Speaking of the pneuma since the
Active stage of human-hunting began with CoVid-killbox the atmosphere defined as the extrapolated sense derived
From the extension of physical space has
Become densely foreboding.
The Sun has a hum and space has
Vibe ( honda in Span.) and if anything is real it’s that aging reduces the flesh
But potentiates the nerve bundles’ exposure to an emotion generated by all that is or will be. The temporal in eternity. It feels like the transmission of
Life energy microbe insect and mammal
Has been cut to about 29% of it’s past
Excitement. I recall the the March 2020 declaration of – plague- the moment and
The mental/emotional effect obtained.
My basic interpretation was that the
Atmosphere in which everything takes

Speaking of the pneuma since the
Active stage of human-hunting began with CoVid-killbox the atmosphere defined as the extrapolated sense derived
From the extension of physical space has
Become densely foreboding.
The Sun has a hum and space has
Vibe ( honda in Span.) and if anything is real it’s that aging reduces the flesh
But potentiates the nerve bundles’ exposure to an emotion generated by all that is or will be the temporal in eternity. It feels like the transmission of
Life energy, microbe insect and mammal
Has been cut to about 29% of it’s past
Excitement. I recall the the March 2020 declaration of – plague- the moment and
The mental/emotional effect obtained.
My basic interpretation was that the
Atmosphere in which everything takes
Place is only viable for human enthusiasm when the competitive will
Also known as self determination is allowed or capable of being expressed.
It’s the stimulant the navigator and the piece of
Oceanic cosmos where the same mystery
Confronts equally all beings. That movement of the “I” was deactivated not gradually but suddenly it was truncated
And suffocated that day.
The collective, part human part life
In toto is the envelope of awareness wherein descret perception resides.
At first for a year or so this blockade
Of human dignity registered confused shock which then was extended with
50′ waves of military threat….house to house arrest and forced serum injection.
Now the conductivity of the air has subsided into implacable foreboding .
It may be artificial as providing all the more
Reason to conduct humanity into synthetic electronic interactions to drown out the silent hum of the dammed.
This is directly implicated by the quality and quantity of Sunlight that,
Along with the sky, appears vastly unusual.
The novels by Carlos Castañeda
that seems positioned as the last of authentic communique imprinting the
Pre-cybernetic apocalypse generation
Has the Shaman Don Juan describing
The shattering of Aztec social fabric by
Cortes and the ensuing shock taking every parameter of identity into a harrowing demise. As a teenager
Certain prescient passages universally
Stuck from those trendy manuals as signs to watch out for.
Things are unbelievable. Not the
Interactions between the entities but
The integument underlying the fundament of our collective animal correspondence. It’s no idle conjuncture
That the affairs of people and more the
Biosphere are being manipulated to
Make certain that the real alterations to
Our position within nature are entirely
Opaque except to a few raving bipolar
Paranoids in the Tenderloin. Wars Nation States the technics of our synthetic lives are perfectly tuned to
Perfectly conceal the erasure and recapitulation of a previously physically
Enslaved but varyingly free in thought lifeform.
The great conquest the final tierra incógnita is the detonation of a bomb
That has blasted away even the foundations of anticipated
Preemptive revulsion. Well, bombs do portend in miniature with an instant of anticipation and then total cessation. On a civilizational model we cannot say,
literally. Quite possibly we -were -doing
Something together it had more to do with the togetherness then the topics
Of our medium of reverberation and now due to a long sought for sleight of hand the stuff continues the erectile dysfunction ads electric busses revulsion
At the ranks of the human robots all
The mechanism are being stringently
Maintained…putt putt golf but the people are neither the subject nor even the objects but a dissolution into something printed out; a computer composing muizac from the brainwaves
Of an alzimers victim overdosed on Prozac. Finally things come full circle;
Now we really can blame it in the Sun

MX-5 Racing from Laguna Seca.

I will share the main event when it becomes available. This is to tide you over until then.

PEACE 😇

Inevitable consequences around when the country, which physically gave up nuclear stuff, is being attacked further by RF:

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said Monday he was open to allowing US nuclear weapons on Swedish soil in wartime, News.Az reports citing Anadolu Agency.

Kristersson’s comments come at the time when the country’s parliament is scheduled to vote in June on the government’s bill on a military cooperation agreement with the US.

The so-called DCA agreement gives the American military the right to use 17 Swedish military bases across the country and allowing the storage of military equipment and weapons in the Scandinavian country.

The agreement has been criticized because, unlike in Denmark and Norway, it lacks information about a ban on nuclear weapons in Sweden. The government believes it is not necessary because there is a parliamentary decision that there should be no nuclear weapons on Swedish territory in peacetime.

However, Kristersson also believes having nuclear weapons in the event of war in Sweden should be considered.

“In a war situation, it is a completely different matter. Should the very worst happen, the democratic countries in our part of the world must of course be able to defend themselves against countries that could threaten with nuclear weapons,” he said in an interview with Swedish Radio.

“Our entire NATO membership and our entire Swedish defense aim is to prevent that situation from occurring.

“If Ukraine had been a member of NATO, they would not have been attacked by Russia,” Kristersson said.

Sweden has officially joined NATO on March 7, ending decades of neutrality after a nearly two-year wait that began in May 2022, when the Nordic country submitted its application to join Western military alliance alongside neighboring Finland.

The prime minister emphasized that the decision to place nuclear weapons on Swedish soil would be taken by Sweden, not the US.

“Sweden decides over Swedish territory,” he said.

https://news.az/news/sweden-open-to-hosting-nuclear-weapons-in-wartime-pm

…there should be no nuclear weapons on Swedish territory in peacetime….

The prime minister emphasized that the decision to place nuclear weapons on Swedish soil would be taken by Sweden, not the US.

But we are already in a war so it will be US decision…:) The PM is lying.

Swedes are scared but cornered, there is no way back. They can lie to themselves but they are now a primary initial target in any nuclear exchange. Sweden is easy to reach and indefensible. Scandies are genetically conformist and that has gradually led to this level of stupidity: first the migrants, now lining up to be a nuclear target.

Russia, or anyone else, had no plans to invade Sweden. That is cockamamie idiotic, the Swedes pretending that they fear the Russian invasion simply lied. To summarize: if it goes boom, Vienna will be safe and Stockholm will glow.

Simple rule of thumb: whoever could predict at least half of Putin’s picks has a right to have an opinion. Everybody else should feel ashamed and keep mum. However, if people followed that rule, this blog would be less than 10% of its current size. Bad for business.

if it goes boom, Vienna will be safe and Stockholm will glow.

There is so much water in Stockholm that it will more likely be covered with steam than glow. Vienna will likely remain safe.

But I don’t think the cities will be targeted, at least not in the first wave. Military bases will evaporate in the first 30-40 minutes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c72p0xx410xo

Russia claims its forces have now entered the border town of Vovchansk, which Ukraine disputes.

The town has come under heavy bombing in recent days, and several thousand residents have been evacuated.

Denys wants to know what happened to Ukraine’s defences.

“There was no first line of defence. We saw it. The Russians just walked in. They just walked in, without any mined fields” he says.

He shows me video from a drone feed taken a few days ago of small columns of Russian troops simply walking across the border, unopposed.

He says officials had claimed that defences were being built at huge cost, but in his view, those defences simply weren’t there. “Either it was an act of negligence, or corruption. It wasn’t a failure. It was a betrayal”.

It was a betrayal

You are too hard on them. Ukies say that stealing is patriotic: when Putin comes, everything is already stolen.

River Tisza is part of the border between Ukraine and Hungary. The body of the 29th (since the beginning of Russian SMO in Ukraine) drowned would-be draft dodger was just fished out of it. Looks like Ukies cannot do anything right, even dodge the draft.

The Swedish position is interesting. By asking for nuclear weapons they are hinting that NATO article 5 combined with Russia-USA MAD is not enough to protect them. So they want tactical nukes to support some sort of tactical MAD standoff. The Cold War showed this was probably a bad idea.

I think the US still has nuclear weapons in a number of NATO countries so it doesn’t change much.

It was difficult to build defensive lines if there was heavy fire. The lesson here is that these need to be built in advance – they needed to be built 2 years ago (it’s just that it’s a large area).

…Looks like Ukies cannot do anything right, even dodge the draft.

Tisza a is a big river – and it is late spring with peak water flow. At the confluence of Danube and Tisza it is not clear which river is the tributary. Danube got the honor, but it could have been the other way.

The psychological state of the Ukie draftees must be pretty bad – imagine being sent to a very likely death by a few slippery city hustlers who have no intention to risk anything themselves. And the Westie cheerleaders yelling “more dead! go and die for your country…the orcs will eat you otherwise…”

And why? So Nato could expand to Ukraine. I have no fr.ing idea how the survivors will explain it. I suspect it will be deep-sixed like the Corona fiasco…

Hey Coconuts (from the previous thread):

[Kojeve] was important in the French revival of Hegelianism after WW2 that fed into ‘French Theory’, Foucault etc. One of the most influential parts of his lectures on Hegel in the 1930s was the extensive discussion he provided of Hegel’s ‘dialectic of the Master and the Slave’.

Well, most Marxists draw heavily from Hegel – both the history and the dialectic part. So would have to read him to see exactly what he brought forward and what his reading was. But this guy is a bit strange… yes, he is very influential (he was around the crème de la crème – Bataille, Lacan, even Karl Jaspers, so he was close with several big ones). Wonder what prompted him to move to France… read a short essay by him called “Colonialism from the European perspective” and in that one he goes on and on about the much richer Euro-American global minority and the Asian-African majority and mentions that the latter will spread significantly.

Yea, it’s interesting how all these Marxists and Stalinists always end up staying in the capitalist West…

This is what Roger Scruton said about him:

In a commentary on Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man, the traditionalist conservative thinker Roger Scruton calls Kojève “a life-hating Russian at heart, a self-declared Stalinist, and a civil servant who played a leading behind-the-scenes role in establishing both the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the European Economic Community” and states his opinion that Kojève was “a dangerous psychopath”.

Full name is Kozhevnikov.

I’ll try to answer the rest of your post a bit later, don’t know enough about the other guy but not surprisingly he’s a Nietzschean.

Tisza a is a big river – and it is late spring with peak water flow. At the confluence of Danube and Tisza it is not clear which river is the tributary. Danube got the honor, but it could have been the other way.

I never saw Tisza. Saw Danube only in Passau, where different colored rivers join (pretty picturesque) and in Budapest. Danube looked a lot smaller than Volga, not to mention Amazon river, even smaller than Tennessee river in Southern Tennessee. Maybe will see lower Danube someday, maybe not (the world is big and wonderful, while I am no longer young; I’ve been to most European countries, and Europe today is way down on my “to see” list; if European madness persists, I won’t go there again).

What has become blatantly obvious now for those in the middle-east is that the thorn of Israel has to be removed and all American bases must also be cast to the wind.

The economic woes Turkey is now feeling will be due to the Zionist in response to the temerity that Erdogon showed in his sanction move.

Arab states will always be walking on eggshells if they allow foreigners to decide, from afar, what they should or shouldn’t do or think. The Arab people will be forever in a thought prison.

Sooner or later the Arabs must free themselves from the overseer from afar, to progress as a region…as a people they have to break the fetters …that means the gilded fetters as well as the wrought iron ones.

Immigration appears to be working out relatively well for Britain, other than the radical Muslims and knife-wielding blacks:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-britain-beat-america-at-immigration/ar-AA1nLnZO?ocid=BingNewsSearch

Question about Turkey: Why doesn’t it opt to increase immigration from other Muslim countries? Is it because it is already full of Syrians and thus overwhelmed?

Back in 2013, most immigrants to Turkey were either from Europe (a lot of Turks, presumably?) or from Azerbaijan:

https://www.populationpyramid.net/migrants-stock-origin/en/turkey/2013/

The Muslim world apparently doesn’t send very many immigrants over to Turkey, other than Syrians, post-2013.

Sweden only wants nuclear weapons in the event of an actual war against Russia, no? So, if Russia doesn’t start any wars with NATO, then it won’t be seeing nuclear weapons be placed in Sweden. How nice!

What has become blatantly obvious now for those in the middle-east is that the thorn of Israel has to be removed

It has been blatantly obvious for some time that nuclear armed, indigenous Palestinian Jews cannot be removed without a global scale catastrophe.

Can homo sapiens survive as a species after 250-500 thermonuclear blasts scatter fallout over the entire planet? Even if you think the answer is “yes”, do you want to take the tail risk that you might be wrong?

The economic woes Turkey is now feeling will be due to the Zionist in response to the temerity that Erdogon showed in his sanction move.

Erdogan pushed Türkiye into economic woe long before the latest moves.

The trade numbers are less than 5% both ways. Erdogan’s pro-genocide sanctions are mildly distressing, but minimally relevant. There is unlikely to be any significant response.

Sooner or later the Arabs must free themselves from the overseer from afar

If Arabs want to keep their non-Palestinian religion in Arabia and Persia they could easily “free themselves”. The problem is that pro-genocide Arabs & Persians want to export their cult to Palestine, Europe, and all infidel lands. Judeo-Christians do not want to be contaminated by false Arabian prophets.

It all comes back to this self evident truth:

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    Islamic Colonies are the Problem.
Muslim Decolonization is the Answer.
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PEACE 😇

Can homo sapiens survive as a species after 250-500 thermonuclear blasts scatter fallout over the entire planet?

How do you know they have that many warheads?

The Samson option is horse shit.

If the Jews in Israel did that the rest of humanity would erase all Jews from the planet earth.

Think. I know that is difficult for you.

Can homo sapiens survive as a species after 250-500 thermonuclear blasts scatter fallout over the entire planet?

How do you know they have that many warheads?

And the naive statement of the month goes to a Putin defender.

What a surprise.

Think. I know that is difficult for you.

Do you really believe that you can genocide indigenous Palestinian Jews without starting the Samson Option? It has been blatantly obvious for some time that Palestinian Jews will do their best to end their enemies on they way out.

Your horse shit is totally unbelievable. And, when spread, it is not even good fertilizer. Have you considered being less unhinged crazy?

PEACE 😇

HERE THEY COME

Putin appears to be launching an offensive before the US weapons arrive.

Can’t say I am surprised.

Johnson held out at long as he could on Ukraine aid. Trump had to straighten out the rapture weasel at his mansion.

Boy Putin must be frustrated. I’m sure he was hoping that Johnson could hold out to the election and then Trump would back off.

Well that is out.

Time to die for dictator.

Don’t recall hearing these tapes of Billy Graham speaking to Nixon about the Synagogue of Satan before.

Are they authentic?

Can homo sapiens survive as a species after 250-500 thermonuclear blasts scatter fallout over the entire planet?

How do you know they have that many warheads?

Former President Carter went off script and publicly “spilled the beans” back in 2014. (1)

In a recent interview with MSNBC, Carter not only declared his absolute opposition to any attack on Iran, he also said that Israel had a stock of nuclear weapons of its own.

“Israel has, what, 300 or more, nobody knows exactly how many,” Carter said. “And I know that every Iranian realizes that if they should try to use a nuclear weapon, Iran would be wiped off the face of the earth, which I think is so ridiculous, a self-destructive decision, that they would not do it.”

So called “experts” keep trying to declare that Israel that has less than 100, but they are not very believable. Unless Israeli breeder reactors are exceedingly inefficient (highly implausible), 250 is quite conservative as a minimum.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://web.archive.org/web/20140416210127/http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=16847

If NATO didn’t want a war with Russia it would not have meddled in Ukraine, expanded to the Russian border and supported the USA dropping out of nuclear arms control treaties and emplacing missile sites close to the Russian sphere of interest. This is not complicated, those moves tell a simple unambiguous story: NATO is poised aggressively to break Russian sovereignty and started a war in Ukraine to achieve this goal. All the NATO leaders who supported this extremely dangerous long standing policy should be arrested and tried for treason against their own citizens.

The Prime Minister of Sweden discussing the basing of nuclear weapons in his country is unnecessarily provocative, so he is an idiot. I guess he came from the Sanna Marin school of retard statesmanship.

Danube is bigger than Rhine or Elbe but not too wide. It is generally impossible to swim across (I have tried), the current is too strong and most people end up a few hundred metres downstream on the same side. Tisza is about the same width but the current is slower, it is a flatter river. The poor draft dodgers probably had no chance, you need a good boat.

The best way is to walk through the mountains, there are a number of hilly areas that are passable. I don’t know how well guarded, but in the summer the vegetation is very thick and one should be able to get through. Smaller groups of 2-3 people have best chance.

I saw the Territorials (draftees) north of Kharkov surrendered or run away. Maybe self-preservation is kicking in. But it is madness, we seem to do it every two or three generations no matter what.

The radioactive fallout is the least of our problems, assuming cobalt warheads are not used. Much more fallout was released into the atmosphere in the 1950’s.

A 250 warhead strike/exchange would probably destroy world commerce and agriculture. My guess is 90% of the world population would die of starvation in five years.

It is widely believed Israel has a lot of warheads based on published information. They have full access to Western and Soviet technology so there is little reason to doubt the numbers.

A nuclear exchange between the USA and Russia due to Western brinksmanship leading to unintentional, rapid and uncontrolled escalation is much more likely.

…those moves tell a simple unambiguous story: NATO is poised aggressively to break Russian sovereignty and started a war in Ukraine to achieve this goal.

Precisely. Why the idiots felt the need to do it will be discussed for decades, but the fact that Nato was doing it is so obvious that only complete liars would try to deny it. But they needed dumb or bought Ukies to go for it and they found enough.

I don’t think they ever thought they can win the war against Russia in that region (only a few morons believed that), so the goal was to bluff Russia hoping that Russia would sit back and let it happen – or more likely the goal was what we are seeing: to bloody Ukies and Russians, sit back and laugh. These are some seriously disturbed people.

Yes. That is the Rev Graham and POTUS Nixon fussing about Jews. This goes way back. Billy Graham and Richard Nixon are from a time long gone. Compared to these fat retards we got now they were Lee and Grant.

Billy Graham was from North Carolina but his big donors were Los Angeles. He learned about Hollywood Jews real fast. Nixon’s big backers also were Los Angeles.

The same “experts” claim China has 500 nuclear weapons. LOL.

Well, Israel would hit targets in the Middle East and possibly not all of those at once. Which of course would be bad enough but not sure 90% of the world population would starve.

A nuclear exchange between the USA and Russia due to Western brinksmanship leading to unintentional, rapid and uncontrolled escalation is much more likely.

The US (and to some extent Russia as well) had a somewhat undeserved privilege to stash nukes since 1945. If it wasn’t for these Yalta type arrangements (which were forced on everyone else), nukes would’ve proliferated. Nuclear states attacking and destroying large non-nuclear states and nations was not part of the deal… thus the Swedish Prime Minister’s words.

What is puzzling about the upcoming Peace conference for Ukraine is… what has been the preparation? Usually before such large meetings they prepare some positions in advance. It’s only about a month away and there is not that much clarity (except that the battlefield looks a bit like a dead end).

Where will they find the peace guarantors (obviously some larger participating countries) but what means do they have to guarantee anything? If they allow to partition Ukraine, how are they planning to guarantee the principle of “territorial integrity” going forward?

The same “experts” claim China has 500 nuclear weapons. LOL.

There is a genuine analysis issue:

• How much plutonium do they have?
• How many weapons?

A country like Israel will weaponize near 100%, so one can make rough estimates.

The CCP really likes control. Whether legitimate or paranoia, the central party is concerned about misbehaviour by subordinate military and regional groups. Having fewer weapons makes them easier to keep track of. It is quite plausible that the CCP has non-weaponized plutonium “on the shelf” and thus many fewer warheads.

PEACE 😇

Believe Billy Graham met with every president up through Obama. Surprised he wasn’t cancelled after the release of the tapes. They cancelled Watson, and he was pretty old.

I have accepted that Western leaders intentionally started a war against Russia and fully believed they could win it, at least well enough to bring down the Russian government and take over the system. I do not understand how they could avoid nuclear war in this process, but I assume there is some rationale. Apparently the Russians saved themselves (maybe all of us) by responding just hard enough to stun and confuse the Western military schemers and undermine their battle plans. This happened first in Crimea in 2014 and next in Ukraine in 2022.

The Russian military was significantly weaker in 2014, especially the conventional forces. The economy was weaker and more connected to the West at that time.

Alternatively, the West may have thought they could create the war we have now and simply prevail by taking over Ukraine, adding it to NATO and putting bases on the border with no short term plan for Russia. There may be mutually agreed upon treaties or “rules” which make it unlikely that this sort of conflict automatically escalates to nuclear weapons. For some reason NATO did not go “all in” and Russia tripped up this plan and confounded everyone by fighting a very slow war which works in her favor.

It’s a proxy war between China and the Atlanticists. Think of it as the Spanish Civil War. The real thing should start in a few years. Both sides need RusFed ressources and territory, both want to prevent the opponent to dominate Eurasia. If China and the Atlanticists become kinetic, we better be prepped. Cause then the probability of it going nuclear and strategic would be very high, much higher than in the confrontation between the Atlanticists and the RusFed.

They may be planning to shut down the entire Western project at this meeting. The less they say, the fewer lies there are to trip them up. I wonder if they invited Kolomoisky? Maybe Mossad will announce they are joining with the SVR/FSB to hunt down NeoNazis in Ukraine.

Once it sinks in with enough Western planners that Ukraine is lost to Russia, things will change. How will the West spin this? For the most part they will just walk away and leave a big mess on the border for Poland and Romania. Yet they still need some face saving story for midwits. They will also try to salt the earth (culturally) in Ukraine with whatever problems they can dream up.

There may some fear over repercussions due to Nordstream since this was unprecedented. My hunch is the West will end up paying refunds or even reparations to Russia, possibly in the form of rebuilding loans to Ukraine or something equally ridiculous.

To me the driving force seems more like simple hatred of Russia and less about resources. I think the big resource battles are for food and fission fuel (Uranium/Thorium). Russia does have those, but the country is so far North they are like a consolation prize.

If these world level control creeps want food and resources why don’t they just wipe out the Africans and take the whole continent? I think the answer is there is no animus against the Africans which takes all the fun out of it.

Players gotta play, haters gotta hate.

The Earth has plenty of all resources. The cost and price scales of most items are set by human forces, not natural scarcity. In real terms there are no significant, absolute natural resource shortages except for good food. Even that can probably be addressed by nuclear power.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GNPjKHYWYAIz3Ir?format=jpg&name=4096×4096

Spend 15 minutes talking to Candace Owens or spend that money on a smart egg donor and Mexican surrogate. Hard choice lol!

Rename Columbia back to its native name. Get rid of the Castilian bootlicker coloniser from Genoa. Call it by its name, King’s College, New York. Build an Equestrian statue of Charles III to honor the memory of the indigenous Anglo Saxons who founded the institution!

Monarchist Reactionary Lives Matter!

Off-topic, but alternate history question about China for you: What are the odds of China getting partitioned in the 1910s by the Great Powers without WWI once China descends into warlordism? Or, alternatively, would the Great Powers do an intervention to restore order in China but prefer to keep China intact and under the control of some kind of obedient puppet government that would actually be acceptable to all of the Great Powers?

Charles III is quite solid. As Crown Prince, he fantasized about being Camilla’s tampon:

https://time.com/6226657/crown-charles-camilla-tampongate/

In 1993, the British press published the full transcript of a private conversation between then-Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles in which the two had an intimate and sexual exchange. The conversation was notable for a number of reasons, not least of which because it involved the heir to the throne saying that he would like to “live inside [her] trousers” and joking that he would be reincarnated as a tampon, hence the name of the scandal. (Some publications referred to the incident by the name “Camillagate,” which has a more sexist connotation because it places the blame on just the woman involved.) Charles and his now-wife and queen consort Camilla were both married to other people at the time. The transcript not only confirmed Princess Diana’s claims that Charles had been cheating on her but threw gasoline on Charles and Diana’s already contentious separation.

Don’t recall hearing these tapes of Billy Graham speaking to Nixon about the Synagogue of Satan before.

Are they authentic?

They are authentic and that is old news.

Nixon was a racial realist. He recorded all kinds of phone calls under the belief that only he would have access to them.

He also expanded Affirmative Action beyond what the Democrats requested. Strange but true.

He did not believe in racial equality but took a mixed liberal/Con Inc view that conservatives should lie about race and use the Federal government to create a Black middle class.

That is all verifiable. The real mystery is the MLK tape. Even Trump decided to keep it sealed.

It could possibly be a recorded rape or him having gay sex. He is already on tape s-cking dick.

Do you believe the DPR/LPR deserve the autonomy they were promised by aligning themselves with Russia?

That’s a question for Bromance or Blinky (Noviop Coprosperity), they are way more knowledgeable than I am about the Chinese/Far Eastern stuff.

All I know is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Russia

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8F

China isn’t arming Russia like the situation during the Spanish Civil War with the Soviets and Nazis. China didn’t provoke a Kiev regime-Russia conflict much unlike the collective West. If anything, China was hoping for a peaceful Russia-Ukraine situation to better enable the Belt and Road Initiative. It’s collective West elements emphasizing parallels between Russia-Kiev regime and China-Taiwan.

You are being dishonest.

Soviets sent an “volunteer” air force to China against Japan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Volunteer_Group

Soviets backed KMT with a secret weapons program against Japan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Zet

Just like the “volunteer” air force Soviet sent to Spain

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Операция_X

Has PRC done anything similar to back Russia, to use it as a proxy?

I have answered this question twice before, but apparently you did not understand my response. I don’t speak Russian so these are simply my opinions offered with some detail.

If you pretend this is a yes/no question: I think they do not ‘deserve it’, but they will receive it in the fullness of time.

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— I don’t think these regions ‘aligned themselves’ with Russia the way you imply. I think most of these people consider themselves Russian, despite meddling from the West and Kiev. I don’t think their alignment with Russia was contingent on any particular good deal which is what you seem to imply. In other words, they were not doing a calculation of “Well Moscow blew it, I guess we will stick with the Kiev bunch even though they plan to murder us.” I think DPR/LPR politicians naturally sought the best possible terms to rejoin the Russian country. This includes some hopes for autonomy which I assume they would gladly trade for protection against NATO and Kiev.

— When you live on the battleground of a world war which the West brought to your home what you are promised literally means nothing. You are lucky to live. Not good, but that’s life.

— I think the regional economy was based a lot on steel and coal industries the importance of which has faded greatly due to the rise of China. The people probably hope for some special status or handouts to make up for this. This is understandable, maybe it will work out for them.

— I think Russia intends to ultimately give DPR/LPR some political status de facto similar to what they were promised. I do not expect this will be worked out in less than five years and don’t worry about it too much. It is one of the least important issues you have raised which is saying a lot.

Israel’s Samson Option is reportedly a form of Mutually Assured Destruction intended to hold the West hostage for Israel’s security, so her nukes are equally directed at Western capitals as much as at pissant Islamic countries. The notion is the West must suppress Islamic countries to protect Israel so that Israel doesn’t nuke the West. Who knows if this is true, but it has a very Jewish ring to it. Even if fictitious, it is so crazy only a Jewish writer could have made it up!

The flaw in this strategy is that many more powerful Jews live in those western capitals than in Israel so it is counter-productive. It is just weird. I think the hard core Israelis could easily nuke Iran, Saud and Pakistan and sleep soundly and get away with it. They don’t do this because they would rather have them alive and kvetch. None of the other nuclear weapons states would retaliate against Israel which shows us how strange the world really is.

An Israeli amateur political observer on Twitter thinks that if Benny Gantz will become Israel’s PM, he will try for a two-state solution and fail like Ehud Olmert previously did:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1777709186891096451.html

I agree that Gantz is likely to try for this if he becomes Israel’s PM, but I’m less sure that he will actually fail due to the fact that Olmert in large part failed because he was forced to leave office as a result of corruption allegations before he could finish the job. So, so long as Gantz doesn’t stick his hand in the honey pot, his odds should be better than Olmert’s in regards to this, perhaps even much better.

I don’t care if the future Palestinian state will be an Israeli puppet/satellite state just so long as it will be able to prosper and (non-terrorist) Palestinians will have dignified lives over there.

Israel’s Samson Option is reportedly a form of Mutually Assured Destruction intended to hold the West hostage for Israel’s security, so her nukes are equally directed at Western capitals as much as at pissant Islamic countries

Who reported about this or where was it reported?

Sorry to inform you Sweden is finished being a peaceful European country, their ruling elite allowed an influx of non-European to that homogeneous country against the wishes of its population. Having nuclear weapons on their territory means target of nuclear assault. Complete opposite of intended protection by nuclear weapons. NATO in Ukraine means nuclear WWIII. Nuclear powers must respect each other sphere of influence i.e. Ukraine vs Mexico.

The veto on two state solution is coming from Israel. The Israel ambition to annex Palestine would be hindered by two state solution.

I don’t know, overall GDP is up but GDP per person is down so people are getting poorer. The performance of public services is also worsening. There was a recent report drawing attention to some of these issues:

https://cps.org.uk/media/post/2024/mass-migration-not-delivering-promised-economic-benefits-say-jenrick-and-obrien/

Due to the importation of CRT style attitudes to race combined with weaker protections of freedom of speech, open discussion of the issue isn’t really possible in Britain. Discussion is weighted in favour of immigration boosterism due to fear that if immigration isn’t presented in a maximally favourable way a new version of the mid-century German regime will arise and ethnic cleansing will begin.

There was a similar taboo around discussion of the demographic issue, but that seems in practice to be weaker.

But this guy is a bit strange… yes, he is very influential (he was around the crème de la crème – Bataille, Lacan, even Karl Jaspers, so he was close with several big ones).

He is, another interesting thing he wrote was a study on ‘The Notion of Authority’, this was for the Vichy regime during the war. So far I don’t know enough about him to understand how it all fits together.

I think when I have time I am going to re-read the lectures on Hegel concerning the master-slave dialectic and Hegel on Christianity and the history of religion, I’m interested to see what he says now.

I’ll try to answer the rest of your post a bit later, don’t know enough about the other guy but not surprisingly he’s a Nietzschean.

I was reading this the other night, I think he has quite an unusual take on Nietzsche, it’s possibly due to him looking at it from the sociology/political science angle.

Martin Levi Van Creveld an influential Jewish academic in the Military History and Security Studies field in Israel and US university system discussed it at length. I should add it was articulated as a veiled threat to nuke Rome by the professor.

“We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets of our air force.” —van Creveld

Lawrence Freeman at King’s College London War Studies department has also discussed this scenario openly in lecture, but he’d never write it down.

https://www.newstatesman.com/world/middle-east/2023/10/israeli-deterrence-hamas-gaza

Israel’s Samson Option is reportedly a form of Mutually Assured Destruction intended to hold the West hostage for Israel’s security, so her nukes are equally directed at Western capitals
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The flaw in this strategy is that many more powerful Jews live in those western capitals than in Israel so it is counter-productive.

What? Who came up with this crazy non-option that obviously does not exist?

Israel’s Samson Option is akin to the U.S. doctrine of “Use it. Or, lose it.” They will expend 100% of their arsenal on Muslim aggressors before going down.

It has nothing to do with western capitols. Why would Palestinian Jews waste ordinance in such a manner? You correctly point out that it makes no sense.

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You are being dishonest

Do you consider dishonest anyone who sees things in a different light ?

the future Palestinian state … will be able to prosper and (non-terrorist) Palestinians will have dignified lives over there.

How would any proposed prosperity solution deal with this vexing combination? The Muslim colonies in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza have:

• Insufficient natural resources for their existing population. Worse in Gaza, but also a serious limit in Judea & Samaria.
• A very young age distribution, which implies rapid population growth in the near term.

No one in the region has abundant resources to sell. Unless there is some incredible technical breakthrough, I do not see an path to prosperity.

if Benny Gantz will become Israel’s PM, he will try for a two-state solution

His people see the above problem. So, it is highly unlikely that an attempt will be made. Realistically, uncontrolled Muslim population growth is a critical threat. And, Israel’s only available response is continuing existing security measures.

Gantz may say things in a manner that is more pleasant sounding to Globalist leaders. However, he has no levers to change the underlying instability.

Any true solution has to come from the Global Muslim community that will have to commit to; Endless funds to prop up an over populated & under resourced “state”, and/or; Accepting significant Muslim departures from Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. They are clearly not willing to even discuss either of these options, so the status quo will inevitably continue.

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Zionist in response to the temerity that Erdogon showed in his sanction move.

lol

It’s harder to think of a more unreliable and untrustworthy politician in the entire world than Erdogan (now there’s the strange claim Turkey is treating 1,000 Hamas members in its hospitals).

If you bothered to research this issue or even think about it from knowing anything about Erdogan and Turkey, you’d realize that the “sanction move” was only partial and not complete, and that it was above all most likely a reaction to Erdogan’s party suffering a major setback in the Istanbul elections recently.

It’s things like this which make this entire conflict over Gaza and Palestine such a clown show lol (not for the civilians and fighters in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel-Lebanon border from all sides though).

Look at some of the leading public influencers for Israel like the UN ambassador, Rabbi Schmuley and that son of a Hamas founder lol.

What’s really muddying the waters from an easy prediction of Israel winning with its overwhelming military superiority over Gaza is the murky politics around this conflict.

American elections (the real or fake backing down on absolute and unconditional military support to Israel?), whether Israel’s governing coalition holds with Netanyahu in power, and the extent of economic damage Israel is undergoing from embargoes with Erdogan’s antics only coming in much later in terms of relevance.

Still, it looks like Israel is delivering the killer blow in Rafah in real-time and that things will unfold as programmed with the European weaklings and losers taking in the vast majority of 2 million Palestinians from Gaza.

The true indicator is to wait for the outcome in Gaza by December 2024 since not only are American elections in November 2024, but far more importantly, the 1 year timestamp since Israel started assaulting Gaza will have passed by then. If Israel can’t fully conquer Gaza by then (mopping up some possibly remaining Hamas pockets is a different matter), only then can it be truly said that Israel really lost. Sieges that last longer than 1 year have a low track record of success for attackers (Siege of Leningrad WW2 vs 1453 Siege of Constantinople for example).

They are authentic and that is old news.

Was talking about Graham specifically. Recall hearing ones with Moynihan, Ziegler, and Haldeman.

The real mystery is the MLK tape.

It is a measure of how evil the US regime is that school kids are forced to worship him.
I think in time, his holiday will be transformed into a day to celebrate some other PoC, possibly a Mexican.

Never heard of him being gay, but it wouldn’t surprise me if that was key to some financial or political support. The most taboo tapes would probably deal with his backers. Based on what has been told about other black celebrities, like rappers, it is not entirely unlikely that there was some aspect like that.

Sad.

Not following too closely, but what are the instances of self-inflicted gunshot wounds and fragging in the AFU?

It has an eerie reminiscence to Vietnam, except that it would be more accurate to compare the AFU to the ARVN instead of the US military. Not like the ARVN was known for high morale or avoiding coercive and draconian measures though, especially in the last few years of the Vietnam war.

Looking at all these pro-Ukraine lunatics does give a perspective on what many of the South Vietnam enthusiasts were probably like in hindsight.

Who is he “him”in the MLK tapes? What does MLK stand for?

Martin Luther King tapes – MLK. Got it.

Immigration appears to be working out relatively well for Britain, other than the radical Muslims and knife-wielding blacks:

Is this an implicit and sarcastic admission that your particular ethno-religious community has pursued misguided and wrong policy on mass immigration from certain locations?

To be fair, this issue is somewhat more complicated (economics and neo-liberal ideology) than a particular ethno-religious community insisting on it, but that’s been a significant part of it.

Imo, one can say whatever about that certain ethno-religious community and its nation-state homeland, but this “decolonization” and DEI ideology is a declaration of war on everybody with white skin, whether they like it or not. In this sense, undoing the banning and marginalization of Jared Taylor is long overdue, since even if it’s not much, he’s managed to achieve limited but definite results in reversing DEI funding in certain instances.

Thanks. I did not have a specific reference.

Well, besides a lot of saber rattling, China has managed to not invade Taiwan. After watching Russia seriously shoot itself and others in the feet, I think that China will scrap these plans, at least for now, and kick them down the road. After all, producing and selling TV’s, computers, cars and other electronic items to the West, isn’t such a bad deal. Getting oil and natural gas at rock bottom prices isn’t bad either, especially if you can finish the production of oil into gasoline and resell it to the world at market prices. 🙂

if it goes boom, Vienna will be safe

Reminder that despite being a capital of neutral country, city of Vienna was continuously in Soviet target as destined for merciless nuclear devastation, so knowing that essentially Sovok boomer gang is still in power at Kremlin, quite likely nothing has changed at inherited contingency targeting/planning either;)

I think in time, his holiday will be transformed into a day to celebrate some other PoC, possibly a Mexican.

Yeah, I think that it’s high time that we put some diversity back into diversity too. After all, we all know who is the “most interesting man in the world”. One of the the richest men in the world is a Mexican too.

I live, work and socialize with Mexican Americans. I’m finding new Mexican culinary delights every day. I’ve developed my own guacamole dishes. They’re a wonderful addition to the American mosaic. Contrary to what Beckow has stated, many of their women are quite beautiful, intelligent and engaging.

In addition, here’s an excellent interview by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University on some of these ongoing political developments, including the high-profile Gaza protests at his own academic institution.

There is most certainly coordination between the genocidal maniacs in Israel and their Jewish brethren in the US: the Israelis knew that their massacre of Palestinians would cause outrage in the Woke Golem that the US Jews created, and that this would be the signal for Power Jews to further their messianic goals. It’s a coordinated one-two punch to the gut of America and the world. The diabolical plan was to Provoke the Woke into causing havoc, which they inevitably did, and then use the excuse of punishing these college protesters to punish the whole damn country. How? By passing these draconian (or should it be “Jewconian”) laws which will eventually prohibit and punish mercilessly anyone for criticism of Jews or Israel (see the Antisemitism Awareness Act). With these new laws, what the Jews are doing is gutting the US constitution and eviscerating the soul of America itself.

Let’s think a few steps ahead. What will be the effect of such outrageous legislation? Well, even MORE outrage, of course — and that is also part of the plan. Who is there to lead the goy into such righteous outrage? Professor Jeffrey Sachs to the rescue! Sachs is a leading outrager, a rageleader, leading his own Columbia students into a seething white hate (pun intended). Just look how he rages in his interview with Napolitano! Well, as close as a mild-mannered Jewish professor can come to raging, I guess:

And then this concoction that this is about anti-Semitism—give me a break. I’m a Jewish professor at Columbia University. This is not about anti-Semitism. This is about a slaughter that is taking place in Gaza right now, and the American people don’t like it. They don’t like our complicity in it, and they are protesting it.

Oh, Lord, the Jewish professor doth protest too much, methinks. But let’s delve a little deeper into some of the strongest language — sheer outrage! — that Sachs has ever used:

My hunch is the West will end up paying refunds or even reparations to Russia, possibly in the form of rebuilding loans to Ukraine or something equally ridiculous.

You are giving the lemmings too much credit. They don’t stop at the cliff, they jump. Good riddance.

Looking at all these pro-Ukraine lunatics does give a perspective on what many of the South Vietnam enthusiasts were probably like in hindsight.

Exactly. Same mentality, same outcome. Well deserved.

“Nuclear states attacking and destroying large non-nuclear states and nations was not part of the deal”

I think the world’s first nuclear state has attacked and destroyed rather a large number of non-nuclear states since 1945.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States#21st-century_wars

The State Department guys think Fiddler On The Roof is a documentary – and they want revenge!

Total ignorance here, but what is stopping a heavily autonomous Palestinian region of Gaza as part of Egypt, and a heavily autonomous region of West Bank as part of Jordan? ( both areas have been parts of Egypt and Jordan in various times in the last 75 years)
Presumably this has been offered all the time?

Overall,considering all the worthless scum we in Russia are surrounded by on our borders- we could only dream of “enemy” states of Israel like Egypt and Jordan. In some ways they are even better for Israel than Belarus and Kazakhstan are for us. Jordan even helped Israel in its air defence for the Iranian strikes ( and other military cooperation), – Egypt has been a very responsible neighbour for the last 40 years. Israel would surely trust them to militarily control/administer Gaza and West Bank?

Assuming I am missing something obvious here?

Gaza and West Bank are never going to be linked by contiguous land – would take a military miracle to happen, so becoming part of Egypt/Jordan again would maybe require an expanded area of Gaza at expense of Israeli land ( say 25% added to additional Gaza land) which would of course get massive domestic opposition, but could still eventually be done, or cutting some land off West bank and giving to Israel………or just Jews getting a massive onetime payment out of their wallet for the Palestinians?

Certainly historical and current western (fake) leftist support and “mourning” for Palestine is completely useless and not intended to solve the issue.

Certainly historical and current western (fake) leftist support and “mourning” for Palestine is completely useless and not intended to solve the issue.

Nobody with power has motive to solve the issue. They want the status quo perpetual and their minds uploaded onto a computer. I swear nobody reads books any more. Whenever I mention one, even something from the bible, my standard response is a blank stare.

Tik tok is where it’s at. Do you have a music video? Do you ever wonder what everybody staring at their phone is so fixed on? Must be zombie stuff on there.

Ukrainian victory is certain. I thought he’d lose for the obvious reason of size. An underdiscussed secondary aspect is performance enhancing drugs build but also burn you out unless you take breaks from them. Due to the postponement from Fury’s cut, Usyk has not been able to cycle off them and that probably has aged him on top of the actual two years older. Whatever his recreational frailties, Fury has a less pema roid looking physique. Usyk was trying to make weight most of his career and did that well but I think his seeming superlative condition is now skin deep, because he will have certainly bulked up beyond what he is used to carrying.

However there are both rumours and concrete indications Fury’s mobility is gone (specifically the talk is his ankles are shot), and it can be seen he does not back up as he used to, and if that lack of elusiveness is by necessity, logically he will be unable to go forward and pivot to cut off the ring on Usyk. The incredibly short and heavy Tony Galento, who hurt and then knocked down Joe Louis, was crude but had great ankles; Galento was absolutely superlative at skipping rope. If Fury’s ankles are going/ gone he is not going to be able to catch Uksyk. Every pro boxer goes into a bout with something wrong of course, and Fury has been so heavy and has so much leverage from his mile long shins on his lowest joints that there must be a lot of wear and tear down there. He should be too big for Usyk, but by now Fury may well be a giant with mortise joints of clay.

Certainly historical and current western (fake) leftist support and “mourning” for Palestine is completely useless and not intended to solve the issue.

Human history clearly shows that only self-liberation lasts. Liberation by external forces results in the slaves returning to their masters (e.g., Eastern Europe). Nobody can liberate Palestinians, they must do it themselves. Or remain stateless people, like Kurds.

…despite being a capital of neutral country, city of Vienna was continuously in Soviet target

Nobody cares about 1980’s, Vienna is not a target today. Neither are Hungary, Slovakia, Serbia, Ireland, Switzerland…

There is a clear hierarchy of nuclear targets – phase I, phase II, etc…Stockholm and Helsinki are now in the first phase due to their proximity to Russia, ease of access, and their militancy. It may not matter, but it could.

Under a limited nuclear war scenario the Swedish military bases would be attacked immediately. It would most likely escalate, but possibly not – the destruction would be horrendous with dozens of Chernobyl uninhabitable areas. Sweden and Finland would get them, Spain or Ireland probably not. And Vienna would keep its cafes open…:)

That is a direct consequence of Sweden going nuts, joining Nato, putting in bases, etc…In return they got exactly what? Does any serious person believe that Sweden would not be defended pre-Nato? Really? Or Austria today…

I swear nobody reads books any more. Whenever I mention one, even something from the bible, my standard response is a blank stare.

That’s true for the US, but not for other countries. Both Mexico city and Moscow have more bookstores than the whole US. People do read books, sheeple don’t.

One of the the richest men in the world is a Mexican too

if you mean Carlos Slim, technically he is a national but not an ethnic (Maronite from Lebanon). Would suppose the same is true of Mexico’s #2 wealthy man – Spanish name but rather too pale to seem to have any Indio in him.

Nixon liked Mexico, at least in a way, but that was before the cartels took over.

There are certainly worse fates than some fusionist culture with Mexicans, but, truth be told, nowadays, I feel like the future of America won’t be to become like some Latin American country. The soft Southern border seems to be increasingly exploited by a global populace, rather than Latinos specifically. And if it weren’t, there would still be legal immigration. Moreover, the ruling class of Latin America is more Euro, but I don’t think that will be the case in America.

what is stopping a heavily autonomous Palestinian region of Gaza as part of Egypt, and a heavily autonomous region of West Bank as part of Jordan? ( both areas have been parts of Egypt and Jordan in various times in the last 75 years)

Both are possible as concepts. A “one Jordanian state” option has been discussed multiple times.

However, both the north of the Sinai and Jordan are short on resources. So expanding the land area to include additional low yield areas does not really address the structural problem.

There are also political risks. Egypt needs to keep.the Muslim Terrorist Brotherhood under control. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan does not need more non-Hashimite Arabs. The Global Muslim community would have to commit large, ongoing funds to make such projects viable.

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CORRECT-O-MOON-DOUGH

I found where the Rationalist sex worker blogger is going to be in person and all the cool autistic people are having a convention. Also I spelled her name right. It is Aella which looks like it came from a focus group start up company.

Less Online May 31- June 2 Berkeley CA

https://less.online/

Here is the closest to a negro promo photograph they could come up with:

Looks like about one-thirty-second. Those genes have a lot of creep.

Aella charges 400 an hour. Discount if you buy in bulk.

They want the status quo perpetual and their minds uploaded onto a computer.

If you haven’t seen Oliver Stone’s Nixon it is a pretty great movie. Near the end a drunken crying Nixon is burning documents in his blazing fireplace in summertime Washington D.C., drenched in sweat, and Henry Kissinger stops by. Nixon pleads with Henry to pray with him.

Not intended but almost the funniest scene in any movie ever.

Well, besides a lot of saber rattling, China has managed to not invade Taiwan. After watching Russia seriously shoot itself and others in the feet, I think that China will scrap these plans, at least for now, and kick them down the road. After all, producing and selling TV’s, computers, cars and other electronic items to the West, isn’t such a bad deal. Getting oil and natural gas at rock bottom prices isn’t bad either, especially if you can finish the production of oil into gasoline and resell it to the world at market prices.

“Sabre rattling” on Taiwan has greatly come from the US foreign policy establishment. NATO and its Kiev regime proxy shot itself and others in the foot.

Rather pathetically, the Biden administration asks China to curtail its production of civilian products. So much for Milton Friedman and “free trade”.

This is just lazy, typical American-PR spamboting.

West Point educated retards were too useless to find a way to destroy the Scud missile installations, mobile AND stationary, during the Gulf War, LMAO.

Thats the military with the unlimited budget, near complete aerial dominance in Iraq, not fighting against the worlds most saturated air defence network as for 404, and in desert environment where these mobile launch systems are much easier to detect you idiot – with the system much less agile than HIMARS.

So our achievements in countering them should be considered outstanding. We have intercepted masses of HIMARS missiles you dickhead, we have destroyed many of the systems on the ground or in storage already – and will continue to do so. Problem of Counter-battery response that of course has been very difficult to impossible against HIMARS – is now being solved hopefully soon.

So its clear that comparison in quality of us now versus Pindostan in 1991 are valid – Though alot more satellites are in orbit now , I don’t think that satellite reconnaissance ability for the worlds top militaries has changed much since them.

Most importantly – at tactical and operational level they have been USELESS against Russia in SMO you thick POS. Just as 10000 extra Scud missiles would not have won Iraq the Gulf War.

Except cheap PR. and hits against some of our heroes ( nowhere near what they were hoping for)……..what have they done for the NATO/Banderastan side in the last year to 18 months? Helped the counteroffensive? Stopped Russian logistics chain? Stopped or delayed a Russian attack? Saved Ukronazi live (LMAO)? Won 404 any territory? The answer to all is of course no.

The NATO side as they provide Banderastans diminishing military more HIMARS &TACMS that an attention-whore bot as yourself is spamming on here ….I can’t see them making much improvement to the technology or tactically on the battlefield relative to Russian ability to countermeasure ( as has already happened a few times in previous iterations of its use) – only thing they can do is make the sites for recharging/refuelling/parking them deeper, thicker, harder to spot ……….but as that happens we will almost certainly improve even more in spotting and destroying HIMARS when it’s out of those sites and in mobile phase. Plus the issue of its particular lack of success in the last 2 winters you idiot

https://strategic-culture.su/news/2015/09/21/getting-russia-wrong-again/

Adrian Karatnycky’s article of this past September 2 “Mr. Lavrov Builds His Dream World”, has the standard preferences of the Atlantic Council, which features that piece. Omitted, are the valid counters on the issues covered (Crimea and the domestic situation in Russia are among the subjects).

Contrary to what Karatnycky suggests, “Official Russia”, exists with some media and academic instances that oppose the Kremlin. On this particular, one can reasonably argue for greater diversity – something which applies elsewhere – Atlantic Council, considerable segments of Western mass media/body politic and Kiev regime controlled Ukraine included.

In his article, Karatnycky distorts what Russian President Vladimir Putin said about Joseph Goebbels. This distortion is perplexing, given that the contents in the hyperlinked July 10, 2014 Times of Israel article, clearly show that Putin wasn’t suggesting any positive admiration for Goebbels.

Writes Karatnycky: “Alas, the Terra Scientia is not a place for study and reflection. It appears there are virtually no such places in official Russia. Knowledge and the discussion of serious problems have been replaced not simply by sophistry, but by the time-worn tradition of the big Lie, a technique much admired by Putin, who last year professed to shocked rabbis his admiration for the effectiveness of Nazi propagandist.”

The Times Of Israel piece makes no mention whatsoever of “shocked rabbis”, while acknowledging Putin’s opposition to anti-Jewish manner. (On another matter, the Times of Israel article short changes the reasoned basis for Crimea reunifying with Russia, in addition to not acknowledging instances of anti-Jewish expression within the extreme wing of those who contributed to the overthrow of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych).

Jewry in Russia is something that periodically crops up in a negatively inaccurate way. This image plays on the idea of Russia being an ethnically restrictive country – a perception that’s (put mildly) quite relative, in relation to what’s actually evident in that nation and other countries.

The following is expressed in Ivan Nechepurenko’s May 21, 2015 Moscow Times article “Shoigu At 60: The Man Who Would Be Russia’s King”: “‘No one with the surname Shoigu could ever be elected Russia’s president,’ said Stanislav Belkovsky, a prominent political analyst, referring to the defense minister’s origins from the remote Siberian republic Tuva, where animistic shamanism is practiced by the population along with Tibetan Buddhism. Unlike the Soviet Union, Russia is a nation state, where only people with a Russian surname can occupy the Kremlin,’ Belkovsky said in a phone interview.”

Upon reading this, I was reminded of Stephen Cohen’s November 12, 2003 Moscow Times article “The Struggle For Russia”, which includes: “Democracy in Russia has been failing ever since Yeltsin made oligarchic privatization possible by destroying an elected parliament in 1993, and neither side is interested in truly reviving it: the oligarchs are zealous monopolists, not free-market reformers, and Western investors interested in Russia’s huge oil reserves have already indicated that they care about official guarantees of the contracts, not who signs them: Putin now controls elections sufficiently to get substantially the legislature he wants: and no one of Jewish origin, as are Khodorkovsky and most of the other oligarchs, could be elected president of Russia.”

When considering his erudite commentary over the decades, I’d like to think that Cohen might be inclined to amend what he stated above. A whataboutism moment wryly observes the number of Jewish US presidents and vice presidents in the 200 plus year history of these positions, versus the number of post-Soviet Russian prime ministers of a known Jewish background.

On the subject of Jewry in Russia and the overall state of ethno-religious relations in that country, there remains some closed-minded thinking, as evidenced in Julia Ioffe’s October 16, 2013 New Republic piece “Russians Still Love Pogroms”. Her tabloid screed is indicative of an inaccurate collective stereotyping.

Ethno-religious intolerance is an unfortunate condition, which Russians haven’t monopolized. The past actions against Jews in Russia aren’t on par with the present circumstances in that nation. A second whataboutism considers African-Americans during slavery, contrasted with the current situation, which include some negative occurrences against that group. Another whataboutism observes that the unfortunate position of Jews in the Russian Empire wasn’t at the horrid level of what existed in Nazi Germany and as tragic to what the Armenians faced under Turkish rule.

As a sharp contrast to Ioffe, the American PBS aired documentary “The Jewish Journey: America”, provides commentary by some Jewish scholars which contradict conventional perceptions. These contradicting comments include the:

– overwhelming majority who left the Russian Empire, did so for economic reasons and not persecution (stated with the acknowledgement that there was discrimination and periodic violence against Jews in the Russian Empire);

– “Pale of Settlement”, maintained a status quo of where Jews already lived, as opposed to seeing them expelled altogether (keeping in mind that there was a limited Jewish presence in Russia proper – the territory of today’s Russian federation);

– the image of Cossacks beating up Jews is described in the documentary as a “literary construction” and “catch phrase literary mythology”.

Regarding the last point, there was a 1648 uprising against Polish rule, that involved a large scale violence against Jews by rebelling Cossacks. This was on land which was not at the time a part of the Russian Empire. (Some of the territory in question had never become affiliated with the Russian Empire, covering the period after the Mongol subjugation of Rus). Within reason, these Cossacks saw the Jewish community as being generally supportive of Polish rule. This observation is made without meaning to excuse the anti-Jewish violence which occurred.

The 1964 Broadway musical “Fiddler On The Roof” and the 1971 movie version of that play, has had an influence among those with some knowledge of the historical setting. Both are based on the works of Sholem Aleichem, who is formally recognized in Russia as a Russian literary figure. (He wrote in Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian.)

Upon further review, it’d be interesting to see the differences between the play and movie, in relation to what Sholem Aleichem wrote. The Hollywood movie industry has been known to accentuate, or completely change some aspects related to history and novels. This is also true of some novels that have a historical setting.

In the “Fiddler On The Roof” movie, the Russian government is portrayed as actively encouraging a pogrom in a distant Ukrainian village. This depiction contradicts other instances, where the anti-Jewish violence was initiated in various areas, without Russian government instigation. In these situations, the Russian government opposed that behavior because of the domestic instability it nurtured and the negative impression it gave abroad (especially in the West).

Simultaneously in the Russian Empire, there were some (not all) local officials and higher ups, who exhibited anti-Jewish manner, which ranged from seemingly supporting the violence to opposing it. Despite these circumstances, around 650,000 Jews served in the Russian armed forces during World War I, according to “A Historical Atlas Of The Jewish People”. Even with the large exodus of Jews from the Russian Empire, that entity and (later) the Soviet Union maintained a good sized Jewish population.

Ioffe’s New Republic piece oversimplifies the ethnic tensions exhibited in Russia over the past several years. This subject has involved:

– criminal action on the part of some people from the Caucasus, who’ve migrated to the northwestern part of Russia;

– to a degree, the reasoned belief that some local authorities have been bribed to look the other way at that activity;

– extremists and some otherwise not so extreme individuals, taking vigilante action out of a frustrated disgust.

Not too long ago, a Moscow situated British acquaintance saw a Russian intervening against someone of Caucasus background, who was roughing up a Tajik. This occurrence is mentioned without intending to stereotype ethnic relations in Russia. Rather, it’s to highlight the dubious spin in Ioffe’s piece.

Most patriotic Russians don’t appear so hung up on a person’s ethno-religious background as Cohen and Belkovsky suggest in the referenced Moscow Times articles. For the most part, this category of Russians welcome non-Russians who sympathize with their views, unlike those Russians who slant to the preference of anti-Russian leaning elements – a matter related to Paul Robinson’s May 11, 2015 piece “The Self Hating Russian”. Many who identify themselves as being ethnic Russian, readily acknowledge (without shame) having either another ethnic identity, or more than two such backgrounds.

Nechepurenko’s aforementioned May 21, 2015 Moscow Times article notes a poll among Russians, which is very favorable towards Shoigu. An excerpt from the May 9, 2015 commentary by The Saker “Something Truly Amazing Happened Today”:

“But something else, no less amazing, also happened today: Defense Minister Shoigu made the sign of the Cross before the beginning of the celebrations. This is an absolutely momentous moment in Russia. Never in the past history had any Russian minister of defense done anything like it. True, the old tradition was to make the sign of the Cross when passing under the Kremlin’s Savior Tower, if only because there is an icon of the Savior right over the gate. However, everybody in Russia immediately understood that there was much more to this gesture than an external compliance to an ancient tradition.

The Russian journalist Victor Baranets puts it very well when he wrote: ‘At that moment I felt that with this simple gesture, Shoigu brought all of Russia to his feet. There was so much kindness, so much hope, so much of our Russian sense of the sacred (in this gesture)’. He is absolutely correct. To see the Tuvan Buddhist make the sign of the Cross in the Orthodox manner sent an electric shock through the Russian blogosphere: everybody felt that something amazing had happened.

For one thing, nobody in his right mind would suspect Shoigu of ever doing anything just ‘for show’. The man has an immense capital of popularity and credibility in Russia and he has no need for political hypocrisy. Personally, I believe that Shoigu quite literally asked for God’s help in one of the most dangerous moments in Russian history in which he, the Russian minister of defense, might be called to take momentous decisions from which the future of the planet might be decided.

For centuries Russian soldiers have knelt and asked God’s blessing, before going into battle and this is, I believe, what Shoigu did today. He knows that 2015 will be the year of the big war between Russia and the Empire (even if, due to the presence of nuclear weapons on both sides, this war will remain 80% informational, 15% economic and 5% military).

Does this mean that Shoigu converted to orthodoxy? Not necessarily. Buddhism is very accepting of other religions and I don’t see much of a contradiction here. But the fact that the first Russian government official to begin the historical Victory Day parade by making the sign of the Cross and appealing for God’s help is a Buddhist, is, in itself, quite amazing (even if it shames his nominally ‘Orthodox’ predecessors who never did so).

I can only imagine the horror, outrage and despair Shoigu’s gesture will trigger in the pro-Western Russian ‘liberal intelligentsia’ and in western capitals. In placing himself and all of Russia in God’s hands Shoigu declared a spiritual, cultural and civilizational war on the Empire. And just for that, he will go down in history as one of Russia’s greatest men.”

Notwithstanding some arguably debatable points, the above excerpted highlights how Shoigu is viewed within Russian patriotic circles.

All baseless speculation unless you have links or current RF nuclear contingency plans on the desk, however it is entirely known and public knowledge that Germany even when being under Kremlin doormat Schroeder rule still was potential target of RF tactical nuclear strikes IIRC.

The brief article linked below gives some detail on Russian attacks on Ukrainian power infrastructure. To me this information strongly supports the notion that Moscow wants a capitulation by the end of summer so there is time to temporarily fix things to keep civilians from freezing to death next winter. This is especially true of the “damage to 800 heat supply facilities” which I assume are district heating plants commonly used in ex-Soviet cities. If the electrical generating capacity of Ukraine has been degraded from 37 GW to 12 GW then there may be a serious risk of a grid collapse leaving large areas with no electric power at all (since the grid may be unstable if enough plants are offline).

This line of reasoning may fit in well with taking Kharkov first.

Since the source is not Ukie approved maybe someone here can check the original references.

The State Department guys think Fiddler On The Roof is a documentary – and they want revenge!

Looking at a description of the film, it’s great news……it means that the State Department recognises Kiev as part of Russia!!!! Wonderful

From a still from the film – the slavic villagers are wearing Kovorotka’s…….not the so-called “Ukrainian” vishivanka”. Presumably “Ukraine” is not a term for the land that the characters of the film have ever heard of.

Putin mentioned this a few months before about this scumbag Blinkens grandfather who is supposed to be from Kiev or Poltava region – that he wrote on his documents that he was leaving Russia when he left during the pogroms

Behind all this is something serious…….either evil, bloodthirsty anti-Russian scum from diaspora of Pogrom Jews view SMO as a chance to historically punish “Ukrainians” who they blame for the worst of these pogroms ( most have nothing in connection with modern day Russian Federation territory), and are only using Russia as delivery method for this, using Russia as cover while pretending they “stand with Ukraine”…….or they see Ukrops and Russians as the exact same people, so our very happy with how SMO is going – the kill ratios insanely in Russia’s favour are of no interest to them – only that anyone from either side is killed.

Jews went to North America 140 years before , and if they were friendly or neutral to Russia they presented much of great Russian culture to Americans……..they never did a single thing to convince any American there was this thing called “Ukraine” until 2014

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Well, some people consider overnight stay a long-term relationship.

If they allow to partition Ukraine, how are they planning to guarantee the principle of “territorial integrity” going forward?

They aren’t. They are just gonna blow a lot of hot air like they always do. The only thing that can save Ukraine now is direct Western intervention. Either the West puts boots on the ground or Ukraine is annexed by Russia. There are no other options. But the West can’t intervene due to internal political divisions.

And the West totally brought this on themselves. If the West hadn’t spent the last 60 years importing 100 million third worlders, pushing a culture agenda that demoralized and alienated their native populations and pursuing economic policies that benefited shitty urban liberals at the expense of everyone else, then the West would be willing and able to resist Russian aggression. But the Western elites were too short sighted, too arrogant and too hateful an now they’ve lost everything

Putin referenced Blinken saying his (Blinken’s) distant family relation fled Russia. When asked where in Russia, Blinken said Kiev.

On RT’s CrossTalk some years back, a former Israeli spokesperson said his family left a good life in pre-WW I Russia (he specified Donbass) to go to Palestine to live the Zionist dream.

Shifting gears –

https://nypost.com/2023/01/03/adult-star-turned-data-scientist-i-had-more-sex-than-showers-in-2022/

WNB even if she paid me 400$ per hour.

They actually started the partition game in former Yugoslavia. And they also did their best to provoke the RusFed agression to make their MIC buddies fat and happy. Agree with the rest.

Yea, but once you touch Europe, it becomes problematic.

They aren’t. They are just gonna blow a lot of hot air like they always do.

Well, that’s why I asked the original question about the utility and timing of this peace conference. However, the goal is to not just have the West there, an effort is being undertaken right now to corral the nations of the so called Global south, apparently they have invited 160 nations.

Either the West puts boots on the ground or Ukraine is annexed by Russia.

The West can still provide a lot of support besides “boots on the ground”, Ukraine has never asked for troops, they need help with drones and artillery, not manpower, the manpower they need to rotate themselves, but have not done that for understandable reasons, it is very tough psychologically. To have another mobilization would be a qualitative psychological leap. But it’s the same for Russia – they will need a real mobilization, too, sooner or later, since they’ve put themselves on a war footing now with this latest government rocade.

Those who mock the drowning of men in the river are themselves cowards.

Those who mock the drowning of men in the river are themselves cowards.

The Ukrainians are the ones drowning and I’m not mocking them, I’m mocking the feckless cowards who run the West and allowed this situation to deteriorate the way it has. If the West was still free, prosperous and immigrantfrei none of this shit would have ever happened. The Western elites have brought about the destruction of Ukraine which will lead to WWIII.

I don’t recall the West having any real problem with Yeltsin attacking the Russian parliament in 1993. Yeltsin was considered a “democrat” who helped break up the USSR, and the parliament was seen as a nest of diehard Communists as well as Russian nationalists.

Should we go back to living in circular homes to discourage density?
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There is a a certain archaea species which can survive an autoclave, which might prove my theory that James Madison’s flute should have been autoclaved and then nuked to deal with any Lizzo contamination. Though I suppose she might also have nuke resistant microbes.

BTW, has anyone thought to test the idea that there is only such a number of pathanogenic bacteria by using PCR on supergays? Imagine it must have been done, but probably the study would be too un-PC.
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Speaking of nuking, I had to destroy my favored web-browser’s data, as I had too many tabs open, and there was no other way out of it. Including bookmarks. A cautionary tale to you all!

It is not the “short of resources” or Muslim community spending to make such projects viable. It is the growth of Jewish illegal settlements on the West bank. You are strangely neglecting to consider the crucial point for the suggested scheme. These settlements are considered permanent.

Yeltsin was Washington drunken “boy” and they loved his rein causing Russian decline.

Germany is one huge US-Nato base, have you been there? It makes no difference who is the PM, they have zero control over any military issues.

You wildly speculate that “Russia is going to invade Sweden!“, but also believe that in a nuclear war there is no hierarchy of targets. Riiight…no selection of targets. Stockholm just bought a top spot.

Do you really believe that if Sweden was invaded pre-2022 the Nato would just sit on the sidelines? Or Austria today? Sweden obviously screwed up…Scandies are disciplined and obedient, but not very smart.

…to corral the nations of the so called Global south, apparently they have invited 160 nations.

Are you saying that Palau will come? Fantastic, that’s worth more dead Ukies. (I would come, a fancy hotel outside Luzern, buffets, all expenses paid…)

It is an oxymoron to have a “peace conference” where one of the war parties is explicitly banned. It is literally a definition of waste of time and money. If China shows up they will simply restate that Kiev-West must be ‘realistic’. Keeping up the facade of “we can dictate to Russia” in the face of losing the war is idiotic – an absurd nihilism. It is embarrassing and makes the West look weak and childish.

The West can still provide a lot of support besides “boots on the ground”, Ukraine has never asked for troops

Sure, they can stretch it out. The result will be more Ukies needlessly dying.

There will be a deal unless we go nuclear. That deal is getting worse for Kiev with each month. In a few years nobody will care about the amount of ammunition that was burnt in the war – all that will be left is the new reality, new borders, and a lot of dead Ukies. “More heroes, fewer people” – is that an evolutionary smart strategy?

I don’t think these regions ‘aligned themselves’ with Russia the way you imply. I think most of these people consider themselves Russian, despite meddling from the West and Kiev.

You are saying they don’t deserve autonomy because they are really just Russian?

Did the DPR separatists create a new flag and government for their new nation or did they ask Russia to invade them?

Are you suggesting the entire DPR state was just an act and they really just wanted to join Russia? Did Putin recognize them as independent states in 2014?

I think DPR/LPR politicians naturally sought the best possible terms to rejoin the Russian country.

Which politicians and please provide a source on when these terms were discussed.

I think Russia intends to ultimately give DPR/LPR some political status de facto similar to what they were promised.

Did Putin recognize them as independent countries in 2022 or not?

They were promised full autonomy.

Putin signs decrees recognizing independence of eastern Ukraine regions
https://www.jurist.org/news/2022/02/putin-signs-decrees-recognizing-independence-of-eastern-ukraine-regions/

Do you acknowledge that Putin signed this decree:
I consider it necessary to take a long overdue decision to immediately recognize the independence and sovereignty of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic

Did he give them the independence and sovereignty that he promised?

You wildly speculate that “Russia is going to invade Sweden!“, but also believe that in a nuclear war there is no hierarchy of targets. Riiight…no selection of targets. Stockholm just bought a top spot.

Why would they have a top spot if they don’t have nuclear weapons? Spite?

Fallout and tsunamis from nuking St. Petersburg would destroy Stockholm in any exchange.

Do you really believe that if Sweden was invaded pre-2022 the Nato would just sit on the sidelines? Or Austria today? Sweden obviously screwed up…Scandies are disciplined and obedient, but not very smart.

How did Sweden screw up if you acknowledge that Russia will only invade non-NATO targets?

Would you describe Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as smart?

Seems wildly amusing to me that they shut down that NYC-Dublin portal thing at least for a while after some Instagram thot flashed her breasts.

Am not saying I condone the behavior of the e-thot, but shutting it down seems bizarrely at variance with the open borders regime in both countries.

Digital streaming of a young woman’s breasts is a no-go, but everything physical imaginable can and does arrive. Not to mention, some guy mooned it on the first day – but since that was gay, there were no consequences.

Germany is one huge US-Nato base, have you been there? It makes no difference who is the PM, they have zero control over any military issues.

Then why haven’t they sent Taurus missiles to Ukraine as requested by the US and Britain?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-aims-influence-germanys-taurus-084800910.html

The Western elites have brought about the destruction of Ukraine which will lead to WWIII.

Yes, Western elites made the destruction of Ukraine inevitable. But I don’t think it will lead to WWIII.

The empire will do its usual shtick: declare victory and leave. Europeans suffered a lot more because of idiotic Western policy, but Europe is on its way down, anyway, so nobody would care. European politicians will invent lies to cover this fiasco, and European sheeple will believe (or pretend to believe) those lies. Western Europe was all about hypocrisy and lies for decades, hardly capable of anything else. Putin won’t rub it in, he is busy changing the global order and does not appear to be very interested in bullshitting and petty revenge. For Europe the fact that Russian economic ties with it won’t ever be restored is revenge enough.

Pro-Ukie crowd will invent self-soothing lies and believe in them. People who could believe in “democratic Ukraine” would believe in anything, however preposterous. Life will go on.

Bashibuzuk – 1 Black Dragon Society – 0

I wasn’t aiming the drowning comment at you, but at a few of these Russophiles who have been posting this as of late, a lot. When it’s in fact Kremlin’s fault that these tragedies are happening and wonderful young men are lost and wasted.

I don’t disagree with you regarding the West either – there are a lot of problems, but I may not agree with how far you take it.

There will be a deal unless we go nuclear

Russia isn’t going to accept any “deal”. If there was ever the possibility for some sort of agreement, it ended after Russia mobilized in late 2022. Russia wants to dictate the terms and it has no incentive to settle for anything less. It’s not even clear that Russia can accept anything less at this stage.

I can respond to you. Why wouldn’t I be able to? I always enjoy interacting with you

It is an oxymoron to have a “peace conference” where one of the war parties is explicitly banned. It is literally a definition of waste of time and money.

Most probably there will be a series of these conferences and eventually Russia could be there, too. I was just wondering if there is anything they know, that the public doesn’t know, since this is just a month away.

Biden administration asks China to curtail its production of civilian products.

Really? When and what? Will Biden list his diktat to China as one of his foreign policy achievements on his resume when the elections go into high gear this fall? 🙂

What did the Planet of the Apes actors mean when they said they were on Team Ape?

BTW, I thought this was a funny joke:

The Israeli professor Martin Van Creveld.

…Fallout and tsunamis from nuking St. Petersburg would destroy Stockholm in any exchange.

Good point. And yet a direct hit would be worse. (Or maybe better, quicker.)

if you acknowledge that Russia will only invade non-NATO targets?

Where do I say that? Reading comprehension again? I said that Sweden was ‘protected’ by Nato regardless of its membership. Joining Nato came with costs but no gains. Austria, Ireland, Suise are neutral and protected. Do you doubt that?

Stockholm is now a primary target due top its proximity to Russia. Maybe “spite” plays a role. There is a huge amount of spite in the West (and in you) against Russia, why shouldn’t they reciprocate?

…Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as smart?

Russia had no choice if they wanted to stay independent and avoid the eventual vassal status. With Nato in Ukraine, Russia would be indefensible – use nukes or surrender. They chose not to face that dilemma.

So far it has worked: the gain of strategic territories (Azov), Nato is out, Kiev losing, Russia internally consolidating – the liberals are out and down, not to come back for at least a generation, the economy has shifted to what they do best: material production, weapons, domestic market…And it cost them very little. Remember Russia has 150 million people.

Now look at Ukraine. Was rejecting a compromise deal with neutrality and normal minority rights for Russian-Ukies a smart thing? Try to be honest.

I think the answers to these follow up questions are already covered by my comment.

I acknowledge that you are a paid troll. This is the least ridiculous explanation for your comprehension difficulties and elementary school style of argumentation.

…some sort of agreement ended after Russia mobilized in late 2022. Russia wants to dictate the terms…It’s not even clear that Russia can accept anything less at this stage.

I agree. But it is a question of semantics. The main thing West wants now is to save face – pretending that a “dictate” was a “peace deal” may be worth it for Russia if they get something in return.

The Western position today is “we know you evil Russians will win, but we can make it more bloody and costly for you, so how about you pretend that we agreed to a deal?“…not an attractive proposition, but maybe Russia has no interest in rubbing the Westie face in the mud. And so many Ukies are dying – it seems that Russia is more concerned with Ukie lives than Kiev, definitely more than the West.

After Russia’s previous experiences with West cheating and lying about any deal, and retroactively insisting that “we won!”, it may not be possible. Too bad, too many Ukie men are dying needlessly. This Western endless lying has a high cost eventually. And not just in Russia.

I didn’t know the Post had caught on. Yikes. For the convention FAQ they did not have the answers to my questions.

How many tricks does Aella plan to pull during the event?
What’s Yudkowski’s BMI these days?

You wildly speculate that “Russia is going to invade Sweden!“

No any such quote of mine;) However overall mainland Sweden is mostly safe, but Gotland island is relatively potentially weak strategic spot which once already was occupied, even if shortly and several centuries ago.

Do you really believe that if Sweden was invaded pre-2022 the Nato would just sit on the sidelines? Or Austria today?

Such script with any NATO practical defensive actions made it sure documented nuclear target for Soviet planners as well, so in any case they were nuclear targets, even without having stationed nuclear weapons, so no any difference here for them;)

…Gotland island is relatively potentially weak strategic spot which once already was occupied, even if shortly and several centuries ago.

What? If you think that is relevant today we can start digging through myriad of minutia and never have peace.

with any NATO practical defensive actions made it sure documented nuclear target for Soviet planners …so no any difference here for them

Why would they target neutral countries? You are making up stuff – probably out of desperation since you have no rational argument left. In any case, there is a hierarchy of targets, they are not all equal – Stockholm was way below Dusseldorf or Toulouse – now it is right at the top among the first targets to be hit. If you think that is a good thing, fine – but don’t deny the obvious.

Sweden had perfect security and now it doesn’t. A pretty high cost for no gain.

… a series of these conferences and eventually Russia could be there

Probably not. Why would they go? They have been specifically excluded, they may pay back by ignoring the whole process. And that makes the “process” completely meaningless, a costly exercise in nothingness.

…there is anything they know, that the public doesn’t know

When people say stuff like “anything we don’t know“, it is just blind faith in the ruling elite knowing what they are doing. What of they don’t? Then you are back to waiting for miracles…

After Russia’s previous experiences with West cheating and lying about any deal, and retroactively insisting that “we won!”, it may not be possible. Too bad, too many Ukie men are dying needlessly. This Western endless lying has a high cost eventually. And not just in Russia.

Apart from the cheating and lying about any deal there’s the wholesale theft.

Blinken is in Kiev today asking Zelensky where the $ 1 billion for building Sumy and Kharkov defense lines went. Head-scratching all round.

Blinken is in Kiev today asking Zelensky where the $ 1 billion for building Sumy and Kharkov defense lines went.

Maybe Blinken does not know, but everyone who knows Ukraine has no doubt where the money has gone.

LMAO. I have scooped LatW on the news page.

Wait what? I thought I was the one on the beach clamming in Bronze Age attire. 🙂

With a fish skin purse, don’t you remember? 🙂

So there is no official Israeli government policy threatening Western capitols?

It is less than credible, highly unofficial speculation from an academic.

PEACE 😇

Although insisting he still is his usual weight of 19 stone, Tyson Fury looks thinner, if not a bit overtrained, which would fit in with having the injury delay and having to train to a peak twice without a break. Fury is rumored to have ankle problems, and yery tall people tend to get problems with inflammation of the band of tissue (periosteum) that surrounds the shin where the shin joins the ankle, especially when being active in very hot climates. Moving awkwardly round chasing pivoting Usyk may lead to Fury being doing far more work than he is used to and maybe the weight loss is an attempt to take the strain of off his inflamed joints. His legs look peculiarly scrawny now to some observers . Fury better hope Usyk stands and fights instead of running because he’d be difficult to catch even for someone with legs that are 100%.

Funny how they have no problem telling a Russian from an Ukrainian (while I often have a hard time) but cannot understand that an ethnic Chinese Singaporean is not necessarily a Chinese citizen.

Does Singapore recognize double nationality?

Also, what ancestral ethno-cultural group do most Singapore Chinese belong to?

And yeah, as I post, I am sitting now drinking Pu Er Shou Lao Ban Zhang. It can be infused up to seven times before it loses its flavour.

You strangely neglect the most critical points:

• The Muslims colonies in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza have been illegitimate for over 1,000 years.
• There is no way for Islam to steal land from indigenous Palestinian Jews who are regaining their religious homelands.

The religion of Islam is not native to Palestine. It is well past time for Palestinian Jews and Christians to be free of Muslim occupiers. Helping the followers of Muhammad leave Palestine and return to their religious homelands is clearly the most viable option.

PEACE 😇

Can the Jordan Valley accommodate a lot of people if Israel will give it up?

Why would they target neutral countries?

Should ask old planners cause it was historically documented as nuclear targeted continuously, despite being neutral.

they are not all equal – Stockholm was way below Dusseldorf or Toulouse – now it is right at the top among the first targets to be hit

Just the speculation again;)

The RF army captured an unusual POW in Volchansk, Kharkov region: Alexander Matlay, a member of Ukrainian barrier detachment, a unit that was tasked with shooting retreating Ukrainian troops. I am sure if Russian soldiers knew who he is, they would have shot him on sight, rather than take him prisoner. Although shooting him is way too humane. By rights Ukrainians should be given a chance to exterminate that scum themselves, whichever way they choose.

Dialect Groups Population (2020)

Hokkien. 1,180,599
Teochew. 583,963
Cantonese. 429,329
Hakka. 259,153
Hainanese. 183,312
Foochow. 59,609
Henghua. 26,702
Shanghainese 22,503
Hockchia. 17,070
Other Chinese 244,529

Total 3,006,769

Hokkien used to be an unofficial language of business until the 1980s, also used as a lingua franca among Singaporeans. Other than Mandarin, the two most commonly spoken varieties of Chinese are Hokkien which is the dominant dialect and Cantonese, both of which are mainly spoken among the older generation. Teochew, is being replaced by Hokkien, while other Chinese varieties are increasingly less commonly heard nowadays.

So basically, most Singapore ethnic Chinese citizens do not speak Mandarin as a mother tongue. Do they learn Mandarin at school?

Can the Jordan Valley accommodate a lot of people if Israel will give it up?

Indigenous Palestinian Jews will not give up their religious homeland again. It will never happen. Try more reasonable questions.

Can Qatar accept a lot of people by embrace over a million “guest workers”? — That is a much more viable concept. Qatar already has many guest workers. It is more about rearranging the source.

How many can Iran accept? — Another good question. Khamenei has money to spend on Hamas and Hezbollah. He clearly has the resources to support Muslim departures from Judea, Samaria, and Gaza.

PEACE 😇

https://www.reuters.com/business/yellen-launches-contentious-meetings-chinese-excess-production-threat-2024-04-05/

Have you ever heard of this gentleman Bashi?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serg_Bell

An ex-military Con Inc boomer in a Star Wars shirt with a message that Ukraine is DOOOOMED. So a backup MacGregor who doesn’t bother to dress up for a video?

Funny that he doesn’t link to his 2022 Fox News videos.

Colonel Daniel Davis explains that you can’t just give the Ukrainians weapons. It won’t help them. You have to put it in their hands much earlier. (2022)

Scott Ritter made similar comments. You can’t just send them HIMARs. It’s too complicated and takes a lot of training. No point in it.

Your Con Inc career isn’t going well when you are interviewing yourself driving while wearing a Star Wars t-shirt. Might as well just apply directly to Russian State TV for a job. If you are going to bootlick then go to the real sugar daddy.

Yes.

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I never heard of him Blinky, but he is an outstanding individual. Do you know him personally ?

PLO Joe attempts fake tariff scheme: (1)

Joe Biden Announces Tariffs
on Non-Existent Products
from Non-Existent Origination Country

BlackRock positioned massive investment assets inside Chinese auto manufacturers, MG, BYD, and Chery. The three Chinese companies are in the process of moving North American auto manufacturing to Mexico, specifically to make EV’s. The Chinese EV’s made in Mexico will come into the U.S market tariff free under the USMCA trade agreement. China and BlackRock will make billions.

Today Joe Biden announced a series of tariffs against China in the EV industry. The Chinese EV’s are not being made in China. The tariff regime is a farce a total joke.
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This tariff claim by the Biden administration on “import Chinese EV’s” is optics only for political benefit. Whereas the 100% tariffs proposed by Donald Trump specifically target Chinese EV’s made in Mexico.

The fiction coming from team Hamas/Biden is so bad, who is going to believe it? Michigan auto workers? Nope. They know their jobs are on the line, and fake tariffs will not counter CCP trade aggression.

#LetsGoBrandon 😇
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(1) https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/05/14/joe-biden-announces-tariffs-on-non-existent-products-from-non-existent-origination-country-heres-why/

And the naive statement of the month goes to a Putin defender.

What a surprise.

I always knew LatW was a Kremlin agent myself. She never fooled me.

Do you eat a lot of Dave’s Killer bread? I’ve actually noticed that my real, home-baked organic bread develops mold even faster if I keep it inside a plastic bag, like I used to keep Dave’s bread. That stuff can’t be good for you. Stop eating it while you can.

Sweden and Finland would get them, Spain or Ireland probably not.

Spain should get some. The US took advantage of Franco’s anti-communism to build several air bases across the country. Those are primary targets in a first salvo, in order to prevent their usage by strategic bombers. However, Sweden looks determined to avoid being left behind in that honorary first place because Russia spooked then with a mystery submarine in their fjords or something. It’s certainly not anti-communism but I don’t know what to call it. Gretinism?

More accurate than Petraeus, Hodges, Keane et al.

Do you eat a lot of Dave’s Killer bread? I’ve actually noticed that my real, home-baked organic bread develops mold even faster if I keep it inside a plastic bag, like I used to keep Dave’s bread. That stuff can’t be good for you. Stop eating it while you can.

I don’t eat a lot of it but you can look at the ingredients:
https://www.daveskillerbread.com/white-bread-done-right

It probably uses more salt than homemade bread. They probably also have some drying process that you aren’t using.

Salt is a pretty effective preservative.

Try a 2% salt mix and then keep it in a paper bag.

I used to get some pretty sensitive organic bread and I would just freeze half of it. Then for the frozen half you just toast whatever you need.

Gantz I suspect would be willing to give up the Jordan Valley if he really needs to do so to make peace.

Would be great if both Qatar and Iran would have open borders with Palestine.

Did Britain’s GDP per capita go down due to mass immigration, due to Brexit, or due to both of these factors?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_Kingdom

Anyway, Britain should ideally get its own version of the First Amendment. Though admittedly this is difficult to do when you’re starting from scratch. Surely British nationalists could ally with British TERFs in regards to this, no? JK Rowling could be a powerful ally for them if she will actually accept them as her allies for this specific battle (she can hate their guts otherwise, as the West did with Stalin but nevertheless conveniently allied with him during World War II in spite of both him himself and his entire regime being extraordinarily brutal and very atrocious).

Would the learning of Mandarin bring a consolidated Han identity among the Singaporean Chinese ?

Fallout and tsunamis from nuking St. Petersburg would destroy Stockholm in any exchange.

Good point. And yet a direct hit would be worse. (Or maybe better, quicker.)

So there really is no nuclear loss for Sweden from joining NATO.

They are either destroyed by a tsunami or they are nuked instantly. They lose with everyone else.

Which means they gain protection from a conventional attack by Russia but in a nuclear exchange there isn’t a net loss.

if you acknowledge that Russia will only invade non-NATO targets?

Where do I say that?

You have said that NATO countries are not at risk of being attacked.

Reading comprehension again? I said that Sweden was ‘protected’ by Nato regardless of its membership.

How would Sweden implement Article 5 as a non-member?

They’re not a member and if Putin had chosen to attack Sweden or Finland then it would be up to individual NATO states to respond.

Joining Nato came with costs but no gains. Austria, Ireland, Suise are neutral and protected. Do you doubt that?

I doubt that. You don’t have full protection unless you are in NATO. People said the same thing about Ukraine as being de facto NATO. A de facto NATO country would be given the latest NATO weapons on day one. There would not have been a debate over sending fighters that are 2 generations behind. There would be F-35s in the air with NATO pilots. Most of the F-16s fighters still haven’t arrived. All the ATACMs would have been delivered at the start of the war and also the taurus. Germany is still holding out despite so many here suggesting that they don’t have autonomy. The German PM doesn’t want to send the taurus and that was true a year ago. There goes the theory that the US/UK controls all these countries. The Germans sent their AA guns but they don’t even want to send a modified taurus that couldn’t be used to hit Moscow.

There is in fact a benefit of NATO that goes beyond protection. Smaller countries can creatively allocate their military spending with NATO protection. It works against the largest countries and especially the US. The smaller countries can for example defund their own intelligence programs while increasing funding for local military production that meets the requirement. It is not a US directed alliance as many assume. The smaller countries in fact are in an ideal position to take advantage of US spending. The US has had to adopt all kinds of European weapons and standards due to the rules. The US/UK perform the heavy lifting and the tiny countries use NATO requirements like a government jobs programs. It’s actually quite slick….for them.

…Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as smart?

Russia had no choice if they wanted to stay independent and avoid the eventual vassal status. With Nato in Ukraine, Russia would be indefensible – use nukes or surrender.

How exactly would Russia be indefensible with Ukraine in NATO given that land based nuclear missiles are no longer built and a single trident submarine can wipe out most of the Russian population?

Wouldn’t it be smarter to first send an ultimatum whereby they adopt Swiss style neutrality and sign over DPR/LPR?

Danes with Muslim names are not exactly known for their smarts:

https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2019/06/article-out-first-names-cognitive-ability-and-social-status-in-denmark/

Wouldn’t it be smarter to first send an ultimatum whereby they adopt Swiss style neutrality and sign over DPR/LPR?

You mean have Russia adopt Swiss-style neutrality?

BTW, I’ve noticed that the Russia-NATO dynamic is rather similar to the India-Pakistan dynamic. One party feels a sense of hyper-vulnerability due to it having a much more powerful rival next door in spite of it also having a huge nuclear arsenal itself.

Wouldn’t it be smarter to first send an ultimatum whereby they adopt Swiss style neutrality and sign over DPR/LPR?

You mean have Russia adopt Swiss-style neutrality?

Sure or just keep 1 meter of Ukraine contested so they can’t apply with a static border. Which means they can’t join NATO. Much easier/cheaper than a war.

BTW, I’ve noticed that the Russia-NATO dynamic is rather similar to the India-Pakistan dynamic. One party feels a sense of hyper-vulnerability due to it having a much more powerful rival next door in spite of it also having a huge nuclear arsenal itself.

That is an amusing observation.

Both Russians and Indians tie their self-esteem to being a nuclear power while children literally starve in India and Russians sh-t in freezing outhouses. Way to go on copying a horrible weapon while ignoring basic infrastructure.

Putin’s support heavily comes from boomers that clearly want the USSR back as part of their identity. Like it’s not enough to just go to the store to buy some eggs. They want the flag of the empire to fly over the grocery store. Take that USA! You may have Disneyland but we have a dictatorship and forced military parades!

Russia would haven’t so many losers if they created more Teslas than angry dwarfs. They just can’t cut it economically with the Western nations and it pisses them off to no end. They want to view themselves as superior and they don’t even out-export the Finns on vodka. Ironically their minorities seem more content to just live and they are the ones being sent to the front for the glory of Putin and his angry boomer followers. The Siberians would undoubtedly vote for their own people’s republic if given the chance.

I hope the minorities of Russia continue to outbreed the Slavs. I think their Slavs suffered too much dysgenically whereby the business minded looked at the revolution and thought….nah…I’ll move West. Their tatars for example seem more well rounded in culture and not obsessed with the West.

You can’t just give weapons. You have to build a logistics train.

One wonders whether the current Georgian government is similar to what Yanukovych’s government was before November 2013. As in, aiming to symbolically appeal to the West while behaving very much like Russia does, only in a much, much milder format, which also makes it easier for pro-Western protesters to do regime change over there in yet another color revolution.

It’s interesting that even though religiosity appears to be eugenic according to a study by Emil Kirkegaard:

https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2024/04/the-eugenic-effect-of-religiousness-confirmed/

–the most religious countries in the EU don’t appear to have more eugenic fertility relative to the more secular EU countries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_European_Union

https://unz.com/akarlin/nor-breeding-their-best/

How come? Any ideas?

There is no way for Islam to steal land from indigenous Palestinian Jews who are regaining their religious homelands.

The present inhabitant of Israel/Palestine Jewish affiliation “regaining their religious homelands” from Europe, they do not have even ME DNA and thus are not even Semite. It is insanity to go back 1000 years and claiming this was our land. Are you insane? Every piece of land was acquired by blood. Using your logic, the Italians should reclaim Roman empire or monkeys should reclaim Uganda.

You can’t just give weapons. You have to build a logistics train.

That’s incorrect and he has since been proven wrong.

HIMARs drives like a truck and takes a few days to learn at the most.

The Putin bootlickers were wrong.

This is not that complicated.

You are punching in GPS coordinates and hitting a giant KILL button. Drive in a truck and give it to them.

This war would be over if the US sent all their ATACMS/HIMARs from day one. A thousand GPS directed missiles would have completely demoralized the Russians in the first month.

Prigozhin is on record stating that the HIMARs terrifies the troops. They know it has a target and it supposedly makes an evil WHOOSH sound as it comes in. It isn’t like artillery where they launch it in a general area and hope for the best.

Putin’s Muzzies were hit by HIMARs early in the war. They all bunkered up in the same building and their location was leaked. WHOOOSH you’re dead.

Putin is currently making the right move. Try to take territory before all the ATACMS/HIMARS arrive.

How would Sweden implement Article 5 as a non-member?

The NATO Article 5 is a myth, i was never acted on and never will be. It is a metaphysical garbage. Would Turkey fight against Muslims?

Did Britain’s GDP per capita go down due to mass immigration, due to Brexit, or due to both of these factors?

As I understand it recently there has been an increase in overall GDP, the current government has been crediting this to its economic management. Part of this involved allowing 2 million immigrants to enter in the last 3 years. While total GDP has gone up, per person it has fallen (probably due to the number of people now resident.)

So I think if the GDP per capita has fallen due to Brexit, the growth in total GDP would also have to be due to Brexit.

Anyway, Britain should ideally get its own version of the First Amendment. Though admittedly this is difficult to do when you’re starting from scratch.

Afaik, no European country has something like the First Amendment. Partly this is probably due to the perceived need to control political extremism if necessary (in the past this could have come from the right or left). The development of Islamism over the last couple of decades has given this tendency a new life, but also the need to integrate new immigrants and protect them from racism. It has inspired this weird thing of governments trying to control things in two opposite directions at once.

It is insanity to go back 1000 years and claiming this was our land. Are you insane? Every piece of land was acquired by blood. Using your logic, the Italians should reclaim Roman empire or monkeys should reclaim Uganda.

Just perfect, agree wholeheartedly;) And very recently it was nobody but the greatestest leader of Kremlin, which did that insanity for an hour with Tucker, lol

This Czech Youtuber has some good videos on demographics:

I hadn’t thought about the problem he raises here, the small generation of the 1990s combined with predicted zoomer fertility levels.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/14/joe-biden-tariff-chinese-made-electric-vehicles

As well as a tariff increase from 25% to 100% on EVs, levies will rise from 7.5% to 25% on lithium batteries, from zero to 25% on critical minerals, from 25% to 50% on solar cells, and from 25% to 50% on semiconductors.

Tariffs on steel, aluminium and personal protective equipment – which range from zero to 7.5% – will rise to 25%.

In response, China’s state mouthpiece news outlet published an editorial on Wednesday, accusing the US of “undermining fair trade and environmental protection”, while saying that it was US consumers who would bear the brunt of the tariffs.

He’s stealing Trump’s policies!

I’m sure this news will shake China to the core …

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/14/vauxhall-peugeot-stellantis-chinese-ev-europe-leapmotor-biden

“The global carmaker Stellantis is to sell cheap electric cars made by its Chinese partner Leapmotor in Europe, including the UK, as it criticised Joe Biden’s decision to impose a 100% tariff on Chinese EVs imported to the US.

Stellantis, which owns brands including Fiat, Peugeot and Vauxhall, will start selling two Leapmotor models in September, at prices of less than €20,000 (£17,200). UK sales will start in March 2025.

Carlos Tavares, the Stellantis chief executive, said the move would allow it to profit from the wave of Chinese cars coming to Europe, and strongly decried protectionism as the US launched steep tariffs to shield its own industry.”

Total ignorance here, but what is stopping a heavily autonomous Palestinian region of Gaza as part of Egypt, and a heavily autonomous region of West Bank as part of Jordan?

As already explained, Egypt’s secular military dictatorship is viscerally opposed to Hamas as a Muslim Brotherhood offshoot, Jordan’s monarchy is opposed to ruling more Palestinians because of Black September when the PLO tried to overthrow the Hashemite dynasty, and the Israeli settler fanatics have no intention of backing down in the West Bank.

A few things to add are that for reasons of geography and geopolitics alone, Israel will only give up on the West Bank if/when it loses a war badly, along with the Golan heights. More importantly, the Israel-Palestine conflict is so intractable and unsolvable since the religious fanatics that saturate both sides believe they have a covenant with God (Yahweh vs Allah) that the Holy Land only belongs to their community of the faithful, with the other side having no right to exist whatsoever.

By far the best video I’ve found on the subject (something that almost everyone can probably agree on besides the intractable fanatics on either side).

Explains the obstacles to peace that are underpinned by the religious issues.

What makes the least sense about this entire conflict are all these humanitarian types that believe this conflict can ever end without one side eventually getting rid of the other, no matter how long that may take.

Israel has been mostly dominating since 1948, but October 7th shows what would happen if the boot was on the other neck.

The present inhabitant of Israel/Palestine Jewish affiliation “regaining their religious homelands” from Europe, they do not have even ME DNA and thus are not even Semite.

Indigenous Palestinian Jews are regaining their religious lands, such as Jerusalem and Judea, the original homeland of Judaism. The issue is religion not ethnicity.

It is insanity to go back 1000 years and claiming this was our land. Are you insane?

Is it insanity to go back 50 years to claim land? Are Muslims insane?

Why is 1,000 unacceptable yet 50 essential? is there a set # of years for that distinction?

It comes across as arbitrarily cherry picking a time frame to gain your desired insane outcome. Muslims can steal land from the indigenous religions of Christianity and Judaism. And, the victims of that crime can never get it back.

Every piece of land was acquired by blood.

I concur. Muhammad the blood prophet engaged in Jihad. His followers then blood colonized Palestine ~600 AD bringing in the non-Palestinian religion of Islam.

You have to pick a consistent standard. If:

• “Might Makes Right” — Current day Jews have the same blood rights that Islam had ~1,400 years ago. They get their land back if they can take it.

• “Might is Not Right” — Muhammad the blood prophet’s initial colonization is suspect.

PEACE 😇

A very good summary of the demographic dynamics there. I have written about it when I was mentioning that only a few large metropolitan areas in RusFed were experiencing population growth, while the hinterlands (glubinka = deep country) were being depopulated.

I remember arguing that Karlin, who often waxed lyrical about the improvement of living quality in Moscow (which is undeniable) but did not grasp the implications of the massive depopulation of the countryside. Today in RusFed a new phenomenon is emerging, some younger people move to countryside, but there are too few of them.

At the same time, there is a substantial influx of Caucasian and even some Central Asian migrants to the depopulated southern Russian rural regions. I have read a couple of times about some nearly abandoned Russian villages taken over by some Ingush or Chechen families moving there and starting some farming activities on these lands.

As the saying goes: свято место пусто не бывает. If Slavs, Balts and others in the region are too stupid to reproduce and actually prefer madly killing each other, their place will be taken by other more demographically and psychologically sain populations.

The future belongs to those who dare to come forward.

He’s stealing Trump’s policies!

No he is not.

PLO Joe’s orders are deliberately ineffectual. He is appeasing the CCP. See my earlier post.

https://www.unz.com/akarlin/open-thread-249/#comment-6566596

PEACE 😇

What may force change are the natural resource constraints.

Hamas unilaterally damaged the Gaza aquifer, and it cannot be fixed. Therefore, Islam 100% owns this problem. Without a major technology breakthru, surface water can support ~500K Muslims in the Gaza colony. The current population is ~2.5MM and growing.

Will wealthier Muslim countries:

-1- Spend money year after years for decades to supply fresh water to Gaza?
-2- Help Muslims leave Gaza, allowing them to return home to Islamic lands?

Muslim leaders have been kicking the proverbial can down the road for some time. But, Islam cannot ignore their problem forever. #2 is obviously the most viable option despite Jihadist opposition to the idea.

PEACE 😇

You should write press releases for Lockheed.

ATACMS has been around a long time, over thirty years. The Russian Iskander and Tochka missiles are not so different. The Russian troops may not like the US missiles but are not dazzled by them as you suggest. HIMARS/ATACMS is good combination but can be defeated like anything else.

It seems the majority (> 50%) of ATACMS are shot down by Russian intermediate SAMS like Pantsir and Tor. If the intended target is less well defended, then the odds of the US missiles getting through is better.

If these ATACMS continue to hit civilian targets in Russia, then we may see more serious retribution strikes in Western Ukraine or Kiev. Most likely Western troops are directly involved with firing, maintenance and logistics of these systems inside Ukraine. The US participating in long range missile strikes on Russian civilians is truly insane and shows a complete lack of understanding of the risks involved. There is no excuse or justification for this.

Why do you think that these whirling dervishes wont tire of dancing and wont soon start arming themselves in order to preserve their superiority and way of life?

Most likely…The US participating in long range missile strikes on Russian civilians is truly insane

Your imagination hard at work again?

The US, the Dr. Frankenstein in this case, is finally starting to reap the benefits of having created the Chinese manufacturing monster. It’s traded in its polluted air for better prices on TV’s at Costco and Walmart. And its policymakers couldn’t envision this back in the 70’s when this all started?

The same thing is happening in the USA at a rapid pace. Here it is obviously the intended result of programs explicitly supported by the government. Sixty years of anti-White, anti-American public education has left people barely able to recognize the problem. They know this process is bad but they cannot see it is intended to destroy them.

That is the way it usually works. Politicians and military ‘leaders’ say the US is not involved and then later it comes out we were directly involved. They lie about everything. Ukraine is short of competent manpower, why wouldn’t the West send men to run these things? The ATACMS transfers have been discussed so openly it gives these clowns a built-in excuse for later: “Of course we sent our guys over to operate these advanced weapons, what did you expect?”

You’re a good illustration of my point that this conflict will never end until one side gets rid of the other.

What’s weird though is that you must be some sort of Christian Zionist (you’ve mentioned something about being a Christian Baptist before?). Tbh, I used to be under the influence of a Christian Zionist preacher myself years back (“blessed shall be those who bless Israel”, etc.), but then I snapped out of it.

You’d do well to think about how much your devotion and love are one-sided, and especially whether you’re getting played and spiritually cucked.

It’s true that there are sincere, decent, and devout believers among the congregations of Christian Zionist preachers. It’s also true that Jihad and Islamic terrorism are evil.

However, something always felt off about the mindless and unconditional pro-Israel conformism prevalent in America and the West more broadly. In this respect, Tucker Carlson’s interview with the Palestinian Christian pastor was ground-breaking and long overdue.

Anyway, the one thing I can absolutely agree with you on is a pro-Russian worldview. Overall, to support Russia is to stand on far more solid ground than supporting either Israel or Palestine.

why wouldn’t the West send men to run these things?

Maybe to not get involved in a direct confrontation with Russia. It’s easier to fight Russia with American weaponry and Ukrainian hands.

That is the way it usually works.

The world according to QCIC and how it works…usually!

Russia …Solid ground?

Wow, the alignment of one’s ancestor 267 years ago with the British is still an issue in Indian elections.

https://www.rt.com/india/597554-who-let-british-in-west-bengal-election/

Looks to me more like Charles covered in the menses of an African elephant.

How would Sweden implement Article 5 as a non-member?

The NATO Article 5 is a myth, i was never acted on and never will be. It is a metaphysical garbage.

Metaphysical?

It was implemented after 9-11:

https://www.businessinsider.com/nato-still-living-with-consequences-article-5-invocation-after-911-2021-9

Would Turkey fight against Muslims?

Why not? You think Muslims have some code against fighting each other?

Russia was only able to meddle in Syria and back an unwanted dictator because the Muslim rebel factions were also fighting each other.

You should write press releases for Lockheed.

No need, Putin’s war provides all the press the US defense industry needs. They might as well fire all of their marketing departments. HIMARS is backordered for over 10 years.

ATACMS has been around a long time, over thirty years. The Russian Iskander and Tochka missiles are not so different. The Russian troops may not like the US missiles but are not dazzled by them as you suggest.

I didn’t say they were dazzled by ATACMS.

I said that Prigozhin is on record stating that the troops are terrified of HIMARS.

If you want I can dig up that quote. Both HIMARS and ATACMS causes them problems because they outrange the artillery and can be used to take out specific targets. They also fly in a random pattern which makes it impossible to track them using reverse trajectory.

Another case of Russia basically thinking it’s “not fair” because they expected to face a country with Soviet era weapons. They underestimated Western weapons and also the quantity.

They are clearly having an impact as Putin started launching human wave attacks after the bill passed. He wants to land grab before all the ATACMS get there. Russia has Iskanders but not nearly as many. This was supposed to be a 2.5 week special operation and they most likely have supply problems with building them.

It seems the majority (> 50%) of ATACMS are shot down by Russian intermediate SAMS like Pantsir and Tor.

I haven’t seen any numbers on that. What is your source?

If these ATACMS continue to hit civilian targets in Russia, then we may see more serious retribution strikes in Western Ukraine or Kiev.

They aren’t targeting civilian targets. That would be a waste.

There are plenty of military targets like this one:

CIA hit?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/15/georgia-protest-foreign-agents-bill-demonstrations-tbilisi-latest-live-news

Robert Fico, Slovakia’s prime minister, was shot today in the town of Handlová, where he had been meeting supporters, and taken to hospital.

Born into a working-class family on 15 September 1964, Fico – a lawyer by profession – began his political career with the Communist party shortly before the 1989 Velvet Revolution that led to the breakup of former Czechoslovakia.

He set up his centre-left Smer-SD party in 1999 after being turned down for a ministerial post by the Democratic Left, the Communists’ political heirs.

Embroiled in allegations of corruption he has always denied, Fico is brash and outspoken, with a penchant for bodybuilding, football and fast cars.

Fico admires both Vladimir Putin, saying he would not permit the Russian president’s arrest under an international warrant if he came to Slovakia, and Hungary’s illiberal leader, Viktor Orbán, “who defends the interests of his country and his people”.

If poor cartoons (does VVP really need labelling?) won wars Zelensky would be in Red Square now…

You’d do well to think about how much your devotion and love are one-sided, and especially whether you’re getting played and spiritually cucked.

It’s true that there are sincere, decent, and devout believers among the congregations of Christian Zionist preachers. It’s also true that Jihad and Islamic terrorism are evil.

No cucking here. What a Gonzo phweet accusation.

At an absolute minimum Judeo-Christians need to stand together against the blight of Islam. It is an existential threat to all infidels (including Christians and Jews).

Both faiths share similar core values defined by the Ten Commandments and Old Testament. There is a solid spiritual alignment between the two. The idea that Jooooozzzzz are exploiting Christians is ludicrous.

After Islam is defeated (or at least 100% eternally contained) we can worry about the less divisive issues between components of the Judeo-Christian values system.

PEACE 😇

The identity of the person who attempted to assassinate the Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was revealed, APA reports.

Slovak media reports that said person is the famous Slovak writer Juraj Cintula.

The 71-year-old writer is noted to be one of the supporters of the opposition party Progressive Slovakia.

https://en.apa.az/europe/famous-writer-revealed-to-be-one-who-assassinated-slovak-prime-minister-photo-video-updated-2-437043

Hopefully Beckow wasn’t avatar of Fico on forum and soon will be available to tell everything from closer distance?

If poor cartoons (does VVP really need labelling?) won wars Zelensky would be in Red Square now…

Let infantile people have infantile fun. After all, this is the only source of joy available to pro-Ukies now.

CIA hit?

Never underestimate the stupidity and ham-handedness of libtards. Could have been a brainwashed pro-US/NATO moron. If this were CIA, it has degraded as much as the other US institutions.

The 71-year-old writer

Not as old as Alzheimer-in-Chief. Early dementia?

Or Ted Kaczynski sindrome variation as from now on he will become more overall noticed writer worldwide for sure than he was before, even if for wrong reason.

from now on he will become more overall noticed writer worldwide for sure than he was before,

Plausible. He was so “famous” that I’ve never heard of him before. I won’t read him regardless, but maybe someone will: there is no accounting for tastes.

I was recently told by a colleague that “Czech writer” (who did not live in Czechia since 1975) Milan Kundera is worth reading. Out of curiosity I read his “The unbearable lightness of being” and was underwhelmed: in Russian, German, Latin American, or English literature that thing would be way below the third tier. Even communist party-approved Soviet “writers” (who are certainly not worth reading from my POV) did a lot better job.

You can be 99.99% for sure that CIA and Mossad know the identity of Mr. Beckow and he might not want to post on the internet as if he knows what he is talking about for a refractory interval.

I found a perfect woman for songbird. Unfortunately she is dead. Murdered by her favorite orca. Nicole Simpson had the same problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Brancheau

I liked the movie. Couldn’t get past page 100 of the book.

How far back is legitimate?

One argument is the lives of those still living. So the displacements of WW2 are still an issue but only just.

Finally the Iriquois thought that 7 generations should be considered, 3 forward and 3 back plus the present. That would be great grandparents.

Then there is back to Great, great grandparents. Beyond this, it is entirely possible that you do not share any autosomal DNA. It is also unlikely that, primogeniture apart, that your physical, cultural and intellectual inheritance are directly due to your 16 g g grandparents although you may still be in the same social class. Again, the medieval church recognized relationships to the degree of 3rd cousins. It probably knew something.

I vote for GG Grandparents as being the last generation to be considered for purposes of claiming ancestral possession by law. Grandparents for the purpose of war where there is no Loser’s Consent.

The logic of the Ashkenazi Jewish case would have Britions and Romans claiming England.

The Mizrahi Jews have a different case. The Arabs expelled them to Israel in 1948. Arabs saw Israel as their proper home at the time. They have nowhere else to go. These are the people who vote for Likhud. Until the Palestinians make an acceptable space for them in their plans, they will resist.

Mr. Hack, you are gullible. This might be endearing if you were not supporting the build up to World War Three and the devastation of the people and country you claim to love. I realize you will never understand the arguments about the West pressuring Russia using Ukraine as a pawn. In lieu of that deeper understanding, why don’t you simply become a peacenik? To get you started try these new slogans : “War is bad, no need to pick sides, plenty of lies all around. Bring the troops and weapons home.” This may save a few of your kin before they all die pointlessly.

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One video I saw a few years ago, possibly in the Unz comments, was very interesting. Maybe you can find it for us since it informs the overall discussion? Ostensibly the message of the video supports your perspective (something like Russia bad, must kill). It is a recording of lecture given at some venue like the US Army War college (could be Westpoint, marines, whatever) and the speaker’s name is Phil something. He was a senior officer (ret.) who had been an embedded “observer” with AFU forces in Donbas in roughly 2015-2017 time frame. His purpose for giving the talk was clearly to prepare US officers to fight the Russians, very likely in Ukraine.

You can be 99.99% for sure that CIA and Mossad know the identity of Mr. Beckow

Likely. They probably shared this info with affiliated spy agencies in other countries.

But he is fairly safe here, like the rest of us: writing on the site read by so few people, just to blow off steam, is relatively harmless from the POV of powers-that-be. There was an expression in the USSR in the 1980s “freedom of thoughts and night dreams”. Commenting here falls in the same category. That’s what we enjoy in “democratic” US under the watchful eye of FBI, CIA, and the rest of the “seventeen intelligence agencies”, all of which “believed” in Iraq WMDs.

Couldn’t get past page 100 of the book.

You didn’t miss anything. Out of sense of duty I read the whole thing (took me several weeks and considerable effort). High school essays are often written better.

The guy was a fanatic, a liberal provincial poet and a rainbow activist. The progressives lost two elections in the last 9 months – parliament, presidency – and are beyond themselves with anger. Their support runs around 20%, in the two large cities twice that. This is not good for them, even the Western-paid media and NGOs are distancing as fast as they can.

Fico is an old-school socialist – unions, workers, social guarantees – and an old-fashioned nationalist, but not of the “clerical” type (we have those too). He is relatively liberal on religion, families, homos etc…in the Brussels mainstream, but anti-migration and anti-war. That has rubbed the EU honchos wrong way, but he is a very pragmatic guy and has been around for decades. In the late 80’s he was the head of the Commie student branch at the main university in Bratislava – he and General Pavel in Czechia have a lot in common. He is known as a workaholic.

For the entire SMO after most missile strikes there are claims on both sides about how many missiles and drones got through. Compare the numbers released by both sides. The pattern I notice is that over time the Ukrainian numbers tend to become more realistic (less grandiose) and begin to agree with Russian claims.

Russia has lots of vulnerable targets, military and civilian, which are not defended against supersonic missile strikes. They have a finite number of SAMS and have to make decisions about what to protect. This is true for Ukraine also, but Russia seems to have more concern about protecting civilians as shown throughout the course of the war.

Precision weapons are a nightmare on all sides since they take some of the randomness out of long range combat. The randomness lets people hold on to a fantasy they can survive. Weapons like ATACMS, Excalibur shells, JDAM bombs remove this. Russian weapons like Iskander, Kinzhal, Krasnopol, TOS have a similar effect. The West is a bit better off with more smart or ‘brilliant’ weapons but the difference doesn’t seem to be much use to all the Ukrainian dead troops.

Why do you quote Prigozhin about anything? He is an interesting character, but part of his job is PR. This is like quoting Zelensky.

I found the talk by Dr. Phillip Karber. I will listen to it when I have a chance. My main point is the West was obviously preparing for war against Russia inside Ukraine, so what did people expect to happen?

The guy was a fanatic, a liberal provincial poet and a rainbow activist

Any truth to this? (you are the last person from whom to seek truth, but the only Slovak here):

Did he go crazy pro-Russian? Seems outlandish.

The timeline of that Szabolcs Panyi you linked to is really something to behold. I wonder if he sees Orban in the room right now. He should seek professional help.

Did he go crazy pro-Russian? Seems outlandish.

These types of marginal figures sometimes drift from one extreme grouping to another. They don’t really fit in anywhere. It’s a type of contrarian.

Similarly, these types of paramilitary orgs sometimes hang out with similar orgs from other countries.

I wonder if this had anything to do with immigration, my guess would be that Fico might have played himself as a populist, but in reality, same as elsewhere in the Visegrad area, he still catered to the employers since there has been a noticeable influx of migrants over the last 5 or so years. Many are not happy with this, but only a few will act. Just a guess.

Or it might be that this guy is just restless – restlessness has grown and chaos has indeed been sown by Russia recently (there are even minor terror acts taking place within the EU). We have to work to mitigate that. They’re not omnipotent.

Supposedly he lived in the USSR (Lithuania) in the 80s, and was supporting the Donbas republics. If so, that would make him like the American Communist Tex Bentley who moved to Donbas in order to kill Ukrainians on behalf of Russia, and was killed by Russian troops in Donbas.

But that is a big if.

In order to keep 2024 interesting, I hope the future pro-Russian leader of Ukraine shows up at the peace conference. That will throw the NATO crowd for a loop!

This doesn’t leave much time to sort things out, but I’m sure there has been plenty of Ukrainian political churning as they try to figure out who will break the bad news to Tony Blinken.

Nonsense, there is nothing like that reliably reported in Slovakia. The guy just spoke briefly to the media and listed his reasons: a failed liberal poet who worked as a security guard in a shopping mall (retired) who hated the government.

You always fall for the most obvious lies, why? Are you so desperate to look away from the catastrophic loss the Ukies are experiencing? Aren’t you sorry that Kiev didn’t take the deal Russia offered for 10 years? Is this better than a neutral, federal Ukraine, with equal rights for all ethnic groups and no US bases? How is this better?

…relatively sizable pro-European demos.

Sizable? There were a few thousand people on a square in a city of half a million. Many stopped for the music. Life is slow and it is entertaining. The staged Western-owned media uses special angle-editing, darkness and self-serving estimates by the organizers. I have seen more people line up for soccer team arrivals.

By the way, Fico is very pro-EU and the demos are not about that – they are about control of TV, courts, and whether bears should be allowed to roam free in the countryside (really, it is a very hot topic, I am actually with the bears on that one).

The liberals definitely exist, the usual assortment of the NGO workers, “artists” (often not working), homos, and the frustrated elderly whose brains are stuck in 1989. But they are a minority of around 20% – so they hate everyone and try to get their way by screaming and media-culture control. But losing the two elections in a row made many of them literally insane, they openly talk about hating their own people, call them peasants, ‘stupid villagers’, etc…It is not a winning position.

And of course the Slovak public are divided and politically polarized, as seen by the recent demos. I wish peace and calm to the Slovak people.

The wide oak, tied three fold with a golden belt
A snake lunged, a bee bit,
Not a single leaf trembled.

Devils bedevil, the envious envy,
They cannot destroy me:
Dievs is building a golden fence
Around my body

(Baltic words of protection)

War is bad, no need to pick sides, plenty of lies all around. Bring the troops and weapons home.”

I really like this one. Ukraine doesn’t have to do much, because its troops and weapons are located within Ukraine. Russian troops should go back to their own country, and this stupid war would be over. It’s too bad that you don’t practice or believe in what you preach? 🙁

You always fall for the most obvious lies

I clearly stated that the story seemed outlandish. Why lie about what I wrote?

I am not you, who eagerly falls for fairytales like that Ukraine was given a reasonable offer by Russia.

But your denial might mean the possibility of his having links to that pro-Russian organization.

Are you so desperate to look away from the catastrophic loss the Ukies

The loss of a few villages on the Russian border near Kharkiv? At the cost of a large number of men and equipment?

By your logic, Russia suffered catastrophic losses during Ukraine’s summer offensive.

Aren’t you sorry that Kiev didn’t take the deal Russia offered for 10 years? Is this better than a neutral, federal Ukraine, with equal rights for all ethnic groups and no US bases

Russia wanted to turn Ukraine into late 18th century Rzeczpospolita, which it could control. Poor, decentralized with the Russian region granted veto power, isolated from the West.

Ukrainian people didn’t want that. Do they have a right to choose with whom to ally or what their internal policies are?

Thanks for confessing that you think they do not. Because Washington, right?

How is this better?

Typical criminal’s logic. “Do what I demand, or I break your leg. How is giving me your wallet worse than me breaking your leg? You made a bad choice. It’s your fault.”

By the way, Fico is very pro-EU and the demos are not about that – they are about control of TV, courts,

I know what this is about, we went through this same crap years ago (courts and general prosecutor, who runs the anti-corruption bureau, media, etc., it’s what Blinken talked to Ukraine as well during today’s visit).

There has to be some kind of a balance there between fairness & transparency and the national interests (to protect the national interests from the liberal fifth columnists, but to also not fall into nepotism, corruption, etc). It’s very hard to balance that.

“losing the two elections in a row made many of them literally insane, they openly talk about hating their own people, call them peasants, ‘stupid villagers’, etc”

2016 did that to British liberals – the Brexit and Trump votes were otherwise inexplicable to them, it HAD to be down to dirty work – so they were easy marks for the “Russia did it” purveyors.

I went to sleep on Brexit night resigned to defeat, woke up early and the moment I turned on BBC radio I knew Leave had won – the mood was so gloomy. It was as if the Queen had died.

UK politics has come full circle in the last 100 years. In the Victorian Age right up to the 1920s the educated middle classes looked down on the poor as uneducated fools, just as they do now. The only difference is that then, the educated classes voted Tory, now they vote Labour.

Instead of washing with soap, should we be washing with bars of commensal bacteria to prevent allergies, infections, and autoimmune diseases?

And rather than pasteurization, wouldn’t putting milk through some sort of screening process for pathogenic microorgansisms be superior?

…It’s very hard to balance that.

We agree on that. The courts, prosecutors and the government funded media need to be independent, non-political and follow some basic professional rules. That is not the case in many so-called democratic countries today – from the anti-Trump mania in US to Assange in jail in UK, and the liberal monopoly that we see in many CE countries. When Fico gment got elected they moved to balance it: put in new people, abolish the special prosecutor, etc…so the liberals went bonkers and a few thousands went to the streets. They don’t have a majority, and it is very odd the Western media pretends otherwise.

There is also the bear issue: the population of bears exploded and they have started to walk through villages and camp-grounds, getting food, breaking into cars and even houses, 2-3 people were killed, dozens attacked. The city liberals like it – ‘green’ protected habitat. The villagers want the bears controlled, violently if needed. I am with the libs on this one, I like the bears and to hell with some scared babushkas…but I wouldn’t bother to go to a demo, too many tattoos and weirdos. It is complicated…:)

How a New Hampshire libertarian utopia was foiled by bears

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21534416/free-state-project-new-hampshire-libertarians-matthew-hongoltz-hetling

We agree on that. The courts, prosecutors and the government funded media need to be independent, non-political and follow some basic professional rules.

Well, as I mentioned, these need to be independent both of any fifth column or outside pressures, but also have very high standards to function independently and fairly. Neither Russia (or Russian propped local “minigarchs”), nor the US State Department should be allowed to meddle.

What is the state of your security services right now? This shouldn’t be allowed to demoralize them, but they need to understand that we’re in a different – more chaotic and compromised – environment now.

There is also the bear issue

Yea, I’ve recently heard something about the bear population growing, must be the excess of food or the good weather, I think we too had more of them appear. We had a big issue with boars, but that’s an easier one (as they are relatively easy to cull). For farmers, this is tough. I’d prefer to stand with the farmers and the country people, but it’s a tough one – bears are kind of adorable (plus it’s an old totem animal). But I don’t want to sound like a spoiled city person that adores from afar. That’s a bit pathetic. 🙂

What were the shooters poems about? Frankly, I doubt those were any good..

…2016 did that to British liberals – the Brexit and Trump votes were otherwise inexplicable to them

Yeah, it is a very similar dynamic. The ‘educated’ are often not that smart (or even really educated), they are just beneficiaries of the dysfunctional systems in place: open borders, pyramid-schemes with pensions-housing, they tend to be in non-market jobs, etc…migrants are cheap labor for them and the costs are pushed on others.

It is a privilege based on very little – but they will fight like mad to keep it: the subsidies, fake jobs, the endless mostly female office chair-warmers, money for “art”, NGO’s (what the f..k is that?), charities, academia,….if you look closely all of it is subsidized by the real economy and lacks any meaningful competition.

There is an old adage that ideology and greed always combine, they go together. The modern liberaism is about these benefits, the greed and privilege. They go nuts when Brexit, Trump or anything else threatens them. It will eventually end – the fake money can’t grow indefinitely – in the meantime they will scare themselves with Russia or China, worship migrants because they mostly make money from them, and they will scream how they are the better people. Quite a spectacle.

How a New Hampshire libertarian utopia was foiled by bears

If bears only attacked libtards and libertarians I’d vote for a special bear breeding and releasing program funded by my tax dollars.

For the entire SMO after most missile strikes there are claims on both sides about how many missiles and drones got through. Compare the numbers released by both sides. The pattern I notice is that over time the Ukrainian numbers tend to become more realistic (less grandiose) and begin to agree with Russian claims.

I see no reason to believe either side when it comes to such numbers. I think the ISW is a better source but their information is limited as they work from satellite data.

but Russia seems to have more concern about protecting civilians as shown throughout the course of the war

They started this war by launching cruise missiles at Kiev. Would you describe that as being concerned with protecting civilians? They have sent hundreds of Iranian 2 stroke drones at Ukrainian cities. What is the purpose if the drones are not accurate enough to target a specific floor or vehicle?

Why do you quote Prigozhin about anything? He is an interesting character, but part of his job is PR.

He is a scumbag but was probably the only Russian involved in the war that has been honest about the situation.

Prigozhin wanted Shoigu removed more than anything and Putin eventually agreed. Only about a year and a half later.

Prigozhin gave an honest assessment of the front. When he says that HIMARs terrified the troops it can’t be discredited as Ukrainian propaganda. He spoke of advantages on both sides. I prefer to listen to such men on the front rather than cheerleaders like Ritter/MacGregor or some of the British media that is too pro-Ukrainian.

He is obviously dead and his job was never PR. In fact Putin wanted him to stop talking. Putin wanted the Prigozhin/Shoigu spat to remain private.

Ukraine was lucky that Putin did not listen to Prigozhin and stuck with Shoigu. Prigozhin wanted Russia to win and viewed Shoigu as the main problem. The newest rumor is that Shoigu will be arrested for corruption like his deputy.

In order to keep 2024 interesting, I hope the future pro-Russian leader of Ukraine shows up at the peace conference. That will throw the NATO crowd for a loop!

Why would there be a pro-Russian leader of Ukraine? That would require complete capitulation as the people would not vote for one.

Polls show support for the war and Lavrov hinted that they want a demilitarized zone between the two countries. Which means a free Western Ukraine would remain if Lavrov is being forthright.

Putin has created a 100 year wedge between Ukrainians and Russians.

The DPR/LPR militias were marched off to the front and Putin has been filling those areas with Central Asian migrants.

Ukraine could become less Russian because of the war. In fact Putin could push them towards qualifying for NATO if he eventually agrees to a border deal. So the complete opposite outcome of his originally stated goal of keeping NATO from expanding East. All he had to do was keep the border contested and they would never be able to qualify.

Well, I suppose that might work. First you have to convince NATO to revoke the memberships of Finland and the other Baltic states along with a few other countries. Then once the US removes the missile sites from Romania and Poland you may be on track. Then after you have the USA sitting down to update nuclear arms control treaties Russia may slightly warm up to you. Once the West repays the stolen funds and repairs Nordstream, I’ll bet the Kremlin will be happy to discuss de-militarization of Ukraine as long as there is no US or Ukrainian official support for NeoNazis.

This sounds like a piece of cake for you to take care of. Please keep us informed of your progress.

The interviewee has interesting civic priorities: “…recycling rates went down…”

These sound like hippies who got lost on the way to Woodstock. I thought the FSP had settled on Keene, NH.

New Hampshire is a nice place, but it has been wrecked by the Boston libtard influence for at least 25 years.

Yep, as soon as the RusFed demilitarizes across the European perimeter.

I am with the libs on this one, I like the bears and to hell with some scared babushkas…

I’m with the villagers and the babushkas on this. I don’t think I know anyone who likes nature and the outdoors more than I do but I am against big, dangerous animals attacking people. It could be anyone, including members of my family, who also live on the countryside. Or much more likely, it could be me, while I’m hiking in the wilderness. I’m totally against that too. Let’s control the population of dangerous beasts.

Well, I suppose that might work. First you have to convince NATO to revoke the memberships of Finland and the other Baltic states along with a few other countries.

NATO doesn’t have a hierarchy and in fact the vote would have to be unanimous to remove a member. Which means each Baltic country would have to vote to remove the others.

Why should they vote to remove the Baltics? Especially when the talking heads on Russian TV constantly talk about them as if they belong to Russia? What would stop a Tsar from invading them?

Then once the US removes the missile sites from Romania and Poland you may be on track.

You are talking about the AEGIS defense system? Why would those need to be removed when they don’t change the outcome of a nuclear war?

I’ll bet the Kremlin will be happy to discuss de-militarization of Ukraine as long as there is no US or Ukrainian official support for NeoNazis

Lavrov has been talking about a demilitarized buffer zone between the two countries. They means they are open to a Western Ukraine remaining. Do you think that would be a fair outcome or do you believe that Russia is bluffing and they plan to take it all?

Looks like Kharkov 5.0 is happening. This time Neo Mansteins fight Latter Day Zhukovs.

Prigozhin was probably a CIA asset around a month into the battle
for Bakhmut. Bakhmut was a funnel for bringing over American cash and gear to go organize a coup in Moscow.

Prigozhid wasn’t a Russian.

It is a tangled web they weave on all sides.

I expect a full capitulation by Ukraine at some point, but I think the upcoming “peace conference” is a bit soon. I do not expect the details of this capitulation to be completely public so the Western media may be able to spin it as a compromise.

I liked the US better when the population was 250 million, so I don’t see why Russia has to replace all the Ukrainians who wisely fled. The Ukrainian oligarchs squandered much of the technological economy of the country at least 20 years ago by opposing Russia. For now Ukraine may revert to being a very agrarian oblast with some tourist sites. With modern agriculture such an economy does not require that many people, even without GMO nonsense. I think the Russians will revive the shipbuilding, aerospace and electronics sectors in Ukraine, but this may take a long time since the Kremlin had largely given up on them.

I don’t know exactly what the Russians mean by a demilitarized or sanitary zone. I wonder if they are describing a temporary measure to allow more Ukrainian civilians to escape the combat zones?

They’ll invade Poland next. Crazy bastards.

We are not Israeli Defense Force. They do not have to be eradicated. Wildlife control keeps their eyes open. Assassinate a bear once every couple months. Bears are very smart. It does not take a lot of management to convince them to stay away from humans and keep their paws off our picnic baskets.

In EE, you can’t shoot them, of course (we have some Ursus arctos and it’s a protected animal), but the hunters do set up separate feeding areas for them in the woods. That’s where they typically stay, but they do wonder into homesteads occasionally. There are a lot of bee keepers, with honey in their gardens. There should be a way to contain them if they start coming in too much, maybe they can be caught and transported into more remote areas.

Not sure about bears but boars can damage gardens and pasture to the point where it can affect the harvest, the fruits of one’s labor. Bears probably not, because they just scout around for food but do not dig the soil.

The interviewee has interesting civic priorities: “…recycling rates went down…”

Population is <1400. Probably, over, if you account for people not filling out the census, but point is that is is low and spread out over like 40 square miles. Some of that is mountain, so it's a bit more concentrated than that, but it's still pretty low density.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafton,_New_Hampshire

No way that a cop will be on the scene to prevent something in that type of area – you have got to prevent it yourself. Same with fire. Library is about as big as your dining room, and they weren't running it on the cheap.
https://m.facebook.com/GraftonNHPublicLibrary

Of course, am not saying the locals are pleased with them or should be. The broad range of libertarians includes a lot of crazies – that is certainly true.

Prigozhin was probably a CIA asset around a month into the battle
for Bakhmut. Bakhmut was a funnel for bringing over American cash and gear to go organize a coup in Moscow.

The CIA had nothing to do with his Moscow run. It didn’t make any sense and the West would have taken advantage of the situation if they had planned it. Prigozhin had a death wish that was eventually granted.

Prigozhin wasn’t a Russian.

You mean he was also Jewish and you don’t recognize Russian Jews as Russian.

He was a Russian citizen that was born in Leningrad. Putin views Russian Jews like his close friend Solovyov as 100% Russian so he would disagree with your statement.

I’d prefer to stand with the farmers and the country people, but it’s a tough one – bears are kind of adorable

The only time I’ve come across a bear, it hastily climbed up a tree. I then briskly walked away. It was a black bear, they are afraid of adult humans. From what I understand, the brown bears in Europe are much more dangerous, like grizzly bears out West.

That’s too funny about the black bear. 🙂 Aw, I love that look when they’re hugging the tree. So cute.

Of course, the brown ones are dangerous, it’s just that there have been more of them only recently. They used to be rare.

The male can be quite dangerous even to the cubs, that’s why the male and female go separately, the mother and the cubs separate because the male wants to mate (but the female is not sexual while she’s with the cubs so the male tries to get rid of the cubs). Pretty crazy behavior. lol

I liked the US better when the population was 250 million, so I don’t see why Russia has to replace all the Ukrainians who wisely fled.

It serves two purposes.

1. The Central Asian Muslims provide labor. Russia uses Muslim immigrants like the US uses Mexicans. The DPR/LPR militias were sent to the front with lousy weapons/camo and they will be replaced with Muslims.

2. A multi-racial/multi-ethnic (former) DPR is less likely to want independence from Russia. It’s the same tactic used by globalists in the West. Water down any dominate ethnic group and then have everyone focused on competing with each other instead of unifying around race or religion.

I don’t know exactly what the Russians mean by a demilitarized or sanitary zone. I wonder if they are describing a temporary measure to allow more Ukrainian civilians to escape the combat zones?

Both Medvedev and Putin have talked about drawing lines around the currently occupied territories or “conquests” as Putin called them. In that regard it is understandable why Lavrov has talked about a demilitarized zone between the two countries. They want a neutral zone.

Or maybe you think this is all a bluff and they plan on marching in Kiev.

Well I think Putin is just plain full of shit and is trying to save face at this point. I think he would happily take DPR/LPR and let Ukraine be in NATO if he can somehow spin that as a success to his own people. His defenders put too much trust in his word even though the war started out with him lying to the UN (There will be no invasion, it’s just a training exercise). His Totalitarian State TV won’t question him and they will go along with whatever he says.

Trying to march on Kiev would be extremely risky and he hasn’t taken Kharkiv. As I said at the start of the war anyone naive enough to put trust in the word of an insecure mass murderer is only setting themselves up for disappointment. Putin may claim the DPR/LPR was the goal the entire time which of course would be mocked in the West. But he may take that outcome out of desperation and then give himself a military parade just as Saddam did after the Iraq/Iran war disaster. Putin is the dictator and the Russian people seem cultured and even selected to be exploited by a Tsar. I really do think they are more likely to have genes for subservience just as there are dog breeds that are more loyal than others.

Lol. The Taiwanese are at it again.

It does not take a lot of management to convince them to stay away from humans and keep their paws off our picnic baskets.

Actually, it does. Even with black bears, that seldom attack humans (but one of them did kill an 11 year old camper in Utah who was just sleeping in his tent during a family outing). With grizzlies and polar bears, forget about teaching them any lessons.

A common opinion here among wild beast defenders is that it’s our fault, for invading their natural habitat, where we don’t belong. But this is a very problematic idea. Do I not belong to the mountains where I hike and run several times per week? Where do I belong then? Just inside a city (like most of those animal rights activists, I presume)? Another advantage of keeping large predators under control is that large game become much more abundant, to the joy of the legions of hunters in the US. There’s hardly any such thing as too many deer and elk to hunt and eat for all of us in the US countryside. Besides, around here they do an excellent job of micromanaging the herds from helicopters and capturing samples to determine how many can be safely hunted every season.

I wouldn’t kill them all Netanyahu style though. Just try to make sure that grizzlies don’t expand beyond national parks and do some selective culling of black bears and cougars elsewhere, as you say.

https://youtube.com/shorts/cbskrolyhl8?si=FNWC35HygCkFwkT6

“Damn you Putin and your bears!”

Alternate comment regarding New Hampshire bear problems:

I wouldn’t kill them all Netanyahu style though. Just try to make sure that grizzlies don’t expand beyond national parks and do some selective culling of black bears and cougars elsewhere, as you say.

Yea that doesn’t happen though.

The libs make it up as they go along. Oh well that species actually needs a wider territory. They often just need a single judge to go along with it.

Or they just go to the ballot once there are enough Democrats and women to vote with their heartstrings. That is happening now in Colorado. Conservatives told us that Hispanics are “natural conservatives” and that theory not only failed but Colorado and Nevada are turning into California East.

AR-15s and certain types of hunting are destined to be banned in most Western states. Democrats are taking them over and our moron conservatives stick with a losing gameplan.

Conservatives please come up with a new gameplan other than “minimal government ‘n abortion”. It doesn’t work.

Dragon chicken:

Is this because some East Asians eat the feet?

I still think Russia plans to reclaim everything East of the Dnepr and then across along the Black Sea to Odessa. Everything else west of the river will eventually be controlled by Russia, but I don’t have a strong opinion about those details.

Belousov could change things, but in which direction?

But was it the same arm?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13415983/Sex-attacker-loses-arm-tram-Germany.html

https://youtube.com/shorts/gckbYl6z-MY?si=8SbLyzDJrvUiMZ1m

https://youtube.com/shorts/gckbYl6z-MY?si=nVND_qYmf43PmAVD

I struggle with it and I see your point of view. But the bears are so f..ing cute, I walked by one momma-bear with her two little ones and it is a very deep spiritual experience. I tend to side with underdogs and in this touching tug-of-war that would be the bears.

It has a price, but their victims are usually the less-mobile, chunkier human types who should stay indoors anyway. The danger is also slightly exciting – being in the nature should be a risky, it is not a “park”…

The screaming greens annoy me – they are wrong, stupid and lazy, hiding behind “global warming!” because they are too lazy to deal with actual pollution. But they like (and fear) the bears – in an ideal world the greens would meet the bears face-to-face and make all of us happier. But it is not to be – instead they yell at city squares and make me cortados. Life is not perfect…maybe I am wrong, but I am staying on the bears’s side.

Seems like there are a lot of Coprophagous politicians in Europe now.

There was that one in Spain recently, and now another in Germany. Probably uncounted others.

Mountain lions don’t need culling in my observation. They are terrified of humans. I have encountered them twice. Both times they attained max speed away from me two seconds after they saw me. I know people who have spent far more time in the wilds than myself who have never seen one.

Grizzlies are definitely a different beast.

Do you guys have wolves?

Mountain lions don’t need culling in my observation. They are terrified of humans.

True. I suspect I wouldn’t be alive if they weren’t. I must be an easy prey when I run in their territory all winter long. But you get some rogue ones that cause some fatalities every now and then, usually on the West Coast. I remember a woman or a child dying in Colorado in a cougar attack not too long ago too. I’d try to instill the fear of God in any of them that approaches humans and cull the more aggressive ones.

Do you guys have wolves?

Yes, in the northernmost parts. But wolf attacks on humans in North America have been so rare historically that I’m not sure they’re worth worrying too much about. They’re mostly a problem for ranchers.

Interestingly, I once read that grizzlies were so abundant in the times of the pioneers that you could find them in Southern California. The Big Bear Lake mountains south of Los Angeles were reportedly teeming with them, hence the name. Not having animal rights activists around, people just took the matter into their own hands and they’re now confined to the states bordering Canada, mostly around their national park refuges. Obviously, the same would have happened to their black cousins if they were equally aggressive.

Not as old as Alzheimer in Chief

I don’t see any intellectual inferiority or capability inferiority of Biden with the khomyak-types or post-Soviet “liberal” nationalist mental midgets – both lie the same, have the same level of intellectual forgetfulness, all are scum.

I don’t think he is that much different than these animals – if they were not on cocaine or whatever all the time to make them appear alert.

The Romanian whore in charge of Moldova is supposed to have massively embarassed herself in her recent interview with the ultra-khomyak, Yuri Dud- and she is 40 years younger than Biden. If anything Biden is quite skilled at using the weakness of his age to actually stop himself from being embarrassed further, or on the things he doesn’t want to be embarassed on – such as his son, his warcrimes etc. A fall or convenient forgetting or getting names wrong is nothing by comparison.

His age, his movements and forgetfulness only make him equally as pitiful as the flood of over promoted to PM/President young men and stupid women in charge of NATO countries – like Macron’s homo lover PM, the Moldovan idiot, the drug addict vermin President of 404, Trudeau, young Spanish PM, Italy etc.

Like I’ve already pointed out:

It’s too bad that you don’t practice or believe in what you preach? 🙁

The idea that you posed as it stands is a good one, but once you realized that it doesn’t suit the Russian side, you decided to backpedal and include all sorts of unrealistic caveats. You’re the detestable type, like so many politicians, that likes to talk out of two sides of your mouth…a complete waste of time.

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I can no longer find the web page of that Orthodox monastery in Bosnia where they keep a bunch of pet bears as mascots of their patron saint. Those photos are the best.

Yes, one can be a nonentity, an idiot, a piece of shit, or all of the above regardless of age and gender. That does not change the fact that Alzheimer-in-Chief is demented and used to be corrupt when he was simply stupid. One can say he aged well: remained a piece of shit.

L.O.L. The suggested Hack (or Ukraine) “to do list” was rhetorical. I know you do not understand it. Just tell your friends to leave Ukraine. Make sure on the way out they remind the NeoNazis: the sooner they capitulate, the more will be left of their beloved country. Great job, morons.

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By the way, have you seen the great Ukrainian video linked up on VK for some reason? It is linked on Admiral Marty’s site on Monday the 13th (http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com].

The link doesn’t paste properly. The author is Alexander Rodzhers and is video54802502_456243650 on VK.

Nero fiddled while Rome burnt…Blinken shreds on his farewell to Kiev tour.

What was his closing tune? Hasta mañana by ABBA or was it Sit On My Face by Monty Python?

Having an economist heading the Russian military is good optics in suggesting a fiscally responsible process.

Shifting gears –

I still think Russia plans to reclaim everything East of the Dnepr and then across along the Black Sea to Odessa. Everything else west of the river will eventually be controlled by Russia, but I don’t have a strong opinion about those details.

So you think they will fight for 3 major cities that are majority Ukrainian and voted for Zelensky?

Bloody urban fighting for cities that did not support the separatists? Then what? Engage against partisans until some type of deal is reached?

Of course Putin would like Odessa because of Catherine the Kraut.

But we all want things.

He either has to crawl West with bloody urban combat or risk a coastal invasion. That could be a failed Gallipoli on live global television.

Shades of South Vietnam and Afghanistan.

from another comment:

Shoigu is one of Putin’s best worst decisions. Putting someone with zero military experience in charge of defense. Just outstanding.

So, have you had an opportunity yet to formulate an opinion of Shoigu’s replacement, the economist guy? He sounds like the bookkeeper type to me, but probably doesn’t have the requisite military background to fill the top Defense minister spot? Sounds like a smarter version of Shoigu, although a little bit past his expiration/due date.

At an absolute minimum Judeo-Christians need to stand together against the blight of Islam. It is an existential threat to all infidels (including Christians and Jews).

Agree with the sentiment and although the current-situation doesn’t fully correspond, one shouldn’t complain about Israel going down the warpath since it’s good for Russia at least in terms of diverting military support from Ukraine.

Nevertheless, there is something to be said about Israel having supported Apartheid South Africa (not that Apartheid as a misconceived system is praiseworthy in contrast to ethnic partition), Lebanese Maronite Christians, Serbs in Bosnia, and Viktor Orban in Hungary.

Both faiths share similar core values defined by the Ten Commandments and Old Testament. There is a solid spiritual alignment between the two. The idea that Jooooozzzzz are exploiting Christians is ludicrous.

The New Testament and Jesus are what make Christianity distinct from Judaism and come into full light as such a beautiful and redemptive faith.

Aside from the issue of “putting words in someone else’s mouth”, a good place to start is The Passion of the Christ.

“What is truth?”

Indeed …

After Islam is defeated (or at least 100% eternally contained) we can worry about the less divisive issues between components of the Judeo-Christian values system.

And how much effort and time do you think that will take?

Looks like the Kharkhov offensive achieved total surprise, impressive. Still not a big force, but a lot of progress due to the increase in Russian surveillance assets allowing targeting of Ukrainian units being brought up.

Russia …Solid ground?

What was that saying about throwing rocks in glass houses again? Russia … Ukraine … Kharkov … Chasov Yar … Solid ground?

Anyway, here’s a raise on your dumb cartoon with some provocative pro-Russian content.

Both faiths share similar core values defined by the Ten Commandments and Old Testament. There is a solid spiritual alignment between the two. The idea that Jooooozzzzz are exploiting Christians is ludicrous.

The New Testament and Jesus are what make Christianity distinct from Judaism and come into full light as such a beautiful and redemptive faith.

Can you imagine how disastrous it would be if Christianity had only the New Testament and excluded the Old? No Ten Commandments?

What makes Christianity a robust spiritual experience is the effective fusion between the sterner Old Testament and the more redemptive New.

After Islam is defeated (or at least 100% eternally contained) we can worry about the less divisive issues between components of the Judeo-Christian values system.

And how much effort and time do you think that will take?

Certainly not in my life time. However, we need to restart the struggle to defend Christendom from Jihadist invaders. Instead of accepting them in, we need to begin de-migrating that home. Jewish leaders, like Zemmour in France, can help with this push back.

IslamoCucks keep trying to create an artificial conflict between Judeo-Christians. It is an attempt to weaken both groups to make them more vulnerable to Jihad.

PEACE 😇

Stop being such a faggot. Jews are not Russians. The Bahkmut battle proved to be a membrane through which American cash was used to turn Prigozhid into a coup commander using Wagner as a vehicle to march on Moscow.

The Biden body count is big enough over 50 years. Not least his attack on the whites in South Africa. “That ugly white regime” and his tacit support for bombing Gaza puts the lie to anything that can be claimed against Putin at this point.

Biden has been doing mass murder since the middle 1980s. Putin really only starts getting going in the Naughties.

Sounds like another colorful conspiracy theory (did you make it up or did you hear it from somebody else?). But like most other conspiracy theories, when you start probing it for any supporting facts, there are none to be found?..

Here’s a much more believable conspiracy theory:

The CIA was in contact with Prigozhid not long into the Bahkmut fiasco.

One of the reasons the Russians had such a hard slog in the trenches there was Prigozhid slow walking the entire affair.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/24/us-intelligence-prigozhin-putin/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/24/world/europe/us-intel-prigozhin-warning.html

CIA ahem…knew Prigozhid was planning his coup.

“American intelligence officials briefed senior military and administration officials on Wednesday that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the mercenary Wagner Group, was preparing to take military action against senior Russian defense officials, according to officials familiar with the matter. U.S. spy agencies had indications days earlier that Mr. Prigozhin was planning something and worked to refine that material into a finished assessment, officials said. The information shows that the United States was aware of impending events in Russia, similar to how intelligence agencies had warned in late 2021 that Vladimir V. Putin was planning to invade Ukraine.“

A 200 y.o. tree in Ireland must be pretty rare.

I think there are several motivations for the Russians to take Odessa. First is to choke off rump Ukraine from maritime shipping. Second is to create a land bridge to Transnistria. Third is to locate forces to keep NATO on the Romanian side of the border. Finally, the historical aspect of the city is important as well.

I think Russia will wrap up everything East of the river the way you suggest, with heavy urban combat as needed. It may be that once the Russians re-take Kharkov the troops in the cities to the south will roll over. Right bank Ukraine is a different story and I wonder how the Russians will tackle that?

I can imagine a slow scenario where they take Kharkov by the end of this year and the rest of the East (plus Odessa) by the end of next year, chipping away at military sites in the rest of Ukraine while making these gains. At that point will anyone in Kiev have any will to resist? Maybe Russia then takes another two years to finish the job out to the Polish border. The slow pace of the Russian program seems to be what disturbs people in the West the most. The gradual effort in western Ukraine would allow Russia to stay up to date with the tactics the West is testing using AFU guinea pigs.

I don’t have a subscription to either the Washington Post nor the NY Times. How exactly did US spy agencies get info on Prigoshin’s plans to march on Moscow? Did they have somebody working within his inner circle that heard the plans and then spilled the beans?

Don’t believe everything that you read. 🙂

I don’t know what this means. The Russians signaled clearly they would be moving on Kharkov soon.

I think there are several motivations for the Russians to take Odessa.

All motivations aside, Odesa would be the most difficlt large Ukrainian city to take due to its unique geographic location.

Wow, it took Geert Wilders five months to form his coalition government.

Think that is somewhat normal for the Netherlands, but it doesn’t exactly scream “political revolution.” I feel somewhat flummoxed by his advocacy for Dutch residents.

Hopefully, this is just some transitory phase, which will lead to actual advocacy for Dutch people.

American mass hunting of the bison over the last 200 years is disgraceful – so any animal living in the plains/grasslands deserves to be treated as a sitting target meriting protection measures.

Those game in the forests/up in the mountains – don’t look to be in much danger in America (obviously harder hunting territory, but is it now that with better sights – then conversely develop into worse hunter in US?) , plus American laws appear to protect their habitats anyway from deforestation and mass settlements being built. So I have no problem with hunting if its controlled – particularly deer ( which in mass uncontrolled numbers are always a threat to ecosystem, and that you are at least intending to eat)

Unless they are inventing BS as they appear to do with this Climate change stuff…….. these numbers of beautiful animals being hunted around the world look very serious – so I don’t think the characterisation of “liberasts living in the cities” is fair. Just like bison in the American plains – in the bush/savanna in Africa these animals are still relatively easy targets to kill, in large numbers which explains why they are endangered.

Do I not belong to the mountains where I hike and run several times per week? Where do I belong then?

Hiking – great, Camping?-great, using the mountainbike there? – even more great. I do a decent amount of that myself.
Running in these nature areas, particularly if with your headphones on listening to music, like you own the place……….deserves punishment, mass blood loss, decapitation.
It’s so arrogant – riding with a moped, making alot of noise is infinitely morally superior in these areas then any runner-Nazi. My moral principles on this issue are very strong – runners in the nature spots, even in the cities are a threat to the world.

Because the Jewboy Prigozhid was working for the CIA at some point during the Bakhmut battle he was turned. Reading between the lines Wagner was compromised by money among the top leaders.

In Russian history it’s well established that ambitious military leaders have taken foreign money to kill Czar Paul to install his son Alexander who was likely to be more anti French.

Rasputin was killed by an MI6 agent as a counter point. Much like Daria Dugina. .

Yes, the Russians have to work through Kherson and Nikolayev first. I guess they want to do this before pushing directly on Kiev, but who knows?

My notion is they want to kill or capture AFU forces away from Kiev. Therefore by the time they get to Kiev the AFU might be weak enough to limit the hard fighting in that city.

It might be tempting for them to go to Kiev first and wrap up the first stage of the process. Unfortunately the Western sponsors of this mess would be happy to see Kiev destroyed leaving Russia a pyrrhic victory in that case. There is always the risk the Russians will simply be philosophical and think, “Hey, we rebuilt it before!”

On the other hand, if Russia pushes directly to Odessa, there may be more risk of direct NATO involvement out of Romania. If Russia moves straight from Kharkov to crush the leadership in Kiev this risk of official NATO intervention may be lower.

Let’s just concentrate on Prigozhin and omit past cringey Russian characters. How and when exactly was Prigozhin turned by the CIA? Not just your “between the lines”…”ahem”…Okay?

Where’s the beef, Wokechoke?

…they want to kill or capture AFU forces away from Kiev.

That seems to be the strategy: to slowly bleed the Ukies and their Nato sponsors. It gradually changes the attitudes in Ukraine: fewer people willing to fight and die, more looking for a way to end it.

Russia has no incentive to negotiate. They will make pro-forma statements about “willing to talk”, but why should they? One negotiates to achieve some gains and all concessions the West can offer are less than what Russia will get by a slow war. Why bother?

Based on pure competence the West has played it very poorly: they over-reached, didn’t prepare and are unwilling to really fight. They turned the success of the Nato-in-Ukraine project to Russia – the only way to succeed was if Russia held back and did nothing. It is such idiocy that one wonders what morons live in Washington-London-Brussels…

After Crimea in 2014 it was obvious that Russia would not sit back. Russia offered a reasonable deal, the West should had taken it. Instead they doubled down sacrificing hundreds of thousands of Ukies and destroying Ukraine as a viable state. It shows how little they value Ukrainian lives – the Ukies are only good as a cannon fodder against Russia. Do you think Irish, French or Dutch lives would be so easily sacrificed?

But the real Darwin-evolution winners are the Ukies…what a complete failure to think for themselves…

“Why would there be a pro-Russian leader of Ukraine? That would require complete capitulation as the people would not vote for one.”

Zelensky was elected on a platform of improving relations with Russia!

OK, he was a lying tool of the US, and immediately started to worsen relations, but improving relations with Russia was the last thing that (rump) Ukraine voted for.

“by the time they get to Kiev …”

That would make a good song title.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_the_Time_I_Get_to_Phoenix

IslamoCucks keep trying to create an artificial conflict between Judeo-Christians. It is an attempt to weaken both groups to make them more vulnerable to Jihad.

If you’re sincerely opposed to Jihad worldwide then why support only Israel so much and so singlemindedly?

Where’s the support for Hindus in the Indian subcontinent, China over Xinjiang, Buddhists in Myanmar against the fake “Rohingya genocide”, Christians in Africa, Bosnia, Kosovo, Russia in Syria, etc.?

However, we need to restart the struggle to defend Christendom from Jihadist invaders. Instead of accepting them in, we need to begin de-migrating that home.

Maybe good to end on a note where we have absolute agreement on.

Everything I read about Rasputin’s death is the people who actually knew what happened were killed by the Bolsheviks and the truth of the escapade is lost. The Czar and his wife were about the only people in Russia who wanted his project to continue.

Was MI6 known as that in 1915?

They aren’t targeting civilian targets. That would be a waste.

What an imbecilic retarded lie

There are plenty of military targets like this one:

Didn’t I already tell you about not posting outright fake, misleading, not showing anything to what is claimed ,BS internet videos you subhuman POS? This source looks even dumber and more bad propaganda than the usual ones, which were already very bad.

Anyway you demented scumbag –

In every single conventional military engagement in the SMO, in attack or defence………the ukronazi side has got flattened, absolutely destroyed by Russia you mentally sick bimbo dickhead. Often when our forces fighting at a numerical disadvantage.

American side of course aware of this failed freakshow – so it would explain this schizophrenic fighting tactics of Ukrostan which is more similar to an insurgency infused with outright terrorism , but in addition to drones, is using very heavy weapons – conventional war weapons not particularly compatible with fighting a ( sort of) insurgency. If anything they just make themselves a big target for us , killing many crews , where “traditional” insurgency actions would give them cover and a chance to rest.

Absolutely nothing here even close to a co-ordinated set of actions and engagements intended to achieve ANY strategic goal you retarded sack of faeces. That’s why all this sh*t like HIMARS, ATACMS are nothing more than destructive PR weapons you idiot.

Khokhlism is a “nationalist” deathcult, where they love getting mass killed provided it is elongated over enough time , firing enough ammunition so that as much destruction of the Donbass is possible is one of the main intentions of these sick scum ……. in between sodomising eachother all day when not getting killed, just as in the 1940s-50s.

Soviet-era Urban/factory constructions and additional defences built in the last 10 years are what help with this and enable the schizophrenic insurgency.
That is the evil we are facing – scum who are “defending” what they are encouraging to be destroyed (Donbass) .

The retards at west Point appear to have settled on an equilibrium of the type of “insurgency” they want fought that will engage Russia to the degree they would like …….this is what makes absolute genius in military history our strategy and successful actions in opening weeks of SMO, which managed to bypass alot of these intentions.

And LMAO, – Russian sorties must be about over 300000, more likely 400000 since start of SMO , if they were 140000 in March last year. Here- there is clear purpose and strategy, clear success in degradation of opponents Air Defence, clear increase in frequency of the planes and Helicopters doing missions. You notice that all the time the talk is of the (failed) AD systems for the cities and NEVER for frontline where our airforce is mass engaged with you demented little shit? Drones and missiles launched from the sea or Russian land/airspace are used to complement, and not to compensate for air missions hindered for 404 air defence.

The only purpose of these suicidal”tactics” is probably so that westerners can “fake it till you make it” stall for time to develop their medium and long-range missiles where Russia currently has advantage. These vermin are even openly talking about the SMO being made to last another decade, which just shows what expendable plankton Ukronazis and normal Ukrainian civilians are for these satanists.

Situation is still developing but the place like Vovchansk is roughly about 5 km from RF border IIRC, so on the grand scale so far we have like a big protracted border skirmish ongoing nearly for a whole working week already while 2 years ago RF forward detachments were standing at the entrance of Kharkov on the very first day of invasion.

American mass hunting of the bison over the last 200 years is disgraceful

There were some disgraceful elements in the killing of so many American bison but I think there’s some purposeful lack of perspective in how this is usually portrayed. The American bison suffered the exact same fate as the European bison. Or the same fate as the North American megafauna at the hands of the natives, for that matter. Nowadays the population of American bison is in much better shape than the European one but I don’t hear stories of how cruel our European ancestors were when they all but wiped them out from the old continent.

Herds of millions of bison roaming the Great Plains was perfect for the stone-age natives that lived off them but it was incompatible with the way of live brought by the white settlers and farmers, that turned those fertile lands in the most productive agricultural region of the world. They were destined to see their numbers greatly reduced, one way or another.

riding with a moped, making alot of noise is infinitely morally superior in these areas then any runner-Nazi

This is the kind of irresponsible statement that leads to enmity, rancour, broken friendships, split families,… ultimately to civil strife and violence. How can anyone in a sober state compare running in the wild (what our species has evolved to do for thousands of years and our hunter-gatherer relatives still do all life long) with a noisy moped polluting nature with its mere presence?

Not being a native of where I live, I accept with resignation the fact the ATV savages already own the place and roam freely in the most sacred areas. But still, it’s a very sad experience to be hiking in the dunes of a magnificent desert and suddenly be disturbed by a family of obese urbanites siting in their noisy machine and believing that they are also “enjoying nature”. They can’t even appreciate one of the most remarkable wonders of the desert: the awe-inspiring silence. But at least they tend to be polite and wave their hands to acknowledge your presence.

I do share your disdain towards people who listen to music or talk shows while hiking though. The most contemptible subspecies inside this group is the ones who don’t even use earphones and walk around with their noisy devices. Sadly, I have noticed that not all of them around here are Hispanics, though most are.

LtCol. Tony Shaffer : Can NATO Handle Defeat?

You are making unwarranted assumptions based on far too small a sample.

• Previously, I have spoken about the threats to Buddhists and Hindus in Myanmar and India.
• Helping African Christians fight, rather than migrate, could make a great deal of sense.
• I have a strong track record advocating for partition of Lebanon to protect Marionite Christians.
• I even gave a rare compliment to the CCP for their handing of Muslim colonists.

Why are you so singleminded? Your hate filled & monomaniacal focus on creating strife between Christians and indigenous Palestinian Jews is destructive behaviour.

PEACE 😇

…Herds of millions of bison roaming the Great Plains was perfect for the stone-age natives…but it was incompatible with farmers who turned those fertile lands in the most productive agricultural region of the world.

Fair enough, although the methods used and the peak-functionality philosophy is very unattractive. Europe did the same to its large fauna – but over thousands of years and with (probably) less brutality. There is a substantial difference. (Like Western shock-and-awe versus what is going on in Ukraine.)

Look at the fertile lands today: they are often used to produce ‘gasoline’ (why?) and GMO junk fed to over-fed carbohydrate addicted fatsos around the world. The bisons were better.

The Hispanic propensity for gauche unpleasant behaviors makes US gradually worse…and they keep on coming. I suppose the grass has to be cut and the elderly must change diapers…but it is uncivilized.

From the start I must say that I have no idea what the RF intentions are. I am not a military strategist, and, unlike some commenters here, do not pretend to be one.

Here is the situation right now: Russian troops in the Kharkov region are advancing on two sides of Seversky Donets river (it flows South). For now Russia uses relatively small forces on both sides, taking advantage of the fact that Ukies stole the money allocated for building strong defenses in the area, so that there is little there to stop them. Curiously, last year cokehead clown on his website thanked the people of Kharkov and Sumy regions for building strong defenses. As the reason for the unfolding catastrophe for Ukraine is crystal clear, this now embarrassing missive was deleted from the clown’s site. I am sure Ukie puppets tell their masters that Ukrainian troops are retreating to more advantageous positions. Those of us who know history must remember that Hitler’s troops were retreating to more advantageous positions up until unconditional capitulation.

It is unclear to me and to Ukies on which side stronger Russian force will be used next. On the right bank of Seversky Donets is a direct way to Kharkov. Remaining Ukraine cannot afford to lose Kharkov, as it’s the second largest city that is very important economically. Not to mention demoralizing effect losing Kharkov would have. So, that would be catastrophic.

Russian advance on the left bank of Seversky Donets (that’s where Russians have essentially taken the town of Volchansk) would cut off several tens of thousands of Ukie troops clinging to the Northern parts of Donetsk region still occupied by Ukraine. So, that would be catastrophic, as well.

Theoretically, Ukraine must send strong reinforcements to both areas. Its problem is that it does not have troops to strengthen even one of these. Ukies are hastily relocating assorted heavily damaged detachments from other fronts (where they are retreating even now) to Kharkov region. That won’t change anything except the date of death of some of those soldiers.

So, I have no idea how Russian offensive will develop. I am 99.9% sure of one thing: Russia won’t storm Kharkov. That would require huge force it is reluctant to use and entail high casualties among Russian troops and Kharkov civilians. Russian troops will encircle Kharkov and wait until it surrenders, like Ukies on Azovstal in Mariupol.

Crossing North Dakota by Amtrak, 30 years ago, we were delighted to see some bison on a bluff – I think above the far upper reaches of the Missouri near Williston.

Must have been amazing when there were millions of them.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/vladimir-putin-xi-jinping-announce-plans-strengthen-military-ties-beijing

Despite pressure from the west to lean on Putin to end the war in Ukraine, China’s economic and moral support for Russia has intensified since the start of the conflict. Xi and Putin see each other as allies in a parallel international and “multipolar” world order that can challenge a Washington-led global consensus.

Last year, bilateral trade hit a record $240.1bn, and there are signs that even more goods – including dual-use technology that could be used in the war effort – are reaching Russia from China via third countries. Even without direct arms shipments to Russia, western observers say China’s economic and political support for Russia has been a lifeline since February 2022. On Thursday, Putin said he was “grateful” to China for its efforts to try to resolve “the Ukraine crisis”.

The slo-mo seems to be working quite well, as the US seems to be leery of cutting off China,. and Europe even more so.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/14/vauxhall-peugeot-stellantis-chinese-ev-europe-leapmotor-biden

Europe is a pretty sad case these days, the talk of an “independent foreign policy” hasn’t been heard for a decade, and they looked the other way when US/UK destroyed their cheap energy link.

They want to have the military transport hubs and infrastructure of the city in artillery range and overstretch Ukrainian forces by forcing them to disengage good units from the decisive attritional battlefield, which remains Donbass. An encirclement is not the way that has been used by the Russians; they tend to avoid encircling objectives, preferring to leave the pincers threateningly open, thereby getting the Ukrainians to leave their positions. Russia going to be doing active defence along a broadening front mainly, there won’t be any large scale swift offensives. The war won’t change in nature for 18 months.