President Biden said on Tuesday that he was in “constant contact” with the Ukrainians about the invasion of Russia’s Kursk Oblast, signaling deep US involvement in the invasion of Russia.
“I’ve spoken with my staff on a regular basis probably every four or five hours for the last six or eight days,” Biden told reporters when asked about the fighting in Kursk.
“And it’s — it’s creating a real dilemma for Putin. And we’ve been in direct contact — constant contact with — with the Ukrainians,” he added
Biden made the comments after arriving in Kenner, Louisiana, on Air Force One. Before boarding the plane in Washington DC, he was also asked about Kursk but chose not to comment. “I’d rather not comment on that publicly,” he said.
The White House has insisted it was unaware of Ukraine’s plans to launch a ground incursion into Kursk until it started, but the US is strongly backing the invasion by allowing Ukrainian forces to use US weapons.
A US-backed invasion of Russia marks a significant escalation of the proxy war and risks a major response from Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin has blamed the assault on Ukraine’s Western backers, saying on Monday, “The West is waging war against us using Ukrainians.”
Heavy fighting continued in Kursk on Wednesday, with Ukraine claiming its forces made gains. The Russian Defense Ministry said it inflicted more heavy casualties on the invading force, claiming Ukraine has lost 2,300 soldiers since the assault was launched last Tuesday, but the number is not confirmed since Kyiv doesn’t release information about casualties.
So…adding to my comment from another article:
Col. Douglas Macgregor : Did the US Invade Russia?
https://m.facebook.com/JudgeNapolitano/videos/col-douglas-macgregor-did-the-us-invade-russia/1032938221751630/
Allegedly there is audio with Americans in Ukrainian uniforms who took part in the incursion. It was also planned by the US according to this video. I’m linking facebook because the video was wiped from youtube. In fact, it never played, even though it was listed as “upcoming”. Now it disappeared from Judge Nap’s site, too. Supposedly it ran live on x. Watch it before it disappears again.
Macgregor said it was essentially a PR move.
Apropos actor Andrew Napolitano:
https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/col-douglas-macgregor-did-the-us-invade-russia/id1591962689?i=1000665336733
https://mises.org/online-book/progressive-era/foreword-judge-andrew-p-napolitano
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1007732/ Andrew Napolitano
Would that be the same Douglas Macgregor who assured the world on February 27, 2022 that “the battle in eastern Ukraine is really almost over?”
Or perhaps the Douglas Macgregor who told us on March 3, 2022 that “I would say another 10 days this should be completely over?”
Or maybe the Douglas Macgregor who explained, on July 8, 2022, that “the war, with the exception of Kharkiv and Odessa, as far as the Russians are concerned is largely over?”
That Douglas Macgregor there?
He is usually just full of shit, then? This is the first I’ve listened to him.
I like Sachs, Crooke, Blumenthal and Mate on the show.
I wouldn’t say he’s usually just full of shit.
I’d say that he just has some theories he’s unwilling to let go of even though they’ve been thoroughly disproven by events. Most of us probably have such theories, perhaps on a smaller scale. For example, I once spent a long time telling myself that a particular woman could be convinced/cajoled into stopping certain bad behaviors (which had landed her in jail a time or two before I met her — unbeknownst to me until later). It’s often very hard to just cut bait and admit you got things wrong.
Ha! Knapp, there’s a story there or maybe a country music song.
Probably several of them.
We didn’t date for as long as we should have before we got married, and it was only after we did that I simultaneously found out:
1) She had spent time in court and in jail for stealing other people’s credit cards and writing bad checks; and
2) She hadn’t changed her ways. I quickly got tired of bailing her out of her very bad decisions and we went our separate ways.
I feel bad upvoting your trauma, but it sounds like you came out alright and wiser.
Well, it definitely drove the “never stick your dick in crazy” lesson home in a way that took 😀
Or don’t marry crazy.
If there were Americans killed, which I don’t think is out of the question since msm mutes casualties, would you suspect they were mercenaries or regular troops/NATO?
I doubt that the casualties will be muted. On the contrary, I believe they will be milked to the high heaven to get the dumb, uninformed citizens of the United States of Amnesia to rally around the flag, to support all out war.
No, vlp, look how injuries, etc. are played down on US ME bases.
And Biden recently claiming he is the only president not involved in war.
Not "theories" at all, he's projecting the state of play contemporary with his analysis. We have all abundantly witnessed how that each time the situation looks grim Washington ups the ante. The latest are drone swarms, a capability the UkraNazis only just acquired.
He is not "just full of $hit." He actually makes a lot of sense in terms of the need for a negotiated settlement. It's simple. The Ukrainians exceeded his expectations in their willingness to "fight 'till the last Ukrainian."
To be fair to Knapp, he could’ve miscalculated outcomes and wouldn’t let go, while still being on the money about recent intelligence and what should really happen.
I don’t usually follow military strategy pundits because I know jack about all of it.
Sachs said that he wouldn’t be surprised if Americans were directly involved. He has been pretty upstanding and boldly honest about a lot.
I know nothing. But I know one thing for sure. There's no way I would fight like this for Zelensky and Biden. …Dude. I get the cringe and chills when I mention their names together.
Same, more like extreme nausea.
That too.
Mr. Z has purchased a winery in Tuscany.
Yes, he COULD be right this time.
It’s just that he’s been wrong often enough and for long enough in the past that I don’t AUTOMATICALLY assume he’s in the know THIS time.
If I had to bet on the outcome of the Kursk incursion, without anyone giving me odds, I’d PROBABLY bet that the Ukrainians are losing, and will continue to lose, a lot of troops and equipment in hope of holding out there for long enough (or weakening the Russian position in Donbas enough to make big enough gains there) that Putin makes them a better offer than he’s been making … and that they’ll fail in that objective.
Fortunately, I don’t have to bet, so I’ll just watch and see what happens instead of actually making any predictions.
Yeah, I have no tea leaves. But Russia has more people than Ukraine, unless NATO sends troops directly.
Or Pepe.
I only heard a portion of an interview. I will look for him.
It seems like judging freedom is no longer on youtube.
Maybe he is the Douglas MacGregor who as commander of a U.S. tank force commanded U.S. tanks to take out 70 Iraqi tanks in the first Gulf War. The war is over, and embarrassing as it was, the incursion woke up the military commanders, to the extent the incursion is being treated as a terrorist attack, and will be treated as such. Take no prisoners. Many of the elite force will die.
Making predictions about war is much like making predictions about economics. Commentators should wait and then comment on the results. Everybody knows hindsight is better than foresight. Well, maybe not everybody.
(Princess Potato asked her father if she could marry Dave DeCamp. Her father said, "No he's just a common tater".) OK, I'll turn myself into the pun itentiary for pun ishment
2,300 middle age forced conscripts probably. Needs to stop.
ASG's been updated to include the lobby that cannot be named. Yes, the one which fills Congress, and journalists alike with dread. Control + F "July 4" is easiest to skip ahead:
https://roninhardjan.substack.com/p/americas-shadow-government-behind
Dread, have you found anything on Judge Nap?
He hasn’t commented. I listened to apple podcast but they are behind. He streams on x (I don’t have an account) and facebook (same).
It’s difficult to believe this was some sudden technical glitch.
… and the recent raid on Scott Ritter.
No more judging freedom on youtube.
So allegedly, he was going to make a statement about youtube on judgenap.com. Now his site is down.
Wow, … this is getting alarming.
The following internet links present some of the details of modern, cybernetic warfare.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html
https://www.dw.com/en/nord-stream-explosions-germany-issues-arrest-warrant/a-69933920
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cia-builds-12-secret-spy-135001493.html
https://cetas.turing.ac.uk/publications/role-space-domain-russia-ukraine-war
https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Portals/10/AEtherJournal/Journals/Volume-3_Number-1/Dickey_Gleason.pdf
Space and War in Ukraine – Beyond the Satellites
https://www.start.umd.edu/sites/default/files/publications/local_attachments/ATAC%20-%20U.S.%20Assistance%20to%20Ukraine%20in%20the%20Information%20Space.pdf
U.S. Assistance to Ukraine in the Information Space: Intelligence, Cyber, and Signaling
https://defensescoop.com/2023/05/09/commercial-satellite-imagery-services-included-in-new-1-2b-ukraine-security-assistance-package/
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_37750.htm Relations with Ukraine
https://www.cna.org/reports/2023/11/Role-of-Space-in-Russias-Operations-in-Ukraine.pdf
https://www.dia.mil/Portals/110/Documents/News/Military_Power_Publications/UAV_Book.pdf
https://www.espi.or.at/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/ESPI-Report-84.pdf The War in Ukraine from a Space Cybersecurity Perspective
Of course they are in constant contact. Upon outcome of this offensive depends the outcome of the whole Ukrainian project.
Copy/pasting my posts from a different site, since they seem pertinent.
Well, looks like this offensive has been stopped. The AFU had expected to take Sudzha on the first day, the militia held it for three, allowing RF forces to reinforce the lightly armed border guards. Even if you cut the claims of the Kremlin in half it was still an immensely costly failure. Now the road from Sumy is under air assault so the AFU troops have no source of supply or reinforcement, which does not bode well for their chances.
Interestingly the images of Ukrainian casualties show a lot of uniforms with woflsangel, black sun or SS patches, and it appears the attack was led by a Georgian mercenary unit. In short, Ukraine devoted two battalions of their best troops and one of new conscripts and lost the dice throw.
Walk for two hours at a moderate pace, like you might walk the dog. That's the extent of the incursion. Speculation by bloggers on both sides is that Ukraine is trying to get within artillery range of the Kursk nuclear power plant so that they can cause a Chernobyl-scale event, but it's doubtful they'll make it. The few Russian troops that were in the area (most of them in Kursk for R&R) managed to stop them for long enough that the Kremlin has positioned anti-artillery measures to protect the plant. Unfortunately that means they've had to move resources away from other civilian targets like hospitals and markets in the area, which the Ukrainians will probably shell. Videos on Russian Telegram channels show that the Ukrainians have lost a large number of Stryker armored personnel carriers, which had been deployed to protect Kyiv, and a number of tanks. Casualty numbers for both sides are highly questionable, as always, but it's unlikely that Ukrainian losses are going to be light. They're trying to dig in to hold the territory they've gained, but since they previously lost most of their armored construction equipment it's not likely to be successful.
Kiev drone strike of the Zap plant cooling tower was an act of lunacy.
Attacking the site **while the inspectors were there** was an act of stupidity.
Like Biden is on the phone for that long without having to go pee… Hey, I'm old, too. This is bullshit. It's well-known that the Ukrainian troops involved are their remaining functional battalions which were trained by the US in Poland and supplied with the "best" US weapons. Which means the US designed and executed this so-called "invasion" (more properly called an "incursion") – which as Larry Johnson pointed out in discussion with Jacques Baud is why the whole plan was and is utterly stupid and doomed to failure.
It was completely a NATO operation. Putin is sufficiently angered that he has said nyet to negotiations to end the war, his anger added to his anger at the U.S. and U.K. deep sixing negotiation in 2022. Twice.
LIES! This incursion was spontaneous! …Yes, you conspiracy theorist you. …Exactly like "the Maidan Revolution!" …"The Revolution of Dignity!" …No. That wasn't a "COUP." …No. It wasn't like "Operation Iraqi Freedom," when we fu@ked up the Iraqis either. Stay out of it! The Ukrainians are happy fighting 'till the last Ukrainian! What. Is. Your. Problem?
WHAT THE MSM ISN'T TELLING US. A good article from the Trotskyites.
Resistance to war grows among soldiers and civilians in Ukraine.
“A premonition of civil war” is in the air of Ukraine. Following the change of the military registration law, according to official information, 4.6 million people updated their military registration data in the two-month period up to July 17. At least 6 million others “are subject to automatic administrative liability.” This means, in administrative language, that half of the country’s male population finds itself practically in a state of illegality."
More at: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/08/12/izrx-a12.html
He is constant contact with Ukraine about Kursk offensive…, but he didn't know there is an offensive until he read the news on RT…!
"Biden Says US in ‘Constant Contact’ With Ukraine About Kursk Offensive"
biden memo: 'me mowth' in 'konstint kontak' with 'brayin'