Putin'd better follow Khamenei's advice rather than keeping negotiating with Trump, if Donald cannot tame or suppress those rabid dogs in Kiev:
"Negotiating with the United States is neither wise, nor intelligent, nor honourable. The reason? Experience!
We must understand this correctly: We should not be led to believe that sitting at the negotiating table with that government will resolve certain issues. No, negotiating with the U.S. will not solve any problems."
Putin us not negotiating with Trump. He is humoring him to hopefully set up diplomatic relations with the US to help avert nuclear war while the US declines and otherwise wars with Russia (and the whole world excepting "Israel" it seems)
Great post, both well-written and completely truthful. Yes, Trump's decided to let the Ukraine grift flow a while longer, and he was always a shithead when it came to Israel.
Excellent post. Hard truth is always tough to take, but to live in reality, it must be taken.
As with the Biden/ Kamala, Obama, Clintons & those before them, the MAGA crowd are enthralled, mesmerized with ZioDon. One cannot criticize their ‘greatest Chess player’ or one is accused of being a Biden/ Kamala supporter, a liberal, etc. As I said not too long ago, the current right is like the current left- radical in their opinions. Refusing to admit reality.
A great majority of Americans do not realize that Harris, Trump, & those before them; are ALL ‘Jim Jones’ leading them, as the gullible people they are, to voluntarily, destroy themselves. It’s a sorrowful thing to witness. Personally, I do not feel any schadenfreude at their pitiful gullibility for their du jour ‘savior’.
Putin is well aware that he shouldn't expect anything positive for Russia from the talks with the US, except to possibly avert a Nuclear war.
In a recent speech to the Russian business sector, Putin told them that among other things, sanctions were here to stay, giving Russian business leaders the information they needed to plot a course accordingly, to succeed and continue to grow the Russian economy, despite the sanctions.
While the US and Ukraine continue to dilly dally, and think about proposals, Russia will continue destroying the Ukraine and advancing across Ukrainian territory all along the +-1000 km front, and taking additional pieces of territory they originally never intended to take, in order to create buffer zones to protect various parts of Russia from future Ukrainian attack, such as the latest on Belgorod, which will result in the Ukraine losing even more territory.
The US and Ukraine are not dilly dallying, the US is purposefully trying to extend the war with the stated intent of continuing to extend Russia. The US doesn't care how much of Ukraine is taken by Russia.
Also we see how the threat of 'a Nuclear war' is used to force people into stuff. Nukes are lucrative political devices not actual devices.
Russia is the only country involved that is geared for total war, even their economy is structured and being planned for an even longer war than the Ukraine, Europe or US. So what is the actual objective here of the US, other than selling weapons to a debt ridden hole, that US taxpayers are paying for, which is also going to come to an end before Russia does???
Meanwhile Europe and the Ukraine have no fundamental plan either, which is simply going to destroy them, and once they are economically destroyed, they will not be markets for US exports, as they will not be able to afford the high prices of US goods.
"More and more people see Trump as the Captain who piled on steam despite the icebergs, when he didn’t have to (or so the legend goes)".
While the speed was a serious mistake, Captain Smith's worst blunder was ordering a change of course in a futile attempt to avoid the iceberg. Had the Titanic run head-on into it, the first one or maybe two watertight compartments would have crumpled - with loss of life - but the ship would have floated perfectly well.
By swerving at the last moment, Captain Smith ensured that the sharp edge of the iceberg sliced right along the side of his ship like a can-opener, holing as many as five compartments. That guaranteed that it would sink.
Correct. I rather oversimplified. As usual, Tom you are right on. Thinking about this again, I think we could say, that Trump, like Smith, is trying to maneuver As you point out, Smith did not actually change course, he swerved at the last moment. He wanted to keep the same basic course to arrive on schedule, There had been six iceberg warnings earlier -- but none reported to the Titanic that night, although other ships received them . The Titanic's lookouts did not have binoculars. Safety apparently was not a priority. Keeping schedule was, however. And, of course, the ship was unsinkable -- just like the US of A. Thank you as usual! I would love it if you did a guest article.
Thanks, Julian! The respect is very much mutual - I love your work. And I would of course be delighted to contribute a guest article at a time and on a subject that suit you.
Donnie is nothing but a hungry boy. He'll eat his pizza--and yours and the neighbors' next door if they let him. We've got to contain the greedy bastard and lock him up. The safety of the world depends upon it.
The part about the Titanic was so cute. The Titanic was sunk because the major opposition to the creation of The Federal Reserve was rushing back from Europe onboard to fight for America's future.
Please validate by calling this a 'conspiracy theory.'
>Remember the 30s? One of the few countries doing well at that time was the Soviet Union,<
???
There actually was a famine in the Soviet Union in the years 1930-1933, in which between 5.7 and 8.7 people died from starvation... (See: Wikipedia. Soviet famine of 1930–1933)
Thank you for bringing this up. Actually, this is mentioned in my upcoming Special Article, as an example of Western distortion of history.
Russia and the Ukraine had suffered period famines since time immemorial. The famine you referred to was severe, There is considerable controversy. The Wikipedia article offers the standard Western view which is biased,,
Fact?
"Due to natural and climatic conditions and low agricultural productivity, famine in pre-revolutionary Russia was a constant phenomenon with a cycle of 5 to 20 years. The level of agricultural culture was very low. Literally every 3-5 years there were crop failures due to natural causes: droughts with fires, torrential rains, storms, dry winds, late and snowless winters, early frosts, spring frosts, epidemics of agricultural diseases, invasions of insect pests, locusts, etc."
Collectivization? The Kulaks?
"In the 1990s and 2000s, liberal media characterized the kulaks as the best part of the peasantry. Yes, the kulaks were energetic, enterprising, better educated than the bulk of the peasants. But their social basis was exploitation, egoism, and greed. Predatory rural acquisitive, usurers, speculators, and exploiters of other peasants.
The kulaks hid the grain, often it simply disappeared, waiting for the moment when it could be sold at a higher price. By their example they infected other wealthy peasants, the middle peasants. Their share among the peasantry was small (5-7%), but the power of political, economic and psychological influence on fellow villagers was significant.
The authorities had introduced food taxation and requisitions even before the Bolsheviks and White Guards. The wave of problems grew with each passing year, including the breakdown of economic ties and the destruction of the transport system during the Civil War, and led to a new famine in 1921–1923."
Exaggeraton?
"640-650 thousand people died from hunger, and not 7-9 million and certainly not 25 million, as the independent media claim."
One reason Russia had to focus on industrialization-- which took off after 1933 and continued -- was threat from the West which had invaded Russia after WWII and remained hostile (until this day).
I am not an expert in this matter, and it is very well possible that this chapter of history has been spinned and falsified, like so many others. Only, even if we accept the Topwar figures for the early thirties, that is that "only" 640-650 thousand people died from hunger, you can hardly call that "doing well."
Lets gain some perspective on the picture you are attempting to paint before painting yourself into a corner.
Ninty years and two World Wars later and people are still dying of hunger in Gaza and other places either because of US action or the lack of it, the US is still provoking, fueling and participating in wars, not to mention the number of people who die annually in the US due to violence of various sorts, and drug overdoses.
Do you think that the US is doing well.
I think the Soviet Union appears to have been pretty well for the time period, although I despise Communism, US style Capitalism has been worse for the world.
Having sympathy for Putin's Russia doesn't imply, at least not in my view, that you must like Lenin's and Stalin's Russia as well. And criticizing the Soviet Union doesn't automatically mean that you idolize the USA... There are nuances, you see.
Putin'd better follow Khamenei's advice rather than keeping negotiating with Trump, if Donald cannot tame or suppress those rabid dogs in Kiev:
"Negotiating with the United States is neither wise, nor intelligent, nor honourable. The reason? Experience!
We must understand this correctly: We should not be led to believe that sitting at the negotiating table with that government will resolve certain issues. No, negotiating with the U.S. will not solve any problems."
https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/ansar-allah-keeps-targeting-israel
Putin us not negotiating with Trump. He is humoring him to hopefully set up diplomatic relations with the US to help avert nuclear war while the US declines and otherwise wars with Russia (and the whole world excepting "Israel" it seems)
Liar, check
Mass murderer, check
Trump checks the two essential requirements to be a US President. Being a bloviating blowhard is extra.
Great post, both well-written and completely truthful. Yes, Trump's decided to let the Ukraine grift flow a while longer, and he was always a shithead when it came to Israel.
Israel delenda est.
At this point, the US is more like a rusty, listing garbage scow than the Titanic.
Putin said once something to the effect of ‘regardless of who is president in USA nothing changes’.
For decades ALL the presidents have been ‘Jim Jones’, leading people, voluntarily, to drink the poison.
Excellent post. Hard truth is always tough to take, but to live in reality, it must be taken.
As with the Biden/ Kamala, Obama, Clintons & those before them, the MAGA crowd are enthralled, mesmerized with ZioDon. One cannot criticize their ‘greatest Chess player’ or one is accused of being a Biden/ Kamala supporter, a liberal, etc. As I said not too long ago, the current right is like the current left- radical in their opinions. Refusing to admit reality.
A great majority of Americans do not realize that Harris, Trump, & those before them; are ALL ‘Jim Jones’ leading them, as the gullible people they are, to voluntarily, destroy themselves. It’s a sorrowful thing to witness. Personally, I do not feel any schadenfreude at their pitiful gullibility for their du jour ‘savior’.
Putin is well aware that he shouldn't expect anything positive for Russia from the talks with the US, except to possibly avert a Nuclear war.
In a recent speech to the Russian business sector, Putin told them that among other things, sanctions were here to stay, giving Russian business leaders the information they needed to plot a course accordingly, to succeed and continue to grow the Russian economy, despite the sanctions.
While the US and Ukraine continue to dilly dally, and think about proposals, Russia will continue destroying the Ukraine and advancing across Ukrainian territory all along the +-1000 km front, and taking additional pieces of territory they originally never intended to take, in order to create buffer zones to protect various parts of Russia from future Ukrainian attack, such as the latest on Belgorod, which will result in the Ukraine losing even more territory.
The US and Ukraine are not dilly dallying, the US is purposefully trying to extend the war with the stated intent of continuing to extend Russia. The US doesn't care how much of Ukraine is taken by Russia.
Also we see how the threat of 'a Nuclear war' is used to force people into stuff. Nukes are lucrative political devices not actual devices.
Trying to extend Russia???
Russia is the only country involved that is geared for total war, even their economy is structured and being planned for an even longer war than the Ukraine, Europe or US. So what is the actual objective here of the US, other than selling weapons to a debt ridden hole, that US taxpayers are paying for, which is also going to come to an end before Russia does???
Meanwhile Europe and the Ukraine have no fundamental plan either, which is simply going to destroy them, and once they are economically destroyed, they will not be markets for US exports, as they will not be able to afford the high prices of US goods.
But but but I thought it was just smoke and misdirection!?!?
"More and more people see Trump as the Captain who piled on steam despite the icebergs, when he didn’t have to (or so the legend goes)".
While the speed was a serious mistake, Captain Smith's worst blunder was ordering a change of course in a futile attempt to avoid the iceberg. Had the Titanic run head-on into it, the first one or maybe two watertight compartments would have crumpled - with loss of life - but the ship would have floated perfectly well.
By swerving at the last moment, Captain Smith ensured that the sharp edge of the iceberg sliced right along the side of his ship like a can-opener, holing as many as five compartments. That guaranteed that it would sink.
Correct. I rather oversimplified. As usual, Tom you are right on. Thinking about this again, I think we could say, that Trump, like Smith, is trying to maneuver As you point out, Smith did not actually change course, he swerved at the last moment. He wanted to keep the same basic course to arrive on schedule, There had been six iceberg warnings earlier -- but none reported to the Titanic that night, although other ships received them . The Titanic's lookouts did not have binoculars. Safety apparently was not a priority. Keeping schedule was, however. And, of course, the ship was unsinkable -- just like the US of A. Thank you as usual! I would love it if you did a guest article.
Thanks, Julian! The respect is very much mutual - I love your work. And I would of course be delighted to contribute a guest article at a time and on a subject that suit you.
For “peace” he wants a piece – a big one.
Donnie is nothing but a hungry boy. He'll eat his pizza--and yours and the neighbors' next door if they let him. We've got to contain the greedy bastard and lock him up. The safety of the world depends upon it.
Certainly hide your pizza, he's fat enough.
LOL Julian
The part about the Titanic was so cute. The Titanic was sunk because the major opposition to the creation of The Federal Reserve was rushing back from Europe onboard to fight for America's future.
Please validate by calling this a 'conspiracy theory.'
>Remember the 30s? One of the few countries doing well at that time was the Soviet Union,<
???
There actually was a famine in the Soviet Union in the years 1930-1933, in which between 5.7 and 8.7 people died from starvation... (See: Wikipedia. Soviet famine of 1930–1933)
Thank you for bringing this up. Actually, this is mentioned in my upcoming Special Article, as an example of Western distortion of history.
Russia and the Ukraine had suffered period famines since time immemorial. The famine you referred to was severe, There is considerable controversy. The Wikipedia article offers the standard Western view which is biased,,
Fact?
"Due to natural and climatic conditions and low agricultural productivity, famine in pre-revolutionary Russia was a constant phenomenon with a cycle of 5 to 20 years. The level of agricultural culture was very low. Literally every 3-5 years there were crop failures due to natural causes: droughts with fires, torrential rains, storms, dry winds, late and snowless winters, early frosts, spring frosts, epidemics of agricultural diseases, invasions of insect pests, locusts, etc."
Collectivization? The Kulaks?
"In the 1990s and 2000s, liberal media characterized the kulaks as the best part of the peasantry. Yes, the kulaks were energetic, enterprising, better educated than the bulk of the peasants. But their social basis was exploitation, egoism, and greed. Predatory rural acquisitive, usurers, speculators, and exploiters of other peasants.
The kulaks hid the grain, often it simply disappeared, waiting for the moment when it could be sold at a higher price. By their example they infected other wealthy peasants, the middle peasants. Their share among the peasantry was small (5-7%), but the power of political, economic and psychological influence on fellow villagers was significant.
The authorities had introduced food taxation and requisitions even before the Bolsheviks and White Guards. The wave of problems grew with each passing year, including the breakdown of economic ties and the destruction of the transport system during the Civil War, and led to a new famine in 1921–1923."
Exaggeraton?
"640-650 thousand people died from hunger, and not 7-9 million and certainly not 25 million, as the independent media claim."
Now these quotes are from a present day Russian site : https://en.topwar.ru/253627-ukrainskij-mif-o-golodomore.html. It uses figures and facts from Soviet archives, which were not open to the public until recently.
One reason Russia had to focus on industrialization-- which took off after 1933 and continued -- was threat from the West which had invaded Russia after WWII and remained hostile (until this day).
I am not an expert in this matter, and it is very well possible that this chapter of history has been spinned and falsified, like so many others. Only, even if we accept the Topwar figures for the early thirties, that is that "only" 640-650 thousand people died from hunger, you can hardly call that "doing well."
Lets gain some perspective on the picture you are attempting to paint before painting yourself into a corner.
Ninty years and two World Wars later and people are still dying of hunger in Gaza and other places either because of US action or the lack of it, the US is still provoking, fueling and participating in wars, not to mention the number of people who die annually in the US due to violence of various sorts, and drug overdoses.
Do you think that the US is doing well.
I think the Soviet Union appears to have been pretty well for the time period, although I despise Communism, US style Capitalism has been worse for the world.
Having sympathy for Putin's Russia doesn't imply, at least not in my view, that you must like Lenin's and Stalin's Russia as well. And criticizing the Soviet Union doesn't automatically mean that you idolize the USA... There are nuances, you see.
Repeat that in comprehensible English so that it doesn't sound like twisted Bullshit to get yourself out of the corner you painted yourself into!!!
Furthermore, address the current situation in the US that I referred to.