143 Replies to “Piercing through the Fiction that is the Ukraine Narrative”

    1. Indeed, they will never accept reality. So, let’s just keep watching it unfold, as has been explained by those like McGregor, instead of the constant stream of Fairy Tales told by the Propaganda Media.
      End result?
      The kill ratios of 10 :1 continue with no end in sight. War of Attrition, one that Russia is very good at.
      The Ukraine army is bereft of experience, now relying on kidnapping teens on the street.
      I really don’t care about the deniers or name callers here, who continue their emotional rants and hand waving arguments. This was a stupid and pointless war for Ukraine. They had a deal in April of 2022 to stop, but they played the Joker card.
      Bottom line, the Russian story and narrative has been believable, rooted in history, “deals” with NATO/US are verified, by both sides, as was the double cross from NATO.
      The Ukraine and US/NATO narratives look like a brick of Swiss cheese. There’s nothing like “protecting democracy” than destroying it in practice.

      1. The kill ratios of 10 :1 continue with no end in sight.

        Complete malarky.

        If you want to convince people, you’ll need to come up with something at least vaguely plausible.

        1. “…vaguely plaiusible.”

          Such as the 24/7 propaganda we, the west, put out that the Ukraine’s a shining beacon of freedom and democracy with a border we must protect no matter what the cost in money or lives?

          1. So you think Ukrainian military fatalities outnumber Russian ones ten to one, do you?

            If that were true, the war would have been over 16 months ago.

        2. “If you want to convince people, you’ll need to come up with something at least vaguely plausible.”

          10:1 for defenders sitting behind fortifications and minefields, picking off attackers trying to get past those obstacles without air support is easily believable. Easily.

          Before the much-vaunted “counter-offensive” it was perhaps 3:1 or 4:1 in favor of the Russians. So what? Your side is *still * losing and there can *still* be only one possible end to this conflict. I look forward to rubbing your nose in it when the time comes.

          1. Except there’s no evidence for any of that. Ukraine has done a good job of not wasting soldiers on frontal attacks on dug-in positions, instead leaving that tactic to the Russians.

            Estimates from militaries other than Russia and Ukraine have three Russian deaths for every two Ukrainian. And the loss of armaments reflects that as well.

            https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html

            https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-ukrainian.html

        3. What you don’t seem to understand, rodent head, is that Russia never wanted a war. This was an SMO (special military operation) to protect the ethnic Russian areas of the completely artificial state that is Ukraine, from the genocidal NAZIS of the Ukrainian national movement, financed and organized by CIA and State Dept. front groups.
          We all understand that you are one of the citizens of the bigoted, hateful, even murderous, eastern European f-ups that comprise most of the states of Eastern Europe, and who have caused so many problems over the last century or so.
          Murder each other, we don’t care. What we want is for the US to dis-engage and let you swine work it out.

          1. “This was an SMO (special military operation) to protect the ethnic Russian areas of the completely artificial state that is Ukraine”

            I’ve heard about a dozen excuses for this war, that being one of the more ridiculous ones. Does Putin LOOK like he gives a crap about Russian ethnics? He treats his soldiers like so much meat for the grinder.

            My theory is that Putin had such an easy time taking Crimea, he figured the rest of Ukraine would be ripe for the plucking. It was a trophy to be put over his mantel piece.

            “We all understand that you are one of the citizens of the bigoted, hateful, even murderous, eastern European f-ups that comprise most of the states of Eastern Europe, and who have caused so many problems over the last century or so.”

            I’ve heard Canada described a lot of ways, but that’s a new one.

          2. eastern European f-ups

            Speak for yourself,
            Were was Canada in 1918?
            oh, yeah, hiding in Vladivostok…

            In August 1918, the first of a 90,000-strong multinational force made up of American, Canadian, British, French, Italian and Japanese troops landed in Vladivostok.
            And waited, and waited….

            The Odyssey of the Czechoslovak Legion — Meet the Forgotten Army that Fought Its Way Across Siberia

            …..In Russia, they took part in several victorious battles of the war, including the Zborov and Bakhmach against the Central Powers, and were heavily involved in the Russian Civil War fighting Bolsheviks, at times controlling the entire Trans-Siberian railway and several major cities in Siberia….

        4. Actually, the kill ratio on these Ukrainian offensives is very similar to what they were at the Somme, in the first two weeks. So I buy that. They are also in line with the kill rates in similar engagements in the Western Desert and Tunisia, in WW2.

          When an enemy is dug in, with guns and rockets bore-sited or equivalent, on major attack axes, and the enemy has air dominance, artillery dominance, and ISR dominance, then, when you order battalion-level all-or-nothing piece-meal frontal assaults with little divisional or corps coordination, this is what you get.

          I recommend “The Battle for North Africa” by WGF Jackson, for a real insight into fire and maneuver in the modern age against a peer enemy, where neither side is able to land a decisive knockout blow. It cones down to attrition, and whoever can inflict lopsided attrition rates on the enemy will win.

          Ukraine is greatly assisting the Russians in this enterprise, by using bull crap tactics given to them by NATO trainers, whose idea of war is gunning down Afghan villagers from a helicopter, and being back at the O-Club in time for cocktails before dinner.

          Trouble is the veterans, the guys with “bookoo” time in, have been ground up in non stop fighting over the last year.

          Ukraine is on army #3 already. There is going to be nothing left of the place cone 2025.

          1. The Uke propagandists don’t want facts or truth, they want the MSM propaganda blowing up their ass.
            The war is basically over. The Uke kidnapping of kids and old men proves it.
            Still , I expect the usual ad hominem attacks from the usual suspects.
            They need to sell all their possessions, give the proceeds to Zelensky, pick up a gun, and go chase Russians. LARPs need to LARP.

        5. Hey Killer Midwit,
          Fact: Artillery causes at least 70% of all casualties in war for every conflict since WW1.
          Fact: Russia has 10x the artillery and fires up to 30x the ammunition vice the Ukronaz.
          Fact: Satellite imagery shows Ukro graves in excess of 250k
          Fact: Ukro obits exceed 250k
          Fact: Mobile sims no longer being actively paid for by Ukronaz exceed 250k
          Fact: the BBC and Media zona can account for maybe 50k dead Russians
          10:1 Ukronaz:Russia is a polite UNDERESTIMATE.
          Fact: people who call Russians, orcs, are Herr Schicklegruber fans and are stupid enough to think the debunked oryx website has anything like facts on it.

          1. Fact: Russia does indeed have more artillery than Ukraine. But the advantage is about five fold, not ten. Further, many of their artillery pieces are ancient and in storage, in need of refurbishment. That does them no good.

            https://babel.ua/en/news/81312-forbes-russia-has-a-five-fold-advantage-in-artillery-but-western-weapons-can-change-the-situation

            Fact: The main limitation on Russian artillery is not the number of guns but the number of shells, of which there is a constant shortage. As the war goes on, Russian shelling has constantly decreased.

            https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/10/politics/russian-artillery-fire-down-75-percent-ukraine/index.html

            Fact: Russian artillery is woefully inaccurate.

    2. Well since the resident orc white knight is asking so nicely:

      A perfect visualization at what is going in Ukraine:
      https://www.reddit.com/r/RussiaUkraineWar2022/comments/15yonvi/a_ukrainian_recon_drone_watches_a_russian_soldier/

      Contrary to the circlejerk highlighted by the enthusiastic participation of Freddie from BBC, Bondage Sado Maso, Dany BBC, the new Rat **** troll and others, things are not looking rosy for the orcs.

      I have read with true amusement hilarious claims of 10 to 1 or 100 to 1 or whatever combat loses in favor of orcs. The idiotic references to WWII (without any understanding what happened then, and how none of it applies in Ukraine) were particularly amusing. With equal amusement I have read fantasy stories about human wave attacks.

      So to cut the BS short, no, human wave attacks do not happen on either side. The only documented instances of that was when Wagner sent mobilized gulag inmates for night assault with headlamps (!) around Bakhmut. Contrary to delusions of vatniks, tankies and broshevicks this has not been happening on either side of the front.

      Loss ratio remains heavily lopsided in favor of Ukraine, Fredie pleasuring himself to the world “atrrrrrition” notwithstanding.* Bakhmut was probably a low point where Ukrainian loses, at times (but not overall) approached 1.5 to 1 in favor of Ukraine. Overall, the loss ratio looks much better. Most likely 1 to 3 in Ukrainian favor overall. Even on the pseudo offensive Ukrainian loses in personnel remain much lower than for orcs.

      There are caviots to it. For each killed Ukrainians get up to seven wounded, Russians get two, at best three for elite units. Ukrainians mastered medevac tactics, Russians really on WWII procedures and general not-give-a-f***ism combined with the interest in the wounded comrade’s looted wristwatch play a role here. This is not an exaggeration, this is literarily a fact. The proportion of wounded Ukrainians recovering is orders of magnitude greater than for orcs.

      Loss ratio in equipment remains even worse for orcs. Ukrainians are masters ta recovering damaged armor, Russians universally suck. That’s is one of many differences between an army of patriots and whipped mongrels.

      Now, since we got to the attrition, it is important that Russia is a turd world $hithole with abhorrent health standards, raging fetal alcohol syndrome and the need to produce their own weapons. Ukrainians don’t have to worry about that. Their weapons are produced primarily safe from orc reach and they are overall much healthier than orcs. On top of it, orcs are recruiting heavily away from native Russian cities and need support of Moscow and St Petersburg. So idiotic one dimensional (that is far as Freddie can count) comparisons of population size are useless. Ukrainians are not short of men, they are short of equipment.

      For Russians equipment too is the primary bottleneck. But Russians need to produce it at home, while Ukrainians don’t. Vietcong did not need to worry about producing their own weapons, Mujahedin did not produce their own weapons and either are order of magnitude less capable and less supplied that Ukrainians.

      Anyway, I could go on but given average attention span of an average tankie I have probably already typed a lot more syllables than can be digested by them.

      * Note that attrition is a tacit admission that orcs are losing a lot more but have a lot more to start with.

      1. ColonialNitWit, I’ll repost my reply to KillerMidwit (just in case you are different people…)

        Fact: Artillery causes at least 70% of all casualties in war for every conflict featuring artillery since WW1.
        Fact: Russia has 10x the artillery and fires up to 30x the ammunition vice the Ukronaz.
        Fact: Satellite imagery shows Ukro graves in excess of 250k
        Fact: Ukro obits exceed 250k
        Fact: Mobile sims no longer being actively paid for by Ukronaz exceed 250k
        Fact: the BBC and Media zona can account for maybe 50k dead Russians
        10:1 Ukronaz:Russia is a polite UNDERESTIMATE.
        Fact: people who call Russians, orcs, are Herr Schicklegruber fans and are stupid enough to think the debunked oryx website has anything like facts on it.
        p.s.
        Posting Reddit fetish videos just proves where your head is at…

        1. Fact: The only “fact” from the above list, that may be a fact is the 70% casualties figure. Although it is probably somewhat inflated.

          Fact: when orc tries to dictate facts, orc lies. Such is the nature of the vile beast. All the rest of your nonsenses are twisted lies and half truths taken out of context.

          Fact: Ukrainians now enjoy a sizable advantage in artillery. The quality and hence the proportion of NATO supplied equipment has been growing steadily. NATO 155s are longer ranged, more accurate and extended range and guided ammo is much more readily available than for orcs. Indeed one of the biggest successes in the crawling Ukrainian offensive is the holocaust of russian field artillery.

          Fact: russia is begging North Korea and Iran for ammunition.

          Fact: the standard allotment of of support weapons for a typical motorized infantry company is one 120 mm mortar. 82mm mortars that were typically assigned to those units disappeared due to shortage of ammunition. A standard company also rarely has more than four PKs. They are short of everything.

          Fact: orcs have depleted their missile stocks and are effectively firing their current production. This has been verified multiple times when duds were examined.

          Fact: russian production quality sucks as everything the ignoble beasts ever produced. Hence the proportion of duds increases. The widespread use of dual use civilian chips only increases dud rates of everything guided.

          Fact: Orcs are now looking at about 200K gruz 200 (made good permanently) plus at least 400K gruz 300 (defanged or neutered), with a great proportion of permanently disabled (samovar) largely thanks to stone age level of orc field medicine and the simple facts that orc mongrells hate one another and are not willing to go out of their way to help one another.

          Fact: Orc casualties are so severe that Pootin prohibited publication of obits after early weeks when data from obits shown that proportion of orcs made good exceeds by a factor of ten the number provided by official sources.

          Fact: The 200K orcs made good figure does not include: Wagner, Luganda, Donbabwe, Kadyrovites, BARS and Rosgvardiya. Their loses are on top of the regular orc loses.

        1. Whatever that thing is, it is right, orcs are not human. Every negative stereotype about orcs have been proven over and over again. The planet would definitely be a better place without them.

          Muscovy delenda est.

          1. “Whatever that thing is, it is right,”

            LOL – That “thing” is you bud, your persona verbatim.

          3. Yea “content warning” tells me I don’t need to see you peoples perverse fetishes.

            I used to think you were simply Ukraine’s “Baghdad Bob” until Ukraine’s Official Spokesperson stepped up to prove me wrong – ROFL

  4. I have been trying to follow the Russo-Ukrainian War at ISW.
    https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-august-21-2023

    ISW has a definite pro-Uke viewpoint. Their views are definitely completely different than the Colonel’s views. I think the truth is somewhere between the two, but exactly where it is? I have no clue.

    I do know a couple of things. 1.) The Russians have retreated from Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkhiv, and Lyman last year. They also retreated from the Western bank of the Dneiper River in in Kherson. That was a huge, HUGE amount of Ukraine they retreated from. 2.). The war has become much more static, almost like WW1 or the later stage Korean War. Russian battles for Bakhmut took months. The Ukrainian battles to take it back are also taking months. 3.) I have no data what the casualties are on either side, but I think they are very high on both sides.

    4.). This war is going to go on as long as the West supports it, and will end badly for Ukraine if we stop.

    2. You without a doubt, an idiot, and BTW, since you’re in favor of fighting to the last Ukrainian, why don’t you drag your sorry butt over there and volunteer? I hear the sawed off actor pays 3500 a month for cannon fodder, well that’s if it isn’t counterfeit or if you live long enough to collect.
      BTW, only the poor ukes are dying. The sons of the rich and the politicians are all in California, Paris, London, anywhere but the front lines. Only the poor die because of support from ill informed fools.
      Now do us all a favor, watch the video before commenting.

    3. “ISW has a definite pro-Uke viewpoint. Their views are definitely completely different than the Colonel’s views. I think the truth is somewhere between the two, but exactly where it is? I have no clue.”

      (he says, right before he reveals his real opinion)

      “I do know a couple of things. 1.) The Russians have retreated from Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkhiv, and Lyman last year. They also retreated from the Western bank of the Dneiper River in in Kherson. That was a huge, HUGE amount of Ukraine they retreated from. ”

      Yes….so what? Armies take territory that they don’t intend to hold all the time, and for various reasons (like maintaining supply lines, or preventing being flanked). Short-term objectives can also change rapidly, due to military or political decisions…and yes, sometimes mistakes are made or there is over-reach. One thing we know for sure, though: they aren’t retreating NOW, are they?

      “2.). The war has become much more static, almost like WW1 or the later stage Korean War. Russian battles for Bakhmut took months. ”

      They could have razed Bakhmut to the ground with missiles, drones and artillery…would that have made you happier?

      “The Ukrainian battles to take it back are also taking months. 3.) I have no data what the casualties are on either side, but I think they are very high on both sides.”

      The Russians have had months to build fortifications, create minefields and pre-target possible Ukrainian cover. Without air cover, the Ukrainian army is being devastated, while the Russians are losing very few personnel.

      “4.). This war is going to go on as long as the West supports it, and will end badly for Ukraine if we stop.”

      It will end much worse if we don’t.

      1. “Yes….so what? Armies take territory that they don’t intend to hold all the time, and for various reasons (like maintaining supply lines, or preventing being flanked). Short-term objectives can also change rapidly, due to military or political decisions…and yes, sometimes mistakes are made or there is over-reach. One thing we know for sure, though: they aren’t retreating NOW, are they?”

        LMAO the cope is strong with this one. The reality is they expected Ukraine to capitulate quickly.

        2. Ukraine did. In March 2022. Then Boris the Spider stepped in and ordered the Ukrainians to walk out of the talks. The rest, as they say, is history.

          As Putin would say: “Well, a war of annihilation is what they want. Then they shall have it”.

        3. “LMAO the cope is strong with this one. The reality is they expected Ukraine to capitulate quickly.”

          Yes…and? Doesn’t change a thing now, or for the foreseeable future.

          How is the Great Counter-offensive coming along? It’s been two months now…do you have the evil Russians on the run yet?

    4. “1.) The Russians have retreated from Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkhiv, and Lyman last year. They also retreated from the Western bank of the Dneiper River in in Kherson. That was a huge, HUGE amount of Ukraine they retreated from. ”
      “2.). The war has become much more static, almost like WW1 or the later stage Korean War. Russian battles for Bakhmut took months. The Ukrainian battles to take it back are also taking months. ”
      “3.) I have no data what the casualties are on either side, but I think they are very high on both sides.”
      “4.). This war is going to go on as long as the West supports it, and will end badly for Ukraine”

      Statement 1) Russia withdrew after it thought it had a deal with the Minsk Accords. Until Boris Johnson promised Zelenskyy all the ammo he could eat.
      Statement 2) The war is not static. There is movement, but very slow as repeated assaults fail against well prepared positions. For the moment the Russki’s appear to have been fighting a mostly defensive war.
      Statement 3) I too think that the MacGregors claims sound way too high.
      Statement 4) This much is obvious, and will end badly for Ukraine no matter what.

      As for the drag artist masquerading as a senior US staff officer; the derisive laughter you can hear is coming from the Russian Embassy.

      1. @Bill Sticker

        “Statement 1) Russia withdrew after it thought it had a deal with the Minsk Accords.” – Exactly correct.
        “Statement 2) The war is not static.” – You need to play Chess not Checkers to understand that concept. Unfortunately there are an abundance of Checker players supporting this war.

          1. @Killer Marmot

            Yes, it was in the spirit of the Minsk Accords a NEW deal to be struck in Turkey. Here is your own trusted News telling you this……..after the withdraw UK PM Boris Johnson flew to Turkey and derailed the peace talks.

            “A senior Russian defense official framed the drawback of troops as a way to lay the groundwork for peace negotiations. Russian and Ukrainian negotiators met in Istanbul on Tuesday for the first time in two weeks.

            “In order to increase mutual trust and create the necessary conditions for further negotiations and achieving the ultimate goal—reaching an agreement and signing of the aforementioned agreement—a decision was made to drastically reduce military activity in the Kyiv and Chernihiv directions,” Alexander Fomin, Russia’s deputy defense minister, said…..”

            https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/29/russia-withdrawal-kyiv-ukraine-war-not-over/

          2. Your Pro-War friends at CNN – March 31 2022

            “The Russian Ministry of Defense said Tuesday that it has decided to “drastically reduce hostilities” in the Kyiv and Chernigov directions, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin said according to state media RIA……….The move follows peace talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Istanbul on Tuesday.”

            “Meanwhile, enough progress was made during talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations on Tuesday in Istanbul to raise the possibility of a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.”

            https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/29/politics/us-intelligence-russia-ukraine-kyiv-strategy/index.html

          3. Paul:

            First, knock off the personal remarks.

            Second, apparently there was no agreement. So no accord.

          4. @Killer Marmot

            No personal remarks, you regurgitate talking points from CBC, MSNBC, CNN and every MSM liberal rag out there….so…calling them “Your pro-war friends” shouldn’t sound a personal insult to a rational person.

            You can quibble over semantics all you wish, the point was that Russia backed off any offensive when an arrangement to meet and negotiate a peace agreement was made. It was well documented. The ensuing peace agreement was in the “initialled” stage by Zelenski as shown by Putin to the Africa Summit & world, but was sabotaged by Boris Johnson.

            Subsequently Russia mobilized it’s military manpower from a small incursion force into a large force in the fall of 2022 and dug in defensible positions for the long haul. Russia currently continues to mobilize it’s forces to potentially meet any future NATO direct intervention as the Ukrainian army smashes itself to bits against the Russian defences. It is a war of attrition that Ukraine simply doesn’t have the manpower to win.

            A f*cking waste of good decent nationalist christian men on both sides at the expense of our dollars funding the most corrupt governments in modern history.

          5. There you go obsessing over the MSM again. You might consider varying your act a bit.

            And it’s not “semantics”. Bill Sticker said there was an accord. There was no accord. It’s not difficult.

            And just how this war will turn out is anyone’s guess. Despite your confidence, you don’t know. No one does.

          6. “The Minsk Accords were from 2014. We’re talking the most recent conflict here.”

            It’s the same conflict. This ‘war’ has been happening for years already…it’s just heated up since the Russians lost patience and invaded.

          7. “And just how this war will turn out is anyone’s guess. Despite your confidence, you don’t know. No one does.”

            It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see exactly how this will end, since it can only end one way…unless you believe that Putin will suddenly and inexplicably change his mind and withdraw all his forces back into Russia? Sorry, that’s the ‘reasoning’ of a teenager; anyone of even moderate intelligence and a reasonable maturity level isn’t counting on a miracle like that to save the day. Or are you back to sending in NATO troops to confront the Russians head-on?

            Bottom line: a cease-fire, then negotiations. Let’s get to it and save a few thousand more lives.

          8. @Killer Marmot – “And just how this war will turn out is anyone’s guess. Despite your confidence, you don’t know. No one does.”

            The opinion at hand is the analysis of Col. Douglas Macgregor, a decorated veteran, West Point graduate, Senior Advisor to the Acting Secretary of Defence, and PHD , not mine but a reasonable assessment judging by the current state of affairs after 18 months.

            On the other hand your opinions are coming from the Official Ukrainian sources.

            https://rumble.com/v3afjbj-armed-forces-of-ukraines-trans-spokesperson-calls-putin-a-vampire.html

            I’m sorry to hurt any delicate feelings, but I’ll stick with Macgregor!

          9. Fred from BC:

            It’s the same conflict. This ‘war’ has been happening for years already…it’s just heated up since the Russians lost patience and invaded.

            Any agreements between Russia and Ukraine became null and void when Russian tanks crossed the Ukraine border on February 24, 2022. That’s how wars work.

          11. “Any agreements between Russia and Ukraine became null and void when Russian tanks crossed the Ukraine border on February 24, 2022. That’s how wars work.”

            Russian tanks crossed the Ukraine border *because* agreements were violated. Keep trying.

          1. I know what it is, I just don’t know why it suddenly started showing up or if I have a choice in the matter.

      3. “They won’t.”

        They won’t, because they can’t. Douglas Macgregor is too intelligent, too well spoken and most importantly too knowledgeable about the issues involved. I learned a couple of things watching this that I hadn’t been aware of before, and it only strengthens my previous opinion: END THIS thing now, before it’s too late.

      4. @Thomas – “They won’t.”

        They won’t because their bigotry either can’t see Russia past the Soviet Union, and or their ancestral connections see the Ukrainian government as angelic or pure. I suppose some romanticist view of the old country or something akin.

        What’s weird is that a conservative Canadian can identify as Canadian and know that the Canadian Liberal government is corrupt, but for some reason it’s taboo for a Ukrainian Canadian by ancestry to ever see the current Ukrainian government as corrupt.

        Not dissimilar to the 4 generations removed Irish Americans/ Canadians supporting IRA terrorism in the 70’s & 80’s.

        McGregor alluded to this in his interview but didn’t expand.

    1. @Killer Marmot

      Douglas McGregor must have forgot to mention you as one of his West Point graduate class. Bastard!

      Well, cross your fingers and wish real hard that Trump picks you over McGregor in his next administration.

      1. I would be happy to read your list of successful predictions McGregor has made about this war.

        It won’t take you long to write it out.

        1. He’s gotten far more right than the fairy tales the MSM has spun.
          But continue digesting CBC CTV CNN pablum, it shows.
          In more ways than one.
          The war is almost over, unless Zelensky wants to do something really stupid with F16s.
          The reaction, will be NUCLEAR.
          Unequivocably.

          2. “He’s gotten far more right than the fairy tales the MSM has spun.”

            Yes, beginning with the fact that the US started this conflict for personal and political gain.

  7. As I said yesterday, in the long run Fox News is better off without Carlson. Not only are his views veering into the bizarre, but he mires them in lawsuits.

  8. Fake country…fake President…fake war. Everything about this sorry excuse of a money pit is fake. It started with the “ghost of Kiev” and the latest are hordes of military aged Ukrainian men and women having a swell time at a resort. Quite the war zone.
    In the words of Elaine – “Fake…fake…fake, fake.”

    1. LMAO feel good narratives woth no real consequence. Compare those narratives to:

      Zelensky fled Ukraine early in the war (Volodin)
      Western weapons won’t make a difference
      Ukraine wouldn’t be able to fight without them
      Zaluzny/Budanov is dead (Oshtashko)
      Bioweapons labs (presented at UN)
      Viruses that target “Slavic DNA” (Onishchenko)
      Nazis sent to kill Solovyov (Sims 3)
      8 year genocide by Ukraine 60,000 civilians dead
      Maidan was a western coup
      300 NATO officers killed in a secret NATO bunker
      Battle mosquitos/dirty bombs (presented at UN)
      GUR headquarters destroyed
      All storm shadows shot down (MoD)
      Failed snake island invasion – destroyed Russian gear was presented as Ukrainian losses (MoD)
      400% of Ukraines air force is destroyed (MoD)
      Christianity/opposition parties/Russian language are all banned
      Crop sprayer blown up is a Leopard 2 (MoD)
      Zelensky is a drug addict and war criminal
      Patriot battery destroyed (MoD)
      Millions of nazis suddenly appeared in 2014
      Genetically modified Ukrainian supersoldiers
      Kyiv/Kherson/Kherson a goodwill gesture (MoD)
      DNA modified locusts that destroy crops (RIA)
      Ukrs are nazis, satanists, cannibals, and druggies
      Crimea and Donbas referendums were legit
      NATO promised not to expand east (Putin)
      More HIMARS destroyed than delivered (MoD)
      Ukraine and Russia are brotherly nations. (Putin)
      Sanctions on Russia aren’t effective (15 months straight of recession says otherwise)
      DU shells/F16s are a nuclear escalation (Putin)
      Ukrainian government kill list
      Poland intends to annex Lviv (Naryshkin)
      The US is pushing Ukraine for the offensive
      Fake organ harvesting videos
      Zaluzny’s swastika bracelet
      Lindsay Graham “money well spent” edit

      Which side is fake now?

        1. And hurling washing machine parts at the enemy.

          By the way, in a trench fight, shovels are quite effective. People can keep shooting for a while after they are gutshot. No one is unaffected by the edge of an entrenching tool cutting their face in half.

          1. @Bdsm

            “in a trench fight, shovels are quite effective”

            That and helping dig in fortified trench lines. Wonder if the Russians thought about any defensive trench lines back in 2022 when the breaking UK shovel story broke? /Heh.

  9. I stopped listening to Col. Macgregor very early in the war when some of his statements were clearly nonsensical. It does not take a genius to see what is happening in the Ukraine war; it follows that if a single person sees something no one else it can be more easily attributed to hallucinations rather than insight.
    I am rather sorry that you give someone like him a serious place in your blog, he is more or less a flat earther.

    1. “I stopped listening to Col. Macgregor very early in the war when some of his statements were clearly nonsensical.”

      What statements? Be specific.

      “It does not take a genius to see what is happening in the Ukraine war; ”

      It certainly doesn’t. It takes a really callous, bloodthirsty POS to continue to support the mass slaughter of Ukrainians *for money*.

      1. As we see, far too many people still believe MSM Propaganda and BS.
        They just can’t get past the Talking Heads, looking official, sounding authoritarian.
        They Lie.
        The media has been lying about most of their stories, for decades.
        People ask “why would they lie?”
        Because,
        They
        Are
        Paid.
        They lied about Harper, Trump, Covid, and Trudeau.
        They lie about the economy, taxes and government spending.
        They lie about the street drug problem
        They lie about homelessness issues.
        They Lie.

  10. The Ukrainians have something big on the Biden government if not on Biden himself. THAT is the only reason for all the billions going into the war. I suspect the Bidens are getting huge kickbacks

    1. The reason that NATO countries give Ukraine military supplies is because it’s a relatively painless way for them to give NATO’s long-time nemesis — Russia — a swift kick in the teeth that they might never recover from. In this way, they ensure the security of Europe.

      Compared to the tens of trillions NATO has spent on defense since 1949, it’s practically free.

        1. You tyrant-backing hypocrite. In the long run, the most lives will be saved by giving Russia a good swift kick in the teeth, so they think twice about trying to annex another of their neighbours. In the short run, Ukraine deserves the chance to defend their country against that arsehole Putin. It just so happens that their priorities align with NATO’s.

          2. “In the long run, the most lives will be saved by giving Russia a good swift kick in the teeth,”

            I see. So you DO want NATO troops to go into Ukraine and directly fight the Russians, then? Good to know.

            That is the only possible way we can even hope to drive Russia from Ukraine: NATO troops on the ground fighting *and dying* in Ukraine. Doing what we have been doing so far (providing more and more weaponry alone) is clearly not working…nice to see you finally admit that.

          3. Fred From BC:

            Not working? The capability of the Russian army has been reduced to less than half of what it was two years ago, and the military’s reputation is in tatters. They’ll likely never again be considered a military super power. Did you see the lack of response to Finland and Sweden joining NATO? That was because there was bugger all Putin could do, and everyone knew it. From NATO’s point of view, then, the war has succeeded spectacularly.

            From Ukraine’s point of view, they stopped Russia from annexing the entire country. They may yet win the entire war, but at worst they’ll lose only part of their territory. Further, I doubt Russia will ever again invade Ukraine.

            No, it might not end in total victory for Ukraine, but Russia will be the biggest loser.

          4. More tyrants in Ottawa than Moscow right now.

            Get yer head on right, amigo. Ukraine is nothing but the biggest money laundering scheme we’ve ever seen.
            I know you don’t agree, and I don’t care, but more and more people are waking up every day.

          5. “More tyrants in Ottawa than Moscow right now.”

            I’ve always wondered how tyrants like Mao, Stalin, and Hitler could rise to power while having many admirers in North America — at least until their actions became so transparently brutal they were impossible to support any more.

            And I’m still left wondering. What psychological phenomenon drives people to support blood-thirsty dictators? What goes on in their heads?

          6. Yup, just arguments of FEELS and Hopium.
            Must be nice sending all able bodied Ukrainians to the Meatgrinder.

          7. @Killer Marmot

            “I’ve always wondered how tyrants like Mao, Stalin, and Hitler could rise to power….”

            Don’t wonder, look in a mirror. Supporting the talking points of the CBC and the girls on The View puts you in league with the pedo-agenda crowd.

            The only people supporting the destruction of Ukraine with OUR money is you and the global tranny cheerleaders who lie, cheat, and steal from you on a daily bases. Mirror bud.

          8. Apparantly, Paul, the only argument you have is to accuse of anyone who disagrees with you of being a dupe of the media.

            Which means you don’t have any argument at all. It’s as stupid to believe something because the MSM denies it as to believe it because they state it. I don’t watch the MSM news at all these days. I get all my info on the Ukraine war from other sources.

          9. @Killer Marmot – “You tyrant-backing hypocrite” – “I don’t watch the MSM news at all these days”

            So remember that the next time you rant on some other SDA thread about the lying Liberal MSM, because your in full lock-step with them now,

          10. Paul:

            There is no argument lazier or less valid than accusing someone of being in lockstep with the MSM.

            Usually the MSM is right but often they aren’t. It’s dumb to agree with everything they say, but it’s equally dumb to disagree with everything they say.

          11. Killer Midwit is on a streak here..
            “You tyrant-backing hypocrite.” Obummer and the Clintons don’t comment here.

            “The capability of the Russian army has been reduced to less than half of what it was two years ago”
            Proof? Evidence? Or just more high end copium on your part?
            “heir army is bigger, better equipped and increasingly battle-hardened compared to just 8 months ago.

            “Did you see the lack of response to Finland and Sweden joining NATO?”
            Pointing nukes and adding *2* Military Districts is a HUUUUUUGE non response…

            “annex another of their neighbours”
            UN article 51 says otherwise.

            “What psychological phenomenon drives people to support blood-thirsty dictators?”
            Look to *your* comments on this site, people who think EXACTLY LIKE YOU support dictators.

          12. NiggleW:

            “The capability of the Russian army has been reduced to less than half of what it was two years ago”

            Russia doesn’t publish assessments of their military capabilities, and we couldn’t trust it if they did. But military analysts can make some very educated guesses.

            https://www.ft.com/content/8cd1c388-6fb9-497b-a8a9-14b6ea21ede2

            “Pointing nukes and adding *2* Military Districts is a HUUUUUUGE non response…”

            Russia has severly depleted its military presence near Finland as resources have been directed towards Ukraine. At most this means they’ll beef it back up a little. Normally Russia’s threats get a lot of headlines and analysis, but this time there was almost no attention paid because we all know Russia has nothing to back it up with. The bear has no claws.

      2. @Killer Marmot – “You tyrant-backing hypocrite”

        Again, I don’t think that word means what you think it means.

  11. The general is spot-on. Eastern European conflicts have been occurring for hundreds of years and are none of our business. Ukraine (formerly and for a couple hundred years known as “the Ukraine” and part of Russia) has been a sovereign country since, when? 1991? I’m no friend of Russia nor the former Soviet Union – I spent years on deployments with the Navy facing down their military adventures but the current situation is right on their border that was created in ’91, rather close like our porous border with Mexico. Understandably Russia is a bit paranoid about that border area (re: Napoleon, Adolph Hitler, et al) While their motivation in this is likely not pure, it is their motivation in a localized area of concern on their border. Different culture, ancient animosities, lots of tribal inclinations are involved. We have no dog in this fight (I say “we” meaning regular folks without financial interests in weaponry, money laundering, or Ukrainian polluted politics) and we need to stay clear while watching at a distance from the sidelines.

    1. You don’t have to have a dog in this fight to understand that, contrary to what was promised, Russia does not want nor will it permit NATO to be brought to its western border any more than the US would have wanted Mexico to join the Warsaw Pact.

      1. Um, NATO is already on Russia’s western border.

        Norway, Estonia, Latvia, and now Finland.

        And Poland and Lithuania if you count Kaliningrad as part of Russia’s western border.

    2. Nice summation bullnuke.

      The ruskies and their uke tribal brothers have lived in a constant love/hate relationship. Intermarrying, sharing similar culture and speaking each others language.

      Kiev and Moscow are historically twin cities. Both tribes are well known for their perfidious nature. Who ya gonna believe?

      Toss in massive moneylandering and the guy in the street becomes cannon fodder.

  12. “https://disinfo.detector.media/en/post/american-colonel-predicting-the-imminent-defeat-of-ukraine-has-been-doing-this-since-the-first-day-of-the-war”

    LOL…love that page!

    Looks like it was done by some European teenagers as a ‘one off’, meant to look like a serious effort. Priceless. 🙂

    And the Ukrainians have been on the verge of defeat almost since this thing started…only the continual flood of western weapons has kept them going, but at great cost in casualties.

    “Until the last dead Ukrainian” is your motto, right? Sickening.

      1. “I notice you don’t actually deny the claims made by disinfo.”

        Because I don’t need to, as I explained in the very post you are replying to.

        Go find a smart person to explain this to you in smaller words if necessary.

        1. No you don’t need to. You can just let people click on my links and make up their own minds about McGregor, without any rebuttal from you.

  13. You want to stop a gasoline fire? Stop pouring in more gasoline and let it burn itself out.

    1. That’s what they said about Sudentland in 1938. You won’t believe what happened next!

    1. The more Russia tries to assert control over the countries around it, the more those countries make a dash for NATO, Finland and Sweden being cases in point.

        1. @Bdsm

          “I can’t wait for Wagner troops to begin training in Mexico”

          Why Mexico when they can just walk across the border and set up training camps in the US like the Islamist’s do?

  15. Well …. let’s hava look.

    The general expressed thoughtful analysis on the American powers that are.
    Included are knowledge, guesses and wishes.
    Flawed as it may be, it would be good for others to at least think about those points and maybe do some research without prejudice and come with some solid sensible conclusions.

    Ukraine is definitely a country. Period.
    You can argue that it was run by Russians or Poles or whatever, never been independent until the fall of communism.
    That does not take away the part that it is a nation that should make their affairs as they see fit.

    That being said, they seem to be jumping from a puddle into a lake and into the ocean with all of their chosen governments up to now. They are unable to establish a decent government. This could be assigned to the communists that run the SU.
    Remember the saying of the time, that one who lived in a country run by communists can confirm firsthand, the proletariat pretends to work and the communist apparatchiks pretend to pay them.
    You see, or maybe you don’t, anyway, during the communist rule, the proletariat was taken care to a point that they lived lives of serfs they got to buy food when available, they got an apartment when available, they had celebration of the glories of socialism with free this and that and a lot of slogans. One interesting fact is that the population had the relative purchasing power, the problem of course was that they could not buy much of anything simply not having supply.

    Once the communism was officially over, it was the communists that had all the right connections and knowhow to acquire the wealth, however crooked it may have been.
    The proletariat was again left in the dust.
    However, with relatively more freedom, they, instead pursuing free enterprise, continued with the corruption that they knew in socialism.
    And so it happened that the communist apparatchiks became oligarchs and the plebeians the plebeians supported it being paid with some leftover crumbs.
    The current comedian ruling Ukraine is product of the oligarchs. Period. They paid his campaign, they paid the low life to support him.

    There is no favor here for either side.
    They should stop it and get on with peace.
    Ukraine cannot win, the best they can do is compromise and deal with it.
    The Russians gotta stop it on principle and get talking.

    With any good fortune that will happen before the atoms fly.
    As for God, he had nothing to do with it, he gave men that capacity to think and a handbook.
    If the parties looked in the book, you don’t have to be religious to find wisdom in it, things would work better.

    1. “They should stop it and get on with peace.
      Ukraine cannot win, the best they can do is compromise and deal with it.”

      That’s the real bottom line, yes. Too bad there are so many bloodthirsty, hateful savages here opposed to that for some inexplicable reason. When you refer to the other side as “subhuman”, you’re a piece of human garbage.

    2. There’s all sorts of ways that Ukraine could win.

      The easiest way is for Putin to die or get overthrown, resulting in chaos in the military. Probably won’t happen, but who knows?

      Another easy way is for mass Russian desertions to occur. We’ve already seen that with the Wagner Group. Again probably won’t happen, but who knows?

      The hardest way if for Ukraine to continue grinding. That’ll take much longer, but it’s doable. They are only twenty kilometres from Tokmak, which would cut off vital supply lines to the west.

  16. EVERY country that borders Russia has, at some point in their history, been attacked, occupied, controlled or threatened by Russia.

    Along with most one border beyond that.

    1. Russia could say the same about every country that borders them: they have been invaded and attacked from legit every single direction throughout their history. The most recent was by Ukrainian Nazis funded and equipped by the CIA (successor to the OSS) between 1947 and 1955. They have earned the right to take border security very, very seriously. In the last 200 years they have been invaded five (yes FIVE) times from the Western regions.

      Americans, Germans, Finns, Japs, Canadians, Brits and NZ/Australians have earned the right to sit the eff down and shut the eff up about Russia’s Western border regions,

      1. BDSM;

        Communist Russia (prior to the Soviet Union) was in 16 military actions, the Soviet Union was in 31, the Russian Federation has been in 15. That’s 62 over the course of a little over a century. This is blood-thirsty war-mongering state that deserves no trust or empathy.

        I had hopes that after the fall of the Soviet Union that Russia would become a friendly, open, democratic state. And for a while it was looking good. But no, they reverted to their olds ways.

      2. One of the times they were invaded was because the country that they started WW II with — Germany — turned on them. Is that supposed to earn them pity points?

        1. Wow. You need help with your non-MSM non-Anglo history. Unless I missed the part where Germany declared war on Britian and France, and Britan and France declared war on the Soviet Union.
          The people that started WW2 were the British and French. By definition.

  17. Progressivism.
    Create an insurmountable problem, for instance, by failing to deter the Ukraine invasion, your failures the only solution.
    Paint society into a corner of virtue signaling, in this case for an unlimited and unending war of attrition that can only get worse.

    That we pay for, that can only result in escalation and destruction of blood and treasure – ours, along with the convenient destruction of civil society. Rule from that paradox of illegality while ludicrously claiming nobody else has legitimacy to rule.

    Dissidents indicted for threatening negligently incompetent – surviving through corruption, coercion and censorship – regimes.
    Same goes for healthcare, housing, Name your issue. When that fails, make something up, like climate change and racism.
    And their favourite of course for ultimate unenlightened despotism – covid. The poorer we are, the more powerful they are.
    Once they figure out fully and finally how to bypass Courts and voters, the circle of corrupt collectivism will be squared.
    If not there now aka Venezuelization.

    1. Yes, the “name one” argument used successfully on ignoramus TDS drones doesn’t work if an example readily comes to mind.
      Thanks to these corrupt collectivists progressive poseurs we are in the midst, again, of a European war, with no end in sight.
      Progressivism. Inflation. Taxation. War. Rinse off the blood and repeat, with more unenlightened despotism inevitable.

  19. Count ME among the VietNam era HAWKS who didn’t much care for his fellow youth protesting and not supporting the VietNam WAR. Count me among the Col. McGregor’s who LEARNED the lesson of VietNam. Who reject the simplistic notion of “The Domino Theory”. Who reject fighting un-winnable wars. Who reject the Military Industrial Complex.

    Col. MacGregor (and I) LEARNED from the VietNam fiasco … and the Iraq fiasco … and the Afghanistan fiasco. Ohhhhh you say … but Ukraine is different! Their country was “invaded”. Rubbish. The American President approved a “minor incursion” into the Russian-centric region of Ukraine. It’s on tape, look it up. This is just another useless war … and quagmire … a proxy war against Putin (nobody else) perfectly embodied by that “transgender” American-Ukrainian FREAK at the end of this interview. Shhhhhhh … be careful Tucker … don’t upset the LGBTQqAI2s+/- Mafia. This is a proxy War against Christianity … Nationality … and hetero-normativity.

  22. Sad that you didn’t approve my comment. I guess I will be moving on from SDA. Same b.s. as with the mainstream, controlled press.

    1. It’s not that.
      The site is on a Glitchy platform.
      No swears, no invective posts, but many posts do not function here.
      It’s not you.

  23. I am a Canadian, former CF member, that has been in Ukraine as a volunteer training the UA and security services on and off since the beginning of the war. I have been in pretty much every single part of the country except in Odessa. I had known very little of Ukraine before the war but now consider its people some of the most fantastic human beings on the planet.
    I normally love reading SDA and am a conservative thinking libertarian disgusted with the Canadian government’s covid pandemic measures and fiscal irresponsibilities. I am generally in agreement with most of the viewpoints in the blog but I have to say that some of these anti Ukraine comments on SDA make me feel like the commenters are living in a separate universe. And the glee that some westerners have upon hearing of Ukrainian casualties and equipment destruction is inexplicable.
    You have to understand that MacGregor, Carlson and Ritter and to a lesser extent, Kennedy Jr., all have agendas that don’t include the well-being of Ukrainian nation as the center point.
    I wish some of you folks could come here and see the ground truth: the devastation, the atrocities and the barbarism perpetrated on the Ukrainian people by the Russians. Once you see the number of sexual assaults committed by the Russian troops on women, men and children, I am certain you would have a change of heart. I suppose that some people can justify any actions but I think that those that that support Russia in this conflict will be seen to have been on the wrong side of history in the future.
    I know that even during the Cold War there were those in the West that were apologists for the Soviet Union. I would ask that those that have this pro-Russian invasion mentality right now think really hard about what kind of side they are supporting as they run the risk of becoming “useful idiots”.

    1. I am truly puzzled why so many apologize for Russia, as I can find no justification for its brutal and imperialist actions. I can only think that they are taking their cues from people like Tucker Carlson. They are running with their “herd.”

      But the damage they can end up doing is immense.

    2. Simon, majority of tankies and broshevics at SDA are Kremlin agents of influence that came here after the orc invasion of Ukraine. They are part of the hybrid war (Gerasimov Doctrine) that orcs have been waging on civilization. You can’t reason with these lower life forms. They are patently disingenuous and consciously spreading manure for such is their job.

    3. ” but I have to say that some of these anti Ukraine comments on SDA make me feel like the commenters are living in a separate universe. And the glee that some westerners have upon hearing of Ukrainian casualties and equipment destruction is inexplicable.”

      Like this ‘glee’?

      Fact: Orcs are now looking at about 200K gruz 200 (made good permanently) plus at least 400K gruz 300 (defanged or neutered), with a great proportion of permanently disabled (samovar) largely thanks to stone age level of orc field medicine and the simple facts that orc mongrells hate one another and are not willing to go out of their way to help one another.

      Or this?

      “Whatever that thing is, it is right, orcs are not human. Every negative stereotype about orcs have been proven over and over again. The planet would definitely be a better place without them.”

      These are just a couple of the everyday comments made here by the cowardly piece of human filth known as Colonialista, who shares your views very enthusiastically (and dearly *loves* to post horrifying videos of dead and dying Russians…we’re pretty sure he jerks off to them). Personally, though, I think I’ll take the side of the normal human beings who are more concerned with stopping the slaughter than labelling people as “apologists” and “useful idiots” for being appalled at the massive loss of life taking place while so many billionaires get richer every minute by exploiting (and prolonging) this.

      (you do you, though, okay?…)

      1. “Like this ‘glee’?” “Or this?”

        Both factual statements dipshit. Proven true over and over again since the first day of invasion.

        Muscovy delenda est.

        P.S. Watching likes or you or Bondage Sado Mass claiming the high road while simping for genocide is amusing.

  24. Well said indeed, Simon.

    Unfortunately, you are wasting your time here. When it comes to Ukraine, SDA seems permanently stuck at 23 February 2022. The failed Russian invasion has changed the dynamics of this conflict completely.

    And with quite some regret, after following SDA for over 20 years now, I’m calling it a day.

    2. “And with quite some regret, after following SDA for over 20 years now, I’m calling it a day.”

      Oh NOES!

      One of the Simpletons ™ is calling it a day? However shall we cope with such a tremendous loss??

      (but hey, if one one or two more of you cut-and-run, I can start using the Three Stooges..;)

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