Two days ago, the Russian Ministry of Defence officially announced the full liberation (or recapture, if you prefer) of the town of Sudzha, in the Kursk region of Russia. The collapse of the Ukrainian defence forces in the region brought to a near-end what has to be one of the stupidest, craziest, most reckless, and ill-planned ideas in the history of modern warfare.

A little bit of history is in order – though I will try not to imitate the Neo-Tsar too much and start with the prehistory of the Russian peoples, going all the way back to the Norse Prince Rurik settling Novgorod in 862 AD…

Operation: CITADEL II

By late September, 2023, it was obvious to all but the most stubborn and stupid of Ukrainians that their Khlearly Khatastrophic Khalamitous Khollapsed Khreat Khokholite Khumvee Khounteroffensive, in the Zaporozh’ye region, had totally failed. The idea behind that offensive was to punch south and east from the town of Orekhov with a massed armoured fist, breaking through Russian lines and cutting the grouping embedded in Zaporozh’ye and Kherson off from the forces in Donetsk and Lugansk. The Ukrainian goal was to barrel through toward Melitopol’, a small city on the Black Sea coast, and then roll up the Russian forces with the intention of recapturing Crimea.

That was the plan, anyhow. It completely failed.

The fact that no less a personage than Gen. Mark Milley, at the time the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was behind that brainwave, should tell you a great deal. Gen. Milley is apparently the product of a modern US Army that knows only how to do politics, implement idiotic DIE nonsense, and lose wars.

That offensive was doomed from the start, and people like me said so early on. I remind you that I have no military background whatsoever, and make no attempt at all at pretending otherwise. The only reason I understood how badly that offensive was due to fail, was because I listen to people MUCH smarter than me, who understand these things, and have experience in warfighting.

And ALL of them in the alternative media arena said exactly the same thing – that an offensive into the teeth of extremely formidable and dug-in Russian lines, without air cover, was doomed to fail.

So it proved in the end.

The Zaporozh’ye Offensive ran straight into something between three and five layers of Russian defences – all part and parcel of the so-called “Surovikin Line”, though in actual fact, Gen. Sergei “Armageddon” Surovikin did not create that line. I forget the name of the Russian General who actually put together the tactical and operational plans for the fortifications – Ivanov, I think, though I am probably wrong – but he was a very well-known bigwig within the Russian General Staff’s pedagogical wing, teaching a course about how to dig overlapping defensive lines designed to stop an armoured invasion cold in its tracks.

The Russians, of course, have lots of experience doing this. Those were precisely the tactics the Red Army used in the original Battle of Kursk, and they applied them again very well against the Ukrainians in stopping the Zaporozh’ye Offensive.

As a result, the Ukrainians, who expected to breach the first line of Russian defences within 48-72 hours, barely even dented them over the course of three weeks. By the end of the first five days, it was obvious the offensive had totally failed. Rather than punching through three to five lines of defences, the Ukies BARELY DENTED the first – in most cases, they never even reached it, and where they did, they were stopped COLD.

By the end of September, the Ukrainians had exhausted themselves, at a cost of well over 60,000 dead confirmed by the Russian MOD – in reality, the number was much higher. At least EIGHT UKRAINIAN BRIGADES had been burned up in the offensive, all of which had to be sent back to rest, refit, and rebuild. Among them was the infamous 47th Mechanised Brigade, which has been used ever since as a sort of “firefighting” unit, going from place to place along the front lines to try to plug gaps left by units that broke and ran under remorseless Russian pressure.

The Russians, for their part, started on an offensive of their own in the autumn of 2023. It continues on to this day.

The Ukrainians and their Western sponsors tried hard to pretend the war had settled into a grinding stalemate in late 2023 and early 2024. That illusion fell apart extremely fast when the Russians took the very heavily fortified city of Avdeevka, last February, thereby doing much to push the khokhol artillery out of range of the pivotal city of Donetsk.

The khokhols desperately needed a diversion of some sort, to stop the Russians from continuing their steady advance in Donbass. So they hatched what (with, admittedly, the benefit of 8 months’ worth of hindsight) has to be one of the stupidest, craziest, most ridiculous ideas ever conceived in the history of warfare.

A Desperate Gamble

Sometime during the early summer of 2024, Bellendsky the Narcofuehrer and his British handlers evidently decided to come up with a major throw of the dice – a lightning-fast attack on the Kursk region, pushing into internationally acknowledged Russian territory, to capture the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant near the town of Kurchatov.

The KNPP is one of the largest power plants in the whole of Russia, and one of the largest in Europe. The idea was to force the Russians to trade the Zaporozh’ye Nuclear Power Plant, and the town of Energodar, for the territory and assets the Ukrainians captured in their attack.

If the gambit had succeeded, of course, we might all be telling a very different story. But the fact is, it failed.

Precisely why did it fail?

Well, if you listen to the likes of Alexander Mercouris, and you believe what he has to say (and I do), then the Russians knew all about this incursion well before it ever started, and they prepared for it. They pulled several of their best brigades and units from the relatively quiet Kherson front, and they yanked the elite Akhmat special forces brigade – which is technically part of the Rosgvardiya, or National Guard, and therefore is under the command of the Ministry of the Interior, not the MoD – out of the fighting around Avdeevka, back up toward Kursk.

There, they prepared an elaborate trap, designed to allow the Ukrainians to punch into a relatively small territory with little tactical or operational value. The Russians themselves took a calculated risk, using the past behaviour of the Ukrainians as a guide, and figured that Bellendsky and his handlers would likely refuse to cut their losses and run, but would instead keep feeding men and resources into a meatgrinder, simply for the sake of scoring cheap publicity points.

And so it proved.

The Russian government initially came in for sharp criticism from the population for not expelling the Ukrainian invaders immediately. Indeed, the Neo-Tsar himself had to fend off a lot of very heated commentary from the Russian media, and the hardliners in his own government, about the fact that he allowed the sacred soil of the Fatherland to be polluted by the boots of filthy neo-Nazis wearing the regalia of the Waffen SS.

However, the Russian leadership is patient and calculating, in a way that Westerners do not understand. They knew the key was to bleed the very best of the Ukrainian military dry, across the entire front – including in Kursk.

The end result was that the Ukrainians ended up with a small chunk of tactically useless territory (“small” in relation to the sheer size of Russia itself, and of the Kursk region), and paid for the real estate in cash. They kept feeding in men, machines, and equipment, trying desperately to hold on to that territory as some sort of macabre “bargaining chip” to use against the Russians in the event of peace negotiations.

The neo-Nazi Banderite regime in Queef subsequently claimed that part of the motivation for pulling off this idiotic stunt was to divert Russian troops from the front line in Donbass, thereby winning some respite for their faltering defences in the region – particularly as the Russians began storming operations around Ugledar in the early autumn. This excuse fell apart almost immediately, because the Russians did not need to pull active units from the Donbass front – instead, they rotated in rested and fit units like the 810th Marine Brigade, from the Kherson region.

With all the excuses gone, all the khokhols had left, was captured territory – most of it useless.

The only town of any size that they captured, was Sudzha, which is a transit point for a major gas pipeline that runs from Russia to Europe.

That pipeline ended up being their undoing.

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

For months, the Russians whittled away patiently at the edges of the Kursk Salient, killing thousands and then tens of thousands of them. At the end of last week, the Russian MoD figured the Ukrainians had sacrificed at least 60,000 more men – TWO ENTIRE ARMY CORPS – for the sake of the vanity and delusions of the Coke-Fiend of Queef.

Looking back at the events of the past week, it is clear that the Russian General Staff sensed the end was near, as the pace of the collapse in the Kursk pocket accelerated in the weeks leading up to this one. So they hatched what Baldrick might call a Cunning Plan – except this one actually worked.

The story of Operation: MARIO BROS, as some of us are calling it, is as astonishing as it is brilliant. The Ukrainians very stupidly cut off gas flows to Europe back on January 1, thereby ensuring that the pipeline itself lay unused. The Russians therefore decided to replicate a trick they learned during the storming of Chasov Yar, and used that empty pipeline to transport troops and weapons deep behind enemy lines in the town of Sudzha itself.

Preparations started all the way back in February for this daring raid. The Russians delivered oxygen tanks to the site of entry in Bolshoye Soldatskoye, which the Russians had taken back under their control. They trekked for 16Km, bent over nearly double in a pipeline barely 1.4m in diameter, in the dark, using breathing apparatus, and drilled holes into the pipeline at various points to allow fresh air in. To prevent the noise from alerting the Ukies, the Russians bombarded them with artillery fire as a way to cover up the activities of their men in the pipes.

Those initial groups had to wait DAYS in the pipes for the orders to emerge. They had to be supplied with food, water, and oxygen, in near-complete darkness. Many of them got sick from the pockets of methane still left in the pipeline. Quite a few of them will probably have permanent health issues as a result. I suspect more than a few died down in those horrible conditions, due to getting stuck in pockets of deadly methane.

But they did their job. They paved the way for a much larger group of their brothers to enter the pipeline, and to make the same trek. Over 800 of them – a reinforced battalion, if I understand such things correctly – did precisely that.

On the morning of March 8, they got the orders to pop up and hit the Ukrainians in the rear.

The attack was an overwhelming success. The Ukies had absolutely no idea what the hell they were up against, and panicked. Within a day, the industrial sector of Mirnyi was under the control of the Russians, and the Ukrainians were on the run across the entire Kursk pocket.

Cutting the Bulge

From that point onward, the conclusion of the battle was inevitable. The remaining Ukrainian forces in Kursk had been effectively bisected, and the town of Sudzha fell back into Russian hands four days later.

The Russians are now in the process of destroying whatever is left of the Ukrainian force in Kursk. A few days ago, the Neo-Tsar visited the troops in Kursk region, dressed up in combat fatigues – for the first time since late 2021.

That was a very clear message, both to the Russians, and the West: President Putin and the Russian leadership are in ABSOLUTELY NO MOOD to compromise.

As if the visuals were not enough, the President’s statements during his visit should be more than enough to drive the point home. He stated very clearly that Ukrainian forces on Russian soil should be treated as terrorists under Russian law, and foreign mercenaries are absolutely not covered under the Geneva Conventions. He is certainly right about that – the Russians are perfectly within their rights to shoot foreign soldiers on sight in Kursk.

That should send shivers of fear down the backs of the Queef Regime’s Western backers in London, Brussels, Paris, and Berlin, because dozens, perhaps hundreds, of their own military personnel are embedded within the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as “advisers” and “trainers”. If they are very, very lucky, they might be able to escape the increasingly tight ring of steel the Russians are putting in place.

We must not forget that the Russians managed to achieve this victory in part by invading Sumy region of Ukraine itself, with the express goal of cutting the supply roads into the Kursk Pocket. They succeeded, and now that they have cut that pocket in half and retaken the northeastern part of the bulge, the Ukrainian troops and their Western “advisers” in the southwestern part of it, have nowhere to run.

They cannot retreat back into Sumy, because the Russians control it. They cannot push outwards, because they have no supplies and weapons to do so. Their only options are surrender or death.

Conclusion – Kill Them All

For those who know something about the history of the past 10 years of the war in Donbass, this is highly reminiscent of what happened in late 2014, with the Battle of Ilovaisk, and then again in early 2015, with the Battle of Debal’tsevo. On both occasions, the Russian-aligned separatist forces in Donbass, supported financially and operationally (but not with men or equipment) by the Russians, encircled large groupings of the AFU in the eponymous towns.

And on both occasions, a Western leader desperately intervened to prevent the separatists from slaughtering the cream of the Ukrainian army.

Back then, Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, flew to Moscow to meet with The Putin. Contrary to the established whore-media narrative, neither particularly liked the other, but they did possess a certain mutual respect. Mutti Merkel speaks fluent Russian, thanks to her upbringing in the old GDR, and the Neo-Tsar speaks fluent German, because of his time spent as a KGB officer in the same place.

They were able, therefore, to meet for several hours without intermediaries or translators, to hammer out some sort of ceasefire agreement. The first agreement resulted in the first Minsk Agreement, which provided for autonomy for Donbass and safe passage for the Ukrainians.

The Ukies promptly broke that agreement, and the fighting resumed. Thanks to the tactical and operational ineptitude of the Ukrainians – increasingly NATO-trained by this point – they landed themselves in yet another cauldron at Debal’tsevo in early 2015. Once again, Merkel pleaded with The Putin to spare the lives of the Ukrainians. Once again, he acquiesced, and we got the Minsk II Agreements, which the entire UN Security Council voted to ratify.

This gave them the force and weight of international law. That did nothing to stop the Ukrainians and their European backers from completely ignoring them – they never enforced the provisions of those agreements, and broke them almost instantly.

Today, we see the same pattern repeating. This time, President Trump dropped a Truth Social post, in which he said he had specifically asked President Putin to spare the lives of the Ukrainians caught in the Kursk Kettle:

The Russian President seemed to agree to this:

This set off a lot of PTSD-like twitching among the hardliners in the Russian commentariat. They DO NOT want to see a Minsk III, which they fully expect the West to betray immediately. They believe – with VERY GOOD REASON – that the West cannot be trusted and is totally agreement-non-capable.

They are right about that. But they are wrong to think The Putin has gone soft. He has not.

Videos and photos emerging from the once-occupied city show the full extent of the horrors the Ukies perpetrated. It is very clear that actual neo-Nazis, trained by Western instructors from the US, UK, France, and Scandicuck countries, had been raping, torturing, and murdering civilians all over the town.

President Putin knows all of this. That is why he has made it very clear there will be no quarter offered to the Ukrainian troops if they do not surrender by a specific time. That deadline appears to have been extended to 0600 Moscow time, Monday, March 17. If so, then the Ukrainians have very little time left. The best estimates I have seen, indicate between 5,000 and 7,000 Ukrainian troops still cut off and surrounded in that area.

The total number of destroyed Ukrainian forces in Kursk is staggering. The Russian MOD estimates it to be at about 67,000 – and it is surely much higher than that, as these are only VERIFIED losses.

Those were not merely regular troops, either. They were some of the best of what Ukraine has left – paratroopers, marines, and of course the highly motivated and extremely nasty neo-Nazi militias of the Aidar and Azov Brigades. Now, they are worm food.

I have said it before, and I will say it again: the Ukrainian military leadership are MORONS. And they get most of their orders and instructions from Western military advisers, so that should tell you everything you need to know about how competent the West is to fight an actual war.

There will be no Minsk III coming out of this one. If you listen carefully to what the senior figures in the Russian government are saying – CHADrov, CHADvedev, Patrushev, Shoigu, Nebenziya, and of course, The Putin himself – they are all reading from EXACTLY the same page.

No compromise. No temporary ceasefires. No surrender of Russian interests. No backing down by even a single millimetre.

This is not the Russia of yesteryear, that sought accommodation and coexistence with the West. This is a Russia that is enraged by what was done to its people on its own territory, and will now settle for nothing less than total victory in Ukraine – half-baked, half-arsed peace proposals from the West be damned.

The legacy of the Khreat Khokholite Kursk Kock-Up will be of a military failure that may well have doomed the entire Ukrainian nation. This is the sort of military debacle that breaks armies. Already, there are signs in southern Donbass that the Ukrainian military’s resistance is waning. The Russians have begun a push toward Orekhov itself in Zaporozh’ye region, undoing everything the Ukrainians sacrificed so much to gain back in 2023.

The picture above tells you everything you need to know about the current, extraordinarily awful, state of the AFU. They have run up OVER A MILLION dead – that table shows what the MOD considers dead AND seriously wounded, but I, and many others, believe this to be a more accurate reflection of the actual death toll. Indeed, at this point, the Ukies have lost between 1.2 and 1.5 MILLION DEAD – that is the range that the best-informed analysts, including Col. Douglas Macgregor, LTC Daniel Davis, Maj. Scott Ritter, and Larry Johnson, all agree is about right – plus another 2-3 million severely wounded.

These are horrifying numbers. They point to a human catastrophe on a scale unseen since WWII.

The killing has to stop. The sooner, the better.

I said earlier last month that peace is in sight. I still think it is. But it will be peace on Russian terms, NOT American ones. The sooner the Ameribros get used to that idea, the faster we can all wrap us this hideous war.