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Martin Bassani's avatar

This is Empire’s war against Russia. Russia is a not as strong as it is often made to appear. Ukraine cannot win this war alone, but Empire sees Russia’s weakness, as an opportunity. Russia is constantly depicted by many as being near victory but that victory never seems to materialize. And yet, European (Imperial) propaganda is that Russia poses a threat to Europe. How can Russia that is unable to quickly prevail in Ukraine, be a credible threat? Money/financial system of the West needs a reset. Traditionally, that has meant wars. Of course, that was all before the advent of nuclear weapons. At the center of Empire resides demonic power. At this point this is the only viable explanation I can come up with.

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epimetheus's avatar

That's the weird thing I find myself also pondering: if you listen to Russia's fans, it's like Moscow could wipe the floor (with Ukraine, I get that one but I'm not really sold on it: what's keeping them? Sure, some part of it seems geared towards domestic laws, such as the legal obligation to 'liberate' the newly conquered regions; other aspects, however, still befuddle me, like, e.g., the whole Russia-is-a-threat-to-Europe stuff, which seems overblown to a certain extent*.)

I'm gravitating more and more towards the notion that Russian elites and Western elites are in sync on core issues (CBDBs, vaccines, WHO stuff, etc.), which makes the Kremlin's protectionist stance on 'their' fellow Russian-speakers in Ukraine quite…a ploy.

My personal take chimes with yours: politicians are a façade, with the real owners--intergenerational moneyed dynasties pulling the strings, both in the West and in Russia (as well as, albeit seemingly to somewhat lesser degrees, in China and India, too)--are quite plausibly deeply enmeshed in freemasonry/symbolism bordering on the Luciferian (although that, too, might be a ruse for the lesser rungs of the inner party…

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Martin Bassani's avatar

I am with you on these things. Russia’s elites are in sync on core issues, which means the conflict is not what is usually described for us. The final task is unification of all oligarchies into one. Multipolarity is just a stage on that journey. There is definitely a secret society at the center of it all. Judging by the fruits of their labor it can only be described as demonic. I usually do not speculate about bloodlines, Illuminati, and such simply because I do not know enough about it, and because what we presently know is plenty to act on. I certainly do not wish to see the world they’d like to fashion for us.

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epimetheus's avatar

As to the secret societies and their role, well, I don't know too much (Quigley's Anglo-American Establishment is still on my shelf), but at least with the Rothshilds, Morgans, and Rockefellers we can be quite sure; as to their (?) political henchmen, well, the Clintons and Bushes are quite known, as is the establishment's visceral hatred of esp. Nixon, America's last president with a full popular mandate (see his 1972 victory). Beyond that, I suppose there's a ton of stuff we don't know about…

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Kristiina's avatar

Fancy-schmansy media blasts look to be working excellently in the media. A mad dog strategy is, of course better optics compared to relentless losing on the battlefield. It helps me to put in context the Ukrainian strategy if I think that they are the arms merchants' salesmen. Just like a certain country in the eastern mediterranean pummels the local population to showcase their weapons systems. They are not out to solve anything or achieve aims, they're there to keep the show going and sales channels hot.

In our local taxpayer funded news, the headers scream: Most of Russian air force destroyed https://yle.fi/a/74-20165142

They are still running it today, not the corrected numbers. Makes one wonder what portion of the slop we are fed is entirely imaginary.

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epimetheus's avatar

Makes a lot of sense, even it produces dead bodies continuously. It's disgusting, that's what it is.

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Kristiina's avatar

Grottasöngr, a poem about two slave giantesses, tells about how their owners always overshoot in their greed, and end up destroying themselves. A lesson never learned, it seems. But just like the covid episode has forced me to entirely change my view on my health, and consequently, my eating, and the medical system, too, this war circus forces me to look at states and what they serve - not in words or media stunts but in action. Not a pretty picture. Life really has helped me peel off scales from my eyes. Truth is always beneficial, more so than pretty lies. Hard to look at, though.

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epimetheus's avatar

Same with me. While I admit to have consumed 'conspiracy theories' before Covid, the so-called Pandemic™ was, indeed, an eye-opening experience.

Reality is very hard look at, esp. if you have children (aged 8 and 11, in my case), but there's neither a substitute for reality nor for the necessity of meeting it. Those who refuse to do so may stay at the children's table

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Rikard's avatar

The hype is because this was the first field-test of the new weapon: Drone swarm.

Several versions are under development:

Katyusha-style faf-ramps that can be mounted on most any truck or lorry, for short-range (meaning several km at least) attacks; the drones using an algorithm for target identification, which means that they will not randomly dive into a vehicle but will attempt to hit fuel tanks, optics and such.

Carrier-drones that releases a swarm deep into enemy territory and then returns to collect more.

Drones carrying missiles/torpedoes as above.

Not just munitions is possible - transmitters guiding cruise missiles to their targets has already been used.

For Russia, even though it wouldn't appear so from pure material losses, this is a disaster (same for China): it eradicates their advantages of numbers and territory, which are their two greatest strengths. Even if they would produce their own drone swarm weapons (and why Russia hasn't done so already is mystifying - China is doing it) and counter-measures (i.e. counter-drones).

While Ukraine can never defeat Russia thanks to lack of manpower, with the drone-tech and targeting supplied by EU/NATO and pals, it can strike targets deep inside Russia without spending a single life or needing the logistics for a major combined arms operation to attempt a blitz-and-breakthrough.

Hence the hype. The Russian's shat their pants from this attack, because they realise this:

"What if Ukraine is supplied with tens of thousands of drones with a range from 10k to 100k, guided by satellite imagery, and using an AI-algorithm to perfect strike targeting, and launches all of them at once?".

It is very much the inverse of Israel's "Iron Dome" and the reason behind Trump's noises about a "Golden Dome".

And since Russia's production capabilites for drone weaponry is not all that great, this may just have been the game-changer that forces them to negotiate to buy time to build such a system of their own.

This time, the hype was warranted.

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epimetheus's avatar

I respectfully disagree, at least partially.

I'm with you on the tech replaces humans on the battlefield part: (semi)autonomous robots with weapons, remote-controlled drones, etc. are evolving super-fast, and they may eventually replace humans on the front-line. We've been observing this for 3+ years in Ukraine now.

Yet, and here's where I disagree with you, if that argument is largely true (which I think it is), than Russia surely knows that their strategic bomber fleet, tanks, and other modern weaponry that requires humans to employ--is obsolete. Hence, I don't believe 'Russians' shat their pants' as the main value of that kind of military hardware would be a) its retail value to other countries and b) rapidly depreciating as esp. drones are so much more cheaper than a big strategic bomber already (which, let's not forget, also needs a yuuuuuge logistics/support system behind it), and adoption of drones and (semi)autonomous robots permits medium-sized and small countries to technologically leapfrog and, what's perhaps more 'problematic' from the point of view of great powers, overcome the issue of numbers. As a case-in-point, I point to the Houthis of Yemen.

Hence, your comment, while certainly food for thought, espouses contradictory arguments.

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