[remnantnewspaper.com]"In the Russian-Ukrainian crisis," the Archbishop writes, "we must clearly recognize and denounce the coup d’état of the deep state worldwide, which has worked to install the New World Order, involving the WEF, NATO, UN, the European Union, the IMF..."
I could not agree more with his Excellency, that this is indeed a geo-critical moment and that this discussion must move beyond the realm of Fox News and CNN if we are to bring anything constructive to the de-escalation of this crisis.
If this issue is not addressed with integrity and objectivity, Viganò cautions, "there is a real risk that the Biden Administration will take advantage of this crisis, of which Joe Biden himself is an accomplice and responsible."
"There is also a real risk," His Excellency continues, "that this crisis will serve to cover up Biden’s crimes, those of his son Hunter, the China virus pseudo-pandemic, the Durham investigation, the 2020 electoral fraud, as well as jeopardizing the mid-term elections in the United States."
As the world finds itself on the brink of World War III—a war orchestrated by a globalist cabal and headed up by the likes of Klaus Schwab, George Soros, and Team Biden—I urge readers to prayerfully reflect on this message from His Excellency. "The Truth," Viganò reminds us, "is the foundation of justice and peace." Let us all, therefore, ask God to help us find and defend the light of that truth in this moment of Luciferian darkness. MJM
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The Truth is that we had the most enviable situation known to man -- and a cabal of sick, corrupt elites threw it all away.
We were at peace, our global rival completely vanquished and destitute, and with two vast oceans protecting us left and right and two friendly nations north and south. So we created a mortal rival to us in East Asia, and watched that rival continue hollowing out of our industrial base that's been going onfir half a century.
We were awash in oil and natural gas thanks to a technology revolution in extracting tight reserves. So we decided to curtail production and send prices to the moon, impoverishing millions with deliberately-created inflation.
We had just begun getting a handle on our border when the new administration decided to throw the floodgates open and declare it Gane Over.
We had a higher education system that was the envy of the world, and whose STEM excellence was the main source of our advanced military's domination of the globe. So we trashed our golden higher ed system with newly-domination millions of insane administrators and a lesser number of race-mongering grifters and charmed Alphabet People Perverts.
We are to blame. We were given everything, and we've squandered it all. The Prodigal Son did better than we did. For SHAME
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"Is that... Merrick? [eyes bleary with tears]
Come, kiss me, me boy! It's, like, years!
I'll need help with the rent,
For me money's all spent...
Oy, the fruit of me toils...
On them damned Russian oils,
But... the fatted Ukrainian! Beers!"
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"There is also a real risk," His Excellency continues, "that this crisis will serve to cover up Biden’s crimes, those of his son Hunter, the China virus pseudo-pandemic, the Durham investigation, the 2020 electoral fraud, as well as jeopardizing the mid-term elections in the United States."
#4
That's a pleasant surprise. Maybe there are good men in the business of religion after all. Or maybe they already feel the flames of progressive globalist 'paradise' and see their own purple kingdom threatened?
#6
Come, kiss me, me boy!It's, like, years!
I'll need help with the rent,
For me money's all spent...
Oy, the fruit of me toils...
Not that I'd change a word, whoever it is.
#10
You guys are harsh. Have some pity for him.
“I do feel embarrassed to be leaving so soon after arriving, but have you ever seen anything so horrible and heartbreaking that you can’t continue? It was like that for me,” he said.
When the mission was over, Le couldn’t stop weeping for 10 minutes as he fought to regain his composure, he said. His mission to help the Ukrainians was now over too.
'LEGIONNAIRE FOR A COMEDIAN' - an emotional account of a 3 mile hike, a body that was heavy on the soul, and a chinaman living in America fighting for Europe and accomplishing what others could not. A tap out.
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an emotional account of a 3 mile hike, a body that was heavy on the soul, and a chinaman living in America fighting for Europe and accomplishing what others could not.
Just screened: In the Fog. Cue discussion.
"Bartender! Another grey Russian!"
"Want friend, you steal dog."
"Huh?"
"Go fall off a log."
"What?"
"Or hit self on head, get concussion."
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Now if only some Antifa and BlM could go there. But why would they? Both them and Zelensky are Stooges of the same larger entity. Their MO is to make mentally deficient people sacrifice themselves.
#3
Should be required viewing for anyone considering becoming a 'War tourist.'
Same goes for any future border conflict btwn China and Russia. As more information begins to come out about the conflict in Ukraine, the China-Russia analogy may be more accurate than initially believed.
Yet another bad neighborhood 'Waffle House' brawl.
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They'd probably piss their pants if dropped into Syria or Iraq or the Stan. Just because of media nonsense and the old ⭔ shtick about Russians being incompetent imbeciles with crude rifles they thought it was a duck hunt of some sort.
Massive, multi-player video game, surely. Or at least the ones shocked by the terribly real reality of it all. How many young volunteers were similarly shocked in World War I, World War II, the American Civil War, the Spanish Civil War, and all the other fashionable wars in recent centuries?
One might think running botched WMD reports that got us into the Iraq war or getting a Pulitzer for lauding Stalin’s liquidation of five million kulaks might have constituted worse days — who knew? Pundits, academics, and politicians across the cultural mainstream seemed to agree with Watson, plunging into a days-long freakout over a meh editorial that shows little sign of abating.
“Appalling,” barked J-school professor Jeff Jarvis. “By the time the Times finally realizes what side it’s on, it may be too late,” screeched Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch. “The board should retract and resign,” said journalist and former Planet Money of NPR fame founder Adam Davidson. “Toxic, brain-deadening bothsidesism,” railed Dan Froomkin of Press Watch, who went on to demand a retraction and a “mass resignation.” The aforementioned Watson agreed, saying “the NYT should retract this insanity, and replace the entire editorial board.” Not terribly relevant, but amusing still, was the reaction of actor George Takei, who said, “It’s like Bill Maher is now on the New York Times Editorial board.”
The main objection of most of the pilers-on involved the lede of the Times piece, which really was a maladroit piece of writing:
For all the tolerance and enlightenment that modern society claims, Americans are losing hold of a fundamental right as citizens of a free country: the right to speak their minds and voice their opinions in public without fear of being shamed or shunned.
There’s obviously no legal right in America to voice an opinion without being criticized, so this line is indeed an error and an embarrassing one, for a labored-over first line of a major New York Times editorial. On the other hand, a lot of great liberal thinkers decried shaming tactics as utterly opposite to the spirit of free speech, with John Stuart Mill’s warning of a “social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression” being just one example. So, while the Times technically screwed up, cheering shaming and shunning as normal and healthy elements of life in free societies is a pretty weird gotcha. In any case, this bollocksed lede introduced a piece that had been in the works for a while, and came complete with a poll the paper commissioned in conjunction with Siena College.
Its premise, tied to the uncontroversial observation that America has become dangerously polarized, is that “the political left and the right are caught in a destructive loop of condemnation and recrimination.” Citing a poll that 84% of Americans (including 84% of black Americans) who said it was either a “very serious” or “somewhat serious” problem that people are now afraid to voice opinions out of fear of “retaliation or harsh criticism,” the Times said “when speech is stifled or when dissenters are shut out,” that “a society also loses its ability to resolve conflict, and… faces the risk of political violence.”
#1
Can't everyone play this game?
Shouldn't everyone who disagrees with you be forced to resign from whatever she does? or he does? or it does?
These conscience-less objectors need to be reminded of the golden rule (do unto others as you would have others do unto you)
#1
OK, oil primer. Oil is considered Russian when it is more than 50% Russian. Tariff's are removed on oil when its more than 50% from another country. For example, tankers line up and transfer 45% of the tanker into a ship with 55% Saudi oil and it is now considered Saudi oil. hats the rules, or so I'm told from a guy that brokers oil. The Russian oil will get moved on the world market, it will hurt, but it will happen. And gas that was refined in another country is considered from that country. So Russian oil refined into gas in another country is not Russian and will get into American tanks. When we were energy independent the oil companies only filled the tankers waiting at Houston for refinement to just above 50%, then they hooked up to other nations tankers and transferred the oil and the oil was considered US oil and import tariffs were not applied. Fun fact of the day, the oil companies always win...
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...cars made in Windsor Canada are considered American. They always cheat.
In an attempt to better understand the russia ukraine conflict and why it has developed the way it has, we are today going to look at How They Fight! and a pretty unique russian fighting formation the Battalion Tactical Group.
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The battalion tactical group comports to the Soviet operational maneuver group, which was conceived as a corps sized element, composed of five brigades, each of five battalions.
What made the concept stand out was the massive amount of fire support provided the battalions, and the idea of independent battalion groups.
Kinetically, the operation maneuver group was to break through a break in an enemy's line, drive as deep as logistics would permit, dig in, then await relief as the rest of the army cleared the rest, leading to relief of the operational maneuver group.
Our own defense experts at the time called it a "deep strike." I termed it creating a tactical situation, where once the Soviet maneuver group was through, a weakened enemy would have to pull back to deal with the breakthrough, weakening the line, and permitting breakthrough troops to destroy both rearward units and weakened front line troops.
It all boils down to time and space. I don't think Soviet planners ever considered that such a concept was limited by the size of the breakthrough force and the strength of an enemy's resistance.
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badanov, as I recall that was a doctrine developed in WW2. It was tried with Tank Corps with indifferent success and worked better, much better!, with the bigger Mechanized Corps (remembering that a "corps" for the Soviets was basically equivalent to a Western Division). The difference was that the Mechanized Corps had far more infantry and could 'take a pounding' ... The Russian Tactical Battle Groups look like the Tank Corps: all teeth and no 'bulky muscle' to do anything other than bite.
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This sounds suspiciously like the old US Army Pentatomic Division idea (which replaced the old triangular divisions and Regimental Combat Teams). Composed of 5 Battle Groups which were each based around an infantry battalion with each having its own support elements dedicated.
Which the US saw was operationally bad, and thus abandoned.
Then came the US "Air-land" battle Task Force cross-attaching armor and infantry, with integral artillery support, both at a battalion level with crossed company types (TF) and a company level (Team) with crossed platoon types. (Typically 1 tank and 2 infantry or 2 tank and one Infantry)
For the current BCT (Brigade) US doctrine, see FM 3-96.
[Western Journal] Over the course of his long career with the Department of Defense, Trent Telenko spent 10 years as an Army vehicle auditor.
Based in Sealy, Texas, he received and inspected the steady stream of military vehicles damaged in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. This experience has given Telenko an eye for details that others could easily miss as well as a unique perspective on Russia’s progress in Ukraine.
In early March, Telenko saw on social media a photograph of a Russian Pantsir-S1 missile system located near the Ukrainian city of Kherson. His eyes went immediately to the system’s tires. Rather than using high-quality, more expensive tires that could support the tremendous weight of the Pantsir-S1, the Russian army had opted for cheaper, low-quality, Chinese-made tires. He also noticed they were in terrible shape because they had not been properly maintained.
In a widely read Twitter thread, Telenko identified the problems caused by the Russian army’s failure to properly maintain not only this specific Pantsir, but neglect of the entire fleet.
#11
They must have approved the purchase through a tire committee.
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Interestingly, in my grocery store tonight I noticed that a lot of the cheap thingies that used to be made in China are now labelled India or Vietnam.
[HotAir] I can't understand how, or why, a pro-Kremlin paper would publish a number like this. As juicy as it is, surely they would have realized how embarrassing it is for their masters and what sort of consequences there might be for revealing it.
I can't understand either who would have leaked it, as this information must be closely held.
And frankly, given how incompetent the Russians seem and how indifferent they are to loss of life, I'm surprised they're keeping a count of their own fallen troops to begin with.
But the figure is shocking if true. In less than a month of war, this would easily exceed the number of U.S. KIA in Iraq and Afghanistan, two conflicts that spanned nearly 30 years combined.
Komsomolskaya Pravda, the pro-Kremlin tabloid, says that according to Russian ministry of defense numbers, 9,861 Russian soldiers died in Ukraine and 16,153 were injured. The last official Russian KIA figure, on March 2, was 498. Fascinating that someone posted the leaked number.
The Red Army lost 15,000 men during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Over 10 years.
As gaudy as the apparently leaked number is, it's in line with other estimates. Five days ago, sources in U.S. intelligence told the Times they believed 7,000 Russians had been killed - conservatively.
Other estimates circulating are higher:
A former internal affairs minister of #Ukraine
@AvakovArsen
shared the intercepted Russian military summary for March 18: Rus. Army troops killed 12,814. Private company Liga (former Vagner) troops killed 4,451. Total number of service members killed at war in Ukraine: 17,265.
That's not wildly out of line with the number published in Komsomolskaya Pravda. Maybe the Ukrainian figures encompass regular Russian forces plus "separatists" fighting in the Donbas while the KP figures are limited to regular forces only.
If it's true that 10,000 Russians have been killed and another 16,000 wounded, that's more than 10 percent of the total force out of action in less than a month, with no obvious prospects for mass reinforcements to fill the manpower vacuum. Someone on the Pravda staff is going to get shot.
#1
given how incompetent the Russians seem and how indifferent they are to loss of life
Idiots. Putin just told them what they wanted to believe anyway. Russia does not playact war. It will under report the damage it is causing and over report losses. Only the final objective here matters not the fake machismo other armies spend billions on. They don't wage war for 'face' or advertisement of their MIC.
#2
I do not believe Russian troops' losses are anywhere near this. 10,000 deaths would mean 30 to 40 thousand wounded. We would notice figures like this.
#5
haven't seen killed/wounded numbers from the Ukraine side lately
regarding the killed/wounded ratio -- I also would have thought the ratio would be more like 1:4 rather than the 1:1.5 but if the Russian battlefield medical op is as sloppy as their logistics than I suppose the 1:1.5 is possible
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Russia does not playact war.
This appears true. However, they do it so ineffectively that they have to rely upon total overwhelming resources to resolve it. It goes to the heart of Russian fatalism to accept the level of waste and destruction. Pyrrhic Victory is not a term in their vocabulary.
#8
This number probably does not include members of the Dzerzhinsky Division, Rosgvardia (including SOBR) or OMON. That's several hundred right there. Throw in the Chechen militias and you have an extra thousand dead.
[YouTube] Russian President Vladimir #Putin issued an early warning to foreign powers at the outset of his invasion of #ukraine
Russia’s considerable #nuclear arsenal was ready to deliver a crushing blow against anyone who would meddle in Moscow’s attempt to bring Kyiv back into its sphere of influence.
While not dismissive, US defense officials are not currently concerned that these threats are anything more than Russian bluster.
The greater concern isn’t the strength of Russia’s nuclear arsenal, but rather Russian weakness.
Russian conventional military has severely underperformed Western, and Russian, expectations.
Russian national security prerogatives means Moscow needs to push west, into NATO territories, to secure land invasion routes into the Russian heartland. If Russia has had this much trouble fighting a conventional war with Ukraine, it has no hope of fighting a conventional (read: non nuclear) war against NATO.
But that doesn’t mean that a conflict is off the table…
#4
I gamed this out when I was planning for a gaming campaign in northern Europe
Eastern Europe may be the Gateway to Ukraine, but the madman can also coup some Chinese points by a hit on Pusan ROK which is a major US logistics port. That would be in 'defense' of Vladivostok, a warning to contested Japan and a heartfelt gesture to the Chinese pacific expansion program.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. "Daggers".
The use of hypersonic weapons in Ukraine has become a very significant event. Russia has demonstrated weapons that can be launched from long distances, that easily overcome Ukraine's existing patchy air defense system and destroy difficult targets. The Russian Defense Ministry hinted at "other warheads." The hint, of course, is not for Ukraine. The case when the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation showed a "cartoon" to the general public, and the Ukrainian public did not like this "cartoon" at all.
2. Kyiv.
Against the background of fighting to the west and east of Kyiv, the main theme was the strike on the shopping center in the northwestern part of Kyiv. The cries about the “attack on a peaceful facility” were easily interrupted by the invoice, when it turned out that the shopping center was used as a parking lot for MLRS and self-propelled guns, as well as an ammunition depot. With the help of technical reconnaissance data, the position of the Ukrainian artillery was calculated and destroyed with precision. After that, in Ukraine, they began to prepare a law prohibiting the removal of the positions of Ukrainian equipment on pain of imprisonment. However, the Russian means of objective control will not be frightened by the prison, but the citizens who report the location and positions of the Ukrainian occupation forces will do it a little more anonymously and cautiously. Near Chernigov without changes.
3.Sumy
There was an attempt to carry out a provocation with chemicals in the area of the city, about which the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation had warned a few days before. It turned out somehow completely rotten, and a few hours after the leak, it was announced that it had been eliminated. But, of course, new provocations with the “use of chem. weapons in Ukraine" are inevitable. It is necessary to somehow interrupt the topic with biolaboratories. Moreover, the owners of the White Helmets and the Ukrainian Nazis are approximately the same people. So the movie about “Russia poisons Ukraine with chemistry” is still ahead.
4. Kharkov.
To the north and the city fighting. Chuguev - under the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Balakliya and most of Izyum are under the RF Armed Forces. The APU in the southern part of the city is still sitting. Fighting is going on near the Izyum-Slavyansk highway, as well as near Kamenka.
5. LPR.
Fighting in the area of Lisichansk, Severodonetsk and Popasnaya. No significant progress has been reported.
6. Marinka/Avdievka.
A small advance at Maryinka. Avdievka without major changes. Also, fighting continues at Verkhnetoretsky. The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to try to cling to this village.
7. Ugledar.
Ugledar itself has not yet been taken. Fighting continues in the direction of the Maryinka-Kurakhovo highway. Their results will become clear most likely tomorrow. Velyka Novoselka is under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Stepnoe, Sladkoe and Taramchuk are under the DNR army.
8. Mariupol.
The cleansing of the city continues, there are small advances in development. Cases of attempts by the defenders to mix with the civilian population and escape from the city are becoming more frequent. The less resistant ones begin to gradually flake off from the main core of the defenders and try to save their lives. According to Pushilin, the capture of the city will take another week or even more.
9. Nikolaev.
There are no major changes. Tough arrivals continue around the city on identified targets and positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Kim's "counteroffensive" is no longer remembered. In Kherson, they began to disperse the maydauns by force. A step in the right direction. Throughout the territory liberated from the Nazis, filtration and counter-terrorist measures are gradually being activated.
10. Zaporozhye.
No major changes, only local battles were noted. Near Nikopol there is also no significant progress.
[Sandboxx] On Saturday, Russia’s Ministry of Defence announced the first operational use of the nation’s new Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic missile in a strike against a weapons depot in Ukraine’s western Ivano-Frankivsk region. While this is the first operational use of this new Russian weapon, it’s not exactly the historic occasion it may seem. Russia’s Kinzhal may be hypersonic, but it’s certainly nothing new.
Hypersonic is a term used to describe platforms that can travel at speeds in excess of Mach 5, or about 3,836 miles per hour, but the term has been adopted for advanced new weapons systems being developed all around the world. The Kinzhal does travel at hypersonic speeds, but it is not one of these advanced new weapons.
The truth is, the Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic missile is actually little more than a conventional air-launched ballistic missile with a design that dates back to the 1980s. It has benefited a great deal from both intentional and less-than-intentional misconceptions about this new class of weapons, often cited as a reason the United States is lagging behind Russia in a hypersonic arms race (that, as we’ve discussed before, isn’t quite what it seems either).
Hypersonic speed isn’t actually all that special, but there are new weapons that leverage hypersonic speeds to achieve objectives in new or different ways. The Kinzhal, however, just isn’t one of them.
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They should have spent the money on better trucks.
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Really good primer on the ins and outs of 'hypersonic' vehicles here:
https://www.sipri.org/commentary/topical-backgrounder/2022/matter-speed-understanding-hypersonic-missile-systems
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[LATimes] The “hall of shame,” as Yale business professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and his colleague Steven Tian have labeled the roster of corporate responses to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine they’re maintaining, includes 24 companies that are “digging in, defying demands for exit or reduction of activities.”
The list also includes 80 companies that are scaling back some but not all activities or deferring new investments.
Among the consumer companies identified as “digging in” are the fast-food chain Subway; Reebok; Bacardi (maker of its eponymous rum, Dewar’s Scotch and Grey Goose vodka, among other brands); the electronics companies LG and Asus; and Natura, owner of Avon cosmetics.
Some of those firms and others that have scaled back operations have asserted that they’re remaining in place to avoid harming their innocent Russian employees.
That’s the argument made by Dave Robertson, president and chief operating officer of Koch Industries, which is known for its support of far-right politicians in the U.S.
Robertson said that the Koch subsidiary Guardian Industries employs 600 workers at two glass factories in Russia, which will continue to operate.
“We will not walk away from our employees there or hand over these manufacturing facilities to the Russian government so it can operate and benefit from them,” he said Wednesday in a statement. “Doing so would only put our employees there at greater risk and do more harm than good.”
Others say business models that involve licensing or franchise agreements preclude them from promptly or fully shutting down.
That’s the story told by Subway, which says it has about 450 restaurants in Russia, “all independently owned and operated by local franchisees,” Subway says. “We don’t directly control these independent franchisees and their restaurants, and have limited insight into their day-to-day operations.”
The change in the political atmosphere in Russia under Putin seems to have caught Western corporate managements by surprise. That shouldn’t have happened. It was always clear that Russia’s post-Soviet economic and political landscape was unstable at best. Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika, or restructuring, yielded to financial lawlessness and the rise of a privileged class of oligarchs resembling organized crime capos.
Corporate managements didn’t know how to react when Putin’s behavior began to inject even worse instability into the Russian environment. “Putin had his pouts and tantrums, but they thought they could just glide through them, that they wouldn’t be a serious threat,” Sonnenfeld says.
“The spirit of perestroika was wildly optimistic,” he says. “These brands — Levi Strauss and Pepsi and McDonald’s — thought they were representing Western values and a spirit of freedom and global harmony. They were blind to the signals because of perestroika ideology and the religion of the free market.”
The harvest has been a sudden rush to the exits that could mean the loss of billions of dollars in long-term investments.
The most notable companies identified by Sonnenfeld as “digging in” are three major oil-field services firms, all based in Houston: Halliburton, Baker Hughes and Schlumberger.
Russia’s oil and gas industry isn’t currently subject to the full panoply of international sanctions, but it’s dependent on those firms for drilling and production. The U.S. has banned imports of Russian petroleum products and forbidden U.S. companies to make new investments in the Russian industry; the European Union has also banned new capital investments.
Of the three, only Halliburton has commented publicly about the sanctions. The comments came during a meeting with securities analysts on Jan. 20, when Chief Executive Jeffrey Allen Miller was asked whether the prospect of sanctions would affect “the trajectory of the business in Russia.”
Miller replied, “These are things we’ve seen and done before. Always unfortunate in so many ways for so many people. But from a business perspective, we’ve managed these sorts of things up and down for, I hate to say, nearly 100 years. So these are the kinds of things that we would manage through.”
These are supremely rational people, some of the smartest businessmen on the planet.
No privately-held company in America has come even close to the returns on invested capital achieved by the Koch Brothers over the last 30 years. "Beyond phenomenal," per Roger Altman.
Ditto for Mulliez ('Auchan' holding company) in France. And Halliburton & Schlumberger's investors are very happy indeed.
What a carnival of stupidity and self-destruction we in the West are witnessing
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Rational and wise are not necessarily the same thing. Ditto smart and wise. I’m not arguing on one side or the other in this situation, but business manager types sometimes get so caught up in being rational and smart that they lose track of other factors. I’ll just wish all involved on all sides the best of luck that things work out as they hope, not as they fear.
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Well said TW but you omit their fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders. That and the reality is some forces are effectively trying to cancel not the Russian military or leadership but every Russian citizen they possibly can.
I also have to ask, when did it become the 'right thing to do' to commandeer private citizens money and property regardless of nationality without any due process. Equally to unilaterally break contracts. No law, statute, or even emergency order has been invoked to steal from ordinary citizens.
Before during and after the Revolutionary War George Washington, John Adams and many other American patriots well known on both sides of the Atlantic had accounts at the Bank of England. Those accounts were never touched by the Crown or bank management.
Nobody wants to see Ukrainians suffer, neither Ivan. But there is something else going on here more akin to mob behavior than not. If you think it is somehow reserved for Russian nationals, well if they can so readily steal from a billionaire, what do you think that means for the rest of us? Oh, and how's that schedule coming along for the global population divesting itself of everything, happily of course?
#6
I also have to ask, when did it become the 'right thing to do' to commandeer private citizens money and property regardless of nationality without any due process.
Seeing the news stations at the gym for an hour or so, there was no mention of it at all on any of the stations. It was all Ketanji all the time. So I guess the war is over, and everyone can go back to Russia now?
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Whatever it is, I SUPPORT THE CURRENT THING
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. By Aleksandr Kots
[KP] The Ukrainian village makes a depressing impression. No, I know that the Russian countryside does not create the feeling of well-fed Switzerland, I have traveled, I have an idea. But when you enter another village near Kiev, it's hard to get rid of the feeling that this is a reservation for very poor, disenfranchised people who are absolutely indifferent to the benefits of modern civilization. Liquid fences, flimsy rickety shacks, their gray inhabitants in terrible and tattered rags, antediluvian Zhiguli with still Soviet license plates, which can be driven no further than the next street, meager kitchen gardens... Continued on Page 49
[Oneindia] With the opposition in Pakistain likely to submit a no-confidence motion to the Speaker of the National Assembly, the days of Prime Minister, Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... look numbered.
Really, it would not be an exaggeration to call him the Justin Trudeau of Pakistan, only his tan and clothing are natural.
The powerful Pakistain army is of the view that the political turmoil in the country is not good for the nation and hence wants Khan to step down as PM. The no-confidence vote is expected to take place on March 28 provided the motion is admitted by the Speaker today.
The opposition has threatened to disrupt the proceedings if the motion is not taken up. More importantly, the Army is in favour of Khan stepping down as PM. In addition to the political turmoil, the army is upset with Khan's handling of the US and the EU on the Ukraine crisis.
Both Pakistain Army Chief, General Qamar Bajwa and DG ISI, Lt. General Nadeem Anjum have told Khan to put in his papers. A report in the Hindustan Times said that Khan was asked to put in his papers after the OIC-FM conference. The conference is scheduled for March 22 and 23.
Khan on his part will hold on until the last moment. He even got former army chief General Raheel Sharif ...Former Pak chief of army staff, meaning he pulls the strings on the Nawaz Sharif puppet to make it dance and sing and not do much at all.... to meet with General Bajwa. However the top brass of the army is firm on its decision and talks with the former army chief failed.
Reports from Islamabad suggest that Khan may dismiss General Bajwa. However the decision is unlikely to have any ramification as the top brass of the army is united in its decision that Khan must go.
The army is of the view that the Khan has not been able to handle Pakistain's political turmoil and economic crisis. The handling of the West by Khan is also something that has not impressed the army top brass as a result of which it is felt that in the best interest of Pakistain, Khan must go.
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dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[HotAir] I can't understand how, or why, a pro-Kremlin paper would publish a number like this. As juicy as it is, surely they would have realized how embarrassing it is for their masters and what sort of consequences there might be for revealing it.
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