The Struggle For Ukraine

[Trenchcoat]

An article examining how the fall of Syria to the rebels affects Russia's war in Ukraine:

http://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ndtv.com/world-news/as-syrian-rebels-topple-assad-regime-how-it-may-impact-russia-ukrainewar-7199697/amp/1

It basically exposes Russia's growing military weakness and shows that they are vulnerable to defeat. As said before Russia is being badly worn down by attrition in Ukraine and Syria is just another crack that shows how weak it is getting. Russia really isn't that far off defeat in Ukraine.

[krimster2]

Griftopia
Trump’s Chinese crypto “investor,” Justin Sun, who “invested” so much in Trump’s crypto company, they're now business partners, was just charged with fraud by the SEC
Trump’s announced that he’s appointing wealthy, right-wing South African venture capitalist and former PayPal exec David Sacks to be White House crypto and AI czar.

The PayPal Mafiya is EVERYWHERE!!!

Sacks is also a big Trump supporter and a big crypto owner.
Elon Musk has his own crypto called DOGE Coin, coincidence he uses the same DOGE name for Department Of Government Efficiency, or IS IT?
Elon's DOGE is not actually a government department, nor is it about efficiency
Department Of Government Efficiency, i.e middle class economic reduction plan which is necessary to transfer wealth from middle class to upper class
by cutting taxes and regulation and labor costs

WHY has Bitcoin been soaring?
Senate Republicans are working on a bill to transfer “$100 billion from the US government, from taxpayers, and hand it over to a handful of big crypto holders,
The plan is called "The Bitcoin Act" and would have the government sell off some of its gold reserves, and use the money to buy a billion Bitcoin at current market value, that would cost $100 billion

The "Whales" (billion dollar bitcoin holders)
are doing a "pump and dump"
the price will rise the more it gets pumped
and after it's sold to the treaury, it's dumped, and the price collapses
you traded gold for unicorn farts
and you will lay-off hundreds of thousands of federal workers
for this Trump/Elon scam

the billionaires will hoard the gold the Treasury sells, and when the USA defaults on the debt in 15 to 20 years
this is the gold they use to buy up the entire us economy, which is now debt free

it doesn't lower the deficit by a penny

remember, you heard it on RWD first from Krimster2 #2

Krimster's Plan For Deficit Reduction

issue a Federal $1 trillion dollar platinum coin with a portrait of Krimster riding a chariot pulled by 4 horses
mint enuff to cancel the debt
buy the debt with these coins
you are saving $1 trillion in interest every year
and it cost ya $50,000 in platinum to do it

debt holders hold the returned cash in Federal Reserve Bank Accounts
and limits are placed on them taking funds out of the USA

instead of a debt
it's massive investment credit
courtesey of John Maynard Keynes

between what Biden is handing over from now until Jan 20
plus with Europe putting a lien on impounded russian assets and SLOWLY loaning that to Ukraine (NOT to be repaid)
Ukraine could keep goin for at least another year WITHOUT USA financial support

but if Trump cuts off US AID and VITAL US intelligence going to Ukraine
it's still a "game changing move"

this is the moment that Putin will throw EVERYTHING he has at Ukraine
to convince Zelensky that the longer he waits, the more territory and people he will lose, and will not be getting anything for the exchange
being Yvray, Zelensky can do the math, and come to only one possible conclusion

difference is, Zelensky cares about his people
and Putin doesn't
every sq km of captured ukrainian land costs hundreds of dead russians and thousands seriously injured

Tovarish, kto platit?
comrad, who pays?

kto?
Middle aged Russian men with dysentary and colds
sleeping outside on the frozen mud
eating garbage
hiding from "birds"
and their families
that's who

and every single Russian who has to live in the shit hole that Putin created for them
literally one out of every 4 Russians shits in a hole in the ground
while Putin wasted $tens of billions in Syria
and a $trillion in Ukraine

and now you dumb asses are gonna get the same thing here

[ML]

It's already known that Assad's family has gone to Russia to live in exile their most probably and Assad is most likely with them.

There is a possibility that Assad's plane, which was fleeing Syria, could have been shot down by Russian S-300 air defense systems in Tartus.

Wife says that Putin wanted Assad dead because he 'knows too much.'

[krimster2]

Russians have pulled out completely
the USA has 1,000 troops still there...
and so does Turkey
I assume they're not in any danger from the "rebels" just assad's men and Russians are their targets

what does this imply?

Moscow’s engagement in the Syrian conflict was “critical to prevent the construction of the Qatar-Türkiye pipeline, which would be catastrophic for (Russia’s state-owned energy giant) Gazprom”.
so Turkey and Qatar with US muscle will take over Putin's pipelines?

Putin spent tens of billions$ in syria for those pipelines and for a naval base on the Med
Tarsus was his only naval base in the Med.
I imagine the CIA is having a great time there now LOL!!!

all gone and FADE AWAY

Assad's family stays on the floor above where I stay in the 4Seasons in City Center

this puts EVEN MORE pressure on Putin to get Trump to end the Ukraine war ASAP
and Trump is such a "deeply caring" compassionate human being, that I'm SURE Putin knows how to appeal to him!!!
hmmm hmmmm.....

the news starting at the end of next month is gonna get REAL INTERESTING!!!!
you will see a BIG DISINFORMATSE campaign AGAINST Zelensky in Right Wing Western Media like Fox, and Tucker Carlson to justify Trump's position

rednecks, don't worry!
as usual they'll tell ya what to think
you don't wanna try any of that on yur own
it'll just give ya a headache
oh yeah, yada yada, whaddabout Hillary's emails, Hunter's laptop, Lindburgh Baby's Rattle

[2tallbill]

I make up dumb stuff

We know

[krimster2]

what? silly Rednecks!!!

When I said, "I was making stuff up", I was MAKING THAT UP!

is this yur first time in a comedy club? how was yur first beer?

hecklers get heckled

[ML]

Moscow’s engagement in the Syrian conflict was “critical to prevent the construction of the Qatar-Türkiye pipeline, which would be catastrophic for (Russia’s state-owned energy giant) Gazprom”.
so Turkey and Qatar with US muscle will take over Putin's pipelines?

Several other aspects here:
1) Syrian rebels will want to control the existing pipeline.
2) Iraq and Kurds will need to agree on who gets what from oil movement though their area into Turkey.

[ML]

There is a possibility that Assad's plane, which was fleeing Syria, could have been shot down by Russian S-300 air defense systems in Tartus.

Wife says that Putin wanted Assad dead because he 'knows too much.'

Now it appears these were false rumors put out by Russia to protect Assad.

Ukrainian news is  more up  to date on this than google search.

[ML]

Will we end up with more trouble from the Rebel group than Assad caused ?

Will they govern like Isis, al qaeda, taliban or what ?

[2tallbill]

Will we end up with more trouble from the Rebel group than Assad caused ?

Will they govern like Isis, al qaeda, taliban or what ?

Yes, they will govern like Al Qaeda or ISIS. The whole world is spinning into a quagmire.

[krimster2]

hey BOSS!!!! 'De PLANE!!! De PLANE!!!

it's all about the pipelines
The Qatar–Turkey pipeline was a proposal to build a natural gas pipeline from the Iranian–Qatari South Pars/North Dome Gas-Condensate field towards Turkey,
where it could connect with the Nabucco pipeline to supply European customers as well as Turkey.
Turkey in the future will be making $$ off this from Azerbaijani gas and NOT Russia

One proposed route to Turkey was via Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Syria
Syria's rationale for earlier rejecting the Qatar proposal was "to protect the interests of our Russian ally", which WAS Europe's top supplier of natural gas.

Iraq seeks to re-activate the Kirkuk–Baniyas oil pipeline, in addition to the Basra-Aqaba pipeline with Jordan, and to revive a pipeline with Saudi Arabia that existed in the 1970s.

i'm guessin that changin title to these pipelines was a big EXTERNAL motivator in gettin rid of Assad and they allied with Assad's internal enemies

everything Putin touches, eventually withers and dies
he can't EVEN manipulate Moldova

this is a BIG blow to Putin's future!
so was losing Georgian Caspian pipelines to Atlantic Richfield
so was losing european market share to American LNG
so was losing Exxon/Mobile Arctic drilling cuz of Crimean Sanctions
so was virtually no Russian gas flowing through Ukraine this year
so was NorthStream II blowing up!!

assuming Trump frees Putin from all western sanctions in the next few months and that Zelensky does what Trump/Putin hopes and signs the truce
how much of his european gas empire has Putin already LOST?
how will he get it back?

the weaker Putin's hand, the more AID Trump will have throw in to Zelensky to get him to sign, cuz of Europe's stepped up support
Trump MAY have to TAKE Russia's 100 billion sanctioned assets in the USA and loan it to Ukraine like  Europe did
that way, Trump can say he "made the deal with Ukraine" without any US money in the game
would Putin spend $100 billion to get rid of sanctions and end the war?
yes, in a microsecond!!

The Devil will be in the details
how much russian gas will flow through ukraine post-truce?
the world ends...not with a bang...but with a whimper....

yur world's gonna end that way to
cuz yur just another one of the dominos that are gonna fall like Ukraine

you rednecks are ALL gonna get a BIG surprise SOON!!!!
I KNOW what it is, but I'm NOT gonna tell ya!!!!

HAHA

[Trenchcoat]

The Syrian Rebels need to kick the Russians out of Syria to make sure they are gone once and for all. Leaving them in Syria could risk Russia putting Assad back into power at a later date. There are some reports that the Syrian Rebels are going to let the Russian Military based remain which seems shocking after they fought against the Rebels killing many of them and defeating their previous attempt to remove Assad.

http://www.reuters.com/world/russia-says-syrias-assad-has-left-country-given-orders-peaceful-power-handover-2024-12-08/

[krimster2]

"russians said" LOL!!!!
they've already withdrawn
never believe anything until it's denied by the kremlin

Kremlin denies Krimster's stories are "made up" and claims they're "authentic"
and that instead BEEL's stories are actually American business oligarch fairy tales created to deceive the masses of American workers
by distorting the true basis of Marx's "material dialectic"

eta Pravda
you see...I belong to a certain "secret society" whose name I BELIEVE I don't GOTTA mention....
and this is "insider" knowledge
that I'm passin along to RWD Readers
of whom I hold in the HIGHEST ESTEEM!!!

[krimster2]

due to recent disinformation from Trump, Zelensky has posted Ukraine's official casualty totals for Russia and Ukraine

 President Zelensky for the first time "officially" disclosed Ukrainian casualties:
43,000 KIA
370,000 WIA (half returned to combat duty)

Russia:
198,000 KIA
550,000 WIA

i'd assume all wounded russians were returned to duty

"Fun Russian Fact of the Day" brought to you by Powder Milk Biscuits

Russia will not start a nuclear war, for the following reason
70% of entire Russian population lives in the radiation fallout area of Moscow and  st petersburg
if they all die, who will be robotniki in oligarch zavod?

oligarchs want sanctions to go away, not have their business assets destroyed
Putin is the BIGGEST oligarch

Putin is...so...close...to victory
maybe 2 more months ha has to hang on

VTB bank is the latest financial casualty in Russia

[krimster2]

http://x.com/GS7_89/status/1862133107442303267/photo/1

fer REAL, no joke
just like Putin dictated

Trump doesn't mention russian sanctions or the hundreds of billions in seized russian assets
i'm sure ya know WHY

[Trenchcoat]

due to recent disinformation from Trump, Zelensky has posted Ukraine's official casualty totals for Russia and Ukraine

 President Zelensky for the first time "officially" disclosed Ukrainian casualties:
43,000 KIA
370,000 WIA (half returned to combat duty)

Russia:
198,000 KIA
550,000 WIA

i'd assume all wounded russians were returned to duty

"Fun Russian Fact of the Day" brought to you by Powder Milk Biscuits

Russia will not start a nuclear war, for the following reason
70% of entire Russian population lives in the radiation fallout area of Moscow and  st petersburg
if they all die, who will be robotniki in oligarch zavod?

oligarchs want sanctions to go away, not have their business assets destroyed
Putin is the BIGGEST oligarch

Putin is...so...close...to victory
maybe 2 more months ha has to hang on

VTB bank is the latest financial casualty in Russia

I think the KIA and WIA combined figure could be roughly right for either side. I still that that for both Russia and Ukraine the KIA figure may be higher and perhaps some being counted as WIA but died quickly after the wounding. In a war with hundreds of thousands of artillery shells and other such stuff being fired I would tend to get the impression that more would be ending up dead. That was the case in the first and second world war so it's probably the case here. I think neither Russia nor Ukraine want to let onto the true number of soldier deaths due to it being off putting to those it needs for the front. My guess is that the real number of KIA is way, way higher for both sides.

[krimster2]

thos figures tell me I wouldn't want to be a lower rank Russian soldier
the Russian KIA/WIA ratio is WAY higher than the USA in Iraq/Afghnistan
USA/Israel under combat, have VASTLY better medical care than Russians

Trump will wanna throw Veterans under the bus with everybody else starting with Ukrainians
to garner the cost savings from things he doesn't care about. so he can cut Elon Musk's Taxes and regulations, which he does care about

[krimster2]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/12/10/2291306/-Biden-transfers-20Bn-in-impounded-funds-to-Ukraine?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web
source

ukraine can fully operate for one more year if Trump cuts Ukraine off completely of military, financial and intelligence (which he will)

[Trenchcoat]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/12/10/2291306/-Biden-transfers-20Bn-in-impounded-funds-to-Ukraine?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web
source

ukraine can fully operate for one more year if Trump cuts Ukraine off completely of military, financial and intelligence (which he will)

That's probably going to be more than enough time for Ukraine. Russia is likely to be long out of Artillery before then, possibly Russia will run out of Artillery in the next 4-6 months, they are already running low as the recent article I posted up tells us. Russia will use other stuff, glide bombs, etc but it's unlikely to be able to make up for the loss of its Artillery barrage. Russia:s economy is likely to be tanking it long before then also and that will happen it's war efforts a great deal also. If Ukraine is able to go on a year in the US cuts all funding then that is good news for Ukraine I think.

[krimster2]

if zelensky doesnt sign the Putin/Trump Ukraine surrender plan, Putin will step up the destruction of civilian targets in Ukraine
at a MUCH higher level than he has
becuz
Trump will DO NOTHING to deter Putin

Trump wants Russian sanctions to go away as much as Putin does
cuz it's how he'll get PAID his commission for sellin Ukraine to Putin

[krimster2]

rescuing Putin will be the FIRST priority for Trump/Musk, less than 3 weeks from now...

Russia, with its oligarchy, right-wing media monopolies, and autocratic leader and fascism, is the EXACT SAME Trump/Musk future for the United States.

I would expect that the first actions of Trump/Musk regarding Ukraine will be a harbinger of what is to come for America
if Ukraine is sold out, then expect Americans to be sold out by Trump/Musk as well...
while they lie about it and the right wing media monopoly amplifies the lies

of course, it's not gonna be about sellin out Ukraine to give Putin what he wants (and whatever Trump secretly gets in return)
it's gonna be about "ending the violence"
O' such nobility of purpose
which is ALL a ruse
IT ALL IS!

same way they spin their pursuit of self-interest as "for the good of the country"
when they lie to you about that

the people of America are now dependent on the INTEGRITY of Donald Trump and Elon Musk as they reshape the Federal Government in their own image
the INTEGRITY of Donald Trump and Elon Musk?
are you phuqueing kiddin me?

when you put yur trust in the WRONG people
you ALWAYS get burned
and ya'll are about to get INCINERATED!!!!
and yur pissed at me for warnin ya? LOL!!!

PS
From now on, what I'm gonna do, is SHOW YOU how dumb yur beliefs are, without calling YOU dumb
I'll let you be free to comclude that on yur own

I come from a much more aggressive environment then ya'll
so I'm not used to dealing with delicate people
sorry fur hurtin yur fee fees
I hopes you will be OTay
Gawsh! i'm thorry, would ya like a cookie?

[krimster2]

Putin's time is runnin out
he will pressure Trump to press Zelensky to end the war ASAP and drop ALL sanctions against Russia

The Russian economy is imploding
The housing market, propped up by state-subsidized mortgages at rates as low as 7% (despite real inflation estimated at 27% is collapsing.
Mortgage debt has surged to over 40% of bank lending portfolios, while household debt is at a record 22% of GDP. Once dominating housing transactions, mortgages now make up only 20% of sales, with 80% being cash purchases!
it's money laundering, more or less
Sellers are slashing prices by up to 50%, and non-performing loans are soaring, threatening to sink regional banks, which hold 40% of the market. Developers, crippled by overbuilding during the boom, are defaulting on bonds, leading to widespread losses across the construction sector.

The ripple effects are devastating.
The Russian stock market has seen all sectors decline sharply, with Gazprom down 16.7%, Ozon 23.7%, and RUSAL 23.8% in just one month.
Inflation has spiraled out of control, forcing the cost of potatoes to rise by 80% this year alone, with car prices expected to jump 20% after New Year’s.
The ruble has lost over 10% of its value three times in a single month
the ruble require a devaluation of 22-35% to sustain government spending.

International support is absent. China, dealing with its own economic woes—including an 18% youth unemployment rate and a real estate debt crisis—has limited capacity to assist Russia. Furthermore, China conducts > 60% of its trade with the U.S. and Europe versus around 2% with Russia and is unlikely to risk sanctions for a marginal ally.

Public dissatisfaction is growing as the economy crumbles. Living costs are skyrocketing, wages are stagnant, and layoffs are widespread. In 2024, over 130,000 jobs were cut in 457 companies, including global tech giants like Tesla, Amazon, and Google. The regime’s promise of economic stability is collapsing, and so is Putin’s political contract with his people.

Historically, economic collapse has toppled autocrats, and Russia’s current trajectory mirrors these patterns. Putin’s inability to stabilize the economy or shield ordinary Russians from hardship is eroding his legitimacy among both the public and the elites. With rising discontent, fractured loyalty from oligarchs, and economic freefall, Russia is on the brink of political upheaval. The collapse of Putin’s regime may no longer be a distant prospect—it is rapidly becoming an imminent reality.

UNLESS Trump and Musk resque him in the next 90 days!!!!!

this'll will be damned interesting to watch
I expect a big smear campaign against zelensky on Fox, etc.

[Grumpy]

Russian gas has flowed through Ukraine for decades, mainly through a Soviet-built pipeline that begins in Sudzha, a town in Russia’s Kursk region currently under the control of Ukrainian forces, and ends near Uzhhorod, on Ukraine’s western border with Slovakia.

Gas continued to flow based on a 2019 agreement after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, providing revenue for both countries. Kyiv made hundreds of millions of euros a year in transit fees. Negotiations took place last year to extend the deal but came to nothing.

“Russian gas has not been supplied for transit via Ukraine since 8:00 am [Moscow time, 06:00 GMT],” Russia’s Gazprom said in a statement on Wednesday.

Ukraine’s energy minister, German Galushchenko, confirmed Ukraine had stopped transit flows, calling the move “historic” in a statement on Wednesday. “Russia is losing its markets, it will suffer financial losses,” he said.

There were some swift effects, with the breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria losing heating and hot water on Wednesday morning.

A statement on the website of Tirasteploenergo, the local energy company, said the heating cuts took effect at 7am local time (06:00 GMT) on Wednesday. It urged residents to dress warmly, gather family members together in a single room, hang blankets or thick curtains over windows and balcony doors, and use electric heaters.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/01/breakaway-moldovan-region-cuts-heating-and-hot-water-as-russia-stops-gas-flow

[krimster2]

last night a Ukrainian Naval Drone armed with an air-to-air R-73 missile shot down an Mi-8 Helicoper near Sevastopol!!!!
an historic first - first naval drone to shoot down an aircraft in combat

see pic
missile shooting robotic speed boats for ramming ships and bridges

while this was goin on another drone destroyed a TOR AA missile system just outside Sevastopol

if I still lived in Sevastopol, I'd have to "tape up" all my windows, so the glass doesn't fly when they shatter
like they did in Israel

getting yur windows replaced when there's 500 other people trying to do it is a whole lotta fun!!!!

[Trenchcoat]

Russian gas has flowed through Ukraine for decades, mainly through a Soviet-built pipeline that begins in Sudzha, a town in Russia’s Kursk region currently under the control of Ukrainian forces, and ends near Uzhhorod, on Ukraine’s western border with Slovakia.

Gas continued to flow based on a 2019 agreement after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, providing revenue for both countries. Kyiv made hundreds of millions of euros a year in transit fees. Negotiations took place last year to extend the deal but came to nothing.

“Russian gas has not been supplied for transit via Ukraine since 8:00 am [Moscow time, 06:00 GMT],” Russia’s Gazprom said in a statement on Wednesday.

Ukraine’s energy minister, German Galushchenko, confirmed Ukraine had stopped transit flows, calling the move “historic” in a statement on Wednesday. “Russia is losing its markets, it will suffer financial losses,” he said.

There were some swift effects, with the breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria losing heating and hot water on Wednesday morning.

A statement on the website of Tirasteploenergo, the local energy company, said the heating cuts took effect at 7am local time (06:00 GMT) on Wednesday. It urged residents to dress warmly, gather family members together in a single room, hang blankets or thick curtains over windows and balcony doors, and use electric heaters.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/01/breakaway-moldovan-region-cuts-heating-and-hot-water-as-russia-stops-gas-flow

In theory potential for the US to sell even more LPG/LNG to Europe with the shutting of the Russian Gas through the Ukrainian pipeline. Does Trump want to lose out on such a situation? Possibly there might be more go in it for Trump if he forgets about bothering with a peace deal for Putler and sees how things pan out. Potentially if Russia ends up cracking up economically as now looks to be the way there may be more in it for Trump waiting it out for Russia's collapse.

I wonder how Trump will see it 🤔