Slow Supertrend of Change and Chaos

Post by **SOL** » Sun Mar 06, 2022 1:43 pm

This story appeared in the daily mail, a Uk publication so it's very telling

Putin is NOT crazy and the Russian invasion is NOT failing. The West's delusions about this war - and its failure to understand the enemy - will prevent it from saving Ukraine, writes military analyst BILL ROGGIO

Bill Roggio is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and editor of FDD's Long war Journal. From 1991 to 1997, Roggio served as a signalman and infantryman in the U.S. Army and New Jersey National Guard

Wishful thinking has the upper hand in the battle to shape Western perceptions of the war in Ukraine.

Sympathy for the outnumbered and outgunned defenders of Kyiv has led to the exaggeration of Russian setbacks, misunderstanding of Russian strategy, and even baseless claims from amateur psychoanalysts that Putin has lost his mind.A more sober analysis shows that Russia may have sought a knockout blow, but always had well-laid plans for follow-on assaults if its initial moves proved insufficient.

The world has underestimated Putin before and those mistakes have led, in part, to this tragedy in Ukraine.

We must be clear-eyed now that the war is underway.

Yet even the professionals at the Pentagon are letting sympathy cloud their judgement.

Just two days into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, U.S. Department of Defense briefers were quick to claim that failing to take Kyiv in the opening days of the war amounted to a serious setback.

DoD briefers implied that Russia's offensive was well behind schedule or had even failed because the capital had not fallen.

But U.S. leaders should have learned to restrain their hopes after their catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Once again, U.S. and Western officials are falling into the trap of failing to understand the enemy and his objectives.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... OGGIO.html
The comments posted below the story are even more telling. Our hearts go out to the Ukrainians but it appears they are being used as Cannon Fodder.

Budge · Post by **Budge** » Sun Mar 06, 2022 4:04 pm

SOL wrote: ↑Sun Mar 06, 2022 1:43 pm This story appeared in the daily mail, a Uk publication so it's very telling

Putin is NOT crazy and the Russian invasion is NOT failing. The West's delusions about this war - and its failure to understand the enemy - will prevent it from saving Ukraine, writes military analyst BILL ROGGIO

Bill Roggio is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and editor of FDD's Long war Journal. From 1991 to 1997, Roggio served as a signalman and infantryman in the U.S. Army and New Jersey National Guard

Wishful thinking has the upper hand in the battle to shape Western perceptions of the war in Ukraine.

Sympathy for the outnumbered and outgunned defenders of Kyiv has led to the exaggeration of Russian setbacks, misunderstanding of Russian strategy, and even baseless claims from amateur psychoanalysts that Putin has lost his mind.A more sober analysis shows that Russia may have sought a knockout blow, but always had well-laid plans for follow-on assaults if its initial moves proved insufficient.

The world has underestimated Putin before and those mistakes have led, in part, to this tragedy in Ukraine.

We must be clear-eyed now that the war is underway.

Yet even the professionals at the Pentagon are letting sympathy cloud their judgement.

Just two days into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, U.S. Department of Defense briefers were quick to claim that failing to take Kyiv in the opening days of the war amounted to a serious setback.

DoD briefers implied that Russia's offensive was well behind schedule or had even failed because the capital had not fallen.

But U.S. leaders should have learned to restrain their hopes after their catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Once again, U.S. and Western officials are falling into the trap of failing to understand the enemy and his objectives.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... OGGIO.html
The comments posted below the story are even more telling. Our hearts go out to the Ukrainians but it appears they are being used as Cannon Fodder.

Yes, the comments after the article with the up and down votes are most telling. The elites must be getting a bit worried and need to work overtime to up the psyops in the US. Articles are appearing that counter the "conventional" wisdom.

"The demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy. It is an alibi for not having one." Henry Kissinger

Cinnamon · Post by **Cinnamon** » Sun Mar 06, 2022 6:29 pm

Russian banks rush to switch to Chinese card system

Several Russian banks said on Sunday they would soon start issuing cards using the Chinese UnionPay card operator's system coupled with Russia's own Mir network, after Visa and MasterCard said they were suspending operations in Russia.

Announcements regarding the switch to UnionPay came on Sunday from Sberbank, Russia's biggest lender, as well as Alfa Bank and Tinkoff.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russian- ... 56219.html

India considering rupee-ruble bilateral trade between Russia and India to bypass sanction
T
he government may soon give the green light to bilateral trade between Russia and India in their national currencies to avoid any trade disruptions, multiple people aware of the matter said.

While the Department of Commerce has recommended the proposal, an announcement is likely to be made by the finance ministry after further deliberations between the Department of Economic Affairs and Department of Financial Services.

You have to wonder if they’ve thought this through. It’s one thing to abstain from a UN vote and another to actively seek to subvert sanctions on a globally reviled pariah state. Even China is dialling back its support for Putin.

https://financialoccultist.com/2022/03/ ... sanctions/

Yodean · Post by **Yodean** » Sun Mar 06, 2022 11:30 pm

The long-term trend is for a big showdown between the nascent Sino-Russian Alliance (SRA) vs the North Atlantic Terror Organization (NATO). Lots of collateral damage - sadly, the Sea of Red will take on a more sinister meaning.

All will still bend the knee to King USD, but bend less a little, they will. SRA should dominate sometime after 2030.

The following was released before the current events in Ukraine, by Oliver Stone, quite excellent in describing how modern Ukraine came to be:

https://youtu.be/pKcmNGvaDUs

Post by **SOL** » Mon Mar 07, 2022 2:12 pm

GAB the alternative to Twitter made this statement

The entire nation state of Russia is getting the "Gab treatment" by Big Tech and the globalist regime.

By that I mean they are being systematically purged from the internet all within the span of about a week.

Google is blocking their apps.

Apple is blocking their apps.

YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Telegram have banned or limited access to their accounts.

Twitter has started "fact-checking" and reducing the reach of their links.

YouTube has demonetized their videos.

Reddit has "quarantined" the /r/russia community.

Namecheap, a domain registrar, has cut off ALL Russian customers.

American right wing dissidents are no strangers to any of these things. All of these tools of war have been used against us as American citizens for six years now. In Gab's case we have been banned from both app stores, domain registrars, and big tech platforms for years. Now these same tools and tactics of war that have been developed and used against us as dissidents are being used against all of Russia.

Other nation states should be paying attention to this. Are you going to continue to allow your citizens to be controlled entirely by a handful of companies in Silicon Valley, or is now perhaps the time to start building your own sovereign technology and infrastructure?

Unlike our spineless Republican "leaders" in America, who had total and complete control over government from 2016-2018 and did absolutely nothing to stop Big Tech tyranny, Russia is fighting back. Russia has shut down Facebook and Twitter completely and this is honestly a smart play. Why give the globalist regime insight into what your citizens are talking about?

Data isn't just the "new oil," data in a time of war is priceless. Especially the data of your own people!

Yesterday Gab engineers discovered a massive anti-Russian botnet on our platform, which we quickly banned. There were hundreds of newly created accounts all sharing the same dozen or so IP addresses. They were reposting, commenting, and liking anti-Russian fake news to the Gab Explore page. Our bot detection systems caught them quickly and we removed them from the platform.

This type of activity is eerily similar to CENTCOM's Operation Earnest Voice. We have no proof who was behind this activity, all we know is what their agenda was: promoting anti-Putin and anti-Russian propaganda. Gab is not a platform for state-backed PSYOP campaigns. We're not going to allow this coordinated inauthentic activity to take place in our community, not from foreign state actors and not from our own government.

We also aren't going to ban a foreign news outlet or Russian citizens from Gab for no reason. RT News has been on Gab for over a year now and has never once even come close to violating our terms of service. Gab is now the one place on the internet where you can find RT News and you can do so by clicking here.

Andrew Torba
CEO, Gab.com
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outof thebox · Post by **outof thebox** » Mon Mar 07, 2022 2:22 pm

if the post below is true, then it appears Germany is all for sanctions besides the gas it sorely needs

The following post from Reuters indicates that they still want the gas. Who would have thought?

Russian energy company Gazprom on Thursday resumed westbound natural gas supplies via the Yamal-Europe pipeline to Germany from Poland, data from Gascade pipeline operator showed, with flows expected to continue until at least Friday morning.

Early on Thursday, Gascade's data showed the flow had stopped on the pipeline, which usually accounts for about 15% of Russia's westbound supply of gas to Europe and Turkey.

The German-Polish section of the pipeline switched into reverse, eastbound, mode on Dec. 21 as buyers in Poland drew on stored supplies from Germany rather than buying more Russian gas at high spot prices. read more

Gazprom restarted westbound flows intermittently from last weekend.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy ... 022-03-03/

Budge · Post by **Budge** » Mon Mar 07, 2022 3:28 pm

Another banking crisis. Who could have forecast this?

"There is a known $41 billion in Credit Default Swaps (CDS) on Russian debt. There is likely many billions more in unknown amounts. There are also billions more in Credit Default Swaps on state-owned Russian corporate debt and non state-owned Russian corporate debt.

In addition to Wall Street not knowing which global banks and other financial institutions are on the hook to pay out on the Credit Default Swap protection they sold in case of a Russian sovereign debt default (or Russian corporate debt default), there is also approximately $100 billion of Russian sovereign debt (whose default is looking more and more likely) sitting on the balance sheets of foreign banks.

Put it all together and you have the makings of a replay of the 2008 banking crisis when banks backed away from lending to each other because they didn’t know who would fall next from toxic subprime exposure. That led to a liquidity crisis and the unprecedented involvement of the Federal Reserve secretly pumping trillions of dollars into the megabanks on Wall Street and their foreign derivative counterparties."

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/03/ ... on-russia/

Not coincidentally, JP Morgan is recommending investors snap up Russian corporate debt.

And, today, received a nice note from Fidelity offering to help me dispose of my Russia equities. That is so nice of them.

Yodean · Post by **Yodean** » Mon Mar 07, 2022 3:53 pm

Budge wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 3:28 pm Not coincidentally, JP Morgan is recommending investors snap up Russian corporate debt.

And, today, received a nice note from Fidelity offering to help me dispose of my Russia equities. That is so nice of them.

The Big Banks always have your back.

Budge · Post by **Budge** » Mon Mar 07, 2022 3:57 pm

Yodean wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 3:53 pm
Budge wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 3:28 pm Not coincidentally, JP Morgan is recommending investors snap up Russian corporate debt.

And, today, received a nice note from Fidelity offering to help me dispose of my Russia equities. That is so nice of them.
The Big Banks always have your back.

Yes, I believe the technical term is back stabbing.

Post by **SOL** » Wed Mar 09, 2022 6:42 am

https://youtu.be/0Hggxg-T210

Press CC to see English subtitles

If there is real war, it won't matter how much or how little money we have. The world will be toast. We are not stating this is going to happen but just indicating that we are at a dangerous cross road.

Secondly, an energy war while not as deadly as Nuclear war will lead to pretty much the same outcome minus the death, but suffering will be huge.

our take is that Once the Ukraine issue is settled there will be a lull in the war rhetoric. the markets will rally and Russia either attacks a NATO member or fully bans all commodity exports to nations labelled as enemies and forms bilateral trade deals with nations deemed as friends (such as India, Vietnam, Pakistan, China, Most of Africa and South America). This will completely destroy the economies of Europe and lead a spectacular market crash; projected date sometime in the 4th quarter

Budge · Post by **Budge** » Wed Mar 09, 2022 4:29 pm

SOL wrote: ↑Wed Mar 09, 2022 6:42 am https://youtu.be/0Hggxg-T210

Press CC to see English subtitles

If there is real war, it won't matter how much or how little money we have. The world will be toast. We are not stating this is going to happen but just indicating that we are at a dangerous cross road.

Secondly, an energy war while not as deadly as Nuclear war will lead to pretty much the same outcome minus the death, but suffering will be huge.

our take is that Once the Ukraine issue is settled there will be a lull in the war rhetoric. the markets will rally and Russia either attacks a NATO member or fully bans all commodity exports to nations labelled as enemies and forms bilateral trade deals with nations deemed as friends (such as India, Vietnam, Pakistan, China, Most of Africa and South America). This will completely destroy the economies of Europe and lead a spectacular market crash; projected date sometime in the 4th quarter

Imagine that! Russia living up to its contractual obligations while the West pisses on theirs'.

FJB is trying to arrange additional foreign sourcing for oil but just got the finger from the Saudis and UAE. Might Venezuela come to the rescue

If they do, Vlad makes out like a bandit. Appears Russia own much of Venezuela's oil.

You just can't make this stuff up. There have been so many boneheaded moves by the FJB Administration that it cannot be put down to stupidity or naivete. This has to be intentional. Just another day in the economic destruction of the world so Klaus Schwab can realise his mission of Build Back Better.

If they can get Russia to stop oil exports Europe is done. No lights, heat etc. For the USSA, we have the early Bolshevik model of squeezing everyone between inflation and taxes (with side dishes of famine, pestilence and war).

I do hope Vlad has his Brutus list (hat tip to Julius Caesar and Miss Lindsey). I wonder if he's taking requests?

Post by **SOL** » Fri Mar 11, 2022 7:01 am

Dangerous developments indeed

Facebook temporarily allows posts on Ukraine war calling for violence against 'Russian invaders'

Meta Platforms will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukraine invasion, according to internal emails seen by Reuters on Thursday, in a temporary change to its hate speech policy.

The social media company is also temporarily allowing some posts that call for death to Russian President Vladimir Putin or Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in countries including Russia, Ukraine and Poland, according to internal emails to its content moderators.

"As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine we have temporarily made allowances for forms of political expression that would normally violate our rules like violent speech such as 'death to the Russian invaders.' We still won't allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians," a Meta spokesperson said in a statement.
The calls for the leaders' deaths will be allowed unless they contain other targets or have two indicators of credibility, such as the location or method, one email said, in a recent change to the company's rules on violence and incitement.

The temporary policy changes on calls for violence to Russian soldiers apply to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and Ukraine, according to one email.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/10/tech/fac ... index.html

Facebook temporarily allows posts on Ukraine war calling for violence against 'Russian invaders'

Facebook and Instagram are facing intense backlash over an explosive report that shows the two platforms are set to "temporarily" allow calls for violence against Russian soldiers and Russian President Vladimir Putin during the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.

Reuters reported Thursday that users of the two Meta platforms "in some countries" can fuel violent rhetoric against Russians "in the context of the Ukraine invasion," according to internal emails obtained by the news wire service. The emails specify that calls for violence against Russian soldiers were permitted since they are "used as a proxy for the Russian military."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/facebook- ... n-russians

Double standards at best. The world can clearly see something is amiss, all this is building the case with dozens of nations that have an axe to grind with the US to back Russia and most of these nations are resource-based nations or countries that produce a lot of engineers and science graduates

China, Brazil, India, Vietnam, Syria, Mexico, Belarus, Kazakstan, Iran, etc etc. It seems the US admin is hell-bent on shooting itself not only in the foot but in the arse also

outof thebox · Post by **outof thebox** » Fri Mar 11, 2022 7:25 am

YouTube which should change its name to Yuck Tube, Vimeo, etc have all deleted this video

It is now impossible for anyone without a brain not to question the current narrative. You would literally have to be brain dead. Truth be told I have a few associates and relatives that would probably make the list of Braindead zombies

here is the link to this rather interesting video by Oliver Stone

https://rumble.com/vwxxi8-ukraine-on-fire.html

Post by **SOL** » Fri Mar 11, 2022 9:06 am

This is quite an interesting turn of events.

Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., called Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky a "thug" at a campaign event over the weekend.

"Remember that Zelensky is a thug," Cawthorn said in a video obtained by WRAL. "Remember that the Ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt and is incredibly evil and has been pushing woke ideologies."

The 26-year-old Cawthorn’s statement is a deviation from mainstream Republican support of Zelensky and the Ukrainian people as they defend themselves against the Russian invasion, but it echoes comments made at the first impeachment trial of then-President Donald Trump.

“We’re talking Ukraine … one of the three most corrupt countries on the planet,” Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said at the first hearing. “Corruption is not just prevalent in Ukraine — it’s the system!”

Trump was impeached for attempting to blackmail Zelensky shortly after the Ukrainian president took office, in a call to him in 2019. Democrats argued that Trump had threatened to condition U.S. military aid to Ukraine on a commitment from Zelensky to launch an investigation into Joe Biden, then a top candidate in the Democratic primary race.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-rep-cawt ... 28786.html

nicolas · Post by **nicolas** » Fri Mar 11, 2022 2:09 pm

Ukraine FA calls for legendary player Anatoliy Tymoshchuk to be stripped of all his awards & titles following Russia invasion
https://www.goal.com/en-us/news/ukraine ... 283e4ffeeb

The Ukrainian FA wants Tymoshchuk to be punished for his perceived silence amid the country's ongoing military conflict with Russia by having his international caps struck off and his coaching licence revoked.

A large number of former and current national team players have come forward to oppose the war and pledge support to civilians since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion, but Tymoshchuk has now been accused of working "for the club of the aggressor".

"I don't know about Tymoshchuk, you need to ask him. Hard to comment but it’s weird (why he hasn’t) - I think it’s not right," Malinovskyi, who has won 45 caps for Ukraine, tweeted last week.

"It’s 100% the case that he’s no longer (or ever will be) a legend of Ukraine football.

"His previous achievements have been forgotten."

This is an extra step in the level of fascism to be expected in the West from now on. Not only do you get canceled if you say the “wrong” thing, but now you’re also getting canceled if you don’t go out of your way to say the “right” thing.

Soon, it won't be enough to just keep your opinion to yourself and stay out of the spotlight.

Some businesses now force their Russian customers to sign a declaration akin to an acknowledgment of treason against their country. If those documents were ever made public, these people would probably be prosecuted in Russia. (Sadly it's not a joke, some western businesses have already implemented that in Georgia, including the largest bank...)

Now it's Russians. And Ukrainians who don't speak loudly enough against Russia. Who's next?