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Hubbs's avatar

I think Putin has to walk a very narrow corridor in the management of the Ukraine special military operation. Regardless of the Trump and European BS, Putin realizes that he can never trust the west again. This means that NATO or it’s remnant and other European countries will always be trying to and circle and control Russia for its natural resources.

Russia, therefore will have to maintain an eternal state of vigilance, meaning an active well trained military defense in the field. Paradoxically a low level of conflict helps to maintain such a state of readiness without extracting too many losses and placing too much burden on its economy in contrast to a full mobilization for total war.

It is actually to Russia’s advantage if the Europeans and Zelensky continue their what amounts to annoying provocations with these drone attacks on Russia’s energy facilities or incursions into Russia territory which do not have any significant military consequences. But they do help to maintain Russian civilian concerns about the need for military readiness, I.e., a tolerable level as long as the economy still functions.

Russia, however, needs to maintain just the right amount of a credible level of military deterrent against NATO and Ukraine in order to not over embolden NATO and the West. The western leaders really are that stupid and that they will seize upon any signs of perceived weakness to escalate the war, even if they cannot possibly win, but which nevertheless would not benefit Russia.

Likewise, Russia does not want to launch too aggressive an offense because then that would alarm the West even more and feed public fears of a Russian invasion into Europe, which is not and has never been Russia’s intent. So for now, a tactically sound strategy of a war of attrition actually serves to enable a lower intensity conflict, which is actually what Russia probably needs to avoid any letting down of its guard and then having to face a much bigger problem if it allows the West to rearm and redeploy via a “Minsk 3” peace agreement or ceasefire. Putin has already been burned badly enough in Minsk1 and 2 and Istanbul.

So Russia will pretend to listen to Trump and all of his BS as well as all the empty threats and plans by the western European countries which are totally impotent so as to lead them on in maintaining a low level conflict and making them think that Europe and NATO have a chance of succeeding if they persist.

Thus Russia can grind on , “quietly” acquiring more territory it believes it will need as a buffer zone in perpetuity. My working hypothesis is that they will want Odessa, Karkhov, and vast swathes of land east of the Dnieper, and possibly even Kiev itself. A low intensity war of attrition allows them to acquire this without raising too much alarm.

And as far as the JFK assassination, he was allowed to enter into the kill zone. The car was open, the Secret Service agents had stepped off of the vehicle in violation of protocol, the vehicle stopping after gunfire had broken out to be sure that the assassins had a chance to shoot a sitting duck. The assassination team, probably at least three or four in number, but certainly not Oswald, really bungled the job. But that’s what you would expect from a loosely organized gang of mafia assassins assembled by some slipshod politicians, CIA gangsters and Israelis.

But don’t stress too much over the JFK missing files. I don’t think there are many missing pieces to the puzzle. LBJ and George Bush were in on it. The assassins were a bunch of hoodlums, the Israelis, MIC , CIA and of course the bankers fighting against government issuance of silver certificates instead of fiat by the FED…they too were all in on it.

Stay armed and ready citizens. See what happens to people who aren’t.

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John Day MD's avatar

Yes, LBJ and GHW Bush were part of JFK's assassination, from what I have been able to gather over the years. It was "business" for both of them.

"The West" is fracturing. It is what we might now call "Atlanticist" or "City of London" interests which are so hostile to Russia. Russia is playing a conservative game. It looks like Trump wants a new Yalta with Putin, Xi, Modi, but not Atlanticists.

We'll see who Russia might "trust".

"Trust but verify" as the "Gipper" said, which is right, though I was never a fan of his.

I think he wanted to be a good president. He got in Bush's way, which was bad for his health.

;-(

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les online's avatar

Seems The Germans are gonna make a third try at winning a World War...

Which suggests they believe "If at first you dont succeed, try. try again."

Though Einstein's "A sure sign of insanity is doing the same thing over

and over again, expecting a different result" comes to mind...

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John Day MD's avatar

Which Germans?

;-/

Most don't want to do a big war again.

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pyrrhus's avatar

There is no mystery to the JFK assassination...The original color Zapruder video clearly shows Oswald, whom we know was military intelligence, down on Dealy Plaza...That was not released to the public until years later..And the Dallas police found no gunpowder residue on Oswald, so he hadn't fired a weapon...The real autopsy results, show Kennedy was hit by multiple bullets from different directs....

Of course, the vast majority of the JFK documents were not released, or had critical sections blotted out for "national security."

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Mark A's avatar

Plenty to comment on here, but I'm surprised that the FBI has just realised they must redact there Epstein files in entirety by immediately transferring 1000 of there staff to hide who's really behind them. Do they never think ahead anymore like they clearly did and have continued doing after the JFK assassination?

The 'chosen ones' really must be to get this level of protection by the hegemon!

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John Day MD's avatar

It is hard to tell what is going on inside of politically divided agencies, who calls what shots.

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nymusicdaily's avatar

Germany has dealt ‘death blow to the euro’ because the euro cbdc is scheduled to launch 10/25/25 https://lawyerlisa.substack.com/p/october-25-2025-cbdc-installation

the tesla attack op kills many birds with one stone (literally). i can't vouch for the authenticity of the cited documents here but pass them along as food for thought

https://jasonpowers.substack.com/p/tesla-plan-tactics-of-the-enem

act blue funding them also 3/22/25

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rogue-soros-funded-ngo-plots-multi-city-assault-tesla-domestic-terrorism-escalates

attacking tesla and teslas accomplishes many things. burning teslas cannot be extinguished so every tesla fire creates a mini east palestine. easy for FEMA to swoop in and declare your whole street uninhabitable because some antifa clown torched your yuppie neighbor's car

attacking teslas also paradoxically requires us to defend the darpa-funded south african druggie who wants to kill us with his sci-fi brain chip

and maybe tesla dealerships get national guard protection? beta test for, say, NG protection for bitcoin mining? and for redefining civil disobedience as terrorism?

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John Day MD's avatar

This is what a struggle for system dominance in post-peak-oil is looking like.

Musk has certain bureaucratic super-powers to get things done, but he also has observable character-flaws. He is bound to be used for his rare talents, while others on Team Trump manage damage control for his personality, though he's got a better sense for that than Ramaswamy does.

It is weird that the Tesla status symbol is suddenly becoming like a MAGA yard-sign. People are putting defensive bumper stickers on their Teslas. "I bought this before we knew Elon was crazy" is one I saw yesterday.

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nymusicdaily's avatar

lol

jeff childers drives a tesla. but he's a lawyer so i guess he can afford a new set of tires every 7k miles

muskrat is a brand just like trump. he's the power ranger meant to lure the bitcoin bros and those on the spectrum who worship his various scams, from paypal to spacex ,into accepting govt by machine. which at its most logical extreme is israel's project lavender. his only talent (not so rare actually) is hoovering up data and govt money.

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Sam May's avatar

I am reading Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s The Age of Jackson at present. Published when Schlesinger was 28 years old in 1945. Eighty years ago! It won the Pulitzer. He was born the same year as JFK (and my mother) in 1917. The two men were classmates at Harvard. There are several chapters dealing with President Andrew Jackson's dilemma over what to do with the Second Bank of the United States. He killed it. Big deal. Lot's held in the balance. The main objection was that the bank was not under the control of the people and their government. You couldn't have an institution so important - money management and creation - and have it not represent the interests of the people in contested political forms. Nicholas Biddle, Philly scion, ran the shop for the benefit of wealth. As he should. Jackson killed the bank. Of course, that only worked for so long and the problems were not resolved. But it was clear to many, including Jackson, that you could not have a power within a power, or a state within a state. Let's kill the CIA.

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John Day MD's avatar

Jackson said he would kill the bank or it would kill him. Jackson was in a lot of duels. He was not kidding. That being said, he was also responsible for the Trail of Tears genocide...

Trump is "Jacksonian", but appears to be somewhat better-balanced, odd as it may seem for me to make that statement...

Thanks for commenting, Sam. I like Schlesinger as a historical figure and voice.

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John's avatar

The Spanish anarchists demanded that any politician voting for war should go straight to the front. What a good idea.

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nymusicdaily's avatar

Germany has dealt ‘death blow to the euro’ because the euro cbdc is scheduled to launch 10/25/25 https://lawyerlisa.substack.com/p/october-25-2025-cbdc-installation

the tesla attack op kills many birds with one stone (literally). i can't vouch for the authenticity of the cited documents here but pass them along as food for thought

https://jasonpowers.substack.com/p/tesla-plan-tactics-of-the-enem

act blue funding them also 3/22/25

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rogue-soros-funded-ngo-plots-multi-city-assault-tesla-domestic-terrorism-escalates

attacking tesla and teslas accomplishes many things. burning teslas cannot be extinguished so every tesla fire creates a mini east palestine. easy for FEMA to swoop in and declare your whole street uninhabitable because some antifa clown torched your yuppie neighbor's car

attacking teslas also paradoxically requires us to defend the darpa-funded south african druggie who wants to kill us with his sci-fi brain chip

and maybe tesla dealerships get national guard protection? beta test for, say, NG protection for bitcoin mining? and for redefining civil disobedience as terrorism?

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Luzzie's avatar

I want off this planet...

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John Day MD's avatar

Careful what you wish for...

;-/

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