Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley insists that "this is a Ukrainian war. It is not a war between the United States and Russia. It’s not a war between NATO and Russia."
The top US general reaffirmed that Kiev has long been asked not to use military equipment provided by Washington to conduct attacks against Russian territory, according to Reuters. This policy is necessary because such attacks could provoke a direct clash between NATO and Russia, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley emphasized while speaking with reporters at the Pentagon on Thursday.
Milley’s comments came after a neo-Nazi group, which operates as part of Kiev’s armed forces and cooperates with Ukrainian military intelligence, carried out a cross-border raid in Russia. Denis Nikitin is the leader of the Russian Volunteer Corps, which is said to be made up of Russian citizens including some members of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion who fought, since 2014, for Kiev during the Donbas war. Nikitin said his men were using US equipment, such as two M1224 MaxxPro armored vehicles, also known as MRAPs, during the raid. Members of another militia, the Freedom of Russia Legion, also participated in the assault.
According to Russian officials, the terrorists launched mortar and artillery attacks against civilian infrastructure and residential areas in the Belgorod region on Monday. Ukraine’s military intelligence hints that they were behind the attack, while stopping short of officially taking credit. Though, some documents included in the Discord Leaks suggest that Ukrainian President Zelensky’s regime was planning similar operations, specifically using these Russian volunteers equipped with "various qualitative types of NATO weapons."
According to the New York Times, US officials believe Kiev was behind Monday’s raid and the recent attempted drone strike on the Kremlin, which Moscow believes was an attempt to kill Russian President Vladimir Putin. The officials also believe Kiev is responsible for a series of assassinations and other covert attacks within Russia. Moreover, the deputy head of Ukraine’s main intelligence directorate admitted this week that they are actively attempting to assassinate Putin and other Russian officials.
Kiev’s position is that the Belgorod raid was carried out independently from Zelensky’s intelligence and military services. But the Freedom of Russia Legion’s special representative, Ilya Ponomarev, said the group received Kiev’s "green light" regarding the attack. Pictures and videos posted by the Russian military have confirmed Nikitin’s claims.
“It is no secret for us that more and more equipment is being delivered to Ukraine’s armed forces,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday when asked by reporters about the militias’ U.S.-made hardware.
Contrarily, Milley refused to say Washington has drawn any firm conclusions yet. “I can’t say with definitive accuracy right this minute to you whether that – and I saw the same video – whether that’s U.S. supplied equipment or not, what was the nature of the attack, who did what to whom,” Milley insisted.
He continued, "…but I can say that we have asked the Ukrainians not to use U.S.-supplied equipment for direct attacks into Russia." For its part, Reuters stated they were "able to confirm the location of damaged [U.S.-made military hardware such as Humvee military trucks] and surrounding details shown in the video, though could not verify the date it was filmed."
Kiev has ostensibly pledged not to use long-range weapons provided by Washington to attack Russia, but leaked documents also show that Zelensky does not intend to keep his word. Earlier this month, the Washington Post reported that "behind closed doors, Ukraine’s leader has proposed going in a more audacious direction – occupying Russian villages to gain leverage over Moscow, bombing a pipeline that transfers Russian oil to Hungary, a NATO member, and privately pining for long-range missiles to hit targets inside Russia’s borders, according to classified US intelligence documents detailing his internal communications with top aides and military leaders."
However, the Joe Biden administration has now greenlit their European allies’ plans to transfer F-16s to Ukraine. Biden proclaims that he has received Zelensky’s "flat assurance" that the fighter jets will not be used to attack Russia.
Though, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) told a reporter on Wednesday that he "wouldn’t care if they did," reflecting the uber hawkishness that has become acceptable within the US Congress. Furnishing Zelensky’s regime with warplanes was long ruled out over fears that it would be perceived by Moscow as the alliance directly entering the war.
"We see that Western countries are still adhering to the escalation scenario. It involves colossal risks for themselves," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko admonished the alliance after the Western plans to send F-16s to Ukraine became public. When asked about the Russian official’s warning, Biden threatened "it is for them."
Milley explained these restrictions are ostensibly implemented in hopes of avoiding a direct war with Russia. “Why is that? Because we don’t want – this is a Ukrainian war. It is not a war between the United States and Russia. It’s not a war between NATO and Russia,” Milley said.
The general’s claims fall flat given the fact that, so far, the US has pledged $113 billion backing Kiev in this proxy war. Washington’s Ukraine policy is explicitly designed to "weaken" Russia as Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin made clear last year.
The White House is shipping Bradley armored fighting vehicles, longer range rockets, Patriot missile systems, and M1 Abrams tanks to the battlefield. Concurrently, the CIA is reportedly conducting sabotage attacks on Russian infrastructure and the Pentagon has tacitly endorsed Kiev’s drone strikes hundreds of miles deep inside the Russian mainland. The UK has armed Zelensky’s regime with depleted uranium munitions, linked to cancer and birth defects, which are being fired at Russian troops by British tanks. Far exceeding the reach of any weapons system the US has pledged, London has equipped Kiev with Storm Shadow missiles with a range of more than 155 miles. The missiles can be fired by the MIG-29 warplanes NATO members Slovenia and Poland sent to Ukraine earlier this year.
Beyond the Washington-led bloc’s massive military aid, an assortment of NATO commandos, US troops, CIA, and Special Operations forces are on the ground in Ukraine as well.
Connor Freeman is the assistant editor and a writer at the Libertarian Institute, primarily covering foreign policy. He is a co-host on the Conflicts of Interest podcast. His writing has been featured in media outlets such as Antiwar.com, Counterpunch, and the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. He has also appeared on Liberty Weekly, Around the Empire, and Parallax Views. You can follow him on Twitter@FreemansMind96.
“Top US General: Ukraine Should Not Use US Equipment to Attack Russia”
Once your equipment is in the most corrupt country on earth you have no control over it or who they well it to.
At least we found a new attribute of Western weapons sent to Ukraine. For some reason, Russian hypersonic air to ground missiles are drawn to Western military equipment almost by “magnetism”.
Soon Russia will corner the market on scrap metal from destroyed military equipment.
I guess Milley expects the equipment to be there for show and tell.
The rules were in place long before Miley made these comments. That Biden is now willing to bend the rules is the issue that matters here.
That’s a pretty serious flex regarding the vaunted, Russian hypersonic missles that keep getting shot down as soon as they’re fired off. If your referring to the minor damage to the Patriot battery then, sure, they are drawn to the general area by magnetism to cause damage that’s repaired with duct tape.
They have not been shot down. Even Ukraine and out DoD admitted that, before they resumed the flood of lies about it.
Repeating the Big Lie for weeks cannot change facts. It cannot change the outcome on the ground.
It can only cause the deluded to make their situation worse.
No, no. The Empire of Lies is saying “patriot” system is just fine, minor damage, and all 28 fictional hypersonic missiles were shot down. It’s the Russians who are lying about launching only one or two of their fictional hypersonic Kinzhal missiles.
If your asking for proof that they shot them down, I cannot provide it. But, If they’re not being shot down then they’re not functioning the way they were designed because pieces of them are falling from the sky and being found in the ground
Best evidence that the hypersonic missiles are not ‘working’ is in the lack of evidence that they strike and destroy stuff – the Ukrainians have not been able to keep photos of smoke columns away from the internet, nor indeed many of the pictures of destroyed buildings or equipment.
So the hypersonic missiles are either not hitting anything significant that goes boom or or they are being shot down. And the best evidence that this is so is the video showing the Patriot system at an airport in Kyiv most likely actually taking a hit.
The video, which the Ukrainian’s should have kept out of the media if they had that ability – showed how the (likely) Patriot system fired off all its rockets (likely to avoid having them hit while on the ground – making taking a hit much worse) then only to be the approximate location of an explosion.
How bad the Patriot system was hit is not at all clear from the video, but the claim from the Ukrainians were that it only took insignificant damage – that insignificant damage could have been very much worse had there been 30 odd Patriot rockets on the ground.
So to sum it up – evidence for (potential) successful strikes do get out, we see very little evidence for effective strikes by hypersonic missiles and when they hit their precision or their destructive power may be less than impressive – if this was not the not the case we should see more evidence of successful hits.
To be fair to the Russians, getting the Ukrainians to waste 30 Patriot missiles @$4 million each is a successful strike. But I agree that overall Russia’s “HYPERSONIC MISSILES!!!” are not the game changers some commenters pretend they are.
You proven your expertise in military tech with “Trident subs”
Best to remain silent on this subject.
And you are as short of artillery as the Russian army.
I don’t use artillery, sweetheart. My fact glide-bombs are more lethal than your impotent propaganda about Russian military.
LOL
Right. Russians are just so dumb, they will simply hand over their advanced technology to imperial parasites. Do you believe in flat earth and Russian collusion?
Do you have any evidence for any of that degenerate propaganda?
There were two “earthquakes” measuring 2.5 on the Richter scale reported in Ukraine yesterday. One was in Kiev, the other was in Poltava. Some believe that they were actually explosions from underground munitions warehouses. But that could not have been the case because Ukraine is constantly telling people that Russia’s hypersonic missiles can’t get through their defenses.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley insists that “this is a Ukrainian war. It is not a war between the United States and Russia. It’s not a war between NATO and Russia.” (excerpt)
Tell that to the Russian speaking population in the Donbas who are dying because of the arms the U.S. and NATO countries sent to Zelensky. Zelensky may not use them against Russian territory proper, because he was instructed not to do so by the West, but Russians are still dying in Ukraine. I don’t think Putin buys into your logic Gen. Milley.
Gen. Milley is just another liar. Most likely the strike on Belgorod and the drone inside the Kremlin were operations, escalation probes to see if and what response they excited, ordered and chosen by Washington and approved by Gen. Milley.
I don’t know how anyone cannot read the above article and not know that the U.S./NATO wanted this war against Russia and provoked it.
Correct, US/NATO/Ukraine invaded Russia.
Yes, US/NATO wanted the war and provoked it. But the Russians were still wrong to start the war by invading a country that was not threatening Russia militarily. The Ukrainians are fighting a righteous war of self defense against a foreign invader.
Oh please….get off that kick that the Ukrainians were not threatening Russia militarily. Why do you think they were being pumped up with lethal military weapons and troop training up to NATO standards. What did Merkel, Poroshenko, Hollande and others say about the Minsk Accords that they signed? It was to buy time to bulk up Ukraine against Russia. Why do you think the Kiev governments ,after the 2014 coup, were persecuting and shelling the ethnic Russian people in the Donbass areas? 14,000 people killed. Russia never threatened Ukraine prior to these events and atrocities. Ukraine’s lying government was trying to ethnically cleanse eastern Ukraine of ethnic Russians so they could grab their land, their farms, their factories and businesses. It is so obvious, but of course you will continue to have scales over your eyes.
” Russia never threatened Ukraine prior to these events and atrocities.” Except for annexing Crimea and infiltrating special forces into Donbas to foment a secessionist movement. Stop telling the lie about 14,000 killed in Donbas. Over 8 years the casualties included 11,000 combatants from both sides and 3,000 civilians. More than 40,000people died in the battle of Bakhmut. Probably over 100,000 people have been killed in Putin’s mad war. Stop regurgitating Kremlin propaganda and do some thinking. Putin’s war has gone on for over a year and only continues because he can’t accept the fact that the Russian invasion has been defeated.
Your anti-Putin hatred has either blinded you to the truth or you are part and parcel of the Neocon establishment lies. The people of Crimea were horrified at the Maidan Coup in 2014 and held an election where the overwhelming majority of people voted to be annexed to Russia. International election observers were present and said the election was fair. The U.S. and UK did not send observers because they knew how the vote would turn out, so why waste time on that. As for Bakhmut our Western media kept telling us that it was of little strategic importance, so why did Zelensky pour his soldiers into that meat grinder?
If you think the Russians have been defeated in Ukraine then why do they still control over 20% of the land? Why are they still there if they have been defeated. When is that Ukrainian counter offensive going to begin—winter, spring, summer or fall? Why is Zelensky darting around Europe begging for more help if the Russians have been defeated? Do some thinking Skywalker. Broaden your horizons and don’t just listen to the lame stream news media. Listen to the Independent Journalists for a change.
Try to think like a Ukrainian. When will the offensive come? Most likely late summer or fall after Ukraine gets the advanced tanks and F-16’s and trains its people how to use them. Ukraine is in no hurry.
The Ukrainians are still fighting. That means they have won. This is an asymmetric war.
It sometimes takes decades for an imperial power to realize that it has been defeated in an asymmetric war. The defeat eventually manifests itself in resistance movements in the invader’s homeland or in malaise or revolt in the military. It has been over for Russia in Ukraine. The Ukrainians are uniting and fighting the Russian invaders with the same tenacity as the Ukrainians and Russians displayed in the fight against the Nazi invaders.
The world is not as black and white as portrayed by the Kremlin propaganda you repeat without thinking. Ukraine is very volatile politically. In 1991 the country voted 71% to continue the Soviet Union. Nine months later Ukrainians voted 92% in favor of independence with 55% of the ethnic Russians supporting independence. Yankovych won a big majority. By 2013 he was the most unpopular man in Ukraine and was removed from office by 73% of Ukrainian MP’s, including members of his own party. Unfortunately, a vote in Ukraine is not permanent. It can’t hurt to hold another plebiscite in Crimea after a cooling off period.
I respectfully suggest you broaden your worldview and realize that things are not as simple as the propagandists try to make us believe.
What like the Saudis shouldn`t use US weapons to kill civilians in Yemen or British weapons if it comes to that , however if you don`t want the Ukrainians to use US weapons why give them the weapons to begin with.
Or the French to stop killing Vietnamese, before we stepped in.
“Or the French to stop killing Vietnamese, before we stepped in” and started killing them directly
I do not recall Milley ever stating similar about the Taliban and those billions of $$$ of weapons left them!?
So it is OK for the Taliban to wage terror with US–supplied weaponry?!?!
Wasn’t Milley once with the TransSpecial Forces?!?!
Unfortunately for Milley, the intel guys don’t give a damn about what the top brass wants.
That press conference with Austin and Milley reminds me of the movie, DUMB AND DUMBER. Like Foghorn Leghorn, both men used their baritone voices to hide their low mental acuity. It was hilarious to observe Austin giving Milley the lead to reiterate the dumb sentence: “…this is a Ukrainian war. Not a war between Russia and the United States.” You could almost hear the gears crunching in Austin’s head, when he meant to say those words. Austin wins the “WHO IS DUMBER CONTEST?” Well, sorry, it wasn’t that hilarious. What’s more hilarious is how many of us believe them. (Sarcasm alert)
It wouldn’t be considered an act of war, if the rolls were reversed?
Come On Man!!
roles “Come On Man!!”
LOL i can’t wait for a debate between he and the trump just to hear him say that.
Refreshing honesty, but upsetting facts.
more scumbag democracy from the West. i object!
America the Pitiful. the rest of us SMART Americans are AGAINST the illegal occupation in this proxy war. Some of our idiots are too thick to understand that Putin is a hero. Vlad, the Non-Impaler…History repeats itself. we armed and financed both sides in WW2. now it’s happening again. Kiev Nazis, neo-Nazis…
That press conference with Austin and Milley reminds me of the movie, DUMB AND DUMBER. Like Foghorn Leghorn, both men used their baritone voices to hide their low mental acuity. It was hilarious to observe Austin giving Milley the lead to reiterate the dumb sentence: “…this is a Ukrainian war. Not a war between Russia and the United States.” You could almost hear the gears crunching in Austin’s head, when he meant to say those words. Austin wins the “WHO IS DUMBER CONTEST?” Well, sorry, it wasn’t that hilarious. What’s more hilarious is how many of us believe them. (Sarcasm alert)
Milley is retiring in a few weeks so no one is going to bother pushing back on that obvious lie.
You don’t provide those capabilities unless you anticipate they will use them.
The question is whether it helps Ukraine win on the ground or if these are more for public consumption and other than a few occasional lucky hits it won’t change a thing in regards to Russia military capabilities.
We can trust that his DEI replacement will toe the neocon line even more carefully. This is set to go from bad to worse.
It wont change the outcome of clean up operation in Ukraine but it will make Russian population more angry. They already demanding Kremlin to launch nukes.
Where are you from kid?
I’m leaning towards a community college in Baltimore or some suburb in the Midwest. We all know you aren’t Russion because in a previous post you shared you don’t live there.
Playing pretend are we?
Lots of people play pretend.
You, for example, pretend to be an actress who died 60 years ago.
No biggie.
And you pretend to be a moderator that doesn’t jump into threads where you are not wanted.
You are so needy in your want of attention.
Everyone is allowed to jump into any thread he or she damn well pleases. That doesn’t require being a moderator.
As for my “want of attention,” there’s absolutely nothing stopping you from ignoring me, or even hitting the “block” button so that you never, ever see anything I say. But you’d never do that because it would limit your opportunities to whine about how awful it is that others don’t need your permission to talk.
There you go again.
I share how I view your tendency to be “that guy” always lurking and waiting to jump into threads with your snark and you are once again acting hurt.
Your need for attention is always present as is your feined upset.
I don’t need attention, I don’t feign upset, and if you think I’m “acting hurt,” that thing you’re doing that you think is thinking isn’t. You’re free to ignore me any time you choose, and it won’t bother me at all if you do. I would be just one less person for you to complain about having an opinion.
The moderator is upset….lol.
You made you look bad, not him, in that exchange.
Not if you know our history.
He likes to jump into threads not involving him and do a driveby snark. Some anonymous guy is one thing but this is the moderator who does this; wtf?
What a way to make people feel welcomed…lol.
Btw, I’m not pretending to be ZaSu whereas the fake Russian guy is pretending to be someone he isn’t. We had 2 threads going and he really got obnoxious in the other one so I asked him in that one where he really was from and asked him in this one too. You unlike the mod do not know the whole context.
The mod reads everything but chose to ignore that other thread that was going on at the same exact time this one was.
So the moderator’s jab at me which was over names as he tried to make it, was not even what was point I was making that the guywas playing pretend and was not who he was trying to portray.
The guy shared he did not actually live in Russia then used a western term “Karen”which why I asked which midwestern burb he was from. Then here comes the site’s moderator to stick his nose in because he reads everything we post and just can’t control himself and keep himself in the background like normal moderators do.
“He likes to jump into threads not involving him”
Unless you are Joe Biden, Volodomyr Zelenskyy, or Vladimir Putin, pretty much every thread on this site doesn’t involve you … yet there you are.
To the best of my recollection, the “fake Russian guy” has never “pretended” to be Russian, and in fact identified himself as American shortly after he began posting here. He just has a screen name that doesn’t reflect his real identity. Exactly like you.
Your ignorance about what a moderator is does not constitute binding policy as to what a moderator should do.
You can’t help yourself from jumping into conversations can you?
The guy resorted to calling me names because I told him he could find someone else to be his foil for west bashing and you just had to pipe in didn’t you?
You are the moderator not the site’s scold yet that’s your duties you seem to believe.
You are paid to jump into our conversations to annoy us?
Is that what you are here for?
Some guy was not trying to have a conversation but to use me as a foil and I called him on it and here comes the site’s moderator to jump in and lay some out of context snark at me….again.
Now you are here insisting as moderator you are here to treat this as your personal site not as a normal moderator who lurks in the background and leaves commentators alone.
This is a commenting forum. “Jumping into conversations” is the entire description of its purpose.
Yes, I’m the moderator, which means that I am paid to delete posts which (and if necessary warn or ban commenters who) violate the site’s guidelines.
I’m not paid to “jump into conversations” any more than you are. My job as moderator has about as much to do with the content of my comments as it does with what my favorite color is, what I watched on TV yesterday, or what I’d like for lunch.
And once again you demonstrate your abject ignorance of what a moderator on virtually any site does. There are certainly some who “quietly lurk.” There are others who tightly control virtually every aspect of every discussion and who are the omnipresent/dominant voices on the forums they moderate simply because they don’t allow anyone who disagrees with them to comment. In my case, moderation is simply enforcing some specific guidelines. Unless a comment from me is specifically labeled as regarding moderation matters, it’s just a comment from me, not a moderator thing. When the disco’s janitor isn’t mopping the floor, but instead dancing on it, he’s being a dancer, not a janitor.
You are labeled as moderator on every comment when looking at this site on a laptop not just when you perform moderating duties.
You don’t know this?
I literally see your posts everyone of them labeled as a moderator as long as I’m on one of my laptops whereas on my phone it’s never seen and likely does as you say.
That’s why I get so pissed at you.
You are not represented as just another guy commentating but always as the moderator with that little red banner letting me know the site moderator is here again acting as the agent of the site to once again hassle me.
Thatred banner that says mod that is always present that says you aren’t just some random guy who gets things wrong in my view or is not quite addressing my point and we talk past each other.
You seriously thought your moderater banner never shows?
Yes, Disqus notices that I’m a moderator even when I’m not moderating.
Being pissed at me because I comment while I’m also a moderator is like being pissed at me because I comment while also wearing a funny hat. I’m only acting “as an agent of the site” when moderating, not when commenting.
In my view you act as an agent of the site with that mod banner and I’ve run across others bringing it up with you getting a little upset so I know this isn’t just me having the view that one gets when we see that red banner.
But if you thought your posts normally don’t has that banner and you want to be viewed as just another commentator I can see why you get so frustrated when we express our frustration at someone represented as a agent has jumped in to “moderate” us and tell us why we are wrong or jab at us.
Just some guy having fun is a lot different than the mod jumping in is to me and I bet to a lot of others who have brought up your status definately see that banner you thought was hidden.
Perhaps a account that could be used to comment without that red mod banner could be used?
But then that would require 2 devices so that would be a hassle so ef that…
But I will try to remember you really aren’t trying to “mod” me even though that is what the account you use to make your comment says that is your function here.
I will try to remember you aren’t “The Man” attempting complience on YOUR site but instead to ignore the mod moniker that discus makes your wear because you are not actually functioning as one and do not want to be look as one at all times despite that banner showing
I wouldn’t need two devices to comment under another Disqus account. I’d just need to set up another account and sign in/out.
But why would I do that just to placate people whose only available attack on someone they disagree with is “you’re a MODDDDDDDDDDERATORRRRR. That means you SHOULDN’T HAVE OPINIONS, because I DON’T KNOW WHAT “MODERATOR” MEANS?”
I know what a moderator is and have seen how some abuse commentators.
Newsbusters used to have a discus section and if you even looked at Ted Cruz crossways they’d attack.
Crazy Glenn Beck’s mods would literally attack people like trolls.
And here you are, thinking your banner was hidden, commenting away, unaware we see the moderator arriving to hassle not as just some guy having fun.
I’m really trying to see your side knowing now that stupid thing was thought to be hidden by you however…..
You still are having a hard time seeing my side in this and are upset….still.
Now that I know you want to be just another commentator and we are to ignore what your side hustle is……lol…. wait for it….lol
Wait…..
Ef you, get over yourself…lol
You ain’t the mod so I can ef with you as much as I want…
….not that i want to ef with you, but now you are just another guy hanging out and not the annoying mod sticking his nose in where it is not wanted.
That may not be a difference to you but that is a huge difference to me.
That mod sign therefor don’t mean Schiff.
You aren’t actually trying to remind everyone you are the “man” and full of hubris because you run this site but really are just another guy commentating.
I still believe you are a data guy who gets stuck at one point in time way too much instead of being more focused on trends and disruptions like I tend to do but that is for another day when you roll out some data.
“And here you are, thinking your banner was hidden”
Why on earth would I “think my banner was hidden?”
You’re correct that the mod sign doesn’t mean shit — and never has. I could do my moderation job without it, and I can comment with it.
I don’t “run this site.” I take care of a few functions on it, including moderating comments, and that function came about because I was the only one willing to do that when the people who DO run the site made a “find a moderator or don’t have commenting” decision.
I AM the mod and you can ef with me as much as you want — more so than you can other Antiwar.com personnel, since the guidelines actually prohibit attacks on them, but I’ve exempted myself from that, as it wouldn’t be very fair to be the judge of whether I’ve been attacked for banning purposes.
Yes, I really am just another guy commenting.
And wow, does it bug you to no end that other people don’t need your permission to do that!
Did you not share that youthought it was missing until you did something as a mod?
Anyway it sure seems to bother you that I viewed you as a mod who liked to screw with me rather as just another commentator as you prefer to be viewed.
Why are you upset still over how I mistakenly viewed how you wanted to be viewed?
Really how was I was supposed to know that despite you having the mod designation you want to be viewed as just another commentator musing away with the rest of us and not to take your comments as the site mod screwing with me?
“Did you not share that youthought it was missing until you did something as a mod?”
To the extent that I can make any sense at all of that statement, the answer would be “no.” At some point, a long time ago, I noticed that it existed, and I haven’t paid any attention to it since.
Any statement implying that anything you do “bothers” me, or that I am “upset” about anything with respect to commenting at Antiwar.com, is wishful thinking on your part.
As for “screwing with you,” this is a comment section, and people, including me, comment here. I reply to comments that I find interesting, and yours happen to be interesting more often than some people’s and less often than others. If it bothers you that other people can reply to your comments, that’s what the block/ignore button is for.
Fine, whatever.
I shared how I viewed you, you refuse to except it.
But as you share we are to look upon you as just another commentator, so I do not give a crap if you understand my position or not.
You aren’t the mod, just some guy who honestly if you are unable to understand just how that red mod label you carry around tends to effect how I viewed you up to now….I do not care.
You can be as mad, upset, annoyed whatever you are and I do not care because you aren’t the mod.
I do not care if you pop in, because you are not the mod.
I do not care if I annoy you because you are not the mod.
I do not care if you like me, because you are not the mod.
You as you share are to be viewed as guy another guy sharing his views.
You do not realize how much your adamant want to be considered as just another person who visits the site to share instead of “that efing mod” as I viewed you previously has changed my view of you, not that I expect you to give a crap or even understand.
You might not view your mod status as something we should care about but you are the very rare exception.
I honestly do not remember mods elsewhere interacting as you do, writers sure, (America Thinker when they had their original format had better writers and they’d interact with commentators with their Discus accounts as just someone hanging out) but not the mods.
But then you share you thought the banner was absent which explains a lot and why we should not consider you as one no matter what discus claims you are.
Fuck off
I think this needs to stop ZaSu. This is an antiwar website, it does not seem very fit to carry on this way…
Nah. Commenters get to comment. Including “ZaSu Pitts,” whoever she or he is.
I can’t believe he let that get past pending..that was for him personally.
He very firmly shares he does not want to be viewed as “that annoying mod” but as just another commentator.
I will tell a annoying mod to ef off but not just a guy sharing his views so don’t worry about me getting so pissed off at him now.
His very earnest want to not be viewed as a mod has quite honestly changed how I view him.
He’s no longer that annoying mod lurking to find something, anything to rag on me about.
You do not know just how annoying that was to always see a guy I viewed as the site mod to be disagreeing as if this site was disagreeing as well.
He’s just a guy sharing and musing to me now, no more no less.
Top US General: Ukraine Should Not Use US Equipment to Attack Russia
that’s just the standard disclaimer that is printed on every box of munitions/equipment that is shipped out from the US to whoever receives it
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/the-neocons-have-been-planning-for-war-with-russia-for-a-long-time/
The Neocons Have been Planning for War with Russia For a Long-Time
I’m sure the timing is a coincidence that Gen. Mark Milley is being replaced by General Charles Q Brown.
He just make himself enemy of MIC…!
LOL. Not a US war w. Russia? As the old saying goes, believe nothing until it has been officially denied. Thoroughly modern Milley Vanilley once again opens his mouth, which is proof positive of perfidy.