Posted on 07/19/2022 8:22:34 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
But, you and your ilk are going to have to face reality soon enough. Here's an article to help you get there:
https://sonar21.com/operation-z-dont-interrupt/
OPERATION Z – DON’T INTERRUPT
One of Napoleon’s observations is that you should never interrupt your enemies when they are making a mistake. Russians know this, not least because they were careful not to interrupt Napoleon himself in 1812. Putin and his team have had plenty of opportunities to meet NATO’s leaders, observe them, negotiate with them and assess them. It’s unlikely they’re very impressed. But when they started their “special military operation” in Ukraine they could never have dreamed how self-destructive NATO would be.
What mistakes? First, the West has not shot itself in the foot with its economic sanctions – Hungary’s Viktor Orban is right when he observes that it has put a slug into its lungs. One can still limp along with a broken foot, but a shot to the lungs is pretty serious. Second, who in Moscow could have imagined that NATO would shovel its ammunition and weapons stockpiles into the Ukrainian black hole in the expectation that if they can get the latest wonderwaffe to General Steiner they’ll be in Moscow by Christmas.
A good reason for Moscow to take it slowly – let the mistakes develop, compound and metastasize. It’s happening by itself. Naturally, inevitably, logically. No outside effort required. An unexpected bonus.
Don’t interrupt.
Consider Germany, “the engine of Europe“. It stands on one thing – the reputation of German engineering and quality – Mercedes/Miele/Bosch, they may cost more but they’re cheaper in the long run because they’re so well made. No Western country manufactures much these days but Germany still does. In fact, only South Korea and China have a bigger share of their economies in manufacturing. (America, the colossus of former times, is half Germany!) But manufacturing needs energy. German energy comes from Russia – not all of it – about 20%. But coal is 40% and nuclear 10% and they have to reduce these because Greta wants them to which means they need more gas which is cheaper and “cleaner” and which mostly comes from Russia which requires another pipeline to be built. But then they decide that Ukraine is The Big Moral Issue and close the pipeline and step up coal which they’re going to get rid of altogether in 2030 thanks to more wind energy. And what about the nukes? Unicorn wings flapping. Hard to be green and hate Russia too.
And let’s ban potash from Russia and Belarus. That’s about a third of world production. Ban Russian wheat (it is the number 1 exporter) and oil (it is the number 2 exporter).
Oh, and by confiscating Russian assets they’ve shown the whole world that only an idiot would keep his wealth in NATO currency in a NATO bank.
And all this for a country they lied to about NATO membership.
Don’t interrupt.
Scene – Napoleon’s study – flunky enters “Mon Empereur, your enemies have banned a big energy exporter, a big food exporter and a big fertilizer exporter.” Will Napoleon shout “Stop it, mes chers ennemis, you’re going to destroy yourselves with inflation!” Probably not.
Everybody eats food and everything needs energy, their prices will rise and pull every other price up with them. EU inflation in May was 8.8%. But it hasn’t got liftoff yet – UK energy prices are set to rise 65% in October with another hike in January. It’s just begun.
Trouble in the streets all over Europe and two of the smug seven gone a month later.
Don’t interrupt.
Javelin anti-tank missiles were the wonderwaffe a few months ago – in mid April America had sent a third of its stockpile. That’s three or four years to replace. A quarter of its Stinger stocks. Vovan and Lexus got the UK Defense Minister to admit the UK had sent so many anti-tank missiles that it was running out. The Czech Republic is just about out of stuff to send. France has given up 18 months’ production of its Caesar guns.
And Kiev wants still more. Now that Kiev’s NATO backers have come up with the crazy idea of giving guns that need NATO ammunition, 155mm ammunition stocks are running down fast. If Ukraine is really firing 3000 155mm shells a day, that will burn the entire US annual production in a few weeks. And so on. War consumes astounding levels of ammunition – the Russians know this because they remember – they’re never allowed to forget – 1941-1945. NATO thinks blowing up, in wars of choice, at its leisure, people in sandals is the gold standard of military achievement. I again recommend reading The Return of Industrial Warfare. Russia is keeping up production but NATO isn’t and, absent a very long lead time (and a lot of other changes that you know perfectly well will never happen in FIRE-centered economies) can’t.
Even The Economist has noticed – Europe’s winter of discontent. (Still thinks that it’s Putin that put the double-tap into the lung though. But it is The Economist which has done its bit to bring us to this point.)
Why would Moscow want this to end any time soon? Time is working and the enemy is making lots of mistakes.
Don’t interrupt.
Awesome post.
“Russia can’t defeat Ukraine and they’re starting to come to grips with this fact.”
Ukraine has the best NATO trained and supplied army in Europe, yet Russia is still managing to defeat them. Ukraine has already lost close to 40% of it’s best trained and motivated troops, and much of their supplies. Ukraine has been reduced to capturing fellow Ukrainians off the streets into forced conscription into their army.
It’s you Ukie supporters who haven’t come to grips with these facts. But go ahead and keep it up and watch Russia take Odessa in the fall. Once Odessa falls, NATO will have little incentive to keep things going, it’s one of the few things of value Ukraine has left.
it’s quite sad that you’ve stooped to this level of BS propaganda. I’ve come to expect it from MucusMaximum and a few trolls but this is beneath you.
It’s only Rooskie Rock n Roll but I like it. This kinda ties in with diseased Pirate Putin now heading up the Islamic/ Kadyrovite Jihad against the righteous Orthodox and Catholic Christians of Ukraine.
For Poooty Poot — Every day is talk like a Pirate day.
Pooty especially jacks off when he threatens to launch his Satan 2 hypersonics against Finland, Great Britain and so on. This Poooty kook will be threatening Croatia, Lichtenstein and Italy next. Don’t get on his Shiite list or he will cut off your Gaz Prom.
Oaf Doltz of Germany will be gone when July 23rd comes and goes without a restart of Nordstream 1.
The media makes up a lot of stuff, something like this would be a piece of cake for them to make up. For example, "experimental mutant troops" is not in the article anywhere but the headline. Accusations that the troops are on performance enhancing and mood altering drugs is, however, but that's not as sensational sounding. Still crazy talk? Maybe. But not turning them into mutants, that's made up.
BS. You do it every single day.
I think SpZZdy’s explanation would be something like this.
Schiff:"What is the nature of the Komprimate? Has Putin seen this picture? "
Radio spoofer: "Da, of course."
The source is Kommersant.ru, a Moscow based, Kremlin approved Russian propaganda outlet. You can click the link Allison provided in her story.
Surprisingly, the last paragraph quotes an actual scientist debunking the nutty politician. I guess he’s too kooky even for Russia, though not for qtards.
They can make this stuff up, and they do.
For all of you who aren’t Biden Administration shills or so elderly that you can’t get your mind out of 1982, here’s what the actual Russian story is:
https://southfront.org/kiev-conducted-extremely-dangerous-research-in-its-biolabs/
By the way, the US government and our ever-so-greedy “public health” and educational institutions, as well as Big Pharma have illegally conducted biochemical experiments on US and Canadian citizens in the past. Leaving aside the Nuremberg-worthy example of the “vax”, see https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/cia-mkultra-collection/
It is far from implausible that the Ukraine government (with the full knowledge and encouragement of the our esteemed government) did exactly what is described in the article. I don’t doubt that the Soviets did the same sort of thing way back when.
But my point is that the Yahoo article, like all of the MSM trash, is about as credible as a Bill Clinton denial. People posting this stuff are, to put it mildly, uncomfortable with any facts that don’t support the “Russian government evil; Ukraine government and governments of the West good” storyline, which, of course, is thinking at the level of comic books.
Oh, yeah, as I recall Hunter may have had a piece of the biolab action. Perhaps someone might look into that.
Well quoting some nutjob Russian politician is no more relevant than quoting some nutjob US politician, it’s only what those having real power have to say that counts. As far as the biolabs go, the only credible accusations I’ve seen coming from Russia have been about the research into infecting migrating birds with a disease that could kill off Russian livestock. This article mentions hepatitis A which is just minor food poisoning and an unlikely bioweapon, so I give it no credibility.
This is peanuts. I can remember when Carvelle called Ken Starr an alien.
Aliens can take mutants any time. How stupid does this have to get?
wy69
the stupid should burn!!
The media makes stuff up all the time. We’ll see how this plays out.
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