In a time when anything being reported accurately about the United States must come from some foreign source, it is incumbent upon the reader and discerner of the times to think for oneself.
the main thing stopping Putin from using tactical nukes in Ukraine - or now, Kursk Oblast - is that Ukrainian troops aren't concentrated enough to make their use make sense, militarily. The kill circle on a tactical nuke is pretty small, they'd be useful against large concentrations of troops and the Ukrainians tend to spread out. The other thing is that tactical nukes aren't a local weapon with effects limited to one location, they create radioactive fallout clouds which do get up quite high - about 20,000 feet - and travel long distances . The prevailing winds in Ukraine go from west to east, so the fallout is going to go straight east, more or less, and so there's the chance that Russian agricultural lands around Volgograd might get a good shot of it - and some of it could travel as far as China. The Chinese already import 80% of their food, they don't want to risk making that 100% - and the Chinese have communicated to Putin that they don't want this. So there's no tactical advantage and lots of liabilities. The threat of nuke use has been very effective in limiting Western aid to Ukraine and its areas of allowed usage, and so the threats will continue - that's the primary actual use of these weapons in this war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiM-RzPHyGs
If strategic weapons were used in Ukraine, say a 1 MT ground burst on Kiev to take out command and control structures, that would produce a much larger fallout cloud, contaminating lots of Russian agricultural lands - and posing a significant threat all the way to China. See this for details - https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/effects/
I can see why he wouldn't use them in Ukraine, it's the idea of using them against us that I was concerned about since we recently suggested a decapitation strike against Moscow.
"We"? Who in the everliving f*ck said that? Whoever they are, they need to be driven from power with horsewhips - or subjected to a good lethal dose of hard x-rays. That's totally irresponsible and moronic. BTW, I just made a post with some interesting info should those untoward comments produce unintended consequences - see https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/nuclear-weapons-use-and-the-ukraine
I encourage people to click your link. Sadly, when a government invites an attack on itself, the people suffer most. The WE in this case was probably Blinken.
NWO Blinken, Obamaite Sycophants just following "Orders" to Devolve the USSA into subservient status. War and/or Economic should suffice, or the Grid Down mentioned earlier.
Is Putin playing a long game to outlast the NWO or Does every Country dance to the NWO dicktates???
China may "appear"to be a NWO player, but having studied Chinese history, they will never play 2nd fiddle again after the national humiliation following their last Dynasty.
imo, MAGA policies are very much alive in MRussiaGA and MChinaGA. They are Not Self Destroying Themselves Deliberately.
I found the video interview of Mr. Helmer on the Duran website very instructive on the various power groups in Russia. Mr. Helmer explains Putin's actions and words (which don't always agree with each other.)
If I understand Mr. Helmer correctly (he is a Russian expert), there are three power groups in Russia:
A: The oligarchs
B: The military
C: Putin and his backers who want to preserve the Russian and Ukrainian citizenry (they are all Christian Slavs.) Russian cities today are cleaner, friendlier, and more efficient than those of Europe or the USA. Putin wants to preserve that progress.
Putin is doing a balancing act to stay in power and keep Russia progressing toward prosperity.
TIK, who has a channel on YouTube, is a very good historian of WWII in Europe and European economics. His videos show that the Soviet Union never recovered economically from WWII. All economic indicators never regained the same levels of the 1930s. This was all under the same Communist system.
Yeltsin was the Clinton backed President of Russia after the Soviet Union collapsed. The oligarchs stole all the wealth of the nationalized companies in Russia. Russia was dying. Life expectancy dropped into the upper 50s.
Putin takes over and turns things around. Thirty years later, Russia is prosperous. It has very little national debt. The cities and people are thriving.
The UK and the USA (Anglo-American Elites) can't stand this. The Rockefellers, Forbes, Rothschilds, Morgans, all wanted those Russian wheat fields, gold mines, oil and gas fields, Tungsten, Titanium, Aluminum, you name the mineral or resource, Russia has it.
The British Empire always was against Russia in the "Great Game." Now the USA plays the same game.
Russia, China, and India have most of the people and resource wealth on Earth, not the West.
The US (still) gets about a third of the low yield fissionable uranium for its nuclear electric generation reactors from Russia - that's about a billion dollars per year - no embargo on that... As to national debt, since the SMO started, that picture has changed considerably, as reflected in ruble inflation. As for cities, MSK and SPB are pretty prosperous. But get out to Siberia, places like Chelyabinsk, Chabarovsk, Komsomolsk are pretty grim, as are the rural areas in Russia...
stream47, Yeah, but Russia is better off than it was under communism and Yeltsin with his oligarchs. Russia will never be truly prosperous unless it embraces liberty and free markets. Russians like dictators for some reason.
steam47. I looked up Astana. LOL! That city is crazy. It's a planned city and became the capital in 1997. The city has had three name changes since then. The Presidential Palace is huge! Egos of Presidents on parade. A Japanese designed the city. The Kazakhs appear to be a bit mad.
Just to be clear, I think the West is a better society and richer than the East. The East may have more people and resources, but the West had liberty and free markets.
With liberty and free markets came prosperity from Ideas and Imagination, which led to the Innovations/Inventions that make modern life possible.
America and the West have lost Liberty and Free Markets. When did the West have its last big idea or invention? Hell, the USA can't even send a successful space module to the ISS in low Earth orbit.
The West may not have all the people and resources of the East, but we have imagination.
Those responsible are the same carpetbaggers that were robbing Russia blind after communism fell. Putin put an end to their plans & they have hated him for it ever since, more even than they have always hated the Russian people.
The term "carpetbagger" was invented for people just such as we now have ensconced in all the positions of power in the Feral Government. The goal of every one is self-aggrandizement, and personal enrichment in both money and absolute power. Put 'em all in a crab bucket, or a rat cage, and the same result will ensue
Except for senile old commies and newly minted oligarchs most Russians are Christian and Caucasian and we are not! The Lord only knows but this may be the only thing holding Putin back. I'm sure he knows that laying in a couple of those tactical nukes on Modor on the Potomac would only be greeted with applause from the rest of the country. Huzzah!
My point too,exactly and more succintly put! T.L. touches on Putin's seeking of a way to take the dishonest brokers off the table, while assuring the oppressed, suffering Christian Americans that the razing of Mordor is completely in their best interests, and ours.
Another excellent piece, T.L.. This is why i read you, not as a personal echo chamber, but deeply, seeking validation for my own ruminations on the World.
I too have been watching and studying Russia for decades now. Where did we go wrong? When the Soviet Union collapsed, we should have, if we were honest brokers and agents of a Free civilization, welcomed them wholeheartedly into the Brotherhood of Humanity. Sadly, our rent-seeking MIC still needed an Enemy to sustain them, and the NeoCon movement was born.
I think your introspection of V.Putin's psyche, mind, and soul are spot on. He has extended an invitation for Free Christian People suffering oppression from there own rotted Western governments to come and live in Russia. If I were a young man again, looking to start a family, I would seriously consider. I am old now, and have nothing of substance to offer any longer. I will be content to stay here, and watch History unfold, as long as I can stay alive.
I have believef for quite some time now that the best thing that could happen to us would be for a Russian nuke to hit DC on the busiest Wednesday of the week. Our entire chain of command, from CIC (wonder who that is these days?) all the way down, needs to be taken off the table. Only then would a trustworthy Deal-maker be able to step in and avert continuation of hostilities, from both sides.
They have already tried to assassinate the only possible figure at the moment to bring Peace. I also watch the BRICS movement very attentively, and see signs that there are some in the higher echelons in the West who recognize that the Globalist enterprise ist kaput, and the new Multipolar World Order of Sovereign nations, acting in their individual best interests while exploiting trade honestly, is the only possible way forward now for what is left of Western Civilization.
"Nukes" aren't needed anymore in war. Just Hack the Grid, destroy Critical Substations, EMP even; take a pick. No Electricity for over one month = Chaos. No Electricity for over 3 months = Grim Desperation
No Electricity for over 6 months = Mass Die Off Underway. No Electricity for 1 Year - No more USA, just open, mostly uninhabited country, cities abandoned, 10% maximum population remaining mostly in remoter rural areas. The 10% survivors would at this point be many of the "former" illegal Newcomers since they came from 3rd world environments. (Immunity & Toughness combo)
"Any" 1st World Country could just walk in and Re-populate, especially the Chinese. Life on Planet Earth is of Migration and Conquest, just the Fact of It.
With Putin's more nuanced big-picture perspective than the Neo-Con kids in DC, would it be possible that Putin is rope-a-doping until November? With his concern for Russian/Ukrainian citizens, wouldn't a timely hit on Zelinski be an equally effective decapitation that would demotivate the 'war effort' the whole of Ukraine? Speculations aside, the EMP option seems most straightforward and most productive (for the other side). Why make all that productive farmland glow in the dark?
the main thing stopping Putin from using tactical nukes in Ukraine - or now, Kursk Oblast - is that Ukrainian troops aren't concentrated enough to make their use make sense, militarily. The kill circle on a tactical nuke is pretty small, they'd be useful against large concentrations of troops and the Ukrainians tend to spread out. The other thing is that tactical nukes aren't a local weapon with effects limited to one location, they create radioactive fallout clouds which do get up quite high - about 20,000 feet - and travel long distances . The prevailing winds in Ukraine go from west to east, so the fallout is going to go straight east, more or less, and so there's the chance that Russian agricultural lands around Volgograd might get a good shot of it - and some of it could travel as far as China. The Chinese already import 80% of their food, they don't want to risk making that 100% - and the Chinese have communicated to Putin that they don't want this. So there's no tactical advantage and lots of liabilities. The threat of nuke use has been very effective in limiting Western aid to Ukraine and its areas of allowed usage, and so the threats will continue - that's the primary actual use of these weapons in this war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiM-RzPHyGs
If strategic weapons were used in Ukraine, say a 1 MT ground burst on Kiev to take out command and control structures, that would produce a much larger fallout cloud, contaminating lots of Russian agricultural lands - and posing a significant threat all the way to China. See this for details - https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/effects/
I can see why he wouldn't use them in Ukraine, it's the idea of using them against us that I was concerned about since we recently suggested a decapitation strike against Moscow.
"We"? Who in the everliving f*ck said that? Whoever they are, they need to be driven from power with horsewhips - or subjected to a good lethal dose of hard x-rays. That's totally irresponsible and moronic. BTW, I just made a post with some interesting info should those untoward comments produce unintended consequences - see https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/nuclear-weapons-use-and-the-ukraine
I encourage people to click your link. Sadly, when a government invites an attack on itself, the people suffer most. The WE in this case was probably Blinken.
NWO Blinken, Obamaite Sycophants just following "Orders" to Devolve the USSA into subservient status. War and/or Economic should suffice, or the Grid Down mentioned earlier.
Is Putin playing a long game to outlast the NWO or Does every Country dance to the NWO dicktates???
China may "appear"to be a NWO player, but having studied Chinese history, they will never play 2nd fiddle again after the national humiliation following their last Dynasty.
imo, MAGA policies are very much alive in MRussiaGA and MChinaGA. They are Not Self Destroying Themselves Deliberately.
Same train of thoughts here, T.L.
I believe that when a leader of people put their people first, most every decision is legitimate.
https://rumble.com/v5cteya-kursk-istanbul-2-and-the-negotiation-trap-w-john-helmer-live.html?e9s=src_v1_upp
I found the video interview of Mr. Helmer on the Duran website very instructive on the various power groups in Russia. Mr. Helmer explains Putin's actions and words (which don't always agree with each other.)
If I understand Mr. Helmer correctly (he is a Russian expert), there are three power groups in Russia:
A: The oligarchs
B: The military
C: Putin and his backers who want to preserve the Russian and Ukrainian citizenry (they are all Christian Slavs.) Russian cities today are cleaner, friendlier, and more efficient than those of Europe or the USA. Putin wants to preserve that progress.
Putin is doing a balancing act to stay in power and keep Russia progressing toward prosperity.
This is what the West wants to stop at all costs.
TIK, who has a channel on YouTube, is a very good historian of WWII in Europe and European economics. His videos show that the Soviet Union never recovered economically from WWII. All economic indicators never regained the same levels of the 1930s. This was all under the same Communist system.
Yeltsin was the Clinton backed President of Russia after the Soviet Union collapsed. The oligarchs stole all the wealth of the nationalized companies in Russia. Russia was dying. Life expectancy dropped into the upper 50s.
Putin takes over and turns things around. Thirty years later, Russia is prosperous. It has very little national debt. The cities and people are thriving.
The UK and the USA (Anglo-American Elites) can't stand this. The Rockefellers, Forbes, Rothschilds, Morgans, all wanted those Russian wheat fields, gold mines, oil and gas fields, Tungsten, Titanium, Aluminum, you name the mineral or resource, Russia has it.
The British Empire always was against Russia in the "Great Game." Now the USA plays the same game.
Russia, China, and India have most of the people and resource wealth on Earth, not the West.
The US (still) gets about a third of the low yield fissionable uranium for its nuclear electric generation reactors from Russia - that's about a billion dollars per year - no embargo on that... As to national debt, since the SMO started, that picture has changed considerably, as reflected in ruble inflation. As for cities, MSK and SPB are pretty prosperous. But get out to Siberia, places like Chelyabinsk, Chabarovsk, Komsomolsk are pretty grim, as are the rural areas in Russia...
stream47, Yeah, but Russia is better off than it was under communism and Yeltsin with his oligarchs. Russia will never be truly prosperous unless it embraces liberty and free markets. Russians like dictators for some reason.
Closed captions and auto-translate work pretty well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh_Zan4I7Bw and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqaVjbDNMmQ Interesting insights from these - Astana is the capital of Kazakhstan, Barnaul is in eastern Siberia...
steam47. I looked up Astana. LOL! That city is crazy. It's a planned city and became the capital in 1997. The city has had three name changes since then. The Presidential Palace is huge! Egos of Presidents on parade. A Japanese designed the city. The Kazakhs appear to be a bit mad.
Just to be clear, I think the West is a better society and richer than the East. The East may have more people and resources, but the West had liberty and free markets.
With liberty and free markets came prosperity from Ideas and Imagination, which led to the Innovations/Inventions that make modern life possible.
America and the West have lost Liberty and Free Markets. When did the West have its last big idea or invention? Hell, the USA can't even send a successful space module to the ISS in low Earth orbit.
The West may not have all the people and resources of the East, but we have imagination.
Imagine not having insane assholes in charge.
Those responsible are the same carpetbaggers that were robbing Russia blind after communism fell. Putin put an end to their plans & they have hated him for it ever since, more even than they have always hated the Russian people.
The term "carpetbagger" was invented for people just such as we now have ensconced in all the positions of power in the Feral Government. The goal of every one is self-aggrandizement, and personal enrichment in both money and absolute power. Put 'em all in a crab bucket, or a rat cage, and the same result will ensue
Except for senile old commies and newly minted oligarchs most Russians are Christian and Caucasian and we are not! The Lord only knows but this may be the only thing holding Putin back. I'm sure he knows that laying in a couple of those tactical nukes on Modor on the Potomac would only be greeted with applause from the rest of the country. Huzzah!
My point too,exactly and more succintly put! T.L. touches on Putin's seeking of a way to take the dishonest brokers off the table, while assuring the oppressed, suffering Christian Americans that the razing of Mordor is completely in their best interests, and ours.
Another excellent piece, T.L.. This is why i read you, not as a personal echo chamber, but deeply, seeking validation for my own ruminations on the World.
I too have been watching and studying Russia for decades now. Where did we go wrong? When the Soviet Union collapsed, we should have, if we were honest brokers and agents of a Free civilization, welcomed them wholeheartedly into the Brotherhood of Humanity. Sadly, our rent-seeking MIC still needed an Enemy to sustain them, and the NeoCon movement was born.
I think your introspection of V.Putin's psyche, mind, and soul are spot on. He has extended an invitation for Free Christian People suffering oppression from there own rotted Western governments to come and live in Russia. If I were a young man again, looking to start a family, I would seriously consider. I am old now, and have nothing of substance to offer any longer. I will be content to stay here, and watch History unfold, as long as I can stay alive.
I have believef for quite some time now that the best thing that could happen to us would be for a Russian nuke to hit DC on the busiest Wednesday of the week. Our entire chain of command, from CIC (wonder who that is these days?) all the way down, needs to be taken off the table. Only then would a trustworthy Deal-maker be able to step in and avert continuation of hostilities, from both sides.
They have already tried to assassinate the only possible figure at the moment to bring Peace. I also watch the BRICS movement very attentively, and see signs that there are some in the higher echelons in the West who recognize that the Globalist enterprise ist kaput, and the new Multipolar World Order of Sovereign nations, acting in their individual best interests while exploiting trade honestly, is the only possible way forward now for what is left of Western Civilization.
V.Putin is NOT the Enemy. God bless, all.
"Nukes" aren't needed anymore in war. Just Hack the Grid, destroy Critical Substations, EMP even; take a pick. No Electricity for over one month = Chaos. No Electricity for over 3 months = Grim Desperation
No Electricity for over 6 months = Mass Die Off Underway. No Electricity for 1 Year - No more USA, just open, mostly uninhabited country, cities abandoned, 10% maximum population remaining mostly in remoter rural areas. The 10% survivors would at this point be many of the "former" illegal Newcomers since they came from 3rd world environments. (Immunity & Toughness combo)
"Any" 1st World Country could just walk in and Re-populate, especially the Chinese. Life on Planet Earth is of Migration and Conquest, just the Fact of It.
With Putin's more nuanced big-picture perspective than the Neo-Con kids in DC, would it be possible that Putin is rope-a-doping until November? With his concern for Russian/Ukrainian citizens, wouldn't a timely hit on Zelinski be an equally effective decapitation that would demotivate the 'war effort' the whole of Ukraine? Speculations aside, the EMP option seems most straightforward and most productive (for the other side). Why make all that productive farmland glow in the dark?