The national will of a couple of dozen of the West's best.
WW11, the Cold War and all that fine history.
X trillion on defence.

But that means nothing because Europe decides to absolutely depend on their energy needs on a pipeline from Russia because it is 5% cheaper.
FFS. tear my hair out

And you Yanks and we New Worlders can wipe that smirk off our face.
We have ALL decided to do exactly the same with China - absolutely depend on it.
China and Russia have an iron grip on our balls and we don't even know it.

We don't want to know it. The prices might go up at Wall Mart by 10%. And besides... they are the only country with the technological capability to make our face masks for us.
Wake up boys and girls - tomorrow morning they are going to simply turn us off with the flick off a switch.

.. and then we will do the dumb fuckest thing of all - lash out in our rage and go to War - because that, Comrades, is so much easier for us than getting our shit together.

We have 15.000 soldiers and a 1000 armored vehicles ready, and they plan to gather 98.000 soldiers in 2025 for the scenario of a 'Titan" attack.
'Titan"-> "Titanic".
I have a feeling we might be late to the party.
https://www.europe1.fr/politique/ukrain ... ie-4090089

According to Ned Prize of the US state department, Russia will do some false flag with a graphic video that would make the invasion of Ukraine a valid option.



Jimmy Dore's take on this guy.



Matt Lee

Not that anyone really cares or is interested... but Putin grew up as a spy in Berlin east... he speaks German, and he was obsessed with the tragedy of the demise of the old Soviet empire, or so the "popular psychological" interpretation goes...

It doesn't really matter "why" he is amassing thousands of men and weapons on the doorstep of Ukraine... He is doing it, and that's all that counts. He is like one of those tomcats you see slinking around in a back alley, prowling quietly, moving silently and slyly, closing in on its weak little victim... preparing to pounce...

In this day and age, all war is obsolete... unless you are a clown killing in the name of some ugly idea of faith in god, there is no more reason to wage war... except for purely commercial reasons...

In this latter respect, Putin is merely putting on a trade show for his tough guys and armaments capabilities... no real reason to invade, except to sell an outdated idea of Russia to his own people. The Russian speakers living in the far east of Ukraine are generally against fighting for or against Russia... they don't want war, they are innocent people caught up in a pointless ideological exercise in politics pinned on linguistic excuses... a young Ukrainian lady I met last week told me that she had lived in eastern Ukraine, in Donetsk, for two years around 2018, working there as a nurse. She said the rebel group in the east there, which has declared independence, was comprised of only a small group of fanatics who started off with no more than 100 members. The average person in the area wants nothing to do with them or their fight for independence... so she said...

Anyway, it is all about selling more guns to Africa, the Arabs, the Turks, whoever Russia can get, she will take for a modest fee. That is the way it is for a shabby, poor harlot of a fallen nation like Russia really is... Russians don't like their own corruption. They would do anything to emigrate anywhere if they only could. Few people, a small minority, really buy into Putin's old patriotic line...

It's all a nonsense pose, like some dummy pining over his suicide girlfriend... waste of men, energy and resources on a meaningless political charade...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... dApp_Other

Old World problems.

like a bar room brawl in the geriatrics ward

B-52's arrived in UK yesterday. More coming next week.

Russia wants peace

Ukraine wants peace

The fucking USA & UK are, as usual, pushing war the like the totalitarian states they are at heart