When you read in the press of any country’s foreign reserves, what you get is the total amount of foreign currency reserves EXPRESSED IN US$.
Now that does not mean that all of that country’s reserves are in US$. It is just the total value of foreign currency reserves expressed in US$ equivalent.
Most countries, hold most of their FX reserves in US$ but also euros, pound sterling, yen, swiss francs and now Chinese yuan as well.
One reason for Russia’s fall in FX reserves expressed in US$ during late 2014 and early 2015 was the rise of the US$ in relation to the euro and yen, which devalued a large part of Russia’s reserves since Russia holds a lot of euros and yen.
The total also usually includes gold reserves. Again, as the price of gold vs the US$ fluctuates, the value of those gold reserves expressed in US$ will also fluctuate with time.
Now, when you read that Russia increased their FX reserves by $18bln in let’s say two months, that probably includes a variable mix of US$, euros, yen, yuan, sterling, francs and gold.
And no, the US$ is not about to collapse. It may become increasingly unstable in the coming years, but it will not collapse as there is no realistic substitute.
In fact, people should not obsess over the US$ too much. Sure it gives the US Empire certain advantages, but it also creates problems. As an instrument of US power, the US$ will probably be the last pillar of US Imperial power to fall.
It was the same with the British Empire.
Other things will be lost first:
a) Industrial supremacy – already partly lost to China.
b) Trade supremacy – already partly lost to China
c) Investment supremacy – completely lost to China
d) Military supremacy – at great risk from Russia and China
e) Global influence – Xi and Putin hard at work to undermine it in the coming 5-10 years.
f) Control of energy and trade routes – Putin and Xi are working on this as well.
In fact, the most talke about “imminent U.S. collapse” you guys tried to sell for years never took place.
I’m not going to waste my time over fine points, but psy-ops sites like Zero Hedge have been pushing this for years, nitpicking economic results etc. to fit a narrative.
As I type U.S. markets are on their way, yet again, to new all-time highs on record auto sales, record construction, record housing starts, low unemployment (the idea that it’s the opposite is completely false), etc. Go to Florida, home of the Saker… construction absolutely everywhere. It’s actually freaking annoying.
Your point G is really amusing considering Russia’s recent purchases.
And I am not even arguing that the U.S. is “winning” or anything like that. No! I am arguing that all those people actually work together. The citizens of all those nations are the real suckers to believe in this false east/west dichotomy.
My point “G” is that the US$ role as world reserve currency will be the last instrument of US power that will fall. In matter of fact, I am debunking the widespread narrative that the US$ is just about to lose that status.
As for my other points, they have already occurred, or are still being contested. I always make the distinction between the two.
I have never said in any of my posts that the US is about to collapse in any way, shape or form. What I am saying is that US power ( remember that power is always relative) is under challenge. Nothing more and nothing less.
How things will develop in the future? No one can ever be certain.
And no, the US economy is not booming. In matter of fact, its current recovery since 2009, has been the weakest on record and is also partly dependent on massive fiscal spending and financial bubbles, the most prominent of which are the shale oil & gas bubbles, the automobile bubble (7-year car loans, really?) the new Nasdaq bubble etc etc.
Again, I am not saying that the US will collapse anytime soon, I am only saying that it is in RELATIVE decline.
Well, figures don’t lie, but liars figure. The unemployment rate is certainly low. Also largely meaningless these days; it’s gotten to the point where when the economy picks up, the unemployment rate often rises as people start looking for work again and get counted.
The unemployment rate only counts people who are actively looking for work in the sense of going all over the place tossin’ in those resumes, and the government has been able to spot this.
People who want work but have given up looking don’t count. There are other more extensive unemployment measures which show bigger numbers but they’re rarely mentioned in the news. That’s why people serious about how the economy is doing these days have been measuring mainly trends in the employment rate–and the employment rate has not been looking particularly pretty.
The other key question for me is the basic one: Do people have money? So let’s talk about how from 2009-12, during the “recovery” from the great recession, the top 1% took 95% of the gains. That looks bad, but the reality is worse than that looks. The top 1% gained largely because they get most of the capital gains. But who gets most of the remainder of capital gains? Whose jobs tend to see wage increases even in bad times? The next 10% or so. The strong likelihood is that the top 10% took more than 100% of the economic improvement of the recovery–that for most people, things actually got worse as the economy “recovered” in the US. Real people at ground level still ain’t making any money.
Still, I’m willing to believe that there are lots of cars being sold and houses being built right now. But I’d bet that it’s all being done on shaky credit; they’re just building up yet another bubble of people buying stuff (including educations–hello, student debt!) that they can’t afford to pay for. This time around when the bubbles burst we’ll have a bunch stacked up–car credit, mortgage credit, student loan credit, fracking company credit, corporations that stacked up debt on stock buybacks, probably some commodities, plus the stock/bond/derivatives markets. When one or two go, they’ll cascade. Fun, fun, fun. None of it would have to happen if the political will could be mustered to govern the country with the real economy in view–and I’m not even talking about the public interest here, just production of real goods and useful services.
Russia heard the Pentagon, White House and Congressional buildings are going to be privatized soon and they wanted some standard negotiable instruments so they could quickly buy them up and redecorate in preparation for the Russian occupation.
I would like to know why the Palestinians cannot obtain small arms to fight against the settlers in the West Bank. It seems they are the only Arabs unable to defend themselves with anything other than slingshots and stones. Palestine is a big country even though the Israelis and the Egyptian junta are working together to further oppress these suffering people. Please share your thoughts as I am truly interested in your opinion concerning this grave matter.
nah, i don’t think that the palestinians’ intent is to use women,children, and the elderly as human shields in their rock throwing protests against their occupiers.
What is even more noteworthy, is that the clip is doubly true. The scene in that film depicts Hitler in great distress. The reason for his actual distress between the years of 1942 to 1945, was Soviet Russia. The great evil of the 3rd Reich was defeated by Russia.
Now, the 4th Reich (which is probably even worse than the 3rd) which is far more powerful and therefore far more enduring than the 3rd (this 4th Reich is of course the US-led NATO Empire) is under great strain and confusion, again thanks to the courage, intelligence and sacrifices of Russia.
So yes, this is not satire at all, it is the chilling, world-historic truth.
With due respect but your comment together with that clip is absolute nonsense as often expressed by people with an (left-wing) anglo-centered view on history.
You are all obesseed with “Nazis” here, “Nazis” there and “Nazis” everywhere”.
Do you know the signification of the German word “Reich”, do you know that it isn’t evil by itself.
What should be the connection of a NATO-Fourth-Reich with the the “First” and “Second” German Empire?
The predecessors of the forces that are pulling the strings in the US and are menacing Russia, succeeded in the past in destroying Germany.
Precisely! That’s why I can no longer buy into this Russia fighting the West BS. It was a way to trap nationalists into thinking Russia was doing just that and direct them to their propaganda sites, etc.
Have you read RT, Tass or Sputnik lately? They push the exact same talking points the media in the west push. As you said, Nazi this Nazi that… if you’re European and refuse to ethnic cleansing of your own people via population substitution your a Nazi, etc. Sputnik a couple days ago had an outrageous hit piece on the German peaceful Pegida movement.
Absolutely disgusting.
Obama, Putin and Netanyahu collaborate on the destruction of Europe. Simple as that.
“Sputnik a couple days ago had an outrageous hit piece on the German peaceful Pegida movement.
Obama, Putin and Netanyahu collaborate on the destruction of Europe. Simple as that”.
Yeah, right, and Hitler was simply a misunderstood nationalist at heart, right ?
Hitler = Just another braindead Westerner, mostly aping his Anglo-American forerunners with a view to make his dear “Volk” prosperous at other peoples’ expense. So far, so good. However, today’s Western bigotry cannot accept somebody who is neither a faggot, neither an Anglo, nor a Jewish supremacist. Schade, lieber Adolf.
Do you even know that Hitler got Germany OUT of the anglozionist monetary system (usury) and that international Jewry (including Bolsheviks… the very same people that killed ethnic orthodox Russians by the tens of millions) declared a “holy war” on Germany in March 1933 because of that?
Both Germany and Russia lost during WWII because the zionists had ethnic Germans and Russians butcher themselves by millions. Russia has never fully recovered demographically. So who gives a crap that a piece of paper says that the USSR won against Germany? The Bolsheviks (virtually all Jews as documented by Alexander Solzhenitsyn) killed more than 30 million Russian orthodox Christians (one of the greatest mass murder in the history of mankind) and you call that victory?
Nazi Germany relied upon imperial conquest; to wit utter parasitism. It was an attempt to emulate successful Anglo-American imperialism, but the Germans proved unequal to this noble task since the targeted Soviet untermenschen would not have it — same confrontation as today with aforesaid Anglo-American imperialism.
Always amusing how Western imbeciles of various stripes inevitably end up bashing Stalin and, needless to say, without considering the prevalent mood of the Russian people on the subject. Western imbeciles have their own morale. It is codified in:
The Golden Rule for Western supremacists
Depending on your personal commitment — or lack thereof — to Zionism, you could either slander Stalin for being an anti-Semite, possibly even a Nazi (Liberals) or for being a willing tool of World Jewry (Nazis). But whatever variety of fantasies you prefer, don’t ever forget to pile on the alleged heap of corpses ‘butchered by Stalin’ by a factor of 10 each time. That’s indeed the non-negotiable Party Line of Western imperialism.
Regarding this silly, deranged playing with numbers without any facts or even consistency — just based on wildly insane fantasies (salaried, mind you) of dregs like Solzhenitsyn and Conquest — my reaction to it has become one of refined amusement, like “The number of Stalin’s victims equals Avogadro’s number + 2, agreed?”.
OK, Nazi fanboy, that was all for today. Thanks for reading.
Terribly sorry but Russia is fighting the genocidal monster of Western imperialism; Nazi Germany being one of the latter’s more recent manifestations historically. Russia in particular is damned right to stress the connection between Nazis and Western civilization. The clip above is 100% on point. Could be mentioned also here the very “classy” act which accompanied the 10th anniversary of the Nazis’ defeat with the latters’ very top brass being welcomed to embark on new careers, courtesy of NATO, as allegedly “de-nazified” West Germany joined the great and glorious Western democracies. Like draws to like.
“Obama, Putin and Netanyahu collaborate on the destruction of Europe. Simple as that.”
Utterly laughable. Putin and Russia lead by example by not belonging to the EU club of degenerates. Amusing you don’t seem to mind the utter filth of the Eurocrats.
It is almost impossible to disentangle the word ‘Nazi’ and ‘Evil’ in the minds of those so persuaded. The brainwashing is so utterly complete that laws exist to enforce the reality. I’ve been over this so many times, the destruction of both Russia (at the hands of the Bolsheviks) and the destruction of Germany (at the hands of the Zionist west) was a dream (plan) come true for our friends at the Banking Cabal.
People equate Nazi with race based hate, and many disaffected youth in Germany, Russia, Ukraine, and various other localities simply latch onto this meme as it has been propounded by the media since the 60’s.
The atrocities of the German Reich were largely carried out by German allied nations who used the war as cover for their centuries long disputes with cultural competitors. The worst of those atrocities were committed not by Germans at all, but by eastern Europeans.
90+% of allied POW’s were released from German POW camps unharmed at the end of the war. Does anyone know what percentage of German POWs survived the allied camps following the war?
How many people know that the International Red Cross was allowed access to ALL German labour camps (yes they were labour camps, not ‘death camps’)? Yet they were barred from visiting the allied POW camps?
The reality distortion field is thick and heavy, so society bandies about terms like Nazi such that it becomes a cultural common heritage. Hitler = Satan is an easy and simple formula, and it’s a formula that fulfills many ends.
Germans hated Hitler….have you ever heard of White Rose ? That was a brave youth organization that called Hitler a demon…and Hitler had the whole group exterminated…. its absolutely true that Hitler was a demon.
I never argued that Hitler was a saint, but evil incarnate, I don’t think so, I’ve read too much history to buy into that. It’s another oversimplification. The national socialists were not a pleasant bunch, many intellectuals (mostly Jews) left Germany because of their radical politics, and Hitlers rise was a reaction to external factors. Germany was under siege by the Zionists, it was these Zionists who created the environment for xenophobia. The so called brutality of the Reich has been exaggerated by each successive generation.
I had a couple of older friends who lived under the ‘horror’ of Hitler, and they told a whole different story.
What few mention is that Germany was on its knees, when someone, or something is on its knees it often reacts in an extreme way. But to suggest that the vast portion of the population was against Hitler is a complete farce. Hitler did not have to resort to purges like Stalin, yet he created the most powerful industrial and military force the world had ever seen. People lined the streets in the tens of thousands to view the Fuhrer, he was a hero to many, many people. The footage exists, and is clear to see.
The United States has caused infinitely more global destruction than has the now mythically endowed German machine, if we consider the economic deprivations, and outside of the Islamic world, how many openly refer to the United States as the most diabolical state to ever exist? Would such a characterization be an oversimplification?
The issue I have is with the over the top hyperbole when it comes to ‘Nazi’s’ and the title of ‘evilest ever’. Quite frankly I thinks it’s a joke.
Hi Angelo…yeah I think you have some truth mixed in with some opinion….the German population then was defeated, and like in Spain where Nazis are rising and Ukraine…its unemployment and frustration and male testosterone.
But many Germans saw clearly, I think but many left the country….
The propaganda was huge….US and England funded it….wall street.
Anyway, I think we’re sort of on the same page, but I do think that the Nazi regime was the beginning of the entry of the most powerful evil yet….
And yes. NS was already existant…but Hitler was the cherry on top…and he did have huge charisma..propaganda again but also something else….
Those who say that the Ukraine Nazis are even worse…bullshit…they can’t even march right.
Actually I think the occult power is not really there, like it was…now its really come to earth and is just desimating more..
The German Nazis had occult power…their marches…OMG…it was the entry into the earthly realm of a power that is destructive…and now we see its maturing forms…..
That is a dream World you are talking about.The vast majority of the nazi killers were ethnic Germans (including Austrians).Certainly they were helped by fanatics among Eastern Europeans (and some Western Europeans).But rewriting of history is just foolishness.The German nazis left too many records,diaries,personal statements for you to get away with that.Very few Germans themselves would even think of denying the truth.They know the truth from their relatives,fathers,grandfathers.The German people suffered in the war.And especially near the end of it,and after the war.But that suffering in no way excuses the crimes the nazi regime inflicted on millions of innocent victims during the war.
On another point you asked about POW’s.That would depend on the country involved.But according to various historians the numbers are : Of Soviet prisoners held by the nazis, 56%-68% died in captivity.Of German prisoners held by the Soviets,15%-36% died in captivity.Of the Western allies 3.5% of British POW’s died in German captivity.While 0.03% of German POW’s died in British captivity.German POW’s of the US, 0.15% died in captivity.I haven’t seen broken down percentages of US POW’s who died in German captivity.But from the ones I have seen I estimate it to be around 1.1%.
“That is a dream World you are talking about.The vast majority of the nazi killers were ethnic Germans (including Austrians).” – Uncle Bob 1
I think you mean soldiers, and yes most German soldiers were German. If you want to conflate German soldiers into ‘nazi killers’ it then becomes clear to me the level of your thinking on this.
“Of the Western allies 3.5% of British POW’s died in German captivity.While 0.03% of German POW’s died in British captivity.German POW’s of the US, 0.15% died in captivity.” – Uncle Bob 1
All of your numbers are extremely dubious. There was a book written called Crimes and Mercies:
“Bacque’s book is an amazing revelation of some of the worst crimes ever committed in this century — the fact that they were covered up for so long only makes it worse. After reading this book you will ask yourself who the ‘good guys’ really were. The truth is that there were no good guys — only amoral manipulators and criminals — on both sides. [Well, actually, as Bacque makes clear, there were some good guys: Herbert Hoover, Mackenzie King, Norman Robertson and Victor Gollancz among others.] This is the book the establishment does not want you to read — and with good reason! It tells of deliberate allied policy to ‘reduce’ the German population after the war by mass starvation. Well, they succeeded, by 5.7 million to be precise — this in addition to the 1.1 million starved prisoners of war, 2.5 – 3 million murdered ethnic German refugees from Eastern Europe and tens of thousands of civilian forced labourers killed from maltreatement in France. Bacque’s other excellent book — Other Losses — gives more information about this hidden Holocaust. “
Here are some excerpts from another book detailing the conditions of the German work camps:
“The most amazing thing about the atrocities in this war is that there have been so few of them. I have come up against few instances where the Germans have not treated prisoners according to the rules, and respected the Red Cross,” reported the newspaper The Progressive on February, 4th 1945.
Allan Wood, London Correspondent of the London Express agreed. “The Germans even in their greatest moments of despair obeyed the Convention in most respects. True it is that there were front line atrocities – passions run high up there – but they were incidents, not practices, and misadministration of their American prison camps was very uncommon.” Lieutenant Newton L. Marguiles echoed his words.
US Assistant Judge Advocate, Jefferson Barracks, April 27th 1945. “It is true that the Reich exacted forced labour from foreign workers, but it is also true that, they were for the most part paid and fed well.”
“I think some of the persons found themselves better off than at any time in their lives before.” added Dr.James K.Pollack, Allied Military Government.
“What did the Germans do to get efficient production from forced labour that we were not able to do with Germans working down the mines? They fed their help and fed them well.” Said Max H. Forester, Chief of AMG’s Coal and Mining Division in July 1946.”
1.5-2 million German POW’s were killed after the war. I found the following written piece by an unknown author to be accurate to the written testimonies:
One month before the end of World War II, General Eisenhower issued special orders concerning the treatment of German Prisoners and specific in the language of those orders was this statement,
“Prison enclosures are to provide no shelter or other comforts.”
Eisenhower biographer Stephen Ambrose, who was given access to the Eisenhower personal letters, states that he proposed to exterminate the entire German General Staff, thousands of people, after the war.
Eisenhower, in his personal letters, did not merely hate the Nazi Regime, and the few who imposed its will down from the top, but that he hated the German people as a race. It was his personal intent to destroy as many of them as he could, and one way was to wipe out as many prisoners of war as possible.
Of course, that was illegal under International law, so he issued an order on March 10, 1945 and verified by his initials on a cable of that date, that German Prisoners of War be predesignated as “Disarmed Enemy Forces” called in these reports as DEF. He ordered that these Germans did not fall under the Geneva Rules, and were not to be fed or given any water or medical attention. The Swiss Red Cross was not to inspect the camps, for under the DEF classification, they had no such authority or jurisdiction.
Months after the war was officially over, Eisenhower’s special German DEF camps were still in operation forcing the men into confinement, but denying that they were prisoners. As soon as the war was over, General George Patton simply turned his prisoners loose to fend for themselves and find their way home as best they could. Eisenhower was furious, and issued a specific order to Patton, to turn these men over to the DEF camps. Knowing Patton as we do from history, we know that these orders were largely ignored, and it may well be that Patton’s untimely and curious death may have been a result of what he knew about these wretched Eisenhower DEF camps.
The book, OTHER LOSSES, found its way into the hands of a Canadian news reporter, Peter Worthington, of the OTTAWA SUN. He did his own research through contacts he had in Canada, and reported in his column on September 12,1989 the following, in part:
“…it is hard to escape the conclusion that Dwight Eisenhower was a war criminal of epic proportions. His (DEF) policy killed more Germans in peace than were killed in the European Theater.”
“For years we have blamed the 1.7 million missing German POW’s on the Russians. Until now, no one dug too deeply … Witnesses and survivors have been interviewed by the author; one Allied officer compared the American camps to Buchenwald.”
It is known, that the Allies had sufficient stockpiles of food and medicine to care for these German soldiers. This was deliberately and intentionally denied them. Many men died of gangrene from frostbite due to deliberate exposure. Local German people who offered these men food, were denied. General Patton’s Third Army was the only command in the European Theater to release significant numbers of Germans.
Thanks, Angelo. Perhaps your middle name is John? If so, please know I admire what you do.
Look at those so-called “pro Russian” commenters. They have no clue, do they? None.
I’ve come to the conclusion that the West vs. Russia meme was a set up for the remaining nationalists in Europe. Putin is NOT fighting the U.S. and/or Israel. Quite the opposite actually.
Keep in mind, and if you are who I believe you are I’m sure you know this, that Putin has enacted some of the most pro-zionist laws in the entire world in the last 15 years and that he and his government are persecuting Russian nationalists…
That was brilliant – so funny. (I actually watched the original series of the show it uses). So apt to use that period in history to reflect what is happening now.
The Russian Ambassador to the UK also trolled the US’s ultimatum to Iraq – sadly the white house and co. didn’t get the joke:
Had to do a double take when I clicked on the link you provided to the Sputnik story. Could have sworn that was Peter Lavelle sitting behind the desk smiling.
pitiful. i thought this web site was run by someone who knows, that Hitler was not the monster propaganda says. Holocaust is a hoax, the political base of zionists which had led to creation of israel and lead to a total world control by the jews.
By the time they are planning and pushing people fitting for them, we are laughing pathetic movie to parodie Hitler.
Stupidity will en the world.
No that’s not a joke. It’s as pathetic as Charlie Hebdo cartoons. Bringing the debate at a level so low reflect ignorant and poor minds.Don’t forget behind the parody of Hitler there was over 100 millions reads (WWI &II) and millions on the way if we keep on joking.
Hitler was absolutely the monster history says. Just because the country of Israel today is nasty and there are many Jews living there does not mean it was okay for Hitler to kill 6 million Jews before Israel even existed.
The numbers are actually 100-150.000, and most of them died of starvation and disease in the final stages of collapse due to destruction of infrastructure and the discontinuation of supply.
There is only eyewitness testimony to ‘prove’ the outrageous 6M claim, there is no proven Holocaust just a judicial decree.
Hitler was no Putin. He was an eternal teenager, as his fetish for uniforms, symbols, paraphernalia proofs. He had some good ideas, some deep insights, but couldn’t see the big picture.
Therefore he became a useful idiot, a tool of AngloZionism, hurting Germany and whole Europe more than probably anyone before him.
Look at Europe today, what a disgrace! Armies of bling technocrats and apparatchiks weasling around, surpassing each other in pleasing their US masters. Grotesque.
I will not say much about Putin other than that I admire the man very much and will not make any pointless comparisons here.
My opinion of Hitler though is very different from yours, only time will tell which opinion is closer to the truth, and maybe Putin (or more precisely the undisclosed Soviet archives) will have something to say about that at some point.
Absolutely brilliant piece of satire! Puts it all instantly and humorously into perspective. Thank you kindly Saker and commentator’s to this blog for all the vital information you’ve so generously shared with me over the last year or so that I’ve been following this site.
One of the funniest videos I’m seen on this crisis.I keep seeing the “Hitler” character there as either Netanyahu, Erdogan,or maybe Poroshenko, (I’m guessing Netanyahu would be more accurate though) ranting away like that.
Funny and all, but a number of precisions may be useful:
1. Neither the Islamic State nor the less organized and foreign supported parts of Syrian rebellion are defeated yet. Very far from that.
– Saudi Arabia is adamant that non-IS rebellion will receive all the weapons and money they need to continue the fighting. And Saudi Arabia is supported by the US, and has all the money it needs to support who it wants.
– As for the “Califate”, its power has been increasing for a year at least, no matter whether measured by number of fighters or by resources controlled, not counting the fact that its fighters are becoming better (survival of the fittest and all that sort of things). No matter whether one believes US and allies were really attempting to contain IS or merely pretending, imagining that a few dozens fighter-bombers will destroy the IS, even when they are supporting battled ground troops, is beyond optimistic – it’s an hallucination.
The result of Russian intervention is to secure Assad power against threat of quick collapse. That’s a significant result, and a positive one. As for ending the Syrian war, sorry but this is probably far, maybe very far in the future.
2. There is no such thing as a “Russian hypersonic missile”. Russia’s actual – as opposed to fantasmatic – antiship missiles are supersonic and manoeuvering – and good at that. They are also precisely the threat US (Standard) and Franco-Italian (Aster) defenses have been built to counter. And these defenses can indeed counter it, as tests against similar missiles have proven.
US aircraft carriers, along with the lone French one, are not invulnerable – nothing is. They are just very well protected against the kind of missiles Russia may aim at them.
3. There is no such thing as an impenetrable air defense, and Russia’s – S-300 and S-400 series missiles – aren’t, just like US or European ones aren’t. The difference is with the numbers, and the varsity of ways of attack: America could throw many more missiles to S-400 defended sites than Russia to Standard or Aster defended ones, also stealth fighters… even if S-400 are that good – that’s an if – it’s always possible to win by numbers only.
Don’t miss the actual military balance. Russia’s military assets are much less numerous and definitely not more advanced than America’s – quite a lot of them are less advanced. If comparison is to be made, Russia’s projectable military power is probably larger on the whole than France’s, but not by a big margin. If placed on a scale of military power from France to America, Russia is definitely much closer to the former than to the later.
The reason why the US will probably not disrupt – read attack – the Russian base in Lattakia is because their government rightly fears uncertainty, and while the US military could incapacitate relatively easily the Russian expeditionary corps, long term global consequences may be unfavorable even though the short term result would be a “nice & good victory”.
Also, it would be difficult to explain to American population why exactly attacking Russia in Syria would be a good idea.
Also, it’s far easier and more secure for America to just support Saudi and other efforts to push further the flames of the Syrian civil war…
Brilliant. It make sens. You forgot to mention that the master mind and the leader of that chaos. In that matter Syria is condamned. The jews have initiated two world wars to reach their power, nothing will stop them now, even if they have to commit suicide. It’s biblical. These guys are nuts. Completely nuts.
The bottom-line is,and always has been “if” the US attacks Russia the nuclear missiles will strike the US homeland.No if or and’s about that.That is the endgame (in more than one way) to the entire military balance of power.Russia may not have the overall power to defeat at the start a NATO attack.But they “do” have the power to destroy the NATO homelands.And when you know you will lose your life and your country it isn’t a smart idea to go to war against Russia.
First let me repeat: I do think the “US attacks Lattakia base” scenario is a low probability one, for the reasons I mentioned: fear of future instability (like China freaking out and expanding its military), difficulty to explain the move to American population, and last but not least the fact that helping Saudi to help and arm Syrian rebels is by far more secure and cheaper.
That being said, IF (a big if) the US government chose to attack, a few things would be sure:
– None of the two countries would use nuclear weapons. Stakes would just be way too low for that
– None of the two countries would wage the slightest attack on the territory of the other. That would be much too dangerous, risking escalation towards nuclear use
– And of course, US forces would pay a hefty price for their victory. Expect hundreds to thousands of KIA on each side, and quite a lot of hardware destroyed – aircraft, ships…
Nuclear weapons can be used, or credibly threatened, only when the stakes are high enough – when a country’s existence is at stake. Russia’s existence would not be the least threatened in case her expeditionary corps in Syria would be destroyed.
If America chose to attack, this by the way would not be the first case of a shooting war between nuclear-armed nations. At least two previous examples are the 1969 Soviet-Chinese war in Eastern Siberia and the 1999 Indo-Pakistan war on the Kargil highs. None of these two cases did result in nuclear use: the less powerful country retreated with a bloody nose (China, Pakistan respectively) but did not endanger its existence by nuclear use since its existence was not at stake to begin with.
As usual with these “America the exceptional” trolls, the standard “America umber allies” propaganda spiel without any references. YouTube is full of this sort of teenage cheerleading.
Terrorism can not be defeated especially if supported from the outside, we see that in india and Pakistan and even Afghanistan. So IS can not itself be defeated but as we see in India, it can be made so normal life goes on. Iran and India are a good example of how even with external interference they can curtailed if they can close supply lines and even in Russia and Israel. But we have the example of china which can field large police force and it still happens. So as long as Russia can seal the border mainly Turkey and Jordan, large numbers of equipped terrorists wont be able to disrupt life in the cities. Even with open support of nato and allies, most cities under government control are not like what happens in Iraq with daily car bombs in crowded places. This can only take place if the people themselves don’t know who to trust. Assad unlike Maliki is not barrel bombing civilians. That American puppet is directly responsible for most of this by alienating the Iraqi military and bombing their homes and families.
To detect stealth you need more than radar.. The thing with that is, unlike radar, these detectors work over thousands of miles and over the horizon. You need very good computers to use the information but that still don’t help the S300-S400 to shoot them down.. But they will know the general area where stealth aircraft is present and can target them in other ways. It wont be like Iraq or Libya where in a few days all air defenses were taken out. Either those S complexes will be hidden or defended and they still have to be bombed which would be much harder when they know you are there but unable to track you locally.. Still shooting down a couple of stealth aircraft would make the entire nato force structure break down.. Easter Europeans will run for the hills so will most other nato countries and even the UK might start thinking.. It wont be an easy victory and the costs could be like what happened to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 2006…. Also the S complexes can take out any missiles fired at it. I highly doubt the US would place any carrier group in danger.. They stayed far out even from Iraqi defenses and they did not have any such missiles. Can the carrier strike group defeat both air and sub surface anti-sip missiles? Losing an aircraft carrier would be far worse than losing stealth aircraft.. The entire soviet and Russian strategy is based on being able to strike them. So no matter how good their anti missile defenses are, there is a chance they might lose and I am sure if it is decided to take one out, it wont be a few missiles flying but using every available one in the area..
Nato can defeat Russia, no question about that.. The thing is, right now Nato is invincible.. If the world sees that nato is vulnerable, their hold on pretty much everything goes away.. Allies, friends and enemies will all rethink about that invincibility. It would destroy the western financial system. Russia would lose but the west would lose soon after.. Intel became the dominant player in the CPU world held by being just good enough. They are not the best but for a great many things, sowing doubt in the minds of others is good enough to take anyway any advantage.. Just all bullies where sycophants rush over to praise their bullying, showing that bully might be able to pile drive the little guy at will but getting a kick in the groins will make all those who rush in think twice about their own precious jewels.. How else can the empire of Qatar talk about invading a country of 20 mil people when they only have a population of 200K?
Some of you doubted what I said in the video re Russian superiority. I fact checked. Clearly with subtitles one is limited, i.e impenetrable air defence was artistic licence, its almost impenetrable. Pepe Escobar says the S500 will be lock out.
Things have changed. US supporters are and will be in shock. This following means Russia wins. Read the article. Heres a teaser.
“Russia now has the capacity for jamming all NATO communications. It has now become the primary power in terms of conventional warfare’
Do you seriously think a pro-Russian site – which derived its primary purpose from alerting the world to the resurgence of Nazism in the Ukraine – is going to ‘heil Der Fuhrer’?
Do you think its the Russians – who lost millions of citizens to the Nazi machine in WWll – who are going to be the ones to offer a more ‘nuanced’
historical approach to Nazism?
Sure, there is myth and distortion around the reality of the Nazis and Hitler – they were hardly the only instigators of the evils of WW ll. Nor were their ideas all wrong – like the Volkswagon.
But their ludicrous notions of race ‘supremacy’ , their invasions of Eastern Europe (though they got plenty of local help and non-German imperial/industrialist ‘advice’, backing and support – especially from the US) and their brutal assault on Russia is a matter of historical record and will never be whitewashed on this blog.
49,000,000 on food stamps, how many unemployed in the E.U ? let alone South America & Africa, which have been ripped for century off.
Yes, I do believe in “Demoncracy”, let’s play both sides, (white&black squares) on chessboard…the sheeple are damn stupid and won’t elucidate our game.
Pawns in a game…hehehehe…go ahead dear Knight, your turn.
Take it easy. Netanyahu has just absolved Adolf Hitler of Holocaust.
On Wednesday, Netanyahu told the 37th World Zionist Congress that Adolf Hitler only wanted to expel the German Jews, but he was advised by Palestinian Mufti al-Haj Amin al-Husseini (d. 1974 in Lebanon) to exterminate the Jews.
Personally I enjoy the coal-black irony of the victims of genocide transferring the title of “instigator of genocide” from Hitler to Mufti al-Haj Amin al-Husseini to justify their own genocidal wishes towards the Palestinians.
“Those clever Palestinians! They were the ones ultimately responsible for the holocaust! Kill them all!”
The movie from which this parody clip was taken (and several thousand others) is called “Downfall”.
It is a superb movie with excellent acting by Bruno Ganz as Hitler.
Highly recommended.
This is a comment for the moderators of this site. We all know that the nation of Israhell today is an abomination in its treatment of Palestinians and not a great deal of people are sympathetic towards jews because of Israhells actions, but that is no reason to allow so many comments through like I have read on this article from trolls attempting to re-write history and whitewash the crimes of Hitler and his Nazis or outright deny they were even committed in the first place. Thats sick. Since when did the Saker website turn into a haven for neo Nazis and holocaust deniers ?
***Hi Know the Truth…sorry to hear this complaint…I just got on..it wasn’t me..- modaa
I should have put Supersonic not Hypersonic in the Video, but I stand by the thrust of the argument that Russia has advantages in key fields i.e. electronic warfare, fighter jets, Air Defence S350/S400/S500, and especially a variety of outstanding Missiles i.e. Russia’s Fast And Elusive TOPOL-M Ballistic Missile, Kalibr Cruise missile with Supersonic Sprint, The 3M-55 Yakhont, a deadly Manpad the 9K333 can strike aircraft at up to 13,500 feet, the KH-35U Uran, The KH-31PM, And on and on. Research it. And there is a Hypersonic Nuclear Missile Yu-7 in tests. In ALL other areas Russia has top equipment, better or parity with NATO, [feel free to fight below] artillery armour, choppers, subs, destroyers. Shes a well rounded team.
The US is like a sports team well past its best, an ex champ. In decline. Big budget, lots of waste. Lots spent maintaining too many bases. Lots of contract graft. Lots of cancelled expensive projects. A surprising number of very average projects that got up. i.e S2. For me the symbolism that sums up the US now is the F35, the ugly fat Sparrow. Imagine it vs Russias latest jets. Game over. Russia is like a team with great form. On the up. Trending. Many are starting to see this fact now. Some never will.
Why did Russia buy more than $18 billion worth of U.S. bonds in July and August?
I thought they were fighting the empire?
I thought the dollar was dying?
When you read in the press of any country’s foreign reserves, what you get is the total amount of foreign currency reserves EXPRESSED IN US$.
Now that does not mean that all of that country’s reserves are in US$. It is just the total value of foreign currency reserves expressed in US$ equivalent.
Most countries, hold most of their FX reserves in US$ but also euros, pound sterling, yen, swiss francs and now Chinese yuan as well.
One reason for Russia’s fall in FX reserves expressed in US$ during late 2014 and early 2015 was the rise of the US$ in relation to the euro and yen, which devalued a large part of Russia’s reserves since Russia holds a lot of euros and yen.
The total also usually includes gold reserves. Again, as the price of gold vs the US$ fluctuates, the value of those gold reserves expressed in US$ will also fluctuate with time.
Now, when you read that Russia increased their FX reserves by $18bln in let’s say two months, that probably includes a variable mix of US$, euros, yen, yuan, sterling, francs and gold.
And no, the US$ is not about to collapse. It may become increasingly unstable in the coming years, but it will not collapse as there is no realistic substitute.
In fact, people should not obsess over the US$ too much. Sure it gives the US Empire certain advantages, but it also creates problems. As an instrument of US power, the US$ will probably be the last pillar of US Imperial power to fall.
It was the same with the British Empire.
Other things will be lost first:
a) Industrial supremacy – already partly lost to China.
b) Trade supremacy – already partly lost to China
c) Investment supremacy – completely lost to China
d) Military supremacy – at great risk from Russia and China
e) Global influence – Xi and Putin hard at work to undermine it in the coming 5-10 years.
f) Control of energy and trade routes – Putin and Xi are working on this as well.
g) Loss of US$ status as global reserve currency.
So yes, people have it the wrong way round.
All the points you listed are not true.
In fact, the most talke about “imminent U.S. collapse” you guys tried to sell for years never took place.
I’m not going to waste my time over fine points, but psy-ops sites like Zero Hedge have been pushing this for years, nitpicking economic results etc. to fit a narrative.
As I type U.S. markets are on their way, yet again, to new all-time highs on record auto sales, record construction, record housing starts, low unemployment (the idea that it’s the opposite is completely false), etc. Go to Florida, home of the Saker… construction absolutely everywhere. It’s actually freaking annoying.
Your point G is really amusing considering Russia’s recent purchases.
And I am not even arguing that the U.S. is “winning” or anything like that. No! I am arguing that all those people actually work together. The citizens of all those nations are the real suckers to believe in this false east/west dichotomy.
yeah-right! ‘Murika the great…….yeah …pile of
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2015/10/22/existing-home-sales-surge-yeah-right/
49,000,000 on food stamps….great,the sign of a real thriving economy …..yeah right!.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls…for it tolls for thee!.
No, it’s not 49 million, it’s 700 trillion… your propaganda talking points keep getting debunked each month.
Why did RUSSIA buy $18 BILLION worth of U.S. treasury bonds in July/August? Why?
Also, why have markets across the west done nothing but go up since the Obama/Putin meeting?
700 Trillion ? on food stamps ?….what are you….smoking ..drinking or reading ?
go away troll !!!!!
The stock bubble, is the Bernanke/Yellen put!.
Buy,Buy,spend,spend…..sheeple sheeple….baa..baa….blah…blah
go away troll !!!!!
My point “G” is that the US$ role as world reserve currency will be the last instrument of US power that will fall. In matter of fact, I am debunking the widespread narrative that the US$ is just about to lose that status.
As for my other points, they have already occurred, or are still being contested. I always make the distinction between the two.
I have never said in any of my posts that the US is about to collapse in any way, shape or form. What I am saying is that US power ( remember that power is always relative) is under challenge. Nothing more and nothing less.
How things will develop in the future? No one can ever be certain.
And no, the US economy is not booming. In matter of fact, its current recovery since 2009, has been the weakest on record and is also partly dependent on massive fiscal spending and financial bubbles, the most prominent of which are the shale oil & gas bubbles, the automobile bubble (7-year car loans, really?) the new Nasdaq bubble etc etc.
Again, I am not saying that the US will collapse anytime soon, I am only saying that it is in RELATIVE decline.
Well, figures don’t lie, but liars figure. The unemployment rate is certainly low. Also largely meaningless these days; it’s gotten to the point where when the economy picks up, the unemployment rate often rises as people start looking for work again and get counted.
The unemployment rate only counts people who are actively looking for work in the sense of going all over the place tossin’ in those resumes, and the government has been able to spot this.
People who want work but have given up looking don’t count. There are other more extensive unemployment measures which show bigger numbers but they’re rarely mentioned in the news. That’s why people serious about how the economy is doing these days have been measuring mainly trends in the employment rate–and the employment rate has not been looking particularly pretty.
The other key question for me is the basic one: Do people have money? So let’s talk about how from 2009-12, during the “recovery” from the great recession, the top 1% took 95% of the gains. That looks bad, but the reality is worse than that looks. The top 1% gained largely because they get most of the capital gains. But who gets most of the remainder of capital gains? Whose jobs tend to see wage increases even in bad times? The next 10% or so. The strong likelihood is that the top 10% took more than 100% of the economic improvement of the recovery–that for most people, things actually got worse as the economy “recovered” in the US. Real people at ground level still ain’t making any money.
Still, I’m willing to believe that there are lots of cars being sold and houses being built right now. But I’d bet that it’s all being done on shaky credit; they’re just building up yet another bubble of people buying stuff (including educations–hello, student debt!) that they can’t afford to pay for. This time around when the bubbles burst we’ll have a bunch stacked up–car credit, mortgage credit, student loan credit, fracking company credit, corporations that stacked up debt on stock buybacks, probably some commodities, plus the stock/bond/derivatives markets. When one or two go, they’ll cascade. Fun, fun, fun. None of it would have to happen if the political will could be mustered to govern the country with the real economy in view–and I’m not even talking about the public interest here, just production of real goods and useful services.
Yes, I actually have the same question…
http://www.treasury.gov/ticdata/Publish/mfh.txt
Russia heard the Pentagon, White House and Congressional buildings are going to be privatized soon and they wanted some standard negotiable instruments so they could quickly buy them up and redecorate in preparation for the Russian occupation.
Very soon Netanyahu will be in white straight jacket.
Rejoice,
Mohamed.
Dear Mohamed,
I would like to know why the Palestinians cannot obtain small arms to fight against the settlers in the West Bank. It seems they are the only Arabs unable to defend themselves with anything other than slingshots and stones. Palestine is a big country even though the Israelis and the Egyptian junta are working together to further oppress these suffering people. Please share your thoughts as I am truly interested in your opinion concerning this grave matter.
Peace be upon you,
PokeTheTruth
I agree completely!
Why do the people of Gaza not have RPG’s ?,AK 47/74’s ?,Semtex / C4 ?, hand grenades ?.
Just knives and bare hands? and some crap rockets that never seem to do much damage, if at all!
Perhaps the people of Gaza are just a sacrifice, to demonstrate to the world, the absolute evil of the Kazharian zionist entity.
Never put your trust in Princes
I believe Israel has most parts of Palestine blockaded, both air, land and sea.
Yeah, why don’t the totally surrounded people of Gaza pick up arms and go down in flames like the Alamo…
The Alamo wasn’t fought in the midst of crowds of women and children.Probably 2/3 of the people of Gaza are women,children,and the elderly.
nah, i don’t think that the palestinians’ intent is to use women,children, and the elderly as human shields in their rock throwing protests against their occupiers.
In fact the clip above is not funny at all.
It is simply the truth.
What is even more noteworthy, is that the clip is doubly true. The scene in that film depicts Hitler in great distress. The reason for his actual distress between the years of 1942 to 1945, was Soviet Russia. The great evil of the 3rd Reich was defeated by Russia.
Now, the 4th Reich (which is probably even worse than the 3rd) which is far more powerful and therefore far more enduring than the 3rd (this 4th Reich is of course the US-led NATO Empire) is under great strain and confusion, again thanks to the courage, intelligence and sacrifices of Russia.
So yes, this is not satire at all, it is the chilling, world-historic truth.
With due respect but your comment together with that clip is absolute nonsense as often expressed by people with an (left-wing) anglo-centered view on history.
You are all obesseed with “Nazis” here, “Nazis” there and “Nazis” everywhere”.
Do you know the signification of the German word “Reich”, do you know that it isn’t evil by itself.
What should be the connection of a NATO-Fourth-Reich with the the “First” and “Second” German Empire?
The predecessors of the forces that are pulling the strings in the US and are menacing Russia, succeeded in the past in destroying Germany.
Precisely! That’s why I can no longer buy into this Russia fighting the West BS. It was a way to trap nationalists into thinking Russia was doing just that and direct them to their propaganda sites, etc.
Have you read RT, Tass or Sputnik lately? They push the exact same talking points the media in the west push. As you said, Nazi this Nazi that… if you’re European and refuse to ethnic cleansing of your own people via population substitution your a Nazi, etc. Sputnik a couple days ago had an outrageous hit piece on the German peaceful Pegida movement.
Absolutely disgusting.
Obama, Putin and Netanyahu collaborate on the destruction of Europe. Simple as that.
“Sputnik a couple days ago had an outrageous hit piece on the German peaceful Pegida movement.
Obama, Putin and Netanyahu collaborate on the destruction of Europe. Simple as that”.
Yeah, right, and Hitler was simply a misunderstood nationalist at heart, right ?
Hitler = Just another braindead Westerner, mostly aping his Anglo-American forerunners with a view to make his dear “Volk” prosperous at other peoples’ expense. So far, so good. However, today’s Western bigotry cannot accept somebody who is neither a faggot, neither an Anglo, nor a Jewish supremacist. Schade, lieber Adolf.
Do you even know that Hitler got Germany OUT of the anglozionist monetary system (usury) and that international Jewry (including Bolsheviks… the very same people that killed ethnic orthodox Russians by the tens of millions) declared a “holy war” on Germany in March 1933 because of that?
Both Germany and Russia lost during WWII because the zionists had ethnic Germans and Russians butcher themselves by millions. Russia has never fully recovered demographically. So who gives a crap that a piece of paper says that the USSR won against Germany? The Bolsheviks (virtually all Jews as documented by Alexander Solzhenitsyn) killed more than 30 million Russian orthodox Christians (one of the greatest mass murder in the history of mankind) and you call that victory?
Nazi Germany relied upon imperial conquest; to wit utter parasitism. It was an attempt to emulate successful Anglo-American imperialism, but the Germans proved unequal to this noble task since the targeted Soviet untermenschen would not have it — same confrontation as today with aforesaid Anglo-American imperialism.
Always amusing how Western imbeciles of various stripes inevitably end up bashing Stalin and, needless to say, without considering the prevalent mood of the Russian people on the subject. Western imbeciles have their own morale. It is codified in:
The Golden Rule for Western supremacists
Depending on your personal commitment — or lack thereof — to Zionism, you could either slander Stalin for being an anti-Semite, possibly even a Nazi (Liberals) or for being a willing tool of World Jewry (Nazis). But whatever variety of fantasies you prefer, don’t ever forget to pile on the alleged heap of corpses ‘butchered by Stalin’ by a factor of 10 each time. That’s indeed the non-negotiable Party Line of Western imperialism.
Regarding this silly, deranged playing with numbers without any facts or even consistency — just based on wildly insane fantasies (salaried, mind you) of dregs like Solzhenitsyn and Conquest — my reaction to it has become one of refined amusement, like “The number of Stalin’s victims equals Avogadro’s number + 2, agreed?”.
OK, Nazi fanboy, that was all for today. Thanks for reading.
Terribly sorry but Russia is fighting the genocidal monster of Western imperialism; Nazi Germany being one of the latter’s more recent manifestations historically. Russia in particular is damned right to stress the connection between Nazis and Western civilization. The clip above is 100% on point. Could be mentioned also here the very “classy” act which accompanied the 10th anniversary of the Nazis’ defeat with the latters’ very top brass being welcomed to embark on new careers, courtesy of NATO, as allegedly “de-nazified” West Germany joined the great and glorious Western democracies. Like draws to like.
“Obama, Putin and Netanyahu collaborate on the destruction of Europe. Simple as that.”
Utterly laughable. Putin and Russia lead by example by not belonging to the EU club of degenerates. Amusing you don’t seem to mind the utter filth of the Eurocrats.
It is almost impossible to disentangle the word ‘Nazi’ and ‘Evil’ in the minds of those so persuaded. The brainwashing is so utterly complete that laws exist to enforce the reality. I’ve been over this so many times, the destruction of both Russia (at the hands of the Bolsheviks) and the destruction of Germany (at the hands of the Zionist west) was a dream (plan) come true for our friends at the Banking Cabal.
People equate Nazi with race based hate, and many disaffected youth in Germany, Russia, Ukraine, and various other localities simply latch onto this meme as it has been propounded by the media since the 60’s.
The atrocities of the German Reich were largely carried out by German allied nations who used the war as cover for their centuries long disputes with cultural competitors. The worst of those atrocities were committed not by Germans at all, but by eastern Europeans.
90+% of allied POW’s were released from German POW camps unharmed at the end of the war. Does anyone know what percentage of German POWs survived the allied camps following the war?
How many people know that the International Red Cross was allowed access to ALL German labour camps (yes they were labour camps, not ‘death camps’)? Yet they were barred from visiting the allied POW camps?
The reality distortion field is thick and heavy, so society bandies about terms like Nazi such that it becomes a cultural common heritage. Hitler = Satan is an easy and simple formula, and it’s a formula that fulfills many ends.
Germans hated Hitler….have you ever heard of White Rose ? That was a brave youth organization that called Hitler a demon…and Hitler had the whole group exterminated…. its absolutely true that Hitler was a demon.
I never argued that Hitler was a saint, but evil incarnate, I don’t think so, I’ve read too much history to buy into that. It’s another oversimplification. The national socialists were not a pleasant bunch, many intellectuals (mostly Jews) left Germany because of their radical politics, and Hitlers rise was a reaction to external factors. Germany was under siege by the Zionists, it was these Zionists who created the environment for xenophobia. The so called brutality of the Reich has been exaggerated by each successive generation.
I had a couple of older friends who lived under the ‘horror’ of Hitler, and they told a whole different story.
What few mention is that Germany was on its knees, when someone, or something is on its knees it often reacts in an extreme way. But to suggest that the vast portion of the population was against Hitler is a complete farce. Hitler did not have to resort to purges like Stalin, yet he created the most powerful industrial and military force the world had ever seen. People lined the streets in the tens of thousands to view the Fuhrer, he was a hero to many, many people. The footage exists, and is clear to see.
The United States has caused infinitely more global destruction than has the now mythically endowed German machine, if we consider the economic deprivations, and outside of the Islamic world, how many openly refer to the United States as the most diabolical state to ever exist? Would such a characterization be an oversimplification?
The issue I have is with the over the top hyperbole when it comes to ‘Nazi’s’ and the title of ‘evilest ever’. Quite frankly I thinks it’s a joke.
Hi Angelo…yeah I think you have some truth mixed in with some opinion….the German population then was defeated, and like in Spain where Nazis are rising and Ukraine…its unemployment and frustration and male testosterone.
But many Germans saw clearly, I think but many left the country….
The propaganda was huge….US and England funded it….wall street.
Anyway, I think we’re sort of on the same page, but I do think that the Nazi regime was the beginning of the entry of the most powerful evil yet….
And yes. NS was already existant…but Hitler was the cherry on top…and he did have huge charisma..propaganda again but also something else….
Those who say that the Ukraine Nazis are even worse…bullshit…they can’t even march right.
Actually I think the occult power is not really there, like it was…now its really come to earth and is just desimating more..
The German Nazis had occult power…their marches…OMG…it was the entry into the earthly realm of a power that is destructive…and now we see its maturing forms…..
That is a dream World you are talking about.The vast majority of the nazi killers were ethnic Germans (including Austrians).Certainly they were helped by fanatics among Eastern Europeans (and some Western Europeans).But rewriting of history is just foolishness.The German nazis left too many records,diaries,personal statements for you to get away with that.Very few Germans themselves would even think of denying the truth.They know the truth from their relatives,fathers,grandfathers.The German people suffered in the war.And especially near the end of it,and after the war.But that suffering in no way excuses the crimes the nazi regime inflicted on millions of innocent victims during the war.
On another point you asked about POW’s.That would depend on the country involved.But according to various historians the numbers are : Of Soviet prisoners held by the nazis, 56%-68% died in captivity.Of German prisoners held by the Soviets,15%-36% died in captivity.Of the Western allies 3.5% of British POW’s died in German captivity.While 0.03% of German POW’s died in British captivity.German POW’s of the US, 0.15% died in captivity.I haven’t seen broken down percentages of US POW’s who died in German captivity.But from the ones I have seen I estimate it to be around 1.1%.
“That is a dream World you are talking about.The vast majority of the nazi killers were ethnic Germans (including Austrians).” – Uncle Bob 1
I think you mean soldiers, and yes most German soldiers were German. If you want to conflate German soldiers into ‘nazi killers’ it then becomes clear to me the level of your thinking on this.
“Of the Western allies 3.5% of British POW’s died in German captivity.While 0.03% of German POW’s died in British captivity.German POW’s of the US, 0.15% died in captivity.” – Uncle Bob 1
All of your numbers are extremely dubious. There was a book written called Crimes and Mercies:
“Bacque’s book is an amazing revelation of some of the worst crimes ever committed in this century — the fact that they were covered up for so long only makes it worse. After reading this book you will ask yourself who the ‘good guys’ really were. The truth is that there were no good guys — only amoral manipulators and criminals — on both sides. [Well, actually, as Bacque makes clear, there were some good guys: Herbert Hoover, Mackenzie King, Norman Robertson and Victor Gollancz among others.] This is the book the establishment does not want you to read — and with good reason! It tells of deliberate allied policy to ‘reduce’ the German population after the war by mass starvation. Well, they succeeded, by 5.7 million to be precise — this in addition to the 1.1 million starved prisoners of war, 2.5 – 3 million murdered ethnic German refugees from Eastern Europe and tens of thousands of civilian forced labourers killed from maltreatement in France. Bacque’s other excellent book — Other Losses — gives more information about this hidden Holocaust. “
Here are some excerpts from another book detailing the conditions of the German work camps:
“The most amazing thing about the atrocities in this war is that there have been so few of them. I have come up against few instances where the Germans have not treated prisoners according to the rules, and respected the Red Cross,” reported the newspaper The Progressive on February, 4th 1945.
Allan Wood, London Correspondent of the London Express agreed. “The Germans even in their greatest moments of despair obeyed the Convention in most respects. True it is that there were front line atrocities – passions run high up there – but they were incidents, not practices, and misadministration of their American prison camps was very uncommon.” Lieutenant Newton L. Marguiles echoed his words.
US Assistant Judge Advocate, Jefferson Barracks, April 27th 1945. “It is true that the Reich exacted forced labour from foreign workers, but it is also true that, they were for the most part paid and fed well.”
“I think some of the persons found themselves better off than at any time in their lives before.” added Dr.James K.Pollack, Allied Military Government.
“What did the Germans do to get efficient production from forced labour that we were not able to do with Germans working down the mines? They fed their help and fed them well.” Said Max H. Forester, Chief of AMG’s Coal and Mining Division in July 1946.”
1.5-2 million German POW’s were killed after the war. I found the following written piece by an unknown author to be accurate to the written testimonies:
One month before the end of World War II, General Eisenhower issued special orders concerning the treatment of German Prisoners and specific in the language of those orders was this statement,
“Prison enclosures are to provide no shelter or other comforts.”
Eisenhower biographer Stephen Ambrose, who was given access to the Eisenhower personal letters, states that he proposed to exterminate the entire German General Staff, thousands of people, after the war.
Eisenhower, in his personal letters, did not merely hate the Nazi Regime, and the few who imposed its will down from the top, but that he hated the German people as a race. It was his personal intent to destroy as many of them as he could, and one way was to wipe out as many prisoners of war as possible.
Of course, that was illegal under International law, so he issued an order on March 10, 1945 and verified by his initials on a cable of that date, that German Prisoners of War be predesignated as “Disarmed Enemy Forces” called in these reports as DEF. He ordered that these Germans did not fall under the Geneva Rules, and were not to be fed or given any water or medical attention. The Swiss Red Cross was not to inspect the camps, for under the DEF classification, they had no such authority or jurisdiction.
Months after the war was officially over, Eisenhower’s special German DEF camps were still in operation forcing the men into confinement, but denying that they were prisoners. As soon as the war was over, General George Patton simply turned his prisoners loose to fend for themselves and find their way home as best they could. Eisenhower was furious, and issued a specific order to Patton, to turn these men over to the DEF camps. Knowing Patton as we do from history, we know that these orders were largely ignored, and it may well be that Patton’s untimely and curious death may have been a result of what he knew about these wretched Eisenhower DEF camps.
The book, OTHER LOSSES, found its way into the hands of a Canadian news reporter, Peter Worthington, of the OTTAWA SUN. He did his own research through contacts he had in Canada, and reported in his column on September 12,1989 the following, in part:
“…it is hard to escape the conclusion that Dwight Eisenhower was a war criminal of epic proportions. His (DEF) policy killed more Germans in peace than were killed in the European Theater.”
“For years we have blamed the 1.7 million missing German POW’s on the Russians. Until now, no one dug too deeply … Witnesses and survivors have been interviewed by the author; one Allied officer compared the American camps to Buchenwald.”
It is known, that the Allies had sufficient stockpiles of food and medicine to care for these German soldiers. This was deliberately and intentionally denied them. Many men died of gangrene from frostbite due to deliberate exposure. Local German people who offered these men food, were denied. General Patton’s Third Army was the only command in the European Theater to release significant numbers of Germans.
Thanks, Angelo. Perhaps your middle name is John? If so, please know I admire what you do.
Look at those so-called “pro Russian” commenters. They have no clue, do they? None.
I’ve come to the conclusion that the West vs. Russia meme was a set up for the remaining nationalists in Europe. Putin is NOT fighting the U.S. and/or Israel. Quite the opposite actually.
Keep in mind, and if you are who I believe you are I’m sure you know this, that Putin has enacted some of the most pro-zionist laws in the entire world in the last 15 years and that he and his government are persecuting Russian nationalists…
Enough said.
HAHAHA! Brilliant! A perfectly succinct summary of current events!
This needs to be shared far and wide…
That was brilliant – so funny. (I actually watched the original series of the show it uses). So apt to use that period in history to reflect what is happening now.
The Russian Ambassador to the UK also trolled the US’s ultimatum to Iraq – sadly the white house and co. didn’t get the joke:
http://sputniknews.com/politics/20151022/1028910472/russia-yakovenko-washington-ultimatum-tweet.html
:)
Note today USA has new plans to attack ISIS from Iraq
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151022/1028944739/us-russia-iraq-offensive-strategy.html
to try and regain the initiative…
““The US is rebooting its strategy in the war against Islamic State after months of stalemate and Russia’s intervention in the Syrian conflict,” reads an article in The Times of London.
Alexander Yakovenko
© PHOTO: RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN THE UK
Russian Diplomat Trolls Washington With Hollywood Stone Comedy
“The Pentagon’s plan, steered by General Joseph Dunford, America’s top military commander, would force ISIS (ISIL) to fight on several fronts. It calls for coordinated offensives involving Syrian and Iraqi Kurdish forces, the Iraqi army and Iranian-backed Shia militias — which the US refuses to endorse. Ash Carter, the US defense secretary, and senior officials are expected to outline the strategy to Congress next week.”
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151022/1028944739/us-russia-iraq-offensive-strategy.html#ixzz3pJDkh4YX”
so it could be seen as trying to split Syrian forces, but for me it could be a huge test of Iraq’s sovereignty
they will permit this or choose Russia?
Had to do a double take when I clicked on the link you provided to the Sputnik story. Could have sworn that was Peter Lavelle sitting behind the desk smiling.
pitiful. i thought this web site was run by someone who knows, that Hitler was not the monster propaganda says. Holocaust is a hoax, the political base of zionists which had led to creation of israel and lead to a total world control by the jews.
By the time they are planning and pushing people fitting for them, we are laughing pathetic movie to parodie Hitler.
Stupidity will en the world.
Come on, Fayez, a joke is a joke is a joke.
No that’s not a joke. It’s as pathetic as Charlie Hebdo cartoons. Bringing the debate at a level so low reflect ignorant and poor minds.Don’t forget behind the parody of Hitler there was over 100 millions reads (WWI &II) and millions on the way if we keep on joking.
That is not Hitler, that is Bruno Ganz performing the most versatile humour frustration in a foreign language.
Lighten up partner.
Hitler was absolutely the monster history says. Just because the country of Israel today is nasty and there are many Jews living there does not mean it was okay for Hitler to kill 6 million Jews before Israel even existed.
The numbers are actually 100-150.000, and most of them died of starvation and disease in the final stages of collapse due to destruction of infrastructure and the discontinuation of supply.
There is only eyewitness testimony to ‘prove’ the outrageous 6M claim, there is no proven Holocaust just a judicial decree.
thanks for saying the truth. In a matter of fact the holocausted one were the germans.
Hitler was no Putin. He was an eternal teenager, as his fetish for uniforms, symbols, paraphernalia proofs. He had some good ideas, some deep insights, but couldn’t see the big picture.
Therefore he became a useful idiot, a tool of AngloZionism, hurting Germany and whole Europe more than probably anyone before him.
Look at Europe today, what a disgrace! Armies of bling technocrats and apparatchiks weasling around, surpassing each other in pleasing their US masters. Grotesque.
I will not say much about Putin other than that I admire the man very much and will not make any pointless comparisons here.
My opinion of Hitler though is very different from yours, only time will tell which opinion is closer to the truth, and maybe Putin (or more precisely the undisclosed Soviet archives) will have something to say about that at some point.
Absolutely brilliant piece of satire! Puts it all instantly and humorously into perspective. Thank you kindly Saker and commentator’s to this blog for all the vital information you’ve so generously shared with me over the last year or so that I’ve been following this site.
re: leaked CIA memos:
From the loonie birds who brought you “moderate terrorists” comes the formula of “moderate torture techniques”. Heads of mush: hearts of stone.
One of the funniest videos I’m seen on this crisis.I keep seeing the “Hitler” character there as either Netanyahu, Erdogan,or maybe Poroshenko, (I’m guessing Netanyahu would be more accurate though) ranting away like that.
Salam Uncle Bob 1,
You got to it right. As I said above it is Netanyahu. Very soon he will be dragged out of his chair in a straight white jacket.
Rejoice,
Mohamed.
Hitler on Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIWmXdNpAT4
Funny and all, but a number of precisions may be useful:
1. Neither the Islamic State nor the less organized and foreign supported parts of Syrian rebellion are defeated yet. Very far from that.
– Saudi Arabia is adamant that non-IS rebellion will receive all the weapons and money they need to continue the fighting. And Saudi Arabia is supported by the US, and has all the money it needs to support who it wants.
– As for the “Califate”, its power has been increasing for a year at least, no matter whether measured by number of fighters or by resources controlled, not counting the fact that its fighters are becoming better (survival of the fittest and all that sort of things). No matter whether one believes US and allies were really attempting to contain IS or merely pretending, imagining that a few dozens fighter-bombers will destroy the IS, even when they are supporting battled ground troops, is beyond optimistic – it’s an hallucination.
The result of Russian intervention is to secure Assad power against threat of quick collapse. That’s a significant result, and a positive one. As for ending the Syrian war, sorry but this is probably far, maybe very far in the future.
2. There is no such thing as a “Russian hypersonic missile”. Russia’s actual – as opposed to fantasmatic – antiship missiles are supersonic and manoeuvering – and good at that. They are also precisely the threat US (Standard) and Franco-Italian (Aster) defenses have been built to counter. And these defenses can indeed counter it, as tests against similar missiles have proven.
US aircraft carriers, along with the lone French one, are not invulnerable – nothing is. They are just very well protected against the kind of missiles Russia may aim at them.
3. There is no such thing as an impenetrable air defense, and Russia’s – S-300 and S-400 series missiles – aren’t, just like US or European ones aren’t. The difference is with the numbers, and the varsity of ways of attack: America could throw many more missiles to S-400 defended sites than Russia to Standard or Aster defended ones, also stealth fighters… even if S-400 are that good – that’s an if – it’s always possible to win by numbers only.
Don’t miss the actual military balance. Russia’s military assets are much less numerous and definitely not more advanced than America’s – quite a lot of them are less advanced. If comparison is to be made, Russia’s projectable military power is probably larger on the whole than France’s, but not by a big margin. If placed on a scale of military power from France to America, Russia is definitely much closer to the former than to the later.
The reason why the US will probably not disrupt – read attack – the Russian base in Lattakia is because their government rightly fears uncertainty, and while the US military could incapacitate relatively easily the Russian expeditionary corps, long term global consequences may be unfavorable even though the short term result would be a “nice & good victory”.
Also, it would be difficult to explain to American population why exactly attacking Russia in Syria would be a good idea.
Also, it’s far easier and more secure for America to just support Saudi and other efforts to push further the flames of the Syrian civil war…
It’s always good to see someone with a sense of proportion.
Brilliant. It make sens. You forgot to mention that the master mind and the leader of that chaos. In that matter Syria is condamned. The jews have initiated two world wars to reach their power, nothing will stop them now, even if they have to commit suicide. It’s biblical. These guys are nuts. Completely nuts.
The bottom-line is,and always has been “if” the US attacks Russia the nuclear missiles will strike the US homeland.No if or and’s about that.That is the endgame (in more than one way) to the entire military balance of power.Russia may not have the overall power to defeat at the start a NATO attack.But they “do” have the power to destroy the NATO homelands.And when you know you will lose your life and your country it isn’t a smart idea to go to war against Russia.
First let me repeat: I do think the “US attacks Lattakia base” scenario is a low probability one, for the reasons I mentioned: fear of future instability (like China freaking out and expanding its military), difficulty to explain the move to American population, and last but not least the fact that helping Saudi to help and arm Syrian rebels is by far more secure and cheaper.
That being said, IF (a big if) the US government chose to attack, a few things would be sure:
– None of the two countries would use nuclear weapons. Stakes would just be way too low for that
– None of the two countries would wage the slightest attack on the territory of the other. That would be much too dangerous, risking escalation towards nuclear use
– And of course, US forces would pay a hefty price for their victory. Expect hundreds to thousands of KIA on each side, and quite a lot of hardware destroyed – aircraft, ships…
Nuclear weapons can be used, or credibly threatened, only when the stakes are high enough – when a country’s existence is at stake. Russia’s existence would not be the least threatened in case her expeditionary corps in Syria would be destroyed.
If America chose to attack, this by the way would not be the first case of a shooting war between nuclear-armed nations. At least two previous examples are the 1969 Soviet-Chinese war in Eastern Siberia and the 1999 Indo-Pakistan war on the Kargil highs. None of these two cases did result in nuclear use: the less powerful country retreated with a bloody nose (China, Pakistan respectively) but did not endanger its existence by nuclear use since its existence was not at stake to begin with.
RE: alexis
As usual with these “America the exceptional” trolls, the standard “America umber allies” propaganda spiel without any references. YouTube is full of this sort of teenage cheerleading.
Вот так,
It’s “über”, not “umber”. Gee, you can’t even pour scorn in an effective way, can you?
As I wrote, this Alexis is YouTube level trolling.
Terrorism can not be defeated especially if supported from the outside, we see that in india and Pakistan and even Afghanistan. So IS can not itself be defeated but as we see in India, it can be made so normal life goes on. Iran and India are a good example of how even with external interference they can curtailed if they can close supply lines and even in Russia and Israel. But we have the example of china which can field large police force and it still happens. So as long as Russia can seal the border mainly Turkey and Jordan, large numbers of equipped terrorists wont be able to disrupt life in the cities. Even with open support of nato and allies, most cities under government control are not like what happens in Iraq with daily car bombs in crowded places. This can only take place if the people themselves don’t know who to trust. Assad unlike Maliki is not barrel bombing civilians. That American puppet is directly responsible for most of this by alienating the Iraqi military and bombing their homes and families.
To detect stealth you need more than radar.. The thing with that is, unlike radar, these detectors work over thousands of miles and over the horizon. You need very good computers to use the information but that still don’t help the S300-S400 to shoot them down.. But they will know the general area where stealth aircraft is present and can target them in other ways. It wont be like Iraq or Libya where in a few days all air defenses were taken out. Either those S complexes will be hidden or defended and they still have to be bombed which would be much harder when they know you are there but unable to track you locally.. Still shooting down a couple of stealth aircraft would make the entire nato force structure break down.. Easter Europeans will run for the hills so will most other nato countries and even the UK might start thinking.. It wont be an easy victory and the costs could be like what happened to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 2006…. Also the S complexes can take out any missiles fired at it. I highly doubt the US would place any carrier group in danger.. They stayed far out even from Iraqi defenses and they did not have any such missiles. Can the carrier strike group defeat both air and sub surface anti-sip missiles? Losing an aircraft carrier would be far worse than losing stealth aircraft.. The entire soviet and Russian strategy is based on being able to strike them. So no matter how good their anti missile defenses are, there is a chance they might lose and I am sure if it is decided to take one out, it wont be a few missiles flying but using every available one in the area..
Nato can defeat Russia, no question about that.. The thing is, right now Nato is invincible.. If the world sees that nato is vulnerable, their hold on pretty much everything goes away.. Allies, friends and enemies will all rethink about that invincibility. It would destroy the western financial system. Russia would lose but the west would lose soon after.. Intel became the dominant player in the CPU world held by being just good enough. They are not the best but for a great many things, sowing doubt in the minds of others is good enough to take anyway any advantage.. Just all bullies where sycophants rush over to praise their bullying, showing that bully might be able to pile drive the little guy at will but getting a kick in the groins will make all those who rush in think twice about their own precious jewels.. How else can the empire of Qatar talk about invading a country of 20 mil people when they only have a population of 200K?
The Kalibre Cruise Missile has a hypersonic sprint
Alexis, put this in You tube. ‘russian hypersonic missile’
Some of you doubted what I said in the video re Russian superiority. I fact checked. Clearly with subtitles one is limited, i.e impenetrable air defence was artistic licence, its almost impenetrable. Pepe Escobar says the S500 will be lock out.
Things have changed. US supporters are and will be in shock. This following means Russia wins. Read the article. Heres a teaser.
“Russia now has the capacity for jamming all NATO communications. It has now become the primary power in terms of conventional warfare’
http://www.voltairenet.org/article189043.html
Perfectly subtitled, utterly hilarious, and word for word true.
Like you said. Hilarious
@fayez C
Are you kidding???
Do you seriously think a pro-Russian site – which derived its primary purpose from alerting the world to the resurgence of Nazism in the Ukraine – is going to ‘heil Der Fuhrer’?
Do you think its the Russians – who lost millions of citizens to the Nazi machine in WWll – who are going to be the ones to offer a more ‘nuanced’
historical approach to Nazism?
Sure, there is myth and distortion around the reality of the Nazis and Hitler – they were hardly the only instigators of the evils of WW ll. Nor were their ideas all wrong – like the Volkswagon.
But their ludicrous notions of race ‘supremacy’ , their invasions of Eastern Europe (though they got plenty of local help and non-German imperial/industrialist ‘advice’, backing and support – especially from the US) and their brutal assault on Russia is a matter of historical record and will never be whitewashed on this blog.
49,000,000 on food stamps, how many unemployed in the E.U ? let alone South America & Africa, which have been ripped for century off.
Yes, I do believe in “Demoncracy”, let’s play both sides, (white&black squares) on chessboard…the sheeple are damn stupid and won’t elucidate our game.
Pawns in a game…hehehehe…go ahead dear Knight, your turn.
Take it easy. Netanyahu has just absolved Adolf Hitler of Holocaust.
On Wednesday, Netanyahu told the 37th World Zionist Congress that Adolf Hitler only wanted to expel the German Jews, but he was advised by Palestinian Mufti al-Haj Amin al-Husseini (d. 1974 in Lebanon) to exterminate the Jews.
Personally I enjoy the coal-black irony of the victims of genocide transferring the title of “instigator of genocide” from Hitler to Mufti al-Haj Amin al-Husseini to justify their own genocidal wishes towards the Palestinians.
“Those clever Palestinians! They were the ones ultimately responsible for the holocaust! Kill them all!”
what can I say, except that I really LMAO!
The movie from which this parody clip was taken (and several thousand others) is called “Downfall”.
It is a superb movie with excellent acting by Bruno Ganz as Hitler.
Highly recommended.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downfall_%282004_film%29
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/downfall/
agree-amazing acting
This is a comment for the moderators of this site. We all know that the nation of Israhell today is an abomination in its treatment of Palestinians and not a great deal of people are sympathetic towards jews because of Israhells actions, but that is no reason to allow so many comments through like I have read on this article from trolls attempting to re-write history and whitewash the crimes of Hitler and his Nazis or outright deny they were even committed in the first place. Thats sick. Since when did the Saker website turn into a haven for neo Nazis and holocaust deniers ?
***Hi Know the Truth…sorry to hear this complaint…I just got on..it wasn’t me..- modaa
My favorite line:
“Everyone who thought Islamic State would have won by now, leave the room.”
Within seconds the room empties, only three guys are left.
they must be the 3 monkeys see no evil ,hear no evil, speak no evil ……..
I should have put Supersonic not Hypersonic in the Video, but I stand by the thrust of the argument that Russia has advantages in key fields i.e. electronic warfare, fighter jets, Air Defence S350/S400/S500, and especially a variety of outstanding Missiles i.e. Russia’s Fast And Elusive TOPOL-M Ballistic Missile, Kalibr Cruise missile with Supersonic Sprint, The 3M-55 Yakhont, a deadly Manpad the 9K333 can strike aircraft at up to 13,500 feet, the KH-35U Uran, The KH-31PM, And on and on. Research it. And there is a Hypersonic Nuclear Missile Yu-7 in tests. In ALL other areas Russia has top equipment, better or parity with NATO, [feel free to fight below] artillery armour, choppers, subs, destroyers. Shes a well rounded team.
The US is like a sports team well past its best, an ex champ. In decline. Big budget, lots of waste. Lots spent maintaining too many bases. Lots of contract graft. Lots of cancelled expensive projects. A surprising number of very average projects that got up. i.e S2. For me the symbolism that sums up the US now is the F35, the ugly fat Sparrow. Imagine it vs Russias latest jets. Game over. Russia is like a team with great form. On the up. Trending. Many are starting to see this fact now. Some never will.