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Ukraine Flees Avdeevka as Russian "Aggressive Attrition" Takes Toll

Biden has blood on his hands and with so little blood going to his brain I expect there will be more.  But the waste of money becomes ever more obvious.

There is an area where Ukrainians have been shelling Donetsk city for years.  It now is in Russian hands.  For months Russian forces have been destroying Ukrainian capability.  Running down their men and ammunition.  Now the Ukrainians fall back.

But Biden will give Ukraine and Israel more money.  We should say no.



The beginning of this video has a map with English names to match up with the Russian map.  In the Russian map the area is already shown as taken.  Which is correct.  The Russian Map shows where the Ukrainians fell back to.

Political DEATHLOCK,  Time for Biden to fold-em.  (https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.tkwlVsMndHom2bSG5ZC3NAHaFj%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=6300acb4ec9390985a4a66e0587cce8c6a982b015af70f5edaf7deaf3bfa736b&ipo=images)

But that would require blood flow to Biden's brain.  So blood will continue flow in Ukraine.

Oil is being pumped out of the country as fast as it can be.  The Ukraine war props up the American oil industry and bankrupts the rest of us.

Quote from: K-Dog on Feb 17, 2024, 04:35 PMOil is being pumped out of the country as fast as it can be.  The Ukraine war props up the American oil industry and bankrupts the rest of us.

Ukraine doesn't have oil.  It has pipelines that transit oil coming from Russia and Turkey.

RE

Amy Martin describes the NATO machine.  A machine that does not support peace but domination.  War is a feature of collapse, and NATO will see us collapse.  Sooner.

This is dated.  Zionist have genocided many more thousand people since this video was made.

Time for revolution IMHO. But many more must die before that happens.  For now the anger can only build.

I am pissed.  You Tube age restricted the video so the gray screen will scare you away.  I am also sure that it keeps the algorithms 'in the know' to limit distribution.  I UPLOADED THE VIDEO TO MY OWN CHANNEL !

So do not be scared about the god damn gray screen.  The video is on my You Tube channel.

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Same thing happened to me. I had a similar type video exposing Israeli aggressions. Nothing was x/r rated except maybe a picture or two of rock throwing. They made it "private" and restricted.

Quote from: Knarf on Mar 08, 2024, 08:04 AMSame thing happened to me. I had a similar type video exposing Israeli aggressions. Nothing was x/r rated except maybe a picture or two of rock throwing. They made it "private" and restricted.

And 'they' also came into the Diner today and deleted your post.  I had to restore it.

Seems the U.S. government is at war with U.S. citizens.  They are taking it upon themselves to destroy private property.  We own the Diner, and we do not agree with censorship by outside sources.

Two posts deleted.  You and RE are both owed $100 by Uncle Sam.  That is what we are charging for deleted posts.  I'm sure your check will be in the mail soon.

While you are waiting you might like what JP Chapman says about all this.


The Most Dangerous Thing In The Western Hemisphere  -  Second Thought

How is that for a headline?


Is it absurd?  If so, no more than the dozens of headlines that grab your ears and eyes every day in  the FSOA.

Considering the oil and weapons money being made, my headline is not absurd.  It is in the category of amusing over-generalizations.  And less offensive than the headlines JP show in his video.

Would Vlad the Impaler actually DO that?  Because hitting the Brits is basically identical to hitting the FSoA.  It was the imminent threat that Hitler would invade England that got the FSoA into WWII much more than the Jap attack on Pear Harbor.  The Anglo-American Alliance precedes NATO and the ties between Wall Street and the City of London form the economic heart of Capitalism.

If he was to attack Brit targets, what would they be?  Would it be North Sea Oil platforms?  Pipelines?  Direct bombing of the British islands?  Hitting Brit targets inside Ukie borders is no biggy other than some political fallout if Brit soldiers are killed, but all that might do is get the Brits to withdraw any troops they have there, not their equipment and munitions.

How will the Brits respond to the threat?  Will they stop sending military hardware to Ukraine?  What kind of hardware do they actually supply?  Who are the bomb manufacturers supplying the Ukies, and where are their munitions factories?  What sort of identifying marks are there on the bomb casings that could be used to identify who made the explosive?

Of course, if you are goingto retaliate against the Brits if their hardware is used, logically you would also have to retaliate against FSoA or Israeli targets if their bombs or missiles are used.  Any of these retaliations is a direct escalation to WWIII.

It seems beyond reason that Vlad would actually do this.  War however often is not a reasoned outcome.  Diner opinions welcome.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-it-will-strike-british-targets-if-uk-weapons-are-used-hit-its-2024-05-23/

Russia says it will strike British targets if UK weapons are used to hit its territory

RE

Quote from: RE on May 23, 2024, 10:34 AMIt seems beyond reason that Vlad would actually do this.  War however often is not a reasoned outcome.  Diner opinions welcome.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-it-will-strike-british-targets-if-uk-weapons-are-used-hit-its-2024-05-23/
RE

Well, I will put in my 2 cents, representing about 1/3 of total active Diner opinions. I agree with RE. I think every time Putin has threatened nuclear alerts and issued other random threats, Biden has pushed into them and Putin turns out to just be a pussy. It is unlikely he would go after another nuclear armed power because...well....pussys tend to be pussys.

This doesn't help him of course.

No One Knows If Decades-Old Nukes Would Actually Work
https://www.wired.com/story/nuclear-weapons-testing/

Quote from: TDoS on May 23, 2024, 03:43 PMNo One Knows If Decades-Old Nukes Would Actually Work
https://www.wired.com/story/nuclear-weapons-testing/

Doubtful it would be a nuclear response, that's too disproportionate.  Either an attack on oil infrastructure or a military base would seem the most appropriate.  First though,there has to be some confirmed evidence of an attack with Brit weapons on Ruskie soil.  I don't think there has been one of those, and the only thing I can guess the Brits provide would be close attack VTOL Jets, aka the Harriers.  Or maybe Helicopters or drones.  I don't think they provide missiles, I think those are all FSoA manufacture or maybe Israeli.  They may provide tanks, but the Ukies are on the defensive, I don't think they are rolling tanks into Mother Russia.

It seems to be mainly political posturing to sway political opinion in the UK to join the Krauts in not committing so much aid to the Ukie goobermint.

RE

Nord Stream already gives Putin reason and international justification to retaliate.  That Russia has not is strategic.  Russia does not want to play tit for tat while the economies of the west flush billions down the toilet while Russia builds military strength.

One nuke into Ras Tanura will ruin the economies of the world and Russia could easily do it.  But that would hurt the whole world so taking out North Sea oil platforms with small hypersonic nukes makes more sense.

Calling Putin a pussy promotes war, and I am not going to allow it.  The next time I see Putin called a pussy someone is going into the cooler.  The fact is Putin is a civilized and refined man and I will not be intimidated into Bad rapping Putin because it is the American and British thing to do.

Putin will do what is in the best interest of Russia, whatever that is.  Guessing Putin would not have the stones to take out a large British Asset forgets that Putin might want to stop a shooting war where hundreds of thousands have already been killed.

John Bull arrogance may make a response necessary.  From Russia's point of view.

Calling Putin a Pussy is just another example of Tdos  need to insult somebody in every post.  He closed his last posts insulting me because I don't remember meeting an anonymous stranger at an open air festival attended by thousands of people.  He says he talked to me while I was cruising around on the scooter I bought, which cuts the number down to a couple of dozen faceless people I spoke with.  Meanwhile continuing to maintain I confirmed his identity, which I haven't and which he continues to refuse to do.  Pointless waste of time again, so further posts on that dead horse will result in a cooler trip also.

RE

Quote from: RE on May 23, 2024, 06:53 PM

Quote from: TDoS on May 23, 2024, 03:43 PMNo One Knows If Decades-Old Nukes Would Actually Work
https://www.wired.com/story/nuclear-weapons-testing/

Doubtful it would be a nuclear response, that's too disproportionate.

Bullys generally stick to proportionate responses?

Quote from: K-Dog on May 24, 2024, 11:10 AM
Calling Putin a pussy promotes war, and I am not going to allow it.  The next time I see Putin called a pussy someone is going into the cooler.

I see. Because not only are the Men In Black watching and erasing seditionist posts related to oil but the new age KGB is concerned the opinion of 1 of the 3 Diner regulars might be...significant?

Never know who's reading, only who's posting.  There's usually a half dozen or so guests on at any given time.  Most today was 14.  They're mostly bots of course, but it could be anybody.

RE

It's tough to fight a war these days without tons of high explosives.  It's not like the good old days when all you needed were some swords and battle axes which were reusable.  Even arrows could be collected from the corpses once all the bad guys were dead and  reused for the next battle.

Unfortunately those days are long gone and the stuff that makes bombs go boom and bullets leave a rifle barrel at supersonic speeds can only be used once, so you gotta keep making more of the stuff.  Where does it come from?  OIL of course!  TNT for instance is trinitrotoluene, a neat configuration of carbon atoms in a ring shape with Nitrate groups sprinkled around it.

(https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320776368/figure/fig1/AS:613512653074453@1523284223588/Chemical-structure-of-2-4-6-trinitrotoluene-TNT.png)

Now, your barrel of oil straight out of the ground doesn't have much toluene in it, its mostly straight chains of carbon atoms with hydrogen atoms sprinkled around.  That's why they call them "hydrocarbons" lol.  So to make the gobs of toluene you need you wanna start with just the fraction of oil in the barrel that has the right number of carbon atoms, 7. There's also Benzene occuring naturally in there that can be distilled out, it's already in a ring shape but only 6 carbons.  Precisely how much of these various fractions there are in any given barrel I don't know, that is something Tdos probably can answer for us.

(https://www.gas-sensing.com/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/5307Chemistry_62b073c167e49f6068c0c1dc.jpg_img_upload_solution_2022-07-08_13_22_59.412239-1024x576.png)

There are also synthetic tricks you can use to take shorter fractions and hook them together to make longer ones, and take longer ones and chop them into shorter ones.  However, every additional synthetic trick you use to get the ton is TNT you need for a bombing campaign takes energy and makes the production more difficult and costly.

Finally, once you have the required amount of your basic toluene molecules, you need to add your Nitrate groups.  This you do sequentially using Nitric acid, catalysts, heat and pressure in some combination that gives you the good stuff at the end.  This is the tricky part because each Nitrate group you park on the ring makes it more unstable so it wants to fly apart and reconfigure very rapidly into hot gases which then further rapidly oxidize with the oxygen in the air and gives you your big boom.

Anyhow, this whole bizness besides consuming a lot of oil as the substrate consumes a lot of electricity  or heat to perform all these synthetic tricks and give you the explosive material at the end.  That's what munitions plants do.  I tried to find details on exactly how much energy it takes to produce a kilo of TNT in a munitions factory, this info is not EZ to come by.  EZ to find how much energy is in a kilo once it's manufactured, 4x10⁶J.  About the same as a kilo of gas, just it's way more unstable and once it's detonated the reaction happens nearly instantaneously, it doesn't burn slowly to make gases.

Anyhow, it's not that important, just important is you need a LOT of the stuff to run a war and there aren't that many munitions factories around producing gobs of it all the time, they only ramp up production when they have a big war to supply.  Apparently, the munitions factories in Europe have not been able to meet the demand of the Ukies for enough bombs to match Vlad the Impaler, who probably has nearly as many munitions factories as the FSoA does, plus his own supply of oil to ake the bombs with.  Mother Russia is a one stop shop for bombs, no supply chain from other countries, no shipping of materials or completed bombs.  All relatively cheap for him since he gets it at cost. lol.  All the Western countries have to pay for the bombs they kindly donate to the Ukies so the stockholders of the munitions company make a profit.  So it's costing them more than it's costing Vlad to run this war.

This is not even counting the fact that there's a big difference in price of the missiles and artillery shells depending on how "advanced" the systems are,  and FSoA bombs tend to be expensive and technically complex whereas Ruskie bombs are cheap and stupid.  But they blow up pretty much the same. lol.

Now, the question is how committed are the NATO allies to supplying the Ukies with the bombs they need to match Vlad's relatively limitless supply when the Ukies can't PAY  for these bombs, except with promissory notes?  Somebody has to pay for it, because the stockholders are not in business as a nonprofit charitable organization.  If the German or Belgian taxpayers don't wanna fund it, then they need the FSoA to pony up the money.  I suspect at this point support for paying for the bombds is dwindling over there.

As we move forward here, energy and substrates for bomb manufacture are going to become a significant factor in prosecuting wars.  Ammo will become more scarce as well.  This won't happen overnight, but much more than WWI or WWII, producing explosives in the necessary quantities for big wars will be much more difficult.  In a major European theater war, the munitions factories for both sides are within EZ reach of cruise missiles.  We may be back to fighting wars with swords and battle axes sooner than expected.

https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/05/26/there-is-an-explosive-flaw-in-the-plan-to-rearm-ukraine

There is an explosive flaw in the plan to rearm Ukraine

RE

The FEAR level is being ramped up in media propaganda now, likely in order to bolster waning public support for backing the Ukies in the neighboring NATO countries.  How much the Ruskies are actually DOING right now of this sort of sabotage is an open question.  It quite difficult to PROVE any of these supposed acts of sabotage were committed by Ruskie "sleeper" cells supposedly in place since the days of the old USSR and Cold War.  Those sleepers are pretty old guys by now, unless of course you figure they had kids who have taken over the job from mom and dad and sit waiting for coded instructions to come in over the shortwave radio hidden in the basement. lol.

Besides old fashioned short wave and Rip Van Winkle saboteurs, the media propagandists also postulate Social Media is being used to recruit Gig-job saboteurs who will set fires at the local Mall for a few hundred Euros dropped into their crypto wallet online.  The one thing they don't mention is the possibility some of these supposed acts of sabotage are false flags executed by their own black ops security services in order to generate fear as they are blamed of the Ruskies.

This is not to say Vlad is not doing some of this, I mean he IS ex-KGB after all and if the operations had political or logistical value, I'm sure he'd consider using them.  I just don't see what that political or logistical value is right now to do so,  I don't think he needs to do this to reduce support for the war among Belgians or Germans.  At the moment, this type of action does more harm than good as far as his side is concerned.  REAL sabotage where munitions production or ammo dumps are sabotaged yes, random fires and telecommunication disruptions not so much.  It's hardly "unfair" war tactics though.  What do people think he will do if Ruskie assets are confiscated by Western banksters, sit on his duff and do nothing?

Definitely with both the trade war escalating with the Chinese and increasing propaganda surrounding the war in Ukraine, the geopolitical drift toward an expansion of hostility between the major powers has increased.  The only question is how it will evolve and what forms the conflict will take.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/29/as-ukraine-war-rages-russia-activates-sabotage-plans-in-europe-experts

As Ukraine war rages, Russia activates sabotage plans in Europe: Experts

RE

Where's Tony Stark when you need him?  lol.  Nothing like paying billions of dollars to FSoA military contractors for weapons that don't work.  Is anybody even held accountable for this?  You would think some general should be fired, right?  Except nobody even wants to admit the failures, and between the Congress who appropriates the money, the military planners who recommend the equipment and the contractors who build it, each group passes the buck on who's responsible.

Thing is, this stuff is just Small Potatoes, wait till real aerial combat starts taking place and $Billion$ in fighter jets start getting shot down by $10K shoulder fired laser guided missiles.  Aircrafte carriers and Dreadnoughts doing the Titanic when rammed by dozens of remote controlled speedboats and mini-subs loaded with high explosives.

The high tech stuff looks great in the movies.  IRL, not so much.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/ukraine-us-weapons/

Ukraine War rips veil off of US weapons superiority

RE

Quote from: RE on May 24, 2024, 08:11 PMNever know who's reading, only who's posting.  There's usually a half dozen or so guests on at any given time.  Most today was 14.  They're mostly bots of course, but it could be anybody.

RE

Is there a point to putting this subject matter on the internet if you are worried about who is reading? Isn't that the entire point of doing this on the internet, to be interactive, get points of view out, managing those inbound to make sure they don't interfere with the notions of the site owner, etc etc?

Otherwise wouldn't you just lock it down, vet those who want to participate, background checks, whatever it takes, and then stop worrying?

It doesn't matter to me who reads it. I find the topic interesting so I write about it.  The bots and database intrusions are an annoyance, but they don't affect us much, just occasionally posts disappear and need to be  restored, which is a pain.  All part of the modern internet environment.

RE

Quote from: RE on May 30, 2024, 06:14 PMIt doesn't matter to me who reads it.

I imagine that was true when you were the head dishwasher of the Diner, and I'll take your word that the same is true now. But the new head dishwasher does for some reason. The concern as to who reads this site is unclear to me. No one here is passing around nuke codes or discussing what info they have for sale to the Russians or anything.

It is no different than some folks who know each other and meet up for beers on a Saturday night because they don't have much of a social life the rest of the week. So why care that someone put a microphone in the peanuts?

Quote from: REI find the topic interesting so I write about it.

That is obvious and has been so since at least 2007/2008 when I first bumped into you. You aren't the only one. You haven't embedded nuke codes using steganography in your dissertations have you?

Quote from: REThe bots and database intrusions are an annoyance, but they don't affect us much, just occasionally posts disappear and need to be  restored, which is a pain.  All part of the modern internet environment.
RE

Any pattern to what they erase? Besides my insight into the geosciences of course.

Quote from: TDoS on May 30, 2024, 08:05 PMAny pattern to what they erase? Besides my insight into the geosciences of course.

Mostly the more politically oriented analysis, not the Peak Oil stuff you generally respond to.  Not surprisingly, they aren't big fans of Marxist content.  Articles and videos which put a positive spin on Putin or the Palestinians tend to attract attention from the same IP addresses all the time.  K-dog likes keeping track of what they fish for I think.  Sort of a hobby. lol.

RE

Quote from: RE on May 30, 2024, 08:23 PM

Quote from: TDoS on May 30, 2024, 08:05 PMAny pattern to what they erase? Besides my insight into the geosciences of course.

Mostly the more politically oriented analysis, not the Peak Oil stuff you generally respond to.  Not surprisingly, they aren't big fans of Marxist content.  Articles and videos which put a positive spin on Putin or the Palestinians tend to attract attention from the same IP addresses all the time.  K-dog likes keeping track of what they fish for I think.  Sort of a hobby. lol.

RE

We have never had nuke codes or anything like that.  However I have been fucked with because I have been a bad boy.  I learned a few things in the fuckification process.

I triggered 'operational security' concerning some things I learned about Merican Troll farms run by Homeland Security and that started a wild ride. 

I also flipped GW Bush the bird when his motorcade passed me years ago.  This was when he was running for re-election.  Actually as it was driving towards me, and the motorcycle escort in front was freaked out.  I was leaving a war protest.  His head looked huge through the bulletproof glass.  There were an easy 100 cars in the motorcade and I kept my hand flag flying.  There must have been 100 guns and cameras on me.  I obviously had been waiting, and the route had been changed at the last minute.  Bush went to his fund-raiser from the north not the south as had been expected.  I really did freak them out.  I wanted to avoid the crowd on the south route.

But trying to publish what I learned about troll farms is what did it.

Things happened on my wild ride you would not believe.  In the process I learned my 'file' had been started decades before any of the flipping of the bird nonsense.  Or my discovery of Troll farms run by the Merican Army.  All it took was a visit to a communist bookstore, and I was on a list.  There are many lists.


This movie describes the experience I went through in many ways.  However the intent of Homeland Security was not to make my life fun.  The movie portrays  staged excitements.  Similar to what I went through.  A couple morality plays staged for my enlightenment.  Nazis would never have done that.  They would have shot me.  Fascism Lite is much better.  Same oppression I learned.  But a much better taste.  The overtime paid to the TSA actors I'm sure exceeds all the taxes I've ever paid.

It was a very wild ride.  Complete with gang stalkings.

On the main page I have had links to other websites.  At times these links have been changed to send me messages.  The new links somehow placed on a private website (mine) send personal messages, threats to be specific.  Suggestions that bad things could happen to me or family members if I am a bad boy.  The clean-out of posts a month or so ago was only the most recent of many personal attentions.

Genocide is now legal.  Israel extirpates the Palestinian Arabs.  A teaser of what is to come.

Forfeiting their right to exist in my opinion.  But the American ruling class are racist elitist assholes who can't get their heads past what they were told was 'good' when they were ten years old in Sunday School.  Passage of H.R.6090, the Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023.  Now makes failing to praise the murder of Palestinian Arabs a crime. Calling Israel a fascist apartheid state.  Which it is, is now against the law.  Praise of the murder of Palestinian Arabs is consequently mandated by law.

Quote"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Yo daddy's America, and not this one.


This short video explains what congress has done.  And the understanding of the implications.

Proxy wars suspend real rights. 

America's racist elitists in congress and the Oval Office have an agenda.  The agenda is to enter into the promised land with.

F-35 Lightning II advanced stealth fighter jets. F-15 Eagle tactical fighter aircraft.  F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft.  AH-64 Apache attack helicopters.  M1 Abrams battle tanks.  M109 Howitzer self-propelled artillery.  M270 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems.  Patriot Missile surface-to-air missile systems.  The Iron Dome short-range rocket defense system is subsidized by the U.S. government.  Arrow Missile System anti-ballistic missile systems.  Mark 48 torpedoes for submarines.  C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft.  KC-135 aerial refueling aircraft.  P-8 Poseidon patrol aircraft.  HMMWV (Humvee) high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicles.  M-4 Carbine standard issue assault rifles.  M-16 standard issue assault rifles.  M-60 Machine Gus.  TOW Missile System anti-tank guided missiles.  JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition) GPS-guided bombs.  GBU-28 bunker buster laser-guided bombs.  Mk 84 Bomb general-purpose bombs.  Hellfire air-to-surface missiles.

A partial list of weapons the U.S. supplies to Israel.  To support this agenda, free speech is now further compromised.



Thou shall not kill.



Any Questions?

US seizes Scott Ritter's passport (https://www.malaysiasun.com/news/274394369/us-seizes-scott-ritters-passport)


The RT contributor (https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/scott-ritter/) was stopped from visiting Russia

The US State Department has seized the passport of former Marine and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, he told RT on Monday.

Ritter was on his way to Russia for the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) when he was pulled off the plane and had his documents confiscated.

"I was boarding the flight. Three [police] officers pulled me aside. They took my passport. When asked why, they said 'orders of the State Department'. They had no further information for me," Ritter told RT. "They pulled my bags off the plane, then escorted me out of the airport. They kept my passport."

Ritter is a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, who later served as the US and UN weapons inspector in Iraq. He is also a RT contributor, writing about international security, military affairs, Russia, and the Middle East, as well as arms control and nonproliferation.

He most recently visited Russia (https://www.rt.com/russia/591663-gauntlet-of-redemption-chechnya-russia/) in January, spending time in Chechnya, Moscow and St. Petersburg, among other places.

The most recent post on Ritter's Telegram channel (https://t.me/ScottRitter/2319) put the Clooney Foundation for Justice on notice for its alleged crusade against "Russian propagandists."

"Here I am. In your face. If telling the truth about Russia makes me a propagandist in your book, then I accept the title," he wrote. "Bring it on. I'll school you on the First Amendment."

"You have zero concept of what free speech is. Try and arrest me and you'll find out. In spades. It's war," he added.

Caleb Maupin explains in detail.  It is a worth a listen.  Scott Ritter was set up by an undercover cop.  A very interesting story.  Scott is grounded for wanting to talk to Tara Reade among other things.


Scott is an American Hero.  As the foolishness of our American elites continue to worship a dead cold war, Scott's voice becomes ever more important.

* The title confusion is explained.

The murder by  U.S. money of Ukranians is out of hand and not meeting objectives.


The situation becomes more dangerous as the Biden agenda fails.  Trump or a nuclear war.  What is the best option?  Is there another way to dump Biden?

The tune mentioned by Scott in the video.  Never mind that the fucker who sings it owns the Rising Sun.

Quote from: K-Dog on Jun 04, 2024, 12:20 PMIs there another way to dump Biden?

The best (only?) hope is that he steps aside for the Lady Obamanator.  Or fortuitously drops dead before the election.

RE

Quote from: RE on Jun 04, 2024, 01:14 PM

Quote from: K-Dog on Jun 04, 2024, 12:20 PMIs there another way to dump Biden?

The best (only?) hope is that he steps aside for the Lady Obamanator.  Or fortuitously drops dead before the election.

RE

Does the Lady Obaminator know that the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 adopted 11/1011995 "Determines that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination" with 72 votes in favor, 35 against and 32 abstains.

Or is such knowledge inconsistent with life on Martha's Vineyard.
                                                               

Quote from: K-DogScott is an American Hero.

I'll take my heroes lacking the sexual convictions and jail time (https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna45049386) thank you very much.

Why is it those who have a chance of being taken seriously have to wreck it with this kind of nonsense?

Quote from: TDoS on Jun 04, 2024, 02:38 PM

Quote from: K-DogScott is an American Hero.

I'll take my heroes lacking the sexual convictions and jail time (https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna45049386) thank you very much.

Why is it those who have a chance of being taken seriously have to wreck it with this kind of nonsense?

I don't think male ex-military officers who engage in online sex chat are particularly rare, but ones who also are pro_Russia and write about it online are definitely more likely to be under FBI surveillance and set up for a sting operation of the kind this guy got convicted for engaging in.  Oldest trick in the book in the Spy Biz to set up political opponents with a sex scandal.

Definitely shows bad judgement on his part since it's a no-no to send nudie pics of yourself to a minor, but it doesn't make his political material any less valid.  Anyhow, that conviction was back in 2011, so he's paid his debt to society for sexting with a teenager.  It's SHOCKING I know, but if Jesus can forgive him, shouldn't we also?

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I confess to being a little surprised that our MIC is so woefully short of production facilities for weapons and basic ammo components like black powder and TNT.  Spend billions of $$$ building ships and artillery that fire these shells, but don't even make the basic components?  Nobody in the military is held responsible or gets fired for this either?

I also find it hard to believe it will take a couple of years to ramp up production and keep the Ukies locked & loaded.  They ramped up production of a Covid vaccine faster than that.  This is century old chemistry and basic forging and machining of metal that's been around twice as long as that.

Of course what it DOES mean is a huge windfall for folks who want to get into the weapons manufacturing biz.  Of course you'll need the right connections to get a contract though.

For you fans and aficionados of AI, here is an application TAILOR MADE for this technology!  Making an Artillery Shell is such a simple and straightforward engineering task, I don't see why they need any workers at all for a manufacturing plant.   They have new Fast Food restaurants that are entirely robotic.  Just substitute  explosive ingredients for the food and bomb casings for the paper and plastic packaging materials and POOF, it will turn out artillery shells.  No new software necessary. lol.  Adapt robotic arms from the auto industry.  The plant can be run remotely and the units in the field can order their ordnance directly over Amazon.  The order goes straight to the factory and the ordnance is picked up by FedEx which delivers it to the Front Lines when it Absolutely, Positively has to get there Overnight! lol.

Of course, this is all just tip of the iceberg stuff when it comes to the TRUE readiness of the FSoA military to fight any kind of real war that takes more than a few divisions  of Special Forces, all branches of the military have been unable to meet recruitment goals for even reduced "peacetime" jobs in the military, servicing all the high tech equipment they order up.  I'll bet dollars to doughnuts anytime a tank commander has a problem with his M1 Abrams tank, the wait time to get it in the shop is longer than the wait times cripples have for getting their wheelchairs fixed or Tesla owners have to get their battery pack fixed.

If/when a real war comes up, who are they going to draft?  There aren't enough new HS graduates available to take Fast Food jobs, and the military pays worse than flipping burgers at Mickey Ds.  Unless they start conscripting Chinese right as they cross the border from Mexico into SoCal, finding cannon fodder that isn't too fat to get off the couch in mom's basement is going to be pretty tough.

Back to the Ammo Problem though, I bet the problem is mirrored closely with small arms ammo, aka plain old bullets.  I'll bet the actual manufacturing capacity isn't more than say 50% above what they manufacture in a normal peacetime economy, and if a Civil War broke out tomorrow, the National Guard, Right Wing militias, Drug Cartels and Gang Bangers would all start running short of bullets inside a month.  Good luck ramping up production once the fighting gets going too.

This is probably a good time to arm yourself with a Crossbow and a Potato Gun to fire homemade Molotov Cocktails from your bunker.  Head to the feed store and lay in a supply of Ammonium Nitrate fertilizer also.  Buy smokeless powder in bulk and invest in reloading equipment.  Ammo will run out faster than Toilet Paper during Covid.  lol.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-us-global-war-weapons-race/?utm_source=newsshowcase&utm_medium=gnews&utm_campaign=CDAqEAgAKgcICjDi7PAKMIXduwIwjs-FAw&utm_content=rundown&gaa_at=la&gaa_n=ARTJ-U9mNRJTbnq1b9w5xQqmWoNbPG0Nr_sAWv6zM9pW8zgW3aEARlEvNJ03ADZ7_8pBwDqAFZ9F02ayGO8n&gaa_ts=6663c000&gaa_sig=giX4TyknDRpq6JesG8ba9KvYLLnGyos0SPFPGtW2fgq8gnjuwJOcMZJqScYkx146FrbCECR2RJwUGG8HJpW9TA%3D%3D

America's War Machine Can't Make Basic Artillery Fast Enough

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Fun fact.

Hitler overextended himself.  The Phoney War or Sitzkrieg was an eight-month period at the start of World War II during which there was only one limited military land operation on the Western Front, when French troops invaded Germany's Saar district.

In that eight month period German munitions output was significantly increased under the direction of Fritz Todt. Todt played a crucial role in organizing the expansion of Germany's armaments production.  Artillery shell production doubled.

Todt became Inspector General for German Roadways after Adolf Hitler came to power. In that capacity, he was responsible for the construction of the German autobahns.Todt became Inspector General for German Roadways after Adolf Hitler came to power. In that capacity, he was responsible for the construction of the German autobahns.  Killed in a plane crash he was succedded by Albbert Speer.

Russia has done fine with western sanctions.  Sanctions which a computer model would have show had to backfire, and did, but politicians are not so smart.  Russian munition production was not lagging Russian need to begin with, and now no amount of western munition production can catch up to Russia unless foreign troops get involved, and that pointless foolishness starts WWIII.

At the beginning of WWII the Nazis could easily have been defeated.  Further Hitler could not have increased munitions production without starting the war.  The German industrialists needed to be paid.  War was a way not to pay bills which were coming due.  Prior to the war German munition production used a special funny money that had to be converted to regular German money at a future date.  The promise was that the funny money script could be redeemed for real money all along.  The bills were coming due.  War was a way to not have to honor the promise.

Ukraine is defeated, they no longer have enough troops.  Giving Ukraine more munitions only means useless death.  Russia is prepared to respond in kind.  Ukraine continues to grind the meat.  And more men die.  In part because Americans can't understand limits, and know when things are not our business.  Americans make everything their business. 

This has been a war of attrition which Ukraine has not been winning.  Nothing will change about that unless WWIII is started by the fuzzy leg luvin drooling fool in the Oval Office.  Which could happen.  Increasing munitions to Ukraine (or that other place) will only mean more death.  The drooling fool needs to go.  America drifts to war.  And for no good reason.  None! 

Crimea was never really fully Ukrainian to begin with.  In March 2014, a referendum was held in Crimea, and the official results indicated that an overwhelming majority of Crimean voters chose to join Russia.  There was no invasion.  But memories are short and American media has everyone pretty well convinced Russia stole Crimea despite the people living there deciding to leave on their own.  But the mantra that Russia stole Crimea despite having a right to be there is repeated daily in American 'news'.

Succession was a Crimean right.  Crimean self-determination, something Americans used to believe in before high-fructose corn syrup dummied things down and the worship of rich people became the new American religion.

The disputed Ukrainian areas?  Prior to the war had the American Federal Government been lobbing artillery shells into Seattle for eight years, would Washington State wanting to join Canada seems strange?  I'd be wanting to say 'aye' every day.

How is the Donbass different?

Britain has The Great Game, and hating on Russia confirms American Capitalism as if Biden himself was blessing the cup.  It is a religion.  Hate on Russia because they are communist. 

What, they are not communist any more?  That does not matter.  You are not supposed to know that.  They still must like communism since they were once anyway.  Go with it.  Truth is, any old excuse will do because  America still wants to carve up Russia like it is a Thanksgiving Turkey.  And that is the imperialist truth of it. 

Drink from the cup and hate on Russia.  It is your American duty.  Your religion.

Quote from: K-Dog on Jun 08, 2024, 12:10 AMWhat, they are not communist any more?  That does not matter.  You are not supposed to know that.  They still must like communism since they were once anyway.  Go with it.  Truth is, any old excuse will do because  America still wants to carve up Russia like it is a Thanksgiving Turkey.  And that is the imperialist truth of it. 

Drink from the cup and hate on Russia.  It is your American duty.  Your religion.

Empires always have & need "enemies" that pose an ever-present threat that justifies maintaining a military force.  The military force is necessary to keep growing by acquiring economic control over more land and the people inhabiting that land.  It was necessary to maintain control over the trade routes between different regions and power centers.

The enmity between the "Rus" and Western European Kingdoms predates communism and goes back to the split and collapse of the Roman Empire.  Prior to WWI you had the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire in control of the eastern half of the old Roman Empire.  When the Barbarians were at the Gates of Vienna, they were coming in across the Russian Steppe from the east.  Besides the Rus who were descendants of the Vikings, you had the "Cossacks", horsemen from Kazkhstan who were descendants of the  Mongols and Genghis Khan.  The Ottoman Turks ruled the eastern Roman Empire from Constantinople for a millenium after the fall of Rome.

After WWII, the economic division of the world left it with 3 great power centers, the Soviet Union, China and the FSoA and it's vassal states in Western Europe.  The last 80 years has been all about these 3 power centers jockeying for econommic hegemony over all the 3rd World countries they needed for resources and labor.  Overall, the Capitalists were much more successful bringing those places into their orbit through the banking system, backed up by the enforcement arm of the FSoA military, which up until around the time of Desert Storm at least was competent enough to have enough ammo.  Cracks in the competency became evident beginning with the Vietnam War, and the last 50 years has seen the game change to economic warfare on one side and terrorism on the other .  Assymetric warfare in other words.

Both Mother Russia and China ended up quitting on communism in different ways, China turned into a cheap labor manufacturing economy and the Ruskies shrank from their client states and relied on their own energy resources and their own military industry as supplier to anyone trying to get out from under FSoA control.  Their weapons systems may not have as many bells and whistles, but Kalishnikovss come in at a competitive price and they don't run out of bullets to load them with. lol.

Neither Russia or China gets painted as Communist much anymore, rather they are portrayed as being anti-democratic totalitarian states with Dictatorial rulers.  Vlad the Impaler has managed to maintain his hold on power for 25 years, and Xi in China for a decade with the CCP in control of China unbroken since Mao and the revolution.  Of course, the CCP of today doesn't resemble anything Marx or Lenin would recognize as communist, but they keep the name.  lol.

Anyhow, the Tri-lateral division of the world has been the fundamental geopolitical model all international policy of the FSoA has followed since the time of Kissinger, regardless of what political party was in the White House.  I don't think Trumpovetsky is any more likely to avoid a war with Mother Russia than Uncle Joe Biden.  Either of them will do exactly what the Banksters tell them to do.  That's how it goes, Everybody Knows.

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Good thing we don't actually send soldiers to war zones these days, just money and hi tech equipment that doesn't work. lol.  If an army composed of actual FSoA soldiers was required anytime in the forseeable future, they might as well issue body bags instead of uniforms.

In total numbers, they're missing recruitment goals by 50%.  It's particularly bad amongst men, due the sociologists say a crisis in masculinity, lack of motivation to do ANYTHING, WOKEism, educational failure, increasing drug addiction, overdoses and suicides, isolation playing video games, poor health & nutrition and an epidemic of obesity.  Besides that apparently 1/3rd of GenZ male meat packages are now fags. lol.  To be fair 1/3rd of the females are lezbos also.  Does the military still have "don't ask, don't tell" as policy, or is it now OK for the guys to blow each other while showering and the babes to go clam diving?

I'm not sad to see the military can't find decent cannon fodder anymore of course, but the litany of reasons WHY they can't truly speaks to a population that is hopelessly psychologically damaged.  They're not just unfit to be soldiers, they're unfit to do anything at all.

Now, one hopes that we're getting a skewed view of all of Gen Z since it's just the subset of potential grunt level recruits we're talking about, which always has come from the very bottom of the social hierarchy, but they're talking about kids from college here too, who with a degree would be commissioned officers.

Also, if this is the state of the regular army, imagine what the National Guard looks like today, and then imagine what it might be like at the Dem Convention if like in 1968 the Mayor requests 11,000 Nat Guard and 7500 regular army to back up the Chicago PD to maintain order.  :o  :o  :o   It's a clusterfuck waiting to happen.

Often when people point out the awful state we are in here in the FSoA, I will point out that it's not just here, all the industrialized countries suffer from similar problems.  In this case, I'm not gonna do that, because I think this problem, at least the level it has reached in such a large portion of the society is very much an Amerikan problem.  Sure, the Japanese have weirded out GenZ kids too, but I don't think they have the obesity problem we have here too.  I think the Chinese can still find decent cannon fodder for their million man army.

Sociologically speaking, Amerika is leading the way falling off the cliff in a Seneca Collapse.  Our society is a Basket Case.  FUBAR. Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/06/14/armys-recruiting-problem-male.html

The Army's Recruiting Problem Is Male

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QuoteI'm not sad to see the military can't find decent cannon fodder anymore of course, but the litany of reasons WHY they can't truly speaks to a population that is hopelessly psychologically damaged.  They're not just unfit to be soldiers, they're unfit to do anything at all.

Previous generations saw the military as a pragmatic way to launch a working career.  A soldier is highly employable after military service.  They do what they are told like a good wage slave should.  ROTC paid for college and many doctors and dentists with military service signed up to get the education and for no other reason.  The dentists in particular.

Why the fuck would anybody join the U.S. military now.  We treat veterans like shit.  There are no jobs to get trained for.  The newer generations do not hang with conventional education, because again.  The jobs are not there, and being lazy became a virtue.

Walk into stores and grab stuff for free or get killed or maimed for life with no chance of grabbing the brass ring.  What choice makes sense to you?  The pope is a dope and he would tell you the wrong answer.

If a society can't provide, it has no right demanding.  This society is not providing the way it should.


"   I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it.  "

The characters in this movie went on to have kids, and that is who we are really talking about.  We really do have Idiocracy 500 years early.

It seems there is a Global Shortage of Cannon Fodder.

Military planners are beside themselves with worry, panicked they won't have enough warm bodies to throw in front of the bullets.  The whole concept of an army relies on a commonality of interest and loyalty to inspire the population to want to fight together for something.  The Battle Cry for the Brits as they ran into a hail of bullets was "For King & Country!".  What Gen Z waste-o is going tofeel kinship with #ShitzinPants or Uncle Joe and pride in the cesspool of 21st Century Amerika?

Besides the fact raising a sufficient size army being problematic, with modern weapons systems they would be mowed down as fast as you deploy them.  Nobody would ever get off the beach at Nomandy today.  If Hitler had hypersonic Cruise Missiles, all the landing craft approaching the beach would be blown out of the water before they ever even made the beach.  If Vlad the Impaler wasn't trying to minimize escalation into WWIII, he could easily Carpet Bomb Kiev.

Then there is the REALLY stupid idea of fighting wars with Robot Armies.  WTF will care when the newz comes on the tube "500 American Robots were Killed in Action today fighting 10,000 Chinese Robots who suffered much greater losses.  Over 2500 of the Chinese robots were irreperably damaged.  The Chinese still took Taiwan though, because the remaining 4500 Amerikan Robots malfunctioned."

https://www.vox.com/world-politics/355547/soldiers-shortage-demographics-population-conscription

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Firstthey manufacture a global crisis over the falling birthrate.  Admittedly, this does pose economic difficulties, but the world clearly is overpopulated with Homo Sap meat packages, and reducing population voluntarily by having fewer babies is clearly a better option than raising the death rate, which few people will volunteer for.

Now however, the global paranoia propaganda machine is busy not just in the FSoA but in Europe and Asia also that everybody is running short of soldiers.  Why do we need more if all our "enemies" don't have enough to stage an invasion either?

It's not just soldiers they're short of either, Police forces also are having trouble finding enough thugs to employ to protect the property of the rich.  Without their enforcers, the rich can't maintain the huge chasm in wealth distribution.

Surly used to love to quote Jay Gould, a 19th century Robber Baron who said

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This is the real worry.  They can't hire enough muscle.  The suicidal, drug addicted obese Xbox players living in mom's basement aren't interested in working at all, much less beating on people with billy clubs for a crappy paycheck.  They can have a lot more fun killing virtual people in a 1st person shooter game and not break a sweat.

They're getting desperate, and the draft is a last ditch effort to maintain control.  I suspect if/when it is reinstituted, Draft Dodging will become even more common than back in the Vietnam era.


https://theconversation.com/us-kicks-off-debate-on-conscription-as-other-nato-members-introduce-drafts-232458

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QuoteWhy do we need more if all our "enemies" don't have enough to stage an invasion either?

How dare you point that out.  Blasphemy.

The Crisis of Masculinity has now expanded to a Cultural Crisis with a shrinking military.  Oh, the horror!  We must act to avert this desperate crisis.

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4752675-americas-shrinking-military-is-a-cultural-crisis/

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It is interesting the 'Shrinking Military' author accepts the selective service as a given.  But what do you expect from a major in the fucking army.  He is a gung-ho motherfucker.

I wonder if he knows 'the divine right of kings' is out of favor.  It is kinda a dumb idea now.  It was useful it its time to shut people up. Now people can't swallow that much bullshit at once.  People be half-educated now.

People who take empire as a given:  SUCK

All selective service records should be transferred to flash paper and someone should light a match.

To discuss Israel's holocaust in Gaza, Rania Khalek was joined by journalist Abby Martin.

Serial Killers-R-Us.

Check it out.  Masab Yousef, I'm sure I got the spelling wrong, spouts amusing bullshit.  He makes up his own history.

Senator Lindsey Graham Calls for Direct Attack on Iran's Oil Infrastructure to Halt Terrorism


Madness.  Total madness.  Lindsey Graham  => Seagram,  which Lindsey has obviously had too much of.  You have to move one of the 'a's.  Like Biden, the brain has rotted away.