By Lemuel Chyme, Palookaville Free Press
July 29
Much of the following of course is only conjecture:
What is behind the Biden administration’s “trickledown” policy towards the provision of the means for Ukraine a) to defend herself and b) to retake Russian-occupied lands?
Obviously someone knows, but it has been determined to remain secret for now.
We can surmise of course that Joe Biden is so determined to avoid a direct confrontation with Russia that he is even willing to tolerate massive Ukrainian bloodshed.
At various stages of this terrible war, Biden received unwanted pressure from allies such as the U.K. It was Boris who first sent MBT’s to Ukraine and it was Rishi Sunak who pushed things things forward with the decision to supply Storm Shadows and build a coalition for the training of Ukrainian airmen on F16’s.
That did not go down well. Biden showed his displeasure by removing his support for the obvious candidate to head up Nato: Ben Wallace and then insisted on an extended term for the almost offensively useless Stoltenberg.
That was compounded by the choice of Germany’s worst Defence Secretary in recent years: Ursula von der Leyen, as Stoltenberg’s replacement. A mediocrity replaced by a positive liability.
The Biden administration reluctantly (seemingly) did approve the F16’s, but has continued to make excuses for not sending ATACM’s. France eventually relented and sent a few SCALP’s (Storm Shadow analogue) to Ukraine.
The consensus is that Ukraine will recover some, but not all of its land from the occupiers before the main fighting season ends, thus condemning its military and its people to another hideous year of war with a gigantic fascist horde.
The F16’s will be operational at the end of the year; leaving Ukraine still needing ATACMS. Assuming they all come, together with the Abrams M1’s in September, Ukraine will still need many more MBT’s, artillery and drones. They will then begin to formulate the plans for the 2024 counteroffensive.
So what might break this sequence of events? A deal is (allegedly) being hashed out through back channels at the moment which will be put to the Ukrainians and the kremlin murder gang in the autumn. Whether all all or any of it is true is anyone’s guess, but the following are the basic details according to Robert Fox.
(Info about Robert Fox from Exeter University’s website: “He lectures frequently to the British Army and the diplomatic community in London. He is member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and the Royal Institute for International Affairs, Chatham House.”)
Ukraine will concede land to Russia; the amount of which to be determined by the outcome of the summer counteroffensive.
Ukraine will join Nato.
There will be a demilitarized zone.
The bulk of the reconstruction funding will apparently come from Norway and the KSA; both of which have some of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds.
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Ukraine might be tempted to go for this abomination out of fear that next year the WH might have a defacto Russian agent in situ. :-
“Putin’s invasion will end by Autumn, with Ukraine’s accession to NATO: Robert Fox.”
No reference is made by Robert Fox in his video interview with The Times to the payment of reparations or the handling over of Russian war criminals to The Hague, which is ominous.
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The only acceptable conclusion to the war is the Zelensky Peace Plan.
From Reuters: (Dec 28, 2022) :-
WHAT IS ZELENSKIY’S 10-POINT PEACE PLAN?
Zelenskiy first announced his peace formula at a November summit of the Group of 20 major economies.
The plan calls for:
1. Radiation and nuclear safety, focusing on restoring safety around Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine, which is now-Russian occupied.
2. Food security, including protecting and ensuring Ukraine’s grain exports to the world’s poorest nations.
3. Energy security, with focus on price restrictions on Russian energy resources, as well as aiding Ukraine with restoring its power infrastructure, half of which has been damaged by Russian attacks.
4. Release of all prisoners and deportees, including war prisoners and children deported to Russia.
5. Restoring Ukraine’s territorial integrity and Russia reaffirming it according the U.N. Charter, which Zelenskiy said is “not up to negotiations”.
6. Withdrawal of Russian troops and cessation of hostilities, restoration of Ukraine’s state borders with Russia.
7. Justice, including the establishment of a special tribunal to prosecute Russian war crimes.
8. Prevention of ecocide, need for protection of environment, with focus on demining and restoring water treatment facilities.
9. Prevention of escalation of conflict, and building security architecture in the Euro-Atlantic space, including guarantees for Ukraine.
10. Confirmation of the war’s end, including a document signed by the involved parties.
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Might the Biden administration, aided and abetted by the French and German governments that he seems to have some affinity with, be planning to put pressure on Ukraine to settle this autumn on highly disadvantageous terms?
Barring a miracle, Trump will be the Republican candidate next year. Biden’s representatives might well say to Ukraine: “another brutal year of carnage awaits you; we will help you as much as we can as usual, but we can’t guarantee anything after the election.”
Trump intends to campaign on his “solution”, which will involve giving Putin much of what he wants, likely including immunity from prosecution, no admission of guilt and no reparations. Trump intends to focus on the rehabilitation of Putin and Russia after the war.
In light of this uncertainty, Biden might say : “take this deal, it will save lives, preserve your sovereignty and alleviate your concerns about the outcome of the election next November.”
It benefits Biden too, because he can present himself to the electorate as the peacemaker who ended the worse crisis in 80 years.
The Ukrainians would be faced with a rotten deal, but would be spared another year of fighting. They might well conclude that it’s not worth continuing another year, given that a Trump administration may well impose something worse on them.
Zelensky’s team will be hoping for the ZSU to make huge progress in the counteroffensive. Remember how Austin and Blinken kept saying that the success of the counteroffensive will secure the most advantageous terms? The Biden administration has long been teeing up this counteroffensive as the trigger for negotiations.
All of this assumes that the genocidal Putin regime will even be interested in such a deal. The impression they want to give to Ukraine and the world is that their despicable war will run for many years, until they achieve their full objective. Which is of course the end of Ukraine as an independent unitary state.
Let’s quote again the memorable and terrible words of James Cleverly; U.K. Foreign Secretary:
“In his chilling program of forced child deportation, and the hate-filled propaganda spewed by his lackeys, we see Putin’s true intention: to wipe Ukraine from the map,” commented British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly.”
Given that there is overwhelming proof of carefully planned genocide and subjugation by the fascist Putin regime, Ukraine might view the security of Nato as an acceptable way to end the war; albeit with some land gone forever.
Proof of systematic Russian genocide on Ukraine here:
Of course the mood music would be very different now if Ukraine had been provided with everything it needed in a timely manner. The counteroffensive would likely be culminating in a complete expulsion of the occupier before autumn.
The Ukrainians have to contend with another enemy : US internal politics. Joe Biden has a degenerate son, who might yet force him to abandon his plans to stand next year. Might the conspiracy theorist tankie and borderline lunatic RFK Jr seize his chance? Or could it be Joe’s weak VP, Kamala Harris?
On the Republican side, Mitt Romney urges an anti-Trump coalition:
https://www.theblaze.com/news/romney-plan-prevent-trump-victory
Might that work? Doubtful.
Ukraine is in an existential struggle; the like of which has not been seen since 1939, when the Nazis and their ally; Russia, jointly invaded Poland.
Who could have imagined that the events of 1939 could repeat in the 21st century, with a bigger, even more evil and better-resourced modern nazi state, with the covert and overt support of the BRICS, much of Africa and Iran threatening the existence of another?
And could have imagined the recalcitrance of Ukraine’s allies in such diabolical circumstances?
The scandal engulfing Hunter Biden is now so grave even America’s Left-wing media can’t ignore it any longer as claims of $5million bribes, drugs and prostitutes surround the President’s wayward son, writes RICHARD LITTLEJOHN
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12350259/The-scandal-engulfing-Hunter-Biden-grave-Americas-Left-wing-media-ignore-longer-claims-5million-bribes-drugs-prostitutes-surround-Presidents-wayward-son-writes-RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN.html
MailOnline is a huge site.
Littlejohn is not a putlerite and has written supportively of Ukraine in the past.
If they have more charges to bring against Hunter they should do so and present that to the authorities. Otherwise the prostitutes and drugs( which we already knew about) are just stemming from the desire to further drag the Biden’s through the mud, and amplify pain and shame to our President. Bribery has been allegations but no proof. I’ll read the secondary article you posted Sir Scradge to see if I missed something. Right now just seems they may have more tax fraud charges at best.
Contrary to the secondary article Hunter Biden has not had new drug charges nor would his scrapped deal have given him immunity for all crimes past and present. What he did do is make a false statement on his application to purchase a gun which has a question regarding drug use.
I don’t doubt that Archer had/is receiving threats from one bad actor or another but authors insinuations that he wouldn’t show up to testify or that he would ” end up at the bottom of a river” are preposterous. Also presumed is the notion that Archer will will somehow confirm President Biden’s alleged involvement in the 2017 China scheme or with the Burisma scandal.
Hunter very much so used his name to get money and influence and could well have doubled his take by having it sent to multiple accounts.
Not sure what the lawyer pic with the bong was about, or what any of the pics are supposed to prove. Mostly just seems to be about causing more pain and shame to President Biden.
Though there has been speculation that this is being done to distract from Trumps pending cases and indictments, they really are two separate worlds. I seriously do not know why the author had to stoop to bringing up the Clintons either.
Last bit before I lose all I wrote is to say Presidential children do get security and certain services afforded to them, but a 6 car caravan in my mind is excessive.
Sorry for the run on when the main topic is about the Zelenskyy 10 point plan for Ukraine and people thinking they can “negotiate” outside of that.
I could not care less about what happens or doesn’t happen to Hunter. Many families have black sheep and he is certainly that. A degenerate criminal. My only concern is what will be the effect on Ukraine.
Burisma is always referred to as a “Ukrainian company”, which I always think is done so as a stick to beat Ukraine with; “they’re all hopelessly corrupt there you know.” Hypocritically that was said by Trump to Kurt Volker.
In fact Burisma is owned by Mykola Zlochevsky, a suspected embezzler who lives in Monaco. Burisma is registered in Limassol: AKA Moscow-on-Sea. Zlochevsky took Cypriot citizenship.
The Feds have evidence from Hunter’s laptop, linking him to various scams in which “the big guy”; aka Joe, “always gets his 10%.”
Obviously Zlochevsky would not have hired a halfwit like Hunter if he didn’t think there was something in it for him.
Hunter is believed to have accepted $3.5m from a Russian criminal; Elena Baturina, in return for services rendered; believed to be in connection with sanctions relief.
All of this is bad for Ukraine because if Joe has to step down he could be replaced by someone less well disposed towards Ukraine. Plus it would help Trump’s virulently anti-Ukraine campaign.
As shady as Hunter has been with everything else wouldn’t surprise me if he was taking an extra cut and making people believe it was going somewhere else. In reference to a “big guy” there is no clear evidence that I’ve seen this far that it is in fact President Biden. The committee is not a court of law and most of this is a waste of time and taxpayer dollars. But I too am concerned at how this plays out for U.S. politics in regards to future support of Ukraine. If in fact they manage to tie a charge to the President I’ll eat a plate of crow and a paper hat.
> Burisma is always referred to as a “Ukrainian company”
Burisma was founded in 2002, in Ukraine, and their primary operations are in Ukraine.
> said by Trump
You can’t believe anything he says.
> Mykola Zlochevsky, a suspected embezzler who lives in Monaco.
He (reportedly) lives in Monaco *now*, because he’s wanted by Ukrainian authorities. But he was previously the Ecology and Natural Resources Minister for Ukraine, and also served as deputy secretary on National Security and Defense Council under Yanukovych.
> a halfwit like Hunter
He’s a lawyer, has an investment firm, and has been on other boards. In fact, he was appointed to a five-year term on the board of directors of Amtrak by President George W. Bush in 2006.
> if he didn’t think there was something in it for him.
Burisma had a problem getting foreign investments. Their existing corporate charter was set up by former communist party officials who didn’t have any expertise in corporate law. Burisma hired Hunter Biden to fix the problem. Hunter has a law degree and was a partner in a law firm at the time. He knew his way around corporate law.
Investors just wanted to be sure that if they invested a million dollars in Burisma, the CEO wouldn’t go buy a million dollar yacht with it. Hunter set up corporate rules to make sure Burisma was operated more like a Westernized European corporation than a Russian one.
> $3.5m from a Russian criminal; Elena Baturina
Elena Baturina, the widow of the former mayor of Moscow, wired $3.5 million to Rosemont Seneca Thornton for a “consultancy agreement.” “Rosemont Seneca Thornton” is different than the investment firm Rosemont Seneca which Devon Archer and Hunter Biden cofounded in 2009. There is no evidence that Hunter Biden or Joe Biden received any of these funds.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/08/unraveling-tale-hunter-biden-35-million-russia/
> if Joe has to step down
Baseless smears will not cause President Biden to step down.
Zlochevsky HAD 6 houses in various countries so you have to take that into account, not just Monaco Shokin did a good job investigating slimes like Zlochevsky and the Bidens, its just too bad VP Biden was so corrupt fighting corruption and forced Poroshenko to fire Shokin. Nothing you can do about those facts even from your mystery quotes.
“The consensus is that Ukraine will recover some, but not all of its land from the occupiers before the main fighting season ends, thus condemning its military and its people to another hideous year of war with a gigantic fascist horde.”
We can place the lion’s share of the blame on Biden for the slow advance of the AFU offensive and high casualties of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and, possibly, the failure of the offensive. He has clamped a ball and chain around Kyiv’s ankles by his prohibition to attack mafia land directly. This forces the Ukrainians to go through a dense network of enemy defenses. Being too slow to send materiel and in too little numbers, and, in particular, refusing to send other very vital items, adds to the reasons of this fiasco. With his hesitant and cowardly behavior, he’s not only wasting Ukrainian lives, their cities, and their future, he’s wasting our image and our military aid.
I don’t know why Biden is hampering Ukrainian potential so much. Does the little rat have kompromat on him or his corrupt son, Hunter? Or, is he so afraid of mafia land?
I take answer 1 for $500.
This seems more likely, and is becoming every more obvious as the legal case against Hunter gets exposed before our very eyes.
“the legal case against Hunter gets exposed”
Gets exposed as poppycock.
Devon Archer just testified to Congress that he never heard of President Biden discussing business with his son or his son’s associates, or doing anything wrong.
Also, Mykola Zlochevsky, Burisma’s co-founder, has denied having any contact with Joe Biden while Hunter Biden worked for the company.
Click to access VPanswersJuly7th2019.pdf
You’re unreal or on drugs. You speak with such authority like you know. Hey..,the hearing was behind was closed doors. The only shit you hear is the shit coming from the partisans. It’s best to keep your mouth shut and let people think you could be a fool rather then opening your mouth and removing all doubt.
“coming from the partisans”
Not true. Republican Andy Biggs confirmed that Archer “didn’t know anything about” the supposed $5 million bribe to Biden.
Also, apparently Representative Dan Goldman was the only committee member who stayed for the whole testimony, which suggests that the Republicans weren’t really interested in it. Goldman said that “Archer testified that Joe Biden NEVER discussed any business with Hunter and his associates” and that “there was no bribe from Burisma to Joe or Hunter.”
You’re an idiot. Goldman said Biden spoke to foreign business leaders about the weather REALLY ? What fuckin son in his 40s would invite his father to business meetings and then have his father talk about the weather? Probably you but no legitimate business man I know. You’re a twit.
CapWillie – It’s best to keep your mouth shut and let people think you could be a fool rather then opening your mouth and removing all doubt.
Hunter Biden didn’t “invite his father to business meetings”. Archer indicated that Hunter spoke to his father every day, and approximately 20 times over the course of a 10-year relationship. Hunter may have put his father on the phone with any number of different people, and they never once spoke about any business dealings.
Here’s an idea: if you don’t want to believe what people who witnessed the testimony are saying, refrain from commenting until the transcripts are released, rather than continue to make a fool of yourself.
BTW – here’s video of Republican Rep. Biggs saying that Archer “didn’t know anything about” the supposed $5 million bribe to Biden.
Hey let me ask, being a twit, is that something that comes natural or do you need to work at it
I dislike idiots who rationalize stupidity as a normal human endeavor. You wouldn’t know independent thinking if it came up and hit you up side your head. Your an idiotic parrot who gets your talking points from the DNC each morning and just repeat it relentlessly hoping someone will believe the bullshit you’re throwing out. Here’s an idea use the brain God gave to look at reality rather then the crap you view.
If you want to look at reality, here’s what Representative Dan Goldman said about the testimony he witnessed.
You’re a twit. Goldman is a political hack and you follow him like he was a god. Give me a break. You democrats are all alike. Cattle herded together with talking points with no independent analysis or thought. You should be ashamed of yourself. Here’s a novel thought, think for yourself, look at the fact dispassionately and tell me you don’t see some weird shit going on.
Larry may I please address your comments respectful manner, rather then the animosity I’ve shown you. May I suggest that you put down MSNBC, CNN, Fox News or the multitude of mainstream and think independently. These outfits all have agendas and to buy into those agendas is simply wrong. For example will I listen to the Trump pundits who believe he’s unjustly being crucified, of course not. Are some of the charges a stretch, yes, but are all the charges a stretch, probably not. Hunter used his father. That is plain and simple. My issue with Joe is that he either exhibited extremely poor judgement by allowing himself to be used as tool to further Hunter’s businesses or worst he knew what Hunter was doing in which case I question his moral compass. Take your pick but either way it smells to high heaven. Both Trump and Biden are self serving asses and should be treated as such.
I don’t respect anyone who willingly becomes a parrot of either party’s talking points. That then speaks to the character of that individual.
Think independently and if you feel the same afterwards great, but don’t parrot talking points.
“Larry may I please address your comments respectful manner, rather then the animosity I’ve shown you.”
That would be a welcome change.
“put down MSNBC, CNN, Fox News”
I don’t watch any of them.
“allowing himself to be used as tool to further Hunter’s businesses”
Did you see what Rep. Goldman said? I think it’s worth a listen. Joe Biden and his son spoke often after the sudden and untimely death of Beau Biden, checking in on each other in the wake of their shared loss. Archer said that Hunter would sometimes put his father on speakerphone when he called so he could exchange pleasantries with whomever he was dining with at the time, whether that was friends and family or a business contact.
Archer described those conversations as short and casual — like stopping in at a table for a short, innocuous conversation or exchanging pleasantries during a dinner party.
“Hunter used his father.”
Hunter was selling the *illusion* of access to his father. As I’ve posted before, I don’t care what Hunter Biden did. I only care about what Joe Biden – the person I voted for – did. And there still is no evidence that he did anything wrong.
You wrote that “Goldman is a political hack” – based on what, I don’t know. But Comer is definitely one, who is desperately trying to smear President Biden in order to distract from all Trump’s legal issues. And if you can get over your BDS, you’d have to admit that if the Devon Archer interview had produced any evidence that Joe Biden did anything wrong, Comer would be shouting it from the rooftops.
“Think independently”
That’s what I do. Everything I’ve been posting is factual.
“tell me you don’t see some weird shit going on.”
Lev Parnas, who was working with Rudy Giuliani to try and dig up dirt on the Bidens in Ukraine, wrote to Comer: “There has never been any factual evidence, only conspiracy theories spread by people who knew exactly what they were doing. With all due respect, Chairman Comer, the narrative you are seeking for this investigation has been proven false many times over, by a wide array of respected sources. There is simply no merit to investigating this matter any further.”
Welcome to the wild world of Moscow disinformation.
Again you begin your discussion with a political hack. That will automatically shut me off as surely as Jordan shuts me off when he speaks about Trump. I don’t believe any of them. I won’t waste my time listening to idiots who have an agenda and have shown repeatedly that their bias will trump (sorry for the pun) any discussion. If you’d like to convince me of an issue show me facts not opinion. Goldman is the epitome of an opinion as us Goetz besides being an idiot.
Yes where it comes to politicians I am close minded. There are only a handful of politicians whom I’ve seen speak with clarity and honesty
CapWillie – As I wrote above: Here’s an idea: if you don’t want to believe what people who witnessed the testimony are saying, refrain from commenting until the transcripts are released
Its really hard to get the far left partisans to consider both sides. I’m a CSPAN junkie and see it all the time.
“the hearing was behind was closed doors.”
Well, CapWillie, the transcript has been released, and you can now verify that everything I wrote is true and correct.
Some quotes from the transcript:
“But, you know, Hunter spoke to his dad every day, right?”
“And so in certain circumstances, when you’re in — you know, if his dad calls him at dinner and he picks up the phone, then there’s a conversation. And the, you know, the conversation is generally about the weather and, you know, what it’s like in Norway or Paris or wherever he may be. But that was — yeah, that happened.”
“I think you have to understand that there was no business conversation”
“It was, you know, just general niceties and, you know, conversation in general, you know, about the geography, about the weather, whatever it may be.”
“Hunter Biden … saying that: ‘Helping out a domestic Ukrainian gas producer as a bulwark against Russia — Russian aggression — seems like I was on the side of angels.'”
“Are you aware of any wrongdoing by Vice President Biden?”
Mr. Archer: “No, I’m not aware of any.”
“the firing of Shokin was bad for Burisma because he was under control.”
“State Department officials interviewed in this investigation explained that Shokin did not pursue corruption investigations against Burisma’s owner, effectively shielding the owner from prosecution, and that removing Shokin made an investigation into Burisma more, not less, likely.”
“do you have any basis to believe that Vice President Biden’s call for Shokin’s removal was driven by anything other than the U.S. Government’s anticorruption policy in Ukraine?”
Mr. Archer: “I have no reason to believe.”
“It is still true that you are not aware that Hunter Biden ever discussed policy with his father, discussed business with his father, influenced American policy for purposes of his business or otherwise caused the Vice President or asked the Vice President to do anything improper, right?”
Mr. Archer: “That’s my understanding.”
Read it for yourself:
Click to access Devon-Archer-Transcript.pdf
I just find the possibility of giving up land to be so repulsive and unacceptable that I can’t believe anyone with any sense of history would accept this alternative. You can never reward aggression period full stop. All you’re doing is asking for a repeat. What does it take for humanity to understand the consequences of such actions. Are we so doomed to repeat history. Why can’t we learn from previous mistakes.
Well said Sir CapW, and I don’t know why it’s so hard to learn from history and/or our mistakes.