Ian Miles Cheong suggests that UK PM Keir Starmer is either an imbecile or a complete psychopath. We need to introduce this prolific blogger to the power of “and”.
The Deep State Wants to Start WW3 Before Trump Gets Into Office
[From Kate] More at CTV;
U.S. President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied long-range missiles to strike deeper inside Russia, easing limitations on the weapons as Russia deploys thousands of North Korean troops to reinforce its war, according to a U.S. official and three other people familiar with the matter.
The decision allowing Kyiv to use the Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMs, for attacks farther inside Russia comes as President Vladimir Putin positions North Korean troops along Ukraine’s northern border to try to reclaim hundreds of miles of territory seized by Ukrainian forces.
Biden’s move also follows the presidential election victory of Donald Trump, who has said he would bring about a swift end to the war and raised uncertainty about whether his administration would continue the United States’ vital military support for Ukraine.
The official and the others knowledgeable about the matter were not authorized to discuss the U.S. decision publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s reaction Sunday was notably restrained.
“Strikes are not made with words,” he said during his nightly video address. “Such things are not announced. The missiles will speak for themselves.”
More here. Please do be sure to share links of those cheering this on.
Down The Primrose Path
And two years later, here we are. A sobering interview with national security expert Elbridge Colby.
Looks like another conspiracy theory has proven to be true
Energy Efficiency
This is an amazing story about the impact of sanctions and conflict! It is a story of world gone crazy!
Two #LNG carriers passing by each other. The Russian is going south then around Africa to Asia instead of Europe. The Qatari is going north around Africa to Italy instead of going to Asia or through the Red Sea.
D Is For Desertion
Historically, a nation has about three years to win a war or at least demonstrate that victory is imminent. If they don’t, public support starts to wane dramatically. The window for success is closing for the Ukraine, and the cracks are already starting to show.
The Ukrainian prosecutor’s office has opened 51,000 cases of desertion through the first nine months of 2024. The number of soldiers abandoning their posts is likely to double last year’s total.
Kiev has struggled to fill its ranks with fresh soldiers, leading Ukraine to drop its conscription age from 27 to 25. As Kiev is still facing manpower shortages, American politicians are pushing Ukraine to drop draft age to 18.
Ukraine has also resorted to allowing prisoners to leave jail if they join the military
Trudeau Friends and Family?
Blacklock’s- Quietly Waives War Sanction
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly yesterday quietly removed a Russian banker from cabinet’s Ukraine war sanctions list. No reason was given.
Kamyshev is a former partner with Ernst & Young in the United Kingdom. The department would not say what business he had in Canada.
Canadian Wonder Weapons
Wonder if they work?
Ottawa Citizen- What can Ukraine possibly do with 80-year-old Canadian pistols?
As Long As It Takes
CBC- Canada’s plan to donate refurbished armour to Ukraine is still spinning its wheels
A plan to rebuild and modernize two dozen decommissioned Canadian light armoured vehicles for donation to Ukraine is stuck in bureaucratic limbo more than nine months after the defence department handed the vehicles over to an Ontario company that specializes in restoration, CBC News has learned.
Down The Primrose Path (bumped)
NEW: The government that fails at sleeping bag procurement demands escalation, yessiree!
It is expected that Blinken will announce tomorrow that the US has given Ukraine the greenlight to strike deep inside Russia using Western made Storm Shadow missiles. This would mean NATO & the US are at war with Russia. Putin explains their position here pic.twitter.com/NYJnN13Ru3
— Clint Russell (@LibertyLockPod) September 12, 2024
Polish MEP Grzegorz Braun on Antony Blinken visiting Poland today
…small group of officials inside the White House.
Stan, in the comments;
The dog that didn’t bark: Why are no politicians calling for a cease fire in Ukraine? We hear them call for a ceasefire in Gaza every day.
That Sinking Feeling
Even the mainstream media is belatedly acknowledging what many SDA readers have known for a long time: the Ukraine is running out of soldiers who are willing and able to fight.
As a battalion commander, Dima was in charge of around 800 men who fought in some of the fiercest, bloodiest battles of the war – most recently near Pokrovsk, the strategic eastern town that is now on the brink of falling to Russia.
But with most of his troops now dead or severely injured, Dima decided he’d had enough. He quit and took another job with the military – in an office in Kyiv.
CNN spoke to six commanders and officers who are or were until recently fighting or supervising units in the area. All six said desertion and insubordination are becoming a widespread problem, especially among newly recruited soldiers.
Tit for Tat
How it started…
France 24- Allies freeze $330 bn of Russian assets since Ukraine invasion
The Russian Elites, Proxies, and Oligarchs Task Force (REPO) said in a joint statement that they had blocked $30 billion in assets of Russian oligarchs and officials, and immobilized $300 billion owned by the Russian central bank.
How it’s going…
Express- Russia seized £76m from Google ‘to support war in Ukraine’
The Kremlin seized more than £76m from Google’s accounts in Vladimir Putin’s Russia – and used this to fund propaganda supporting the war in Ukraine, court documents claim.
The assets seizure came after a Russian court ruled that Google must pay damages to three Russian TV channels.
As Long As It Takes
Down The Primrose Path
Inside Russian Forces Command & Control Center (Akhmat Battalion): A post combat interview with Russian commander near the front line.. Scroll back to the beginning to watch it all. (h/t Robert)
Related: Where is Rafael Grossi and the entire IAEA?. More in the comments.
Reversing The Onus
Offering up yet another example of his incredible arrogance, Volodymyr Zelenskyy demands to know how Donald Trump would end the war if he becomes President again. I’ve got a better question: how does Zelenskyy propose to win it?
“If Trump knows how to finish this war, he should tell us today,” Zelenskyy said in a Bloomberg Television interview in Kyiv on Wednesday.
“It’s not a deadlock, it’s a problematic situation,” he said. “A deadlock means there’s no way out. But a problem can be solved if one has the will and has the tools. We do have the will, and the tools – they haven’t arrived yet.”
Endless War
NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, explaining how Putin’s peace proposal is not real, and how the peaceful solution is actually to keep fighting a war they cannot win.
NATO are in no position to negotiate. Whatever leverage they had is now gone. Putin is offering an olive branch. NATO/Ukraine can admit defeat, spare the remaining Ukrainians and negotiate, or Putin is just going to take what he wants by force.
The West know they cannot take the political hit by admitting they lost this war, especially before the US election, so they will continue to sacrifice the Ukrainian People to advance their own nefarious agenda.
Schadenfreude
Telegraph- Germany is descending into chaos – and it will take the rest of the eurozone down with it
It is now little more than a “developing country”. Its stock market is a “junk shop” selling old tat. And its reputation as a place to do business has “never been so bad’. In the middle of the UK’s dismal election campaign, it would be easy to imagine that Britain was the country under discussion.
But Theodor Weimer, the head of the once mighty Deutsche Börse, was describing his native Germany. And he was absolutely right. After a series of catastrophic policy mistakes by centrist leaders, there is no way back for Germany – and its decline is only going to accelerate from here.
The Most Interesting Man In The World
Let me make today’s news about the CIA blocking feds from interviewing Hunter’s funders simple:
Burisma was being used as a corporate crowbar by the CIA to pry Russia off the gas market. Hunter helped that happen.
There. No more mystery.
Down The Primrose Path
Down The Primrose Path
War is hell.
