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Video Of The Russian "Humanitarian Convoy" Setting Off For Ukraine
Update: As Zvezda News reports, the convoy has departed toward Ukraine.
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From the source, google translated:
To the east of Ukraine on the morning of August 12 departed 280 wagons with Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations humanitarian aid.
The cargo was sent from Moscow Narofominsk. Total cargo weight - 2000 tons. This is the most necessary things for the civilian population affected by the carrying out of the military operation in the south-east of Ukraine, namely 400 tons of cereals, 100 tons of sugar, 62 tons of baby food, 54 tons of medical equipment and medicines, as well as 12 thousand sleeping bags and 69 power generators.
The operation of sending basic necessities has been agreed with the International Committee of the Red Cross. This was reported by the ITAR-TASS news agency .
As noted earlier, the Kremlin announced today that despite Western warnings not to interfere, Russia was set to dispatch a convoy of humanitarian assistance for east Ukraine, under the guise of a Red Cross mission, which would mark the first time Russians have officially entered into east Ukraine (aside from Crimea of course), even if all sides have agreed there would be no Russian military escort.
"It was noted that the Russian side, in collaboration with representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross, is sending an aid convoy to Ukraine," the Kremlin statement said, without revealing when the convoy was going.
Shortly thereafter a video was leaked of what allegedly this convoy looks like: some ~300 military vehicles, all repainted "Humanitarian White."
Furthermore, as the license plates visible in the clip show (at least on the vehicles that exhibit plates), these are military plates with a black background and where the "76" and "50" designators indicates that the vehicles were licensed in Yaroslavl and Moscow regions. The breakdown of the various regional codes can be found here.
As we stated before, the vehicles are expected to be unarmed, which means that should something "bad" happen to them while on Ukraine territory, well, the word provocation certainly comes to mind.
The complete clip is shown below.
The trucks departing:
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Suck on That OBunga!!!
They're whitewashing that!
Lordy... Putin has to just be getting his rock off, laughing every evening over a tumbler of great scotch, conjuring up ways to really piss Obama off, just antagonize the man every last way possible and sitting there doubled over laughing uncontrollably, tears running down his face....
Holy Be Jesus...
Paint the shit white and call it aide...
Oh Jesus...
Vlad is one twisted sick fucking puppy. Man, he'd a been a riot to party with, I'll bet.
That's remarkably high-gloss whitewash for a military vehicle, whatever happened to cheap spray cans of dull krylon? The Russians must be trying to impress some audience...
Their own people in Russia.
#USA bombing #Iraq is a 'humanitarian' mission #Russia sending food+medicine to #Donetsk #Lugansk is an 'invasion', strange world we live in
+1000 Publicus!
This "Newspeak" is getting in our minds really fast...
White Russians to the rescue!
nice reference. wonder how many can get past the bar.
to the interested but uncertain: white russians were also the russians that opposed the communists led by lenin and trotsky. many were later given succor by the europeans and the north americans.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/White_Russian
i like that it is also a kickass pot strain.
Ruh Roh!!! .GOV will be mad, because the aid will put an end to any "humanitarian" reason the US may have had to step in. Plus, it shows Putin as a caring individual sending aid, which is not what you want protrayed in the media when he is being sold as a maniacal leader.
So now what does the US have on Russia to complain about? Not much. Putin stole the playbook right from the US. "Go in, secure the land, then send aid".
Once again Barney Soetero looks like a complete jackass. KGB meet Rotary Club.... lol.
he'll have to send semis of poisoned food to be half the man stalin was.
..it’s about freaking time,….
..just a shame there are not a few hundred T-99’s’ up front..
Putin is a Jew. Jews on both sides are pushing us towards war. War in Europe = more dead white people. Their control of ISIS clears a path for "Greater Israel" in the ME. Then ISIS can continue with their #WarOnWHites.
https://img.4plebs.org/boards/pol/image/1393/51/1393512268645.jpg
Nothing seems real anymore. We have Nitennowityahoo bombing Palistalians who he keeps in a surrounded combine. We have a Bambi telling Russia what is right or wrong on World (U.S.) policy when the U.S. fucked up everything in the middle east. We have China, (who we want to win over), telling us they don't trust us anymore than anybody else. U.S.A. is pissing off the world's peoples everywhere on earth and nobody has a real clue how to fix any of it.
On a more important note: A Real Good Person Died on Monday. Robin Williams. Now that is a sign there is no hope for good anywhere. We be Fucked. All of us. The world is under siege by the 1%. Good Day All !?!
Now all we need to see is Vlad leading the convoy riding a white horse bare chested with a hot Russian babe behind him also bare chested.
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE COMRADES!
And just STFI Davalicious cause Vlad's mom was Christian.
I knew it! kris kristofferson was a prophet!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5RI30RJIPk
Sad days in the world all! I sit and read and wonder why the hell our country is letting these politicians run a muck? Sad sad sad. Im 46 and at my mid life I must wonder does the world need a purge to do away with the evil that is just chewing us up? RIP robin
...and then there's this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzQMpOIHzzw
That's Obama getting a brilliant idea!! Too bad the bird wasn't black
You white supremacist nutjobs are a freak-show all to yourselves.
Next.. ol’ Vlad should consider dispatching aid to ‘bammy’s black brethren in mo.
..maybe the white convoy should come up through the southern border that we do not have anymore.
or maybe that would seem racist.
..anybody else notice how the popular fashions in Keiv have a distinct camo and balaclava look nowadays?
Do they have a bullseye painted on top of those wagons?
The lead ones certainly have go faster stripes!
I want to see the tanks and artillery painted white with crosses on them.
Just a "little" difference of definition "humanitarian aid".
USA? Bombs, bullets, blood and guts.
Russia? That 'dastardly' food+medicine!
But but but the US of A drops Liberty Bombs®, and those bullets are actually supersonic democracy (export version). The oppressed of the world clamor for both, and they look to US leadership to provide.
Sure, the Russians are sending food and medicine, but it's Soviet Tsarist food and medicine of the Red Commonist Imperial Monarchy. Not very nourishing or healthy if it leaves you gasping for the sweet air of 'american' freedom.
If only DU were naturally white.
Damn you Russia! Feeding injured children.
The west will not stand for this!
I wonder if the Ukrainians will dare attack.
I suspect if they don't rise to the bait, the separatists - maybe even the Russuans - will attack the convoy and claim provocation.
It's not just the West and Israel who enjoy a good false flag.
Much as I enjoy watching Putin outflank our owners, let's not forget he's just the same as them, just 'leading' a different team.
It's not just the West and Israel who enjoy a good false flag.
Much as I enjoy watching Putin outflank our owners, let's not forget he's just the same as them, just 'leading' a different team.
Good point. Very true. This is an onimous development.
It seems that we here are also choosing the lesser of 2 evils. Same game, different venue.
not saying i am, but, were i putin, i would do all i could to keep a false flag by the east ukraine separatists from occurring. should the kiev zionazis not rise to the first bait, there is always the second. and then, the third, and . . . .
I would normally agree. I think the shiftiest, trickiest thing Putin can do to Obama is....wait for it....act with total and absolute integrity.
Not that he always does, or always has, but on the world stage? You betcha' fellow bitchex.
didn't read you until after i had ommented. very good to hear from you. it's kind of like comparing lennon's "imagine" to kissinger's "realpolitik", works of rough contemporaneanity. the dreamer is the realist, the cynic, the fool.
Yes. The key fact with the neocons in the state department is they are utterly dishonest and they seem to care less and less about hiding it. They put on a bit of a show to fool the TV audience but everyone actually paying attention knows how vile they are. So Putin acting with integrity - genuine or otherwise - highlights the vileness of the neocons.
Well, my dear Publicus; If your policy for the last five or six decades has been to destabilize the world in order to further the bankster agenda, you gotta expect that the narrative will become pure bullshit.
Not that long ago, Jeremiah Wright was made a pariah for saying that America's chickens are coming home to roost. Odipshit promptly distanced himself from his erstwhile pastor, but I think Wright was absolutely err, right!
Don't get me wrong, I have never once voted for Odipshit, and I don't think he has an agenda- he just says what he's told to say.
I'm not black. Furthermore, I'm not a member of Wright's church. I gotta admit though, that the fucker was right, no matter what faith or color he is.
Yes, Publicus,
I call that the
Bizarro Mirror World:
EVERYTHING is
proportionately
BACKWARDS!
http://www.army.mil/article/130898/German_general_to_be_assigned_as_U_S_...
Fuck me ... after that photo of Merkel and Putin yucking it up at the World Cup (and right before they inked that huge natural gas contract) this is now all making perfect sense. And, it virtually guarantees there won't be any 'accidental aggression' toward Putin on our part as he rolls through eastern Europe. It's like Hitler's expansion only in reverse.
I love the smell of appeasement in the morning ... it smells like surrender and tastes like diversity. Yummy!
Now quick, queue the French and Italians. We just need one of each for the CIA and FBI respectively. Actually, fuck the French, they already got the IMF ... bring in a Spaniard instead for the CIA.
Eisenhower must be spinning like a top right now ...
Riding in like Liberators TM.
Good PR.
I looked close but didn't see any bulls eyes painted on the vehicles. Maybe there's a chance they get through without being false flagged. Maybe.
Should have painted them red and made a long line with them. Get it?
Red line. hee hee.
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I'll bet that each and every truck is clean as a whistle. Everything they're hauling is legitimate relief supplies and the bill of materials matches the cargo exactly.
That's not all. Vlad knows that the Yatzis in Kiev are retarded stupid, and their CIA/NATO handlers are desperate. Each of those trucks is probably fitted with multiple video cameras, with clocks syncronized across all cameras and trucks, with both onboard recording and live streams back to the Ministry of Defense. There are probably a variety of other monitoring devices and sensors along the route they'll be traveling.
Additionally, every radio communication (including cell phones) is being monitored, the whole area is painted with radar of every sort, and satellites above are watching closely. When the Banderatards and/or their hired American/Canadian mercenaries fuck up, it will be seen in no uncertain terms by a worldwide audience.
Should prove to be interesting.
I'd have neutral observers watching and listening.
I think he will play this squeaky clean. It is all he has to do to show Obama up. You can count on our fuckers to be crooked as shit.
ART OF WAR
Putin knows it, Obama blows it.
Why doesn't Putin invite along some "observers"....I'm thinking, Icelandic or Sweedish or Australian....or even something with an Asian twist.
Without a doubt, I saw Wolf Blitzer peepin out the third truck from the rear.
Ready to report the truth.
x2
Yes, clean as a whistle going in but what or who will be returning with the trucks? Putin is gonna steal some wheel barrows!
"their hired American/Canadian mercenaries" This made me sad, Stupid fucking Canucks.
The Chinese know how to pimp their military vehicles. https://ixquick-proxy.com/do/spg/show_picture.pl?l=english&cat=pics&c=pf...
Holy shit, the length of that...anyway...check out the whitewalls on their mobile launchers. Pimpin'
Who signed off on the whitewalls? I bet it has hydraulics to slam it to the ground too.
'60's Portawalls
Right outta J.C. Whitney
Thing's got 'roof air', too! No doubt Chem/Bio resistant (and probably keeps the cab at a comfortable 72 degrees).
The white gloves on the men match the whitewalls PERFECTLY!
Maintainence consists of several gallons of 'Armor-All' (tm) for the tires (and in the washing machine at the Chinese version of the Post Exchange).
How many hundred thousand western lives will be instantly incinerated if they ever use their missile? What's even MORE important is: How long will it take to clean the tires after they launch it?
Don't be ridiculous.
Nothing on the ICRC web site about their knowledge and coordination on this convoy. Is the Russian RC a section of the FSB?
I'd be leery of getting shit facced around a guy like Vlad....
I'd be VERY leery of being the driver of the first one in the convoy!
10X pay + life insurance.
The shit storm will start when Kiev strikes this convoy then the SU25s will pour down on Kiev and Obama will need to call in the foot sholdiers. Europe will not touch Russia. It is all theatre.
Dude probably has Cast Iron Cantolopes in his drawers if he's the lead driver, I'd say :) MartyFleah
Yeah....<chuckle> this is what happened the last time......
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Vlad the Impaler was not Russian.
Kunkles, I agree but I think Putin will be enjoying a fruit smoothy or glass of juice, I read somewhere years ago that he doesn't drink alcohol.
You know what: this is not a comedy. This is not fun for all and these made-up scenarios where people are dying and one leader of a nation who makes decisions that would protect his people and establish justice as much as he possibly can is not a subject for humor.
Frankly, I find these comments on something that never happened, never will, to be insulting to the families of people who are dying in Eastern Ukraine for want of freedom. And you know what, that’s not funny.
This is the internet. Not laughing at other people's misery, where is the fun in that. You don't have enough problems of your own if you have the energy for that level of sanctimony and self-rightousness.
JR if you directing that at me, I wasn't trying to be funny, rather factual. I believe Putin's sobriety is in direct contrast with the "leadership" in the west.
As for using humour to cope with serious situations like in Donbass that are frightening and heart breaking, perhaps you should direct your negative energy towards the people doing the actual killing?
If you don't think that is funny, wait till it happens in a town near you. Misery and humor are just two sides of the same coin that is constantly being degraded.
Vlad wrestles bears, hunts sharks, scubas under ice, pilots jets, parachutes, shoots all kinds of weapons, eats raw meat, leaps tall buildings, and is irresistable to woman.
O'Bammy? Plays golf! Whoppee Ding!
That's nothing. Dick Cheney eats babies and doesn't need a heart!
Dick Cheney also eats real Girl Scout cookies.
AND Cheney shoots someone who doesn't agree with him
- even if it's his own attorney ...
Match that, Vlad !
Cheney's new heart runs on the blood of drowned kittens. It didn't have to. He just wanted it that way
And he uses Grey Tampon Mustard
Don't forget submersibles.
I'm sure a couple of those trucks have very nice ECM set-ups inside.
Fuck, I hate to admit it but your point is salient. I am neither a supporter for either side, but in comparison, we have someone who has never served in the military as commander in chief, and another who used to run an intelligence network. Whom do you is thinking tactically? I called this over a year ago, no cite here, but I said something along the lines of "The only way to defeat American hegemony is to band Russia and China together to control the Atlantic and Pacific, then form alliances with South America, Cuba etc. to come at us from the southern side."
Anyone ever play Civilization? If you have a superior Navy, you will win. Between Russia, China, India, and Brazil Navies, there is a very strong possibility that if WWIII breaks out there will be a formidable fight. I for one, wish none of this, but recogize it for what it is.
This all is contingent on the fall of the dollar, as the resulting shockwave of World War, would readily rattle the markets. Of course, you could always flood the market with trillions of unpaid securities and blow the ass out of the Treasury. Then the Fed steps in, hyperinflates the dollar and soon you are all in lines waiting for some kind of food ration while the world melts around you. Me and my peeps, we'll be gone and in the woods.
Cheers,
Why do Scots wear kilts?
Because sheep can hear a zipper from a mile away.
Oceans are water. Now if you control the Eurasian landmass....South America would probably join them, if it has a choice...
The trucks are professionaly painted, ie from the factory. White is the international symbol for either surrender, or non-combatant. My guess is that the trucks will carry ONLY humanitarian supplies and no weapons or ordnance. Putin has other ways to get arms to the Donbas fighters. He doesn't need to put them in a convoy that could get hit and then have the weapons discovered. He will stay on the up-and-up all the way through this. This is what will happen: If the convoy is not attacked, then Putin establishes a precedent for bringing in aid and helping the Donbas separatists. If the convoy is attacked, then Putin gets to claim provocation and then can respond accordingly. This is a no-lose move for Putin. I'm glad Nuland Etal cannot think like this, but then, evil and stupidity go hand in hand.
"Anyone ever play Civilization? If you have a superior Navy, you will win."
you've got to be joking. but the maybe not the ussa seems to have civ v's limited ai capability
You forgot faster than a speeding bullet.
putins reaxtion to the nato us missile shield that surrounds his country : )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ux3oiWELIQ
Knuckles:
Here is a party Pack:
Good morning - "Dobre utra".
Good afternoon - "Dobre den".
Good evening - " Dobre viechir".
Welcome - "Dobro požalovat"
Hello - "Privet!"
How are you - "Kak dela?"
I'm Fine, Thanks. And You? - "Spasibo, horošo. A ty?"
My Name is... - "Men'a zovut..."
I'm From... - "Ja iz ..."
Cheers! - "Za zdarov'e!"
Where is the Toilet? - "Gde na?oditsa tualet?"
Leave me alone! - "Ostav' menja v pokoe!"
Sorry - "Prasti!"
Couldn't see Beer or Vodka, Try Beer & Wodka.
You forgot "prostitutka"
"Lordy... Putin has to just be getting his rock off, laughing every evening over a tumbler of great scotch, conjuring up ways to really piss Obama off,.."
It is even funnier if one considers Obama a CIA controlled stooge as I do. Putin is inside the CIA's OODA loop and just having a grand ol' time of it. LOL
"Cookies will be served in the line for my guillotine."
Yeah all those guys in body armor carrying AKs and RPGs look real scary. Oh wait...
"Putin.....laaughing every evening over a tumbler of great scotch"
Putin doesn't drink.
But for a moron like yourself truth has very little to do with your expressions.
The policies of DC are so bad it begs the question: who are they really working for? If they consistently play into Putin's hand, perhaps it is by design.
Center stage act...main distraction....set.
Quick someone pull the plug on the HFT and derivatives ponzi....and blame Russia!!
Dont forget to down another plane ...post a youtube video using that Russian rap song...and cite it as evidence.
USG/Ziocons
RIPS
East (Ukraine) bound and down, loaded up and truckin'...
He gonna do what they say can't be done.
West bound and down, loaded up and truckin',
We're gonna do what they say can't be done.
We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there.
I'm West bound, just watch ol' "Putin" run.
Keep your foot hard on the pedal. Son, never mind them brakes.
Let it all hang out 'cause we got a run to make.
The boys are thirsty in Berdyansk and there's piva in Luhansk.
And we'll bring it back no matter what it takes.
West bound and down, loaded up and truckin',
We're gonna do what they say can't be done.
We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there.
I'm West bound, just watch ol' "Putin" run.
West bound and down, loaded up and truckin',
We're gonna do what they say can't be done.
We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there.
I'm West bound, just watch ol' "Putin" run.
Obama's got them ears on and he's hot on your trail.
He aint gonna rest 'til you're in jail.
So you got to dodge 'im and you got to duck 'im,
You got to keep that diesel truckin'.
Just put that hammer down and give him hell.
West bound and down, loaded up and truckin',
We're gonna do what they say can't be done.
We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there.
I'm West bound, just watch ol' "Putin" run.
a'we gonna do what they say can't be done
We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there
I'm east bound just watch ol'Bandit run
Keep your foot hard on the peddle...son, never mind those brakes
let it all hang out cause we've got a run to make
Don't fire until you see the whites of their trucks !
Don't fret, since they are not schools, a wedding party or airliner the DC US won't bomb them. Maybe.
Obungo would love to suck on that. I'll bet he has Reggie put on a Putin full face mask while he's delivering the guided muscle to the Oval Orifice.
I dare you to knock that Convoy off my shoulder. I dare you.
Obama the puss has the air force drop a pallet of MREs from 40000 ft and Vlad just brings a convoy of 300 truckdrivers and says "Go ahead PUNK, make my day" Gotta admit, the man has balls of steel.
I expected some movement from Vlad during Ocheezdicks vacation. At this point Putin is just playing with our slapdick prez
Why does an "aid" convoy have heavy machineguns, mortars, a MLRS vehicle, and tanks?
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Ummmm, wrong thread. This is about the Russian aid convoy, not the US-sponsored Kievan Yatzi Junta aid convoy.
Actually, Macho shit aside, I think the trucks will be used to extract the Rebel Army on the return trip. The reason? Porky Pig agreed to this. I I know for a fact he dont give a shit about his people. He even uses his own army conscripts for cannon fodder in front of mercenary forces and bombs the civilian population nightly so why would he care if they eat.
I think the Russians realize its time to seriously arm the rebels and risk Hato and Us blowback or wind down and save it for another day. They got the Crimean trophy and are going to let the Donbass shale field go and call it a draw. Ukraine is a disaster and someone will have to support it. Throw it to the IMF vampires for now.
I think Strelkov told them either arm me properly or provide a corridor for my forces out.The rebels fought valiantly against incredible odds and do not desereve to be slaughtered in a game of attrittion fighting against half the world. I think Russia now realize that they were formally attacked by the US/Canada and Europe and I doubt they will forget.
Plus you got US state dept officials flying around the world trying to get the Armenians vs Kajakistan, the transanistra region and the georgian crap stirred back up to create a ring of hostility around Russian. This isnt over by a long shot insane as it is. It will end in US tears.
Guess we find out in a few days but I wish every one of those white trucks had a horwitzer and kick these scumbuckets but..
Was there another video that I didn't see or you be smokin' crack again?
Now why does this convoy remind me of General Midwinter's invasion of Russia with tanker trucks in the 1960s Harry Palmer movie Billion Dollar Brain?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZP4NbqKngg&t=4m59s
I hope for Putin that his trucks won't sink through the ice.
Obama will call this Horse Shit. State Department will sanction all white trucks.
Obama has two concerns tonight:
1) Enjoying his lonnnng vay-cay
2) Scoring points with Hollywood via a sappy press release about Robin Williams:
http://tinyurl.com/prn6nke
World War III? Not a priority
Mark my words:
There will be some kind of coup in the White House, unless Obama shows up at work and listens to generals and neocons, which I see highly unlikely
USA world influence is at extreme danger of collapse, right now.
Zero tolerance.........
Stop it. I'm getting all misty.
Back in the Nixon days, didn't Alexander Haig take the "football" away from Tricky Dick? That order, that the president weren't gonna be able to use it, was in a very real sense a coup....
So wouldn't one wonder?
They didn't give Obama the nuke briefcase to begin with. You think they would trust him with it? It's just got some Secret Service agent's aftershave, gym clothes and a bag lunch in it.
sorry for the tmz update but Robin Williams whacked himself.
He's had it coming, ever since he dressed as a woman
Birdcage - funniest movie perhaps ever ...
RIP indeed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoJOol3aoJQ
RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM-gZintWDc
One of the more surprising actors, I think. After Mork & Mindy and Mrs. Doubtfire you would think he would have been pigeon-holed into just doing "wacky" stuff, but he rose above it and turned in some damned solid dramatic stuff later.
They had Larry King on Fox being interviewed about it. Figures a worthless troll like Larry would still be around while Robin Williams is gone.
Common mistake. Doubtfire was Dustin Hoffman. Sad story, thanks for the fun RW.
Nice try Tootsie but I doubt your fire is accurate.
Poor guy, tears of a clown, people who I know who met him in Toronto said he was very humble and welcoming. He had been mainly sober the last couple of decades but I think he was struggling the last year or two and had fallen off the wagon. RIP
Yeah man, you see this stuff in some people around you in life. Seems like they should have everything going for them but they just can't get past whatever inner demons they have.
Summer 1988 he did a live show at the Palace Theatre in Stamford Connecticut. I owned the food and beverage license at the time and had the pleasure of delivering his meal that evening. Broiled Chicken breast and steamed peas, two local newspapers and a case of Perrier. He was kind and a total gentlemen and I will never forget him.
RIP
Actually it was the alimony payments that probably did him in. He was selling his house to make payments to a woman who divorced him in 1988.
Crazy.
is this the black swan we've been waiting for?
/S/
I don't know.....they look white to me.
...and condoms
'I'm in charge' was his line during the Reagan assination attempt. He was 4th or 5th in line. Mis-step on his part.
hey knukles i've never heard that one about haig taking the football away.
do you have a link to the story?
Haig said "I'm in charge" when Reagan was shot, an obvious snub against the VP Geo HW Bush.
You may not like what comes next. Having a President Biden might sound like a bargain compared to what can happen with a coup.
ZH needs to cut it out with the bs war mongering. military vehicles have guns and shit, i can tell a truck is a truck
Eat shit and die Mr No tolerance.
Better Obama sit there and stop american intervention in places america has no fuckin right to be than some neocon conflict
The 'people' who run the US just assume that if there's black gooey stuff under some part of the planet they have the right to fuck the place up unless the populace 'vote' in a government that will go along.
That's the real problem.
Energy is the ultimate currency.
By the looks of how things are going one could bet they're going to get what they want, but with a funnel down their thoats...
Not to be confused with gold old fassioned Russian expansionist Neocon-commies.
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Damn right! They were employed by the Clinton/GeorgeW administrations.
Can't really comment because I don't have a clue who the f*ck is running US foreign policy these days. I suspect Obama/WH is having a war with {other factions of power} but who knows. Either way, it's a shambles and very dangerous, and British foreign policy is suffering the same crises.
The weakness and confusion you percieve reflects the weakness and confusion of the Anglo bankers watching the heat slowly rise on their derivatives toxic waste dump.
There ani't any place far enough on the planet to hide out from when that baby detonates!!
Whats happening is, those who have been in power are urging 'unity' with their lackies, underlings, proteges, cronies.
Meanwhile, those lackies see the writing on the wall, that shit is unraveling, and the time is coming where they will be called on to do dirty work for their 'masters', and likely with high risk/little payoff.
This includes those in the military, I would imagine. The better path is of course to bring everything out in the open, and try to move forward once the issues (USD controlled by the Federal Reserve, for e.g.) have been addressed. I'm thinking of something like the Nuremberg trials meets the Truth and Reconciliation trials South Africa had.
Son just got back from Bagram (twelfth year) and one of the first questions was how did the military view Obama.
Extremely unfavorable. There is deep resentment in the field at all levels.
The intelligence community is the deep state. The currency of lies and deception is knowledge. The own it and everyone in power is their bitch.
That's an interesting comment.....
There's an old piece of wisdom that goes along the lines of "Whoever you appoint to a top job, make sure you have plenty of dirt on him".
The dirt is sometimes referred to as a "control file". It allows the people in the shadows (Deep State) who control events to ensure that person does what he's told and doesn't go off script. If he does go off script, dirt is released which destroys his career and may even bring about criminal charges etc.
This is how I think Obama is being managed by his handlers. And he certainly has a lot of skeletons hidden in the cupboard. Not least his birth certificate/true nationality and his proclivity for hanging out in Chicago bath houses.
I applaud you for your honesty. One thing is for sure, it isn't benefitting anyone not in the loop anymore.
smacker, it's not the first time that the US foreign policy apparatus suffers from "overload". and remember that there is an US administration in charge that was keen on a "pivot to Asia". further, factions inside the administration are at loggerheads about how to tackle certain things. The Clinton faction, for example, wanted more direct help to the anti-Assad rebels, and had already an understanding with France... until the other factions vetoed the matter
and most of the times, the wisest thing in international relations is to wait until the others make mistakes, and then move, while popular sentiment is often unwise and wants "that something is done, asap"
British foreign policy? Mr. Cameron reformed the ministry. Made clear that their job is to sell British brands abroad, to the neglect of all other things. Of course he spends a lot of time phoning up and down the Gulf, but this is not the same as having a policy, or a ministry focused on having and revising one
I generally agree with you on historical US foreign policy. But it's getting more serious lately. There seems to be an objective from US PTB to create chaos, civil and inter-country wars around parts of the world. Seemingly for little other reason than "because they can". In some cases it appears to be energy-related, in others it isn't. If we keep up the anti-Putin rhetoric, he may decide to turn off the gas taps. Then what?
British foreign policy? A joke.
In the last month alone William Hague has been "moved" out of office to spend more time with his family. And this week two middle-ranking FO ministers have resigned. Add to all that: the total lies and shambles of how they dealt with Libya, then Syria, the complete mess of supporting a fascist govt in Ukraine and denying the people their right of self-determination. And of course supporting Israel in the Gaza-Israel conflict. Not to mention they are now thinking of enterng Iraq again and some typhoons have been moved to a neighbouring airbase.
Since when has he not listened to the NeoCons. Standing aside and letting Iraq lose the Kurdish oil in the north and the entire western half of the country. Dividing those mammels along 1000 year tribal and religous differences is straight out of Dick Cheney's playbook. The spice continues to flow, ISIS continues to get money and arms and training from their Gulf Coast sponsers, and Israel's biggest enemies are getting worn down and beat up, by other Muslims!!!!
Obama is doing his job, just they way he's been told.
USA influence will be going the way of the gold backed dollar.
Curious thing you said about Cheney's playbook. What makes you think Cheney or Bush were any more in charge than Obama?
sure hope the Ruskis didn't forget to pack a million Red Cross blankets ... great optics
Ebola infected balnkies for the Ukelele Army across the lines....
Attack of the United States Postal Service delivery trucks. Or maybe WalMart is heading in to open a store in Donetsk.
Over/under on the bullet hole count when they return? (If they do not return it's a push)
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So that would be the bullet hole count per returning truck? Are we looking at the mean count or the median count?
I'm thinkin' NOW might be the time to fill that back room with cases of beer, while we still can. And chips. Lots and lots of chips.