#241
frankly this war is boring now and i wish someone somewhere could invent some geopolitical crisis that was fresh and original: a land war in europe? ok grandpa
#242

cars posted:

a sea of neo-Prometheism and goofy new Volhynia Experiments...


#243

Sunday posted:

frankly this war is boring now and i wish someone somewhere could invent some geopolitical crisis that was fresh and original: a land war in europe? ok grandpa

Hersh just dropped the dirt on the US and Norway doin the dirt on Nordstream so perhaps that will breathe new whatever into the thing for ya

#244
agreed that it will be fun to watch the struggle with Hersh by Western journalists trying to discredit him. All of whom were privately 100% confident already that something like his story was the truth, but that they were powerful elite brain-lords for knowing that but not saying it. Easy layup for him whenever that happens.
#245


This annoys me so much. I’ve been hate-listening and observing his brain try to compute this war for a year and he’s gotten every single thing wrong, and by far the worst was him saying the Russians probably blew their own pipeline up.
#246
i see a perfectly consistent throughline for Ames and Levine across most of their entire careers, where they are happy to promote anything that bashes Putin whether or not they believe it personally, except if wealthy Californians tend to say it to each other over brunch. Which since 2016 has qualified them as pro-Putin extremists / Russian bots in the eyes of the rest of the Western media. Like: right now they are pointing out that Zelensky can’t open negotiations with Moscow because he will get Maidan’d by the neo-Nazis behind his throne, who see him as no more than a ZOG get-out-of-jail-free card, which is one of those things everyone in the U.S. press corps knows but none of them are allowed to say, and while it always takes those guys a few years to catch up with t H E r H i z z o n E in those areas where they allow themselves to be correct, they may be improving their personal best per run.
#247
in a post that has almost as much right to be in the war on china thread: known pedophile and sitting member of congross matt geatz asked some undersecretary of defense if the US is sending weapons to the most famous of ukrainian nazi groups, azov battalion. well prepared (at lying or being just exactly under-prepared, take your pick) the undersecretary claimed to have no knowledge of this happening, which forced geatz to pull out sources. geatz pulled out recent article from a chinese paper - which quickly turned the tables into geatz having to defend his use of "chinese propaganda" and allowing everyone to move on from the whole unsightly matter of aid most certainly going to nazis after congress removed any rules against aid going to ukrainian nazis back in the 2010's, and the pentagon later torpedoing any attempts to reintroduce those rules. All in all a great display of amerikkkan political theater, the power of the 2 parties to defend their imperialist project and push their own propaganda

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#248
you could hear the gears grinding under the hood of those clunker editorial offices as all the headlines led a story about a disgraced Republican pedophile talking Ukraine and Russia with, not any of those topics, but instead, the word 'Chinese'
#249
the war has produced its fair share of horny for war phonk edits

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#250
#251

cars posted:

agreed that it will be fun to watch the struggle with Hersh by Western journalists trying to discredit him. All of whom were privately 100% confident already that something like his story was the truth, but that they were powerful elite brain-lords for knowing that but not saying it. Easy layup for him whenever that happens.



the Western journalists appear to have settled on "All of us were privately 100% confident already that something like his story was the truth, but we were powerful elite brain-lords for knowing that but not saying it."

#252
#253
putin likely to spin ICC arrest warrent as proofthat west wants to arest him
#254

tears posted:

putin likely to spin ICC arrest warrent as proofthat west wants to arest him


#255
limited hangout "leak" about how NATO's sending a lot of guns to Ukraine instead of a moderate amount… doesn't feel like the intended audience is even paying attention right now.
#256
but enough about my posting
#257

cars posted:

limited hangout "leak" about how NATO's sending a lot of guns to Ukraine instead of a moderate amount… doesn't feel like the intended audience is even paying attention right now.


Felt like a crossover event with the tiktok ban/super patriot act bill. All the coverage I heard was much less on the content or the effect of the leaks - it was all about “finding the leaker or leakers!” - a nice little sales story for promoting a huge increase in surveillance that is safe from FOIA and doesn’t need warrants

#258
"senior Ukrainian military intelligence official" telling the saddest CIA dead drop (Yahoo! News) today that Ukraine's invasion of Russia makes Ukraine like “Finland in 1939". okay dude if you insist.
#259
Ukraine war update: