of his, so a honeypot front and center, keeping the run alive to get him into the oval office, but a chance event with Walken gets some horrible publicity and his political career does the crash n burn, lucky us. Walken had visioned Stillson starting an nukular exchange, so in need of heading off that reality.

a n
a n
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
17 days ago

If this is an “art imitates life” example, a honey pot is a simple thing to note, as there was such in the F. Forsyth novel made movie “Day of the Jackal”, putting a cute chick in front of an aging vulnerable gent in gov’t office tempted by a bangable babe presented on a plate, little head thinking foils your life plan. Same system in the movie/novel HOTEL, got a chick to divert the manager for the afternoon so a shill op. could make bad publicity to force a potential rival buyer to have to back out. They even got the floor mgr. to spill whatever nuggets he could spot for chump change, and the accounting firm had a weasel let out the internal reports for a measly couple grand.

The more complex issue to note is that they would have needed to have multiple agents planted in EVERY newspaper and editor’s circle level, to boot, don’t get that by trolling even a phd. journalism prof. through the paper, needing years to decades of infil., broad spectrum coverage, and probably down even into this little podunk town, to boot. And, if they did it to the papers, need to do similar to radio and tv news sections, and this up and comer running for senator, some entity propping him up to be their new public face by OTHERS, part of that UN-VISIBLE cadre (I call them that because of all those people we used to trust to watch out for us, nobody is/was allowed to notice or report they exist)

The question then would be, who has the funds and power and/or bait to get loads of agents trained enough to work in those positions, perhaps for life, if needed, all over, and that just scratches the surface of what would be needed for the control that we glimpsed in that movie.

This is one reason I think that using these examples can help wake up those normies capable of being brought to our side. Just point out the back story needed to make it actually plausible, and they will work out the rest, in time. Little seeds and all that.

Thanks for all you do, AC.

teotoon
teotoon
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
16 days ago

You just added a little more meaning to Proverbs:

(Pro 7:4) Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

(Pro 7:5) That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

(Pro 7:6) For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

(Pro 7:7) And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

(Pro 7:8) Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

(Pro 7:9) In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

(Pro 7:10) And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.

(Pro 7:11) (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

(Pro 7:12) Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

(Pro 7:13) So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,

(Pro 7:14) I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.

(Pro 7:15) Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

(Pro 7:16) I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.

(Pro 7:17) I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

(Pro 7:18) Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

(Pro 7:19) For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:

(Pro 7:20) He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.

(Pro 7:21) With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

(Pro 7:22) He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

(Pro 7:23) Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

(Pro 7:24) Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

(Pro 7:25) Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

(Pro 7:26) For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

(Pro 7:27) Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

There is also a related tale in Gilgamesh:
What is the story of Enkidu and Shamhat? In the epic

Shamhat was a sacred temple prostitute or harimtu. She is used by the Hunter to use her attractiveness to tempt Enkidu from the wild, and his ‘wildness’, civilizing him through continued sacred love-making. Brought to a water source where Enkidu had been spotted, she exposes herself to Enkidu. (Google search)

One opinion I read stated that the harlot was used to overcome Enkidu – whom the gods created in order to defeat Gilgamesh. After Enkidu slept with the harlot, “he became wise” and put aside his mission against Gilgamesh; which was the king’s intent.
And this “becoming wise” relates directly to the Garden of Eden and Eve and the Serpent. Scholarly tradition has the story as a sexual encounter; for, Eve declares she was beguiled – seduced – and did eat – had sex with the Serpent, the Devil.

Farcesensitive
Farcesensitive
17 days ago

New kind of Shadow ban:

HeavenBan
Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Farcesensitive
16 days ago

We’re gonna need a bigger camp. /RoySchneider There is noooooooothing that infuriates me as much. I’d be more willing to consider forgiving literal murderers and literal rapists. Psychotic truth-censoring gaslighting computer nerds are THEE most doomed creatures in the entire fucking cosmos.

Farcesensitive
Farcesensitive
17 days ago

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Farcesensitive
Farcesensitive
17 days ago

Preppers LOSING Thousands as Ammo HOARDS Become WORTHLESS!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy5SlkVi5sc

Anon
Anon
Reply to  Farcesensitive
17 days ago

From the comments to the video:

I knew this whole video was bullshit as soon as the narrator claimed that because his only AR broke an extractor, his whole stock of 5.56 was now worthless. First, who in the hell only owns one AR, secondly, why not just replace the broken extractor? All BS!”

TRX
TRX
Reply to  Anon
16 days ago

> First, who in the hell only owns one AR

I’m an AK fan, and I still have three ARs. ARs are like Mr. Potato Head toys or Legos; you can mix and match the bits for hours of entertainment.

> secondly, why not just replace the broken extractor? 

Yuppie mindset. You don’t fix things, you just replace them. And most of their electronic toys are unfixable anyway.

Max Barrage
Max Barrage
Reply to  Farcesensitive
17 days ago

Like one of the comments on the vid says, I didn’t buy it to sell it.

Farcesensitive
Farcesensitive
Reply to  Max Barrage
17 days ago

It talks about it becoming nonfunctional too.

Max Barrage
Max Barrage
Reply to  Farcesensitive
16 days ago

Possible I guess. I have ammo from the 60s that I bought for my M1 Garand that still works just fine

TRX
TRX
Reply to  Max Barrage
16 days ago

I still have a box or two of Belgian-made 7.65×53 for my Argentine Mauser. They’re date-stamped some time in 1893.

Last time I shot any, it was over a century old, and still worked just fine. Corrosive chlorate primers don’t degrade like non-corrosive primers do, and apparently the manufacturer did a good job of cleaning the sulfuric acid out of the powder during the manufacturing process.

The main reason I haven’t finished up all the ammo is that, now at 132 years old, it has some value due to its age, and I can throw it in with some stripper clips if I ever part with the rifle. I’ve had the rifle for almost forty years, so I’m a bit behind in the usual “never keep anything more than a few months” thing so many gunheads do.

Farcesensitive
Farcesensitive
17 days ago

A Franco-British plan to deploy troops from NATO states to Ukraine following a potential truce with Russia is “dead”, an anonymous official has told the Financial Times.

France and the UK, the leading powers in the so-called ‘coalition of the willing’, back deploying troops to Ukraine, ostensibly as a security guarantee for Kiev. Moscow has maintained that it will not tolerate any NATO member’s presence in Ukraine under any circumstances.

The US has turned down a request by Kiev’s European backers to provide a “backstop” for the proposed mission, with President Donald Trump arguing that America should never have been involved in the Russia-Ukraine conflict in the first place.

https://www.rt.com/russia/618240-nato-troops-ukraine-dead/

TRX
TRX
Reply to  Farcesensitive
16 days ago

A few dozen Spetznaz or SVR strike teams could take all of the European NATO, and probably most of the EU, down in a couple of days.

The modern EU is *much* more complex and centralized than the Europe of 1945. Bureaucrats love to centralize data hubs, power generation, and transport routes, and they hate the waste of “redundancy.” You could probably hit less than a hundred specific sites and bring the EU to its knees, then keep them there by taking out the technicians trying to bring it back up.

It’s the sort of thing the Federation is specifically *not* doing in Ukraine, or Ukraine would just be a blank spot on the map like North Korea to satellite imagery at night. Because Putin *hasn’t* sent specialists in to take of critical infrastructure doesn’t mean he *can’t*. Or *won’t.*

Putin hasn’t “won” against Ukraine, even though they could easily have done so. Which indicates they feel they’re getting something they consider more valuable. Like, say, a trained and blooded army, and new equipment, and updates training, and all of the national industrial infrastructure it takes to field and maintain a modern, high-tech military force.

That might be worth quite a lot. The question then becomes, “is this just about bringing the Federation military up to modern 2025 standards, or do they intend to *use* it somewhere?”

Russia under the Federation isn’t the superpower it was under the Soviet Union, but there’s no real reason they can’t be a superpower again. And frankly, it looks like that’s what they’re doing, and cheaply enough at that.

teotoon
teotoon
17 days ago