Just listen to how this shit sounds: "The son of the deputy head of the CIA died fighting on the side of the Kremlin's thieves, bandits and Chekists."
And after that, does anyone really think that the USA has any prospects in the future, when its youth, lacking a state ideology and unity, are so easily swayed by the propaganda of enemies who wish to destroy their state? The crisis in the USA is political, ideological and constitutional. Once upon a time in the 50s there was still some unifying ideology in the USA, and now what are the goals in the USA to defeat China and its servant Russia? I understand that the only ideology left at the moment in the US is LGBT+ propaganda and this artificial fake and hypocritical fight against global warming, as well as this Christian obscurantist Republican concept of believing in a Jew on a stick. And you know what the funniest thing about this whole crazy circus is? It's of course the modern right in the US, who in their practice are actually leftists, who fight for the rights of the working class. But if you look even deeper, the modern right is not right-wing, but simply uses the rhetoric of the right, and in reality is just financial swindlers. For example, like the entire Trump family and his son-in-law Kushner. In contrast, there is China, which is the most nationalistic in the world, which is economically pure capitalism, which is monocultural, which has a disciplined and very hardworking population, which has a unifying ideology and plans for world domination for 100 years to come. Please tell me, who here still believes that Trump is really going to fight China? It seems to me that all Trump is interested in in his position is taking bribes from corporations in these trade war scams and then lifting these sanctions. The influence of the US in the world has declined to zero over the past 10/20 years. And despite the enormous resources and capabilities of the US, only its elites are to blame for this. The absolute removal of the USA from all processes in the world. The inability, unwillingness, absolute incompetence and genetic inability of the US elites to solve at least some internal and external problems. The absolute unwillingness to pay the USA for its hegemony in the world, to unite around itself trade-economic and military-political alliances. The result of all this is economic loss, loss of allies, loss of sales markets, loss of influence, technological lag behind competitors.
«Go to China» – I wrote this not because I like the eternal emperor Xi Jinping or the Chinese regime, but because the situation in the world is developing in this way. The objective reality is developing in this way, and this new reality cannot be ignored. I am not going to delude myself and believe that the United States is still deciding something in the world, because this is not the case at all.
«Jews on sticks» – Regarding this statement, I am a non-believer and I can afford to mock religion and religious people. At least I understand that religion has always been pure business, politics and a way to manipulate people.
You do not understand his 'message'. He's not praising the PRC, but explaining how the system there works, and comparing that with the system USA (and most of 'the West', actually).
As a result, you're doing the same like when people criticise me for explaining what's likely to happen if there's a cease-fire between Russia and Ukraine... :rolleyes:
Person believing in a Jew on a stick here. Myself and I suppose many other believers subscribed to Sarcastosaurus support what is seen as 'good' aspects of both sides of the insane and unnecessary socio-political-ideological duel playing out in the USA and other countries. Just something to add to the mix.
On the whole though, I am nodding my head to your post.
"Russian ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv lasted 11 hours and killed at least 12 and wounded 90 people. Trump wrote, “Not necessary, and very bad timing. Vladimir, STOP!” Trump said he believes Putin will listen to him. If only he would have asked Putin to stop earlier.
In the meantime, Ukrainians try to save their own from the rubble in Kyiv and there was a large drone attack that set Odesa on fire."
As usual Don is failing to report that several important military factories were hit both in Odessa and Kiev during these attacks. SAM and AAA resistance was suprisingly moderate.
Any war or invasion is not legimate, including bombing of Serbia or invasion to Iraq. However, one should face the reality.
One of the realities is that UA airdefense is running out of the SAMs. PSU trying hard to assist in downing Gerans and in the process lost a Flanker on 28th.
That is true. Lack of AD interceptors the "spanner in the works" as Tom said. But my view is that its the guarantee of escalation, along with other things.
"A group founded by Russia’s current defense minister says that Russia is in recession. In the last four years, Russia’s industrial output rose 8%. If you remove military production from the calculations, the growth over the last four years was only 1.2% and production has been falling since late 2023"
Might be so. But I advise to compare these figures with the "successful" EU economies that are not waging war. Well, wrong, they are waging but against their own citizens.
Yeah this part is completely ridiculous. Especially right now as Western economies are in the midst of a recession even officials data (which are all completely fake) cant deny anymore.
Then again, we are being gaslighted to pretend everything is good, the economy is the best ever and +5% unemployment is desirable while full employment (like during the West post WW2 economic boom) is a sign of unhealthy economies.
Don, the technological side of this war has lead me to believe that expansion inti a wide, multi-national conflict is utterly a matter of time. Ukraine and Russia are so far ahead of everyone that other nations will be drawn into this conflict out of raw national survival. It is the only way to level out the military playing field, which happened in WWI and WWII.
Just listen to how this shit sounds: "The son of the deputy head of the CIA died fighting on the side of the Kremlin's thieves, bandits and Chekists."
And after that, does anyone really think that the USA has any prospects in the future, when its youth, lacking a state ideology and unity, are so easily swayed by the propaganda of enemies who wish to destroy their state? The crisis in the USA is political, ideological and constitutional. Once upon a time in the 50s there was still some unifying ideology in the USA, and now what are the goals in the USA to defeat China and its servant Russia? I understand that the only ideology left at the moment in the US is LGBT+ propaganda and this artificial fake and hypocritical fight against global warming, as well as this Christian obscurantist Republican concept of believing in a Jew on a stick. And you know what the funniest thing about this whole crazy circus is? It's of course the modern right in the US, who in their practice are actually leftists, who fight for the rights of the working class. But if you look even deeper, the modern right is not right-wing, but simply uses the rhetoric of the right, and in reality is just financial swindlers. For example, like the entire Trump family and his son-in-law Kushner. In contrast, there is China, which is the most nationalistic in the world, which is economically pure capitalism, which is monocultural, which has a disciplined and very hardworking population, which has a unifying ideology and plans for world domination for 100 years to come. Please tell me, who here still believes that Trump is really going to fight China? It seems to me that all Trump is interested in in his position is taking bribes from corporations in these trade war scams and then lifting these sanctions. The influence of the US in the world has declined to zero over the past 10/20 years. And despite the enormous resources and capabilities of the US, only its elites are to blame for this. The absolute removal of the USA from all processes in the world. The inability, unwillingness, absolute incompetence and genetic inability of the US elites to solve at least some internal and external problems. The absolute unwillingness to pay the USA for its hegemony in the world, to unite around itself trade-economic and military-political alliances. The result of all this is economic loss, loss of allies, loss of sales markets, loss of influence, technological lag behind competitors.
Go to China and enjoy some nice state ideology and power and influence.
Ghete are also no Jews on sticks
«Go to China» – I wrote this not because I like the eternal emperor Xi Jinping or the Chinese regime, but because the situation in the world is developing in this way. The objective reality is developing in this way, and this new reality cannot be ignored. I am not going to delude myself and believe that the United States is still deciding something in the world, because this is not the case at all.
«Jews on sticks» – Regarding this statement, I am a non-believer and I can afford to mock religion and religious people. At least I understand that religion has always been pure business, politics and a way to manipulate people.
My apologies in this case.
As regards US influence I can see a decrease from the 90s but much more compared to 1930s.
You do not understand his 'message'. He's not praising the PRC, but explaining how the system there works, and comparing that with the system USA (and most of 'the West', actually).
As a result, you're doing the same like when people criticise me for explaining what's likely to happen if there's a cease-fire between Russia and Ukraine... :rolleyes:
Person believing in a Jew on a stick here. Myself and I suppose many other believers subscribed to Sarcastosaurus support what is seen as 'good' aspects of both sides of the insane and unnecessary socio-political-ideological duel playing out in the USA and other countries. Just something to add to the mix.
On the whole though, I am nodding my head to your post.
"Russian ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv lasted 11 hours and killed at least 12 and wounded 90 people. Trump wrote, “Not necessary, and very bad timing. Vladimir, STOP!” Trump said he believes Putin will listen to him. If only he would have asked Putin to stop earlier.
In the meantime, Ukrainians try to save their own from the rubble in Kyiv and there was a large drone attack that set Odesa on fire."
As usual Don is failing to report that several important military factories were hit both in Odessa and Kiev during these attacks. SAM and AAA resistance was suprisingly moderate.
There are no legitimate targets in Ukraine. This is because the invasion is not legitimate.
Any war or invasion is not legimate, including bombing of Serbia or invasion to Iraq. However, one should face the reality.
One of the realities is that UA airdefense is running out of the SAMs. PSU trying hard to assist in downing Gerans and in the process lost a Flanker on 28th.
That is true. Lack of AD interceptors the "spanner in the works" as Tom said. But my view is that its the guarantee of escalation, along with other things.
"An Su-30SM jet was burned by infiltrators at the Rostov-on-Don central airfield."
Effectively written-off Su-27 was burnt (some say it was a false flag attack). But who cares?)
"A group founded by Russia’s current defense minister says that Russia is in recession. In the last four years, Russia’s industrial output rose 8%. If you remove military production from the calculations, the growth over the last four years was only 1.2% and production has been falling since late 2023"
Might be so. But I advise to compare these figures with the "successful" EU economies that are not waging war. Well, wrong, they are waging but against their own citizens.
While Putin is ah-so-much in love with 'his' citizens?
How could you compare Mordor and Freedom World.)
Frankly, compare Western Europe in 80s and nowadays. Different worlds in all means
Yeah this part is completely ridiculous. Especially right now as Western economies are in the midst of a recession even officials data (which are all completely fake) cant deny anymore.
Then again, we are being gaslighted to pretend everything is good, the economy is the best ever and +5% unemployment is desirable while full employment (like during the West post WW2 economic boom) is a sign of unhealthy economies.
Excellent detail as always Don, thank you.
Don, the technological side of this war has lead me to believe that expansion inti a wide, multi-national conflict is utterly a matter of time. Ukraine and Russia are so far ahead of everyone that other nations will be drawn into this conflict out of raw national survival. It is the only way to level out the military playing field, which happened in WWI and WWII.