Victor Davis Hanson: The Ukrainian Verdun
(Daily Signal) Ukraine has ossified into something like the modern version of the horrific Battle of Verdun, fought 108 years ago on the 1916 Western Front of World War I. That meat grinder cost France and Germany some 700,000 dead and wounded.
Was Nuland Fired for Her Role In the Ukraine Debacle?
(Unz Review) Victoria Nuland’s retirement is an admission that Washington’s premier foreign policy project has failed. No government official is more identified with the Ukraine fiasco than Nuland. She was on the ground micro-managing activities during the 2014 coup, and has overseen the State Department’s sordid involvement since the war began.
State Department No. 3 Victoria Nuland Resigns After Failing Upward For Decades
(The Federalist) But Nuland’s tenure also puts her at the center of foreign policy failures for decades. After a brief hiatus from the State Department under President Donald Trump, Nuland returned to the agency when President Joe Biden nominated her as Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s under-secretary of state for political affairs.
Victoria Nuland accidentally reveals the true aim of the West in Ukraine
(RT) She started off with the usual talking point of doing “what we have always done, which is defend democracy and freedom around the world.” Conveniently, in places where they have controlling interests and want to keep them – or knock them out of a global competitor’s roster and into their own. “And by the way, we have to remember that the bulk of this money is going right back into the US to make those weapons,” Nuland said, pleading in favor of the latest Ukraine aid package that’s been getting the side eye from Republicans in Congress.
The Ukraine War at two years: By the numbers
(Responsible Statecraft) Contrary to initial predictions, Kyiv never fell, but the country today remains embroiled in conflict. The front line holds in the southeastern region of the country, with contested areas largely focused on the Russian-speaking Donbas and port cities around the Black Sea.
The Ukraine War Runs on Prevarication
(American Conservative) That the tide of the war in Ukraine has turned in Russia’s favor is now too obvious to ignore—unless, that is, you are a high ranking Biden administration official, in which case 2024 will likely lead to some sunlit upland of victory and prosperity for Ukraine.
The Republican Plot Against Donald Trump: The inside story of how Congress is pursuing endless war in Ukraine—and trying to stop a Trump election.
(American Conservative) The quick pivot, refusal to negotiate another round on border security, and immediate shift to blame Trump confirmed one thing: Republican leadership wasn’t serious about border security. They cared most about Ukraine funding and saw the border negotiations as a distraction. This extinguished any hope of real border security before the negotiation began.
How Tech Giants Turned Ukraine Into an AI War Lab
(Time) Early on the morning of June 1, 2022, Alex Karp, the CEO of the data-analytics firm Palantir Technologies, crossed the border between Poland and Ukraine on foot, with five colleagues in tow. A pair of beaten-up Toyota Land Cruisers awaited on the other side. Chauffeured by armed guards, they sped down empty highways toward Kyiv, past bombed-out buildings, bridges damaged by artillery, the remnants of burned trucks.
Flashpoints for War! Where will WW3’s “Archduke Ferdinand moment” happen?
(Unz Review) I later encountered the realist school of geopolitics, which argues that the Great War was a disaster waiting to happen. The actual cause of the war, according to realists, was not a random assassination, but the rise of German (and to a lesser extent Russian and American) economic and military power, which threatened the then-British-dominated world order.
THE UKRAINIAN MILITARY IS EXPERIMENTING WITH PSYCHEDELIC DRUG IBOGAINE TO TREAT TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES
(The Intercept) To do so, it is partnering with a founder of the Yippie movement, Irvin Dana Beal, a longtime ibogaine advocate. Beal recently traveled to Ukraine to help launch the project. Oleksii Skyrtach, a Ukrainian military psychologist, provided Beal with a letter for immigration authorities to help him move through customs with the drug.
Zelensky’s former senior adviser describes him as “dictator” who is “divorced from reality”
(Veterans Today) “First, someone behaves like a dictator and, instead of following the normal path of accelerated development, chooses stagnation. Then someone breeds massive corruption. Then someone breeds hatred for any opinion different from their own. And then – a year and a half later – autumn comes, both in relations with the West and with our own people. And no matter how much you deny reality, it doesn’t go away,” said the former advisor on X (formerly Twitter).
A Desperate White House Is Scrambling To Find Money for Arming Ukraine
(Anti-War.com) After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Congress provided the White House with several pools of funds to draw from for arming Kyiv. Most of the weapons shipped to Ukraine have come via the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) that allows Biden to order the Pentagon to ship American arms directly to Ukraine.
Voldemort [Zelensky] hysterically accuses the notoriously Russophobic Polish of helping Moscow
(Intel Drop) “I hope these words are not addressed to Poland,” replied a Polish government spokesman. If you have to ask yourself the question, you probably already know the answer. Yep, Zelensky is accusing Poland of cheating – with Russia. This is about as realistic as accusing Johnny Depp of a dalliance with Amber Heard – post-divorce and defamation trial.
The Neocon’s Dark Money front Ad Blitz supporting the Ukraine War craters
(BlackListed.news) Defending Democracy Together, a neoconservative outfit led by career chickenhawk scribe Bill Kristol, has launched a new initiative called “Republicans for Ukraine” to transform the 2024 presidential election into a referendum on US funding for the NATO proxy war.
Failure of Air Supremacy and the Modern Battlefield
(Unz Review) The Ukraine-Russian war has become a grinding mess. One reason is that this year, in contrast to most years, winter never really came. The result was only a two-to-three week window in which offensive operations could succeed due to the rivers of mud encountered at any other time when a unit strayed off paved roads.
Elites Panicked as NATO Overexposed in Failed Russian Coup
(Veterans Today) Since the bloodline-controlled West misplaced all its eggs in the sinking Ukraine war basket, the City of London Rothschild Khazarian mafia (COL/RKM) is growing reckless and is now in a panicked stage, knowing this war’s already been lost and almost over.
Why Wagner mercenary force has moved against Russia’s military
(AlJazeera) The Wagner chief on Saturday claimed his forces were in control of military sites in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don. The military headquarters in the city oversees the fighting in Ukraine. Other videos posted on social media showed military vehicles, including tanks, on the streets outside.
RFK Jr., Speaking in New Hampshire, Bills Himself as the Peace Candidate
(New York Sun) In a speech in New Hampshire Tuesday night, Mr. Kennedy called for a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine and an end to military adventures abroad. He peppered his speech with anecdotes and quotations from his late uncle, President John F. Kennedy, to frame his calls for peace as a continuation of President Kennedy’s policies.
RT: Russia ‘Could Save Humanity’ by Using Nuclear Weapons
(Information Liberation) The US has said repeatedly that Russia’s decision not to use nuclear weapons is the driving factor behind America’s decision to continue dumping virtually endless arms into Ukraine and Russia has responded by moving nukes into Belarus and threatening nuclear war.
The coming Russian revolution will unleash horrifying new demons
(The Telegraph) Yevgeny Prigozhin’s latest bombast against the Russian MOD and, by inference, the Kremlin itself, should not be seen as just another rant from a blowhard with a track record. His extraordinary threats of internal violence – “mobs with pitchforks” – and even revolution are a stark indicator of just how serious things are getting behind the scenes for Putin’s regime.
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