The 'Warmongers' had a field-day when Trump reconfirmed that he feels strongly that NATO-countries need to contribute their fair share in order to receive NATO protection. Nothing new, really, because he came out publicly with the same general idea when he was president. This time he 'framed' it as …
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Don't tell me this shit show is for real
What can we expect from this new general Syrskyi who is commanding the troops of Ukraine, after the dismissal of Zalushny and his staff? Apparently he has promised Zelensky to prevent the collapse of Avdieevka, while most 'mappers', including seriously pro-Ukrainian 'mappers', concur that the former…
Who can you trust to do the right thing
Entirely predictable responses to the Tucker Carlson interview along 'established party lines', and people already in a deep hole took it upon themselves to increase their efforts to dig even deeper. The Dutch minister of War responded by telling the state media that there was simply no limit to wha…
The Carlson interview
If you didn't see the Tucker Carlson interview with Putin, I recommend you do that over the weekend. From a western point of view it was an unorthodox, lengthy talk lasting two hours, with Putin doing most of the talking, while it was clearly not scripted in any sense. Right at the start, Putin want…
Nuland calling the shots
Victoria Nuland flew to Kiev to talk to her ‘boys’, who ended up fighting among themselves after all the 2023 failures, as Zelensky intended to sack Zalushny, and replace him by Budanov as over all commander of the military. Zalushny, apparently with political backing from Porochenko and Klitschko…
Hey, Stupid, don't make it worse
In my previous contribution I referred to NATO as an organization with a policy. But that not everyone within the organization is aware of that policy, and that someone like Zelensky, hoping to receive the nod from NATO, never knew that his country was being used to lure the Russians into another ‘…
How on earth did we end up with another war in Europe
In 2007 the Russian president Vladimir Putin came to Munich, announced that he would speak freely, without being overly diplomatic, and in his speech he told his NATO colleagues that he wanted to negotiate a lasting, and binding agreement to secure peace and stability in all of Europe. Referring to
Another MH-17-type accident associated with Ukraine
Another ‘MH-17’-type tragedy related to Ukraine, where the Ukrainians used their NATO delivered air defense systems to shoot down a Russian transport aircraft on its way to Belgorod with a load of sixty-five Ukrainian Prisoners of War on board. There cannot be much debate about whether the aircraf…
What happens if Ukraine loses the war
Do we, as Europeans, need to prepare a suitcase with the essentials yet? An increasing number of ‘experts’ and officials are warning us to prepare for war with Russia. Which includes the Chair of NATO’s Military Committee, Admiral Bauer. Now, during the ‘Cold War’ this kind of pressure was m…
Till the last human being
Medvedev, former president of Russia, and at the time considered to be more lenient towards the west, is active on ‘X’ and ‘Telegram’, issuing one warning after the other to the NATO-countries to stop escalating. In a recent message he wrote that the people of Ukraine had no other choice than …
Regaining control over the drones
An increasing number of western ‘experts’ are warning that war with Russia is around the corner. More than just a few of them insist that they predicted this, but that their warnings fell on ‘deaf ears’. But save for the odd exception, one or two truly die-hard ‘Cold Warriors’ who never go…
Who are those people
Ukraine reported it shot down two valuable Russian aircraft over the Sea of Azov. The Kremlin denied it happened. Others said that it had been a ‘friendly fire’ incident involving a single Il-20 ‘Coot’ maritieme patrol aircraft, which was hit by shrapnel from the warhead of a Buk missile, but …
Are we still allowed to dream of a peaceful world
After the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, where Hutus and Twa slaughtered people identified as Tutsis by the thousands, people around the world, abhorred by this senseless killing spree, unaware of power-players in western countries looking for control over the vast resources in the country, came up with a…
About the death of American journalist Gonzalo Lira
The American journalist Gonzalo Lira died in custody in Ukraine. He had been reporting from Kharkov from the very beginning. To bring him home after his arrest would have been the easiest thing to do for Joe Biden and his team, since they were paying all the bills for that country. But obviously the…
Are you paying attention yet
Honesty is about offering your point of view without an agenda. This point of view may be valid, or not really. Usually to be determined after all the facts are in, even if diehard opponents may deny you the credit. There are situations where we are forgiven for not speaking our mind. To grease a re…
Is it about time for a new narrative
Ukraine conscripts 50.000 women into the army according to reports, while a prosecutor said the country lost 500.000 men, and is ‘bleeding’ 30.000 per month. The women won’t be employed as nurses only, and Russian reports about finding trenches full of dead women are no longer to be discarded as …
Take your time and think things through
A dialogue depends on ‘back-and-forth’. You exchange facts, arguments, points of view, looking for solutions to conflicts before violent acts are making it next to impossible to find a way out, and restore the peace. That was why we needed diplomats. Remember? And ‘weapons inspectors’. Well, o…
Do you want to go to Hell
Massive strikes for several days on Kiev and other cities were reported after Ukraine attacked a Christmas market in Belgorod. Though the Russian attacks were listed as retaliation, they did not target Christmas markets or anything similar. They struck the Artem and Luch plants, where drones and mis…
The concept of Yin and Yang
Does a country at war strike military targets, or civilian targets? Does a country, or a warring party, use the civilian population as a shield? Was an object hit by offensive, or defensive weapons? What was the person who fired a weapon aiming at?
In war civilians do get killed, though t…