H.R. McMaster.

Lying through his teeth. He is pathetic. Not that Trump is any different, but increasingly the professional and moral level of the US top military brass raises some serious questions.  

I want to remind you that in 2017 McMaster who at that time was just one of the Pentagon bureaucrats was presented by cretins in WSJ as no less as ... 

The New Cold War Pits a U.S. General Against His Longtime Russian Nemesis. It’s Trump’s national security adviser H.R. McMaster vs. Putin ally Valery Gerasimov.

McMaster is an amateur compared to Gerasimov and is absolutely inconsequential in all matters related to strategy, operations and technology. 9 years ago I noted:

How, in what inflamed fantasy, can Valery Gerasimov, who, throughout his career, commanded both 58th Army and then what would amount to several Army Groups, before becoming Chief Of General Staff, be a nemesis to a man, with all due respect to McMaster, whose "accomplishments" involve such things as, even if viewed briefly from Wiki: 

In August 2008, McMaster assumed duties as Director, Concept Development and Experimentation (later renamed Concept Development and Learning), in the Army Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC) at Fort Monroe, Virginia, part of U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command. In this position McMaster was involved in preparing doctrine to guide the Army over the next ten to twenty years.   

Apart from obvious gross mismatch in rank, command, responsibilities and accomplishments--Gerasimov's level is a level of the Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff--one is forced to ask the question: and what are those "military thinking" accomplishments of McMaster per him being a Director, Concept Development and Experimentation? Almost ten years passed from the moment of McMaster's involvement with US doctrine. And what are the results? 

Oh, we know the results today--an obsolete military with obsolete TOE with ideas about war which are from 1980s and with zero institutional ability to learn. Somebody has to tell McMaster that, while financing of military is critical, in the US case it is financing of the military which has no vision nor understanding of modern war. People like him literally wouldn't be allowed to command a regiment in Russian Army and that's what drives his rage and BS--sensing that he is a loser. 

Many People ...

... will not understand what it means. The significance of this--but let's leave it here and maybe someone will understand why the Swan Lake is so significant. 

Ask your local CIA operative. 

Oh, Come On ...

 ... the moment I wanted to go to sleep, the greatest democracy of them all, the facade of happiness and stability (pumped with shitload of EU taxes extracted from Euromorons in the Western Europe) has issues ... 

Yawn. 

While Media ...

 ... concentrate on Aleshki. The rest of 404 is getting pulverized, from Kiev to Kremenchug. 

Here is Kremenchug refinery getting decommunized. Launches continue. As Mr. Peskov states clearly--preparation for negotiation does not imply any cease-fire. 

Nobody took any obligations to stop strikes. And strikes continue. Many videos today about Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk, Kremenchug et al. 404 will not have industries, period. Nor will it exist in its present form. 

Palmerston And A Handsome ...

 ... boy from Netherlands. He is Prime Minister. That's Europe. 

Correct, Rick ...

 ... keeping civilians hostage is a well established pattern not just by Nazi criminals from Kiev but their curators from the West. Cowards and imponent pretenders do that, not real warriors.  

Garland and I ...

 ... live, later today at 18-00 PDT)