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Aug 7, 2022Liked by Rurik Skywalker

«the money is being stolen and the weapons being resold somewhere else. [...] Andrew Anglin thinks that the money could be being sent to arm terrorists in Europe.»

There was a commenter on another site who was hungarian and wrote that during the wars funded and supported by the USA for the breakup of Yugoslavia and in particular after the war of aggression against Yugoslavia to split Kosovo, Hungary and nearby countries were flooded by weapons sold by the albanian (and bosnian) gangs, that also being flush with weapons moved into them. This is going to happen again.

That is just "collateral damage", consider this famous Z. Brzezinski interview:

https://dgibbs.faculty.arizona.edu/brzezinski_interview

“Q : When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against secret US involvement in Afghanistan, nobody believed them. However, there was an element of truth in this. You don’t regret any of this today?

B: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter, essentially: “We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war." Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war that was unsustainable for the regime , a conflict that bought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

Q: And neither do you regret having supported Islamic fundamentalism, which has given arms and advice to future terrorists?

B: What is more important in world history? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some agitated Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?”

What's more important? Some agitated eastern europeans or regime change in the RF and then setting up a chain of DOD/CIA bases on the northern and western chinese borders from which to train, fund and arm armies of "freedom fighters" inside China?

«The key takeaway here for us though is that the West + Ukraine is too corrupt to fight an honest war against a peer or near-peer opponent. Stealing 70% of a war arsenal paid for by the Western taxpayers»

There were huge rumours that during the wars in Chechnya and against the georgian war of aggression against Ossetia the RF military also was very corrupt and many units sold weapons to the opposite side, well funded by the USA. I guess that the reforms put in by V. Putin since 2004 and especially since 2008 have improved matters on the RF side.

On the ukrainian side the USA strategists know very well what is the state of thing; for example in the past pre-war years several military warehouses in Ukraine have been destroyed in fires, so many that it is hard to believe in accidents, and easier to believe that the local garrison and mafias has sold all the contents on the black market and then burned them down to hide the fact that they were empty.

«is a level of graft that makes winning wars impossible.»

My guess is that the USA medium term aim is to *lose* the ukrainian war, even if as slowly as possible, in order to create resentment against the RF by most ukrainians who would then fight an insurgency for many years, inflicting maximum economic damage on the RF. The worst outcome possible from an USA elite point of view is a quick ukrainian victory.

A quick RF victory would be preferable to a quick ukrainian victory, because it would still create an opportunity for a large insurgency for a long time. After WW2 the USA funded a Bandera insurgency in Ruthenia (western Ukraine) for over 10 years that killed up to 35,000 USSR officials and troops, and this despite not having any direct borders with Ukraine, behind which "freedom fighters" could safely retreat to rest, resupply and rearm after operations (they were several years of insurgency in Lithuania as well). Now that Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania+Moldova all have borders with western and south Ukraine, it will be much easier to keep training, funding and arming a long term insurgency after a RF victory.

«it seems that we have an Afghanistan 2.0 on our hands»

That's exactly the goal: a mix of USSR Afghanistan war, and of the USA Afghanistan insurgency, but with the RF as the occupiers this time.

«where Western taxpayer money is sent over in crate-loads, but very little of it actually seems to go towards either the war effort or state-construction or anything related to the supposed mission objectives.»

Most of the money allocated went not to Ukraine but to domestic rea-armament programmes, I guess mostly in anti-China function.

«Put simply: the war is indeed bleeding the West dry.»

Perhaps, but the question for the USA strategists is whether it will be the RF or the USA that will be bled dry first, and they are pretty sure about the answer.

As to that the USA have been able to fund, with "tax cuts", two on-and-off twenty year old wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and during them as a Marine Corps general said "The corps is at war, and americans are at the mall". These hugely expensive wars and occupations have lasted much longer than the USSR war in Afghanistan.

Also in this war the situation of the USA is much better, because while in Iraq and Afghanistan most of the fighting was done by USA troops, in this war and the insurgency war that will follow the fighting will be done by ukrainians and volunteers. "Let's you and them fight!" is a much better situation.

Also the damage on the european vassals is also pretty good for the USA, and their oil&gas and military-industrial complex are going to make big profits from the europeans.

As usual it is silly to think of abstract entities like "the West" or "the USA", what matters is which powerful lobbies are winning or losing.

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I was wondering what all Russia was gaining with the continuation of the war but I see that the drain on the West is a good reason. Thanks Rolo. I don't know how to send crypto yet but hang in there.

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CNN just aired interview with Pink Floyd calling Biden a war criminal.

Per Intel Slava Z, looks like a broad offensive is starting.

Msm must be trying to get ahead of the coming crash into reality.

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«Ukrainian troops complaining that they have no weapons or have inferior weapons and that wages are going unpaid.»

There is BTW a simple explanation for this: the ukrainian government was a failed state and was already bankrupt *before* the "special military operation". Military operations cost a lot of money, and the ukrainian government never had the money to resist an RF operation.

My guess is that the USA are drip-feeding money into the ukrainian government (as loans of course, to be repaid eventually by selling all ukrainian state assets cheaply to USA corporations) to ensure that their defeat as bloody and slow as possible, creating maximum resentment by western ukrainians against the "kastaps" and then have an insurgency that is as bloody and slow as possible, because the intermediate goal is regime change in the RF and to break it up.

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How in the world was cbs allowed to publish this?

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Ukraine or Taiwan?

Why not both? 😂💰💰💰

#griftmaxxing

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Russia started off this war with broad offensives against major targets like Kiev, now it has been reduced to boasting about capturing "fortified farms" on the outskirts of villages and towns in Eastern Ukraine nobody has ever heard of.

Russian propagandists have been talking about how corrupt Ukrainians sold them CAESAR artillery pieces and even the HIMARS, of course they still haven't shown any photographic proof of this, meanwhile we have photos of Ukrainians actually capturing Russia's most advanced attack helicopter, the Ka-52.

The only entity being bled dry is the Russian Federation, NATO countries have a combined GDP of around $45t, the aid being sent to Ukraine is a drop in the water. Russia meanwhile is asking Iran for drones and Syria/NK for troops, because contrary to popular misconceptions, Russia has indeed sent it's best troops in, mobilization would just mean sending in the dogshit conscripts who would be a liability rather than an asset in the long run, not to mention the extra strain on already stretched logistic chains.

I have been reading about the imminent collapse of the AFU since April, according to Russian MoD figured, the AFU has been destroyed completely, yet the slow pace of advance in Donbas still continues.

All in all, interest in this war will not subside anytime soon, it being a modern, mechanized war in the heart of Europe.

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Anyone want to buy a switchblade drone? Only $4k on the dark web!

🇺🇦 US kamikaze Switchblade drones are already being sold on the Darknet. The price of the drone is $4,000.

https://t.me/s/intelslava?before=35239

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Larry Johnson found a working link to the documentary on rumble. Here's a link to his post (the doc is embedded on the post) with his take on this & more:

https://sonar21.com/cbs-goes-full-back-flip-and-tries-to-erase-reality/

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