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Eric Peters
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Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:22 UTC

We are very close to the "deadline" Trump insolently laid down for Russia to negotiate terms with Ukraine. Where does the president of the United States get the authority to set "deadlines" - with ominous, hinted-at consequences - for other nations; in particular, those that have not attacked the United States?

It is not a question of authority; there is none such in that handsomely written old document that the government pretends defines and limits its powers. It is (and always has been) a question of power. When asserted it becomes authority. Trump, following the precedents set by so many of his predecessors - simply asserts his authority to do whatever he wants, because he has acquired the power to do it. He has this power for the same reason cops who abuse people have it: There is no authority to restrain them when they assert their power.

So they do what they want.

At any rate, Trump has told the leader of another nation - one with a nuclear arsenal - that there is a "deadline" for it to basically submit to being strong-armed by a foreign power's Maximum Leader (i.e., Trump). This is the sort of thing that sometimes leads to wars and in this instance, the war could very easily become a nuclear one.

Is Trump insane? Or just stupid? It could be that he is desperate.

The Epstein Business hasn't gone away for the summer recess. It continues to back up the sewers - and though Trump has tried mightily to flush it all away, the shit seems apt to overflow the bowl. In an important way, it already has.

Last fall, millions of Americans voted for Trump because they thought - just maybe - he wasn't another one of them. They wanted badly to believe it and some did believe that he was telling the truth when he promised that if elected, he'd get to the bottom of this Epstein Business as well as other such business. Now we know the truth in all its hideous, bottle-fly-covered putridity. They are all the same. More finely, they are all in the same club - and we are not in it. They would not allow us in the service entrance, to bring in and drop off a few cases of champagne for their next teenybopper rave.

We know this now because it is no longer possible to believe otherwise.

We know that Voting Harder Next Time is not going to change anything other than the slogans and the faces of the things that attend those teenybopper raves - and why would anyone believe for a moment that people who egg-on and even thrust their chests out in pride over the mass slaughter that's been underway in Gaza for more than a year would not attend teenybopper raves?

We know that it is hopeless - in the sense that there is no hope (as in zero) that any of them will ever be held to account for anything they have done so long as they are in charge of the mechanism of holding themselves accountable.

We allowed ourselves to entertain a pleasant delusion that it was not so, but that has now been dissipated. We cannot unsee - or unhear - what has been seen and heard. It no longer matters - in the macro-political sense - whether the truth about the Epstein business is ever fully revealed. The truth about the JFK business has never been revealed, either. But who among us still believes it was Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, who murdered JFK in broad daylight? It did however take decades for that belief to dissipate. The events that took place on September 11, 2001 hasted that dissipation. At first, most of us believed that the "enemies of freedom" had conducted a dastardly attack. This belief enabled a dastardly attack on us - and by us (on Iraq, resulting in far more carnage visited upon

innocent Iraqis than was visited upon innocent Americans).

We Voted Harder and exchanged The Chimp for Barack Obama - but they were still in charge. So nothing changed except for the worse. Then Trump came down the escalator and we thought - at last! - an outsider. Someone who isn't a member of the club; he told us so! He would "drain the swamp." He promised. We believed. We even let ourselves believe that he was played by Fauci and the rest of them. That he faced a foe so pervasively evil that it had to be exposed before it could be destroyed. So they brought out

Joe Biden to make us believe it good and hard. It got so bad we believed it again, when Trump promised (again) that this time would be different. He understood them now. The wars would end; or at least our enabling and egging-on of them would end.

But of more importance, justice would be done.

They - some of them, at least - would be made to answer for all the things they'd done. Many of us really, desperately believed it.

And now we confront the awful truth that nothing will be done. Not ever. Not for as long as they continue to have the power to assure nothing will be done to make any of their friends answer for anything they have done and bopping teenyboppers is just one of those things.

This is perhaps the most consequential Red Pill Moment since the summer of 1775 - when it finally dawned on a sufficiency colonials that Great Britain regarded them as vassals and that the "appeal to Heaven" was kind of sad as

well as futile.

Kind of like Voting Harder Next Time.

Trump knows this, too. It explains his cornered rat behavior. Their cornered rat behavior. All of them. They know we know and that is worrisome. Enter the "deadline" - which is in fact an ultimatum. What will happen when deadline-ultimatum arrives?

Probably something very big - but not every beautiful.

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Buffalo_Ken · 2025-08-01T19:58:50Z

Well - might be time to call in the paratroopers and then bring Odessa back home most rapidly - like on a dime of time - in a matter of hours.

Paratroopers mind ya can get things accomplished most rapidly - and then after they get Odessa - and Trump wants to put down the "deadline" - well a day before that send some to Kiev I reckon.

Then communicate to the fools in dc - "what card you got now"?

We wasn't planning to do it this way, but if you make a deadline, then we will take London next!

~

How you like them apples - Trump!

Buffalo_Ken · 2025-08-01T20:27:48Z

Buffalo_Ken - now of course naval assets in the Black Sea will also have to secure the ENTIRE thing for the motherland - all the way to Istanbul - and maybe that as well.

Seriously - what is the deadline?

codis · 2025-08-02T08:01:59Z

Buffalo_Ken

Well - might be time to call in the paratroopers and then bring Odessa back home most rapidly - like on a dime of time - in a matter of hours.

Paratroopers mind ya can get things accomplished most rapidly - and then after they get Odessa ...

No, they can't.

They won't even get to Odessa, but die as soon as their aircraft enter Ukrainian territory.

Another Sotter · 2025-08-02T08:12:47Z

codis Oh look, a delusional idiot.

Buffalo_Ken · 2025-08-02T21:01:30Z

codis - What is the basis of this statement.

They won't even get to Odessa, but die as soon as their aircraft enter Ukrainian territory

Are you saying the Russians are dominated in the airspace? By what means please. First I heard of this - backup please. I beg to differ, but if not paratroopers then rapid advance troop carriers with naval support. Yes there will be losses, but a deadline is just that and sometimes losses can’t be avoided, but the tactical leader know sometimes rapid action is called for - and when the enemy is low morale, short on personnel and equipment, lulled into thinking tis slow going ongoing drudgery - that is the time to strike with definitive well-planned action - to bring this shitstorm to closure. ~

Please provide backup for the sentiment.

codis · 2025-08-03T08:41:38Z

Buffalo_Ken

Are you saying the Russians are dominated in the airspace? By what means please

Satellites, radar systems and drones for surveillance. Missiles, drones, AA missiles (with up to 240km range) and layered airdefense systems. And yes, Russian systems certainly reach that far.

I beg to differ, but if not paratroopers ...

You watch far too much Hollywood movies.

Paratroopers are light infantry. They might fare well in higher-intensity police operations the US waged over the last decades, and called "war". They will be wiped out with artillery, missiles and airforce assets from 5 to 200 miles away, never even seeing the enemy.

... then rapid advance troop carriers with naval support.

Oh dear ...

All troop carriers and aircraft carries would be sunk a thousand miles before they reach the combat zone. Large surface ships are sitting ducks, the larger the mr vulnerable. And AEGIS is nothinng but a modified Patriot systems, totally worthless in other words.

The US is not able to fight a near-peer or even peer in a conventional war. Not even Iran. Even Pentagon and ex-military analysts predict 10.000 to 15.000 US casualties per week, and the US resorting to nuclear weapons after the first week.

Buffalo_Ken · 2025-08-03T16:02:59Z

codis - did you think I meant " us of a" paratroopers ? Heaven's to Betsy - that is not what I meant.

Moreover, "troop carriers", can travel over land - especially if they are coming from Russia codis!

Jeesh....

codis · 2025-08-05T15:24:01Z

Buffalo_Ken

Moreover, "troop carriers", can travel over land - ...

I know.

By the way, there is something you might not have realized yet. But Russia is not at war with the Ukraine, but with Nato. And I mean that literally.

All the "great" and loudly touted Ukrainian command operations and raids have been planned by high-ranking Nato staff, and supervised by their immediate subordinates on the ground. From the (paratrooper) attack on the Zaporoshye NPP (2023, mostly Brits), the raids on Kyrnky (paratroopers again, planned by Brits), last year's "summer offensive", and the attack on Kursk lately. The latter two were planned mostly by US Centcom staff, with the Brits involved again. What they all have in common - they ended in utter failure, not achieving any of their goals. Especially the "summer offensive" and Kursk incursion got more than 150.000 soldiers on the Ukrainian side killed. But which is to be expected if you promote officers not for adequacy, performance and experience, but ideological, biological or political reasons ...

But even in a very literal sense, there are hundreds if not thousands of Nato personnel actively involved in military actions at any time. All the Patriot, SAMP/T and other Nato AD systems are manned with Nato personnel. As are HIMARS systems or SCALP/Stormshadow crews. Neither can operators for this systems be properly trained in a few weeks or months, nor are Nato countries willing to share their targeting "secrets". And a good portion of Western "volunteers" (mercenaries), are actually sheep-dipped Nato personnel. Estimates of Nato soldiers killed in the Ukraine up to now range from 20.000 to 30.000, by the way. Although the largest propertion of those are Europeans, especially Poles.

The less ideologically inclined Pentagon leadership and of equivalent Nato institutions know those facts, and are very reluctant to openly engage with Russia.

What you hear officially is only empty posturing of empty politicians.

codis · 2025-08-05T16:00:52Z

codis And, on a related note : [Link]

Russian Special Ops Forces Capture Three British “Soldiers”

Buffalo_Ken · 2025-08-05T16:05:21Z

Tell me something I don't already know codis ....

Buffalo_Ken
Moreover, "troop carriers", can travel over land - ...
I know.

By the way, there is something you might not have realized yet. But Russia is not at war with the Ukraine, but with Nato. And I mean that literally.

All the "great" and loudly touted Ukrainian command operations and raids have been planned by high-ranking Nato staff, and supervised by their immediate subordinates on the ground. From the (paratrooper) attack on the Zaporoshye NPP (2023, mostly Brits), the raids on Kyrnky (paratroopers again, planned by Brits), last year's "summer offensive", and the attack on Kursk lately. The latter two were planned mostly by US Centcom staff, with the Brits involved again. What they all have in common - they ended in utter failure, not achieving any of their goals. Especially the "summer offensive" and Kursk incursion got more than 150.000 soldiers on the Ukrainian side killed. But which is to be expected if you promote officers not for adequacy, performance and experience, but ideological, biological or political reasons ...

But even in a very literal sense, there are hundreds if not thousands of Nato personnel actively involved in military actions at any time. All the Patriot, SAMP/T and other Nato AD systems are manned with Nato personnel. As are HIMARS systems or SCALP/Stormshadow crews. Neither can operators for this systems be properly trained in a few weeks or months, nor are Nato countries willing to share their targeting "secrets". And a good portion of Western "volunteers" (mercenaries), are actually sheep-dipped Nato personnel. Estimates of Nato soldiers killed in the Ukraine up to now range from 20.000 to 30.000, by the way. Although the largest propertion of those are Europeans, especially Poles.

The less ideologically inclined Pentagon leadership and of equivalent Nato institutions know those facts, and are very reluctant to openly engage with Russia.

What you hear officially is only empty posturing of empty politicians.

Buffalo_Ken · 2025-08-05T16:06:06Z

codis - I'll check out the link - but for awhile there I was starting to wonder if you had been subsumed...

Honestly - paratroopers codis can swoop in at any moment....~

From the link:

Then I found another source… the Eurasia Daily , which reported that Lieutenant Colonel Richard Carroll, and Colonel Edward Blake, both active-duty officers of the British Army, along with an as-yet-unidentified agent of British MI-6 (Intelligence) were captured during a daring raid by Russian Special Forces, in the city of Ohakiv. That city is shown on the scalable map below:

Russia by the way is at war with "nobody" - tis the EU at war with itself seems to me....Russia is just on a Special Military Operation - and they have been clear on that from the beginning - so codis I really don't appreciate your "confusion" in regards to my statements above - next time read closer please - cause Russia controls the airspace - do they not?

And assuming they do - given the distance travelled - it would be a piece of cake dropping paratroopers on Odessa - so really codis - read closer in the future. At whose behest are you posting anyhow since it seems you basically "live" here?

codis · 2025-08-05T16:34:29Z

Buffalo_Ken

Tell me something I don't already know ~~codis~~ ....

...

Honestly - paratroopers ~~codis~~ can swoop in at any moment....~

Well, if you can't see the contradiction here, you will be in for a surprise ... or two.

Buffalo_Ken · 2025-08-05T16:41:19Z

codis - you are incorrect codis - I don't get surprised by anything anymore and this is telling you would say that - you have gone down a notch in my book - but no doubt the EU is toast....and must be that is who you are beholden too - paratroopers could be a diversion you know codis and meanwhile actual troops in carriers by land and water arrive in Odessa.

Place your bets.

Buffalo_Ken · 2025-08-05T16:42:10Z

codis - I miss sidoc - he or it had a sense of humor...you codis seem to be losing it.

~

Now - take an arrow put it in the bow - and shoot it codis - I hope it lands in Odesa.

There is a portal there - it is connected with many things - Saint George, Germany, and Rome.

Russia knows and so do I codis - so stop trying to tell me about military movements - I'm well studied.

I don't take kindly to those feint ignorance - and you lately seem to be like the rest of Germany - lost in wit.

Germany seems to be on a self-inflicted path of destruction - I hope that ain't your fate codis - but really it ought be known - at its time of choosing Russia could go from slow to a blitz - and then on a dime they would have Odessa.

Simple.

codis · 2025-08-06T08:10:10Z

Buffalo_Ken Don't worry.

As we cannot find a common ground and common language in this regard, I will not ever bring this topic up again with you.

codis · 2025-08-06T08:12:32Z

Buffalo_Ken

- I miss ~~sidoc~~ - he or it had a sense of humor...you codis seem to be losing it.

You would not like it.

But a time for pungent sarcasm is coming soon.

And again, don't worry. This is a general statement, not referring to you ...

Buffalo_Ken · 2025-08-07T14:05:20Z

Buffalo_Ken Don't worry.

As we cannot find a common ground and common language in this regard, I will not ever bring this topic up again with you.

codis - most of the time - in fact - almost all the time I see eye-to-eye with thee - I concur with your sentiment....but hopefully we both know - we can't agree on everything....but I suspect - most of time including into the future we will .

I hold you in high regard.....

Ken

Buffalo_Ken · 2025-08-07T14:06:32Z

codis - I'm going to "conclude" correctly or not - that you have little faith in the efficacy of "paratroopers", and it could be in the modern age - they are not worth the risk....fair enough on that.

Ken

codis · 2025-08-07T14:32:13Z

Buffalo_Ken Of course. Because it's fact. The Russians have wiped out hundreds of them already, most of them were members of the French Foreign Legion. Whenever you hear about a ship, hotel or "location" in or near Odessa was blown up, another 3-digit batch of those Nato "special forces" went to ~~heaven~~ hell.

I got the vague impression you have a quasi-romantic relation to this kind of troops, perhaps directly or indirectly (you or a relative served). Which makes emotionally involved and biased.

But it remains a fact : no Nato troups - and no US troups - are prepared, trained and equipped for war. They never fought one since Korea. Ask the US guys that came back from the Ukraine.

Buffalo_Ken · 2025-08-07T14:42:19Z

codis - I do have a life-long friend who was in the 82nd out of Fort Bragg - but the "beauty" of paratroopers in their day is they could cross enemy lines "weakened" and then soften up the location desired.....and just to be 100% clear - all of my contemplation above were with respect to actions of the Russian military force - not NATO, nor France, nor the us of a.....

~

Regardless - I've been thinking about it more - and "drones" in a way nullify the value of paratroopers - or at a minimum - have resulted in them being way more vulnerable - and so your point is well taken.

Still - at the proper time - I think there is nothing better than "boots on the ground" when push comes to shove - and there is no quicker way to get them there than from above. But it is risky no doubt. So again - point well take codis ~

And yes I am aware of what happened in Crete with the Germans use of paratroopers - they really wasted a bunch - cause paratroopers are not meant to be "large-scale" - not even in WWII - but a well dropped unit in that war - could really change the tide of battle cause talk about a "flanking-action" - you think you got your rear defended - and suddenly there is infantry coming from behind! That can result in not only capture of many enemy troops - but potential "double-envelopment" - the "dream" of all great military minds.

~

Regards,

Ken

~~~~~

ps - here is what the "ai" has to say on this topic:

German Paratroopers in Crete The German invasion of Crete, known as Operation Mercury or Unternehmen Merkur, began on May 20, 1941, marking the first major airborne invasion in military history and the first time German paratroopers (Fallschirmjäger) were used en masse. The operation involved approximately 14,000 German paratroopers and glider troops, who were dropped onto the island to seize its three main airfields at Maleme, Heraklion, and Rethymno, which were critical for the subsequent landing of reinforcements and supplies. The Germans utilized the reliable Junkers Ju 52 transport aircraft to carry paratroopers and tow assault gliders, such as the DFS 230, which could land close to targets.Despite the initial success of the airborne assault, the Germans suffered heavy casualties on the first day, with losses exceeding 1,800 men, primarily due to fierce resistance from Allied forces and the local Cretan population, who fought with whatever weapons they could find, including kitchen knives and canes. The resistance was unexpected and unprecedented for the Germans, leading to widespread reprisal killings after the battle. The Fallschirmjäger faced significant disadvantages, including outdated parachutes without risers or quick-release mechanisms, which prevented them from steering, caused dangerous landings, and left them vulnerable while retrieving their weapons from dropped canisters. This lack of equipment upon landing contributed to many German soldiers being killed before they could engage in combat.A critical turning point occurred when New Zealand troops, due to communication failures and tactical hesitation, abandoned the strategically vital Maleme Airfield, which was then captured by the Germans on May 21. This allowed German transport planes to land at Maleme, enabling the arrival of reinforcements, including a motorcycle battalion, anti-tank units, and engineers, which ultimately overwhelmed the Allied defenses. The capture of Maleme was pivotal, as it allowed the Germans to establish a beachhead and secure the island despite the high cost. The battle lasted ten days, ending with the evacuation of most Allied forces by the British Royal Navy and the surrender of the remainder on June 1, 1941.The heavy losses inflicted on the Fallschirmjäger led Adolf Hitler to declare that "the days of the parachute troops are over," and he subsequently forbade further large-scale airborne operations, preferring to use paratroopers as elite ground troops. In contrast, the Allies recognized the strategic potential of airborne forces and invested heavily in developing their own airborne assault and airfield-defence regiments, a capability that would be demonstrated on a large scale during the D-Day landings in June 1944.

codis · 2025-08-07T17:09:01Z

Buffalo_Ken

... but the "beauty" of paratroopers in their day is they could cross enemy lines "weakened" and then soften up the location desired.....

Oh dear ...

That's what they did in last year's summer offensive - and not even breaching the first of four lines. And the Ukrainians are better soldiers than your Americans. And the latter is the opinion of combat-experienced US officers.

I know, it's difficult to fathom that all the alleged splendor and supremacy is nothing but make-believe and hot air. Mao wasn't that stupid

Buffalo_Ken · 2025-08-07T17:20:43Z

codis - no doubt codis - I've come to think you way of considering this is probably accurate - and why waste the paratroopers needless like the Germans did in Crete - and even Hitler realized that was a mistake! A big mistake mind ya - cause all those well-trained troops were lost in 1941 - and then the outcome was already determined - the offensive entity couldn't keep up with the losses. I'm pleased in an ironic way it happened in the land of the Minoans.

~

Regardless - there are many ways to skin a cat - and being all "trench warfare" sort of behaving....truly that don't last history has proven codis - so maybe just send the troops over land easy?

Either way - trench warfare eventually is a losing proposition and I suspect many in Russia - in the "High Command" - the up and coming leadership - they know this already.

There comes a time when decisive acts are called upon - and what better time is there when somebody thinks they gonna give you a "deadline" - seems like tis time to prove them wrong.

~

As for "American" troops - you don't got to tell me they are pathetic - that is already proven codis.

What about the German troops - do they have mettle?

If leadership is any indication - I suspect all the good Germans have departed already.

eulogical · 2025-08-02T03:45:46Z

Trump keeps setting himself up for failure - and this time it will be no different. Russia isn't going to do anything about his 'deadline', and he is going to be left with egg on his face - again .

That is, unless he foolishly tries to take action, other than tariffs or sanctions, against Russia. Either way, he's going to look foolish, and more to the point - weak .

His latest tanTRUMP against Medvedev might be the excuse he's looking for - sending nuclear subs closer to Russia, in an attempt to intimidate them (?), or to provoke them (?).

Personally, I don't think it will do either, because Putin and the Russians have repeatedly demonstrated that they won't be tricked into making any moves that the West can use an excuse to attack them directly.

Another Sotter · 2025-08-02T08:14:00Z

Trump's mouth works faster than his brain, hence the number of times he paints himself in to a corner.

LogGentleman · 2025-08-02T08:59:46Z

His latest spat with Medvedev makes me think of hybrids. Why else bring up the walking dead? There are no zombies after nukes.

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