Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Силиконовый занавес"
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$61,000,000,000 => $21,000,000,000 for Kyiv; $40,000,000,000 for the Pentagon.
This split has caused no end of confusion all the way around.
It's why folks think that Kyiv is getting a pitiful amount of backing -- which was baked in with the original bill.
Zelenskyy made a catastrophic error, years ago, by not tapping the LendLease fund ~ $21,000,000,000 back in '22. It's expired.
He didn't think it wise to borrow from America; instead he depended on Biden's gifts. Oops.
Biden was never calling the shots. Jake Sullivan always was. Jake never wanted Moscow to fail catastrophically.
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You've got your history wrong. It's MINSK III that Trump is proposing -- which is insane, geopolitically -- as Putin has walked over EVERY treaty/deal/agreement he's ever come to cross. Only utter defeat will cause any enforcement against this tyrant.
Adolf got rolling not because of Munich -- but because Stalin conned him into jointly invading Poland -- AND splitting Europe into Nazi/Bolshevik spheres of influence. Somehow, everyone has forgotten what Yeltsin revealed to the world thirty-years ago -- how Stalin decided, essentially, everything -- not Hitler. It was Stalin who picked the invasion date, 9-1-39, who picked the spoils line -- in his own hand ! That document still exists. But, apparently, not in the collective memories of the West. Jews, in particular, give credit to Stalin for stopping Adolf, when the opposite is clearly the case. Nikita well said that Stalin was an anti-Semite of the 'First Water.' ( A reference to the diamond trade, no less. Yes, it's a Jewish term. )
Stalin craftily delayed his own penetration into the back of Poland by 17 days -- and by this delay moved the onus onto Adolf. Late in 1941, Uncle Joe wasn't looking so smart. Thank the heavens that the Germans were logistical fools -- and so, literally ran out of gas at the gates to Moscow.
This folly was repeated throughout the rest of the war, BTW.
It was the WEST that stopped Adolf -- never Stalin. WWII was fought with resources -- and Adolf sent the bulk of his towards Britain, and later, the US -- NEVER the USSR. True, yet amazing. Armies are cheap, even panzer armies. Air forces, navies are EXPENSIVE and can't use fresh recruits. The collective West sucked down 70% of Adolf's stuff -- only 30% went against the Bolshevik hordes. Hard to believe, but true.
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Trump pulled this exact stunt with Bibi, just the other day.
He trolls the world with the EXACT opposite of what it wants to hear.
WRT Gaza, Trump opines: "America will own it. Everyone thinks this is a great idea." ( I paraphrase.)
Which is quite the opposite of reality. Suddenly, EVERY Muslim Arab nation comes out against the zany notion.
The only folks who think it's great are GAZANS. You know, the folks living in tents, in a war zone.
They love the idea. Anywhere but here is their motto.
ALL this time Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Spain, Belgium have been sitting on their collective asses.
Every other priority had first place -- especially Globalism.
Well, Globalism is dead. The Left killed it. I know it's religion among the college crowd. But, it's dead.
Step 1) The European collective is going to HAVE TO seize Putin's billions...
Step 2) Then give them all to Ukraine.
Step 3) They are going to have to thoroughly audit them -- in Real Time.
Zelenskyy and Company are thieves. As are Biden, Putin, Xi, ... Orban, et al.
Look at USAID. It's a bucket of loot for the DNC. $6,000,000 for Egyptian tourism? What a hoot!
Step 4) Europe is going to have to expel Merkel's Millions. They can't be afforded. They are perpetual dependents.
Step 5) Europe is going to have to Ramp up Military Expenditures in a REAL WAY.
Eight howitzers from Paris per month is a JOKE.
Two howitzers from Berlin is a JOKE.
14 Tanks from London is a JOKE... given over three-years. Whew! That WAS expensive! 42 went to the breakers. Of course.
No nation wants tyrant Putin to lose.
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You have to stop talking like a written academic paper. No-one expects/ wants caveats during an Introduction to a highly political 'take' on current events. It's understood that your pitch, any and all of them, is not to be deemed a scholarly treatise that's been peer reviewed by a bunch of high brow sophisticates. Your spiel becomes utterly stilted/ repulsive with such meaningless caveats. Of course you're speaking off-the-cuff as are your video counter-parties. Save us and yourself loads of time and just cut straight to the heart of your presentation. Everyone understands you're speaking from your gut -- and may not even be 100% accurate -- as none of us has a perfect memory. ( I used to, but it died about 65-years ago, if I remember correctly.)
If you were to review your prior videos you'd come to realize just how feeble your presentation becomes when you launch everything from an extremely defensive mind-set. Just talk like you're Donald J Trump. He's wrong so many times, no-one pays much attention to his slip-ups/ exaggerations/ hyperbole. And with all of that, he's just been voted president in a landslide. You can understand why the scholarly class absolutely hates him.... as do Democrat grifters far and wide. Damn-it, Trump can't be bought. [ What's $10,000,000 to an ego-driven billionaire who loses a billion every time he takes office? ] Whereas Biden, Obama, Clinton -- there's the fast money crowd. They pimp themselves out -- and in plain sight. True professional politicians, then.
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USAID is NOT soft power. It's the CIA's Black Bag of Cash -- and always has been -- since JFK.
It is, by now, just an adjunct to the DNC, and the Hard Left. Most of its official titles are deliberate jokes.
Tourism for Egypt. Ha, ha, ha. So that's $6,000,000. Those boys really crack me up. It's bribery, straight up.
Soft Power is utterly useless against Putin -- as Biden-Sullivan have amply demonstrated.
Both were afraid of their own shadows and above all, afraid of Putin's actual defeat.
Trump talks compromise -- but that's just to get Putin in his chair at the negotiating table -- which he is rightly fearful of.
You can NEVER get Putin to sit down if you announce to all and every what a bastard and villain he is -- and he IS.
Instead, you have to talk as if you're kind-of-on-his-side, and then mouse him around the cat's table during negotiations.
Putin holds a 2 of diamonds, an 8 of clubs -- a bust. No field-cards can save him.
Trump is working to a MUCH higher game than you can comprehend... which is something that Bibi alluded to just yesterday.
Trump opined that the USA may just have to step in and 'own Gaza.' Well that put the cat among the canaries!
He also opined that everyone was in favor of it. Heh.
Try the exact opposite. Everyone wondered who in Heaven he was talking about.
The Muslims quickly put their heads together -- to keep Trump/USA at bay.
Which is EXACTLY what Trump wanted.
He'd managed to throw the Resolution ball into their court. They'd been dodging it for 50-years.
Since Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia are utterly dependent upon the USA and its president -- things will happen.
But don't assume things will move all that fast... which is what Trump said, if you recall.
BTW, the Gazans, the real people living in tent-hell, want to move-on... RIGHT NOW.
Once they've resettled, don't be too surprised if in twenty-years they don't want to come back to Hamas town.
ALL Gazans are on the dole. It never had a conventional economy, not even tourism, banking or gambling.
USAID has made the world MUCH worse. It's as if you let college professors actually run society.
Heaven help humanity.
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Putin is making essentially zero profit from oil exports. Why? Because India and Red China are hard bargainers.
India is trying to stick Russia with taking Rupees. (!) To avoid taking any more, Putin has orchestrated a three-way trade in currencies.
Which scarcely solves his problem. Arabs are sharp traders, too.
As for Red China, they drive a hard bargain, too. How? By providing Russia with 'Seconds' -- the stuff that the West won't accept.
They are also giving Putin lip-service, of which the Chinese are past masters of, while permitting him to import non-military grade goods.
Stuff like golf carts, electric scooters, plastic combat helmets, etc. Right now Red China has a monopoly on car imports. Chinese cars are NOT suitable for rural Russia, nor its far north. Domestically produced Ladas are now selling for Mercedes prices in Moscow. (!)
The requirement to stump up 30% interest is crippling all real estate projects. Any firm that depends upon financing is dying.
That even includes defense contractors with tempos to meet.
Putin has run through his own cash -- and now is running through everyone else's, too. And at a tremendous tempo.
Economic collapse must occur when everybody and his brother is bankrupt. Then, everything boils down to barter. Ugh.
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Zelenskyy has pulled this stunt, repeatedly, with other politicians.
The two prior rug-pulls were shocking and insulting, too. But, they were behind closed doors.
There is NO WAY on God's green Earth that Trump or Vance think in terms of such manipulative stage craft.
Whereas Zelenskyy has done so many times over.
Until Zelenskyy's assent, Trump was willing to just let things pass, let Rubio deal with matters, entirely.
Here's the sequence: Bessent, Rubio & Vance, Trump & Vance -- only the last was on camera instead of in camera.
If you ever took the time to watch the whole video, it becomes crystal clear that Zelenskyy launched the renegotiation.
Of which, Vance then interjected. Everything American was spontaneous. The Americans are just not that crafty.
BTW, Zelenskyy was on the phone/ met with senior DEMOCRAT politicians the morning before the Big Meet. Cute.
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How naive. The vast bulk of such funding -- year after year -- is always found to have reached the deep pockets of state sponsored GRIFTERS.
I'm well reminded of the United Way. In its original pitch, it was a scheme to collect -- typically by automatic payroll deduction -- charity monies that would then be distributed by wiser souls to nearly all of the charities serving the larger community.
What it quickly devolved into -- was a co-opted cabal that skewed all disbursements toward Leftist Activists who were co-joined at the hip with the boards of the various UW locals. They'd set up brand new 'charities' to receive the funds, of course. And were they EVER extremely Leftist -- Wokist one would say. When it was ultimately revealed that ALL of the 'charity' was going to FRINGE, political activists -- funding utterly collapsed. (They actually didn't waste money on the nominal local charities.) You just don't hear about the United Way anymore.
Funding sources like this attract Activists the way K-12 schools and religious institutions for children attract deviants -- it does not matter, where, who or when. It's what they live for... rather like Wild West Outlaws. Back then, even hanging wasn't enough.
The American Red Cross got absolutely immense contributions 9-12-2001. They did the wise thing -- and gave it to their own priorities -- namely huge across-the-board wage bumps for everyone in control -- to compensate for their prior charity -- seeings how they had selflessly contributed to boring board meetings for so many years. They wisely diverted most of their new funds -- being so vast -- to OTHER priorities -- wisely determined by the board -- rather than New Yorkers. No-one ever could figure out where those other monies ever went. Amazingly, the last trails pointed to OFF SHORE charities... from the AMERICAN Red Cross.
You should think of the Panama letters. Yes, be cynical.
One is reminded of the Haitian relief fund pitch by H W Bush & Bill Clinton. Those two virtuous ex-presidents were able to make $1,500,000,000 disappear into their own 'charities.' THIS was the funding that permitted Hillary to establish an IMMENSE campaign staff for 2016 -- and the years leading up to it -- which staff shot down Bernie Sanders. Their reputation was outstanding, the crisis intense -- so, after the $$$$ came in -- they wisely directed the funds to their own political purposes.
This tic is ALWAYS repeated -- regardless of year, nationality, race or political organization. The 'crisis' is always of merit -- yet the players are NEVER committed to spend the monies as directed.
Hey, it's like paying your taxes! Then Congress goes absolutely wild -- it does not matter who's in charge. I must point out the CRAZY spending Schumer & Johnson planned before that jerk Musk spotted their self-dealing boondoggle. What a Washington party pooper.
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@Therakus The European aid has been financial. Zelenskyy & Company are corrupt -- same as Biden, Putin, Orban, and Xi... so they stole an astounding amount of EU aid. Trump knows this to be true, Putin knows it. However, it can't be spoken of in diplomatic circles.
There is Bad Blood between Zelenskyy and Trump -- ever since Zelenskyy triggered Trump's first impeachment and sent Biden into the WH. This matter is KEY. It totally animates Trump's diplomacy. And it can't be mentioned in the Press. Instead, Zelenskyy is portrayed as Winston 2.0.
Kicking Trump out of the WH so that Biden, Zelenskyy's stooge, 'on the pad,' could screw things up -- world-wide was a SIN. It's no wonder Trump wants Kyiv to have a fresh election PDQ.
Like a Democrat, Zelenskyy loathes the prospect of an audit.
For both Putin and Zelenskyy a forever war really does look like the most viable outcome at this point. Peace would have to mean death for Putin. His own crew will eat him alive. Zelenskyy's Churchillian reputation will shatter without war.
Europe throws money when the only coins that count are blood and iron. 14 tanks is a JOKE from Britain -- the inventor of tanks. Eight-howizers a month is a joke from France. Belgium is even worse, and it's the birthplace of cannons. (!) Europe can't even give up on imported Russian fertilizer.
Europe won't even seize Putin's stash -- and give it to the defense of Ukraine.
Europe is feckless -- to its bone.
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