In an effort to get Republicans to commit hundreds of billions of dollars for Ukraine and Israel, Biden trots out the Domino Theory. Anyone remember that? 
“Don’t Let Putin Win”
Reuters reports Biden Pleads for More Money
President Joe Biden pleaded with Republicans on Wednesday for a fresh infusion of military aid for Ukraine, warning that a victory for Russia over Ukraine would leave Moscow in position to attack NATO allies and could draw U.S. troops into a war.
Biden spoke as the United States planned to announce $175 million in additional Ukraine aid from its dwindling supply of money for Kyiv. He signaled a willingness to make significant changes to U.S. migration policy along the border with Mexico to try to draw Republican support.
“If Putin takes Ukraine, he won’t stop there,” Biden said. Putin will attack a NATO ally, he predicted, and then “we’ll have something that we don’t seek and that we don’t have today: American troops fighting Russian troops,” Biden said.
“We can’t let Putin win,” he said.
Overestimating Putin
Eurointelligence notes we have gone From Complacency to Panic About Putin
Western analysts went straight from complacency to panic in their assessment of Vladimir Putin. When Ukraine pushed back, western commentators went as far as to fantasise about regime change in Russia; now the same commentators are warning that Putin is about to occupy Kiev, and then go on to attack Nato.
This is utter nonsense. We have warned against under-estimating him. Now we warn against over-estimating him. It takes more than a ban on sales of iPhones and Mercedes cars to deprive him of the technology needed to wage war. At the same time, Putin does not have the means, nor is he unlikely to acquire them, to wage war against Nato – not even a Nato with Donald Trump as US leader.
Nato has rightly started to take the defence of its eastern borders more seriously. Finland has just concluded a military deal with the US. So did Sweden. Germany is planning to dispatch an entire brigade to Lithuania. The west is not helpless.
Putin has troops he can burn, but the rate at which he is burning them now is unsustainable for him, both militarily and politically. The unsustainable can be sustained for a period, sometimes a long period, but it ends eventually. We heard of a three-year battle plan into 2026. In the end, he will go along with a truce that would secure him some territory in eastern Ukraine and expose the west’s grandstanding rhetoric. Such an outcome would be perceived in Russia as a political victory for him.
After the war, we would expect his priority to shift towards infrastructure. Russia has a lot to offer given its geographical location at the centre of the Eurasian continent. The most important strategic project for Russia would be the development of the Northern sea route, from the Baring Sea in the east to the North Sea in the west. The melting of the Arctic ice is making this route viable for large transport. But it would require huge investment into port infrastructure along the way. Post-war Eurasia will be a different place.
The Domino Theory Revisited
Younger readers may not even be aware of the Domino Theory. The theory stated we need to fight them “over there” or we would be fighting them here.
The result was US involvement in Vietnam, initially in a limited fashion, but ultimately in a major war, with overall involvement lasting nearly 20 years.
About 8.7 million served during the Vietnam era between 1964-1973, about 3.1 million in Vietnam. 2.2 million people were drafted. 58,279 US military died for nothing and total deaths in North and South Vietnam were about 1.4 million.
The US lost the war, dominos did not fall, and Vietnam is now a trading partner.
The Veterans Breakfast Club has an excellent refresher course on The Domino Theory in Retrospect
The Domino Theory stated simply that Communist victory in one country or region would spark neighboring regions to rise up against pro-American governments, which would lead to more victories and further insurgencies. By keeping the first domino upright—in this case Vietnam—the US could prevent Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and even India from succumbing to Communist takeovers.
It’s striking that the biggest proponent of the Domino Theory during the war, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, later confessed, “I think we were wrong. I do not believe that Vietnam was that important to the communists. I don’t believe that its loss would have lead – it didn’t lead – to Communist control of Asia.”
In retrospect, said McNamara, “we should have begun our withdrawal from South Vietnam [in 1965]. There was a high probability we could have done so on terms no less advantageous than those accepted nearly six years later–without any greater danger to U.S. national security and at much less human, political, and social cost to America and Vietnam.”
In Retrospect
In retrospect, we had no business in Vietnam first place.
In retrospect, I would have spit on McNamara then and would spit in his face now if he was still alive.
In retrospect, US meddling in Ukraine led by John McCain fomented the mess we see today. I strongly advised against US meddling at the time.
In retrospect, US support for Israel, no matter what Israel did, contributed to the setup we have today.
In retrospect, the war in Iraq and the killing of Hussein led to the formation of ISIS. I vehemently opposed US actions at the time.
In retrospect, the US killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi led to ISIS taking over the country.
In retrospect, the US wasted trillions of dollars in Afghanistan, also leaving in defeat. Once again, I said so ahead of time.
Please don’t make a fool of yourself comparing Putin to Hitler, or Mideast events to WWII. Israel has proven it can defend itself. And US support for Israel for decades, no matter what, has at a minimum, increased tensions. This post does not support Hamas which Israel has a right to destroy.
No Change
I was against US meddling in 1966 and have been against meddling ever since. And I have been on the right side of history.
The US cannot afford to be the world’s policeman and the results of trying have backfired every time (assuming perpetual war is not the desired goal).
“The US cannot afford to be the world’s policeman and the results of trying have backfired every time (assuming perpetual war is not the desired goal).”
Maybe the desired goal isn’t so much perpetual war as perpetual intimidation, which requires some actual conflict to work. “See the world like we do, or else.”
Historically, there have been two types of empires: Military empires, like the Roman Empire, where the deal is “see the world like we do, or we’ll attack you”. And knowledge/technological empires, where the deal is “see the world like we do, or remain uncivilized”. Of course, very successful empires have been both. But since the Earth is round and therefore limited, you could easily envision that at some point in the future some almost pure knowledge/technological empire is bound to take over, on the grounds that the effort used in destruction is mostly wasted. That wouldn’t be necessarily an end to war, just that most wars would be localised civil wars, rather than proxy wars.
The only domino (replacement) theory that seems to be empirically the case today is the on going 50 million illegal aliens and growing due to the open borders allowing army division amounts of cultural replacements daily, provided the multi divisional 200 thousand weekly don’t end up in Martha’s Vineyard or Beverly Hills, etc., while exorcising their free trade marginal utility preferences for free rides on planes, trains, and buses to Chicago and Mexifornia, etc.. Of course, 60 million abortions for reproductive choice to compensate for existential bad faith—I had no orgiastic choice for orgasms—has helped with those falling dominoes and the additional 2 million a year in legal immigrants apparently in line for slave reparations even tho descended from former slave owners and slave traders or even current slave owners and slave traders from Africa. Have a nice day contributing to slave reparations Mish in the best democracy a transnational oligarchy can buy for implementing domino theories. .
NATO and the USA military have been exposed as no match to Russia in a combined arms land based war. Information has it approximately 1400 Russians volunteer everyday for this war effort and the US military is not able to fulfill its recruitment objectives. NATO, US armchair TV generals and the NEOCON warmongers got their wish- a war with Russia after 1991, when the dust settles, it appears the NATO trained army of 8 years got their A$$ kicked. This tragic war and the destruction of Ukraine’s population and infrastructure falls at the feet of the “American” people….. same as Vietnam, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq for believing all the propaganda in mainstream media spewed before, during and after by our political class. Reality is Putin has headed Russia for 20 years, if he was to recreate the territory of Russia and takeover Europe, he has been doing a pi$$ poor job of it after 20 years in accomplishing it. But then, we need to keep the “boogie man” theory operating to feed those financially benefiting from it and feeding fear into the ignorant western public.
Saying that NATO has been exposed as being “no match” for Russia in this war is amusing, especially since NATO has only been donating equipment and training to Ukraine, and has not participated at all. Russia has reportedly been sending poorly trained troops into battle with rusty rifles, no ammunition and no competent leadership. From the point of view of NATO, that’s the problem. Since Russia has no chance in a real war with NATO, they will be tempted early to go nuclear….
The domino theory was proven correct and interventions in Korea and Vietnam worked to stop the spread of communism. If there had been no intervention, communism would have quickly advanced unchecked as a successful ideology – it was a great argument for strong men to form dictatorships.
Congrats ….You just won the BS prize of the day !
This has been Peter Zeihan’s theory all along – Putin is attempting to re-establish the boundaries of the Soviet Union and “plug the gaps” through which Russia has been invaded about 50 times over the centuries…. This was what the wars in Georgia, Crimea, Chechnya etc have all been about. After eastern Ukraine is conquered, the rest of Ukraine is supposedly next, then the baltic states, Romania etc…
The problem is that Russia can’t defeat NATO conventionally, and Russia is a nuclear-armed country, so nukes are thereby on the table….
Ergo, Putin must be contained in eastern Ukraine….
Putin is doing a fckn good job in defying and even destroying the ‘invincible’ NATO mafia gang ! Personally Id prefer Russia to destroy our whole utterly sick society , the US of A in particular, before gettin defeated by the desperate war hungering criminal NATO gang ! Yeah sure, let m nuke Brussels too , good riddance !
I think you should see a mental health professional.
Does anyone remember 1938?
When Hitler could have been stopped far more easily then just a short time later?
If you were ever wondering why it seems like history keeps repeating it’s because people keep forgetting their history then end up on repeat.
Every enemy of US is Hitler, this is well known
And every Republican candidate.
See Godwin’s Law – link to en.wikipedia.org
psst hey, check some other unconventional sources before spouting nonsense ! Churchill WANTED war with a ‘too strong Germany whether under Hitler or a Jesuit priest ‘ ….those, are trigger happy Churchills own fckn words !
Hitler couldn’t have been stopped more easily in 1938. What was Chamberlain going to do? Declare war on Germany? Germany and the UK both continued to prepare for war, but the UK needed the time more than the Germans.
The problem with US-Allied involvement in Vietnam, was that they should have just consolidated in South Vietnam, and not moved north; then they would have been able to take control of Cambodia and prevent the even worse tragedy of the Khmer Rouge.
Why was there ever a French Indo-China?
Because the people there lost a war with France. That’s what often happens when you lose a war.
“I was against US meddling in 1966 and have been against meddling ever since. And I have been on the right side of history.”
Dead on. Help your friends but don’t fight their battles. We could have done what we needed too in Afghanistan without invading the whole country. Then left after 6 months or a year. But that would not have made anyone any money…
Mish, allow me to correct one line in your article, to make it PERFECTLY CLEAR what the reality of Israel’s Hamas invasion is:
“This post does not support Hamas which Israel has a right to destroy”
CORRECTED: “This post does not support Hamas which America is destroying using borrowed money.”
AMERICA IS PAYING FOR IT, not Israel. Israel does not exist without the US Treasury.
I am not making a Hamas is wonderful, Israel is the devil statement here. Let’s be PERFECTLY CLEAR that AMERICA pays for the protection of the ENTIRE WORLD, and we use “War/Enemy Narratives” to justify these actions. I am supporting what you said about Vietnam/Iraq/Libya/Afghanistan…..all of those were Wars on “Terror” or “Communism.”
Our war with Putin is a war on Communism, right? WE PAY FOR IT.
Excellent interview with Col. MacGregor. Touches on Ukraine, Gaza, and more.
link to bitchute.com
MacGregor sucks. There are about 6,000 retired US officers of colonel rank or above so finding one that supports Russia is possible but not noteworthy.
I agree, he’s longwinded and offers no signficant insights, just clickbait to bolster his retirement. That’s not to say I agree with those on the other side, I don’t. Ukraine is a failed proxy war linked to Biden corruption, that much is obvious. Russia was always going to win, and for very obvious geographical reasons, and historical context. There are more important wars elsewhere, Egypt is far more critical to NATO interests than Ukraine ever could be.
Domino Theory came from experience in WW II. There countries fell before the Nazi war machine and propaganda just like dominos and the leaders of the Vietnam era remembered that quite well so they wanted to avoid the same thing happening. In the end the only reason why no more dominoes fell after Cambodia was that the Vietnamese didn’t want to conquer other peoples because they saw that China was the real threat especially after China launched a surprise invasion of northern Vietnam with 200,000 soldiers in 1979.
Russia’s armed forces are far from being in the same league as what they were during the Cold War but Western European armies are much smaller than they were during the Cold War also so it is possible that they could take the Baltics, Moldovia and perhaps some more if Nato didn’t exist but Nato does exist so it is off Russia’s table. Russia is having big problems just trying to hold a piece of Ukraine let alone going for more but that is because of Ukrainian resourcefulness and Western support and both are likely to continue no matter who is president, prime minister or chancellor.
CCP involvement in the Khmer Rouge genocide woke the Viets up to the real threat on their doorstep, and only now are they taking steps to buddy up with the west to secure their economic interests which they should have done decades ago. Viet history of hostility from China goes back centuries, and prompted the Viets to steal Khmer land and the Khmer city of Saigon; as it had with pushing the Thais and Burmese south centuries earlier, stealing land from the Mon and Khmer too.
hahahahaha …keep on livin’ in your deluded world Doug ! My guess is you are, or were rather, a civil servant of some kind ! Say it ain’ t so ! After all, one doesn t bite the hand that feeds you (except ‘suckin’ mac Gregor o c ), no matter how many innocents it strangled and murdered during its criminal crusade along the globe in places that were(and are) none of its fckn business !!
I have not even been an un-civil servant. Soon you Flemish will be taught a lesson and Belgium will return rightfully to France. For centuries you Flemish have repressed the French language and culture in Belgium and now that the English are no longer in the EU to protect you, Belgium is for the taking. You will have to learn French, salute the Tricolour and call yourself DeBruxelles (and pay French taxes too). It is inevitable because France has ten times more people than Flanders and lots of high-tech weapons so you might as well surrender now.
Your ignorance about Belgium is impressive, well, shameful actually !
Q: What did one Russian potato say to the other?
A: Nothing, Russians do not own 2 potatoes.
Sure, but that ONE potatoe has been fully paid for with real money, not like US’ 5 potatoes that ve been paid with borrowed money, money that at one point in the near future can NEVER be paid back…. the last laugh might be on Russia at one point in the near future …
FromBrussels…you are a Russian bot or troll. It’s obvious now.
A buffer between types of government is one thing putin wants. Access to resources (farmland)is another. Think influence in africa.
No money for Ukraine.
its not important in the big picture.
Ukraine is a Biden supporter and he is a foreign agent.
Double down on support for Israel conditional upon Jewish liberals dropping support for all the murderous left wing outfits they support.
Israel can’t wage war alone Mish. There are two US aircraft carriers in the region and a nuclear submarine with nukes parked right in front of Iran, meant to deter it and its allies. Israel is also receiving endless supply of weapons, ammunitions, and intelligence from the US. Without the US, Israel would have had a hard time to sustain itself. It’s only real deterrent is its nukes.
Israel is not Ukraine… very different level of tech and skillset, not to mention better rule of law and integrity, and a functioning economy. Ukraine is just an extension of Russia; Israel is anything but an extension of the peoples around it.
There are 3 regional players in the Middle East – SA, Iran, and Turkey.
There needed to be a balance of power if US was to walk away from the ME.
To help walk away effectively, Americans were making a deal to get Israelis to cozy up with SA against Iran for support.
Unfortunately now that SA is not happy with Israel, US is stuck coming back to save Israel due to strong domestic lobbyists.
….the US of A should get its oversized arse out of the ME and out of Africa, for fckn once and for all …that s what the US should do, the world will be a better place !!
“At the same time, Putin does not have the means, nor is he unlikely to acquire them, to wage war against Nato”
I think this is completely wrong. European armies are ridiculously weak, and numbers continue to decline. European societies (at least in the west) are incapable of withstanding an actual war. If missiles started to fall in France for example, I think we would see a complete collapse of the state (which struggles to control the entire territory in peacetime, as we saw during the recent riots ). The US are a little better, but it seems that there are difficulties of recruiting the army at the moment (lack of volunteers or inappropriate candidates). It even seems that now the personnel of aircraft carriers sent to the Middle East are below the minimum required for correct operation. Without forgetting the production of ammunition (in European armies, after a week of fighting, there would be nothing left). The United States is a little better but not much, not to mention that the supply routes to Europe would be very threatened.
Russia has no interest in invading the likes of Poland or Romania; even the Baltic states are written off, despite their large Russian minorities (who like being in the EU for job opportunities). Trying to compare Russians in Estonia with Irredentists in Donbas shows a lack of understanding of Russian history and politics.
I agree, but I only contested the fact that Putin does not have the means to wage war against NATO. Western military power is hugely overestimated, despite all his defeats in the last 50 years
Russia always has and always will have it’s eyes on Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, and eastern Poland. For them it is about controlling the main strategic land military access points into Russia.
McNamara didn’t have the guts to resign and tell the world that President Johnson was wrong and we needed to leave Vietnam when he knew we couldn’t win. Despicable.
surely master XI position of taking Taiwan peacefully didn’t register
with dementia joey
or is CCP private biden that dumb
Why would Russia want non Russian speaking territories? Hint hint; THEY DON’T. Decent military but no ability to hold that much ground. Clearly obvious by now they just want the 2014 US couped regions that speak Russian. The rest of it is of no value.
If Ukraine had just gave that area to Russia, could all of this been avoided? It would appear so, and that would then snap back to the question: Did the U.S. stop Ukraine from doing so, because the U.S. was engaging in unsolicited, immoral, and hidden scientific experiments, and gene altering studies etc.
So could it be that Biden Inc. was actually responsible for the deaths of these Men, Woman & Children unnecessarily? That if it were not for the Biden Inc. hidden, unlawful, harmful, and deadly experiments in a foreign country, uninvited, and against the will of the people in that country, none of this would have occurred? Sure looks that way now, doesn’t it?
So why again are we still there? Do we need to be there for a Peace Agreement between Russia & Ukraine? Not that I am aware of? Last I knew agreements for Peace between Two Countries, is between TWO COUNTRIES! Not 3 or 4 or the World to be involved in.
The ONLY NEGOTIATIONS going on right now, should be for Peace. That’s how I feel, people I speak to feel, I am certain the Ukraine People and Russian people feel.
In fact the only people on Earth, that I know, from what I read, hear and see, is Biden Inc. Nobody else? No one! Not a Soul in the World that I am aware of… JS
Russia didn’t even want to absorb Donbass, just for Ukraine to guarantee semi-autonomy for them and stop the shelling (of their own people). That and a promise to remain neutral (no NATO) and this whole thing would’ve been avoided.
The Military Industrial Complex has never seen a war it did not like ….
And it’s time we stop calling Russia and China communists … they are not … they have millionaires and billionaires just like the West … so that ain’t communism anymore …
The problem is that Putin has been controlling this event from the beginning and everything the West has done so far has failed …The West can’t even agree on what to send or when to send it …. They completely mis-underestimated Russia’s capability and are now paying for it …
the Sky isn’t falling and it’s time to bring this disaster to an end and stop the loss of life.
Ever since Mexico in the 1840s…
Putin suckered into this war. The war won’t end until the last Russian man is fertilizing Ukrainian soil. Ten years should be time enough. NATO can provide weapons and men if need be.
sorry Uki troll! nobody in right mind would want to die for Ukraine.
What a shit show for the wold audience. A corrupt president being led on leash a a corrupt swamp creatures who are delighted with human suffering’s.
I suspect it’s got a lot to do with Putin making sexual deviency illegal… those lunatics will stop at nothing to push their perversion, even genociding a generation of Ukranians and risking thermonuclear apocalypse – all for the sake of sodomy and transvestitism.
= Putin, Russia and killing political opponents
that is funny!
in 20th century 2 american presidents were killed.!
in bad Russia every single ruler died peacefully in own bed after 1917!
The last zar was killed together with his family. Lenin had brain damage, no need to kill. Stalin was poisoned. Hrustsev, is claimed, was killed. Brezhnew was dead long before he was announced dead. Next 3 ones died sudden deaths. Gorbachev died peacefully, for change. Jeltsin drank himself to death. Putin has had all his opposition to fall out of windows, at least the ones who have not managed to escape. Some have been killed abroad.
What a peaceful country!
In 2000’s only, Russia has fought wars in Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine, Syria, many African countries (on the battlefield w NATO countries). Not a single country has attacked Russia during this time. What a truly peaceful country!
Currently Russia is cooking up border conflicts with Finland, Norway, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, all NATO countries.
It’s unfortunate that Russian propaganda makes it into alternative news in the US. Don’t you think this might be purposeful to ban alternative media?
I forgot Trotsky – killed with an axe.
=Trotsky
sure. he was barred from USSR in middle of 1920x , and killed 20 years later.
He left in 1929 and there were other assassination attempts before the final one. Stalin really wanted him dead but since he was out of the country and being protected it wasn’t easy.
typical moronic western low education wikipedia induced BS!
#lenin died peacefully!
#Hrustsev, is claimed, was killed
you are AN mor1on!
#Stalin,? do you have any facts, or just in your imagination?
Stalin ruled for 30 years, and suddenly someone poisoned him!
#Brezhnew died peacefully!
# Next 3 ones died sudden deaths.
who is next 3 mo1ron? actually 2 . an those were sick and ill and old..
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#. Gorbachev died peacefully!
#Jeltsin died peacefully!
thus I AM RiGHT. AND you are mo1ron !
=In 2000’s only, Russia has fought wars in Chechnya , Georgia, Ukraine, Syria,
another mo1ronic post from low life uneducated peasant!
Chechnya is part of Russia, same as Texas part of USA. !
Georgia first assaulted russian peacekeepers. it is in all official EU papers!
#Syria .
in Syria Russia under request from official gov. NOT LIKE USA IN Syria,Afganistan, or Iraq.
buddy you cant make your own reality.
get lost troll
alx
Currently Russia is cooking up border conflicts with Finland, Norway, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, all NATO countries.
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you meant like Hitler, Karl 12, napoleon, and myriad lesser figures who all wanted conquer Russia for last 500 years?
Putin has had all his opposition to fall out of windows, at least the ones who have not managed to escape. Some have been killed abroad.
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name one?
Hodorkovsky is alive!
kasparov is alive!
Navalny does time for breaking laws.
=What a truly peaceful country!
google, if you can HOW MANY COUNTRies USA BOMBED after ww2
i bet you cant.
Currently Russia is cooking up border conflicts with Finland, Norway, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, all NATO countries.
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are there and how many russians in your head?
seek a doctor!! you need a help!
alx
Where do you, alx west, live? Russia? Somewhere else? Where is your history learning coming from? Sounds to me very much like the “newly rewritten since 2000” history of Russia that was ordered by Putin when he came to power. I have been to some lectures of Russia’s historians *before* they ended up in prison for not complying with the official mandate. So what I wrote there comes from the archives IN RUSSIA but now banned.
Yes, “2 ones” would be correct. They changed so frequently after Brezhnev and I was too busy doing other things to keep count…
at which he is burning them now is unsustainable for him, both militarily and politically.
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what losses?
Again, Westerners make up lies and end up believing in them.
and then found themselves in an awkward position.
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I’m sometimes speechless! Do people in western cities stop reading books—in this case, history books—at all?
2 episodes from the very long history of the Russian Empire / USSR!
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In the 1812 war against Napoleon, the Russians gave Moscow city to Napoleon after the Borodino battle. Of course, Moscow back then was not the capital, and yet it was a historical center, never less.
but it was right military decision.
did not bother Szar politically !!!
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In 1941, Stalin, because of the bad position of armies on the western border, lost a staggering 4.5 million army .
Yes, almost 5 MILLION in the first six months of 1941 as a result of the German surprise attack on June 22nd.
did not bother Stalin politically . !!!
alx
=would secure him some territory in eastern Ukraine.
lie ! typical ! again.!
Actually, it is way more.! and more severe.
Russia controls the east. The rest of east was destroyed and depopulated. This is the most industrial part of Ukraine. Sorry westerners, there are not many factories west of the Dnepro River.
why? It is something to do with energy and coal! read a USSR-Russian empire history book!
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but it is more than that.
Russia still controls Cimea!
Russia controls the South of Ukraine. most furtile land on Earth.
It is called chernozem, or =black soil=.
Russia controls Azov Sea. Ukraine lost access to it.
Russia controls the air space of Ukraine. For almost 2 years, not a single civilian airplane got in or out of Ukraine!
Russia controls only the working Ukraine port in the Black Sea, in Odessa! and can bomb sh*t out any time she wants.
Russia controls the biggest nuclear site in Europe. 6 reactors. Now it would cost about 50 bil and take a minimum of 15 years to build one.
Ukraine has a population of less than 20 million people. It was 52 million in 1991! Half of people are people over 60 years old.
Ukraine’s economy and infrastructure are decimated!
and on on on … so it is not some territory in eastern Ukraine.!
alx
History is written by the victor, facts be damned.
Putin has already sabotaged the 2 Nord stream oil pipelines, and tried to sink a Swedish warship.Next target Finland !
Your dreaming …
Putin destroyed the pipeline?
Delusional.
sjure sjure sonny sjure ! Now take your pill and rest for a while, y’ll soon be better !
=Eurointelligence
yeah. i guess better name would be Eurointelligence oxymoron!
western ruling class come up w/ lies. then propagate those, then believe in them
then find itself in akward position.
The Polls clearly show, and I would agree with them, that people feel as though Old Joe and His Administration has no right to ask for more money at this point. People in Our Country Need Money and Help.
I Wish for once, Old Joe would Plead for more Money to Shore Up The U.S. Social Security System. Maybe Plead for School Choice across Our Country. How about Pleading for Less Printing of money, which is causing Inflation to continue on unabated.
Just a brief fleeting thought about Pleading…
What by the way exactly, is a victory for Russia over Ukraine, and what does that exactly look like?
Does it look like something that they could both agree upon to Stop the War? I would think so… Does it look like a Peaceful Solution can be reached? I would think so… Does it Line The Pockets of Anybody Involved? I would Hope Not… but I digress…
P.S.
– Moscow is NOT going to attack NATO.
– Biden Should have a willingness to significant Enforcement changes to U.S. migration policy along the border with Mexico to draw The Country’s support.
Russia has been saying for 20 years that it would not allow NATO to take Ukraine. So now, at a cost of $100Bs plus the destruction of the European economies, plus the loss of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian lives and a total effing up of Ukraine, we are finally learning that Russia meant what it said. All easily avoidable, but no, the arrogant neocon fools had to push it and learn the hard way.
Agree 100%. The USA (James Baker, Sec. of State under Reagan) told Gorbachev and Eduard Shevardnadze that after the reunification of East & West Germany, that NATO would not expand to the East towards Russia. Since that time, at least a dozen countries have been added to NATO, a few bordering on Russia. I read somewhere that the line-in-the-sand for Putin was if Ukraine, and/or Georgia, were going to be admitted to NATO. And here we are….
Domino Theory? Read the ‘Pentagon Papers’ to see how screwed up the Vietnam war was and the American public deceived. I am starting to agree with people that are saying the reason the US government keeps things secret, isn’t to prevent our enemies from obtaining confidential information…it is to keep the American public from finding out the true state of the machinations being formulated by our illustrious leaders.
But think about all of the Ukrainian widows this war has produced. And if there’s anything Hunter Biden loves, it’s widows. So many lovely, lonely blonde widows to choose from these days. Thanks America!
Fwiw this isn’t about Putin. This is about territorial integrity and letting democracies exist. If Putin had such great success he wouldn’t be fixing his elections and killing political opponents.
= letting democracies exist.
how are those democrasies in Afgan-stan , Iraq Vietnam panama ?
operational?
= killing political opponents
that is funny!
in 20th century 2 american presidents were killed.!
in bad Russia every single ruler died peacefully in own bed after 1917!
Who is fixing which elections and where ?
You should know that the US State Department openly helped a coup d’etat of the DEMOCRATICALLY elected government of Ukraine in 2014 and helped install a pro-Western regime. And that the Ukraine government has since banned opposition parties, put the leader of the largest opposition party in prison, banned media outlets that weren’t government controlled, and stopped having elections indefinitely.
“democracies” – hahahahahahahaha
like the “democracy” in Ukraine, where all opposition political parties are banned, opposition TV stations and newspapers shut down, elections are cancelled? People are dragged off the streets and sent directly to the front line to die? FUBAR11That kind of “democracy”?
idiot
No one here must know what it’s like to live in a communist autocratic country. The irony of it is you wouldn’t be allowed to comment in places like Russia on a blog like this.
This has nothing to do with domino theory. It is all about freedom vs no freedom.
Happy Effing Xmas
The US has lost it’s moral high ground by warmongering around the globe for the last 50 years and is 34 Trillion in debt. We can’t afford, nor should we be required, to serve as the policeman for the world.
he-she is a bot.! not real person. or cia-mi6- uki troll!
=you wouldn’t be allowed to comment in places like Russia on a blog like this.
LIE!!!!!!!!
it was western countries who stopped broadcasting RT and Sputnik.
BBC-CNN is still on in Russia!
I’ve lived and worked in Vietnam and China. While it’s true that BLM wouldn’t have the freedom to burn down neighborhoods in those countries the way they have the freedom to in the USA, you can legally buy a beer on Sunday morning and sit at a table outside of the shop at drink it, unlike in the USA, and the police don’t care. The police aren’t going to pull you over for not wearing a helmet or seat belt. The prison populations in those countries are drastically smaller than the USA’s, which actually has the most prisoners in world history, the 21st century gulag archipelago. The USA is even trying to get foreigners like Julian Assange locked up in its gulags for merely exposing the US government’s crimes. That’s not freedom. Maybe to brainwashed drones it is.
Russia isn’t communist, by the way. It’s an oligarchy just like the USA.
And don’t forget the Jan 6 political prisoners.
Russia abandoned communism over 30 years ago. Telegram and Twitter is FULL of people criticizing Putin and the military decisions of the past year. Russia is having elections next year. Ukraine canceled them and the US is trying to ban the leading candidate, so that part about “freedom vs no freedom” is spot on just not in the way you intended. In conclusion, everything you just typed is a lie.
“Do not fight a land war in Asia.” The Princess Bride
That the U. S. not undertake a prolonged land war in Asia’s vastness where China’s man power might be effective if the war bogged down. […]
No responsible military leader would choose to commit U.S. troops to a ground war in Asia. No one wants to grind away American manpower in a seemingly endless war against numerically superior forces deep inside China. The U.S. objective, however, is not to fight for the heartland of China, but to prevent the spread of communist control over Asia.
— Lloyd Norman: “No More Koreas”, Army (United States Army Combat Forces Journal), Volume 15, Part 2, May 1965. (p31, gBooks)
We, the Military Industrial Complex, have won every time! Isn’t that the name of the game or am I missing something? link to defenseone.com
Isn’t this picking up pennies in front of the steamroller?
The long standing agreement with Russia is ‘no NATO member country right next to Russia’. Ukraine is seeking membership? Not allowed. Also, NATO rules are that no country with a current war can apply. That’s Ukraine. US soldiers would only fight Russian soldiers if US persists in being involved. The world has had enough of being dominated by the US. Wake up.
Not so. Kaliningrad is Russian territory but sandwiched between the three Baltic countries and Poland…all of which (last time I checked), are NATO member nations.
the remnants of Prussia, once German, following the gradual extinction and assimilation of the Prussian Baltic people.
Sevastapol was the deal-breaker here. You know, Russia’s only warm water port and the crown jewel of the Russian Navy for 300+ years? The US has had plans to build a US outpost naval base right next to it in Odessa since 1991. That’s what this has always been about besides hoping to undermine Russia from within, cause it’s collapse, swoop in to loot it’s resources and begin the buildup on China’s border to do all of this over again.
Back when it was the USSR, the GDP was about 1/3 of the USA, today it is about 1/10 last I looked. Russia is not the USSR and does not have the other counties in its fold
Which is exact reason they want to become the USSR again.
Russia is a gas station masking as a country. But expansionism via invasion has always been Putin’s tactic. Ever since 2008 when he stormed out a meeting and vowed to take back what was Russia’s.
Other than proposed NATO expansion countries that threatened Russia, can you name a country Putin has tried to invade?
Once the head of NATO admitted that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was about NATO expansion, thereby confirming decades of senior US diplomats warning about exactly this, people who believe as you do should gracefully admit error and move on.
it is AI bot. albeit very bad constructed.!
Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine, Syria, many in Africa. Purin attacked Ukraine AFTER a firm NO to Ukraine from Nato.
By that logic, does Russia have the moral high ground to attack Finland and Sweden next???
bot!
Russia is extreme competition to the West …
Yep
You really don’t understand much about Russian history, do you.
= the GDP was about 1/3 of the USA, today it is about 1/10 last I
only westerns mor$ons , esp who never lived in USSR and-or modern Russian, compare gdp fabricated stats.
Russia is way richer and better now !
mor!on. just compare subway in NY and Moscow. similar cities, similar status inside country!
ps
yeah i am russian who lived for short time in USSR!
I think you are still there. Once a few miles out of St. Petersburg or Moscow, it rapidly becomes Third World.
…a bit like half of America then… I mean, have you seen Mississippi?!
Unfortunately, current American prosperity is just a mirage.
It only exists because of mountains of debt.
What was the value of the USD back when it was the USSR vs. today? Stop valuing anything Russian in US dollars. Russia is virtually 100% self-sufficient. They are loaded with natural resources, are an industrial powerhouse and have zero debt. Their economy is light-years ahead of ours right now.
When general Marshall lost China, in 1949, Truman blamed Stalin, beefed up NATO, and covered Stalin’s footsteps in DC with a Domino Theory. JFK’s blood trail led to a blackmail and the bloody 1960’s/70’s, two ugly regime changes and Vietnam. Biden
and Trump are angels in comparison to JFK, LBJ, the Bush clan and Obama. Trump is an original thinker, a D9. Biden adopted 80% of his policies.
After Putin opened a third front and Xi is going to take over Taiwan Biden panicked. Under Biden our southern border was opened and the Islamic Jihad disrupted our freedom, culture and religions. Biden will do whatever it takes to avoid WW III, but
our growing cancer is weakening us. Irish potatoes will not save us.
I will bet you dinner that Putin will not stop at Ukraine. And of course if I win you will buy me dinner. Since we are not close by I will accept a gift card to Ruth Cris and visa versa.
Of course if he goes beyond its all over now baby Mish and me.
Yawn… from “Ukraine is kicking Russia’s. a$$” to “Putin wants to take over the world”. Please just tell us whether you think Russia is really weak or really strong, for two consecutive minutes.
english please!
You will have died of starvation long before anyone buys you a microwave dinner.
It should be obvious by now to anyone with more than three brain cells that Putin has zero interest in holding all of Ukraine much less the bankrupt nations of the EU. First we’re told that the Russian military has proven to be totally incompetent and ill-equipped but also that if we don’t risk nuclear holocaust they’re going to conquer all of Europe next! You can’t have it both ways jackass, pick one.
“If Putin takes Ukraine, he won’t stop there,” Biden said.
From the look of it, the war wasn’t about taking Ukraine, but the provinces in the east, which are predominantly Russian speaking. If a free and fair election had been held in those provinces, what would the people there have chosen?
I remember Cameron’s panic when polls on the Scottish referendum showed leave was gaining steam as well as Obama’s meddling in Brexit. Governments don’t want to lose control over land and the wealth produced by the people living there. No country wants give up territory to the Kurds where they live, so they can have their own country.
There has been talk of dividing California up into as many as 6 states, but California isn’t going to allow that to happen, nor the U.S. government, even if it is beneficial to the people living in different sections of the state. What the people want is irrelevant to the government.
Because of NATO’s reneging of the deal, Russia has no choice but to take the whole of Ukraine, and from there adjust the borders to maybe give bits back to Romania and Hungary, and add Transdnistra back to the restored Novorossiya.
Both the USA Military and the Russian’s believe PEAK OIL is upon us and there is soon to be a shortage of oil.
This is what all of you are missing, and why militaries around the world are behaving inexplicably.
It makes a lot of sense when you realise NATO are oil importers, China are oil importers
and they are BOTH encroaching Russia’s borders.
Report commissioned by former Secretary of Defence: General Jim Matti
link to theguardian.com
Putin’s right hand man and CEO of Rosneft:
link to reuters.com
It’s always been about Energy …
USA shale is holding the world up. And it is looks like it may have peaked.
Both of the forecasts above were wrong because the Shale Boom in the USA was underestimated.
link to newsweek.com
China redraws map and claim Russian territory as its own.
They want that Russian energy in Siberia.
Buckle Up!
No, I think the conflict with Russia is about Wokefascist cultism and the jihad of sexual deviancy being waged upon the Earth by these invading bodysnatchers in the Washington swamplands.
The United States is producing more oil than any country in history
By Matt Egan, CNN
Updated 5:00 PM EST, Tue December 19, 2023
As the world grapples with the existential crisis of climate change, environmental activists want President Joe Biden to phase out the oil industry, and Republicans argue he’s already doing that. Meanwhile, the surprising reality is the United States is pumping oil at a blistering pace and is on track to produce more oil than any country has in history.
The United States is set to produce a global record of 13.3 million barrels per day of crude and condensate during the fourth quarter of this year, according to a report published Tuesday by S&P Global Commodity Insights.
Last month, weekly US oil production hit 13.2 million barrels per day, according to the US Energy Information Administration. That’s just above the Donald Trump-era record of 13.1 million set in early 2020 just before the Covid-19 crisis sent output and prices crashing.
That’s been helping to keep a lid on crude and gasoline prices.
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link to amp.cnn.com
Jojo,
You must live in the USA, because global peak oil was Nov 2018. And we live in a global economy.
unconventional and conventional oil have different properties.
conventional oil declines at 4-6% per year.
unconventionial shale (like what is being developed in the USA) is 50% ( 80% over the first 3 years and then goes hyperbolic). This is empirically proven,
It also requires lots of capital and debt (and the water problems are unmanageable) to produce which is why no one tells you what I just said above.
Also, no one wants to work in the oil industry anymore. 50 is young in the oil patch.
As long as shale finds new sweet spots it looks like things are going great.
As soon as that stops ( and it looks like it has )
IT DROPS LIKE AN ANCHOR IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN.
But you forget Mish, there is money to be made.
Money and killing evil russians, how is it bad?
Racism is always bad.
Ukraine is in the position it is in because the Biden/Blinkin wimp team has consistently delayed and held back on necessary military hardware out of fear of Putin further escalating the war and drawing NATO/USA into it.
Thankfully, Ukraine is going to start getting the F-16’s in the air shortly.
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How F-16 fighter jets could reshape Ukraine’s aerial battlefield
By Gerry Doyle | Reuters
December 14, 2023
U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets for Ukraine have begun arriving at training centers in the United States, Denmark and Romania. Kyiv’s allies hope the modern aircraft can push Russian aircraft farther from the frontlines, target radar transmitters more effectively and hunt down more cruise missiles.
Commander in Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhnyi said in November that F-16s will be “less helpful” now than they would have been a year ago because Russia has had time to improve its air defences.
But they will help address a problem that has persisted from the start of the invasion in February 2022: Russia’s more modern combat aircraft have been difficult for Ukraine’s military to counter with its own aging fighters.
Reuters examined technical documents and spoke to eight military experts, including former F-16 trainers and pilots, about the jets’ capabilities, limitations and the impact they could have on the war in Ukraine.
…
link to reuters.com
keep on dreaming ! F16s are unfunctional without smooth clean runways , have a very limited range and need an awful lot of maintenance each time they ve been in the air for a short while…..They ll get destroyed just like any other, overly expensive, theoretically ‘sofisticated’ western gear ! Whorekraine is fucked up, it s just that they won t admit it yet, hoping that western funding won t dry up and that a miracle will happen….like a full blown WW3 for example, that s what those mfrs, the ones you seem to adore , are hoping for…..SLAVA ROSSIYA !
We will see. France’s natural frontier is the Rhine River all the way to the sea so Belgium belongs to France and if not for the perfidious English it would be French now but that might change soon thanks to Putin’s audacity in showing frontiers can be rewritten and ancient provinces retaken. Shouldn’t be too hard. The French army is not that big but Belgium’s is almost non-existent so start studying French my friend because it will be very useful soon.
You’re omitting the diligent Dutch… such a nuisance to Napolean back in the day, and Flanders is itching to split from the cheese-eating-surrender-monkeys in Wallonia.
The border were rewrittn by Stalin in 1945… Khrushchev in 1954, etc… The Ukraine (the borderlands) was invented in the 1920s, and it’s borders have changed often, stealing land from its neighbours, Romania, Slovakia, Poland, Russia.
it s obvious you know shit about Belgium…..what to expect from a yank anyway….
Was in grade school in the ‘60s, classroom had a globe with a country in Africa called ‘The Belgium Congo’. Read about what led up to it. Hope your Leopold and cohorts are roasting in hell.
“Yank”, huh? Sgt. York from the towns of Hicksville, states of Flyover aren’t saving the effeminate Eurotrash this time.
^ garbage propaganda
When you cite fake news like Reuters you only prove how stupid you are. Though there wasn’t any doubt before this
“Less helpful” is an understatement
… the Javelin[i] anti-tank missiles would be decisive for Ukraine in defeating Russia in May 2022, no I meant the HIMARS[ii] would be decisive in January 2023, no I mean the German Leopard tanks would make a significant difference from May 2023 for the counteroffensive, no I meant the Abrams[iv] would be decisive, no I meant the Shadow Storm missiles would be decisive, no I meant the Challenger tanks, but believe me when I say the ATACMs will be decisive.
Please continue to believe everything you are told by the press. They would never lie to you.
ahhaahh!!! hahaha !! ahhahah !!!
another game changer and Wunderwaffe
how are those things in Iraq – Afganistan? still getting backside cleaned ?
these planes are museum pieces …
Deluded.
Who in Ukraine can pilot an F16? The 40-something-year-old postmen being draughted to die for Democrat corruption, bribery and insider trading?
Realize that Ukraine had an entire Air Force outfitted with aircraft superior to the F16 when this thing started. What happened to it?
You’ve got it all figured out Mish! When can we expect your announcement of your run for a house or senate seat from UT?
You might be wondering who would be dumb enough to believe so much BS, but half the population has to struggle through life with below average IQ.
Just like any propaganda, it is good for that segment (of voters).
If Russia is so great then take a one way ticket there.
He didn’t say anything about Russia
If the war in Ukraine is so great, have courage similar to the jihadis that defeated the USA in Afghanistan and go fight. Posting a Ukraine flag on your facebook profile is no more effective than your yellow ribbons were 20 years ago. Americans took down their yellow ribbons in the middle of the night, in shame, in 2006. Americans have already taken the Ukraine flag off of their facebook profiles. It’s over. Unless Americans have even half the courage the jihadis who went to fight in Afghanistan and won. But we know that’s not going to happen, not from Americans. Nope.
If The Ukraine is so great… ah never mind… you’d be wasted there…
All the countries that are in NATO to the west of Ukraine are in NATO because our war machine selling arms and missiles used NATO money to bribe them to let us set up bases with missiles there.
When our chief neocon warmonger Victoria Nuland engineered the regime change in Ukraine in 2014 installing our puppet president there it was to set up a money laundering operation to send a couple billion over to get a few hundred million sent back to Hunter Biden’s offshore companies to be distributed to the Obama / Biden syndicate.
Did Obama get the tens of millions to buy his FIVE multi-million dollar houses off his government salary?
Obama was the big guy. AMZN might have covered Obama footsteps, selling Michelle Obama “best seller” for free.
Please detail for me which bases the US has in which countries and what missiles are there. I worked in Europe for 5 yrs. Attempting to get ready for Putin to strike west, and it would have been very helpful IF your statements had an ounce of truth to them, and would have made my job alot easier. 😎
Mish provides much to think about, or start thinking about.
Should the old proverb be revised to say “The first refuge of a scoundrel is imperialist vision.” ?
Consider that the far anti-American left believes that not only has America lost every instance where it has intervened and meddled, but that it should have lost every instance. Paste onto that the belief that the war America most needs to fight is a second Revolution, with a Marxist-resembling social justice outcome. And there is unfinished business to decolonize what America has done. The most obvious place to start is releasing Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam and Samoa from their ties to America.
— Material to think about. Acting on it is for next year, or later.
The USA is OWNED by the CIA along with the military-industrial-congressional complex that is held in deep capture by the neocon Warmongers, led by the head neocon Warmonger Victoria Nuland.
The CIA warmongers were in Afghanistan for TWENTY YEARS to make gobs of cash off the heroin trade there. IMHO we did not pull out there, but got thrown out.
An example of the INSANITY of the war machine is the 750 military bases around the world! Look at the boneyard of all the aircraft built and still in one piece and all the navy ships parked.
There is a major clear and present danger, IMHO that the carrier battle groups cruising around near hostile lands are just floating targets for on-shore missiles!
Those carriers have about 5,000 sailors on board!
Tired of this. I’m 70 and I concur with everything you said. I remember vividly hearing the Domino theory over and over and over. The world would become communist if we didn’t take Vietnam and put them in their place. What the hell did we gain from it? Not a damn thing. The neocons never give up. Putin has been in power for what 30, 40 years? Now he’s in the winter of his life and he’s going to invade Europe? Give me a break. Stop spending money. Stop it!
That’s what people said about Germany after WW1. Then Hitler rose to power.
Witness the historical breadth that allows for only ONE possible analogy… forgetting that they said the same thing about the last 50 Hitlers who proved not to be Hitler.
Like their boss who is Satan the accuser, liberals project their own sins upon everyone else. It is the USA who planned to take down the middle east, and then actually did it. Putin simply wants people to stop thinking they can make a bear rug of him because it is clear: the US does not want to co-exist with Putin’s Russia. The US “leadership” wants him removed and replaced with one of their one world government puppets.
I think Putin is an honorable and impressive leader. He turned Russia around from the chaotic Yeltsin years where the life expectancy dropped precipitously. He has turned the economy around despite the evil shanannigans of the neocons.
In contrast, in the same time span that Russia pulled itself up by its bootstraps, the US has sunk like a rock. When our idiot leaders weren’t invading other countries, they were busy shipping industries and jobs over seas. They then opened up the border to massive illegal immigration, pushing down blue collar wages, straining the social safety net and degrade social cohesion. Not satisfied with this level treachery and betrayal, they then attacked the family, set ethnic groups against one another and set out to teach children sexual perversion. FJB! F#@% the establishment! May they all rot in he!!.
Alex,
There’s a pizza place in DC you would love. It’s full of child predators. Why don’t you try to go after those adults and see where it gets you.
No thanks! I have no interest in meeting you.
A typically, well-thought-out and logical response countering everything you don’t agree with. Two thumbs up. No Vaseline required.
Well said Mish. Bravo
Fight the warmongers and profiteers ALWAYS and at EVERY turn
USSR died in 1990/91 but boomers can’t get over it so “poootin is the boogyman”. Hilarious and sad the propagandists will use and repeat over and over
I’m old enough to remember the domino theory. It was the one that took my older brother to fight over anonymous hills in a shithole jungle in Vietnam. If this attempt at manufacturing consent to fund the war machine works, we’ve learned nothing.
When I worked in Vietnam, one of my students had only one leg. She lost one to an anti-personnel mine years after the war had already ended. Women, men, and children are killed and maimed by American ordnance in Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia every day and have every day for the past 55+ years. The left-behind ordnance that Americans left there is the only Christianity many people there have ever experienced. Praise Jesus, hallelujah! Agent Orange birth defects, abortions, and explosions, Praise the Lord!!!