Ukraine comments
These comments are NOT endorsed by me, AntiWar SubStack or AntiWar Quorum. These are merely comments that I find interesting, but do not know the credibility of (especially the first one).
James Jungles's comment on Live Stream 32: Is a conscription Army still relevant?
RE Russia (and Ukraine): some key points being missed. I'll add, as I'm in Europe, and have contacts on the ground: Firstly (and of less relevance to the big picture - notwithstanding the human cost), have a read up on the Gorlovka Massacre, and Alley of Angels. ...To the main issue(s)... the Donbass is the major transportation line for heroin from Afghanistan - Europe, hence the fierce battle for this specific region (UA delivers the majority of Europe's heroin - supported by Zelensky/his government). Labs processing 'bad virus' is something of a distraction from the drug trade. The major on-the-ground issues in Ukraine at present are heroin, human trafficking, and child prostitution/pornography - including child trafficking ($150,000+ per child), with organ harvesting being part of Zelensky's business model once the children reach an age of no longer being useful to their clients (often when they reach puberty). How do you think he is worth over $500 million? Certainly not from acting...
Big-picture (difficult to see for most, as they are intentionally being puled into the mirth of unnecessary clutter): Ukraine has one of the world's largest titanium reserves, and this is required to facilitate the 4th Industrial Revolution (car batteries etc) - hence people are being cleared from the land. I'd refer you here to Elon Musk/Bolivia i.e Elon tweeting in relation to Bolivia "We'll coup whoever we want to coup" (be careful who you trust RE those being framed as 'arbiters of free speech' - this is a distraction) - due to Bolivia also having one of the largest commodities resources in relation to the 4IR. Take note that Musk's Starlink system was recently discovered in UA (supplied to the Azov Battalion; facilitated by the Pentagon).
Look at what happened to Tanzania's president when he cancelled Glencore's contract... (Tanzania also having one of the largest 4IR mineral reserves). For a good overview RE Tanzania, have a look at Unlimited Hangout's article on the topic (search their site for Magufuli). Again, all is not as it seems, and to fall into debates on which tanks Russia are using is possibly to miss the point... ...And if you really want to get to the meat/speak with boldness, consider who Zelensky's 'people' are. Not Ukrainians, given his dual passport status. He is serving the interests of Israel/Israelis are his people. Putin is no better; look online for him with Schwab. Again, the land is being cleared for mining. The rest is distraction for the cattle.
This is some extremely informative insight into the purpose, structure, and challenges represented by the Russian's operational change to the BTG's. I think you've hit the nail on the head concerning the high numbers of dead high ranking officers on the Russian side. I still think they are far from defeated, and still likely to occupy most of Ukraine by middle of Spring, while the West will be experiencing fuel at 10 dollars a gallon, food at five to ten times normal price after harvest, and the continuing devaluation of the dollar due to inflation and the fracturing of the petrodollar system (brought to you by interdependence, globalization, offshoring, and reckless sanctions). I hate that I'm right about those things too; I'd much rather Ukraine to win, and for us to be the good guys that were smart enough not place ourselves in positions of dependence on foreign energy and fertilizer production, but we weren't. In fact, a recent report I saw indicates that Russia itself was financing extreme climate groups so that we would shut down useful things that produce massive amounts of cheap and clean energy called "nuclear power plants" and become more dependent on Russian energy exports. (See, a movie was made about a real event called Chernobyl recently, and now every stupid boomer environmentalist thinks the unshielded, poorly designed, positive void coefficient having RBMK reactor is the standard power plant in the United States, and that the equally poorly planned Fukushima-Daiichi reactor is likely to experience the same problems in Iowa, only it won't, because that is an extremely old design that foolishly put their emergency generator in a basement in an area that could be flooded by Tsunamis and we also don't use that reactor here either) But ultimately, interdependence itself is a completely failed strategy at Democratizing Russia and China through trade. Our influence was supposed to make them more free. Now, to the contrary, we see that massive corruption, spying, and elite capture, as well as WEF fascination with Chinese ruling styles (like Social Credit Scores and mass tracking) reveals that far from influencing them, China and Russia in fact, influenced us in some really bad ways. If we all get through this year without starving or becoming homeless or getting nuked, we have to start making strategic decisions for the good of our home nations and our alliances like NATO. This "pie in the sky", "citizen of the world" "any level of national pride is bad" outlook promoted by the World Economic Forum is not tenable and ignores the fact that Russia and China (as well as any country that wishes to be successful) embraces a healthy degree of nationalism and seeks to do good by their country and their people while maintaining the the stated goals of becoming more powerful and more dominant. Conversely, the West appears to be on an opposite trajectory, constantly demonizing their core ethnic groups in academia and in the Press, while simultaneously always accusing their own nations of being "imperialists" or "colonizers". This is the core of race-Marxism and Critical Race Theory/Praxis. Every major corporation, The Federal Government, The Military and even churches have instituted Critical Race Praxis and are now are in the process of permanently changing their outlooks to focus primarily on skin color, while pre-designating white people and anything they created as inherently racist or at least very suspect, while stating that People Of Color cannot commit racist acts towards whites, because any level of violence would inherently not be racist, because they redefined the word "racism" to mean that only those with institutional power can be racist. (In fact, let them know any other problems they have with their philosophy and they'll simply change the meanings of those words too) This is not panic or alarmism, this is policy, and right now, hundreds of millions of children are being raised and taught that White People have a "blood libel" that they all carry collective guilt for, and that there are already certain heinous treatments you can demonstrate towards them that are okay. This will not be conducive to holding increasingly diverse nations together, or their militaries. The focus now is on Equity, not equality, which are two totally different concepts, but these practices were sold to you by the media and JRB as "diversity programs that Trump wanted to immorally cancel." The last failed policy of the WEF and other globalist organizations will be the policy of pretending your core ethnic group of citizens are replaceable and interchangeable with any third world economic migrant and need to stop existing in the first place. This, to me, will be the most interesting difference between China & Russian strategy and the Europe/America aligned World Order. My prediction is that China and Russia will stay at the same level of stability or better, while the US and Europe will grow ever more unstable as they simultaneously try to make their core populations into minorities, while also allowing racist ideology like Critical Race Theory to demonize, vilify, and persecute fair skinned people. This will almost certainly result in much more violence, especially as children grow up learning that the white children carry inherent guilt and blood libel at birth. This will likely result in institutional and national instability. Successful muti ethnic countries of the future will likely seek to eliminate any sort of institutional racism, even if its falsely named "a diversity program". They will also have to recognize fake media stories that cause millions of people to believe fake stories about hate crimes that never happened. News Corporations that manufacture fake stories will have to be held extremely accountable to ensure they don't stir up racial violence.
Is Russia winning or losing this war? After listening to Alex Chritoforou, The Duran, the New Atlas, Redacted, Defense Political Asia, Gonzolo Lira, Military Summery, and iEarlGrey ...i'm convinced Russia is winning militarily and economically.