Is everyone else’s Twitter feed suddenly full of all these clearly foreign Euro types posting about how terrible America is, that Europe is going to save the world, Orange Man Bad, Zelensky is a hero, America never paid their fair share, we are all Russian stooges etc?

It’s both crazy and remarkable, it’s like they’re flooding the zone with this absolute nonsense.

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Is everyone else’s Twitter feed suddenly full of all these clearly foreign Euro types posting about how terrible America is, that Europe is going to save the world, Orange Man Bad, Zelensky is a hero, America never paid their fair share, we are all Russian stooges etc?

When you quit slopping the hogs, expect them to squeal.

They may just be posing as Euro types.

Zelenskyy's Last Stand?

In 1876 Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and a large portion of his 7th Cavalry were killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. More than anything else, that disaster can be attributed to Custer’s hubris. He refused to wait for the rest of the U.S. Army forces to arrive, divided his own relatively small force and charged with only a dim understanding of how many Native American warriors he was facing. By the time he understood what he had done it was too late.

The Little Bighorn River is in Montana. However, we may be getting ready to see a reenactment in Ukraine. President Zelenskyy has let his own ego drive his decision-making, and Putin is every bit as unforgiving as Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull ever were.

A short time ago, Zelenskyy stood on the verge of an historic achievement. If he was at all cooperative, Donald Trump would very likely force an end to the war in Ukraine and end the killing. Zelenskyy might well have to make some territorial concessions, but he would emerge as the man who stopped Putin in his tracks and ended once and for all any thought of Russia resurrecting the Soviet Union.

It was not to be. Zelenskyy chose instead to play the role of the petulant child, throwing a tantrum in front of television cameras in the Oval Office. He then embarked on a meaningless trip to Western Europe where he collected a basketful of empty promises of military support and very little else. Meanwhile, Trump paused all military aid to Kiev and suspended intelligence sharing.

The Ukrainians made brave noises about being able to hold out alone. That is all they were – noises. The Russians smell blood, and they are pouring it on.

Inside Russia, Ukrainian troops cling to territory near Kursk. They are now virtually encircled. There is one road out that remains open. The Russians are methodically destroying all the bridges, not in front of the Ukrainian forces but behind them. They are not worried about the Ukrainians advancing. They are making sure they cannot run away and escape what is about to happen to them.

"The situation (for Ukraine in Kursk) is very bad," Pasi Paroinen, a military analyst with the Finland-based Black Bird Group, told Reuters. "Now there is not much left until Ukrainian forces will either be encircled or forced to withdraw. And withdrawal would mean running a dangerous gauntlet, where the forces would be constantly threatened by Russian drones and artillery," he said.

The Russians are pouring new troops into the fight, including North Koreans. After temporarily withdrawing in late 2023 or early 2024 following heavy losses, North Korea’s 11th Army Corps has now rejoined the conflict with fresh reinforcements. These North Korean troops are fighting alongside the Russian 177th Marine Regiment, 810th Naval Infantry Brigade, and 11th Air Assault Brigade.

Meanwhile, the Russians have taken advantage of the pause in American intelligence sharing to launch a wave of aerial attacks. Without American help, the Ukrainians have no advance warning of such attacks and their impact is significantly enhanced. Over the last week Russia has carried out hundreds of attacks against Ukraine using roughly 1,200 guided aerial bombs, nearly 870 attack drones, and over 80 missiles of different types.

The cutoff of U.S. intelligence “significantly impacts Ukrainian force protection of High Value Equipment’s shoot, move and scoot timelines, indications and warning of high-threat aircraft,” a retired high-ranking Ukrainian officer said recently “It significantly hampers the ability to target Russian forces and conduct long-range strikes against critical, mobile high-value targets.”

The Russians are already gloating. “The situation in the Kursk borderland has become much more active: there has been no retreat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Malaya Loknya yet, but an assault is already underway, and the situation for the occupation forces there is very bad,” the Russian Defense Ministry (MoD) claimed on Telegram. “The problems with logistics have finally begun to develop into a collapse of the defense. Day and night, drones are taking out equipment and ammunition, attempts to send reinforcements and carry out rotation are being stopped. We are expecting good news.”

“In all directions of the Kursk section of the front, all units have launched a large-scale offensive,” Maj Gen Apti Alaudinov, the commander of a Chechen unit fighting in Kursk, said on Telegram on Saturday. “The enemy is abandoning its positions.”

One would hope that the unfolding disaster would bring Zelenskyy back to reality.

There is no sign of such a development.

The United States is sending a delegation to Saudi Arabia next week for talks with the Ukrainians regarding an end to the hostilities. Yesterday, Zelenskyy announced he would fly to Riyadh to talk to the Crown Prince on Monday but would then return to Ukraine and would not meet with the American delegation.

Custer paid with his life for his arrogance. Let us hope Zelenskyy does not do the same. Right now it’s starting to look a lot like we might be watching Zelenskyy’s last stand.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geop...elenskyys-last-stand

When the German's gave the Ukrainian's the Leopard II tanks I thought it was ironic.
German tanks in Ukraine.........again!

Russian forces strike Ukrainian troops from the rear in Kursk by moving through gas pipeline

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/w...through-gas-pipeline

Russian special forces walked inside a gas pipeline to strike Ukrainian units from the rear in the Kursk region, Ukraine’s military and Russian war bloggers reported, as Moscow claimed fresh gains in its push to recapture parts of the border province that Kyiv seized in a shock offensive.

Ukraine launched a daring cross-border incursion into Kursk in August, marking the largest attack on Russian territory since World War II. Within days, Ukrainian units had captured 1,000 square kilometers (386 square miles) of territory, including the strategic border town of Sudzha, and taken hundreds of Russian prisoners of war.

According to Kyiv, the operation aimed to gain a bargaining chip in future peace talks and to force Russia to divert troops away from its grinding offensive in eastern Ukraine.

But months after Ukraine’s thunder run, its soldiers in Kursk are weary and bloodied by relentless assaults of more than 50,000 troops, including some from Russian ally North Korea. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers are at risk of being encircled, open-source maps of the battlefield show.

According to Telegram posts late Saturday by a Ukrainian-born, pro-Kremlin blogger, Russian operatives walked about 15 kilometers (9 miles) inside the pipeline, which Moscow had until recently used to send gas to Europe. Some Russian troops spent several days in the pipe before striking Ukrainian units from the rear near Sudzha, blogger Yuri Podolyaka claimed.

The town had some 5,000 residents before the full-scale February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and it houses major gas transfer and measuring stations along the pipeline, which was once a major outlet for Russian natural gas exports through Ukrainian territory.

Another war blogger, who uses the alias Two Majors, said fierce fighting was underway for Sudzha, and that Russian forces managed to enter the town through a gas pipeline. Russian Telegram channels showed photos of what they said were special forces operatives, wearing gas masks and moving along what looked like the inside of a large pipe.

Ukraine’s General Staff confirmed Saturday evening that Russian “sabotage and assault groups” used the pipeline in a bid to gain a foothold outside Sudzha. In a Telegram post, it said Russian troops were “detected in a timely manner” and that Ukraine responded with rockets and artillery.

“At present, Russian special forces are being detected, blocked and destroyed. The enemy’s losses in Sudzha are very high,” the General Staff reported.

A third Russian war blogger argued that the attacking force lacked the logistical backup to succeed.

“Food, water, ammunition, communications, charging electrical devices, power banks, the approach of the main forces, evacuating the wounded … Two or three groups in the rear without all this — that’s a disaster,” the blogger, who describes himself as a soldier with the call sign Thirteenth, wrote on Telegram.

The Associated Press could not independently verify the accounts.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported Sunday that its troops had taken four villages north and northwest of Sudzha, with the closest lying some 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) from the center of the town. The claim came a day after the ministry reported the capture of three more villages near Sudzha.

Ukraine did not immediately comment on the Russian claims.

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday that Ukraine “may not survive” as he continued to withhold American arms and intelligence in an effort to force Kyiv into peace negotiations with its invader.

In an interview with Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Trump was asked about a warning from Polish President Andrzej Duda “that without American support, Ukraine will not survive” and whether he was “comfortable” with that outcome.

He replied, “Well, it may not survive anyway.” He added, “But we have some weaknesses with Russia. You know, it takes two.”

In other developments, French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu said Sunday that France will use profits from frozen Russian assets to finance an additional 195 million euros ($211 million) in arms for Ukraine, the latest in a series of military aid deliveries funded through the assets.

In an interview with the La Tribune Dimanche newspaper, Lecornu said Paris will send new 155 mm artillery shells and glide bombs for Mirage 2000 fighter jets it previously gave to Ukraine.

Ukrainian drones said to target Russian oil infrastructure
Elsewhere, Russian officials and Telegram channels reported that Ukrainian drones targeted oil infrastructure in southern and central Russia overnight into early Sunday. One drone struck an oil depot in Cheboksary, a Russian city on the Volga River about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) from the border, the local governor reported. According to Oleg Nikolaev, nobody was hurt, but the depot needed reconstruction work.

Footage circulated on Russian Telegram channels of what appeared to be a fire at or near one of Russia’s largest oil refineries, in the southern city of Ryazan. Shot, a news channel on Telegram, cited local residents as saying they heard several nighttime blasts near the refinery. The local governor, Pavel Malkov, said Ukrainian drones had been shot down nearby. He claimed there had been no casualties or damage.

Ukraine did not immediately comment on either incident.



Ukraine considers Kursk withdrawal amid fears of encirclement of 10,000 troops, Telegraph reports

https://kyivindependent.com/uk...s-telegraph-reports/

Ukraine's forces are considering a withdrawal from Kursk, with 10,000 Ukrainian troops at risk of encirclement after Russia broke through key defense lines and disrupted supply chains, The Telegraph reported on March 8.

The Telegraph's report comes as several recent media reports warn that Ukraine's occupation of Russian territory in Kursk is increasingly at risk of encirclement after Russian breakthroughs.

Ukrainian troops speaking on the condition of anonymity told the Kyiv Independent on March 7 that Russia had destroyed their supply chains for ammunition and food and they faced encirclement. One said the breakthrough happened in the last few days.

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it’s like they’re flooding the zone with this absolute nonsense.

bots

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 https://www.youtube.com/live/e...?si=13BCee31oTnmAQ6H 

Who is Jeffrey Sachs ? It's a most interesting vid and adds clarity to this war and how we got there.

Anyone have an updated link to the above video? This one is no longer valid.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...mail#google_vignette

BREAKING: Ukraine Agrees to 30-Day Ceasefire. Here's What Comes Next

Ukraine has expressed willingness to accept a 30-day ceasefire with Russia, signaling a potential shift in diplomatic efforts to ease the ongoing conflict. This development comes as the United States has agreed to lift its freeze on crucial military aid and intelligence support, providing Ukraine with renewed resources in its defense against Russian aggression. The ceasefire proposal offers a window of hope for negotiations, although challenges remain as both leaders have shown stubbornness for peace talks.

According to reports on Tuesday, President Donald Trump’s team is in Saudi Arabia to negotiate a peace agreement between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“Ukraine expressed readiness to accept the U.S. proposal to enact an immediate, interim 30-day ceasefire, which can be extended by mutual agreement of the parties, and which is subject to acceptance and concurrent implementation by the Russian Federation," the U.S. and Ukraine said in a joint statement released by the State Department. "The United States will communicate to Russia that Russian reciprocity is the key to achieving peace.”

If a peace deal is finalized, the United States would immediately resume intelligence sharing and security assistance to Ukraine, which had been halted following the tense meeting between President Trump and President Zelensky at the White House in February.

This follows nearly eight hours of talks between Ukrainian officials and a U.S. delegation headed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

The U.S. and Ukraine would appoint their negotiating teams and promptly begin talks to achieve a lasting peace that ensures Ukraine's long-term security. Additionally, President Trump and President Zelensky would swiftly finalize a comprehensive agreement to develop Ukraine's critical mineral resources, boost the economy, and secure the nation's long-term prosperity and stability.

During a press briefing, Rubio asserted that "the ball is now in [Russia's] court.”

"We'll take this offer now to the Russians. And we hope that they'll say yes, that they'll say yes to peace," he continued. "The president's objective here is, number one, above everything else, he wants to the war to end, and I think today Ukraine has taken a concrete step in that regard. We hope the Russians will reciprocate.”

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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...mail#google_vignette

BREAKING: Ukraine Agrees to 30-Day Ceasefire. Here's What Comes Next

What comes next is Zelenskyy does a couple of fat lines and changes his mind.

Anyone in authority who wants to make themself look like a clown, just follow this fools lead. He will, he won't. He did, he don't. He can, he can't.

LAY OFF THE YAYO, PUTZ!!

Have to believe if he undermines this in "ANY" way, he is done. And I mean done! This is absolutely his last chance.

It will be advanced with out him in the future. And I mean, without him.

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Have to believe if he undermines this in "ANY" way, he is done. And I mean done! This is absolutely his last chance.

It will be advanced with out him in the future. And I mean, without him.

I'm not sure that's true, in reality if his desire is to end the conflict, save lives he should swallow his pride and work towards peace.

However all he has to do is act like he's standing up to President Trump and the left will continue to place him on a pedestal along with the liberal media and their supporters. Its OK to throw away billions of dollars and lose 1000's of more lives on both sides just so long as Trump is made to look bad.

Ukraine Agrees to 30-Day Ceasefire hours after launching the biggest drone attack on Moscow region.

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Three killed in biggest Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow region

https://www.reuters.com/world/...sia-says-2025-03-11/

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Ukraine Agrees to 30-Day Ceasefire hours after launching the biggest drone attack on Moscow region.

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Three killed in biggest Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow region

https://www.reuters.com/world/...sia-says-2025-03-11/

I expect Russia to respond to this attack in kind before any ceasefire agreement comes from their end.

Trump is not going to be jerked around by little z. Not even a little bit.

Russia may decide not to do a cease fire. But that is up to them.

We can try to convince them. But that is their decision.

If that happens then little z might truly be on the brink of WWIII. I hope Europe is ready.

He out-condescended her by a mile.

https://x.com/SebGorka/status/1899644091979252100

I think a peace deal and future mining operations for minerals by the west, would certainly give Europe the time needed to grow their militaries and stop being dependant on the US for security. Otherwise, the day another POS Democrat is in power, Putin will be ready to try again. There remains a little matter, which will go unchecked, of 137,000 war crimes.

The "I stand with Ukraine" people should let us know when they're tired of getting buggered.

https://x.com/MJTruthUltra/status/1899620109653524509

Lord of War

Why would Russia agree to a ceasefire so Ukraine can resupply ? They want a solution, not a temporary truce.