exactly! now all we have to do is wait for the mutation to run its full course....i wonder if i could get some japanese film company interested in the rights,

pangzilla 2023

scene one: shinzo abe tries desperately to warn the world of the effects of vaccine......

HIMARS have a maximum and minimum range as MLRS weapons. They cant be safely deployed closer than 12 miles to a front line Russian position. They become less effective the further back they get deployed as the their reach in deeper areas drops. 12-15 miles from the front is a sweet spot for their effective use. Russia can saturate this distance with bombs and cannons and make HIMARS pull back further or risk closely hugging the front and get knocked out by 120mm mortars or other howitzers. This system is not a problem.

Replies: @Herald

If I were snide, I'd say he's a nerdy Jew boy who got his ass kicked while in school and now he needs to compensate. Call it "muscle envy", by analogy with feminists' "penis envy".

Oui, j'appuie sur le bouton crétin.

Perhaps a meamjojo button would do the trick, if the isn't to be a button for moron.

Sorry to harsh your mellow. Just being real.

This commentator words at CIA ---Assistant Director of Information Dissemination- Mr Meamjojo.

The US is a 3rd world country with nuclear weapons and maniacs running foreign policy. Needless to say, the US is a danger to the rest of the world.

There is no engine of growth in the US large enough to carry the country forward. It will take years to reestablish manufacturing and a decade at least to reform education to turn out people that actually know something besides all the social nonsense that pervades their minds now.

The existing engineers and scientists should be cajoled to not retire and help to transition the country to produce things the rest of the world wants to purchase to aid a transition to a more peaceful country.

The US military budget needs to be cut to equal the #2 spender's total and not a penny more while a full audit is done on past spending. People need to go to prison for the "leadership" of the last 50 years. The US should cooperate with war crimes trials, possibly even initiate them, for the still living cretins that murdered millions around the world.

Replies: @Spanky, @JR Foley

It doesn’t matter if Trump meant what he said or not. It remains that what he said was right. The author was just making a point.
 

Our entire government is under regulatory capture and presidents are no exception.
 

Why would Russia not announce to the world that the Covid epidemic originated in an America Deep State cabal's bioweapon attack on China. One can see Gorby and his 'priority of universal human interests over the interests of any class, increasing interdependence of the world, and mutual security based on political rather than military instruments' policy doing something like that, but Putin?

Replies: @mulga mumblebrain

Agreed. The one I saw was factual, impartial, and nice to see the names of places located.

Have a look at Military Summary on Rumble, it seems objective and is delivered in a low key but informative way.
 

agree with you on that and here's the real measure of the war: the ruble is now at a 7 year high against the dollar and the euro having gained over 40% in value since the start of the conflict. the moronic poles refuse to pay in rubles and have had their gas supply shut off, although they are buying russian gas from other e.u. countries that do pay in rubles. they're also demanding that norway share their windfall gas profits with them, instructing young poles to write to their norweigian friends to demand their government do so! lol, now that's the strategic thinking the poles are known for. josep borrell is now complaining of "depleted stockpiles resulting from the military support we provided ukraine". while these idiots are finally starting to talk about a negotiated settlement they may find that the russians are just fine with the way things are going.

Replies: @Notsofast, @Here Be Dragon, @Wokechoke

Completely agree. Russia is fundamentally at war with the Talmud banking mafia that has stealthily taken over all the Western banking, press, and politicians. Their bungled attack on Russia, with its companion campaign of absurdly overdone propaganda, is an opportune moment for patriots in all the Western countries to strike at these parasites (aka "neocons") and root them out. As John Walsh so accurately states, "Our survival depends on it.".

Another sign of the times - more Americans would rather have Biden resign than Putin. I recommend Biden consult with Putin on how to run an economy. Putin's theory of economics is based on real resources, rather than financial scams. Biden's history in college was one of plagarism. Putin has a PhD in economics. A summary of his PhD thesis is here.
Mineral and Raw Materials Resources
and the Development Strategy for the Russian Economy
https://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/08/putins-thesis-raw-text/212739/

An excellent discussion at The Duran very related to this article is here.
Biden, NATO, Russia, Ukraine, Somalia and the Globalists w/Robert Barnes
https://rumble.com/v15x6kp-biden-nato-russia-ukraine-somalia-and-the-globalists-wrobert-barnes-live.html

Replies: @JM, @Kolya Krassotkin

The Winds of Change this time , won't be following the Moskva down to Gorky Park like the old Scorpion Song goes, but in Central Park and other Western parks thruout the USA and Europa. Those " winds of change" will be a cold cold wind that blows into the face of time - memories of the failing Western Times.

Replies: @mulga mumblebrain, @Here Be Dragon

What direction is that? Also, how can you possibly know how things are going? Media reports are completely unreliable.

or wait till class is in session and flush "experts" and trained militants down the plug.

You are so proud to quote fake news. I am sorry you are deluded.

Doubt it, but what do you think the inflation rate is in the US, the "uk", and Europe?

The CIA-controlled New York Times? LOL. Nobody believes anything they print anymore. Their "experts" "analysis" are always wrong in the same direction.

I imagine we will eventually get involved and make headway......and then Putin will use his nukes. We are sleepwalking into Armageddon, both nuclear and eventually biological. It will be a mess of our own making. Led by the Devil himself, the Western powers-that-be, in their insatiable lust for total planetary dominance after defeating Russia and isolating China, is forcing an Asian axis to arise to defend their national self-determination as their backs are forced against the wall. The West thinks they wont go to the mat, but they are wrong, just like those phony "experts" the Western press likes to cite. This is what you get when you have total media control:, no real contrary editorial opinion, but instead only cheerleading by sycophants who are hoping to ascend in the home team's pecking order.

Just about the same as western Europe then milk here went up 30% electricity 50% gas 35% with more to come in the autumn as they are delaying full increases till then.
Russia was always going to suffer. First the west did a coup in Ukraine,
spent 8 years building the biggest army in western Europe with a Nazi ideology at it's core
Imported tens of thousands of right wing anti Russian mercenaries
passed anti Russian laws killed tens of thousands of Russian speakers.
Tried a coup in Belarus and Kazakhstan.
And sanctioned Russia economically.

Russia was already under attack the USA/NATO wants to destroy Russia they were just
shaping the battlefield strategically, Russia had no choice but to strike back they are really fighting
30+ countries.
The real question is when will Russia say enough is enough and level the playing field and most of western Europe.

Replies: @Kolya Krassotkin, @follyofwar

Pot calling the kettle ... Prices are rising everywhere.

I am sure the above is not propaganda, it is 100% truth and truth only, and even Russian leadership learns of the ground reality in the "fringes" of Russia through these reports.

A dose of reality
 

https://www.nytimes.com
 

More reality.
 

https://www.cnn.com
 

You are citing the New York Times? Mouthpiece of the Deep State and globalists? And you expect to be taken seriously?

nice article

Funny, sounds a lot like California and the Boston to DC megalopolis.
And yes, you are a troll.

They are doing fine in Russia. It's the American economy that could be a full blown disaster within one year. The idiots that run Europe have linked themselves to a crumbling superpower and may still regret it. No one would deserve it more.

Since the genius Biden announced he would crush the ruble, the ruble has now increased in value more than 25% since the begininng of the year against the dollar and there is no indication it will stop. In fact, the dollar might crash against the other major currencies too.

https://finance.yahoo.com/chart/RUBUSD%3DX#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--

Stuff is always more expensive in Siberia because it costs more to get it there.

It’s always been like that always probably the same in Alaska?

That and climate is why hardly anyone lives there

Why would anyone, including Unz, read the NYT let alone believe anything they read?

Replies: @Ralph B. Seymour

https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=RUB <= 1 USD = 58.2 RUB on may 23, 2022

up 25% since start of Russian festivities in Oligarch owned, led and controlled Ukraine began Feb 24, 2022.
$40USD what = thousand, million, billion, trillion given to Ukraine by the USG ?
It has just come to my attention, how much of Ukraine economy and political system is controlled by the same
Oligarchs we have been dealing with through-out the news worthy world. ..
Why do claims that Israel is planning to move its nation to Ukraine come up often as part of the explanations people use to justify western support for NAZI armies in service to Ukraine?
It will be interesting to hear what Russia finds among the 2,489 upper level military and scientific personnel who are said to have surrendered from their Azov Steel plant, in Mariupol, Ukraine hide out.

@meamjojo you are a breath of fresh air! a light in the darkness! thank you for sticking it to these traitorous Putin schills who have sold out the USA. keep on standing for truth. I for one refuse to allow this dictatorial Hitler 2.0 madman take control of the free world. the memory of @meamjojo will be honored for future generations to come. i can't say the same about these hideous trolls carrying water for the ne0-Fascist barbarian warlord threatening to nuke the entire world

Replies: @Petermx, @Truth Vigilante

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Replies: @GeneralRipper

I mean, it's not like the Russian people have any kind of a socio-cultural history of successfully enduring privation, or anything.

trollbots and disinformation out in full force; frantic scrambling to spew their owners lost narrative,

Russia cares not for the opinions of fleas

I guess the best way to continue the conversation is to give you a second opinion on Scott Ritter's expert opinion on the Ukraine conflict.

Larry Johnson has written an article on Debating Scott Ritter. He offers some answers and reasons why he disagrees with Scott on some points. He respects Scott Ritter and his expert opinion.

So here is the article from Larry Johnson: https://sonar21.com/debating-scott-ritter/

Dialogue like this can only help in analyzing this critical war and loss of human life.

Replies: @peterAUS

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/RUB=X/
https://i.imgur.com/2MHx0W7.png
Be sure and click "Full screen" for the chart.

Ma'am Jojo stop defecating your crap

From the increasingly bizarre headline stories of NYTimes -- Tucker Carlson their front page large letter headline 3 days running, to front page large letter headline about French King Charles ripping off people of Haiti in 19th century -- one has to wonder whether editors have gone off the deep end. It's not that NYTimes (or practically any other news source in US) is publishing "disinformation." They're just not publishing any information, i.e. anything that could be called news in any normal sense of the word -- perhaps on principle that No News is Good News.

Those mean Russians illegally invading and destroying poor helpless Ukraine don't they know illegal invasions are the U.S. job? Punish Russia with 6000 sanctions and not allow them to sell everything the West needs and show them how committed we are to Ukraine the most corrupt nazi infested terrorist territory in europe.

Replies: @meamjojo

"In Moscow, shoppers complained that a kilogram of bananas had shot up to 100 rubles from 60, while in Irkutsk, an industrial city in Siberia, the price of tampons at a store doubled to $7."

Interesting how bananas in Russia are priced in rubles but tampons are priced in US dollars. Amazing world we live in.

Replies: @Avery

The human population WILL dramatically reduce over the next century. It can happen slowly and humanely by reducing family size, and promoting the 'demographic transition', or we can let ecological collapse do the job, swiftly, brutally and, probably, irrevocably.

Replies: @Dave Bowman

It seems that you have been getting your “war” reports from the NYT, maybe the Washington Post or heaven forbid Fox News, so no wonder we disagree. You must know better or perhaps you are simply trolling.
 

The Russian Special Operation in Ukraine has nothing to do with the Taliban or Afghanistan and these references being transparent straw men do not merit further consideration.
 

We have nothing further to discuss on this subject.

It seems that you have been getting your “war” reports from the NYT, maybe the Washington Post or heaven forbid Fox News, so no wonder we disagree. You must know better or perhaps you are simply trolling.

Russians have been pushed back to their border in Kharkiv.

Here is a picture of Ukrainians at the Russian border:
https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/ukraine-troops-kharkiv-border-feat-image.jpg?quality=75&strip=all

https://nypost.com/2022/05/16/ukrainian-forces-push-russians-out-of-kharkiv-oblast/

I could probably find that news in a dozen different articles from the around the world. Which language would you like?

This is not going as planned for Putin. Time to face reality instead of trying to blame the MSM.

I despise the MSM but that doesn't mean that everything they print must be false. That is deluded.

Read the news from any country of your choice. This is a disaster.

Replies: @Kurt Knispel

Okay then, let's start with bankers.

Russia doesn’t need or even want to finish this grinding operation too quickly,...
 

The longer the war/SMO/operation goes on the more Russians are killed...the more the Russian economy is hurt.

...as for every day it continues the Ukrainian military is being further pulverised.
 

Ukrainian military could have been pulverized in the first week.

We obviously don't agree on this.

Replies: @Herald

Russia has stated that one of its main aims of its SMO is to demilitarise Ukraine and this is what it appears to be doing. The longer the SMO lasts the more Ukraine will be demilitarised.
 

Replies: @Herald

He looks to me like a decently educated disinformation agent. Too much centrally relevant information ignored.

Saker is gone, due to alleged 'health' issues. He has already informed his readers on his blog he is not returning for at least 3 months. He has handed over everything to Amarynth and others to run the blog in his absence. NO discussion of what the 'health' issues are (which is fine under normal circumstances, as health is an intensely private matter, and should be respected. But with war in Ukraine just starting to go into high gear, these are NOT normal circumstances. Especially for a pro-Russia blogger.)

One wonders if the health he is concerned about is both for him and his family, as he might be worried that all might suffer from an instantaneous lethal dose of lead poisoning, to the head, in what will be proclaimed in the MSM as a murder-suicide by a deranged pro-Russian blogger experiencing financial troubles, etc.

[That last paragraph was really tongue-in-cheek, as I am sure Andrei is being honest about his health. He's talked about it before, so I am fairly certain that is the real reason. But with so many bloggers and journalists around the world over the years suffering accidents (and committing suicide with two bullets to the head, ala Gary Webb), you never know.......]

http://thesaker.is/message-to-the-saker-community-from-andrei/

Replies: @showmethereal

Let’s start with arseholes.
 

Arseholery is very much in the eye of the beholder.

Anyone who has ever written, said, or thought "Somebody's gotta be 'that guy'... " has countenanced doing what everyone else thinks is an act of arseholery.

The YouTwitFace censors think that they're saving everyone from arseholes.

Better (in the sense of reduced targeting error): any genetic proclivity for seeking a career in politics or the bureaucracy.

Actually there's no need for genetic testing - identify political aspirants at the same stage in their career that the intelligence agencies do (i.e., while they are still college students).

Then, instead of acquiring kompromat on them like the Party does... dust their toothbrush with carfentanyl.

Job done.

Replies: @Herald

sorry my #105 was meant as reply to you.

Unless you can reassure to the contrary I think we can safely assume that it is a totally unreliable source.
 

I said it before, and will reiterate: I do not give a fuck what 90 % of people writing/posting/reading here think or feel. I don't, actually, read 90 % of what's written here (both authors and commentators).

The value of this online pub is tolerating different viewpoints so I could, sometimes, "converse" with people I wish, about topics I find interesting.

That makes this site unique; all the rest, in my experience, use that combination of moderation with groupthink/groupies to police an (online) place. The overall deterioration of public Internet sphere is visible across topics. Hell, on purely IT sites I've seen the best people giving up and leaving.

I think Ron Unz is a highly functioning retard; wrote that around the start of The Scamdemic and still think that. Having said that, well, credit is due....my comments are (still) going through, which, in my book, speaks volumes about the man's character.

Most of readers/commentators here are for "online therapy/daily shot of dopamine". Most of them are in that "mature" group so they need it. That's O.K.
In the Clown World people do need some sort of support group. This online pub serves that purpose (among some other but let's leave it out of this).
I understand Rusophiles; they are been evicted everywhere (and worse); this place appears to be one of their last congregations. So, they do their thing here and I don't read 90 % of their posts. Everyone's good.

Every now and then there IS a comment here which I find GOOD. Rare, and getting rarer, but still well worth posting here.

My take anyway.

Replies: @Herald

We must not let their behavior during covid ever be forgotten. They are trying REALLY HARD to act like covid never happened. It was 2 years straight of constant lies and disgusting blatant hypocrisy of covid propaganda. Covid was so dangerous that people on TV didn't need to wear masks depending how powerful they are. The rest of the serfs had to wear a mask between bites. We learned that if we riot over a drug addict lifelong loser having a heart attack while being restrained then there is no need for a mask and no one will criticize it. However if we protest the government in any way without a mask we are "super spreaders". Never once did a "super spreader" event ever result in even one person getting covid.

So yes these people are total zombies and are not serious people. Their children are being turned into trannys yet they still wave the flag and talk how there are good teachers out there. Nope, the good teachers were driven out and replaced by angry whores with purple hair and feminine soy boys.

Remember we are all racists because we refused to take a knee. We all wanted "people to die" because we refused a unproven vaccine that has been proven to have killed thousands. We are all bigots because we don't worship sex perverts. Now they tell us we better support Ukraine and their Nazis or we are traitors. We care about Ukraine now? No I could care less about Ukraine and eat popcorn while they get slaughtered by Russia. All it would take for me to support Russia at this point is that these covid weirdos are demanding I support Ukraine.

I wouldn't have given them even that much after their statements and I hope the Russians won't do as they have done until know, drag out in the hope that morons come to senses.

Your desperation is showing again, jew.

Replies: @Nat X

When Will China Be the World’s Biggest Economy? Maybe Never
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-11/when-will-china-be-the-world-s-biggest-economy-maybe-never or https://archive.ph/PNZ4i
https://bsmedia.business-standard.com/_media/bs/img/article/2021-07/06/full/1625532650-5316.jpg
Image Source: https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/when-will-china-s-economy-beat-the-us-to-become-no-1-it-may-never-happen-121070600079_1.html

Replies: @antibeast

That's ludicrous and would only bear significance in a wholly globalized one-world government scenario. Developed economies in which the FIRE sector accounts for a disproportionate share of GDP say nothing about a country's real importance or its ability to sustain itself.

Replies: @bike-anarkist

But how do you rate the economic importance of a country that does NOT use its PPP-adjusted income to buy energy and other commodities, because it produces most of the comodities internally and has plenty of them left for export? To make things more convincing, such countries often produce all the nuclear and non-nuclear weaponry they need, which happen to be both cheaper and better (more reliable and more lethal) than those that can be purchased on the international market? I know at least one such country, its name begins with "R".

In 1940, an old lady from some backwater in the forests of Germany has a schoolteacher explain the globe to her.
Teacher: "Thiiis is the US and Canada. Thiiis is China. And thiiiiis is the Sovjet Union."
Granny: "And where is our great, grand, beautiful German Empire?"
Teacher: "Uh, this here."
Granny after ten seconds of thinking, evidently worried: "Does the Führer know that?"

It seems he did not.

And these days, it is not so much about geographic size as about economic size and social cohesion. The diagram is interesting but does not take into account that most of the economy of the Anglosphere is third sector and hence, when the shite hits the fan, essentially disposable, unlike first and second sector. In fact, the third sector generates little or no (depending on the precise definition) value but mostly redistributes it. Would be interesting to have a similar chart with exclusion of the banking and insurance business.

Replies: @ThreeCranes, @Fox

That’s pretty much nonsense. The cost of labor and of land are much bigger in any economy than the cost of commodities. And they are far far from equivalent everywhere. Moreover a good number of commodities can successfully be substituted. Developing countries are often able to get perhaps 80 or 90% of the utility of expensive commodities for half or a third of the price by substituting.

For example developing countries use cheaper blends of coffee beans, use far more efficient water heaters (which only heat water when it gets to the shower head etc.)

GDP can be used to measure a number of structurally different economies. For example certain smaller places have GDP generated mainly through tourism, or through expats sending back money they earned elsewhere. May look like generic GDP from the outside, but actually be pretty fragile stuff that can dissolve in a puff at a moment's notice.

With bigger players you've got your three basic types of nominal GDP generation.

1) Mostly fake VINTAGE SOVIET style: tons and tons of pig iron and concrete made, which then rot in warehouses. Tons and tons of grain rotting in storage. Thousands of tractors rusting away in rows, etc.
https://imgpile.com/images/5K1MIW.jpg
Defeat the imperialist by raising production of pig iron no one will ever use!
They actually made physical stuff, but much of it did not enter the economy in any meaningful way. So a huge chunk of the GDP was in fact imaginary.

2) Mostly fake MODERN AMERICAN style: constant flows of sales and resales of debts and promises of future riches.
https://imgpile.com/images/5K1JMP.jpg
Of course a GDP made up of 90% debt is real my boy. You need to get a proper education.
Plus these days relentless money printing. Exactly the opposite of the fake Soviet GDP, but just as imaginary.

3) Mostly real GDP with stuff actually being made and then actually entering the market, and services actually being offered about stuff here and now. China's economy today has the flaws of both the US imaginary GDP and the Soviet imaginary GDP (the latter perhaps best illustrated in the huge cities that get built and then left to stay empty), but still to a relatively minor extent compared to the rest of their economy.
https://imgpile.com/images/5K1PA1.jpg
What do you mean building this city was pointless. That's crazy talk. To the sanatorium with you!

China's economy today is much more "American" in many senses not only compared to the USSR, or even today's Russia, but even many parts of today's America.
https://imgpile.com/images/5K1mRC.jpg
Mmm, every day I just sit on my Aliexpress dildo and wait for the train to pass on the other side of my apartment wall. What a ride, people, what a ride.

Replies: @showmethereal

US measures GDP by money changing hands plus services that do not involve money like cutting your own lawn, repairing your own car, taking care of your young kids and aging parents, etc. USA GDP mainly is made up by intangible assets and services. While China's GDP is made up of tangible assets and commercial services. Comparing GDP in exchange rate is a nice way to say the king(USA) has a nice new clothes.

In the US, a drug addict who steals goods, sells the loot on the market, and buys drug to consume can jack up their GDP multiple times.

Replies: @PetrOldSack

I don’t think you understand PPP. It literally adjusts for what one country pays for the exact same goods or services. And what you pay for energy will often depend on a contract. So no - PPP is the better measure.

Replies: @Lin

Nothing about this whole scam bodes well for the future,

At the end of this month the emergency legislation brought in to allow our government take away our basic civil liberties is due to expire,

I suspect they will extend it for another three months to keep their options open, whilst they await instruction from abroad, from their masters,

This allegedly mild variant is one nasty mother humper and for me proves that there was no logic whatsoever with lifting the restrictions when they did, of course there should have never been any restrictions in the first place but even by the twisted corrupt logic of the supposed medical experts the ending of the 'health emergency' defies logic,

Maybe some of the sheep will wake up now,

The media in Ireland is now trying to run with bringing back mask wearing however as we are now as a country poised to take in up to 200,000 Ukrainian refugees that may have to take a back seat as a new nation destroying 'emergency' has emerged,

The future ain't bright.

Mofo-Bill writes:

Look at how many Lolbertarians come to UNZ and blather on about gold. These sort of people have to be marginalized or moved out of positions of responsibility.
 

He [Ron Paul] is doing the chemotherapy [on the U.S economy], he has a plan to cure the fundamental issues.
He [Ron Paul] is against the notion of giving Novocaine to mask the structural problems of the U.S economy.
 

Replies: @Tochter

... don’t worry about Zelensky, he is hiding in Poland, well away from the unholy mess that he and his NATO chums have made of Ukraine.
 

It's like deja-vu all over again ...
But it may not have the favourable outcome they expect this time round.

"... don’t worry about Zelensky, he is hiding in Poland, ..."
 

The application of bio and chem weapons carry a large probability of backfiring. It matters not that there are plenty of sociopaths around, nothing changes that fact.

Replies: @Harold Smith, @Realist

I am not relying on the sanity of people in power positions, what I am saying is that ethnically-specific bioweapons cannot be achieved on a technical level. We know a lot more about physics than we know about biology. Biology is too complex to achieve such a degree a fine-tuning of any bioweapon. Generalized bioweapons and delivery systems for those generalized bioweapons are, on the other hand, within the realm of technical possibilities of course.

Replies: @Realist

Quite. It's surprising how many people can't see this.

U.S. support for the Azov Battalion is not “Operation Paperclip.”
 

These Ukrainian storm troopers are among the most vicious and malignant combatants Washington has ever employed to implement its foreign policy agenda.
 

https://www.icty.org/en/press/final-report-prosecutor-committee-established-review-nato-bombing-campaign-against-federal

General Issues
Damage to the Environment
Use of Depleted Uranium Projectiles
Use of Cluster Bombs
Legal Issues Related to Target Selection
Overview of Applicable Law
Linkage Between Law Concerning Recourse to Force and Law Concerning How Force May Be Used
The Military Objective
The Principle of Proportionality
Casualty Figures
General Assessment of the Bombing Campaign
Specific Incidents
The Attack on a Civilian Passenger Train at the Grdelica Gorge on 12/4/99
The Attack on the Djakovica Convoy on 14/4/99
The Attack on the RTS (Serbian Radio and TV Station) in Belgrade on 23/4/99
The Attack on the Chinese Embassyon 7/5/99
The Attack on Korisa Village on 13/5/99

Replies: @Chriss

infultration of institution politics police aided by the west with weapons and 30 biochemical warfare
impunity to ra[e/murder kids and burn people alive
ja volt

Hitler was popular because he bypassed the central bank to issue his own currency and achieved full employment in the middle of a world economic recession. That is why he had to be destroyed. The same goes for Gadaffi who proposed a new currency based on gold. The Bankers don't allow competition.

Replies: @Ann Nonny Mouse

He probably helped funnel Russian funds to some of the more degenerate among them and certainly knows KGB and SVR that did.
 

Saying “NATO R Tha Real Nazis” (NR3?) is just a good propaganda move to make NATO look like even more murderous hypocrites than they already are. even more murderous hypocrites than they already are.
 

It's pathetic to see both Russia and the West call each other da real nazis. Putin should have been up front about the reasons for invading Ukraine instead of throwing red meat to his boomer base and crying about le ebil ukronazis. I WISH there were more nazis in Ukraine because then they would oust that jew president.

Both the West and the East are living in this modern Jewish morality, where "fascist" is synonymous with "bad guy" and Hitler is the Great Satan of the 20th century for killing some jews. There isn't any side in Europe that is free from this toxic mindset, which is ALWAYS used by jews to attack Europeans themselves, regardless of whether they fought for or against Hitler. Europe will be forever shackled to this jewish view of history as long as it keeps using "fascist" as a crude insult.

Replies: @Exile, @Biff K

That explains why Russia's policy is to keep the Ukraine out of NATO. It doesn't explain timing or methods which is what I was talking about.

Another random incoherent post by yet another anti-Christian, anti-Russian GloboSorosista cadre. No point in debunking each incoherent sentence, but I will point out a few select ones:

{Do you mean ‘an angry old man (and his retinue) who has never gotten over the collapse of USSR.’ }

Much better than The Dementia Man currently occupying the POTUS chair, while unknown actors manipulate US foreign policy from the shadows and play with the lives of 340 million Americans. At least with Putin & Co we know who is in charge of their country and their foreign policy. Not some dimbulb like Liz Truss* who lacks basic knowledge of history and geography.
Or the incompetent GloboSorosaAgent Blinkbrain.

{.....or the Russian people 40% of whom don’t want the fantasy-obsessed old guy re-elected. }

Uuuuuummmm: that means 60% want him re-elected, by your fake figures, Yes?
In US most POTUS elections are split about 50% to 50%, plus/minus 1%-2%.
Care to comment on that fact?
Care to also comment on the fact that Putin approval rating has actually gone up**?
(btw: "Moscow" Times is a Western owned Globalist mouthpiece: even they have to admit what is obvious)

{This madman, rich to the tune of around $100 billion (where did that come from?)}

Exactly: where did that LIE come from?
And why not make it $200 billion, $300 billion?

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* [Elizabeth Mary Truss (born 26 July 1975) is a British politician who has served as Foreign Secretary since 2021 and Minister for Women and Equalities since 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, she has served in various cabinet positions under Prime Ministers David Cameron, Theresa May, and Boris Johnson.] (from Wiki)

**
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/02/04/putins-approval-grows-amid-ukraine-tensions-poll-a76256

[Russian President Vladimir Putin’s approval ratings increased in January as tensions with the West grew over Ukraine, according to an independent survey published Friday.
According to the Levada Center pollster, Putin’s job approval grew to 69% last month from 65% in December. Putin’s disapproval dropped to 29% in January from 34% the previous month. Levada also noted increases in job approval for Russia’s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and his cabinet, as well as the Russian parliament.]

Replies: @matzahballsgonewrong

You had a question for the readers, here are some questions for you:

Why are American ziocons obsessed with Russia and Putin? What is the role of the Financial Squid in the NATO/US attacks against Russia? When will the truthful history of the Bolshevik Revolution enter the curriculum of American schools (instead of lies-laces holobiz tales)?

How come that while US ziocons' collaboration with the self-proclaimed neonazis in Ukraione has been insulting to the memory of American soldiers fallen in a fight again Nazism, the US Congress is doing nothing about that? Should not they just close Arlington Cemetery to please the Jewish Looby and the Bankers who really own the US?

True, that is their avowed aim, but currently the carpet is being pulled from under their feet.
 

Scratch an anthropogenic climate destabilisation denialist and you'll find an imbecile, an ignoramus, a Dunning-Krugerite, a brainwashed Rightwing thug and an enemy of Life on Earth. Like you. The sort of vermin who values his 'property' more than the lives of our children. PURE Evil.

Replies: @mkr

I remember those magazine covers about 1978-82. There was a book The Coming Ice Age. And the never to be forgotten cover of a major weekly news magazine. It was a giant glacier looming over NYC.

Several years later it was global warming. The entire earth would dry up and we’d all diiiieeee.
Unless of course we did exactly as TPTB ordered.

40 years later we still have blizzards right very winter floods. I tend not to believe anything experts claim.

In Search Of The Coming Ice Age ... with Leonard Nimoy (1978).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQRqr9_jw5I

Replies: @Yukon Jack