Good Morning and Thank You CDR Salamander! Yesterday, Saturday about 4:00 PM, 23 August, Mr Eric C. gave an excellent summary of your close-knit group of followers!
We were inside NEX Commissary, Annapolis, MD. Eric checks for Military ID’s at the door. I’ve known Eric C. about 2-3 years!
David, the Produce Manager was all ears and said he wanted to subscribe! Eric C. gets the credit!
Just published in TASS, the “Cease Fire” in the Special Military Operation is being thwarted by Military Weapons on their way to Kiev. Diplomacy is a long process. Earlier this morning in TASS, India and Russia trade Oil in their own currencies, sanctions on India for continuing to buy Russian Oil are “Mute”. Italy is proceeding with it charges against the person alleged to be responsible for sabotaging the Nordic Pipeline lines. President Donald J. Trump has said President Vladimir Zelensky must cede land to Russia. Only when the land agreements are written, approved and signed by both President Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky, can negotiations continue to a long term peaceful solution in Eastern Europe.
I’ve watched USSR morph into the Russian Federation beginning in 1983…
I followed this intensely while KGB was monitoring Check Point Charlie.
A Polish Scientist was living with me in St. Louis Central West End, about 1989.
Her husband and sons held in Poland assuring she wouldn’t “Defect” to the West.
I had my Designer pumps on my feet atop the Camel and Horse in Petra Jordan, 2005.
My boots were on the ground in Jordan, twice to Vet the Iraqi Wisssm Al-Muzhir.
I believe I understand “Living Dangerously”.
Yesterday, 23 August 25 AAPD Officer Hill asked, “Jane, what can I help you with! Show me! An Incident Police Report Number was given to me. Let all Midrats know NAVY trumps Army in Defense Intelligence work, here at my home, Forevermore by the Bay, Deale, MD 20751 or wherever I happen to set my boots down! Semper Fei Marines, I’ve got your back! Welcome Dr Dmitry…into our Naval World … Chart Room. Nurse Jane
Serious negotiations are impossible with a party - Putin - who will destroy his country to take Ukraine. His economy is based on the extraction of natural resources, especially fossil fuels, and his fossil fuels plays in Siberia are in terminal depletion, those fields have gone to hydrofracturing, to get out the last drop/cubic foot of recoverable resource, and when that's done, Russia is done. His only other options are in the Far East - which is under threat from the Chinese, who already have a million nationals on the ground there - they've redrawn their maps to undo the 1860 treaty which made Outer Manchuria a part of Russia; and Ukraine. China invaded the Far East, crossing the Amur and Ussuri rivers in 1969, it took the Russian Army of that time six months to throw the PLA out. The Chinese have been watching the actions of the Russian Army in Ukraine like a cat watches a mouse, they may perhaps figure that they can take the Far East and keep it this time. And Putin knows this, and quite well, and some of his elites have figured this out as well - including Dugin, whose Moscow-Tokyo Axis just hasn't come about.
That leaves Ukraine, not only with its rich deposits of rare earth metals, including lithium - the second largest in Europe - but with extensive fossil fuel formations, both on- and offshore, the latter in the northern Black Sea, south of Odessa and Crimea. Add to that two warm water ports at Sevastopol and Feodosia, and potentially one at Taganrog at the north end of the Sea of Azov, and you have the ideal situation to recapitalize Russia - but only if Ukraine is disarmed and neutered, with a puppet government in Kiev. Drones have demonstrably disastrous effects on refineries, storage facilities, and loading points, thus the possibility of drone strikes must be eliminated.
Putin needs Ukraine and its resources - and land - but not its people. If he succeeds, there will be a second Holodomor, worse than the one in the early 1930s. Any "peace" will be little more than an operational pause; for peace to exist, Russia's military threat and its capability to project force must be eliminated - or else there will be continual war until Russia is driven into bankruptcy and a 1990s style dissolution, or until it is defeated militarily. Negotiations will be little more than a strategic play for time.
There is a lot of propaganda here. Trump as no leverage and little negotiating power as the US is seen as the MAJOR patron of this unnecessary slaughter starting in 2014. Russia is the wronged party here and Europe is going to find it rough sailing after the Neonazis who run Ukraine capitulate. Hard to imagine America supporting the Nazi's again...surreal...
Putin has had his eye on Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova since at least 2004, if not longer. He's followed Dugin's prescriptions (set out in his 1997 book, Foundations of Geopolitics) pretty closely: "As for the former union republics of the USSR situated within Europe, they all, in Dugin's view, (with the exception of Estonia) should be absorbed by Eurasia-Russia. "Belorussia," Dugin asserts flatly, "should be seen as a part of Russia" (377). In similar fashion, Moldova is seen as a part of what Dugin calls "the Russian South" (343).
On the key question of Ukraine, Dugin underlines: "Ukraine as a state has no geopolitical meaning. It has no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness" (377). "Ukraine as an independent state with certain territorial ambitions," he warns, "represents an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics" (348). And he adds that, "[T]he independent existence of Ukraine (especially within its present borders) can make sense only as a 'sanitary cordon'" (379). However, as we have seen, for Dugin all such "sanitary cordons" are inadmissible.
Dugin speculates that three extreme western regions of Ukraine--Volynia, Galicia, and Trans- Carpathia--heavily populated with Uniates and other Catholics, could be permitted to form an independent "Western Ukrainian Federation." But this area must not under any circumstances be permitted to fall under Atlanticist control (382). With the exception of these three western regions, Ukraine, like Belorussia, is seen as an integral part of Eurasia-Russia." https://tec.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/aleksandr-dugins-foundations-geopolitics
And calling the Ukrainians "Neo-Nazis" is a bit rich, since Russia has its elite RuSich brigade - which boasts a Sonnenrad on its shoulder patch - too - and Pamyat is still yet another Neo-Nazi party in Russia.
As for Ukraine capitulating, I wouldn't bet on it, not after the massacres of men, women, and children in Bucha, Irpin, Mariupol, and so many other places occupied by the Russians. The amazing thing is how many American conservatives have been fooled into throwing in with a Stalinist Communist "ex"-KGB officer...
Could you rephrase your reply so that it's in comprehensible English? This language - "The problem you seem to have is that you assume Dugin does that Rand Corp does here. Dugin can "speculate" but the cold REALITY of Russian views are made crystal clear in the draft treaty they presented to Washington in 2022. NATO was warned that is their Ukrainian Proxy attacked Donbass Russian would have to respond per a UN Responsibility to Protect ..." does not parse.
And no wonder - you cite Andrei Martyanov, who started writing for the Strategic Culture Foundation (https://strategic-culture.su/ - note the ".su" domain...), a group of distinguished researchers, intel types, and writers out of Moscow. Unfortunately, Andrei is no longer on the masthead, there, although Pepe Escobar still is, perhaps Unz pays more. Their English is quite reminiscent of yours, actually, they all needed just a little bit more practice. lol. I bet you read Unz Review and actually believe it, right?
It doesn't "parse" because you don't like the reality we face in Ukraine with our NATO proxy.
Ukraine WILL capitulate to Russia, that's just a mathematical and logistical reality. There WILL be new leadership because Mr. Z is not elected and someone legitimate has to sign the surrender paperwork in Kiev.
Trump is starting to grasp a little the gravity of it all but our ignoramus grade DOD and Congressional leadership has not.
It's all very simple...nothing to "parse" here...sigh
You got the date wrong. The war started in 2014 when Russia invaded Crimea, which was and is a part of Ukraine. That the invasion began with "little green men" moving into another country in order to alter politics in favor of Russia. The President of US considers similar activity on the part of latin-americas immigration to be an "invasion" (it is not), but he would give Crimea to Russia in the spirit of "anything for peace." (it should not be)
That did not work in advance of WWII and we should not be fooled by it now. What is needed is "tit for tat", shown to be the most successful strategy for settling disputes. If Russia sends a missile to Ukraine, one should be sent back to Russia. Putin's mercenaries are murderers and he is a war criminal. The Russian people need to feel the pain and maybe they will bring about the peace by putting pressure on the author of this Russian novel.
Good Morning and Thank You CDR Salamander! Yesterday, Saturday about 4:00 PM, 23 August, Mr Eric C. gave an excellent summary of your close-knit group of followers!
We were inside NEX Commissary, Annapolis, MD. Eric checks for Military ID’s at the door. I’ve known Eric C. about 2-3 years!
David, the Produce Manager was all ears and said he wanted to subscribe! Eric C. gets the credit!
Just published in TASS, the “Cease Fire” in the Special Military Operation is being thwarted by Military Weapons on their way to Kiev. Diplomacy is a long process. Earlier this morning in TASS, India and Russia trade Oil in their own currencies, sanctions on India for continuing to buy Russian Oil are “Mute”. Italy is proceeding with it charges against the person alleged to be responsible for sabotaging the Nordic Pipeline lines. President Donald J. Trump has said President Vladimir Zelensky must cede land to Russia. Only when the land agreements are written, approved and signed by both President Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky, can negotiations continue to a long term peaceful solution in Eastern Europe.
I’ve watched USSR morph into the Russian Federation beginning in 1983…
I followed this intensely while KGB was monitoring Check Point Charlie.
A Polish Scientist was living with me in St. Louis Central West End, about 1989.
Her husband and sons held in Poland assuring she wouldn’t “Defect” to the West.
I had my Designer pumps on my feet atop the Camel and Horse in Petra Jordan, 2005.
My boots were on the ground in Jordan, twice to Vet the Iraqi Wisssm Al-Muzhir.
I believe I understand “Living Dangerously”.
Yesterday, 23 August 25 AAPD Officer Hill asked, “Jane, what can I help you with! Show me! An Incident Police Report Number was given to me. Let all Midrats know NAVY trumps Army in Defense Intelligence work, here at my home, Forevermore by the Bay, Deale, MD 20751 or wherever I happen to set my boots down! Semper Fei Marines, I’ve got your back! Welcome Dr Dmitry…into our Naval World … Chart Room. Nurse Jane
Serious negotiations are impossible with a party - Putin - who will destroy his country to take Ukraine. His economy is based on the extraction of natural resources, especially fossil fuels, and his fossil fuels plays in Siberia are in terminal depletion, those fields have gone to hydrofracturing, to get out the last drop/cubic foot of recoverable resource, and when that's done, Russia is done. His only other options are in the Far East - which is under threat from the Chinese, who already have a million nationals on the ground there - they've redrawn their maps to undo the 1860 treaty which made Outer Manchuria a part of Russia; and Ukraine. China invaded the Far East, crossing the Amur and Ussuri rivers in 1969, it took the Russian Army of that time six months to throw the PLA out. The Chinese have been watching the actions of the Russian Army in Ukraine like a cat watches a mouse, they may perhaps figure that they can take the Far East and keep it this time. And Putin knows this, and quite well, and some of his elites have figured this out as well - including Dugin, whose Moscow-Tokyo Axis just hasn't come about.
That leaves Ukraine, not only with its rich deposits of rare earth metals, including lithium - the second largest in Europe - but with extensive fossil fuel formations, both on- and offshore, the latter in the northern Black Sea, south of Odessa and Crimea. Add to that two warm water ports at Sevastopol and Feodosia, and potentially one at Taganrog at the north end of the Sea of Azov, and you have the ideal situation to recapitalize Russia - but only if Ukraine is disarmed and neutered, with a puppet government in Kiev. Drones have demonstrably disastrous effects on refineries, storage facilities, and loading points, thus the possibility of drone strikes must be eliminated.
Putin needs Ukraine and its resources - and land - but not its people. If he succeeds, there will be a second Holodomor, worse than the one in the early 1930s. Any "peace" will be little more than an operational pause; for peace to exist, Russia's military threat and its capability to project force must be eliminated - or else there will be continual war until Russia is driven into bankruptcy and a 1990s style dissolution, or until it is defeated militarily. Negotiations will be little more than a strategic play for time.
There is a lot of propaganda here. Trump as no leverage and little negotiating power as the US is seen as the MAJOR patron of this unnecessary slaughter starting in 2014. Russia is the wronged party here and Europe is going to find it rough sailing after the Neonazis who run Ukraine capitulate. Hard to imagine America supporting the Nazi's again...surreal...
Putin has had his eye on Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova since at least 2004, if not longer. He's followed Dugin's prescriptions (set out in his 1997 book, Foundations of Geopolitics) pretty closely: "As for the former union republics of the USSR situated within Europe, they all, in Dugin's view, (with the exception of Estonia) should be absorbed by Eurasia-Russia. "Belorussia," Dugin asserts flatly, "should be seen as a part of Russia" (377). In similar fashion, Moldova is seen as a part of what Dugin calls "the Russian South" (343).
On the key question of Ukraine, Dugin underlines: "Ukraine as a state has no geopolitical meaning. It has no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness" (377). "Ukraine as an independent state with certain territorial ambitions," he warns, "represents an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics" (348). And he adds that, "[T]he independent existence of Ukraine (especially within its present borders) can make sense only as a 'sanitary cordon'" (379). However, as we have seen, for Dugin all such "sanitary cordons" are inadmissible.
Dugin speculates that three extreme western regions of Ukraine--Volynia, Galicia, and Trans- Carpathia--heavily populated with Uniates and other Catholics, could be permitted to form an independent "Western Ukrainian Federation." But this area must not under any circumstances be permitted to fall under Atlanticist control (382). With the exception of these three western regions, Ukraine, like Belorussia, is seen as an integral part of Eurasia-Russia." https://tec.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/aleksandr-dugins-foundations-geopolitics
And calling the Ukrainians "Neo-Nazis" is a bit rich, since Russia has its elite RuSich brigade - which boasts a Sonnenrad on its shoulder patch - too - and Pamyat is still yet another Neo-Nazi party in Russia.
As for Ukraine capitulating, I wouldn't bet on it, not after the massacres of men, women, and children in Bucha, Irpin, Mariupol, and so many other places occupied by the Russians. The amazing thing is how many American conservatives have been fooled into throwing in with a Stalinist Communist "ex"-KGB officer...
Where to start...where to start...
The problem you seem to have is that you assume Dugin does that Rand Corp does here. Dugin can "speculate" but the cold REALITY of Russian views are
made crystal clear in the draft treaty they presented to Washington in 2022.
NATO was warned that is their Ukrainian Proxy attacked Donbass Russian would
have to respond per a UN Responsibility to Protect.
The Ukrainian Gov has been propped up and run by Neo-Nazi's since 2014.
There is so much visual documentation alone in the media that its just a
known reality. The offices of the top commanders of the Ukrainian Army
are filled with Nazi memorabilia. The Azov brigade proudly shows off SS
insignia.
"...not after the massacres of men, women, and children in Bucha, Irpin, Mariupol, and so many other places occupied by the Russians." Considering
that the Ukrainian Army is DOCUMENTED to have openly fired on and killed civilians trying to flee these locations its hard to imagine how you can spin
this otherwise. It was Russia in fact that exercised amazing restrain in taking
Ukrainian prisoners ...
More reality, less watching CNN and FOX news...
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
Could you rephrase your reply so that it's in comprehensible English? This language - "The problem you seem to have is that you assume Dugin does that Rand Corp does here. Dugin can "speculate" but the cold REALITY of Russian views are made crystal clear in the draft treaty they presented to Washington in 2022. NATO was warned that is their Ukrainian Proxy attacked Donbass Russian would have to respond per a UN Responsibility to Protect ..." does not parse.
And no wonder - you cite Andrei Martyanov, who started writing for the Strategic Culture Foundation (https://strategic-culture.su/ - note the ".su" domain...), a group of distinguished researchers, intel types, and writers out of Moscow. Unfortunately, Andrei is no longer on the masthead, there, although Pepe Escobar still is, perhaps Unz pays more. Their English is quite reminiscent of yours, actually, they all needed just a little bit more practice. lol. I bet you read Unz Review and actually believe it, right?
It doesn't "parse" because you don't like the reality we face in Ukraine with our NATO proxy.
Ukraine WILL capitulate to Russia, that's just a mathematical and logistical reality. There WILL be new leadership because Mr. Z is not elected and someone legitimate has to sign the surrender paperwork in Kiev.
Trump is starting to grasp a little the gravity of it all but our ignoramus grade DOD and Congressional leadership has not.
It's all very simple...nothing to "parse" here...sigh
You got the date wrong. The war started in 2014 when Russia invaded Crimea, which was and is a part of Ukraine. That the invasion began with "little green men" moving into another country in order to alter politics in favor of Russia. The President of US considers similar activity on the part of latin-americas immigration to be an "invasion" (it is not), but he would give Crimea to Russia in the spirit of "anything for peace." (it should not be)
That did not work in advance of WWII and we should not be fooled by it now. What is needed is "tit for tat", shown to be the most successful strategy for settling disputes. If Russia sends a missile to Ukraine, one should be sent back to Russia. Putin's mercenaries are murderers and he is a war criminal. The Russian people need to feel the pain and maybe they will bring about the peace by putting pressure on the author of this Russian novel.
The war started in 1991 when NATO started moving East.
Ah, yes. The Eastern European states provoked Russia by taking steps to keep themselves from being dominated by Russia again.