Their are reports that the Ukrainians are moving their armour to the Donetsk and Lugansk area and that the Russians are also moving their armour towards the adjacent borders. Donetsk and Lugansk have sent mobilisation papers. It seems likely something will happen as soon perhaps May, after rasputitsa:*
H/T The Saker
https://www.rt.com/russia/519963-kremlin-situation-donbass-conflict/
Sakerās open thread is preceded by a warning to stay on topic and not to try any trolling, as the mods have strict instructions to off anyone who tries. Unfortunately, Andrei seems to have gone right overboard - like bernhard@MoA - on the ādevastating global pandemicā meme, to the point where heās ready to lump in with the banable trolls anyone who expresses any doubt about that all; simply a banned idea!
Not that it is relevant to the topic of war in the Ukraine, but itās a shame to see the Saker blog join the ranks of the blanket censors of unpermitted ideas. Keeping ideological company with the likes of Sugarberg? Really? (Wonder if all the Raevskyās are masked to buggery now, like so many naively-conforming USAmericans?)
The covid civil war is certainly setting brother against brother. Intentionallyā¦?
PS: Still shopping, etc., without mask these days. No-one says anything. Clearly the covid scam is wearing a bit threadbare with the average punter by now. Plenty just going along to get along, but no real feeling of any fanatics prepared to accost one for not conforming.
Round here - because thereās literally no sign of any pandemic about apart from the constant prop-screeching of the polsānāwhores in the media - the original panic has worn off long since, clearly. Even those of my neighbours who bought into it at first are waning in commitment, very evidently.
I agree my friend. Whilst you and I might not agree on every tiny detail of the āYear of theāRonaā, Iām very grateful to have a shared space where we can do that.
More power to you and to the free discussion of ideas.
Cheers
PP
I saw the BBC version the other day which amounted to āUkraine alarmed at troop buildup on borderā.
Indeed. Russians moving Russian troops around in Russia.
Sound the alarm!!
As you know, P, i remain unconvinced to any fanatical degree about ANY of the narratives around the covid thing. But the contention that the whole thing is a grossly - indeed criminally - overblown con with a hidden agenda behind it, is certainly one of the contenders, as everyone would have to agree; as is the assertion - made by numerous doctors, virologists, etc. - that there is NO global health emergency.
Youāll have picked up by now that I lean intuitively in that direction myself - 
But I have no firm decided and defended position at all yet, striving to live up to my own OMS/W&S exhortations. If a time comes when reliable hindsight finally makes us all conclude that there really was a pretty bad, mass-killing, excess-death-provoking pandemic, call for my admission - if Iām still around - and Iāll own up. 
Meanwhile, how does it feel to have initiated a forum where people can stay civil, and remain aware of each othersā basic human decency and lovability, and still agree amicably to disagree for now - and do all that actually better than can Andrei; or Eric Zeusse for that matter, he clearly having a bad case of TDS. Well done, old friend! Are we charting a path for humankind towards the angels? (Oh god, what hubris to imagine such a thing!) 
I would totally endorse that and kick myself sometimes for not even lurking on 5filters for a number of months. Much as I dislike how this phrase has been commandeered by the green haired brigade, it feels like a safe space. Itās very much valued.