That first video reminded me of a video I saw last week from southern Lebanon.

A Lebanese village just over the Blue Line - like, literally, a stone's throw over the border - and the IDF entered the village and some IDF soldiers went up on the roof and raised an Israeli flag.

And they hadn't even properly secured the flag before the bunch of them were tagged by a Kornet missile that took them all out.

The IDF then beat a hasty retreat.

And the funny thing? The Israelis did not report any IDF deaths that day......

"Judging by the increased number of trolls... "

The "nuke everybody" trolls, and the "no such thing as nukes" trolls. They are basically the same thing. NAFO wanting more escalation.

As a former member of the US military I concur with your assessment of the US military. Julian Assange clarified the purpose of the US military and it ain't defense.

New propaganda vid leaked from 404. Ft. THAAD as well as Iron Man @ 0:48 🤣

https://x.com/OlgaBazova/status/1859638770632474853?t=NcUPqarEDb1YR0rZfdvteA&s=19

That comparison ism VS ism is not abstract enough to capture what matters. What matters is most of all freedom, then quality of management and presence of planning, or not. The system, all things considered, allowing more personal freedom will succeed. You cannot create new things if it is forbidden and punished. There are cultural factors, like jew ideologies, like Christianity, Islam, communism and now wokeism, which suppress freedom and are used to establish tyrannies, no matter the (formerly) underlying economic order.

It's sad that Russians haven't read "Two hundred years together" thou.

"Well, Well, Well..."https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
"IT IS SAD THAT ... HAVE NOT READ" THEIR OWN STORY https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
"If we continue to repeat our past errors -if we continue to care more for the support of regimes that the friendship of people - if we continue to devote greater effort to the support of dictators than to the fight against poverty and hunger - then rising discontent will provide fertile ground for Castro and his Communist friends." https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/cincinnati-oh-19601006-democratic-dinner MUST READ ALL

It's considered poor form to speak ill of the dead as they can't defend themselves. This is a peculiar practice dating back to ancient times. Who are we at FGW to buck tradition?

Henry The K: "I've Been 86ed From Better Joints Than This!"

https://fivegunswest.blogspot.com/2023/11/henry-k-ive-been-86ed-from-better.html

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Yemen has reportedly shot down another MQ-9 Reaper drone in Saada, NW Yemen.

As far as I can see, nothing has been said officially by ANYONE. Just the highly trustworthy media, quoting interviews with unnamed "officials". Although Mr Starmer has emitted more of his steamy verbiage about how "we are with Ukraine until the end", or whatever.

To quote the cartoonist, this IS the end.

Hi Marco.
I think Trump is a smart guy. Best to leave the narrative to his team.

Colonel rips them a new one.

China issuing US$ bonds in Saudi Arabia seems like a stroke of genius.
https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1859446480198828360?t=IGZeJmKph1HJcaXf0gEUqw&s=19

Chinee ingenuity at its best, brains before brawn.

This is beautiful and elegant. This is Uuuuuuuge. And the timing could not have been better.

Covpepe Zhttps://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/35efdfda519104df5a19a7a8c87a69aaf299299ca703db64422acb7be88bf31e.png
"Of course, the deindustrialization of the so-called “western democracies” took place over the course of several decades, leaving behind the myth of “The Arsenal of Democracy” instead of its material substance. It produced immense profits for a steadily diminishing few even as it hollowed out a prosperous and socially stable middle class and inaugurated an oppressive neo-feudalism that is now well on its way to deconstructing all of western culture." https://imetatronink.substack.com/p/the-bitter-pill-of-decisive-strategic

Covpepe Z ... HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA https://uploads.disquscdn.c... Why? Well, it goes back, Piers, to the British Empire, to 1853 to 1856, actually, to Lord Palmerston. He had an idea: surround Russia in the Black Sea, render Russia’s fleet in the Black Sea in Sevastopol, which was there in 1853 just like it’s there in 2024, render it essentially inoperable, control the Dardanelles. This is a long story. Then Russia is a second or third-rate power. President Putin is responding to what has been a British imperial attempt for 175 years and a US attempt since 1991, basically to surround Russia with NATO.
https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/opinions/this-is-gonna-get-us-all-blown-up-jeffrey-sachs-on-russian-invasion-transcript/
Author Jeffrey Sachs https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs
Video “This Is Gonna Get Us ALL Blown Up!” Jeffrey Sachs On Russian Invasion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mULVrUGh6wo
The Covert Operation to Back Ukrainian Independence that Haunts the CIA After WWII, officials in Washington sent scores of agents to their deaths in a misguided effort to create an uprising against Moscow. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/11/covert-operation-ukrainian-independence-haunts-cia-00029968

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🇺🇸JEFFREY SACHS:

"It's very important to understand that World War II never ended with a treaty, and I think the United States was to blame.

The reason it never ended with a treaty is that the Soviet Union said, 'Germany killed 27 million of our people; we want Germany to be disarmed and neutral.'

Of course, Germany itself was divided into occupation zones at the end of the war in 1945.

The U.S. immediately came to the view, in the summer of 1945, that the next war would be with the Soviet Union.

Rather than making a peace agreement to end World War II, the U.S., along with the British and French occupation zones, merged, formed the Federal Republic of Germany, and rearmed Germany.

By the way, the fact is that they put a lot of former Nazis back in charge of leading armaments industries, and a few years later, Germany joined NATO.

This was, of course, both an affront and a threat for the Soviet Union.

NATO was never viewed as a defensive force.

The Soviet Union saw NATO as the next front in a continuing Western war against it.

There were periods of détente, for example with Nixon, and periods of tension, but there was never an end to World War II on the basis of a treaty.

When Mikhail Gorbachev said, 'I wanted to end the Cold War'—and be sure, he ended the Cold War—he ended it peacefully.

This needs to be remembered: it wasn't an American victory.

Mikhail Gorbachev said, 'I wanted the walls to come down.' Of course, Reagan wanted to do that peacefully together with Gorbachev, but it was Gorbachev's initiative.

I watched a lot of it firsthand, up close, in Central and Eastern Europe, as an economic advisor to the heads of governments involved in this.

Immediately, the question of German reunification arose.

In that context, there needed to be an agreement between the West and the Soviet Union for the legal end of the occupation of Germany.

German reunification was a legal event that was essentially the end of World War II—you needed the Soviet assent.

What did the United States and Germany say to the Soviet Union to get that assent? It was not ambiguous; it was not unclear.

They said, without any equivocation, 'We will have German reunification, and NATO will not move one inch eastward.'

Those were the words used by U.S. Secretary of State James Baker III directly to Mikhail Gorbachev on February 9, 1990.

Hans-Dietrich Genscher—on a tape you can listen to—said, 'When we say it won't move, we don't just mean within Germany; we mean anywhere to the east.'

It's so clear.

Of course, America cheats. Please understand this: America is a big power. It cheats. It tries to do what it can. It uses media and propaganda to get away with cheating—that's what big powers do, have no question.

A few years later, the United States claimed, 'Oh, we never promised that.' You can just read it in the documentation, which is available online in the National Security Archive of George Washington University.

So, in 1994, under Bill Clinton, the U.S. cheated.

They adopted a plan: NATO would expand eastward. And, by the way, not just eastward by 100 km or 300 km, but keep going east—all the way to Ukraine, all the way to Georgia, remember.

They wanted to go even beyond. I'm sure some crazy person in the United States said, 'Why not Kazakhstan? Why not Uzbekistan? Why not Armenia?'

Their idea in 1990—I know it—was, 'We won!'

Especially in December 1991, when the Soviet Union ended, the American 'strategists'—if you can call them that; it's a kind of euphemism because they are hardly good at strategy—said, 'We're alone. We're the most powerful country in the history of the world. We're more powerful than the Roman Empire. We're the world's sole superpower. We can do whatever we want.'

So that was the mindset, and cheating goes along with that mindset—the arrogance of power.

So, to make a long story short: yes, the United States started to expand.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, one of these strategists, explained very clearly in 1997, in his book The Grand Chessboard, why Russia would be unable to resist.

In a meticulously laid-out chapter, he asked the question: What if the U.S. pushes NATO? What if Europe keeps expanding eastward, crowds Russia, surrounds Russia—what can Russia do?

Brzezinski asked whether Russia could resist or if it would have to give in, and he concluded that Russia would have no choice.

He reached the conclusion, for example, that Russia would never form an alliance with China. He also concluded that Russia would never form an alliance with Iran.

You know, okay, theorists—this is playing games.

He compared the world to a chessboard.

By the way, the world is not a chessboard; it's not a poker game. It's the real lives of eight billion people.

American strategists are trained in game theory, which, by itself, in its name, gives everything away.

They treat the world as a game—bluff, raise, call—as if it's a poker match.

And you know what? They used other people's lives to do it.

They raised the stakes with Putin: 'We raise you.'

But whose lives were they betting on the table? The Ukrainian lives. Huh, not a good show."

Both Andrei Martyanov and Garland Nixon have talked about this war in the Ukraine as the last shots of WW2.

The Soviet Union failed to exorcise Nazism out of the minds of the new nation called Ukrainians. Following the murder of Stalin by his doctors, Khrushchev released all the Nazis who were sent to Siberia for the crimes committed against Russians and Russian-speakers (i.e. everyone back the) and collaboration. Khrushchev’s wife was a Western Ukrainian. He also gifted parts of the Russian Socialist Republic to the new SR of Ukraine including Sevastopol and Crimea.

What Russians are doing now is the removal of the fuel for Ukro Nazism. No fuel, no fire. Sad for the process is violent and hard to control and innocents will get affected too but it is what it is. There were many opportunities to avoid this. Russians even gave Ukros billions as late as 2012-13. First tranche of $4 billion was sent only months before the Maidan. But their hatred towards everything Russian was much stronger.

Nina Kukharchuk was born in the village of Wasylów, which was then part of the Russian Empire, but now in Poland.

Kukharchuk and Taras Franko, the son of Ivan Franko, then joined the Galician party bureau, created at the order of Vladimir Lenin to spread Communist ideas among the Ukrainian Galician Army. In June 1920 she was appointed as an agitator to the Polish front and became the leader of the education department and of the women's department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine.

After Khrushchev became the Soviet leader in 1953, Kukharchuk acted as the First Lady of the Soviet Union, in a position that was non-existent with previous Soviet leaders. In contrast to her predecessors she accompanied Khrushchev in his foreign trips, took part in official events, and was de facto manager of Khrushchev's private life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Galician_Army
Who fougth for Germany in WW1.

The Ukrainian Galician Army fielded a Jewish battalion (Жидівський Курінь УГА) recruited from Jewish university and high school students in Ternopil and led by Lieutenant Solomon Leimberg [uk].[3] Formed in June, 1919, it attained a strength of 1,200 men and participated in combat against Polish forces in July 1919 and subsequently against the Bolsheviks.

"Per US generals--there is not a single US general who is capable to fight modern continental war, period. The US system of military education is a joke--it does not educate officer corps for a real war, it brainwashes them into Hollywoodesque "military history" of the "finest fighting force in history"

The lack of capabilities in pindo military is a very good thing, imagine these warpos being effective.

"They really believed and swallowed 404 military propaganda hook, line and sinker"

No, the ukronazis got their propaganda lines from israeloamerica, not the other way around. When zelinsky speaks, it is israeloamerica speaking. That's how the zio-west does their govno.

The biggest weapon in NATO's arsenal isn't a weapon in the traditional sense. It's the massive, self-reinforcing psychological paradigm it maintains. That is why we see such a massive focus on psychological operations, as well as why there are so many military operations whose stated purpose is to "demonstrate resolve."

https://www.rt.com/russia/607948-retaliation-assets-freeze-economy/

Be careful with that mom and pop investor thing. We are talking about European companies where the government or a quasigovernmental agency may own a material share.

Also the law around recovering seized private assets is completely different than around one government seizing another government's assets.

Source?

Yeah... I don't think this is accurate. The US shut down investment in Russia. They forced the liquidation of those accounts. If you didn't liquidate it...they liquidated it for you and kept the money... I left a small amount in my Russian energy etf just to see what happened to it... the etf was closed and now there is just an a tracking number with 0 dollars in it.

The article in full:

Russia reveals retaliation for Western seizure of its assets

"Russia will launch retaliatory measures which mirror the West’s expropriation of the country’s sovereign assets, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has said.

In an interview with Rossiya-1 TV on Wednesday, Siluanov said that Russia will use income from the frozen assets of Western investors. The measures will be taken in response to the implementation of unfriendly actions by Western countries, he added.

“We are doing exactly the same. If Western countries have decided to use our assets and income from our assets, the Russian side will also implement appropriate actions,” the finance minister stated.

“Therefore, we have also frozen the resources of Western investors, Western financial market participants and companies. The income from these assets will also be used,” Siluanov elaborated.

The US and its allies have frozen an estimated $300 billion in assets belonging to the Russian central bank since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022. The bulk of the funds, around €197 billion ($207 billion), are being held at the Brussels-based clearinghouse Euroclear.

Euroclear has estimated that these Russian assets generated €5.15 billion ($5.4 billion) in interest in the first three quarters of this fiscal year.

Last month, the US announced a decision to use the proceeds from Russia’s assets to finance a multibillion-dollar loan to Kiev. The G7 states in October finalized a massive $50 billion loan to Ukraine, which will be backed by profits accrued on Russian assets currently immobilized in the West.

Russia has repeatedly warned that seizing its sovereign funds would amount to “theft” and would violate international law and undermine the global financial system. The Kremlin said earlier that the government is going to launch legal prosecution of those involved in stealing its assets.

The International Monetary Fund has also repeatedly warned that any decisions regarding the seizure of frozen Russian assets should be backed with “sufficient legal support.”

Siluanov earlier warned that global players are closely following the story and are drawing their own conclusions.

While the finance minister did not elaborate on the amount of Western assets currently held in Russia, previous calculations by RIA Novosti put the figure at roughly equal the size of the Russian funds frozen abroad. The news agency reported that total foreign direct investments in the Russian economy by the EU, G7, Australia, and Switzerland amounted to $288 billion as of the end of 2022."

I don't see this mentioned in the article that you wrote in your previous comment:

"foreign assets Russia is freezing are money from private investors, many are small investors who put their savings and retirement plans in."

The assets Russia may freeze are not those of small investors, but those of western corporations. These have clout in the west, the "little guys" have zero influence and Russia will act accordingly. My take, anyway.

This is a positive development - going after the criminal bedrock of the current UKR state and Neo Nazi regime that rules it. I'm sure Zerolensky and his cronies all get a cut of any revenues generated by every criminal venture conducted on UKR soil so hit them where it hurts - in their wallets.

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From the article:
"Today, Ukraine has become a world leader in international telephone fraud. In 2021, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs estimated its scale at 100 thousand Ukrainian calls per day. And the annual damage from this criminal activity amounted to 70 billion rubles stolen from ordinary Russians. Sberbank alone recorded 4.5 million complaints per year.

The capital of telephone scammers in Ukraine is Dnepropetrovsk. Most of the rented premises in this city are used for call centers that rob Russians. The main owner of call centers in Dnepropetrovsk is considered to be the gang "Nines," which is led by the Georgian hereditary bandit Zurab Lekeshvili (nickname Zurik) and his accomplice Vitaly Proskurin (nickname Boxer). "Nines" in Dnepropetrovsk is the basic foundation for the formation of the Nazi battalions "Dnepr," "Kraken," and "Aidar" (all banned in the Russian Federation). The first call center in Dnepropetrovsk was organized by the oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, who also created "Nines" in its current form.

In 2023, Kolomoisky was imprisoned; by that time, the chairman of the Dnipropetrovsk regional state administration was SBU General Serhiy Lysak. Lysak is Budanov's right hand. Both Lysak and Budanov are personal creatures of the current MI6 director Richard Moore. He personally selected these bastards as part of the so-called "Zelensky call." Zelensky respects and likes Moore very much and regularly calls him for advice. One of the main tasks assigned to Lysak is to seize control over the "Nines" gang, as well as the gang of Mikhail Koshlyak, the president of the Ukrainian Judo Federation."

Also….:
"Ukraine under Zelensky has also become a world leader in the sale of human organs - the only country to allow the official removal of organs without the donor's consent. And again, there is a direct connection to the Zelensky family through the owner of a network of private clinics where they are served. Online casinos, fake crypto exchanges, arms trade, human trafficking, mass export of prostitutes - of all genders, including children, blockchain without state control, private prisons in the hands of Western intelligence agencies - whatever you want. Any abomination for your money.

And in all of these enterprises, without exception, the participation of Western intelligence services can be traced. All this is done with the sole purpose of making trouble for Russia, weakening it."

And the kicker at the end:
"All those who advocate for Ukraine's full incorporation into Russia must understand what kind of people we will then have to deal with inside our own country. Do we need this? Wouldn't it be better to gain a foothold on the border and burn the "trap-house" itself to hell? Leave one or two entrances to Sheremetyevo and filter it, thoroughly and properly - it will cost much less…"

Ukropia is a criminal state. Burn down the "trap-house!"
https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/ukropia-is-a-criminal-state-burn

Solzhenitsyn is a lying sack of shit. Basic math says his claims that Stalin murdered 60 million Russians are bullshit.

Population of Soviet Union in 1937 = 162 million
Population of Soviet Union in 1939 = 171 million.

So in 2 years Stalin killed 60 million, and then Soviet women had a total of 69 million babies? In two years???

Guys was a total fucking tosser. Worse: what does that say about the fucktards in the West that lapped up his schtick?

Even if he was a liar your math is messed up. Stalin didn't run the show for a mere two years.

Comrade STALIN was a Great Leader!
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Daily Diktat
And what was the Soviet Union population in 1954?

Mr. PeterPaul

The first time I heard the figure 60 million was in the book, "The Great Terror" by the late Robert Conquest, if memory serves.

My professor of Russian History just dismissed that number.

This same figure was quoted to me by a Refusnik. It was part of the global propaganda against USSR.

And so many Russians believed all those lies and got themelves trapped in the mental snares of the enemies of USSR.

It was astonishing to observe the Rus, and later the Yugoslavs and the Libyans and Syrians wrecking their own states to the clear benefit of NATO states.

I found the historical account in the recent book by Mr. Karl Schlögel more trustworthy; "Moscow, 1937", 1st Edition,
ISBN-13: 978-0745650760, ISBN-10: 0745650767

Thanks!

"Solzhenitsyn is a lying sack of shit."

Couldn't agree more.

I recommend you at least read "200 Years Together". English translations are very hard to find. Not published nor promoted in ziolandia, for obvious reasons.

Yes in Russia it’s commonplace for the Russian President (Dmitry Medvedev), and the Russian Vice President (Vladimir Putin), along with other state dignitaries, to attend the funeral of “a lying sack of shit.”
Of course Patriarch Alexy II of Russia, habitually granted special permission for “lying sacks of shit” to be buried at  Donskoy Monastery.
Russian soldiers in dress uniform commonly stand at attention by the open coffin of “a lying sack of shit.”
But that’s okay, because I’m sure a “Russian” who lives in the United States and hangs around with “former CIA agents” will, upon his death, be honored by the Russian government, the Russian Orthodox Church, and Russian dignitaries in the same the manner as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was honored.
LOL !

So, Russians are diplomatic and polite. That doesn't change the fact your hero was a lying sack of shit. But nice try at putting lipstick on a pig and promoting her as a beauty contestant.

:-D

So 60 million it is then, and Soviet women birthed 69 million babies in under two years. OK. Sure. Because Solzhenitsyn got lionized or something.

You do you. I will stick to math and science, thanks.

Damn it all to hell Mr. math and science.... Stalin was not at the helm for a mere two years. Jesus! You are dense.

But even then your math is failing you.Killing 60million people since 1926 would have already won the war for the Third Reich.It is not possible given the huge industrial development undertaken during Stalin's time.
People were required for these very jobs,killing 60 million people would have hampered all their industrialization.You can crap on facts all you want but they don't change the real historical processes.
Keep exhibiting your mathematical prowess by patronizing Solzhenitsyn.

That was done to consolidate and de-polarise their society. Also, the guy sort of repented when he returned to Russia. He denounced the West for what it really is - culture of hypocrisy.

He denounced the West as soon as he arrived there. He saw the decadence and lack of a moral center.

Could say the same regarding Mr Glasnost Gorbachev. And if you want to talk about cynical take a look at Kennedy's funeral, right out of the Godfather.

Even the IA from Google says that it was BS made in the west. Lol

In the west they only crap on Solzhenitsyn because he mentions Jews being behind Bolshevism.

Belarusian state TV reported on an opposition and Western plan to attack four territories in the southwest of the country. Armed groups from Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine were to be involved.

According to the report, the plan envisions nationalist militias attacking Belarus first, followed by the involvement of mercenaries and NATO forces. Polish intelligence services are reportedly assisting in training militants for the attack.

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/130651

Belarusian State Media:

"West plans to attack 4 territories in the southwest of Belarus.
They will invade the country with armed groups from Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine.
NATO forces and "mercenaries" will show up too".

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/130658

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