This is an excellent analysis... except that calling the Ukrainian regime “Nazi” is nuts. I am also not as sure as you are that Russia is going to win. You betray here an irrationality which is saddening.
If I could post photos here I would share images from Western press and Ukrainian government sources of Zelensky & Zaluzhny in images of troops/locations with Nazi and Bandera insignia, badges and flags.
Yes, I know the media reports. I believe most of them. Yes, there are Nazi-like movements in the Ukraine, and Nazi-like movements in Russia. And in the US. Lots of people everywhere have fascination and admiration for nazis.
Ukraine has historically been the World Capital of Neo-Naziism. Ukraine is the poorest nation in Europe while being the Breadbasket of Europe and 4th in the world in natural resources. Yet Ukraine is poor. Why? Ukraine is the most corrupt nation in Europe.
That is utter nonsense. Why is Ukraine poor? I would blame Russian colonialism, this has been going on for centuries. I suggest you read some history books. In my opinion, Russia is presently the most corrupt nation in Europe.
You're such a propagandized dupe. You just don't get it no matter how hard I try to get your mind straight. You're afflicted with the manufactured mental disorder Russophobia Man!
Please feel free to explain why Ukraine - a nation solely dependent upon external war fighting supplies and direct funding of its state - is capable of winning a war of attrition against Russia, a nation that is entirely self sufficient for its war fighting capability, that possesses more men and materiel than its opponent.
Also, please explain why, after 5 months of offensive, the Ukrainians have failed to move the front line while sustaining circa 60k+ losses by some accounts, in addition to heavy materiel losses. These losses represent all of the forces that were trained externally by NATO.
Also, why has the Ukrainian regime and its Western sponsors been saying via its captive media that the offensive actions are ineffective while also reducing the amount of materiel provision and raising negotiation and frozen conflict scenarios, none of which Russia needs to engage with considering its military position and outstanding (and consistent) objectives, plus - as we predicted - its hinted intent to take Odessa and the next inner oblasts beyond what it occupies, thereby creating an effective buffer zone past the DPR/LPR, and effectively landlocking the remaining rump state of Ukraine, which other nations such as Hungary and Poland could end up being involved with for their administration. All of which was largely predicted by Mearsheimer and Cohen over 10 years ago?
All of the above is a win for Russia should it occur because:
1. Ukraine will have been effectively demilitarised through destruction of imported and incumbent men and materiel;
2. It will have been denazified to the extent that Nazi sympathising or actual Nazi troops will have been killed, maimed or captured;
3. Russia will have secured DPR LPR and added a 150km+ buffer to hold off longer range ground based weapons and created and air defence buffer to prevent air incursions;
4. Russia will have largely destroyed Ukraine's ability to rebuild through industrial means and finance, its own military to the same level pre-invasion;
5. Ukraine will be "wrecked" per Mearsheimer and rendered economically unviable for NATO and EU membership, as well as having been largely privatised as the UA government has already done in a massive cash grab;
6. Many UA citizens outside the country will remain outside unless forced back, which will create other sociopolitical problems.
I watched an interview of a Lithuanian guy fighting on Ukrainian side from the beginning of the war ( by beginning I mean 2022 and not 2014). There are many interesting stories in that interview what is going on there and how corrupt everything is.
Obviously, Ukraine can’t win on its own. Doesn’t mean to say that Russia will certainly win. You can give arguments why you think it is very likely, why you predict it will happen. But it is not certain.
Maybe. Perhaps probably. So what? Evil often triumphs over good, if one would wish to express this in black and white. Of course the truth is gray. I would say very dark gray.
It's black and white in the case of Ukro-Nazistan. Russia is the good guy fighting Banderite Nazis in Ukraine. If you don't know who Stepan Bandera is. I urge you to look him up. There are statues of him in the big cities in Ukro-Nazistan and streets named after him in all cities. I have told you about Ukro-Nazistan being the world capital of Neo-Naziism.
Our government is controlled by Nazis who have turned our nation into the world's foremost terrorist state. In our government there are Neocon Nazis, Neolib Nazis, Femi-Nazis and Zio-Nazis. The Neocon Zionists of AIPAC (American Israeli Political Action Committee) are fucking Nazis!
Scott Ritter posted an article yesterday that you should find and read. It's long because he wrote about the history of Israel and Hamas, his experiences in Israel, his condemnation of Hamas and why he no longer stands with Israel. Although he condemns Hamas, he stands with the Palestinian People and supports Palestinian statehood.
Like there will be a rump state of Ukro-Nazistan, there will be a rump state of Zio-Nazistan. Either Zio-Nazistan or they nuke themselves out of existence and take a big chunk of the Middle East with them. They are capable of executing their "Samson Option" and pull a Masada. Like Ukro-Nazis, Zio-Nazis are spread around the world.
John Kirby has just stated that Ukraine funding is approaching "the end of the rope".
While US efforts are trying to wrap UA funding with Israel funding, money is no substitute for capable men adequately trained and experienced. UA is in a doom loop as far as men and materiel is concerned and with diminishing funding, it is doomed to lose a war of attrition faster than it would have otherwise.
I think that the Russian regime is much more comparable to a Nazi regime than the Ukrainian. Yes, it is much bigger. It is an empire in its last stage of dissolution. Corrupt, inefficient, evil. Its closest friends are Iran and North Korea. China is taking over its position on the world stage and looking forward to the further disintegration of Russia. Of course, the US is also not looking very healthy at present. I wish Biden would pop off well in time for the democrats to come up with a younger leader. I hope Trump won’t be the next president. If he is, yes, that could be the end of Ukraine.
Well, that would be a very long story. It might start with Putin’s own essay on the history of Russia and on his own projection of his vision that he is the personification of the will of the great Russian people.
I have always been fascinated by Russia. I learnt Russian at school and I’ve worked with many Russians in science. My favourite composers are Shostakovich and Schnittke. I read everything I can about Putin and Stalin and Ukraine. I could write an enormous blog post about my impressions and ideas. But I am unfortunately deeply involved in the fight for a fair re-trial for Lucy Letby, whom I believe is innocent. What do you think about the case?
Well done, excellent, sorry I missed that! But still I’m afraid that fighting for Lucy has higher priority for me than fighting for Ukraine. Note: I only fight apparently lost causes. Not much point in fighting for the winning side if the winning side is evil.
As a scientist I’m always open to have my mind changed. However in life one has to choose actions which means acting “as if” you knew something for sure. Writing on social media is also an action. And of course I well understand that ‘pure motives’ do not exist. That’s a fiction. Everyone has a mass of ulterior motives.
Oh Man, you're the same kind of Neocon Dupe as I was years ago. You're enthralled by Infotainment provided by the Masters of the Narrative, the propaganda machine. The USA is the world's most propagandized nation.
Did you hear Mercouris and Diesen interview Alastair Crooke on the Duran, October 11? I think we must consider whether Netanyahu's opponents, who Crooke says are significant in the Israeli military and intelligence community, allowed the Hamas attacks to happen. You and others (including Mercouris in his solo video today, October 12) argue convincingly that the urban warfare in Gaza that Netanyahu is promising but has not yet initiated simply will not work out for him or for his society, not to mention for the many immediate victims of such an operation. That seems to me knowable.
I think it's possible that the Israeli "establishment", by which I mean Netanyahu's opponents, well understand the implications of the geopolitical developments of late, and they feel that they have to get rid of Netanyahu, stop the third-temple movement, and do some big-time negotiating with BRICS countries before their whole project unravels once and for all.
I don't think Netanyahu would have or did participate in allowing Hamas to break out and head south. In light of the schism in Israel that Crooke talks about, I'm not sure that Netanyahu has the power over the military and intelligence people to make it happen even if he wanted to. But I find Ritter's explanation far too complicated. Too clever by much more than half. Israel probably doesn't have the men or the social will to go into Gaza for a "long war", but they do have the surveillance prowess to anticipate this kind of thing.
I think before long we might see the BRICS group impose a solution to the Palestinian problem. Their approach will be respectable in that they will not set Israel up for destruction. There are some out-there theories about Ukraine that you are undoubtedly aware of. For example, Richard Cook in his recent conversation with Kevin Barrett. I don't totally rule out that some remainder of a Ukrainian state will be available as a refuge for Israeli Jews who don't trust the results of an imposed solution. Such a Ukrainian remainder would be under Russian supervision, not western. That whole idea is a bit of a long shot, but I don't rule it out.
The global circumstances now are massively complex, and the masterminds who run their parts of the world are thinking hard to figure out what's happening and what's possible. I am not one of them and am just giving it a shot here!
Outstanding essay. This event is obviously going to be used as a pretext for the surveillance of and denying the civil liberties of Muslims in Europe and the US under the guise of safety and allaying fear. The fact of the recent massive immigration into Europe and the US of Muslims from all over the world will increase the visibility of this population and thus the fear of the Christians and Jews. This tightening of the noose of authoritarianism will be celebrated by those who only last week were decrying it; all it took was pushing the right Israel propaganda buttons to make those who considered themselves "dissidents" fall right in line, completely unable to see the irony of their own manipulation.
“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”
I feel the same. We're so divided, split down the middle, ripe for a bloody Second American Civil War or Revolution against the Corporate Masters and their private armies.
This is an excellent analysis... except that calling the Ukrainian regime “Nazi” is nuts. I am also not as sure as you are that Russia is going to win. You betray here an irrationality which is saddening.
BBC 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SBo0akeDMY
Guardian 2014: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/azov-far-right-fighters-ukraine-neo-nazis
Atlantic Council 2018: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukraine-s-got-a-real-problem-with-far-right-violence-and-no-rt-didn-t-write-this-headline/
Consortium News 2022: https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/28/atlantic-council-praised-ukraines-nazi-azov-battalion/
Vice 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMMXuKB0BoY
Time 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy910FG46C4
Vice 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKnFSzMefIY
Vice 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC1oCpnDURc
Guardian 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiBXmbkwiSw
Al Jazeera 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fMiXyV61UY
BBC 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHhGEiwCHZE
BBC 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE6b4ao8gAQ
The Real News 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Uf7aooxvE
CitiNews 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDG_hWlVda4&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo
Democracy Now 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B41Ux-2xP8
CIA Factbook now: https://twitter.com/IggySemz/status/1696221649543053360/photo/1
Yulia Tymoshenko "Nuke Donbass" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXooBkkCMP0
Ukraine's Right Sector
https://t.co/PcReN3SzKJ
https://t.co/EloJ4Iozft
https://t.co/nQrumaSX4F
https://t.co/EIBFd2IxNB
https://t.co/jwlBUNGtCW
See Azov, Right Sector, C14/18 and others.
If I could post photos here I would share images from Western press and Ukrainian government sources of Zelensky & Zaluzhny in images of troops/locations with Nazi and Bandera insignia, badges and flags.
Yes, I know the media reports. I believe most of them. Yes, there are Nazi-like movements in the Ukraine, and Nazi-like movements in Russia. And in the US. Lots of people everywhere have fascination and admiration for nazis.
Ukraine has historically been the World Capital of Neo-Naziism. Ukraine is the poorest nation in Europe while being the Breadbasket of Europe and 4th in the world in natural resources. Yet Ukraine is poor. Why? Ukraine is the most corrupt nation in Europe.
That is utter nonsense. Why is Ukraine poor? I would blame Russian colonialism, this has been going on for centuries. I suggest you read some history books. In my opinion, Russia is presently the most corrupt nation in Europe.
You're such a propagandized dupe. You just don't get it no matter how hard I try to get your mind straight. You're afflicted with the manufactured mental disorder Russophobia Man!
You can’t get my mind straight by spewing propaganda at me. It doesn’t work. It’s not very smart.
Please feel free to explain why Ukraine - a nation solely dependent upon external war fighting supplies and direct funding of its state - is capable of winning a war of attrition against Russia, a nation that is entirely self sufficient for its war fighting capability, that possesses more men and materiel than its opponent.
Also, please explain why, after 5 months of offensive, the Ukrainians have failed to move the front line while sustaining circa 60k+ losses by some accounts, in addition to heavy materiel losses. These losses represent all of the forces that were trained externally by NATO.
Also, why has the Ukrainian regime and its Western sponsors been saying via its captive media that the offensive actions are ineffective while also reducing the amount of materiel provision and raising negotiation and frozen conflict scenarios, none of which Russia needs to engage with considering its military position and outstanding (and consistent) objectives, plus - as we predicted - its hinted intent to take Odessa and the next inner oblasts beyond what it occupies, thereby creating an effective buffer zone past the DPR/LPR, and effectively landlocking the remaining rump state of Ukraine, which other nations such as Hungary and Poland could end up being involved with for their administration. All of which was largely predicted by Mearsheimer and Cohen over 10 years ago?
All of the above is a win for Russia should it occur because:
1. Ukraine will have been effectively demilitarised through destruction of imported and incumbent men and materiel;
2. It will have been denazified to the extent that Nazi sympathising or actual Nazi troops will have been killed, maimed or captured;
3. Russia will have secured DPR LPR and added a 150km+ buffer to hold off longer range ground based weapons and created and air defence buffer to prevent air incursions;
4. Russia will have largely destroyed Ukraine's ability to rebuild through industrial means and finance, its own military to the same level pre-invasion;
5. Ukraine will be "wrecked" per Mearsheimer and rendered economically unviable for NATO and EU membership, as well as having been largely privatised as the UA government has already done in a massive cash grab;
6. Many UA citizens outside the country will remain outside unless forced back, which will create other sociopolitical problems.
I watched an interview of a Lithuanian guy fighting on Ukrainian side from the beginning of the war ( by beginning I mean 2022 and not 2014). There are many interesting stories in that interview what is going on there and how corrupt everything is.
I can leave the link here but the interview is in Lithuanian, not sure if YouTube can translate it. https://www.youtube.com/live/_nmLbPrbAQg?si=KDpncbj9CYY4-ZFT
Obviously, Ukraine can’t win on its own. Doesn’t mean to say that Russia will certainly win. You can give arguments why you think it is very likely, why you predict it will happen. But it is not certain.
Russia is winning, will achieve all goals and accept nothing less than Unconditional Surrender.
Russia is winning, will achieve all goals and accept nothing less than Unconditional Surrender.
Maybe. Perhaps probably. So what? Evil often triumphs over good, if one would wish to express this in black and white. Of course the truth is gray. I would say very dark gray.
It's black and white in the case of Ukro-Nazistan. Russia is the good guy fighting Banderite Nazis in Ukraine. If you don't know who Stepan Bandera is. I urge you to look him up. There are statues of him in the big cities in Ukro-Nazistan and streets named after him in all cities. I have told you about Ukro-Nazistan being the world capital of Neo-Naziism.
Our government is controlled by Nazis who have turned our nation into the world's foremost terrorist state. In our government there are Neocon Nazis, Neolib Nazis, Femi-Nazis and Zio-Nazis. The Neocon Zionists of AIPAC (American Israeli Political Action Committee) are fucking Nazis!
Scott Ritter posted an article yesterday that you should find and read. It's long because he wrote about the history of Israel and Hamas, his experiences in Israel, his condemnation of Hamas and why he no longer stands with Israel. Although he condemns Hamas, he stands with the Palestinian People and supports Palestinian statehood.
Like there will be a rump state of Ukro-Nazistan, there will be a rump state of Zio-Nazistan. Either Zio-Nazistan or they nuke themselves out of existence and take a big chunk of the Middle East with them. They are capable of executing their "Samson Option" and pull a Masada. Like Ukro-Nazis, Zio-Nazis are spread around the world.
It’s black and white to you. You see nazi’s everywhere. I’m sorry for you.
Excellent rebuttal to someone totally incorrect.
John Kirby has just stated that Ukraine funding is approaching "the end of the rope".
While US efforts are trying to wrap UA funding with Israel funding, money is no substitute for capable men adequately trained and experienced. UA is in a doom loop as far as men and materiel is concerned and with diminishing funding, it is doomed to lose a war of attrition faster than it would have otherwise.
How can we fight Nazism without saying 'Nazi'? https://mikehampton.substack.com/p/putin-ukraine-nazi-history-civil-war
Is the right-wing hero or opportunist in war? https://mikehampton.substack.com/p/putin-ukraine-nazis
Both of his assertions are absolutely true. He is not the one who is irrational.
Asserted with no justification or attempt to address any of the information or questions presented in our replies.
Time will provide the answer, if you cannot.
I was answering him, not you. I was saying you were correct.
Thanks, apologies for the misunderstanding.
We may have misunderstood your comment. We understood you were writing in support of Mr. Gill, but realise the opposite could be the case.
Please clarify.
I think that the Russian regime is much more comparable to a Nazi regime than the Ukrainian. Yes, it is much bigger. It is an empire in its last stage of dissolution. Corrupt, inefficient, evil. Its closest friends are Iran and North Korea. China is taking over its position on the world stage and looking forward to the further disintegration of Russia. Of course, the US is also not looking very healthy at present. I wish Biden would pop off well in time for the democrats to come up with a younger leader. I hope Trump won’t be the next president. If he is, yes, that could be the end of Ukraine.
Why do you think any of what you wrote?
Why is Russia Nazi-like, and in what regard?
Well, that would be a very long story. It might start with Putin’s own essay on the history of Russia and on his own projection of his vision that he is the personification of the will of the great Russian people.
I have always been fascinated by Russia. I learnt Russian at school and I’ve worked with many Russians in science. My favourite composers are Shostakovich and Schnittke. I read everything I can about Putin and Stalin and Ukraine. I could write an enormous blog post about my impressions and ideas. But I am unfortunately deeply involved in the fight for a fair re-trial for Lucy Letby, whom I believe is innocent. What do you think about the case?
https://veryslowthinking.substack.com/p/lucy-letby-pawn-in-a-high-stakes
Well done, excellent, sorry I missed that! But still I’m afraid that fighting for Lucy has higher priority for me than fighting for Ukraine. Note: I only fight apparently lost causes. Not much point in fighting for the winning side if the winning side is evil.
As a scientist I’m always open to have my mind changed. However in life one has to choose actions which means acting “as if” you knew something for sure. Writing on social media is also an action. And of course I well understand that ‘pure motives’ do not exist. That’s a fiction. Everyone has a mass of ulterior motives.
Oh Man, you're the same kind of Neocon Dupe as I was years ago. You're enthralled by Infotainment provided by the Masters of the Narrative, the propaganda machine. The USA is the world's most propagandized nation.
Exceptional. Sobering. By far most indepth overview and analysis I read.
Ingasz: Great article, as many of yours are.
Did you hear Mercouris and Diesen interview Alastair Crooke on the Duran, October 11? I think we must consider whether Netanyahu's opponents, who Crooke says are significant in the Israeli military and intelligence community, allowed the Hamas attacks to happen. You and others (including Mercouris in his solo video today, October 12) argue convincingly that the urban warfare in Gaza that Netanyahu is promising but has not yet initiated simply will not work out for him or for his society, not to mention for the many immediate victims of such an operation. That seems to me knowable.
I think it's possible that the Israeli "establishment", by which I mean Netanyahu's opponents, well understand the implications of the geopolitical developments of late, and they feel that they have to get rid of Netanyahu, stop the third-temple movement, and do some big-time negotiating with BRICS countries before their whole project unravels once and for all.
I don't think Netanyahu would have or did participate in allowing Hamas to break out and head south. In light of the schism in Israel that Crooke talks about, I'm not sure that Netanyahu has the power over the military and intelligence people to make it happen even if he wanted to. But I find Ritter's explanation far too complicated. Too clever by much more than half. Israel probably doesn't have the men or the social will to go into Gaza for a "long war", but they do have the surveillance prowess to anticipate this kind of thing.
I think before long we might see the BRICS group impose a solution to the Palestinian problem. Their approach will be respectable in that they will not set Israel up for destruction. There are some out-there theories about Ukraine that you are undoubtedly aware of. For example, Richard Cook in his recent conversation with Kevin Barrett. I don't totally rule out that some remainder of a Ukrainian state will be available as a refuge for Israeli Jews who don't trust the results of an imposed solution. Such a Ukrainian remainder would be under Russian supervision, not western. That whole idea is a bit of a long shot, but I don't rule it out.
The global circumstances now are massively complex, and the masterminds who run their parts of the world are thinking hard to figure out what's happening and what's possible. I am not one of them and am just giving it a shot here!
Outstanding essay. This event is obviously going to be used as a pretext for the surveillance of and denying the civil liberties of Muslims in Europe and the US under the guise of safety and allaying fear. The fact of the recent massive immigration into Europe and the US of Muslims from all over the world will increase the visibility of this population and thus the fear of the Christians and Jews. This tightening of the noose of authoritarianism will be celebrated by those who only last week were decrying it; all it took was pushing the right Israel propaganda buttons to make those who considered themselves "dissidents" fall right in line, completely unable to see the irony of their own manipulation.
“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”
- Abraham Lincoln (just before his assassination)
I feel the same. We're so divided, split down the middle, ripe for a bloody Second American Civil War or Revolution against the Corporate Masters and their private armies.
Ignasz, Mike is right. You wrote a superb article. You're as long and detailed as Simplicius the Thinker with as many videos as he.
I'm grateful to Mike for the introduction.