JJE comments

Worrying part is Ryan Wesley Routh is clearly not an outlier but part of a deeper malaise that is much wider and indicative of a much larger, entrenched problem.

"Putin's imperialism". It just keeps coming like a geyser doesn't it.

Obscuring the origins of a conflict in exchange for loaded, emotional and distorted terms is the byproduct of what the media has been pumping out.

The supreme irony is the former quote is also used in the book/manifesto mentioned in the article penned by Mr. Routh.

Oh, I see.

Those mass evacuations of civilians really didn't occur and pretend it all isn't happening.

Everything is just swimmingly fine in state of Denmark in the Pokrovsk sector.

How convenient.

That is precisely the rhetoric - calling Russia 'fascist' - that this guy used. An obvious result of propaganda and demonizing one side, while ignoring the factual origins of the conflict.

Sad fact is many quarters have fallen for this because it has been spread and propagandized by the media in a way only Orwell could have dreamed.

There he goes again: this guy is a propagandized Ukraine fanatic who has completely lost touch with reality.

Look at photo 1 and 2 - read the sign he is holding in Kyiv.

Please world. We need everyone here. There is good against evil. These children want normal lives. We cannot tolerate corruption and evil for another 50 years. End Russia for our kids.

His is an unfortunate - but all too typical - product of the debasement of facts and logic which have underpinned the pro-Ukraine/anti-war rhetoric which has deformed common sense.

This is the first actual reporting here on the RFAF counter offensive in Kursk.

Started a week ago, and on the western flank of the Kursk bulge. The villages mentioned here are on the eastern approach.

Several now legendary Russian units are hitting back hard, including the 810th Marines from Sevastopol, alongside their counterparts from the Far East, in a planned combined arms offensive involving columns of armor.

Even Zelensky in his daily 'address' admitted there was such an event occurring. Ask him. Although his claimed it was all part of "his plan". Even here this is a quotation almost to that effect although it is hard to tell precisely.

Kurakhove finally gets a mention: this is part of the line Russian command of Group of Forces Center/South will straighten out the line of contact. Draw a line from Ugledar/Vulehar in the south through that to Pokrovsk. The whole area to the east of the former is massive cauldron living on borrowed time and being encircled as you read this. Russians are collapsing the flanks on the salient and it looks like it will be an encirclement of Pokrovsk.

He is an unhinged Ukraine fanatic. Said that yesterday. He wrote a 292 page book/manifesto with his nutty theories. Even the NYT, which interviewed him last year, openly described him yesterday as - quote - "in way over his head". Went everywhere including Taiwan. Openly called for first strike nuclear war. Really unhinged stuff.

Look at the videos he did. His ramblings on the subject are a bunch of nonsensical babble.

And indicative of the misinformation setting the agenda of that conflict and its origins.

Something of an Oswald-vibe going on here.

Him making it into a NYT article last year about recruiting mercenaries for a certain country means it's impossible for the relevant agencies to claim there has been zero contact, direct or indirect. Totally implausible.

Biden Administration cannot be trusted on this.

Congress needs a full, independent, aggressive investigation.

NYT is now naming him (as other media reported too).

The plot thickens: the same publication is reporting they actually did an interview with the very same individual in 2023 about his adventures to and activities on behalf of a certain foreign country. This is according to their Chief White House Correspondent.

Hmm... More questions than answers.

Fox News, Associated Press have named him.

CNN just followed suit, all citing "multiple law enforcements officials".

Ryan Wesley Routh.

Let's just say this guy has a certain political affiliation and has been very active and vocal with his support for many quarters on SM. This means he is also a very, very outspoken fan of a particular foreign country including an actual visit.

How will they spin it this time. Makes one wonder.

Photos of the arrest/offender are out there. Name/age etc. Has a long SM history that reveals all.

Also important to observe the "regional governor" mentioned in the article was voted for by precisely zero percent of the local population. Appointed by decree and not from there. Of course, they will not allow a free vote down there. Everyone knows what transpired at the Trade Unions House.

That man will never surrender. He already took a bullet for democracy.

Scoped rifle, Go-Pro-style camera and ceramic tile insert, according to the authorities.

Odesa is effectively held captive at the moment. The population there are pro-Russian and the Kyiv regime knows it. They speak Russian, respect the culture and history of a city founded by Catherine the Great.

US has not been involved in a fair conventional war with anyone for a long time. Pentagon prefers to pick on, and bully smaller, defenseless countries.

They were planning prison breaks and sending controversial people back. That's where the other 1494 others are. Low budget and shame.

This has Bay of Pigs written all over it. Same offenders, same motive.

Doesn't change the opinion of anyone in Yalta, Balaclava or Simferopol.

They voted in 1991 to stay part with Russia in the controversial event. They have always voted for a friend of the east in every election - look at the electoral map 91 to 2014.

And it doesn't change the fact of 1783.

Maybe they could remove the uploaded enhanced satellite photo from the ground tracker. Then it would look less suspicious.

The arming key feature has been worked out BTW.

The huge irony - and hypocrisy - is Uncle Sam is deploying information warfare in dozens and dozens of countries as you read this. Vicious stuff some of their propaganda.

Another irony is a large chunk of it is directed at countries with governments allied to the US.

Naive to pretend the pentagon doesn't have an ongoing information department.

Erdogan has done his part by helping Russia avoid sanctions and win.

This is called throwing something a bone to pretend all is well.

A "war on Ukraine" is a false equivalency. Don't simplify the complexities of this conflict. Millions of Ukrainians are on Russia's side. How odd.

Clearly this a war of the Russian Federation against the Kyiv-regime, with millions supporting the former and very few willing volunteers for the latter.

Obviously, one won't mind after a thorough examination is done on shot down ones, Moscow will share the findings with the people next door. Reverse engineering is real.

So, government censorship is the call...

British/French Storm Shadow/SCALP are hardly new to RFAF. We know NATO people have to program them. Even the sponsors won't let the 'keys' fall into wrong hands for a lost cause.

Wonder Weapons won't change the facts on the ground either.

US doesn't have the weapons for deep strike into Russia. ATACMS are largely used up. This is all bluster. They used up 30% of their stockpile and full well know the cost of even an old one, is well over a million bucks. Russian interceptors cost a fraction of that. Plus, they know Moscow will hit back.

Sevastopol cannot withdraw from Crimea. Hero City many times over in many, many conflicts. Now a Federal Subject of the Russian Federation. Same country has owned it since 1783.

Erdogan is obviously under pressure and playing to an audience somewhere.

Fools. They banned RT America long ago.

Now they still flog their dead horse.

Hard to comprehend what is running through their thick head with their proxy suffering a well-deserved fate.

If Tokyo needs a nuclear deterrent than Tehran does too.

Fairs fair.

The planes did not enter Japanese airspace but flew over an area subject to a territorial dispute between Japan and Russia, the official said.

Since the start of the Ukraine conflict, relations have deteriorated sharply between Japan and Russia, which both claim the Kuril Islands -- known in Japan as the Northern Territories.

No, it didn't. It flew over UN-recognized territory of the Russian Federation.

The territorial dispute is only occurring inside Tokyo's head, rent-free.

They are pretending WWII didn't happen and that post 1952 constitutional Japan has rights to territories administered by the Empire of Japan, outside the Home Islands as deemed by the Allies; this is wrong.

Here is the UN map:

https://www.un.org/geospatial/content/russian-federation