He Has a Point ...

 ... because pretty much most of Euro so called "elite" qualify for being charged with infringing on sovereignty of Euro nations, constant and consistent violation of human rights and the last, but not least--practically all of them are war criminals and some are criminals against humanity. So, when Turtiainen says this: 

MOSCOW, Aug 2 - RIA Novosti. Today, the Finnish elite wants a war with Russia in order to evade responsibility for its failures in the country's policy, Ano Turtiainen, a former member of the Finnish parliament, founder of the Power Belongs to the People party, told RIA Novosti. "Everything related to EU, joining the NATO- all this was done illegally, bypassing the Constitution... Now the Finnish elite is afraid that they will have to answer for all this, and therefore they even want a war (with Russia - ed.) in order to evade responsibility with it," said Turtiainen, who moved to Russia.

He describes pretty much the whole West with its military-industrial-government-media complex. As I state non-stop--most in NATO top brass don't understand that they carried out criminal orders, which originated in D.C. They erased Ukraine, turned it into 404, killed 3 million of her soldiers, killed Russian civilians and paraded themselves as incompetent cowards capable only of PR and atrocity. Hi Tech atrocity, they think. Now, suddenly, they find themselves in a position when military fairy tales do not work and the only instrument they have left is ...

The deadly bombing at a central Moscow restaurant bears all the hallmarks of terrorism because it was apparently intended to inflict mass casualties and spread fear among civilians, former Pentagon analyst Michael Maloof has told RT. Three people were killed and 21 wounded when an improvised explosive device detonated outside the Balzi Rossi restaurant near Kudrinskaya Square on Saturday evening, according to Russian officials. An unidentified woman allegedly attempted to carry the device into the establishment but was stopped at the entrance by a security guard. “If it weren’t for that guard, who was unfortunately killed, there probably could have been a mass slaughter in that restaurant and in the surrounding area,” Maloof said. The former US Defense Department analyst argued that the location and timing of the bombing suggested that the perpetrators sought to cause maximum harm. The explosion occurred on a warm Saturday evening in a busy area of central Moscow near the Moscow Zoo, shortly before a nighttime cycling event was due to take place.

The number of slayed Russian civilians from Bucha to Kursk to schools, colleges, civilian busses et al is now in thousands. Well, they will begin now to learn that hiding behind backs of their best proxy guarantees absolutely nothing. But then again, their "strategists" still cannot wrap their feeble brains around the metaphysical nature of the conflict decomposing West unleashed. They are beginning to learn now. 

Meanwhile--404 cannot hide anyone and anything anywhere. Fuel? Nope. 

Average journo and member from  editorial boards of ANY mainstream Western media, including their so called "military experts" can and should be charged, even if in absentia, as war criminals indistinguishable from the likes of Rosenberg and Goebbels. 

All of them without exception are people without morals and humanity in them, period. 

Something To Consider.

This is the graph of a number of 404 refugees in Europe. 

Of course, not all of those refugees are necessarily horrible people but very many end up not only demanding "respect" from Europeans but are involved in abuse of welfare systems and demand more privileges. There is also a substantial contingent of the organized crime with many participants having experience in combat. So, EU police will have (already?) a jolly good time handling those guys. 

Meanwhile, Russia released a video dedicated to Volyn tragedy--a massacre of more than 100,000 Polish, primarily women and children, civilians by banderites. FSB also released some NKVD documents on this matter. Guess the reaction from Poland. 

Well, too late for Poland to have objections and hysterical reactions. The deed was done. Poland supported the butchers of her own people. 

That's Borrell's Euro "Garden".

In this case it is France in a desperate fight for fans. Should be for Only Fans. This is not just THIS particular heat wave (another massive one is coming), it is that you are not allowed to warm yourself up during winter cold. 

Meanwhile this is Germany and Berlin-Hamburg Ice train. 

Yep. 

Euros will continue to deny obvious but I will say it--EU is not recoverable and it is on the way to the third world with nice art galleries. Per remark by Alastair Crooke that DJT was heard (at G-7) telling Ze "to hit Russia as hard as he can". DJT is utterly incompetent hack with same sycophant hacks from Pentagon, CIA, AIPAC  et al surrounding him. He doesn't understand what COFM is and how it applies nor what does it mean when Vladimir Putin says "we are a step ahead of NATO". He simply has no tool kit for grasping it, plus he lives in the world of ideations and dementia. 

Again ...

 ... I had a video based around this. That's Soviet political caricature which aged as a fine wine. 

European Commonwealth circa 1960s)) 

On Colonel Jacques Baud.

They, those EU underpigs, are afraid of truth. Larry provides the sentiment which I also share deeply. 

Jacques Baud is one of the most objective and respected military analysts around. He is highly regarded and respected not only throughout Europe, but also in the US. His work is not limited to analysis on the most prestigious YouTube platforms; he has also written numerous excellent books. His style is unique in that he does not concern himself with politics, but only with the analysis of warfare, in a calm and dispassionate manner. His analyses have never been anti-Ukrainian or pro-Russian, but objective. He has long seen a NATO defeat on the horizon, not based on his wishes, but on the facts on the long front and the war strategy and tactics of the various parties. This did not fit in at all with the Russophobic war cries of the EU, which still dreams of ultimate victory today, just like Adolf Hitler did in the spring of 1945.

Read the whole thing at Larry's blog. 

Totally Agree ...

 ... which is strange because it is from The Telegraph))

The EU’s top diplomat is a gift to the Kremlin. Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, knows all too well that nothing is more fatal for the future of Ukraine than disunity among Kyiv’s Western allies. “Russia wants to see the US and Europe divided,” she warned back in March. “Let’s not give them that.” Yet now, as the grim process of thrashing out a real peace deal gets under way, the US and Europe could hardly be further apart. And it’s Europe’s refusal to face reality that is to blame. While Kallas and other European leaders talk among themselves, stripping out all the most painful bits of Trump’s 28 point peace plan, the real negotiations are taking place between Moscow, Washington and Beijing. Europe is not at the table even as the future security architecture of the Continent is being hammered out. Rather than engaging with the ugly reality of talking to the Russians, Kallas and her fellow European leaders have chosen ideological purity over practical diplomacy.

Hey, hey, hey, The Telegraph, stop making sense all of a sudden. Your rag was at the forefront of anti-Russia hysteria and then suddenly something changed? Oh, we know what changed. You lost the war while Russians are very good at keeping records. And now, with Russia's funds (which most likely are already not there) the final blow to NATO and EU is coming ... from the United States itself. 

Read Larry's excellent piece on new National Security Strategy properly titled: Trump files for divorce from NATO over Ukraine The new US National Security Strategy signals a massive foreign policy shift; it remains to be seen if Washington is serious about it.  It is an excellent piece, which really comes well together with Dmitry Orlov's overview of this whole clustercoitus with Russia's funds. Here is the summary:

1. Ukraine is on its last legs, guaranteed to lose the war, its army melting away and its government mired in corruption scandals. Throwing more money at the Ukrainian financial black hole would be simply a waste.

2. Frozen Russian sovereign funds held by Euroclear are in the form of eurobonds. If the EU stole this money, it would simply be refusing to pay back $300 billion of its own debt. This would not give it any money (it has already spent the Russian money which was used to buy these bonds) but it would certainly hurt its financial position and complicate further borrowing and deficit financing.

3. The EU would gain nothing, but it would lose actual, real money and brick and mortar assets it had built up in Russia, including any future profits from them and any future role in the Russian economy.

Perhaps the brain trust of the EU that has hatched this very interesting plan to steal Russia's money consists of Russian agents. Or perhaps they are just a bunch of idiots. You be the judge.

Really difficult to add anything other than to agree with The Telegraph that people like Kallas (a majority of Euro elites) is a gift which keeps on giving and Russians love it--keeps the circus alive for longer while Europe descends into complete irrelevance:

MOSCOW, December 6. /TASS/. Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev agrees with Elon Musk that the European Union should be abolished in order to return sovereignty to its member countries. "Exactly," the Russian politician wrote in a comment to Musk's corresponding publication in X. Earlier, Musk wrote that "the EU should be abolished, and individual countries should be returned sovereignty so that states can better represent their people."

The experiment failed, because it was built around mythical idea of globalism and inability to learn from the history. Europe failed to learn anything from WW II. Time to pay the bills. More than six years ago while commenting on Irina Alksnis excellent piece I wrote:

I always said--genuine superpowers move in their own world and they have their very own, unique, complexes and "disabilities" only other superpowers can understand, even when being enemies. Irina Alksnis completely and masterfully conveyed this in her article.    

EU is not superpower, the US and Russia are, make your own conclusions. 

It Is Really Very Simple.

 And it is a well-known fact. 

A number of countries that Russia considers “unfriendly” have privately pitched proposals on improving economic cooperation during the G20 Summit, the head of the Russian delegation, Kremlin aide Maksim Oreshkin, told reporters on Sunday. The summit brought together leaders representing the world’s 20 largest economies in Johannesburg, South Africa, this weekend. “A number of countries we consider unfriendly have approached us with specific proposals for cooperation – on how to improve economic relations with Russia and implement joint projects,” Oreshkin said at a press conference. He added that he would not elaborate on which countries made the offers “lest their colleagues be offended later.”

This is the reality of Kardashev Scale which correctly puts energy, its extraction and use, as the main criterion for the type of civilization. Obviously, we, Earthlings, are still way-way out of even Type-I level, we are somewhere near 0.6-0.7 at best, BUT ... If to use Russia as a reference point as Type=1.0 within Earth's present energy paradigm, then countries like Germany, Italy or even France will be, ahem--somewhere between 0.4-0.5 at best. And they DO NOT have any prospects for getting higher without ... right--you get my drift. Their march to backwardness accelerates and they did it to themselves. 

This also explains Trump's desperate desire to get his hands on Venezuela's oil, but while understandable for purely vulture reasons, risks attached to it are huge for the United States, and even under the most favorable conditions that will not solve US economic problems. They are systemic and cannot be resolved by mere imperial acquisitions, especially with dramatic breakthroughs in energy generation happening this very moment as I type this. But, of course, Venezuela may become, as Larry notes. 

As the US continues to build up its military forces off the coast of Venezuela, it is worth asking about the risks associated with an actual US invasion with ground forces. I think that US military planners, regardless of what Donald Trump is saying, have cautioned their bosses about the extreme risks that such an operation would entail. During my appearance today with Judge Napolitano, I suggested we compare what a possible military operation inside Venezuela would entail compared to our 2003 attack on Iraq… Venezuela is a much tougher nut to crack than was Iraq. 

Moreover, Iraq can hardly serve as a yardstick and as Lieutenant-General Klokotov stated in 1992, and I remind you:

And that was in 1992, when the US Armed Forces have been in a much better shape than they are today. So, make your own conclusions. 

About Dubai Air Show.

As you may understand, the contracts signed on such kinds of shows are not really negotiated there--serious contracts for weapons are prepared usually much in advance, sometimes years after long and tedious negotiations. But here is the deal with modern Russian expositions--they present weapon systems which are unrivaled not only "on paper" but in actual combat performance in the REAL (emphasis on "real") war. 

These are not just combat aircraft, but air defense systems which simply dominate modern air defense field. So, a lot of butthurt, as you might expect, to go around in Western "military expert" (a euphemism for fanboys and gamers) field, while in reality, rumor has it, there is a line now for those who want to see Su-57E flying for their air forces, while Russian-made AD systems simply have no competition. Unless one calls blackmailing and arm-twisting by the West's arms dealers and politicians as such. 

Meanwhile, India has a bit of a tough time facing the fork in the road and caving (at least for now) to the US pressure (blackmail) in energy sector. Unlike China who can and does tell Trump to go suck ... I mean pound sand, India is not a genuine superpower and now India's Foreign Minister is in Russia ...

On November 17, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks with Minister of External Affairs of the Republic of India Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, who is in Moscow to attend a meeting of the SCO Council of Heads of Government. The ministers discussed topical aspects of the bilateral and international agenda with an emphasis on preparations for the annual Russian-Indian summit, which will be held on the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration on Strategic Partnership between the two countries. Due attention was paid to practical steps to further develop trade and economic cooperation, including in the energy and financial spheres, as well as issues of military-technical and logistical cooperation.

Russia will accommodate India in whatever situation she will find herself trying to balance her Western and BRICS interests, but at some point of time India will have to choose between the two, not because of the pressure from Russia and China, but because of the logic of the economic and military circumstances in which combined Wests' circling the drain accelerates tremendously. 

The Chair of the China's State Council (Premier) Li Qiang arrived in Moscow today for SCO meeting.

As some observers noted: 

Premier Li’s trip comes at a pivotal moment. As the global landscape continues to undergo transformation marked by geopolitical uncertainty, sluggish economic recovery, and complex security challenges, the SCO stands out as a key platform for dialogue, collaboration, and regional solidarity. China’s participation, rooted in principles of mutual respect, mutual benefit, and win-win cooperation, reinforces its long-standing role as a stabilizer and growth engine across the vast Eurasian region. For example, SCO meetings serve as important confidence-building measures among member countries. Prime Minister Modi’s attendance at the Tianjin Summit this year could positively reshape China–India relations. Thus, member states can use this useful platform for good neighborhood, good understanding and better ties. Li Qiang’s all engagement and meetings with participants in Moscow may establish more good links with neighboring countries.

I cannot emphasize enough (nor can I list all of them) the scale of the developments within BRICS, especially Russia launching major Uranium and Rare Earth extraction projects in Yakutia, with SCO building a fortress of resources critical for future development and, in fact, cutting off EU from these resources. In my today's video I speak about Alexander Novak's statement on October 15th this year which sounded as the death sentence to EU and should have terrified morons who run it. 

White and Black Noise.

This is about he said she said. Do Russians know who Donald Trump is? I dare to say much better than Trump himself. What is being "broadcasted" from the White House is a typical Trump's noise. He should understand that this might be his and the US last chance on offramp. The US has been exposed and humiliated enough by now and unlike Russia the US has no freedom of maneuver. 

Trump and his national security team still think that joggling with "territories" can somehow lead to a resolution. While in reality those "great concessions" by Witkoff are nothing more than:

The US political class cannot operate anymore on a NON-PR bases, it simply cannot and because of that Russia has a full "access" into the Washington's OODA Loop, meaning that Russians know every step the US will make. PR and BS, media noise are no substitute to the realities on the ground. Azerbaijan is now learning it a very hard way. I talk about it in my today's video which should be up shortly. 

No Way!

 Nah, I am screwing with you))

The EU will once again delay plans to eliminate its dependence on Russian energy, amid ongoing debates within the bloc over the future of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, the Financial Times has reported. Nord Stream 1, which once delivered Russian natural gas to Germany, and Nord Stream 2 were damaged in a sabotage attack in 2022. However, one string of Nord Stream 2 remains intact. Talks of potentially reviving the pipelines have resurfaced amid recent joint efforts by Russia and the US to end the Ukraine conflict. Originally slated for release in February, a roadmap detailing steps for cutting the EU’s energy reliance on Russia by 2027 was first put off until March and is now expected to be unveiled in May, the outlet said on Tuesday. Uncertainty over US President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs has also reportedly contributed to the postponement, as the energy trade could become a key issue in EU-US negotiations. “It’s a mess,” an EU diplomat told the FT. “How does the US fit in all this? How do we diversify?’‘

I am sure, I am 146% positive that this guy and his team in Moscow are in this position:

Because once your balls are in this thing (Europe's virtual balls):

It is really difficult (almost impossible) to extricate your extremity from this, when the grip, by the virtue of geography, history, resources and this proverbial COFM, is so tight that you are left with two options only: get into scrambled eggs business or submit. The dynamics (huge growth) or Russian LNG sales to EU tell us about Europe's predicament. But then again, those could be last vestiges of the common sense among people who cannot repeat their, once a century event--invade Russia and get destroyed. This time Russians may not be so magnanimous and will turn Europe into the parking lot. Very many Russians want to end this once and for all. I don't blame them. 

Russians Aren't Coming ...

Absolutely! NATO cannot project, pardon my French, shit. When you talk about modern XXI century war--this is real men's business, not these cabana boys' Starmer and Macron. 

Spot on, Colonels. But to buttress the point:

BRUSSELS — Europe's top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, had high hopes of being able to mobilize as much as €40 billion of military aid to shore up Ukraine's position on the battlefield and strengthen its hand in upcoming talks with Russia. But as EU leaders wound up their gathering in Brussels on Thursday, the plan lay in tatters — not quite dead, but dramatically downgraded from its original ambition. The problems started, several EU diplomats said, from the plan's inception when the former Estonian prime minister failed to win prior buy-in from crucial stakeholders. The process had been "botched up," one of the diplomats summarized.

Kallas is not "top diplomat", she is a deranged Estonian bitch with Waffen SS traits in her. She IS the type needed in Brussels to grasp at the last straws of Europe's globalist project conceived by economic and military amateurs who never held a real job in their life. Sandcastles always dissolve or, in this particular case, are smashed by the Russian armor and artillery and all other means of organized violence at which Russians are the best in the world. History trained them for thousand years. 

And so, here we are--at the closing act of the combined West's main geopolitical hobby--once every hundred years West marches to Russia, to get its ass handed to itself. The more things change, the more they stay the same--anybody wants to fire cretins with civilian humanities degrees who teach BS ambitiously called History and Strategy in Sandhurst, King's College or US Naval War College, among many others, and maybe hire qualified people who know the truth? Ah, yes, truth hurts. But the United States invoked its superpower privilege and uses offramp afforded only to superpowers, at least for now. Europe? Didn't I tell it will be left holding the bag of some rather unpleasant substance? I think I did, many times. 

Meanwhile, look at what "Putin's Regime" did to the center of space industry in Russia (among many other places). Somebody, explain to Sarah Paine what is going on in Russia, or what is happening to Russian roads. 

That dictatorial Putin's Regime, you know. 

That's The Plan...

... at least this is how it looks like for now.  

European Union leaders are discussing whether they can afford to keep financing the Ukrainian military if US President-elect Donald Trump decides to pull Washington’s support for Kiev, Bloomberg reported on Friday. At a meeting in Budapest on Thursday, EU officials “held discussions on whether the bloc will be ready to foot the bill for the war,” the American news outlet reported, paraphrasing anonymous sources. According to one of these sources, the “big concern is that Trump will seek to shift the financial burden on Europe.” Trump repeatedly promised on the campaign trail to end the conflict within “24 hours,” but offered few specifics as to how he would achieve this. However, he said on numerous occasions that Washington’s European allies would have to “pay up” if they want to keep fighting, and reportedly plans on leaving the Europeans to pay for and enforce any post-conflict security arrangement.

For those people who still ride the high from the election win for MAGA, I'll pour some cold water on their expectations. Trump cannot stop anything in 404 no matter how he tries, or whatever hollow outward PR effects he may employ, what he wants is to freeze SMO and then put the burden of supporting 404 on Europe's shoulders. That's the plan. It is stupid, almost childish plan, but half of it may still work--that is making EU pay for 404. And here we have to understand one very important fact--it was EU which played a crucial role in unleashing the mayhem on Maidan in 2013 and then lied to Russian face during Minsk Accords. EU doesn't have capability and capacity to really aid 404--NATO has been largely demilitarized. No matter what EU does--it is over for Europe and with the exception of some critical technological and industrial competencies, Europe will be made (already in progress) poor but wealthy enough to buy crappy American weapons, which should "guarantee" Europe's "defense" against those hordes of Russians.

This Is Brussels...

 ... they demonstrate against looming shutting down of Audi automotive plant. Audi lost competitiveness due to high energy prices.  

They are too little, too late. A maximum their demonstration can accomplish is to postpone inevitable for a little while longer, and even that is not guaranteed. One cannot fight inexorable economic laws of supply and demand and costs. This is just the start for EU nations, it will increasingly fast get worse, much worse. If you think it is a local phenomenon... 

The decline of the traditional German brewing industry shows no signs of slowing down. Recently, several breweries have filed for bankruptcy or closed permanently, resulting in the loss of centuries-old brewing traditions.  The latest victims are the Gambrinus Brewery in Weiden, Upper Palatinate, and the Gesellschaftsbrauerei Viechtach, about 100 km southeast. Both are located in the Bavarian border region with the Czech Republic, an area often described as structurally weak. The nearly 100-year-old Gambrinus Brewery filed for insolvency on Friday at the Weiden District Court due to unpaid bills and outstanding wages. The brewery's decline is attributed to rising costs, pandemic-related sales losses, and internal issues, with current production at around 15,000 hl, half its peak output. On Thursday, it was announced that the insolvent Gesellschaftsbrauerei Viechtach would close permanently after nearly 500 years, ceasing production. Despite intensive negotiations, no investors were willing to continue operations. Remaining employees have been let go, and the Viechtacher brand will continue to be produced at the nearby Hofmark Brewery in Loifling, located in the Cham district of the Upper Palatinate.

One of the "external" factors identified is the decline of Germans' beer consumption. Good beer is a fairly expensive habit and Germany's standard of living is being driven towards meeting third world standards extremely fast. It is not there yet, but Europe's fate is sealed no matter what it does. People may say that I am gloating, I am not--I do have heart and it aches sometimes, but without divulging the name and (very high) position of one of my German acquaintances, in his words--until Europe goes hungry, nothing will change. The process is underway and soon passionate and, to a large extent (not completely), freeloading immigration in EU propped up with massive influx of weapons from 404 may also say its word once social safety net tears apart, which is not the matter if IF but WHEN (very soon). National police forces No Go zones will extend greatly and will turn to self-governance, including through banditry and all other types of violence. We all pay for our sins, for Europe this time has arrived, the US is next.

Why Europe Is Over...

 ... The husband is a cuck, his wife is stupid, and poor child has no protection. Modern Berlin. You see, that is why America is different... except for "democratic" states which remain such because of Democratic husbands who are... cucks and their stupid wives. Still, even they maintain (except for California) a Castle Law. But, the Bill of Rights is still here. In EU--EU "wives" are a euphemism for LGBTQ+... 

But still, 2nd Amendment is still there. In Europe they will charge you that you didn't allow "cultural enrichment" by getting this guy your wife and daughter. That's Europe--no honor, no culture, no men.

Now EU Wants To "Descalate".

Obviously it doesn't work like this, but then again Western political "elites" are nothing more than a collection of petulant children. Plus, it is Vladimir Putin's inauguration tomorrow. 

МОСКВА, 6 мая/ Радио Sputnik. Евросоюз призывает Россию прекратить эскалацию, заявил официальный представитель внешнеполитической службы ЕС Петер Стано. Так на брифинге в Брюсселе он прокомментировал предстоящие ракетные учения ВС России. "Мы призываем Россию прекратить эскалацию, безответственную риторику и безответственное поведение", – приводит РИА Новости его слова. В понедельник, 6 мая, в Минобороны сообщили, что президент России Владимир Путин поручил начать подготовку к учениям по применению нестратегического ядерного оружия.

Translation: MOSCOW, May 6/ Radio Sputnik. The European Union calls on Russia to stop the escalation, said EU foreign policy spokesman Peter Stano. Thus, at a briefing in Brussels, he commented on the upcoming missile exercises of the Russian Armed Forces. “We call on Russia to stop the escalation, irresponsible rhetoric and irresponsible behavior,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying. On Monday, May 6, the Ministry of Defense reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the start of preparations for exercises on the use of non-strategic nuclear weapons.

Poor, poor dears, they still don't get it what game they got themselves into.  Eight years ago I wrote this:

These are, so called, five guiding principles of the EU policy towards Russia.  If there ever were any doubts about EU being run by imbeciles, after these remarks they should be completely dispelled. Things, and people, should be called their proper names. It is not enough for Europe to be reduced to the status of Turkish whore, now it wants to outdo itself in dealing with the last real ally this emasculated geographic appendix of Eurasian land mass can possibly have before being turned completely into "multicultural" cloaca. To be sure, Europe is heading this way, but, what is most important, it doesn't have any tools of dealing with this situation, among many other problems it faces.  

Europe is Tabaqui to America's grossly diminished Shere Khan, which is a euphemism for expendables. Today Russian Foreign Ministry using fingers (British "elite" is underdeveloped and doesn't understand situation explained in normal language) explained to UK Ambassador that next time Russia will destroy UK's military objects (installations) not just in 404 but in other places--other places ranging from Royal Navy's ships anywhere in the ocean to Cyprus air base Akrotiri. Evidently the same was told to France's Ambassador who also was called to Foreign Ministry in Moscow. The algorithm is extremely simple: you don't want to talk to Lavrov, you will talk to Shoigu. 

Remarkably, Russia's nuclear exercises are... NON-STRATEGIC nuclear exercises. That means Russia is going to exercise strikes on Europe by such nuclear means as Kinzhals, 3M22 Zircon and 3M14 Kalibr which DO NOT fall under the umbrella of strategic nuclear weapons. Any carrier of P-800 Oniks, as an example, such as nuclear powered submarines or surface ships, not to speak of carriers of those nasty 3M14M which could be launched without leaving the waters near base--all of it will be demonstrated to Europe. Especially UK and France, whose facilities where terrorism against Russia is conceived and initiated, and which are defenseless against modern standoff weapons, will be "targeted". Recall HMS Defender.   

Western nations were warned about repeated appearances of their vessels inside Russian waters last summer after the British destroyer HMS ‘Defender’ violated the country’s maritime border near Crimea. In the aftermath of the incident, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov stressed that further incursions would increase the risk of conflict. He made it very clear that Moscow would not stand for continued violations, stating that offenders would be treated “very directly and objectively.”“It must be explained to them why, next time, that they’d be better off leaving their provocations aside and not coming here because they will get a punch in the nose,” the deputy minister warned.

This time they will. It has been 42 years since the Royal Navy got bloodied at Falklands. But Russia is not Argentina, in the end, if shit hits the fan Russia can simply wipe UK off the map. Together with France... and the US. I will be talking about technical aspects of that scenario in my video.

Alastair Crooke And Gaius Baltar. A Selection Of Sorts.

Excellent pieces. But before I proceed, here is me more than seven years ago, namely the end of 2016, warning: 

But the truth remained unchanged no matter how one would try to obfuscate it, and I quote myself: "For COIN crowd, yet again--Combined Arms Operations remain a principal method of the Continental Warfare".   No, not the warfare designed to fight some backward Afghani dekhans in the environment of a complete firepower dominance, not some large Arab military designed to mostly march on the parades, but the warfare which would put serious armed forces on the opposite sides of a conflict and it was here where the main pillar of Pax Americana could hardly put anything as a shining example of a success.

After that I wrote my first book. I was repeating this, essentially truism, ad nauseam even before 2016. Thanks Per Norway (classyglasses), for pointing to Crooke's piece The Fabric of Reality. Crooke makes a critical observation: 

It is a significant point: Ideas, conceptualisations and history may be shut down and cancelled by the command of the ‘masters of dogma’, but the space these intellectual vessels once occupied is still ethereally there -- to rise again in challenge to dogma. The massive polarization occurring today in the world is not simply geopolitical. It is not simply a competition over resources, or even simply a rivalry based on trade relationships. The conflict between Western élites and the rest of humanity, as Emmanuel Todd has suggested in La Défaite, is the result of the West “falling into nihilism and the deification of nothing”. Todd defined this nihilism as “the desire for destruction, but also of the negation of reality. There are no longer any traces of religion, but the human being is still there.”

As you all know, I always look at the world through military prism, but I also am on record that the conflict is metaphysical in nature, it transcends pure politics or even economics. Yet, as Bronislaw Malinowski stated “Another interesting point in the study of aggression is that, like charity, it begins at home.” We can say today that even here West failed, since Vietnam substituting the meaning of war with semantic equivalent of beating the crap from brown people with impunity. But they never read Tolstoy:

On the twelfth of June, 1812, the forces of Western Europe crossed the Russian frontier and war began, that is, an event took place opposed to human reason and to human nature. Millions of men perpetrated against one another such innumerable crimes, frauds, treacheries, thefts, forgeries, issues of false money, burglaries, incendiarisms, and murders as in whole centuries are not recorded in the annals of all the law courts of the world, but which those who committed them did not at the time regard as being crimes. 

War, real war, not blowing up Afghan weddings from the sky, is a horror and it is conventionally a combined arms, or its earlier iteration, that is how it has been for the last three centuries. But Western "elites" have no grasp of it, albeit this is slowly changing. I plan tomorrow to talk about how they maybe are nearing realization that they cannot stop anything if it comes to the ultimate outcome. They have no reason and their nature is that of an animal. They do, however, feel the fear and that is how they will live their days out--in fear. The man they would rather not talk about yesterday issued a warning to them. They have a barrel at their temple. 

Which brings us to an excellent piece by Gaius Baltar at Larry's Blog:

Things are bleak in Europe these days. European leaders are caught in a “fight or flight” response, deciding whether they should run and hide or send troops into Ukraine to fight the Menace from the East. However, the existential terror of Emmanuel Macron and his toxic-narcissist accomplices in the EU will have to wait for a dedicated article because this one will focus on the European economy. It has puzzled many how the EU has been managing its economy since the beginning of the Ukraine war. There have been two distinct shocks inflicted upon the Eurozone economy since then. The third shock, which may be the worst, is on the way. All of them are direct results of European policies.

Read it, it is a good reminder of reality being a bitch. Europe is over. It is in panic, but no one is coming to save it and it must be quarantined. The US? 

CNN  —Nearly a third, or 28%, of Gen Z adults in the United States identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer, a larger share than older generations, according to a new report by PRRI, a nonprofit that conducts research on religion, values and public policy. The report, titled “A political and cultural glimpse into America’s future,” sought to highlight the cultural and political views of Gen Z adults, compared with older Americans. Researchers surveyed more than 6,600 people ages 13 to over 65, with oversamples of Gen Z adults and teens between August 21 to September 15, 2023. The report found about 16% of Millennials and 7% of Baby Boomers identify as LGBTQ. But among Gen Z adults ages 18–25, 72% identified as straight, 15% as bisexual, 5% as gay or lesbian and 8% as “something else,” according to the report. About 20% of Americans are Gen Z, according to PRRI. 

This is how the end looks like. Combined arms you say?

It Is Not Just Germany.

Pretty much all of EU (and US) economic statistics is a financial legerdemain and it is just the start of strangling of EU economy in earnest. 

German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said that his country is getting poorer because of its failure to generate economic growth. Speaking at a Bloomberg event in Frankfurt on Monday, the leader of the market-friendly Free Democrats acknowledged that it’s hard to avoid the implications of an extended period of little or no expansion.“We are no longer competitive,” he said. “We are getting poorer because we have no growth. We are falling behind.” Lindner’s remarks highlight the predicament faced by Europe’s biggest economy as it enters a second post-pandemic year when expansion is anticipated to turn out feeble at best. 

Germany has been hit harder simply because the US views her as a main competitor in EU and as a "locomotive" of EU's economy. Locomotive being a misnomer, of course, more like a handcar. Again, it is the globalist model which is in a free fall. And don't let me started on Military-Industrial Complex of Europe. Good luck with new tanks, combat aircraft and other things. F-35 for everyone)) Rafale? Forget it--it begins to near obsolescence plus France cannot produce enough on time. So, yeah, now it seems that whatever is being left of 404 is being "given" as a "gift" to EU by the US--let EU taxpayer foot the bill for keeping this quasi-country afloat... for now. LOL. Recall, I warned about it... 

About Radakovsky...

 ... and a strange whiff of Pan-Slavism. Radakovsky, being from Slovakia which always had this streak certainly made the spirits of Russian Pan-Slavists very happy yesterday. 

An EU lawmaker who founded the Slovak PATRIOT party has warned his European Parliament colleagues that continuing to send weapons to Ukraine will only get more Slavic people killed in Kiev’s conflict with Russia and trigger a violent revolt against Western Europe. “We need to stop supporting the killing of Slavs,” Miroslav Radakovsky said on Tuesday as MEPs debated a stalled plan to provide €50 billion ($54.6 billion) in additional EU aid to Ukraine. “Because if we don’t, we Slavs might unite as brothers -- and I believe that we will -- and raze Western Europe to the ground, to the La Manche, a lawn. And I believe no one here wants that to happen.” Radakovsky is among the most vocal EU critics of funding the Ukraine conflict and cast one of the dissenting ballots when the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly in November 2022 to brand Russia as a “state sponsor of terrorism.” He argued on Tuesday that the Ukraine crisis is “a problem of the US and its global interests.” “The EU has become a vassal of the US,” Radakovsky said. “We need to start peace talks, but without the US. We need to stop the killing.”

This is the first statement coming from Europe with clearly defined racial and cultural boundaries. Radakovsky's impassionate statement is slightly more than political speech for public, albeit not without that too--it is a reflection of the mood of many people of Slavic race in Eastern Europe. I am on record--Slavs are viewed in the West, primarily among ruling class, as racially inferior. Recall, nine years ago I stressed:

Looking with sadness (I love Western culture, the real one, I am a part of it myself) at modern Western cloaca of multiculturalism and moral decadence one cannot fail to notice that values, which, once great, civilization represented, remained intact in Russia and those values are the ones which made the West and great culture it produced. It is also clear that those values are what today will be defined as truly conservative values--not to mistake for American faux-conservatism of neocon and evangelicals' variety. The whole idea, that those Russian untermensch "got it right" and ARE the last vestiges of Western Civilization drives western "elites" mad. That is why the stream of lies, omissions, perversions of history, other attacks on Russia and her people will only increase in western so called media. War, including the real one, is always a cultural act and it starts with dehumanization of the enemy. For West, Russia is the enemy, because it increasingly becomes a viable global alternative. The foundation of this alternative is the concept of a  Nation and that is why Europe's, as well as USA's, problem is with Russia, not Vladimir Putin.     

Again, nine years ago. Who can forget James Clapper in 2017.

"If you put that in context with everything else we knew the Russians were doing to interfere with the election, and just the historical practices of the Russians, who typically, almost genetically driven to co-opt, penetrate, gain favor, whatever, which is a typical Russian technique. So we were concerned."

It is all about "precious bodily fluids", it always was. Same as crickets after Clapper statement in the most "democratic" and "free" media in the world. And now, that even this moron has begin to accept reality:

Speaking at the World Economic Forum panel titled ‘Securing an Insecure World’, Stoltenberg described the situation on the battlefield as “extremely difficult.” "The Russians are now pushing on many frontlines. And of course the big offensive that the Ukrainians launched last summer didn't give the results we all hoped for,” he told WEF President Borge Brende. “Russia is pushing hard. And this is serious and we should never underestimate Russia,” he added.

You see, they truly believed in their own BS, because how can those low-lives dirty Slavs, backward and with no prospects of advancement have a General Staff which makes JCS look like a collection of amateurs, have the military-industrial complex which makes combined Western economies look decidedly backward. And don't let me start on high culture and Russian cities. Slavs in Eastern Europe can see those things and demolition of the best what NATO could throw at Russia inevitably created the sense of dismay among many Slavs. Now comes a complete destruction by EU economy and suddenly very strange sentiments begin to float in capitols from Bratislava to Ljubljana, to even Warsaw. Radakovasky merely expressed what many, by far not all, but very many Slavs feel. This sentiment will only grow, the more Russia begins to smash the remnants of forces criminals in the West unleashed. 

What does this remind us? Ah, yes, a removal in Prague of the monument to Marshal Konev. The question is not about removal of Konev's statue by satanic Czech political top which erects monuments to prostitutes and then states that there is "deeper meaning" in it. Sure.

But the point here is different--recall when both Slovak National Uprising started and when Czechs rose up. Quite a difference! After all, Czech industry worked for Nazi war machine until the very end. But in both cases it was a demolition of Axis forces on the Eastern Front which precipitated those uprisings when Stalingrad marked a dramatic change in the WW II in 1943. That is why the US is so busy rewriting the history of WW II, new EU and NATO members were supposed to go through "attitude adjustment" in order to join "triumphant" West. Well, we are in the remote analogy of 1944-1945 in WW II and Radakovsky just gave us a little taste of moods which do exist on the Slavic street. I wonder how Hungarians and Romanians really feel? They may not be Slavs but they sure as hell are the part of the Eastern Europe and that, by definition, is where all those untermensch live in accordance to Washington and London Powers That Be. Just ask Serbs. Or Russians. Will we see an American uprising? Did Radakovsky want to leave his mark on history? Something tells me he did.

Some Numbers For America's European Lapdo... I mean "Allies".

Nothing personal, guys, just business. And this is just the warmup. 

Стало известно, сколько ЕС переплатил за импорт газа из-за кризиса в отношениях с Россией. Меньше чем за два года европейцы потратили на газ 300 млрд евро, тогда как раньше они столько тратили за девять лет и за большие объемы. Главным бенефициаром стали США, которые заработали на этом 53 млрд евро. 304 млрд евро потратил Евросоюз на импорт газа с февраля 2022 года. Раньше он столько тратил за девять лет, а теперь всего за 20 месяцев. По сравнению с 2021 годом ЕС переплатил за газ за этот период целых 185 млрд евро. Это следует из расчетов РИА «Новости» по данным Евростата.

В 2022 году каждый месяц ЕС тратил на импорт газа 15,2 млрд евро. Это в 2,5 раза больше, чем он тратил в 2021 году – 5,9 млрд евро. Причем расходы европейцев выросли как на трубопроводный, так и на сжиженный природный газ (СПГ). В 2022 году трубопроводный газ обошелся в 7,5 млрд евро, СПГ – в 7,7 млрд евро. В 2021 году расходы были в разы меньше – 3,6 млрд евро на трубопроводный, 2,3 млрд евро – на СПГ.Таким образом, за 20 месяцев с февраля 2022 года переплата за газ составила 185 млрд евро, а всего на эти цели члены Евросоюза потратили 304 млрд евро. Раньше ЕС тратил такие суммы за несколько лет. В 186 млрд обошелся газ с апреля 2017 года по конец 2021-го, то есть почти за пять лет, а в 292 млрд – с 2013 по 2021 год, то есть за девять лет. 

Translation: It became known how much the EU overpaid for gas imports due to the crisis in relations with Russia. In less than two years, Europeans have spent 300 billion euros on gas, whereas previously they spent that much in nine years and for larger volumes. The main beneficiary was the United States, which earned 53 billion euros from this. The European Union has spent 304 billion euros on gas imports since February 2022. Previously, it spent so much in nine years, but now in just 20 months. Compared to 2021, the EU overpaid for gas during this period by as much as 185 billion euros. This follows from RIA Novosti calculations based on Eurostat data. In 2022, the EU spent 15.2 billion euros on gas imports every month. This is 2.5 times more than it spent in 2021 – 5.9 billion euros. Moreover, European costs have increased for both pipeline and liquefied natural gas (LNG). In 2022, pipeline gas cost 7.5 billion euros, LNG – 7.7 billion euros. In 2021, expenses were several times less - 3.6 billion euros for pipeline, 2.3 billion euros for LNG. Thus, over the 20 months since February 2022, the overpayment for gas amounted to 185 billion euros, and in total for these purposes members The European Union spent 304 billion euros. Previously, the EU spent such amounts over several years. Gas cost 186 billion from April 2017 to the end of 2021, that is, almost five years, and 292 billion from 2013 to 2021, that is, nine years.

Anyone expected anything else? Hey, "democracy" needs sacrifice and we all know what and who this sacrifice is. Europe, of course. And this is just the start of the "democratic" de-industrialization, wait when (very soon) real effects of it will start kicking in in earnest. They already started, but that just the warmup, when the shit hits the fan, boy, I don't want to be European. It is too late for Europe, anyway. Europe, of course, tries to buy Russian LNG, but that too is until the master allows it. Well, America needs to eat too, you know. Russia, meanwhile, is very happy with her Asian-Pacific customers. 

As per Biden's desire to fight Russia in 404, I can only quote Vladimir Putin:

Москва не раз подчеркивала, что не представляет угрозы ни для одной из стран Североатлантического альянса, но не оставит без внимания действия, потенциально опасные для ее интересов. При этом она остается открытой к диалогу, но на равноправной основе, а Запад должен отказаться от курса на милитаризацию Европы. Как отметил Владимир Путин, Россия не хочет прямого военного столкновения с НАТО, но если кто-то пожелает — Москва к этому готова.

Translation: Moscow has repeatedly emphasized that it does not pose a threat to any of the countries of the North Atlantic Alliance, but will not ignore actions that are potentially dangerous to its interests. At the same time, it remains open to dialogue, but on an equal basis, and the West must abandon its course towards the militarization of Europe. As Vladimir Putin noted, Russia does not want a direct military clash with NATO, but if someone wishes, Moscow is ready for this.

 

You see, that explains where all those massive reserves of Armed Forces of Russia are and what they are being readied for. Somebody has to explain to Lord Austin that no NATO force, US Army first and foremost, know how to operate and maneuver when the comms are jammed, headquarters and other C4 centers are under constant attack and when GPS is completely disabled on the theater. Putin is not bluffing.

In related news, another one bites the dust. Challengers are definitely having a very bad time in 404. Another one was confirmed burned beyond recognition, almost, and that is why the US wants its Abrams back. Man, that Chobham armor, legendary, right?