Scott Ritter made the same point in that video I referenced in the last thread. Armies can seem to be resisting successfully - until they don't. When the collapse comes, it's very sudden and frequently disastrous. Ukraine is in this position. There is simply no way they can hold against the Russian army. If worst came to worst and Russia is forced to bring up the heavy artillery, which they don't want to do, it will be over in a matter of hours. "I do believe that, at some level, the neocons desire to stoke a NATO war with Russia but hope to contain this war to Europe. I think the Pentagon generals think this is a bad idea." Agreed. It's very clear that the Pentagon stomped on the no-fly zone idea. The fact that any public statement was made at all makes that clear. As I mentioned in another thread, a no-fly zone means US cruise missiles attacking Russian AD in Ukraine and inside Russia. No other option. And that means Russia eliminating the sources of those cruise missiles, be they on land or sea. No other option. That means US ships sunk and NATO installations destroyed. The US then has only two options: 1) stop; 2) escalate to nuclear weapons. The Pentagon is well aware of this progression, while the neocons don't know and don't care. So the only meaningful question is: Does Biden control the neocons or vice versa? That's what worries me. Because so far Biden hasn't. It's not clear there would have been an invasion had the diplomacy specific to Ukraine worked out - and had Zelensky not talked about a nation run by neo-Nazis getting nukes. There's also the question of how much the invasion was predicated on the US/NATO response to the treaty proposals. Scott Ritter points out in the CS video that part of this propaganda campaign is directly aimed at the Russian population, especially the "liberals" and other pro-Western factions. The idea is to emphasize all the "pain" the sanctions will allegedly impose and then suggest that getting rid of Putin is the only solution. Of course, as I like to say, "That Ain't Gonna Happen." Because those factions of the population in Russia don't have sufficient mass to do that. All they have as alternatives is losers like Navalny. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/03/ukraine-officials-announce-false-flag-attack.html?cid=6a00d8341c640e53ef02942f9e6d3a200c#comment-6a00d8341c640e53ef02942f9e6d3a200c
Chinese markets are tanking after Blinken threatens China for potential involvement with Russia. If you are pro-American/pro western/pro-European we are flexing some serious muscle right now.
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https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/n...e/news-story/f6bf3088edd67fccc8126f84eedb31b4 Miranda Devine: US VP Kamala Harris’ embarrassing giggle-fest in Europe At a dangerous time in world history when every word counts, US Vice President Kamala Harris is a menace, writes Miranda Devine. Miranda Devine @mirandadevine Can someone in the White House give Kamala Harris non-speaking roles from now on? It’s bad enough that President Joe Biden comes across as a doddering Mr Magoo, projecting American weakness at a time of international peril. But sending his VP Kamala Harris to Central Europe last week to address Russia’s invasion of Ukraine only further damaged America’s prestige at a crucial time. Her cringeworthy performances in Poland and Romania were an insult to the Ukrainian victims as well as to those countries bearing the brunt of the refugee crisis. US Vice President Kamala Harris is the wrong person to be sending to broker peace in eastern Europe, writes Miranda Devine. Cackling uproariously at a joint press conference with Polish president Andrzej Duda after she was asked a question about refugees was tone deaf, bordering on sociopathic. Her fake laughter actually looked to be a strategy to buy time as she tried unsuccessfully to offload the question onto her Polish counterpart. “A friend in need is a friend indeed,” she giggled while gesturing at a puzzled Duda to come to her rescue. Poland has taken in more than 1.6 million refugees since the Ukraine war began last month. It’s not a laughing matter to Poles or the poor people they have generously taken in. You would think Harris would be on top of America’s refugee response or at least be adept enough not to look flummoxed. But every time she opened her mouth something vacuous emerged. “I am here. Standing. Here. On the northern flank, on the eastern flank, talking about what we have in terms of the eastern flank and our NATO allies and what is at stake at this very moment,” was one Chauncey Gardener moment in Poland. Only, unlike the fictional Peter Sellers character in Being There, no one thinks what she says is profound. Over 2.8 million refugees have fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion began, more than half of whom travelled to Poland. Picture: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP She gives new meaning to dumbed down, to the dismay of Ukrainians looking for American leadership. “It would be a tragedy if this woman won the presidency,” tweeted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s former press secretary Iuliia Mendel. Harris was no better on stage with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, appearing woefully unprepared for high level diplomacy. She seems incapable of addressing basic issues such as gas prices and refugee numbers. How did she get through law school if she can’t manage a brief? And why did the Biden administration dispatch her on such an important mission to Europe when it was clear she is out of her depth. Last year she admitted she had “never been to Europe”. Now she’s the administration’s point woman in Europe on the brink of what Biden keeps ominously warning could be World War III. If it’s really so dangerous, why send such a staggering ignoramus to represent the leader of the free world? VP Harris met with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis at Cotroceni Palace last week. Picture: Daniel Mihailescu/AFP) Before Harris flew to Poland she was asked on radio to explain the Ukraine crisis “in layman’s terms”. “So, Ukraine is a country in Europe,” she said slowly, as if she were talking to a dim three-year-old. “It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So, basically, that’s wrong, and it goes against everything that we stand for.” Shows how stupid she thinks the average layman is. You would have thought after her comments in Munich last month, Biden might have taken away the keys to Air Force 2. “I mean, listen, guys, we’re talking about the potential for war in Europe,” she told reporters in her nasally, sing song voice. “I mean, let’s really take a moment to understand the significance of what we’re talking about. It’s been over 70 years. And through those 70 years … there has been peace and security. We are talking about the real possibility of war in Europe.” Forget the little matter of the Yugoslavian civil wars of the 1990s or Russia’s incursions into the Crimea and Georgia, not to mention the Cold War. During the trip, the Vice President also met with US and Polish troops at Warsaw Chopin International Airport. Picture: Saul Loeb/Pool/AFP Mortified observers in America have been angsting on social media ever since. “Oh Dear God. This is a total disaster,” tweeted Richard Grenell, former US ambassador to Germany. “She isn’t prepared. She isn’t grasping issues ... She rambles ... Kamala is totally unqualified. She climbed the political ladder without getting vetted in California because she was a black woman.” Talk show host Dave Rubin had a simpler take: “Kamala Harris is on drugs. Not the same drugs Joe Biden is on, but drugs, nonetheless.” Concerns Harris is not up to the job emerged last year. An exodus of staff from her office points to a personality issue. In an expose last year, The Washington Post quoted a former aide who said Harris “would refuse to wade into briefing materials prepared by staff members, then berate employees when she appeared unprepared”. “It’s clear that you’re not working with somebody who is willing to do the prep and the work,” one former staffer said. “With Kamala you have to put up with a constant amount of soul-destroying criticism and also her own lack of confidence. So, you’re constantly sort of propping up a bully and it’s not really clear why.” Another story in Politico said Harris’ team suffered from “low morale, porous lines of communication and diminished trust”. Biden should consider taking the keys to Air Force Two off his second-in-command, writes Miranda Devine. Picture: Saul Loeb/Pool/AFP Harris has never taken off the training wheels. Assigned by Biden early on to manage the unprecedented influx of illegal migrants caused by his open border policies, she treated the task like a hot potato, finally informing the media her job was confined to amorphous “root causes”. In other words, she did nothing. Her infrequent media appearances produce mindboggling word salads. One memorable moment on the Today show in January came when she was asked about what sort of Covid masks people should wear: “It is time for us to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day,” she said. “Every day, it is time for us to agree that there are things and tools that are available to us to slow this thing down.” At a dangerous time in world history, when every word counts, Harris is a 40
Now you know how people felt when trump opened his mouth haha....Kamala and trump sound like unscripted fucktards when they speak...
Except one of them was able to draw crowds in the mega=thousands day after day to deliver his message when campaigning and in office and being unscripted was a political strength. The other- not so much.
So then, going by what you're saying, an idiot who can draw a crowd is a good thing? Doesn't he just draw a crowd of other idiots, thereby giving them a critical mass?
This Russian propaganda post is amusing because it shows how poor the promoters of disinformation are at rational math. Let's walk through it a bit. There are 150,000 Russian soldiers involved in the invasion of the Ukraine. At most around 35,000 of these Russian soldiers are in Donbass region. The rest are spread out on other fronts in the country. Prior the invasion, the total active Ukraine military is 196,000 in size. Currently they may have up to another 40,000 reservists and militia added & currently in active since the start of the war. There is a pool of 900,000 possible male reservists and volunteer territorial defense unit members -- however only a small percentage are involved in the fighting so far. So according to the Russian propaganda - "76 thousand AFU and Nazi war criminals are surrounded in a cauldron in Donbass." Let's see 35,000 Russian soldiers are surrounding 76,000 armed Ukrainian militia & soldiers according to the Russian propaganda. Yeah, in what twisted world do 35,000 soldiers surround 76,000? The reality 35,000 Russian soldiers are bombing and shelling the shiat out of 76,000 civilians - men, woman, and children in a cauldron in Donbass. Strangely enough nearly all of these civilians in Donbass are ethnic Russian-speakers who don't desire to live under Putin's oppression. Of course, the Russians simply call them "AFU and Nazi war criminals" in order to justify their slaughter of non-combatants.
How Soviet of them... Russia state-run TV program advocates for public hangings in occupied Ukrainian cities Russian pundits on state-run TV show discussed potential hangings through military tribunal https://www.foxnews.com/world/russia-state-run-tv-program-public-hangings-occupied-ukrainian-cities