Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ While everyone's focused on the latest mass shooting in the US, The Washington Post published what may be the first major acknowledgement from the mainstream western media that Ukraine's war against Russia has not been nearly the cakewalk they've been leading the public to believe.
This time last year, we were told Kabul was secure and the Taliban was not making gains. If you follow Intel Slava Z or ASB Military News on Telegram, it's obvious the Russians are making steady advances. Surprised YouTube hasn't banned Patrick Lancaster and Graham Phillips.
While I would like to think that the WaPo is leading the effort to bring honesty to the USA proxy war in Ukraine to bring it to a negotiated peace, I fear the opposite is true. I fear that this message will lead to cries for greater USA involvement, including professional USA "good guy" troops to reinforce the poor volunteer Ukrainian forces in order to defeat the "bad guys" and further the USA aims of unipolar hegemony. Wasn't this how Vietnam started?
"Westerners would be a lot less cavalier about demanding a foreign population keep fighting until total victory if they truly understood ..." war at all. Even a military hawk that doesn't mind spending lives in battle knows UA can't fight RF and win. You didn't need any concern for "the horrors of war" to have been realistic about the likely success of RF in its stated goals at the onset of fighting. "The West" (i.e. US led NATO) over played its had in both the military war and economic war. That was rank incompetence and opportunistic political adventurism. I despise that. Fcuk'em.
Scott Ritter complained several weeks ago that weaponry we've been sending to UA ranges from difficult to use down to very unreliable (e.g. expired explosives and propellants). He also explained that in field artillery battle an unsuccessful shot is often catastrophic because RF forces will be likely be able to accurately counter-strike using your shot for targeting. The UA fighters quoted in WaPo corroborate this.
Ritter also complained that our military experts know this and therefore they and their political leaders are engaging in deliberate slaughter of UA fighters by so equipping them and encouraging them to shoot.
Curtis Yarvin writer of the “gray mirror” substack is , I think, our new Noam Chomsky, our generation”s decoder.
As for “the most sophisticated propaganda apparatus ever seen”, yes, but please don’t give the people in the west to much credit. Ours is a performative concern for Ukrainians and Russians, we’ve become used to foreigners dying on our tv’s, so the cartoon of good guy Ukrainians versus bad guy Russians suits us perfectly. We don’t actually want to know, we are exhausted, it’s just another war, like another mass shooting of children, please lie to me , please tell me a nice story, good versus evil and then tell me we are on the side of good.
Now that I’ve gotten that unpleasantness over with, I can get back to my latte.
Power, the dingbats on the left, our over class, forbid the discussion of power, it is Gauche, it is their great lie, they tell us that we have moved on from that history. But we haven’t and America will descend into kinetic dispute and then the reality of power will flood back in. Liberals are going to get us all killed. Actually I’m 58, I probably won’t see it, but your children or grandchildren may one day face what Ukrainians are facing because of liberals.
Preparring the ground for an about face. Even Guardian, the UK version, warhawks to the end, are pushing Ukraine into the background. Most important mission is to save face for the Blob/Permanent State, and if delaying negotiations to allow it to fade away kills more Ukrainians and Russians, well just think of them as poor Americans who died from Covid. Must end excess population, says Klaus.
It should be obvious to anyone--most importantly the Ukrainians--that the US empire and not the Ukrainians are running this war.
Making this case is the constant stream of statements out of the US administration and from their Congresscritter lackeys dictating the terms for ending the war: the fall of Putin and utter defeat of the Russian military. The Ukrainians are precluded from themselves negotiating any end to "their" war!
As long as they die AFTER the private jets all leave the World Economic Forum Climate Change jamboree & everybody gets their little taste of green-washed ways to save Biden, Kerry, Mitt, Nancy, Rice & Hills' collapsed bridge-fuel FRACKING Ponzi scheme... so we can admit, Russian gas & oil (some from Iraqi fields & refineries we murdered innocent locals for) has been flowing west as Ukranians were sacrificed (frequently, non Aryans murdered by Nazi terrorists we've installed and armed, as our workers are FED, maskless & largely uninsured to a virus, rich folks vectored & infected us with). No truth is reported, since any facts contradicting our brainwashed boss, landlord, creditors or clergy/ media are just OBVIOUSLY insane treason and must be silenced, as retired yuppies, sneering Creative Class morons are busy mouthbreathing virons on unmasked servers, screaming for more caviar on their avacado toast, before retreating upstate to infect the locals.
WashPo gaining a sense of morality and wanting to practice actual journalism and not write puff pieces for the oligarchy? Hmm... maybe. For some reason, I think there is something behind their sudden "honesty" about how badly things are going for Zelensky's troops. Perhaps we'll see some change in leadership there. After all, we helped them change leadership in 2014, didn't we?
One of the ancient conditions defining a "just" war - to the extent any war can be just, is the reasonable likelihood of success: where there is no such likelihood, the conflict is simply a slaughter, not a war, no matter how it is termed. Other conditions involve a cost/benefit equation. The slaughter in Ukraine is a prime example, and those who encouraged false perceptions and false hope are responsible. Russia could have totally flattened the country in a week, but that was emphatically never the objective: they wanted to prevent total war and the malign Western stated, and actions-supported objective to split up and destroy Russia. Law, history, morality, and the outcome are all on their side.
Weird how we never see anything talking about all those foreign fighters in the international Brigade. You'd think some of the Americans who went there would be sending out social media posts to tell us how they are taking down whole regiments.....
So, apparently, WAPO thinks Henry Kissinger is a prophet too? The chief war mongering goblin mutters something at the WEF and thereby pulls the plug on the Ukrainian bloodletting? I'll believe it when I see it. I assume the cash-grab will continue unabated.
This war is just the US empire attempting to leverage this situation to put the screws on their adversary Putin.
1. Caitlin, in this article, reinforces what has been obvious all along (but what remains ignored by too many): that the US empire will fight Russia to the last western Ukrainian.
2. Should the western Ukrainians somehow prevail and push out the Russians, I fear massive oppression of--and maybe even genocide against--ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine. Is the US empire even considering this possibility, much less making preparations to prevent it?
This time last year, we were told Kabul was secure and the Taliban was not making gains. If you follow Intel Slava Z or ASB Military News on Telegram, it's obvious the Russians are making steady advances. Surprised YouTube hasn't banned Patrick Lancaster and Graham Phillips.
While I would like to think that the WaPo is leading the effort to bring honesty to the USA proxy war in Ukraine to bring it to a negotiated peace, I fear the opposite is true. I fear that this message will lead to cries for greater USA involvement, including professional USA "good guy" troops to reinforce the poor volunteer Ukrainian forces in order to defeat the "bad guys" and further the USA aims of unipolar hegemony. Wasn't this how Vietnam started?
"Westerners would be a lot less cavalier about demanding a foreign population keep fighting until total victory if they truly understood ..." war at all. Even a military hawk that doesn't mind spending lives in battle knows UA can't fight RF and win. You didn't need any concern for "the horrors of war" to have been realistic about the likely success of RF in its stated goals at the onset of fighting. "The West" (i.e. US led NATO) over played its had in both the military war and economic war. That was rank incompetence and opportunistic political adventurism. I despise that. Fcuk'em.
Scott Ritter complained several weeks ago that weaponry we've been sending to UA ranges from difficult to use down to very unreliable (e.g. expired explosives and propellants). He also explained that in field artillery battle an unsuccessful shot is often catastrophic because RF forces will be likely be able to accurately counter-strike using your shot for targeting. The UA fighters quoted in WaPo corroborate this.
Ritter also complained that our military experts know this and therefore they and their political leaders are engaging in deliberate slaughter of UA fighters by so equipping them and encouraging them to shoot.
Caitlin is a Chomskite, and a damn good one.
Curtis Yarvin writer of the “gray mirror” substack is , I think, our new Noam Chomsky, our generation”s decoder.
As for “the most sophisticated propaganda apparatus ever seen”, yes, but please don’t give the people in the west to much credit. Ours is a performative concern for Ukrainians and Russians, we’ve become used to foreigners dying on our tv’s, so the cartoon of good guy Ukrainians versus bad guy Russians suits us perfectly. We don’t actually want to know, we are exhausted, it’s just another war, like another mass shooting of children, please lie to me , please tell me a nice story, good versus evil and then tell me we are on the side of good.
Now that I’ve gotten that unpleasantness over with, I can get back to my latte.
Power, the dingbats on the left, our over class, forbid the discussion of power, it is Gauche, it is their great lie, they tell us that we have moved on from that history. But we haven’t and America will descend into kinetic dispute and then the reality of power will flood back in. Liberals are going to get us all killed. Actually I’m 58, I probably won’t see it, but your children or grandchildren may one day face what Ukrainians are facing because of liberals.
Preparring the ground for an about face. Even Guardian, the UK version, warhawks to the end, are pushing Ukraine into the background. Most important mission is to save face for the Blob/Permanent State, and if delaying negotiations to allow it to fade away kills more Ukrainians and Russians, well just think of them as poor Americans who died from Covid. Must end excess population, says Klaus.
It should be obvious to anyone--most importantly the Ukrainians--that the US empire and not the Ukrainians are running this war.
Making this case is the constant stream of statements out of the US administration and from their Congresscritter lackeys dictating the terms for ending the war: the fall of Putin and utter defeat of the Russian military. The Ukrainians are precluded from themselves negotiating any end to "their" war!
I think even more telling is that we're finally getting some truth of how badly things are going....just AFTER the $40+ billion went out the door.
The WaPo article is "foaming the runway" for the expected massive defeat to come in Lysychansk in the near future.
KEEP ON FIGHTING CAITLIN!!!
As long as they die AFTER the private jets all leave the World Economic Forum Climate Change jamboree & everybody gets their little taste of green-washed ways to save Biden, Kerry, Mitt, Nancy, Rice & Hills' collapsed bridge-fuel FRACKING Ponzi scheme... so we can admit, Russian gas & oil (some from Iraqi fields & refineries we murdered innocent locals for) has been flowing west as Ukranians were sacrificed (frequently, non Aryans murdered by Nazi terrorists we've installed and armed, as our workers are FED, maskless & largely uninsured to a virus, rich folks vectored & infected us with). No truth is reported, since any facts contradicting our brainwashed boss, landlord, creditors or clergy/ media are just OBVIOUSLY insane treason and must be silenced, as retired yuppies, sneering Creative Class morons are busy mouthbreathing virons on unmasked servers, screaming for more caviar on their avacado toast, before retreating upstate to infect the locals.
WashPo gaining a sense of morality and wanting to practice actual journalism and not write puff pieces for the oligarchy? Hmm... maybe. For some reason, I think there is something behind their sudden "honesty" about how badly things are going for Zelensky's troops. Perhaps we'll see some change in leadership there. After all, we helped them change leadership in 2014, didn't we?
One of the ancient conditions defining a "just" war - to the extent any war can be just, is the reasonable likelihood of success: where there is no such likelihood, the conflict is simply a slaughter, not a war, no matter how it is termed. Other conditions involve a cost/benefit equation. The slaughter in Ukraine is a prime example, and those who encouraged false perceptions and false hope are responsible. Russia could have totally flattened the country in a week, but that was emphatically never the objective: they wanted to prevent total war and the malign Western stated, and actions-supported objective to split up and destroy Russia. Law, history, morality, and the outcome are all on their side.
If this war is over by end of August, Biden will be CIC of his second proxy war defeat in a year.
Weird how we never see anything talking about all those foreign fighters in the international Brigade. You'd think some of the Americans who went there would be sending out social media posts to tell us how they are taking down whole regiments.....
So, apparently, WAPO thinks Henry Kissinger is a prophet too? The chief war mongering goblin mutters something at the WEF and thereby pulls the plug on the Ukrainian bloodletting? I'll believe it when I see it. I assume the cash-grab will continue unabated.
This war is just the US empire attempting to leverage this situation to put the screws on their adversary Putin.
1. Caitlin, in this article, reinforces what has been obvious all along (but what remains ignored by too many): that the US empire will fight Russia to the last western Ukrainian.
2. Should the western Ukrainians somehow prevail and push out the Russians, I fear massive oppression of--and maybe even genocide against--ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine. Is the US empire even considering this possibility, much less making preparations to prevent it?