Will Anyone Get Punished?

Of course, not. In fact, these herpes known as US MSM will probably celebrate their, in their opinion, brilliant BS.

US President-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin did not have a phone conversation about the Ukraine conflict, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. The Washington Post claimed on Sunday that Trump called Putin after winning a new term as US president to discuss his vision regarding how the Ukrainian crisis could be deflated. Peskov said on Monday that the article was a “vivid example of the quality of information published by even some respectable outlets.” “This absolutely does not correspond to reality. This is pure fiction. This information is simply false,” he told the press.

Peskov is wrong on only one count, though--WaPo is not respectable outlet. It is, as many times have been noted before:

The coping in the West is severe, to put it mildly. I am talking about it in my new video today, including about "intelligence". 

Russian Knights At Zhuhai...

For now just training. 

 

I See No Point...

 ... at this stage to discuss anything, if... I underscore it IF this call took place at all. Knowing who human waste at WaPo are it wouldn't be beyond them just to make this shit up. 

US President-elect Donald Trump has called Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the Ukrainian conflict and its potential settlement, The Washington Post reported on Sunday, citing several people familiar with the matter. The phone call took place on Thursday, shortly after Trump secured his election victory. The US president-elect reportedly urged Putin not to “escalate” the conflict, reminding him of the significant US military presence in Europe, one of the sources told the daily. Apart from that, Trump and Putin spoke about “the goal of peace on the European continent,” with the US president-elect expressing interest in follow-up conversations to talk about “the resolution of Ukraine’s war soon,” several other unnamed individuals told the WaPo. The report gave no insights into what reaction, if any, Trump’s remarks invoked. Thus far, Moscow has made no official comments on the reported phone call between Trump and Putin. On Thursday, the US president-elect told NBC News he had already spoken with “probably” 70 world leaders since his election victory, but Putin was not among them. “I think we’ll speak,” Trump said at the time.

Somebody has to explain to Trump what required force is and that currently the totality of the US Armed Forces doesn't have enough force to fight Russia in the East, let alone this allegedly stressed by Trump "significant presence".  Peace is, of course, good but it is not coming on NATO's, US that is, conditions. If he thinks that Russians are impressed with "significant presence", he should talk to Doug Macgregor or Daniel Davis, they may enlighten him on what is going on. In related news. 

French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced the provision of Mistral anti-aircraft missiles and SCALP cruise missiles to Ukraine. Both types are needed by Ukraine. Here, we present the capabilities of the donated equipment. In an interview with Le Journal du Dimanche, French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu mentioned that he recently signed the transfer of approximately ten SCALP cruise missiles to Ukraine and announced another shipment of Mistral anti-aircraft missiles.

At this stage, I think, it is about time to allow Mr. Kinzhal or Mr. Zircon to visit some French military installations or maybe reduce Marine Nationale's list of frigates or corvettes just to demonstrate to these cowards that their place is that of poodle who ate master's shoes and needs to be punished.

Signs Of Hope.

Pompeo is out!! Agree with Larry, Pompeo betrayed Trump. This is good news, actually. 

Told you so. The early “reports” that Mike Pompeo was almost certain to get the nod as Trump’s Secretary of Defense was just more male bovine excrement deposited into neocon media in a backdoor bid to pressure Trump into making that choice. Bad move. As I wrote a couple of days ago, Pompeo screwed himself two years ago when he refused to defend Donald Trump against the bogus DOJ lawfare case, which was headed up by Jack Smith. Remember? I also noted Trump has a close relationship with Tucker and the Tucker minced no words in labeling Pompeo a criminal and creature of the Deep State.  

Read the rest at Larry's blog. 

 

Iwo Jima...

 ... as a reference point. Trump's future cabinet. 

 

I Agree With The Title.

About Germany. 

It doesn't matter who comes to power in Germany, national consensus (yes, including the majority of population) is to settle score with Russia. It is a way to deal with WW II trauma. Germany as a nation is Russia's enemy.

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.