Don's Weekly, 31 March 2025: Part 1
by Donald Hill (intro by Tom Cooper)
Hello everybody!
Before one knows it, it’s already Monday - and the end of yet another month. The time is passing by, the humanity and the environment are ‘boiling’ - and, if we nowadays do not have another 2-3 days of powerful storms every second week, then there are earthquakes causing humanitarian and environmental catastrophes in places like Myanmar and Thailand.
But, no reason to worry: our glorious zombie idiots in charge of 200+ countries and political entities around this biosphere circling a little star on the verge of the Milky Way - all continue excelling in wasting time, opportunities, and shiploads of money. Primarily with the purpose of making a hand-picked few ever richer, so the latter can feel very, super-turbo powerful.
…while alone drawing such obvious conclusions like that one is making me a ‘Leftist’, of course…
With other words: nothing changed over the last week. Or if, then only minimally. As always, when the ‘dust settles’, things are getting a notch clearer. And so, and just for example, one can nowadays figure out - and then with certainty - something that was obvious for weeks, if not for months: the Dumpf II Administration in White House despises Europe. Not because it’s a place refusing to fight for its own rights and ideals. Nope. It’s because the majority of its population is anti-Fascist. And anti-Pudding. And thus unfriendly to a US administration confronting it with economic wars and threats about invasions (and ‘even if’ the latter are, presently, still limited to such ‘off-shore’ positions like Greenland/Grönland).
Surprisingly enough, the Dumpf II Administration is meanwhile a bit annoyed with Pudding, too. That guy simply refuses to play to its music. Even when the Dumpfists have granted it almost everything it demanded - including not only the Crimea and four oblasts of Ukraine, but a no for Ukrainian NATO-membership and few other sweets. No. It’s because - entirely unexpectedly - Pudding feels undefeated on the battlefield, and thus still issues additional demands and refuses to accept the Dumpfist cease-fire.
…which is as disturbing for the Dumpfists because, you know, the USA must now fully focus on ‘containing’, if not outright ‘countering China’… after spending the last 30+ years with pumping so much money and high-tech into the PRC to extract profits from that country, that Beijing ‘suddenly’ grew into the leading superpower. But, no reason to worry: that’s now going be stopped by Dumpfists investing a few millions into ‘arms’. Then deploying these around few spots of the little puddle of water also known as the ‘Pacific Ocean’. Additionally, they’re going to make lots of strong statements, using lots of unusual expressions: that’s instantly going to make America great again. Even more so because these are going to be accompanied with endangering US military alliances in the Pacific, and then abandoning the local US allies to the level where these start pivoting around the PRC…
Sound strategy. Making so much sense that one can already start making predictions when is the entire system USA going to collapse…
Ironically, amid all the resulting ‘ambient sounds’, we’re remaining ignorant of developments in a country that’s meanwhile foremost characterised by ‘the people’ doing their own things, regardless how incompetent are those at the top.
Yes, now I’m ‘down to Ukraine’. Sure, we’re complaining about Pudding’s invasion, and the resulting carnage (while, at the same time, supporting even more of carnage, and a genocide in Palestine… but, you know, that’s OK, because that genocide is done by ‘our friends’ and thus ‘OK’, at least ‘hitting the right ones’, if not ‘not interesting’). We’re also all ignorant of the fact that the top security service of the country exposed to that outrageous invasion (the one of Ukraine… ‘the West’ never invaded Palestine, of course) has, few days ago, simply seized the top enterprise for production of military-grade optical systems. Because, you know, such companies are safer if controlled by incompetent apparatchiks, than if run by enterprising private persons that are acting on their own…
Of course, this is ‘top secret’ and thus not a word was reported anywhere. Even I’m going to keep it at what I’ve mentioned above. Because, and between others, I’ve been (politely, but with determination) requested not to ‘talk’ about this in the public. Because… well… it’s OK… or, it’s ‘bad’ to let ‘the people’ know when the top Ukrainian security service is behaving in exactly the same fashion like the (much despised, both in Iran and here in ‘the West’) Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (of Iran)… Besides, there must be another zillion of reasons explaining the action in question, and making it legal, while I’m clueless, too…
Meh… hand on heart: who cares?
Next to nobody. Or at least: far too few. And if ‘we’ do not know, then it doesn’t matter: out of sight, out of mind.
Foremost, the mass of ‘us’ - as far as not already deeply fascinated by Mor… erm.. ‘Macron’s Churchillian Speeches’ - prefers to wait and see for our super-incompetent zombie idiots, and the zombie idiots in Kyiv to sort out things, so that we need not sorting them out on our own. Because we’re all too busy with our own lives, you know…
Am I mad?
Thanks for asking. No. I’m furious.
Over to Don and his summary on ‘developments’ on the frontlines in and around Ukraine, during the last week.
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Kursk
Russian bloggers report that Ukrainian activity was reduced as the week went along and that most of their drone activity at night had stopped. Groups of Ukrainian infantry that pulled back were hunted by Russian drones and their artillery shelled Ukrainian positions, such as in the village of Gogolevka. Russia advanced near Guyevo, Gogolevka, and are pressing to stay in Basivka once they reach it with their small assaults.
After taking control of the Sudzha border checkpoint and gas metering and pumping station the pumping station caught fire again. Russia blamed both instances on Ukraine failing to stop attacks on Russian infrastructure. Ukraine says Russia caused the destruction.
Russian attacks on Basivka are met by drones. The drone attacks are taking place in the village itself.
Another 170 mm artillery piece was destroyed (fifth over the last 7-10 days). North Korea sent 100 more along with 3000 more soldiers.
Two Russian missiles hit a road crossing on the international border.
There have been many instances of Ukrainian troops staying too long in salients and Kursk is just another one on the list. Butosov says the Ukrainian army prepared a withdrawal plan but never executed in January because of the political decision to hold on to Sudzha and exchange it for something in the peace talks. An MP from Zelensky’s party said that a law provides commanders and chiefs with immunity from decisions made on the battlefield. He also believes that Zelensky assesses and makes some decisions but did not directly insist that Sudzha be held.
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(…to be continued…)
«which is as disturbing for the Dumpfists because, you know, the USA must now fully focus on ‘containing’, if not outright ‘countering China’… after spending the last 30+ years with pumping so much money and high-tech into the PRC to extract profits from that country, that Beijing ‘suddenly’ grew into the leading superpower» – This is absolutely true, because companies like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are helping China build their digital "Big Brother" system of control and surveillance. Other US corporations have provided large infusions of investment and technology that have skyrocketed China's industrial capacity and economy. As a result, the US has created for itself a powerful and dangerous competitor that is encroaching on world hegemony, which has become technologically more advanced than the US. The US is already lagging behind technologically in many parameters. China is ready to pay for world leadership, while the US elites, on the contrary, are receding into the shadows and rapidly losing influence. The US sought to use China in its confrontation with the USSR. This was the program of the idiot Henry Kissinger. He was the architect of this idiotic plan. As a result of the aggressive confrontation as such, China did not get out of the USSR, but as a result, China pushed the US out of the first position. In essence, these decisions of Kissinger and the greed of American corporations turned out to be a time bomb that affected the future dominance of the US.
«…which is as disturbing for the Dumpfists because, you know, the USA must now fully focus on ‘containing’, if not outright ‘countering China’… after spending the last 30+ years with pumping so much money and high-tech into the PRC to extract profits from that country, that Beijing ‘suddenly’ grew into the leading superpower. But, no reason to worry: that’s now going be stopped by Dumpfists investing a few millions into ‘arms’. Then deploying these around few spots of the little puddle of water also known as the ‘Pacific Ocean’. Additionally, they’re going to make lots of strong statements, using lots of unusual expressions: that’s instantly going to make America great again. Even more so because these are going to be accompanied with endangering US military alliances in the Pacific, and then abandoning the local US allies to the level where these start pivoting around the PRC» – US policy is generally incomprehensible. No one can even explain this policy properly, because it is the policy of schizophrenics, marasmuses, and gerontocrats who themselves do not know what they want. And that is why US global leadership is no more, because no normal country in the world would count on the US and its crazy administration to belch the next moment. Therefore, each country is trying to make decisions independently and build new alliances. That's why I'm struck by the comparison of Trump with Reagan, because idiot Trump does everything the opposite in both economic policy and foreign and domestic. Trump is a sentence for the USA. The Trump administration and other liberal left-wing elites in the US and European leaders are genetically incapable of pursuing normal, logical, consistent policies, as well as practical and beneficial ones for their countries. On top of all that, Trump is openly working for other states and intelligence services of other countries to bring down the United States. Or more precisely, for the Russian intelligence services, which have had him by the balls since 1989. Also, all this insanity is reflected in the syndrome of sanctions that are in place at one moment and then lifted. However, this can be easily explained. For example, large American corporations come to a meeting with Xi Jinping, where they are popularly explained that American corporations will simply be shut out of Asia because China controls almost all of Asia and, in fact, the trans-Pacific region. As a result, the corporations understand that they will suffer billions in losses. Then these technology corporations come to idiot Trump, who is mainly backed by industrial clans, because digital corporations are now making the most money, but the old industrial clans are still trying to resist technological progress and return everything to the era of obscurantism and religious fanaticism in order to maintain their place in the sun. And so these digital corporations come to Trump and explain to him that they understand that the industrialists are behind him, but they talked to them and also explained to them that they will not buy their products from them and put them in a position. Accordingly, they tell Trump that they will put you in a position and therefore lift the sanctions, because we are suffering billions in losses. After that, Trump, like a dirty dog who depends not only on Vladimir Putin, but also on US industrialists and some other morons who are trying to carry out their idiotic policies in the US, goes and lifts the sanctions regime. At least that was the case during Trump's previous presidency. The US is beginning to understand that China is not a force to be dealt with roughly.This is how the US is flushing its sanctions and influence in the world down the toilet. All because marasmacy does not imply any logic. It is difficult in such a situation of complete insanity to predict anything and explain any events when degenerates are at the helm of power. Everything is happening against logic, because the world is ruled by idiots. These are idiots who received an inheritance from their father and mother, managed to go completely bankrupt, who used drugs all their lives or were with prostitutes in Moscow hotels, who, as a result of the civilizational political vacuum, found themselves in power and rule the world. From such elites one can only expect behavior that contradicts logic.