Garland, Larry, Scott and Yours Truly ...

 ... live in 20 minutes. 

Larry Giving Some Heads Up.

On Neutrality Studies. I concur--Israel is defenseless, so are US assets in the region with only a SINGLE operational tool at the US disposal, traditional at that, bombing. That's it. 

Is there a panic in the White House and Pentagon? You can bet your ass on that. This is the FIRST time when the US met with the opposition which wipes out US operational rear assets and is ready to go into the blow exchange, tit for tat. Not since Vietnam, the US actually finds itself facing the REAL opposition and REAL war. Unlike it is the case in 404 where the US military hides behind the backs of 404 cannon fodder. 

Everybody who is not brainwashed can subscribe to this: 

Yes, you cannot unsee it. I warned about it 9 years ago. 

The US "military supremacy" was a meticulously constructed media fairy tale, which crumbled like a house of cards in 2023 and now we can see it being finished off in the Middle East when the "coming out" happened. 

New Context...

 ... on a lighter note. Larry and me after Nima called us and rushed us to discuss Israel's strikes yesterday))) 

Fits perfectly. BTW, it is not even whole 24 hours but video has already 215,000 views.

 

Nima, Larry And Yours Truly...

 ... go live in 40 minutes to discuss Israel and Iran. 

 

Ania, Larry and I...

 ... round table today. 

 

Vera, Larry And Me.

In about an hour.  

 

The Crater Issue.

As Larch pointed out--there is NO crater in the yard of the bombed hospital. Larry also raises the issue:

Fact number two — the explosion took place in the courtyard/parking area of the hospital. BDA of the impact site (the car park in front of the hospital) shows no impact crater. Despite initial and persistent reports that 500 were killed, the video evidence puts the actual number killed at around 30 to 40. Still horrific, but the “500 people, dead buried under the rubble of a collapsed hospital,” appears to be debunked.

I also do not care who calls me what but I never recanted on my point that what Hamas did initially was primarily terrorism because so many innocent Israeli and international civilians have been involved. So, I continue to hold the opinion of--we must wait and see, until truth begins to emerge. I completely agree with Larry, though, that it doesn't matter at this stage for "Arab street" and the fact remains that Israel DOES kill many innocent civilians. But truth to be told, I still didn't see hundreds of bodies after the initial claim.

Ania, Larry And Me.

Enjoy:

 

 

Larry On Bear-poking.

With one caveat, though. Ivan Khurs calmly returned to Sevastopol (in Russian), no damage or anything which was claimed by Ukie propaganda. 

None of these attacks are “game changers” in terms of the strategic picture, they are fueling a rising tide of anger in Russia that is likely to ratchet up pressure for a stronger military response. The maritime attack on the Russian ship guarding the Turkstream pipeline is especially puzzling because it is indirectly an attack on a member of NATO (i.e., Turkiye). Just what NATO needs, alienating the NATO member with the second largest army in NATO. The media is discounting the possibility that was sanctioned by the U.S. or the U.K. and suggesting it was carried out by Ukraine without consulting its NATO partners. However, my new friend, Steve Bryen, has an excellent piece posted at the Asia Times on the Turkstream pipeline incident that explains why this was not a unilateral Ukrainian operation:

Today, Russian Foreign Ministry issued a protest to the United States because of... nobody believing BS emanating from Washington.

Старшим дипломатам американской дипмиссии в Москве, вызванным в МИД России в пятницу, заявлен решительный протест по поводу неприемлемых высказываний помощника президента США Джо Байдена по вопросам национальной безопасности Джейка Салливана, который фактически одобрил удары ВСУ по российской территории, сообщило внешнеполитическое ведомство. В заявлении МИД России, опубликованном в Telegram, говорится, что уверения американских официальных лиц о том, что США якобы не поощряют подобные атаки на Россию, являются лживыми и лицемерными, особенно с учетом поставок Украине вооружений от Пентагона, которое впоследствии используется украинскими боевиками для терактов на территории нашей страны. Россия акцентировала, что США давно стали стороной украинского конфликта, их враждебные действия ввергли двусторонние отношения в глубокий и опасный кризис.

Translation: Senior diplomats of the American diplomatic mission in Moscow, summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday, were strongly protested over the unacceptable statements of US national security adviser to Joe Biden, Jake Sullivan, who actually approved the UAF strikes on Russian territory, the Foreign Ministry said. The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a Telegram statement that U.S. officials’ assurances that the U.S. does not encourage such attacks on Russia are false and hypocritical, especially given the supply of weapons from the Pentagon to Ukraine, which is subsequently used by Ukrainian militants for terrorist attacks. on the territory of our country. Russia emphasized that the United States had long been a party to the Ukrainian conflict, their hostile actions plunged bilateral relations into a deep and dangerous crisis.  

As some in Russia state nowadays, US has no guts to declare war on Russia and hides behind its largely destroyed proxy, because it will repeat the fate of this proxy, just on even larger scale. I agree, but even in PR field, the only "war" the US ever conducted with some success, the gathering of the clouds cannot be ignored, hence the murky stream of BS pouring out of Kiev and Washington, especially US "military experts" whose psychobabble is a good symptom of the illness which brought the US to disaster across the board. Here is a good idea--how about having competent military person as a National Security Adviser, and I am talking about people of scale, not some pseudo "scholar" such as H.R. McMaster. Nah, I am too unreasonable.

Larry Saved Me From Torture...

 ... of seeing and listening to these two guys and I am eternally grateful to him for that. 

Tweedledee and Tweedle-dumber Dissemble on Ukraine.

I admit, pretty much anything emanating from the Beltway, be that in writing or visual, is cringe-worthy. I feel embarrassed, those guys--don't. Read the whole thing at Larry's excellent blog. 

Meanwhile, boy Marco Rubio decided to demonstrate his professional grasp of Air Forces' operations and Scott nearly exploded:

I agree, what this boy lawyer, who never served a day in any armed forces, is suggesting is the start of the WW III. Rubio is an Exhibit A of a majority in the US Congress--cowardly chickenhawks. I also have some issues with the competence of a few "combat veterans" in US Congress, such as Tom Cotton, who have no clue about real war and neither studied nor experienced it. None of them.

Larry, Michael Vlahos At Gonzalo's

Roundtable, discussing Putin's Address.

Enjoy.