Andy, Larry, and Uncle Ray…

The US entered via Normandy only to prevent the Red Army from reaching the Channel and all the communist partisans from coming to power in Europe. After December 1942 it was clear that such an outcome would otherwise prevail. Bluntly, the US intervened to save the nazis, not to defeat them…and the proof exists in Argentina, Canada, zone 404, Finland, Estonia, Sweden and of course in the US. Mind “the bomb is for Russia” 1944, Groves, at dinner.

Subsequent to minute 13 Wilkerson opines”no doubt” Israel did the big explosion…Bandar Abbas

Not fake. Drones and Kamikaze have similar effect. When the hanger deck of Truman etc looks like this… That’ll be an “escalation”.

Sailors walk through the wrecked hangar deck of USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) following a kamikaze attack during the Battle of Okinawa. US Navy official photograph. The National WWII Museum, Gift of Thomas J. Hanlon, Accession #2013.495.412

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/okinawa-costs-victory-last-battle

A close friend, now sadly dead, was in this battle. His ship took, iirc, 158 men dead.

I am interested in what Napolitano says…not so much Mr Mac

Alex the elder long talk> Russia Seeks Ukraine Victory, Deploys 2 New Armies; Gives Up On Talks; US Opts To Invest In Ukraine
Russia Seeks Ukraine Victory, Deploys 2 New Armies; Gives Up On Talks; US Opts To Invest In Ukraine
Topic 1532  (my bold)

Judging Freedom>

@ Anoxia keine rote fahne for May Day. But quite likely another small protest demo. And it’s hot. Probably 33C to-day.

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I’ll take the WSJ with a grain of salt, and I do also wonder why they say whatever they say, wall street being as crooked as a dog’s tail… Nevertheless> very interesting!

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/another-shocker-wsj-reveals-russia

Ruskie evidently expects an attack from Europe. What else is new?

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From Locals. Mineral deals is bs.

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To expand on the excellent @Alfred777 comments re: the rare earths’ deal with zelensky, here’s John Galtsky, in his comment to Simplicius:

“I seriously doubt this myth of “Ukraine minerals””

You’re right to doubt it. The “Ukrainian minerals” thing is propaganda for morons, just like the Ghost of Kiev and all the other total lies they generate on an industrial scale.

In the case of the minerals lies, those literally are for morons because anybody who isn’t a functional moron can look up old Soviet maps of mineral resources in Ukraine and see there isn’t anything remotely like recent claims. Also, people who aren’t functional morons and really want to understand the matter can read up on exploration geology and know that the Soviets were extremely good at it, and that they explored the heck out of places like Ukraine that were immediately at hand and densely populated in the European part of the Union.

Ukraine’s real mineral wealth is coal, with iron ore a distant second, and both of those are in the great formations that start around Donbass but which get far larger as they extend into Russia. That still means there’s a heck of a lot of coal in Donbass, now also in Russia.

All the rare earths are no big deal, far exaggerated and not all that distinctive on a world scale basis. The cost of those is extracting them. Same with titanium, which is fairly abundant worldwide (lots of it in Florida, for example). It’s not having a source of titanium that’s hard, it’s having a source of low cost energy to refine metallic titanium that’s hard.

The lithium claims are particularly a hoot, the usual lie proceeding by stating that lithium was a don’t care in earlier days but now it’s white gold given high tech and automotive requirements. But that’s an outrageous lie for anybody who’s bothered to educate themselves.

In fact, lithium was far more valuable in the 1950’s because lithium is the key fuel input for thermonuclear weapons. It’s what made thermonuclear weapons practical, enabling stable, solid lithium deuteride fuel instead of having to build a small cryogenics factory to enable fueling a thermonuclear weapon with very low temperature liquid deuterium.

Those weapons were such high value items that it actually would have been cost effective to use solid gold, a ton of it, as tamper material. So you bet the USSR explored every square inch of territory where lithium might be had, and their conclusion was that despite the stratospheric value of any bit of lithium the lithium deposits in Ukraine weren’t worth developing.

And that was at a time when not only was lithium extremely valuable but also when the strategic value of self-sufficiency was priceless as well.

So yes, the “minerals deal” is propaganda for morons just on the face of it, at least to the extent it trots out exotic rare earths, titanium, and lithium as a source of profit. It’s also a head fake for morons even on the basis of thinking that the US will be able to loot coal and iron from the Donbass, which is now Russian territory.

Where it might not be total propaganda is what they don’t tell you, that it provides a great means of laundering money. US and EU “investments” in developing resources that don’t exist will provide a flow of funds that can be skimmed and redirected into payola for the supporters of corporations and Ukrainian government entities, including political parties and other beneficiaries of the “development” fund.

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Happy May Day y’all!

Evidently Agent Orange has managed to hizownself on the do not call list… Well, I would call him either. Who would?

He might be on double secret probation…!!