Great article, but - that we can be having this conversation within living memory of Churchill's systematic carpet-bombing of the civilians in some 160 German cities and towns; the deliberate creation of a firestorm which incinerated, suffocated, and sometimes literally melted some 300,000 civilians on Valentines' Day, 1945 in Dresden; Eisenhower's deliberate starving to death of one million "Disarmed Enemy Forces" (German POWs) directly after the war; the estimated 6-10 million Germans killed AFTER the war by the murderous secret Zionist revenge of the Morgenthau Plan; the 130,000 Japanese civilians killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Stalingrad; the privations of the Leningrad population over almost 2 years; and, of course, the 20 - 25 million Soviet lives lost - just sickens me.
Unbelievably, those horrors are set to be repeated (if not in the near future, within a generation) unless the people of the West are able to bring about a seismic change in the culture of western political elites and power relations between ALL elites and ordinary citizens.
To say "War is dirty" is equivalent to saying 'sex is violent' or 'guns kill people' PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE. It is to surrender your agency as a moral being. The definition of personhood is the capacity to choose. You always have a choice unless you surrender your humanity to that inner chimpanzee lurking in all of us.
Also - whatever your politics - please do not mislead other commenters with fake history. An estimated 1,250 civilians were killed by German bombing of Coventry. That is the TOTAL number for ALL air raids. How could your "firestorm" be so ineffective? Two firestorms in Dresden across the Valentines' day period COOKED hundreds of thousands - some estimates approach HALF A MILLION! The Coventry total is 0.2% of that! Is it the case that British civilians had special asbestos properties?
If you actually are just innocently in error rather than mendaciously trying to exploit general ignorance and remoteness in time to create a fact to support your prejudices, then I recommend you - and anyone else reading this - to read Benton L Bradberry's "Myth of German Villainy" or checking out Tobias Bratt's "Europa - The Last Battle", to educate yourself. Everything we in the West learned in school, from the media and Hollywood about history and the two world wars in particular is a lie. Even Pearl Harbour was known about in advance (through breaking the Japanese code) but was allowed to happen in order manipulated the US public into backing America joining the war against Germany (Germany and Japan had a mutual military support treaty, and Japan was embargoed into the desperate act).
Anyone wanting to take a shortcut on the to the truth on the fake idea Alain tried to introduce here needs ask two small question: (1) Why did Germany at no point have a heavy bomber equivalent to the B52 or the British Lancaster bomber in production? (2) How many German bombs fell on Paris during its 1940 conquest by Germany? [the answer is ZERO]
A final point to Alain: even if your fake history WERE in fact the case, how would it change the thrust of the argument in my original comment?
How did they manage to get frostbite on their PENISES but not on their toes, fingers, noses or ears? Of all the apendages, the penis is the most thermally protected when wearing clothing. I'm guessing they used a very wrong protocol when pissing, or shitting. Query: did their nutsacks also get frostbite, or was it only their penises? The fact so many of them got frostbit (supposedly, I'm still having trouble believing this) in the most unlikely place (the only place less likely to get frostbite are nipples and tongue) indicates this was a systemic failure (AKA a bad officer or NCO) and not just a bunch of idiots.
What NATO needs is Russia. Not destruction by Russia, though I believe it could do that alright, but NATO should have Russia as a member. Then we can settle down. Oh.. and expel the USA.
NATO is a bad joke. Sadly, these imbeciles have nukes and some appear to be foolish enough to believe a nuclear exchange survivable. This is complete madness & I am thankful for the rationality & restraint of Russia! The Hazel (Oreshnik) is clearly a game changer and anyone who believes otherwise is a fool! I would strongly encourage ALL to participate in the #SayNotoNuclearWar protests on Dec 7th in the USA & possibly elsewhere in the West....if it's not too late. We the people MUST stop the death cult of zionist neocons that have taken over the USA Gov't & most of the West. We've got to stop this NOW!!
Nice story about some frozen dicks. The whole problem with NATO-countries is that they lack the industrial basis for production, they lack manpower and Russia's news weapons (Oreshnik e.g.) makes it impossible to concentrate troops (mass). The C4ISR and long-range precisions weapons of Russia give her a very large edge over NATO. If you can see deep in the operational space and you can hit what you see very fast (ROK/RUK supported by hypersonic missiles (blocks) it's game over for NATO.
"And on the third day, 54 people got frostbite on their penises (really, this is not a joke).". It would be hilarious if it weren't so tragic. No wonder they seem keen on going straight to nukes.
I spent 21 years with HQ USAEUR (NATO CENTAG HQ); in 1990 we could field 10 div (heavy) in 10 days. 2 Mech Inf, 2 Armor , 2 ACR were located within Germany. The equipment for an additional 6 heavy divisions was stored/maintained in warehouses (POMCUS) prepositioned in Holland/Belgium. We were prepared to fight the Warsaw Pact for 30 days in a defensive effort and then use Nukes because conventional forces would be exhausted. At no time did we believe that we could take up an offensive posture. NATO would have needed approximately 5 million estimate and we knew that the Europeans would never be able to field beyond the initial 1m they had promised. We also believed that we would enjoy air superiority over Germany and there was relative little ISR so our ammunition supplies would not be gone in a matter of hours. Those dynamics have not existed for 25 years. Our ammunition and equipment is gone to fight losing conflicts around the world. The Europeans took their "Peace Dividend" and ran. We screwed the EU over big time, but you cannot cheat an honest man so the Europeans got what they deserved. We need a reset in the west and I am afraid that only Putin can provide it; hopefully it will not involve nukes but rather come through BRICS, but our country is being run by individuals that are "bat shit crazy" and their cognitive dissonance is overwhelming.
Andrew Korybko's Substack Essay today tells us of a "Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service Warned About A 100k-Strong NATO Intervention In Ukraine".
The purpose is to "FREEZE" the conflict... by inserting trip-wire "Peace-Keepers".
Certainly, from your coverage of NATO exercises, NATO cannot physically insert 100k troops BEFORE the scheduled swearing in of Donald Trump on January 20th, 2025.
Without rereading your thorough (and appreciated) litany of NATO exercise failures and glitches, I wonder if NATO can field 100k fully (mostly?) equipped combat troops in Ukraine by the end of Donald Trumps 2nd term, scheduled for Jan. 20, 2029.
News reports out of the latest NATO posturing Conference, earlier this week, seems to be threatening to send NATO troops to Ukraine. They apparently have PR people from the same school that told the world repeatedly about the "sure to be successful" Ukrainian counter-offensive scheduled for Spring, no, Summer, no, Fall of 2023.
Given your coverage of the much smaller NATO invasion exercises, I'd guess it would take many months of small increments to get 100k (more) troops into Ukraine (unless they drop them from planes, all at once, west of Kiev... in the summer).
Do I need to wonder if Russia will neglect to "take care" of the 100,000 as they arrive as they arrive piecemeal, instead of allowing the NATO self-labelled "peace-keepers" to accumulate?
With all the related equipment, air cover, air defense systems and missiles needed by the 100,000 ground troops, Russia will have a target-rich battlefield, once the required equipment is moved from Asia, etc. and built by the MIC, leaving the US bases spread around the globe, indefensable. Not to forget European countries, whose deployment to Ukraine will leave nothing (and nobody) to defend their own countries.
So, who will believe the NATO threats?
And are these believers in a position to respond in a way that helps NATO?
Or is this just continued propaganda to convince the rubes back home that NATO is not defeated and will win?
they're losing 500k / year, so that's less than 3 months' worth, all so that Zelensky and Yermak can steal their money... And when these fools go home horribly injured, they won't be able to recruit volunteers for a generation
A big US War College UKR War Game: US against Russia resulted in 100k US (D+I) casualties PER MONTH. US only has 2 mo of people and would be out of mortar shells, AD missiles & Systems very quickly. Starting US conscription means no troops til 2026. Rest of NATO are irrelevant except Turkey and they are unlikely to go against Russia, which fuels the Erdogan family Petrol business.
If the draft is instituted in the US there will be an uproar by the public and half of draftees wiil go to canada the other half to mexico. Look at what happened during the vietnam war that had 50000 killed in years. 3500 casualties per day will be a wake up call for americans.
I agree, which is why I mentioned The Draft. Also because new regulations to make it easier to reStart it, have been made in the last yr.
Note that US wargames: US vs Russia in UKR indicate about the same US forces die in 2-3 months than died in 10yrs in Vietnam. The folks back home will not tolerate that (so the Govt. will lie about it).
Hopefully we will have demonstrations making the 60s and 70s look like hippy parties. And where are the peaceniks today? Where is the church the pope? It is sickening.
The Narrative Control is much more complete these days. Back in the day, Vietnam casualties were covering on the Network News, even though the Generals swore the US was winning.
Now the MSM publicity avoids reporting UKR and US casualties, desertions, surrenders, or Russia progress.
When you think of NATO think of a mafia boss of New Jersey calling his counterpart in Nu Yawk informing him they've got an Irish problem at the docks and in Chinatown. Only in real life it's Larry Fink calling Bill Gates.
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Alone at home, sitting at my desk in front of my PC monitor, I truly laughed, thanks to your article.
Mr. Khairullin,
Would it be possible for you to post links backing up your reporting?
That is sad.
I live in Northern Wisconsin. I’ve worked out woods year-round. Couple years back. We had one month of -20 for a high.
Had to watch out for my finger and face. And there’s lots of wood to burn low hanging limbs the tree provides.
Never had a problem with my penis getting cold .
Who do you mean is losing 500,000/yr? 500k what?
Great article, but - that we can be having this conversation within living memory of Churchill's systematic carpet-bombing of the civilians in some 160 German cities and towns; the deliberate creation of a firestorm which incinerated, suffocated, and sometimes literally melted some 300,000 civilians on Valentines' Day, 1945 in Dresden; Eisenhower's deliberate starving to death of one million "Disarmed Enemy Forces" (German POWs) directly after the war; the estimated 6-10 million Germans killed AFTER the war by the murderous secret Zionist revenge of the Morgenthau Plan; the 130,000 Japanese civilians killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Stalingrad; the privations of the Leningrad population over almost 2 years; and, of course, the 20 - 25 million Soviet lives lost - just sickens me.
Unbelievably, those horrors are set to be repeated (if not in the near future, within a generation) unless the people of the West are able to bring about a seismic change in the culture of western political elites and power relations between ALL elites and ordinary citizens.
The Luftwaffe used the same tac tics on the Britsh famously creating a firestorm in Coventry. War is dirty
To say "War is dirty" is equivalent to saying 'sex is violent' or 'guns kill people' PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE. It is to surrender your agency as a moral being. The definition of personhood is the capacity to choose. You always have a choice unless you surrender your humanity to that inner chimpanzee lurking in all of us.
Also - whatever your politics - please do not mislead other commenters with fake history. An estimated 1,250 civilians were killed by German bombing of Coventry. That is the TOTAL number for ALL air raids. How could your "firestorm" be so ineffective? Two firestorms in Dresden across the Valentines' day period COOKED hundreds of thousands - some estimates approach HALF A MILLION! The Coventry total is 0.2% of that! Is it the case that British civilians had special asbestos properties?
If you actually are just innocently in error rather than mendaciously trying to exploit general ignorance and remoteness in time to create a fact to support your prejudices, then I recommend you - and anyone else reading this - to read Benton L Bradberry's "Myth of German Villainy" or checking out Tobias Bratt's "Europa - The Last Battle", to educate yourself. Everything we in the West learned in school, from the media and Hollywood about history and the two world wars in particular is a lie. Even Pearl Harbour was known about in advance (through breaking the Japanese code) but was allowed to happen in order manipulated the US public into backing America joining the war against Germany (Germany and Japan had a mutual military support treaty, and Japan was embargoed into the desperate act).
Anyone wanting to take a shortcut on the to the truth on the fake idea Alain tried to introduce here needs ask two small question: (1) Why did Germany at no point have a heavy bomber equivalent to the B52 or the British Lancaster bomber in production? (2) How many German bombs fell on Paris during its 1940 conquest by Germany? [the answer is ZERO]
A final point to Alain: even if your fake history WERE in fact the case, how would it change the thrust of the argument in my original comment?
How did they manage to get frostbite on their PENISES but not on their toes, fingers, noses or ears? Of all the apendages, the penis is the most thermally protected when wearing clothing. I'm guessing they used a very wrong protocol when pissing, or shitting. Query: did their nutsacks also get frostbite, or was it only their penises? The fact so many of them got frostbit (supposedly, I'm still having trouble believing this) in the most unlikely place (the only place less likely to get frostbite are nipples and tongue) indicates this was a systemic failure (AKA a bad officer or NCO) and not just a bunch of idiots.
Apparently, penis frostbite is a repeating problem with cross-country skiers. https://7news.com.au/sport/snow-sports/swedish-skier-calle-halfvarsson-suffers-frozen-penis-at-world-cup-event-in-finlands-brutal-cold-c-12719049 https://www.vice.com/en/article/all-your-questions-about-that-finnish-olympic-skier-with-the-frozen-penis-remi-lindholm-answered-by-a-urologist/
Who knew?
What NATO needs is Russia. Not destruction by Russia, though I believe it could do that alright, but NATO should have Russia as a member. Then we can settle down. Oh.. and expel the USA.
54 frost-bitten dicks tells you all you need to know about NATO. Limp, flaccid and incapable when called to action.
NATO is a bad joke. Sadly, these imbeciles have nukes and some appear to be foolish enough to believe a nuclear exchange survivable. This is complete madness & I am thankful for the rationality & restraint of Russia! The Hazel (Oreshnik) is clearly a game changer and anyone who believes otherwise is a fool! I would strongly encourage ALL to participate in the #SayNotoNuclearWar protests on Dec 7th in the USA & possibly elsewhere in the West....if it's not too late. We the people MUST stop the death cult of zionist neocons that have taken over the USA Gov't & most of the West. We've got to stop this NOW!!
Nice story about some frozen dicks. The whole problem with NATO-countries is that they lack the industrial basis for production, they lack manpower and Russia's news weapons (Oreshnik e.g.) makes it impossible to concentrate troops (mass). The C4ISR and long-range precisions weapons of Russia give her a very large edge over NATO. If you can see deep in the operational space and you can hit what you see very fast (ROK/RUK supported by hypersonic missiles (blocks) it's game over for NATO.
Frostbitten dicks means that the bored marines were probably having blowjob competitions in their tents to keep warm.
"And on the third day, 54 people got frostbite on their penises (really, this is not a joke).". It would be hilarious if it weren't so tragic. No wonder they seem keen on going straight to nukes.
And such things as this go on, in the dystopian West: https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/are-they-planning-a-false-flag-event
I spent 21 years with HQ USAEUR (NATO CENTAG HQ); in 1990 we could field 10 div (heavy) in 10 days. 2 Mech Inf, 2 Armor , 2 ACR were located within Germany. The equipment for an additional 6 heavy divisions was stored/maintained in warehouses (POMCUS) prepositioned in Holland/Belgium. We were prepared to fight the Warsaw Pact for 30 days in a defensive effort and then use Nukes because conventional forces would be exhausted. At no time did we believe that we could take up an offensive posture. NATO would have needed approximately 5 million estimate and we knew that the Europeans would never be able to field beyond the initial 1m they had promised. We also believed that we would enjoy air superiority over Germany and there was relative little ISR so our ammunition supplies would not be gone in a matter of hours. Those dynamics have not existed for 25 years. Our ammunition and equipment is gone to fight losing conflicts around the world. The Europeans took their "Peace Dividend" and ran. We screwed the EU over big time, but you cannot cheat an honest man so the Europeans got what they deserved. We need a reset in the west and I am afraid that only Putin can provide it; hopefully it will not involve nukes but rather come through BRICS, but our country is being run by individuals that are "bat shit crazy" and their cognitive dissonance is overwhelming.
Andrew Korybko's Substack Essay today tells us of a "Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service Warned About A 100k-Strong NATO Intervention In Ukraine".
The purpose is to "FREEZE" the conflict... by inserting trip-wire "Peace-Keepers".
Certainly, from your coverage of NATO exercises, NATO cannot physically insert 100k troops BEFORE the scheduled swearing in of Donald Trump on January 20th, 2025.
Without rereading your thorough (and appreciated) litany of NATO exercise failures and glitches, I wonder if NATO can field 100k fully (mostly?) equipped combat troops in Ukraine by the end of Donald Trumps 2nd term, scheduled for Jan. 20, 2029.
News reports out of the latest NATO posturing Conference, earlier this week, seems to be threatening to send NATO troops to Ukraine. They apparently have PR people from the same school that told the world repeatedly about the "sure to be successful" Ukrainian counter-offensive scheduled for Spring, no, Summer, no, Fall of 2023.
Given your coverage of the much smaller NATO invasion exercises, I'd guess it would take many months of small increments to get 100k (more) troops into Ukraine (unless they drop them from planes, all at once, west of Kiev... in the summer).
Do I need to wonder if Russia will neglect to "take care" of the 100,000 as they arrive as they arrive piecemeal, instead of allowing the NATO self-labelled "peace-keepers" to accumulate?
With all the related equipment, air cover, air defense systems and missiles needed by the 100,000 ground troops, Russia will have a target-rich battlefield, once the required equipment is moved from Asia, etc. and built by the MIC, leaving the US bases spread around the globe, indefensable. Not to forget European countries, whose deployment to Ukraine will leave nothing (and nobody) to defend their own countries.
So, who will believe the NATO threats?
And are these believers in a position to respond in a way that helps NATO?
Or is this just continued propaganda to convince the rubes back home that NATO is not defeated and will win?
they're losing 500k / year, so that's less than 3 months' worth, all so that Zelensky and Yermak can steal their money... And when these fools go home horribly injured, they won't be able to recruit volunteers for a generation
A big US War College UKR War Game: US against Russia resulted in 100k US (D+I) casualties PER MONTH. US only has 2 mo of people and would be out of mortar shells, AD missiles & Systems very quickly. Starting US conscription means no troops til 2026. Rest of NATO are irrelevant except Turkey and they are unlikely to go against Russia, which fuels the Erdogan family Petrol business.
If the draft is instituted in the US there will be an uproar by the public and half of draftees wiil go to canada the other half to mexico. Look at what happened during the vietnam war that had 50000 killed in years. 3500 casualties per day will be a wake up call for americans.
I agree, which is why I mentioned The Draft. Also because new regulations to make it easier to reStart it, have been made in the last yr.
Note that US wargames: US vs Russia in UKR indicate about the same US forces die in 2-3 months than died in 10yrs in Vietnam. The folks back home will not tolerate that (so the Govt. will lie about it).
Hopefully we will have demonstrations making the 60s and 70s look like hippy parties. And where are the peaceniks today? Where is the church the pope? It is sickening.
The Narrative Control is much more complete these days. Back in the day, Vietnam casualties were covering on the Network News, even though the Generals swore the US was winning.
Now the MSM publicity avoids reporting UKR and US casualties, desertions, surrenders, or Russia progress.
Everyone's got a plan until you get Oreshniked.
When you think of NATO think of a mafia boss of New Jersey calling his counterpart in Nu Yawk informing him they've got an Irish problem at the docks and in Chinatown. Only in real life it's Larry Fink calling Bill Gates.