It’s even worse than you let on.

The F35 is supposed to have stealth capabilities. That’s partly why it costs so much.

Ansar Allah locked on the most technologically advanced stealth fighter the West has ever produced.

Sure, but the Ukrainians can use those 3 days to do the same thing. And the way things are, that means the Russian army loses momentum while Ukrainians gain respite (if they actually go for the ceasefire). Don’t get me wrong, I agree with Putin’s decision. It’s the right thing to do, both morally and politically. Especially for the reasons to outline (but I think in Putin’s mind he’s just trying to present some good faith on Russia’s behalf, and he’s probably hoping there’s no incident in Moscow while a bunch of BRICS leaders and other world leaders gather together). But militarily it might turn out to hurt the Russian effort more than it would help.

This is what it means to be free! I might not like it, but I’ll defend to the death the right of that municipal authority to oppress poor 80-year-old widows! Fuck yeah!

The spin in the article is so extreme that I’m getting nauseous.

Third sentence in:

It is hoped that this change in military support for Ukraine could see Moscow move its red lines to achieve a peace deal.

Yeah, as if Russia’s supposed to be thankful now that UK won’t deploy its super mighty unbeatable imperial regiments.

Then later on:

“This was always the UK’s thought. It was France who wanted a more muscular approach.”

Of course, Kid Starver just knew from the beginning that the British Army is basically an April Fool’s joke by now and definitely did not seethe and shout and froth at his general staff for telling him this was going to be suicide. And dead empire, if it wasn’t for those pesky French and their powers of seductive suggestion.

I can’t wait to see what the Baltic chihuahuas will do next once the French pull out of the “coalition of the willing” as well.

This is pretty much false. Notice how they cite “people familiar with the matter said”. That’s usually doublespeak for “nobody official, just some Western pundit who dreamt about it”.

This is probably a ploy to get Russia to deny this, so they can then turn around and say that Russia isn’t serious about peace. They are doing this to get the lights off Zelensky categorically and most publicly turning down the US ceasefire proposal given to him in the recent London talks between Ukraine and US.

The difference between Trump and China, is that China was preparing for this trade war for the last 5 years, and even more so when they understood early in the elections that Trump was going to win. China got its economy ready for sanctions and tarriffs, became less reliant on imports from the West and forged strong economic ties with Asian, Latin American and African countries. Trump has just gotten into office, and without bracing first, he just started smashing things. Guess who’s coming out on top in this.

Edit: by comparison Europe just assumed Trump would lose, and then assumed Trump would not impose tarriffs on them, despite clearly speaking about it for years. So here they are, having cut off their major energy supplier and then (literally) burning the bridge with Russia. Having imposed tarriffs on Chinese goods at the behest of the US, and still completely unprepared for the effects of Trump’s tarriffs. Yet, all they seem to care about is how to keep Ukraine’s funeral pyres burning.

Zelensky is going to let martial law expire in May and won’t renew it. At least that’s what members of the Ukrainian parliament announced. This indicates that most likely, Ukraine is finally going to get elections. There’s two possibilities here and they are not mutually exclusive. Either Trump pressured Zelensky to quit the government (probably a Russian demand as well for any further talks), and/or the military and nazis have turned against Zelensky after the debacles at Kursk and Toretsk (which saw massive casualties among the most elite Ukrainian units, which also happen to be the Nazis).

If this is the case, then Zelensky’s only real option is to let elections occur soon without him taking part in them. If he let’s elections occur, then there’s no real point for the Nazis to rise up against him for the time being (unless it seems obvious that they can’t win the elections). If he doesn’t take part, then that ensures the Americans (along with the Europeans) will protect his life and help him escape to some French or Floridian beach resort with the bulk of his accrued corruption treasure.

The Europeans don’t want peace there. They sponsor the conflict behind the scenes, because it gives them cheap access to the diamond mines in the area.

According to reports, the first thing M23 did was to take over the mining towns and forced people to get to mining.

What’s a BC?

Oh for sure. No question there. I don’t see it having this kind of outcome either. I do believe there’s a possibility that the Trump administration thought of it this way however.

By their own citizens who they convinced Russia thirsts for their blood and homes.

If I was Putin, I wouldn’t agree to such a ceasefire. Denazification is a must at this point, along with all the other demands. If the nazis are left running whatever is left from Ukraine, in 10-20 years, this whole thing will be repeated again. We’ve seen how Syria turned out.

There’s this theory circulating that the whole thing was a trap for Ukraine and Europeans to say they agree to a ceasefire, and that they await Putin’s response. And if Putin responds “sure, and here’s my conditions” (which he did), and US says “sure, let’s talk about doing that”, then the Ukrainians and Europeans can’t back out without being seen as the unreasonable ones.

Greek civil war 1945-1949: 150 000 dead communists in battles, executions and pogroms. Followed by 30 more years of repression, including the use of brutal concentration camps, whose sole purpose was to either kill you or break you.. All under the supervision of the CIA.

Abattoir is just the french word for slaughterhouse, and it means the exact same thing. But point taken.

The article says there’s a narrow corridor which is about 0.5-1 km wide. This means the Ukrainians are in operational encirclement.

Russians usually leave a small corridor open like this, because they’ve observed that Ukrainian high command dislikes retreating and insists on sending reinforcements and supplies, as they order units to hold to the last man. At the same time, they try to sneak out heavy equipment and elite units. Both resupplies and shuffling of troops/equipment along this narrow path are usually easy targets for UAVs, missiles and air strikes. That’s when they inflict the highest losses. This also softens the units caught in the pocket and makes capturing them easier and less dangerous.

WTF?

It also angers me at the end where the owner feigns ignorance, when clearly this culture permeated the whole abattoir. This wasn’t one or two workers being sadistic. At that scale, it was everybody.

US proxies doing US proxy things

Some NATO officials should stick to avoiding nuclear holocaust over some theoretical pissing contest.