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1. The west claims that Russia attacked unprovokedly but stops at nothing to provoke Russia.

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   Comment by Balthasar Gerards | June 6, 2025 | Reply

2. Putin’s behavior makes sense under only two hypotheses:

   1) The West actually has a technological trump card that has not been revealed and thus Russia is stalling for time until perhaps they can counter it

   2) Putin is compromised in a variety of ways.

   There is plenty of evidence for #2, unfortunately.

   By “Putin” I do not mean the person, but the collective Putin.

   Putin the person might well be an honest patriot, but if he is surrounded by people who are not, to the point where his decision making is determined by those people, well, that is the same as him being compromised personally, and that is all that matters.

   But there are certain very serious unpleasant facts about him too. John Helmer is the only one who dares bring up Putin’s tight connections with Israel. Which are public knowledge, but nobody ever mentions it in Russia, because it is just too unpleasant a topic. Look at the oligarchs around Putin — it is all dual citizens. And it is not just oligarchs of that variety that are in his close circle.

   Now think about it — Israel has major influence over Putin, in the same time Israel and the US are largely one and the same at this point, and the US, being one and the same with Israel, has determined its foremost geopolitical objective is to destroy Russia. Putin will be be fighting against the US, no holds barred, in that situation? Really? Something doesn’t compute here, does it? And, indeed, he has barely fought and is still to this day looking for a way out without fighting.

   As a simple relevant example, the public version of events is that Zelensky is alive because Putin promised Naftali Bennett not to take him out; but is it the case that Naftali Bennett asked Putin to spare Zelensky and Putin, out of the goodness of his heart, has kept that promise for three-plus years of outrageous daily terrorism committed by Zelensky and his goons, and now strategic attacks too, or is it that Naftali Bennett straight up ordered Putin not to touch Zelensky and Putin is obeying the orders? Zelensky is not Ukrainian, remember that.

   As a more of a second-order question, the only good move Russia has left now is to physically take NATO out of Eurasia, preemptively. That means nuking all military bases and infrastructure all over the perimeter, from Iceland to Japan, and for Europe likely countervalue strikes against half of it will be needed too. Then the US will face the choice to either fire the ICBMs at Russia or take the loss. It should take the loss, because if the US fires the ICBMs at Russia, Russia will be firing the ICBMs at the US while the Minutemans are still over Canada. And the US is dead. Better alive and without an empire than dead, right? But if that happens, Israel is done for, because Israel’s rear is Europe. All the weapons come through Europe, and that route will be cut off in such a scenario. So you can easily imagine Russian generals right now pleading with Putin to make that only good move left, but certain other people ordering him to stand down.

   And the worst part is that you don’t even need to evoke the Great Jewish Conspiracy, though all the evidence points to that playing a major role. A lot of the Russian oligarchs are against the war and would be perfectly happy with the country being defeated for purely selfish economic reasons. Because their position rests on being middle men between Russian resources and the West. Russia doesn’t need to exist for them to be doing that. But they won’t be able to do that if there is total war and the connection with the West is permanently severed. They will also lose status in a major way if a mobilization is carried out and the state fully takes over the economy.

   So that is a major factor too. These things tend to be overdetermined.

   https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/06/john-helmer-putin-hits-pause-button-on-oreshnik-level-retaliation-for-ukraine-strike-on-russian-nuclear-deterrence-assets.html#comment-4225893

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   Comment by Dan Kelly | June 6, 2025 | Reply

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