Europe at War

[Florestan]

Mossad, please come to the rescue!

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Reports that much of the Russian army is not ethnically Russian, lest important people in Russia complain too much.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-04/vladimir-putin-mobilisation-targeting-ethnic-minorites/101486642?utm_source=abc_news_web&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_web

Sorry, I had missed your earlier posting when I did mine.  Haven't had a chance to read your article yet, but I suspect that the articles are similar in nature.  Will check it out soon.

PD

[drogulus]

Oh, I think that if the USA said 'give up Crimea for peace, and if you don't, no more HIMARS for you', they'd probably agree to it.

    The US is about to provide a better missile for the HIMARS, or maybe it already has. Nobody tells me anything, so I have to figure out what it means. All I can say is what it looks like. The US wants Ukraine to be able to get back its territory.

[Madiel]

All state borders are artificial constructs.

Russia is an artificial construct. The fact that the rulers of Moscow took on the Rus name does not give them a direct line of authority to Kievan Rus. Which is not even where the Rus started within that part of the world, and before that they were almost certainly a bunch of invading Scandinavians.

People go back to history to invoke the bits that suit them, and artificially stop at various points. But we now have modern systems of how to change borders. Putin has just aped one of those modern systems precisely because he knows a referendum is acceptable.

[Madiel]

Fire and explosion on the Russia-Crimea bridge. A rather interesting development.

[Que]

Fire and explosion on the Russia-Crimea bridge. A rather interesting development.

Indeed. The explosion was huge and a train was hit, as you can see on the picture below.

The roadside of the bridge has collapsed,  the railway part might go soon:




I'm waiting for another Ukranian surprise: the opening of a third front.

[Harry]

And there is a major incident with the Starlink used for communication by the Ukrainians. Troops are at the moment blind on the battle field. Hopefully Musk and his team can solve this soon before the Ukes loose their momentum. A Russian hack it was.

[71 dB]

I am fed up with all the insanity. Humankind is done. We were too stupid to make this work so we destroy ourself. It is only a matter of time when the nuking starts because they can't stop that madman. Bombing the bridge is a good reason for Putin to nuke Ukraine.

[Todd]

Biden's 'Armageddon' warning wasn't based on new intelligence, US says

It was reckless fear mongering and warmongering at a midterm fundraising event with the express intention of funneling more dollars to the proper candidates and to get out the vote drives.  Or it was a gaffe.  Or it was a gaffe that was not really a gaffe, like Biden's reckless call for regime change in Russia only a few months ago. 

[Que]

Bombing the bridge is a good reason for Putin to nuke Ukraine.

The bridge is in Ukraine. Besides, not that it makes you more at ease, Putin could drop the bomb whenever he wants.

[71 dB]

The bridge is in Ukraine. Besides, not that it makes you more at ease, Putin could drop the bomb whenever he wants.

Putin thinks it was in Russia since 2014.

[Todd]

The U.S. Needs To Change Course Right Now in Ukraine

A Newsweek op-ed.  This probably means Newsweek is a lost cause.

[drogulus]

     Pointing out there's no clear line between the use of a tactical nuke and a full nuclear exchange is done all the time by normal people and even experts. My view is that the ambiguity over the response is a feature and not oversight or confusion. Let people argue over the wisdom of "no clear line", I say. Add another layer of ambiguity on top. There is ambiguity in war, and more ambiguity in deterrence. I would not assume any kind of mongering unless I knew the identity of the intended recipients of the message Biden was sending. I think I know, but I'm not sure.

[drogulus]

    If a magazine endorses a "might makes right" outcome over signed agreements then why complain about Ukraine reconquering its own territory? What are they doing wrong? Are they not mighty and therefor have rights, just like Russians did when they were the mighty ones?

[Karl Henning]

Putin does not lack for useful American idiots.

[Todd]

How you describe the elected head of state of Ukraine as "a pawn of the Davos/NGO globalist class" with a straight face, I leave as an exercise for the gullible and daft.

I agree with this.  Zelensky is a good, old-fashioned American puppet.  He won't be the last.

[Todd]

Sticking with the topic of everyone's current favorite American puppet, this week's Twitter exchange was an exercise in bold leadership, decisiveness, seriousness, and an unfailing ability to focus on what's important.

Hopefully, Zelensky can refocus on begging for dollars.

[drogulus]

     Whose puppet was Zelensky when Trump asked for a "favor though" he didn't grant?

Putin does not lack for useful American idiots.

     Oh I think he does lack them. There's no unified support among Trumpists for Putin. The CPAC group issued a pro-Putin tweet and then deleted it and put up a pro-Ukraine one that mentioned "American taxpayers" something something. So.....now you have my attention? Geez, taxes, why didn't I think of that?

[Madiel]

    If a magazine endorses a "might makes right" outcome over signed agreements then why complain about Ukraine reconquering its own territory? What are they doing wrong? Are they not mighty and therefor have rights, just like Russians did when they were the mighty ones?

Indeed. Urging an end to war just when Ukraine is winning...

It's also completely weird arguing that the only thing that meaningfully counts as "Ukraine" is Kyiv.

[Todd]

US professor hauled off air over Nord Stream pipeline accusation

Jeffrey Sachs is at it again.  He was being interviewed on Bloomberg when he asserted that the US blew up the Nord Stream pipelines, asserted that non-Americans he spoke with agreed with him, and that some US reporters do as well.  The hosts were displeased.  (I have not noticed any such displeasure when someone asserts that Russia blew the pipelines up, also without evidence.  Hmm.)  The video is available on YouTube and Rumble and elsewhere.  He cites Secretary Blinken's statement about how the Nord Stream incident presents a "tremendous opportunity" to eliminate European dependence on Russian energy as circumstantial evidence.  (Blinken's statement echoes statements made by Condoleeza Rice in a 2014 interview regarding removing Russia as a source for European energy and replacing it with American energy, but Mr Sachs did not mention that.)  Mr Sachs was very naughty.

I wonder if Mr Sachs will be named to the Time 100 list again, especially given that Time, based on the facts and nothing but the facts, has already definitively reported that Russia done did blow up them thar pipelines.