It’s a slam-packed issue, today.
Possibly my longest post, ever.
We’ve got American politics…..
…..(my headline pic shows Florida’s governor, staring down Disney)…..
…..British politics…..
…..and, as often happens…..
…..PLENTY of war…..
…..with a focus, among other things…..
…..on Uncle Sam’s n***** solution for modern warfighting…..
…..as well as…..
…..on misinterpretation of data…..
…..by flaky cheerleaders…..
…..for the Russian side.
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The biggest threat
Folks, it’s no exaggeration…..
…..to say that Ron “Desanctimonious“…..
…..has become a BIGGER threat…..
…..to the Republican party…..
…..than Trump.
In fact, the very moniker, “Desanctimonious“…..
…..which I thought, was silly…..
…..now once again shows…..
…..Trump’s branding genius.
Every time I prepare…..
…..to write off Trump…..
…..as a retard…..
He again, begins to shine.
Now…..
Backing up a bit.
In a late stage…..
…..corporate-oligarchic republic…..
…..with a “window dressing“…..
…..of totally “managed“, elite-funded-and-instigated…..
…..popular participation…..
…..such as what we have in the USA…..
Especially, given the “convergence“…..
…..of the two parties…..
…..on almost anything that will really matter to history…..
Ideology is as important as ever.
That is…..
To get the idiots to vote…..
You must maintain…..
…..not only some tribal feelings and divisions…..
…..but also, an IDEOLOGICAL VENEER.
In short…..
It would be hard to get the idiots…..
…..to come out and vote…..
…..in national elections…..
…..if both parties simply admitted…..
…..that they’re just self-serving clubs or networks…..
…..of political careerists…..
…..who front for various Business Interests….
…..and primitive tribal and sectarian interests…..
…..but first and foremost…..
…..Business Interests.
Each party needs an ideological SCREEN.
Now…..
In the case of today’s Republicans…..
Their ideology…..
…..has worn THIN.
First off…..
With respect to foreign policy…..
The parties have switched roles.
Broadly generalizing…..
The Republican base…..
…..is now the “peace party“…..
…..that Democrats were in the 1970s and 1980s.
(Anyone here old enough to remember, “Hands off Nicaragua”? LOL. Yes, folks, there was a time when a Democrat Congress was so hard against funding anti-communist rebels in Central America, that Reagan’s people had to raise money by STEALING and fencing U.S. Army hardware to the Ukraine, uhh, sorry, I meant, to Iran. Since I’m on a roll….. In the political science department office at my undergrad school in the early 2000’s, the walls were plastered with Soviet propaganda / Soviet tourism posters. There was one prof who used to tell his classes about his wonderful tour of East Germany in the 1980s, how it wasn’t bad like Western propaganda would have you believe. Man alive, can you imagine what these same people (the ones still alive) believe today?)
However…..
The military-industrial complex…..
…..now grips BOTH parties so firmly…..
…..(This was NOT the case in the 1970s and 1980s)…..
…..that Republicans in Congress…..
…..simply can’t AFFORD…..
…..to reflect their base.
The party is also divided…..
…..on cultural issues.
The hard base is still very conservative.
Meanwhile…..
The Republican National Committee…..
…..aims to attract money…..
…..from rich homeless sexuals…..
…..and from “woke” corporations…..
…..which require it to toe the LGBTQ+++++++++ line.
The party also has no single “line“…..
…..on matters such as “1/6.”
Was it an outrageous…..
…..1861-style “insurrection“…..
…..as Mitch McConnell and Rupert Murdoch…..
…..would have you believe?
Or was it an act of protest…..
…..with a few provocateurs…..
…..and a few unfortunate incidents…..
…..and overreaction by jumpy, undertrained police…..
…..who killed a few people…..
…..but otherwise…..
…..a peaceful demonstration of opinion…..
…..comparable to the 2020 nationwide “summer of love“…..
…..which was broadly cheered, justified, and/or discounted…..
…..by the Democrats?
Well, the base thinks the latter.
There are still other divergences.
On censorship, the vakkseenz, etc.
Some of these disagreements…..
…..being WITHIN THE BASE ITSELF.
HOWEVER…..
What ALL Republicans can still agree on…..
In fact…..
The ONLY thing they still agree about…..
Is that “the state” should step back…..
…..and let business “do its thing.”
That is…..
Don’t oppress or antagonize entities….
…..who cut paychecks…..
…..and pay taxes.
Now you see where this is going.
Ron “Desanctimonious“…..
In his stupid war with Disney…..
Is threatening to upend…..
…..the ONLY thing they all…..
…..(except for Ron and his administration)…..
…..agree on.
Their last ideological leg.
Now…..
Why is it…..
…..that Desanctimonious…..
…..could not simply take…..
…..a victory lap…..
…..after passing legislation…..
…..that keeps Florida schools…..
…..from lecturing kindergarteners…..
…..and elementary schoolers…..
…..about homeless sexuality…..
…..and transgenderism?
Who cares, if Disney didn’t like the bill?
Disney doesn’t make the laws.
Just let Disney have its free speech…..
…..and move on with your life.
As Trump would say…..
“Take the win!”
But no…..
Desanctimonious had to respond…..
…..VENGEFULLY…..
…..like some insecure dictator…..
…..by attempting to revoke…..
…..Disney’s “Hezbollah“, state-within-a-state status.
LOL.
Do Republicans REALLY want to be…..
…..in the position…..
…..of taking over zoning…..
…..for Disney World?
I didn’t think so.
This goes against “small-government conservativism.”
And, conservativism generally.
I mean…..
If it works, leave it alone, right?
Isn’t that conservativism…..
…..in a nutshell?
But, even aside from that…..
Why molest the golden goose?
Disney is Florida’s largest private employer.
Just let them be.
Now, at this time…..
Most of the national Republican party…..
Including the Speaker of the House…..
And, even “retirees“…..
…..such as Trump and Christie…..
Is coming down on Desanctimonious.
Saying, leave Disney alone.
“Stop this stupid fight.”
Why do they feel strongly about it?
Because, again…..
It’s their last pillar.
Their last leg.
It’s all they’ve got.
Without it…..
There’s no ideology.
The party becomes…..
…..just a self-serving…..
…..club or network(s)…..
…..of political careerists.
ALSO…..
What Desanctimonious has done…..
…..in living up to his moniker…..
…..is given the Democrats HUGE ammo…..
…..in terms of talking points…..
…..that they’d use against him…..
…..and the party…..
…..in the 2024 election.
(Not that he’ll make it that far, just saying.)
“See, the Republicans like to complain about censorship, but look how they tried to shut down Disney. They can’t handle any criticism at all!”
I can just hear it now.
This guy, Desanctimonious…..
…..is so damn smart…..
…..that he’s outsmarted himself.
And now…..
He’s on the outs…..
…..with his own, national party.
As I said…..
…..about two months ago…..
He’s done.
He won’t even make it to the primaries.
Prepare to chalk this up…..
…..as another manifested prophecy…..
…..from Dreizin.
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Why Assange is a “political prisoner“:
It’s not entirely what you think
I heard that a bunch…..
…..of U.S. and UK actors…..
…..and other famed dipshits…..
…..have signed a letter…..
…..on behalf of Naval’nyi.
You know…..
“Russia’s number one political prisoner.”
I guess these mental cripples…..
…..forgot about Julian Assange.
I’d like to point out…..
…..that Assange’s appeal…..
…..against extradition to the U.S……
…..has been pending…..
…..for close to TEN MONTHS.
Prior to that…..
The UK’s High Court…..
…..took literally ALMOST ALL OF 2021…..
…..(almost a year!)…..
…..to overturn a lower judge’s cancelation…..
…..of his extradition order.
After that…..
The UK Government…..
…..took another SIX MONTHS…..
…..just to sign the paper, approving his extradition…..
…..(which he’s now appealing.)
Assange is like Sean Connery’s character…..
…..in The Rock.
They just lock him up (with no trial)…..
…..and throw away the key.
They know…..
…..that if they FINALLY extradite him…..
It would piss off…..
…..a bunch of old-school…..
…..”grudge against the capitalist USA” lefties…..
…..who still retain clout…..
…..in the UK’s news media…..
…..and in the Labor Party’s activist base.
These people have gone along…..
…..(some of them, eagerly)…..
…..with the war on Russia…..
BUT…..
They still DESPISE the USA.
They do NOT want…..
…..to be total shills for Uncle Sam.
Moreover…..
I imagine they’re still fuming…..
…..about what Tony Blair…..
…..did to their party…..
…..and, Assange ties in with that…..
…..as a HERO…..
…..with respect to resisting the Iraq war…..
…..in the information arena.
In short, extraditing Assange…..
…..would CRACK…..
…..the U.S.-UK unity front…..
……from the UK lefty side.
(A big enough problem before the Ukraine war, an insurmountable one now.)
Like everyone else…..
…..who reads the news…..
The UK High Court…..
…..KNOWS Assange is in poor health…..
…..due to stress…..
…..(he had a stroke, a few years ago)…..
…..and in a sad state, psychologically…..
…..and they’re obviously HOPING…..
…..that he just “goes away“…..
…..(either dies, or becomes a vegetable, or his mind “goes” to the point that he can no longer stand trial)…..
…..BEFORE they must make…..
…..a decision.
Keep in mind…..
His last three years in a UK jail…..
…..have been on grounds…..
…..of waiting for trial…..
…..for skipping bail in 2012.
(For an alleged rape in Sweden, for which the charges were DROPPED in 2017, after one of two accusers admitted she made up her story.)
Yet, the UK clearly has no intent…..
…..to try him at all!
I mean…..
Where is the trial?
He’s been jailed for three years already!
I’m not sure how this is legal.
They are denying him a trial…..
…..for what he’s SUPPOSEDLY locked up for…..
…..and just waiting for him to die…..
…..or become comatose…..
…..or have a psychotic break.
For as long as they are doing this…..
…..to EVEN ONE PERSON…..
They cannot credibly claim…..
…..to be any “better“…..
…..than, say, Russia.
Not even getting into…..
…..the U.S. charges against him…..
The Assange case…..
.….(the way it’s been handled by the UK)…..
…..is TOTALLY political.
Assange is a PAWN of UK politics.
Thus…..
Assange is a political prisoner.
Bakhmut is not about Bakhmut

Folks…..
I discuss the above document…..
…..and more…..
…..in the below audio file.
Please listen to it.
(Audio file length: 2:50)
Larry Johnson is a dumbass
Even squares out in the Heartland…..
…..who’ve never heard of Larry Johnson…..
…..will enjoy this lesson on statistics…..
…..and willful ignorance….
…..and being lost in translation…..
…..and…..
…..(this is where it definitely gets interesting for everyone)…..
…..the difference between World War 2…..
…..and today.
So, here goes.
I was informed that Larry wrote…..
…..on April 25th…..
…..that the Ukraine has suffered…..
…..at least 30,000 KIA in the “last 60 days.”
This clown is STILL taking…..
…..Russian daily claims…..
…..of Ukrainian casualties…..
…..and assuming they are all dead…..
…..when in fact, about 80%…..
…..(if it even happened)…..
…..are WOUNDED.
You see…..
Russia usually uses the term “lost.”
As in, “the enemy lost X number.”
But in Russian…..
…..as in other languages…..
Losses include WOUNDED.
(Most of them, not wounded severely.)
More to the point…..
In Russian military parlance…..
Wounded are ALWAYS…..
…..referred to as “losses“…..
…..because they are “lost” to duty…..
…..and to their units…..
…..at least, for some time.
You’d think a guy…..
…..who claims to have worked…..
…..as a CIA analyst…..
…..and a “military planner“…..
…..would have figured this out…..
…..AFTER MORE THAN A YEAR.
(BTW, in those cases where Russia says, more specifically, that it killed X number of enemy in some given sector, it always says “as many as X.” Never, actually, X. It’s all speculative… Of course, to the upside.)
As Trump might say…..
The CIA is not sending their best.
ALSO…..
I heard that Larry…..
…..is still backpedaling…..
…..from his claims of…..
…..(I’m not quoting, just a summary)…..
…..”The 21 year-old National Guardsman could not have been the leaker, because I worked for the CIA and I know how everything works, and that’s not how it works.”
LOL.
As I understand…..
Larry left Government service…..
…..over 20 years ago.
Maybe, 25.
They likely didn’t even have…..
…..the sort of databases…..
…..and access issues, then…..
…..that they do now.
Look…..
Why follow a guy…..
…..who is ALWAYS wrong…..
…..about EVERYTHING?
Remember…..
As I pointed out at the time…..
Larry LITERALLY DENIED…..
…..(and I have the screenshots)…..
…..that the Ukraine’s successful…..
…..(tactically, not strategically)…..
…..Kharkov offensive…..
…..last September…..
…..was even happening…..
…..or, if somehow it was…..
…..that it mattered at all…..
…..because, well…..
…..he just couldn’t bear it, psychologically.
LOL.
Someone tell his loyal groupies…..
This guy is wrong…..
…..ALL THE TIME.
Fact is, today, no force on Earth…..
…..could suffer 30,000 dead…..
…..(which also means, with modern first-aid and the opportunity for medical evacuation to modern facilities, about 120,000 wounded, not to mention thousands of prisoners and deserters)…..
…..in TWO MONTHS…..
…..and still be in the field…..
…..resisting an enemy.
This sort of thing (and much worse)…..
…..happened in World War 2…..
…..when there was mass conscription…..
…..and opposing forces…..
…..(e.g., on the “Eastern Front”, or in China)…..
…..were MILLIONS strong.
(Note, there have been postwar conflicts lasting a week or some weeks, in which the casualty stream was at the above RATE, however, those wars DID NOT and COULD NOT last for two months.)
It is NOT possible, today.
As for this war, specifically…..
The Ukraine is just not…..
…..THAT big and strong.
As I’ve covered at length…..
About HALF of the Ukraine’s prime conscription pool…..
…..left the country in 2014-2021.
Its entire force…..
…..including all militia…..
…..and strategic reserves…..
…..(many of them, still in training)…..
…..and uniformed logistical and administrative personnel…..
…..and foreign volunteers/mercs…..
…..is “only” about 400,000…..
…..and, as I’ve written…..
…..even with INTENSIVE foreign help….
…..it struggles to train, organize, equip…..
…..even 10,000 conscripts a month.
As for Dreizin…..
Remember, Dreizin told you…..
…..last summer (or early autumn)….
…..that the Ukraine…..
…..since day one…..
…..has taken an average of…..
…..97 plus or minus 3 KIA each day…..
…..(and you can multiply 4X for wounded, of whom around 1/4 will need months of treatment/therapy, if not demobilization)…..
…..and, so many dipshit readers…..
…..couldn’t handle it…..
…..because they figured it must be…..
…..five or ten times higher?
Well, since then…..
I’ve seen very credible people…..
…..on the Russian side…..
…..saying more or less…..
…..the same thing.
You’re welcome.
But…..
If you still want to be lied to…..
Well, obviously…..
You have options.
Direct budget support for the Ukraine
Folks, when I’m wrong…..
I come clean…..
…..as soon as I can.
Writing about the Ukraine’s funding needs…..
I was wrong in my claims…..
…..that the Ukraine’s budget…..
…..was fully, “publicly” funded through March…..
…..and then the “black box“…..
…..(where cash must be moving “off the books”, or without legal authorization, anyway)…..
…..is April and thereafter.
In fact…..
It’s more complicated than that.
The black box, was February.
The $13.9 billion…..
…..which the U.S. Congress…..
…..appropriated for the Ukraine’s budget…..
…..in December…..
…..was, judging by documents and press releases…..
…..from USAID…..
…..not even deployed…..
…..until now.
That is…..
$1.25 billion was handed over…..
…..a few days ago.
The rest, is pending.
Now, keep in mind…..
According to the IMF…..
The Ukraine needs $5 billion per month.
Prior to this year…..
That is, in 2022…..
Not more than 1/3…..
…..of authorized budget support for the Ukraine…..
…..was ever publicly announced.
The other 2/3-plus were appropriated…..
…..and handed over, on, presumably…..
…..a central bank…..
…..to central bank level…..
But never actually mentioned.
So much of it was stolen…..
…..that, this year…..
Uncle Sam is having USAID…..
…..give the money to the World Bank…..
…..and then the World Bank…..
…..with its auditors and whatever else…..
…..gives it to the Ukraine…..
…..and kinda, sorta tracks it.
Aaaaaanyway…..
The U.S. let Europe pick up the slack…..
…..this past January.
The European Union (EU) gave the Ukraine…..
…..(remember this for a minute)…..
…..€3 billion…..
…..in early January.
That still left a January gap…..
…..of $1.6 or $1.7 billion.
(Depending on the exchange rate.)
It MAY be…..
Some of that was carried by Japan.
Perhaps, a little by Canada.
Perhaps, some from the USA…..
That is, left over from earlier 2022 authorizations.
Moving on…..
As of March 1st…..
…..and again April 1st…..
…..and every 1st thereafter…..
The EU has given, and will give…..
…..another €1.5 billion.
For the rest of 2023.
Now, I’m not SURE…..
…..who picked up the balance for March…..
…..but it was LIKELY the IMF…..
…..which, at that time…..
…..was talking about…..
…..an up to $4 billion first-installment…..
…..(timeframe, not clear)…..
…..on a $15 billion, four-year aid package…..
…..that it simply invented, with no legal basis.
(Having bent it’s own rules, to provide direct budget support, which is NOT in its charter. I’ve covered this as well.)
But…..
What I do know…..
NO ONE has “admitted“…..
…..to funding the Ukraine’s budget…..
…..to ANY extent…..
…..in February.
February is the black box.
Now, you recall…..
…..(I’ve pointed it out, more than once)…..
The Amazon (Washington) Post…..
…..reported around February 10th or 12th or so…..
…..that Congress was working…..
…..on another $10 billion…..
…..for the Ukraine.
But, that never happened.
And…..
We never heard about it again.
Strange!
The last Congressional authorization…..
…..is STILL the one…..
…..from December.
As I’ve been saying…..
SOMETHING is fishy.
However…..
The main fishiness was in February…..
…..not, today.
It is interesting…..
…..how the EU funded the Ukraine…..
…..for “double” in January…..
But nothing more, until March.
Obviously, this was coordinated…..
…..with some other party.
Somehow, someone found…..
…..$5 billion for the Ukraine…..
…..in February…..
…..in a SECRETIVE…..
…..and thus, presumably…..
…..”unauthorized” manner…..
…..(perhaps some “general” fund at the Pentagon, same as what Trump dipped into for his Wall?)
…..to help Republicans in the U.S. House…..
…..avoid having to vote…..
…..on more aid to the Ukraine.
Well, look…..
The December sum…..
…..will run out soon enough.
They’ll have to appropriate more.
They’re just kicking the can.
The one big, obvious problem with
Uncle Sam’s n***** solution for modern warfighting
Please listen below.
(Audio file length: 6:14)
Dreizin doesn’t do mythology
This is to all the subhumanoids….
…..who still come at me…..
…..like, why did I never talk about…..
…..the legendary Russian missile…..
…..that destroyed…..
…..a deep bunker near Lvov…..
…..killing sixty billion senior officers…..
…..of NATO.
Hey, dipshits….
Lvov is a few tens of kilometers…..
…..from Poland.
Those sixty billion officers…..
…..are sitting in hotels…..
…..and office buildings…..
…..in Poland…..
…..with access to wonderful catering…..
…..and hookers…..
…..and all the rest…..
…..and, being on NATO territory…..
They are UNTOUCHABLE.
Why the fuck…..
…..would they be placed…..
…..in some hole…..
…..on the Ukrainian side of the border?
You dummies are dumber…..
…..than the Branch Covidians!
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If somehow you’re on Twitter…..
…..and you’re not yet following me…..
Almost all I do on Twitter…..
…..is just carry links…..
…..to my blog posts.
I won’t flood you…..
…..with five-times-a-day BS.
Seeing as how many folks tell me…..
…..that they never see my emails…..
This is basically…..
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Jacob, my apologies for going on so long. You were very generous to allow such length. Next time, I’ll only use a small magazine, not a full can of ammo. Thank you again for your work.
The mention of Nicaragua brought back my old anti-war days. In the 1980’s, I was in the movement against U.S. involvement in Central America. We were well-organized, although by and large no one in America really cared, but it did mean Reagan and his staff had to get outside funding, as Jacob noted. Some National Guard and reserve units went to neighboring Honduras to build roads…to help the country’s progress…of course noting that it also meant military vehicles would be helped., There were also medical units sent to help people, more for p.r. instead of the local governments investing more in medical care.
It was also the first use of feeding the Guard to fight in foreign wars and keep the size of the regular army down. It was called “total army.” Really hit its peak in Iraq/Afghanistan, where Guard units were fed wholesale into the war.
I was in Boston, where the movement was well-organized. There was a lot of mixing with politicians to get their stand on Central America. The movement was, of course, full of leftists, but we also distanced ourselves from the openly Cuban support groups.
In the end, what ended things was when the Sandinista government was voted out, the “moderates” seemed to win, and the CIA Contra war ended. It seemed like a victory for “us”, although the Sandinistas got voted in a few years later. What you learn is that local people have their own problems, and it’s best to leave them alone.
We had a CIA agent speak who resigned over the U.S. policy. He was proud of his work in the agency, but his faction wanted America to use economic and propaganda methods and not direct military action. He claimed Reagan was influenced by the Casey wing, who were for hands-on military action. There was a lot of gung-ho militarism in that faction, but the only “war” Reagan involved us in was Grenada. Great victory there. We also were involved in Lebanon, but once our marines got iced, Reagan got the hell out, and nothing more was said. I later spoke to Lebanese who were there. They said America’s problem was they started taking sides, and once the U.S. openly favored that side, they became a target.
As Jacob noted, I remember a lot of reds in Boston. There was a left book store that proudly displayed big posters of Mao and Stalin. I went to a lecture where an Englishman was chuckling about how “wonderful” East Germany was, how “free and prosperous.”
I also went to a Progressive party lectures, full of reds. It was kind of fun watching them get into fierce arguments about ideology, Trotsky, “revanchist, bourgeois thought.” Mostly a lot of old beret-wearing Jews still fighting over who backed McCarthy and who fought Franco. It was a reminder how many if not most people get stuck in their views and culture, and never change. Kind of like the voooxxxers who still wear masks all the time. It will forever be 2020 for them. Reminds me of the saying that most people wear the hairstyles they wore when they were getting laid the most.
Sorry I took up space, but got the time machine going. Jacob really makes you think when you read him. Like I said, he’s a philosopher in the foxhole.
Your comment is so unique and informative and entertaining, I had to publish it. But it’s over my length limit, please be aware next time. (Comments Policy is at bottom of each post.)
Great post. Reminds me of the late 90’s/early 2000’s when I was young, stupid, and dating a woman who had received a place at the university of Havana through her university in Middlesex London. I spent five months there and it put me off socialism for the rest of my life. The real eye opener was how many Americans were working out there, particularly for the national newspaper Granma International. There were a ton of European students out there spending a year and one guy who lived on the same street as us who was reporting for Newsweek on the Elian Gonzales situation. Clearly a CIA spook but I really liked him.
Tweeting out the report and recommending as ofter as possible! Love it!
US Army and state today reminds a bit of the Carthaginians who preferred to dominate the seas with naval power and hire mainly mercenaries (or pay off countries) to fight of in the wars and conflicts. They were betting on financial power too. Then the Romans came with their military “soaked” culture and trashed them out for good ( and became the empire that dominated the “known world”.
Im ashamed and disgusted with what they have done to Assange, but in recent months I’ve seen some mainstream publications start to at least mention his plight. do you think he will ever be released?
Hi Jacob, I am a regular donor and find your blogs very informative and well done.
I am surprised by your sharp criticism of Col. Douglas Macgregor — I see it as unfair and unwarranted.
See a recent outstanding example of his work:
-– May 1, 2023
I sincerely hope that you will reconsider in order to protect your credibility and objectivity…
Best regards, Boris
Hello. Sorry, I don’t see your weblink, assuming you intended to share one.
In late February – early March 2022, McGregor told Fox News host Tucker Carlson and then host Stuart Varney (we’re talking national TV, Carlson had millions of viewers)…..
…..that the Ukraine was already defeated, and what’s left is just a “mopping up operation.”
HOW’D THAT WORK OUT???
Much more recently, he said Poland has 25,000 military personnel inside the Ukraine. He’s off by *at least* 10X.
About a week ago, he said the Ukraine has suffered over 300,000 killed in action, which is Larry Johnson-level ludicrous. That would mean over a million wounded, including tens of thousands of major amputees, paralyzed, significant burn victims, etc., who would be flooding into the NATO countries for treatment and therapy, and that would be in the news, and the locals would be hugely complaining about wounded Ukrainians crowding out granny from the care she needs. Where are all these people?
I could go on and on.
It’s not just that he’s usually wrong. I’ve been wrong, it happens. The problem with McGregor, is that so many of his claims and assertions are FLAMBOYANTLY RIDICULOUS.
It’s amazing he still has an audience.
e. g. claiming, in Full Earnest, some 300,000 FATALITIES, or sth. like that, at present, for UA.
Thank you, Jacob. The link is just above your comment
OK, I guess the link is not visible only from my back-end system here.
‘[Leftists] who still retain clout…..in the UK’s news media…and in the Labor Party’s activist base’ – this is flat out incorrect. The Labour right is firmly in control, the activist base are irrelevant – even the unions lack leverage, as the response to recent strike actions goes to show. As for the media! Some left-liberals (emphasis on the liberal) maintain important positions at the BBC but that institution has been neutered since 2010 and didn’t have the kind of clout to matter on a case like Assange.
The left is not a salient force anywhere in UK media and its rare representation in parliamentary politics lasted all of four years. Not sure where you got this idea but it’s very wide of the mark.
Well then, genius, what’s your explanation for why they won’t simply extradite Assange? They’ve had three years to do it. They don’t want to do it. They don’t extradite him, and they don’t try him, and they don’t release him. Go ahead and make some sense of it. I’m waiting.
PS: I didn’t say the Labor Left is in “control” of anything. I said they’re still there. They don’t have to be in control of anything. Conservatives in the USA don’t control much at the national (and literally nothing at the institutional) level, in fact, today, they barely have any clout in the national Republican party itself….. but they still have a voice, and they matter immensely.
Another great post Jacob, thanks!! Time to send you some more money. : )
Had to laugh at your Larry Johnson comments, especially now that his latest post is him backtracking at warp speed about Teixeira and the WSJ reporter Gershkovich. Like a poster below, I’ve been through a lot of commentators and bloggers during the SMO. Looks like Larry is another one I’m gonna have to give up on also. Not very reliable considering his background. I still listen to Gonzalo Lira on occasion, but just for entertainment.
You’re rapidly becoming one of the few places I go for good info. As usual, keep up the good work.
Here’s a little technical question: Does it help you if I click the link in your emails to get here, rather than just following my bookmark to your homepage and browsing the articles?
Thanks for asking but no. There is no monetizing on links hence no difference how you get here,
I know the email isn’t monetized, but thought Jacob said once using email links helped him analyze the metrics of how effective it is or something like that (I’m an old fart, not an IT guy). And that’s why he liked us using them.
No?
Yes.
the audio made the case for a neutralist foreign policy and a Swiss form of military. That might not have been your intention.
That last instance I can think of offhand of American troops coming under regular artillery bombardment was the six-month siege of Khe Sanh in 1968. Those guys would now all be at least septuagenarians.
I was in the Air Force during that war so I never had to experience anything like that. I still shake my head when I hear commenters today express frustration that the Russians must be incompetent because they can’t use their air superiority to suppress every single Ukrainian missile and artillery attack. During the siege of Khe Sanh the Air Force plastered the NVA with bombs, napalm, and Agent Orange but the shells and rockets kept coming in. We even launched Arc Light B-52 carpet bombing raids. The Marines would watch in awe while acres and acres of forest would be pulverized, the sky would light up, the ground would literally shake under their feet miles away from the impact zone. The sound would stop, the dust would settle, peace would return to the jungle and… the NVA artillery would resume firing.
There is new generation of devil-dogs coming up to replace those old veterans but luckily, they won’t actually be put on the firing line despite all the propaganda about women being just as fit for infantry combat.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/F3Hrr1aQUgBu/
“…..since day one…..
…..has taken an average of…..
…..97 plus or minus 3 KIA each day…..
Consider me a retard ***
What does the “97” represent and are you stating 3KIA per day
Best Regards
97 +/_ 3KIA/day = 94 to 100 KIA/day. Which adds up to about 50000 dead so far.
“Was it an outrageous…..
…..1861-style “insurrection“…..”
I must have somehow missed that “…..1861-style “insurrection“…..” I DO remember that several US states peacefully (and Constitutionally) seceded (beginning in 1860, BTW). Unless, of course, you are referring to Mr. Lincoln’s actions, in which case the correct term is “invasion.”
You left out the part where I wrote, “as McConnell and Murdoch would have you believe.” I don’t care to argue U.S. history, one way or the other.
Haha, Larry Johnson is totally predictably now walking back his classroom that Evan Gershkovich was not a CIA spy:
https://sonar21.com/some-follow-up-analysis-on-jack-teixeira-and-evan-gershkovich/
“In light of information released”, which of course Johnson didn’t want to wait for before jumping to conclusions.
Anyway, I used to know a woman from Houston who is one of the quackseened masked Trump Is A Russian Spy group. When I was still on Twitter I saw her tweeting about how she was very worried about Navalny. I asked her if she had ever expressed any concern about Assange (who had been imprisoned under the Trum regime, remember). She didn’t answer, of course.
You beat me to it re: Larry. His latest post is quite amusing given how emphatic he was at first both on his blog and talking with Judge Napolitano that no way a kid in the NG could get that kind of info.
Leaking documents aint necessarily the same as havin credentials. It could very well be, as proposed, that some guy(s) higher up let them lay around for him to access them. So Larry could be correct all the way in this matter anyway. I presume he still has left connections inside of the CIA. Why preclude that?
You “presume” wrong. Larry worked at the CIA in the 1980s, maybe into the early 1990s, not since. And, he left Goverrnment service at least 20 years ago. He’s been speaking against the Agenda ever since. He’s radioactive to them. He doesn’t have any fucking “connections.” If he did, perhaps he wouldn’t be wrong about everything.
F*ck Disney. Their are one big mooch who think the world owes them because they are “Disney!”. Good for “Desanctimonious” for going after them. (like your name for him) Back in the 90’s they wanted IBM to give them hardware because there were so awesome. A good chuck of there labor force is most likely illegals. F*ck Florida too, it’s just a geriatric waste land. But then what does it matter.
You’re WRONG about DeSantis. National Review says he’s the one to back and bring victory to the GOP, and they write about it at least five times a day to let you know why. So that settles that.
(Pauses … Scratches head … National Review? … Hmm … Uh, never mind.)
logistical exercise — like million dollar escorted fuel convoys to keep the tent air-conditioned 800 miles from Bagram using 10km/hour mountain roads; or weekend Pizza by helicopter.
The fact that that shit actually worked is kind of insane.
Just a short note…I love your humor and courage. Your resources appear concise and valid. I despise all wars, but respect any productive information. Why is your last name pronounced “Dray-zin” and not “Dry-tsin” — guess it’s not German…You do have a marked Slavic accent…Thanks for your work.
Great article. Regarding the Kinzhal strike in Lvov that did nor did not destroy high ranking personnel – three points:
1) True, there is no reason for NATO to stick its members neck’s out working in Ukraine.
2) Russia fired six Kinzhals at targets in Lvov, and they haven’t fired many during this conflict. There was a high value target there that Russia wanted to destroy that needed both a powerful penetrating missile and one that could not be intercepted.
3) Prostitutes in Ukraine are hotter and cheaper (maybe NATO did find an excuse to be working in Ukraine?).
Some US vets from Afghanistan briefly went over to Ukraine and rapidly bailed out saying ‘they’d never fought a proper war before’. The heinous level of incoming tank rounds and artillery were like nothing they’d ever experienced. It’s why the Pentagon have no interest getting involved, just keeping the war going to get the defence contract kickbacks and funding. They’ll let the media liars convince the fools that Ukraine have a hope in hell of victory to string it out as long as possible to squeeze taxpayers.
Quite don’t like lines like “US never fought a Rreal war for decades”, or sth like that.
Sounds to me very very Martyanovish. I’m sorry.
Is war a “sports event” or what ?
(The late Alexandr Lebed said in his book “Russias way”, sensewise, that, in Modern Times, there may be “wars” like US vs Grenada, o. k., but “bigger things” should forbid themselves (because of, unspoken) Big industrial powers now have brutal means of destruction, and not even to speak of nuclear weapons).
Pardon my americglish, but that should have be said.
Hello. The USA has not fought anything even remotely approaching an “even match” since the last year or two of its involvement in Vietnam. Until 14 months ago, Russia had not done so since World War 2. These are obvious facts. Sorry if you don’t like them. I don’t care about Martianov. Thanks very much for the money, you’ve been quite generous.
o.k. No offense, Sir. (but, obviously, the U. S. & west have organized + provoked this “big” brother-murdering event for RUS.
Just three point – not ruining the cake, more like putting on three cherries on the icing.
1, Artemovks/Bakhmut retreat – true, either there or in another town, UA armed forces will “eat” those trainfull of arty ammo. The only meaningfull difference is that ONE city turned into wasteland. Not many.
2, Te “prof’s journey to honecker’s wonderland” – You know who had a wonderfull honeymoon with his second wife behind the Iron Curtain in 1978 in the People’s Republic of Hungary? The senator of Delaware, a certain Joseph
BrandonI mean Biden. And next year he reported to the Congress that “Hungary deserves praise for Human Rights”. In 1978. Growing some facial hair a decade later I remember otherwise.3, UA losses: In a documentary “Hungarians under pressure in Sub-Carpathia” made by Hungarian media and a local NGO (not the “uncle soros” kind) a “credible looking” number of 35 thousand turned up – as corpses stored in boxcars on remoted railway lines, to be slowly leaked to relatives, while the govt does not have to pay pension to widows and families. Make no mistake: I would gladly accept a total KIA number for UA around or under 40K, but fear a higher number. (Same as with the “cancellation” of the Great Zelensky Offensive – beings Central-East European, when something too good to be true… )
That Hungarian/Carpathian report didn’t offer photo or video documentation or any proof at all, to substantiate its claims. Moreover, I don’t think the 35,000 figure was in the original report. You probably read something third or fourth-hand. That entire province only has a million-some people. If you project that kind of death rate on the entire country, even dividing by half (to account for claims of a more intensive draft in this one region)….. Well, you can see that’s just RIDICULOUS. But hey, believe whatever you want! Larry Johnson is always looking for new groupies.
Nope, the number is in the documentary, but for the whole (Kyev controlled) Ukraine. On the other hand, it is based on testimony of anonymous railway worker(s), who were kept faceless, (fear of SBU vs credibility).
Other witnesses recounted the stench, which obviously cannot be photographed.
As for Subcarpathian Hungarians the confirmed KIA is between 200 and 400, of a population maximum 200K but prolly overrepresented in drafting. (The high uncertainity of confirmed KIA comes from the fact, that from mixed marriages some people have Hungarian sounding name but do not identify as – and vice versa. Overrepresentation is to be expected in any chauvinistic regime drafting ethnic-religious minorities, just as Russian send in Chechens and other non-Russian, non-Orthodox minorities. )
If it’s 35,000 dead military personnel for the whole country (this was about 2 months ago), that’s perfectly in line with my daily estimate. If it’s a few hundred ethnic Hungarians, that doesn’t prove anything, one way or another. How do we know the ethnicity of the corpses, anyway, if they are being hidden? In fact… The claims of bodies stored, indefinitely, in constantly (even if poorly) refrigerated railcars, is so silly. I heard literally exactly the same shit from U.S. propaganda during the 2nd Chechen war. That’s a lot of money for electricity, and the railcars could be doing something else (you know, making money), and it’s impossible to hide for long. If you want to avoid paying the death benefit, just say the men are missing in action, and leave the bodies in the fields; the dogs and worms will eat them. Why go through the trouble? In short, don’t believe everything you read.
Okay, just to clarify the numbers, not debating the validity:
So the documentary (in early December, 2022) stated that there were 35K KIA accounted as MIA, in addition to whatever KIA number the Kyev regime confirmed (at least to the families).
Again, for the whole (Kyev controlled) Ukraine.
Just to clarify the numbers as one autist to another 🙂
Another question, can you tell whether drafting/pressgangs was made in a few oblasts at a time, then other oblasts the next time?
There’s this song called “Surf Nicaragua” by Sacred Reich, thought it was slightly relevant to the title, now everyone knows, lyrics even fit, who would’ve thought.
As a political force, the old-school left in the UK is dead and buried beneath a (very) wooden horse called Keir Starmer. Pardon me, SIR Keir.
As DPP he ignored legal precenents in the Swedish persuit of Assange, and his office even warned them not to get “cold feet” when they were wavering once they copped the case for the BS it was.
The plan for Assange does seem to be to let him rot in the horror of Belmarsh rather than risk unnecessary noise.
I suspect that many of us who’ve discovered and followed you over the last year or so have followed the same general path… bullshit meter on the mainstream media UA narrative was activated early in 2022 and that led to a desperate search for more critical English language analysis that’s in extremely short supply. My personal journey was roughly this…
1. Gonzalo Lira
2. Larry Johnson
3. Duran
4. Grayzone
5. Douglas MacGregor
6. Moon of Alabama
7. Dreizin
8. Big Serge
9. Various English language Telegram channels from UA and RU sources.
1-3 are grifters that mostly just repeat useless bullshit, 4 leans on the other shitty sources on the list, 5 speaks with seeming authority but has been wrong on all his calls since the get-go, 6 appeared promising but I’m starting to have my doubts, 8 is useless notwithstanding that some of his historical analysis can be interesting and 9 is generally just propaganda and war porn.
The only one that’s still standing up to scrutiny is lucky 7 and, as a bonus, I’m getting great analysis on US politics (agree with you on Trump… he has moments of brilliance but too few and far between and, in any case, it doesn’t matter, Dems win the presidency again even with a sock puppet).
Thanks for another informative update.
Thanks, you just made my day. Yes, it’s an assortment of grifters and bullshitters. You could have thrown in a few other names (e.g., Martyanov), but it doesn’t matter. Notice how I have the smallest audience of the bunch. Because, most people don’t want the truth. They want to find an online (or TV, radio, whatever) “home”, and be snug and comfortable in a virtual community of like-minded followers, under some guru-prophet figure who will ply them with fairly repetitive, predictable, and/or very easy to grasp claims and statements. Almost mantric, or like a charmer hypnotizing a snake.
Sure, some people do feel at home with me (great!), but they know I will always push and challenge them. Not just preach to a choir.
Douglas MacGregor always said Ukraine had no chance unless NATO got directly involved with hundreds of thousands of troops and he is dead right. The timing of the victory has been thrown off for a variety of unexpected reasons including:
1. Russia did not go full infrastructure cruise missile attack like he was expecting as they did not wish to punish Ukraine, and were hoping for a quick peace deal. That slower, limited SMO threw a lot of experts off.
2. The madness of UKR sacrificing countless numbers of their own, with mercs and now Poles.
3. The amount of money/ weapons that have been poured into UKR to keep this on the boil.
4. The completely insane Euro leaders and media who have been happy to let their own populations suffer the blowback of sanctions/ Nordstream while lying/ propagandising endlessly in an Orwellian fashion far far beyond anything seen before.
5. The unexpectedly wet/ boggy conditions.
There’s a lot of illogical crazy stuff happening around this war so making accurate predictions haven’t been easy…. but the general gist is right – that Ukraine had no chance without NATO involvement, and if NATO do not get involved then it’s not a matter of if but when this is over.
In late February – early March 2022, McGregor told Fox News host Tucker Carlson and then host Stuart Varney (we’re talking national TV, Carlson had millions of viewers)…..
…..that the Ukraine was already defeated, and what’s left is just a “mopping up operation.”
LOL.
Much more recently, he said that Poland has 25,000 military personnel inside the Ukraine. He’s off by *at least* 10X.
I could go on and on.
It’s not just that he’s usually wrong. It’s that so many of his claims and assertions are FLAMBOYANTLY RIDICULOUS.
It’s amazing he still has an audience.
Of course, it’s all cheap ass dipshits like you, who will never give me a cent.
As a Russian, I find McGregor an interesting example of an American officer of the Cold War. He is heavy anti-Soviet and pro-German, educated and cultured and everything he says seems to make sense. Well, until you look at his old records and then…well, just lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv3F0pmLWX8&t=1s
So far, McGregor is the best that the American military has been able to give to the public. Yes, this is a rather specific competition 😀
I’m so waiting for Macgregor’s predicted inevitable and upcoming Russian winter offensive South from Belarus to the Black Sea.
Macgregor, Johnson, Martyanov (whom I despise on an almost physical basis) and to an extent Ritter form an incestuous little mutual appreciation society of armchair generals, constantly patting each other on the back and citing each other as authorities.
I failed to mention Martyanov and Ritter. Martyanov because it took 15 minutes to conclude that he’s a blowhard. I gave Ritter a bit more time but it seems to me that the Lira, Ritter, Duran, Johnson, Martyanov nexus is a giant circle jerk.
I had hopes for MacGregor. I like the way he talks and I think his criticism of the US military is correct (especially his observation that Milley is a career yes man). However, he’s been consistently wrong on UA and I don’t think he has a clue what’s really happening.
Part of the issue with the UA commentary is that a lot of the people caught up in it seem to be longing for the destruction of the West (especially noticeable in the MoA crowd). I’m just hoping for a catalyst that leads to meaningful change in the West. Maybe a bloody nose in UA will be it. I’m really not sure that’s in the cards though? Bottom line, if you live in the West, have kids and are trying to build a life, I don’t understand why you’d wish for the destruction of the West. There are too many good people and things worth saving to wish for that. Major change though? Absolutely.
There’s a really easy way not to make any wrong predictions. Don’t make any predictions in the first place!
Or if you do, and you’re wrong, that’s ok, but you have to own it.
This culture we have in America of not taking responsibility for one’s actions isn’t just limited to libtards.
Same here. Few more to check: https://bmanalysis.substack.com/ and https://simplicius76.substack.com/ and military summary (he was the only sane voice that this war it is not piece of cake for Russia) . There was also thesaker, but he was also very wrong about his Ukraine’s war predictions but still a lot of good content there.
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The dreizen – thanks for your work. Good content and great sense of humour. I’ll donate when I fix my things.
About MoA: He is not an active part of the Duran-Ritter-Escobar-Lira-human-centipide. He was cited here and there by Escobar and Martyanov, but that has slackened substantially.
He is German ex-military with IT-background and he was openly perplexed about the Kharkov BS. He synthesizes information just like the others but does it more profoundly. I keep checking his blog because here and there he writes an excellent article. He deserves to be respected.
You are comparing apples and pears here.
The Grayzone (Blumenthal + Mate) are classical journos. They have shown some real balls and made some deep reportages (I’m not talking about fucking Ruthenia). They deserve respect since both guys are genuine believers in investigative journalism, although I do not follow them actively.
I guess BigSerge is a military historian.
I would also add Alastair Crooke and Gilbert Doctorow, both men write good essays, using different styles and touching different issues. Alastair Crookes social analysis of Europe is always worth reading. Interestingly, these men are nowhere near successful as Escobar, who is a professional bullshitter imo.
I was once in Chile and I met the exact kinda guy Escobar and Lira are. The latinos have a talent for making money with eloquent crap. On the other side, that is exactly what todays European and American industry is good at, producing overpriced crap that is more for marketing than actual use.
I’ve made a similar journey to yours. Right now for me it’s basically Jacob and Simplicius.
YES. This is the guts of the matter. How few are the sources and which ones are any good?
This late in the day and I still am searching.
Dreizin here is a new one to me and it looks hopeful despite its manic american in your face abusive money demanding attitude…
But i need time, of course…
But right there is the point, the essence of the whole problem we’ve got here: so few people interested in finding the truth on the one hand
so very, very much fewer potential sources on the other…
If we call your list ’10’ then where I am at is belatedly exploring the possibilities of the last 10%. After this, nothing, no candidates.
How parlous is that?
Question
I made a comment, it was accepted and appears to have been deleted your blog.
Do you delete posts after acceptance?
If a glitch I sincerely apologize
Respectfully
S.
Hello. Sometimes, if busy, I will accept comments by default, then within a couple of hours I review them against my comments policy. I imagine your comment was not directly relevant to my topics. I will shortly publish a much more concise Comments Policy, which you may find more useful.
LOL at how you had to spell out why the Russians aren’t bombing Ukrainian bunkers filled with high ranking NATO personnel because they’re all “working remote” instead of coming into the office in Ukraine.
Good stuff on Assange, and everything else! I listen to short audio clips like you have today but not longer ones because I prefer to read.
If you offer a way to donate $5 per month, you’d get more from me, because it’s easier and obviously I am lazy. Thanks again for your analysis and commentary.