
The problem with having a senile puppet as president is that he says things he shouldn't. He reads stage directions from scripts and repeats parts of private conversations held in his presence in public. "Come on, man,", he's 79 years old! On Saturday 26th March 2022, in a speech in Warsaw about the Russia-Ukrainian crisis, Joe Biden dropped a clanger, publicly revealing the US plan for regime change in Russia. Closing his speech, Biden passionately demanded "For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power!" There was a sharp intake of breath across the punditsphere as the implications were understood and the White House instantly began walking back the claim. When questioned by reporters within hours of the speech, Biden had been given talking points backtracking on what he had said.

For all the western media's feined surprise that Biden would explicitely call for regime change in Russia, none of this was even slightly news. The US HAS been actively attempting to regime change Russia since Vladimir Putin stepped into Boris Yelstin's vodka-soaked slippers. US politics is performative. Politicians and pundits posture and blather on TV, exposing their plans and openly incriminating themselves. US intentions to invade Iraq were openly telegraphed to the world even before 911. The 'hate Russia' media campaign did not start in February 2022, it's been running at full tilt since 2000. Russia, resource rich and independent, cannot be allowed to exist in a world where the US is hegemon. It must be destroyed, broken up, split into warring regions and delivered into the hands of corrupt oligarchs and plundered for the benefit of international finance cartels.
The Russians know this. This is why Putin enjoys overwhelming popular support in Russia.
If the people behind the Biden regime were hoping that Biden's speech would rev up enthusiasm for war with Russia, they were badly mistaken. Biden's speech was recieved with horror and even the big media players, such as the New York Times, openly criticized Biden's ill considered foreign policy. Polls across the US show Biden's popularity has been consistently falling since his election with no recovery in sight. There are multiple, mainly domestic, reasons for this. The Biden regime openly expouses woke ideology and race grifting and aggressively pursues extremely harsh Covid mandates. And yet the regime's anti-freedom, radical agenda has been an abject failure. The Supreme Court has consistently struck down all Biden's Covid mandates, yet they duck and weave and try again. To even the most ignorant observer, the administration lurches from one self-created crisis to another, oblivious to its failures and resistent to reality.

The Hunter Biden laptop story, which was deep-sixed by the news media and social media giants before the 2020 election, has returned with a vengence. The laptop and its associated evidence of pervasive Democratic leadership corruption in Ukraine is now openly admitted by the newspaper of record. Republican representative Matt Gaetz entered the four laptop hard drives into the congressional record. Hunter Biden's name is not only associated with financial corruption, but he is also implicated in the US sponsored biolabs in Ukraine.

All polling suggests that the Democrats will be slaughtered in the mid-term elections later in the year. There seems to be no bright spot on the horizon to lift their prospects, not even war. Historically, foreign wars have generally been a good distraction for politicians, as I explained here:
https://stolzuntermenschen.blogspot.com/2022/02/a-short-victorious-war.html The idiots driving the Democratic Party (and their Republican Party co-conspirators) desperately need war with Russia, but a war that stays 'over there', in Europe. They believe their own propaganda, believe Russia is weak and collapsing, on the ropes and waiting only for that 'one swift kick on the door' to bring the whole rotten structure crashing down. They do not understand that once a real war is started, it cannot be managed to suit their ends. Fake videos and wall-to-wall media messaging will not stop bombs falling on their heads.
The beating of the war drum has continued without let. If the west's media showed no enthusiasm for Biden's call to arms in Warsaw, then maybe they'll get on board with attrocity porn. In Syria, western intelligence agencies, in conjunction with their pet media and paid-for terrorists groups, manufactured attrocity after attrocity to rev the public up for war. It ultimately failed, but a great many people still believe the Syrian government was responsible for horrendous war crimes perpetrated by western proxies. Having no new ideas, the playbook is being repeated in Ukraine.

The pattern of false flag war crimes by the Ukrainians has escalated to the orchestrated massacre in Bucha reported over the weekend. The story as portrayed in western media is clealy false, but this does not mean that innocent people were not killed. Neither ISIS nor the Ukro-Nazis have any compunction over slaughtering civilians for a good video. Bucha, a town on the outskirts of Kiev, was occupied by Russian forces in early March. During the month long Russian occupation the Russians shipped in food and supplies and life continued largely as normal. Russian forces left the town on 30 March 2022 as part of the repositioning of forces ahead of the impending Donbas campaign. The following day, 31 March 2022, the mayor of Bucha tweeted that the town had been liberated by Ukrainian forces. There was no mention of battles or attrocities. Ukrainian forces officially moved into the town from 1st April, but video of the carnage was only published on 3rd April on the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense website. Are we to believe the massacre perpetrated on 30 March at the latest was only noticed four days later? B from Moon of Alabama covers the incident in more detail:
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/the-bucha-provocation.html#more
There will be endless debate whether the whole affair was staged with fake bodies - as has been observed in several other attrocity videos - or was a real massacre of 'traitors.' A Ukrainian report on 2 April would suggest the later - "In the liberated Bucha, the territory was cleared of saboteurs and Russian accomplices" https://www.unian.ua/war/bucha-u-zvilnenomu-misti-rozpochali-zachistku-teritoriji-vid-diversantiv-ta-rosiyskih-posobnikiv-novini-kiyeva-11770498.html Exterminating defeatists and traitors entirely fits the Ukrainian MO. Western media and politicians exploded with outrage at the 'Russian war crime' and called for action, but a Russian call in the UN Security Council for an investigation into the incident was vetoed by Britain. We are unlikely to know what really happened in Bucha for some time to come, but the truth will out. The truth will always come out in the end. I don't doubt Russian intelligence has a list of names.
Bucha is just another escalation aimed at expanding the war. It hasn't succeeded. The long promised chemical provocation is likely next.
And in other news... Hungarian prime minister, Victor Orban, wins in a landslide. Orban has always pursued Hungary's national interest and follows an independent path from the centralised EU administration. Since the beginning of the crisis, Orban has said Hungary will not participate in anti-Russian sanctions and will continue to purchase Russian gas and other resources. Hungarian energy company MVM is in discussions with Gazprom on the details of new trade arrangements. Neighbouring Slovakia has also stated the same. Both countries stand to gain as conduits for Europe-Russian trade.

Speaking of bypassing Russian sanctions, both Germany and the United States have quitely removed several Russians exports from the sanctioned list. Despite all of its rhetoric and pressure on other nations, the US has hypocritically increased Russian oil imports by 45% in the last month. Nevertheless, as of April Russia will only accept payment into Russian-controlled bank accounts through specific non-sanctioned finanical institutions. Resources will be priced in rubles and as Russia sets the exchange rate, the price in hostile currencies will only increase.
Germany faces a huge energy crisis. It has no reserve gas storage and Chancellor Sholz has stated catagorically Germany will not pay for gas in rubles, declaring that the contracts Germany has with Gazprom specify payment in Euros. Germany's gas supply contract however is not with Gazprom itself but a German registered subsidiary, Gazprom Germania. Gazprom Germania does not supply gas. It operates as a gas storage company. As political tensions rose between Russia and Germany over the past year due to issues with the certification and completion of Nordstream II, Gazprom began reducing supply to Gazprom Germania so that if matters came to a head, it would not be facing a massive loss of stored Russian gas on German soil. The German gas reserves were allowed to fall to the point where Gazprom Germania is only holding 0.5% of its storage capacity. When the Ukraine crisis hit at the end of February, Gazprom sold it's Germania subsidiary to an undisclosed buyer. If the gas isn't paid for in accordance with the new arrangements, Gazprom can shut off the supply and avoid any financial loss. This move has only just been understood by the German government and it immediately intervened to seize Gazprom Germania from its new owner. Such an illegal move smacks of desperation on Germany's part. They now have the seized without warrant or compensation a privately owned but empty gas storage facility. Germany's gas reserves are basically gone. German industry representatives have warned the government that there is no alternative to Russian energy and that economic collapse looms if the crisis is not resolved quickly. Andrei Martyanov lays it out: https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/04/for-financists.html

The ruble has almost recovered its pre-crisis exchange rate.
The battle for Mariupol is nearing completion. Several large contingents of Ukrainian marines surrendered to Russian forces. The remains of Azov are trapped in the Azovstahl plant which is being blasted and cleared. There will be no escape for these guys. Several desperate attempts were made by the Ukrainians to evacuate important assets, among them some western intelligence officials (likely French). Over two nights, at least four helicopters attempted a landing at the Azovstahl plant. One was shot down over the sea on the first night with the loss of all crew. The other helicopter escaped. The following night a second attempt was made, this time from the landward side. Both were shot down after they'd managed to take on their passengers and were attempting to escape. One was destroyed with the loss of all onboard. There were three survivors from the second helicopter, who were all captured and are being interrogated about their mission. The identities of those aboard are being looked into.


Mercenary recruit numbers have substantially fallen away since the training and logistic camp at Yarovosky. Other mercenary camps and concentrations around the country are being systematically destroyed in an equally decisive manner. Naval launched Calibre missiles took out the headquarters of special operations forces in Ochakiv.
For those who don't understand the Russian strategy and the nature of this war, I recommend this interview with Scott Ritter by Alexander Mercuris and Alex Christoforou of the Duran.
Another good video resource is Andrei Martyanov, very highly recommended - https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
I would welcome an update to the current Russian special military operation and your take on it's achivements, IF(!) your time and personal duties allow this. Reading the Saker, Andrej Martynov and Bernard from MoA too, but your valuable insights sometimes offer a different alternative in interpreting certain developments - thanks for your effort!
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