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Note: An unexpected event this morning left me with no time to write,  so this is the green door post from yesterday to fill the void. Assuming nothing else goes wrong today, I should be back tomorrow.

As January 20th grows closer, the Europeans are growing more hysterical about what Trump may do with Project Ukraine. There were rumors before the holidays that Keir Starmer was set to visit Mar-a-Lago to talk with Trump about Ukraine. Starmer had a call with Trump which must not have gone well, as the British media came out with stories about Trump rambling during the call.

It is hard to know what Trump is thinking with regards to Ukraine, which is why the Europeans are in a panic. If they knew what he is planning, they would be busy undermining it, which is why Trump is not talking about his plans. His personal emissary on Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, has cancelled his plants to visit Kiev and European capitals, which only adds to the intrigue.

The big fear in Europe is that Trump will do a deal with Putin and cut the Europeans out of the process. One would think that any deal that leads to peace would be welcome, but the Euros have more skin in the game than most realize. They either need the war to continue, or they need it to end in a way that does not expose the financial corruption around the entire project.

One good example for why the Euros are in this predicament is a town called Shevchenko, which is in eastern Ukraine. The Russians have just captured it as part of the steady push west. This little village would not matter, if not for the fact that it has one of the largest lithium mines in the world. It is part of what may be the world’s biggest lithium deposit.

While lithium is enormously important, that is not why this matters. You see, this mine is not actually owned by Ukraine. The rights to exploit it were traded away to an English company that was planning to use an Australian company to mine it. How this came to be is not all that clear but given the way the world works it surely required underwriting, which means British bankers were involved.

Now west of this town are other towns with massive lithium deposits, which have been pledged as collateral for various things, including the war. It is the thing that never makes it into the media. A significant portion of the financing for this war is tied to Ukrainian assets, which serve as collateral. They also buy the support of economic elites for this project. Project Ukraine is important business.

The reason the Russians captured this town is they are slowly encircling a city called Pokrovsk, which has been a major supply hub for the Ukraine army. The Russians are trying to split the front so they can break up the Ukraine army. This lets them destroy it piece by piece, limiting Ukraine’s ability to shift reserves where needed. This town with the big lithium mine is near the city of Pokrovsk.

This is a huge problem for Ukraine, but it is an even bigger problem for the EU, because Pokrovsk is vital to the coal and steel industry of Ukraine. You see, project Ukraine was supposed to bring the Ukraine steel industry into the EU economic zone, but now it looks like it will become part of Russia. The many investors in Ukrainian industry are not going to happy if Trump signs this land away to Russia.

This is the reason they put a gun to Speaker Johnson’s head last year to get the $60 billion Ukraine bill passed. Much of that money was to make whole those who had invested in project Ukraine. The arms dealers had “lent” the Biden admin weapons to send to Ukraine and they needed to be paid. The same is true for players like Blackrock that invested in Ukrainian agriculture.

Based on the hysteria in Europe, it does not appear as if the political class there has a similar way to solve their problem. If Trump makes a deal with Russia, all those companies and banks that invested in the project will be left with nothing but worthless Ukrainian bonds. It is why the European political class is desperate to be included in the negotiations. They think they can claw back some of the money.

Then there are the Russian frozen assets. Most of these are held in European banks and the Euroclear Bank. Any deal the Russians make with Trump to end the Ukraine war will include those assets. Otherwise, the Russians will confiscate American assets currently in Russia and Trump will not agree to it. In fact, walking bank sanctions and unfreezing assets may be the prerequisites for negotiations.

What if those assets are not available? The Europeans have been issuing bonds against the profits from those assets, but what if they have been using the assets themselves for other things? Even if the principle is intact, the investors expect to get paid, so if the assets are gone, then the profits are gone as well. Billions rest on those assets not being unfrozen anytime soon.

In a way, project Ukraine is coming full circle. In Trump’s first term, official Washington freaked out when Trump sent Giuliani to Ukraine. What followed was the first Trump impeachment as a massive smokescreen to hide what was happening. Five years later and the Europeans are in the same bind, but they cannot stage a phony scandal and impeachment to buy time and conceal the crime.

This is probably why the Europeans are going crazy over Musk. They think they can escalate their feud with Trump to the point where he either backs off and agrees to consult with them on Ukraine or maybe they can pin the blame on Trump for whatever happens to Ukraine in the coming year. It is not a great plan, but when you owe money and have no way to pay, you will try anything.

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122 Comments

Arshad Ali #438585 January 8, 2025 9:52 am 65
I hope (and expect) that Trump will shaft the EU political and financial elite in a big way. I have absolutely no sympathy for those sanctimonious scumbags.
Hun #438609 January 8, 2025 10:44 am 35
That retarded elite exists because European countries are vassals of the US. So, I agree, Trump should cut them off. Maybe that will lead to a collapse of the EU “elites” and allow real men to take charge again.
Moran ya Simba #438612 January 8, 2025 10:49 am 27
Agreed. Here’s to hoping the world is unrecognizable in a few years. Obviously in a good way
Alzaebo #438626 January 8, 2025 11:25 am 15
Indeed, indeed. May the evil bastards collapse before we all do.
Kit Carson #438713 January 9, 2025 7:41 am 4
Cut off. Heck for Europe to survive it will need a big Bear Hug and cheap energy. Oh, thats right next door!
The Wild Geese Howard #438634 January 8, 2025 11:47 am 18
Trump, or any US leader, absolutely should shaft the Euro elites before they wake up because, taken as a whole, the Euro elites have zero leverage and nothing to offer. He would be a fool not to do it. I mean, the big tech news out of Europe is that Bosch is going to run an ad during the Super Bowl? “Tell us you’re a bunch of complete losers without telling us!”
miforest #438689 January 8, 2025 5:36 pm 1
you might want to listen to this . for perspective .https://rumble.com/v673nos-coffee-and-a-mike-andy-schectman-is-trump-the-trojan-horse-or-is-he-riding-.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
Bilejones #438581 January 8, 2025 9:43 am 43
I saw something the other day claiming that Zelenski had sold 22 million hectares of land to Blackrock/Cargill/Monsanto et al. That’s about 55 thousand square miles or 10 times the area of Connecticut. They’ll miss that when it’s gone. It does explain why the deep state is so determined to keep Project Ukraine alive.
Filthie #438594 January 8, 2025 10:19 am 33
I think it’s more than just the money. When people see the extent of the corruption and what it has cost them… it will be Mutiny On The Bounty. It’s all fun n’ games until people start freezing and going hungry. Accountability and competence is going to sweep Clown World away at some point. The only question now is how much blood has to be spilled.
The Wild Geese Howard #438625 January 8, 2025 11:25 am 37
I can’t be as optimistic. I say this because the US has wasted tens of thousands of lives, over two decades and possibly as much as $20 trillion in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other useless wars. After all of that malfeasance, who has actually been held accountable? What penalties have actually been imposed on bad actors in those tragedies? All I can see is that their gravy train just keeps rolling with no end in sight.
Horace #438639 January 8, 2025 11:55 am 21
Accountability may come in Ukraine when there is no rule of law left. Early in the war, after Ukrainians being sieged in Mariupol surrendered, the Ukies, almost certainly at the behest of interests in FUSA/FUK, carried out a ballistic missile attack on a Russian Federation Army POW camp in Donbas Oblast, which iirc was not legally yet RF territory.It was surrendered neo-nazi fighters who were killed. WHY? Why would one kill one’s own when common sense would dictate that one should attempt to bargain them back through prisoner exchanges so that they could fight again? (subsequently, exchanges have happened many times)My pet hypothesis is that some were turning, not necessarily towards Russia, but away from the vile (((traitors))) who run their own government and used them like food animals for fun and profit. (1) Corroborating evidence comes from a mountain of posts on Telegram from Ukraine Army units, which are furiously censored as soon as they come online, but nonetheless captured first. The general theme is “You better hope the Russians reach Kiev before we do! They will just put you in prison. We will kill you.”I expect that transnational corporate operatives and their domestic Ukrainian collaborators will have short life spans inside any post-war territory not under direct RF occupation. I also expect that most will not be blessed with quick clean deaths. Some Ukies blinded and crucified captured Russian POW’s early in the war. Defeat will shift that energy onto a new and far more deserving focus.(1) Let’s be real.Ukies have never had independent media or free speech.They are like Americans but even more so in that have been adrift on a sea of lies since modern Ukraine was founded. Ukraine governance was never of the Ukrainian people, by the Ukrainian people, for the Ukrainian people. It is been owned and operated largely by transnational Jews since its start in 1991. Sure, the ownership has changed since the war. The big 6 Jewish oligarchs and the 1 goy oligarch left standing (they always leave 1collaboratinggoy standing->old pattern) have I think largely been muscled out in favor of tribesmen in Paris, London, and NYC. It is these who stand to lose the most, hence the bellicose policies of the American, French, and British governments, all of which are owned by various factions of the transnational (((cartel))).
Tars Tarkas #438637 January 8, 2025 11:51 am 19
If this were going to happen anywhere, it would be Ukraine. But Ukrainian leaders are not in fact swinging from trees. Many Ukrainians are literally freezing in the dark. But it is far easier to blame Russia than their own feckless evil leaders. So they shiver by candlelight while cursing the evil Russians.
Filthie #438659 January 8, 2025 12:55 pm 12
The operative word is “yet”. Also consider that when this shakes out a LOT of people are going to be loose ends. This is far from over…
Bartleby the Scrivner #438666 January 8, 2025 2:09 pm 9
From your mouth to Gods ears
Ostei Kozelskii #438670 January 8, 2025 2:48 pm 9
That any corporation is rich enough to purchase that much land is an outrage. As much as I would be thrilled if Trump rendered the plEUtocrats impecunious, I would be even giddier if he could somehow kick the slats out from underneath AINO’s corporate timocrats.
Steve #438681 January 8, 2025 4:20 pm 4
He could, but he’d have to take on that which he would hate to give up — lower rates from the Fed. Let interest rates float to where they need to be, and the asset/wealth bubble pops. It would be a necessary part of MAGA, but everyone is absolutely convinced that low interest rates are a good thing, when they really reveal a deep sickness. Spend it all now, even on credit, because it will be worth less tomorrow. Cantillon rules.
Tom K #438583 January 8, 2025 9:46 am 34
“…which means British bankers were involved.” That explains a lot.
Filthie #438591 January 8, 2025 10:16 am 44
Yep.British bankers… I saw what he did there, HAR HAR HAR!!!The fact is that Russia is the model for making America great again: get the jews out of your finances. Do it the easy way or the hard way. Tie your currency to gold. Take an interest in the welfare of the people that actually make your country run. Reward them for supporting you. Remove or dispose of the people that try to undermine any of that because – as we’ve seen – they won’t hesitate to do the same to you. We are all going to HAVE to do this at some point.
Tom K #438604 January 8, 2025 10:33 am 4
I knew somebody would bring that up. And I don’t disagree, but I was thinking more along the lines of how aggressive the UK is in pursuing this war long after their pull date as a real empire. Also, I don’t know about tying a currency to gold. See my comment on Putin the Atlanticist.
Mycale #438611 January 8, 2025 10:48 am 6
I heard in a podcast that, basically, the British and “British” were quite happy to rule the world behind the scenes once they lost their empire, and the City of London is the primary way they do this. Could this be true, possibly, maybe it explains why the Bond movies are so popular, it portrays a Britain that is still influential and powerful and making moves, but is doing so through espionage and spy games.We know that the Fed has been exerting pressure on the CoL lately in the financial markets, so perhaps they saw the Ukraine boondoggle as a way to reestablish control over the situation.
Jeffrey Zoar #438616 January 8, 2025 11:01 am 3
Take the hot babes out of the Bond movies and probably only 2 or 3 of them get made, if that, and they are no more popular than your typical John le Carre movie adaptation.
The Wild Geese Howard #438633 January 8, 2025 11:43 am 3
I probably shouldn’t waste time on the culture wars, but I would argue theBourneandMission:Impossiblefranchises seriously undermined Bond in the early to mid-2000s, thus prompting the entire Craig cycle of Bond films in response.
Jeffrey Zoar #438635 January 8, 2025 11:47 am 7
Well now that we’re on the subject, I recall hearing, perhaps from Barbara Broccoli herself, that it was Austin Powers that forced the Bond franchise to take the darker and more serious turn of the Craig years. But they didn’t eliminate the babes and the sex did they
Ostei Kozelskii #438685 January 8, 2025 5:16 pm 4
You can’t force the willing. I think Babs wanted to ratchet up the grimness factor and Powers was just an excuse to do so.
Tars Tarkas #438661 January 8, 2025 1:23 pm 13
Why do so many believe this? Half of the crap we suffer from comes right out of the culture war. All the homo and sex stuff all came out of the movies and the teevee. Now even books are loaded up with SJW BS, especially books aimed at a younger audience. We need more culture warriors, not fewer. It is certainly not a waste of time.
Ostei Kozelskii #438686 January 8, 2025 5:19 pm 9
Truer words have never been written here. If the Buckley crowd had gotten wise to the cultural turn in the second half of the sixties and fought the pomos with anything like the zeal they visited upon the commies, we would be living in a vastly superior country to the one that now festers and molders before us.
Arshad Ali #438643 January 8, 2025 12:00 pm 3
I would say the John Le Carre and Len Deighton books (and film adaptations) are way more realistic than the Bond drivel. Both writers describe and capture British decline. I’ve heard that both writers were infuriated with the tripe that Fleming was coming up with (let alone the later film adaptations, which became more and more fantastic).
Jeffrey Zoar #438651 January 8, 2025 12:12 pm 2
Of course Arshad, I’m not talking about the quality of the material, but the popularity of the movies, which for the Le Carre film adaptations was very meh. But for some reason, in spite of never making much money, they kept producing them. The financial success of the Bond films being exponentially greater, by several orders of magnitude.
Götterdamn-it-all #438667 January 8, 2025 2:14 pm 2
To give you an idea of just how “tripey” the Fleming novels were, I had read them all by the time I reached my 17th birthday. Yeah. They’re at that level.
Ostei Kozelskii #438687 January 8, 2025 5:22 pm 4
Le Carre and Deighton were undoubtedly more realistic, but Fleming was a far better writer. And at any rate, Fleming was not a realist and never claimed to be. He wrote escapist fantasy for miserable Brits shivering and suffering from England’s post-war austerity measures.
Arshad Ali #438638 January 8, 2025 11:53 am 7
” …and the City of London is the primary way they do this”But the only way to make this work is by the UK being a subservient vassal state of the US (which humiliating condition the Brits make palatable to themselves by using the euphemism, “the special relationship.”). That’s probably why whatever hare-brained imperial scheme of over-reach the US regime comes up with, the Brits are first on board, and in the most effusive and enthusiastic fashion. It’s embarrassing to watch. The point is that military might is the final and only arbiter. Might makes right.The Bond films I see as a compensatory mechanism — these have been made in an era where British global influence has declined like a deflating balloon. The British might have lost the empire and have had to eat humble pie but by golly, Bond is around to ensure that Britain has influence in the world. These days, in jest, I say that the only person who can save capsizing Britain is 007.It’ll be scant consolation but now that France has lost “Francafrique” during the last year or two, the French are going down the same road as the Brits.
Ostei Kozelskii #438688 January 8, 2025 5:27 pm 1
Supposedly, Houllebecq is busily whomping up a French 007 to pull France’spate’ de foie grasout of the fire: Jacques Bondieux.
Alzaebo #438695 January 8, 2025 5:52 pm 0
Here I was thinking the French Bond would be The Mechanic: hiding in a slum, grimy, grungy, ugly, unshaven, and of course, he dies in the end.
rasqball #438705 January 8, 2025 8:31 pm 1
zzzzz…. How is that surname pronounced, anyways? I had a 6′ tall blondie who worked at the UN and crashed in my bohemia tell me‘whale – bec”, but, as smoking as she was, she was a 1st class fibber – ayuh…
Snooze #438803 January 10, 2025 6:35 am 0
The 6’ tall blonde is correct.
Templar #438801 January 9, 2025 11:32 pm 0
The Bond films I see as a compensatory mechanism — these have been made in an era where British global influence has declined like a deflating balloon. The British might have lost the empire and have had to eat humble pie but by golly, Bond is around to ensure that Britain has influence in the world. The Doctor Who character fulfils a similar function, I suspect.
anon #439053 January 10, 2025 8:36 pm 0
Even the movie “Those Magnificient Men in their Flying Machines” fulfills a similar function. The buffoonish poltroon of an editor pontificates about Britannia ruling over the waves and now must rule over the sky. It was made at a time when the British aviation industry was collapsing.
Filthie #438644 January 8, 2025 12:02 pm 8
Is that the “Atlantic” you meant, Tom? I am Canadian and have never heard of the Atlanticist…?If it’s in the Atlantic – I’m gonna have to take a hard pass. No disrespect to you… but I just ran across this piece of jewry via Arthur Sido – pooped my pants with rage:We’re Going To Party Like It’s 2017 – Dissident ThoughtsWe are all business men here, for the most part. It implies another possible scenario: Our Greatest Allies are now getting a serious negative ROI. Every single aspect of Project Ukraine has backfired. Since its implementation it has been a dismal failure for The Tribe. Putler is now stronger than ever. Worse, he is forging economic alliances with world partners that will not tolerate jewish perfidy, many of whom would happily kill jews in large numbers just for fun and sport. There is a groundswell of Americans getting fed up with the tribe and its antics too.Sure, the Tribe made some nickels and dimes in the petty rackets…but the smart money is on getting the hell out and stop sending good money after bad. ESPECIALLY if Whitey is catching on to the grift, and the nae calling isn’t working anymore.
Filthie #438647 January 8, 2025 12:03 pm 5
Looks like they MAY pull back, blame it all on Blumpf… and hope they survive what’s likely to happen as a result of all this.
Tom K #438663 January 8, 2025 1:46 pm 2
No Filthie, here’s a link to what I’m talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanticism If you don’t want to read the entire article (which I wouldn’t), in a nutshell it means being friendly to U.S. cultural, political, military, and economic hegemony. For a long time after the fall of the Soviet Union there was even a strong Atlanticist faction in Russia. It’s been weakened considerably over the years by various betrayals and snubs towards Russia but I’m saying this sentiment still exists and Putin still hasn’t entirely given up on that feeling that everything can be made nice again.
Ben the Layabout #438694 January 8, 2025 5:52 pm 13
Russia gaining the upper hand? Nonsense. I’ve read the UK press almost daily since early 2022. Putin has died, or at least had cancer, several times. There is often a Kremlin plot soon to depose him. Washing machines are cannibalized for tank parts. Or was it fighter jets? Russia has lost something like 5,000 tanks and similar vehicles. Ukraine’s offensive is going swimmingly; there are often reports that Russia lost 1,000 or even 2,000 men in one day. Russians are defecting left and right, those who can’t hide from the press gangs, that is. Why, the Russkis are getting so desperate there’s talk of digging up the dead and drafting them.[OK, I exaggerate a bit, but really, most of those are what’s appeared inDaily Mail, Express, The Sun, etc.]
Ostei Kozelskii #438700 January 8, 2025 6:10 pm 6
According to the BBC, only yesterday Zelensky sauntered into the Kremlin, locked Putler in a cage, and forced him to watch Zelensky being filmed performing onanistic acts to the music of Rimsky-Korsakov. Zelensky will see to it that those videos be shown on Russian state television directly.
Vegetius #438596 January 8, 2025 10:23 am 18
“Bankers” explainseverything.
ray #438608 January 8, 2025 10:44 am 11
From the East India Company to right now.
Arshad Ali #438645 January 8, 2025 12:02 pm 8
The East India Company relied on British military might, particularly after the Indian Mutiny of 1857. The City of London depends on US military might.
ray #438649 January 8, 2025 12:07 pm 7
The EIC created the modern checking system and international banking. Like the present financial elites of London, the EIC was as much a masonic network, club or society as a trading and banking entity.
Templar #438802 January 9, 2025 11:40 pm 0
The EIC flag is also largely identical to the flag of the United States, save for having the British Union Flag in the upper left quarter instead of mullets upon a field azure.
Steve #438682 January 8, 2025 4:22 pm 2
And the Dutch East India Company relied on the military might of the Netherlands. Which explains things in a nutshell.
HalfTrolling #438674 January 8, 2025 3:18 pm 5
Ah yes, the (((british)))
Ostei Kozelskii #438701 January 8, 2025 6:13 pm 7
Scratch a Limey, uncover a Hymie…
Ted X #438588 January 8, 2025 10:07 am 33
It’s always odd to hear the EU, NATO and Amerika talking like they have any leverage whatsoever over what Russia does in Ukraine. Russia won the SMO the day it started and will decide exclusively how the conflict ends. Given Russia knows the west is “agreement incapable” and never to be trusted again I do not see an outcome that doesn’t involve Russia controlling Ukraine officially to the Dneiper but practically speaking all the way to the Polish border.
Lavrov #438600 January 8, 2025 10:28 am 5
Lisbon
Alzaebo #438628 January 8, 2025 11:29 am 2
The Chunnel
Jannie #438673 January 8, 2025 3:00 pm -8
Russia is certainly making a meal of it. And if they cross the Polish border, it won’t be like Ukraine, with millions fleeing the country, including military-age males. The Poles will come from all over Europe and the world to fight for their homeland. They will fight to the death. They remember how Stalin halted his armies at the Vistula so the SS could liquidate Warsaw. And this time they will have the rest of Europe behind them. WARSAW 44 (Miasto 44) Trailer Poland 2014
rasqball #438706 January 8, 2025 8:34 pm 2
Euro-poofterisme.
Yman #438708 January 8, 2025 10:14 pm 1
Jewish wet fantasy describes stupid cannon folder fighting your enemyactually poles think about same thing that let those dumb Yankees fighting Russian It’s a really good idea to increase diversity in America
miforest #438587 January 8, 2025 10:05 am 26
replace the word “invest” with “steal” . the purpose of the nuland/grahm/kegan cabol instigating thois color revolution and war was to get the Ukrainoan people killed and driven off their land so they cannot oppose it’s theft. plain and simple genocide.they thought the sanctions would bring russia to it’s kneese afte they destroyed the Ukrainians, and that has not happened.
ray #438607 January 8, 2025 10:40 am 23
Anybody who studies Russian martialism the past century cannot possibly believe that mere sanctions would budge them. The Wehrmacht didn’t overcome them, but sanctions will?
Compsci #438623 January 8, 2025 11:23 am 13
Precisely. The sanctions have only strengthened them. Unlike we in the USA, Russia has learned how to do it on their own, and where such is impractical, to skirt sanctions through friendly States. There will be no “going back” for Russia.
ray #438650 January 8, 2025 12:11 pm 4
Hard to know if the whole scheme was absurdly gross incompetence, or simply self-destructive malice. Both?
Ben the Layabout #438699 January 8, 2025 6:06 pm 3
Door No. 1 often gives you Door No. 2 as an added bonus and we probably don’t want to know what’s behind Door No. 3.
miforest #438630 January 8, 2025 11:32 am 5
I didn’t say they were smart, but that was their plan….
ray #438652 January 8, 2025 12:12 pm 2
Ok I understand, thank you.
Horace #438679 January 8, 2025 3:41 pm 4
Respectfully, it’s not even about ‘smart’. Most are physically capable of pattern recognition, of manifesting intelligence. Most are profoundly ignorant of what is necessary to run industrial civilization. One cannot see complex patterns if one does not have an educational baseline. One cannot understand partial differential equations if one has not learned calculus first. Ruling and administrative class higher education across the West is monstrously broken.Compounding this ignorance is a staggering degree of arrogance. “WE are da elitez!” Those afflicted with extreme arrogance will go through great contortions to avoid challenging the worldview that constitutes the foundation of their personal identities. The flip side is that once they are dragged kicking and screaming by reality over that line of inevitable consequence, the demoralization may make peaceful change possible. Unlikely, I know, but I try to see some silver linings.
miforest #438691 January 8, 2025 5:38 pm 1
Maybe, maybe not .
Itzitiri #438712 January 9, 2025 4:51 am 1
The economic sanctions against Russia are designed to keepusin, andthemout. Sundance at CTH has talked about this extensively. He has been over there (Russia, Eastern Europe), several times since the war kicked off.
Hemid #438615 January 8, 2025 10:55 am 10
It’s a cliché because it so often happens: Serial killers are caught by their souvenirs, the co-ed strangler is arrested drunk-driving her car, the passing of the family’s patriarch splits it into vultures and victims, etc. Death is primary; lesser crimes are drawn to it. “We’re killing the Ukrainians. Want anything?”
karl von hungus #438658 January 8, 2025 12:49 pm 1
“Othersins only speak,murdershreaksout” – john webster
Jack Dobson #438619 January 8, 2025 11:11 am 22
This is probably why the Europeans are going crazy over Musk. Twitter/X will become the equivalent of Cold War-era Voice of America and Radio Free Europe? Everything old is new again. People can understand state-sponsored rape gangs were unleashed on their children. Will they grok that they were impoverished so a particularly nasty tribe of “bankers” can harvest lithium? How many characters does that take?
Ramses 200 #438622 January 8, 2025 11:18 am 17
If Starmer sets foot in the United States he should be arrested immediately.
Siddo #438627 January 8, 2025 11:25 am 10
Us in England are happy for you to gaol him to stop him coming back.
Jannie #438671 January 8, 2025 2:53 pm 8
The rot goes a lot deeper than Starmer. Starmer, like Biden, is a symptom of a wider malaise.
Thomas Mcleod #438586 January 8, 2025 9:57 am 16
“English company that was planning to use an Australian company to mine it” Well, well, well, that smells like Rio Tinto. Very prescient article as I was considering putting a little RIO in my portfolio (52 week low over 7% dividend yield). I likely wouldn’t have pulled the trigger because the CEO is Danish with a financial background instead of a mining background. The last CEO was an engineer. One little project in Ukraine doesn’t stop the globalist machine, but you never know which straw will kill the camel.Danish CEO, British bank, Australian mining company, and WAR. What a world.
Alzaebo #438629 January 8, 2025 11:32 am 2
Mining. Everything mining sector must be going apestick right now.
Ben the Layabout #438697 January 8, 2025 6:03 pm 2
I don’t follow mining closely, but of late shithole African nations seem to be turning a tidy profit putting [visiting foreigner] mining Co. execs in prison demanding huge payment of taxes etc. Extortion or legitimate government demands? “Legitimate government” is areallybig ask for anyplace on the continent these days, I suppose. Only thing for sure is some local honcho felt he wasn’t being adequately, um, “compensated.” It’s hard to believe that any Western executive would be naive enough to set foot in these waste places. Well, if he doesn’t get eaten I suppose he’s doing pretty well…For a lark, I bought 1,000 shares of (um…) Reliant or Defiant Gold and it’s gone from cheap to cheaper, $0.35 to $0.26 or what-have-you.
ray #438603 January 8, 2025 10:30 am 13
You had Brussels and the EU Krew down the other day. Bunch of arrogant, empowered princesses and the homos/soyboys that women in authority often gather about themselves. Why? Because masculine men make them feel uncomfortable, afraid, and inferior.Jezebel’s palace was chock-full of eunuchs. Fact is — after this hag slaughtered most of God’s men in the land — it was her own servant-geldings that tossed her butt off the balcony. Then the church militant hunted down her family and the family of that chump Ahab.The horses ‘n hounds quickly disposed of Liberated Jezzie.‘How this came to be is not all that clear but given the way the world works it surely required underwriting, which means British bankers were involved.’Yup. London, not NY, is the real power-center of the Old Continental Guard that have manipulated much of global affairs the past few centuries.‘This is the reason they put a gun to Speaker Johnson’s head last year to get the $60 billion Ukraine bill passed. Much of that money was to make whole those who had invested in project Ukraine.’Make them whole? LOL That’s like making Somali pirates ‘whole’ if they happen to miss your barge. ‘Making a hole in them’ sounds more reasonable to me.
Bartleby the Scrivner #438593 January 8, 2025 10:19 am 13
I hope the unexpected event that prevented you from writing turns out ok. Ill send a prayer your way.
Diversity Heretic #438601 January 8, 2025 10:28 am 17
I hope that the unexpected event is not health related. The insightful post today is a good example of why I keep coming back to the Z-man!
Zulu Juliet #438656 January 8, 2025 12:25 pm 11
It seems clear that corrupt actors in the West – the Bidens come to mind – have been using Ukraine as a clearing house for dirty money. Trump stumbled onto the scam and “they” went ape shit on him. Putin got tired of the Ukrainians pushing around ethnic Russians and invaded. “They” went ape shit on him. So here we are. Trump has no interest in using Ukraine as a money laundering operation, and Putin has pretty much ended Ukrainian ability to meddle in the Donbass, so the crooks and shysters are out of business.
My Comment #438618 January 8, 2025 11:07 am 11
Another reason the EU is frightened that the war will end is that their identity is based on being morally and intellectually superior to the know nothing pawns of Putin who warned that Russia would win and that Russia is more than a gas station with nukes. They shouldn’t worry because their media will present a united front that Putin wanted to conquer Europe and they prevented it besides it is all Trump’s fault.
TempoNick #438680 January 8, 2025 3:49 pm 10
Here’s Junior landing in Greenland:https://x.com/gencostocks/status/1876652190699262433 If we gave each of the 57,000 Greenlanders $3 million each, that’s still less money than we spent on Ukraine and at least we’re getting something out of it. A family of four is going to be set. They could drink and drug themselves for the next 30 years with that kind of money. 😂
Mr. House #438605 January 8, 2025 10:38 am 9
“If Trump makes a deal with Russia, all those companies and banks that invested in the project will be left with nothing but worthless Ukrainian bonds.” Now wouldn’t that be a great way to start a debt default? Then again, they wouldn’t be able to use the excuse that nobody could have seen it coming so i doubt that will be the cause.
Mr. House #438610 January 8, 2025 10:47 am 8
Zman,At this point, if it isn’t apparent to yourself and the readers here that the financial system can not continue in the United States as currently constituated i’m not sure what to tell ya, but if you agree and see what i see, i think an article on what the next “crisis” might be to print up trillions to buy another year or two might be warranted. When the stock market began to crash in late 2018, rates began to be cut beginning of 2019, and then REPO blew up late 2019, i knew something was coming. Covid was out of left field, the question then becomes what even more insane thing will they try to use in the very near future?
Mr. House #438640 January 8, 2025 11:56 am 5
Something i will be looking for as a canary in the coalmine type thing or the window is almost shut for you to make a move: the EU implodes, my thinking on this will be when ukraine is over. That money will flood here, buying us a small amount of breathing room, then the shit hits the fan.
Mow Noname #438642 January 8, 2025 11:58 am 4
Bird fluPeople will be fooled again and they will comply.Sigh.
Mr. House #438655 January 8, 2025 12:24 pm 6
I had the same idea when they first started talking about it again, but i think it would be stupid to go back to that well again so quickly. Also i think birdflu is more of a inflation mask. Prices are going up cause we gotta kill all the chickens, not because we’ve past the debt event horizon!
Jeffrey Zoar #438660 January 8, 2025 1:07 pm 4
I keep hearing about prices going up because egg supply is down. I heard this same thing a few years ago. But never, then or now, have I seen any shelves empty of eggs. Nor heard of people who wanted eggs yet were unable to find them available for purchase.
Mr. House #438664 January 8, 2025 1:48 pm 4
“But never, then or now, have I seen any shelves empty of eggs. Nor heard of people who wanted eggs yet were unable to find them available for purchase.” Almost like we’re becoming south america 😉
KGB #438669 January 8, 2025 2:37 pm 4
Prior to the coof, eggs were generally in the 80 cents range for a dozen. They’re now 4 dollars when you can find them. Fortunately my wife works with a gal who has chickens and has been selling eggs to us for $3 a dozen.
another white guy #438678 January 8, 2025 3:36 pm 2
the shelves were empty at my local variant of Kroger’s before the weekend. Two days later there were eggs, but only the store brand. I always try to buy only “pasture raised” for my own reasons. None of those or the “free range”. My minimum is “cage free” and I was able to get those. I hope to get back to having my own birds in the back yard– they are not cheaper, but I prefer them
The Wild Geese Howard #438703 January 8, 2025 7:12 pm 1
They need to find a propaganda icon like Fraudchi to successfully launch the bird flu scare.
Vegetius #438599 January 8, 2025 10:27 am 8
Trump could cut a deal with the Ukranians around Elensky: greencards and witness protection in exchange for every record of every transanction with every American, European and Israeli who had anything to do with Ukraine for the period covered by Hunter’s pardon.
jo blo #438711 January 9, 2025 3:09 am 2
This. But zelensky and pals would be better off surrendering themselves to (agreement capable) Putin – a refuge in Russia in return for spilling the beans. Punish the real evil-doers (western elites) to teach a lesson that will be long remembered among crooked aholes
Jeffrey Zoar #438641 January 8, 2025 11:56 am 7
Western “elites” at war with each other is entertaining to watch. The elites backing Trump are intent on punishing the Trump resisting elites, not because they resisted Trump but because they got too big for their britches in general. I’m no more privy to the inside baseball than anybody else in the peanut gallery, but my understanding is that when big money is threatened, assassinations go up.
Mr. House #438613 January 8, 2025 10:52 am 7
Has anyone here noticed that since powell started to cut in September (he’s cut by 1%) long rates (10 yr, 30 yr) have gone up by that exact amount? I’ve read other places fireworks start when the 10 yr hits 5%, not far off now. Hell you’d have to be crazy or have alot of money to burn to have the confidence to lend to .gov for 10 years.
Lavrov #438621 January 8, 2025 11:18 am 1
Firework already started – https://mishtalk.com/economics/30000-people-are-under-evacuation-orders-in-california-wildfire/
GunnerQ #438654 January 8, 2025 12:20 pm 13
Those are almost certainly homeless campfires out of control. It’s become a perennial problem in Los Angeles. The Elites built their dachas on ridgetops with panoramic views, leering down at all the little people, not noticing the dense chaparral brush growing from the homeless camps, up the hill, to their garages. They shouldn’t lord “over” the people they impoverish into burning trash just to stay warm in the winter. But why warn them? That isn’t how they learn.
Piffle #438672 January 8, 2025 2:58 pm 4
Long list of stuff they shouldn’t do:-Stop preventative burns for the “environment”-Refuse to pay for infrastructure upgrades because of the “environment”-Blame the utility companies for the first two-Prevent building of high density housing to lower the cost of living It could go on and on.
Ben the Layabout #438702 January 8, 2025 6:16 pm 6
“I see your hair is burning, hills are filled with fire…”— The Doors, “L.A. Woman”
Compsci #438632 January 8, 2025 11:37 am 7
The “market” is no longer to be “fooled”, regardless of the Fed shenanigans. Bonds are so far sold because the purchasers have little choice and the Fed picks up the unbought surplus. To keep the charade up will require Trump to actually do something about the budget deficit that—at least—fools the world into thinking we’ve turned the corner on our profligacy. Then we can work on how to (in essence) default on our debt, via non-payment, or inflation, or more likely both.The risk of course, is not that we do nothing, but that we—as Z-man astutely pointed out—create some phony crisis as the London bankers have to distract from the hard decisions to be made. That would be war of course.
Mycale #438592 January 8, 2025 10:16 am 7
Part of America First is cutting the European elites and the “British” bankers (aka, the City of London) out of the picture. It’s the only move possible for Trump if he wants to be America First, which are his natural instincts. As for his team, well… I actually think his economic/financial people are more AF than the other parts of it. One thing is for sure, Russia has no incentive to cut a deal that doesn’t include the assets that come from taking over cities like the one Z mentioned.
Tom K #438597 January 8, 2025 10:23 am 6
I’m no international finance expert, but it seems to me that Paul Craig Roberts is right when he says that Russia should get rid of its central banker lady, Elvira what’s her name. At bottom Putin is an Atlanticist so he lets her continue, allowing the West to set the rules. Russia has all the resources it needs to back the ruble. It seems to me counterintuitive to keep interest rates high while at the same time maintaining a wartime (or SMO-time) economy. That doesn’t make any sense. But there again, I’m no international finance guy. I mean the West is playing with resources it doesn’t even have (Ukraine’s) to use as collateral in this war. How stupid is it to play by any other playbook.
Mow Noname #438648 January 8, 2025 12:04 pm 5
Tom,I don’t disagree with your opinion on the Ruble.However, the GAE stole $300 billion from the Russians. That is honest to goodness, fungible, currency and Russia is not going to get it back. Ever.
karl von hungus #438657 January 8, 2025 12:44 pm 5
want to bet?
Tom K #438665 January 8, 2025 2:04 pm 5
Mow Noname,I don’t have any opinion on whether Russia will ever get back their money that was stolen from them. All I know is that if the Russians want to break free from the dollar, they have it within their power to do it by expanding credit within Russia. Probably they can do it without any significant inflation. That’s what PCR believes and I think he’s right. Fifteen years ago I wouldn’t have said that but the proof after our own Great Financial Crisis is irrefutable. Another example was what happened to the U.S. debt after WWII. Poof! Vanished… or at least it was made irrelevant. Accepting this was just one small part of breaking free from my hard money beliefs.
Hokkoda #438710 January 8, 2025 11:28 pm 5
Starmer sent UK nationals to help Harris. There will be no safe quarter.Why is Musk talking about the rape gangs now? Clearly with Trump’s blessing? The reckoning is coming.That Trump has been so quiet tells me that he is going to rip the guts out of the Europeans. Hundreds of thousands dead. Billions of dollars in cash and weapons squandered. A fricking fake impeachment intended to cover up direct fraud, malfeasance, and graft by US government employees and elected officials.In the moments before a fight, you’re in the most danger when your enemy goes silent. Trump has gone silent.
I.M. Brute #438715 January 9, 2025 8:11 am 1
I certainly hope “Heads Will Roll” once Trump gets in. If they don’t, I guess I’m in for another bout of Trump Disappointment Syndrome!
Ride-By Shooter #438717 January 9, 2025 9:06 am 2
President Trumpmusk is headed for a breakdown over Zionism and Jewish supremacy. DJT, like PM Two-Tier Keir, is an enthusiast for the nation of Israel, which everyone ought to know is a major reason for swarming immigration, globalist unipolarism, and other problems.Musk seems reluctantly servile, however, toward the master nation, and he’s already in conflict with TTK publicly. His irreverence makes him like an loose cannon, and I can already imagine him explaining to DJT why DJT secretly stands with TTK when it comes to allowing gangs of Paki rape apes to roam freely. If you stand with Israel, you’re with the rape gangs. And you’re in favor of “the federated union of all continents” with Zion as its capital.
Alzaebo #438624 January 8, 2025 11:23 am 5
Wow. Jeez, Zman, this is better than anything by Big Media. “What do you mean, no organ harvesting? They promised me a liver!” As to your coy mention of an “event”, bless you and I hope it is a niggle, a trifle, a mere irritation- I am sorry, but I worry about everything and everyone. I hope it goes well.West Virginia winters…come to southern California and warm yourself by the fire!
Dinodoxy #438709 January 8, 2025 11:06 pm 3
Blaming Trump for the fall of Ukraine was a huge aspect of the establishment allowing him to win. Joke’s still on them because no one is going to give a shit about Kiev fallimg.
Gideon #438690 January 8, 2025 5:37 pm 2
The EU is rightfully terrified that Russia will succeed in capturing significant parts of Ukraine. Instead of being able to loot Ukraine (and Russia), they must reconcile themselves to a future of expensive LNG from Qatar (and Russia). Meanwhile, their security is wholly reliant on NATO, which is starting to look rather ineffectual. Now Germany is “warning” America not to use force to annex Greenland. Pity they couldn’t muster as much gumption in defense of their own gas pipeline infrastructure.
TempoNick #438692 January 8, 2025 5:45 pm 3
“Rightfully?” It’s the birthplace of the Russian people. It’s no business of the west. If they want that area around Lviv but they once forced into Roman Catholicism, they can have it. The rest of it does not belong with the west.
Gideon #438696 January 8, 2025 5:55 pm 3
“Rightfully,” as in correctly. We’re in agreement.
ray #438646 January 8, 2025 12:03 pm 0
Of possible interest here — America the Satan – God, King, and Nation
Ride-By Shooter #438720 January 9, 2025 9:34 am 1
You are correct. It’s interesting that Evropean zombies of Israel are so often driven to madness when they believe that the Jews are subverting their nation or their idolatrous, Israelist superstition. They are oblivious to the irony of their quarrel with the master tribe of the master nation.
Greg Nikolic #438582 January 8, 2025 9:44 am -23
Ukraine is in the Russian sphere of influence. Full stop, everything proceeds from there. It is in the same boat that Canada is to the U.S. — close cousins who have a shared history. The European Union has turned into a giant kraken trying to gobble up every fish in sight. Well the god Neptune has spoken and history don’t play that game no more. — Greg (my blog:http://www.dark.sport.blog)
Hun #438602 January 8, 2025 10:29 am 4
I knew one Nikolic in Croatia. He was a moron.
TempoNick #438683 January 8, 2025 4:41 pm 1
Sometimes slavicized Albanian surnames from that general region are similar. I knew a Nikovic.
Ostei Kozelskii #438704 January 8, 2025 8:22 pm 3
Nikolic is Serbo-Croation for nincompoop.
Northern Observer #438620 January 8, 2025 11:12 am 10
Yep. The mistake was investing in the idea of a Ukraine that was not in the Russian sphere of influence to begin with. It’s like a 55 year old autogynophile in a dress demanding that you call him ma’am. At the very minimum you need Russian buy in and mutual incentives. Ditto Georgia, Belarus, the Baltics, and the central stans. The only limit cases are Moldova and Azerbaijan.The other thing that annoys me about this project is why you would think collapsing the Federal Republic of Russia was a net benefit. Way too many unknowns about what comes out of that process, as we are about to discover in post Assad Syria.
TempoNick #438684 January 8, 2025 4:43 pm 1
I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted on this comment, it is spot on. It would be like China taking over Canada and trying to move it over to their sphere without us responding to it. Like we’re not going to invade Canada after China installs a new government there? Right.
Hun #438714 January 9, 2025 7:57 am 3
Not only is he stating the boringly obvious (mixed with boringly non-original), something that has been obvious to Z-man’s readers for years, but the only reason why he’s doing it is to push his crappy blog. He’s a spammer.


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