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ERLIN—Friedrich Merz has been in office as Germany’s new chancellor a matter of weeks, and already he has the German capital aflutter with worry about the increasing danger of a third world war. More to the point, while Germans are fearful of such a prospect, the Russians are warning of it.

In a series of recent remarks, notably on German television, Merz has stopped just short of stating that he intends to authorize supplies of German-made ballistic missiles to Ukraine and to do so without imposing restrictions on the Kiev regime’s use of them to attack Russian territory. This is a tripwire for Moscow, as Merz cannot possibly fail to see. There are reports, notably from a Moscow television news presenter and blogger, Ruslan Ostashko, that Taurus missiles have already been shipped from Schrobenhausen, the Bavarian town where the Taurus is manufactured, and that Kiev now awaits authorization from Berlin to use them.

Quoting a source “in Zelensky’s office,” Ostashko reported that BND and MI6, the German and British intelligence services, have overseen the Taurus shipments. But this is a highly sensitive matter and there has been no official confirmation of Ostashko’s report. He may be reproducing the sort of purposeful leaks hawks commonly use to manage public opinion and avoid controversy while recklessly leading a nation closer to a war. The Kiev official may intend to encourage German momentum on the Taurus question. These practices were routine in Kiev and Washington, for instance, as the Biden regime raised the quantity and sophistication of the matériel it sent the Ukrainians after it provoked the Russian intervention three years ago. But at this fraught moment the provenance or veracity of these reports can neither be confirmed nor discounted.

The Merz government’s caution is especially important if the chancellor is to foment hostilities with Russia as he plans without his fractious coalition government collapsing. “There are no longer any range restrictions on weapons delivered to Ukraine,” he declared on German television May 26, “neither by the British nor the French nor by us — nor by the Americans.” After a meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky in Berlin two days later, Merz announced that Germany will finance production of long-range weapons in Ukraine — again, with no restrictions on their use. He and the Ukrainian president are shortly to sign an extensive arms agreement, it was also announced.

Merz is salami-slicing, as the expression goes. But even planning to deploy the Taurus is a daringly provocative escalation of Germany’s involvement in the West’s proxy war against the Russians. It is the most powerful of the ballistic missile systems available in the West. With a range of 500 kilometers, 310 miles, it is capable of reaching Moscow from Ukrainian territory, and the Ukrainians would need German personnel to operate these systems. Germans would also supply targeting data from a location, not yet known, in Germany.

This is why Merz’s predecessor, Olaf Scholz, refused to send the Ukrainians Taurus missiles. It is why Merz speaks often and forcefully of backing Ukraine without limits on the use of German-supplied weapons while stopping a coy shade short of naming the Taurus. It is why, every time the chancellor hints with a heavy hand that he will soon authorize Taurus shipments to Kiev, the Social Democrats, Scholz’s party and Merz’s coalition partner, make a public statement that official policy on the Taurus question has not changed. To the extent public opinion matters to Merz, German voters are decisively opposed to Taurus deployments in Ukraine.

All this is also why putting the Taurus on Ukrainian soil has Moscow in something of an uproar. It would be hard to overstate the gravity Russians attach to this question. Andrei Kartapolov, who heads the defense committee in the Duma, warned on May 29 that Russia could retaliate if Germany ships the Taurus to Ukraine, and his is one of many voices suggesting a strong Russian response. In an opinion piece the previous day on the Russian news network RT, its longtime editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, suggested Russia should attack Berlin if Germany sends does not occupy a place in the hierarchy comparable with Kartapolov’s, but she gives a good idea of what is on many Moscow minds now.

As you may have noticed, President Trump has been carrying on lately about Russia’s recent drone-and-missile attacks on Ukrainian towns and cities. “What Vladimir Putin doesn’t realize is that if it weren’t for me,” he remarked on his Truth Social digital bullhorn the other day, “lots of really bad things would have already happened to Russia, and I mean REALLY BAD. He’s playing with fire!”

Trumpian bluster, of course. But it prompted this response on “X” from Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council and for an interim the Russian president: “Regarding Trump’s words about Putin ‘playing with fire’ and ‘really bad things’ happening to Russia, I only know of one REALLY BAD thing — WWIII. I hope Trump understands this!”

Another measure of the temperature in Moscow.

Trump, you’ll also have seen, is under enormous pressure from various quarters, notably but not only from Capitol Hill Democrats, liberal media, and longtime Republican hawks such as Senator Lindsey Graham, to drop all thought of a negotiated settlement in Ukraine and join Merz and other European leaders as they impose yet more sanctions on Russia. Trump’s outburst was intended more for these people than anyone in Moscow. The argument being pushed at Trump is that as Russia continues waging war in the absence of a ceasefire, it is proof Moscow does not want to negotiate for peace.

Everything is upside down at this point — everything in the official Western narrative, I mean.

ORDER IT NOW

Dmitry Medvedev warns of the danger of a global conflict, and you can read now — a tiresome old trope, this — that Moscow has threatened to start World War III. On Wednesday Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, proposed June 2 for the next round of peace talks with Ukraine, again in Istanbul. In the coming week he is to announce Moscow’s detailed proposal for talks toward a settlement of the conflict. But no, the Russians want only more war.

Merz and other European leaders stand for peace but impose new sanctions on the Russians. And there is the Taurus deployments, by all evidence to begin as soon as Merz judges the political coast to be clear.

Ask yourself: Why would Merz and his “centrist” colleagues in Paris and London war-monger and sanctions-monger — this with a notable measure of urgency — just as talks between Moscow and Kiev show the first glimmer of promise in three years?

I see no difficulty with this question. The West has lost the proxy war the U.S. and its European clients provoked in February 2022 — this is now patently so — and in a state of desperate denial there is a prevalent compulsion in the Atlantic alliance to prolong it beyond, well beyond, the point it makes any sense whatsoever. Donald Trump’s sin — well, among his many, but that is another story — is his refusal to go along with this craven charade.

Friedrich Merz just made the charade more dangerous.

The warmongering Merz has long been known for his obsessive Russophobia. The question on many German minds now is how willing he is to risk a military confrontation with the Russian Federation — if, indeed, provoking hostilities is not his intent. Merz made a great display of his visit to Lithuania on May 22 to celebrate the first foreign deployment of Bundeswehr troops since World War II. “There is a threat to us all from Russia,” he declared in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital. “We are protecting ourselves against this threat.”

This, too, is upside down. A century of history suggests this well enough. And it is well to remind ourselves that Russians view Merz’s ambitions on the military side, including his apparent determination to escalate Germany’s military support for Ukraine, through history’s lens. This is best understood as a measure of the seriousness Moscow attaches to the Taurus question and, in my read, as an indication of how strongly it may react.

On May 28, Sergei Lavrov spoke at a security conference in Moscow and made reference to the deployment in Lithuania amid reports of Merz’s intentions to give Kiev the missile it dearly wants. “Many were immediately reminded of the last century, when Germany twice became the leading military power,” he said, “and how much trouble that caused.”

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  1. The Western “elite” are now at their most unpredictable and dangerous.

    The Ukraine lines are undergoing a partial collapse, Ukraine is trying to play a reverse game of musical chairs of troop movements to fill chairs that are empty in the line, but they have no bodies left to put in fatigues, is it time to empty the schools of boys?

    We are rapidly reaching the end game, the West has to make a decision now to retreat behind the Dnipro, this will be at least twelve months too late.

    Ukraine represents more than just a local defeat of the empire, it signal’s the end of Western “liberal democracy” and its rule through the end of a gun, it also signals the death of many once great nations in Europe into petty squabbling backwaters with ethnic conflict as resource flow to their shores are diverted to other places.

    We are living through a pivotal time in history…but most sheeple wouldn’t even know its happening they’re so in volved with exclusively and fringe issues, serves themselves right that they’ve lost an Empire.

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    • Agree: JR Foley, TimD
    • Thanks: Tom Welsh, Deep Thought
    • LOL: Christoph88
  2. Notsofast says:

    nice to see the germans are setting up the lithuanian territorial defense force again, maybe this time they can round up enough “volunteers” to form ta full waffen ss division. merz is dyslexic, which was how he became a dei hire at blackrock in the first place, well that and his nazi pedigree made him a legacy, they had to take him. what he meant to say was, “there is a threat to russia, from all of us.” “we are protecting ourselves with this threat.”.

    the battle of the kursk salient 2.0, went so well for them, they want to reenact the whole of the end of ww2. you know the exciting race to berlin 2.0. from kusrk to berlin, kind of like the cannonball run, who’s going to win the rally this time? my money’s on team zhukov.

    i was drinking with medvedev the other night and i said to him, “you should tell these schweinhunds, that you will shoot down all of their taurus missiles but if any leakers get through, we’re sending an oreshnik to bavaria, we’ll give you 30 minutes to clean out your desks”. he said to me, “you know that’s a damn good idea, i’ll bring it up at the next security council meeting.”

    the taurus is aptly named, as it is a bunch of bull, i think the russians call it the clay pigeon. well if the russians do take my advice, the bavarians will have time to get some good pictures of the light show, those germans do love their cameras.

    • Thanks: Jim H, Joe Levantine
    • Troll: Christoph88
    • Replies: @karel
  3. Anon[397] • Disclaimer says:

    A more sanguine interpretation is that Germany can’t step over this red line. All the NATO cannon fodder in Izmail is going to be pink mist. If you believe Germany can get 150 missiles to Ukraine, I am a Nigerian Prince, I need assistance in transferring my patrimony to a European bank and I will gratefully compensate you for your assistance.

    Bad cop Medvedev is just telling the US to call off its attack hamsters. The Trump administration can’t control the NATO satellites because CIA is siccing them on Russia. Their puppet rulers are competing to get flattened next and it’s getting tedious.

    • Agree: Tom Welsh
    • Replies: @John Dael
    , @Tom Welsh
  4. anonymous[328] • Disclaimer says:

    Anyone think these last minute wunderwaffe will turn things around? The terms of the final resolution will only be stiffer for Ukraine. The coup regimes since 2014 have done a great job of destroying the country under the guidance of their Western patrons, losing a huge percent of their population through flight, turning it into a land of widows and graveyards. Having people like Merz, Macron, Starmer profess concern for a country is the kiss of death.

    • Replies: @Decoy0614
  5. @Mr-Chow-Mein

    Correct. Russian forces are advancing several kilometers a day at a dozen locations The Ukrainians are unable to stop them. This from today:


    Video Link

    • Thanks: JWalters, Anonymous45
  6. The Taurus is not a “powerful ballistic” Lordbewithus, it´s an air-launched cruise
    missile somewhat more powerful, longer range and more intelligent than the
    Storm Shadow/SCALP, and intended for taking out hardened command posts;
    strategically it will be of little consequence (an Oreshnik in Mr. Merz´front lawn
    would be nice though).

    – It is precious little of Mr. Lavrov´s (for whom I entertain the highest respect)
    business if Germany deploys troops in East Germany 😎

    • Replies: @Paul Greenwood
  7. Jim H says:

    “Many were immediately reminded of the last century, when Germany twice became the leading military power, and how much trouble that caused.” — Sergei Lavrov, quoted by Patrick Lawrence

    And I am one of them. After eighty years of abject occupation under the US bootheel, including a series of eunuch chancellors such as Scholz, suddenly the krauts are snarling like rabid dogs.

    Displacement is my diagnosis: since the Teutons are helpless to expel their yankee occupiers, they turn their impotent rage on the Russians — just like a poor schlub, after a bad day at the office, coming home and shouting at the wife and kicking the dog.

    We cannot avoid the conclusion that something is fundamentally wrong with the national psyche of these perpetual troublemakers. They run a fake democracy, where saying forbidden things can get you sent to jail. They declare in advance that certain parties at the fringes of the political spectrum never will serve in a governing coalition, no matter how many votes they win.

    Reluctantly, we are obliged to consider that Russian missiles raining down on Berlin might finally knock some sense into these deranged forest folk. As the French still doggedly insist more than a century on, Le Boche paiera. Germans should be inverted, held by their heels, and shaken hard till their covert pfennigs rattle to the floor like a slot machine jackpot.

  8. Franz says:

    Another writer who misses the point.

    Modern SHOOTING wars are distractions for the race-replacement war that started in August of 1945.

    To focus on any other war in the current epoch is misleading. Maybe criminally so.

    • Agree: Tennessee Jed
    • Replies: @ariadna
  9. JWalters says:

    In the German Chancellor’s office –

    Secretary: Chancellor, the head of BlackRock is on the phone.

    Merz: Put him on. Hello, Larry! How are you?

    Fink: Fine thanks. Friedrich, we have additional instructions from the High Committee.

    Merz: Yes?

    Fink: They’ve decided we should go ahead with World War Three.

    Merz: I was expecting that.

    Fink: Yes. Before we lose public support entirely. We still have the mainstream media, and that is keeping up a certain level of support. But the public is abandoning our media at an accelerating rate.

    Merz: We’re seeing that here in Germany, more and more protests.

    Fink: Yes, and not just Germany. Also France, Britain, Romania, and more.

    Merz: So what does the High Committee propose?

    Fink: For one, make another attempt to assassinate Putin, ideally with a Taurus missile. That would surely bring a major retaliation, maybe even bombing Berlin. That would arouse the public and bring in the US. Even Trump couldn’t refuse that.

    Merz: Yes, that makes sense.

    Fink: Second, if you, I mean Ukraine, could hit Moscow with a missile, that would also provoke an extreme reaction. That should be easier than hitting Putin.

    Merz: Definitely easier. But what if Russia strikes back at Kiev instead of Berlin? Would that be enough to draw in Trump?

    Fink: Not so clear. But we have to do whatever it takes. They’re giving you the authority to immprovise. And you can pass that same authority along to Zelensky.

    Merz: What about Macron and starmer?

    Fink: Bring them on board and give them the same authority. But we’re not expecting much from them anymore. You have to take the lead. You have the inner steel.

    Merz: Thank you. I’ll talk to them today.

    Fink: The High Committee is concerned about Nuremberg type trials. They’re feeling the walls closing in. The public is souring on both the Ukraine project and the Israel project. And a World War with Iran is looking less likely. So it’s up to you, Friedrich.

    Merz: You can count on me.

    Fink: You will be richly rewarded when this is all settled.

    Merz: Thank you. How about an estate on the French Riviera?

    Fink: If there is a French Riviera. I’d suggest you also look at some properties in South America. That’s what we’re all doing. [Click]

    • Thanks: GMC, Buck Ransom
    • Replies: @karel
  10. JWalters says:
    @Mr-Chow-Mein

    It’s a final scramble to swindle as much money and ethnically cleanse as many Ukrainian men as possible. Operation Big Israel.

  11. Taurus missiles will be attached to which aircraft ? F-15s supplied by US or Tornados or Eurofighters from U.K. or Germany ?

    What planes can launch this ?

    • Replies: @PJ London
  12. @Jim H

    German politicians maybe but Germans are not interested in conflict with Russia

  13. @nokangaroos

    German troops are the ONLY troops in East Germany. No others are permitted

    • Replies: @nokangaroos
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    https://thegovernmentrag.com/articles/west-quest-to-trigger-world-war-iii-in-2025/



    Video Link

    • Thanks: Anonymous45
    • Replies: @Fumanchu
  15. Biff says:

    I see no difficulty with this question. The West has lost the proxy war the U.S. and its European clients provoked in February 2022 — this is now patently so — and in a state of desperate denial there is a prevalent compulsion in the Atlantic alliance to prolong it beyond, well beyond, the point it makes any sense whatsoever. Donald Trump’s sin — well, among his many, but that is another story — is his refusal to go along with this craven charade.

    Trump May refuse to go along, but I’m afraid he will have to… As Putin(and the rest of his colleagues) have said “We don’t know who’s in charge?” Every deal they make with anyone in the West, it later comes back as broken or altered… The West is “non-negotiable”….

    • Agree: GMC
  16. tosca says:

    Apatrid international finance NEEDS a war to survive.

  17. Every single wonder weapon the West gave to the Ukrainians has failed miserably. Yet here comes the ultimate wonder weapon – Taurus.


    Video Link

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    , @Christoph88
  18. GoySoy says:

    This picture shows what is wrong with Europe. 2 jews smiling (looks creepy)while they knowingly and purposely are murdering Christians.

    • Replies: @Tarnhari
    , @Aragorn
  19. Imho – It is clear that the EU intends to force the U.S. into a war with Russia over Ukraine. Will President Trump fall for that or not?

  20. SafeNow says:

    Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere

    From Goodnight Moon, the famous children ‘s book, now 75 years old.

  21. No doubt Oreshnik is already targeted on Schrobenhausen.

    But a very nice pic, it must be said, of Zel-baby recruiting another neo-Nazi for his neo-Khazaria.

  22. Tom Welsh says:
    @Anon

    I love “attack hamsters”. Writers and cartoonists have tried various animals, such as poodles and lapdogs, for size; but I think “attack hamsters” will prove canonical. I do not see any room for improvement.

    • Replies: @Dr. Krieger
  23. @Jim H

    You know nothing about us Germans. It is your financial “elite” and your CIA who is working world wide to create and maintain wars. It is ok for you that your country behave like a tick on the rest of the world. Your country slaughtered millions of people world wide ( IRAK, Vietnam…) but hey, the Germans are again the bad guys.
    By the way: Friedrich März is an Ex-Blackrock Manager and still dedicated to their goals. And: surprise surprise, it is an US- Company.
    So shut up.

    • Thanks: Almost Missouri, Annacath
    • Replies: @Notsofast
    , @PF
  24. In an opinion piece the previous day on the Russian news network RT, its longtime editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, suggested Russia should attack Berlin if Germany sends does not occupy a place in the hierarchy comparable with Kartapolov’s, but she gives a good idea of what is on many Moscow minds now.

    I realize no one uses proofreaders anymore, but … WTF?

  25. Tarnhari says:

    Keep in mind, Taurus can carry nuclear warheads.

    And now look at this:

    British Officer Calls to Arm Ukraine with Nuclear Weapons

    At the Black Sea Security Forum in Odessa, British Army Colonel Richard Kemp reportedly called for the UK to assist Ukraine in developing its own nuclear weapons as part of a strategic partnership. The statement was shared by Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko, who is attending the event.

    https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1928782419110322461

  26. Tarnhari says:
    @GoySoy

    BlackRock employee Merz is a jerk, but not a Jew.

  27. anonymous[368] • Disclaimer says:

    Nice article but essentially a distraction. And many comments are full of BS.
    The escalation via Germany was always their plan B. Should Ukraine die and fail another pawn has to step in and continue the mission. Germany, Poland and the Baltics are geographically close and their preferred choice. Those are all vassal states without independent policies ruled by collaborateur elites.
    With Ukraine dieing and losing it is now time to field the backup pawns. This was always their plan B if the outcome of project Ukraine is considered underwhelming.

    Since we are on unz here I don’t need to explain who “they” are and what the “mission” is, right?

  28. meamjojo says:

    Ha ha ha. Take it to Putin, Metz! It’s good to have an EU leader with real cojones to stand up to all the silly red lines that everyone in Russia keeps tumbling over themselves to continually draw and then have violated.

    • Replies: @Anon
    , @Tennessee Jed
  29. GoySoy says:
    @Jim H

    Another jew defending jews that have infiltrated and pretended they are Germans. merz is a jew, and is now advocating more war to kill more Slavs and Christians. The most decent people I have met around the world has been ethnic Germans.

    • Replies: @Tarnhari
  30. anonymous[361] • Disclaimer says:

    German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, pictured at top of this article with Zelensky, had a grandfather who was an ‘Oberscharfürher’ (senior squad leader) in Hitler’s Nazi SturmAbteilung (‘storm troopers’)

    Here those genes fly loose and Merz gives a Roman salute ‘Heil’ to his supporters … will he be jailed now like other Germans for this?

    • Thanks: Notsofast
  31. Tarnhari says:
    @GoySoy

    merz is a jew, and is now advocating more war to kill more Slavs and Christians.

    Surely you can prove this claim?

    • Replies: @GoySoy2
  32. @Jim H

    I have often defended the Germans as I saw them victims of their own success, having stirred the jealousy of the Anglo Saxons who were hellbent on restraining Germany’s increasing dominance in the world of industry and commerce.

    Germany’s better option is to be neutral and their best one is to be closely allied to the nation with whom they have the best symbiosis thereby combining German productivity with huge Russian resources.

    Now I realize that the Germans are just self destructive for they are devoid of common sense and balls. If that was not the case, Merz should have been dragged from his house by angry Germans who are keen on not repeating past historic mistakes and hanged upside down. A long shot with those authority deferring Germans.

    • Replies: @Passing by
  33. karel says:
    @Notsofast

    notsofast

    we’re sending an oreshnik to bavaria, we’ll give you 30 minutes to clean out your desks”. he said to me, “you know that’s a damn good idea

    interesting, but not such an original idea, as it is frequently practiced, and usually followed, by a “knock on the door” by Israeli airforce.

    • Replies: @Notsofast
  34. Merz- ‘long known for his Russophobia’.
    ‘German voters are decisively opposed to Taurus deployments in Ukrane’
    How in the world was Merz elected to current office?

    Trump- ‘I will stop the war in one day’
    How in the world was Trump elected to current office?

  35. karel says:
    @JWalters

    who the fuck is fink

    • Replies: @anonymous
    , @Rev. Spooner
  36. @Tom Welsh

    Much better than poodles.

    Poodles are really quite nasty hounds.

  37. First thought when seeing this article:

    This cannot be!
    Only 2 possibilities:

    A- Zelensky(ayayieyyyiiiiyyyiayiii..) must be kneeling or standing in a hole

    B- Merz on a pedestal or using stilts (apparently long German tradition, welcoming foreign leaders this way…)

    C- This is an AI rendered scene from Lord of the Rings where Gandalf meets Bilbo but with the faces of the 2 mentioned politicians…

    Turns out -as usual/standard, I was absolutely right (though maybe not literally, but in the Jewish sort of way in that I am always right no matter if I actually am..), the solution to the riddle is:

    D- F..k me, that Merzy fella really is Gandalf with 1,98 m (6foot6).
    And Bilbo really is Zelensky(ayayaaiieyyiehhhieeeiahayayieeeeeiiii…y…) -or other way round or Tom Cruise/Ben Stiller…- with 1,70 m (5foot7)


    Video Link

    • Replies: @Anonymous
  38. War always justifies totalitarianism. Perhaps the goal of Ukraine all along was to create a fake world war to justify brutal suppression of anti-Jewish sentiment. In Russia, because Ukraine is “nazi” (even though it is run by a Jew). In the West, because clearly, anti-Ukrainian positions are both antisemitic and (now) treasonous in a time of war.

    It’s starting to fall into place.

  39. Merkel famously had her phone tapped by the Americans, do not Trump or any of his administrative Aztecs and Jews have anything on the Deutsches Kalifat’s crafty new Jötunnführer? Why don’t they Pegasus all their phones and control their German slaves better? Has CIA lost control of Germany since the time after WWII when it was running the place?

    The apparent rift between the EU and US seems totally manufactured and fake. Merz looks to be working as Trump’s stick to try to make Vladimir STOP, since all of NATO has self-owned by throwing all their materiel into the meatgrinder of Russians fighting each other in perpetual warfare as if in the ancient Slavic tradition, over the Blackrock Borderlands of the Khazar Dwarflord Zelensky.

    Can the Jötunnführer’s bad-cop-with-a-stick routine fool the Russians into negotiations, or do they prefer to keep fighting each other over the Dumbass? It looks like Trump’s idea of maximum pressure, rather than pressure on Trump like this article says. Vance and Thiel need to make him rewatch (if not read) Lord of the Rings, since though industrial people, Orcs and Urukhainians are not fond of peace or submission.

    Urukhainians will probably try to send their missiles named after bulls in Latin at the Kremlin, but I doubt it can achieve anything; the bulls may only get them cucked, as their handsome German bride gets Oreshniked. This is classic cuckold politics, and I doubt ZOG Emperor Trump has thought this good cop, bad cop routine out properly.

  40. Anon[225] • Disclaimer says:
    @meamjojo

    Be quiet jewjew you weird Israeli pervert, otherwise it’s down the well you go.

  41. Anonymous[160] • Disclaimer says:
    @Jack Brand

    D- F..k me, that Merzy fella really is Gandalf with 1,98 m (6foot6).
    And Bilbo really is Zelensky(ayayaaiieyyiehhhieeeiahayayieeeeeiiii…y…) -or other way round or Tom Cruise/Ben Stiller…- with 1,70 m (5foot7)

    Merz is 6’ 4” and Zelensky is 5’ 6”.

    • Replies: @Jack Brand
  42. Anonymous[298] • Disclaimer says:

    Germany had better tackle its own growing Muslim population, thanks to the douchebag Angela Merkel, before worrying about an invasion from Russia. Merz must be nuts!

    • Replies: @Poupon Marx
  43. Emslander says:

    Ask yourself: Why would Merz and his “centrist” colleagues in Paris and London war-monger and sanctions-monger — this with a notable measure of urgency — just as talks between Moscow and Kiev show the first glimmer of promise in three years?

    The protection of homosexualism among the western elite is the central purpose of the anti-Russian madness.

  44. As soon as Merz threatened to launch Tauruses at Russia, via his Ukrainian proxies, Russia should have immediately launched devastating missiles attacks on Taurus production facilities and warehouses. Then he would have been made to look a fool as he would have had no more Tauruses any more and his threats would have been made to look empty.

    • Replies: @Poupon Marx
  45. …the Biden regime raised the quantity and sophistication of the matériel it sent the Ukrainians after it provoked the Russian intervention three years ago.

    Once an author casually expresses such a completely unsubstantiated remark as this, nothing else that follows thereafter can be taken seriously; it is all just war propaganda, for which he must surely receives Bitcoin fractions. Of course nobody can explain exactly how the Biden regime was supposed to have “provoked” or forced Putin to start the war, with no other options, because it is a bold fabrication in the style of the proverbial Big-Lie that gets repeated so often that gullible people actually wind up believing it. This is all intended to distract from the fact that Putin had opportunistically thought he could stage a military coup in Kiev, to take over the entire country centrally, but wound up miscalculating the situation and failing, then come up with various lame excuses to justify waging a destructive war.

    Incidentally, Sweden also has Taurus cruise missiles, due to a partnership with Saab, and can integrate them on Swedish Gripen jets. Here is a news story from three months ago:

    March 3, 2025
    Sweden to integrate Taurus cruise missiles on Gripen fighter jets

    https://defence-industry.eu/sweden-to-integrate-taurus-cruise-missiles-on-gripen-fighter-jets/

    The Taurus cruise missiles could also be launched from Danish owned F-16 jets operated by Ukraine’s air force. There is no need for Germany to get involved. If Putin wants to also start a war against these two smaller countries, which control the narrow sea lane between Copenhagen and Malmö, then they will be prompted to cut off Russian sea vessels in the Baltic region from the North Sea, and vice versa.

    • Thanks: Brás Cubas
    • Replies: @PJ London
  46. Rob misek says:

    This is escalating because of social media and the internet.

    The corrupt elite secret establishment who have controlled the media propaganda for centuries no longer control the narrative.

    Look what little effect the mainstream media blackout of Israeli genocide in Gaza is having on public awareness and perception. The Jewish victimhood narrative is no more.

    Rome is burning.

    They can only regain control by plunging us into war. Then they can censor everything and persecute the sharing of truth.

    Leaders are discarding all agreements, constitutions, obligations to the UN and NATO. They are driving towards anarchy where reason itself is discarded.

    Their plan is just a repeat of history. They will employ propaganda by creating strong emotions in the population like fear and outrage by lying and the destructive decisions they are making. Then when populations are most vulnerable emotional and not knowing the facts, they will lie to coerce their populations to act resulting in the success of the propaganda.

    We only have one defence for this. To criminalize lying properly with correctly applied logic and science. This will defeat the propaganda mechanism and expose the corrupt.

    If there ever needed to be a war, the lines will be drawn when lying is criminalized.

    • Disagree: N. Joseph Potts
  47. This is not a German decision. It is a US — i.e. Trump — decision. Germany cannot do anything on its own. Like Japan, it remains a vassal state.

    • Agree: Harold Smith
    • Thanks: Annacath
    • Replies: @follyofwar
    , @John Johnson
  48. But even planning to deploy the Taurus is a daringly provocative escalation of Germany’s involvement in the West’s proxy war against the Russians. It is the most powerful of the ballistic missile systems available in the West. With a range of 500 kilometers, 310 miles, it is capable of reaching Moscow from Ukrainian territory,

    Taurus is not a ballistic missile. It is a cruise missile, a small robot aircraft, that flies at low altitude at a speed of about 250 meters per second. The russians will shoot down 75% of these missiles, with the losses being bigger the further they fly into Russian airspace. The production volume is low, and the total impact of these missiles will be neglible. Furthermore, the launch platform is not a cheap truck, but an expensive and rare military jet aircraft, meaning that only a tiny amount of missiles can be launched per wave, and then you have several hours of return to base, refuel, reload and return to launch point before the next wave can be launched.

    The author outed himself as a liberal arts nonthinker with this alarmist crap.

    • Agree: N. Joseph Potts
    • Replies: @John Johnson
  49. Some sentences are truncated in the following passage:

    In an opinion piece the previous day on the Russian news network RT, its longtime editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, suggested Russia should attack Berlin if Germany sends does not occupy a place in the hierarchy comparable with Kartapolov’s, but she gives a good idea of what is on many Moscow minds now.

    The original at Scheerpost is integral, as below:

    In an opinion piece the previous day on the Russian news network RT, its longtime editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, suggested Russia should attack Berlin if Germany sends the Taurus to Ukraine and Kiev launches them at Russian targets. Simonyan does not occupy a place in the hierarchy comparable with Kartapolov’s, but she gives a good idea of what is on many Moscow minds now.

    Whoever makes these transcriptions at Unz should be fiercely reprimanded. If it is Unz himself, I of course don’t suggest that he reprimands himself; rather, he should increase his sleep hours, or perhaps leisure time.

  50. KSJ says:

    “Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood… to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out… and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.”

    Mark Twain, What Is Man? (1906)

    • Agree: Brad Anbro
  51. Bama says:

    One would think that after two screwings and defeats by the Anglo nations that the krauts would wise up and elect someone not in bed with Jew lovers.

    The result is having a nation of mental schizos who continue to see their enemies as friends and vice versa. They more than all others should realize Germany should have prevailed.

    • Agree: 24th Alabama
  52. Anon[360] • Disclaimer says:

    Go Mutts go ! Go Mutts go !

    It looks like German Cannister Mutts has deployed about a brigade to Lilliputin. Using about a 10% ratio of combat to supply, maintenance etc that means approximately 400 will be front line participants or about half a battalion.

    With this force Mutts will sweep all before him in a Blitz to Moscow. As for any Russian response this is a non issue as the Russians are using donkeys, mules and dog sleds in their campaigns.

    Their command and control and arms production have been destroyed and now homing pigeons, walking sticks and crutches are being issued to front line units.

    Ask John Johnson, he knows. Vlad is in a lot of trouble !

    • LOL: Jim H
  53. katesisco says:
    @Mr-Chow-Mein

    Of ultimate consequence, is the repudiation of WW settlements of national borders. Russia is only the first as others such as Ethiopia have strong interests in regaining her ocean frontage in a WWI promise yet to be fulfilled.

  54. Anon[321] • Disclaimer says:

    A bad peace is better than a good war

  55. @Joe Levantine

    The limey’s sin is greed, the kraut’s is vainglory.

    • Agree: Notsofast
    • Replies: @Poupon Marx
  56. The West has lost the proxy war the U.S. and its European clients provoked in February 2022 — this is now patently so (…)

    Whatever persuasive effect this article’s claim that Russia has won the war might have is undermined by the the contrary implication made on the article by Rolo Slavskiy which was featured on this site a few days ago titled Is Putin a Treacherous Puppet or an Incompetent “Bafoon” (sic)?.

  57. anonymous[427] • Disclaimer says:
    @karel

    Larry the Blackrock guy. Part of “our” real government.

  58. @Paul Greenwood

    East Germany is frequented by Polish, Russian and Lithuanian troops;
    it is the latter I was lamely joking about 😁

    • Replies: @Paul Greenwood
  59. tkc says:

    Massive profits lie in perpetual war, not in peace. Win or lose, so long as the war continues the MIC continues to profit. Merz comes from Blackrock, which this article omitted. Blackrock not only has big MIC investments but also big Ukraine investments, having bought much of its farmland and other infrastructure. A loss in Ukraine, particularly a big Russian win with lots of lost territory, would seriously hurt Blackrock’s profits.

  60. Anonymous[218] • Disclaimer says:

    Taurus is a cruise missile NOT a ballistic missile.

  61. PJ London says:
    @Paul Greenwood

    Here ya go :
    ” … can be carried by Panavia PA-200 Tornado IDS, Eurofighter Typhoon EF-2000, Saab JAS-39C Gripen, McDonnell Douglas EF-18A+ Hornet, and McDonnell Douglas F-15K Slam Eagle”

  62. GoySoy2 says:
    @Tarnhari

    Have to reply with different profile. unz is blocking.

    https://avotaynu.com/books/MenkNames.htm

    • Replies: @Tarnhari
  63. Aragorn says:
    @GoySoy

    No, its the Christians smiling, when they use fake Jews, trick movies, and fake “Viruses” for to kill. What false you are !

  64. PJ London says:
    @Been_there_done_that

    “… nobody can explain exactly how the Biden regime was supposed to have “provoked” or forced Putin to start the war, ..”
    For 18 years Russia had warned that NATO expansion into Ukraine would be a red-line and that war would be the response. The US and NATO thought he was bluffing.
    The Maidan – Nuland destruction of dialogue with Russia and the genocide of Russian speakers in Ukraine, the total charade of Minsk Agreements and the escalation of weapons specifically Patriot missiles which can in a matter of minutes be reprogrammed as surface to surface missiles, the addition of HIMARS to the Ukrainian armoury and the active participation of US troops in the surveillance and targeting of Russian military resources make the USA a co-belligerent in the conflict.
    Do you need any more?

  65. @Anonymous

    No Western leader has volition or agency. All Western leaders are controlled and directed from City of London and Wall Street. The Illuminati have controlled the West since centuries back, including the founding and losing of the U. S. “Republic”.

    Merz is merely a hand servant that carries out orders, as does D. Trump; although he has some room to maneuver, in exchange for funneling all new wealth and financial gains to Blackrock and the International Kosher Nosetra families. Just like the Mafia model, except they don’t use guns. They use stupid and weak Goyim.

  66. @Commentator Mike

    Sure thing, Commutator Mike. I had no idea you were an instant pudding global strategist, well read, and heavily researched in geo-strategy.

    Various bats and rodents also have monochromatic vision

    Only black and white and shades of gray. No color.

    “The shadow in the trees could have been anyone”.


    Video Link

  67. @Passing by

    Neither. They are all directed, nudged, blackmailed, and Ultra MKed into thinking that they are actually making decisions on their own.

    • Agree: Rurik
  68. Notsofast says:
    @karel

    when they bother to knock, most of the time they just barge right in. they didn’t knock when they killed that palestinian doctor’s family in their strike on a refugee center, they killed 9 of her 10 children and her husband is in a coma.

    fortunately for the germans, the russians aren’t blood thirsty, primitive savages, like the supremacist jews, occupying palestine. the beauty of the oreshnik is that it can pinpoint a target, such as a weapons facility, completely destroying its function, without damaging surrounding areas, other than a few cracked foundations.

    don’t worry german zato supremacists, scholz has vowed to develop a hypersonic missile within the next 5 years (somehow), so they will eventually have parity with russia (of 2014). sounds like even more of a reason to strike them now, imho.

    • Replies: @karel
  69. @PJ London

    None of which Ukraine possesses

  70. @PJ London

    Ukraine does not fly these planes

  71. @nokangaroos

    No NATO troops can be in East Germany
    Only Bundeswehr

    2+4 Treaty 1990

  72. @Commentator Mike

    Every single wonder weapon the West gave to the Ukrainians has failed miserably. Yet here comes the ultimate wonder weapon – Taurus.

    No one has claimed that the Taurus is a wonder weapon. Go ahead and provide a quote.

    The Taurus is a pretty standard cruise missile.

    It makes the news because Germany has been hesitant to give them to Ukraine. Germany has a large stockpile that Ukraine of course wants.

    Ukraine already has storm shadows and scalps. It wouldn’t be a new stage in the war.

    Ukraine just took out 40 aircraft with long range drones. They kill more Russians with drones than with Western missiles.

    Video Link
    Ukraine easily has enough drones to kill another 100k Russians. The best way to end the killing would be for Putin to go home and admit this was all a stupid idea.

  73. Notsofast says:
    @Jim H

    jim, i have been so moved by your eloquent broadside, that i now see the light, the russians must expell these war criminals abusing the german people. they are crying out for liberation, from the fiends that have enslaved them.

    this is the russian’s r2p, remember the “r” stands for responsibility, they have the responsibility to liberate, these long suffering people, by any means necessary. just as zato had the responsibility, to bomb yugoslavia into freedom under clinton, (our first democratic zioneocon president).

    they really don’t have any other options, as these occupiers will not leave on their own. germany must be liberated once again, or morgenthau will rise from the grave and finish them as a people, as he is doing in this country right now.

    perhaps it’s too much to ask, but if possible, could they please liberate us as well?

    • Thanks: Jim H
    • Replies: @karel
  74. Notsofast says:
    @HuginMunin

    you are exactly right and this is why, you all are in need of a good liberation, once again. if the russians do liberate you again, i pray to god, that they liberate us as well. do you have any other solutions to the parasitic infestations, that both of our people are suffering? i’m all ears, i can’t think of any other, there ain’t no voting our way out of this.

  75. Tarnhari says:
    @GoySoy2

    Well, believe me, that’s no proof at all. 99% of these names are totally common German surnames. I’m from Germany. It is quite possible that there are Jews with the surname Merz, but the vast majority of people named Merz are probably not Jewish.

    Merz’ father Joachim Merz comes from a Protestant soldier family.

    • Replies: @Notsofast
    , @GoySoy2
    , @GoySoy2
  76. @PJ London

    For 18 years Russia had warned that NATO expansion into Ukraine would be a red-line and that war would be the response.

    Your attempted explanation completely fails, which proves the point I made. In the May 1997 agreement between Russia and NATO, signed in Paris, Russia acknowledged the right of Ukraine and other countries to choose their military security alliances. Even before that, in 1994 the US and UK provided security assurances to Ukraine, as did Russia. Neither of these two agreements were formally rescinded by Russia. Furthermore, NATO did not expand into Ukraine, nor did Ukraine even meet the criteria for joining, and even a few weeks after Putin initiated the war other NATO members rejected Ukraine’s membership. Not only are your premises false, you cannot even cite any on-the-record statement in which an explicit threat of war was made. In any case, even if all these events had actually occurred, they would not have been legitimate reasons to go to war.

    Moreover, other issues you cited are also bogus. Russia initiated hostilities in 2014 by having supported the rebel groups and also violated the Minsk agreements. You also fail to distinguish the difference between an offensive and defensive missile system, the latter of which was installed in Romania near Serbia. Russia refused an offer by the US to negotiate with Russia about missile defense, which Russia was not interested in doing. Russian missiles located between Poland and Lithuania threaten European countries in the Baltic regions. All your stated rationales for war are bogus. You are a big sucker for having believed and repeated them. There were no provocations, but thanks for prompting me to explain once again why there was no justification whatsoever for Putin’s invasion. It is obvious to sane observes what the actual motivations were.

    • Disagree: N. Joseph Potts
  77. @PJ London

    For 18 years Russia had warned that NATO expansion into Ukraine would be a red-line and that war would be the response. The US and NATO thought he was bluffing.

    That’s the excuse provided by Putin and it doesn’t hold to critical thinking.

    Zelensky defeated the pro-NATO candidate Poroshenko in 2019 and had no intention of starting the application process. France and Germany were opposed and the vote has to be unanimous. This idea that Ukraine was about to join NATO is a lie. To even join requires a pre-application process that hadn’t been initialized by Zelensky. There also has to be a referendum by the people. It was the Ukrainian people that elected an actor over the Western backed candidate. A note never made by Putin’s defenders.

    Imperialists normally make excuses for invading smaller countries. This has been true in Europe for hundreds of years. Hitler used his lazy false flag as a basis of attacking Poland. Napolean used a spreading democracy excuse.

    Dictators don’t normally say “I’m a psychopath and I want to go out as a conqueror”. They normally come up with some lame “cause security” type excuse to ply the masses. I wish they were more honest like Genghis Khan or Alexander and simply stated that they wanted to expand their empires.

    • Replies: @awry
  78. @Bork Bork Bork

    Taurus is not a ballistic missile. It is a cruise missile, a small robot aircraft, that flies at low altitude at a speed of about 250 meters per second. The russians will shoot down 75% of these missiles

    Stop making stuff up. No one has such numbers. The Russians have already been caught lying about missiles that were not shot down.

    Furthermore, the launch platform is not a cheap truck, but an expensive and rare military jet aircraft, meaning that only a tiny amount of missiles can be launched per wave, and then you have several hours of return to base, refuel, reload and return to launch point before the next wave can be launched.

    It does not require a rare jet.

    The Ukrainians already launch storm shadows and scapels with Mig-29s. Which means they are using a Western missile on a Russian jet.

    It’s really not a big deal.

    Funny how Putin defenders can’t decide if the Taurus is pointless or it if represents a new level of escalation. Should probably pick one.

    • Replies: @nokangaroos
  79. if Germany sends does not occupy a place in the hierarchy comparable with Kartapolov’s

    WHAT? Gibberish.

  80. @John Johnson

    The best way to end the killing would be for Putin to go home and admit this was all a stupid idea.

    He hass probably been admitting this privately anyway. Russia’s leadership is surely aware of this fact too, and it would be reasonable to presume that there are people at the top level plotting to usurp both Putin, Medvedev, and other cronies from power in an internal coup. If the purported drone attack on Putin’s helicopter had actually occurred, a week ago, though none of the military bloggers were even aware of it and no credible evidence has been presented, then it seems more likely that such an attack would have been launched internally, in an attempt to oust Putin in such a coup while tryin to blame Ukraine.

    • Replies: @24th Alabama
  81. @John Johnson

    The Taurus is a pretty standard cruise missile.

    THE ARTICLE SAYS the Taurus is a “ballistic missile.” So, which is it? A cruise missile, or a ballistic missile? I’ve heard there IS a difference.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
  82. @Matt Lazarus

    Why do people still think that Trump is Superman, able to bend all other countries to his iron will, based on mere phone calls, when he is actually an ignoramus, especially on foreign affairs?

    It’s NOT TRUE that Germany needs Trump’s permission to give Taurus missiles to Ukraine. Nor do Britain or France. In fact, if it wasn’t for the Russophobic nitwits who run those countries, Trump might have achieved an end to the War. It should have been accomplished in his first month. It now appears that window has closed.

    These Euro idiots and neocons in his own party are pressuring Trump to rejoin the doomed Project Ukraine, just as that war criminal, baby-killer in Tel Aviv is pressuring him to join them in obliterating Iran. Netanyahu knows that if he launches a unilateral attack on Iran, Trump will be forced by his Jewish overlords to have his back. He has got himself, and the country he purportedly leads, into one hell of a pickle. No one of any consequence is still listening to his bullying.

    It’s been said that anything of substance a US president wants to accomplish must be done in his first 100-days. By that standard, they have been at best a mixed bag. He will be consumed by issues of war and peace for the rest of his term, while the Homefront is neglected. MAGA is finished.

    • Replies: @Harold Smith
  83. @N. Joseph Potts

    THE ARTICLE SAYS the Taurus is a “ballistic missile.” So, which is it? A cruise missile, or a ballistic missile? I’ve heard there IS a difference.

    It’s a cruise missile and there is a difference. Journalists often miss these technical differences.

    Here is a pretty good explanation
    https://science.howstuffworks.com/difference-ballistic-cruise-missile.htm

    Ballistic missiles go to high altitude and then use gravity for their return. Since force = mass x speed you get a sort of damage multiplier when they hit.

    Cruise missiles are more like a rocket powered mini plane on auto flight. They fly mostly in a straight line and at low altitude.

    • Thanks: N. Joseph Potts
  84. @Matt Lazarus

    This is not a German decision. It is a US — i.e. Trump — decision. Germany cannot do anything on its own. Like Japan, it remains a vassal state.

    Then why didn’t Biden have Germany give Ukraine the Taurus?

  85. Agent76 says:

    Jun 1, 2025 Lavrov: The West Sees Multipolarity as a Challenge to Its Global Domination – English Subtitles
    
    Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov speaks at the Eurasian International Socio-Political Hearings on the Formation of an Architecture of an Equal and Indivisible System of Security and Cooperation in the Eurasian Space.
    

    • Replies: @Christoph88
  86. @karel

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Fink

    My God, he too is a Jew.
    I’m shocked, shocked, I tell you.

    • Replies: @JWalters
  87. Notsofast says:
    @Tarnhari

    look at comment 31, if you want confirmation of that fact. further proof of the ashkenazi german link, to larpers in israeli, that use a made up hebrew spoken language, that is mostly yiddish, that in turn is mostly german. you can take the ashkenazi out of germany but you can’t take the nazi out of ashkenazi.

  88. GoySoy2 says:
    @Tarnhari

    Yes, it is correct that merz is not solely a jewish name, but it is a very common jewish name based on jewish sources. There are a lot more crypto jews than most people know. Anyway, first red flags: He worked with Blackrock and Mayer Brown, both jewish companies. Then you can trace his family to house of Sauvigny, owned by Friedrich Kasimir Kitz, a jew.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
  89. Fumanchu says:
    @loner feral cat

    Hey, look! It’s Nick FEDtes. What grown man would pay this 20-something idiot any mind, as if he were some oracle?

    Why wasn’t FEDtes arrested, just as Ray Eppes wasn’t, following his on-video instigation on 1/6/21?

    Anybody?

    • Replies: @Anon
  90. @Jim H

    German Chancellor Fred Mertz…

    • LOL: Jim H
  91. In the May 1997 agreement between Russia and NATO, signed in Paris, Russia acknowledged the right of Ukraine and other countries to choose their military security alliances.

    I’ve never read that, please provide a link to that agreement, otherwise I will think:

    N

    ot only are your premises false, you cannot even cite any on-the-record statement

    You probably mean the “Founding Act” where both side promised not to build new military bases in Central and Eastern Europe. The US Army then build ten in Poland and placed an entire armored brigade in one. There is nothing about Ukraine joining NATO there.

    I realize you might be confused because some websites to include the US State Department post summaries of this agreement that are inaccurate. Here are American troops in Ukraine.

    • Replies: @Been_there_done_that
  92. @John Johnson

    I was being sarcastic. Of course every weapon ever sent to the Ukrainians was claimed by the West to have been a wonder weapon that would turn tide of war in favour of the Ukrainians.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
  93. GoySoy2 says:
    @Tarnhari

    Joachim is a masculine given name, derived from the Hebrew Yehoyaqim (יְהוֹיָקִים‎), meaning “raised by Yahweh”.

    • Replies: @Tarnhari
  94. Ah yes – the mighty Russian military – whose air force was decimated by Ukrainian drone strikes yesterday. And the military that has been trying unsuccessfully for 10 months to capture the burned-out Ukie town of Pokrovsk.

    • LOL: Notsofast
    • Replies: @awry
    , @Notsofast
  95. @Agent76

    Lavrov and Putin and Medvedev bark but the caravan moves on.

  96. @Commentator Mike

    Wonder weapons? $2000 drones have decimated the Russian military.

    • Replies: @Passing by
  97. Nuke Kiev. End this killer robot nonsense.

  98. Report on the Ukrainian drone attacks on air bases deep in Russia, launched from roofs of mobile homes driven on trucks.

    https://southfront.press/everything-we-know-about-ukraines-drone-attack-on-russian-bombers-videos/

    • Agree: Christoph88
    • Thanks: Passing by
  99. @Carlton Meyer

    I’ve never read that, please provide a link to that agreement…

    Here it is:

    • respect for sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of all states and their inherent right to choose the means to ensure their own security, the inviolability of borders and peoples’ right of self-determination as enshrined in the Helsinki Final Act and other OSCE documents;

    https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_25468.htm

    You made a claim that I could not find support for in the text; in case I overlooked it you will surely provide the specific quote:

    …both side promised not to build new military bases in Central and Eastern Europe.

    Actually, NATO pledged not to introduce nuclear weapons there. There is no allegation or proof that they have.

    Here are American troops in Ukraine.

    You linked to a video that YouTube claims was from eight years ago, showing a joint naval exercise between the US and Ukraine in the Black Sea. Different countries regularly stage military exercises. Russia does this too. So exactly what is your point? Are you suggesting that the US Navy had no right to be present in the Black Sea?

  100. At least in 1941 there were valid reasons for Germany to launch a war against Russia.

    • Replies: @Rurik
  101. Tarnhari says:
    @GoySoy2

    “Joachim is a masculine given name, derived from the Hebrew Yehoyaqim (יְהוֹיָקִים‎), meaning “raised by Yahweh”.”

    I know. But, once again, this is also a very common name in Germany. I know several Joachims, not one of them is Jewish. The Hebrew names Joseph or Matthias are also very common in Germany.

  102. Anon[315] • Disclaimer says:

    Even if you didn’t see the Hohole collapse accelerate, you can tell the end is near because JTRIG shills like Been_there_done_that are pulling made up jus ad bellum out their ass. But sadly for the JTRIG loser strike force, the Ukie proxy losers are in uncontrolled effondrement

    https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-53125-russian-breakthrough

    Ukraine is gonna be the Exclusion Zone, and downtrodden impoverished Brit losers are going to go there for cheap vacations, savoring mutant-wolf Kholodets with corium seasoning!

    • Replies: @Notsofast
  103. awry says:
    @John Johnson

    These weren’t long range drones. These drones were launched from civilian trucks. Remotely controlled via Starlink supposedly.

  104. awry says:
    @Christoph88

    It doesn’t influence the situation on the frontlines, based on the timing it is a clear provocation by the Ukies to thwart the negotiations that were due to start in Istanbul.

    • Replies: @Christoph88
  105. Notsofast says:
    @Christoph88

    you’re such a moron, you don’t even know what the word decimate means, typical zafo idiot troll. are you the bastard son of john johnson?

    • LOL: Tennessee Jed
  106. @GoySoy2

    Yes, it is correct that merz is not solely a jewish name, but it is a very common jewish name based on jewish sources.

    The guy is like 6’6 and was raised Catholic.

    Most likely not.

  107. GoySoy2 says:

    Read my comment #89. That is his maternal side. Again, there are a lot more jews than you can realize. All the crypto jews have Christian or Gentile names. I had a lot of jewish friends without knowing it. When jews (not the crypto jews) got expelled from Spain 500 years ago (300 000), they mostly went to the New World and Philippines through Amsterdam. With normal population growth that will be approx 4 million today. Imagine how many crypto jews that remained in Spain.

  108. awry says:
    @John Johnson

    Zelensky defeated the pro-NATO candidate Poroshenko in 2019 and had no intention of starting the application process.

    He said that in the campaign, then he was talking vaguely about the need of some rapprochement with Russia, but made an about face after he was elected. And had it (the goal of NATO membership) written into the Ukrainian constitution (or Poroshenko did it?). He banned the still legal pro-Russian opposition parties and media in 2021, started the Crimea Platform etc.

    This idea that Ukraine was about to join NATO is a lie.

    As soon as Biden was inaugurated (and Nuland & Co. returned), suddenly all the Western leaders started talking about the need to accept Ukraine into NATO, as well as the Ukrainians. Monthly statements like this were made by politicians, like Stoltenberg and the then current British PM (Truss, etc.)

    • Replies: @John Johnson
  109. Rurik says:
    @ReinhardSiegfriedson

    because Russia at the time was Jew-controlled, and therefor a menace to everyone

    now today Germany, (and the U.S. and UK, France, Palestine, etc..) is Jew-controlled, and therefor a menace to everyone.

    It’s almost as if there’s a pattern there, but I can’t quite put my finger on it..

    • Thanks: Tennessee Jed
  110. @Commentator Mike

    I was being sarcastic. Of course every weapon ever sent to the Ukrainians was claimed by the West to have been a wonder weapon that would turn tide of war in favour of the Ukrainians.

    You say “of course” as if it is common sense. That’s your own assumption.

    The Taurus hasn’t been touted as a wonder weapon. It’s a cruise missile and Ukraine has already been given storm shadows that actually have slightly longer range.

    Go ahead and search Google news for a politician or military analyst that has used the term.

    No one is calling it a wonder weapon. Ukraine desires the Taurus because Germany has a stockpile of them. Cruise missiles are great for killing officers behind the lines but they can’t win a war on their own.

    • Replies: @nokangaroos
    , @JR Foley
  111. Anon[379] • Disclaimer says:
    @Fumanchu

    Shalom rabbi, how’s the weather in Tel Aviv.

    • Replies: @Fumanchu
  112. Decoy0614 says:
    @anonymous

    Western “concern” for Ukraine was reiterated by Lindsey Graham just a few days ago. He was in Kiev and stated again how proud he was of the Ukrainian military and that “WE are willing to fight until the last Ukrainian” soldier is dead. Graham actually said WE. And he said this as Zelinsky, the grinning, biggest sucker of the 21th century, was standing by his side. Reminds me of the blank stupid look on Scholz’s face when Biden said that Washington DC was going to blow up the NordStream pipelines. I will never, ever figure out how the civilized people of Europe came to end up with so many warmonger politicians at the same time. Crazy time throughout Europe.

  113. Notsofast says:
    @Anon

    you can tell these zafo trolls are in trouble, by the full court press they are putting on, including the return of rollover slavsquat in yesterday’s front page piece. it must be a tough time to be a zafo troll. the hellholes are going to collapse into a blackhole rump, that sucks in any within their event horizion.

  114. @John Johnson

    (((Ukraine))) desires Taurus not for any strategic effect but to draw Germany
    into a war with Russia, simple as that.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
  115. @meamjojo

    If there was any doubt that the Jews own Germany here’s your proof.

  116. @Been_there_done_that

    Russia acknowledged the right of Ukraine and other countries to choose their military security alliances

    So you proved my point, Russia did not agree Ukraine could join whatever military alliance as you first wrote, just they could choose their own security.

    NATO had a huge base in Ukraine where hundreds of American soldiers were based and conducted several huge training operations there every year.

    https://www.nato.int/structur/nmlo/links/yavoriv-training-centre.pdf

    Here is Biden telling how Putin complained about American nuclear armed missiles in Ukraine.

    Here is a video clip of the head of NATO saying the war with Russia began in 2014 after the American coup in Kiev installed a CIA puppet government. He said NATO predicted this would cause Russian intervention and prepared for it.

    • Replies: @Been_there_done_that
  117. Fumanchu says:
    @Anon

    Answer the question: why wasn’t FEDtes arrested after his 1/6 stunt? If he wasn’t an asset before, he likely became one afterward, but keep following a 25-year-old lol.

    https://rumble.com/v66oppa-j6-nick-fuentes-incitement.html

  118. This is so much like the Israeli pager attack in Lebanon. Houdini War.

    • Replies: @antitheticus
  119. 
    Jews hate Russia. Jews use media to defame Russia, Russians, and Russian culture.
    Jews instigated the war in Ukraine. Jews recruited low IQ Ukro-Nazis to fight Russia.
    
    But Putin tells us he’s fighting ‘Nazis’ in Ukraine to fight against ‘antisemitism’, i.e. to defend the helpless Jews.
    
    Such weakness. Unless Russia drops the Truth Bomb, that this war was instigated by Jews, no amount of guns and bombs will have any real impact. The real villains will not be named and blamed.
    
    The most potent bomb is the truth. If someone wrongs you, don’t just defend yourself. Name HIM as the a**hole. Unless you do, he walks away without blame.
    
    No one has blamed the Jews for this even though they’re most responsible. As Jews get no blame, they will bear no burden of guilt, and they will go on acting like this over and over.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    , @Passing by
  120. anon[314] • Disclaimer says:

    If Russia would nuke Berlin, it would remove from the surface of the earth mainly leftists, Jews, rotten politicians, Muslims, Turks, Africans and Asians and very few real Germans.

    So please don’t hesitate and wait for a day when the Bundestag is full and Merz, Scholz, Bearbock is in town.

    Just give a call to AfdD MP”s before so they can call sick this day.

    Berlin is also a very ugly city since the “allies” destroyed it during the last Jewish led war against Germany, so it won;t be a big loss to art and beauty.

  121. @Mr-Chow-Mein

    Good points. Anything, anything at all, including a protracted war with Russia, to divert attention from the Jews’ destruction of Europe with hordes of Euro-hating, third-world, military-age sleeper combatants who are being armed and trained to destroy Europe.

    In the US, it’s the same. The Democrats are positively apoplectic that the third-world rapists, murderers, and thieves they brought in under the Biden “Weekend at Bernie’s” presidency to destroy America are being deported under President Trump. A real war with Russia—and who in the deep state cares how many millions of Russians, Ukrainians, and others die—is in the cards when the objective is not eliminating Russia to turn attention toward destroying China, but creating a new bipolar world hegemony run from Beijing and Tel Aviv.

  122. @nokangaroos

    (((Ukraine))) desires Taurus not for any strategic effect but to draw Germany
    into a war with Russia, simple as that.

    It’s weapon and they would like to use it against Russia just as they do with the storm shadow. Has nothing to do with drawing Germany into the war. Germany has already donated various weapons to Ukraine. It’s just another weapon.

    Why did you put parenthesis on Ukraine? You do realize that Russia has Europe’s largest Ashkenazi population? Wouldn’t that make Russia the Jewish side?

  123. @awry

    Zelensky defeated the pro-NATO candidate Poroshenko in 2019 and had no intention of starting the application process.

    He said that in the campaign, then he was talking vaguely about the need of some rapprochement with Russia, but made an about face after he was elected.

    Tell us about this about face then since he hadn’t applied to NATO or started the pre-application process.

    And had it (the goal of NATO membership) written into the Ukrainian constitution (or Poroshenko did it?)

    So you are trying to lecture me on the subject while asking a question.

    It was signed by Poroshenko.

    Maybe read about the history of Ukraine before making excuses for your dwarf lord.

    As soon as Biden was inaugurated (and Nuland & Co. returned), suddenly all the Western leaders started talking about the need to accept Ukraine into NATO, as well as the Ukrainians.

    There was never agreement and Biden in fact changed his mind. Hungary was still opposed. There has never been a period where Ukraine had full support. Merkel is on record regretting her opposition.

    Merkel defends decision to reject Ukraine from NATO
    https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220404-merkel-defends-2008-decision-to-block-ukraine-from-nato

    The claim that Putin had to invade Ukraine to stop them from joining NATO is a giant load of bullshit. The people of Ukraine elected a neutral candidate that did not move the country close to joining. The pro-NATO incumbent was removed from office.

    That is all left out by pro-Putin bloggers. They leave out these details in an attempt at pushing the lie that Putin had no choice rain missiles and bombs upon Kiev. No choice but to launch cruise missiles at a densely populated city. That’s on video if any of you Putin defenders would like a source.

    Here is a question they are unable to answer: If Finland was able to join so quickly then why didn’t Ukraine join under Poroshenko from 2015-2019? That would be 4 years to join.

    The truth (which is sourced) is that Ukraine has never had full support from NATO. There have always been 2 or 3 countries that opposed their entry and the vote has to be unanimous. France and Germany only changed their minds after Ukraine was invaded. Hungary is currently opposed and so is the US. Turkey has always been a wild card.

    Then there is the issue of the DPR/LPR. You can’t apply to NATO with contended territory. Ukraine didn’t qualify for NATO if there was 1 square yard of territory claimed by Russia. This is because they don’t want a country to join with a border dispute and then call article 5.

  124. @Priss Factor

    That is the conclusion being drawn right now where it matters. Israeli technology, period. You will recall the implication in the Israeli press in 2014 that taking the Ukraine and turning Russia into a resource plantation while massacring Russians has been the plan all along. Ukrainians are cannon fodder. The rest is window dressing for fools.

  125. @Priss Factor

    Such weakness. Unless Russia drops the Truth Bomb, that this war was instigated by Jews, no amount of guns and bombs will have any real impact. The real villains will not be named and blamed.
    

    So you are saying that Putin was duped by Jews into launching his invasion?

    • Replies: @JWalters
  126. If Russia would nuke Berlin, it would remove from the surface of the earth mainly leftists, Jews, rotten politicians, Muslims, Turks, Africans and Asians and very few real Germans.

    LOL another poster that seems to think it is 1939. Where do you guys come from? Time travel?

    Berlin has around 11,000 Jews.
    https://jguideeurope.org/en/region/germany/berlin/

    Maybe you missed the memo that the Jewish populations of Europe dropped after a certain watercolor painter went on a rampage.

    Moscow was untouched and today is the Ashkenazi capital of Europe.

    Russia also has Europe’s largest Muslim population.

    Might want to read about European demographics post 1945.

  127. Merz is salami-slicing, as the expression goes. But even planning to deploy the Taurus is a daringly provocative escalation of Germany’s involvement in the West’s proxy war against the Russians. It is the most powerful of the ballistic missile systems available in the West. With a range of 500 kilometers, 310 miles, it is capable of reaching Moscow from Ukrainian territory, and the Ukrainians would need German personnel to operate these systems.

    The Ukrainians already have a missile that can go 350 miles:
    https://armyrecognition.com/military-products/army/missiles/cruise-missiles/storm-shadow-scalp-long-range-air-launched-attack-cruise-missile-data?highlight=WyJzdG9ybSJd

    Another failed attempt at trying to defend “dwarf rules” aka Putin can do that but you can’t. Like the bratty kid who makes his own rules for a board game.

    Putin can hit any part of Ukraine with a cruise missile but if Ukraine does it then that’s a provocation.

    Putin can use North Koreans in combat but if Ukraine uses foreign soldiers then that’s a provocation.

    Importing tanks was a provocation.

    ATACMS was a provocation.

    Importing 3rd gen F-16s was a provocation. I guess only Putin can have jet fighters from the 1980s oh and also the 90s. But Ukraine should only be allowed a few Migs. Cause Putin says so.

    Well Ukraine just took out 40 long range bombers and without the use of a single cruise missile
    https://funker530.com/video/surprise-attack-destroys-russian-bombers

    Putin I’m sure will soon put out a “not fair” statement about how this is a provocation. Putin can bomb densely populated cities but it’s “not fair” if Ukraine hits deep military targets.

    You Putin defenders are still two steps behind this war. Most casualties are caused by drones. Western missiles are nice but Ukraine can work without them as seen by last night’s attack. Ukraine has in fact developed their own cruise missile.

    A better way to stop the killing would be for Putin to walk his troops back to Russia and admit this was all a bad idea.

    • Agree: Christoph88
    • Replies: @karel
  128. @follyofwar

    Why do people still think that Trump is Superman, able to bend all other countries to his iron will, based on mere phone calls, when he is actually an ignoramus, especially on foreign affairs?

    You’re looking at the situation the wrong way. The jew-controlled “West” is an imperial collective comprised of members who generally work together harmoniously in pursuit of the Satanic agenda but who often pretend to be acting unilaterally/independently, e.g. to achieve some kind of propagandistic effect. The evil empire of course has a chain of command and the “‘president’ of the U.S.” is apparently the second in command, working directly under orders from his “deep state” handlers.

    It’s NOT TRUE that Germany needs Trump’s permission to give Taurus missiles to Ukraine.

    Pedantry; in reality “Germany” would never risk any kind of dangerous escalation with Russia unless the order came down through the chain of command, i.e. through the fat orange bastard.

    Nor do Britain or France. In fact, if it wasn’t for the Russophobic nitwits who run those countries, Trump might have achieved an end to the War. It should have been accomplished in his first month. It now appears that window has closed.

    Nonsense; just like the first time around, the fat orange bastard never had any intention of doing anything different than what his handlers directed him to do, which apparently doesn’t include ending the proxy war against Russia anytime soon.

    • Agree: Passing by
    • Replies: @John Johnson
  129. @Carlton Meyer

    …Russia did not agree Ukraine could join whatever military alliance as you first wrote, just they could choose their own security.

    There is no difference between the two. Just because the word “alliance” does not appear in the agreement (which I did not misquote) does not invalidate the choice of security, which is inherently associated with an alliance, such NATO. You are just trying to be “cute”.

    …the head of NATO saying the war with Russia began in 2014 after the American coup in Kiev installed a CIA puppet government.

    He did not say what you claimed; Stoltenberg did not allude to a “CIA puppet government“. Instead, you provided a skewed interpretation and thereby have inappropriately mischaracterized what he actually said. He merely said the war started in Ukraine in 2014, which was the year when Russia annexed Crimea and supported the militia groups in the eastern part of the country. He also said, with regard to Putin’s escalation: “we have actually prepared for this possibility for a long time” and referred to the sharing of intelligence on the Russian military buildup, which became evident in early December 2021. Readers can verify for themselves, starting at 7:56 in the video, what he actually said and didn’t say.

    None of this even suggests that Russia was somehow being provoked into invading Ukraine. Contrarily, Russia’s aggressive posture (since 2014 and the escalation in late 2021) necessitated the defensive preparations that Stoltenberg referred to. You and others have simply injected paranoid fantasies to spin a false narrative, for which the main premise is that Russia is entitled to a sphere of influence, which however would be against the spirit of the 1997 Paris agreement, which states:

    …NATO and Russia will seek the widest possible cooperation among participating States of the OSCE with the aim of creating in Europe a common space of security and stability, without dividing lines or spheres of influence limiting the sovereignty of any state.

    It should be obvious that Putin has been trying to limit Ukraine’s sovereignty, and his apologists readily admit this by claiming that Ukraine does not deserve to be sovereign.

  130. JWalters says:
    @Rev. Spooner

    Thanks. It may not be too long before the Zionists edit Fink’s Wikipedia page to omit the part that says

    “He grew up as one of three children in a Jewish family[9] in Van Nuys, California”.

    • Replies: @antitheticus
  131. @Harold Smith

    Pedantry; in reality “Germany” would never risk any kind of dangerous escalation with Russia unless the order came down through the chain of command, i.e. through the fat orange bastard.

    If such a chain of command exists then why didn’t Biden order Germany to give Ukraine the Taurus?

    • Replies: @Harold Smith
  132. JWalters says:
    @John Johnson

    He did not say Putin was duped. The facts are clear that Putin was forced by the evil Talmudist attack on Russians into defending them.

    You are intelligent and articulate, but thoroughly sneaky and evil.

    • Replies: @Passing by
  133. @Been_there_done_that

    None of this even suggests that Russia was somehow being provoked into invading Ukraine. Contrarily, Russia’s aggressive posture (since 2014 and the escalation in late 2021) necessitated the defensive preparations that Stoltenberg referred to.

    It should be noted that Putin invaded two other countries (Moldova and Georgia) on a flimsy basis.

    The original invasion plan leaked by Belarus showed Russia expanding its borders across Ukraine and continuing into Moldova.

    Putin is probably kicking himself for not going after an easier target like Finland.

    • Agree: Christoph88
    • Troll: Carlton Meyer
  134. Ace says:

    He’s playing with fire!

    And you’re not, Don? Holy Mother, get help.

  135. @John Johnson

    If such a chain of command exists then why didn’t Biden order Germany to give Ukraine the Taurus?

    Presumably simply because at that time (((they))) still had other escalatory steps in the pipeline. As time goes on, Russia adapts and effectively counters most NATO weapons and tactics, “ukraine” gets closer to defeat and the desperation of the “west” goes off the rails, we see increasingly dangerous NATO provocations against Russia, e.g. in the Baltic Sea and the recent drone attacks.

  136. G23 says:

    Russians are all bluster on this. We’ve crossed dozens of their “red lines” to date in this war, and they haven’t done shit.

  137. @Christoph88

    How much explosive can a 2000$ drone carry? Yet another PR operation to distract from the terrorist attack in the Bryansk region that targeted civilians and the losses on the frontline.

  138. @awry

    Putin suffers humiliation after humiliation.

    • Replies: @awry
  139. Martyanov on the latest drone attacks deep into Russia.

    • Replies: @Avery
  140. JR Foley says:
    @John Johnson

    40 Russian bombers go bye -bye. Mobile houses with drones hidden in their roofs. Russian Customs Inspectors “Wide Asleep”. However–who built these drones and houses? Zylensky team too amateurish.

  141. @Harold Smith

    From the beginning (?1812) the European elite have wanted to destroy Russia/The Soviet. After the failed effort of WWII they immediately gave sanctuary to all the fascistic filth from the Baltics, Ukraine, Belarus etc to fester in their Western rats’-nests until the insane, or worse, Gorbachev invited them back in.
    Yelsin broke up the Soviet on Western orders, NATO moved ever further east despite numerous ‘promises’ not to, offensive weapons were stationed in new puppet NATO regimes, incessant regime change efforts were mounted in Russia, traitor scum like Navalny were promoted far, far, beyond their true standing among the Russian public, and, in 2014, the CIA installed a puppet regime in Kiev after a fascist putsch.
    A terror war was waged against the Donbass, and the Banderite fascist regime was militarised, fortified and de facto NATOised, in preparation for, first, an Operation Storm style ‘cleansing’ of the Donbass, then further destabilisation of Russia. As we know from open confessions by Merkel and Hollande, Minsk I and II (suppressed or lied about by the Western MSM vermin)were tricks intended to give the Banderite regime time to prepare militarily. And the peace ready to be signed in Istanbul was rejected on ORDERS from the West, transmitted by the poisonous dunce, BoJo.
    And all through the war, the Europeans insisted on ever great escalation. And a tidal wave of deranged lying, spectacular even for the Western MSM scum. Failed laboratory experiments like Masha Gessen (now, inevitably, ‘trans’-species, I assume)are wheeled out to lie that after The Ukraine ‘Putin’ (only Putin exists-Russia’s elites and government do not)a blood-thirsty psychopath, baby-eater and dog-kicker, will attack Europe, then the world. And the anorexic, hereditary, fascist Baltic cunt, Kallas, is now trying to drag China into it.
    It’s pretty obvious what is going on. The Western is returning to the shit from which it arose, and the ‘Gods Upon the Earth’ of Western supremacism are going insane with fear, rage and The Dread.
    I suspect that they’ll take it all the way to nuclear war. Perhaps Russia should do something, like blow Rockall out of the ocean, to show the Euros what their insane aggression WILL bring.

    • Agree: Harold Smith
    • Replies: @Harold Smith
  142. @Priss Factor

    Doesn’t the pseudo Christoph88 tell you on whose side the nazis are? Everybody knows that Jews and nazis are together in this. It’s just that the latter are low-hanging fruit and given that the former have absolute power in the West, naming explicitly the “rootless cosmopolitans” would effectively shutdown all pretence of diplomacy and wouldn’t be politically expedient at this time.

  143. @JWalters

    I’d say well-trained rather than “intelligent and articulate”.

  144. @Been_there_done_that

    and, Johnson

    Why don’t you two shithead trolls just talk on the phone instead of
    wasting space on TUR and wearing down mouse batteries skipping
    over your comments. No one gives a damn about your
    Talmudic, Russophobia tantrums..

    Sorry, you missed the Jews for Genocide Rally in Boulder
    and the Jewish Museum whine and cheese party.

    • LOL: Harold Smith
  145. @Been_there_done_that

    Has Been lies, just as his mammy and pappy taught him. The first act of war was incontestably the Maidan fascist putsch and the sniper killings there by CIA contractors. Crimea was liberated at its people’s request, after your Banderite idols commenced butchery, as at Odessa, just like their forebears had done in WWII.
    The real military build-up was in The Ukraine, preparatory to an Operation Storm type ‘cleansing’ of the Donbass. Your Nazi idols had even started ‘softening-up’ the Donbass by intensified shelling, the type that had killed 15,000 since 2014. And if you assert that the militarisation of eastern Ukraine BEGAN in December 2021, you are an even more outrageous liar than I had considered you to be. In fact, the east of Ukraine had been heavily fortified, and The Ukraine de facto NATO-ised since the fascist putsch. That’s why places like Avdievka and Bakhmut was so intensively and extensively fortified.
    Meanwhile, of course, your biggest heroes, the Azov, Adair and the other Nazi death-squads were actively recruiting butchers from around the world, to create an International Brigade of neo-Nazis, and the USA was carrying out extensive biological warfare research in a string of bio-labs in The Ukraine.
    And how does the Paris Agreement of 1997 for mutual security mean any more than your shite when the US NEVER ceased driving NATO to Russia’s borders? Feel free to lie like your mammy done taught you, swine.

  146. @Been_there_done_that

    How long does it take to introduce nukes? And how much is a NATO promise worth, swine? There is no-one in the Russian ruling class, nor many in the public, who are not outraged by the West’s TREACHERY in driving NATO to Russia’s borders, despite numerous ‘promises’ not to.

  147. @G23

    I’m surprised Russia didn’t retaliate last night with a massive attack on Kiev and other cities as it usually does. Maybe tonight?

  148. karel says:
    @Notsofast

    don’t worry german zato supremacists, scholz has vowed to develop a hypersonic missile within the next 5 years (somehow),

    Well, why should I worry? Scholz is more likely to develop a brain decay within the next five years than a hypersonic missile. He stands now in an offside position anyway. Merz will not survive the next five years in office and you can remind me if my prophecy is faulty. I am going to Berlin next week to observe the rott.

  149. @G23

    What should they do? Nuke Ukraine? Or nuke you? It’s war. Shit happens. There are losses. None of the attacks on Russian territory have inflicted real strategic damage on Russia so far. If and when that happens, well f a f o.

    • Replies: @Commentator Mike
  150. PF says:
    @HuginMunin

    Huginn ok Muninn!
    That’s a very fine handle you have there. Hugin and Munin fly each day over the world—I’ve always been a fan of those two ravens, Thought and Memory. As I age, the Edda’s words ring ever truer: ‘I fear for Hugin that he may not return, yet I tremble more for Munin.’

    It is ok for you that your country behave like a tick on the rest of the world. Your country slaughtered millions of people world wide ( IRAK, Vietnam…) but hey, the Germans are again the bad guys.

    Quite right—though country or people names should remain merely geographic descriptors here: any incarnation of “organized, violent parasitic greed” (put triple parentheses instead of quotation marks if you wish) thrives in direct proportion to the host’s energy, in any place on Earth. Germany, and then the USA, are textbook examples. In this regard, the current “sanitary” situation of Russia is debatable.

  151. @Passing by

    This is the failing of the security services. Seems there are many traitors in Russia willing to serve the enemy for money or ideological reasons, like those Russian Nazis fighting for the Ukraine. In WWII there was an entire army of Russians fighting for the Nazis.

    You have to hand it to the Israelis, they have the least traitors of all nations. There was that one nuclear technician, but even he was just a whistleblower and not a traitor, who ended up driving taxis in Australia.

    • Replies: @Passing by
  152. karel says:
    @Notsofast

    Notsofast
    jim, i have been so moved by your eloquent broadside, that i now see the light, the russians must expell these war criminals abusing the german people. they are crying out for liberation, from the fiends that have enslaved them.

    This reads like an irony, but it is probably a pure fantasy of yours. Instead of “crying out for liberation” ,most Germans in their childish ignorance are unaware of being occupied by US forces. If you bring this fact up, you will be met with an embarasing silence. Many Germans in Berlin still ventilate stories about theft and rape in May 1945 and are too scared of being liberated again.

    • Replies: @Notsofast
  153. awry says:
    @Christoph88

    These are mostly for the Western and Ukrainian public, they don’t stop the Russians from advancing (with glacier speed, but still). Destroying 50 year old Cold War bombers doesn’t affect the number of Russian drones the Ukrainians face etc.

  154. karel says:
    @John Johnson

    A better way to stop the killing would be for Putin to walk his troops back to Russia and admit this was all a bad idea.

    An infantile idea that will never fail to amuse everyone around the world.

  155. Avery says:
    @Commentator Mike

    From Martyanov vid : “The ministry of Defense reported terrorist attacks on airfields….using FPV drones…”

    Martyanov says in his monologue: “Yes, these were terrorist attacks”.
    Sorry, Andrei, the FPV attacks on airfields where there are military aircraft is NOT a terrorist attack. Military airfields are obviously legitimate targets.

    The attacks on civilian bridges causing civilian deaths were clearly terrorist attacks.

    Hat tip to MI6 & CIA for an imaginative operation, but Andrei is right: it’s just for show for the US & UK tax paying sheeple. To keep the myth of Ukraine supposedly winning alive, so our “leaders” can continue dumping $Billions into the US&UK MIC wide open, insatiable maw.

    None of these stunts – like all other similar previous stunts — have or will affect the relentless, grinding of Uki troops by the Russian military on the battlefield.

    • Replies: @Avery
    , @Commentator Mike
  156. eah says:
    @Been_there_done_that

    Ukraine promised to remain militarily neutral in its ‘declaration of state sovereignty’ passed and signed after the dissolution of the USSR — I don’t know if that had the force of law.

    As a world/peer power, Russia is entitled to a ‘sphere of influence’ — what is NATO if not a ‘sphere of influence’, one the US has constantly (and arrogantly) expanded? — not to mention the Monroe Doctrine; JFK was willing to risk WWIII to get Soviet weapons out of Cuba, yet Russia is supposed to tolerate NATO weapons in Ukraine — since the end of the Cold War, NATO is certainly not a credible defensive military alliance, since there is no credible military threat — it’s a tragedy that US policy toward Russia has largely been controlled by Jews with roots in that region and a historical grudge against Orthodox Russia — how much of a sacrifice would it have been to recognize the security interests of Russia and forgo NATO expansion? — was the expense of NATO membership really in the best interests of the former Soviet satellites, all of them struggling economically?

    The US is also now foolishly failing to regard China as a peer power — the responsible thing for any US government to do is hold talks to enable it to gracefully exit security guarantees given to Taiwan when China was backward and agrarian.

  157. @Commentator Mike

    You have to hand it to the Jews for having figured how to keep the flock together: proclaim yourself “chosen”, proclaim yourself eternal misunderstood victims because the “goyim” are jealous of you and refuse to accept your success and status as “chosen”, and as a corollary, cultivate collective paranoia by keeping the flock in constant fear of those nasty “goyim” whose only purpose in life is to harm the “chosen”. That said, I am not sure that any other people on Earth could pull the same trick.

  158. Avery says:
    @Avery

    Alistaire Crooke’s assessment:

    According to Alistaire’ sources:
    – Only 2 of the truck retractable roofs functioned.
    – Several other trucks’ retractable roofs malfunctioned.
    – In some cases Russian air defense took down the drones before they could cause damage.
    – Overall 5 T-95 strategic bombers were hit. 2 were possibly destroyed. 3 damaged heavily. A couple of other aircraft damaged.

    [Alastair Crooke : A Storm is Brewing in the West.]

    • Replies: @John Johnson
  159. @mulga mumblebrain

    I suspect that they’ll take it all the way to nuclear war. Perhaps Russia should do something, like blow Rockall out of the ocean, to show the Euros what their insane aggression WILL bring.

    I agree; I believe the Satanic “west” is making nuclear war inevitable. Everything they’re doing (or failing to do) points to this. I also believe there’s a good chance that Russia will soon realize (if they haven’t already) that they’re dealing with demon-possessed madmen and strike first.

  160. @Avery

    I think he corrected himself and called it “diversionary action”. He was covering both types of attacks in his podcast so he didn’t pay much attention to how he qualified them.

  161. We are as close to the big ones being unleashed since the Cuban missile crisis and clearly Trump is not putting any kind of restraint on the pervasive insanity of the deep state/Neocons. At the very least, the American intelligence complex provided imagery and locations of the Russian war planes. How extensively we helped them plan this attack is hard to say, but I believe it was likely. Sadly, some western idiots probably think this will help bring the Russians back to the negotiating table but they will double if not triple down. Ukraine is toast, perhaps the entire world will burn thanks to this latest provocation.

  162. @JWalters

    And if Congress gets its (ie, AIPAC’s) way, you could go to jail for mentioning it!

  163. ariadna says:
    @Franz

    Missing the point is his mission. It’s why I call most of his productions ” Lawrence leavings”

    • Agree: Franz
  164. ariadna says:

    BREAKING NEWS:
    “US senator posts ominous message to Greta Thunberg
    Lindsey Graham has said he hopes the activist, who is sailing to Gaza to protest the Israeli naval blockade, can swim.
    Joining the flotilla that aims to break Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip may end badly for Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, US Senator Lindsey Graham has warned in a post on X.

    On Sunday, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FCC) announced that one of its yachts, crewed by 12 people, including Thunberg, had left Sicily for Gaza with a “symbolic” cargo of humanitarian aid.

    “Hope Greta and her friends can swim!” wrote Graham, a staunch supporter of Israel and an ally of US President Donald Trump, apparently implying that Thunberg’s boat, the Madleen, could be sunk.

    The previous Freedom Flotilla mission was aborted in early May after one of the boats, named Conscience, was hit by two drones in international waters near Malta. The FCC blamed Israel for the attack. Israel did not comment.

    Thunberg said before her departure that “no matter how dangerous this mission is, it is nowhere near as dangerous as the silence of the entire world in the face of the lives being genocized [sic],” in the Gaza Strip.”

    ————————
    I don’t approve of Graham’s passivity. Instead of just posting messages on X he should don his best sailor outfit and hop on an Israeli speedboat to confront and sink that puny yacht.
    I have kept silent for too long. I have long been disappointed by Graham’s failure to lead by example and join the brave Israelis fighting terrorism. What does his support of Israel really boil down to? Just pushing billions of dollars its way? It’s not his money so I don’t consider that a personal effort.
    I want to see him in Gaza.

    • Replies: @Jim H
  165. @Harold Smith

    So unexplained Jewish conspiracy.

    More likely answer: Germany made the decision on their own just as they made the decision to not take part in the Iraq war. Bush asked them to join the coalition of the willing and they declined.

    Germany has also voted against Israel at the UN:
    https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Merkel-govt-continues-UN-assault-against-Israel-snubbing-German-Jews-609497

    Which means they went against US policy.

    So a Jewish conspiracy controlling Germany is highly unlikely.

    • Replies: @Harold Smith
  166. @Avery

    According to Alistaire’ sources:
    – Only 2 of the truck retractable roofs functioned.

    LOL is that the best damage control he can come up with? They hit 4 different bases but a banker turned Putin apologist says that only two of the trucks function as intended. Color me skeptical.

    Overall 5 T-95 strategic bombers were hit. 2 were possibly destroyed. 3 damaged heavily. A couple of other aircraft damaged.

    They hit 40 planes total.

    This was a successful attack.

    Angry dwarf is about to dwarf over it.

  167. @eah

    The Jewbenighted States of Amnesia is now so far BEHIND China economically, technologically and productively that Yankee jingoism is best ignored, as China is doing. It sends Trump et al berserk with impotent rage.

  168. Slavjansk says:

    Let’s go Slavs like the old days.

  169. @G23

    Russians are all bluster on this. We’ve crossed dozens of their “red lines” to date in this war, and they haven’t done shit.

    So you suggest we keep pushing them harder until their nuclear weapons hit us?

    • Replies: @Slavjansk
  170. Slavjansk says:

    It’s like the
    the Byzantines worked it out Slavs likes nothing better than to fight each other.

  171. ariadna says:

    MORE BREAKING NEWS, this time from France, busy re-examining its history to cleanse itself of “anti-semitism”

    A French parliamentary committee unanimously approved a bill this week to posthumously promote Alfred Dreyfus, more than 130 years after he was framed for treason in one of the defining antisemitic incidents of the 19th century.

    In what became known as the Dreyfus affair, Dreyfus, a Jewish French army captain, was falsely accused of espionage and convicted of treason in 1894, decades after the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian war. The trial — playing out in a Western European republic purportedly committed to equal rights — became an international scandal and symbol of enduring antisemitism on the continent. (NOTE: despite the fact that he was soon exonerated and returned to the military)

    This week, more than a century later, the French parliament’s National Defence and Armed Forces Committee unanimously voted to promote him to the rank of brigadier general.

    • Replies: @karel
  172. @eah

    Ukraine promised to remain militarily neutral in its ‘declaration of state sovereignty’…

    The link you provided states that this occurred in July 1990, which was prior to German unification. But the USSR did not dissolve until December 1991, one-and-a-half years later, at which time the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania had already become independent. The earlier declaration highlights that Ukrainians have been independent-minded, including most of those who speak Russian as a first language. Obviously, in light of developments over subsequent decades, that proclamation of neutrality was not necessarily binding.

    As a world/peer power, Russia is entitled to a ‘sphere of influence’…

    The text of the 1997 Paris agreement, which I quoted from, acknowledges such a reality but forbids this from being a pretext for limiting the sovereignty of another state, which is exactly what Putin decided to do. Therefore, the conflict is essentially between those (chauvinists) who determined that Ukraine, or at least parts of it, should be subjugated by or incorporated into Russia, and those (Ukrainians) who want to maintain their independence. In light of this very basic contrast, outsiders are being distracted with staged wailing about paranoid (imaginary) security threats to Russia.

    …NATO is certainly not a credible defensive military alliance, since there is no credible military threat…

    Everybody sees and understands the ongoing threat of the Russian military, which has waged a brutal war. Some say that if the three Baltic states had not joined NATO they would have likely already been re-invaded by now, under some flimsy pretext. Since itt has already been pointed out that some countries had rejected NATO membership for Ukraine and that Ukraine did not meet the criteria for joining, making this issue a focal point has been just another diversion from the fact that Russia has been provoking its European neighbors with its military threats, including missiles stationed in Königsberg / Kaliningrad.

  173. Slavjansk says:

    Like Jews like arguing Slavs unfortunately like fighting

  174. Slavjansk says:

    I remember in early days when guy walked in to automatic rifle fire.

  175. Notsofast says:
    @karel

    well if they are afraid of a good old fashioned liberation, maybe they should stop poking the bear with a stick. unfortunately what you say about the german people, is true of the entire western world. these people are all suffering from stockholm syndrome, so the solution is obvious, we must bomb stockholm flat, in order to break this dark spell that these evil swedes have woven over the world.

    • Replies: @karel
  176. Jim H says:
    @ariadna

    ‘[Lindsey Graham] should don his best sailor outfit’ — ariadna

    Mindful of Ted Kennedy’s drunken bungle of driving a car into a swamp, Graham is mortified at the prospect of being sarcastically tagged as Lifeguard Lindsey, should the mad-dog Israelis sink Greta’s boat.

    Of course, Miss Lindsey would be below deck getting proneboned by an IDF sailor, thus missing all the action (well, at least the public action).

  177. karel says:
    @Notsofast

    Without trying to be somewhat of a psychotherapist, it is my impression that Germans are unaware of poking the bear, but are convinced that not only Russians, but also other Slavic nations, are intrensically backward and need to be civilised by whatever means necessary. There is a sense of entitlement to whatever exists east of their borders. About forty years ago in Berlin, I heard stories that every other peasant had dreamt of receiving large blocks of land in Ukraine with hundreds of slaves to till the proverbial “Schwarzerde” as a reward for the “Endsieg”. Unfortunately, nobody would admit it nowadays.

    If you ever find some time, watch the film “Come and see”

    to understand the German sense of entitlement.

  178. karel says:
    @ariadna

    This week, more than a century later, the French parliament’s National Defence and Armed Forces Committee unanimously voted to promote him to the rank of brigadier general.

    What a joke.

  179. The Duran on the latest Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian air bases.

  180. @John Johnson

    So unexplained Jewish conspiracy.

    That there is a massive “jewish conspiracy” underway today – apparently seeking world domination and control by way of “devil worship,” i.e. calculated evil – is indisputably obvious. You asked me why biden didn’t order germany to give Taurus missiles to ukraine (vis-a-vis this conspiracy) and I gave you what I believe is the most plausible explanation. And the explanation I gave you is perfectly congruous with the pattern of steady incremental NATO escalation of the conflict we’ve seen over the last three years.

    More likely answer: Germany made the decision on their own…

    Define “[g]ermany” and explain in detail the relevant decision making process which makes your statement (at least somewhat) meaningful. For example, do the people who live within certain geographic boundaries all gather together and decide all such issues by plebiscite?

    …just as they made the decision to not take part in the Iraq war. Bush asked them to join the coalition of the willing and they declined.

    First, the so-called “coalition of the willing” you’re referring to was a political nothingburger. Second, to the extent it wasn’t the nothingburger that it was, the Iraq war you’re referring to happened over 20 years ago and it’s quite clear that the jewish grip on the corrupt “west” has tightened significantly since then. Finally, assuming arguendo that “they” are something other than a conveniently ambiguous abstraction, you’re just cherry picking. By your “reasoning” the fat orange bastard’s apparent recent snubbing of netanyahu, by itself, could and should be taken as conclusive evidence that jews don’t control the u.s. “government” – a conclusion which would be absurd on its face. Capisce?

    • Replies: @John Johnson
  181. @Anonymous

    In case you do not know, it works like this, write “Height Merz” (A) and “Height Zelensky” (B) into a search engine and then look at the result:

    A) https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250223-who-is-friedrich-merz-meet-the-man-set-to-be-germany-s-next-chancellor

    B) https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/how-tall-is-volodymyr-zelensky-internet-compares-his-height-to-trumps-as-they-meet-in-dc-101740761281693.html

    Or do you have direct access to those 2 fellas and a ruler nearby ?

  182. @Harold Smith

    So unexplained Jewish conspiracy.

    That there is a massive “jewish conspiracy” underway today – apparently seeking world domination and control by way of “devil worship,” i.e. calculated evil – is indisputably obvious. You asked me why biden didn’t order germany to give Taurus missiles to ukraine (vis-a-vis this conspiracy) and I gave you what I believe is the most plausible explanation.

    That’s not even a full conspiracy theory. You’re not explaining why some shadow group of Jews decided to hold back on the Taurus. You have no explanation of motivation.

    Saying stuff like devil worship is no different than an African blaming witches for a bad crop.

    By your “reasoning” the fat orange bastard’s apparent recent snubbing of netanyahu, by itself, could and should be taken as conclusive evidence that jews don’t control the u.s. “government” – a conclusion which would be absurd on its face. Capisce?

    I don’t think the Jews control Trump.

    It’s possible but I think he wants his family to have Near-Jew access for business connections.

    He is really just a corrupt NYC slumlord Democrat. He probably made Jewish connections well before he went into politics. Most American Jews live in NYC and LA. Trump was actually a longtime NYC Democrat who fundraised for Hillary.

    He is also surrounded by Rapture Ready Republicans. They are basically a doomsday cult.

    Our problems are more complicated than One Grand Jewish Conspiracy. Fox is a non-Jewish TV conservative network and they actually promoting censorship to where they want to round up student protestors. The most pro-Israel politicians are Evangelicals and both Trump and Rep Johnson have admonished Schumer for not being Jewish enough.

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