The supremacy clause hard at work: But functioning without it, puts the enemy in control.
Problem seems to be though, what determines the enemy?

Trump is seen very openly, playing “footsies” with Qatar, the terrorist sponsor of the Middle East, and Domestic destabiliser of Western intelligentsia, through manipulation of the thought processes of our Universities, passed onto vulnerable children, taught to believe the enemy is our friend.

The US is a dangerous beast, whoever controls the leavers of power. Predicting outcomes is generally a shocking experience for all involved.

As the old saying goes, and a true one, follow the money: That’s Trumps weak point, his infatuation with money making. It’s a sure way to turn enemies into friends. Trump subscribes to another proven theory too, keep friends close and Enemies closer. It’s a dangerous game for all of us!

Meanwhile, say goodbye to Kupiansk, Siversk, Lyman, Kostiantynivka, Myrnohrad (mass surrenders yesterday), Pokrovsk is gone, the front line in Zaporizhia's collapsed you're going to lose Huliaipole as well, Orikhiv will follow, also they're moving up closer to Zaporizhia City.
Russians have re-crossed the Dnieper into Kherson City, it wont be more than a few months till they're on the outskirts of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.

I expect an increase the pace of territory lost in months ahead after these last few cities in the east fall.
You'll probably end up losing Kharkiv and Odessa as well.
And it's your own fault, so no sympathy.

If you wish to live in a fantasyland where you think you can return lost territory and wish to send more Ukrainians to die for nothing only to lose even more territory than who am I to tell you different.
I already told you 3+ years ago it wasn't going to go well for Ukraine.

It all went pear shaped didn't it.
They thought the sanctions would create a political crisis in Russia that would lead to Putin's ousting, or that was their plan anyway.
But because Russia is sanction-proof and you believe Biden's 'as long as it takes' lie now your job is to be beaten into submission.
Europeans won't send troops, Western military stockpiles are low, all you can do is put an order in for weapons to be built by US military suppliers and that'll take years, and they don't produce enough.
Helps U.S jobs though, but I don't know how your country will ever pay anything back since it's bankrupt.

Maybe the Europeans can keep screwing their citizens a bit longer under the lie that after Russias done with Ukraine it'll march west into Poland and beyond. Surprised Germany, France and the UK haven't descended into civil war yet.

The ceasefire victory plan isn't going to work.
Russia will continue to grind you down till your military collapses entirely.

Nice try attempting to stealing the MIG-31 to use to stage a false flag attack on Romania and claim NATO Article 5.

AC
Is blowing cold air on reality.

#If you wish to live in a fantasyland where you think you can return lost territory#

So you’d agree then that Israel is entitled to claim sovereignty over West Bank and Gaza; include in that claim, southern Lebanon and strategic pockets of Syria, under those rules?

Consistency?

No it's the exact opposite diver dan.
Ukraine was attacking Russian speaking civilians in the Donbass for 8 years after a western sponsored coup and subsequently lost any right to rule over them.

You somehow think that means that when Israel commits a genocide on Palestinians, that it retains a right to rule over them and continue to subjugate and oppress them, it doesn't.

Russia protects its citizens and protects the innocent.
Ukraine is a western sponsored battering ram to inflict harm on Russia and it's in the policy documents, go read RAND corporation's 'Extending Russia'.

Israel is a psychotic terrorist state consumed with hate and belongs in the dustbin of history.

Free Palestine.

But no one can stop Israel doing what it's doing, except the Axis of resistance.
I'm totally fed up with you Christians, you support and enable genocide, and will end up hated along with the Israelis.
You Christians have become malevolent, so you deserve whatever you get as well and not only will I have no sympathy for you lot being attacked by the left so long as you stand with evil, I'll laugh at your own foolishness and stupidity.

I hope you don't succeed in starting Armageddon for Israel.
Because if Jesus does come back he'd probably send all you lot directly to hell, because you practice hate not love.
And you care little about anything other than your skewed religious view of the world that you see through Jewish coloured glasses.
Maybe you should put on the Jesus coloured glasses and become decent human beings again.

Furthermore Mr scrambled-eggs-brain,
Palestinians in Gaza are largely (80%) refugees or the children of refugees since the 1948 Nakba.
And it's you Christians that provide support to Israeli settlers through people like John Hagee of Christians United for Israel
(Or who I call Christians for genocide)

You pretend to be good wholesome decent people, talking all this shite about morality and 'Do unto others as they would do unto you' and 'Love thy neighbour' or 'Love thy enemy' and all that, but when it all comes down to it you're all just disgusting human beings indirectly facilitating murder, and spitting in the face of he that you worship and that's the ugly truth of it.

Genocide?
They couldn't do it without people like yourself Dan.
Why don't you have the balls to go and club some 8 year old Palestinian kid to death yourself, since that's what you support and champion.

Actions have consequences, you lot seem completely disconnected from these realities.
Thinking you'll get brownie points from Jesus for supporting murder, you really are a twisted bunch.

As for the Ukrainians...

Maybe they believe they are sovereign and all this talk about democracy, when the West decided the leadership after the Maidan, and they've been lied to about joining the EU and NATO and they are just being used as cannon fodder in a poorly devised plan to try to hurt Russia.
Maybe they like sending all their men and boys to die and their widowed women sent over to Mayor Klitschko's Rio Brothel to become prosititutes for the Europeans and Americans.
Maybe they like seeing their nation sold off for pennies on the dollar to Western bankers.
Maybe they like being punched in the face again and again and again.
Most people don't.

Don't expect me to pay for your stupidity.
Stop begging other countries for weapons and money.

AC

#
You somehow think that means that when Israel commits a genocide on Palestinians, that it retains a right to rule over them and continue to subjugate and oppress them, it doesn't#

You’re not making a valid point, your entirely missing the point.
The point is, the Muslim conspiracy against Israel since Oct 7th. IE: Gaza is entirety an active war zone. It isn’t Israel preventing the exodus of Palestinians from Gaza, it’s a combined blockade by Muslims themselves, (Inclusive of the compliant Palestinians, making a sacrificial cow of themselves for good effect), which prevents the free movement of Palestinians out of the war zone!

There is no deliberate genocide by Israel, under these circumstances. It’s what you call a very effective “set~up”; a very effective propaganda tool too, which has allowed those of smaller minds, to increase the shrill of Antisemitism world wide.

You want me to believe the pro-Israeli narrative about Israeli atrocities.

You bomb the shite out of hundreds of thousands of women and kids, and then you say, 'Oh it's propaganda, a very effective set up', like I can't see parts of Gaza completely flattened and didn't watched it happen.
It's you that's delusional and in denial.

You didn't see any of that stuff, because you don't want to see any of that stuff because it would challenge your belief in Israels righteousness. I have Christians in my family I know how you lot think. Denial.

Those Muslim countries are western vassal states.
Israel has done nothing but destroy it's own economy.
I see they are preparing for a ground invasion of Lebanon.
Don't think Hezbollah are destroyed, they're not.

"to increase the shrill of Antisemitism world wide"
- I dgf about Jews trying to make sense of the world around them and point the finger at everything with their sense of entitlement.

Their argument is you unfairly pick on us you don't criticise others the same.
They are the people who claim sole holocaust victimhood, and are actually conducting another holocaust.
They deserve all the criticism they get.
I don't care about their petty mind games, that the rest of you fall for.
And I don't care about you stupid genocide-loving blinkers-on Christians that enable them.

There isn't any bs story you can come up with to turn the argument around when you slaughter women kids and babies, but you forgiving Christians will find one, while you're supporting their murder of others.

You Christians would make Jesus vomit.

Palestinians don't want to leave.
'It's the Muslim countries that won't let them leave Israel is trying really hard to bomb and starve them, it's the Muslims fault.'

What is this?

Judeo-Christian brain-farts?
What are you, a low level moron?
'imbecile' would make you sound more intelligent than you are.

The war didn't start on October 7 and Palestinians have every right to attack their oppressors under occupation and international law.
I have no problem with Palestinians killing IDF on October 7, that's Israel reaping what it's sowed,
I do have an issue with the killing of innocents just as I do with Israels actions every day since October 7, and the stuff they've been doing to escalate conflict long before it.

What's Israels position.
The Palestinian are all terrorists, even babies and their politicians openly state it, yet I am attacked for what I say?.
If that's their mentality, then I don't really care that much about their innocents dying either, but I won't support terrorism.

I dgf about your biblical Christian narrative, millions of non-Christians see through your teenage-groupie loyalty and dgf about it either.

It's people like yourselves who are delusional and in denial.

According to Dr Andreas Umland from the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies, the Russian war crimnal, Putin, is willing to “stomach enormous losses” just to wave something vaguely resembling a victory flag.

“The enormous pressure in Pokrovsk,” Umland noted, “is likely tied to the feeling in Moscow that time is running out.”

Men, metal and money are being thrown into the mud in hopes of producing a miracle headline for the evening news.

Even then, endless state propaganda cannot balance the books.

The Russian economy has already been coughing from years of sanctions. It is now on life support. The government has spent $15 billion more than it earned in the first ten months of this year.

Umland compared the situation to a nation fighting its own shadow.

“The Russian economy is now built almost entirely around the war,” he said. “Factories are producing for the front, not for the future.”

Steady economic war by Ukraine has achieved what Western sanctions alone could not.

The Kremlin’s last dependable friend India appears to have quietly slipped out of the back door. Reports suggest that New Delhi’s five largest refineries have stopped ordering Russian oil from December onwards.

Pressed on whether economic collapse could push Putin to seek peace, Umland said there will come a point when even the Kremlin’s spin machine can’t repaint defeat as “strategic patience.”

“There will be a point when the old thug simply cannot continue,” he said.

“This offensive might be a desperate attempt to grab something, anything, to parade as a win.”

Then they will lose the war but declare victory anyway. In Kremlin records the battle for Kyiv in 2022 was recorded as a "victory".

Umland also poured cold water on claims that sanctions on Russia might hurt Western economies.

Andreas Umland looks like he's been on Ukraines payroll for the better part of the last 20 years of his life.

“The enormous pressure in Pokrovsk,” Umland noted, “is likely tied to the feeling in Moscow that time is running out.”

Time is running out for Ukraine.
You lose Pokrovsk, and you're entire defensive line begins to collapse and soon Russians will be in Petrograd, as for time, Ukraine can't even keep the lights on.

15 bln? China would just write Russia a cheque.
Did you miss the part where China said they won't let Russia lose.
Maybe the Ukrainians think they can beat China too?
Russia added 450 tonnes of gold this year, I'm sure they will make up the 15 bln. You talk about sanctions like they are a bad thing.
Russians are thanking the West for sanctions, they have forced Russia to build up its own industries and stop relying on the West, also Russian wages are higher than ever, oil only accounts for 15% of the Russian economy.

You don't have the weapons and manpower to keep this losing war of yours going indefinitely.
Russia do and the West is kicking an own goal.
Everything you say is projection.
Compare Russian economy to Europe. 0.3% UK 0.1% Germany

You say Russia isn't producing anything for the future.
You think the US does when it's jobs are tied to the military manufacturing.
It produces jobs, and food on the table.
What's unemployment rate in UK and Germany?
They will not be able to contribute to manpower or sustain you with military manufacturing, it's not enough.

You are playing chess and you already know that 7 moves ahead you are going to lose and the game is unwinnable.
Keep throwing your own people into the meat grinder if you must.
Eventually you'll have to face reality.

Fight to the last Ukrainian!

Dear Mr Armchair (& the Diver called Dan!),

Russia today is far from the strong, stable power that pro-Kremlin voices like to present. In reality, the country is grappling with deep economic, military, and social problems that raise serious questions about the durability of Putin’s regime. The economy survives largely on oil and gas revenue, but sanctions, shrinking markets, and technological isolation are steadily eroding its foundations. Russia now struggles to replace advanced components for industry and defence, while inflation, workforce shortages, and the exodus of hundreds of thousands of skilled citizens have weakened its long-term prospects.

Socially, the situation is no better. Russia faces one of the world’s fastest-declining populations, growing poverty, and widening inequality. The ongoing war has brought home both casualties and disillusionment. Public frustration is real, even if the state suppresses open dissent. The Kremlin’s traditional bargain - “stay out of politics and we’ll provide stability” - is fraying.

Militarily, the war in Ukraine has exposed enormous weaknesses. Despite massive spending, Russia has failed to achieve decisive success. Heavy losses in equipment and personnel, corruption in procurement, and chronic logistical failures undermine the image of a modern, competent fighting force.

Politically, the regime is increasingly brittle. Factional infighting, purges of generals, and the dependence on private armies and regional strongmen highlight how fragile the system has become. Putin’s authority rests on projecting control and victory; prolonged economic contraction and military stalemate threaten both.

Far from being a rising power, Russia is a state under immense strain—one whose long-term stability is far from guaranteed, despite loud claims to the contrary. Ukraine, on the other hand, continues to surprise, and with European support will prevail.

Hi Yuri,
It's all bs, Wishful thinking.
You're clutching at straws, and there's an opposing argument to everything you say.

"Russia today is far from the strong, stable power that pro-Kremlin voices like to present. In reality, the country is grappling with deep economic, military, and social problems that raise serious questions about the durability of Putin’s regime."

- Only if the West succeeds in undermining it, like they did to Ukraine already, kept the frienship with Banderites since USSR, engineered the Maidan, overthrew Viktor Yanukovych, Victoria Nuland even admitted the 5bln USAID, Soros Open Society foundation, Civil Society and running the operation out of the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv.
Brits were in on it big time as well.
Now you have a million dead and you lost a big chunk of your country, and 2/3 of Ukraines population have fled, should've just accepted the Minsk agreements.

"The economy survives largely on oil and gas revenue, but sanctions, shrinking markets, and technological isolation are steadily eroding its foundations."

No, it doesn't it's like 15% of GDP, you make out like it's 80%
And Sanctions were a form of economic war in an of itself.
But the US handing out sanctions left and right, has just made nations run away from the dollar even faster.
The west is destroying itself and faith in the reserve currency.
BRICS accounts for majority of the worlds population, and has greater GDP than G7. And Europe has suffered more economically than Russia.

Russia now struggles to replace advanced components for industry and defence, while inflation, workforce shortages, and the exodus of hundreds of thousands of skilled citizens have weakened its long-term prospects.

Worplace shortages...
That means they have close to full employment and are being paid more than ever, yes inflations not good, but everywhere faces that.
China has said they won't allow Russia to lose.
They are the worlds manufacturing centre.
And they have all the supply of rare earths, which the West relies on for military production.
Russia has everything it needs and China won the trade war.
Ukraines exodus is in the tens of millions.

"Socially, the situation is no better. Russia faces one of the world’s fastest-declining populations, growing poverty, and widening inequality."
- Russia lost 28 million in WWII, they were on their knees at the fall of the USSR, I'm sure they will endure.
"The ongoing war has brought home both casualties and disillusionment."
As would any war, hows your lot fairing?

"Militarily, the war in Ukraine has exposed enormous weaknesses. Despite massive spending, Russia has failed to achieve decisive success."
- Because they are not primarily focussed on taking territory, like Ukraine does when they lost hundreds of thousands of men, defending cities they lost eventually anyway.
They're focussed on breaking the back of the Ukrainian military, and when this happens they will take all the territory they want.

"Heavy losses in equipment and personnel, corruption in procurement, and chronic logistical failures undermine the image of a modern, competent fighting force."

Tuck your narrative into your pocket.
I don't believe Ukraines KIA statistics.
At least the Russians are procuring, you are not.
How can you possibly take back territory without air superiority, Backing up your troops moving forward.
You played this game already, and lost.
You don't even have adequete air defense anymore.
You don't even have electricity.
You're being polverised into submission.
As for procurement, I'm sure America has you penciled in for deliveries around 2027 if you last that long (doubtful)

"Politically, the regime is increasingly brittle. Factional infighting, purges of generals, and the dependence on private armies and regional strongmen highlight how fragile the system has become."

narrative, narrative, narrative.
Whinge, whinge whinge.
Wagner... Kadyrov...
If anything Russians want Putin to go harder and put you lot out of your misery, no offense.
I'm sure that comes off as insensitive, to your country and countrymen, sorry.

"Putin’s authority rests on projecting control and victory; prolonged economic contraction and military stalemate threaten both."
- There is no military stalemate, another false narrative.

Russias become more proud and independent now that it's less reliant on the West, making all their own things again, from commercial planes to turbines, even tyres. The West has not only lost those markets hastening it's own demise, but now has more competitors for products it previously had a monopoly on.

Todays news.

Kiev Regime Falls Apart; Calls Yermak To Go Umerov In US Ministers Flee; Huge Strike Siversk Stormed
http://youtu.be/Bvpph1rt_04

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http://youtu.be/kisvqzKVkBA

Zelenskys headed to Istanbul, wants to re-establish dialogue with Russians.
Maybe he's ready to accept Russian demands, but as usual it'll probably be some ruse.
If it were me, I'd be going all the way to the Dnieper, and stationing a few hundred thousand troops outside Kiev, just in case you or America tries this crap again, which you probably will.
And I'd be taking Kharkiv and Odessa as well.
You had your chance for an end to the conflict years ago, from the beginning and even before it started.
Neither Ukraine who attacks civilians inside Russia or the USA can be trusted to keep their word.

No ceasefire.
Accept the terms, No NATO, and demilitarised, and a new security architecture for Russia / Eastern Europe / Central Asia that respects all parties security needs, or continue to be pummelled into submission.

You conducted terrorist attacks inside Russia putting bloggers and people on social media on hitlists.
No quarter should be given.
I'm sorry for what's happened to your country, trusting the US.
I told you years ago you jumped out of the frypan and into the fire.

Henry Kissinger — 'It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.'

The Americans don't care about you, none of them do, you are just a means to hurt Russia, while everyone else has their snouts in the trough.

Go read Extending Russia from 2019.
I'm sure it says in there somewhere that there was a risk things might go pear-shaped.
The emphasis was always on the overthrow, succeed and they might have ended up with a real hardliner takin Putins place.
He is a moderate, after all.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3063.html

Well Kupiansk has been lost, Ukraine won't be getting it back.
Siversk has probably been lost, and Ukraine won't be getting it back.
Russians are 2 klm from Lyman, and closing in on Huliaipole.

Let me ask you Yuri,
What if you had some kind of cancer or disease in your foot.
Do you accept it and get it amputated, or do you wait hoping the situation will change and risk losing half your leg?

The Russians aren't going to give you a ceasefire and a chance to rearm.
They know your 'Victory plan' and they're not going for it.
They will not accept Zelenskys peace plan.
I'm not even sure there's any hope of them accepting Trumps plan.
They don't have to, they will keep grinding you down until you have nothing left to negotiate with and have to accept their terms.

Besides that, any security guarantee is exactly the same as joining NATO, which was what this whole war was over, and all it takes is one convincing false flag to blame on Russia, have the Ukrainians fire off some artillery and next minute USA is dragged in to fight Russia, Trump might be stupid, but the Russians aren't.

The entire war has been a fools errand.
Did you think they would let you take Sevastopol and their Black Sea Naval base?
That they would let the West make the Black Sea their private NATO lake, and box them into the Sea of Azov?
Did you really think they would allow you to become a NATO country and park Western nuclear weapons on their front lawn?
You got a war because you asked for it, when you let the US conduct an overthrow and install leaders loyal to the West.

You tell me, how can Ukraine stop the bleeding and regain some territory.
I just can't see it, you're already going to lose, the war is lost.
But just how badly do you really want to lose.
Kind of stupid to lose even worse than you already have to.

So the U.S. is telling you to accept this deal.
You've lost too many men, and they can't help prevent you from losing more territory.
But they are the ones who made sure that you didn't negotiate a deal earlier when you could've settled with less men and territory lost
And they are the ones who engineered the overthrow in 2014, and built up the military for war with Russia, and if you read the policy papers, their main plan was to create a situation that would use sanctions to oust Putin, but it didn't work and you've been losing men and territory for nothing.

The U.S. won't put boots on the ground and Europe couldn't put together any kind of military presence that would change the course of the conflict.
The best they could do is a few 'peacekeepers'

I may support Russia, but that only because I do not support America and its sanctions and overthrows.
I'm not your enemy, the U.S. the Brits and Europe have done this to you.