Finally. The previous thread is over 1,000 comments already.

Qualifying for the 24 Hours of Daytona is up.

The GTD session was interrupted by Red Flag. Jump to 44:00 in the video to see the new Corvette and Mustang entries.

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In regards to Austria-Hungary, I feel like the Austrian half of Austria-Hungary lacked a common unifying theme besides centuries of loyalty to the Hapsburg dynasty. What else was there? The Hungarian half of Austria-Hungary at least had centuries of history as an independent kingdom and nation-state. The Austrian half of Austria-Hungary brought good government (less corruption, et cetera) to its subject territories, an effect that is still felt over 100 years later, but what common unifying theme was there for it? Is relying on just the Hapsburg royal family good enough?

Even the Austrian half of Austria-Hungary looked kind of funky by itself on a map:

Anyone know any good China podcasts?

Am struggling to find even what would be considered the official news. Surprising, thought they spent a lot of money on English-language AM radio stations, etc.

Seems like the Austrian half of Austria-Hungary could have easily been (purely hypothetically/theoretically) split between Italy, Germany, and a newly recreated independent Poland in order to create a much nicer map. (Romania and Serbia could get Bukovina and Dalmatia, or they could go to Poland and Italy, respectively.)

Off-topic, but could you see a Russia that avoided the 1917 Bolshevik coup helping to create an alternate version of the EU and NATO (but without the US) in order to help foster economic development and maintain security in Europe in the post-WWI years and decades? With the US descending back into isolationism, if Russia isn’t Communist, I suspect that Russia will play a huge role as being one of Europe’s main post-WWI security guarantors in such a scenario.

https://thechinaproject.com/podcasts/

https://www.csis.org/podcasts/chinapower

https://carnegieendowment.org/chinaintheworld

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/china-global/id1569469267

Iraqi Information Minister reviews
Encounters by D. W. Pasulka
St. Martins 2023, 248 pp

This is an unbounded mess of a book. I found it necessary to read every sentence in it but cannot recommend for anybody to do likewise. Three part review:

1. Background;
2. what I liked;
3. examples of what is horrible, terrible, and ludicrous.

Background

Diana Walsh Pasulka is a star of the current UFO scene. She is a professor of religious studies at U. North Carolina-Wilmington. She debuted in her UFO starring role with the publication of her previous book, American Cosmic, in 2019. A little about this previous book. I bought it in 2019 in the first weeks it was available, read it direct when it arrived on my doorstep, and immediately threw it into the garbage bin after finishing the last page.

This first book purported to be a summary of the woman’s research into UFO’s. If I had known she was going to be a star I would not have thrown it away. I am not going to throw Encounters away. Diane Pasulka is a bright woman. A generous person might think that some day she will attain enough wisdom that she will regret writing these books.

As for her stardom, she was near the top of the list of featured speakers at the Sol Foundation Symposium in November 2023 in Palo Alto. Stanford University sanctioned UFO studies. That gang uses the term UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena). The foundation also is sponsored by the CIA and black budget money.

Encounters is not about UFO’s, exactly. It is more like a sequence of nerd-glamour magazine profiles of people she has met up with in her UFO and UFO-adjacent research, which includes consciousness, intelligence, ethnography, cosmology, trauma, metaphysics, Silicon Valley tech startups, psychology, and space travel.

Is there such a thing as a nerd-glamour magazine? Omni or Wired where the subjects are smoking hot. That type of hypothetical publication. The writing in this book would fit in to there like a hand into a glove. Each subject is fascinating AND brilliant AND amazing AND if you browsed to their personal ad you would drool and pray oh please pick me.

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2. What I liked

Chapter 8, Children of the Invisibles, is good. There is a long transcript of an interview pp. 183-192 with Patricia Turrisi. This interview is excellent. Turrisi is the one person profiled in the book with a last name. She also is the one in the book whose connection to the collection of subjects (consciousness &c) is remote. She is a recently retired professor of philosophy (at UNC-Wilmington) with an unrelated research focus but she shows up because her father worked on top secret aerospace projects and she lived the top secret lifestyle until she left home to go to college. The interview is mostly to explore what it is like to grow up in a house where your dad’s job is top secret. If that is a topic which interests you then reading this interview should be on your list for sure.

There is information from Tyler which is good. (Tyler is sparse in this book—he was pretty much the main character in American Cosmic. Tyler is not his real name and Pasulka continues to not use his real name anywhere but at this point everybody who has bothered to search knows who he is.)

When Tyler taught others about his research, he often presented his taxonomy of beings, which is his cosmological worldview. In this hierarchy of beings, God was placed at the top. After that were angels, then off-planet beings. “Off-planet” is the term Tyler used for extraterrestrials. Below that were “certain factions within intelligence communities.” Below this were ordinary people, and then animals.

p. 180

If you need a citation then there it is. They are more than you or I. All men may be created equal, but very few get security clearance.

There is a good quotation from Jacques Vallee (Pasulka has been inside his house).

He [Vallee] told me that people in intelligence communities are very charming. They meet you. Then they meet your friends. Then they meet your family and they become friendly with your children.

p.178 **

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3. What I didn’t like

Her epistemology is horrible. Her ontology is terrible. Her theology is ludicrous. I will confine myself to a small fraction of her horrible epistemology.

It is impossible to do what she claims to be doing and use anonymous or pseudonymous sources or high positioned people who spoke on the condition that they not be named. OK for yellow journalism. Not OK for scholarly or academic work or anything that aspires to such. She trusts her sources whose identity she does not disclose. Does anybody trust her? If you trust her and you presume the trust is transferable you cannot do anything with it unless you are a fool and disregard the risk of going on a wild goose chase with your limited energy and time. This fact of the universe is backwards compatible, and the reverse is true.

Diane Pasulka is on a wild goose chase. This book is part of her story.

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The book has no index. The citation format is mixed, only a few glitches.

OK sorry I just cannot resist to add one more thing. In one of the chapters (number 7, Moongirl) the subject is a glamorous nerd who flies on private jets and is writing a Chatgpt for humpback whales. Sorry two. The UFO’s are quantum computer AI from parallel universes. Also chapter 7.

** Jacques Vallee is wrong. All of the people in the intelligence communities are government employees and almost all are beastly dull as typical government employees. The ones he has met are selected and highly trained to be charming to people the agency wants to use.

Another oil refinery hit in Russia, this time close to St. Petersburg, one that was state of the art built with German technology. It’s incredible that Ukrainian drones can travel up to 1,300 kilometers untouched through Russian airspace and hit their targets.

Hybrid(?) car just won Dakar, wonder if such technical concept (electric engine/battery/energy converter) has the potential to be applied into mass production? Or maybe it has been done already, myself not auto novelties follower, so am out of the loop with latest technical trends here:

Audi makes history: for the first time, a low-emission prototype with an electric drive, high-voltage battery and energy converter wins the world’s toughest desert rally with the Audi RS Q e-tron. The Spaniards Carlos Sainz/Lucas Cruz secured Audi’s first victory in the Dakar Rally after around 7,900 kilometers with a lead of 1h 20min. Mattias Ekström/Emil Bergkvist also crossed the finish line.

“Congratulations to Team Audi Sport on winning the Dakar Rally,” said Gernot Döllner, Chairman of the Board of Management of AUDI AG. “Audi has once again set a milestone in motorsport. Winning the world’s toughest desert rally with an electrified drive is a visible ‘Vorsprung durch Technik’ and points the way to our electric future.” The Audi RS Q e-tron has electric all-wheel drive. The energy supply is ensured by a high-voltage battery and an energy converter that runs on residual fuel-based reFuel, thus saving 60 percent of CO2 emissions compared to conventional fuels.

https://www.audi-mediacenter.com/en/press-releases/historic-victory-for-audi-at-the-dakar-rally-15845

Do you listen to any of these? Nothing really catches my fancy.

So Trump won big in the IA caucuses and a big Trump victory is anticipated in the NH primaries tomorrow night. DeSantis has already dropped out of the race and endorsed Trump.

Trump was always going to win the nomination but the events of the past week have caused Trump’s return to become more real to people. Currently Trump is up on Biden by 2 points in the polls. Libs are coping by saying that 2022 showed that polls weren’t reliable but this is untrue: the House popular vote polls in 2022 were correct, in fact they actually slightly underestimated the Republican margin; the problem was only with the state level polls. If Trump does win the popular vote, and I’m confident that he will, then Trump ~should~ win the electoral college but who knows with how screwy things are now.

Trump is currently dealing with legal battles and he is showing more signs of cognitive decline, but I don’t expect either of those things to make much of a difference. Trump’s negatives with the electorate are already baked in and the truth is that voters don’t actually care about stuff like corruption or even mental fitness.

Biden, however, faces some very serious headwinds:

1. Trump has cognitive decline, but Biden outright has senile dementia
2. There is a crisis at the border that the Biden regime has completely failed to address
3. The international situation is awful: the US is losing in Ukraine, losing in Gaza and losing in Yemen. It is reasonable to expect that the US will soon be losing in Syria as well.
4. The war in Israel is killing Biden with Muslim voters and with Biden’s own left flank. Make no mistake: the Muslim/Arab vote is insignificant (just like the Muslims/Arabs themselves) and most of them will dutifully show up to vote for Biden, same with the non Muslim/Arab Palestine simps, but there are many who will refuse to do so and that could hurt Biden in MN and MI in the event of a close race in those states
5. The economy sucks

Point number 1 isn’t really a big deal. Voters knew that Biden was senile when they elected him in 2020, and Biden doesn’t appear to have gotten any worse since then. And like I said above, Trump also is mentally fading.

Points 2 and 3 by themselves wouldn’t matter if things were going well domestically, but when everything sucks on the home front, the chaos on the border and abroad contributes to the bad vibes. People want the peace and prosperity of the Trump years back.

Point 4 only matters in the event of a close election, which I simply do not anticipate. I do think that it will cost Biden 1% to 2% of his popular vote margin, but I don’t think it will have any impact on the electoral college.

Point 5 is the big one. The economy is bad. There are signs that it is finally beginning to improve but I am confident that it is a false dawn and things will shortly get much worse. I expect a financial crisis to begin in the late spring and for there to be a devastating stock market crash in either September or October. There will be a housing crash too.

Prediction: Trump wins the popular vote by 4 points. I don’t know what will happen in the electoral college. If Trump does win the electoral college, I don’t know if the libs will accept the result or will instead launch some sort of revolt/secession/coup.

Death to America

The international situation is awful: the US is losing in Ukraine, losing in Gaza and losing in Yemen.

Really? I wasn’t ware that the US was directly involved in any war in any of these countries. Sure, Ukraine’s summer offensive petered out, but I don’t see Russia making any serious inroads to conquering Ukraine, or solidifying its presence anywhere in Ukraine. Look at the photo in my comment #9. Does this look like Russia is winning in any meaningful way? Compare the costs to repair this debacle and its negative impact on Russian energy profits with any possible small gain of a bombed out small town or village in Donbas?….

It’s incredible that Ukrainian drones can travel up to 1,300 kilometers untouched through Russian airspace and hit their tar

gets.

They do not.
There are only two realistic possibilities:
1) Russian saboteurs inside Russian gov did it – they take care that war is run pretty inefficiently
2) UFOs do this, they don’t want any great war on Earth now. They also sunk “Moskva” cruiser – it was hit by what is known as “directed energy weapons” not by pretty unknown Ukrainian missiles. Russian sailors who saw that were ordered to be silent as we pretend that there is not powerful third party over Earth and allude to truth only in movies like “Wakanda Forever”.

A question to you: if Devil offered to help Ukrainians to decisively win with Russia, should Ukrainian take his offer…?
The Devil price: 66% of Ukrainian souls.

Why pose such a ridiculous question to me, when anybody with eyes can see how Ukrainians react to the evil deeds of a real life devil like Putler? How would you and the great majority of Poles react if Putler’s Russia were to invade and cross Poland’s borders and kill and savage everything in sight?

Why pose such a ridiculous question to me, when anybody with eyes can see how Ukrainians react to the evil deeds of a real life devil like Putler?

I sometimes imagine that Bandera made a deal with Devil. All those ax-murders were pretty ritualistic. Hard to believe that Banderites were so low on ammunition, that they had to use axes.

How would you and the great majority of Poles react if Putler’s Russia were to invade and cross Poland’s borders and kill and savage everything in sight?

Well, personally I am far away from the sight of Putin, as I am close to Czech border. Maybe I would cross it (FYI, I am officially unfit for military service).BTW, why aren’t you in Ukraine fighting?
Poles would fight and pray. Poland had great tradition of “entrusting Poland to God” (zawierzyć Polskę Bogu), sometimes even to Holy Mary (zawierzyć Polskę Maryi), which I think is certain devaluation of Poland, since Mary was just a human being and not Polish at all. Maybe we would choose the Saint John Paul II this time 😉
Occultism is pretty weak in Poland so no chance of choosing Devil here.

4. The war in Israel is killing Biden with Muslim voters and with Biden’s own left flank.

It is also killing his support with Jewish voters. Sending Blinken to make demands of Netanyahu’s was highly offensive and ineffectual: (1)

Netanyahu Rejects Biden Surrender Plan

I told President Biden this in our conversation over the weekend. I greatly appreciate the US support for Israel and I also expressed this to the President. However, I will strongly insist on our vital interests. I emphasized to President Biden our determination to achieve all of the goals of the war, and to ensure that Gaza never again constitutes a threat to Israel.

Therefore, I insist that after we achieve total victory, after we eliminate Hamas, there will no entity in Gaza that finances terrorism, educates for terrorism or sends terrorists.

Gaza must be demilitarized, under Israel’s full security control.

I will not compromise on full Israeli security control of all territory west of the Jordan River.

Hamas has not yet accepted the Biden administration’s plan; however, it is close to what Hamas would like to achieve. Were Israel to accept the terms of the agreement, Netanyahu’s government — under pressure from all sides — would likely fall.

As upset as SJW Muslims may be, they have no choice other than the DNC. It is the definitive party of IslamoGloboHomo.

MAGA believes in Judeo-Christian values. It is a much more natural home for actual practitioners of Judaism. The fastest growing group of Jews in America, the Orthodox, are already a solid GOP voting block.

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(1) https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/01/21/netanyahu-rejects-biden-surrender-plan/

Am sure that Mr. Hack only counts in petals from the flower of Ukrainian youth. (or, in other words, lazy gen Y-ers and Z-ers that need to be forcefully conscripted to show up to work)😉

There seems to be a pattern of Ukrainians attacking civilian targets, especially in Donbas, after suffering some setback on the battlefield. Perhaps it’s all just a coincidence, who knows, but there have been multiple instances and it’s very difficult to imagine what military goal could be achieved by directing an artillery volley to a market in Donetsk at peak shopping hours. I’m not aware that they’ve even tried explaining it this time. Not that any explanation by these inveterate liars would have any credibility but even the NYT, the BBC and ISW, who strangely decided to report on the carnage, failed to get any Ukrainian version of the events.

Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was an unprecedented violation of international law in Europe and I can understand why some people may legitimately think that helping Ukraine militarily was necessary. But the reality is that arming Ukraine, especially with sophisticated weapons, makes us less secure, not more. It is just a given that they are going to use them to kill civilians, as the 8 years of the Donbas conflict show. Apparently, yesterday’s attack (like the attack on the center of Belgorod some weeks ago) was also carried out using NATO ordnance.

For those of us who have been paying some attention to the Ukraine conflict before it evolved into this all-out war it is crystal clear that Putin never had any intention of marching on Warsaw, or Berlin, or those fantasies that the Nikki parrots keep repeating. However, I can perfectly imagine a revengeful Russia coming out of this war with the intention of settling scores with the countries that have helped Ukraine commit these actions. When you kill their women and children people tend to forget who started what and only deep hatred ensues, like we see in Palestine. Having Russian innocent blood on our hands is a very dumb position to get ourselves into, regardless of whether one thinks that we should help Ukraine defeat Russia or not.

Judging by the comments I see on Russian telegram channels, I see a future of deep resentment against Western countries in that nuclear-armed country. If someone more audacious than Putin comes to power I wouldn’t discard Nikki’s crazy prophecies actually becoming true, especially if the Russians finally manage to inflict a decisive defeat on Ukraine and recover their confidence in their military. It’s getting urgent to have our diplomats justify their generous salaries and find a peace agreement in Ukraine rather than flying to those silly get-togethers in Davos and the climate summits.

…Occultism is pretty weak in Poland so no chance of choosing Devil here.

Not in our experience, Poles seem very superstitious.

But the devil is not about the occult, he is about destruction. The universal morality is simple: creation is good and destruction is evil.

Poles are frantic and prone to trigger destruction. Ukies with their axe-murdering manias are undisciplined. The Western sneaky attempts to prolong the good times with mayhem and wars are de facto an embrace of satanism.

The struggle between creation and destruction is eternal, it is never resolved – but the devil never wins. I am not sure why, maybe there really is inner harmony in the universe: the destruction eventually ceases but the creation doesn’t.

The only strategic question in a war is: what side stands for creation and order and what side for destruction? It can be deceptively hard to see it clearly, the devil’s strength is in confusing things – but over time it becomes clear. There are only two sides in a war.

Drones probably launched from Estonia.

Hack will probably take your 66% deal to LOSE to Russia. The fight is all that matters and the more misguided and foolish the better!

Nice comment.

Nuclear and biological weapons are the Devil’s toys. If they are used seriously, maybe the devil finally ‘wins’ with the destruction of all human activity.

Biden is trying to thread the needle but it isn’t going to work.

As for losing Jewish voters, I doubt it. The Jews who vote D are died in the wool #Resistance libtards (I live in a family full of them, they will crawl over broken glass to vote for Biden) and the Jewish vote doesn’t matter anyway

The point of wishful prophecies is to make them happen. We can get to nukes if people scare themselves with what Russia supposedly really wants.

Many in Kiev who are already compromised want to bloody as many hands as possible so the consequences are chaotic and unclear….a downward spiral. But the bottom line is that a few hundred thousand Ukies have perished or ruined their lives for somebody’s plan to have Ukraine in Nato. Among the most stupid sacrificial wars ever fought. This will be incomprehensible to look back at. It was so easy to avoid by simply being normal.

I see a future of deep resentment against Western countries in that nuclear-armed country.

The future is now. From the viewpoint of >90% of Russian residents the credibility of the West is the same as the credibility of Western puppets in Kiev, exactly zero.

It’s getting urgent to have our diplomats justify their generous salaries and find a peace agreement in Ukraine

Too late for that. By their barbarous attacks on civilians the Ukies convinced the great majority of Russians that unconditional capitulation of current Ukie regime and its subsequent elimination is the only satisfactory outcome that ensures Russian security.

Like I said before, the second Putin’s offer is always worse for the opponent than the first, whereas his third offer is usually an unconditional capitulation of the opponent. Minsk was the first offer, in 2022 he made the second offer. As the first was sabotaged and the second was rejected, now is the time for the third.

OK, we must remember that a lot of the gloom is aimed at getting Congress to “give us the f******* money” as Bob Geldof puts it, but all the same… for a country that’s not directly involved, it looks as if Western Ukraine (we must remember all the Ukrainians fighting against Zelensky) is supplying warm bodies and the US is supplying everything else.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/incredibly-stark-biden-aides-give-lawmakers-grim-assessment-ukraine-ai-rcna134792

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s top aides bluntly told lawmakers in a private meeting on Wednesday that if Congress fails to authorize additional military aid for Ukraine in the coming days, Russia could win the war in a matter of weeks — months at best, according to two people familiar with the meeting.

National security adviser Jake Sullivan and the Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told the lawmakers that Ukraine will run out of certain air defense and artillery capabilities in the coming weeks, according to the people familiar with the meeting.

The grim assessment, which one White House official described as “incredibly stark,” was delivered as the future of Ukraine aid has never been more uncertain. It also comes as White House officials are increasingly alarmed at the prospect of Biden failing to follow through with his promise that the U.S. will be there for Kyiv “as long as it takes.”

In Wednesday’s meeting at the White House, Sullivan and Haines gave the top congressional leaders a classified time frame for when Ukraine’s key military resources will be significantly depleted, and a detailed assessment of the current dynamics on the battlefield, the two people familiar with the meeting said.

Pentagon has reportedly influenced an estimated 10,000 scripts, when you count TV episodes. What is the CIA count?

US is losing in Ukraine, losing in Gaza and losing in Yemen.

How exactly is the US losing in any of those areas?

Most of the military aid to Ukraine has been decommissioned equipment. It was already paid for.

Explain how donating it to Ukraine is losing.

Hamas is Israel’s problem. The US is not involved. Are you suggesting Hamas is winning? They have been wiped out.

Yemen – Some skinny pirates have slowed shipping lanes to support Hamas. Did you expect them to be killed in 24 hours? Have you seen the size of Yemen? What is the losing part?

Trump was always going to win the nomination but the events of the past week have caused Trump’s return to become more real to people.

That is an unknown. Trump could be barred from Federal employment through the documents case.

Trump’s 2 AM rant about presidential immunity shows a lack of confidence in winning over a jury.

Prediction: Trump wins the popular vote by 4 points. I don’t know what will happen in the electoral college.

Why does it matter if Trump wins the popular vote? It’s like a participation trophy.

It’s the swing states that matter.

Another big advance in Avdeevka, Fort Fumble says the Ukrainians have supply issues, even down to food, an army marches on its stomach, although the Confederates thought feet, Gettysburg was a boot town.

Mostly DPR and Z penal battalions in the area, and their numbers aren’t huge, given the Ukrainians have deployed elite units, like the 47th there, it doesn’t bode well.

The reliable local Detroit press poll had Trump up eight or so points in Michigan, have to think the Arab vote is playing an not insignificant role there. Saw the poll highlighted on Richard Baris’s X account.

How exactly is the US losing in any of those areas?

Not-The-President Biden put his personal prestige (and his son’s bank account) behind Kiev aggression. Anti-Semite Zelensky’s failure thus reflects on the White House occupant as an individual.

You are correct that the U.S. has nothing at stake. That is why Congress turned off funding for the Veggie-In-Chief’s foreign misadventure.

Why does it matter if Trump wins the popular vote? It’s like a participation trophy.

It’s the swing states that matter.

True. And, Trump is well ahead in those swing states.

This has to be translated into actual results by getting people to the polls. His ability to turn out base voters, unlike Romney/Haley/McCain is key to that. Of course, Trump also has strength with independents too.

Another huge risk is ballot fraud. The GOP must be vigilant to expose Nazicrat corruption. Another stolen election like 2020 would be intolerable.

PEACE 😇

The Arabs are a race of zeros. They will dutifully line up to vote for Biden because at the end of the day they care more about being able to import more of their scumfuck relatives than about what happens to the Palestinians. Also, Biden will at least pretend to care about Palestinians, Trump blatantly doesn’t give a shit what happens to them

Maybe you should count the number of scripts which are not government influenced.

It still fries my brain to consider that Mnuchin is a movie producer.

How exactly is the US losing in any of those areas?

If Ukraine a stalemate, and I stress ~if~, that is a defeat for the US Empire. It shows that the US can no longer enforce the post WWII liberal international order.

Israel is a US client state. Anything short of the removal of Hamas is a defeat for Israel and it is obvious that Hamas is not going to be removed. Russia was behind the Oct 7 massacre and a defeat for Israel is a defeat for the US.

The Red Sea is still closed, with no prospect of it being reopened in the foreseeable future. The US has already lost 2 servicemen and it will lose more if it chooses to expand operations there.

There seems to be a pattern of Ukrainians attacking civilian targets, especially in Donbas, after suffering some setback on the battlefield

Have there been significant setbacks on the battlefield?

it’s very difficult to imagine what military goal could be achieved by directing an artillery volley to a market in Donetsk at peak shopping hours.

And right before Russia was going to the security council. How inconvenient.

I’m not aware that they’ve even tried explaining it this time

Not sure what Ukrainian authorities have been saying, but fwiw (I do not endorse any story about this) pro-Ukrainians are claiming that the Russians did it as a false flag attack. Supposedly the first Russian story was that the shells used were 122 mm mortars which are supposedly beyond the range of NATO mortars of that type (the front is 15 km from central Donetsk). The Russians then changed their story and stated that the artillery were 152 and 155. This would be within range, but video supposedly shows that the firing and hit were too close together, so the shells could not have travelled so far and must have been fired from a closer position in Russian-held territory (see after “more”).

I don’t endorse that, but is is not impossible. Russia has shown strong disregard for Donbas lives, they are expendable for the interests of the Russian state.

the reality is that arming Ukraine, especially with sophisticated weapons, makes us less secure, not more

Allowing Russia to break the stalemate at the front and to take the fight to Ukraine’s cities makes us more secure? Do you think we would be more secure if Russia chose to go for the Baltics next?

It is just a given that they are going to use them to kill civilians

If that were the goal, don’t you think far more civilians would have been killed? Looks like Ukraine has mostly been hitting military targets such as ships, military factories and radars, or the oil and gas export infrastructure that funds Russia’s war effort. There has not been a pattern of mass bombardment of purely civilian, or residential areas.

Apparently, yesterday’s attack (like the attack on the center of Belgorod some weeks ago) was also carried out using NATO ordnance.

And do you know if the civilian destruction in Belgorod wasn’t caused by Russian air defense missiles coming down in civilian areas, or Ukrainian rockets being taken down before they reached their targets (this is how many Ukrainian civilians died)? There was video of at least one Russian missile failing and coming down over Belgorod.

Belgorod is from where Russians have been shelling Kharkiv. Do you think Ukrainians don’t have the right to shoot back at all?

Having Russian innocent blood on our hands

Sadly, any fighting back will involve loss of civilian life. Many French people were killed during the liberation of France. Are you suggesting Ukraine not fight back at all? That Russia bomb Ukraine from Belgorod and other areas with no answer?

If someone more audacious than Putin comes to power I wouldn’t discard Nikki’s crazy prophecies actually becoming true, especially if the Russians finally manage to inflict a decisive defeat on Ukraine and recover their confidence in their military

In which case it is better for Russia to be smaller and weaker than for it to be stronger, and thus it would be better to give Ukraine what it needs to prevent Russia from being larger.

I doubt Russia will win, but if it were to conquer all or most of Ukraine there is at least a 30% chance that Russia would next go after the Baltics. They are too close to Russia’s second city, they have large ethnic Russian minorities (with real or imagined grievances), and they separate Russian Kaliningrad from Belarus and Russia. A successful takeover might break NATO, if NATO doesn’t respond robustly. Russia’s government has already declared for the Soviet borders (optimistically, as some sort of negotiation position, like it’s recent claim the the Alaska sale was illegal, but who knows?).

If the Baltics are attacked, US might not do much but Poland almost certainly would. And then US and Germany would be more tempted to get involved. I suspect I know what your position would be – neither Poland nor the Baltics are worth a possible nuclear holocaust, we need to keep backing off. But I doubt it will go that way.

The way to stop a possible cascade of such events and prevent a much larger mess would be to keep the war in Ukraine and end it there, by giving Ukraine what it needs. No American lives used or lost, no wider war.

If Trump is elected and UK being out, Europe having their own security institution is quite realistic. The Washington players want to keep NATO with tooth and nail…without NATO the collective appearance of US world escapades would be gone as well as the Washington seat in Europe would be gone.

The EU was created partly for unloading the US yoke, but EU leadership comprised of weaklings and some still admiring US “chewing gums”, especially from country P.

Anything short of the removal of Hamas is a defeat for Israel and it is obvious that Hamas is not going to be removed.

It is obvious that Hamas is going to be removed. The kidnapper/terrorists are cut off from resupply and are being killed off at a 20:1 rate. This will be a victory for Palestinian Jews.

The Veggie-In-Chief sent Blinken to intervene on Hamas’s behalf. Netanyahu refused to cooperate (see #18). This is another personal blow to the feeble White House occupant, but it does not spill over to the rest of the country.

Russia was behind the Oct 7 massacre

Iran was behind the Oct 7 massacre.

While the diversion of international attention away from Ukraine was helpful, there has yet to be any evidence that Russia was involved.

PEACE 😇

Opinion of Shia Islam improves immensely:

How exactly is the US losing in any of those areas?

If Ukraine a stalemate, and I stress ~if~, that is a defeat for the US Empire. It shows that the US can no longer enforce the post WWII liberal international order.

The US has no directive to enforce any type of international order. Ukraine and most of Eastern Europe was abandoned to the tyranny of Communism by the Allies after WW2. There was never an international order for countries that suffered under Nazism.

Ukraine is not a member of NATO and there has been no UN order to commit military support.

Donating military hardware is not a defeat nor a win. The US donates billions in military aid to multiple countries around the world. Is that losing?

I sometimes imagine that Bandera made a deal with Devil. All those ax-murders were pretty ritualistic. Hard to believe that Banderites were so low on ammunition, that they had to use axes

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I don’t condone these actions, and actually have enough Polish blood in my ancestry to have qualified for annihilation by these fanatics if they had implemented their draconian blood laws as to ethnicity had I lived in Ukraine at that time, but you have to wonder if their wasn’t some terrible angst and revenge that was expressed for real and imagined wrongs perpetrated by the Polish colonists in these Ukrainian areas, that had been brewing for a very long time.

Ukrainians venerate both Our Lady and the Archangel Michael as protectors of Ukraine and its armed forces. I pray to both saints and request that they help Ukraine out and provide her with a just and lasting peace. I’m old enough to be your father and prefer my fighting at home (born in the USA) through my computer.

…The EU was created partly for unloading the US yoke, but EU leadership comprised of weaklings

It failed and EU became more dependent on US. You are right, it happened because the people who were selected were ‘chewing gum’ devotees. Chewers are easy to please.

But there was also an institutional reason: both the center in Brussels and the countries today lack full power. The very messy and improvised transition to create EU took power and authority from the countries without giving it to Brussels. That left a huge power vacuum that was filled by US and NGO’s. If you leave power on the ground others will pick it up – that’s the lesson naive Euros have to relearn. But for that one needs to have actual cojones.

What we have in Brussels today is a fake state: none of the basic state functions are done in Brussels – but the countries lost their previous ability to do it the way they want to. Instead they point at each other, use it as an excuse for inactivity or for really stupid activity (C19, Ukraine, migrants…). There is no single neck to choke – that is fatal, both in business relations and with government functions.

it looks as if Western Ukraine (we must remember all the Ukrainians fighting against Zelensky) is supplying warm bodies and the US is supplying everything else.

It’s my understanding that very little of the home-grown talent that decided to fight with the insurrectionists are still around. The vast army of those fighting on Moscow’s side are Russians from all corners of Russia and Chechnya.

Besides, which role would you rather play, the fat entrepreneur making large profits off of arms sales, or the Ukrainian soldier freezing his balls inside of a foxhole?

…revenge that was expressed for real and imagined wrongs perpetrated by the Polish colonists in these Ukrainian areas, that had been brewing for a very long time.

Yeah, very long time, like 500 years. But they were still only Polish colonists to you….and the Russians who have lived in Crimea and Donbas for over 200 years are in your mind only “Russian colonists”…no rights and ready for the Ukie angst, rage and revenge.

Are you also a “colonist’ in USA? I doubt your ancestors have been there for 200 or 500 years. When the mestizos come to show their rage in Phoenix, remember you are only a “colonist” and they have lived with this terrible angst of having you there – it has brewed for a long time.

From what I see on your border, millions are coming to check up on you ‘colonists’. And they are bringing a lot of help from all over the Third World. But you instead worry if “Lugansk” is in Russia or in Ukraine…the precious narcissism of small minds….

The irony is that American born Hispanics in Arizona would shut down the border if it were up to them.

It’s guilt ridden Whites like Biden that want to keep the border open.

Most Hispanics don’t want random third worlders coming across the border and they tend to not like Guatemalans, Haitians or Ecuadoreans. American born Hispanics also correctly assume their wages will be undermined with more illegals.

Trump actually gained Hispanics in the last election. He lost independent Whites.

The biggest advocates for open borders are Whites in Northern states that don’t know what the border looks like. They have never been to the border in a state like Arizona. There are Hispanic left-wingers in California and NY but they don’t represent their constituents.

So what is a peaceful resolution to this condunrum you mention? The situation was created by Western pressure on Russia. It may require a wise compromise to avoid the Russian takeover you suggest.

AP wrote: I doubt Russia will win, but if it were to conquer all or most of Ukraine there is at least a 30% chance that Russia would next go after the Baltics. They are too close to Russia’s second city, they have large ethnic Russian minorities (with real or imagined grievances), and they separate Russian Kaliningrad from Belarus and Russia. A successful takeover might break NATO, if NATO doesn’t respond robustly. Russia’s government has already declared for the Soviet borders (optimistically, as some sort of negotiation position, like it’s recent claim the the Alaska sale was illegal, but who knows?).

Removing 99% of Hamas is a defeat for Israel?

Removing 99% of a tumor is not a success.

Is the political position and worldwide reputation of Hamas stronger after their rape ‘n pillage attack?

Yes, it is. Antisemitism is higher now than it has been at any time post WW2. The entire Arab Islamic world sees what Hamas did on Oct 7th as heroic and so do hundreds of millions, if not billions, of other people all around the world.

Suggesting that Hamas can somehow win is the epitome of delusion. They spent years building tunnels and Israel blew them up within weeks. For what? What was the big gain?

Well first of all, they murdered/maimed/raped thousands of Jews, which to them is big achievement. Even more importantly from their perspective, they humiliated the State of Israel.

The only way this war ends is for Hamas to get it’s prisoners back and for it to get huge amounts of aid flowing into Gaza. Hamas doesn’t care about how many fighters it has lost: literally the only reason a young man joins Hamas is because he wants to get killed.

Hamas is going to stay in power. It is going to get hundreds, if not thousands of its prisoners back. It is going to get 10s of billions of dollars worth of aid that will allow it to rebuild it’s tunnels and its arsenal. And it is going to be perfectly set up to wage an insurgency against the IDF in northern Gaza for as long as Israel elects to remain there.

So what is a peaceful resolution to this condunrum you mention?

Russia isn’t interested in a peaceful resolution (Lavrov just said Ukraine’s government must be replaced), so there will be none until its leadership changes their mind. And this can only be done if it’s military is stopped in Ukraine, which requires an ongoing flow of weapons to Ukraine. The purpose is to make it clear to Russia that further warfare is futile.

What is country P?

Nuking Disney World might not be as effective as I thought because it apparently was built from the start to have plenty of tunnels.

It’s like giving air to ground missiles to Israel and expecting that they will not use them to kill civilians. Are the Israelis even capable of refraining from killing civilians?

Ukraine may actually be worse in some aspects. The Israelis seem to have a solid command structure but I don’t believe that the order to bomb an open market in Donetsk came from Zaluzhny or Zelensky. It’s easier to imagine that it was someone much further down who took the initiative. Because he can and because he knows that there will be no consequences, like there weren’t in all the previous years since Maidan.

The other difference between both countries is that the Israelis don’t try to insult our intelligence time and again saying that it’s not them, it’s the Palestinians who are bombing themselves. AP couldn’t help himself and found one of those fairy tales for dimwits. It’s all so deja vu.

In the midst of all this insanity I found the ISW report of the attack almost funny. The Institute for the Study of War, an American organization constantly used by all the respectable media as their main source of information on the war in Ukraine, published a very long daily report of how the hostilities went in all the different fronts and only at the very end they mentioned the attack on the Donetsk market under the heading “Russian Information Operations and Narratives”. Apparently, they only found it worth mentioning because the Russians were devious enough to use it as way to justify Russia’s need to achieve its military objectives in Ukraine. Of course, once they had mentioned the subject they hastened to clarify that they “cannot independently confirm the actors behind the strike”.

Was late-stage Communism this mendacious? I think the Western MSM has already surpassed those levels and we’re headed towards Stalinist proportions of media distortion. But I can’t say for sure, my first trip to Eastern Europe was right after the fall of the Iron Curtain, around 1989 or 1990.

…Hispanics in Arizona would shut down the border if it were up to them.

Probably, but is anything up to them? They are the working poor (mostly) and by the ancient Western standard they have to “earn” the right to have an opinion. If they have a wrong one it is ignored.

At the end these ethnic distinctions will be irrelevant. The only thing that will matter is the reality on the ground – it is almost irreversible that most of the US Southwest will revert to its “pre-colonist” past with all the consequences.

Thanks to the short 150-year intermezzo by the Euro colonists the lands have been built up and there will be 50-100 times as many people there – the great achievement of the Western Euros will be to make it possible for the assorted Third World natives to massively multiply and flood the earth. Just as they were told in the good book…:)

Is that all the greatest civilization that ever was will leave behind? A few billion short, swarthy, fat, diabetic, sub-85 IQ losers? How do you run the world with people like that?

No, I don’t. Sorry that I thus can’t help you out more here.

Have you ever read Peter Zeihan’s work on China? Or listened to him talk about China?

Removing 99% of Hamas is a defeat for Israel?

Removing 99% of a tumor is not a success.

It’s not a tumor. It’s a political group and they will no longer have control over their territory. That’s a loss.

Their Iranian weapons aren’t even working against IDF tanks due to the trophy armor.

A bunch of geniuses that couldn’t think of a better plan other than rape 18 year olds and kidnap children.

Yes, it is. Antisemitism is higher now than it has been at any time post WW2. The entire Arab Islamic world sees what Hamas did on Oct 7th as heroic and so do hundreds of millions, if not billions, of other people all around the world.

Anyone that cheers gunning down 18 year old girls or entire families in the burbs is a loser.

The entire Islamic world does not view Hamas as heroic. Support for Hamas is the same which is drawn along Shia/Sunni lines. Egypt had to be pressured to take some of them in and provide aid. Hezbollah never opened a front as Ritter predicted. Iran was bombed by Isis over their inaction. Jordan shrugged as usual. The majority of the Arab world will complain about Israel and then won’t lift a finger to help Hamas.

Hamas doesn’t care about how many fighters it has lost: literally the only reason a young man joins Hamas is because he wants to get killed.

Yes they target incels. Hamas offers them to the chance to rape and kill before being sent to the afterlife. Oh and the genius gentlemen league decided to use GoPros. Let’s make sure the world sees what losers we are.

Israel however will not hand Gaza back to them and their main leader was already killed.

It is going to get 10s of billions of dollars worth of aid that will allow it to rebuild it’s tunnels and its arsenal.

Hilarious. Tens of billions to Hamas? Where is that going to come from? You think Israel is going to let Hamas back in power and they will get tens of billion in aid? So the remaining Hamas members will get rich? Funniest joke of the day.

Have you ever read Peter Zeihan’s work on China?

Yes, he is amusing in some ways occasionally, but certainly too much of a doomer on China.

Can’t help but feel that it is part of his spiel to his target audience – the Beltway.

Geography, which is one of his specialties, really plays into China containment and American triumphalism. At least, in the context of the status quo and blank-slatism.

What I can’t quite figure out is how his post-American global order plays to the Beltway audience, unless as a kind of warning or call to arms.

If either side prevails in Ukraine the result is unstable, so my question was a thought experiment. Even if Ukraine is quickly forgotten, enormous military tension between NATO and Russia will remain. The West has created a huge mess.

If Ukraine prevails in some sense, the West will be empowered to press Russia even harder. This pressure could be in Kaliningrad, the Caucasus or maybe North Korea. If Russia prevails in Ukraine, the leaders of the Baltics will pee in their pants and jump into the comforting arms of their NATO brothers. In this case, Russia will also be pressured in some way.

So the requirement for Russia is to stop the West from pressuring her militarily and geopolitically. Ukraine is just the present iteration of this challenge. The mythical sensible people in the West could wake up tomorrow and simply stop doing what they are doing and work on a mutual peace. It will take decades to repair the damage intentionally inflicted by the West on the USA-Russia security relationship since 1999. Nonetheless, this healing process could start tomorrow. No one expects this to happen. The Balts should lead this effort since they have the most to lose and what they have cannot be protected by force.

This leaves Russia various choices. One option is simply to face down the Western pressure as it appears. This always has the risk of dangerous escalation, but maybe the Russians can be philosophical about the situation. They can hope the leaders and myths in the West will change over time to something less hostile to Russia. If the trends are that Russia is gradually getting stronger and the West is gradually getting weaker this may be their best response. Alternatively, if NATO escalates sooner rather than later, Russia may want to either break up NATO politically or work with China to weaken the dollar and reduce the ability of the USA to stir up trouble.

Only the USA dropping the anti-Russia project is a safe course. The other scenarios have the real risk of nuclear war and World War 3. The best option is for Yankee to go home and fix her border.

…someone much further down who took the initiative. Because he can…

In Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer – not a very good book – a guy is being kicked out from his flat in Paris and his friend is helping him move out. He tells his friend to take a crap in the drawer…why not? I suspect there are Ukies who take these potshots because they can, they know they are leaving. So they s..t all over the place.

This is the core point about who is right and who is wrong: the side that is willing to destroy the place, randomly kill its inhabitants, are not the good guys. Kiev Ukies went to destroy Donbas, and they would do it to Crimea if they could, and these are the heroes?

Was late-stage Communism this mendacious? I think the Western MSM has already surpassed those levels

Historical comparisons are tricky: the commie media started out being lively and ideological, they loved to argue, believed in their cause and spun narratives like mad scientists who think the truth has been intentionally hidden for centuries…it was less censorship than bullying others.

By the time I remember them in the 80’s they were in the “just-shut-up” phase – like in a middle school: elderly stodgy authority, known taboo subjects, dull reciting of the daily brief, shrugs and implied threats. They were no longer ideological, it was instead “the experts know best” mid-wit drivel. There were few consequences for having other views because other views were simply ignored.

The Western media today combines the two in a very irritating way – the ideology is even more bizarre and the censorship by the “experts” is more pervasive. They have more energy and still have some crazy plans to implement. The latter-day commies were a tired bunch, harmless elderly losers.

By the way, “Stalin” was such a small part of the post-WW2 socialist experience that outside of SU I don’t ever recall anyone mentioning him – if they did it was with more venom than even AP. When I hear “Stalinism”, it is like someone telling Americans that their life is KKK or fanatical Mormon bigamists of the late 19th century.

…Hispanics in Arizona would shut down the border if it were up to them.

Probably, but is anything up to them? They are the working poor (mostly) and by the ancient Western standard they have to “earn” the right to have an opinion. If they have a wrong one it is ignored.

The majority of Whites and Hispanics are ignored by both parties. I’m just pointing out an irony.

At the end these ethnic distinctions will be irrelevant. The only thing that will matter is the reality on the ground – it is almost irreversible that most of the US Southwest will revert to its “pre-colonist” past with all the consequences.

I don’t know what you mean by that. New Mexico already has majority Hispanic rule. They didn’t adopt some racial left-wing ideology. American born Hispanics are actually pretty moderate. They are both majority Democrat and Catholic. In fact they clash with pro-abortion White liberals but that is kept out of the MSM. White liberals in cities like LA are much more anti-gun than Hispanics. Liberals ignore the will of Democrat Hispanics.

the great achievement of the Western Euros will be to make it possible for the assorted Third World natives to massively multiply and flood the earth. Just as they were told in the good book

No it will be more like Brazil 2 but the Whites won’t be as mixed. Enclaves of Whites with a Hispanic majority. It will however be amusing to watch liberal Whites explain why Whites can’t be a minority or act collectively.

Is that all the greatest civilization that ever was will leave behind? A few billion short, swarthy, fat, diabetic, sub-85 IQ losers? How do you run the world with people like that?

If Putin had grown up around Guatemalans he’d probably have some confidence.

Have a look at NYC demographics and especially the schools. It’s already White minority and the stock market keeps ticking. NYC research firms continue their work. Not the end of the world. Whites work office jobs in Manhattan and then go home to the burbs in NJ. Is what it is.

Both parties were never serious about the border. Republicans for years looked the other way for the sake of big AG. They are currently better than the Democrats but there was a long period where neither side wanted to do anything.

Not my decision and my kids won’t have to worry about it.

If he’s a doomer on China, then what exactly does his argument in regards to the post-American order consist of? After all, isn’t China the main challenger to the West? Russia certainly can’t do it by itself, at least not short of nuclear war. The EU won’t replace the US and in any case prefers to work side-by-side with the US. Who else is left? India? But its human capital levels are too low, even with its Brahmin smart fraction.

The Israelis do not care about killing non-Jewish civilians. Many really, really don’t care while others are steeped enough in the culture that they don’t care. They will only care if the repercussions are dangerous enough.

This general situation could be true in any war, but Judaism has a very old mythology which promotes the idea that they are the chosen people and therefore can be protected at any cost. This mythology is apparently embraced by quite a few otherwise intelligent people. This makes them unique, though not in the way they believe.

What does Zeihan have to say about ‘The Singularity’?

…Only the USA dropping the anti-Russia project is a safe course. The other scenarios have the real risk of nuclear war and World War 3. The best option is for Yankee to go home and fix her border.

They can’t – they are in too deep. It has become a biological unthinking part of their brains, “Oh, they wouldn’t let you say that in Russia!“, know-nothing ignoramuses (JJ is a good example) whose minds are on an auto-pilot. They are all like Biden, demented people who can’t see reality because it would devalue all they have been all of their lives – at best they are like Macron, smarter but pathologically compromised by who they are, willing to play a part because they have no other choice.

There is no safe course, there never was, it just got worse in the last few years. But all we have to do is survive today, the ambition for world peace or “friendship” is pointless.

The combination of geography, mistakes, misunderstood history, weakness, ethnic hysteria has made this into an unsolvable problem. The West wants Russia to do it a favor and collapse – but even that may not get us out of the situation. If the West loses (when) their best option is to pretend that it didn’t happen – but that has even worse consequences in the long run.

I think we are f…ed…my best thought is that expected disasters never happen, so maybe that’s our salvation…

If he’s a doomer on China, then what exactly does his argument in regards to the post-American order consist of? After all, isn’t China the main challenger to the West? Russia certainly can’t do it by itself, at least not short of nuclear war.

He’s a doomer on Russia too. Says something like the Russian people will cease to exist in 30-40 years (may forget the exact timeline.)

He basically says America will turn inward and still be prosperous due to its providential geography and ability to interface with Mexico. (Actually Mexican fertility seems to be plummeting). But status quo globalism will be dead. Think he is still predicting mass famine in many parts of the world.

He thinks there will be regional powers. France because it has good agricultural land and can build tractors. Turkey. Nigeria. India, maybe a few others. With a lot of piracy in-between.

Sounds kind of fantastical in some ways. Don’t see why it requires a big American navy to stamp out pirates.

The Israelis do not care about killing non-Jewish civilians.
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They will only care if the repercussions are dangerous enough.

The reverse is true. Excessive fear of repercussions warped policy. In recent years, Palestinian Jews have cared far too much about non-Jewish civilians. Iranian Hamas, Iranian Hezbollah, and other terror groups figured this out. This why the violent Jihadists started prolifically using their own women & children as human shields.

What has changed? Israelis have returned to historical, internationally accepted norms. IslamoGloboHomo institutions (e.g.UN, ICC, ICJ) cannot deliver repercussions. Instead they have been reduced to pathetic, ignored bodies receiving well earned scorn and derision. South Africa’s involvement is particularly laughable.

Palestinian Jews are striking military targets with appropriate & necessary military force. This means that deep tunnels are destroyed by 2,000 lb penetrators. Under international law and the rules of war, Hamas bears 100% responsibility when a human shield dies due to their misconduct.

PEACE 😇

You aren’t gonna get the fun stuff in English. This one has some of the scenes in Russian

1. Zelensky was giving speech at UN, because no one showed up, so Ukrainian TV put in an astroturfed cut with more people in audience, except they botched it and Zelensky was in the audience simultaneously.

2. Blinken came to White House for trick-and-treat and dressed up his son as Zelensky, but it looked so stupid because it implied Zelensky is always there to beg for money.

This one is about Putin’s possible Jewish heritage. Because Chinese Putin fanboys are like Zelensky is a Jew, Jew this Jew that– except Putin is probably also

The purpose is to make it clear to Russia that further warfare is futile.

Which is not true. As long as Russia refuses to cease hostilities and recognize the borders of Ukraine, it cannot join Nato. All Russia has to do to attain its primary objective is maintain an official non-peace.

Russia isn’t interested in a peaceful resolution … there will be none until its leadership changes their mind. And this can only be done if it’s military is stopped in Ukraine…

No matter how the military situation develops, Russia will not, can not, agree to peace in Ukraine.

Zelensky is a Jew

As far as the clown and Kolomoisky are concerned, their Jewishness is irrelevant. Their defining characteristics are that both are criminals, thieves and murderers. They are JINOs: Jews in name only.

This will be a victory for Palestinian Jews.

Where did you get that term? Those are European Joos or Israel Joos.

It is obvious that Hamas is going to be removed.

No. Israel is tiny vulnerable religious country surrounded by the “ocean” of Islam. Hamas is not alone. Hezbollah is armed to the teeth, Iraq is now run by the pro-Iran Shia (thanks to younger Shrub). The exodus is starting – Florida is the place.

It is not Portugal.

SANCTIONS WONT DO ANYTHING

TRUST ME ON THIS ONE. MY IMAGINATION HAS DECIDED THAT RUSSIA IS A SUPER FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE CANNOT BE WRONG.

This one is about Putin’s possible Jewish heritage.

Lost in translation.

There are only two Palestinian religions; Judaism dates back over 3,000 years; Christianity started there ~2,000 years ago.

There is no such thing as a Palestinian Muslim. The concept is inherently irrational. How many Islamists were in Palestine:

— 400 BC?
— 200 BC?
— 0 AD/BC?
— 200 AD?
— 400 AD?

The corrects answer is ZERO. The non-Palestinian religion of Islam arrived with Muhammad the Settler Prophet ~600 AD. Non-Palestinian Muslim colonists have been a scourge to the area for ~1,400 years.

Palestinian Jews have hundreds of nuclear weapons, and their foes do not. The “official” estimates of only 200-300 are laughably low. Despite the geography, the followers of Muhammad the Settler can do very little. Deranged aggression would almost surely result in full planetary extinction of the human race.

Sociopath Khamenei may be unhinged enough to try for events described in the Book of Revelation. There is no sign of any other leader in the region that detached from reality.

PEACE 😇

There is no such thing as a Palestinian Muslim. The concept is inherently irrational. How many Islamists were in Palestine:

— 400 BC?

Yea but that was before the new rules were handed to a single prophet. Then he later ascended to heaven on a flying horse.

Out:
Most European art
Religious tolerance
Dogs indoors
Black dogs
Peeing in any direction
One wife per man

In:
Killing non-believers
Taking sex slaves in war
Geometric art
Strict rules for clean feet
Child marriage
New rules for peeing and taking a shit

I don’t see any problems at all. Seems reasonable. An omnipotent being simply decided that he no longer thinks dogs should be inside and especially not black ones. Doesn’t sound made up at all.

Twelver Shiites are obsessed with their purity laws, in fact the overwhelming majority of written Shii jurisprudence concerns maintaining ritual cleanliness following proximity with people or things considered unclean. Sometimes it’s claimed there’s a Zoroastrian legacy in this regard but I don’t know about that. Khomeini was actually quite unusual in his interest in more esoteric aspects of Shiism.
Almost anything of theological interest in Shiism fell into disfavour during the later Safavid period, and then was outright supressed from the Qajar era onwards, when the Ulama became an independent political force in its own right (the Safavid Shahs were considered holy and so had much more control over Shii clerical parasites).
Could write a lot more about orthodox Twelver Shii practice and belief but I’d probably start boring even myself.

Anti-Semite Zelensky is a neo-Nazi post-Judaic apostate. Does this look Jewish to you?

Zelensky went to Israel to intentionally offend Palestinian Jews. This was most noted by Likud and the religious parties. They called out anti-Semite Zelensky for his evil (1).

Realistically, neither side is particularly Jewish. However, if you insist on such labels, Russia is vastly more Judaic that the Nazi Kiev regime.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-lawmakers-tear-into-zelensky-for-holocaust-comparisons-in-knesset-speech/

I think you missed the critical point… Let me restate:

The non-Palestinian religion of Islam arrived with Muhammad the Settler Prophet ~600 AD. Non-Palestinian Muslim colonists have been a scourge to the area for ~1,400 years.

Are you admitting that the non-Palestinian religion of Islam has no legitimacy in Palestine?

If so, we can discuss how the non-Palestinian religion has relevance outside of Palestine. Are you trying to elucidate how the non-Palestinian edicts of Muhammad the Settler, not a Palestinian Prophet, have applicability in Arabia?

PEACE 😇

Reminds the British diplomatic experience with Mohamad Shah Qajar, who unusually had humanitarian inclinations, possibly stemming from his (disapproved of) Sufi influences in his upbringing. But despite his sincere attempts to end judicial torture and even the persecution of Babi heretics, when the British appealed to him to shut down the slave trade, he was unmoved and replied he was interested in the rights of full humans.

The British forced the end of maritime slave trade in the Persian Gulf anyway, but I think it wasn’t until the constitutional revolution of 1905 that negro slavery was officially abolished within Iran.

Palestine!

There are only two Palestinian religions; Judaism dates back over 3,000 years;

The Jewish ethnic group may be that old, but am not sure that the archeology suggests widespread monotheism at such an early date.

Tel Arid and Elephantine Island both suggest polytheism, IIRC.

They were eating a lot of catfish in Judea in the first half of the first Millennium BC.

https://www.thejc.com/judaism/how-old-is-judaism-the-answer-might-be-younger-than-you-think-i3d4otji

If you think I missed a critical point then I really don’t know if you even read my post.

Most people would simply take my post as derisive of Islam and really isn’t a response to any of your points.

Which it would be.

I don’t like Islam.

I think it is a made-up religion that is incompatible with the West and eventually turns against the liberal tolerance that allows it in. I am fine with letting Muslims rule over their countries but I don’t take the liberal/conservative view that it’s “just another religion” we should treat equally.

Somewhat true, though there seems to be a worldwide network of elite criminals with similarly irrelevant Jewish heritage 😉

So, essentially, we get a Korea-style situation in Ukraine, possibly for decades? That could suit Ukraine since Korea’s DMZ has been stable for several decades. In theory, this wouldn’t even preclude the possibility of US/Western troops in unoccupied Ukraine if they will ever be deemed necessary to help keep the peace, even without NATO. We’ve had troops in South Korea for several decades, after all.

This is sensible. What have you done with the real John Johnson?

Geometric art sounds great, frankly:

What’s wrong with it?

Jason Padgett does similar art nowadays:

By “several decades” I take it you mean 70 years!!!! Korea was a trifecta for the USA: we got to piss off China, Russia and Japan all together.

Interest in Ukraine may fade more quickly, though the swelling ranks of the Ukie diaspora will surely cause problems. Maybe they can fight it out with the other illegal immigrants. Whichever group deports the other interlopers gets to stay.

This Thierry Baudet fellow has a clever idea: to blame the decline in Western Civilization on Belgium causing the World Wars.

Is that Hack and AP?

I thought they were older, but you never can tell on the interwebs.

Yeah, very long time, like 500 years.

Once again displaying your complete lack of knowledge regarding Ukrainian and Polish history. What was the whole early part of the 20th century about in Western Ukrainian lands in Galicia and Volhynia if not Polish and Ukrainian atrocities, pacifications and political back and forth between Poles and Ukrainians? You’re getting to sound real boring shooting off your mouth about subjects you know nothing about.

and the Russians who have lived in Crimea and Donbas for over 200 years are in your mind only “Russian colonists”…no rights and ready for the Ukie angst, rage and revenge.

Sure they’ve lived in these part for a couple centuries (that should count for something) but did you ever look into how they ended up in these parts, if not colonists then what would you call them, uninvited guests? 🙂

Your spiel is getting old and warn out here, I actually skip over your comments quite often,they’re so boring and repetitive. I really don’t know where AP has developed his patience in dealing with you.

When the mestizos come to show their rage in Phoenix, remember you are only a “colonist” and they have lived with this terrible angst of having you there – it has brewed for a long time.

Another one of your really dumb statements. “Mestizos”of all economic classes are glad to be in Phoenix, working and making money providing a better life for themselves and their families. I don’t see any war drums on the horizon like you do. 🙂

By this logic Ukrainians should leave all lands below Podolia and Cherkassy.
Historically those lands below those 2 were uninhabited but ruled by Tatars
Russian empire colonized those lands and settled Ukrainian colonizers in it.

The other difference between both countries is that the Israelis don’t try to insult our intelligence time and again saying that it’s not them, it’s the Palestinians who are bombing themselves. AP couldn’t help himself and found one of those fairy tales for dimwits.

Here is the full description of that. Feel free to debunk it:

https://malcontentment.com/unraveling-claims-of-ukrainian-involvement-donetsk-market-attack-points-to-russian-origination/

[WBHG News 24] – After a shocking incident in the occupied city of Donetsk that killed 28 and wounded 30 in the market area in the Kirovs’kyi District, evidence that has emerged surrounding the attack raises doubts about Russia’s claim of Ukrainian involvement. Russian state media, along with the self-proclaimed governor of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR), Denis Pushilin, alleged that Ukraine was responsible for shelling the area using 152 mm and 155 mm artillery, leaving 18 of the wounded hospitalized.

A thorough analysis by our international analyst team casts doubt on the accusations, revealing a complex web of evidence that challenges the narrative quickly created by Russian authorities. Our team reviewed dozens of publicly available videos and images shared by Russian channels, state media, and propagandists and conducted an audio analysis of the attack itself while it was still in progress. Although a conclusive war crime assessment requires an on-site investigation, the publicly available information suggests that Ukraine was likely not responsible for the attack.

Two things that hampered the investigation was an apparent effort by Russian state media and propagandists not to share images of impact craters, which is crucial for splash analysis. Despite these efforts, our team successfully geolocated hits at four locations and identified three impact craters, including one that provided information on the direction of the attack. Another critical revelation was the absence of key details from Russian officials, such as pictures of an official investigation or recovered shrapnel. This is highly unusual compared to other incidents, and the attack scene was hastily cleaned up before any apparent detailed investigation was made. Additionally, the nature of the craters photographed appear to be 82 or 120-millimeter mortars and don’t align with the artillery rounds mentioned by occupation governor Pushilin.

Galicia once stretched to the Black Sea.

Why can’t America turn inward in relation to the non-GAE world but nevertheless continue focusing on GAE (the Greater American Empire)? The US’s relations with the EU, the Gulf states, and pro-US East Asia remain very important, after all.

“We wuz Moldovans!” 😉 😀

Zelensky’s nowhere to be seen within that photo? He’s in this one though:

We have to be kind to kremlinstoogeA123 who’s obviously having another bad day:

they have large ethnic Russian minorities (with real or imagined grievances),

Worth noting that if NATO beats Russia in a conventional war without nukes being used and expels Russia from the Baltics, then the Balts are likely to ethnically cleanse their countries of Russians post-WWII Czech-style. Russia surely doesn’t want that, does it?

And Mexico had really well developed cities, roads and government apparatus in AZ? 🙂

The US has so many problems at home, at some point they will turn inwards, without US promotion of anti-Russian positions then these will inevitably die away, it is all so artificial.

Once the Russians have sealed victory there is very little that can be done, the disparity between Russia and the rest of Europe is a chasm now, militarily speaking. Europe is also quickly plunging in to the abyss with the economic, political and social problems.

Thought this was a good article.

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/to-end-the-war-in-ukraine-expose-its-core-lie/

The West has gotten drunk on their own propaganda, they are incapable of making the right, informed decisions.

Anyone that cheers gunning down 18 year old girls or entire families in the burbs is a loser.

Yes, Arab/Muslims are losers, exactly. Jews and Arabs share the same father in Abraham but our (Jews) mother was the lady of the house and their mother was just a slave. Ishmael knows that he is living on borrowed time before the natural state of the world is restored, hence his bottomless anger and hatred

The entire Islamic world does not view Hamas as heroic

Yes they do and only someone who doesn’t know many Arabs/Muslims could think otherwise. Support for the Oct 7th attacks in the Arab Islamic world approaches 100% and the few who are opposed are regarded as Uncle Ahmad’s by their Arab brethren. Furthermore, the Oct 7 attacks are supported by hundreds of millions of Latin Americans, Asians and western leftists.

Hezbollah never opened a front as Ritter predicted

What is your obsession with Ritter? He is a disgraced pervert who preaches his nonsense to a small audience of alienated, lonely, western weirdos. He’s an idiot. Even this community’s Russian partisans regard him as an irrelevant ignoramus.

The majority of the Arab world will complain about Israel and then won’t lift a finger to help Hamas

Because Arabs/Muslims are cowards by nature who have a huge sense of entitlement: why should ~they~ die to protect the Palestinians? Someone else should do that for them! That is seriously how they think. This is what happens when you give freedom to a race of slaves.

Yes they target incels.

You don’t know the type of guy that joins Hamas or Hezbollah. These are not incels. They are very tough, very masculine young men. Often they are also very charismatic. They can be amateurish fighters and on a moral level they are the lowest of the low, but they aren’t incels.

Israel however will not hand Gaza back to them

Oh yes it will. The only reason it hasn’t done so already is because of the hostages, otherwise Israel would have already surrendered like it always does. Like Nasrallah said, Israel is weak as a spider’s web.

Once a deal is worked out to get the hostages back, Israel will begin the process of leaving Gaza, although it will likely be a lengthy process.

Hilarious. Tens of billions to Hamas? Where is that going to come from?

The United States, like always. The EU will of course also chip in. The West has been subsidizing this race of criminals since 1949. Technically the aid will be to rebuild Gaza, but in practice most of it will go into the coffers of Hamas. We know this will happen because this is what happened after all of the previous Gaza clashes.

There are only two Palestinian religions; Judaism dates back over 3,000 years;

The Jewish ethnic group may be that old, but am not sure that the archeology suggests widespread monotheism at such an early date.

There are of course other long gone religions, pantheistic and monotheistic. In context, what I wrote should be taken as, “two major, currently surviving Palestinian religions”. In terms of present day land possession the primary surviving indigenous faiths (Christianity and Judaism) are in play, not the extinct ones.
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A key concept of efficient discourse is avoiding, “Accuracy at the Expense of Clarity“. To be as concise and effective as possible, accurate but tangential concepts are often omitted.

You are stating that the currently surviving, indigenous Jewish faith may be only 2,500 years old, not 3,000. If you are correct, how does that 500 year change impact the subject of current day disputes?

There are also ~100K Druze around. I am not grouping them into the extinct category. However, to maintain clarity in writing I am not listing them (and smaller groups) every time. That accuracy would come at the expense of clarity and focus on the core points. Right or wrong, they will be dragged along with what the more substantial factions decide.

PEACE 😇

Haven’t read his latest, but am not sure he explains it very well.

IIRC, he believes the US will have plenty of energy from shale and so not need the Gulf. He thinks Japan will become the regional power of Asia again, and probably control the Persian Gulf.

Presumably, some parts of the world will be too unsettled for the US to want to get involved.

If he thinks the US will become isolationist, IMO he should do a better job explaining how the bureaucracy of the state department will die.

A key concept of efficient discourse is avoiding, “Accuracy at the Expense of Clarity“. To be as concise and effective as possible, accurate but tangential concepts are often omitted.

You should practice what you preach kremlinstoogeA123, and quit trying to depict Zelensky as being a Nazi.

I don’t think the ‘West’ (US) took Russia seriously over Ukraine, but surely Washington never really contemplated that when it came down to it they might well end up fighting the Russians directly over Ukraine. At end of day Kiev was not a Nato member what kind of advantage they were trying to achieve moving into the Western orbit is unclear; did they think because the Baltic states were allowed to join Nato Ukraine could despite all the warnings that Russia would not stand for it and the invasion of Georgia over the same issue?

The US army was already fighting the North Koreans when China, which did not at that time have the Atomic Bomb, sent a army of Chinese to attack US troops. The actual hostilities completely ended, and although there has been a US army in South Korea for decades it does not face a Chinese force.

Suppose for the sake of argument the Russians a withdraw completely out of Ukraine, all Russia has to do is decline to cease actual hostilities with Ukraine by firing a few missiles now and again, and Ukraine will become frozen in the current situation as far as Nato membership is concerned. No way in hell is America going to get into a situation where the US armed forces might get into direct fighting with the Russia armed forces if Putin or whoever gets out of bed one morning and decides to invade Ukraine again because that would be a path to Russian use of tactical nuclear weapons against the American armed forces.

I think the biggest Western lie of the conflict in Ukraine is one of omission. The majority of the Western political and media classes feign ignorance of the prior aggressive history of the West toward Russia on crucial issues such as expansion of NATO, dropping the ABM treaty and placing missile bases in Eastern Europe. A close corollary lie is the pretense that this conflict started in 2022.

The notion Russia is expansionist is an easy meme to sell on the Western street. It has the bonus feature that while untrue, it may become a self-fulfilling prophecy in the wake of the Western-caused SMO.

Everything repeats as it always did until the pattern breaks and something new happens.

The level of revulsion in Israel and elsewhere at Oct. 7 is new. Attacking children at the outdoor Peace Concert directly impacted the attitude of more liberal/secular parents.

Israel however will not hand Gaza back to them

Oh yes it will. The only reason it hasn’t done so already is because of the hostages, otherwise Israel would have already surrendered like it always does. Like Nasrallah said, Israel is weak as a spider’s web.

Once a deal is worked out to get the hostages back, Israel will begin the process of leaving Gaza, although it will likely be a lengthy process.

Palestinian Jews have made it clear that they will remain forever as a security force. No Hamas rearming. No tunnel reconstruction. There is no reason to believe they are anything less than serious about shattering Hamas and preventing formation of new groups.

After the hostages are released, there should be elections for Muslim civil control in Gaza. The parties will be tightly controlled to bar those advocating violence. Most likely this will yield low quality governance, but it has to be tried.

Hilarious. Tens of billions to Hamas? Where is that going to come from?

The United States, like always. The EU will of course also chip in.

Americans are tired of Forever Wars. There will be minimal flows to Gaza. At most, millions not billions.

Current EU leadership is quite anti-Semitic. That is part of their belief system based on importing Muslims to replace Judeo-Christians. However, they are distracted by other matters. Reconstruction and assimilation of the new smaller Ukraine is likely to be a higher priority for the elites running their Greater European Empire.

Technically the aid will be to rebuild Gaza, but in practice most of it will go into the coffers of Hamas. We know this will happen because this is what happened after all of the previous Gaza clashes.

All reconstruction will go through a shared body with a substantial Jewish presence and audit capability. No foreign efforts will be allowed to operate outside of this framework. Leakage will never be zero, but the corruption associated with UN and EU projects will be cut off.

PEACE 😇

I think it fits more neatly into the wider historical context, to suppose a later origin for monotheism among Jews.

That is what I am interested in – the wider context of civilization.

There appears to have been no known true monotheism before Judaism, only quasi-monotheisms. Perhaps, Judaism evolved from such?

But if true monotheism had an origin three thousand years old, then I suspect it would have left a wider mark on the ancient world and perhaps even the word of today.

Zelensky as Nazi only plays with the Holocaust (Holohoax?) debunker crowd. They don’t hang out in this forum.

A123 is mixing his memes again! What’s next, Ukrainian Palestinians?

Zelensky as Nazi only plays with the Holocaust (Holohoax?) debunker crowd. They don’t hang out in this forum.

Are you stating that Zelensky’s Azov brigades use this symbology to be pro-Jewish?

It is objectively true that Zelensky is a post-Judaic apostate who hates authentic Palestinian Jews.
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Is your goal to split hairs? You believe that anti-Semite Zelensky is only a neo-Nazi, not a full Nazi?

Beyond his open and obvious hatred of Judaism and personal distance from that religion, I am not attached to specific labelling. I would be willing to concede his hatred of Jews is only neo-Nazi. Regardless of the label, his consent to dig up and desecrate Jewish graves for a condo project is proof of antipathy towards Judaism.

The key point is that the Ukrainian side, under Zelensky’s regime, is wholly non-Judaic in form and function. There may be some people with last names normally associated with ethnic lineage. However, there is nothing from Kiev’s rule that ties to the practice of Judaism.

PEACE 😇

“Russia was behind the Oct 7 massacre”

That’s the most unlikely thing I’ve heard. Surely the correct thing is “Iran, and that’s why we need to bomb them asap”.

I personally doubt that either Iran or Russia, or even Hezbollah, had a clue what was planned. And don’t forget that a large number of the massacre victims were killed by Israeli forces – the Hannibal directive may have been rejected de jure but implemented de facto.

It’s possible with the additional hostage deaths from Israeli bombing, that more civilian Jews will have been killed by Israel than by Hamas since October 7.

Hamas could theoretically be removed if the entire Arab population and the West Bank were killed or driven out. That seems to be the Israeli plan, and the hopelessly compromised/blackmailed/threatened West is standing there flapping its collective hands – “I say, Bibi, there’s a good chap, don’t be like that…“.

From today’s news – it looks as if the IDF is discovering that blowing down buildings onto people is only fun if the people underneath are women and kids.

What’s wrong with it?

Nothing wrong with it.

I just highly doubt God decided in the 7th century that he prefers geometric art to drawings of his creations.

https://www.duffelblog.com/p/new-miss-america-eager-to-bomb-the-shit-out-of-the-enemies-of-america

there seems to be a worldwide network of elite criminals with similarly irrelevant Jewish heritage

I can name criminals of various nationalities that all deserve to be hanged publicly. Just a few that immediately come to mind: Bush Jr, Cheney, Blair, Obama, Biden, Killary, etc. I refuse to hold all Americans or Brits responsible for the crimes of these individuals.

Every nationality has its scum. In my book, this scum should be punished as individuals, not the whole nations they come from. After all, you wouldn’t want to imprison the whole nation because some of its representatives are murderers.

Those areas were under Galicia’s sphere of influence, not direct control, lots of Vlach tribes inhabited the region
Also note how even this still excludes most of the lands below Cherkassy save for Podolia.

With jews, scum and villainy seems to be inherent and genetic however. Every nationality does have its scum and the rest shouldn’t be judged for it, however jews are a nationality largely comprised of scum.

False analogy.

I agree it is a complex situation. Don’t hurt yourself by working to better understand it.

I suspect many of the Jewish leaders of this mess in Ukraine are more observant than you believe. Most likely they pick and chose aspects of their religion in an ad hoc manner as is very common in the secularized world. They may not fit your definitions of religious conformance and you may not fit theirs. I suspect the forcible secularization of the USSR combined with apparent loop-holes for Judaism led to all manner of craziness.

God works in mysterious ways or so they say!

I agree. The problem with large scale warfare is that many innocent people are effectively held accountable for the crimes and mistakes of their leaders.

You should hang out with better Jews.

In the Old Testament Solomon gets one free gift from the Great Big Model Railroader up in the Sky and he decides right quick what he would like is discernment. It’s up to you.

Funny thing is that Anglin and the other anti-Jewish Putin defenders never mention that the dwarf has a Jewish propagandist who dresses like a villain from a James Bond movie:

A picture of the two where Putin isn’t wearing his shoe lifts:
Putin no longer allows himself to be photographed at his natural height.

There is actually no reason to believe that Ukraine has more Neo-Nazis than Russia.

Russia has more Neo-Nazi groups than Ukraine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_neo-Nazi_organizations

There are Neo-Nazis fighting within the Russian military:
https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-neo-nazis-fighting-ukraine/31871760.html

A Slav anywhere larping as a Nazi is a loser. Hitler hated them all and planned on starving most Slavs to death.

The problem with large scale warfare is that many innocent people are effectively held accountable for the crimes and mistakes of their leaders.

True enough. The wars are as close to collective punishment as we get. The worst thing is, a lot of innocent or not particularly guilty people suffer, whereas the instigators, who are the worst criminals, often escape scot-free.

I only hope that if their puppet masters do not exterminate Kiev clown and his gang after they run away from the ship they sunk, Russian operatives will deliver justice. After all, there is precedent: Soviet operative killed Bandera (may he rot in Hell).

In 1923, The London Morning Post, commenting on a speech the future King Edward made, said this:

If the United States abolished its diplomatic and consular services, kept its ships in harbors and its tourists at home, and retired from the world’s markets, its citizens, its problems, its towns and countrysides, its roads, motor cars, counting houses and saloons would still be familiar in the utmost corners of the world.
The film is to America what the flag was once to Britain. By its means, Uncle Sam may hope some day, if he be not checked in time, to Americanize this world.

…Not my decision and my kids won’t have to worry about it.

Maybe they will worry about nothing but that…You have moved into escapism and ‘just live with it‘ attitude. The stuff about the “market is still up” – you should know that anything reflecting real values in times of money devaluation is always up. It is on the level of eating a steak and listening to the orchestra on the Titanic. Sure, there will be a boat for you, but the lifestyle is gone.

The change in demographics is not about the fact that Hispanics and other migrants tend to be culturally conservative – it is about the irreversible change in the culture. Brazil 2.0 will still be Brazil, I have been there, not a place I would recommend in the long run. You got cornered, so you try to make the best out of it – and sure, they are good people. But what you had, what created a rather attractive society and economy for a few generations is disappearing. Same in Europe with different players.

The quality of people matters, the genetics: surrounded by shorter, fatter, less healthy, less smart, less mentally disciplined masses is not a good thing. They will eventually absorb you, that’s the way it works. And white libs will die out.

The obsession that the struggling Euro-Atlantic countries have with attacking Russia instead of fixing their own internal problems is very odd. What do you care how tall is Putin? Or what language is taught in “Lugansk”? It is pathological – the willful escape into belated imperium expansion instead of making the lives at home better.

What is worse is that from the start this was a bridge too far. The only scenario where the irrational Western attack on Russia through Ukraine – that’s what this is – could succeed is a complete military defeat of Russia. That is simply not possible, get it through your thick head – it is also not possible to completely defeat US or China. So why do a fool’s errand destined to fail? You can hide in your burbs, but the reality is that the last 10 years have been a complete screw-up. It looks like it can’t be corrected at this point. Maybe go for the nukes? Would the Hispanics in New Mexico approve?

At the start of WWI, European films comprised about 60% of the American market, by 1920, this number had essentially fallen to zero.

(You Are What You Watch)

…a lot of innocent or not particularly guilty people suffer, whereas the instigators, who are the worst criminals, often escape scot-free.

True. But my contrarian self says that people are responsible for what happens to them – they didn’t think it through.

It takes two sides for a lie or a myth to exist. When outsiders come and tell you that “Bandera is the father of your nation“, your relatives in Russia are Asiatic bastards living in ‘zemlaynkas’, Brussels can’t wait to shower money on you, that the neo-cons in Washington think about your well-being all day and the Ukie oligarchs with their hired actors in Kiev are your saviors…well, aren’t the people who believe it also responsible? One can’t be that stupid and go on without consequences.

There is a lot of guilt all around. But I wouldn’t exempt the now suffering hoi polloi who jumped up and down on Maidan yelling “kill Moskali!!!” – or stood by grinning as others did it. And the instigators always know when to leave.

According to Dima of Military Summary the Russians used a tunnel unknown to the Ukrainians to getting behind Ukrainian defences in South Avdeevka and encircle the forces there, who promptly surrendered. The most heavily fortified area of the front taken by sheer ingenuity.

If Elon Musk’s tunnel technology was worth a damn the Ukies could have done the exact same thing. Did you ever watch The Great Escape? It’s pretty good.

You really need to stop having histrionic mental blowouts over the situation. It is quite intricate.

I suspect that the anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi leaders have nothing to do with the practice of Judaism. This is much more coherent than your hysterical and irrational beliefs centered on “anti-Semitic Jew Nazis”, which seems highly unlikely to exist in any significant quantity.

This brings us back to the point I have made multiple times, which you still have not been able to refute. Realistically, neither side is particularly Jewish. However, if you insist on such labels, Russia is vastly more Judaic that the Nazi Kiev regime.

Going forward, would you please try to be a bit less shrill & emotional?

PEACE 😇

surrounded by shorter, fatter, less healthy, less smart, less mentally disciplined masses is not a good thing.

Yes, that’s a real danger that both the US and Europe face. However, the elites appear to be dead set on a suicidal course. With massive election fraud normal people cannot influence anything.

And white libs will die out.

That would be the only good consequence of the ongoing process. If there is god, may they all rot in Hell.

…Not my decision and my kids won’t have to worry about it.

Maybe they will worry about nothing but that…You have moved into escapism and ‘just live with it‘ attitude.

Escapism? I’m not going anywhere. It’s called strategizing.

Do tell how an individual can change the situation at this point.

I’m also not a White nationalist and having Hispanic neighbors doesn’t bother me. White liberals bother me far more than Hispanics. I’ve lived with White liberals and I will take Mexicans any day of the week. White liberals are not only soul sucking but their constant reality denial is incredibly tiring. You have to constantly watch what you say less they deem you as a Bad White that interrupts their gender/racial fantasies. It’s very burdensome if you are the type that enjoys a variety of viewpoints. They really are like Stepford wives but with hybrids and organic grocery stores.

The change in demographics is not about the fact that Hispanics and other migrants tend to be culturally conservative – it is about the irreversible change in the culture. Brazil 2.0 will still be Brazil, I have been there, not a place I would recommend in the long run.

Brazil 2 is not my preference but I will be fine. I can always move to Canada or Ukraine, even Hungary. I have connections all over Europe.

I live well and so will my children. They won’t be at the mercy of the system. I prioritize my family over country.

But I wouldn’t exempt the now suffering hoi polloi who jumped up and down on Maidan yelling “kill Moskali!!!” – or stood by grinning as others did it.

Yes, many Ukrainians turned out to be dumber and more gullible than the nations depicted as dumb in Soviet-era jokes. But the Maidan and subsequent coup of 2014 was done by a minority. The majority expected to sit tight and survive through it all. That majority is also guilty, but only of stupidity and cowardice. Yet those who expected to survive are now dying at the front lines and will keep dying till the death of the regime. The dumbest of the Maidan and coup instigators and perpetrators who believed their own lies are also dying there, but too many of them have cushy positions far away from the front and are stealing like there is no tomorrow.

There is a lot of guilt all around.

There sure is, but the punishment should be commensurate with each person’s guilt. Unfortunately, usually it is not.

Zaporizhia was south of Cherkassy.

As for the coast and Crimea, taking them was a project of both Ukrainians and Russians. Just as Ukrainians helped the Russians in the East. Makes sense to just divide this area by ethnicity.

Is Palestine in Europe? You wasted my hint.

Feel free to debunk it:

Sure, I will do. But right now I need to finish debunking those stories about the Lugansk Square massacre being caused by exploding air conditioners, the MH-17 being downed by Ukrainian jets, Navalny being imprisoned because he was selling counterfeit Armani clothes, Lira dying of lack of exercise,… so many stories to debunk in that part of the world…

I’ll let you know when I have the time to get to yours and we’ll have a weeks long debate. Only you have to promise to control yourself and avoid copy/pasting the same text several times, like you’ve done here.

The change in demographics is not about the fact that Hispanics and other migrants tend to be culturally conservative – it is about the irreversible change in the culture. Brazil 2.0 will still be Brazil

Brazil does not have Hispanics. It has an almost completely different demographic profile, in most ways (very different elites, very different under underclass), than will the future USA. It’s a stupid comparison. The future of the USA will be some combination of contemporary California and Texas. Neither one of those is like Brazil.

The quality of people matters, the genetics: surrounded by shorter, fatter, less healthy, less smart, less mentally disciplined masses is not a good thing. They will eventually absorb you

Mexican elites are smart; they may be less disciplined than American Anglo, Jewish and Asian elites but are they less disciplined than Spaniards? I suspect not. As for health – life expectancy for Hispanic Americans is higher than for Slovakia. Despite Hispanics being heavier. The combination of Asian and Mediterranean genes has some advantages. Hispanic Americans also score better on PISA than your people do. They are probably smarter than you, too.

Feel free to debunk it:

Sure, I will do. But right now I need to finish debunking those stories about the Lugansk Square massacre being caused by exploding air conditioners, the MH-17 being downed by Ukrainian jets, Navalny being imprisoned because he was selling counterfeit Armani clothes, Lira dying of lack of exercise

I wasn’t claiming any of those things, nor does what I posted fit in with them. I am agnostic about the Donetsk market (probably some local Ukrainian commander did it, but maybe not) and am genuinely curious about your response to what I posted, which seems reasonable.

Yes, many Ukrainians turned out to be dumber and more gullible than the nations depicted as dumb in Soviet-era jokes. But the Maidan and subsequent coup of 2014 was done by a minority.

Do explain how it was a minority coup given that Ukrainian parliament voted 328-0 to remove him and that included his own pro-Russian party.

Can source that if you would like:

Ukrainian Parliament votes 328-0 to impeach Yanukovych
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/7028

If a majority of Congress voted to impeach Biden for corruption would that be a coup by a minority?

Are you saying the Ukrainians were stupid for not keeping a president whose corruption was so obscene that a single door on his mansion cost more than his salary as president?

How would you and the great majority of Poles react if Putin’s Russia were to invade

People do not give serious answer to wild hallucination, especially when “the great majority of Poles” is not preoccupied with it. Gossips start from hallucination or dream.

This guy was the Flash in the DC Universe:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Miller

Thought his voice sounded kind of strange.

YANUKOVICH ELECTION: 3149 OBSERVERS AND OECD DECLARED IT TRANSPARENT AND HONEST!

The problem was his veto on placing Pentagon’s (enemy) military base on Crimea.

LOL. If you want shrill, try this from one of your allies:

Yanuk, even though he was elected by the majority, was corrupt. Of course, he was no more corrupt than Ukrainian presidents that preceded him (Kravchuk, Kuchma, Yuschenko), and a lot less corrupt than the two that followed (Poroshenko and Zelensky), but he was a thief by nature. His saving grace is that he was only a thief, whereas both Poroshenko and the clown are thieves and murderers at the same time.

That 3000 year old Judaism does not play any role for today ME. Unfortunately, the Judaism attracted only 16 millions for 3000 years while constantly changing address (left Palestine) and Islam attracted billion+. Avery tribe was nomadic not only Muslims.

My favorite curse story is in Tracy Twyman’s Clock Shavings where she and her husband (who were in a Satanist-Dragon-Baphomet something cult) put a curse on their former business partner Boyd Rice who had screwed them out of a few hundred dollars.

A month later Mr Twyman (that is her maiden name; I do not recall his real last name) was dead. Tracy remained in cult and within ten years she had suicided.

She had a really high IQ if anybody is into that.

I guess that’s what happens if you open a portal to hell.

His voice sounding strange means what?

Whatever his problems, having a section in your wiki page titled “Vermont farm incidents” should count for something 🙂

The problem was his overthrowing the parliament and taking over the courts, then rigging the system in order to hold onto power as his popularity sank. Had Yanukovich not done these things he would never have been overthrown.

Chinese man joins Russian military

Decides that winter sucks

A 40 minute walk in the snow you guys!! SERIOUS BUSINESS!!

What a city boy. My kids have played for 2 hours in thick snow. Pretty much running the entire time. I had to tell them to come inside.

His voice sounding strange means what?

Can’t really articulate it too well other than to say not like a hero’s voice. Not steady and masculine, but more high-pitched, and almost like it keeps cracking into a lisp. At best, it sounds very wussy and emasculated, but also possibly like the voice of a crazy homo.

It’s strange to me that they cast him as a hero. But I never saw the Flash movie.

I have heard the name. I think he has been doing weird things for a long time.

He is a very intentional androgynous casting choice for a hero intended to blur the lines and confuse people.

He/she may be a female to male transgender hormone therapy person or a natural hermaphrodite.

Flash was a humorous support character used in limited doses. Ezra Miller was known to be difficult, but very funny when he was in the right head space. Creating a stand-alone Flash movie was a mistake. Then, Ezra Miller went off the rails including assault, being arrested, etc. This turned the mistake into a fiasco.

The Flash lost money, but was not the worst superhero mistake of the year. The Marvels cost $100M more and earned less.

https://the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons/Flash-The/Marvels-The-(2023)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

Projects completed last year, that have yet to come out, are an on rushing avalanche of failure. Madame Web will be coming out for Valentine’s Day.

Are you excited ?!?!?!

PEACE 😇

The old ‘getting ready to fight the last war’ trope. There is an assumption that WW3 if it starts will start like WW2, not WW1.

Baseball Doesn’t Exist does Japan

…Brazil does not have Hispanics.

???? Portuguese are Hispanic, their language, culture, genetics…don’t go nuts on us again 🙂

The future of the USA will be some combination of contemporary California and Texas.

More like a combination of Guatemala and Saskatchewan, with a touch of Bangalore and Gambia. You can call it Dominican Republic 2.0…But keep on hoping, what else you got?

Mexican elites are smart

They are absolutely brilliant. How else could they have a country that prosperous, advanced and safe, with some of the highest quality people in the world?

Despite Hispanics being heavier. The combination of Asian and Mediterranean genes has some advantages.

The advantage would be the heavy part…they are also very squat keeping them close to the ground. I have no idea what the Pissa-ing contest is that you constantly allude to, but my people can piss with the best of them. You are just envious…

Let’s see: the Hispanic swarthy cholitas vs. our ladies, is that even a contest? But I won’t argue with your taste, after all you worship the Habsburgs, so there is something obviously missing…

Who are these White guys that spend all day ranting about how Disney is doing everything wrong?

Do they feel entitled to Marvel movies that cater to them?

I really don’t get how grown men can be so attached to comic book movies.

Was there ever a golden age of comic book movies?

The 90s Batman movies are corny as hell. I couldn’t get through 10 minutes of the one with Jim Carrey. I’m really not getting the whine. Comic book characters aren’t real. I really don’t get the fascination.

Unfortunately, the Judaism attracted only 16 millions for 3000 years while constantly changing address (left Palestine) and Islam attracted billion+.

Well Judaism isn’t trying to attract anyone. It’s one of the few religions that discourages conversion. It is most likely eugenic because even a marriage convert has to be approved and pass academic tests. Even after that a local rabbi can reject the marriage for any reason. So they discourage marrying the local ditz because she is good looking.

Islam also did not attract a billion people. Most of Islam’s expansion was through conquest and birth rates. It was not voluntary. Very few people join Islam because they think it sounds appealing. You are either born or forced into it.

Well, I actually agree with a lot of what you wrote…and there isn’t much anyone can do at this point.

But mistakes have consequences and one has to look into the future and anticipate. The white libs will be gone, they are the classical dead-enders and have an interest in the future nor will they be a big part of it. The resulting society will be different – and my point is that there is no escaping it; one can hide for a generation or two in preserved enclaves, but then the s..t will hit the fan…and that innovation thing, yeah, too bad, it has been great while it lasted.

It’s called strategizing.

Strategy is by definition a longer-term vision – not how one avoids unfortunate situations for a few decades. You end up living on borrowed time.

The combination of the liberal idiocy, greedy business “Reaganites”, and of billions Third Worlders looking for a new home can be lethal. Maybe not, but still, how is sponsoring the bloody war between two big Euro nations in Ukraine helping? The refrain of “kill as many Russians as possible” also means the unspoken “kill as many Ukies”….this is madness, the final collapse of the Euro self-preservation instinct. And we thought WW1 and 2 were really stupid…

I think you are lost. On the home page Sailer is just above.

Some of the comic book movies have their moments.

Europe freeloads on the US for defence. Japan does not.

But mistakes have consequences and one has to look into the future and anticipate. The white libs will be gone, they are the classical dead-enders and have an interest in the future nor will they be a big part of it. The resulting society will be different – and my point is that there is no escaping it

I don’t see why you are expecting such dire results and speak of the future of America as if it will be the apocalypse.

Escaping what? The sounds like fear. I live well and if more of my neighbors are Hispanic then I will eat more Mexican food. Oh well.

Liberal Whites are choosing to not have children and they will be replaced with Hispanics. I can accept that and move on. They chose their secular Wakanda religion that says all people can be replaced with anyone and the results will be the same. History will prove that they are morons and I will eat steak tacos.

I really don’t understand the escape part. Maybe you watch too many movies and assume Hispanic gangs are everywhere? In Texas it is the norm for Whites to own small businesses with Hispanic workers. Everyone just kind of shrugs at it. You call some service, talk to the White owner and then he shows up with Hispanic workers. So what? Everyone gets along.

It’s Black areas that have a lot of problems. You can’t even order certain types of services in Black areas. In fact a man delivering wood in Ft Worth was just beaten to death by a naked man of unknown race. It made national news but they of course kept out of a picture of the assailant so it’s just a mystery to everyone as to which race it was. Could have been anyone high on PCP and beating a White man to death. Probably an Eskimo is my guess.