These fuckers never met a war they didn't like. . . .

[Herodotus]

For those of you who like to pay attention do keep in mind these fuckers like telling you their plans.  In 2019 Rand Corp told you how they planned to "overextend Russia.  Two decades before PNAC told us of their intent to carve up Russia so when these cocksuckers tell us war is coming they damn well mean they are going to go about bringing you a world war that will feature multiple nukes:

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/the-united-states-and-its-allies-must-be-ready-to-deter-a-two-front-war-and-nuclear-attacks-in-east-asia/

[LIBills]

Somebody is always making money off of war.

The US politicians, ON BOTH SIDES, are prime examples of it.

For example, that little gay flimsy prick Lindsay Graham is doing quite nicely financially off of the Ukrainian war.

[Toofast80]

All “conspiracy theories”! “Stop with your misinformation campaigns” 😔🤦‍♂️

[Professor Pigworth]

George Soros wrote this, relating to the future of NATO, back in 1994:

Quote

The United States would not be called upon to act as the policeman of the world. When it acts, it would act in conjunction with others. Incidentally, the combination of manpower from Eastern Europe with the technical capabilities of NATO would greatly enhance the military potential of the partnership because it would reduce the risk of body bags for NATO countries, which is the main constraint on their willingness to act. This is a viable alternative to the looming world disorder.

So, in other words, Soros foresaw using eastern-European manpower as cannon fodder so the US and other Western powers could avoid the bad publicity that would be associated with body bags coming home. It would "only" be the eastern Europeans who would be dying in their thousands. This philosophy has been borne out in the Ukraine, where 400,000 or more Ukrainian soldiers have been killed.

Soros, Nuland and the other globalist world-order neo-liberal crusaders like them are truly sick people.

By the way, one of their serious, well-informed, woke-fantastic admirers here on the Range recently mentioned that he didn't think I self-promoted enough and was kind enough to draw my attention to this; so this is for him:

 

Remember: If it's from the Professor, you know it's got to be good.

The Professor's propaganda is premium propaganda.

What's that name again?  Why, it's the Professor. 

The Professor. That's who it is.

The Professor:

The Professor:

 

The Professor and Mary-Ann:

 

The Professor's personal symbol to help you remember him by:

 

[Herodotus]

40 minutes ago, Toofast80 said:

All “conspiracy theories”! “Stop with your misinformation campaigns” 😔🤦‍♂️

I wish it was just a conspiracy theory.  Unfortunately for all of us, conspiracy theories anymore are just a good grasp of the obvious.

[SackMan518]

I won't be signing up for my son for the War Pigs with the new DEI/ESG military that won't train for real combatants. I've seen of the new generation and they suck except for just the educational and bennies. They got what more than I did make in the 1990s but we actually got shit done. It kills me that generations of my fathers all served and that's all going to end with an incompetent military.

[Professor Pigworth]

Maybe the declining public support for and trust in even the once-revered US military can be remedied by making it still more inclusive and tolerant.  So, obviously, heels instead of flats, colour-coordinated uniforms (including rainbow designs), a minority-appointed general in every platoon, etc. The military could also offer free sex-reassignment operations, hairdressing and make-up courses, lipstick with K-rations, BLM lecture nights, etc.

 

 

[Professor Pigworth]

You don't have to dig very deep to see the massive hypocrisy and imperialistic skulduggery of neo-cons like Blinken: 

 

Why did Blinken engineer the removal of the previous prime minister?  Because Khan had the audacity to want to keep Pakistan neutral in the Ukraine war.

[Professor Pigworth]

It's almost breath-taking how imbecilic, arrogant and reckless the neo-con decision makers have been.   Just imagine the worst possible people being in charge of a foreign policy that could potentially destroy us all if there was an escalation to a nuclear confrontation, because that's who they are. 

 

[shiva2999]

 

[shiva2999]

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/big-brave-western-proxy-warriors

 

Big Brave Western Proxy Warriors Keep Whining That Ukrainian Troops Are Cowards

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE

19 AUG 2023

 

 

 

Amid continuous news that the Ukrainian counteroffensive which began in June is not going as hoped, The New York Times has published an article titled “Troop Deaths and Injuries in Ukraine War Near 500,000, U.S. Officials Say.” 

Reporting that Ukrainian efforts to retake Russia-occupied territory have been “bogged down in dense Russian minefields under constant fire from artillery and helicopter gunships,” The New York Times reports that Ukrainian forces have switched tactics to using “artillery and long-range missiles instead of plunging into minefields under fire.”

Then the article gets really freaky:

“American officials are worried that Ukraine’s adjustments will race through precious ammunition supplies, which could benefit President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and disadvantage Ukraine in a war of attrition. But Ukrainian commanders decided the pivot reduced casualties and preserved their frontline fighting force.

“American officials say they fear that Ukraine has become casualty averse, one reason it has been cautious about pressing ahead with the counteroffensive. Almost any big push against dug-in Russian defenders protected by minefields would result in huge numbers of losses.”

I’m sorry, US officials “fear” that Ukraine is becoming “casualty averse”? Because safer battlefield tactics that burn through a lot of ammunition don’t chew through lives like charging through a minefield under heavy artillery fire?

What are the Ukrainians supposed to be? Casualty amenable? If Ukraine was more casualty amenable, would it be more willing to throw young bodies into the gears of this proxy war that the US empire actively provoked and killed peace deals to maintain?

Something tells me that the US officials speaking to The New York Times about their “fear” of Ukrainian casualty aversiveness do not know what real fear is. Something tells me that if you marched these US officials through Russian minefields under constant fire from artillery and helicopter gunships, then they would understand fear.

 

 

https://twitter.com/NathanJRobinson/status/1692584719748047156

Western officials have been spending the last few weeks whining to the media that Ukraine’s inability to gain ground is due to an irrational aversion to being killed. They’ve been decrying Ukrainian cowardice to the press under cover of anonymity, from behind the safety of their office desks.

In an article published Thursday titled “U.S. intelligence says Ukraine will fail to meet offensive’s key goal,” The Washington Post cited anonymous “U.S. and Western officials” to report that the massive losses Ukraine has been suffering in this counteroffensive had been “anticipated” in war games ahead of time, but that they had “envisioned Kyiv accepting the casualties as the cost of piercing through Russia’s main defensive line.”

The same article quotes Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba telling critics of the counteroffensive to “go and join the foreign legion” if they don’t like the results so far, adding, “It’s easy to say that you want everything to be faster when you are not there.”

In an article published last month titled “U.S. Cluster Munitions Arrive in Ukraine, but Impact on Battlefield Remains Unclear,” The New York Times reported unnamed senior US officials had “privately expressed frustration” that Ukrainian commanders “fearing increased casualties among their ranks” were switching to artillery barrages, “rather than sticking with the Western tactics and pressing harder to breach the Russian defenses.”

“Why don’t they come and do it themselves?” a former Ukrainian defense minister told The New York Times in response to the American criticism.

 

 

https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1681077948370001921

In an article last month titled “Ukraine’s Lack of Weaponry and Training Risks Stalemate in Fight With Russia,” The Wall Street Journal reported that unnamed western military officials “knew Kyiv didn’t have all the training or weapons” needed to dislodge Russia, but that they had “hoped Ukrainian courage and resourcefulness would carry the day” anyway. 

“It didn’t,” Wall Street Journal added.

In the same article, The Wall Street Journal cited a US Army War College professor named John Nagle admitting that the US itself would never attempt the kind of counteroffensive it’s been pushing Ukrainians into attempting.

“America would never attempt to defeat a prepared defense without air superiority, but they [Ukrainians] don’t have air superiority,” Nagl said, adding, “It’s impossible to overstate how important air superiority is for fighting a ground fight at a reasonable cost in casualties.”

 

 

https://twitter.com/tparsi/status/1692639089634296018

And now we’re seeing reports in the mass media that US officials — still under cover of anonymity of course — are beginning to wonder if perhaps it might have been better to try to negotiate peace instead of launching this counteroffensive that they knew was doomed from the beginning. 

In an article titled “Milley had a point,” Politico cites multiple anonymous US officials saying that as “the realities of the counteroffensive are sinking in around Washington,” empire managers are beginning to wonder if they should have heeded outgoing Joint Chiefs chair Mark Milley’s suggestion back in November that it was a good time to consider peace talks.

“We may have missed a window to push for earlier talks,” one anonymous official says, adding, “Milley had a point.”

Oops. Oops they made a little oopsie poopsie. Oh well, it’s only Ukrainian lives.

Imagine reading through all this as a Ukrainian, especially a Ukrainian who’s lost a home or a loved one to this war. I imagine white hot tears pouring down my face. I imagine rage, and I imagine overwhelming frustration.

 

 

https://twitter.com/RonPaulInstitut/status/1683479250572046338

This whole war could have been avoided with a little diplomacy and a few mild concessions to Moscow. It could have been stopped in the early weeks of the conflict back when a tentative peace agreement had been struck. It could have been stopped back in November before this catastrophic counteroffensive.

But it wasn’t. The US had an agenda to lock Moscow into a costly military quagmire with the goal of weakening Russia, and to this day US officials openly boast about all this war is doing to advance US interests. So they’ve kept it going, using Ukrainian bodies as a giant sponge to soak up as many expensive military explosives as possible to drain Russian coffers while advancing US energy interests in Europe and keeping Moscow preoccupied while the empire orchestrates its next move against China.

Last month The Washington Post’s David Ignatius wrote an article explaining why westerners shouldn’t “feel gloomy” about how things are going in Ukraine, writing the following about how much this war is doing to benefit US interests overseas:

“Meanwhile, for the United States and its NATO allies, these 18 months of war have been a strategic windfall, at relatively low cost (other than for the Ukrainians). The West’s most reckless antagonist has been rocked. NATO has grown much stronger with the additions of Sweden and Finland. Germany has weaned itself from dependence on Russian energy and, in many ways, rediscovered its sense of values. NATO squabbles make headlines, but overall, this has been a triumphal summer for the alliance.”

“Other than for the Ukrainians” he says, as a parenthetical aside.

Everyone who supported this horrifying proxy war should have that paragraph tattooed on their fucking forehead.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Toofast80]

2 hours ago, shiva2999 said:

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/big-brave-western-proxy-warriors

 

Big Brave Western Proxy Warriors Keep Whining That Ukrainian Troops Are Cowards

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE

19 AUG 2023

 

 

 

Amid continuous news that the Ukrainian counteroffensive which began in June is not going as hoped, The New York Times has published an article titled “Troop Deaths and Injuries in Ukraine War Near 500,000, U.S. Officials Say.” 

Reporting that Ukrainian efforts to retake Russia-occupied territory have been “bogged down in dense Russian minefields under constant fire from artillery and helicopter gunships,” The New York Times reports that Ukrainian forces have switched tactics to using “artillery and long-range missiles instead of plunging into minefields under fire.”

Then the article gets really freaky:

“American officials are worried that Ukraine’s adjustments will race through precious ammunition supplies, which could benefit President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and disadvantage Ukraine in a war of attrition. But Ukrainian commanders decided the pivot reduced casualties and preserved their frontline fighting force.

“American officials say they fear that Ukraine has become casualty averse, one reason it has been cautious about pressing ahead with the counteroffensive. Almost any big push against dug-in Russian defenders protected by minefields would result in huge numbers of losses.”

I’m sorry, US officials “fear” that Ukraine is becoming “casualty averse”? Because safer battlefield tactics that burn through a lot of ammunition don’t chew through lives like charging through a minefield under heavy artillery fire?

What are the Ukrainians supposed to be? Casualty amenable? If Ukraine was more casualty amenable, would it be more willing to throw young bodies into the gears of this proxy war that the US empire actively provoked and killed peace deals to maintain?

Something tells me that the US officials speaking to The New York Times about their “fear” of Ukrainian casualty aversiveness do not know what real fear is. Something tells me that if you marched these US officials through Russian minefields under constant fire from artillery and helicopter gunships, then they would understand fear.

 

 

https://twitter.com/NathanJRobinson/status/1692584719748047156

Western officials have been spending the last few weeks whining to the media that Ukraine’s inability to gain ground is due to an irrational aversion to being killed. They’ve been decrying Ukrainian cowardice to the press under cover of anonymity, from behind the safety of their office desks.

In an article published Thursday titled “U.S. intelligence says Ukraine will fail to meet offensive’s key goal,” The Washington Post cited anonymous “U.S. and Western officials” to report that the massive losses Ukraine has been suffering in this counteroffensive had been “anticipated” in war games ahead of time, but that they had “envisioned Kyiv accepting the casualties as the cost of piercing through Russia’s main defensive line.”

The same article quotes Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba telling critics of the counteroffensive to “go and join the foreign legion” if they don’t like the results so far, adding, “It’s easy to say that you want everything to be faster when you are not there.”

In an article published last month titled “U.S. Cluster Munitions Arrive in Ukraine, but Impact on Battlefield Remains Unclear,” The New York Times reported unnamed senior US officials had “privately expressed frustration” that Ukrainian commanders “fearing increased casualties among their ranks” were switching to artillery barrages, “rather than sticking with the Western tactics and pressing harder to breach the Russian defenses.”

“Why don’t they come and do it themselves?” a former Ukrainian defense minister told The New York Times in response to the American criticism.

 

 

https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1681077948370001921

In an article last month titled “Ukraine’s Lack of Weaponry and Training Risks Stalemate in Fight With Russia,” The Wall Street Journal reported that unnamed western military officials “knew Kyiv didn’t have all the training or weapons” needed to dislodge Russia, but that they had “hoped Ukrainian courage and resourcefulness would carry the day” anyway. 

“It didn’t,” Wall Street Journal added.

In the same article, The Wall Street Journal cited a US Army War College professor named John Nagle admitting that the US itself would never attempt the kind of counteroffensive it’s been pushing Ukrainians into attempting.

“America would never attempt to defeat a prepared defense without air superiority, but they [Ukrainians] don’t have air superiority,” Nagl said, adding, “It’s impossible to overstate how important air superiority is for fighting a ground fight at a reasonable cost in casualties.”

 

 

https://twitter.com/tparsi/status/1692639089634296018

And now we’re seeing reports in the mass media that US officials — still under cover of anonymity of course — are beginning to wonder if perhaps it might have been better to try to negotiate peace instead of launching this counteroffensive that they knew was doomed from the beginning. 

In an article titled “Milley had a point,” Politico cites multiple anonymous US officials saying that as “the realities of the counteroffensive are sinking in around Washington,” empire managers are beginning to wonder if they should have heeded outgoing Joint Chiefs chair Mark Milley’s suggestion back in November that it was a good time to consider peace talks.

“We may have missed a window to push for earlier talks,” one anonymous official says, adding, “Milley had a point.”

Oops. Oops they made a little oopsie poopsie. Oh well, it’s only Ukrainian lives.

Imagine reading through all this as a Ukrainian, especially a Ukrainian who’s lost a home or a loved one to this war. I imagine white hot tears pouring down my face. I imagine rage, and I imagine overwhelming frustration.

 

 

https://twitter.com/RonPaulInstitut/status/1683479250572046338

This whole war could have been avoided with a little diplomacy and a few mild concessions to Moscow. It could have been stopped in the early weeks of the conflict back when a tentative peace agreement had been struck. It could have been stopped back in November before this catastrophic counteroffensive.

But it wasn’t. The US had an agenda to lock Moscow into a costly military quagmire with the goal of weakening Russia, and to this day US officials openly boast about all this war is doing to advance US interests. So they’ve kept it going, using Ukrainian bodies as a giant sponge to soak up as many expensive military explosives as possible to drain Russian coffers while advancing US energy interests in Europe and keeping Moscow preoccupied while the empire orchestrates its next move against China.

Last month The Washington Post’s David Ignatius wrote an article explaining why westerners shouldn’t “feel gloomy” about how things are going in Ukraine, writing the following about how much this war is doing to benefit US interests overseas:

“Meanwhile, for the United States and its NATO allies, these 18 months of war have been a strategic windfall, at relatively low cost (other than for the Ukrainians). The West’s most reckless antagonist has been rocked. NATO has grown much stronger with the additions of Sweden and Finland. Germany has weaned itself from dependence on Russian energy and, in many ways, rediscovered its sense of values. NATO squabbles make headlines, but overall, this has been a triumphal summer for the alliance.”

“Other than for the Ukrainians” he says, as a parenthetical aside.

Everyone who supported this horrifying proxy war should have that paragraph tattooed on their fucking forehead.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Always remember that one of the ultimate goals is to DRASTICALLY reduce the population of this planet! 

[HipKat]

So how's that leader of the Wagner group doing?

[shiva2999]

https://t.me/breakingmash/47183

[Herodotus]

2 hours ago, HipKat said:

So how's that leader of the Wagner group doing?

Dead.  That is all on him.  You don't attempt a coup in wartime and live.  Yeah, it was all a bit theatrical but who didn't see it coming.  His troops are all under Frunze Embankment (Russian defence ministry) control, those who opposed that part of the amnesty were all on that plane and remember his deal was that he stay in Belarus.  He broke the terms of the deal and is very dead.

[LIBills]

2 hours ago, HipKat said:

So how's that leader of the Wagner group doing?

Oops.

[HipKat]

2 hours ago, Herodotus said:

Dead.  That is all on him.  You don't attempt a coup in wartime and live.  Yeah, it was all a bit theatrical but who didn't see it coming.  His troops are all under Frunze Embankment (Russian defence ministry) control, those who opposed that part of the amnesty were all on that plane and remember his deal was that he stay in Belarus.  He broke the terms of the deal and is very dead.

I'll go look but that wasn't your tune when he led the uprising and all of us were saying he should be careful of what he drinks and stay away from windows. If I remember, you were defending your fantasy Putin

[Herodotus]

15 minutes ago, HipKat said:

I'll go look but that wasn't your tune when he led the uprising and all of us were saying he should be careful of what he drinks and stay away from windows. If I remember, you were defending your fantasy Putin

No, Putin is a chess player, Pirogizhin got a lot of troops to move to Southern Russia that slipped west of the border and are a big reason why Ukraine hasn't got to the first line of Russian defenses.  He also got into Belarus ans that caused Kiev to have to have to hold forces back to guard their capital.  He was a token and Putin played his token and got rid of a guy who launched a mutiny and his most troublesome lieutenants.

[HipKat]

3 minutes ago, Herodotus said:

No, Putin is a chess player, Pirogizhin got a lot of troops to move to Southern Russia that slipped west of the border and are a big reason why Ukraine hasn't got to the first line of Russian defenses.  He also got into Belarus ans that caused Kiev to have to have to hold forces back to guard their capital.  He was a token and Putin played his token and got rid of a guy who launched a mutiny and his most troublesome lieutenants.

So you have no problem admitting that Putin has his opponents murdered

[Herodotus]

11 minutes ago, HipKat said:

So you have no problem admitting that Putin has his opponents murdered

We would do the same thing, and indeed we have done so repeatedly.  Hell, Obama droned a guy in Yemen without a warrant.  

[HipKat]

12 minutes ago, Herodotus said:

We would do the same thing, and indeed we have done so repeatedly.  Hell, Obama droned a guy in Yemen without a warrant.  

A guy in Yemen isn't an American Journalist or American Wealth

https://www.businessinsider.com/list-of-people-putin-is-suspected-of-assassinating-2016-3

[Herodotus]

1 hour ago, HipKat said:

A guy in Yemen isn't an American Journalist or American Wealth

https://www.businessinsider.com/list-of-people-putin-is-suspected-of-assassinating-2016-3

Suspected? By who? 

[Toofast80]

2 hours ago, Herodotus said:

Suspected? By who? 

The Obamas sous chef died by accident, the “autopsy proved it” 👍

[HipKat]

7 hours ago, Herodotus said:

Suspected? By who? 

There ya go!! 

Defend your hero!! 

[Herodotus]

57 minutes ago, HipKat said:

There ya go!! 

Defend your hero!! 

No, I am saying suspected is put in these smear pieces to avoid libel.  If Spiked were to sneak in here and write that you were a suspected pedophile nobody is going to read that you are an alleged or suspected pedo, they are going to read that you are a pedo.  See how that works?  This is a smear piece.  That is all it is.