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grr's avatar
Mar 1Edited

It wasn't as good as it could have been. 'elensky was allowed to repeat lies re who started the war, and Drumpf told a few porkies too.

The yanks are cynically trying to portray themselves as neutral mediators when in fact they are aggressors, and actual managers and planners of the entire Ukie NAZI project. Theyb want us all to ignore the billions spent by the USA, the dirty tricks by CIA, State Dept., and USAID funding of biolabs, propaganda etc. Then there is the US ISR and targetting.

I hope Russia does not forget all of what they did.

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Karl Sanchez's avatar

Keep pounding that drum, grr, as to who the guilty party is.

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grr's avatar

Of course we can’t let the Poms and Euros off the hook as well.

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Garry Gerskwotiz's avatar

Unfortunately many left pundits are also enjoying the theater and praising Trump for this. He is trying to stop a war, the genocide not at all.

It's all a mystery to me how this happens

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arthur brogard's avatar

Yep. It's a classic Orwellian joke. The USA pretending to mediate between two combatants when it is the USA itself that is the main combatant.

How obvious does it have to be? When Trump says to Z 'without us you're finished' ?

Not that it hasn't been made clear over and over again prior to all this.

Our media is parlous. MSM, of course, but even our alt media.

All farcical. Farcical.

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Soujourner's avatar

Entertainment. Meanwhile, they're killing millions of chickens and eggs. Bastards.

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Soujourner's avatar

I just left a similar comment elsewhere. Look in the mirror, fellow Americans! While I enjoyed the meltdown, the hypocrisy is over the top. I hear him over and over saying "I stop wars before they start!" This is a criminal regime in a suit speaking with a criminal regime in a jogging suit. The financial crimes alone, if revealed in FULL, will tell volumes. Epstein, the trillions of debt on a tottering financial system about to crack wide open while the digital tyranny lurks around the corner and can be peeked at just looking at the UK.

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Karl Sanchez's avatar

It will remain the Outlaw US Empire until it goes straight for an entire generation, and that has yet to begun; and it looks like it won’t for several years more.

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Garry Gerskwotiz's avatar

Trump himself admitted that Donald the First sent Ukraine Javelins which killed a lot of tanks, I was greater than whatever Obama did to help you, then in the next breath I want peace.

I like you hope Russia does not forget, nor is fooled by the TagTeam of Trump/JD.

What surprised me even more was JD taking the lead at times in scolding Zelensky the Puppet, in my 72 years I don't remember ever hearing a VP taking the lead letting alone speaking in the Oval unless asked to. IMHO that makes Trump look weak?

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Karl Sanchez's avatar

I see Vance as the Team Trump attack dog at this early point in the term.

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Garry Gerskwotiz's avatar

Yep, good cop bad cop routine. But that's so yesterday and only works on the weak and TV sitcoms, amirite?

One thing is 100% certain as we move forward, Trump for better or worse brings out a conversation no one had while Genocide Joe was supposedly the president. While his foreign policy appears to be a bit better than GenoJoe, his domestic policies will all but destroy the republic of america, what comes after that is anyone's guess

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Garry Gerskwotiz's avatar

Crooke doesn't ever mention the WEF in the context needed to tell us what happened to Europe under the EU. Both NATO and the WEF took

over control of all those so called sovereign state. Anyone with any smarts whatsoever can see that the Euro is rubbish and should be shorted big time. It was fake when it began and it's even more fake now.

What I also am in question of is Vance's attack on the EU/UK mentioning how they aren't allowing free speech, while the hypocrisy of JD is off the charts as to what they are doing here in the US. One of Trumps first EO was to ban protests and anti-semtitic speech on campuses. Musk also

censors quite a bit on X with those who favor Palestinians over the apartheid zionist state.

Remember bad cop Vance is controlled by Thiel, the man behind the curtain. I believe between him and Musk they control Trump and they

let Trump be Trump while they do what they want behind the curtain.

And while the deep state was most certainly evil, Crooke should know better and be careful about what you wish for. What Trump/Musk is doing is destroying the state but not for the good of the people but rather for the good of themselves. Without govt help Musk would be no different than Trump by going BK quite a few times, it's govt. largess that made Musk what he is.

I'll say this to finish it off, like you I believe America needs to face the music before being able to move forward and joining the intl community. What not a one pundit ever mentions is that what Trump is trying to accomplish or it certainly looks like it is tear away Putin from Xi. China is hardly mentioned at all. Has Trump even called Xi? Trumps tariffs against China were the only ones he gave a second thought too. I truly hope that Putin is playing Trump/Musk rather than it be the other way around

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Karl Sanchez's avatar

Crooke uses the term globalists or Davos for WEF.

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arthur brogard's avatar

I thought so. Just as Musk standing in his office while his kid wanders around made him look weak. And his body language did, too. And when the kid said 'go away' or whatever it was exactly well....

And the lineup of oligarchs who funded him.

And the kowtowing to Netanyahu.

I'm not sure what he looks like but it's not totally integrally his own man.

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Meredith Hobbs's avatar

Vance's initial rebuke, saying we're going to try diplomacy w/ Russia, was solid -- did Trump ask for his input there? I think that Vance subsequently jumped in to scold Z on being grateful to curry favor with Trump. Was not aware of Oval Office protocol. Hmm.

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Garry Gerskwotiz's avatar

Vance scolded the green goblin for political reasons not for the fighting going on, with Trump and company it's all about getting even.

Trump "you have a damn good chance of coming ok if you stick with us". Henry Kissinger, I beg to differ Donald, being amerika's friend is deadly

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Ed's avatar

Trump said words to the effect I am not Biden! JD Vance assisted!

Hint of a different approach!

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Garry Gerskwotiz's avatar

Have you ever heard a VP speaking up on his own in the Oval before? Unless asked too it's a big no no. It shows Trump as being weak IMHO

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Ed's avatar

Trump said the big words:

"you are losing"

"It is propaganda".

"Stop the dying".

Vance supported and answered Ze's pap, so the boss did not slide down to that level.

Ze's advisors are all using the TDS approach, don't work with a youthful VP ready to nip it in the bud.

Time for the US war for Atlanticists crowd to find a new occupation

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Garry Gerskwotiz's avatar

He also bragged about sending Javelins and destroying many many tanks.

You also make my point about JD making Trump look weak by saying this

"Ze's advisors are all using the TDS approach, don't work with a youthful VP ready to nip it in the bud."

This whole conversation should've been had in private, not in public. Vlad and company were most likely laughing their asses off watching this

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Ed's avatar

You missed the context of those remarks

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marcjf's avatar

I don't think anyone is in the dark over who really started this, but if you want to get to a deal it is tactful to overlook some things. Of course no one is playing this in a binary fashion, and I think Russia is looking to see if peace can be broked but is quite prepared to pursue the SMO to its bitter end. To allow diplomacy its chance, they may well "forget" some things, but alas for Z on a personal level, not all.

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grr's avatar
Mar 1Edited

If Russia “forgets” to punish those who started it there will be many angry Russians, citizens and officials.

They must keep going, destroy the Ukie political and military infrastructure and personnel.

No one can stop them.

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marcjf's avatar

I doubt they will ever forget, but maybe a temporary memory lapse? Until they eventually "remember"....

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grr's avatar

Yep, there are many pounds of flesh to be had.

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Anna's avatar
Mar 1Edited

The Nazified Ukraine project has become too expensive and too wasteful. Keep digging in, a "cheap television gigolo," a darling of MSM whores.

It is obvious that mental inertia slows down the cognitive digestion of the catastrophe in Ukraine. The US State Dept. and European compradors have Nazified the most corrupt state on a border with Russia in order to use the Nazified Ukrainian cannon fodder to attack and weaken Russia.

Unlike the flaky judaized Americans and flaky zionized Europeans, Russians know history and will remember the promoters of Neo-Nazism in Ukraine, in the context of the Russia's loss of 27 millions of her citizens during WWII against Nazism.

The "cheap television gigolo" is a perfect symbol of the degenerate western "owners" --the City of Looters and private banking cartel Fed Reserve that are intertwined with supranational fascist mega corporations BlackRock, Cargill, Bayer, et al; the dishonorable MIC, and the genocidal jewish infestation dreaming of full-spectrum talmudic dominance.

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J Huizinga's avatar

You seem to be unaware that our empirical existence is anchored in space and time. Sweeping generalizations (“the yanks are X or Y”) are superficial and an impediment to knowledge.

At heart, this is a conflict between western Europe and Russia, whose roots (Minsk agreements) predate Trump I, and whose neocon embers were fanned to conflagration by Biden and his ready acceptance of Russian culpability despite all evidence to the contrary (such as Merkel’s open admission that Minsk II was signed to buy time to rearm Ukraine).

Whatever else may be said, Trump/Vance are absolutely correct to throw this conflict back on those who began this and who have both happily and cowardly invoked the Jewish-led duplicity of Obama/Biden — and walk away. Whether this happens cannot be predicted.

You might also consider reading some history of the origin of the “world wars” — American power in the twentieth century derives largely from its forced entry into European wars — which the founders of the republic clearly foresaw as a danger in the future. You’ve obviously read little European history and are unaware that its nation states fought continuously and relentlessly against each other — Hobbes described this behavior as “red in tooth and claw”. The “war to end all wars” was a convenient meme that really meant, to a European, a “war to end this phase of war and before the next phase of the war”.

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mjh's avatar

Stop it you two. No need for the aspersions and escalation of vituperation. A sounder epistemology than cross claims of “I’m right, your not” is one that acknowledges a thing can have more than one aspect. So yes, the Europeans have some agency in contributing to this conflict, and yes, the US fomented mightily.

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grr's avatar

“At heart, this is a conflict between western Europe and Russia”

Bullshit, you are gaslighting us and ignoring the CIA’s programs going back decades.

You also deflect from the billions of US dollars funding the fortifications, the training, the ISR, the propaganda, and the sanctions against Russia

Yes Europe is involved but the one giving the orders was the USA.

I suggest you take your lies to Facebook where they will be gobbled without question.

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J Huizinga's avatar

Your ignorance is appalling (as is your foul language).

By not responding to a single point I raised, you can of course conveniently ignore the blood thirstiness of centuries of European history. [That may not be fair, you may simply be unlettered]. Perhaps you’re going to advance the theory that Napoleon marched on Moscow at the orders of John Foster Dulles?

You simply blithely set aside 500 years of European history, the entirety of twentieth century and its two world wars, the neocon/dual citizen control of US foreign policy since Reagan, and moreover make the “dog ate the homework” argument on the Minsk agreements guaranteed by Germany and France.

“Well the Yanks made me do it!”

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grr's avatar

Bullshit is foul language? Wow what a snowflake.

I didn’t respond to any of your distortions and gaslighting because as I said, it’s bullshit.

Yeah the USA is as innocent as a newly born baby.

Fuck me you are a thick cunt. Or a US stooge.

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J Huizinga's avatar

You may be facing incipient Aspergers (or perhaps Jewish?) What are you really trying to say? Now don’t hold back.

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Anna's avatar

The current war in Europe is Judea War on Russia by using resources of the United States.

Who has bombed the NorthStream? What country has arranged this greatest ecological disaster in Europe? Who owns the US congress?

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Mar 1Edited

The attacks on Russia might started as a "conflict between western Europe and Russia," but it mutated into Judea War on Russia, where the aipac-occupied Congress has been used to legally finance and arm the self-proclaimed European Nazis to murder the people of the Russia Federation. The European compradors have been playing a second fiddle in the ongoing conflict. Also, the most aggressively Russophobic country, the UK, is in the clutches of the Friends of Israel of all flavors.

Read and weep: "Тhe EU brought to its knees by the Straussians" https://www.voltairenet.org/article217976.html

The Straussians goal is full-spectrum talmudic dominance. See PNAC & Wolfowitz Doctrine. Benito Mussolini proudly called Jaboitnsky, a leading zionist, a "jewish fascist." The conflagration in the Middle East is the result of the jewish fascism militancy (Mileikowsky/bibi has been a lifelong follower of Jabotinsky's ideology), while the ongoing WWIII in Europe (still in a cold phase) was arranged by zionists at the US State Department in an open collaboration with the Ukrainian Nazi Party Svoboda.

Who owns the "intelligence services" and the CIA/mossad/MI6 goons? - Western bankers and fascist corporations.

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Anna's avatar

"The U.S. has repeatedly used conflicts to expand its power: World War II made it a superpower, the Cold War justified a global military-industrial complex, and the War on Terror gave it carte blanche to intervene wherever it saw fit. The U.S. is not just an observer—it’s a player."

Agree.

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J Huizinga's avatar

The discussion is Ukraine, a European conflict. It’s not about years of US/CIA involvement in Korea or Vietnam or Iraq.

Unlike you, I don’t find sweeping Hegelian rules helpful. It only generates otiose and distended comments.

People who have never read history in any depth always fallback on “he said, she said” — which is an equally futile exercise. Have you read what Lord Grey said in Parliament on the eve of World War I? Or Churchill on the eve of World War II?

Predicting what will happen based on what “he said, she said” is an exercise frequently resorted to those who have never been in positions of power and are thus unable to see that “actions speak louder than words”.

And, of course, those who think history has the linearity of a simple acid-base reaction in an Erlenmeyer flask in their high school chemistry lab.

Trump yesterday clearly stated the danger of World War III. Any rational and minimally intelligent person can see: the same Trigger (regional dispute), the same Protagonists, the same Claims (a madman who needs to be turned back), and the same milestones (dead young men in trenches).

No European politician has lamented these deaths — Macron, Merkel, May (and possibly Starmer) are childless — but Trump the American has repeatedly stated he wants the killing stopped.

Whether he can stop the Blutlust of the European elites cannot be predicted but I for one — and in this European affair (unlike many here I don’t buy any leader’s entire agenda lock, stock and barrel) — welcome his intention to shut down/limit US financial and military support for Ukraine.

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J Huizinga's avatar

Simplifications are needed when a teacher instructs in algebra and the errant student insists on raising questions of spelling (but but but world hunger! Transgender rights!)

Because you can’t mentally focus on any topic, and haven’t read much history (or philosophy — I suggest beginning with Plato), I certainly can understand your position. Throw everything against the wall and see what sticks.

You’re a pundit, not a politician.

That said, you aren’t beneath shooting squid ink. I didn’t claim Trump is a supporter of “world peace” (whatever that may mean to some of a simple nature) — please reread carefully (if possible). You didn’t do high school debate, so maybe you didn’t take any critical reading/thinking courses either.

Writing at length, shifting focus to attacking arguments not made by the other party — I understand the current term for this is “deflection”. You seem to do the “straw man” attack well.

Perhaps you might read Nassim Taleb on “skin in the game” — the point is why would anyone care about other people’s children if you have none of your own? The Euroélites today — and in their long, dark nights of the past have never cared about “other people’s” offspring. So, as a person who acquiesces in the death of the young and innocent, you have people you can look up to.

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WTFUD's avatar

I heard that it cost the US/Europe $8 billion a month to cover Ukraine's civil wage bill, probably 2/3 US, 1/3 Europe. Most likely includes the NGO propaganda outlets, hookers and blow. Toss in the overpriced fireworks the Defence companies sold old demented Joe, plus the leftovers from the Iraq & Afghanistan debacles then we're easily looking at over half a trillion dooolars.

Say what you like about Zelensky but my issue would be that the pitchforks are not out in Europe, who've seen drastic cuts to their own public services as well as a double-tripling of their energy bills.

Gotta laugh at Macron & Starmer believing they could set the stage for Zelensky to close the trap-door, err deal, including a letter from HRH Charlie Dolittle, an invitation to the Palace.

Shakespeare would have written his finest play with this material.

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Karl Sanchez's avatar

Agreed! Someone needs to write a screenplay and produce a movie showing the workings of the war, particularly the 2014-2021 timeframe.

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WTFUD's avatar

USAID USAID USAID

I think it's wonderful that a serial bankrupt like Trumplethinskin is now screaming fiscal prudence.

Don't get me wrong I'm all for peace you can believe in but I'm half way through my Gender-Affirmative Hormone Treatment (GAHT) and Masters dissertation in 16th century lesbian poetry and don't know which way to turn . . . . those machines back on.

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grr's avatar

Trumptards like to scream how great a businessman he is.

He is not self made, his father was a slum lord and left him his fortune.

Drumpf almost lost it several times and was bailed out by Jewish money each time.

It has been proven that if had of invested that money in the fortune 500 companies the would have vastly more than what he has now.

A mediocre intellect with a massive ego is never a good mix. But I love him being prez as he is such a fucken clown and makes for great viewing.

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WTFUD's avatar

It's a scream comrade.

Think of all the meltdowns across European Spook Centres & Unelected Commissions where Zelensky was indoctrinated. Think GBS's Pygmalion with Z-man as Eliza Doolittle.

The debate around the Houses of Windsor & Orange will undoubtedly be whether Z can still be regarded as an Asset.

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susan mullen's avatar

Too bad Starmer on 1/16/2025 signed a 100 year agreement to provide "security" for Ukraine. Starmer must assume US taxpayers are still at his disposal via Pax Americana.

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WTFUD's avatar

Maybe The Bank of England, the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, can set up a crowd-funding programme.

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Meredith Hobbs's avatar

Yep. That was dumb.

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Chris Keating's avatar

It's hard to believe that the Brits still think any world figure would go weak at the knees to receive a visit to a Royal Palace and a meeting with the King, but apparently, they do.

That was past its use by date 50 years ago if not longer.

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Martin's avatar

Yeah, talk about complete & utter embarrassment, then Queer-Two-Tier Starmer told Trump to open the invite & show the media as if it was some priceless relic of the past, Oh my god what a cringe. Most people in the UK don't acknowledge this pathetic WEF weasel, he ain't my king. The king & starmergeddon are two of the most hated people in the UK.

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Fernando's avatar

Zelensky: Antidemocratic, Corrupt and War Criminal:

Do western citizens know WHAT they are supporting in Ukraine?

1. Zelensky banned ALL opposition political parties and their leaders are either imprisoned or forced into exile.

2. Perpetuation of Zelensky in the Presidency. His term ended on 21 May 2024. He cancelled the presidential elections.

3. Zelensky banned the use of the Russian language spoken by all Ukrainians. He ordered all books in Russian to be burned.

4. Orthodox Christian priests associated with the Patriarch of Moscow are harassed, persecuted and their churches burned.

5. ALL ukrainian neo-Nazi paramilitary groups: Azov, C14, Right Sector,... were incorporated into the Armed Forces and the Police, where they exert a controlling and threatening influence, even on Zelensky himself.

6. Corruption is rampant. There was no way to properly AUDIT all the tens of billions of dollars in cash and weapons that the United States and the European Union have given to Ukraine.

7. Hungary has been unsuccessfully requesting the audit of the additional EUR 70 billion provided by the European Union, out of the total of EUR 170 billion given to Ukraine from 22 February 2022 to 23 March 2024.

8. Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared in the Panama Papers (Pandora). Maltex Multicapital, 2012.

9. Zelensky is committing a series of WAR CRIMES by knowingly sending troops (legal precedent: International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, in its historic judgment, "Akayesu 1998", which sentenced him for Genocide, essentially because he knew or should know that his personal decision would cause DEATHS) who he knew were going to be massacred by the highly efficient Russian Military Systems known as Meat Grinders in Mariupol and Bakhmut, unnecessarily keeping them against the advice of his own Military Commander, Valerii Saluzhny whom he fired for insisting on seeking his authorization for sensible withdrawals, authorizations he always and flatly denied.

All in order to ensure that he would receive more money from the US and the European Union. He knew he would NOT receive it if he authorized the militarily advisable withdrawals. NOTE:

Case "Akayesu 1998" in Rwanda, similar to that of former President Álvaro Uribe in Colombia:

The case of Jean-Paul Akayesu was a milestone in international jurisprudence.

Akayesu, who was mayor of the Taba Commune in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide, was convicted in 1998 by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on nine charges of GENOCIDE and Crimes against Humanity.

It was the first time that an International Court of Justice had convicted a person of the crime of GENOCIDE and also the first time that RAPE has been recognized as an ACT of Genocide.

This case established an important precedent for subsequent trials related to War Crimes and Genocide.

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Garry Gerskwotiz's avatar

If only Zelensky was in charge, he's always done what his masters told him to do, how else would he be worth a billion or 2

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Grasshopper Kaplan's avatar

Rather than the scripted lies about Russian invasion and nonexchange of prisoners, from the folks who blew up that plane full of ukranians to kill a few Russians prisoners rather than swap...

Illenskies missed his last and only chance on live television to blame javelin Trump or obomber or bidendiaper ScKamala for invade provoke war against Russia...the dope fiend may live long enough to rue regret reconsider but likely too late fore the curtains call

Trump unlike Vance considers illenskies about the same as porn star Hunter bidenstein who wore the wrong costume, the trashy pajamas fake leather look is long outta fashion

The only thing that could have been worse is if there was a piana for illenskies to play with upon

But the thing I fear is what he may try to gain leverage with, it won't be pretty if he is given any chances to do wrong, great harm will ensue

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Karl Sanchez's avatar

As I wrote, I hope he sings, confesses all that he knows, and he knows lots.

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dornoch altbinhax's avatar

The SAS are there to see that won't happen. He's been chaperoned since being installed and as odious as the little green goblin is he's only ever been an actor it's just his last performance went fatally off script.

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Garry Gerskwotiz's avatar

If he had done that in the Oval would he had ever seen the light of day again?

He had no good cards to play, the whole world except for Trumps MAGA believers knew the rare earth minerals was but a load of bollocks

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Chris Keating's avatar

Couldn't agree more Karl. If I were Zelensky I'd be off to Moscow and singing like a bird. I think it's the only chance he's got to survive beyond the end of the year.

He knows where all the bodies are buried, and everyone else knows it too. His Ukrainian hardliners aren't going to allow him to dismount the tiger they tied him onto, nor are the Europeans. They are as deluded as the once-great Zellie is and have no interest in a dismount either as they still think they can beat the Russians.

Some very hard lessons being learned and it is not pretty to watch. Zelensky is a tragic figure but I don't have a shred of sympathy for him as he has destroyed his country and enabled the slaughter and displacement of millions.

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Zelensky is a grifter and a cokehead.

Considering that the US/EU have been openly supporting the self-proclaimed Ukrainian Nazis and that the Kievan junta (led by a "jewish president") has been celebrating Stephan Bandera (a prominent Nazi collaborator), the MSM whores and aipac-occupied US congress and judaized EU parliament are immune to any truth, however salacious and horrific.

Both US and EU continue supporting the mass slaughter in Palestine. Despite the greatest ever numbers (in modern history) of pediatric amputees in Gaza, and despite the joy of jewish crimes like carpet bombing of living quarters (using white phosphorous to burn alive human beings of all ages), bombing hospitals and schools, starvation, and systematic murder of journalists and medical doctors.

Take a note that all holo-museums stay open --despite the real Holocaust of Palestinians by jews, and despite Nuland-Kagan's open collaboration with the Ukrainian Nazi Party Svoboda during the regime change in Kiev in 2014. The zionist-nazi collaboration in Kiev has led to a civil war in Donbas (tens of thousands of victims of all ages) and the ongoing Judea War on Russia by using Ukrainians as cannon fodder.

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Garry Gerskwotiz's avatar

Zionists not Jews, it's the Zionists controlling the Genocide. There are more Christian Zionists see Trump cabinet than Jewish Zionists, so please stop equating the 2

I'm Jewish and have relatives living in Israel(not close at all) yet I'm totally disgusted at the genocide been committed in the name of (Jewish) Israel. Growing up never again meant never again for the whole world not just Zionists pigs

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fanto's avatar

Zelensky used a stack of photographs of alleged Russian crimes, and after that commenting that "I am not showing the children pictures here these are too horrible, but I will show them to President in private" - reminds one very much of the Israelis method (remember Netanyahu and Biden???)

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Acco Hengst's avatar

Z was played beautifully and brutally. Clubbed like a baby seal. It will take him a while to recover. All of the EU politicos were provoked into becoming a loud cheering section which will delay a political realignment that Ukraine sorely needs if it wants peace.

There is nothing on the horizon. I hope that this create the opportunity to take Odessa, Macron notwithstanding. My guess that it will be downhill from there, including creating a bridge to Transnistria,

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grr's avatar

"Clubbed like a baby seal."

Ouch!

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Martin's avatar

I think your store that one :)

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dornoch altbinhax's avatar

In trying to work out who has control over his strings the brits keep dropping evidence, Zaluzhny was sent to London, the mad dash to Arnhem, who dares wins Monty. The brits financial position is some kind of black hole of death; there's no collateral to back it, and no industry to speak of, it's mainly a hive of financial bots. It seems that Trump wants the money back; he's looking for anything to refloat the system and US as the financial linchpin has some power there, the eurocrats, not so much. It's looking more and more like the thieves are fighting amongst themselves, the devil take the hindmost.

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susan mullen's avatar

Of course Starmer on Jan. 16, 2025 pathetically signed a 100 year deal to supply "security" for Ukraine.

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dornoch altbinhax's avatar

Starmer can't fill Wembley stadium with his troops, so I hope he's more geographically aware than Liz Truss because I'd say that's mission impossible.

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Martin's avatar

What is more concerning is that some people still believe we have the potential for combat effectiveness in a war. Most military personnel are unfit for overseas action, and after a six month rotation, there would be no to replace the initial group.

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grr's avatar

Well to be fair they do have a 1,000 year old friendship.

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Loam's avatar

Dmitry Medvedev:

"For the first time, Trump told the cocaine clown the truth to his face: the Kiev regime is gambling with World War III. And the ungrateful swine got a hard slap in the face from the owners of the pigsty. That's a good thing, but not enough - we must stop military aid to the Nazi machine."

A point to highlight: "the owners of the pigsty."

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Don Midwest's avatar

Wow! Trump mentioned gambling with WW III.

My understanding that it is the UK who is planning the ongoing and at times expanding terrorist attacks on Russia to provoke Russia, and if Russia overreacts, to claim the high moral ground.

I suspect that the Russians are well aware of the UK actions and they could even go so far as to lay out the case and deliver a response directly to the soil in the UK to stop them.

The future consequences of this Ukraine war are the accelerated development of drones, rockets and surveillance, so that no place in the world is safe now.

Iran is waiting in the wings to destroy Israel if the conditions are right.

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susan mullen's avatar

People in Europe and many in the US forgot that US exists only to bleed US taxpayers to death via endless wars. Zelensky was never anything but a guy US could use for its purposes. The European guy crying about Zelensky the other day had no idea Zel. didn't actually exist. He must've wept when he saw the Ukraine flag in Kevin McCarthy's suit jacket pocket. Ukraine has been a US colony for 35 years. It's alive today only via billions in US tax dollars. A quote often attributed to Henry Kissinger: "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.”

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Antipodes's avatar

What intrigued me and it looks like a lot of commentators have missed, is the references to Putin and "Russia Russia Russia" and about not Hating Putin, but did you notice the smirk on Zelensky when Trump said someone else does?

I got the impression that Trump views Putin as a kindred spirit, in that he suffered being labelled a Hiltler wanna be, just like Trump was. It looks like Trump has cut Putin and Russia a lot of slack, quietly and after today it looks like it may become official policy.

Strange times we live in.

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Van's avatar

Zelensky confessing. Riiiiight. Because that rat-faced bastard has a conscience. The best he can hope for is prison. I suspect all he has in store is a horrible death (see Gaddafi, Mommar or Hussain, Sadaam.)

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Karl Sanchez's avatar

Not that he has a “conscience;” rather so he can exact some revenge and take down some of those who have arranged his funeral.

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Van's avatar

He is too self-deluded to see that path out. It's not even a path out, as whatever he could tell us, we already know. Money leaves trails, and those trails will be found and exposed, with or without the Rat King. He is a man who is rapidly running out of options. It is essential to exit this guy quickly or at least to sever his influence on elements who can commit an atrocity that will require a justified and disproportionate response from Russia.

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Karl Sanchez's avatar

I’ve heard the opposition has already moved prior to his return.

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Van's avatar

That's not how a cretin like him is removed.

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Franziska Zeller's avatar

Putin in an interview with Pavel Zarubin on Februari 24th said:

The fact is that the current head of the Kiev regime is becoming a toxic figure for the Ukrainian armed forces, because he is giving ridiculous orders, dictated not by military considerations, but by political considerations, and it is unclear what they are based on. And this leads to unjustifiably high losses, if not to say very high or catastrophic losses for the Ukrainian army. It becomes toxic for society as a whole. And I think today's vote in the Rada to extend his powers speaks to that.

(the extension of Zelensky's powers only passed in the second round)

[...] So Zelensky is a contributing factor to the decay of both the military, society, and the state. And the current [U.S.] President [Trump] probably realizes this and is pushing him to choose.

http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76331

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Crush Limbraw's avatar

GreatTV is right! This is exactly the forum we need - so the public can see it all.

Next up my wishlist:

Federal Reserve - a full audit!

Depth of Defense - a full audit!

Fort Knox - anyone see any gold there?

Health and Human Services - a full audit!

ETC ETC ETC

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Anna's avatar

"Zelensky’s responsible for millions of dead and wounded. .. the Nazis lurking in the shadows behind him along with the Nazi Boris Johnson."

And then the outstanding lie about the Minsk agreement. The moral nothing Ze (Simplicius called Zelensky a "cheap television gigolo") insulted all those can can read and hear about the "Russian violation" of the Minsk agreement -- as if Merkel and Holland have not explained already the ruse to benefit the Nazified Ukraine.

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Karl Sanchez's avatar

I was very disappointed that Simplicius opted to hide his analysis behind a paywall.

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Don Midwest's avatar

A few months ago I became a paid subscriber to support his work. I have dropped some other substacks.

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Karl Sanchez's avatar

I don't have the time to read many substacks so I don't subscribe to any. I have a hard enough time keeping current with my email as it is. I was getting notified about everything happening with my substack, so I went and turned off most of those functions. This July will mark two full years of the Gym's existence and by then I hope to have 4000 subscribers. By comparison, Simplicius has 40,000 more. But I'm not complaining.

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Ed's avatar

Trump told him you're losing the war, and to one assertion that is "propaganda".

Seems to me Ze went in think like his TDS advisors told him!

Aside, my sister in law a 60's hippie, peacenik on Nixon and Vietnam, now is all in with the Atlantic Council on Kiev, as undemocratic as Saigon in 1970, is a moral crusade.

The Atlantic Council needs a better plan than conning TDS suffers!

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grr's avatar
Mar 1Edited

What is it with former young socialists/communists/peaceniks that they become rabid right wingers, fascists even, in their senior years?

I lived in Thailand all through the first decade of this century and was dismayed to find out that many of the fascist military and money loving politicians were former left wing insurgents from the eighties.

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Karl Sanchez's avatar

Thirst for power? Many non-Communists are called Trotskyites. IMO, the twin diseases of Megalomania and Pleonexia have no political affiliation. And then there’re hybrid versions like the Marquis de Sade and his Libertinism.

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Loon's avatar

I couldn’t stop laughing to myself all afternoon thinking about the horror that awaits the EU leaders over the Ukraine fraud they keep performing.

Lindsey Graham supporting Trump is great TV !

On a human level for all to see.

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grr's avatar

Graham has once again shown himself to be nothing but a political grifter, licking the anus of whomever is in the driver's seat.

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