That picture you see above is actually a meme, and it comes from a now-viral picture out of the just-finished NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. That was where Bellendsky the Pecker-Playing Puppet President of Banderastan showed up, looking (and probably smelling) like an unwashed hobo. (The Russians have a term for such people – an acronym, БОМЖ, which breaks down into “без определенного места жительства”, and literally translates into, “without a definite place of residence”. Russian is kind of a literal language, in a lot of fun ways.)
Look at him. It’s disgraceful. Here he is, the President (supposedly) of a sovereign country (supposedly), trying to launch a charm offensive to get his beleaguered, battered, broken, dying “nation” (404 is not a country, after all) into a military alliance that is looking increasingly shaky and creaky. And he couldn’t even be bothered to shave or wear a freakin’ SUIT.
I mean, I’m originally from the Dirt World and all, and even I understand that, if you want something from someone, you damn well ought to dress the part and look presentable. This guy looks shabbier than a lot of stoned undergrads I have seen in my time.
The Clown Show
It is fair to say that the entire summit was an unmitigated disaster, from start to finish. NOBODY came away happy with the results. This was not diplomacy – which is something the Western world has completely forgotten how to do. It was Clown World on full and total display.
You really have to see some of the results to understand how bad it was. Our man in the field, Alex Christoforou, the more… American half of The Duran, breaks it down for us:
The problem is that Ukraine did not get anything it actually wanted, out of this summit, AT ALL.
It came looking for promises of NATO membership, and got nothing of the sort. The NATO member-states promised Ukraine some sort of Israel-style security guarantee, through bilateral agreements with member-states, but that did not happen either.
All Ukraine got out of this whole song-and-dance routine was a commitment to get bilateral security guarantees of some kind, from the G7 members.
Quite how this is supposed to work, is not clear. The G7 is not a military alliance, even though there is substantial overlap between its members and the most important member-states of NATO. But, it is safe to say that, if the FUSA, Germany, and to a lesser extent, France, all refuse to admit 404 into NATO, then there is no good reason whatsoever to think those countries will extend security guarantees to 404 in bilateral fashion.
The reason why is simple:
They are all TERRIFIED of going to war with Russia.
And they bloody well ought to be.
Failed Counterploink

The entire reason why Ukraine wants to get into NATO is very straightforward. Ukraine is losing a war for its own survival. The reports from the front line in Zaporozh’ye, down south, speak of an unfolding catastrophe. Ukraine has lost hundreds of tanks, armoured vehicles, artillery pieces, and other pieces of equipment, in just 6 weeks, for absolutely no meaningful gains of any kind. The Russian MoD estimates a full 26,000 “irrecoverable” losses to date since June 4th – i.e., KIA and so severely maimed as to be completely combat-ineffective.
That is almost certainly an underestimate, because if you are actually looking at the pictures and videos from the front, the dead are not merely piling up in front of Russian trenches – they are in bits and pieces all over the battlefield.
The Ukrainians, and the damned fool NATO generals who led them into this slaughter, confidently predicted in the weeks before this counterploink, that Banderite forces would reach Melitopol’ on the Black Sea Coast in 5 days, tops, and cut the land bridge between Crimea and the Russian forces in half. It was supposed to be classic blitzkrieg – heavy armoured fists punching through weak defensive lines, while the Russian “Orcs” ran for Mama’s skirts, as they (supposedly) did in Kherson and Kharkov.
The reality was блядьskrieg. The now-iconic shots of Western Leopards, Bradleys, MRAPs, HMMWVs, Strykers, CV-90s, and who knows what else, lying mangled and broken in smoking ruins all over southern Ukraine, are undeniable. The total lack of Ukrainian progress is impossible to hide – even Ukrainian Telegram channels admit:

Cluster(-bomb)f***ery
This is before we get to the ammunition shortages now plaguing both the West and their poxy proxy. The FUSA’s brain-dead Maladministration announced in just the last few days that it would ship over something called “Dual-Purpose Improved Conventional Munitions” (DPICMs), which in common language just means, “cluster bombs”. The idea, according to President Brandon, is that shipping these things to the Banderites will allow the FUSA to build up its ability to supply 155mm artillery shells to 404, because now, the West is right out.
There are several huge flaws with that logic, of course.
First, and foremost, is the fact that the FUSA and EUSSR, between them, can produce perhaps 35K shells a month of artillery ammunition, and that is if they REALLY stretch things. That comes down to between 7 and 14 days’ worth of usage by the Ukies. It is simple mathematics – the Ukrainians are firing off shells at rates that exceed the West’s entire production capacity by between 2 and 4 times. And that was before this Khlearly Khatastrophic Khreat Khokholite Khumvee Khounteroffensive, wherein their firing rates have increased substantially.
Second, the FUSA wants to ship over cluster bombs that, supposedly, have a very low failure rate of around 1% of all munitions going unexploded. The problem is, those munitions apparently have been sitting around, gathering dust, for many years.
If you honestly believe this latest batch of American wunderwaffen will work as advertised, drop me a line, because I have a Bermudan call option on the Brooklyn Bridge that I would very much like to sell you.
Third, these weapons are supposed to be used by a defending force, against an attacking one:
The problem is, the Russians are dug into trenches and fortifications, and the Ukrainians are the ones attacking.
Fourth, this assumes the Russians have no ability to counteract the cluster bombs. They assuredly do. Since Russia did not sign up to the treaty which banned the use of cluster bombs (nor, for that matter, did the FUSA, Ukraine, China, or several other countries), they never gave up their original stores of the things – and they have more. LOTS more.
Further, the Russians already have answers to every single weapon the FUSA throws at them. Cluster munitions are likely to be a whole lot less effective in the real world than, say, the Russian TOS-1A Солнцепёк (Sunburn) – a terrifying hell-weapon that unleashes devastation in a way that one simply cannot describe properly.
There is no surviving a direct hit from that. The air of the initial blast wave has the density of STEEL – it simply obliterates flesh. If you somehow manage to endure that, the vacuum effect that follows will literally suck the lungs out of your body. And if, somehow, you survive that, and “only”, manage to get the burning fuel on your body… well, that flame CANNOT be put out. It burns right down to the bone.
The Fallacy of Article 5
This is the reality of war with Russia – and, remember, Russia is not fighting an actual war, from its perspective. It is still, to this day, fighting a SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION. Hard as it might be to believe, that means the Russian Army has strict limits on the force and frightfulness it can employ to achieve the key goals of demilitarisation, de-Nazification, and Ukrainian neutrality, laid out by the Neo-Tsar last February.
Again, from the Russian perspective, this is not a war. But, if NATO shoves its oar in and intervenes… it will be.
This brings to light the sheer fallacy of Article 5 – the much-vaunted “mutual defence clause” of NATO. The truth is, all of NATO is TERRIFIED to see this exposed for what it really is – a sham.
The actual text of NATO’s Article 5 reads as follows:
The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognized by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.
Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security.
Keep in mind the specific terminology, “such action as it deems necessary”. That is to say, there is enough wiggle room in the clause to allow any nation which does NOT want to fight Russia, to pilot a Death Star through it.
And THAT is why no one who is not huffing glue (or White Flour, as Bellendsky seems to enjoy doing), wants 404 in NATO.
That is a literal no-win scenario. If Ukraine does join NATO, it will immediately invoke Article 5 – and then, the nations of NATO will have to go to war against Russia, and be annihilated conventionally or through nuclear weapons. Or, those nations will have to chicken out – as almost all of them INEVITABLY WILL, because their armed forces are depleted and puny – and expose Article 5 for the sham that it actually is.
Either way, NATO ends – with a bang, or a whimper.
Conclusion – The Primrose Path
As Prof. John Mearsheimer is fond of saying, the West led Ukraine up the Primrose Path, with glittering promises of NATO and EU membership, and riches and prosperity to follow. In reality, all the GloboHomoPaedoPharisatanist ruling class of the FUSA ever wanted was a Slavic vassal to use as a staging base for its ultimate ambition to weaken and destroy Russia, and strip-mine it of its vast mineral resources.

That is where Prince Vladimir the Great comes in. He stopped the rape and pillaging of his country, restored its sense of strength, its pride, and its honour. And he showed the entire world that GloboHomo can, in fact, be resisted – not only that, but defeated.
He showed the entire world that the very best proxy the FUSA ever had – a NATO-armed, NATO-trained force of Slavs, rather than jumped-up goathumpers – would not be sufficient to break Russia. And he also showed that the best way to win a war against a financialised, deindustrialised, deracinated West, was through attrition warfare.
He showed the world that a better, fairer, less insane, more balanced, and simply more ADULT way of behaving and cooperating with other nations, now exists. We call it “multipolarity”, but it really just comes down to individual nations acting in their own interests for mutual peace, cooperation, and stability. That is why we see peace breaking out now between former adversaries in the Middle East, and why India and Pakistan – mortal enemies – can sit down and break bread at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
We are seeing momentous changes, tectonic shifts in the world order, unfolding before our eyes. The FUSA and EUSSR are broken and dying empires – their collapse cannot come soon enough. The great tragedy, though, is that tens of thousands of Russians, and hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, had to die to make this happen.




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oh come now, what do you take us for?
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i have it on EXCELLENT authority that the Khreat Krainian arty ( supplied by the US, natch ) is far superior to anything the Rooskies can muster, especially in regards to massed bombardment. i’m sure Zelensky will be wiggling his toes in the sands of the beaches of Sevastapol any moment now.
Whoever did that bleeding heart, ICOTESCAS version of cluster bombs needs a good flogging for public bleeding heart-ism. Since that was so sadly lacking – and bleeding – read on.
No, ICM – Improved Conventional Munitions – are still effective. Indeed, the Russians use them, too, and in no small quantity, either. They tend to use fewer per carrier, and of larger size, than we do. ISTR that the bomblets for their largest MLRS are about the size and weight of a mortar shell of between 60 and 81mm.
The first ICM was probably either a catapult/onager-fired bee hive or a leather bag filled with rocks with the same launcher. More modernly, the Brit 25 pounder was the first to use bomblets. They are more effective because so much of an explosion is wasted on overkill at center of the burst. The bomblets spread out the area while drenching it in fast moving shards and bits of wire.
There are different types. Some are oriented at armor, like the US Rockeye. (Rockeye may be obsolete by now.) I assure you, having seen it with my own two little eyes, that Rockeye will do a damn-damn on tanks, APCs, SPGs, and fortifications with overhead cover. I have in mind, particularly, an Iraqi 2S1 I entered and nosed around in 1991. There was a pile of ash on the TC’s seat, and two smaller piles of ash on the floor. Voila: the TC! One of the Rockeyes that had burnt through the top of the hull had set off the propellant, as they very often do. Might have killed the TC, too; hard to say.
Some, are oriented on personnel. Of those, one version would hit the ground, bounce up a meter and a half or so, then go boom. The boom would send, again, a deluge, of metal pieces flying all around and down into trenches.
Some are dual purpose, the DPICM you mentioned, being a shaped charge contained inside a serrated cylinder. The shaped charge will burn through top armor while the explosion breaks the cylinder up into, again, a cloud of small, fast-moving shards. You don’t use them in light quantity, you drench the target with them enough to hit every armored vehicle many times.
There were also some nerve gas delivering bomblets, though those, AFAIK, are out of our inventory.
ICM is between roughly 5 and roughly 20 times more effective than regular HE. This is why the Russians use it, too, especially in their larger MLRS, Like BM-9 (this shows up under different nomenclature) and BM-27. Note that those are is intended primarily to fire ICM, not thermobarics, though they can fire the latter. Why? Because thermobarics are not a panacea and are, in fact, fairly ineffective against troops well dug in and against armored vehicles.
Storage. Yes, it will degrade the ICM and DPICM a_little_bit…probably…maybe. But we go to extraordinary lengths and extraordinary expense to both package and store our munitions for a very, very long shelf life. Don’t expect much degradation.
no one is disputing the efficacy of cluster munitions, Tom. no one is disputing that Russia is already using them.
that’s not the salient part of the discussion. nor the salient part of the Ukrainian conflict.
I am a bit surprised that this cocaine clown is still sucking up my oxygen? To me, I hate everyone in that photo. Hate.
In regards to munitions storage, I have fired off 50+ year old ammo, that was barely adequately stored, and still have all my digits and eyes. I have my own storage of bang bang stuff, that is 15+ years old, meticulously stored, and still goes bang. Granted this is all small arms munitions, but through various jobs I have had over the years, I have seen how the U.S. Military stores it’s munitions. I would say, they do a pretty good job on the safety side of things, and it still goes bang. Just my 2 pennies.