A Weird End For A Weird War

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The war in Ukraine will go down as one of the stranger conflicts in American history, mostly because it has been a phony war. That is, the American government spent most of the war pretending to not be part of the war, while supplying the Ukrainians with hundreds of billions in war material. With a new administration bringing realism back to foreign policy, the end of the war promises to be strange as well. While the end is known, the path remains a mystery.

The story over the last few weeks has been the squeeze the administration has put on Zelensky to get him to agree to peace talks and agree to sign over the country’s natural resources as compensation for the hundreds of billions in aid. The process has revealed to the administration that Zelensky is an unreliable partner in a peace deal, so his future is now limited. You cannot make a deal with a guy that no one trusts, so whatever peace comes to Ukraine will not include Zelensky.

You see this with the peace talks coming this week between officials from the Trump administration and a Ukrainian delegation. Saudi Arabia is hosting the talks, and one man has been told not to attend. That man is Zelensky. Not only was he excluded from the meeting, but he was also barred from traveling with the delegation. Zelensky had planned to just hang around Saudi Arabia during the talks. Clearly, these meetings are about life after Zelensky.

The main point of the meeting is to find out if there is any support in Ukrainian politics for a peace deal. Getting rid of Zelensky is not a great challenge. Finding a replacement is not a great challenge. The issue is finding a new leader who can sign a peace deal without the country collapsing into turmoil. The Trump administration needs to find someone that can act as an interim leader, get the political factions to accept a peace deal and then hold elections.

If elections were held today, the most likely winner would be the former commander of the Ukrainian army, Valery Zaluzhny. While he has the respect of the army and the respect of the public, he is tightly tied with the ultranationalists. There are a lot of pictures of Zaluzhny posing next to iconography reminiscent of a certain period in German history, because he is extremely fond of that time. That means he is probably not a reliable option as a peaceful leader of Ukraine.

Another option is Petro Poroshenko, an oligarch who got rich in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union. He first got rich in the candy business, which earned him the nickname of the “Chocolate King.” He also owned media companies, natural resources firms and manufacturing concerns. He has lost a lot of his power over the last five years as Zelensky consolidated his own power in Kiev. Poroshenko is also an outlandishly corrupt figure with ties to the ultranationalists.

Another option is Yulia Tymoshenko, who made some headlines in the West when she briefly became the face of the “Orange Revolution.” She is the leader of the Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) political party and strongly anti-Russian, but she has been a critic of the war and Zelensky’s handling of it. She is an oligarch as well, having got rich in the energy business. This earned her the nickname “The Gas Princess”, which may be one of the better nicknamed in politics.

Within Ukrainian media, the betting favorite at the moment is Tymoshenko for the simple reason that she does not have the ultranationalist baggage. She has her own party outside the Zelensky machine, and she seems willing to strike a deal. It may also be easier for a woman to sell peace to the public. There are millions of wives and mothers of men who have been killed or maimed in the war. That might be enough to overcome opposition from the ultranationalists.

A major challenge to finding a replacement for Zelensky is Europe. The scheming ladies of Brussels view Zelensky as an essential part of their scheme to turn the EU into a replacement for NATO. This is why they are offering him unconditional support for his efforts to scuttle any peace deal with Russia. Then you have individual leaders like Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron, who are trying hard to make Zelensky seem like the most honest man in Europe.

Further complicating matters is the condition of the Ukraine army. They are now being routed in the Kursk region. Thousands of their best soldiers are now trapped in a cauldron with no chance of escape. Thousands of others have surrendered and thousands more have died fleeing toward the border. An army low on morale, hearing that its main benefactor wants a peace deal, is not going to respond well to news that its best units have been routed.

Since everything about this proxy war has been strange, it is fitting that its last acts will be strange as well. Normally in a long war of attrition, the side with the upper hand is willing to press on with the war, while the other side wants peace. In this case, the winning side wants a deal, while the losing side demands to fight on, even as its main benefactor demands peace. It will be another reminder that this part of the world produces nothing but misery for everyone around it.

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183 Comments

Hun #447132 March 10, 2025 7:41 am 91
In this case, the winning side wants a deal, while the losing side demands to fight on That is because Zalensky is not Ukrainian and the entities backing this war hate the populations of both – Russia and Ukraine.
Ted X #447134 March 10, 2025 7:47 am 68
Khazarian mafiosi like “Zelensky” and his sugar-daddy Kolomoisky are the traditional war-mongering shekel grubbers of the cult of flea-bitten rug merchants that Jesus railed against in the gospels (aka brood of vipers).
Anna #447202 March 10, 2025 11:14 am 5
And they still cannot manage without the Jews: Julia Timoshenko’s father is a Jew of probably Armenian origin, and Poroshenko’s father is (was) Jewish, Poroshenko is using his mother’s last name. Ha-ha-ha.
3g4me #447269 March 10, 2025 5:03 pm 11
Too true – they certainly wouldn’t have managed the Holodomor without the Jews.
Quartermaster #447256 March 10, 2025 2:39 pm -29
Rubbish. Zelensky is Ukrainian. He is the grandson of a Ukrainian Jew that joined the Red Army to fight the Germans. His Ukrainian ancestry goes a lot further back as well. There is a lot of Rubbish floating around about the war.
LineInTheSand #447257 March 10, 2025 2:46 pm 21
You can’t serve two masters. If you had to guess, is Zelensky’s deepest loyalty to the historic Ukrainian people or the chosen worldwide?
Steve #447277 March 10, 2025 7:29 pm -2
They are allegedly a smart people. If you wrote down a list of pros and cons of which master to serve, would it favor the loyalty you are presuming? Or would it argue that they are morons?
Wiffle #447292 March 11, 2025 7:24 am 3
Their vaunted intelligence is a bit overrated.
Hun #447260 March 10, 2025 2:58 pm 29
His passport states that he is “Jewish” and he has the “right of return”. According to Times of Israel, Zelensky said that he comes from “an ordinary Soviet Jewish family.” I wonder why you feel compelled to spread disinformation.
NoName #447278 March 10, 2025 7:29 pm 8
Hun: “I wonder why you feel compelled to spread disinformation.“
Robbo #447507 March 12, 2025 6:31 am 0
Can you show us on this doll where the Jews touched you?
Alzaebo #447279 March 10, 2025 7:30 pm 4
If he’s Ukrainian, why can’t he speak Ukrainian? He sure ain’t no Slav.
BigJimSportCamper #447288 March 10, 2025 9:22 pm 10
If you are the same ‘Quartermaster’ from Unz then you are are a complete Zionist shit.Begone.
Xman #447133 March 10, 2025 7:46 am 84
The weirdest thing about this weird war is that the president’s drug addict son was paid millions by a foreign nation that subsequently got $300 billion in U.S. military and financial aid and there was not ONE PEEP about it from the media or the Left. One can only imagine how these people would have gone apeshit if Tricia Nixon had been put on the South Vietnamese payroll just before Dick announced more military aid…
Captain Willard #447141 March 10, 2025 8:37 am 31
Zman wrote a great piece the other day about the return of Realpolitik and the end of moralism in policy. I’d say this qualifies. All the Warmongers were crowing about how our money has hurt Russia, never mind all the death and the gross immorality of perpetuating a dangerous, unwinnable proxy war with a nuclear power. So if there is a silver lining, it’s that morality has been chucked out the window. Realism can easily tilt back to peace if it’s more profitable because we have no clearly have no moral compass here.
Captain Willard #447138 March 10, 2025 8:32 am 69
So, to recap, two guys who have lost two elections (Macron and Starmer) back a guy who refuses to hold an election (Zelensky) to keep fighting while Trump’s (actually elected) peace efforts are ignored in favor of the war cries of the EU leadership (who are unelected). They want to fight with no army and no money, but just overturned an actual election in Romania won by a peace candidate. Meanwhile the Italian lady said we should extend NATO protection to Ukraine, but not with Italian troops. And the newly-elected German Chancellor wants to spend 400B Euro rebuilding the Wehrmacht to threaten Russia while the rest of Europe applauds.Watching all this, no doubt bemused, is Putin, who isn’t sure if anybody who signs this “agreement” will be in office in 4 years or if it’s worth the paper it’s printed on.
Arshad Ali #447145 March 10, 2025 8:51 am 27
More or less correct except that that loser and p.o.s., Starmer did win an election because his opposition was even more detested than him. The Brits are not given much of a choice.
Tars Tarkas #447192 March 10, 2025 10:41 am 16
Kind of like Mitt Romney vs Barrack Obama. Either way, you lose.Representative “Democracy” only works when the ruling elite fear the population. Right now, the ruling elite hate the population, largely because they fear the invader population. But there are a lot more Brits than foreigners.
Abelard Lindsey #447236 March 10, 2025 1:13 pm 9
That’s right. He won with only like 20% of the vote because the Conservative (Tory) party was even more stupid than Labour. Apparently the Conservatives are now doubling down on stupidity.
iForgotmyPen #447146 March 10, 2025 8:53 am 35
Great point about Putin. He not only doesn’t trust anyone from the West, he knows that our precious democracy means that any deal signed, even one with honest intentions, will not outlast the next “election.” He must move forward alone and do what’s best for his people and he can since he holds all the cards right now.
Alzaebo #447148 March 10, 2025 8:57 am 31
“…rebuilding the Wehrmacht to threaten Russia,..” No, I don’t think it is Russia they want to threaten. It is their own nationalists who must be crushed, that is priority #1. The war loan people have promised billions to recast the EUNATO into the kind of cyber-totalitarian state that Ellison, Lutnick, Fink and company promise to make North America. That means 500 million people responsible for that debt, thus the ‘need’ to collateralize national assets…same as here. Ukraine? Ukraine is the gateway to turn Eastern Europe into Bosnia.
Dutchboy #447196 March 10, 2025 10:59 am 21
E. Michael Jones was talking to a member of the West German security services after the reunification. He asked him: “Wer ist jetzt der Feind? (who is the enemy now?). The answer: “Das Deutsche Volk!” (the German people).
3g4me #447152 March 10, 2025 9:12 am 9
Well said.
Tars Tarkas #447184 March 10, 2025 10:18 am 19
I don’t know why Putin would not be sure about any potential agreement and if it is worth the paper it won’t be printed on. I don’t think anything is more sure than the West will not honor any deal it signs today. The Minsk deals were hammered out and signed by everyone, yet here we are. Clownworld will honor the deal as long as there is a good benefit in doing so. The moment things change and honoring the deal is no longer advantageous, they will break it.
Captain Willard #447191 March 10, 2025 10:40 am 5
Agree. You put it well. I was running out of space….
Diversity Heretic #447219 March 10, 2025 11:54 am 13
You forgot Donald Tusk of Poland who wants to double the size of the Polish army using universal male conscription, making it the biggest army in Europe (outside Russia), and acquire nuclear weapons. Donald Tusk was elected, but one wonders whether a partitioned Poland (from about 1793 to 1919) was an altogether bad idea.
Jeffrey Zoar #447220 March 10, 2025 11:59 am 13
Fair to wonder how much USAID influence was brought to bear in the 2023 Polish elections. Although I believe a strong military hardline against Russia is a fairly bipartisan view in Poland.
Templar #447225 March 10, 2025 12:38 pm 15
…one wonders whether a partitioned Poland (from about 1793 to 1919) was an altogether bad idea. Polish independence was certainly not worth the cost of two world wars.
Xman #447245 March 10, 2025 2:05 pm 13
Polish independence was merely a pretext for imperial Britain and imperial America to intervene on the European continent.
Vizzini #447233 March 10, 2025 12:53 pm 15
…400B Euro rebuilding the Wehrmacht… Let’s not ignore the fact that 400B Euro won’t get you an army big enough for sustained fighting against anything but some second-rate banana republic. ETA: Or your own people, as some people here have astutely pointed out.
GunnerQ #447261 March 10, 2025 3:00 pm 0
Georgescu in Romania is a Zionist, not a nationalist, and his ally, professional mercenary Horatiu Potra, actually did attempt some kind of Direct Action. Both persons then lied to authorities about having an association. Potra’s men were shut down early so it’s hard to say what exactly they would have done……meanwhile, Georgescu has promised to move Romania’s embassy to Jerusalem and host a Netanyahu visit in open defiance of ICC warrants. That’s not what nationalists do. Potra was once head of security to the Emir of Qatar and did much work protecting Rothschild mining interests in Africa.Romania has been having an organized crime wave over the last few years, no doubt fueled by its bordering Ukraine, so Georgescu is more correctly viewed as a ZOG agent menacing the money train of his patron’s rivals, than a nationalist who only wants the best for his people.
pyrrhus #447135 March 10, 2025 8:13 am 49
In theory, the Russians want a deal…but a deal that satisfies their announced goals…In fact, no such deal is going to be offered by Trump or the Ukrainians, and any such proposal is tarnished by the bad faith shown with respect to the Minsk I and II treaties…which embarrassed Putin…So the cleanest and best option is to fight until Ukraine surrenders, and then take the Russian speaking areas and Odessa, leaving Ukraine no ports on the Black Sea…
Mycale #447156 March 10, 2025 9:19 am 20
This, Putin wants a deal that recognizes Russia as the winner of the conflict, the rightful owner of the eastern provinces they captured and Crimea, and Ukraine as a helpless rump state. But we all know that before the ink is dry, the people who engineered this war will be scheming and soon enough you will see the media saying that America can’t tell a country what to do and what alliances it wants to join. Of course this is totally lolworthy but the elites eat this junk up…
The Infant Phenomenon #447176 March 10, 2025 9:55 am 9
Unless I miss my guess–and if history is anything to go by–the “elites” are going to face *serious* “domestic unrest.” And that will be if they are really lucky. Somethin’s gotta give.
The Infant Phenomenon #447175 March 10, 2025 9:52 am 3
Agreed. And right now, anyway, it’s hard to imagine any other outcome–at least one that doesn’t destroy the whole world.
Captain Willard #447188 March 10, 2025 10:37 am 23
Agree about the Russians, but I think Trump is absolutely prepared to recognize all the Oblasts that voted to join the RF. He correctly wants out. (There’s not 3 Americans in a hundred who understand all the ethnic/Russophone nuances involved.) In the end, I think the Azov types can accept this because those oblasts are Russian and everyone understands this. Getting a legitimate Ukrainian president to say all this publicly is a problem. And the EU types would have to admit they made a huge mistake with Minsk II. This is always the problem with war – aims change, sunk costs prevent rational behavior.
Ostei Kozelskii #447212 March 10, 2025 11:36 am 13
Three in a hundred? Given that the average AINOian couldn’t find his own hometown on a map, you’d better make that three in a million.
Zulu Juliet #447205 March 10, 2025 11:18 am 5
“So the cleanest and best option is to fight until Ukraine surrenders, and then take the Russian speaking areas and Odessa, leaving Ukraine no ports on the Black Sea…” I think you nailed it there. If the Russians continue to gain the upper hand on the battlefield, this is surely their endgame.
Templar #447226 March 10, 2025 12:39 pm 2
In fact, no such deal is going to be offered by Trump… That doesn’t sound very realistic.
george 1 #447259 March 10, 2025 2:50 pm 11
Yes. At this time a push to the East Bank of the Dnieper River looks all but certain. After that about 50/50 as to whether the Russians take Odessa by force as well. That probably goes for Kiev too. Trump won’t like that but the Russians have not agreed to negotiate an end to the war. The talks with the U.S. are all concerning other matters. The Russians have made clear they will not talk about ending the war until their objectives are met. They have no reason to trust Trump or the West in general.
karl von hungus #447131 March 10, 2025 7:31 am 42
maybe no peace is possible before the AFU is fully destroyed? the real loser here (given ukraine was always a garbage country) is europe. exposed as corrupt, incompetent, and incapable of learning even the most obvious lessons. oh, and now they are defenceless having sent all their weapons and munitions to ukraine. well done peeps, the WW I crowd applauds your efforts.
The Wild Geese Howard #447147 March 10, 2025 8:55 am 5
kvh- I think you are essentially correct. There is no zone of potential agreement between the US and Russia, so there will be no peace. Odessa is a tricky element. Putin may not want to take it, but he needs to. The problem is that taking Odessa substantially raises the odds of direct US intervention.
The Infant Phenomenon #447173 March 10, 2025 9:48 am 10
I do hope not, but what is Trump up to? He’s all over the map with this crisis–and it *is* a crisis. Is he playing the now-famous 4D chess? Or is he surrounded by lunatic lying neocon John-Boltons-in-disguise? Or is he simply out of his depth and in way over his head? Or what? The latest that I have read is that he is “really close” to letting the Ukraine have access again to Skylink to guide their missiles. It doesn’t seem to make any sense. But direct US intervention would be a disaster of incalculable proportions. Maybe even the end of the world. The Russians’ positions are crystal clear. Will “Little Marco” save us?
karl von hungus #447190 March 10, 2025 10:39 am 12
just ignore “reports”. 9/10 things trump says are just filler.
Pozymandias #447270 March 10, 2025 5:21 pm 5
That’s what I think and some of what Trump says may not be so much trolling but a delaying tactic or deliberate misdirection.
Horace #447284 March 10, 2025 8:32 pm 3
I think this is exactly right. It’s a lot of flim-flam bullshittery with two objectives: (1) run out the clock so Russia IMPOSES a permanent solution [and any solution that reestablishes Russian security is good for us, because we want PEACE with white Christian nuclear power] and (2) do so in a way that avoids blame, especially from his jewish stakeholders like widow-Adelson.The stupid peasant jew Zelensky is the designated holder of the bag of excrement, in the same way that Biden was before he became too mentally incapacitated for it to be even remotely plausible anymore. He may be stupid, but he is stupid and obscenely rich, if he can stay alive to spend the loot obtained by generating a million white corpses.
Pozymandias #447289 March 10, 2025 9:39 pm 0
The contest to see who can whack Zelenskyyyy may well be the most intense and vicious one ever.
karl von hungus #447187 March 10, 2025 10:37 am 10
IMO russia can do what it wants, with regards to ukraine. the US is clearly ready to move on, and the afghan bugout sets a ceiling on any US posturing. with zelensky a dead man walking, the champagne is on ice in moscow.
Ostei Kozelskii #447214 March 10, 2025 11:38 am 10
When that poisonous perv finally meets his maker, Moscow won’t be the only place a cork is popped. Casa Kozelskii’s carpet may also be dampened by a touch of the bubbly…
Pickle Rick #447142 March 10, 2025 8:41 am 26
I’m sure the European Girlboss Club would prefer the Girlboss, but that depends on how that little poisonous CIA dwarf gets removed from the board.If the Uke generals pull off a 1943 style deposition of Mussolini, keeping him alive as a bargaining chip to negotiate their way out of a losing war, or if they do him like Diem in 1963. Of course, that might not happen if the Uke Army finally mutinies like the German Army did in 1918, and the lower ranks simply rebel and the generals lose control of the troops. Because if there’s one fact that should be incandescently clear to the average Uke by now, it is thatalltheir leaders are all fools, idiots, foreign puppets and vultures who grow rich on their blood.It would be supremely ironic if a Ukrainian lance corporal starts building a party in the aftermath of all this. How do you say “Dolchstoss” in Ukrainian?
The Infant Phenomenon #447174 March 10, 2025 9:51 am 2
Keine Ahnung. But it wouldn’t have nearly so many vowels in it.
Nick Noltes Mugshot #447215 March 10, 2025 11:41 am 7
Perhaps Zelensky will be allowed to resume his previous career as a comedian and offered a long term residency at the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas. Trump should be able to arrange that.
Ostei Kozelskii #447243 March 10, 2025 1:58 pm 9
He’d be better suited to the Brown Nugget out in Henderson…
Puszczyk #447266 March 10, 2025 4:14 pm 2
удар у спину
Grumpy #447136 March 10, 2025 8:17 am 24
You cannot make a deal with a guy that no one trustsAs the Russians should have learned twice with Minsk
bob sykes #447137 March 10, 2025 8:24 am 23
Any replacement for Zelenskyy must be acceptable to Russia, and Timoshenko is not. There are also the issues of denazification, demilitarization, and neutrality. The US and EU still refuse to listen to what Russia is saying. They still think they can impose a peace treaty on Russia.
thezman #447150 March 10, 2025 9:02 am 13
The Gas Princess has flexible standards. She used to be happy to do business with Russia until being a nationalist was more profitable.
Tarl Cabot #447162 March 10, 2025 9:29 am 9
She wants to be an EU girlboss like Ursula and Katja. The good news is if they change their tune, so will she.
Marko #447166 March 10, 2025 9:36 am 3
She doesn’t give a Zhytomyr
Steve #447204 March 10, 2025 11:16 am 12
“Those are my principles. If you don’t like them, I have others.”
Anna #447208 March 10, 2025 11:29 am 6
From what i remember Julia has not a drop of Ukrainian blood. She had to learn Ukrainian and place the braid on her head in old fashioned Ukrainian style to win her first election.
Xman #447247 March 10, 2025 2:11 pm 11
She’s got enough drops of blood to get herself a villa in Haifa, though.
Arshad Ali #447144 March 10, 2025 8:48 am 19
“A major challenge to finding a replacement for Zelensky is Europe. The scheming ladies of Brussels view Zelensky as an essential part of their scheme to turn the EU into a replacement for NATO. This is why they are offering him unconditional support for his efforts to scuttle any peace deal with Russia. Then you have individual leaders like Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron, who are trying hard to make Zelensky seem like the most honest man in Europe.”The Europeans present a pathetic sight. From 2021 to 2024 they were posturing and preening as “world leaders” but Trump has cut them down to size. Now they have a chip on their shoulder and are talking about an independent defense and independent foreign policy. Which of course is destined to come a cropper. This game can only be played by the big boys — USA, Russia, and China. Trump, Putin, and Xi know this and Trump hasn’t the time or patience to soothe or flatter the egos of these inconsequential runts. Watching these runts talk about an independent defense costing several hundred billion euros (which they emphatically don’t have) is like watching a sick and emaciated 90-pound man trying to bench press 350 pounds.
Ostei Kozelskii #447189 March 10, 2025 10:38 am 16
Whether the mewling runts are capable of it or not, nothing would make me happier than to see them go their own way and attempt to forge their own Ukraine/Russia policy. The Blackberry Fruitcake Empire gets to wash its hands of the entire continent, the Euros get exposed for the bumbling twits they are, and Russia becomes stronger. That’s a win/win/win, baby.
Captain Willard #447193 March 10, 2025 10:46 am 10
Well put. If we have learned anything from this war, it’s that you cannot defeat a modern adversary without space-based ISR. The money the Euros are talking about so far doesn’t even approach the table stakes for modern ISR, air force, hypersonic missiles etc. It’s a fugazy. Meanwhile, the UK cannot even recruit troops. Why join the French Foreign Legion when you can just take a boat across the Channel and get welfare in the Uk?
Jeffrey Zoar #447209 March 10, 2025 11:31 am 9
That depends on what you mean by “defeat.” Multiple parties have shown that it’s possible to outlast the GAE without “high tech.” Maybe that’s all Russia has really been trying to do, militarily, for a while now. Although they aren’t invincible qualities (see Assad), determination and will are still the most important military attributes.
Pozymandias #447272 March 10, 2025 6:00 pm 2
Europe’s muppet rulers have so many big plans for themselves. Let’s see, they’re going to build their own Murrica-lite war machine, presumably cutting their welfare state down to Alabama levels to do it. They’re also going to rebuild the industry needed to power that war machine using only solar power, wind farms, and girlboss gynomagick.Perhaps they think theyareAmerica and their plan is to just do what we would and print the money for all of this. That way everyone, including half the populations of Africa and the ME, can still get their welfare checks and free healthcare while they increase military spending by an order of magnitude. Not sure how the green energy constraints can be dealt with this way though since you can’t just print BTUs.At this point their “plans” are so remote from the real world that one wonders why they don’t just declare Ukraine to have won the war. It’s no more ridiculous than the stuff Communist governments used to announce: Comrades! I’m very pleased to report that wehave won a glorious victory in Ukraine and driven the Russians back to Moscow! We have also met and exceeded the production targets in the Five Year Plan in only 2 years!
Usisdone #447275 March 10, 2025 6:25 pm 2
An American calling other peoples runts; you don’t even control your own country. You’re no different than some rotund sportsball fan cheering “his” victory because a franchise won a tourney. Buy the merch,watch the game,cheer your team. Nobody cares.
Horace #447285 March 10, 2025 8:41 pm 7
“… you don’t even control your own country.” This is true. We do not and I don’t think we have in my entire lifetime. The owners were smart enough to let us pretend until the Cold War ended and they didn’t need our service anymore. However, the list is very short, of European peoples (anywhere on Earth) who are not governed by a collaborator administrative class that is ultimately directed by transnational finance through fake democracy. We are all on the sinking ship, together.
usNthem #447149 March 10, 2025 9:02 am 18
Any peace deal is going to be fraught with all sorts of complications. The US and Euro war-mongering jackoffs, such as cue ball Kelly, are all yammering about Trump’s betrayal and stabbing poor Ukraine in the back, yada, yada, yada. Hey, as long as it’s not their fellow citizens getting ground up, let’s keep the party going – on our dollars of course. F all of them.
Tars Tarkas #447181 March 10, 2025 10:07 am 17
I don’t see how anyone can get behind this mineral deal, assuming it is even real, which is questionable(I’ve read all these minerials are in the Russian occupied areas). The American taxpayer hands out hundreds of billions of Dollars while some fake “American” (in name only) mining companies get all the benefits. It just underlines the corruption of “America” Meanwhile, it is near impossible to start a new mine in the US. Two new large lithium deposits have been found in the US over the last year or 2 (IIRC, one in New England and one down near Texas) which will likely remain safe in the ground.Americans will not benefit in any way from any supposed mineral deal.
Alzaebo #447195 March 10, 2025 10:59 am 14
Another huge lithium strike on the Idaho border, touted as one of the largest in the world, along with California’s Salton Sea (the desert side of Palm Springs.) Greens think “green” means pit mines the size of Ohio. Edit: woops, can’t forget North Carolina either, can we?
Tars Tarkas #447262 March 10, 2025 3:02 pm 4
The minerals could be laying on the ground in nice pure chunks and it would still not be financially viable to do that “mining” (picking stuff off the ground) in the US. I’m pretty sure the only mines in the US are long term ones which were already in operation when all the regulation got passed.
TomA #447167 March 10, 2025 9:37 am 17
The only adults in the room when it comes to the conflict in Ukraine are the Russians. They would be wise to stay the course and finish the job, regardless of other actions by other players. Win the war, dictate the terms of peace, keep the parts that are historically Russian, and let Poland deal with the Nazis in Western Ukraine. When the smoke clears, Russia will engage in fair business deals with the US and Europe; but these won’t be exploitation deals, so the EU central banks are screwed.
Alzaebo #447198 March 10, 2025 11:08 am 5
I think “let Poland deal with the Nazis in Western Ukraine” is an extremely viable solution. Basically, let Poland and Russia carve up the Ukraine’s sides, that way both get something for their trouble, and get the US out.Polak nationalists are as scrappy as Gallicians, so I think they’d come to terms rather quickly.
Anna #447218 March 10, 2025 11:46 am 5
If Ukrainians were smart, they would voluntarily join Russia, as historically was the case for over 300 years until 1991. But the low IQ combined with low self esteem does not let them proceed in the only right direction.Since 1991 they lost 99% of their industries. According to their comments I follow they still do not understand how it happened. They had a thriving industrial country while the Jews and Russians were around.
RealityRules #447140 March 10, 2025 8:35 am 16
Can’t have ultra-nationalists! Have to have a counterpart to the PM of Mexico, the President of Argentina, the mayor of Florence and own a revolving door at the head seat in Kiev and on and on and on and on.On the one hand it is strange that the side that is getting ground down and is heading toward a rout would insist on not pursuing peace. On the other, when the leader is not of the people getting crushed and nor are the leader’s benefactors, it isn’t surprising. When any of them can escape for any number of penthouses spread across the Rivieras in globalist metroplexes, then you have that factor as well.You would think that some day and some day soon that every nation these people flee to for refuge in gilded towers would say no more. No. You can’t come here after you make a mess of the place you ran as an outsider. No you can’t come here since here is destroyed while your own little here is flourishing and thriving and expanding. We built you a country and are even going to pay for your own domestically domiciled Riviera. All while we were destroyed and opened up for international predation.You would think somebody would have the spine to finally say, “Talk to the hand!”On a side note, this article prompted me to look up why every pundit had to suddenly switch to using Kyiv instead of Kiev. Wiki has a bit on the international campaign to erase the Russian derived Kiev. Of course the power player behind it was not Ukraine, but the US. While Ukraine has suffered this brutal shellacking being ruled over by a clown whose shtick is to play the piano with his dick and dress up in Satanic bondage a-go-go outfits they have succeeded in getting the world under the GAE to switch to use Kyiv. What an amazing thing to hang your hat on.GAE Race Communism couldn’t win a proxy war, but it could force everyone to change the spelling and pronunciation of the capital of its satrapy that is getting savaged by war.Perfectly fitting for this dying Longhouse regime. And now the glowing fingers of the rose colored dawn wave their warm welcome to the Age of The Vengeful Son.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KyivNotKiev
Alzaebo #447160 March 10, 2025 9:24 am 4
About those penthouses, I had long wondered why Hitler overextended himself rather than solely fortifying the former Holy Roman Empire (Germany, Austro-Hungary, Czechia, some Baltic fiefs like Estonia.) I hadn’t realized the role of the American industrialists and bankers. They basically prodded him on into overreach, promising backing, investment, and funding, just as Zelenkskyy was promised a Second Israel. The Austrian Napoleon sought to take on fallen Russia, with the same results. Instead of Paris, the Russians marched into Berlin.
Bitter reactionary #447221 March 10, 2025 12:02 pm 17
I think Suvarov’s assertion was correct – the USSR was planning invasion and was caught off guard in a position not suited to defense when Barbarosa kicked off. I have seen a speech by Mustache Man which, if honestly translated, states that very thing. If true, the choice was to be overwhelmed in the East immediately by already superior Soviet force, or roll the dice and take the initiative.As we know, whatever promises might have been made to whomever, the industrial might of the US went to supplying the communists. A vast river of trucks, planes, food, arms, etc flowed from US plants to the USSR, and we (and the world) paid for that stupidity with decades of Cold War and relentless global communist subversion and mass murder.
Jeffrey Zoar #447234 March 10, 2025 1:03 pm 5
Arguably, the wehrmacht could have waged a defensive war more successfully than they made a run at Moscow. But there wouldn’t have been any endgame to it. And eventually the west comes in the back door either way.
Marko #447153 March 10, 2025 9:15 am 15
It is a weird war. So feminine and passive-aggressive. We basically were at war but JK not at war! with Russia. Like we were mean girls who pretended to be uninvolved with Rachel’s love life but were feeding destructive gossip to her BF and other girls behind that bitch’s back. F**k that bitch, Rachel is not as cute as I am!
mmack #447165 March 10, 2025 9:36 am 5
Rachel doesn’t have functioning nuclear weapons. 😉
Cal #447139 March 10, 2025 8:32 am 15
The minerals deal is a trap. The UK met with the dwarf dictator this weekend. Their plan seems to be to sell Trump on the minerals deal, as long as they provide protection for their ‘investment’, meaning US troops in Ukraine. Of course a fake “Russian” attack on those troops will soon follow, trying to force the US into the war. Trump should first demand that Zelensky is removed, then Putin and Trump can agree on the terms of Ukrainian surrender and present it to the new puppet installed by the UK to sign.
Captain Willard #447143 March 10, 2025 8:45 am 22
Yeah, it’s a fig leaf for the peace deal. The US will have to spend more money to enforce the peace. Trump will want to show how we are getting a good mineral deal in return. Meanwhile, some company will actually have to invest real dollars in exploiting all these “mineral rights”. Good luck finding someone to do this, given the business, technical risks and the legendary crookery of Ukraine. It’s all BS. Remember all the mineral wealth of Afghanistan?
Alzaebo #447154 March 10, 2025 9:17 am 8
“Remember all the mineral wealth of Afghanistan?” Good call. We have more rare earths in our (shuttered) coal mines and mine tailings, the supposed rare earths of Ukraine are a fiction. They don’t really have any.
Mycale #447158 March 10, 2025 9:20 am 28
Rare earth minerals are not rare. They’re everywhere that people look for them. The problem is that they are nasty and dirty to dig out the ground, which is why we in the USA don’t dig it out of our ground and outsourced it to other countries. This is somehow better for Mother Gaia. Waging endless war against a nuclear power on the other side of the earth for a bunch of rocks that are all over the American West is a really bad idea…
Pozymandias #447274 March 10, 2025 6:17 pm 5
There are lots of things that work this way in Clown-Cuckoo-Land. We cleaned up our air… by moving the pollution to China. We were able to dine “safely” during the Coof as long as we wore our masks until they seated us and served the food. We are also going to produce electric cars that charge themselves as long as the companies that make them can get a “carbon neutral” certification.It turns out that Mother Nature is not some rigorous hard-ass who rigidly follows scientific laws. Instead she’s a lawyer with a law degree from Saul Goodman’s law school. The truth is… flexible.
Mycale #447151 March 10, 2025 9:02 am 42
The fact that all the wrong people want Trump to sign the minerals deal tells me everything I need to know. The fact is, from their POV, the idea of the minerals deal is genius – Trump gets to talk about how he made a deal, he gets to talk about all the money it is going to bring in, and they (correctly) understand that it lowers the likelihood of an end to the conflict and it also ties us closer to the fortunes of the Kiev regime.There’s no way around this, for this war to end, Trump needs to turn his back on the “liberal world order” – NATO, the Eurocrats, the neocons, the khazars, everybody. It will make him the permanent villain. Of course that is the price to pay for actually putting Americans first, but this is the starkest A-B choice he’s ever dealt with in his life. There is no way to finesse this.
The Infant Phenomenon #447178 March 10, 2025 9:58 am 3
Well said!
Andy Texan #447282 March 10, 2025 7:51 pm 2
The ‘minerals deal’ is the classic Trojan Horse. Run away. Support Russian demands and end the damn war.
Lavrov #447169 March 10, 2025 9:39 am 14
What is the deal with Derbyshire? Why does he keep claiming that Russia is the most corrupt country on earth? Napolitano and Larry Johnson seem to be full of praise for Russia. They just met lavrov.
Lavrov #447172 March 10, 2025 9:47 am 1
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3GW_9IUcg-M
Marko #447179 March 10, 2025 9:59 am 6
He says it’s one of the two most corrupt WHITE countries on earth. I think Moldova is more corrupt than either of them, so maybe he should say the two most corrupt significant white countries on earth.
lavrov #447186 March 10, 2025 10:34 am 24
How does he say that after watching the Biden-Obama gang rule over the last 15 years?
RealityRules #447199 March 10, 2025 11:11 am 9
Because that ruling faction isn’t White nor does it want any Whites to remain in that country.
Ostei Kozelskii #447216 March 10, 2025 11:42 am 10
Correct. AINO is an African country and its levels of corruption, inevitably enough, resemble that of Mozambique.
Mike #447223 March 10, 2025 12:16 pm 8
There really isn’t a white country left anymore that isn’t corrupt, all the EU, the US, Canada, the 2 down-under countries all are massively corrupt now. Look at the profiteering of all these countries in the Ukraine, the corrupt judiciaries in all of them and especially the soulless corrupt MIC corps.
Marko #447258 March 10, 2025 2:48 pm 6
We are NOT Moldova. Nor Russia for that matter. Hell, we’re better than the UK. If you think the USA is a corrupt shithole, then brother you have never visited a corrupt shithole country. I would much rather live here. Assuming I didn’t have to live in South Chicago. But as bad as mayor Johnson and governor Pritzker is, Chicago, Illinois is holistically better than most other places in the world. It attracts capital and tourism and college students and corrupt shitholes do not.
Hemid #447238 March 10, 2025 1:38 pm 7
The white caveat makes it sound clever, like a trick question’s been craftily answered. And it’s a thing “the left” don’t say. (The powerful don’t resort to wit). Anglo conservatives, especially American ones, are suckers for anything like that. “Israel is an outpost of the West in the Middle East,” etc. (Nerds love un-catchy slogans.) You’d think the slight cracking open of the USAID books would cause an ad hoc revision in world corruption rankings, since apparently America fundsall the world’s lies(and anal sex). But noticing that isn’t clever. Any moron can do it.
Anna #447210 March 10, 2025 11:34 am 2
Russia is corrupt, but not as corrupt as Ukraine. Ukraine famous and popular proverb is: “My dear mother Ukraine, I won’t have if I don’t steal”. It rhymes in Ukrainian.
Ostei Kozelskii #447246 March 10, 2025 2:05 pm 3
Something along these lines? Moi dorogoi Ukrainskaia mat’/Ya ne imet esli ya ne vorovat’!
Ostei Kozelskii #447263 March 10, 2025 3:27 pm 3
Correction: Moia dorogaia Ukrainskaia mat’/Ia ne imet esli ia ne vorovat’!
Anna #447271 March 10, 2025 5:23 pm 2
Ukraina, ridna mati, ne vkradesh-ne budesh mati. (in Ukrainian)
Ostei Kozelskii #447376 March 11, 2025 10:12 am 2
It works in Russian, too.
Pozymandias #447432 March 11, 2025 12:10 pm 0
Haha, you’re right.украсть = steal or scrounge (well I did it in Russian). Imagine living in a place that was literally named essentially “nation of thieves”.
Filthie #447200 March 10, 2025 11:12 am 13
The lesson that God, Darwin and Murphy are trying to tell you, America – is that if you let women, and their male clowns have a say in military affairs – you will lose, regardless of how good your military is.Every single war America has fought in the last half century has been lost at home. The losses have been getting worse and worse as their power grows too. Viet Nam was bad – but a rousing victory compared to Afghanistan and the Kraine. In this latest clown show, over one million Ukes are dead. There is nothing to show for it, Russia is more powerful than ever before, entire multinational alternative markets have sprung up because no one wants to deal with us, and we are teetering on a complete financial collapse.Until we get menstrual harridans like AOC and her coloured girlfriends back in the kitchen, until we get menopausal old cankles like Pelosi and Clinton into a home… the trainwreck will continue.
Wiffle #447227 March 10, 2025 12:43 pm 4
I agree. However, it isn’t happening until at least another generation or two. The biggest champion of the Girlboss model belongs to that very male dominated generation of the Boomers. (yes, seriously, you can tell by what all the old women look like). We need another male oriented generation that’s a little more serious.
Pozymandias #447440 March 11, 2025 12:42 pm 1
Boomers are a good example of why “social reform” is almost always bad. There’s a time delay, even for the most insane reforms, before they take full effect. Boomers amused themselves and patted themselves on the back because they could flirt with “women’s lib” while still living in a world built and run by men. Full blown Gyno-Communism took until really right now to take full effect.
Pozymandias #447438 March 11, 2025 12:30 pm 0
Anecdote: a couple years ago I was reading the blog of a Russian transhumanist (can’t recall his name but he’s fairly well known). His readers, in spite of being transhumanists were pretty based and were giving him a hard time because he still had women voting in his TH utopia. His weak retort was basically that, in Russia at least, the women consistently vote for Putin’s party across the board. He thinks the reason for this is that Putin represents “stability and security” while his opponents clearly represent the globalism that nearly destroyed Russia before Putin took over.I think the lesson here is that, as long as we have to have women participating in politics, we can make sure they vote the “right” way by emphasizing that our positions represent stability, peace, and prosperity while the crazy Left’s obsession with diversity, inclusion, and equity, leads to chaos and poverty. Of course some women are never going to be reachable. Take these crazy bints for example (NSFW warning, boobs and swastikas) –https://www.zerohedge.com/political/titty-tantrum-topless-women-shriek-heil-donald-trump-heil-vladimir-putin-heil-elon-musk.
Vizzini #447230 March 10, 2025 12:49 pm 10
It may also be easier for a woman to sell peace to the public. “Yes, Ukrainians, you, too, can be like the ball-less, feminized West!” The faggy, transvestite comedian wasn’t reliable enough.
Zulu Juliet #447201 March 10, 2025 11:13 am 9
“It will be another reminder that this part of the world produces nothing but misery for everyone around it.”There it is. The U.S. should have stayed as far away from this sh**-show as possible, and let the Euros deal with what is going on in their own back yard.Now the U.S. is getting smeared and stuck by this tar baby and even Trump is going to find it hard to extract the US without terrible optics. Ukrainian collapse will be ugly, and what if the Russians decide to push their advantage and gobble up more land that seems reasonable?I can see Trump panicking and sending aid and arms to avert a P.R. disaster. That would be a mistake, but it will take stones of steel to stay the course and let the Ukes and Euros deal with the mess they’ve made.
Vizzini #447228 March 10, 2025 12:43 pm 8
…agree to sign over the country’s natural resources as compensation for the hundreds of billions in aid… I’m going to have to laugh when people realize that Ukraine ends up getting more screwed by the Jews in US government and finance than by the Russians.
Wiffle #447231 March 10, 2025 12:49 pm 2
Those natural resources belong to the Ukraine. Did we offer aid (as a gift) or simply put them in debt forever?
Steve #447283 March 10, 2025 7:56 pm 2
Seriously? Have you never heard of the IMF? The World Bank?
Dutchboy #447197 March 10, 2025 11:06 am 8
My impression (from social media) is the the Euros either think Ukraine is winning or will win if they are just given more aid. With that in mind, Trump’s decision to pressure Ukraine to make peace seems like a cowardly betrayal to them rather than a piece of 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘬. I assume that this belief is fostered by their version of our MSM, which also shares this delusion.
Dutchboy #447239 March 10, 2025 1:41 pm 8
Furthermore, I assume that the Euro rulers know Ukraine is being crushed all too well but choose to pretend otherwise for political purposes. It’s the sort of thing that gives cynicism a bad name.
Tars Tarkas #447185 March 10, 2025 10:22 am 8
What exactly is an “ultranationalist?” Honestly, “ultranationalist” just sounds like Nazi or racist or something, just a slur. Do they support joining the EU or are they slurred because they don’t want to join the EU?
Hemid #447241 March 10, 2025 1:53 pm 7
The slurring power of the usual terms is so worn out that they had to add some hype:ultra-nationalism,ultra-orthodox, evenultra-MAGA. (The president actually said this stupid thing, lest we forget.) Officially, all these threats are not just threats butever-increasingthreats. But what more is there to say?The last round of rhetorical escalation exhausted the word “extreme.” What’s more extreme than extreme, more radical than radical?Is there no ’90s BMX slang left to explain the world?!There is another…Always sad when our guys adopt these goofy terms. We don’t need any of them, because we actually know things.
Ostei Kozelskii #447265 March 10, 2025 3:57 pm 7
How ’bout ultra-gnarly? “Putin is, like, an ultra-gnarly hyper-tyrant, dude.”
Pozymandias #447441 March 11, 2025 12:44 pm 1
I like to add “ultra-mega-hyper” to things. I stole it from Aqua Teen Hunger Force with their giant Ultra-mega-hyper-chicken.
Citizen of a Silly Country #447168 March 10, 2025 9:38 am 8
I have no clue how this war can end. Russia needs what remains of Ukraine to be a neutral, demilitarized country, but Russia can’t trust the West or Ukraine to stick to that deal. Thus, to enforce that situation, Russia would need to control Ukraine, which it doesn’t want to do for good reasons. No obvious solution.
Lavrov #447170 March 10, 2025 9:45 am 11
It will end with a dramatic fall of EU. Maybe the Romanian election will be the catalyst.
Alzaebo #447194 March 10, 2025 10:55 am 4
Oh gosh I hope so, Lavrov, I hope so, I hope so. Creating a Soviet west of the Urals not only means our peoples will be living in an impoverished, polluted totalitarian wreck, they will have sexually depraved Muslims as their kommisars.
Anna #447213 March 10, 2025 11:38 am 6
Hopefully Romanians still remember how to overthrow a dictatorship. They did it with Chaushesku not so long ago.
Jeffrey Zoar #447217 March 10, 2025 11:43 am 5
I haven’t been keeping tabs, but I’m guessing that since that time, politicians giving public speeches in Romania has been less of a thing
Alzaebo #447171 March 10, 2025 9:47 am 8
Like with the demographics, or debt, or drug trade/war, the short-sighted “visionaries” keep creating enormous messes that can’t be solved.
Pozymandias #447444 March 11, 2025 12:53 pm 0
I suspect many of them aren’t so short-sighted after all and know exactly what to expect. They just don’t care because they get their payday before the disaster arrives.
Steve #447280 March 10, 2025 7:43 pm 3
“No obvious solution“ But there is, and it’s probably where this is all headed. In English, it rhymes with “wetwork.”
Jeffrey Zoar #447155 March 10, 2025 9:17 am 8
Whatever Trump does, even if he deploys the entire GAE military to Ukraine and orders a bayonet charge, he will still be slandered as a Russian asset and an enemy of “democracy.” So one wonders why he would try to make a deal that appeases anyone anywhere in Europe, who will give him no credit whatsoever.This war was provoked by the GAE, and waged for 3 years with little to no regard to the cost to the Ukrainian people, so its present claims to want “peace,” and to care about the Ukrainian people are risible. It just wants to be rid of the tar baby it can no longer handle, and for some inexplicable reason seems to care about the optics.Whether or not “Ukraine” descends into turmoil should seem to be no more than an aesthetic concern to us over here. Bringing us back to the fundamental question of what is so valuable about Ukraine in the first place. I still don’t have an answer to that, but somebody seems to value it.
mmack #447164 March 10, 2025 9:34 am 5
It just wants to be rid of the tar baby it can no longer handle, and for some inexplicable reason seems to care about the optics. Standard Leftist playbook: They had to keep the grift going when it was their boy (Biden) or boys and girls in charge. Now that they’re out it’s “Well that was in the past, and why keep bringing up the past?”
Captain Obvious #447177 March 10, 2025 9:57 am 4
Fertile farmland, strategic location and mineral wealth seem like the obvious ones.
Alzaebo #447203 March 10, 2025 11:15 am 5
Three things we kind of have here in the US? If it was me, I’d take Canada and Greenland, the supply line logistics make a lot more sense.
Dutchboy #447240 March 10, 2025 1:43 pm 6
Greenland yes, Canada no. It’s full of people who think Justin Trudeau is spiffy.
Jeffrey Zoar #447242 March 10, 2025 1:54 pm 4
There’s gotta be some timeline/scenario in which we annex Alberta/Saskatchewan/Manitoba and leave the rest
Templar #447290 March 10, 2025 11:25 pm 4
As an Albertan, I’d happily secede to the U.S. just for the gigantic “FUCK YOU” it would represent to those smug, self-righteous bastards in Ontario and Quebec.
Steve #447281 March 10, 2025 7:48 pm 0
So? Surely there aren’t many here who think the answer is going to come from some fancy footwork of democracy. The power shuts off at -40, and many of Canada’s problems resolve themselves.
Ostei Kozelskii #447250 March 10, 2025 2:20 pm 7
Strategic location? I’ve never seen any place on the planet that wasn’t declared “strategically important” by those seeking to prosecute war over it.
The Infant Phenomenon #447180 March 10, 2025 10:05 am 2
” . . . why he would try to make a deal that appeases anyone anywhere in Europe . . . .” Trump seems to have an emotional need to be liked. Just a guess; I don’t know the guy.
Jeffrey Zoar #447183 March 10, 2025 10:14 am 3
Echoes of Republicans prostrating themselves before the NYT
BigJimSportCamper #447211 March 10, 2025 11:36 am 3
And throwing elbows at each other to get onto the Sunday morning programs to throw their mates under the bus.
Ostei Kozelskii #447249 March 10, 2025 2:19 pm 6
By historical and even genetic standards, the Ukraine arguably isn’t even a nation at all. Rather, it is a mere geographical designation like the Great Plains or the Pacific Northwest.
Vizzini #447244 March 10, 2025 1:59 pm 7
What can Trump possibly offer Putin that Putin won’t get anyway if he maintains current course? When you can answer that, you have the beginning of a peace offer.
TempoNick #447255 March 10, 2025 2:37 pm 4
All I know is that I hope Russia holds out until they get Odessa. They owe it to themselves to stick it to the neocons that way. But if I remember correctly, Odessa is very Jewish. Russia may not want it. I don’t know.
Horace #447287 March 10, 2025 8:51 pm 5
Forcibly repatriate them all to Israel, problem solved. The Israelis might even go along with it without fuss for the demographic injection. Schumer and Raskin will squeal, but they squeal so much every day their protests will be lost in the noise.
Yman #447157 March 10, 2025 9:19 am 7
The damage is already doneThe goal was undermine Russia, killing Russian and Ukrainian as many as possible, turn Ukraine Women into whore Mission accomplished It surprises that Ukraine people are dumb enough to buy the Jewish lie that makes them richNo one interested in making white people a richer, especially if you are Jewish guy might be doing opposite
Alzaebo #447206 March 10, 2025 11:18 am 7
If you’re a jewish pimp, Ukrainian women are worth going to war over(and children too, especially)
Jeffrey Zoar #447222 March 10, 2025 12:03 pm 7
It’s been near 20 years since I’ve set foot in the Kraine, but one thing that wasn’t in short supply was good looking blondes (and brunettes too)
Presbyter #447130 March 10, 2025 7:30 am 6
Yes, Yulia with that distinctive long braid. They tossed her in jail for awhile too I believe.
Tarl Cabot #447159 March 10, 2025 9:23 am 3
Deservedly so.
Ostei Kozelskii #447248 March 10, 2025 2:13 pm 2
With a nickname like The Gas Princess, I’d be surprised if she wasn’t once a member of the band, Anal Riot…
Alzaebo #447207 March 10, 2025 11:25 am 4
CTH: Romania Has Barred Leading Candidate Calin Georgescu from Postponed Presidential Election Well, spit. If they can’t get a Yulia Tymoshenko in Ukraine, it looks like they’re aiming to get a puppet into Romania, all to have a stake on the Black Sea (and still a direct line to NATO Turkey, in preparation for the Turko-Israeli war on Iran.)
Sid Porter #447237 March 10, 2025 1:14 pm 3
The question of the neo Nazis still remains. Putin has stated on many occasions they must be erased from the scene. Any deal that does not address this is likely to fall by the wayside.
mmack #447163 March 10, 2025 9:32 am 3
She is the leader of the Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) political party and strongly anti-RussianYou know what other European leader led a Fatherland and was strongly Anti-Russian?Finding a replacement is not a great challenge. The issue is finding a new leader who can sign a peace deal without the country collapsing into turmoil.I would argue finding a replacement for Little Piano Man IS a great challenge. Ukraine sounds (from the outside looking in, based on what I’ve read) like they looked at corruption in say Chicago and said “We can ramp that up to 11 or 12 druk!” It appears to be finding theleastcorrupt politician in a vipers nest.The question is can we buy someone and will they stay bought, even if we don’t send them money and arms?
The Infant Phenomenon #447182 March 10, 2025 10:12 am 25
Trump ad Co. need to get out NOW. Get out CLEAN. Just GET OUT! Damn and blast the minerals deal! Just GET OUT! YESTERDAY! This is NOT a game. The danger is beyond beyond. NOTHING is worth rolling the dice again. NOTHING. Leave the Old World to their own devices. As Ron Paul used to put it: “You just marched in, so you can just march OUT.” This is DANGEROUS stuff!
Wiffle #447232 March 10, 2025 12:52 pm 2
But money. What about money? (Channeling my inner banker/government official here)
Ostei Kozelskii #447251 March 10, 2025 2:23 pm 4
Hokkoda #447286 March 10, 2025 8:45 pm 2
Putin wants a trade deal with the US, I think. Trump wants lower energy prices and to put a wedge between the Bear and the Tiger. I think both of them want to pull back from the WW3 fever that the Europeans and the US MIC have caught.Apparently, Zelensky has now offered the apology that Trump demanded. This further weakens his hand after staring unequivocally that no such apology would be made. That hurts him at home, to the extent he even has political support at home.The rundown of the various factions was very helpful in the column. I’ve had the same sense – that Trump is trying to thread the needle of removing Zelensky without collapsing Ukraine into an even more complex civil war.The EU has no answer to replace NATO. Attempting to do so would require suicidal levels of taxation and social welfare program cuts. And it would require major participation by their new immigrant citizens from North Africa and the M.E. Weaponized savages would quickly turn their guns on their hosts.And turning the EU intone NATO replacement would be like putting a school board in charge of the police department.
TempoNick #447224 March 10, 2025 12:26 pm 2
Cut off the predominantly Catholic regions and give it the name “West Ukraine.” Two things going on with that Catholic element. First of all, they don’t like anybody. They didn’t like being under the Polacks anymore than they like being under the Russians. Second of all, because they are under the Pope, they are easily manipulated by the west.That’s what I believe anyway.People mocked the Russian Orthodox Church because so many in the hierarchy were KGB. Do you think the Ukrainian Catholic Church is any cleaner? They probably had moles for both sides. They were always considered unreliable as to their loyalty, even under the Soviet Union.Split off West Ukraine and then quarantine them like they did to Talos IV in Star Trek!
Wiffle #447229 March 10, 2025 12:48 pm 2
Have you ever met a Catholic? I mean in real life? I know of enough your commentary about Americans that you’re more than welcome to go back.
TempoNick #447252 March 10, 2025 2:25 pm -7
Yes, I am Godfather to a Ukrainian Catholic girl. The pedo priest waved me through.-Hitler = Roman Catholic;-Nazis = Roman Catholic;-Ustache (killed a million serbs in WWII) = Roman Catholic and not only Roman Catholic, but literally founded by a Roman Catholic priest-Ukrainian turmoil = both Nazi and Catholic influenceUkrainian Catholics are a lot like USAID. Get rid of them, and the temperature level goes way down.There’s more, but for the sake of brevity that’s all for now. Western intelligence causes turmoil using their assets in the western church, whose tentacles are all over Ukrainian politics.I’m not letting the Jews off the hook, but that’s not what we are discussing here.Connect the dots!
Templar #447291 March 10, 2025 11:31 pm 2
-Hitler = Roman Catholic; -Nazis = Roman Catholic Can I get some of whatever it is that you’re smoking? 😂
TempoNick #447308 March 11, 2025 8:29 am -4
Hitler was born to a practicing Catholic mother, Klara Hitler, and was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church.In 1904, he was confirmed at the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Linz, Austria, where the family lived.
Wiffle #447297 March 11, 2025 7:38 am 1
Can you stop rewriting world history like a Jew? It’s not too much to ask. The marrano exuded by you is intense.
TempoNick #447309 March 11, 2025 8:30 am -4
Physician, heal thyself. Hitler was born to a practicing Catholic mother, Klara Hitler, and was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church. In 1904, he was confirmed at the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Linz, Austria, where the family lived.
TempoNick #447253 March 10, 2025 2:31 pm -1
You must be so proud of your American culture. Your family trees look like black family trees anymore. Pretty soon, you’ll be calling each other “brother,” just like the blacks because of your family trees. Obese, tattooed, baby mamas, drugs, rampant infidelity, pooping out halfrican kids, Jew worship. I’m sure the entire world looks up to America and wants to be just like us. 😂😂😂😂
Wiffle #447293 March 11, 2025 7:30 am 1
Home is just a plane flight away. There is no “we” here kimosabe.
TempoNick #447311 March 11, 2025 8:31 am -1
Strikes a nerve doesn’t it? That’s because what I write is true. You know what they say about Russia being a big gas station with nuclear bombs? The USA has become a big trailer park and shantytown with nuclear bombs.
Anna #447235 March 10, 2025 1:05 pm 5
There is a Catholic church (kostyol) in every Ukrainian town, as Ukraine was ruled by Poland for hundreds of years. And yes, Catholic Church in Ukraine did not cooperate with Communists as much as Orthodox did. I remember growing up in a small Ukrainian town that the priest was always in trouble with KGB: arrested, detained and such.
TempoNick #447254 March 10, 2025 2:34 pm 0
The thing is, those Catholics were traditionally Orthodox. The Polacks tried to convert them into Roman Catholics. They rebelled and got to keep the outward trappings of Orthodoxy, but still fell under the Pope. But this little move created much of the turmoil over there. It created a group that was an “other.” They neither like or identify with the Polacks, nor with the Orthodox.
ZFan #447264 March 10, 2025 3:35 pm 4
TempoNick is right on target here. Historically, the peeling away of Orthodox into Eastern Rite or “Uniate” jurisdictions has been a way for the West to encroach on Eastern territory both in Europe and the Middle East. (I have family connection to both Melkites, the Catholic version of Antiochian Orthodox in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and diaspora and the smallest of those jurisdictions, the Russian Greek Catholic Church which after the Revolution exists only in vestigial parishes in the West.) In my experience and what I observe abroad, these folks identify as “Catholic” to the point of adopting all sorts of creeping “Latinization”.I remember First Things writers plugging all sorts of Catholic projects to bring Ukraine into the Western orbit after the collapse of the USSR. I’d bet that was the “conservative” wing of USAID at work. Doesn’t make me proud of being Catholic.
Ostei Kozelskii #447267 March 10, 2025 4:46 pm 5
I also recall Slick Clinton railing against Russia declaring Orthodoxy to be Russia’s national religion. He said it was discriminatory and anti-pluralistic or some such tommyrot. (He obviously wanted Western religions to have a free hand to proselytize within Russia’s borders, and it wasn’t because Clinton feared for the immortal souls of Russians.) The US may even have levied sanctions against Russia; not sure, though; that was about 27 years ago. The points being, the US adopted an antagonistic and destructive pose toward Russia long before the Ukraine proxy war, and that America’s soft war against Russia was prosecuted along many fronts.
Wiffle #447298 March 11, 2025 7:40 am 2
Russian Orthodoxy will indeed pull together Russians in way that the American evangelicals threatened to pull them apart. We tolerate the JW and any number of obviously semi-destructive cults that send out salesmen.What I remember of the law is that it pretty much got rid of the street style, megachurch evangelization. The Catholics (there are small number) in Russia were exempt.Interestingly, Israel allows for both Orthodoxy and Catholicism. They are still 2nd class citizens, but they are allowed to conduct marriages, etc.
TempoNick #447268 March 10, 2025 5:03 pm 2
The one thing to always remember about this is that this has nothing to do with religion. Theologically, Orthodox and Catholic are virtually the same. In fact, I heard one Serbian priest once say that the only reason we don’t call ourselves Catholic is because the Catholics took the name first. (Catholic comes from a Greek word meaning universal, as in the universal faith.)The Orthodox/Catholic thing is a turf war and nothing more. The Roman Catholic Church serves as or allows itself to be used a proxy for Western interests. They attack the church because it’s a way to infiltrate and subjugate the East.
ZFan #447273 March 10, 2025 6:06 pm 3
Agreed on all points
Wiffle #447295 March 11, 2025 7:31 am 1
You can agree, but Mr. I hate America and Catholics but I’m supposedly a Catholic and American is incorrect on several simple facts.
TempoNick #447312 March 11, 2025 8:33 am -3
Certain elements of the baby raping, pedo priest Roman Catholic Church have engaged an pogram against Orthodox churches and they’re faithful for hundreds of years. In fact, we fell to 500 years of Muslim rule because of that pogram. The Roman Catholic Church is the house of the devil.
Wiffle #447294 March 11, 2025 7:31 am 0
No Orthodox and Catholics are not virtually the same, including on divorce.
TempoNick #447315 March 11, 2025 8:38 am -1
You just outed yourself has not having a fvcking clue. Theologically the same. The only “major” thing separating the two are the filioque, which was added by the baby raping homo pedo latins, and a majority of theologians don’t think that is such a big deal. http://christianityinview.com/comparison.html
Caroline #448032 March 17, 2025 12:18 am 0
Catholic does not mean universal. It is from the Greek kata holis, meaning down whole, that is to say both the old and new testaments. Jesus came only unto the lost sheep of the House of Israel, not all races.
Brandon Laskow #447276 March 10, 2025 6:48 pm 2
Samuel Huntington devoted a whole chapter in The Clash of Civilizations between the Catholic West and Orthodox East in Ukraine way back in the 90’s. So when that fault line began to crack by 2014 I wasn’t surprised.
Wiffle #447296 March 11, 2025 7:34 am 0
Yes, because Catholics have a greater loyalty to just the state. It is the Orthodox who come to serve state governments of all kinds. That’s what’s hilarious about the analysis that comes after this comment. The Orthodox could theoretically be quite loyal to a state government in a way that Catholic might need to rebel.
TempoNick #447341 March 11, 2025 9:15 am 0
What you don’t understand is that Christianity was “operated” by the five sees. In order of preeminence, Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem. The Orthodox view was that Rome was just another Bishop, an equal to the rest. The Catholic view was that Rome was superior to the rest and Rome tried to take over their domains.That is the schism in a nutshell. It’s not some intellectual circle jerk over religious dogma. It’s pure political turf war.But that’s neither here nor there. The Roman Church is a laughing stock. A fraternity of homosexual priests preaching against homosexuality and abortion. I always joke that they are so anti-abortion because abortion cuts down on the supply of children to molest. … I remember being at a baptism once. I couldn’t help but snickering at the priest with the falsetto voice and the lisp. It really is both amusing and disgusting at the same time.Oh, one more thing. I have a friend who has a friend who was in a Catholic seminary in Michigan, I think, but left. My friend says his friend tells stories all the time of all the homosexual activity that went on.Sick people. It truly is the house of Satan.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentarchy
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