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As Roger Waters sang "The Tide is Turning " !

I've said it before but Ukraine should ask China for help in ending the war and helping with reconstruction - suck up some difficult asks and help to cement a lasting peace as Russia wouldn't dare attack a pseudo-China partner. Call the west's bluff that they are truly a soverign nation and are free to do deals with whoever they want. Ukrainian dissident in exile Oleksiy Arestovych - former spokeman for Zelenskiy half jokes the same. https://unherd.com/2024/01/oleksiy-arestovych-zelenskyys-challenger/

https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraines-top-diplomat-meets-chinas-wang-yi-talks-guangzhou-2024-07-24/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/24/i-know-we-will-win-and-how-ukraines-top-general-on-turning-the-tables-against-russia Interestingly he rebuts any accusations that Russia is again out of tanks, missiles and ammunition and that Russia have used all the USSR stockpile and their losses are completely disastrous as some would have us beleive. Also he lets slip ; Russia’s successes, meanwhile, came at a staggering human cost. The Kremlin’s casualties were “three times” higher than Ukraine’s, and “even more” in certain directions, Syrskyi said. “Their number of killed is much bigger,” he emphasised. In February Volodymyr Zelenskiy said 31,000 Ukrainian service personnel had died since 2022. Could Syrskyi update this figure? He declined, saying losses were “sensitive” and a topic Moscow could exploit.

Look I get it and know Putin kills many of his adversaries even blowing Prizoghin out of the sky. That is beyond doubt. But there is no evidence that I can see that she had produced anything that would trouble Putin or his cronies in recent years. Only Newsweek in the MSM has picked that up so far and given your post I can see why. My substantive point is the case against Russia is strong enough already (surely) without embellishing speculative commentary on what might just be a tragic accident. At the moment I have it in the same file marked Zelenkiy is a coke-head. Good propaganda but most probably nor true. Why does this matter ? Because truth matters - all the shovels nonsense that was a meme a while back was actually toxic to the Ukraine cause becuse it led to complacenacy that Russia was useless and would soon be defeated and if so why give them any more, and secondly and more importantly they were building the Surovikin defence line that effectivley stymied the Ukrainian shhh counteroffensive. https://www.newsweek.com/top-russian-economist-dies-after-falling-out-window-1929398 As for the ecomomy collapsing it simply isn't. It may not be that healthy but show me a western one that isn't in trouble as well. https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-economy-growth-defense-spending-ukraine-sanctions/32809703.html

Firsly that's NATO qualified arms and Ukraine has a vast menagerie of equipment a lot of it soviet era stock.Even the same bore gauge for artillery has been problematic at times with 155mm shells from one manufacturer not working the same as from another. Additionally as you probably know western armies are rearming which means they are buidling up their own much depleted stockpiles. And you need to add investment,planning issues and health and safety into western efforts something that Russia need not worry about. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-artillery/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64294635 Sending tanks and artillery guns to Ukraine to bolster the country's war effort will leave the British Army weaker, its chief has said. Gen Sir Patrick Sanders said that Ukraine would put British donations to "good use" in the fight with Russia, in an internal message sent to troops and seen by the BBC. But he warned that it would also leave the British Army "temporarily weaker".

They are indeed terror tactics and should be condemned unequivically but they are used extensively by the US as well. As for Israel I daren't look. https://scholarship.shu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2116&context=student_scholarship

I did a quick fact check she was 82 years old lives in a high rise apartment and apparently according to the only other source I could find had been ill for a long time. Nobody , just nobody has mentioned this event except for this X account. Just like Pattaya falls I suspect Russian high rises have low balconies and as we know old people suffer falls all the time. Of course this is a common way for Putin to get rid of enemies - but as no-one had heard of her and given the circumstances I've just outlined I'm calling disinformation. Since nobody has heard of her why would Russia want her killed in this way even if she was a dissident and there is no evidence for that. It would be easier for the KGB to poison her medication. That hasn't stopped that post spreading over X repeating the same commentary. Under that post are numerous jokes and bad taste posts with just a few saying sources. The source is TASS btw which I won't post as it will get zapped.

Over on the army forum when the head of the British Army said we need to be ready for war within 3 years they are openly mocking that saying we can't even stop dinghies in the Channel so not much chance of stopping Russia. https://archive.ph/RuG5P In his first major statement since assuming the role last month, the former SAS officer said Britain must be able to “deter or fight a war in three years”. He warned that in the second half of this decade, Russia, China and Iran could unite to put the West under pressure and achieve their individual goals. Sir Roly pointed to a scenario whereby a “very, very dangerous” Russia emerges from Ukraine, either defeated or as victor, China invades Taiwan and Iran becomes more aggressive.

NOELREPORTS telling the truth - NAFO may turn on their own soon for sowing the seeds of defeatism.

Thanks ! Though I suspect that's what he looks like in the morning after a fitful night dreaming of being King of the World.

I don't think ot matters much who wins now if you are out of men , the ammo and kit had dried up as donor nations have run out of stuff in storage or want what's left for themselves.Whilst western private arms industry can't reestablish long mothballed production lines (certainly in the case of artillery) or scale up in any meaningful time scale then we are entering the end game. If Biden's smart he will nudge Zelenkiy to the finishing line before elections in the US so he can claim that victory for the Dems rather than let Trump have it soon after if he wins.

From the Pope is a Putin shill to warm welcome to a Vatican envoy and Ukraine's FM to China and Zelenskiy saying the hot war will be over by November. Can you see what it is yet ? Peace is coming and not before time. Ceasefire , armistice and a DMZ. Zelensky is slowly changing the narrative and turning it towards the idea that the lives of soldiers are more important than territories https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/07/21/7466734/ All of us understand that we have to finish the war as soon as possible." Zelensky welcomes The Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Parolin to Kyiv. Zelensky tells him the war needs to end ASAP in order to save lives

I strongly beleive we are at an inflection point where reality meets hope and reality wins. Wars are won on the battlefiled but end at the negotation table. The US has never wanted an endless war and they are looking for an off ramp. Because if you are effectively out of men,ammo and money and what does arrive is piecemeal and short and NATO won't commit to boots on the ground where can you go ?

Or alternatively Ukraine is creatively looking at ways for an "out" and realises China could be an 'honest' broker as they pretty much own Russia now. Zelenskiy have very publically touted an end to the hot war in November. The cogs are moving

There's a triple lock apparently UK,France and the US. Starmer would neber go rogue against the US under any circumstances. But no harm in Zelenskiy asking , which he obvioulsy has but it's a US red line, with good reasons. Putin has threatened to supply the Houthis with advanced air to ship missiles and set the Red Sea on fire. Gas prices to the moon isn't a Democratcic election strategy but it is Trump's. https://archive.ph/3O4N1

From my Telegraph link above. When our newly-appointed Prime Minister met Mr Zelensky at the Washington summit two weeks ago, Sir Keir Starmer told him that he could use Anglo-French Storm Shadow missiles for strikes inside Russia. Mr Zelensky hailed this as a great breakthrough. The following week, however, it was countermanded. No, mumbled an embarrassed Whitehall, that was not what Sir Keir had meant. The Ukrainians were welcome to have Storm Shadows but could not aim them into Russia except right by the border. Mr Sullivan is alleged to have rung No 10 in a panic and made Sir Keir back off.

https://archive.ph/ecraA The Telegraph is in full on "conditional" Trump support but the pivot requires them, like Boris to maintain full on Ukraine support. I don't imagine Trump reads any of this stuff in the few moments when he can drag himself away from re-run of his rallies on OAN wiping Big Mac juices of his breakfast bib. This provides context for the phone conversation between Donald Trump and Mr Zelensky which took place last Friday night. Despite all the bad things Mr Trump has said against Ukraine, the latest exchanges have encouraged Kyiv. The two great political showmen, first made famous by their television shows, seem to have got on well. Until now, Mr Trump has felt the need to assail any Biden-associated policy. Now Mr Biden has left the electoral scene, one hopes he may see political advantage in taking a lead to help Ukraine.

BILD reporter and uber Ukrainain supporter and cheerleader reports 6 more villages lost at the front.

Tramadol in Pattaya if you know where to buy it from 60 baht for a strip of 10 50mgs. Just make sure you bring some id. Price can vary willdy though up to 150 baht !

I'll agree impressive - what happened to that woman - I've never seen her like that since. Maybe she's always been out of her depth as VP and knows it , if so, all that in spades as President. I assume that's the equivalent of a UK Select Committee doing oversight - which as lawyer would play to her strengths and is an internal House affair. But one swallow does not a summer make.

Of course - 85% of Americans beleive in God and 65% are Born Again - we are not living in a rational world here. He's not Hitler just a bad Mussolini without the talent to get the trains running on time.

This time there is a video that some supporters have made that probably hits the spot again - it's a cult for sure but one that has it's roots in pain.21st century fascism - this time as as farce not tragedy, but facist nevertheless. Harris doesn't even touch the sides of that pot that and Trump is probably for America- that shining light on the hill - the most important President since George Washington and I'm not joking either and nor do I mean that in a good way.

It is - that's why it's shadowbanned as well Michael Moore got it back in 2016 when everyone else was laughing at the clown. In 2022 as society is collapsing in places - hollowed out by offshoring, financilaistion of the ecomomy (that's you Wall Street) and the billionaire class who have never been richer and the end of pensions,universal healthcare , secure emplyment and a housing ladder you can climb why is anybody surprised that millions have incoate rage and a desire to hurt. It's how empires die - hollowed out within, barbarians at the gate and a populace angry at being left behind. It will be Trump by a mile yet again. I can feel it in my veins.