by Larry Johnson
Volodomyr Zelensky got the bad news in Vilnius — notwithstanding lip service from some of the NATO members — the United States and Germany are refusing to let Ukraine join the club out of fear of broadening the war with Russia. Make no mistake — NATO is at war with Russia, but the West is cognizant of its military weakness and is not willing as an organization to risk taking steps that would provoke direct fighting between Russian and NATO forces.
A frustrated President Volodymyr Zelensky launched a furious broadside against Ukraine’s NATO allies Tuesday as they began a summit still unsure how to advance Kyiv’s membership bid.
Zelensky, who will come to Vilnius during the two-day summit, denounced as “absurd” the reluctance of some NATO leaders to provide a clear timetable for Ukraine to join the alliance.
“Uncertainty is weakness. And I will openly discuss this at the summit,” Zelensky tweeted. The alliance backs Ukraine in its battle against Russia’s 16-month-old invasion, but several members — notably US President Joe Biden — oppose giving Ukraine a timetable for membership.
However, France and the United Kingdom, acting independently of NATO, made a foolish and dangerous promise — they are going to provide Ukraine with long-range cruise missiles that can strike inside Russian territory. We have reached the point in this war where the West is struggling to come to grips with the fact that its gift of tanks and weapons to Ukraine have been a total bust and panic is setting in.
I encourage you to view the Wall Street Journal video that Andrei Martyanov posted (I can’t figure out how to post it in Word Press). At least two American Generals (retired) who have been some of the most ardent cheerleaders and spinmeisters for the Ukrainian offensive are admitting grudgingly that the operation is a bust. That is putting it mildly. The Ukrainian troops, along with their equipment, are being smashed.
Russia is no longer crouching in a defensive posture. It launched its own counter offensive and is enjoying success in pushing Ukrainian forces back:
🔹Fighting continues on the frontline. In the #Starobelsk direction, the RF Armed Forces were able to advance in the area of the Zhuravka Balka and the vicinity of #Torskoye, and also foiled a massive attack near #Dibrova. In the #Bakhmut sector, Russian troops conducted a counterattack near #Kleshchiyevka and also repelled an enemy attack in the vicinity of #Berkhovka.
🔹 Fierce clashes are taking place in the #Vremyevka sector. Ukrainian marines are trying to advance in the area of #Priyutnoye and Grushevaya Balka, where they had previously managed to gain a foothold in plantations. At #Rabotino, the enemy unsuccessfully attacked north of the settlement, losing armoured vehicles supplied by the West.
🔹 In the #Kherson direction, Russian units continue to fight Ukrainian saboteurs who have landed on the islands and under the #Antonovsky Bridge. According to some reports, a railway bridge was blown up north of #Alyoshki.
I anticipate that Russia will intensify its attacks on Ukrainian positions at key locations along the 800 mile line of contact in the next two weeks. While NATO is scrambling to provide Ukraine with actionable intelligence to try to damage the Russian capabilities, Zelensky and his Generals confront a harsh reality that first class intelligence is useless if you do not have the manpower or equipment to make a major dent in Russian defenses. Ukraine’s military grows weaker with each fruitless attack.
I agree with Andrei that the promised escalation by France and the U.K. is likely to provoke a Russian response. It is one thing to covertly provide more sophisticated lethal weaponry to Ukraine. Recall that the Soviets did it to the Americans in Vietnam and that the United States did it to the Soviets in Afghanistan. Both the Americans and the Russians quietly agreed to live with those actions without risking escalation into a direct conflict. They continued to have normal diplomatic contacts and negotiated arms control agreements in spite of the covert proxy wars. Each side knew what the other was doing but each side also took steps to try to hide their actions.
No, Zelensky.
Uncertainty is strength.
He should be on his back foot.
Unless he is a blackmailer extraordinaire he should not be dictating to joe what our next move is going to be.
Instead of claiming the war is shifting, it’s more true that the reporting is becoming more honest.
Its what we have always known. Ukraine couldnt war against Russia, send Tanks, who is going to drive them when Zelensky has killed all the fighting aged men. The Women on the front are getting Yeast infections, make those guys bathe first “ladies”. Someone send vinegar to the front.
Long ago, when this first began, I said either we let Russia have Ukraine or we go full in (with aid and equipment) and support Ukraine. Of course, as is his incompetent habit, idiot Biden did neither. He dribbled aid into Ukraine, just enough to keep them from being overrun. What did he or anyone else think Putin would do? Suffer a few embarrassing defeats and just call it quits?
Now we’ve plowed $200 billion (probably much more) into Ukraine and have accomplished nothing but getting more Ukrainians killed. All because idiot Biden does what AOC tells him to do about energy. What did he think, she would let him sniff her if he did her bidding?
Idiot f**king corrupt, incompetent, degenerate moron.
Ukraine never had a chance against Russia. Time to stop sending money and military equipment. End the killing fields.
Zelensky genocide of Ukrainians.
The war HAS NOT shifted decisively in Russia’s favor. Nor is Trump going to end the war in 24 hours by giving the murderous little bastard everything he wants.
ESADMF
How do you know?
Source?
He doesn’t. More lies
07/12/23 – Giuliani and election fraud promoters didn’t vet claims, new court documents show –
Trump lawyer Boris Epshteyn shout-out, prior to January 6:
As consumer prices in the US climb, and home-ownership becomes a thing of the past (people will be living in highrises, like their Chinese peasant counterparts), we continue to be reminded of the havoc caused by the rigged 2020 election, and the people still fighting to scream loud enough until their lie of a legal win for Biden somehow becomes “fact.”
It never will.
Inflation has dropped to 3%.
Oh, and how’s that Strategic Petroleum Reserve doing?
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That’s correct. The dropping rate of inflation means the brakes are working. Good news, assuming you want to see inflation reduced.
Inflation isn’t being reduced.
We have a regime that baked election results.
Baking a basket of goods is pretty easy for them.
Dismissed.
The Left needs to seed the lie that the economy is good, because how the economy is doing is what decides elections.
That’s why they released covid: to damage the economy.
Now they will fabricate a “good economy”narrative in order to harvest votes from hapless victims.
MAGA is mega-negative about everything, with no positive plan about anything.
It’s just bitch, whine, moan, complain, blame Biden, praise Trump, apologize for Putin, and then repeat.
You think it was a good idea for idiot Biden to announce we were running out of 155mm ammunition and don’t have a way to replace it quickly?
Yes, since that figured into Biden’s controversial decision to supply Ukraine with cluster bombs and munitions. Putin has been using such weapons against Ukraine since 2014.
So, exposing military weakness to our enemies is, in your mind, smart. That explains some things.
Are you under the impression that supplying cluster munitions to repel an invader that’s already using them conveys a message of military weakness?
I doubt if Putin will see it that way. Lethal force is something that he understands.
No, stupid. Promoting the fact that we have given away our stocks of 155mm ammunition when we have little to no industrial capacity to replace it is a sign of weakness, stupidity and incompetence. But, those are the hallmarks of idiot Biden’s regime, isn’t
Ukraine already lost and NATO looks weak.
The world smells blood in the water
Get real. You people lost control and you cheated.
Now you are American’s enemies.
Remember how positive the left was about 1.3% inflation, energy independence, securing the border, a booming economy, lower unemployment, especially for blacks, Hispanics and women and world peace under Trump?
Idiot Biden is an unmitigated disaster that has made EVERYTHING worse.
Trump is a self-aggrandizing asshole, unfit to lead or represent the American people.
Trump was a resounding success and not just in comparison to Obama’s failed disaster or idiot Biden’s complete failure. But, you on the left despise anything that makes the United States stronger and better.
If you liked four years of widening division and violence that spilled over into the streets, I suppose you might think that.
Trump has done serious damage to the national psyche that will linger long after he’s done.
False. He trounced the deep state.
They’ll destroy the economy and our unity to get control back.
They already did.
It’s not working out for them, and Biden fiddles and America burns.
The regime won’t survive their treachery.
No, I was totally disgusted by the left’s crybaby, spoiled brat, sore loser reaction to Trump being elected President, but still having leftist violence and divisiveness AND the corrupt incompetence of idiot Biden isn’t really any better.
Only crybabies that are too stupid to see the truth hated Trump and they never even knew why. They were just TOLD to.
Ever notice, greg, that antifa and blm only destroyed billions of dollars in BLUE states?
Whenever they tried anything like that in a Red State the police put them down.
MAGA works.
It was achieving the goals of putting money back into the pockets of normal Americans and taking it from billionaires.
Funny you claim that’s what you want but you do everything to oppose it.
Real cost of living isnt factored in, gas, groceries, rents are skyrocketing cause the fed raised rates on buying a house.
Do you think Trump pressuring the Fed to reduce interest rates to near zero again would fix everything up?
It would turn your hard-earned dollars into monopoly money. Trump doesn’t have a clue.
Revitalizing our energy industry would stoke our economy AND weaken Putin. Now that we are dependent on Saudi oil again, we have Iranians hijacking tankers. The solution is very, very clear: idiot Biden needs to reverse everything he has done, which wrecked the strong economy Trump had created.
Our energy industry is doing just fine. The US is currently the greatest producer of petroleum and natural gas in the world.
Is that why our Strategic Petroleum Reserve is depleted?
False. We’re down in production, and gouging Europe.
The goal is to set up a multipolar world, China and the US.
Russia is just in the way.
How about a link to any credible source that backs up that claim? Like Trump, you just say things. There’s plenty of available data that confirms America’s booming energy production levels.
The most depressing thing about America at the moment is the avalanche of bullshit coming from the right. They’d strangle their own grandmothers to take control, and then blame it all on Biden.
I see you don’t understand how state run media works…. Especially since you idiots are trying to out “Russia” Russia.
They could tell you anything and you’ll swallow it hook line and sinker.
The US has never been weaker since it’s ascension during the early part of the 20th century.
Plan is to actually give us property to the Chinese.
If you want to see state run media, look at Russia. You wouldn’t last a week in Russia, running your mouth like you do. Putin’s goons would kick in your door and drag you off to jail, and Putin’s laws would make it all legal. Then you might find yourself in Ukraine, forced to advance against machine guns and cluster munitions.
You don’t have a clue how free you are, or how good you’ve got it. You’re like spoiled children.
It’s called Free speech comrade. I know it rankles you so much.
Our unelected government is trying to out Russia Russia.
It’s not working as they seem to be 6.2 billion dollars richer.
Funny how you won’t talk about that.
And in Russia, the do what you do: lie over and over again hoping people will believe it.
Obama was a disaster. Verified.
We’re fighting creeps like so we DON’T become like Russia.
You want Communism
Democrats are fighting Putin and Trump so we don’t become like Russia.
We’re fighting Biden and the deep state.
Americans are fighting YOU.
The Biden Depression already made our money useless.
Given that Trump was very successful as president both in executive ability and financial clout, anything American has no doubt he can fix this problem.
Oddly enough, merchants gladly accept my money for goods and services on a daily basis, and offer for purchase more things than I want or need.
In China?
OBAMA had the interest rates at zero because he couldn’t afford ANY pressure on the economy, since it was already lethargic and struggling.
Obama was dealing with the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
Trump was dealing with an Obama recovery that had already produced 75 consecutive months of continuous economic growth.
False. Trump turned the economy around and gave us one of the best for decades.
Our own corrupt government committed high treason and now we are suffering high crime, wars, and one of the worst economies in American history.
Obama’s taxes and regulations assured that the economy would never recover and, until Trump revoked those regulations, the economy stank. There never was an “Obama recovery”… he had a stagnant, lethargic economy that cut wages and offered nothing but low-paying and part time jobs.
75 consecutive months of job gains…the best in the nation’s history. You just can’t accept that reality.
Because everyone knows that’s not reality.
Like fellow dictatorships in China and russia, false regimes commonly lie about their so-called achievements.
Obama was the biggest disaster next to Joe Biden for our country.
Obama failed on every dimension. Trump rebuilt our economy from Obama’s failure and we’ve been living with the cry baby left ever since.
No, everyone DOESN’T know that. Obviously.
It’s common knowledge.
China is imploding. They won’t survive the multifaceted societal collapse that’s already beginning.
The WEF seeks to use this dead nation in their schemes.
OK, OK. Point taken. Everyone but YOU knows it.
Shitty, low paying and part time jobs. Wages went DOWN. Labor participation was DOWN. His economy was a hollow turd. Idiot Biden’s economy is that turd that has been stepped on.
Trump, literally, made America great again. Idiot Biden made it weak and vulnerable again.
Inflation is what turns currency into Monopoly money, greg.
Haven’t you ever seen photos of people using cash as wallpaper, to start fires, to insulate cold homes?
Ever see a wheel barrel full of cash being traded for a loaf of bread?
That might be relevant to rising prices. If you trying to buy a house, which are in short supply, you must now compete with corporate investors.
All Democrat donors.
Your cult leader is a billionaire, Dearie.
Thank God he is. A billionaire who paid a billion of his own money to run, unlike all of your candidates who are nothing more than parasites on our tax dollars.
I’ll take a man like that who actually gives something to the country for the honor of representing us any day of the week.
That’s why you are losing the soul of the country while you try to consolidate power through deception.
Can’t wait to see what whistleblowers come out this week.
Trump’s fundraising operations have picked his supporters’ pockets of over $500 million dollars since he lost the 2020 election. But hey…who can put a price on Saving America?
False. The Left “pushes a positive to pretend it’s a negative”
Legal fundraising. What a legend.
Compared to the six billion given to Biden to simply buy the election (and they still cheated).
Democrats are the party of crony capitalism. The laundered our own tax money through Ukraine to pay for dem/GOP elections.
I find it funny you think this fed gov has any authority.
Trump is honest.
You are not.
You should try to take back control of your own mind.
I’d take your own advice friend.
You don’t understand how indoctrinated you are, I know.
Breaking:
This is escalation and it is not necessary.
They said Trump would start WW3.
Biden is doing that.
***And now joe tells the world we are running low on ammunition.
They said Trump would prosecute his political enemies.
Biden is doing that.
They said Trump would be the laughing stock of the world.
Biden is doing that.
They said Trump wasn’t mentally fit.
Biden is doing that.
They said Trump would ruin our retirements and send inflation through the roof.
Biden is doing that.
They said we wouldn’t be able to afford gas and groceries under Trump.
Biden is doing that.
They LIED. Now we are all suffering for it.
If you think we are better under Biden than Trump then you are lying to yourself.
Biden is the unelected imposter, fumbling, stupid, and completely not in charge puppet that they said Trump was…
This was always part of the wef plan, but I don’t think they have control of the situation like they pretend they do.
Pride comes before the fall after all.
It’s quite a symbol that our regime hung pride on the White House…
We American citizens need only sit back and watch them fall.
I pray to God this entire fiasco fails and fails miserably. biden will cause the unnecessary deaths of our blood and treasure. He has no right to send our military members to their deaths or potential disabilities.
This would not be happening if the situation Ukraine was not dire. Russia is winning this war and the best outcome for ending the killing is to let them win.
Maybe he’ll send the Tranny Swish Brigade so our enemies and allies will be duly impressed. I guess it would be pointless to ship a bunch of 155mm howitzers along with them.
Speaking of taking control, it looks like Biden is sending 3,000 troops to Poland while Russia has 100,000 amassed on it’s border
Why won’t you talk about the 6.2 billion we paid Putin to help his war effort?
No need to be embarrassed son. Just be honest.
Touch Poland and we’ll nuke Moscow. That’s why Biden has sent only 3,000 to Poland. That’s why Putin’s war has been confined to Ukraine. He chose to wage a war he thought he would quickly win because no one would resist him. Now he’s going to destroy himself because NATO did. Dictators who fail to win the wars they start don’t last long.
Nuke Moscow and they nuke DC. Then the rest of the US.
Are you really this fucking dumb?
https://peertube.su/w/aPXMFC4WL7J3oKxM3T7DPz
Curt, you really had to ask Comrade Greggie that? What do you think the answer is; yes or YES?
Just seems inconceivable that someone could be this ignorant. But I guess I shouldn’t be surprised after the many years of reading his comments. I’ve lost many brain cells trying to understand his idiocy.
What are the options for people like Greg? Face the facts and admit their ideology and entire belief system is a failure? Lying to themselves and others is the only (cowardly) way out.
There are no options once you have sold your soul to satan. These people have no compunction to reverse course. There is no hope for greg or any like him/her. They are our enemy.
Are we the least bit surprised that yet another democrat is getting in into another war? Exclude bush 43 for the moment by my count it is 6 to 1 since the 20th century.
That was Zelenskys plan to begin a nuclear war by tossing a bomb into poland and murdering innocent farmers. The freak is a psycho.
That’s not how that works when the other side has nukes, you moron.
So we’re trying to remind the people behind Biden.
That’s EXACTLY how it works when both sides have nukes. Nobody can use them without risking annihilation. Everybody knows what the tripwires are.
This is one reason why you can’t have a geopolitical idiot like Donald Trump in the Oval Office. He’s a real estate hustler and conman. He’s good at that, so he imagines he’s good at everything. He has no clue how stupid he actually is. Apparently his followers don’t either.
GOP passes amendments that threaten to doom defense bill –
Because some of these idiots think preventing abortions and suppressing transgender people is worth risking national defense capabilities
Meanwhile, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama blocks consideration of all military nominations because abortion laws aren’t restrictive enough yet to please him.
Our national defense has been weakened because of you and your people’s sick fascination with artificial gender categories and sex changes.
Recruiting is down, because no strong American wants to be part of a military that prioritizes a woke religion (against our policy of sep of church and state, I might add) over being a capable fighting force.
Hope those 3000 being sent to Poland leave their dresses at home.
As opposed to a dementia feeble old man snorting cocaine with fingers on the nuclear buttons.
You are a monumental idiot, greg.
Fact check: Biden, like Trump, received multiple draft deferments from Vietnam
Imagine the service to this nation one Viet Cong could have provided…
Oh, you mean the guy that DIDN’T start a war in Ukraine?
Trump literally said what you said, that he’d nuke Moscow if Putin invaded Ukraine.
You’re just like him.
IS BIDEN PREPARING TO TAKE THE U.S. TO WAR AGAINST RUSSIA
This is disturbing and alarming — Biden issued an order activating up to 3000 Ready Reserve and Select Reserve military personnel and sending them to Europe for potential combat with Russia. This is not a hoax. It is on the White House website:
Operation Atlantic Resolve is the name for the U.S. military response to Russia’s Special Military Operation. While the number of troops being activated and deployed is not large, is Biden making a direct threat to Russia that is likely to elicit a very unpleasant response from Putin.
News Item
In terms of bolstering U.S. military capabilities this is a nothing-burger. But it is the symbolism and the thinking behind this decision that is frightening. But this is not all.
According to one of my retired CIA buddies, at least two B-52s are on the ground at an U.S. Air Force in Alaska. This is highly unusual, according to another old friend who flew B-52s. Moving these planes forward to Alaska is stupid saber rattling. This is not going to assuage Russian concerns about Western intentions, it is going to move the Russians to hair-trigger status.
And do not forget about U.S. plans to send nuclear capable F-16s to Ukraine:
Russia’s Foreign Minister Lavrov wasted no time in warning the United States and NATO that if the F-16s arrive in theater, Russia will treat them as a potential nuclear threat:
I think Lavrov makes it very clear that Russia will destroy those planes “with all available means.” If faced with a nuclear threat Russia will respond in kind. Biden ratcheting up tensions with Russia at the very moment that Ukraine’s failures on the battlefield are catastrophic. Instead of seeking to de-escalate the war and find an off-ramp, Biden and his team appear intent on provoking a nuclear war.
Here is an interview I did yesterday (Wednesday) with Stephen Gardner. We did not know about what I have just presented. Might have been a very different podcast.
Idiot Biden gave him the GO sign when he ended our energy independence and drove the price of oil up. This is idiot Biden’s war.
I guess he could do like idiot Biden and use bribes from foreign governments to fund his campaign but, unlike idiot Biden, Trump isn’t a corrupt, lying piece of shit.
Gee, Greg, you couldn’t find a thread about inflation and our economy?
You had to try to shift a thread on Ukraine/Russia away from its main topic instead?
False. The economy is failing, and we don’t have any solutions coming from these impostors in our WH.
bidenomics = stagflation
Core iflation remains above 5% and when the fed meets in a couple of weeks they will be forced to leave rates where they are now. That will only fuel inflation.
We had photos and video of observers being blocked, unauthorized persons having access to area they should never be allowed.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2020/11/04/ballot-counters-in-detroit-are-covering-up-windows-in-detroit-to-hide-their-process-n2579477
Republican Wisconsin lawmakers called Tuesday for Green Bay’s Democratic mayor to resign following a report on a conservative website alleging he ceded authority for running the election to a paid consultant with ties to Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.How many hundreds of signed under penalty of perjury statements did they want. Was any one prosecuted for perjury lil guy?
Like STATE FARM ARENA.
State Farm Arena!! Lol!
Yeah, election fraud is hilarious, isn’t it?
It never was in Ukraines favor not one minute.
07/13/23 – Russian general says top military brass betrayed soldiers fighting in Ukraine
When Russia defeats Ukraine it will lead to the end of NATO.
It will also accelerate the financial end of the US, as Nations abandons the dollar in international trade.
The BRICs Nations have started to dump their trillions in US bonds, and send all their holdings of dollars back to America, stoking hyperinflation in America and bankrupting The US.
A bankrupt US, UK and EU can’t pay its military and agencies.
Imperial wars of aggression.
A +600 year old conspiracy for world government hangs in the balance.
The western Elite want to rule the world but don’t have the power to pull it off.
Retired American Generals are now admitting that the Ukrainian troops and NATO equipment are being smashed in Ukraine. And now Russia has launched a counter offensive.
That is why the US and Germany are refusing to let Ukraine join NATO.
Russia will most likely start shooting down US and NATO ISR drones and eliminates the Starlink network.
Russia will also most likely destroy the Joint and Tactical Operation Centers in Ukraine.
On the National political front:
In America, the crimes of the swamp are finally tipping the national consensus against treasonous politicians as the mainstream media are starting to turn on the swamp in a desperate act of self-preservation.
In France Macron has come under the threat of collapse of his government, caused by self-inflicted invasion.
In Germany the AFD is surging in the polls across all of Germany.
Last week bond action pushed the US 10 year above 4%, and the FED did not step in to save the US.
Oil prices are rising with Brent’s knocking on $80 per barrel.
Energy prices are starting to rise in the EU as we turn toward winter.
US gasoline prices are going to rally this fall.
Germany’s CPI was 6.4% this month while the Bundesbank needs a massive bailout.
The US CPI is forecast to be 3.1%, but the market believes that Powell will raise interest rates in two weeks, even with a recession hanging over the horizon.
And that would pressure the yield curve even more.
The wars by Washington, London, and Brussels are costing the Empire politically, economically and in prestige. The loss of the Empires wars of aggression + having driven the West into a full-blown debt crisis will be the end of the +600 year conspiracy to rule the Globe.
We are living in historic times.
Very well said, and well written TW.
America is not the lone superpower of the world. Phase 3 of the Liberal World Order is coming to an end, and the elites are clinging to it…trying to give us a “new” world order where they are still on top.
It won’t work that way.
A little paper from the Army War College.
https://warroom.armywarcollege.edu/articles/liberal-world-order/
If you believe that, I have a coup to sell you from Wagner…
Trumputin in action: Remember Trump’s 2017 Shayrat missile strike? Probably not.
Trump also pushed Iran into the arms of Vladimir Putin and cut a deal that handed Afghanistan over to the Taliban.
FORMER CIA MOSCOW CHIEF, BY HIS REMARKS, SHOWS WHY THE CIA IS FECKLESS
